Land Theft & Destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Restriction of Movement / Apartheid & Occupation WATCH: IDF declares Palestinian grazing lands closed military zone
Last Saturday, a group of Ta’ayush activists traveled to the South Hebron Hills to provide support to Palestinian shepherds seeking to take their livestock out for grazing. Soon after they reached their destination, a group of IDF soldiers arrived to declare the area a closed military zone. Watch the confrontation transpire. By Israel Social TV.
link to 972mag.com Settlers Burn Olive Trees Near Nablus
Palestinian media sources reported, Saturday, that a group of extremist Israeli settlers burnt Palestinian Olive trees that belong to residents of Qaryout village, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
IOF soldiers block Palestinian farmers from reaching their olive fields
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) blocked on Saturday Palestinian farmers from reaching their olive fields in Beit Ummar village to the north of Al-Khalil. link to www.palestine-info.co.uk IOA prevents solidarity activists from entering Tubas
Israeli occupation authorities prevented on Friday solidarity activists from Spain from entering Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley to support the Palestinian residents and forced them to return.
Israeli & Egyptian Siege on Gaza
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a new military surveillance zeppelin over the eastern area of the Gaza Strip on Friday night, the second in 48 hours.
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation called on its member states and their humanitarian organizations to repair and rehabilitate the houses of the poor citizens of the Gaza Strip.
Swedish-owned
sailing boat left Naples on Oct. 7 with about 20 people from eight
countries on board, carrying items including cement, basketballs, and
musical instruments.
A
number of pro-Palestinian solidarity groups and organizations have
coordinated various flotillas to Gaza or “fly-ins” to Israel’s Ben
Gurion Airport the past few years. The Estelle is the third attempt from
the Freedom Flotilla Movement to challenge Israel’s naval blockade on
Gaza. The Estelle, a ship originally from Finland, began its journey in
Sweden in Umeå where it was renovated before setting off to sail along
Europe’s coastline, including Finland, France and Spain. Last week it
arrived in the Mediterranean Gulf after having recently rounded the
Italian “boot” island of Sardinia.
Nearly
once a week clashes break out in East Jerusalem. Settlers live on top
of Palestinian businesses or across the street from Palestinian homes,
and white security cameras peek over the sides of buildings every 20
feet like, flags in an American suburb. They prowl for arrest around the
clock, capturing the faces of Palestinian children. At times the armed
private guards in striped t-shirts that tail each settler provoke
neighborhood kids. In some instances the children throw stones. In those
cases later the same night the police will show up and arrest them,
recognizing their faces from the security recordings. In other
instances, the children will awaken to tear gas canisters smashing
through their windows.
Israeli Terrorism
The Israeli occupation regime waged three aerial attacks at dawn Saturday on different areas in the densely populated Gaza Strip.
Two Palestinians Assassinated In Northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians were killed, on Saturday evening, and one child was injured when the army fired a missile at a motorcycle driving in the center of Jabalai town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinians were killed, on Saturday evening, and one child was injured when the army fired a missile at a motorcycle driving in the center of Jabalai town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
In new racist attack, undercover units backed up by the occupation forces attacked on Thursday morning a number of students of Silwan school, sparking fear and panic among the students.
Soldiers Attack Bil’in’s Weekly Protest
Several protesters were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Several protesters were treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli occupation forces stormed at dawn Saturday four towns west of Jenin and conducted combing operations during which clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces were reported.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked on Saturday a Korean delegation in the city of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank.
Dozens of Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers to the west of Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Friday, local sources said.
A Palestinian youth was moderately injured in a Jewish settlers' attack in the city of al-Khalil in the southern West Bank on Friday.
Illegal Arrests
A nine-year-old boy was left alone without any of his parents when Israeli soldiers kidnapped at dawn Saturday his mother Nora Ja'bari, the wife of Mohamed Abu Warda, a leading Hamas figure.
Other Prisoner News
Today, Defence for Children International-Palestine Section (DCI) released a short film about Israel’s ill-treatment of Palestinian children during their arrest, transfer and detention.
"Since 1967, more than 730,000 Palestinian men, women and children are
estimated to have been imprisoned by Israeli military courts. The
majority of such prisoners are held in detention facilities inside
Israel, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits
the transfer of these prisoners into Israel."
IOA renews administrative detention of Hamas leader for 3rd time
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) renewed the administrative detention of Hamas leader Abduljabbar Jarrar for the third time running.
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) renewed the administrative detention of Hamas leader Abduljabbar Jarrar for the third time running.
RAMALLAH
(Ma’an) -- Two Palestinian prisoners are in critical condition in
Israeli hospitals, the Palestinian Authority's ministry of prisoners
announced Saturday. The conditions of Riyad al-Amour and Muhammad al-Taj
are deteriorating rapidly, according to a report from the ministry. The
report said al-Amour, 42, who is held in Assaf Harofeh medical center
near Tel Aviv, needs urgent open-heart surgery which cannot be performed
due to weak coronary muscles. Al-Amour slips into comas at least five
times a day and suffers from exhaustion and incontinence.
The Palestinian ministry of prisoners' affairs in Gaza strongly denounced the use of violence on Friday morning by Israeli jailers against the Palestinian detainees in Shatta jail.
Protests / Solidarity / Activism / BDS
The
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) calls on pro-Palestinian and
peace activists from across the Occupied Territories to join
Palestinians on 16th October to protest the roadblock preventing access
to Jama’in Village. On this day, residents of Jama’in will remove an
earthen mound that blocks access to their agricultural lands.
The liberated prisoner Abeer Awda complained from the continued neglect towards her health condition and staged a sit-in in Ramallah protesting the failure of the PA to treat her.
Boikutt: “These kind of events… are used as a propaganda tool to hide the colonial nature of ‘Israel.’”
“We made the decision not to participate, that we will show solidarity with the Palestinian community”
Syrian singer Lena Chamamyan, Lebanese MC Malikah (Lynn Fattouh), and Ramallah-based MC DJ Sotusura will now no longer perform at Salam.Orient due to Israeli sponsorship.
To
whom it may concern, We are Israeli citizens who are active against our
government’s policies of racism, apartheid and occupation towards the
Palestinian people. In particular, many of us are veteran activists in
the campaign against Israel’s illegal colonization and settlement
construction policies in the occupied West Bank. We have learned that
Israel's Cameri Theatre is due to perform in New Delhi on Nov 4th 2012.
Since the Cameri is complicit in grave violations of international law,
which amount to war crimes, and since it serves as an official
propaganda tool for the Israeli government, we are calling for the
invitation to be rescinded.
The Electronic Intifada speaks to people involved in a project to export Palestinian handicrafts to Dutch buyers
Palestinians affirm that “the struggle for our inalienable rights is one opposed to all forms of racism and bigotry, including, but not limited to, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Zionism and other forms of bigotry.”
On
October 8, 2012, the Day of the Heroic Guerilla, the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine remembers Comandante Ernesto “Che” Guevara,
revolutionary leader, fierce fighter, and principled struggler whose
true commitment to internationalism and liberation lives on in the
struggles of peoples around the world for freedom, justice and
socialism.
Political Developments / Other News
GAZA
CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar on Saturday praised
Hezbollah for sending a drone aircraft into Israel last weekend, a
statement said. Zahhar described the operation as a "strategic
achievement" for the powerful Lebanese political group and a successful
step in the psychological battle between Iran and Israel. The Gaza
official made the comments during a media workshop in Gaza City, adding
that Hamas has a balanced relationship with Iran. Zahhar stressed that
the Islamist group has a policy of non-intervention in Syria, noting
that Palestinians are guests in the country but that the group advises
the leadership to listen to the Syrian street.
GAZA
CITY (Ma'an) -- Brigades in Gaza on Friday said advances in Hezbollah's
weapons capabilities would benefit the Palestinian resistance.
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday said his movement
had sent the reconnaissance drone shot down over Israel last
weekend. The Gaza-based Al-Mujahideen Brigades described Hezbollah's
operation as "unprecedented" and said it proved that resistance was the
best way to face Israel and to stop its continuous attacks.
A
clip on Hezbollah's TV station al-Manar shows the unmanned aerial
vehicle, shot down last Saturday by the IDF, flying over the
Mediterranean and into Israel.
[Haaretz]
"... The Iranian-made drone launched by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon,
which penetrated Israeli airspace last Saturday, served as a reminder of
the complicated balance of deterrent power between the sides. That
Hezbollah, backed by Iran, looms as the most sophisticated antagonist
vis-a-vis Israel in the region is not in dispute.
“It
is our natural right to dispatch reconnaissance planes to occupied
Palestine [Israel] whenever we want. This was not the first time and it
will not be the last,” he said, noting that the Jewish state had
violated Lebanese airspace 20,864 times since the implementation of U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1701."
GAZA
CITY (Ma'an) -- Israel is trying to bring chaos to the region by
threatening war on Iran but the Islamic republic can defend itself,
Islamic Jihad's representative to Yemen said Thursday. Ahmad Barakeh
said Israel was trying to "blow up" the whole region, backed by the US.
Islamic Jihad opposes any attack on Iran as it rejects any attacks on
Arab or Islamic countries, but Iran is "able to defend itself," Barakeh
told Ma'an.
Hamas releases video of Shalit capture
Hamas' military wing releases 24-second video featuring alleged preparations for Gilad Shalit's abduction.
Hamas' military wing releases 24-second video featuring alleged preparations for Gilad Shalit's abduction.
Gilad Shalit, who was seized by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid in 2006, said in a rare interview that he feared that if he were left too long, his captors “would make me disappear.”
MP Dr. Nasser Abdel-Jawad, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Hamas in Salfit, called on the PA security services in the West Bank to stop charging citizens fraudulently.
The
Hamas-run government in Palestine's Gaza Strip will legalize a Salafi
party for the first time since it took power in 2006, an interior
ministry spokesman said Saturday. “We met today with the founders of the
Salafi An-Nur party and briefed them about legal procedures they have
to follow before they officially announce their party,” said Islam
Shahwan. He added that freedom of expression and the right to establish
political parties and other organizations would be “guaranteed” to
everybody.
Palestinians in Gaza are having trouble accessing news websites after Hamas introduced a ban on viewing sexual material.
Rizqa: Israeli elections will negatively affect Palestinian issue
Dr. Youssef Rizqa, the political adviser for Palestinian Prime Minister stated that holding early Israeli elections will negatively and indirectly affect the Palestinian issue.
Dr. Youssef Rizqa, the political adviser for Palestinian Prime Minister stated that holding early Israeli elections will negatively and indirectly affect the Palestinian issue.
The
Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME) fringe event at
the Party Conference was arguably the best attended for years. It was,
perhaps, suggestive of a noticeable shift in Labour Party attitudes
towards Palestine. This was one of four events on Palestine during the
week, the others being hosted by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign &
Unite; Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP); and a reception by LFPME.
Chaired by the Huffington Post's Mehdi Hasan (the former editor of the
New Statesman), the LFPME panel included the Rt Hon Peter Hain MP, Rt
Hon John Denham MP, Lisa Nandy MP and Shadow Minister for Africa and the
Middle East Ian Lucas MP, as well as Dr Hanan Ashrawi via Skype. They
addressed an audience of more than 300 people on what the Labour Party's
policy should be for Palestine under the title, 'Securing Peace and
Justice in the Middle East'.
BETHLEHEM,
West Bank, Oct 14 (Reuters) - "Many people still believe the post of
mayor is exclusively for men," says Vera Baboun, aiming to become the
first female mayor of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, and in the
process shake up a society where men still make the laws and do the
deals. The university lecturer has a good chance of achieving the first
goal in municipal elections being held across the West Bank on Oct. 20.
She heads a bloc of 12 Muslims and Christians in Bethlehem representing
the Fatah movement, which one recent survey found to command 49 percent
support in the West Bank.
Analysis / Op-ed / Human Interest
Hakem* believes that armed struggle and the strategic use of violence is the only way to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He calls BDS ‘silly’ and says Hamas has gone soft. He calls Israel ‘the entity’ and says it must be dismantled. After that, Hakem adds, Jews are welcome to stay.
Every year, the Jewish holiday of Sukkot brings with it groups of Jewish worshipers who try to penetrate security at the Al Aqsa compound, disregarding the sanctions of this Muslim holy place. link to www.palestinemonitor.org
Civil courage is
when civilians stand up against something that is deemed unjust and
evil, knowing that the consequences of their action might lead to injury
or even death. The Palestinian villagers of Al Aqaba, a little town in
the Jordan Valley of the West Bank, are standing up as peacefully and
courageously as they can, to build their homes on the land they own,
knowing that Israeli Army bulldozers may come at any time. They are “rebuilding to remain.”
Here's some high level intrigue, with the stakes being no less than Our Next War. You might have seen the bombshell piece by Foreign Policy editor David Rothkopf,
"A Truly Credible Military Threat To Iran," saying that Obama and the
Israelis are at last getting on the same page for a surgical strike on
Iran that would only last a couple of hours and bring regional benefits
to everyone.
Sherry Wolf helped organize the lately-concluded Russell Tribunal on Palestine in New York. Here she offers some context, at her site: Debates should and will rage in the blogosphere regarding both legitimate and irrelevant critiques of what is essentially the highest profile event to have ever taken place in the United States regarding US and UN complicity in Israel’s violations of international law.
Last
month, the South African international lawyer, Professor John Dugard,
spoke at the Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine fringe meeting during
the party's annual conference in Brighton, co-sponsored by
MEMO. Professor Dugard has published the definitive work on the law of
apartheid, and was for seven years Special Rapporteur to the UN Human
Rights Council on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories.
link to www.middleeastmonitor.com
Serial
criminality against humanity is official Israeli policy. Punishment
never follows. Ruthlessness best describes these type abuses. Committing
them without accountability is unconscionable. It goes on daily.
Western media scoundrels ignore it. Too few people understand what
everyone should. Militarized occupation is hell. Terrorizing civilian
men, women, and children is worst of all. In early October, Israeli air
strikes and artillery attacked Gaza. At least one death and numerous
injuries followed. On October 11, Israeli aircraft struck again.
link to sjlendman.blogspot.com
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