3 june 2016
Israeli government endorsed, in a session held in Occupied Jerusalem, the investment of 220 million dollars in settlement projects in Jerusalem over five years under the pretext of “city development”.
Media sources quoted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the sum will be invested in technology and companies.
Mayor Nir Barkat was also quoted as calling for moving Israeli ministries and institutions to the occupied city of Jerusalem.
For his part, Former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs at the Palestinian Authority (PA) Hatem Abdul Qader opined that the Israeli budgets are allocated to establish Judaization projects in the city and supporting settlers only.
In an interview with Anadolu agency, Abdul Qader condemned the Israeli Judaization projects and called on the Arabs and Muslims to shoulder their responsibilities and duties towards the city of Occupied Jerusalem and to confront the Israeli aggressive practices against the city.
Media sources quoted Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the sum will be invested in technology and companies.
Mayor Nir Barkat was also quoted as calling for moving Israeli ministries and institutions to the occupied city of Jerusalem.
For his part, Former Minister of Jerusalem Affairs at the Palestinian Authority (PA) Hatem Abdul Qader opined that the Israeli budgets are allocated to establish Judaization projects in the city and supporting settlers only.
In an interview with Anadolu agency, Abdul Qader condemned the Israeli Judaization projects and called on the Arabs and Muslims to shoulder their responsibilities and duties towards the city of Occupied Jerusalem and to confront the Israeli aggressive practices against the city.
Palestinian media sources revealed that the Palestinian Authority (PA) continued the detention of three Palestinian journalists, while 20 others are held captives in Israeli jails.
The Journalist's Bloc and Palestine’s International Forum for Information and Communication (Tawasul) condemned, in separate statements, the escalated arrest campaign against journalists.
They demanded the PA to immediately release journalist prisoners and to exclude them from issues of political disputes. In a statement on Thursday, the Journalist's Bloc said that the PA’s apparatuses over the past three days arrested two journalists: Amir Abu Aram, the cameraman of al-Aqsa TV in Ramallah and Zeid Mustafa Abu Arrah from Tubas.
They also extended the detention order of journalist Tarik Abu Zeid, who has been detained since May 16, .to 15 days. Tawasul forum slammed the PA for the arrest of journalists especially that media institutions have been working on the liberation of 20 captives of journalists imprisoned in Israeli jails.
Tawasul demanded immediate release for all of the captives and asked the human rights and syndicate institutions to exert efforts to prevent arresting journalists in the future, guarantee their freedom and support them in their missions of reporting reality to the public.
The Journalist's Bloc and Palestine’s International Forum for Information and Communication (Tawasul) condemned, in separate statements, the escalated arrest campaign against journalists.
They demanded the PA to immediately release journalist prisoners and to exclude them from issues of political disputes. In a statement on Thursday, the Journalist's Bloc said that the PA’s apparatuses over the past three days arrested two journalists: Amir Abu Aram, the cameraman of al-Aqsa TV in Ramallah and Zeid Mustafa Abu Arrah from Tubas.
They also extended the detention order of journalist Tarik Abu Zeid, who has been detained since May 16, .to 15 days. Tawasul forum slammed the PA for the arrest of journalists especially that media institutions have been working on the liberation of 20 captives of journalists imprisoned in Israeli jails.
Tawasul demanded immediate release for all of the captives and asked the human rights and syndicate institutions to exert efforts to prevent arresting journalists in the future, guarantee their freedom and support them in their missions of reporting reality to the public.
2 june 2016
By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli society is constantly swerving to the Right and, by doing so, the country’s entire political paradigm is redefined regularly.
Israel is now ‘ruled by the most extreme rightwing government in its history’ has grown from being an informed assessment to a dull cliché over the course of only a few years.
In fact, that exact line was used in May 2015, when rightwing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, formed his thin majority government of like-minded right-wingers, religious zealots and ultra-nationalists.
The same sentiment, with almost the exact wording, is being infused again, as Netanyahu has expanded his coalition by bringing to the fold the ultra-nationalist, Avigdor Lieberman.
As of Wednesday May 25, Lieberman has also become Israel’s Defense Minister. Considering Lieberman’s rowdy and violent politics as demonstrated in his two terms as Foreign Minister (from 2009 to 2012 and, again, from 2013 to 2015), being a Defense Minister in Israel’s ‘most extreme rightwing government in history’ harbors all kind of terrifying prospects.
While many commentators rightly pointed to Lieberman’s past provocations and wild statements – for example, his 2015 statement threatening to behead Palestinian citizens of Israel with an axe if they are not fully loyal to Israel; advocating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel; his death ultimatum to former Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, and so on – his predecessor, Moshe Ya’alon, was spared much blame.
Worse, the former Defense Minister, Ya’alon, was regarded by some as an example of professionalism and morality. He is ‘well-regarded’, wrote William Booth in the Washington Post, compared to the ‘polarizing maverick’ Lieberman.
But ‘well-regarded’ by whom? By Israeli society, the majority of whom support the cold-blooded murder of Palestinians?
Israel has adhered to its own definition of political terminology for a long time. Its early ‘socialism’ was a blend of communal living, facilitated by military onslaught and sustained by colonialism.
Its current definition of ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘center’ are also relative, only unique to Israel itself. Thanks to Lieberman – the former Russian immigrant, club bouncer-turned-politician who is constantly rallying the roughly one million Israeli Russian Jews around his ever-violent political agenda – Ya’alon is now an example of level-headedness and morality.
Indeed, the quote that has been reproduced numerous times in the media is that of Ya’alon stating the reason behind his resignation is that he has lost confidence in ‘Netanyahu’s decision- making and morals’.
Morals? Let’s examine the evidence.
Ya’alon took part in every major Israeli war since 1973, and his name was later associated with the most atrocious of Israeli wars and massacres, first in Lebanon and, later, in Gaza.
His ‘morality’ never dissuaded him from ordering some of the most unspeakable war crimes carried out against civilians, neither in Qana, Lebanon (1996) nor in Shujaya, Gaza (2014).
Ya’alon refused to cooperate with any international investigation conducted by the UN or any other monitoring group into his violent conduct.
In 2005, he was sued in a US court by the survivors of the Qana massacre in which hundreds of civilians and UN peacekeepers were killed and wounded in Israeli military strikes in Lebanon.
In that case, neither Israeli nor American morality prevailed, and justice is yet to be delivered.
Ya’alon, who received military training early in his career at the British Army’s Camberley Staff College, continued to rise in rank within the army until 2002 when he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces.
He was in that post for nearly three years, as a result of which he ordered the assassination of hundreds of Palestinians and oversaw various massacres that were carried out by the Israeli army during the Second Intifada.
His post was terminated by the then Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, in 2005. In this case, too, it was immorality, not morality, that played a role in the conflict between him and his superiors. Ya’alon was – and remains – an ardent advocate for the illegal colonialization of Palestinian land.
In 2005, he vehemently rejected the so-called redeployment from the Gaza Strip, in which a few thousands illegal settlers were relocated to Jewish colonies in the West Bank.
His war crimes caught up with him in New Zealand in 2006 – over the assassination of a Hamas commander, Saleh Shehade, together with 14 members of his family and other civilians.
An arrest order was issued but revoked later, under heavy political pressure, allowing Ya’alon to escape the country. He returned to the helm of the army in 2013, just in time to carry out the devastating war on Gaza in 2014, which killed 2,257 Palestinians in 51 days.
The UN monitoring group, OCHA, estimated that over 70 percent of those killed were civilians, including 563 children. The destruction of Shujaya, in particular, was a calculated strategy devised by Ya’alon himself.
In a July 2013 meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki-Moon, Ya’alon informed the UN chief that he would bomb the entire neighborhood in case of war. He did.
In May 2015, he was still unrepentant. Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem, he threatened to kill civilians in case of another war on Lebanon. “We are going to hurt Lebanese civilians to include kids of the family,” he said.
“We went through a very long deep discussion. We did it then, we did it in (the) Gaza Strip, we are going to do it in any round of hostilities in the future,” he said.
He also spoke implicitly of dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran.
He repeatedly gave the Israeli Occupation army the green light to carry out ‘shoot to kill’ policy against Palestinians to fight rising ‘tension’ in the Occupied Territories.
These are the words of Ya’alon during a visit to a military base in Gush Etzion in November 2014: “It must be clear that anyone who comes to kill Jews must be eliminated. Any terrorist who raises a gun, knife or rock, tries to run over or otherwise attack Jews, must be put to death.”
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent months in Occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Many of those killed are stone-throwing children who are facing Israeli army vehicles along with thousands of trigger-happy Jewish settlers.
In his first public remarks since his resignation, Ya’alon accused a ‘vocal minority’ in Israel of targeting the country’s “basic values”, stating that the country’s “moral compass” has been lost.
The odd thing is that many Israelis agree with Ya’alon. They see the man who has been accused of carrying out war crimes for most of his career as an example of morality and basic values.
While Lieberman has demonstrated to be a loose cannon and a political liability, Ya’alon has openly spoken of targeting children and repeatedly lived up to his promises. When the likes of Ya’alon, a man with a blood-stained record becomes the face of morality in Israel, one can understand why the future of that country brings little hope, especially now that Lieberman has brought his Israel Our Home Party to Netanyahu’s terrifying nest of political parties.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud has been writing about the Middle East for over 20 years. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author of several books and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com.
Israeli society is constantly swerving to the Right and, by doing so, the country’s entire political paradigm is redefined regularly.
Israel is now ‘ruled by the most extreme rightwing government in its history’ has grown from being an informed assessment to a dull cliché over the course of only a few years.
In fact, that exact line was used in May 2015, when rightwing Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, formed his thin majority government of like-minded right-wingers, religious zealots and ultra-nationalists.
The same sentiment, with almost the exact wording, is being infused again, as Netanyahu has expanded his coalition by bringing to the fold the ultra-nationalist, Avigdor Lieberman.
As of Wednesday May 25, Lieberman has also become Israel’s Defense Minister. Considering Lieberman’s rowdy and violent politics as demonstrated in his two terms as Foreign Minister (from 2009 to 2012 and, again, from 2013 to 2015), being a Defense Minister in Israel’s ‘most extreme rightwing government in history’ harbors all kind of terrifying prospects.
While many commentators rightly pointed to Lieberman’s past provocations and wild statements – for example, his 2015 statement threatening to behead Palestinian citizens of Israel with an axe if they are not fully loyal to Israel; advocating the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel; his death ultimatum to former Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya, and so on – his predecessor, Moshe Ya’alon, was spared much blame.
Worse, the former Defense Minister, Ya’alon, was regarded by some as an example of professionalism and morality. He is ‘well-regarded’, wrote William Booth in the Washington Post, compared to the ‘polarizing maverick’ Lieberman.
But ‘well-regarded’ by whom? By Israeli society, the majority of whom support the cold-blooded murder of Palestinians?
Israel has adhered to its own definition of political terminology for a long time. Its early ‘socialism’ was a blend of communal living, facilitated by military onslaught and sustained by colonialism.
Its current definition of ‘left’, ‘right’ and ‘center’ are also relative, only unique to Israel itself. Thanks to Lieberman – the former Russian immigrant, club bouncer-turned-politician who is constantly rallying the roughly one million Israeli Russian Jews around his ever-violent political agenda – Ya’alon is now an example of level-headedness and morality.
Indeed, the quote that has been reproduced numerous times in the media is that of Ya’alon stating the reason behind his resignation is that he has lost confidence in ‘Netanyahu’s decision- making and morals’.
Morals? Let’s examine the evidence.
Ya’alon took part in every major Israeli war since 1973, and his name was later associated with the most atrocious of Israeli wars and massacres, first in Lebanon and, later, in Gaza.
His ‘morality’ never dissuaded him from ordering some of the most unspeakable war crimes carried out against civilians, neither in Qana, Lebanon (1996) nor in Shujaya, Gaza (2014).
Ya’alon refused to cooperate with any international investigation conducted by the UN or any other monitoring group into his violent conduct.
In 2005, he was sued in a US court by the survivors of the Qana massacre in which hundreds of civilians and UN peacekeepers were killed and wounded in Israeli military strikes in Lebanon.
In that case, neither Israeli nor American morality prevailed, and justice is yet to be delivered.
Ya’alon, who received military training early in his career at the British Army’s Camberley Staff College, continued to rise in rank within the army until 2002 when he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces.
He was in that post for nearly three years, as a result of which he ordered the assassination of hundreds of Palestinians and oversaw various massacres that were carried out by the Israeli army during the Second Intifada.
His post was terminated by the then Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, in 2005. In this case, too, it was immorality, not morality, that played a role in the conflict between him and his superiors. Ya’alon was – and remains – an ardent advocate for the illegal colonialization of Palestinian land.
In 2005, he vehemently rejected the so-called redeployment from the Gaza Strip, in which a few thousands illegal settlers were relocated to Jewish colonies in the West Bank.
His war crimes caught up with him in New Zealand in 2006 – over the assassination of a Hamas commander, Saleh Shehade, together with 14 members of his family and other civilians.
An arrest order was issued but revoked later, under heavy political pressure, allowing Ya’alon to escape the country. He returned to the helm of the army in 2013, just in time to carry out the devastating war on Gaza in 2014, which killed 2,257 Palestinians in 51 days.
The UN monitoring group, OCHA, estimated that over 70 percent of those killed were civilians, including 563 children. The destruction of Shujaya, in particular, was a calculated strategy devised by Ya’alon himself.
In a July 2013 meeting with UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki-Moon, Ya’alon informed the UN chief that he would bomb the entire neighborhood in case of war. He did.
In May 2015, he was still unrepentant. Speaking at a conference in Jerusalem, he threatened to kill civilians in case of another war on Lebanon. “We are going to hurt Lebanese civilians to include kids of the family,” he said.
“We went through a very long deep discussion. We did it then, we did it in (the) Gaza Strip, we are going to do it in any round of hostilities in the future,” he said.
He also spoke implicitly of dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran.
He repeatedly gave the Israeli Occupation army the green light to carry out ‘shoot to kill’ policy against Palestinians to fight rising ‘tension’ in the Occupied Territories.
These are the words of Ya’alon during a visit to a military base in Gush Etzion in November 2014: “It must be clear that anyone who comes to kill Jews must be eliminated. Any terrorist who raises a gun, knife or rock, tries to run over or otherwise attack Jews, must be put to death.”
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent months in Occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Many of those killed are stone-throwing children who are facing Israeli army vehicles along with thousands of trigger-happy Jewish settlers.
In his first public remarks since his resignation, Ya’alon accused a ‘vocal minority’ in Israel of targeting the country’s “basic values”, stating that the country’s “moral compass” has been lost.
The odd thing is that many Israelis agree with Ya’alon. They see the man who has been accused of carrying out war crimes for most of his career as an example of morality and basic values.
While Lieberman has demonstrated to be a loose cannon and a political liability, Ya’alon has openly spoken of targeting children and repeatedly lived up to his promises. When the likes of Ya’alon, a man with a blood-stained record becomes the face of morality in Israel, one can understand why the future of that country brings little hope, especially now that Lieberman has brought his Israel Our Home Party to Netanyahu’s terrifying nest of political parties.
Dr. Ramzy Baroud has been writing about the Middle East for over 20 years. He is an internationally-syndicated columnist, a media consultant, an author of several books and the founder of PalestineChronicle.com.
Several Palestinians prisoners support groups have reported that the Israeli army has kidnapped 471 Palestinians in May, and that the number of Palestinians who have been kidnapped since the begging of the current uprising, on October 1st 2015, is 5805.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the Ad-Dameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee issued a joint report, Thursday, documenting the arbitrary and random Israeli abductions of Palestinians, and the serious violations against them.
The report indicated that the soldiers kidnapped 84 Palestinians, including 20 women (five underage), and one legislator, identified as Abdul-Jaber Foqaha.
It added that the highest abduction rate was in occupied Jerusalem, as the soldiers kidnapped 111 Palestinians, followed by Hebron 80, 61 from Ramallah and al-Biereh District, 48 from Bethlehem, 45 from Nablus, 34 from Jenin, 14 from Qalqilia, 10 from Salfit, 5 from Tubas, 5 from Jericho, in addition to 34 from the Gaza Strip.
The report also stated that the current number of Palestinians, held by Israel, is at least 7000, including 71 women (among them 15 children), seven legislators, in addition to 750 Palestinians, held under arbitrary Administrative Detention, without charges or trial.
Israel also issued 156 Administrative Detention orders in May; 40 of them were new orders, and the rest had their detention orders renewed.
As for the Palestinians kidnapped in the Gaza Strip, most of them are fishers, and all faced very harsh treatment and violations, during their arrest and interrogation.
It also stated that at least eight Palestinian detainees initiated hunger strikes in May, protesting the illegal detention and bad treatment.
The report also denounced the procedures used to transport the detainees to courts and even hospitals, as the vehicles they are placed in are made of iron, very hot in summer and extremely cold in winter, while most of them are in those vehicles for up to eight hours, and a total of three days when counting each transfer between different facilities and courts.
Detainee Rami Sabarna, from Hebron, was repeatedly assaulted by the soldiers as they were moving him back to the Ramon prison, after he underwent appendectomy in an Israeli hospital, an issue that caused his wound to reopen and bleed.
The organizations that prepared the report denounced the torture, threats and abuse the detainees, including children, face under interrogation, and during their transfer between different centers, in addition to the threats made by the soldiers to harm their families.
The organizations strongly condemned the serious and escalating Israeli violations, and expressed their solidarity with the detainees facing constant abuse and bad living conditions, and called for local, regional and international human rights groups to intervene and ensure Israel abides by International Law and all principles of human rights.
They also called on the United Nations and the International Community to stop the dangerous Israeli violations, especially its use of torture, cruel treatment and abuse of the detainees, including the violations against children, not only during their arrest but also during interrogation and imprisonment.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS), the Ad-Dameer Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights Association, the al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee issued a joint report, Thursday, documenting the arbitrary and random Israeli abductions of Palestinians, and the serious violations against them.
The report indicated that the soldiers kidnapped 84 Palestinians, including 20 women (five underage), and one legislator, identified as Abdul-Jaber Foqaha.
It added that the highest abduction rate was in occupied Jerusalem, as the soldiers kidnapped 111 Palestinians, followed by Hebron 80, 61 from Ramallah and al-Biereh District, 48 from Bethlehem, 45 from Nablus, 34 from Jenin, 14 from Qalqilia, 10 from Salfit, 5 from Tubas, 5 from Jericho, in addition to 34 from the Gaza Strip.
The report also stated that the current number of Palestinians, held by Israel, is at least 7000, including 71 women (among them 15 children), seven legislators, in addition to 750 Palestinians, held under arbitrary Administrative Detention, without charges or trial.
Israel also issued 156 Administrative Detention orders in May; 40 of them were new orders, and the rest had their detention orders renewed.
As for the Palestinians kidnapped in the Gaza Strip, most of them are fishers, and all faced very harsh treatment and violations, during their arrest and interrogation.
It also stated that at least eight Palestinian detainees initiated hunger strikes in May, protesting the illegal detention and bad treatment.
The report also denounced the procedures used to transport the detainees to courts and even hospitals, as the vehicles they are placed in are made of iron, very hot in summer and extremely cold in winter, while most of them are in those vehicles for up to eight hours, and a total of three days when counting each transfer between different facilities and courts.
Detainee Rami Sabarna, from Hebron, was repeatedly assaulted by the soldiers as they were moving him back to the Ramon prison, after he underwent appendectomy in an Israeli hospital, an issue that caused his wound to reopen and bleed.
The organizations that prepared the report denounced the torture, threats and abuse the detainees, including children, face under interrogation, and during their transfer between different centers, in addition to the threats made by the soldiers to harm their families.
The organizations strongly condemned the serious and escalating Israeli violations, and expressed their solidarity with the detainees facing constant abuse and bad living conditions, and called for local, regional and international human rights groups to intervene and ensure Israel abides by International Law and all principles of human rights.
They also called on the United Nations and the International Community to stop the dangerous Israeli violations, especially its use of torture, cruel treatment and abuse of the detainees, including the violations against children, not only during their arrest but also during interrogation and imprisonment.
1 june 2016
At least 963 Israeli settlers and intelligence officers stormed Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque during May month.
According to data by the Quds Press, 963 Israelis broke into the Mosque in May via the Maghareba Gate and under heavy police escort.
110 settlers stormed the al-Aqsa on May 12 to mark the anniversary of the occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The report further documented settlers’ attempts to perform provocative rituals and chant anti-Muslim slogans at the plazas of the holy site.
14 Palestinians were banned from Occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa during the same period for temporal intervals ranging from 15 days to three months.
The Quds Press also kept record of the break-in carried out by the notorious Israeli rabbi Yehuda Glick, a few days before he was sworn in as Knesset member.
The break-ins fall in line with calls launched by Israel’s alleged temple mount organizations for mass break-ins at al-Aqsa to mark the occupation of East Jerusalem on June 5.
According to data by the Quds Press, 963 Israelis broke into the Mosque in May via the Maghareba Gate and under heavy police escort.
110 settlers stormed the al-Aqsa on May 12 to mark the anniversary of the occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The report further documented settlers’ attempts to perform provocative rituals and chant anti-Muslim slogans at the plazas of the holy site.
14 Palestinians were banned from Occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa during the same period for temporal intervals ranging from 15 days to three months.
The Quds Press also kept record of the break-in carried out by the notorious Israeli rabbi Yehuda Glick, a few days before he was sworn in as Knesset member.
The break-ins fall in line with calls launched by Israel’s alleged temple mount organizations for mass break-ins at al-Aqsa to mark the occupation of East Jerusalem on June 5.
31 may 2016
The Knesset constitution, law and justice committee on Monday approved, by a 10-2 majority, an anti-terror bill for its second and third readings in the Knesset, which will greatly expand the Israeli security agencies' powers.
The committee had previously met for 30 sessions, rejecting all 150 objections to the bill. The bill will become law if passed after the third reading, according to Israel's channel 7.
The law would give the Israeli police and the intelligence apparatus, Shin Bet, extensive powers to fight hostile activities against Israel.
The new law would include various measures that were previously part of the British Mandate emergency measures act (1945). These include administrative detention and travel restrictions forbidding people from leaving the country.
The bill widens the definition of terrorist acts and organizations and provides for equal punishment for perpetrators and their abettors.
MK Issawi Frej (Meretz) attacked the law, calling it "ultranationalist legislation applying only to Arabs, while civil legislation is used with Jews."
"Now any Arab can be deemed a terrorist. An Arab stone thrower will become a terrorist, while a Jewish stone thrower will not," Frej said.
For its part, MK Osama Saadia (Joint List) said his party believes "there is an occupation, recognized by international law. People have a right to resist.
The new law embraces the infamous emergency rules and hampers freedom of expression and organization."
The committee had previously met for 30 sessions, rejecting all 150 objections to the bill. The bill will become law if passed after the third reading, according to Israel's channel 7.
The law would give the Israeli police and the intelligence apparatus, Shin Bet, extensive powers to fight hostile activities against Israel.
The new law would include various measures that were previously part of the British Mandate emergency measures act (1945). These include administrative detention and travel restrictions forbidding people from leaving the country.
The bill widens the definition of terrorist acts and organizations and provides for equal punishment for perpetrators and their abettors.
MK Issawi Frej (Meretz) attacked the law, calling it "ultranationalist legislation applying only to Arabs, while civil legislation is used with Jews."
"Now any Arab can be deemed a terrorist. An Arab stone thrower will become a terrorist, while a Jewish stone thrower will not," Frej said.
For its part, MK Osama Saadia (Joint List) said his party believes "there is an occupation, recognized by international law. People have a right to resist.
The new law embraces the infamous emergency rules and hampers freedom of expression and organization."
Israeli Ofer Court sentenced a Palestinian for ten months and imposed on him a fine of 2000 shekels for allegedly using Facebook for “incitement.”
Othmen Tamimi, 19, was given a 10-month sentence as well as a four-month suspended sentence for “incitement” on social media, according to the PIC reporter.
Since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada, Israel has notably stepped up the arrests campaign against Palestinian online activists.
In recent months, Israeli forces arrested 150 Palestinians over postings on Facebook that have been critical of Israeli crimes and violations against Palestinian people.
Israelis on social media routinely and openly incite violence against Palestinians, especially during heightened periods of tensions such as last summer's military offensive on Gaza, but none have yet faced prosecution.
Othmen Tamimi, 19, was given a 10-month sentence as well as a four-month suspended sentence for “incitement” on social media, according to the PIC reporter.
Since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada, Israel has notably stepped up the arrests campaign against Palestinian online activists.
In recent months, Israeli forces arrested 150 Palestinians over postings on Facebook that have been critical of Israeli crimes and violations against Palestinian people.
Israelis on social media routinely and openly incite violence against Palestinians, especially during heightened periods of tensions such as last summer's military offensive on Gaza, but none have yet faced prosecution.
29 may 2016
Palestinian media reports documented the killing of 14 high-school students, including 3 girls, who were shot by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) during Jerusalem Intifada which broke out on October 01, 2015.
The 14 martyrs have been missed in the high school final examinations which are taking place in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
They are Mustafa al-Khatib, Mohammad Halabiya, and Sawsan Mansour from Occupied Jerusalem; Daniya Ershaid, Adnan al-Mashni, Kulezar al-Ewaiwi, Mohammad Shalalde, Ahmad al-Kawazbe and Walid Tarayreh from al-Khalil; Ahmad Abu al-Rub and Nouruddin Saba’neh from Jenin; Mohammad Zaghlawan and Labib Azem from Nablus and Ahmad Amer from Salfit.
78,523 Palestinian high-school students on Saturday started sitting for the final examinations for 2016 locally known as “Tawjihi” which last until June 15.
The 14 martyrs have been missed in the high school final examinations which are taking place in the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
They are Mustafa al-Khatib, Mohammad Halabiya, and Sawsan Mansour from Occupied Jerusalem; Daniya Ershaid, Adnan al-Mashni, Kulezar al-Ewaiwi, Mohammad Shalalde, Ahmad al-Kawazbe and Walid Tarayreh from al-Khalil; Ahmad Abu al-Rub and Nouruddin Saba’neh from Jenin; Mohammad Zaghlawan and Labib Azem from Nablus and Ahmad Amer from Salfit.
78,523 Palestinian high-school students on Saturday started sitting for the final examinations for 2016 locally known as “Tawjihi” which last until June 15.
150 Palestinian attacks against Israeli targets took place in different areas of the occupied Palestinian territories last week, according to a report released by the Jewish Voice website.
During that week, the Palestinian resistance fired rockets from Gaza on Israeli areas and carried out shooting attacks in the West Bank.
Anonymous person also attacked Israeli targets in the West Bank with Molotov cocktails and homemade grenades.
Stabbing and stone throwing attacks were also reported to have happened during the same week in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Four Israelis, including two soldiers, suffered injuries during clashes with young men near Ramallah and two settlers were also wounded after they were attacked with stones in the West Bank during the reporting week.
Since the outbreak of the third intifada (uprising) in October last year, about 213 Palestinians, mostly young people with no organizational affiliation, have been killed and thousands were wounded during clashes with or attacks against Israelis.
The Israeli occupation authority imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the Aqsa Mosque compound last August and facilitated its desecration by Jewish settlers, thus provoking the feelings of Palestinians and setting the stage for the intifada.
During that week, the Palestinian resistance fired rockets from Gaza on Israeli areas and carried out shooting attacks in the West Bank.
Anonymous person also attacked Israeli targets in the West Bank with Molotov cocktails and homemade grenades.
Stabbing and stone throwing attacks were also reported to have happened during the same week in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Four Israelis, including two soldiers, suffered injuries during clashes with young men near Ramallah and two settlers were also wounded after they were attacked with stones in the West Bank during the reporting week.
Since the outbreak of the third intifada (uprising) in October last year, about 213 Palestinians, mostly young people with no organizational affiliation, have been killed and thousands were wounded during clashes with or attacks against Israelis.
The Israeli occupation authority imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers to the Aqsa Mosque compound last August and facilitated its desecration by Jewish settlers, thus provoking the feelings of Palestinians and setting the stage for the intifada.