A video shows an armed Israeli occupation forces arresting a 10 years old Palestinian kid who was shopping in one of an east Jerusalem's supermarket .
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Video : Israeli occupation forces arresting a 10 years old Palestinian kid
A video shows an armed Israeli occupation forces arresting a 10 years old Palestinian kid who was shopping in one of an east Jerusalem's supermarket .
Israeli shoots, seriously injures Palestinian teen near Ramallah
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- An Israeli settler shot and seriously injured a Palestinian teenager Tuesday after a settler demonstration on the outskirts of Beitin village east of Ramallah. Ibrahim Mahmoud, 16, was shot with a live bullet and taken to Palestine Medical Complex with serious injuries. He is now stable and was placed in the ICU.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into the report.
Earlier a Palestinian man was stabbed by a group of Israelis in north Jerusalem.
Fadi Jalal Radwan, 22, was attacked and stabbed by four Israelis while walking in the town of Kafr Aqab, his father said. He was stabbed three times in the legs, and once in the back.
The victim was found bleeding in the street and taken to Hadassah hospital for treatment. Doctors said he was in a serious condition.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an that "an Arab man was approached by three suspects" who asked him for light. They then stabbed him in the leg with a small knife.
Israeli police are looking into the background of the incident, Rosenfeld added.
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Israel: IDF Shoot 10-Year-Old Palestinian Child in Neck Near Military Checkpoint
Israeli soldiers patrol along the border with the northern Gaza Strip during a drill near Netiv Haasara(Reuters)
A 10-year-old Palestinian child has been shot and seriously wounded by Israel Defence Forces (IDF)soldiers after he approached a military checkpoint.
The unnamed boy approached the southern fence of the Kissufim checkpoint where loitering is outlawed, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Following the shooting, the boy was treated on the scene by the Israeli troops and flown by helicopter to Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba.
More information will follow. For updates, follow IBTimes UK on Twitter.
Monday, November 17, 2014
BREAKING! ISRAELI TERRORIST SETTLERS TORTURE AND HANG BUS DRIVER IN THE WEST BANK
Yusuf was a hard working father and bus driver in the West Bank. He was murdered in Occupied Jerusalem by Zionist Israeli Settlers. Reports and photos indicate Yusuf was tortured before he was hung on his own bus.
Our condolences go out to his family, friends and children. RIP
***New article found by HAARETZ states:Clashes in Jerusalem spurred by rumors of Palestinian bus driver’s ‘lynching’
32-year-old Egged employee found hanged in bus in city’s west; Police believe death a suicide though Palestinian reports and deceased’s family claim he was killed by Jews.
Clashes broke out in East Jerusalem overnight after the body of a 32-year-old Palestinian Egged bus driver was found hanged in a bus depot in the West Jerusalem area of Har Hotzfim late Sunday night.
Palestinian media sources have identified the deceased as Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni, a resident of East Jerusalem’s Ras al-Amud neighborhood and father of two.
Witnesses told Palestinian news agency Maan that Ramouni was killed by settlers and Al-Quds newspaper reported that the driver was ‘lynched’ by six Jewish men. A wave of rumors has since spread on social newtorks among Palestinian users.
Ramouni was supposed to begin his scheduled 57 route at 9:20 P.M., and at 10 P.M., another driver found his body hanging in the center of the bus from a thin chord. Relatives of the deceased took photos of his body that they claim show signs of violence.
Ramouni’s family claim he had no reason to commit suicide as he was not in any crises. Collegues of Ramouni said that Palestinian bus drivers have long been subjected to violence by Jews.
However, according to a preliminary report, Israel Police suspect suicide, and claim no signs of violence were found on Ramouni.
His body has been transferred from Hadassah Hospital to Abu Kabir Forensic Insitutute in Tel Aviv for an autopsy.
CCTV footage from the bus depot may prove crucial in proving or disproving the two conflicting causes of death.
So an illegal settler in an occupied illegal land of the state of Palestine, who is recognized under international as the ILLEGAL resident just told the world, he is a murderer, and his holding the murder weapon. Yeah the world is doomed!
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Apartheid in "Israel"? Lots of it!
Apartheid in "Israel"? Lots of it!
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Friday, November 14, 2014
Unicef State of Palestine
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| Photo: © UNICEF / Alessio Romenzi |
An initial assessment conducted in #Gaza shows that children’s behaviour changed considerably as a result of psychosocial distress during the 50-day armed conflict this summer.
Children say they are afraid to travel far from home to attend school.
Aggressive behaviour, anger and frustration are common among boys, while girls suffer from unusual crying, screaming, bedwetting, nightmares and general sadness.
Nearly 400,000 children suffer from psychosocial distress and are in need of immediate support in Gaza.
To help children cope with distress, UNICEF and partners have provided more than 5,000 with direct psychosocial support activities across Gaza. Another 70,000 have been provided with psychosocial recreational activities.
Much more is needed to help these children recover. Please support UNICEF and Gaza’s children by donating
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Israel bans renowned doctor from Gaza for life
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| Internationally renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert |
The Israeli regime has imposed a lifetime ban on internationally
renowned Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert from entering the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv
announced on Thursday that it had banned Gilbert, Norway’s doctor of peace for
Gaza, from entering the Israeli-besieged Palestinian enclave for security
reasons.
The
announcement was made after the Norwegian Embassy in Tel Aviv asked for an
explanation to why Gilbert had been refused entry to Gaza last month.
The renowned
doctor tried to return to Gaza in October to work at Shifa hospital, where he
treated thousands of the Palestinians injured in Israel’s 50-day war on the
blockaded coastal sliver earlier this year.
Norway’s
Secretary of State Bård Glad Pedersen has called on Tel Aviv to change its
decision, arguing “the humanitarian situation in Gaza is still difficult and
there is a need for all health workers.”
Gilbert said
he believes the lifetime ban is connected to his critical comments against the
Israeli regime.
In
September, Gilbert said in a summit on Gaza that Israeli forces intentionally
killed Palestinian children and youths during their recent military offensive
against the impoverished Palestinian territory.
The
Norwegian doctor has also insisted that Tel Aviv persisted in pounding the
densely-populated Gaza Strip with impunity, slaughtering innocent Palestinians.
According to
Gilbert, the regime is implementing an apartheid system in the occupied
Palestinian lands.
Almost 2,140
Gazans, mostly civilians, including women, children and the elderly, were
killed and more than 11,000 others wounded in 50 days of the Israeli onslaught
that began in early July.
Gilbert is a
member of a Norwegian triage medical team present in the Gaza Strip. His team
has exposed that Israel has used depleted uranium and unconventional weapons in
its recent wars on the area.
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In rare move, Israel denies Colombian foreign minister entry to Ramallah
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| Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin. Photo by Wikimedia Commons |
Israel
denied this week a request by Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Angela Holguin
to visit Ramallah.
According to
a statement by the Foreign Ministry in Bogota, Israel would only permit Holguin
to visit Ramallah if she agreed to visit Jerusalem on the same visit to the
region. A senior official in the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed the matter,
stating that the directive was ordered by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
It is highly
unusual for the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem to give such a directive, and it
appears that the move was made in an effort to harden its policy with regards
to visits by foreign ministers to the Palestinian Authority, which are normally
carried out without any difficulty.
Differences
of opinion over Holguin's visit to Ramallah led to a diplomatic incident that
caused tensions between Israel and Colombia, which is considered a central
Israeli ally in Latin America. Colombia is one of the last two countries in
Latin America that has not recognized Palestine as a state. The second country
is Panama, another of Israel's allies. Israel and Colombia have ties in
economic, diplomatic and security areas.
The saga
began on November 3, when Colombia's ambassador to Israel, Fernando Alzate
Donoso, asked the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem to arrange entry for Holguin
from Jordan to Ramallah via Israel. The Colombian ambassador stipulated that
Holguin was interested in meeting with her Palestinian counterpart, Riyad
al-Maliki, and possibly Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, too.
Spain to vote on Palestine recognition
Spanish parliament plans to hold a symbolic vote next week on a draft resolution to recognise a Palestinian state.
The non-binding resolution, introduced by the opposition Socialist Party, will be discussed in parliament on Tuesday, and it appears that the ruling conservative party will support it, the AP has reported.
The move comes after other European countries held similar votes aimed at increasing the pressure for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read more: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/europe/15269-spain-to-vote-on-palestine-recognition
Thursday, November 13, 2014
A SMALL BAND OF ACTIVISTS IS HUMILIATING AN ISRAELI SHIPPING GIANT
Capping a series of victories by a modest band of pro-Palestinian activists, an Israel-based shipping company has re-routed a container ship from the Port of Oakland, where protestors had vowed to keep the ship from unloading, to an alternate destination in Russia.
The company, Zim Integrated Shipping Services is one of the largest cargo shipping outfits in the world, but of late it has seen its operations seriously disrupted by a small group of activists motivated by the global Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement (BDS), which targets companies implicated in Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Zim is an Israel-based company, and the “Block the Boat” movement – a combined effort of labor activists and Palestinian solidarity groups – has successfully stopped its ships from docking at Oakland ports several times since this summer.
Zim has drawn particular ire for its role in shipping Israeli armaments. In the words of Block the Boat organizer Lara Kiswani in an interview about the movement earlier this year: “…Zim also transports weaponry: Israeli-made weaponry and Israeli-made military vehicles into the United States”, adding that, “some of the more consumer-based products are not Israeli, but the weaponry and the military products are Israeli.”
Activists associated with the movement at least temporarily prevented Zim ships from unloading in August, when a ship was blocked from unloading and headed toward Los Angeles before turning back and successfully unloading, and again in September. But what appears to be their greatest victory came this week, when Zim decided reroute its cargo Russia rather than attempt to dock in Oakland once more. Their decision came just nine days after the company vowed to dock, in defiance of protests.
The protests appear to be aided by sympathetic longshoremen. Some of Oakland’s unionized dockworkers have expressed sympathy for the demonstrators’ position in the local press, and have at times declined to unload Zim ships during protests, citing safety concerns.
The company claims that their last-minute decision to reroute wasunrelated to the protests. But its foes aren’t buying it. “When a country’s shipping concern can’t come to the port because of the popular resistance it will face there, you can feel that the tables are turning,” said Jamie Omar Yasin, a Block the Boat activist.
The successful protest action against Zim is part of a global movement for an economic boycott of Israel. Modeled after similar efforts conducted in the past against apartheid South Africa, the BDS movement seeks to put pressure on the Israeli government to end its occupation of Palestinian lands. “They can look forward to more and more resistance wherever they try and operate,” Yasin says.
Photo: David McNew/Getty Images
Email the author: murtaza.hussain@theintercept.com
EU must cease "material support" for Israel’s crimes, say leading trade unions
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| Greeting a war criminal: Federica Mogherini (left), the EU’s new foreign policy chief, meets Tzipi Livni, an Israeli government minister who has approved attacks on Gaza. (European External Action Service) |
More than 300 political parties, trade unions and campaign groups have called for the suspension of a key agreement between Israel and the European Union.
The appeal urges the EU to freeze the “association agreement” with Israel. That deal, which entered into force in 2000, facilitates largely unrestricted trade between the EU and Israel and allows Israel to participate in a wide range of the Union’s programs.
The appeal, delivered to the new EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, is one of the most widely endorsed statements by European organizations on Palestine to date.
Signatories to the statement come from 19 different European countries. They include Podemos, the leftist party currently leading the polls in Spain, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and other major trade union bodies from Spain, Denmark, France and Belgium.
Major anti-poverty groups, including the CNCD/11.11.11. coalition and Broederlijk Delen in Belgium, Trócaire in Ireland and War on Want in the UK endorsed the statement.
Other signatories include Parti de Gauche and Parti Communiste from France, Attac (a group critical of capitalist economics) in France and Germany and the anti-war organization Pax Christi Germany.
A simple website has been set up at freepalestine.eu, through which people can contact members of the European parliament (MEPs), urging them to read the statement and support its demands.
“Through the continued existence of the EU-Israel association agreement and the strengthening of the bilateral relations, the European Union and its member states are sending Israel the message that it does not have to abide by international law,” the statement explains.
Condemning Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilians during its recent attack on Gaza, the statement says that the failure of the EU to hold Israel accountable for its recent war crimes “contributes to the climate of impunity and lack of accountability” and sends Israel “the message that it does not have to abide by international law.”
The statement also condemns the “material support” that the EU affords to Israel’s crimes.
The EU has been repeatedly criticized for failing to take tougher action against economic links with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and for allowing Israeli military companies to receive EU research funding.
Growing frustration
In a press release, Aneta Jerska from the European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) argues that the breadth of support for the appeal showed that the mood in Europe was changing.
“The huge number of mainstream organizations that are calling for the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement reflects the growing frustration across Europe with the failure of European governments to respond to Israel’s repeated massacres and violations of international law.”
“The EU has long argued that its close relations with Israel put it in strong position to engage in dialogue with Israel regarding its oppression of Palestinians, but Israel’s brutal massacre of Gaza shows that this dialogue has failed. It is time for the EU to take action that will pressure Israel to comply with international law,” she adds.
Double standard
As well as launching an e-platform for contacting MEPs, the ECCP has also published a fact sheet setting out how the EU-Israel association agreement facilitates Israel’s crimes.
The fact sheet contrasts the EU’s swift action against Russia and other countries it believes to have acted illegally with its active support for Israel:
Article 2 of the association agreement states that: “Relations between the parties… shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles, which guides their internal and international policy and constitutes an essential element of this agreement.”The continued application of the EU-Israel association agreement despite Israel’s clear violation of the Article 2 clause sends a message to Israel that its massacres of Palestinians will be tolerated and will not result in any meaningful impact on its close relations with the EU. This creates a climate of impunity.The EU suspended its association agreement with Sri Lanka in 2010 and has applied restrictive measures on Russia with regards to its annexation of Ukrainian territory and a host of other states judged to have violated human rights and international law in recent years.The failure to apply similar measures to Israel is a double standard that amounts to support for Israel’s continued violations of international law.Palestinian civil society organizations recently wrote to the EU External Action Service to explain that this double standard “sends a clear message to Israel that its massacres of Palestinians will be tolerated and will not result in any meaningful impact on its intimate relations with the EU.”
The fact sheet also sets out how EU policy supports the continued expansion of illegal Israeil settlements and helps Israeli military companies to further develop drone technology for use against Palestinian civilians.
Time for action
EU governments and institutions made some of their strongest criticisms yet of Israel in the wake of its recent massacre of Gaza, and much has been made of declarations of support for Palestinian statehood by the Swedish government and the UK parliament.
The French parliament will vote on a resolution on Palestinian statehood later this month.
Yet for all their bluster, the EU and its governments are failing to hold Israel to account, or even ending their active support for Israeli violations of international law.
Palestinian organizations recently wrote to the European External Action Service — effectively the Union’s foreign ministry — to demand the suspension of the EU-Israel association agreement, arguing that “Israel’s war crimes and its sabotage of every effort to reach a just peace based on UN resolutions must lead to effective and substantial, not just cosmetic, consequences.”
Bold action by MEPs in support of the demand to suspend the association agreement would be a useful start.
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