Thursday, October 23, 2014
Israeli police shot Palestinian lost control of his car
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem –Israeli police hot on Wednesday a Palestinian lost control of his car near a rail station in East Jerusalem.
The Palestinian youths Abdul-Rahman al-Shalludi, 20, was driving near the Ammunition Hill Station when he lost control of his car and hit commuters waiting for the train.
Israeli authorities and Israeli media said that the incident was a ‘terror attack’ carried out intentionally by the Palestinian, who they said has a security record.
An Israeli child and eight others were wounded. All were rushed to Israeli hospitals for treatment. The child was announced dead.
Witnesses told Days of Palestine that the Palestinian man was driving normally before he lost contrive of his car. “There were no signs for a terror attack,” an eye witness said.
He went on: “The car collided about 30 metres far from the station. If the driver planned to attack the commuters, he would have turned to their side from a closer point.”
Other witnesses were reported by different mass media; however, the Israeli media and the Israeli officials insisted that it was a ‘terror attack.’
He was dumb regarding the incident when an Israeli settler ran over two Palestinian little girls on Monday in Al-Khalil. However, he had two tongues to speak about today’s incident.
Israeli Ynet News said that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in wake of the accident.
“This is how Abu-Mazen’s [Abbas] partners in government work,” he said, referring to the Palestinian unity government comprising Hamas and Fatah that the Israeli occupation has consistently opposed.
Considering him a terrorist, the Israeli police immediately shot the Palestinian driver as soon as he left his car, which was stuck to the side of the road.
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| This is a video of Abdul Rahman being shot. |
EU looking to set five 'red lines' regarding Israeli settlements
The European Union is looking into the possibility of setting five "red lines" to warn Israel from continuing its settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to an internal EU document obtained by Haaretz newspaper.
Haaretz revealed on Wednesday that, according to the document, the EU's proposed red lines would include:
First, any construction in the Givat Hamatos neighbourhood south of occupied Jerusalem beyond the Green Line is a red line, because construction in that area would jeopardise the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as the capital of both states.
The second red line is any construction in the E1 area between Ma'aleh Adumim and occupied Jerusalem, as settlements in this area would also jeopardise the possibility of a contiguous and independent Palestinian state.
The document deemed further construction in the Har Homa settlement in occupied Jerusalem beyond the Green Line to be the third red line.
The fourth red line is executing Israel's plans to relocate 12,000 Bedouin without their consent to a new town in the Jordan Valley, expelling them from lands in the occupied West Bank, including E1.
And finally, the fifth red line is further attempts by Israel to harm the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
According to Haaretz, after Israel's appropriation of 4,000 dunams in Gush Etzion in the occupied West Bank, and plans for additional construction in Givat Hamatos in occupied Jerusalem, "a series of discussions have been taking place in the EU's headquarters in Brussels between the ambassadors of the 28 members states over the European response."
The newspaper added that, "Officials in the Israeli Foreign Ministry are concerned the negotiations are a prelude to further European sanctions against Israel."
"The EU's ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, is set to relay the message to Israel. He is expected to meet in the coming days with Foreign Ministry Director Nissim Ben Sheetrit and with national security advisor in the Prime Minister's Office Yossi Cohen to propose negotiations over the issues which raised the EU's concerns," Haaretz reported.
However, European officials stressed to the newspaper that the red lines "have yet to be fully defined, if at all," as well as what would be "the repercussions for crossing them".
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
5 Year Old Palestinian Child Begs To Israeli Soldiers For Father
A short clip showing a young five year old Palestinian child pleading to Israeli soldiers for love of father.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SHAHID4446
Website: http://www.truee.ssauk.eu
Israeli forces demolish 3 Jerusalem houses, 23 homeless
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers demolished three Palestinian homes and three structures used for livestock in al-Tur east of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, residents said.
They said bulldozers of the Beit El settlement municipality were escorted by Israeli forces into al-Tur, where they demolished houses belonging to the al-Zari family, leaving 23 Palestinians homeless.
The Israeli officers first destroyed the main doors of the houses and forcibly evicted residents, homeowner Khader al-Zari told Ma'an.
"Israeli forces broke the main doors, forcibly evicted us and did not allow us to take out furniture or any possessions, but instead gave their workers 30 minutes to take our possessions out of the houses," al-Zari said.
Several pieces of furniture were still inside the houses as they were demolished, he added.
Al-Zari said the houses and structures were built in the 80s, and that the family had been attempting to obtain the necessary permits and licenses from the Israeli civil administration for years.
He said the family had paid over 150,000 shekels (about $40,000) for lawyers and engineers in order to escape demolition, "but to no avail."
A spokesperson for COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry unit in charge of civil administration in the Palestinian territories, told Ma'an via email that "the 6 buildings in A-Tur were illegal and were built without the necessary permits in a zone which is forbidden for construction because of security reasons, near the seam zone."
"The decision on the demolition was taken after demolition orders were delivered and after an enforcement process was completed. We would like to note that the Supreme Court of Justice rejected the appeal submitted by the owners of some of the buildings."
The spokesperson would not comment on whether or not residents' belongings were destroyed along with the homes as al-Zari said.
Israeli forces regularly demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, usually under the pretext that the residents did not have the necessary permits.
Palestinians are rarely granted permits to build in areas under Israeli control.
According to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Israeli bulldozers have destroyed 359 structures in the West Bank this year.
Source: http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=734323
They said bulldozers of the Beit El settlement municipality were escorted by Israeli forces into al-Tur, where they demolished houses belonging to the al-Zari family, leaving 23 Palestinians homeless.
The Israeli officers first destroyed the main doors of the houses and forcibly evicted residents, homeowner Khader al-Zari told Ma'an.
"Israeli forces broke the main doors, forcibly evicted us and did not allow us to take out furniture or any possessions, but instead gave their workers 30 minutes to take our possessions out of the houses," al-Zari said.
Several pieces of furniture were still inside the houses as they were demolished, he added.
Al-Zari said the houses and structures were built in the 80s, and that the family had been attempting to obtain the necessary permits and licenses from the Israeli civil administration for years.
He said the family had paid over 150,000 shekels (about $40,000) for lawyers and engineers in order to escape demolition, "but to no avail."
A spokesperson for COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry unit in charge of civil administration in the Palestinian territories, told Ma'an via email that "the 6 buildings in A-Tur were illegal and were built without the necessary permits in a zone which is forbidden for construction because of security reasons, near the seam zone."
"The decision on the demolition was taken after demolition orders were delivered and after an enforcement process was completed. We would like to note that the Supreme Court of Justice rejected the appeal submitted by the owners of some of the buildings."
The spokesperson would not comment on whether or not residents' belongings were destroyed along with the homes as al-Zari said.
Israeli forces regularly demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, usually under the pretext that the residents did not have the necessary permits.
Palestinians are rarely granted permits to build in areas under Israeli control.
According to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Israeli bulldozers have destroyed 359 structures in the West Bank this year.
Source: http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=734323
Israeli soldiers blindfold and detain 11 year old disabled child
Watch as settlers from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, clap, shout and cheer as an Israeli soldier binds the hands of a child behind his back and fastens a blindfold over his eyes as another soldier stands on guard before they lift the frightened boy into the back of their military jeep enclosing him in darkness as the settlers’ cheering continues. The boy is eleven and developmentally disabled.
The scene, captured on video by a B’tselem volunteer, is another all too familiar scene of life under occupation.
B’tselem Press Release:
Yesterday, soldiers briefly detained a developmentally disabled Palestinian boy, who is under the age of criminal responsibility, on suspicion that he had thrown stones. The boy, A. a-Rajbi, (full name withheld in interest of privacy) who will be 12 in a month, was detained after Palestinian children threw stones at soldiers on the main road of the Jabel Johar neighborhood in Hebron, close to the settlement of Kiryat Arba. A-Rajbi was handcuffed, blindfolded, and held on the floor of an army jeep for some 15 minutes until his father arrived and convinced the soldiers to release his son, who is mentally disabled and cannot speak.
In the video footage, filmed by B’Tselem volunteer Samih Da’na from his window, soldiers are seen holding the boy, handcuffing him, blindfolding him and closing him in the jeep, despite cries by Palestinian residents that the boy is mentally disabled. The footage also shows settlers from Kiryat Arba, watching the incident from behind the settlement’s fence. Some are seen calling out encouragement to the soldiers, including several racist remarks.
It really bothers me how high the soldier twists the boy’s arm up his back.
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Annie Robbins is Editor at Large for Mondoweiss, a mother, a human rights activist and a ceramic artist. She lives in the SF bay area.
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