- 6 nov 2010
Stones thrown at ambulance treating Palestinian
Paramedics treating injured Palestinian flee Issawiya after stones damage their vehicle.
Stones were thrown Saturday at an ambulance and an MDA mobile intensive care unit near the village of Al-Azariya just a day after some young Israelis were attacked as they drove through nearby Issawiya, in east Jerusalem. The ambulance teams had been called to village to treat a young man who had fallen from the fifth floor of a building.
At about 6 pm, an ambulance was called to Al-Azariya, in the vicinity of east Jerusalem. Due to the critical condition of the patient, the intensive care unit was called. As paramedics treated the patient, a number of teens from Issawiya began throwing stones at the vehicle, making the paramedics' task difficult. The windscreen of the vehicles was damaged, as was another Israeli vehicle that was driving behind them.
Hagai Bar-Tov, an MDA paramedic, spoke of those minutes of fear. "On the way to the hospital, as the paramedics treated the patient%u2026 we had to take care of our own lives at the same time," he said. "A shower of stones fell on us%u2026 Luckily the vehicle was armored, so the windscreen was damaged but not completely broken in."
"Unfortunately, we see once again how terror groups operate without limits, even when it's clear to all that ambulances don't do any damage anywhere in the world" said Danny Rotenberg, MDA spokesman in the Jerusalem region. "The team, which was in the middle of intensive treatment saving the life of a seriously wounded Palestinian patient, feared for its life, making the situation even worse."
Police said they had begun searches in the area to find those responsible for throwing the stones. The police view the incident gravely, as they do the attempted lynch of three students from Givatayim and an Australian tourist. Police sources said they intend to increase operations against stone throwing in Issawiya, to pressure the local population to keep public order.
The students and tourist, who only wanted to go to a pub in the city, almost paid with their lives after making a wrong turn. They said they followed the directions of children in the neighborhood and almost reached the center of Issawiya. When they tried to go back they saw the street was blocked, and saw the eldest child who had given directions throw stones at them. None of the group was injured, despite the shower of stones.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3980498,00.html 10 nov 2010, 19:18 , Respect -
Maria 7 nov 2010
MK: Remove memorial for Silwan riots instigator
Memorial in Mugrabi Gate
Barkat asked to get rid of 'illegal' monument commemorating Palestinian shot while throwing stones.
Knesset Member Miri Regev (Likud) sent a letter to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat Sunday
demanding he remove a memorial set up in Silwan for a Palestinian man who was shot to death by an Israeli security guard. The incident led to riots in east Jerusalem last September.
In her letter, MK Regev claimed that the memorial is illegal and "perpetuates the legacy of a Fatah militant who headed a terrorist organization."
Memorial for Sarhan in Jerusalem Samer Sarhan was shot to death by a Jewish security guard in September 22. A police inquiry indicated that residents blocked the guard's way and pelted him with stones. Feeling threatened, he drew his hand gun and fired, causing Sarhan's death. Police were familiar with Sarhan from previous criminal activity. A screwdriver and a knife were found on his body.
"I learned that a monument was recently set up in memory of the shahid Samer Sarhan near the Mugrabi Gate in Jerusalem," MK Regev noted in her letter. Sarhan, she said, "was involved in an attempted lynch of an Israeli security guard as he guarded the legal traffic of passers-by in Jerusalem."
Regev claimed that the unauthorized installation of monuments was illegal and that failure to enforce this will once again be construed as weakness and disregard for the rule of law. She added that it would also encourage more illegal monuments.
September riots in Silwan
The MK mentioned that requests for commemoration by bereaved parents are usually subject to the approval of various municipal planning committees and noted no such request was put forth in Sarhan's case.
She also pointed to a recently approved Knesset law aimed at withdrawing burial fees in cases of nationalistically motivated crimes. "This law was meant to send a clear message to all those seeking to harm state citizens," she wrote. "I am confident that this can be applied to matters pertaining to memorials in a broader context."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3981064,00.html 10 nov 2010, 19:18 , Respect -
Maria 8 nov 2010
Palestinians hurl stones at cars on Route 443
Palestinians hurled stones at Israeli cars travelling on Route 443, west of Ramallah. There were no reports of injuries, but one of the vehicles sustained damage. IDF forces are searching for the stone throwers.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3981428,00.html
9 nov 2010
Issawiya Under Attack
(4:05) Issawiya Under Attack
Last Saturday (November 6), undercover Israeli police forces entered the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya in an attempt to get information from residents. Since then, Israeli police have set up daily roadblocks, disrupting the neighborhood and its residents. On Tuesday (November 9) morning, Israeli police set up a major roadblock at one of the village's two entrances and handed out tickets to drivers. Israeli riot police then stormed Issawiya, launching tear gas at young Palestinians and terrorizing the entire neighborhood.
10 nov 2010
Police officers pelted with stones in Issawiya; no injuries
Residents of the village of Issawiya in east Jerusalem are hurling stones at security forces. No injuries were reported. Police launched a traffic enforcement operation on Tuesday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3982381,00.html 16 nov 2010, 19:30 , Respect -
Maria 13 nov 2010
A kid throws a stone in East Jerusalem, and a village is locked down
One of the most devastating pieces of information we learned this year was Yonatan Shapira's revelation, in an Upper West Side church, that while Israel has fostered the creation of hundreds of new Israeli towns since 1948, no Palestinian towns have been founded, evidence of rampant discrimination.
Below is a report from occupied East Jerusalem-- which Israel annexed in 1970 and considers part of Israel-- that shows the racial discrimination. Note that the neighborhood of Isawiya (also spelled Issawiyya) neighbors Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood that is now being colonized by Jews.
Yuri Pines wrote the report. Ofer Neiman translated it from Hebrew.
Background: The village of Isawiya is located just below the Hebrew University campus on Mt. Scopus, near the French Hill neighborhood. Between 16-18,000 people reside in the village nowadays (many immigrants from more remote neighborhoods of Jerusalem, and some holders of West Bank ID cards).
The village suffers severe neglect; the municipality refuses to authorize the new master plan submitted in the name of the residents by the Bimkom association; infrastructure is crumbling, sanitary conditions are very bad, and there is a general sense of extreme deprivation and contempt about the municipality's treatment of Isawiya.
The most salient manifestation of this attitude is the fate of the little playground built by the municipality in the village a decade ago (at the request of the French Hill administration to dissuade the village children from going to the neighborhood's playgrounds).
After five years of leasing the plot, the municipality dismantled the facility in its entirety, leaving behind an ugly desolate plot in the entrance to the village. Contempt for the village and dereliction of municipal duties towards its inhabitants are nowadays more evident than in the past. Land that was once slated for development is now being slated for natural reserve national park use; there is no minimal urban planning and driving on the village roads requires acrobatic skills.
The situation in Isawiya began to deteriorate last Friday (5 November) when the local youths stoned a Jewish vehicle which came (apparently by accident) within the boundaries of the village. As a result of this, the police decided "to teach the village a lesson" in the manner remembered by many of us from the first years of the Second Intifada. What follows are some of the actions of the police over the past two days:
* Renewed blockage of alleys and roads (licensed and unlicensed) which link the village with the outside world. New concrete road-blocks have been set up, and in a few places bulldozers have dug trenches and raised ramparts of earth in order to prevent movement in and out.
*In the main road of the village (the exit to the French Hill), concrete cubes have been set up which make travel very difficult indeed. In tandem with this, mobile police roadblocks have been set up. The greatest pressure was imposed upon the residents in the morning (Wednesday) at the time at which people leave for work. Every private vehicle is checked, and the police "look for" reasons to impose fines with respect to mechanical faults with the vehicles deemed to render them unroadworthy, or for other infractions: many dozens of fines of between 250 NIS and 1000 NIS [$70-$280] have been imposed upon residents. According to the residents, the policemen came with the explicit aim of taking vehicles off the road. In a similar fashion, the roadblocks have also been used to collect fines for other authorities (municipal tax, national insurance, license-fees for the Israeli broadcasting authority, and the like).
*Along with the fining (which delayed traffic at peak hours) and the meticulous checking (including bus passengers) there was an incident with a 15 year old boy who looks older than his age. He was denied the right to go out of the village because he did not have an I.D card. [translation note: minors are not required to possess an ID card].
*During the blockade that was imposed on village, the police patrolled its streets (on our visit we saw a 3 police patrols). One can assume that the target was to provoke and bring about stone throwing, as indeed happened. The reaction was uncontrolled tear gas shooting, including shooting into houses.
*Lately the pressure on the village people has increased by demolition of farming facilities, fining livestock owners etc.
When will all this end? One of the police officers in east Jerusalem said the torture would end "when he can walk around Isawiya with the Israeli flag" and "when the village will be safe for him like King George Street [west Jerusalem] is". This is a classic example of the show of strength and 'searing deep into Palestinian consciousness mentality.
[b]The residents reaction to this weeks events:[/b]
Condemnation of Friday's violence. One of the activists claims he was the one calling the police regarding the stoning of the car; the answer he received was "find out for us if the driver being stoned is a Jew or an Arab".
A sharp protest against the police's violent and provocative conduct. Many of the residents say nobody would dare close all of Mea Shearim [an ultra-orthodox neighborhood in west Jerusalem] after Arabs had been attacked by residents of that area, and in no Jewish settlement would the police imagine punishing an entire community because of criminal activity of individuals. One of the residents says, regarding the statement uttered by the police officer (see paragraph above): "You will be free to walk around Issawiya like you wander around King George street, as soon as Issawiya's municipal development status is like King George street's".
http://bit.ly/cMUZPJ
14 nov 2010
Nazareth: Police shoots in air, resident injured from shrapnel
Police securing an Enforcement and Collection Authority activity in Nazareth were pelted with stones by residents. One officer suffered a light injury to his leg. A 27-year-old resident was lightly injured from shrapnel when another officer shot in the air inside of a building. The Police Internal Investigations Department is looking into the case.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3984012,00.html 17 nov 2010, 13:47 , Respect -
Maria 17 nov 2010
Stones injure Palestinian, Israeli drivers
BETHLEHEM (Ma%u2019an) -- A Palestinian and two Israelis were injured when vehicles were pelted with stones in separate incidents in the Jerusalem area on Tuesday night, Israeli radio reported.
According to the report, a Palestinian man was hospitalized after his car was struck with stones near Israel's Hizma military checkpoint northeast of Jerusalem.
A Palestinian and two Israelis were injured when cars were showered with stones in several areas near Jerusalem. It was unclear who was responsible.
Two Israelis were also mildly injured when stones were thrown at a bus traveling through East Jerusalem. Israeli forces are said to be searching for the stone-throwers.
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=333971 1 dec 2010, 02:16 , Respect -
Maria 19 nov 2010
Protests against land confiscation met with riot gear
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Protests against land confiscation and the separation wall continued on Friday, as villagers from affected areas along the Green Line and next to settlements took to the streets demanding an end to the illegal measures.
In the central West Bank tows of Bil'in, Ni'lin and An-Nabi Saleh, Israeli forces met groups of protesters with rubber-coated bullets and tear gas, with locals reporting one man struck directly by a bullet and lightly injured in Bil'in. The injured man was identified as Kamel Al-Khatib.
The military said it was unaware of any injuries.
An Israeli military spokesman said turnout for the marches was average, with approximately 50 protesters gathering in Bil'in and Ni'lin, with 30 in An-Nabi Saleh.
Representatives from the Popular Campaign said clashes erupted in Ni'lin after Israeli forces breached the separation barrier and chased protesting youth into adjacent olive groves, coming after them with riot dispersal mechanisms.
The military spokesman said nothing out of the ordinary occurred during the protest.
Since 2005, villages whose lands were confiscated by the construction of Israel's separation wall have protested the move with weekly demonstrations. Residents, supported by contingents of international, Israeli and Palestinian activists, have marched from the centers of teh villages, often starting from the mosque after noon prayers, and headed toward the site of the land confiscation.
In Bil'in and Ni'lin, confiscated lands lie west of the separation wall, and each week villagers demand access to the lands. Each week Israeli military forces face off with the protesters. Officials say riot dispersal mechanisms are a response to rock throwing by the demonstrators.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334188 1 dec 2010, 02:21 , Respect -
Maria
30 nov 2010
Sheikh Jarrah: Security forces demolish illegal structure
Security forces demolished an illegal structure in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
Earlier on Tuesday youth pelted stones at Border Guard officers in Issawiya following the demolition of two illegal structures there.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3992049,00.html 1 dec 2010, 09:53 , Respect -
Maria 1 dec 2010
Jerusalem-area bus stoned; policeman hurt
Palestinian youngsters hurled stones at an Israeli bus traveling from Jerusalem to Maaleh Adumim.
A police officer riding the bus sustained light wounds and was taken to a Jerusalem hospital for treatment. The bus was damaged and police forces were dispatched to the scene and are scouring the area for suspects
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3992875,00.html
Childcare experts condemn police treatment of Palestinian stone-throwers
The parents of Adam Rishek, 7, of Silwan, said Border Police officers had beaten him.
Childcare experts call on authorities to monitor police interactions with minors; say 1,200 minors arrested for stone throwing in E. Jerusalem.
Sixty Israeli childcare experts and literary figures have sent an open letter to the prime minister and attorney general calling on the authorities to monitor more closely police interactions with minors suspected of stone throwing in East Jerusalem.
The letter, sent last week, came amid recent complaints that the police have been making illegal arrests and using questionable interrogation methods in their campaign against stone throwing.
According to the letter, police have acknowledged arresting around 1,200 minors in East Jerusalem on suspicion of stone throwing. But critics say that more troubling than the absolute number is the manner in which youths are being detained and questioned.
"Children and youth have reported being taken from their beds in the middle of the night or apprehended by undercover detectives and special forces in their neighborhoods," the letter said. "They were brought in for questioning without a parental escort and sometimes without having been able to notify their families in time. Some were required to give names or to implicate their friends and relatives as conditions for their release."
The letter also noted a growing trend of underage suspects suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress including nightmares, sleepwalking and bedwetting.
Detainees, it said, were subjected to "threats and humiliation by interrogators, and their transfer and detention were sometimes accompanied by considerable physical violence. Particularly alarming are the testimonies showing that a number of children under the age of 12 - the age of criminal liability - were interrogated by police, who despite their age were forced to endure harsh methods of interrogation."
The parents of one 7-year-old, Adam Rishek of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, filed a police complaint last week stating that Border Police officers had beaten their child.
After some encouragement from a lawyer working for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the 7-year-old agreed to talk about what had happened. He said that after leaving school around noon on Wednesday, he saw a group of children running away from something. He had walked into a nearby kiosk, he said, when the officers burst in. "They kicked my leg and punched my shoulder and also slapped me. One of them asked me my name and my father's name," he said.
Returning home with bruises, the boy was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in West Jerusalem, where after examining him, doctors told his parents to return the following week for a follow-up visit. Medical documents showed he had suffered injuries to the knee and elbow.
Jerusalem District Police declined comment.
http://bit.ly/hwiJyF 8 dec 2010, 01:40 , Respect -
Maria 2 dec 2010
Palestinian shot in An-Nabi Saleh
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian in the leg during an incursion Thursday in the West Bank town of An-Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, local sources said.
Palestinians in the village said Omer Saleh At-Tamimi was shot with live ammunition while demonstrators confronted the Israeli soldiers, throwing stones.
Israeli military forces were said to have shut down all entrances to the village, stopping Palestinians from entering or leaving.
Residents also said Israeli soldiers detained several people, including Helmi At-Tamimi.
The village's Media Committee added that Israeli settlers were gathering at one entrance to the village under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=338347 8 dec 2010, 01:41 , Respect -
Maria 3 dec 2010
Clashes re-ignite in East Jerusalem neighborhood
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Clashes broke out after a brief period of calm in the Al-Isawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Friday afternoon.
Clashes centered on the western side of the neighborhood, when a march of peace activists and villagers passed through the area protesting the continued closure of roads leading to the residential zone.
During the protest, activists called for an end to the closure of the neighborhood, and decried the recent home demolitions targeting families in the area.
Israeli forces manning the checkpoints blocking off road access to the area fired tear-gas canisters and rubber-coated bullets into the crowd of protesters.
Clashes were reported Thursday evening, after which eight residents were treated for tear-gas inhalation, head of the Union of Arab Medics Mohammad Al-Gharabli told Ma%u2019n.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba As-Semmari said clashes erupted when two Molotov cocktails were thrown toward a police checkpoint at the entrance of the neighborhood, and said no injuries were reported.
The area has remained tense since Israeli forces entered to demolish a home and print workshop on 30 November. Family members of the owner of the print studio tried to prevent the building from being demolished, and were repelled with riot gear, sparking anger amongst residents.
Sporadic clashes continued the following day, and a series of detentions were reported on 2 December.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=338549
Clashes Reported In East Jerusalem
Clashes broke out in Al-Isawiya neighborhood, East Jerusalem, on Thursday evening, between dozens of Palestinian residents and Israeli forces, the Ma%u2019an NewsAgency reported.
Confrontations erupted in the neighborhood of Al-Isawiya, in the northeastern part of the Old City, when Israeli troops were conducting patrols on the area.
Eight people were treated for tear-gas inhalation, local medics confirmed.
According to an Israeli police spokeswoman, the clashes "were provoked by two Molotov cocktails thrown on a police checkpoint, at the entrance of Al-Isawiya".
The incident follows news of Israeli bulldozers demolishing a home and print workshop, on Tuesday, in the neighborhood of Al-Isawiya.
Family members of the owner of the workshop, who attempted to prevent the demolition, were confronted with riot gear, arousing anger amongst the locals.
Tension has remained high in the area with sporadic clashes the next day, followed by a round of arrests carried out by the police on Thursday.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60076
10 dec 2010
Stones thrown at police near Nazareth, 8 arrested
Police chasing a stolen vehicle into the village of Turan, near Nazareth, were pelted with stones by an angry mob. No injuries were reported.
Large police forces were summoned and arrested eight men, aged 14-28. The stolen vehicle was apprehended. (Hassan Shaalan)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3997323,00.html 21 dec 2010, 16:29 , Respect -
Maria 13 dec 2010
Report: Police dealings with Palestinian minors illegal
B'Tselem report accuses police of arresting Palestinian minors as young as five in East Jerusalem and dealing with them in ways that violate the law.
An Israeli human rights group is accusing the police of arresting Palestinian minors as young as five in East Jerusalem and dealing with them in ways that violate the law.
In a report released on Monday, B'Tselem says Israeli police arrested at least 81 Palestinian minors between November 2009 and October 2010 on suspicion of throwing stones at Israelis in the flashpoint Silwan neighborhood near Jerusalem's Old City.
The report says police arrested many minors in their homes in Silwan at night, seizing some from their beds. Undercover officers nabbed others on the street. At least 30 of the 81 detained were younger than 15, the report said. Four were younger than 12 and the youngest was five.
They were detained from a few hours to a few days and interrogated, sometimes without parents present, the report said. Some said police roughed them up. The report also says some were released after paying fines as high as $1,300. Others were placed under house arrest for up to two months, allowed only to go to school accompanied by a parent.
B'Tselem said arresting and interrogating minors at night or without a parent present violates Israeli laws that protect minors.
Israeli police say the arrests are not only legal but necessary to stamp out stone throwing, which often targets police or West Bank settlers. It's especially common in parts of East Jerusalem, where tensions run high between Palestinian residents and Israeli police, settlers and their security guards.
Earlier this month, sixty Israeli childcare experts and literary figures sent an open letter to the prime minister and attorney general calling on the authorities to monitor more closely police interactions with minors suspected of stone throwing in East Jerusalem.
The letter came amid recent complaints that the police have been making illegal arrests and using questionable interrogation methods in their campaign against stone throwing.
According to the letter, police have acknowledged arresting around 1,200 minors in East Jerusalem on suspicion of stone throwing. But critics say that more troubling than the absolute number is the manner in which youths are being detained and questioned.
"Children and youth have reported being taken from their beds in the middle of the night or apprehended by undercover detectives and special forces in their neighborhoods," the letter said. "They were brought in for questioning without a parental escort and sometimes without having been able to notify their families in time. Some were required to give names or to implicate their friends and relatives as conditions for their release."
The letter also noted a growing trend of underage suspects suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress including nightmares, sleepwalking and bedwetting.
Detainees, it said, were subjected to "threats and humiliation by interrogators, and their transfer and detention were sometimes accompanied by considerable physical violence. Particularly alarming are the testimonies showing that a number of children under the age of 12 - the age of criminal liability - were interrogated by police, who despite their age were forced to endure harsh methods of interrogation."
http://bit.ly/e205cT
B'Tselem: Police ignoring minors' rights
Israeli human rights group says police take Palestinian minors from east Jerusalem who are suspected of stone-throwing from their beds in the middle of the night; use unnecessary violence against them. 'Hooded men put me in a car; I was so scared I wet my pants,' one of them recalls.
A severe report from Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, released Sunday evening, highlights a range of shortcomings in Jerusalem police regarding the detention of minors. According to the human rights organization, the police opened 1,267 files last year against Palestinian minors from east Jerusalem on suspicion of stone throwing, and ignored laws and regulations governing the questioning of minors in some cases.
According to the report, some of the minors were arrested at night and even taken from their beds, and taken to the Russian Compound, even though according to the law all efforts must be made to avoid detaining minors during the night. In many cases minors were questioned without their parents being present, which is also against the law. Some of the young detainees even say violence was directed against them, and they were cuffed for no reason.
"The police behavior against Palestinian minors from Silwan amounts to serious contempt for special protections granted them as minors," states the report, which is based on interviews with 30 detainees. "B'Tselem calls on Jerusalem police to uphold the law in letter and spirit when dealing with cases of stone throwing in east Jerusalem."
Yazan (14) relates what happened to him during interrogation. "At a certain stage, the interrogator noticed the handcuffs round my wrists were not tight and he tightened them hard," he said. "During the questioning, the interrogator didn't let me go to the bathroom or drink anything. In the end I couldn't take the slaps and the pressure and admitted to throwing stones at Beit Yonatan."
The report mentioned that in at least four instances police detained children under the age of 12 %u2013 the age of criminal responsibility. "In one case an eight-year-old boy was taken from his bed in the middle of the night only because he had the same name as another boy who was suspected of throwing stones," said the report.
'Door open to file complaints'
Nasr, 13, was detained near a mosque in Silwan in October. "A masked man dressed in black grabbed me by the neck and hit my chest," he recounts. "Then he put me on the ground and hit my face. I had a bloody lip.
"Later, a 'Mistaarev' (Israeli soldier disguised as an Arab) put me in a white Toyota. There was another boy named Hassan inside (the car). The 'Mistaarev' threw me on top of him and we were both on the car's floor. Together with us in the back were two hooded men. Two officers sat in the front. The masked men beat us inside the car, and we both began to cry. I was so scared I wet my pants," Nasr says.
According to the B'Tselem report, the minors' complaints of violence were either ignored or treated with contempt, and in the few cases in which an investigation was launched, it was closed without any legal action against those responsible.
Jerusalem Police said in response, "In our activity against minors who violate the law, we act in accordance with the law, and in cases where people complained that their rights had been violated or that police violated the law, we opened the door for them to file their complaints with the appropriate authorities.
"Most of the parents are present during their children's interrogation, but in some cases parents choose not to be present," according to Jerusalem Police.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3998140,00.html
21 dec 2010, 16:30 , Respect -
Maria 21 dec 2010
Thirteen-year-old Sentenced to 21 Days House Arrest in Jerusalem
Jerusalem Maysa Abu Ghazala PNN - An Israeli Magistrate Court judge ruled today to confine 13-year-old Mustafa Jamjoum to 21 days in his house and an NIS 750 fine for participating in stone throwing at Israeli troops during a demonstration in Silwan.
An Israeli border guard arrested Jamjoum last Thursday as he returned to his home after a protest; he was interrogated for more than six hours in the al-Moskobiyya (Moscow) prison compound in Jerusalem, transferred to Salah al-Din Police Station and held there until his trial.
The Israeli attorney general demanded at the hearing that Jamjoun be sentenced to 90 days and an NIS 2000 fine. He was opposed by Muhammad Ramzi Mahmoud, a lawyer from the International Movement to Defend Children.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9293&Itemid=68 4 jan 2011, 10:03 , Respect -
Maria 2 jan 2011
Israeli forces arrest 2 children in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Sunday detained two Palestinian children in Jerusalem's Old City, witnesses said.
Khaled Dweik, 6, and his 7-year-old cousin Mohammad Suheil were playing hopscotch in the Bab Al-A'mud area. They were throwing stones as part of the game and accidentally hit an Israeli soldier who then arrested them, locals said.
http://bit.ly/e8cXZF
4 jan 2011
Overnight clashes reported at Sinjil village
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli military jeeps entering the village of Sinjil northwest Ramallah on Tuesday morning sparked clashes with local residents, witnesses said.
According to one bystander, troops were stoned by Palestinian teens and a military jeep broke down near the village, prompting calls for backup and repair crews.
The stationed jeeps became targets for stone throwing, and the soldiers responded using tear-gas canisters and sound grenades.
No injuries were reported and no detentions made.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=347962 7 jan 2011, 22:21 , Respect -
Maria 7 febr 2011
J'lem: Palestinians throw stones at Israeli bus
An Israeli bus was pelted with stones at Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, near Issawiya. No one was injured, but damage was caused to the bus.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4025030,00.html
7 jan 2011
45-year-old woman stoned, lightly injured in West Bank
A 45-year-old woman was lightly injured when stones were thrown at her can in the West Bank near Kfar Azon.
The woman managed to drive herself to the Alfe Manashe checkpoint, at which point she was transferred to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=202631
Israeli woman lightly injured from stones in West Bank
An Israeli woman sustained mild injuries when stones were thrown at her car on Highway 55, near the Palestinian village of Azoun in the northern West Bank.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4010445,00.html
18 jan 2011
8 arrested in Bedouin village for throwing stones at police
Three police officers suffered light to moderate injuries when residents of Trabin, a Bedouin village in the Negev, threw stones at them. The officers arrived in the village to make an arrest, but were attacked. Eight suspects were arrested for assaulting the officers.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015597,00.html
20 febr 2011
IOF photographs minors amid night raids to identify stone-throwers
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupational forces (IOF) raided several homes in the village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah since the year's onset with the sole intent of waking minors living there and filming them, the Israeli B'Tselem organization said.
"Israeli forces enter the village's homes at night to photograph minors,%u201D B'Tselem said in a recent statement. %u201DThe soldiers order that anyone over ten years of age is woken, then they take their images and leave.%u201D
The organization said at least four such operations had taken place in January 2011.
"Israel uses the photos to later identify people who throw stones during demonstrations that take place every Friday. After that the minors are arrested from their homes at night.%u201D
The organization said video taken by its volunteers documents that a 14-year-old boy was arrested and interrogated while his parents were prohibited from accompanying him. The clip reveals how the soldiers rudely treat the child's parents and then proceed to carry out the arrest. The boy remains in detention upon three weeks of the incident.
Hundreds of Palestinian minors are held in Israeli jails in violation of human rights principles and international conventions.
http://bit.ly/hXZYHl 26 mar 2011, 13:38 , Respect -
Maria 26 mrt 2011
Molotov cocktail hurled at Israeli forces in Silwan
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- A Molotov cocktail was hurled Saturday morning at an Israeli military base stationed at a private Palestinian building in Batn Al-Hawa neighborhood of Silwan south of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Director of the Wadi Hilweh information center Jawad Siyam told Ma'an that Israeli troops stationed on top of the building fired back live ammunition before police forces arrived and started firing tear gas canisters in every direction.
Separately, Israeli police released late Friday Nour Karamah, a Palestinian cameraman who works for Silwanik, the website of Wadi Hilweh, along with Israeli peace activist Assaf Sharon. Both were detained Friday while they were shooting confrontations with Israeli forces after Friday prayers near the Al-Bustan protest tent in Silwan.
http://bit.ly/ic5gUE
30 mrt 2011
Child exiled from home for stone throwing
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- A 14-year-old Jerusalem boy was banned from his neighborhood by a district court, his family said Wednesday.
The child is prohibited from entering his home district for 60 days, after being convicted of stone throwing, relatives said.
Salim Bader Ash-Sha'ar will have to live with relatives and stop attending school for the duration of the order. His father was ordered to pay a 750 shekel ($212) fine for his release, according to the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights.
Ash-Sha'ar was detained Sunday by Israeli police in the Old City.
The order, the center said, was handed down in lieu of jail time for the child.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=373697
15 apr 2011
Border Guard officer wounded in Bilin
An IDF officer was lightly wounded by stones thrown at him at an anti-fence rally that turned violent in the West Bank village of Bilin.
In addition, at the same rally, a protester was injured by fire from a Ruger rifle, which forces use to disperse riots.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4057384,00.html
1 mei 2011
Relative: 11-year-old detained in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces detained Friday an 11-year-old boy from a village northwest of Jerusalem, a relative said.
Muhammad Hushiyeh was walking in the Qatanna village when youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers, his cousin Lubna told Ma'an.
She said soldiers arrested the stone-throwers and swept up Muhammad as well. He was not involved beforehand, she insisted.
The boy is already in a difficult situation; his father was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers a year earlier, Lubna pointed out.
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