28 oct 2015
Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, condemned on Tuesday the Zionist calls for raising the Israeli flag over the Aqsa Mosque.
Hamas’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, in a brief statement, that “the statements of the Israeli deputy minister of foreign affairs Tzipi Hotovely on raising the Israeli flag over the Muslims’ holy Aqsa Mosque reveals the reality of Israeli intentions”.
The Hamas spokesman called on the Arab countries to bear their responsibilities in regards with Israeli aggressive practices against the Aqsa.
Hamas’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, in a brief statement, that “the statements of the Israeli deputy minister of foreign affairs Tzipi Hotovely on raising the Israeli flag over the Muslims’ holy Aqsa Mosque reveals the reality of Israeli intentions”.
The Hamas spokesman called on the Arab countries to bear their responsibilities in regards with Israeli aggressive practices against the Aqsa.
British MPs have criticized their country’s foreign policy towards the ongoing events in Palestine.
Veteran Member of Parliament Gerald Kaufman criticized his country’s position over what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, pointing to the big influence of the Zionist lobby on the decision-makers in Britain.
Palestine Return Center held on Tuesday a meeting at the UK House of Commons over the British conservative government's policy towards the Palestinian cause over the years 2010-2015.
A wide range of British parliament members, activists, and journalists have attended the meeting.
MP Kaufman criticized the silence of the British government towards the violations of human rights in Palestine, which he described as a daily Israeli practice against Palestinians.
Andy Slaughter, the English Labor Party politician, explained that the British government is not interested in pressuring Israel to amend its policies, but rather is providing a cover for its crimes against Palestinians.
For his part, spokesperson for the PRC Sameh Habeeb said that the British Conservative government failed to play any active role in the region due to its biased policy towards Israel.
The MP Martin Linton, the founder and head of Labor Friends of Palestine, said that an increase has been noticed in the number of British parliament members (Labor) who support Palestine compared to the Conservative Party.
Veteran Member of Parliament Gerald Kaufman criticized his country’s position over what is happening in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, pointing to the big influence of the Zionist lobby on the decision-makers in Britain.
Palestine Return Center held on Tuesday a meeting at the UK House of Commons over the British conservative government's policy towards the Palestinian cause over the years 2010-2015.
A wide range of British parliament members, activists, and journalists have attended the meeting.
MP Kaufman criticized the silence of the British government towards the violations of human rights in Palestine, which he described as a daily Israeli practice against Palestinians.
Andy Slaughter, the English Labor Party politician, explained that the British government is not interested in pressuring Israel to amend its policies, but rather is providing a cover for its crimes against Palestinians.
For his part, spokesperson for the PRC Sameh Habeeb said that the British Conservative government failed to play any active role in the region due to its biased policy towards Israel.
The MP Martin Linton, the founder and head of Labor Friends of Palestine, said that an increase has been noticed in the number of British parliament members (Labor) who support Palestine compared to the Conservative Party.
Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain called on the international community to immediately intervene to halt Israeli policy of demolishing Palestinians’ houses which is considered as a war crime in accordance with the international law.
In a statement on Tuesday, the organization asked the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon along with decision makers in the world to pursue effective measures to end that Israeli policy, warning of its dangerous consequences.
The statement mentioned that Israeli government issued orders to accelerate the demolition process of the homes of Palestinians who were accused of anti-occupation operations of stabbing, running over and shooting at settlers since October the first.
Five Palestinian homes, housing 28 persons including 16 children, have been demolished by Israeli forces, the statement highlighted.
The organization said Israel has committed so many massive crimes against Palestinians such as the siege on Gaza, the attacks on Muslims’ holy places, Judaization of Jerusalem, establishing the Separation Wall, settlement construction, confiscating of land and house demolition.
Israel razes the houses of Palestinians who kill settlers, but at the same time does not penalize those Israelis who kill Palestinians and burn them alive, the statement pointed out.
In a statement on Tuesday, the organization asked the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon along with decision makers in the world to pursue effective measures to end that Israeli policy, warning of its dangerous consequences.
The statement mentioned that Israeli government issued orders to accelerate the demolition process of the homes of Palestinians who were accused of anti-occupation operations of stabbing, running over and shooting at settlers since October the first.
Five Palestinian homes, housing 28 persons including 16 children, have been demolished by Israeli forces, the statement highlighted.
The organization said Israel has committed so many massive crimes against Palestinians such as the siege on Gaza, the attacks on Muslims’ holy places, Judaization of Jerusalem, establishing the Separation Wall, settlement construction, confiscating of land and house demolition.
Israel razes the houses of Palestinians who kill settlers, but at the same time does not penalize those Israelis who kill Palestinians and burn them alive, the statement pointed out.
Names of all 64 dead
Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire on Tuesday evening, while at least 50 others were injured as clashes continue all over the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza.
Ezzeddin Nadi Sha'ban Abu Shakhdam, 17, and Shadi Shadi Nabil Dweik, 22, both from Hebron city were killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire at them at a bus stop near Gush Etzion illegal Israeli settlement located between the southern West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem.
According to the Red Crescent Society, Israeli troops detained the two critically injured Palestinians and did not allow the medics to provide them with medical assistance until they bled to death.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 64 Palestinians, including 14 children, have been killed by Israeli gunfire since the beginning of this month. 47 of them have been killed in the occupied West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem, 17 in the Gaza Strip, including a pregnant woman and her two year old child, and one in Houra, in the Negev.
Moreover, 2120 have been injured by Israeli army gunfire since October 1. Including 820 with live gunfire and more than 900 by rubber-coated steel bullets.
On Tuesday clashes between local youth and invading Israeli troops were reported in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron cities, southern West Bank, in addition to Nablus and Ramallah northern and central West Bank.
Palestinian sources said that at least 50 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire and tear gas during clashes Tuesday. At least two youth sustained critical injuries, the health ministry reported on Tuesday.
Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire on Tuesday evening, while at least 50 others were injured as clashes continue all over the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza.
Ezzeddin Nadi Sha'ban Abu Shakhdam, 17, and Shadi Shadi Nabil Dweik, 22, both from Hebron city were killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire at them at a bus stop near Gush Etzion illegal Israeli settlement located between the southern West Bank cities of Hebron and Bethlehem.
According to the Red Crescent Society, Israeli troops detained the two critically injured Palestinians and did not allow the medics to provide them with medical assistance until they bled to death.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that 64 Palestinians, including 14 children, have been killed by Israeli gunfire since the beginning of this month. 47 of them have been killed in the occupied West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem, 17 in the Gaza Strip, including a pregnant woman and her two year old child, and one in Houra, in the Negev.
Moreover, 2120 have been injured by Israeli army gunfire since October 1. Including 820 with live gunfire and more than 900 by rubber-coated steel bullets.
On Tuesday clashes between local youth and invading Israeli troops were reported in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron cities, southern West Bank, in addition to Nablus and Ramallah northern and central West Bank.
Palestinian sources said that at least 50 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire and tear gas during clashes Tuesday. At least two youth sustained critical injuries, the health ministry reported on Tuesday.
27 oct 2015
Threatening to Take More Punitive Measures Against Palestinians in Occupied Jerusalem
As part of the continuing Israeli threats made by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against civilians in occupied East Jerusalem, particularly the decision to withdraw the Jerusalemite ID from thousands of Palestinian civilians, the Israeli forces have continued to implement more punitive measures and retaliatory acts against Palestinians in the city.
Under the pretext of security deterioration since early October, the Israeli authorities started imposing additional restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in occupied East Jerusalem and its suburbs and villages.
These measures included fixing iron detector gates and police checkpoints inside the Old City neighborhoods and at entrances leading to them. In a latest development, Israeli forces closed the entrances to a number of the city's suburbs and villages.
According to field investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in occupied East Jerusalem, the checkpoints were distributed as follows:
· Al-Amoud gate: three checkpoints established at the entrance to al-Amoud gate;
· Al-Wad Road: 10 checkpoints with three iron detector gates mainly established by the end of al-Wad Road, al-Majles gate, and between al-Hadid and al-Qattanin gates;
· Al-Selsela gate: six checkpoints with an iron detector gate mainly established 100 meters away from al-Selsela gate, the road leading to al-Buraq Wall and the road leading to the Jewish Quarter "Misgav Ladach";
· Al-Bazar road: police officers stationed at the entrances leading to the Christian neighborhood and on Marcus road;
· Hebron gate: a checkpoint established at the entrance to Omer Bin al-Khattab yard and another checkpoint with an iron detector gate established inside the aforementioned yard;
· Al-Debagha market: a checkpoint established at the entrance to al-Debagha market that also leads to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre;
· Aqabet al-Khalediya: police officers stationed at the entrance to Aqabet al-Khalediya neighborhood;
· Al-Asbat gate: a checkpoint with an iron detector gate established in the yard outside the Old City walls;
· The Way of Sorrows: police officers stationed near al-Naqshabandiya Mosque;
· Aqabet Darweesh: police officers stationed at the entrance to Aqabet Darweesh neighborhood and others stationed on the roof of a house belonging to al-Salayma family.
· Al-Sa'diya neighborhood: police officers stationed on the road leading to the neighborhood and others stationed on roofs of a number of houses seized by Israeli settlers in the neighborhood;
· Al-Sahera gate: police officers stationed in the yard outside the Old City walls.
Note: these checkpoints do not include police checkpoints that already exist at al-Aqsa Mosque gates
Checkpoints in the city's suburbs and villages were as follows:
· Al-Tour: Salman al-Faresi street, al-Hardoub's two neighborhoods are completely closed and two checkpoints are established near al-Muttale' Hospital and the main entrance of al-Hardoub neighborhood;
· Silwan: al-Rababa valley neighborhood is completely closed and two checkpoints are established in al-Rababa valley and al-Ein area;
· Al-Thawri neighborhood: the streets between Abu Tour and al-Thawri neighborhood is completely closed and two checkpoints are established on Hebron- Bethlehem street and the main entrance of the city;
· Ras al-Amoud: a checkpoint is established on the main street and another checkpoint is established between Ras al-Amoud and the neighborhoods of Qaddoum valley, Silwan and al-Mukaber Mountain;
· Al-'Issawiyah: the entrance to the French Hill; entrance to Hadasa-Hebrew University; Sub-entrance near a gas station are completely closed and there is a police checkpoint at the eastern entrance to the village.
· Sour Baher: the street to "Ramat Rachel" is completely closed and there are two police checkpoints at the entrance to Ghozail neighborhood and the main entrance to Sour Baher.
· Al-Jouz Valley: there is a police checkpoint at the intersection of the Interior Ministry Office.
· Al-Sheikh Jarrah: Kupat Holim Clalit is completely closed and there are two checkpoints near al-'Ayoun Hospital and al-Hayah Medical Center.
· Al-Mukaber Mountain: al-Farouq neighborhood; the entrance to the schools neighborhood; the entrance to "Armon HaNetziv" settlement are completely closed; and there are two police checkpoints to "Nahal Oz" and "Nof Zion" settlements.
· Um Touba: is completely closed in addition to closing three sub-entrances.
PCHR strongly condemns the collective punishment policy practiced by the Israeli government in occupied Jerusalem before the international community and:
· Emphasizes that East Jerusalem is an occupied city and all the measures taken by the Israeli authorities after the city was occupied in 1967 do not change its legal status as an occupied territory. Thus, displacing Abu Jamal family from Jerusalem is considered a forcible displacement and is part of the policy of collective punishment practiced against Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt);
· The Israeli Supreme Court's decision to isolate Palestinian civilians residing in the city and its suburbs violates the basic rules of international humanitarian law and international human rights law; and
· Calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1; i.e., to respect and to ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances. PCHR believes that the conspiracy of silence practiced by the international community encourages Israel to commit more violations of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including measures to create a Jewish demographic majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
As part of the continuing Israeli threats made by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against civilians in occupied East Jerusalem, particularly the decision to withdraw the Jerusalemite ID from thousands of Palestinian civilians, the Israeli forces have continued to implement more punitive measures and retaliatory acts against Palestinians in the city.
Under the pretext of security deterioration since early October, the Israeli authorities started imposing additional restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in occupied East Jerusalem and its suburbs and villages.
These measures included fixing iron detector gates and police checkpoints inside the Old City neighborhoods and at entrances leading to them. In a latest development, Israeli forces closed the entrances to a number of the city's suburbs and villages.
According to field investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in occupied East Jerusalem, the checkpoints were distributed as follows:
· Al-Amoud gate: three checkpoints established at the entrance to al-Amoud gate;
· Al-Wad Road: 10 checkpoints with three iron detector gates mainly established by the end of al-Wad Road, al-Majles gate, and between al-Hadid and al-Qattanin gates;
· Al-Selsela gate: six checkpoints with an iron detector gate mainly established 100 meters away from al-Selsela gate, the road leading to al-Buraq Wall and the road leading to the Jewish Quarter "Misgav Ladach";
· Al-Bazar road: police officers stationed at the entrances leading to the Christian neighborhood and on Marcus road;
· Hebron gate: a checkpoint established at the entrance to Omer Bin al-Khattab yard and another checkpoint with an iron detector gate established inside the aforementioned yard;
· Al-Debagha market: a checkpoint established at the entrance to al-Debagha market that also leads to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre;
· Aqabet al-Khalediya: police officers stationed at the entrance to Aqabet al-Khalediya neighborhood;
· Al-Asbat gate: a checkpoint with an iron detector gate established in the yard outside the Old City walls;
· The Way of Sorrows: police officers stationed near al-Naqshabandiya Mosque;
· Aqabet Darweesh: police officers stationed at the entrance to Aqabet Darweesh neighborhood and others stationed on the roof of a house belonging to al-Salayma family.
· Al-Sa'diya neighborhood: police officers stationed on the road leading to the neighborhood and others stationed on roofs of a number of houses seized by Israeli settlers in the neighborhood;
· Al-Sahera gate: police officers stationed in the yard outside the Old City walls.
Note: these checkpoints do not include police checkpoints that already exist at al-Aqsa Mosque gates
Checkpoints in the city's suburbs and villages were as follows:
· Al-Tour: Salman al-Faresi street, al-Hardoub's two neighborhoods are completely closed and two checkpoints are established near al-Muttale' Hospital and the main entrance of al-Hardoub neighborhood;
· Silwan: al-Rababa valley neighborhood is completely closed and two checkpoints are established in al-Rababa valley and al-Ein area;
· Al-Thawri neighborhood: the streets between Abu Tour and al-Thawri neighborhood is completely closed and two checkpoints are established on Hebron- Bethlehem street and the main entrance of the city;
· Ras al-Amoud: a checkpoint is established on the main street and another checkpoint is established between Ras al-Amoud and the neighborhoods of Qaddoum valley, Silwan and al-Mukaber Mountain;
· Al-'Issawiyah: the entrance to the French Hill; entrance to Hadasa-Hebrew University; Sub-entrance near a gas station are completely closed and there is a police checkpoint at the eastern entrance to the village.
· Sour Baher: the street to "Ramat Rachel" is completely closed and there are two police checkpoints at the entrance to Ghozail neighborhood and the main entrance to Sour Baher.
· Al-Jouz Valley: there is a police checkpoint at the intersection of the Interior Ministry Office.
· Al-Sheikh Jarrah: Kupat Holim Clalit is completely closed and there are two checkpoints near al-'Ayoun Hospital and al-Hayah Medical Center.
· Al-Mukaber Mountain: al-Farouq neighborhood; the entrance to the schools neighborhood; the entrance to "Armon HaNetziv" settlement are completely closed; and there are two police checkpoints to "Nahal Oz" and "Nof Zion" settlements.
· Um Touba: is completely closed in addition to closing three sub-entrances.
PCHR strongly condemns the collective punishment policy practiced by the Israeli government in occupied Jerusalem before the international community and:
· Emphasizes that East Jerusalem is an occupied city and all the measures taken by the Israeli authorities after the city was occupied in 1967 do not change its legal status as an occupied territory. Thus, displacing Abu Jamal family from Jerusalem is considered a forcible displacement and is part of the policy of collective punishment practiced against Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt);
· The Israeli Supreme Court's decision to isolate Palestinian civilians residing in the city and its suburbs violates the basic rules of international humanitarian law and international human rights law; and
· Calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1; i.e., to respect and to ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances. PCHR believes that the conspiracy of silence practiced by the international community encourages Israel to commit more violations of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including measures to create a Jewish demographic majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
According to the Israeli media, 20.000 Israelis joined the Israeli NGO Shurat HaDin – The Israeli Law Center on a civil lawsuit against Facebook on accusations of ignoring widespread Palestinian posts "calling for violence against Jews."
The suit was filed this last Monday, in the New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, by three attorneys — Robert Tolchin of New York; Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the director of the Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, and Asher Perlin of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
PNN reports that, according to The Times of Israel newspaper, the 20,000 Israeli plaintiffs claim that the Facebook posts have inspired many recent “terror attacks” and that “Facebook’s algorithms and platform connects inciters to terrorists who are further encouraged to perpetrate stabbings and other violence attacks against Israelis”.
The suit alleges that Facebook has a “legal and moral obligation” to block much of this content but that it chooses not to. The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction against Facebook requiring the social network to “immediately remove all pages, groups and posts containing incitement to murder Jews; to actively monitor its website for such incitement that all incitement is immediately removed prior to being disseminated to masses of terrorists and would-be terrorists; and to cease serving as matchmaker between terrorists, terrorist organizations, and those who incite others to commit terrorism.”
They are also arguing that Facebook is “far from a neutral or passive social media platform and cannot claim it is a mere bulletin board for other parties’ postings” and that “the terrorists do not come on their own; they write posts and encourage their friends to kill Jews,” Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin, told Fox News. “Facebook has been transformed into an anti-Semitic incubator for murder.”
According to the israeli newspaper Haaretz, in a news release Darshan-Leitner also state that “Facebook wields tremendous power and this publicly traded company needs to utilize it in a way that ensures that Palestinian extremists who are calling to stab Israelis and glorifying the terrorist that do, are not permitted to do it on its platform.”
The suit was filed this last Monday, in the New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, by three attorneys — Robert Tolchin of New York; Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, the director of the Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center, and Asher Perlin of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
PNN reports that, according to The Times of Israel newspaper, the 20,000 Israeli plaintiffs claim that the Facebook posts have inspired many recent “terror attacks” and that “Facebook’s algorithms and platform connects inciters to terrorists who are further encouraged to perpetrate stabbings and other violence attacks against Israelis”.
The suit alleges that Facebook has a “legal and moral obligation” to block much of this content but that it chooses not to. The plaintiffs are seeking an injunction against Facebook requiring the social network to “immediately remove all pages, groups and posts containing incitement to murder Jews; to actively monitor its website for such incitement that all incitement is immediately removed prior to being disseminated to masses of terrorists and would-be terrorists; and to cease serving as matchmaker between terrorists, terrorist organizations, and those who incite others to commit terrorism.”
They are also arguing that Facebook is “far from a neutral or passive social media platform and cannot claim it is a mere bulletin board for other parties’ postings” and that “the terrorists do not come on their own; they write posts and encourage their friends to kill Jews,” Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin, told Fox News. “Facebook has been transformed into an anti-Semitic incubator for murder.”
According to the israeli newspaper Haaretz, in a news release Darshan-Leitner also state that “Facebook wields tremendous power and this publicly traded company needs to utilize it in a way that ensures that Palestinian extremists who are calling to stab Israelis and glorifying the terrorist that do, are not permitted to do it on its platform.”
The Palestinian Detainees' Committee has reported, Tuesday, that the number of Palestinians, including children, who have been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers since the beginning of this month has arrived to 1083; 44 of them kidnapped on Tuesday.
The Committee said among the 1250 Palestinians kidnapped since the beginning of this month are 643 from occupied Jerusalem.
It added that 55% of the kidnapped Palestinians are children, between the ages of 12 and 17, while approximately 200 of them are from Jerusalem.
Israel also placed 23 detainees from Jerusalem under arbitrary detention orders, holding them captive without charges or trial.
The number of female prisoners held by Israel is 36, including a few who were wounded prior to their arrest, and are now in Israeli hospitals.
The Detainees' Committee also stated that undercover Israeli soldiers shot and wounded several Palestinians, after arresting them, including Othman Ziyada, Ahmad Hamed and Abdul-Rahman Abu ath-Thahab.
It said that shooting residents after their arrest, and after they have been completely subdued, is a direct violation of all international laws and regulations, including the Rome Rome Statute, and the principles of the International Criminal Court.
In addition, the Committee said that all detained Palestinians have been beaten and assaulted, in addition to being subject to verbal abuse while many were attacked by military dogs that were let loose on them.
Many detainees suffered serious wounded after being beaten with batons, or kicked and punched, while many were left without any medical attention.
Some of the wounded Palestinians died due to the lack of adequate and urgently needed medical attention.
Ten Palestinians are currently receiving treatment in Israeli hospitals; four of them are women identified as Isra’ ‘Aabed, Estabraq Ahmad Nour, 15, Israa Ja’abees and Marah Bakeer.
Several Palestinians have been kidnapped for expressing their opinions on their social network accounts, and are facing what Israel calls “incitement charges,” while many Israelis, including officials, who call for killing Palestinians or describe them as snakes, as well as many other outrageous comments and posts remain at large.
Many Israeli officials, including the “Education Minister,” have even called on the Israelis to carry arms and shoot to kill.
Many Palestinians have been imprisoned under Administrative Detention because of their opinions and posts on social network sites.
Some of the recent decisions by the Israeli government allow imposing prison terms as high as twenty years against Palestinians, including children, believed to be behind attacks against Israelis, including stone throwing and Molotov cocktails.
Israeli also authorized the use of sniper fire against protesters, escalating the demolition of homes, and even denying the transfer of the bodies of slain Palestinians to their families.
The PPS said that, on Monday at night and Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 44 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.
It added that twenty of the kidnapped Palestinians were taken prisoner in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
Some of the kidnapped have been identified as Nabil Hammad Abu Mariya, Mohab Ibrahim Issa Bahar, Mohammad Ayesh Khalil Abu Mariya, Mohannad Ayes Khalil Abu Mariya, Hotheifa Haitham Tarayra, Mohammad Akef Manasra, Mo’tasem Faraj Obeido, Jalal Robin Shweiki, Rani Jihad Rajabi, Naim Abdul-Hafith Rajabi, Monatser Mohammad Rajabi, Mohammad Fakhri Rajabi, Fadi Hazem Rajabi and Majdi Wael al-Ajlouni.
The soldiers also kidnapped eight Palestinians in the Ramallah and al-Biereh District; they have been identified as Ashraf al-Khalili and Mohammad Suheil, from Betunia town, Rafat Tal’at Issa from Kafr Ein, Saddam Abdul-Razeq Tamimi, Yazan Issam Tamimi, Walid Abdul-Hafith Tamimi and Osama Samih Tamimi, from Nabi Saleh, and Soheib Rabea’ from al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiyya.
The Committee also stated that the Israeli soldiers have kidnapped seven Palestinians from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank.
They have been identified as Ahmad Ezzeddin Amarna, Qais as-Sa’adi, Taher Jaradat, Saif Huwwari, Ahmad Qarariyya, Luay Abbas and Mohammad Qarariyya.
It added that the soldiers have also kidnapped three Palestinians, identified as Amir Mofeed Foqaha, Ibrahim Said, and former political prisoner Hamza Ya’ish, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Two siblings, identified as former political prisoner Khaled Jihad Odeh and Yousef, have been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers invaded Kafr Thulth, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia.
The Committee said among the 1250 Palestinians kidnapped since the beginning of this month are 643 from occupied Jerusalem.
It added that 55% of the kidnapped Palestinians are children, between the ages of 12 and 17, while approximately 200 of them are from Jerusalem.
Israel also placed 23 detainees from Jerusalem under arbitrary detention orders, holding them captive without charges or trial.
The number of female prisoners held by Israel is 36, including a few who were wounded prior to their arrest, and are now in Israeli hospitals.
The Detainees' Committee also stated that undercover Israeli soldiers shot and wounded several Palestinians, after arresting them, including Othman Ziyada, Ahmad Hamed and Abdul-Rahman Abu ath-Thahab.
It said that shooting residents after their arrest, and after they have been completely subdued, is a direct violation of all international laws and regulations, including the Rome Rome Statute, and the principles of the International Criminal Court.
In addition, the Committee said that all detained Palestinians have been beaten and assaulted, in addition to being subject to verbal abuse while many were attacked by military dogs that were let loose on them.
Many detainees suffered serious wounded after being beaten with batons, or kicked and punched, while many were left without any medical attention.
Some of the wounded Palestinians died due to the lack of adequate and urgently needed medical attention.
Ten Palestinians are currently receiving treatment in Israeli hospitals; four of them are women identified as Isra’ ‘Aabed, Estabraq Ahmad Nour, 15, Israa Ja’abees and Marah Bakeer.
Several Palestinians have been kidnapped for expressing their opinions on their social network accounts, and are facing what Israel calls “incitement charges,” while many Israelis, including officials, who call for killing Palestinians or describe them as snakes, as well as many other outrageous comments and posts remain at large.
Many Israeli officials, including the “Education Minister,” have even called on the Israelis to carry arms and shoot to kill.
Many Palestinians have been imprisoned under Administrative Detention because of their opinions and posts on social network sites.
Some of the recent decisions by the Israeli government allow imposing prison terms as high as twenty years against Palestinians, including children, believed to be behind attacks against Israelis, including stone throwing and Molotov cocktails.
Israeli also authorized the use of sniper fire against protesters, escalating the demolition of homes, and even denying the transfer of the bodies of slain Palestinians to their families.
The PPS said that, on Monday at night and Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 44 Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.
It added that twenty of the kidnapped Palestinians were taken prisoner in the southern West Bank district of Hebron.
Some of the kidnapped have been identified as Nabil Hammad Abu Mariya, Mohab Ibrahim Issa Bahar, Mohammad Ayesh Khalil Abu Mariya, Mohannad Ayes Khalil Abu Mariya, Hotheifa Haitham Tarayra, Mohammad Akef Manasra, Mo’tasem Faraj Obeido, Jalal Robin Shweiki, Rani Jihad Rajabi, Naim Abdul-Hafith Rajabi, Monatser Mohammad Rajabi, Mohammad Fakhri Rajabi, Fadi Hazem Rajabi and Majdi Wael al-Ajlouni.
The soldiers also kidnapped eight Palestinians in the Ramallah and al-Biereh District; they have been identified as Ashraf al-Khalili and Mohammad Suheil, from Betunia town, Rafat Tal’at Issa from Kafr Ein, Saddam Abdul-Razeq Tamimi, Yazan Issam Tamimi, Walid Abdul-Hafith Tamimi and Osama Samih Tamimi, from Nabi Saleh, and Soheib Rabea’ from al-Mazra’a al-Gharbiyya.
The Committee also stated that the Israeli soldiers have kidnapped seven Palestinians from Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank.
They have been identified as Ahmad Ezzeddin Amarna, Qais as-Sa’adi, Taher Jaradat, Saif Huwwari, Ahmad Qarariyya, Luay Abbas and Mohammad Qarariyya.
It added that the soldiers have also kidnapped three Palestinians, identified as Amir Mofeed Foqaha, Ibrahim Said, and former political prisoner Hamza Ya’ish, in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Two siblings, identified as former political prisoner Khaled Jihad Odeh and Yousef, have been kidnapped by Israeli soldiers invaded Kafr Thulth, in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia.
The Islamic and national political forces in al-Khalil city have called for active participation in all marches to be organized in the city to demand the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to release the detained bodies of slain Palestinians.
In different statements, the political forces urged al-Khalil natives to take part in the march that would be organized on Tuesday in the city to demand the IOA to give the bereaved Palestinian families the bodies of their relatives, who were shot dead or liquidated by Israelis in recent West Bank attacks.
Today's march will be dedicated to protesting Israel's detention of the bodies of the two female martyrs, Bayan Aseeli and Daniya Arshid.
In addition to these two girls, the IOA still refuses to release the bodies of 12 young men from al-Khalil killed for allegedly carrying out stabbing attacks against Israelis.
In different statements, the political forces urged al-Khalil natives to take part in the march that would be organized on Tuesday in the city to demand the IOA to give the bereaved Palestinian families the bodies of their relatives, who were shot dead or liquidated by Israelis in recent West Bank attacks.
Today's march will be dedicated to protesting Israel's detention of the bodies of the two female martyrs, Bayan Aseeli and Daniya Arshid.
In addition to these two girls, the IOA still refuses to release the bodies of 12 young men from al-Khalil killed for allegedly carrying out stabbing attacks against Israelis.
Hamas has slammed the “horrendous crimes” committed by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people under American shield and manifested most notoriously in the murder of 17-year-old Dania Ersheid.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement: “Israel’s murder of Dania Ersheid in al-Khalil is another instance of field execution and a proof of Israel’s dishonest claims on soothing current tension.”
“Such an escalation is the natural upshot of American complicity,” Abu Zuhri added.
“Calls for a truce with the Israeli occupation in light of the mounting crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian people amount to an intolerable collusion with the occupation and a crime against Palestinians,” he further stated.
Statistics recently released by the Ramallah-based Jerusalem Center for Israeli Affairs has shown that at least one Palestinian child is being executed by the Israeli occupation troops per every single day.
Among 57 Palestinians killed since the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada, 35% have been identified as children.
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement: “Israel’s murder of Dania Ersheid in al-Khalil is another instance of field execution and a proof of Israel’s dishonest claims on soothing current tension.”
“Such an escalation is the natural upshot of American complicity,” Abu Zuhri added.
“Calls for a truce with the Israeli occupation in light of the mounting crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian people amount to an intolerable collusion with the occupation and a crime against Palestinians,” he further stated.
Statistics recently released by the Ramallah-based Jerusalem Center for Israeli Affairs has shown that at least one Palestinian child is being executed by the Israeli occupation troops per every single day.
Among 57 Palestinians killed since the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada, 35% have been identified as children.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced his plan to control “all of the territory” and “live forever by the sword.”
The remarks were reported in Haa’retz newspaper, according to PNN, in an article by journalist Barak Ravid.
Mr Ravid wrote: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that although he doesn’t want a binational state, “at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future.”
MKs who took part in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting – today (Monday) – reportedly told Mr Ravid that Netanyahu had turned to the politicians present and said: “You think there is a magic wand here, but I disagree. I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword – yes.”
The prime minister also spoke about possible plans to revoke Israeli citizenship or residency from the Arab residents of east Jerusalem.
He complained that there had not been any “progress” on the matter because of delays at the Justice Ministry, headed by Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi).
Dr Hanan Ashwari, a committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said of the idea:
“This alarming escalation, an inhuman and illegal measure, must be immediately stopped.
” Should this be adopted, such a measure will transform the actual status of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to “non-existence,” and it will deprive them of the most basic rights and services, including shelter, healthcare and education.
“This would also provoke confrontations with serious ramifications throughout the region and beyond.”
The remarks were reported in Haa’retz newspaper, according to PNN, in an article by journalist Barak Ravid.
Mr Ravid wrote: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that although he doesn’t want a binational state, “at this time we need to control all of the territory for the foreseeable future.”
MKs who took part in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting – today (Monday) – reportedly told Mr Ravid that Netanyahu had turned to the politicians present and said: “You think there is a magic wand here, but I disagree. I’m asked if we will forever live by the sword – yes.”
The prime minister also spoke about possible plans to revoke Israeli citizenship or residency from the Arab residents of east Jerusalem.
He complained that there had not been any “progress” on the matter because of delays at the Justice Ministry, headed by Minister Ayelet Shaked (Habayit Hayehudi).
Dr Hanan Ashwari, a committee member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), said of the idea:
“This alarming escalation, an inhuman and illegal measure, must be immediately stopped.
” Should this be adopted, such a measure will transform the actual status of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to “non-existence,” and it will deprive them of the most basic rights and services, including shelter, healthcare and education.
“This would also provoke confrontations with serious ramifications throughout the region and beyond.”
By Ghada Ageel
On 1 October, Palestinians burst into the streets protesting a racist system that allows settler mobs to attack Palestinians and their properties, lands, and holy sites; and burn families to death along with their children.
It was a stark expression of anger in response to the fact that no action has been taken against the criminals who perpetrated the horrific burning of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler at the end of July. The parents of Ali Dawabsha, who were burnt in the attack, died from their wounds weeks later. Meanwhile, the state of Israel continues to show the world that they are uninterested in Palestinian victims by concealing the perpetrator's identity and tacitly supporting their actions.
To date, historic Palestine remains in the midst of a deep crisis facing a myriad of dangers on all fronts. The profound urgency and complexity of the protests that are now sweeping across the two sides of the green line have pushed the US administration to act belatedly in an attempt to contain the deteriorating situation.
Despite the failure of the peace talks during the summer of 2013, the US administration has again acceded to the desire of Secretary of State John Kerry to beat the dead horse of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation by proposing another round of meetings to “reduce tensions”.
Last week, Kerry met with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin and with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan over the weekend.
Ahead of these meetings, Kerry called on both sides to exercise restraint, to refrain from actions that could escalate the situation, and to take urgent steps to end the current "senseless" violence. According to Kerry, the priority in these meetings was to restore stability and reduce tensions that have been running high across the Occupied Territories.
'No return to 30 September'
Speaking to reporters after meeting with the two leaders, Kerry voiced cautious hope that there may be a way to soothe violence. He told reporters he was "hopeful," without elaborating. Yet no one familiar with the long stubborn conflict and its history of half a century of failed diplomacy believes Kerry’s optimistic words.
In fact, Kerry’s careful, diplomatic words create more problems than solutions. There is little evidence that his priorities are achievable unless they provide answers to some basic questions. What sort of stability is Kerry referring to and to which side does that stability need to be restored? What tensions need to be reduced? Is he referring to the particular tensions that existed just before 1 October or the many chronic tensions that preceded that date and that have been going on unnoticed by many, including officials in Kerry’s administration?
For many observers, these meetings and any upcoming ones will be fruitless if Kerry’s understanding of the current unrest mirrors the Israeli point of view. Palestinians and their supporters have the right to question the intentions, given the fact that Kerry’s strong assertions almost never follow the killing of Palestinians. Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli army and settlers have been accumulating unchecked for years. These, however, have produced no calls for a meeting to stop the senseless Israeli violence or for a list of priorities to restore stability.
Kerry's meetings - more failure yet to come
Kerry’s round of meetings will surely result in more failure if stability amounts to restoring the reality preceding the current unrest. This reality has stripped Palestinians of their dignity, freedom, and normal lives - both as subjects of direct military occupation and as second-class citizens under a racist regime. The only chance of success for Kerry’s proposed priorities is ensuring there’s no return to 30 September, the day after, 1 October, was the day when the “tensions,” to use Kerry’s term, erupted.
Restoring stability will stay an unattainable goal without addressing the summary executions and the daily human rights violations carried out by Israel’s army and police, both of which are implementing a “shoot-to-kill” policy. According to UN figures, even before the eruption of the current protests, between January and September 2015, at least 26 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces.
In other words, Israel killed one Palestinian every ten days, on the average, since the beginning of 2015, and none of the leading world diplomats discussed this violence. In fact, “senseless violence” by Israel against Palestinians has claimed one innocent life after another for the past seven decades, some of them directly and many others indirectly through home demolitions, land theft, abuse and torture of detainees, forced displacement, and inhumane and illegal siege.
Ending the culture of impunity
For tensions to be reduced, it is this senseless violence which needs to end. Any remedy must also include an end to the culture of impunity allowing Israelis to kill Palestinians and go scot-free. There is no chance of stability until perpetrators are brought to justice and Israel’s systematic crimes are brought to an end.
The generations born under occupation must be offered honest hope. Enclosed in ghettos under the false pretext of peace and left in despair between walls and checkpoints, harassed, arrested, imprisoned, nearly starved and denied their rights, their belief in a future has to be thoughtfully rebuilt. Reducing tensions requires restoring dignity.
When Palestinian voices are included, when Palestinian victims are named, when Palestinian choices are respected, and aspirations for freedom and dignity are taken into full account, only then will their anger and their protests end, restoring stability to historic Palestine. A mere, but imperative, first step in that direction is the immediate implementation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 which stipulates the protection of civilians during conflict and the prosecution of persons alleged to have committed grave crimes.
- Ghada Ageel is a visiting professor at the University of Alberta Political Science Department (Edmonton, Canada), an independent scholar, and active in the Faculty4Palestine - Alberta.
The article was published in Middle East Eye website.
On 1 October, Palestinians burst into the streets protesting a racist system that allows settler mobs to attack Palestinians and their properties, lands, and holy sites; and burn families to death along with their children.
It was a stark expression of anger in response to the fact that no action has been taken against the criminals who perpetrated the horrific burning of an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler at the end of July. The parents of Ali Dawabsha, who were burnt in the attack, died from their wounds weeks later. Meanwhile, the state of Israel continues to show the world that they are uninterested in Palestinian victims by concealing the perpetrator's identity and tacitly supporting their actions.
To date, historic Palestine remains in the midst of a deep crisis facing a myriad of dangers on all fronts. The profound urgency and complexity of the protests that are now sweeping across the two sides of the green line have pushed the US administration to act belatedly in an attempt to contain the deteriorating situation.
Despite the failure of the peace talks during the summer of 2013, the US administration has again acceded to the desire of Secretary of State John Kerry to beat the dead horse of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation by proposing another round of meetings to “reduce tensions”.
Last week, Kerry met with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Berlin and with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan over the weekend.
Ahead of these meetings, Kerry called on both sides to exercise restraint, to refrain from actions that could escalate the situation, and to take urgent steps to end the current "senseless" violence. According to Kerry, the priority in these meetings was to restore stability and reduce tensions that have been running high across the Occupied Territories.
'No return to 30 September'
Speaking to reporters after meeting with the two leaders, Kerry voiced cautious hope that there may be a way to soothe violence. He told reporters he was "hopeful," without elaborating. Yet no one familiar with the long stubborn conflict and its history of half a century of failed diplomacy believes Kerry’s optimistic words.
In fact, Kerry’s careful, diplomatic words create more problems than solutions. There is little evidence that his priorities are achievable unless they provide answers to some basic questions. What sort of stability is Kerry referring to and to which side does that stability need to be restored? What tensions need to be reduced? Is he referring to the particular tensions that existed just before 1 October or the many chronic tensions that preceded that date and that have been going on unnoticed by many, including officials in Kerry’s administration?
For many observers, these meetings and any upcoming ones will be fruitless if Kerry’s understanding of the current unrest mirrors the Israeli point of view. Palestinians and their supporters have the right to question the intentions, given the fact that Kerry’s strong assertions almost never follow the killing of Palestinians. Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli army and settlers have been accumulating unchecked for years. These, however, have produced no calls for a meeting to stop the senseless Israeli violence or for a list of priorities to restore stability.
Kerry's meetings - more failure yet to come
Kerry’s round of meetings will surely result in more failure if stability amounts to restoring the reality preceding the current unrest. This reality has stripped Palestinians of their dignity, freedom, and normal lives - both as subjects of direct military occupation and as second-class citizens under a racist regime. The only chance of success for Kerry’s proposed priorities is ensuring there’s no return to 30 September, the day after, 1 October, was the day when the “tensions,” to use Kerry’s term, erupted.
Restoring stability will stay an unattainable goal without addressing the summary executions and the daily human rights violations carried out by Israel’s army and police, both of which are implementing a “shoot-to-kill” policy. According to UN figures, even before the eruption of the current protests, between January and September 2015, at least 26 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces.
In other words, Israel killed one Palestinian every ten days, on the average, since the beginning of 2015, and none of the leading world diplomats discussed this violence. In fact, “senseless violence” by Israel against Palestinians has claimed one innocent life after another for the past seven decades, some of them directly and many others indirectly through home demolitions, land theft, abuse and torture of detainees, forced displacement, and inhumane and illegal siege.
Ending the culture of impunity
For tensions to be reduced, it is this senseless violence which needs to end. Any remedy must also include an end to the culture of impunity allowing Israelis to kill Palestinians and go scot-free. There is no chance of stability until perpetrators are brought to justice and Israel’s systematic crimes are brought to an end.
The generations born under occupation must be offered honest hope. Enclosed in ghettos under the false pretext of peace and left in despair between walls and checkpoints, harassed, arrested, imprisoned, nearly starved and denied their rights, their belief in a future has to be thoughtfully rebuilt. Reducing tensions requires restoring dignity.
When Palestinian voices are included, when Palestinian victims are named, when Palestinian choices are respected, and aspirations for freedom and dignity are taken into full account, only then will their anger and their protests end, restoring stability to historic Palestine. A mere, but imperative, first step in that direction is the immediate implementation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 which stipulates the protection of civilians during conflict and the prosecution of persons alleged to have committed grave crimes.
- Ghada Ageel is a visiting professor at the University of Alberta Political Science Department (Edmonton, Canada), an independent scholar, and active in the Faculty4Palestine - Alberta.
The article was published in Middle East Eye website.