- 9 juni 2011
Activists: Soldiers stop farmers working on land
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers on Thursday prevented Palestinian farmers from working on their land near Hebron in the southern West Bank, rights activists said.
Israeli soldiers, accompanied by dogs, forced farmers from Beit Ummar to leave their fields near the illegal Bat Ayin settlement, where they were harvesting vine leaves and pears, Palestinian Center for Human Rights official Hesham Sharabati said.
In the same area on Thursday afternoon, Israeli soldiers stopped Mohammad Da'dush, 85, from spraying pesticides on his crops and seized his pump, Sharabati said.
Sharabati, his colleague Fahmi Shahin and popular committee spokesman Mohammad Awad went to the area to follow up on the complaints.
They said four soldiers appeared shortly after their arrival and took their ID cards, claiming the rights workers had entered a closed military zone.
Many more soldiers then arrived at the scene and surrounded the area, Sharabati said.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was not familiar with any incidents in the area.
Meanwhile, settlers from the nearby illegal Karmi Zur set fire to fields planted with wheat and grape vines belonging to Ali Ayyad Awad, the local popular committee spokesman said.
Mohammad Awad said the torched land was near the wall separating Beit Ummar from the settlement. He said settlers, accompanied by soldiers, prevented farmers from extinguishing the fire.
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Maria 10 juni 2011
2 injured in Hebron anti-settlement rally
HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces injured two Palestinians and detained two activists on Friday at a demonstration against illegal settlements near Hebron, activists said.
Rateb Al-Habor, coordinator of the local committee against settlements, said dozens of Palestinian and international activists joined the peaceful rally after Friday prayers.
Al-Habor said Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at protesters.
He said Adham Muhammad Ahmad Shawaheen, 22, and Fadel Ahmad Muhammad Ad-Dababseh, were both hit by tear-gas canisters.
Israeli forces detained Qasem Muhammad Hasan Abu Arram, 50, and a 30-year-old Israeli activist, he added.
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Maria 10 juni 2011
Israeli police attack al-Aqsa mosque
Israeli troops have attacked Palestinian worshippers in al-Aqsa mosque compound, using tear gas and stun guns to disperse the crowd.
An Israeli police spokesman said troops entered the holy site and clashed with Palestinian worshippers after they threw stones at security forces.
The spokesman did not mention how the stone throwing started.
Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, however, says Jewish settlers provoked the incident after they desecrated the compound with the grace of Israeli forces, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported.
Three Palestinians were arrested but no injuries were reported during the clashes.
A spokesman for the Islamic authorities running the mosque said only one or two youths had been throwing stones.
The complex, which is the most important religious site in al-Quds (Jerusalem), has been the scene of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops during the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces have abducted eight Palestinians, including senior Hamas official Wasfi Qabha, in the West Bank, Palestinian security officials said.
Qabha, who was minister for prisoner affairs in the Hamas government in 2006, was kidnapped from his home in the West Bank city of Jenin early on Friday.
He was kept in Israeli prisons from 2007 until 2010. The Israeli regime has abducted at least 11 Hamas politicians in the West Bank since October last year.
The Israel army confirmed it had made an arrest in Jenin, but refused to provide further details.
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Maria 11 juni 2011
NABI SALEH 10-6-2011
(7:34) Nabi Saleh 10.6.2011
IOF cracks down on peaceful protests in West Bank
WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Dozens suffered the effects of breathing tear gas after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) cracked down Friday on a weekly rally in Bil'in protesting Jewish settlement construction and the separation barrier erected there.
Dozens of Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists from abroad flooded the village streets waving flags and calling for resistance against the Israeli occupation.
They were stopped short after a human blockade of IOF soldiers showered them with tear gas and waste water as the marchers closed in on the separation wall with intent to cross to their land.
Elsewhere on Friday, the IOF used fists and rifle butts to hamper the progression of local and foreign activists during more marches in Al-Ma'sara village in Bethlehem province.
More peaceful marches were launched in Shukba and nearby villages west of Ramallah to protest a crushing plant recently erected in the village.
They marched toward the hundreds of dunums of land that Israel had confiscated to build the crusher a year ago.
The IOF stopped them before they reached the crusher using tear gas and rubber bullets as several protesters sustained breathing difficulties.
Explosions made by the crusher have caused heavy damages to nearby homes.
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Maria 12 juni 2011
Violent dispersal of a demonstration in a-Nabi Saleh
(3:14) Violent dispersal of a demonstration in a-Nabi Saleh 13.5.2011
Firing tear gas directly as protesters and using excessive force against them is illegal. B'Tselem has demanded an investigation.
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Maria 13 juni 2011
Seven year old boy summoned for police investigation
Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) -- A 7-year old boy has been summoned by Israeli police for investigation, Silwanic has learnt. Saed Rajaby from Silwan was summoned by telephone to the police station for interrogation. Police offered no reason as to his summoning. The act comes in direct contradiction to international conventions on child protection.Seven year old boy summoned for police investigation A 7-year old boy has been summoned by Israeli police for investigation, Silwanic has learnt.
Saed Rajaby from Silwan was summoned by telephone to the police station for interrogation. Police offered no reason as to his summoning. The act comes in direct contradiction to international conventions on child protection.
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Maria 13 juni 2011
100 Days Prison for Making a Peace Sign
(9:44) Israeli Occupying forces attacked Naksa day demonstration in Qalandiya 05062011
Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Art 20(1)
“Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”
Khaled was arrested in Qalandai while stopping in front of the Skunk Car he is been given a 100 days of arrest until end of investigation they accused him of beating up a soldier and throwing rocks even though the films show he was standing non-violent infront of the car being skunked !
Two video’s in which you can see Khaled just standing in front of the Skunk Truck.
His arrest
(3:46) Qalandiya Naksa Protest June 5, 2011 By [email protected]
And... the Army-photographer on duty..
Now we ask you: in Qalandiya that day press, photographers and even the occupation forces where shooting not only bullets but video and pictures as well, see the pictures below, so why can’t IOA publish a proof of those imaginary rocks Khaled would have thrown while standing with his hands in the air anyway?
more photo's
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Maria 14 juni 2011
IOF razes five wells, arrests seven Palestinians in West Bank
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Clashes erupted as Israeli occupation forces began Tuesday razing five private wells in Harayiq south of Al-Khalil city and rounded up several Palestinians across the West Bank.
The wells were property of Palestinian Abdul-Hameed al-Jamal and his son Samer.
The soldiers raided the Harayiq area Tuesday morning enforced by military vehicles and a bulldozer, locals reported. They handed the owners military decisions to demolish the wells under allegations that they were built without permits.
The sources said skirmishes and scuffles broke out as the IOF soldiers attacked using fists and tear gas canisters.
Several locals suffered from the effects of breathing tear gas.
The same day in the West Bank, IOF soldiers arrested seven Palestinians after conducting search raids on their homes.
The arrestees included two minors from Hosam village west of Bethlehem as well as a 12-year-old boy at Bab al-Zawiya in Al-Khalil province. The latter was said to have been physically assaulted by the soldiers.
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Maria 15 juni 2011
7 hurt at protest against land confiscation near Ramallah
(6:57) Peaceful Protest Against The Illegal Israeli colony Nili /15.06.2011/ By:Saeed Amireh
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Seven Palestinians were injured, including two critically, Wednesday after an anti-wall protest turned into clashes between Israeli soldiers and young Palestinians in Deir Qaddis, west of Ramallah.
A rally headed from the village to obstruct Israeli bulldozers digging up private lands for the separation wall, a Ma'an correspondent reported. Israeli forces were heavily deployed in the area and tried to disperse the demonstrators, beating them with clubs and rifle butts.
However, several demonstrators managed to pass the soldiers and clashed with the bulldozer drivers. They succeeded in stopping the bulldozers before soldiers fired high-velocity tear-gas canisters and stun grenades at the demonstrators.
A witness said troops “brutally attacked the demonstrators with clubs and rifle butts, injuring seven.” Two young men sustained serious injuries and one of them fainted.
Paramedics managed to rescue them before they were detained.
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Maria 17 juni 2011
Bilin Weekly Demo 17.06.2011 By [email protected]
(2:40) Bilin Weekly Demo 17.06.2011 By [email protected]
Three injured, fields and trees burnt, and Freedom Theatre performers fired on in Bil'in
In today's demonstration in Bil'in against the Jewish-only colonies and the Apartheid Wall that illegally annexes 60% of the village's land, the local protesters and their international and Israeli supporters were accompanied by a group of acting students from the Freedom Theatre in Jenin. As every Friday, the protesters marched towards the Wall, waving the Palestinian flag, Kuffiyas, and images of the village's martyrs and prisoners, and chanting against the occupation and for a free Palestine. Also like every Friday for the past weeks, the army immediately started showering the protesters with a green liquid that the activists have termed "skunk" or "shit" because it pretty much smells like shit and doesn't come off any surface for days. In defiance, a few young man from the village stayed right in front of the soldiers, raising their hands in signs of victory and waving flags while getting showered with the liquid for most of 30 mins. Later, the shabab reported that the occupation army purposefully aimed the powerful stream of the skunk at the stones on the ground, which in turn hit their legs. Simultaneously, the army kept throwing tear gas grenades, and shooting volleys of tear gas canisters, sound bombs, and rubber coated steel bullets from three sides at the protesters to the extend that all protesters suffered breathing difficulties or asthma-like attacks and burning sensations on their skin.
Nonetheless, the demonstration continued, and the students from the freedom theatre performed a scene right in front of the soldiers, who came up to the gate to stare stupidly, unsure what to do, apparently due to the presence of several journalists. As soon as the performance turned into more chants against the illegal colonization of Palestine, the army resumed their shooting, and while at it, shot far into the fields, setting fire to olive trees and crops.
As the protesters went into the fields carrying branches of olive trees to put out the rapidly spreading fires and despite of calls to the soldiers, which were no more than 10m away, to desist, the army again shot steel bullets and tear gas canisters straight at the activists, who were trapped between the fences and hills of the village. When the protesters finally put out all fires and left, the soldiers shot yet more rounds of tear gas into the now empty field in one more show of their idiotic and yet criminal conduct.
26 year old actor Rabiya Turkmen and Issa Abu Rahma (42) sustained minor hand injuries from tear gas grenades and the 11 year old Mousa Yasin sustained a minor eye-injury from an ash-like substance from a tear gas canister. Several protesters could just about avoid getting shot. At least one olive tree could not be saved
Troops Attack West Bank Anti-Wall Protests; Ten Injured
Ramallah – PNN - Ten civilians were injured as Israeli troops attacked the weekly nonviolent protests organized at a number of West Bank communities. This week, protests were reported in the villages of al-Nabi Salleh, Bil’in, and Nil’in in the central West Bank, as well as al-Ma’ssara in the south.
Seven civilians were injured and scores treated for tear gas inhalation as troops attacked the weekly protest in the village of al-Nabi Salleh, central West Bank. On Friday morning, villagers and their international and Israeli supporters gathered near land where Israel plans to build a new settlement. Troops attacked villages as soon as they started to march. The protest ended with clashes between local youth and troops that invaded the village.
Earlier on Friday, a group of officials from a number of EU consulates visited al-Nabi Salleh and watched the protest from a distance. Local sources told PNN that the EU officials were shocked by the military way of dealing with the protesters.
Also in central West Bank, in Bil’in village, one man was injured and many treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation when Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly protest against the wall. Bil’in villagers have been protesting at the wall for the past six years. International and Israeli supporters joined the villagers after the midday prayers. As soon as people reached the gate of the wall separating villagers from their lands, troops fired comical water, tear gas and sound bombs at them.
A group of young men decided to take a “shower” with the military chemical water to show refusal to the army attack. One man was injured when a tear gas hit him in his back. Olive trees near the wall were set on fire by the tear gas bomb, when local farmers and their supporters tried to stop the fire soldiers attacking them with tear gas.
In the nearby village of Nil’in, protesters held the midday prayers near the Israeli wall and marched up to the gate separating local farmers from their lands. Troops fired tear gas at them and many were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In the southern West Bank village of al-Ma’ssara, near Bethlehem, villagers were joined by international and Israeli supporters and protest the Israeli wall being built in local farmers lands. As soon as the protesters reached the entrance of the village troops stopped them and did not allow them to get to the construction site of the wall. Soldiers later attacked protesters using rifle butts and batons, lightly wounding two villagers.
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Maria 17 juni 2011
Update: Palestinians say gas canisters set fire to village land
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters that started a fire Wednesday and burned acres of olive trees in the occupied West Bank, witnesses said.
Soldiers also fired stun grenades toward fields near the village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, locals said. Villagers tried to put off the fires, but soldiers forbade them from entering and fired more stun grenades at them.
Palestinian civil defense forces sent a fire engine but Israeli forces stopped it from entering, onlookers explained. However, an Israeli fire engine was seen arriving in the same area to put out the fire.
In response to the villagers' claims, the Israeli military confirmed that a stun grenade was used to disperse a "violent riot" but insisted the weapon did not start the fire.
"The stun grenade has been examined and approved by the appropriate authorities as riot dispersal means. Without connection to IDF activity, a fire started on the Israeli side of the security fence in Bilin.
"The fire was put out by Israeli and Palestinian firefighters; the latter's involvement was approved by the IDF and coordinated by the Civil Administration," the military said in a statement.
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Maria 17 juni 2011
Silwan children abducted from their bedrooms
Palestinian children are increasingly targeted in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
SILWAN, occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) - “Father please help me! Don’t let them take me away,” screamed 12-year-old Ahmed Siyam as approximately fifty heavily armed Israeli soldiers and police dragged the handcuffed and blindfolded boy away.
Last month Ahmed was pulled out of his bed at 4am by Israeli security forces led by Shin Bet agents from Israel’s domestic intelligence agency. He was taken to the Russian Compound police station in West Jerusalem where he was accused of throwing stones at Israeli soldiers and police during clashes with Palestinian youth in the volatile neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.
Silwan has become a regular point of friction and violent confrontation between illegal Israeli settlers, the Israeli soldiers and police who protect them, and Palestinian youngsters.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been driven out of their homes in East Jerusalem to make way for the Israeli settlers. Many Palestinian homes have been destroyed, and dozens more are under threat, as the Israeli authorities move Israeli settlers in — all illegal under international law.
Dragging children from their bedrooms
When the soldiers first arrived Ahmed’s father Daoud at first refused to open the door and demanded that the police produce a search or arrest warrant.
“But they threatened to break the door down if I didn’t open it. They asked me where Ahmed was and I asked them why they wanted him. They told me to shut up and assaulted me,” Daoud told IPS.
“They then went to Ahmed’s bedroom and dragged him out and into a police vehicle outside. They would not tell me where they were taking him and physically prevented me from accompanying Ahmed.
“The next morning after many frantic telephone enquiries I found out Ahmed was being held at the Russian Compound. When I went there they wouldn’t let me see my son and denied he was even there. Eventually after I called my lawyer I was able to see him several hours later. He looked very traumatized and was crying,” recalls Daoud.
“I was scared. I couldn’t see where we were going and my hands were handcuffed very tightly behind my back. At the police station they refused to give me water when I told them I was thirsty and when I asked to go to the toilet they kicked me. They questioned me for hours and accused me of throwing stones which I denied,” Ahmed told IPS.
Two weeks ago Ahmed’s cousin, Ali Siyam, 7, was arrested under similar circumstances and also accused of stone throwing. When his father Muhammad tried to stop the dozens of Israeli security men from dragging his son away, he was beaten with the backs of guns on his head and subsequently required hospital treatment.
Ali’s aunt was shot in the leg with a rubber-coated steel bullet when she tried to intervene and she too required hospital treatment. Ali’s parents were forbidden from accompanying their son to the police station and when they went to the Russian Compound the police denied that Ali was in their custody.
When Ali’s Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel tried to visit her young client in jail the security guards refused to allow her in. When she tried to walk past the guards she was detained. Following an argument she was granted access to the boy. Ali was released several hours later.
Meanwhile, Ahmed was initially ordered to a month’s house arrest and forbidden from attending school as the police investigation continued. He is due to appear in court next month on charges of stone throwing. Whether he is guilty or not remains questionable as does Israel’s interrogation techniques of young Palestinian children.
More than 1,200 children treated as criminals
(6:33) Palestinian child prisoners
Defence for Children International - Palestine Section (DCI) reports that Israeli police opened 1,267 criminal cases against Palestinian children between November 2009 and October 2010 for stone throwing in East Jerusalem. The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem reports 31 of those children were from Silwan.
“Fifty percent of the children were interrogated without their parents or a lawyer present and many were threatened and assaulted,” Gerard Horton, a lawyer from DCI, told IPS.
“Many of the children were screamed at, slapped and shoved, sometimes kicked and punched, during questioning and coerced into making statements of disputable accuracy. Some were threatened with further violence,” said Horton.
“These kids had been taken from their homes in the middle of the night, many handcuffed and blindfolded,” Horton said. “They were then interrogated hours later and by this time they were traumatized and disoriented, and not able to withstand the pressure.”
The situation of Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank is even worse where they are subject to military law. Minors can be held for up to eight days before they are brought before a military judge.
“We had one case where three kids were tasered while their hands were tied behind their backs by Israeli police during questioning on one of the settlements. Others were threatened with having their homes blown up, and several threatened with rape,” Horton told IPS.
More than 25 Palestinian children have been arrested in Silwan during the last few weeks.
Milad Ayyash, 17, was shot dead in May by an Israeli settler security guard who claimed the boy had been involved in clashes.
Last year a video showing an Israeli settler from Silwan deliberately veering towards, and driving into a young Palestinian boy, who was allegedly throwing stones, caused outrage when an Israeli motor company used the video in an advertisement to promote the car’s endurance. The boy was hospitalized for fractures and subsequently arrested. No charges were brought against the driver.
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Maria 18 juni 2011
Beaten child transferred to hospital
Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) -- A child attacked by Israeli forces in Issawiya, north Jerusalem has been transferred to Hadassah Hospital. Ahmed Dahoud Siyam was beaten severely by Israeli security and undercover forces and was found by doctors to have broken his right hand.
Dahoud told Silwanic that “they beat me all over… I felt nauseous. They punched me in the back every time the police car stopped. I felt like I couldn’t breathe, as though I was about to die. Once in the police station an officer threatened and cursed me.”
Dahoud’s father stated that a police officer informed him he would not see his son again. His son was accused of stone-throwing next to Silwan spring, a claim his father suspects is untrue due to the spring’s distant location from their home. There were also no clashes in the village at the time.
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Teenage boy targeted as part of Israeli campaign against local family
Silwan, Jerusalem (SILWANIC) -- A 14-year old boy was abducted by Israeli undercover forces from Bir Ayyub this morning. Ahmed Siyam was taken by an undercover unit from outside his uncle’s shop in Bir Ayyub and transferred to Salah al-Din police station. Police claimed that the boy “constitutes a danger to society.”
Siyam was targeted for arrest by Israeli forces only yesterday, after attending the weekly prayer in the Al-Bustan protest tent. A relative of Siyam told Silwanic that it is likely he was targeted as part of a campaign against the Siyam family, after his father made statements to the press recently regarding the murder of local resident Milad Ayyash several weeks previously.
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Maria 19 juni 2011
Israeli undercover agents boast of killing Palestinians on TV
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Undercover Israeli intelligence officers appeared on national television Saturday to talk about assassinating Palestinians in a program broadcast on Israel's Channel 10.
Oren Beaton presented a photo album of Palestinians he killed during his time as a commander of an undercover Israeli unit operating in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Beaton explained that he kept photos of his victims.
"This is a photo of a Palestinian young man called Basim Subeih who I killed. This is another young man. I shredded his body, and the photo shows the remnants of his body," he said.
The TV program also featured an undercover agent referred to as "D", who openly admitted killing "wanted Palestinians."
He complained of suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and said that the state had rejected his demands for compensation.
The Channel 10 presenter appealed to the Israeli government to meet the agent's demands.
"Those are the Shin Bet agents we only hear about and never see, and thanks to them we live safely," she said.
The report was filmed in the Palestinian territories, and showed agents wandering around the streets of Ar-Ram in occupied East Jerusalem with handguns under their shirts, illustrating that the agents were still operating in Palestinian cities.
The agents, who speak fluent Arabic, are shown surrounded by masked Palestinian collaborators secretly deployed to the area to protect them.
The program provided previously unconfirmed details about the operational methods of undercover agents.
The report explained that officers conducted surveillance before an assassination, investigating the target's friends and classmates.
Agents would even ask about the target's favorite meals and habits at home, the report said.
In this way, agents would put together an image of the target's behavior and routine.
Agent "D" said officers would then "seize the target and wait until the commander arrives to confirm his identity. Then we shoot him."
This confirms previous accounts from Palestinians who have said they witnessed Israeli agents shooting Palestinians at point-blank range.
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