- Urgent Appeal
Incident: Arrest of children Violation of rights
Location: Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem
Date of incidents: October to December 2010
Number of incidents: 24 (cases documented by DCI-Palestine)
Ages: 7 to 17 years
Accusation: Stone throwing
Date of issue: 6 January 2011
Muslim O. On 18 October 2010, a 10-year-old boy from Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reports being grabbed and beaten by three men in civilian clothes, and taken to Al-Mascobiyya interrogation centre for questioning. Under Israeli law, a child below the age of 12 should not be interrogated.
Mohammad G. On 25 October 2010, a 12-year-old boy from Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reports being grabbed and beaten by a policeman on his way to school, and taken to Al-Mascobiyya interrogation centre for questioning.
Adam R. On 24 November 2010, a seven-year-old boy from Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reports being beaten by soldiers on his way to school. The experience has made Adam fearful of leaving his home.
Background information
The neighbourhood of Silwan is situated just outside the Old City walls of Jerusalem, located in the occupied east of the city. Approximately 16,500 http://bit.ly/dLq7fw Palestinians live in the central section of the neighbourhood. Although accepted as occupied territory under international law, Israel purported to annex the east of the city after occupation in 1967, and applies its own domestic law to the territory.
The annexation has no legal validity http://bit.ly/hfVuPw under international law, and is not recognised outside Israel. According to the UN, http://bit.ly/e1Jptv Silwan has become one of the main centres of Israeli settlement activity and is currently home to 380 settlers, who live in properties taken over by various means from their original Palestinian residents.
According to the UN, Palestinian residents of Silwan report harassment and intimidation by the settlers and their security guards, and clashes between residents and soldiers and police are frequent. On 21 June 2010, the Jerusalem Municipality's Planning and Building Committee approved a plan to demolish 22 Palestinian houses in Silwan to make way for an archaeological garden. http://bit.ly/hD5IiR
In 2010, reports of a sharp increase in the number of children being arrested from Silwan and East Jerusalem have been recorded. According to Israel Police figures, between November 2009 and October 2010, the Jerusalem District opened 1,267 criminal files http://bit.ly/dLq7fw against Palestinian children living in East Jerusalem who were accused of throwing stones. During the same period, the Israeli NGO, B'Tselem reports that 81 children from Silwan have been arrested or detained for questioning, mostly on suspicion of stone throwing. http://bit.ly/dLq7fw
On 24 November 2010, 60 prominent Israeli professionals wrote to Prime Minister Netanyahu, and other senior officials raising their concerns about the violent treatment of Palestinian children in occupied East Jerusalem. http://bit.ly/hqemyv
The letter states that children and teenagers related that they had been dragged out of their beds in the middle of the night or arrested in their neighbourhoods by undercover detectives and special security forces; taken in for questioning while handcuffed and unescorted by their parents; in certain cases, the families were not notified of the arrest in real time; minors were asked to give names and incriminate friends and relatives as a condition of their release; were threatened and humiliated by their interrogators; and some of them were even subject to physical violence while taken in for questioning and under interrogation.
In the three months between October and December 2010, DCI-Palestine has investigated 24 cases from Silwan, and collected 18 sworn affidavits, 15 of which were taken from children. In two out of the 15 cases, the children were not arrested. In one of these cases, the child was beaten and then immediately released by soldiers, and in the other case, an 11-year-old boy was struck in the head with a rubber coated steel bullet. The ages of these children range from 7 to 17 years. http://bit.ly/hPJeMB
Specific violations
Based on the evidence collected by DCI-Palestine, the violations against the children of Silwan include, but are not limited to, the following:
Interrogation of children under 12 years - (8 percent): http://bit.ly/ifHyOq
- Under Israeli law which is applied to occupied East Jerusalem, children under the age of 12 are not held criminally liable for their actions and must not be detained. Out of the 13 cases in which DCI-Palestine collected sworn affidavits from children who were arrested, one child (8 percent) was under 12. Since the beginning of 2010, B'Tselem, has documented the detention of four children below this age. http://bit.ly/dLq7fw
Violence during arrest, transfer or interrogation (76 percent):
- The types of violence reported to DCI-Palestine includes, punching, slapping, kicking, beating with a rifle, and in one case, throwing a pen at a child's head during interrogation.
A soldier started hitting me on the back with the barrel of his rifle and I screamed out in pain and said to him: I didn't do anything. But he kept hitting me for about a minute when my mother came and started shouting: Leave him alone, he must go to work. But one of them pushed her really hard and knocked her down. (A. G. 16 years)
They put me inside the jeep and one of them started kicking me all over my body and slapping me until we arrived at Al Mascobiyya. (B. R. 13 years)
In total, out of the 13 cases in which DCI-Palestine collected sworn affidavits from children who were arrested, 10 children (76 percent) reported some form of physical violence during their arrest, transfer or interrogation. Violence in similar circumstances has also recently been reported by B'Tselem. http://bit.ly/dLq7fw
Painful hand ties (61 percent):
- Under section 10B of the Youth (Trial, Punishment and Modes of Treatment) Law, alternatives to restraints should always be considered and they should not be used beyond what is strictly necessary. Restraints should only be used to prevent escape or to prevent harm to others.
The interrogator left me alone in the room with my hands still tied behind my back. I was feeling pain because the ties were very tight. I kept trying to move my fingers so that the blood could run through them. I stayed alone in the room for about three hours and no one came in or brought me food or water. (I.O. 17 years)
In total, out of the 13 cases in which DCI-Palestine collected sworn affidavits from children who were arrested, eight children (61 percent) reported having their hands tied. These figures are similar to data collected by B'Tselem, http://bit.ly/dLq7fw in which 14 out of 22 children (63 percent) reported having their hands tied. Many children report pain and swelling in their hands from the use of restraints.
Interrogated in the absence of a parent (53 percent):
- Under Israeli law which is applied to occupied East Jerusalem, parents are entitled to be present during the interrogation of their children, except in special limited cases. Out of the 13 cases in which DCI-Palestine collected sworn affidavits from children who were arrested on suspicion of throwing stones, five children (38 percent) were interrogated in the absence of their parents, and a further two children (15 percent) were questioned without their parents being present for at least part of the interrogation.
In one such case, a 12-year-old boy reported as follows:
When my father left the office, I felt scared and focused my eyes on the floor. You think the Israeli intelligence is joking here? I'll lock you up and you'll never see your family ever again, the interrogator shouted at me. He got up, approached me, and slapped me across the face and I kept my head down, while placing my hand over my face so that he wouldn't slap me again. (M. O. 12 years)
In total, out of 13 cases, seven children (53 percent) were interrogated for some time in the absence of their parents, during which time they report being threatened, and in some cases, assaulted. The interrogation of children in the absence of their parents has also recently been reported by B'Tselem. http://bit.ly/dLq7fw
Threatened during interrogation (53 percent):
- The types of threats reported to DCI-Palestine typically involved a threat to imprison the child for a long time.
It's better you talk or I'll slap you and knock you down, he said. (I. M. 12 years) Listen, I'll put you in jail for a long time if you don't confess and you'll never see your family ever again, what do you think of that? he said. (Y.J. 14 years) The interrogator didn't read me my rights. He interrogated me in Arabic.
Why did you throw stones at Jews in Silwan? he asked. Because they want to take our house, I said. Who was with you? he asked. I don't know them, I said. Then we'll put you in jail for a long time, he said. Do whatever pleases you, I said. (A.H. 14 years)
In total, out of 13 cases, seven children (53 percent) reported being threatened during interrogation. This figure corresponds exactly with the percentage of cases in which children were interrogated in the absence of their parents.
Recommended action Please send Urgent Appeals in relation to the arrest and detention of children in Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem, urging the following:
1. The immediate end to the use of violence by the Israeli army and police during the arrest of children;
2. No child should be interrogated in the absence of their parents;
3. All credible allegations of ill-treatment must be thoroughly and impartially investigated and those found responsible for such abuse be brought promptly to justice; and
4. The immediate removal of all Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem as they violate international law and are a source of constant tension.
Appeals to:
Your elected representatives;
The Israeli embassy in your country [list of Israeli diplomatic missions worldwide]. http://bit.ly/gzsNgj
Please inform DCI-Palestine if you receive any response to your appeals and quote the UA number at the top of this document [email protected]
http://bit.ly/e9Cu3X (PDF)
18 nov 2010, 14:58 , Respect -
Maria 18 febr 2011
Vanishing East Jerusalem
EU Must Association Council To Ensure That Israel Respects International Law
In view of the upcoming EU-Israel Association Council scheduled for 21 February 2011 we, the undersigned Palestinian human rights organizations committed to the promotion and protection of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), would like to express our grave concerns about the continuous deterioration of the human rights situation. In particular, we are alarmed by Israel's protracted policies aimed at entrenching the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem.
1. The Human Rights Situation in East Jerusalem
Since its de facto annexation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has implemented various measures and policies in order to consolidate its territorial, demographic and political control over the city. This includes the systematic attempt to secure a Jewish majority while reducing any Palestinian presence in the city through a process of acquiring more land and the introduction of the centre-of-life requirement.
The centre-of-life policy requires Palestinian residents of East-Jerusalem (whom Israel considers as permanent residents rather than citizens) to consistently prove that their centre of life is in East Jerusalem or else they risk losing their residency rights. [1] Since this policy was adopted, in 1995, Israel has revoked the status of over 10,000 Palestinian residents of the city.[2]
Moreover, Israel prevents Palestinians who are registered %u2013 in the Israeli-controlled population registry as residents of the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) or the Gaza Strip from residing in Jerusalem. If Palestinian permanent residents wish to live in East Jerusalem with their non-resident spouses and children, they need to apply for family unification, a process that Israel de facto suspended as of 2000. Moreover, in 2003, Israel adopted the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law, which makes it illegal for mixed residency couples to live in East Jerusalem. [3]
The restrictive planning and zoning regime of the Jerusalem municipality is another tool used by Israel in order to induce the transfer of the Palestinian population out of the city.[4] This regime, which allows for only very limited Palestinian construction in the city, has resulted in an acute housing shortage for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Israel's systematic denial of the required permits to build, repair and/or maintain their homes confronts Palestinian residents with the dilemma of moving outside Jerusalem's municipal boundaries, losing therefore their residency status, or building without a permit, risking the demolition of their homes. In 2010 alone, Israel demolished 78 Palestinian owned structures in East Jerusalem, displacing 116 people (most of whom are children) and affecting a total of 289 Palestinians. [5] In some cases, Palestinian owners carry out self-demolitions of their homes in order to avoid being charged for the costs of the demolition.
Israel further undermines the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem by preventing the opening or ordering the closure of Palestinian institutions [6] and NGOs. Moreover, Israel continues to carry out archaeological excavations in the old city of Jerusalem, aimed at creating a Jewish-Israeli character and subverting any Palestinian cultural or religious connotations, in a deplorable attempt to rewrite the historical narrative of the city. Meanwhile, Israel severely restricts Palestinians access to holy sites in East Jerusalem.
East Jerusalem is severed from the rest of the West Bank by the Annexation Wall, which serves to physically reinforce Israel's claims over the city and to illegally annex Palestinian land. The Wall's associated regime of physical obstacles, such as checkpoints, gates, closures, and a restrictive permit system separates Palestinians from their families, places of employment and worship, educational institutions, agricultural lands and markets and exacerbates East Jerusalem's administrative and social detachment from the rest of the West Bank. [7]
The route of the Wall cuts through the Israeli-declared municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, dividing Palestinian communities and in some cases cutting off whole neighbourhoods from the rest of the city. The physical separation of these neighbourhoods from Jerusalem has dangerous repercussions for the residency status of Palestinian Jerusalemites residing in municipal areas located east of the Wall. Over the last few years, many Palestinian residents of Jerusalem have moved to these areas in order to legally maintain residency in Jerusalem while enjoying cheaper living conditions, more secure housing and the ability to live with their West Bank ID holding spouses and children. The municipal areas east of the Wall are less at risk of home demolitions,[8] and are the only location where Palestinian mixed residency couples can live together with their children, without contravening Israel's centre-of life requirement.
Facts on the ground and official statements indicate Israel's intention to make the Wall the new Israeli municipal boundary of Jerusalem. Should Israel unilaterally re-draw the city's municipal boundaries along the route of the Wall, and thus exclude the areas of the current Jerusalem municipality located east of the Wall, the illegal annexation of East Jerusalem would become irreversible. Palestinians who live in the areas east of the Wall would no longer be able to fulfil the centre of life requirement, losing therefore their Jerusalem residency status. [9]
In addition to minimising the number of Palestinian residents in Jerusalem, Israel is encouraging the migration of Jewish-Israeli settlers to settlements built on lands illegally appropriated from Palestinians in the West Bank, including in and around East Jerusalem. The settlement infrastructure, including the Annexation Wall, and Israeli-only bypass roads, checkpoints and roadblocks fragments the OPT into isolated, non-contiguous enclaves. This fragmentation not only hinders the Palestinian people's ability to use their land and natural resources, but establishes facts on the ground, which essentially prevent the Palestinian people from exercising their right to self-determination, prejudge the outcome of any final status negotiations and threaten to make the two-state solution impossible.
2. EU Position on East Jerusalem and Relations with Israel
The EU has has never recognised the annexation of East Jerusalem and has repeatedly asserted that it will not recognise any changes to the pre-1967 borders including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties.[10] The EU remains committed to a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict[11] and acknowledges that if there is to be a genuine peace, a way must be found through negotiations to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of two states.[12] The EU holds that the two-state solution with an independent, democratic, contiguous and viable Palestinian state constitutes a fundamental European interest. It is an indispensable and urgent step towards a more stable and peaceful Middle East.[13] The EU maintains that its bilateral relations with Israel will help influence Israeli practices in this regard.
Freezing the Upgrade of EU-Israel Relations
At the 8th meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council in June 2008, the EU expressed its determination to develop a closer partnership with Israel and to formulate the content and scope of a new Action Plan.[14] The decision to upgrade the level and intensity of its bilateral relations with Israel,[15] however, was put on hold the following year. In the aftermath of Israel's 2008/2009 military offensive on the Gaza Strip, and with the Netanyahu government's refusal to commit to a two state solution, the EU declared at its 9th Association Council in June 2009 that it would not adopt a new Action Plan with Israel, thus allegedly freezing the upgrading process.
The EU argued that [the] upgrade must be based on the shared values of both parties, and particularly on democracy and respect for human rights, the rule of law and fundamental freedoms, good governance and international humanitarian law.[16]
The EU further affirmed that the EU-Israel upgrade needs to be viewed in the context of the broad range of our common interests and objectives, including the resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict through the implementation of the two-state solution, the promotion of peace, prosperity and stability in the Middle East. To this end, the 27 member states called on the government of Israel to commit unequivocally to the two-state solution, [17] to improve the daily life of the Palestinian population,[18] to ensure the protection and unimpeded access of all religious groups to religious sites, notably in Jerusalem,[19] and to immediately suspend the practice of home demolitions and evictions, which threaten the viability of a two-state solution.[20]
Furthermore, the Council has urged the government of Israel to immediately end settlement activities, including in East Jerusalem,[21] to cease all discriminatory treatment of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and to reopen Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem.[22]
Business as Usual
Despite the declared suspension of the upgrading process, which formally would entail the adoption of a new EU-Israel Action Plan, and despite the EU's condemnation (in words) of Israel's illegal practices in the OPT, including East Jerusalem, the EU continues, in practice, to strengthen its relations with Israel.
The technical and economic cooperation between the EU and Israel continues undisrupted, with the parties consistently signing new agreements allowing for additional forms of cooperation. Since the freezing of the upgrading process, the EU and Israel have, for example, concluded agreements in the areas of civil aviation, agriculture and pharmaceutical products and are currently negotiating a cooperation agreement between Europol and Israel; thus de facto upgrading their relations.
This business as usual approach disregards Israel's systematic violations of international law, renders the EU's condemnation of such practices meaningless and seriously undermines the Union's credibility as an authentic peace broker. While Israel continues to create facts on the ground, which seriously threaten the EU's vision of a two-state solution and peace in the Middle East, the EU fails to use the crucial leverage of its bilateral relations with Israel to influence the latter's behaviour.
3. Legal Analysis
Israel's above mentioned policies are in blatant violation of international human rights and humanitarian law. Israel's de facto annexation of East Jerusalem violates the international humanitarian law prohibition of the annexation of occupied territory,[23] which forbids the Occupying Power from claiming sovereignty over occupied land and from unilaterally creating facts that would change the status of that area.[24] Moreover, Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, reflective of customary international law, prohibits the annexation of territory by force or threat of use of force.[25]
Israel's policy of undermining the Palestinian presence in East Jerusalem by demolishing Palestinian homes, prohibiting Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem from living with their non-resident spouses and children in the city and the revocation of their ID cards if they fail to fulfill the centre-of-life requirement all result in the forcible displacement of Palestinians from the city, in blatant violation of international humanitarian law. The forcible transfer of persons from occupied territory is prohibited [26] and constitutes a grave breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention,[27] entailing the individual criminal responsibility of the perpetrators.
Israel's policy of home demolitions as well as land confiscation and appropriation to build and expand settlements, the Wall, Israeli only roads, and other illegal infrastructure for the benefit of Jewish Israeli citizens violates the prohibition under law of occupation of confiscation [28] and/or destruction of private property unless imperatively required by military necessity. [29]
Israel's practice also violates international human rights law, including Palestinians right to freedom of movement,[30] the right to work,[31] the right to the highest attainable standard of health,[32] the right to education[33] and to a family life.[34] The deprivation of the ability of the Palestinian people to fully achieve these rights, to make use of their land and to dispose freely of their resources undermines their ability to live in dignity and ultimately to meaningfully exercise their right to self-determination, in violation of Article 1 of the UN Charter, reflective of customary international law.
4. Conclusions
The EU has publically rejected Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and considers the two-state solution as well as the creation of a viable and independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital as a fundamental European interest and a precondition for peace in the Middle East. The Union has repeatedly called on Israel to stop settlement activities, discriminatory treatment of Palestinians, house demolitions and evictions in Jerusalem, and to allow Palestinians access to holy sites, affirming that it would not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders.
In the meantime, Israel continues to entrench its de facto annexation of East Jerusalem and undermines any Palestinian presence in the city through a deliberate, aggressive and illegal policy of land annexation and population transfer. Israel's prolonged violations of international law have changed the socio-demographic nature of city, redrawn its municipal boundaries and isolated East Jerusalem from the rest of the OPT. This practice not only seriously undermines the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, but precludes the outcome of any final status negotiations, threatening to make the two state-solution and a peaceful resolution to the conflict impossible.
While Israel's policies directly undermine the EU's positions and its objectives regarding the OPT, including East Jerusalem, and the Middle East as a whole, the EU has so far failed to use the significant leverage of its bilateral relations with Israel in order to pressure the latter to refrain from its illegal practices. Contrary to the EU's intention to link the upgrading of its relations with Israel to human rights and international humanitarian law, and despite its decision not to proceed with the formal upgrading process, the EU continues, in practice, to strengthen its relations with Israel. The EU's business as usual approach amounts to tacit acquiescence of Israel's systematic violations of international law.
The EU's current policy of empty words challenges the Union's ability to positively impact the human rights situation in the OPT and to contribute to a comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The upcoming EU-Israel Association Council provides an important opportunity to adopt a crucial new EU policy relating to the OPT, in particular on East Jerusalem, and to condition the upgrading of EU-Israel relations on international human rights and humanitarian law.
5. Recommendations
At the upcoming EU-Israel Association Council, the EU must send a strong message to Israel, confirming that the upgrade of EU-Israel relations will remain on hold, both formally and in practice, until there is tangible progress regarding the human rights situation in the OPT, including East Jerusalem. To this end, the EU should request Israel to immediately:
* Freeze all settlement activity, including in and around East Jerusalem
* Refrain from implementing discriminatory zoning and planning policies
* Stop all forms of house demolitions and evictions
* Stop the construction of the Annexation Wall and dismantle the parts already built (in accordance with the ICJ Advisory Opinion)
* Refrain from banning family unification.
* In addition, the EU must:
* Ensure that goods produced in Israel's illegal settlements in East Jerusalem and in the rest of the West Bank do not enter the EU market under the EU-Israel Association Agreement
* Ensure EU intervention whenever Palestinians are arrested or harassed by Israeli occupying forces for participating in peaceful political, social and/or cultural activities in East Jerusalem
* Ensure EU presence at courts where cases are discussed that involve the demolition of Palestinian homes and/or the eviction of Palestinian families
* Systematically bring high-level visitors to sites of human rights violations in East Jerusalem (including but not limited to demonstrations, home demolitions and evictions and the Annexation Wall).
Sahar Francis, General Director
Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association
Khalil Abu Shammala, General Director
Aldameer Association for Human Rights
Hassan Jabareen, General Director
Adalah The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Shawan Jabarin, General Director
Al-Haq
Mohammad Zeidan, General Director
Arab Association for Human Rights
Issam Younis, General Director
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, General Director
Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Zakaria Odeh, General Director
The Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinians Rights in Jerusalem
Rifat Kassis, General Director
Defence for Children International Palestine Section
Shawqi Issa, General Director
Ensan Center for Human Rights and Democracy
Issam Aruri, General Director
Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights
Raji Sourani, General Director
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Iyad Barghouti, General Director
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies
Maha Abu Dayieh, General Director
Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling
* [1] For more in depth reading on this issue, kindly see Al-Haq, The Jerusalem Trap: The Looming Threat Posed by Israel's Annexationist Policies in Occupied East Jerusalem 2 October 2010, available at this link. The Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinians Rights in East Jerusalem, 42 Years of Occupation Jerusalem File, December 2009, available at this link.
* [2] B'tselem, East Jerusalem: Revocation of Residency in East Jerusalem %u2013 Statistics on Revocation of Residency, available at this link.
* [3]Adalah, Special Report Family Unification.
* [4] For further reading, see The Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinians Rights in East Jerusalem, Aggressive Urbanism, December 2009.
* [5] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), occupied Palestinian territory, The Humanitarian Monitor, December 2010.
* [6] Such as the Orient House (the PLO headquarters in East Jerusalem).
* [7] For more information about the Annexation Wall, kindly see Al-Haq, The Annexation Wall and its Associated Regime, June 2009.
* [8] For more in depth reading on this issue, kindly see Al-Haq, supra note 1.
* [9] Ibid.
* [10] Council of the European Union, Council conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process, Brussels, 8 December 2009 (Foreign Affairs Council), para. 2.
* [11] Council of the European Union, Council Conclusions on the Middle East Peace Process, Brussels, 15 June 2009 (Foreign Affairs Council), para. 1.
* [12] Supra note 10, para. 8.
* [13] Ninth Meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council, Luxembourg, 15 June 2009 (EU statement), para. 4, available at
* [14] Eighth Meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council, Luxembourg, 16 June 2008 (EU statement), para. 6 .
* [15] Council of the European Union, Strengthening of the European Union's bilateral relations with its Mediterranean partners, 8 & 9 December 2008 (Council Conclusions, External Relations), para. 9.
* [16] Supra note 13, para. 2.
* [17] Ibid, para. 6.
* [18] Ibid, para. 3.
* [19] Ibid, para. 31.
* [20] Ibid, para. 30.
* [21] Ibid, para. 7.
* [22] Supra note 10, para. 8.
* [23] Fourth Geneva Convention, Article. 47 and 1907 Hague regulations, Article. 43 and 55.
* [24] Jean Pictet (ed), The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, Commentary Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War, (International Committee of the Red Cross, 2005), 275.
* [25] For a more detailed legal analysis kindly see Al-Haq, supra note 7.
* [26] Fourth Geneva Convention, Article. 49.
* [27] Ibid, Article. 147.
* [28] Hague Regulations, Article. 46.
* [29] Fourth Geneva Convention, Article. 53.
* [30] International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Article. 12 (1).
* [31] International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Article. 6.
* [32] Ibid, Article. 12.
* [33] Ibid, Article. 13.
* [34] Ibid, Article. 10.
20 nov 2010, 03:15 , Respect -
Ukraine Govt Kidnaps Palestinian For Mossad
Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov
Ukraine Govt Kidnaps Palestinian For Mossad
I recently wrote about the kidnapping of Dr. Dirar Abu-Sisi, http://fwd4.me/yr2 the director of the Gaza power plant, in Ukraine. Now he has disclosed details about his kidnapping and his transfer to Israel through his lawyer of the PCHR http://fwd4.me/yr3 . The PCHR calls for immediate release of Abu Sisi and considers his abduction and detention as a violation of the international treaties.
According to what was revealed, Dr. Abu-Sisi was kidnapped by three Ukrainian government employees, two in military uniform and one in civilian clothes, from a train between Kharkov and Kiev. These three took his passport away from him by force and then forced him to get off the train under threats of shooting him. They shackled him and took him to an apartment with six men who identified themselves as mossad agents. They started interrogating him in that apartment, where he was shackled and had his head covered. From there, they took him to an airplane, which landed at an unknown location after about three hours of flight. The airplane then flew about one more hour before arriving in israel.
Together with my last article about this issue, http://fwd4.me/yr2 I wrote to the Ukraine government to ask them for an explanation about this event. The Ukrainian government has not answered this request, which I sent to the office of the Prime Minister, the Interior and Foreign Ministers on March 13 2011. I take this as an implicit admission of what has transcended now, that they are complicit in criminal, lawless behavior.
In a related development, the Ukrainian prime minister Mykola Azarov visited Israel after the perpetration of the kidnapping Dr. Abu-Sisi by his employees. The visit took place from 14 -16 March 2011. During his visit to israel, Azarov refused to answer journalists questions about the abduction of Dr. Abu-Sisi and the involvement of his government in the kidnapping. This kidnapping is as a shameless and dirty as anything where israel is involved. It is the most lawless incident of terrorism known in the history of the Ukraine, it leaves prime minister Azarov looking like a gangster.
Below is PCHR statements which was published by the lawyer of Abu Sisi. http://fwd4.me/yr4
On 19 February 2011, members of the national intelligence agency of Israel (Mossad) kidnapped Dirar Mousa Yousef Abu Sisi, 42 while he was in the Ukraine. Mr. Abu Sisi is the Director of the Operations, Department in Gaza Power Generation Plant. Mossad then transferred Abu Sisi to Israel. Abu Sisi is currently being detained in Asqalan Ashkelon prison. Yesterday, 20 March 2011, a lawyer from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) managed to visit Abu Sisi for the first time.
Abu Sisi told the PCHR lawyer that on 19 February 2011 he was travelling by train from Kharkov to Kiev to meet with his brother Yousef who was coming from the Netherlands. Abu Sisi stated that three persons, two in military uniforms, entered his room on the train. They asked him to show his passport but he refused. Then they threatened him and forcefully took his passport. They forced him to get off the train at the nearby station of Poltava. At this time he was handcuffed and hooded.
He was transported in a car to Kiev. Once in Kiev he was held in an apartment where there were another six persons who introduced themselves to be members of the Mossad. Abu Sisi said that the Mossad members immediately questioned him and then flew him by plane. The flight lasted between four and five hours before landing in a place unknown to him. Approximately thirty minutes later, they took off again and the flight lasted for approximately one hour. Upon landing Abu Sisi found himself in Israel. Abu Sisi told the PCHR lawyer that he was denied contact with a lawyer for fourteen days. This denial was extended for another eleven days. He said that he was placed under intensive interrogations and that he was denied his legal rights.
It should be noted that the Israeli security authorities imposed a media blackout regarding the kidnapping of Abu Sisi and prevented lawyers from visiting him to check on his health and provide legal assistance during the second period.
After knowing the details from Abu Sisi, PCHR has doubts about whether there was collusion from international parties in the kidnapping. Especially as Abu Sisi was not legally arrested by Ukrainian authorities and he did not have any appearances in domestic courts. PCHR has concerns over the deterioration of Abu Sisi's health and notes that he has cholelithiasis and he takes blood thinning medicines. He is experiencing serious psychological problems after going into long and continued investigation sessions. PCHR calls for the immediate release of Abu Sisi.
Israeli Lessons in International Terror
Image from Gaza April 8 2011 during the Israeli airstrike.
Does Israel know that the mossad offers free lessons in international organized terror and crime to all rebels and radical movements, and that through their terror actions they are teaching them how to kidnap and murder Israelis in retaliation for the operations carried out by Israel in several countries around the world?
A series of terrorist operations have been carried out by Israel throughout the world, besides the israeli occupation crimes against the Palestinians, which have lasted for over 63 years. The Israeli crimes in the western world and the violations of the sovereignty and borders of other countries are all met with craven silence from the affected nations, the UN Security Council http://fwd4.me/00Er and the international community. It is exactly as if everyone becomes deaf, blind and dumb whenever Israel commits a new crimes and terrorism.
Israel does not end its threats against Hamas, Fatah and all Palestinians, and continues to launch air and naval strikes against besieged Gaza since 2006, murdering and killing innocent civilians and the militant resistance, causing serious injuries to thousands of innocent people. 63 years of ethnic cleansing, killing and murdering, and there is no light in the path of making peace or ending the occupation crimes. At the same time, Israel does not stop its direct and indirect interference in neighboring countries’ internal affairs. The Israeli officials continue proffering war threats against the Middle East countries, such as the threats that preceded the war in Iraq.
Israel is fueling and financing conflicts and wars in many countries around the world, starting with Darfur, where Israel has appropriated diamonds (“blood diamonds”) for very low prices in return for arming the rebels in Darfur; in the Ivory Coast conflict-torn area of Abidjan, Israel is involved in appropriating the Cocoa in exchange for providing the politicians and the opposition with weapons – it should be remembered that last year “somebody” bought a huge amount of futures contracts on Cocoa in the international markets.
Dahlan
Finally, Israel is doing the same thing in Libya http://fwd4.me/00Es : they sent a ship of weapons to the dictatorial regime of Muammar Qaddafi http://fwd4.me/00Et . The shipment was sent in collaboration with Khaled Salam, a criminal thief who stole billions of dollars from the Palestinians, and Mohammed Dahlan, a traitor and death squad leader who is behind the division between Gaza and the West Bank. Both Dahlan and Salam live in Egypt, and both of them are known criminals, the kind of people who the israelis like to contract for their dirty work. The ship was sent to Libya in contradiction to the substance of resolution 1973 issued by the UN Security Council on Libya, which contains a text that explicitly bans supplying Libya with weapons.
It is not reasonable for the International community to help Israel carry out its crimes in western lands whenever they want. It is not logical that Israel commits terror with impunity while claiming to “fight” against so-called “terror”, (actually, national liberation and self-determination movements which are explicitly legal under international humanitarian law ) as well as engaging several states in aiding, abetting, and financing the expenses of international terrorism in violation of the borders and the sovereignty of other countries and nations.
Most Western countries have granted asylum status for political refugees fleeing wars, dictatorial governments and economic and socially deteriorated conditions. In many cases there are thousands or even millions of people fleeing religious authorities, extremism, racism, human trafficking and pervasive organized crime in their countries of origin. All of these groups are fleeing in search of safety and they need stability and protection in one way or another from their governments. If the international community continues allowing governments to attack these people, then the world will turn into a large theater of terrorism and crimes against humanity.
International laws and conventions that protect these groups have been issued due to the horrible experiences of past conflicts and wars. However, Israel (a direct extension and front of the worldwide zionist racist and terrorist movement) still remains above all these international accords and humanitarian or legal considerations. Israel continues its interference in the foreign policy of many countries around the world, threatening, spying, inciting and committing crimes. Palestinians living in exile remain the main target of Israeli international terror, together with the next group of victims of zionism, namely the people who would speak up against the unwarranted interference of israels fifth column in the affairs of their countries. Next are the sum of Israeli goals that do not distinguish between specific nationalities and countries.
Israel continues assassinating the so-called “wanted” Palestinians, the Palestinian political activists and the group of educated people who have graduated from foreign universities or military academies, who are active as air force pilots, chemical engineers, biologists, officers, public servants and in other disciplines and fields. In recent years several Palestinians have been assassinated in the EU and in other Western countries. Similarly, several western politicians who disobeyed Israeli orders or wishes have been murdered in unclear circumstances.
Anna Lindh
In most instances the politicians’ murderers were identified as “crazy” people, such as in the murderer of Swedish minister Anna Lindh http://fwd4.me/00Eu . In several other cases the murders of these politicians were declared to be “normal” deaths, such as the death of Jörg Haider, a European politician who died in a car accident in Austria under very suspicious circumstances.
Anna Lindh http://fwd4.me/00Ev was a brave European woman who died because she decided that Europe could no longer support the injustice against us Palestinians after she saw the atrocities committed by Israel in Jenin in the year 2002. Anna Lindh was assassinated on September 11, 2003 by the crazy loner who appears under different names at different times and places, but always with the single purpose dictated to him by his “inner voices” each time certain interests feel threatened by the imposition of peace and respect for human rights somewhere in the world.
In each of the Israeli crimes that were committed against Palestinians in the EU and other western countries in contradiction to international laws and human rights, the governments kept silent. They continue providing absolute protection and impunity to the Israeli perpetrators of the crimes. The perpetrators move freely in all the countries of the world without any questions whatsoever asked. Consequently, the people of these countries must hold their governments accountable so that Israel will not turn their countries into a theater of crimes, terrorism and counter-terrorism, which might lead to the kidnapping and murder of Israelis who become wanted by the relatives of the Israeli victims.
According to the Palestinians who have been the oppressed victims of the Israeli occupation for decades, every single Israeli soldier and settler who crossed the border of 1967 enforced an illegal occupation, ethnic cleansing, genocide and war crimes. They are without exception war criminals and must be brought to justice. Simply, they are wanted by all the Palestinians, but this does not mean that the Palestinians should turn into gangs of death squads in order to murder and kidnap the Israeli war criminals and occupiers who have spread everywhere in the world like locusts and garbage.
However, the silence of the world about Israel’s crimes could lead to terror reactions against Israel and Israelis throughout the many states where Israeli crimes have occurred. This may cause harm to the people of these countries. Therefore, it is important for all states that have signed agreements with Israel (especially of the so-called anti-terrorism conventions) to review their agreements before their lands produce more horror and crimes that violate International treaties, laws and accords. In all cases, governments must uphold the law equally for everybody, not uphold the interests of criminal inclined minorities whose interests are in all cases deeply opposed to the well-being of their nations.
To illustrate the Israeli terrorism, I present the following summary of some crimes and terror that were recently perpetrated by Israel in western countries. These crimes were perpetrated under a cover of silence from the international community. The summary is followed by questions that need answers and clarifications from the UN Security Council and the governments that claim to be fighting against terrorism and international organized crime. The questions are also addressed to the international public, the people who represent the future in their countries and also to everyone who seeks the truth without deception or evasion. To the people who are interested in knowing the truth, I would suggest that they submit these questions to their governments first, and secondly to the Israeli embassies in their countries.
Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Sudan:
On Tuesday April 5, 2011, the Sudanese government filed a complaint against Israel with the United Nations Security Council over the airstrike near the Port of Sudan, which killed two people who were in a car. According to Sudanese sources, a foreign aircraft entered the African nation’s airspace from the Red Sea. In another incident in January 2009, Israeli aircraft hit a convoy of what they claimed were “arms smugglers” headed for Gaza.
Ron Fuchs
Lesson of Organized Crime in Georgia:
On April 1, 2011, Georgia sentenced two Israelis to jail. Ron Fuchs for seven years and Zeev Frenkel for six and a half years, for bribing the Georgian deputy finance minister with seven million dollars. Ron and Zeev met with the deputy minister and offered him a bribe in exchange for convincing the government ministers not to oppose the results of the arbitration process in which Ron and Zeev were awarded nearly $100 million, but the Georgian government challenged the decision and did not transfer the money to the Israeli businessmen.
Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Ukraine: http://fwd4.me/00Ew
On 18, February 2011, the Israeli intelligence service mossad abducted in Ukraine Dr. Dirar Abu-Sisi aged 42 years, the director of the Gaza power plant. The Ukrainian security services aided in the abduction operation and were conniving with the mossad. On Monday April 4, 2011, Abu Sisi was charged with being a “close confidant of the Hamas military leaders and instrumental in developing their rockets, including increasing their range and ability to pierce steel so as to penetrate armored vehicles and thus strike at soldiers”, a claim which is probably nothing more than bullshit.
Engineer Abu Sisi is not a war criminal or a terrorist. In my opinion he is one of the victims of Israel. Far more likely than him taking part in activities related to weapons is that he simply was abducted in order to hinder provision of electric energy to the Gaza strip, an act of collective punishment against the population of the Gaza strip. The real war criminals and terrorists are the mossad agents who kidnapped the engineer, drugged him, transported him to Tel Aviv and subjected him to all kind of torture to extract confessions in illegal and immoral ways. The affiliation of Abu Sissi to Hamas is not a crime which warrants putting him in prison. In 2006 more than half of Palestinians in the occupied territories, in the West Bank and Gaza voted for Hamas during the Legislative Council elections. This does not mean that those Palestinians belong to a terrorist organization and therefore should be arrested and imprisoned.
Abu Sisi strongly denied in court the Israeli allegation and charges of developing missiles for Hamas. His denial came even after he was severely tortured at the hands of Israeli interrogators. There are thousands of Israeli engineers and war criminals who are working in the israeli arms industry. They develop advanced missiles and aircraft which are capable of destruction of the entire Middle East, not just a tank!!
Furthermore, the Israelis experts in war crimes developed more than 300 nuclear warheads at Dimona in the “Negev”, (al-Naqab). These missiles can kill millions of human beings in one second. Palestine suffers a significant risk of radiation because of Israel’s possession of nuclear reactors including the Dimona reactor which has ended its useful life, and which will expose Palestine and the Palestinian people and neighboring countries to the serious dangers of radiation. Palestinian farmers from the Yatta village south of Hebron in the West Bank have revealed that the Israeli military continues to bury nuclear waste in their farmlands, among other locations at Al-Masafer near the armistice line in the West Bank.
Israel is a racist, terrorist and zionist organization which occupies Palestine, the Golan heights and other Arab lands. It continues committing war crimes and assorted acts of aggression against the Arabs in Lebanon and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and against Arabs who live within the provisional borders of israel. Israel uses internationally prohibited weapons such as white phosphorus and cluster bombs, by the ton. The sophisticated weapons of Israel are not comparable to the “advanced humble rockets” of Hamas that could be compared to the rockets used in the age of cavemen.
* So who deserves to be put on trial and criminalized, the electrical engineer Abu Sisi who insists on his innocence, or the Israeli generals, the war criminals and terrorists who killed thousands of civilians by dropping sophisticated bombs?
It is unfortunate that the civilized world keeps silent on the kidnapping of Dr. Abu-Sisi, who was visiting his brother in a country that represents itself as an “independent, civilized state.” The kidnapping of people is not characteristic of civilized nations and States, but it is a characteristic of terrorist states which behave like the mafia, in short, of failed states.
Whatever justification the Ukrainian government gives for its “help” by allowing the Israeli Mossad to kidnap Abu Sisi and use its country to commit a terrorist crime, the government is involved in the terror crime itself, and the officials of Ukraine must be treated in accordance to the provisions of international law relating to the crimes of international terrorism.
Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in the Emirates:
Last year, on January 20, 2010, the mossad assassinated Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel in Dubai, and the assassination put dirt on the names of several countries. It is known, but denied by the respective authorities, that the mossad operates freely in the EU and other western countries. The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai was not the first act international terrorism which Mossad death squads committed by using the fake or stolen European passports.
The Israeli mossad has long history of desecrating the laws of many European countries, where they have committed many assassinations using fake passports, and sometimes real ones. About 350,000 Israelis have double citizenship and hold EU and Israeli passports at the same time. The zionists of Israel have received logistical support from all the European and western countries in which the mossad death squads have committed their crimes in the past cases.
Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Austria:
In the early nineties of the last century, on May 27, 1993, two elements of a mossad kidon unit (death squad) were killed in a motorcycle accident in Vienna while they were on a surveillance mission trailing the Iranian deputy minister of defense at that time, head of Iran’s “chemical warfare project”, Dr. Majid Abasfur, who was in Vienna carrying documents for an impending arms deal with an Israeli partner, Manbar, and a briefcase with money and documents about the missing Israeli air force pilot Ron Arad. The plan of the mossad death squad was to kill Dr. Abasfur, steal the documents and the money, and to prevent the signing of the agreement for supplying Iran with tanks and chemical substances, which was supposed to be signed at the Vienna Marriot hotel that day.
Lesson of Terror and organized Crime in New Zealand:
On March 23, 2004, New Zealand authorities captured two Israeli intelligence agents, Uriel Kelman (Urie) and Eli Cara, for trying to obtain a New Zealand passport by way of using the stolen identity of a New-Zealander. On July 15, 2004, they were sentenced to six months and were sent to Mt Eden Prison. The prisoners completed one-third of their six-month sentence in jail, and were then released and deported to Israel in October 2004. Both Kelman and Cara were members of the israeli intelligence service Mossad.
Lesson of Organized Crime in Kosovo: http://fwd4.me/00Ex
The Council of Europe accused the prime minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, of leading a group linked to organized crime and who is related to human rights violations and arms trafficking, as well as trafficking drugs and bodies. A number of Israelis who were involved in the group are wanted for international crimes in the trafficking of human organs. http://fwd4.me/00Ey
Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Libya and Africa: http://fwd4.me/00Ez
Rafael “Rafram” Haddad, 35, is a spy from the Efrat squatter colony in the West Bank. He is a yeshiva (an extremist religious school) student and resident of the Efrat squatter colony and a military police officer in the Israeli army. He was asked in 2009 by the Jewish Agency, the so called “Orr Shalom” center, to go to places where smaller Jewish communities had existed in Libya and which his predecessors (other Israeli spies) had been unable to reach. The jewish agency had sent some weeks earlier a French citizen in the same mission in Libya.
Haddad was warned by the Libyan intelligence to stop filming and to leave Libya, but he was caught in the same place a week after he had been warned off. The French jew had been arrested some weeks before the arrest of Haddad. French President Nicolas Sarkozy intervened to release the French citizen. He was released about two weeks after Haddad was arrested, and he informed the family of the Israeli spy Haddad in the Efrat squatter colony about his arrest.
According to the Israeli Hebrew newspapers, another Israeli spy was also arrested in the same mission in northern Africa. It appeared in the newspapers that the “Or Shalom” zionist organization accused the israeli foreign ministry of having leaked the arrest of Haddad in northern Africa, but the foreign ministry said that the leak of this information had come from Haddad’s family.
There are multiple examples to demonstrate the involvement of Israel in international organized crimes and terrorism, and the questions are:
* Does the Israeli “state” stand at the forefront of international terrorism and organized crimes, leading and financing the abductions, political assassinations, sea piracy, trafficking human organs, arming gangs, death squads, mafia and drugs, etc?
* Who will be the next victim listed on the Israeli plan of abductions after Dr. Dirar Abu-Sisi, 42 years, the director of the Gaza power plant who was kidnapped on February 18, 2011, in Ukraine?
* Who will be the next victim listed on the Mossad plan of assassinations after the terrorist assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh who was murdered on January 20, 2010, in the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates?
* In which state will Israel implement its next crime of terror, and under which names and nationalities will they commit the crime after several European citizens were listed on the Interpol-issued arrest notices http://fwd4.me/00F1 as wanted by Dubai for the killing Al-Mabhouh? http://fwd4.me/00F3
* Which is the next European country that will violate international law, allowing and helping mossad agents to commit a new terror crimes and murders in their country?
* Which state will have its airspace violated by Israel in order to bomb innocent citizens after Khartoum in Sudan, where the Israeli airforce carried out its terror operation, killed two and terrorized how many?
* Which will be the next country after the State of Georgia that Israel plans to bribe in order to make them withdraw government projects that do not serve the interest of Israel, and how many millions or billions will they pay?
* Which countries are the next targets of Israel, where the Israeli mossad will plant their agents in order to carry out acts of organized crime, terrorism, assassinations and espionage, after many of the Israeli mossad networks in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, the largest spy networks known in history, were dismantled?
* Does Israel take into account the results and consequences of its terrorist operations within the borders of other states, where many decent Jewish communities live, but where Israeli “tourists” and thieves spread like vermin?
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22 nov 2010, 04:05 , Respect -
Maria 26 mei 2011
Honor Killing Or Barbaric Crime? Video
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The horrific “honor” killing of Aya Al-Baradeih, the university student from Surif near Hebron at the hands of a gang affiliated to the Hamas and led by her uncle, is not the first crime of its kind in Palestine. 23 Palestinian women were killed for “honor” since the beginnings of 2011, among them were 9 women from Hebron.
On May 6 2011, the body of Ayah Al-Baradeih, a 20-year-old Palestinian woman, English literature student in the third year at Hebron University, a noble-minded and liberated woman, and an activist in the field of democracy, was found dropped in a well on the top of a hill of Surif town. The well is located just three kilometers from Al-Baradeih’s house. Surif is a beautiful town that extends on the slopes of the hills of the mountains to the northwest of Hebron city. Ayah was disappeared on April 20 2010. Her family informed the police three hours after she did not return home.
In Palestine it is legal to kill women in order to protect the “honor” of the family. This and other Jordanian laws strongly discriminate between men and women, they are inhuman and a crime against all women. In the West Bank and Gaza there are no laws that forbid women from being murdered or prosecute their murderers. The Egyptian laws that are implemented in Gaza and the Jordanian Laws implemented in the West Bank discriminate between men and women, and protect the murderers of women. “Honor” has become a justification for murdering women and protecting the murderers, as well keeping the power in the hands of the men who lead the society and impeding women from reaching power. This is a clear threat for all women who seek equality with men in their rights.
Searching for Ayah continued during the past 13 months. In the end, the Palestinian police, relying on the help of a volunteer, found a body decomposed inside a well located in the town where Ayah resided. Col. Ramadan Awad, “Abu Issa”, chief of Hebron’s police, was very sad and helpful when I called him to ask about further details about the murder of Ayah. He said: “Since the disappearance of Ayah, we infiltrated civil police among the residents of Surif in order to collect information about the circumstances of her disappearance and her relationship with everybody, including family, relatives and friends. Our first impression was that Ayah had not disappeared but was murdered for ‘honor’.”
He stated that the criminals who carried out the murder of Ayah, Ayman Abu Saleh, Nasser Al-Ghour and her uncle Iqab Al-Baradeih, 37, were elements from Hamas, religious figures. They were unhappy with Ayah’s activities at Hebron University after she had helped a number of students to distinguish between religious intolerance and radicalism, and between commitments to the principles of the Islamic religion. which are against extremism. Ayah’s activism led to a massive loss of followers for the Islamic movement at the University of Hebron. This made the religious figures angry with Ayah and they issued a death sentence against her, said Col. Awad.
Col. Awad exposed another scandal. He stated that “23 Palestinian women were killed for “honor” since the beginnings of 2011, among them were 9 women from Hebron”. He told me with bitterness in his voice: “The time has come to break the silence about this crime and to end it. Enough women have been murdered, enough have been buried while they still alive. We can not go back to the era of ignorance. We are today in the twenty-first century, and we all are sons of women,” said Awad. He added that women are slaughtered like sheep by their families for trivial reasons. He added that facing the “honor” killing crime is a responsibility of every educated woman and every womens organization. Women must address these crimes and call for an end to it.
From The University To The Well
The sudden disappearance of Ayah caused her parents great suffering, especially the weaker part in the family, her mother Fatimah who was not able to stay home because of the shameful rumors which were spread in the town. The uncle of Ayah, who murdered her, spread in the town rumors that his niece had informed him during a phone call that she had decided to go away and live as she wanted. In Arab societies, women can only leave the house of the family when they get married. Before that, women cannot live alone. Ayah’s mother was not able to show her face to the neighbors after the unexplained absence of Ayah, and she left home.
Ayah was a handsome and intelligent woman. Several people went to the house of her family and asked her parents to marry her, among them was a University colleague who she loved, who came only one month before her murder. Her colleague sent his family to Ayah’s parents to ask them to approve the marriage of their daughter. It is part of the traditional marriage custom in the Middle East that the family of the man goes to the house of the woman to ask her parents for marriage. Usually it takes some days until the bride’s family gives an answer to the groom’s family. During this short time, the bride’s family takes on their responsibility to ask about the groom’s past and future: Who is he? Who is his family? Does he have a job, does he pray, etc. Usually, all the MALE members of the bride’s family have the right to take part in the final decision of the marriage, even if they are not adults.
The father of Ayah delayed his response to the family of her colleague, who in turn sent very important personalities from the city of Hebron to Ayah’s father in order to beg him to respond to the request for the hand of his daughter. The father, who finally gave a positive answer before the Hebronite personalities, swallowed his words after awhile and refused the marriage. It came out that the groom who asked for Ayah’s marriage had a political affiliation with Fatah, while the brother and uncle of Ayah had political affiliations with Hamas. This political difference was the grave crime which led to murder of beautiful and intelligent Ayah.
Ayah was unhappy with her father’s decision, and she called her colleague to promise him that she would not marry anybody except him and that he should not give up. Her brother heard her phone conversation and beat her without mercy. She went to her uncle and asked him for help, she thought that he would be able to help her. The criminal uncle gave Ayah his cell phone to call her colleague and to tell him that the problem was on its way to being solved. But the uncle was thinking to solve the problem in his own way, by throwing Ayah down the well. During this engagement process, Ayah disappeared.
Col. Awad said: “Ibrahim Al-Baradeih and his wife (her parents) filed a complaint about the disappearance of their daughter who went to the University on Tuesday morning, April 20 2010, but did not return home. This opened an investigation and we investigated all possibilities, including a kidnapping or an escape from home. We called several people and asked them about Ayah. Among them was a young man, 37, from Hebron city. The man was accused by the girl’s father that he knew the location of Ayah. He had asked the father to marry her but the family refused him. We suspected him and subjected him to further investigation. He was released by the court after 35 days of arrest.”
He added: “We continued our investigation inside the university. We found that Ayah was studying English in the third year, she had excellent social relations with others, and she had a good reputation, high culture, and a strong character. Their actions were balanced at the university, everybody respected her and there were no suspicions of ethics or security hovering around her. This information baffled the investigating officers”.
“Last Friday, May 6 2011 we received information about a dead body in a well in Khallet Abu Sulaiman near Surif village. The well is located in a remote area far from Surif, about three kilometers, and near the apartheid wall. We went to the place of the well, accompanied by prosecutors and civil defense, to extract the body. We needed two days to gather all the victim’s body parts inside the well. We found the handbag and the clothes of Ayah in the well. Inside the handbag we found Ayah’s ID, a picture of her brother who studies in the Ukraine, the university card with her picture, and a photo of her younger brother. The public prosecutors confirmed that the body belonged to Ayah. We have arrested the suspects, among them her uncle, who confessed to the crime less than three hours after his arrest. He revealed further information about the crime.”
The name of Ayah’s uncle is Iqab (what means “punishment”). He said during the investigation: “I went to the University together with Ayman Abu Saleh and Nasser Al-Ghour. I asked Ayah to ride my car, she first refused, but when I told her that I had good news for her, she thought that I had convinced her father to approve her marriage and she came with us. We hit her in car and we put her in a box. She screamed, but we used gas spray to silence her screaming. She was unconscious until we got to the area where the well is located. We took her out of the box and tied her with ropes.
She awakened while we were cuffing her, some minutes before throwing her in the well, and she begged me and sought the help of the Lord not to harm her. She said: ”in the name of the Lord of all mankind, and in the name of God, I ask you, my uncle, my uncle, my uncle to free me. Please release me for God’s sake. Please do not drop me into the well. What did I do that deserves killing me? My uncle, please help me!”. But I was determined to kill her by the help of my friends, religious figures with Hamas.
According to the person who had asked Ayah’s father for her hand, he had known Ayah for only one month before her murder. He said: “I insisted to marry Ayah because I was amazed by her and I loved her very much. Her family rejected our marriage for unjustified reasons. Once they said it was because of the difference of age between us, as I was the age of 37 and Ayah was 21. They claimed that I was from the city and Ayah from a town. Another excuse they used was that the family of Ayah was not from the same political affiliation as I was. All these invented reasons increased my determination to marry Ayah in the right way according to customs followed in Palestine.”
Ayah’s lover was very sad and asked: “Why did they kill her? Nothing happened between me and Ayah. I just met her and sent my mother and sister to ask her family for marriage. We did not perpetrate a crime. We just loved each other. It was an innocent love. If Ayah’s family suspected her, why did they not take her to the doctor for the necessary medical examination which could remove their suspicions?” (He meant that he had not touched Ayah and that she was still a virgin). He added: “I do not understand why they suspected her. Why did her uncle invent that I had a sexual relationship with Ayah? What kind of mentality and imagination does he have?” He cried from the depth of his heart and said “God bless Ayah and her soul in eternal peace. She was a victim of her uncle.” He added: “He is not an uncle, he is a wild animal, he is not human. May God have mercy on Ayah and take revenge on him.”
The reaction to the crime in all the West Bank prompted President Mahmoud Abbas to issue orders to the judiciary to consider strict punishment for the perpetrators of these crimes. Col. Awad said that president Mahmoud Abbas had promised to sign a decree that scraps provisions that make killing for “family honor” a mitigating circumstance. Under the new laws, honor killings will be dealt with in accordance with Article 328 of the Penal Code, which provides for a sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty for anyone who commits a crime of honor killing.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had promised several times that he would change the shameless law protecting perpetrators of honor killings by the International Women’s Day of 2010. But this did not happen until the murder of Ayah and the discovery of her body. And now again, Abbas has backtracked on his promises, the law change has been frozen for unknown reasons.
Hebron University faculty issued a statement in which they condemned the murder of the Ayah. They said: “Ayah was an example of honor, chastity and decency. Her murder was perpetrated at the hands of a malicious rogue and irresponsible group, which is incompatible with the principles of Islamic religious tolerance, and the magnanimity of Arab civilization and culture, and brings us back to ignorance.” The statement called on the Palestinian Authority to sign into law tougher punishment for the criminals in order to be a lesson for all who are tempted to abuse the sanctity of blood. The statement also called on the tribesmen to consider the crime an intentional murder.
In the meantime, women and human rights activists are organizing several protest activities in which they sit-in before the governorate of Hebron and demand harsh sentences to criminals. In another demo, women raised the picture of Ayah and carried signs reading “Aya is a martyr”, “Criminals should be sentenced to death”.
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22 nov 2010, 04:07 , Respect -
The Military Officer Who Sent Me a Husband
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It is difficult to imagine the depths of the filth sloshing around in the heads of the officers of the zionist occupation state, the same people who style themselves as officers of a “civil administration” http://fwd4.me/02ut and as “Coordinators of Government Activities in the Territories” (COGAT). In fact there is nothing called “civil administration” http://fwd4.me/02uu or “COGAT”. These are just grandiose, fake titles used by psychopaths to address each other, a big lie invented by the israeli occupation in order to circumvent international laws, the Genève conventions and the world public opinion. In those made-up “civilian” offices, military officers work while carrying machine guns and rifles.
These officers are in the main interface for the israeli intelligence (Shin Bet). Their mission is to steal what remains of Palestinian land, to spy on all manifestations of Palestinian civil society and resistance, on political groups and factions like Hamas, Fatah, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front, the leftist movements, etc., to feed the Shin Bet computer with information about what is going on in the civilian institutions of Palestine as well as within the institutions of the so-called “Palestinian National Authority”, to translate the Palestinian daily newspapers, to complicate the daily life of Palestinians, to keep aspects of society like trade, economy, education, health and others, running micromanaged by the hands of the occupation.
[media id=13209475346RlT size=large]In those offices which are spread throughout the occupied territories and administered by the israeli intelligence services, the officers hold ongoing daily meetings with Palestinian citizens of various ages and allegiances under the pretext of providing “humanitarian services” and issuing them work, health treatment and study or travel permits to Israel and abroad. In fact, the main objective of these “meetings” is to spy on the Palestinian people, to control their many collective and individual interests and needs and to maintain the dominance of the occupation on Palestinian land and people, in addition to the task of infiltrating all Palestinian groups and institutions with plants for the “Shin Bet” and overthrowing them in various ways and with the usual immoral methods of a criminal occupation.
At the offices of the “COGAT”, the “civil administration and the DCL, the israeli intelligence officers ONLY wear civil uniform. These uniformed officers, military personnel, run everything. These officers are de-faxto running all Palestinian affairs, the Palestinian documentation, the economy, they control all commerce and other issues big and small. All transactions between people, everything, passes through these offices of the israeli military intelligence.
[media id=1320948168uA1J size=large]The “COGAT” and the “civil administration” offices are seen as traps for the Palestinian youth, and the meetings arranged here, by force or coercion, are the first steps on the road to espionage, betrayal, spying for Israel. Even those persons who are not related directly to the work of the Israeli intelligence services they provide, in one way or another, important information to israeli officers during these “civil” meetings held at the DCL and COGAT offices. There, the officers feed the computer with information given by persons unsuspecting and not. These pieces of information serve ONLY the espionage and repression system of the zionist state.
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The Palestinian National Authority has signed agreements which “legitimize” these espionage missions at the DCL, COGAT and also at the DCO, another office which deals with “security matters” deriving from the Oslo “peace agreement”. The espionage missions and control of the interests of the Palestinian people was and is still run at the Israeli DCL http://fwd4.me/02uv , COGAT and DCO, what of course means, the offices of the zionist enemy and invader. I have heard and experienced many stories of horror related to these offices that I can not erase from memory.
I still remember Col. Shalom Goldstein, currently Goldstein is adviser on “Arab affairs” ethnic cleansing for East Jerusalem and his assistant Captain Eyal. Baruch Nagar, and his assistant Col. Amnon Cohen, Alex Rosenzweig, Fouad Halhal, and I still remember many others. I still remember “Rafi” with his religious kippa, “Tchevy”, on his head, “Jacob” with a kippa, Avi, David Kishik http://fwd4.me/02ux , Yossi Segal, Rami Ekraii and many others whose names I knew not, but whose faces, words and the heavy guns to hide their cowardice I will always remember. I remember the long lines of people waiting – and still waiting – in front of their offices in order to obtain a permit to travel, the renewal of an ID, a birth or death certificate, etc. I remember many inhuman stories of these soldiers, the occupation, which could bring sickness to the heart of the healthy people.
Among these disgusting stories are stories of a number of Palestinian women who went to these israeli offices to obtain needed documents, but instead fell into the hands of the israeli “civil administration” and the intelligence officers there. Some of these women were photographed by the officers without their knowledge and their pictures were manipulated and mounted (photo-shopped) onto pornographic images depicting sexual and immoral situations, as if these women had done these things. These women were forced to work as spies against their own people, families, neighbors, many them became victims of “honor” murders at the hand of their relatives when the israelis circulated the photo-shopped pictures. These tragic stories of murders of women because of their dealings with the occupation are very sensitive and talking or reporting about them is still taboo for Palestinians.
I still remember the horrific story about the murder of a Palestinian university student wearing “Niqab”, whose family smashed her head in with a stone until she died, and then rolled her with a bag and threw her body near Efrat settlement in order to fabricate a story of martyrdom, that she had been murdered by the jewish squatters, so that they could be buried her with dignity before of the hebronite community. The girl belonged to a family with a history of national struggle. During her burial as a martyr, her relatives threw stones towards the IOF soldiers in Hebron. It came out later that in fact the girl was killed by her family after she was discovered meeting with some israeli police officers in Tel Aviv. The disgrace of this woman was caused at the DCL office in Hebron.
I remember the story of “Eyal Sela”, assistant Col. Shalom Goldstein, currently is the israeli ambassador to Ecuador. Eyal invited me as a journalist to his office in Hebron in order to threaten and try to intimidate me. He used his power as an officer of the occupation in order to stop my writings in Palestinian newspapers about the occupation and the daily crimes and flagrant violations of laws. I remember how he threatened to withdraw my ID at his office at the “civil administration”. I also remember how Eyal asked me to meet him at the American colony in Jerusalem instead of meeting him in Hebron – under the pretext that meeting him in his office in Hebron would raise suspicion on my reputation before the community of Hebron. Eyal was planning to play the same filthy game which the DCL officers http://fwd4.me/02uz often played in order to coerce the Palestinians. I refused to meet Eyal in Jerusalem even if he would spread faked pictures of me in the streets. I published the scandalous talk with Eyal in the newspaper, despite his threats. This was the first step of challenge against Eyal and the other criminals working at the office of the “civil administration”. It was the right step to take, which made my name. Now the Israeli officers started to think before talking to me, they even started to be worried and scared of my words, because I had shown them that they could not intimidate me.
Cap. Eyal still coerced other colleagues working at the Al-quds newspaper, where I was engaged too, to spy for him. The price for the cooperation of these colleagues was very cheap. It was a travel permit to enter their occupied homeland Jerusalem where the main office of Al-Quds newspaper was located.
At the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, one of these “colleagues” was killed at the hands of the Palestinian resistance. His body was hung on an electricity pole at the junction of Beer Al-Mahjar in Hebron. This collaborator “journalist” (Anas. A) had been involved in immoral activities, in sex and drugs events at Hebron University. He had recruited over 100 students to distribute drug and spy according to the plans of the “civil administration”. This collaborator had also passed information to the DCL officers about the presence of a Palestinian figure from Fatah “Marwan Zaloum”, a leader of the second Intifada. This person was assassinated directly after the “civil administration” received the message from the “journalist”. The IOF had him shot by a sniper at the junction of Al-Manarah in Hebron while he driving in his car.
The family of this collaborator, in the end a victim of the DCL and “civil administration”, issued a statement in which they congratulated the killer of their son and distanced themselves from all what he had done. The family of the collaborator is known as a respectable family in Hebron. His relative was a former minister in the Palestinian National Authority. The disgrace of this collaborator started at the office of the civil administration and ended when his body was hanged from an electricity pole. The collaborator had been forced to deliver the daily Palestinians newspapers to the “DCL” offices in Hebron. His story of disgrace started at the office of Eyal and Fuad Halhal who were involved in coercing him.
When Cap. Eyal and Col. Fuad Halhal were not able to coerce me by issuing a travel permit I simply resorted to traveling to Jerusalem in my own ways. I climbed over the high walls of the Al-Tantour Institute in order to bypass the military checkpoint at Bethlehem and then enter Jerusalem and report about their crimes there. When Col, Fuad found out, he tried another way to end my work: he sent me a psychiatric patient to marry me, and this story I have already written about.
Lieutenant Col. Fuad Halhal, a druze but an extremist zionist and criminal more than the jewish zionists. Currently Halhal is a “COGAT” officer and teaches others how to perpetrate war crimes in a unit stationed in the Palestinian territories. Halhal was involved in the Jenin Massacre in 2002 during which hundreds of civilians were murdered and a significant part of the city was destroyed.
During his military service at the “Civil Administration” of Hebron as an officer at the permits department under command of Shalom Goldstein and Baruch Nagar, Halhal once sent me a psychiatric patient, Falah T., so that he would marry me. Falah is a son of a well-known and respected family in Hebron, but he suffered of “schizophrenia” since he had served with the US Marines, forcefully divorced from his American wife and finally forced to leave the USA. Falah had also been severely beaten by his colleagues at the USMC, apparently out of racist hatred, and he had only one tooth left as a consequence. Halhal had discussed with Falah the idea to marry me and promised him to provide the necessary financial support and all other requirements of the marriage ceremony, but on condition that Falah would prevent me from working as a journalist.
Falah did everything possible to convince me to marry him. He sent my family all the influential people he could get hold of, among others the head of Islamic Wakf, Sheikh Tayseer Al-Tamimi, to talk to my family to so they would accept Falah as a husband for me. When Falah failed in the task assigned to him, he returned to Col. Hahal and told him everything about his failure.
Fuad told Falah that he should not give up and that the reason behind my rejection was that I was “not virgin” and that he should try again and again. Fuad asked Falah to spread this rumor about me in the very conservative civil society city of Hebron as a revenge for my refusal to marry him. The poor Falah came and told me everything he heard from Lieutenant Col. Fuad Halhal. He also told me that Capt. Eyal, the military assistant of Col. Baruch Nagar, had asked a friend of mine (N. D.) to spy on my journalistic work.
Col. Baruch Nagar was not happy to hear the silly behavior of his officer Halhal. He commanded him in front of me to stop his childish behavior. I was later told by the poor Falah that Cap. Eyal had punished him: he locked Falah into the toilet of the “civil administration” office in Hebron without food or water for drinking for one day, because of his failure and because he had told me all what he had heard from the officers.
Halhal met Falah as the translator of an American zionist spy Alin, who introduced herself to Hebronite citizens as a convert Muslim and a human rights activists, but she was actually a spy for the Israeli occupation and the CIA. Alin settled in the “Kiryat Araba” colony during the first Intifada and opened an office in the center of Hebron. She falsified several legal documents in which she invented stories about the Palestinian cause and asked International organizations to finance them. According to my information and knowledge Alin received hundred thousands of dollars which were all invested in the “Kiryat Araba” colony. Alin spoke English and she used Falah as a translator at the office of the occupation. Falah was never paid by Alin.
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2 dec 2010, 00:06 , Respect -
Maria 30 mei 2011
Canadian Jews Against Support For Israel
The organization “Independent Jewish Voices in Canada” http://fwd4.me/UCX issued a press release in which the organization sharply criticizes Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Joseph Harper http://fwd4.me/02uo , leader of the conservative party, who supports the government of Israel regardless of the ongoing war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by them in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The IJV states in their press release: “Instead of taking steps to promote a resolution to the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine, the Harper government supports the government of Israel regardless of what it does” according to Sid Shniad, spokesperson for Independent Jewish Voices Canada.
“Israel’s hard right, intransigent government is delighted with Harper,” Shniad explained. “It was because of Canada that there was no mention of Israel’s pre-1967 borders made in the leaders’ final communiqué released by the gathering of G8 leaders in France. Even Barack Obama, who never ceases to declare his support for Israel, has come to the realization that no progress can be made in reaching a settlement without an Israeli agreement to withdraw from the territory it has occupied since 1967.”
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
In the final communiqué that was issued by the G8, the leaders called for the immediate resumption of peace talks. But due to the blocking action by the Harper government, they did not mention 1967, the year Israel seized the West Bank and Gaza from Jordan and Egypt during the Six-Day War.
“Israel’s continuing occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights are a clear violation of international law, according to both UN Resolutions and the Geneva Convention,” Shniad continued. “Our government should not be encouraging another government to continue violating the law with impunity.”
“It is because of governments’ continuing refusal to promote a genuine resolution of the conflict in Israel and Palestine that our organization affirms its support for grassroots-based, non-violent actions and campaigns such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, to pressure Israel to do the right thing,” he concluded.
Independent Jewish Voices – Canada is a national organization that promotes a just resolution to the conflict in Israel and Palestine through the application of international law and respect for the human rights of all parties. IJV has chapters in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon and Vancouver.
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2 dec 2010, 00:09 , Respect -
Maria 8 juli 2011
Israelis Control The Europeans Airports Boarding, Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPEfi2kFNp8
video shot by the team of “Palestine will live” last Thursday at the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.
All European countries have turned into puppets of the Israeli zionist occupation. The Israeli interior intelligence “shin beit” and special forces wearing civil clothes were allowed by the various European governments to control boarding movement at the airports in several Europeans countries in order to prevent the citizens of these countries from flying into occupied Palestine to protest against the continuous closure of Gaza since 2006 and the occupation the West Bank since decades, in total for over 64 years.
The Israeli security forces appeared yesterday and today at European airports disguised as employees of Hungarian company MALEV, of Lufthansa and of Swiss Airline. The israelis disguised as employees of the Hungarian company MALEV at the French airport refused to allow thirty passengers bound for the mission of “Welcome to Palestine” to board on July 8, 2011.
The Hungarian company, but in reality these “israeli security forces” disguised as employees of MALEV confirms that they obey israeli orders to deny peace activists from travelling to Israel. The French police refused to accept or register passenger’s complaints against the Hungarian company MALEV and confirmed that it has received orders not to register any complaints against these illegal acts.
At the Geneva International Airport, 50 peace activists were prevented from boarding a flight to Israel. In Brussels, three French citizens were denied boarding a Swiss flight heading to Israel. About 100 passengers were prevented from boarding a Lufthansa flight at Paris’s Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport.
During the past months the European countries have worked hard to save the shameless face of the Israeli zionist occupation. In Greece, the corrupted country lead by a clique of zionists and which has stolen the country wholesale and brought disaster and poverty to the nation, prevented the flotilla of humanitarian ships from sailing to Gaza. In the UK, the corrupted British police captured and jailed a Palestinian political activist, Sheikh Raed Salah from Um al-Fahim in order to prevent him from giving a lecture at the Parliament.
In Ukraine, the traitorous government helped the israeli mossed to capture Palestinian engineer Abu Sissi on its territory, violating the sovereignty of their own state. And now, in a further display of subservience, the European countries have allowed the israeli intelligence to control their airports and have given their own police into the hands of the israeli police, thus helping to enforce a murderous and genocidal regime of criminals.
Meanwhile several pro-Palestinian peace activists succeeded in boarding airplanes to Palestine and arrived at Ben-Gurion airport on Friday, where the criminal israeli intelligence thugs and special forces detained 30 on board of EasyJet and Alitalia flights. Twelve were on board of the EasyJet flight and 20 were flying with the Italian airline Alitalia. Two Americans wearing “fly-in” T-shirts were refused entrance to Israel after landing at Ben-Gurion Airport. The peace activists were sent on an outbound flight back to Greece.
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2 dec 2010, 00:12 , Respect -
Maria Flying to Ben Gurion Airport For Palestinian Freedom
Press Release sent by Dr. Gabi Weber – Today July 8th we are flying for Palestinian freedom – and for our own
Hundreds of internationals on their way to visit Palestinians in Gaza have been prevented from departing from the ports in Greece. However, we hope that on July 8th, 2011, hundreds of others of us from many countries will succeed in reaching Palestine by flying to Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. We have been invited by some forty Palestinian organizations to “Welcome to Palestine,” a week of activities in Palestine.
It should be a wonderful visit, but most of us are frankly a bit scared. This is because of one decision we’ve all made: to tell the truth that our plan is to visit Palestine. It should be so simple, shouldn’t it? But it is not, because Israel controls all access to Palestine – by air, and by land, as well as by sea.
Even the website of the U.S. State Department warns of “prolonged questioning and thorough searches by Israeli authorities upon entry or departure,” of particularly “probing questioning” visited upon “U.S. citizens whom Israeli authorities suspect of being of Arab, Middle Eastern, or Muslim origin,” who are frequently denied entry. This is also true of visitors who are suspected to sympathize with Palestinians. The U.S. and the European countries refuse to protect their own citizens against these abuses by Israeli authorities.
The draconian and discriminating procedures at the borders of Israel have but one aim: to further isolate Palestinians and reinforce their inferior status; to trap them, away from any outside witnesses, in an increasingly constrictive maze of bantustans, separated by checkpoints and walls. By failing to insist that Israel allow travel to Palestine, our western governments support Israel’s apartheid policies.
In fact, occupied territory is not sovereign territory and Israel’s authority over the occupied Palestinian territories is subject to international humanitarian law. This authority does not include the right to arbitrarily deny entry of foreign passport holders wishing to visit, reside, or work in the occupied Palestinian territories. See http://fwd4.me/06IU
We are flying to Ben Gurion on July 8th to visit friends in Palestine, and we insist that our own governments support us in doing so. Supporting our visit to Palestine will be one small step towards bringing about the freedom of movement for all the peoples of Israel/Palestine that is essential for peace and justice in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the israeli intelligence “Shin Biet” at the so-called the “israel’s interior ministry” and the ministry of transportation handed foreign airlines a list of 300 people who have been blacklisted by Israel. On Wednesday July 7 2011, the Hungarian airline Malev stopped dozens of French peace activists heading for a pro-Palestinian fly-in to Israel from boarding a plane in Paris.
Press Contacts:
PALESTINE: Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, [email protected], +972(0)598939532
JERUSALEM: Sergio Yahni, [email protected], +972(0)526375032
FRANCE: Nicolas Shahshahani, [email protected]
GERMANY: Sophia Deeg, [email protected], +49(0)88 007761, +49(0)1799878414
UK: Sofiah MacLeod, [email protected]. uk,+44(0)7931 200 36100, +44(0)131 620 0052
USA : Karin Pally, [email protected] or kpally@earthlink .net, +1 310-399-1921
English articles and stories on the event
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/06/challenging-racism-by-israelis-on-every-front/
http://www.alternet.org/news/151491/activists_challenge_israel’s_other_blockade_by_air
Other related websites/links:
http://www.righttoenter.ps
http://www.palestinejn.org
http://bienvenuepalestine.com (French and English)
http://www.kopi-online.de/8juli2011/ (German)
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4 dec 2010, 01:20 , Respect -
Maria 8 juli 2011
A War Criminal Almost Arrested In The UK
According to the Hebrew edition of Yediot Aharonot, http://fwd4.me/06Ia Amir Peretz, a war criminal, former “defense minister” and MK escaped during the past weekend an embarrassing arrest warrant issued by a court in London in response to a criminal complaint filed by a Human rights defenders organization, following the war crimes perpetrated during 2006 of Lebanon Second War.
The war criminal was warned before his travel to the UK, and it was recommended to him by two other criminals, the “Justice” and “Foreign” ministers while he was in New York last week, to not travel to the UK and to cancel his trip. Peretz ignored the warnings and landed in the UK last weekend. His plan was to spread zionists propaganda against Palestinians and to justify the Israeli crimes by giving a lecture at a London university.
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The israeli military intelligence was notified by their British spies and made a “trick” so that the Human rights activists would not be able to press charges in a timely manner and so thwart the issuing of an arrest warrant against Peretz. They sent an E-mail to the university in which they claimed that Peretz had canceled his lecture at the university for personal reasons.
The lecture and the meetings were not actually canceled, but went ahead and the program of the Peretz visit continued as scheduled. Meanwhile, intelligence officials decided to return Peretz to Israel in order to avoid a diplomatic embarrassment which would have resulted from his arrest.
The news of the Peretz “trick” reached the Human rights defenders, but the military intelligence rushed up Peretz’ return from Sunday to Saturday evening – a move that evidently saved the war criminal from being arrested, as a warrant for his arrest was issued right after the departure of the war criminal.
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4 dec 2010, 01:21 , Respect -
Maria 20 aug 2011
Israels Bloody Spectacle in Eilat
What is behind the shooting spectacle in Eilat? Who planned and funded that bloody spectacle? What gains does the zionist occupation state promise itself from such a bloody spectacle of synthetic terror?
It would be wrong to believe that the hands of the Israeli intelligence system, (Shabak Police), Mossad, Amal and others, are clean of the bloody shooting spectacle of Thursday August 18 2011 north of the southern city of Eilat and near the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, in which eight Israelis were killed, among them a soldier, and several others were injured, among them two soldiers, one of them in critical conditions.
Of the direct perpetrators, who were all conveniently killed, six are reported as unidentified, and pictures show bodies dressed in military uniform. After the reported attack in Eilat, two Egyptians soldiers and one policeman were murdered and two more Egyptian soldiers wounded, on Egyptian territory, during an Israeli attack carried out by Israeli aircraft while purportedly “searching for infiltrators” at the Egyptian border.
Whatever the identity of the persons who carried out the “operations” on the southern border of Israel – and whether with or without the knowledge – the “operations” have been funded and cooked at the kitchen of israeli intelligence system and with a full help and acknowledgement of the international intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and another Arab intelligence regime.
Because Israel always justifies its atrocities with “radical muslims” and similar rubbish, it would also be wrong to believe that all the radical religious movements are not created and managed by the intelligence services of the USA, England, Israel, and their allies and vassals among the Arab dictatorial regimes, and that these groups of radical elements work in isolation from the orders of these intelligence services in order to achieve their top-level goals of damaging the name of Islam and Muslims and bringing disarray into Muslim societies.
Israeli Hebrew media “revealed”, quoting from “western sources”, that the Jordanian intelligence service informed the Israeli side that “there is a commando operation about to happen in the south”. The media added that: “The Israeli intelligence services were aware that a group of what they call “terrorists” was planning to perpetrate an operation in the south” – what means that the operation was well prepared by Israel with the help of other secret services of the region. The israeli military spoke about the attacks in which the “perpetrators” used heavy weapons, rifles and explosives which targeted a transportation bus carrying IDF soldiers and passengers, a military patrol and a private car.
The Israeli intelligence organization Shabak said very clearly some weeks ago that a large “rolling operation” would be carried out soon by a large number of militants in the same area where the Thursday operation took place. This means that they knew what would happened, in the same way as a cook knows what food he will serve.???
According to israeli TV and radio in hebrew language, quoting from statements of Israeli army commanders, the operation “was well prepared” and the attackers were a “large number” of militants working in multiple teams which had been well trained and had full knowledge of fighting and hiding along the border” – what means that the fighters had been at the fortified border where Israel has planted cameras and sensitive electronic devices which can even capture the movements of ants, which was the place where the alleged operations took place.
Certainly there are strategic motives and interests of the Israelis, which led to the occurrence of this operation at such a particular time. Among them
Re-issuance of security arrangements on the border of the Sinai, which Israel is trying to raise again since the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, claiming that there are risks that threaten the security Israel at the border of Sinai.
Sending indirect message to the international community and to the Egyptian military council which states that Egypt is in big danger if the “Islamic movements” are allowed access to power – what means that Israel is in interfering Egypt internal affairs by perpetrating such attacks near the border of Sinai. These synthetic terror attacks are a way of strong-arming Egypt into compliance with zionist wishes by way of coercion. It is essential that Israel is not allowed to get away with their usual mob-tactics.
To defend the current dictatorial regime in Syria, which provides the Israeli state of occupation a way to continue occupying the Golan Heights and to call the attention of the international community to the important-for-israel fact that overthrowing the Syrian regime would lead to a threat to Israeli security, just as is the case today on the Sinai border.
Quote from Haaretz: “Mubarak falls, Sinai terror rises. Whether the terrorists who carried out Thursday’s attacks exited Egypt, passed through Sinai and headed south toward the region of Eilat, or if this was the action of a terrorist cell of Islamic origin acting for some time already in Sinai. In any case, it is clear that the Egyptian revolution that began in Tahrir Square and spread through other Arab states has now made its way into Israel.”
This last quote from Haaretz, which like all israeli media is little more than an outlet for official opinion and propaganda, is revealing. It tells us that any measure of democracy in Arab countries is inimical to israel, and that they will do everything in their power to destroy or subvert all developments towards true democracy in Arab and Islamic countries.
To circumvent the (alleged) Palestinian project of declaration of a Palestinian state in order to help Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who continues holding secret meetings in Israel and in the western countries with his former partner of the deadly agreement, the so called “Oslo agreement”, Shimon Peres, so that he can continue playing his dirty political game of manipulating and auctioning off of the rights of the Palestinian people, sucking their blood and funds to feed them into his sons bank accounts and projects, and finding more and more excuses to postpone the request for the declaration of a Palestinian state – under occupation – in the United Nations.
Legitimizing the bombing of Gaza and the continued siege and imposing further restrictions on the million and half Palestinians living in this concentration camp and urging the Egyptians to take ever stricter action against Gaza, as well as inciting them against the Palestinians by implying that Palestinians are the real enemies of Egypt and a big threat to their security. According to Palestinian sources, the Israeli warplanes have bombarded the Gaza Strip since yesterday.
This is a serious escalation, and Palestinian medical sources said that six Palestinians were murdered among them a child, Atef Mahmoud Abu Samra, 13, and several wounded by the targeted Israeli bombing of a house in the residential district Shaath west of Rafah, hours after the three attacks took place along the border with Egypt. Also, unspecified shelling of targets along the Egyptian border has been reported.
To make a big spectacle for the visiting vassals from the USA Congress. Currently 81 members of the USA Congress are in israel on an indoctrination tour, and this incident will certainly be used to the maximum to “convince” these traitors to their own nation that the needs of israel have priority over everything else.
To distract the israeli population from their own problems. Since weeks people are camping out in Tel Aviv and other places to demonstrate against the extremely ruinous conduct of affairs of the gevernment of israel. Since antiquity one of the preferred methods of criminal elites to force their populations into acquiescence has been the a common enemy or danger, most often than not invented. The range of issues brought forward by the protesting people could speed the implosion of israel as the refugee of criminality which it is under those currently in power.
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20 dec 2010, 17:22 , Respect -
Maria
Whining About The Death Of Zionist Terrorists
What would do you do if a militant group like Taliban, or the mafia surprised you in the morning by storming your home, vandalizing your garden, uprooting your trees, and shooting grenades at your children? Would you receive them with hugs and kisses?
What would you do if armed robbers broke into your house, stole your property, plundered your land, terrorized your family, and threw you out in the street? Would you feel happy and stand watching the plunderers, enjoying their theft, asking them for mercy and offering “peace” negotiations?
On the night of March 11th 2011, the wanted terrorist Capt. (res.) Ehud “Udi” Vogel or (Fogel), an officer of the Idf intelligence, a war criminal, colonist and member of the “Gush Emunim” terrorist group, who has perpetrated uncounted crimes in the occupied territories, his wife Ruth Ben-Yishai, a member of the terrorist groups “Gush Emunim” and “Bnei Akiva”, as well as three of their children, were killed at the Itamar colony of the “Amana” project, which was built in 1984 on Palestinian lands stolen from the villages of Rujeib, Awarta, Beit Furik and Yanun in the northern Nablus district.
This caused hundreds of Palestinian families to lose their livelihoods, their property, and left them living under the poverty line.
On April 17 2011, the israeli occupation forces stated that they had arrested two Palestinian teenager, Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 17, in relation to the deaths of the colonists. Both boys are students from Awarta. The statement of the Israeli appears to be a lie, published in order to cover up the fact that colonist Udi “Vogel” was killed by Asian workers who Vogel had scammed out of their salary. The Palestinian teenagers admitted having done the killings under grave torture by “Shin Bet” interrogators.
The farcical statement published by the israeli intelligence about the arrest of the Palestinian teenagers, stating that the two boys were members of the “Palestinian Popular Front” and had done the attack “on their own responsibility and without authorization from the “Popular Front” sets a new precedent in the israeli propaganda, which has until now never protected Palestinian organizations or their leadership, but would hurl accusations for every true or imagined crime at existing and imaginary Palestinian groups and persons. To people who understand the modus operandi of the israelis, this is equivalent to a confession that they have no idea who killed the Vogel family.
Contrary to the legend of two lone teenage perpetrators or a salary dispute with some asian workers, the “Itamar” colony operation was presumably carried out by somebody who knew well what he was doing and who he was targeting. He knew everything about Udi Vogel and the zionists around him. He knew his way to the house of this colonist.
The person or persons who carried the killings were not even interested in stealing his gun. If they had been Palestinians, they would at least have taken the gun of the true terrorist “Vogel”, and they would not have stayed in Awarta waiting for the IDF to arrest them. There was enough time to run away as the killings were discovered much after the events. The operation of Awarta is bigger than what two teenagers could do.
It is true that all Palestinians are sick of the israeli occupation and its colonists, and that everybody wishes for israel to go hell, to get lost, but everything around the operation of Awarta confirms that it was an operation which addressed the leadership of the “Yesha” and the “hill-top” colonists and that is could not have been done by teenagers not realizing what they had done.
Both Udi and Ruth Vogel were veteran terrorists with years of participation in both the IDF and their own terror cells who presumably had enough military training to defend themselves in encounters with casual aggressors, what makes the stories about Palestinian teenagers or Asian workers unlikely.
The “Itamar” colony is 5 kilometers southeast of Nablus. It was established in 1984 by a group of zionist families from “Gush Emunim”, a zionist terror movement. Udi studied at the “Gush Emunim” yeshiva of “Machon Meir” in occupied Jerusalem. Machon Meir is headed by French rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai since the last 30 years.
Ben-Yishai is a terrorist from the “Bnei Akiva” group. He is the father of Ruth, who was killed with her husband Udi and three children on Saturday March 11 2011.
The “Itamar” colony was planted on the highest hill tops of the Palestinians. The colony has a lookout on all sides at thousands dunum of Palestinian agriculture land which are listed for sale on “Amana” projects, the “settlements movement” and a branch of “Gush Emunim” as reserves for future theft by the zionist thieves under the standard excuse of “development of the settlements”.
Following the death of colonist “Vogel”, 1000 dunums of this land were “confiscated” from their Palestinian owners by the jewish invaders.
The Palestinian stolen lands from Nablus district were squatted on by 100 zionist families from the “Meir Yeshiva” colony, a branch of the “Gush Emunim”, terror movement which has expanded to also include the “Yesha council” established in 1970 as a vital tributary to “Gush Emunim” and headed by the zionist terrorist Danny Dayan, and “Amana”, a zionist colonist movement which also overlaps with the so-called “settlements movement” established in 1978 as the right arm of “Gush Emunim” and headed by the zionist Haim Vogel, the father of Udi Vogel, killed at the “Itamar” colony.
The primary goals of “Amana” are the theft and plunder of the natural resources in the occupied territories of West Bank, the Golan Heights, the Galilee, the Naqab (Negev) desert and Gaza, implanting zionists colonists on the hilltops and establishing economic, industrial and social projects which are aimed at supporting the ecology of terrorists and squatters while at the same time destroying the Palestinian economy in all the occupied territories, in West Bank and elsewhere.
It must be noted that with the death of the Vogel family, the zionist movements “Gush Emunim”, “Bnei Akiva” and “Amona” have lost two prominent figures who at the same time were descendants of two famous heads of the their movement.
Rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai, the head of “Machon Meir”, the zionist institute of Gush Emunim, who is at the same time a famous figure of the terrorists movement “Bnei Akiva”, is the father of Ruth, spouse of Udi Vogel who was killed at “Itamar”.
Rabbi Haim Fogel, the head of the “Amana” zionist colony movement, a branch of “Gush Emunim”, which builds the colonies in the occupied territories and in the Golan Heights, is the father IDF (res.) soldier “Udi” Vogel who was killed at “Itamar”.
Simply said, there were no victims in the operation at “Itamar”, those who died were not innocent. There was obviously a well organized operation plan which targeted the zionist colonial thieves and their projects on the hilltops of the Palestinian lands in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Moshe Zar Family
Among the terrorists who established the “Itamar” colony in 1984 was Gilad Zar, who was killed on Wednesday, May 30 2001 and whose family still lives in “Itamar”. He is the son of Moshe (Moses) Zar, whose family clan is from the self-labelled “Marranos” jewish community in Mashhad in eastern Iran. The “Mashhad marranos” emigrated to Palestine or New York because it is more profitable to live there than in a small Iranian city. Since the establishment of the “Itamar” colony and until now, 15 of these colonists have been killed by the Palestinian resistance. Only members of jewish terrorist underground groups like “Gush Emunim”, “Bnei Akiva” and related cells live in the “Itamar” colony.
Before the establishment of the “Itamar” colony, Gilad Zar built a big house in 1982 in the Shuafat refugee camp in the district of Jerusalem, which he used as an operating from where he perpetrated daily crimes against the Palestinians who live in the area. His father, Moshe Zar from Iran, is a terrorist with the “jewish underground”, the most dangerous armed organization against Arabs since the foundation of the so-called jewish state.
The founding members of the “jewish underground” were either combat troops in the reserve or members of the “haganah” terror group. They carried out many terror attacks against Palestinians. On July 27 1983, they attacked the Hebron University and left three students dead and 30 injured.
Zar was involved in a rash of bombings in the 1970s and 1980s. One of them crippled Nablus Mayor Bassam Shaka on June 2 1980. Zar was sentenced to three years in prison for this bombing, of which he ONLY spent 4 months and was then released on personal intervention of the “Haganah” terrorist “Ariel Sharon”, a personal friend of Moshe Zar, and also with the help of his cousin Mordechai Zar, a former member of the Knesset for Mapai, the Workers Party of so-called “Eretz Yisrael”.
Moshe Zar until now leads and plans the theft of Palestinian lands in the West Bank cities towns and villages. He is known as the “finance minister” behind the terror activities of the zionists colonists and groups such as “Gush Emunim” and the “hill-top youth” in Hebron. Moshe Zar and his wife Yael have eight children and 47 grandchildren. They live near Qalqilia at a colony called “Karnei Shomron”. It was established in 1978 and erected on the land of the Palestinian towns Jane Safout, Kafr Laqef, and Deir Estia.
Two daughters of Moshe Zar are Anat Cohen, and Shlomit Bar Kokhba, dangerous colonists who live in the center of Hebron. Anat and her husband Ronen Cohen live at the so-called “Beit Hadassa” colony and works as an assistant to terrorist and murderer Moshe Levinger, an American who is the speaker for the “Kach”, “Gush Emunim” and “Bnei Akiva” terrorist groups in the southern towns of the West Bank.
Levinger lives at the stolen Palestinian vegetable market in the so-called “Avraham Avino” colony. Anat Cohen and her 11 children (9 boys and 2 girls) are known to all Palestinians, TIPH observers and visitors to Hebron because of their trademark cranky behavior and the repeated, daily assaults, crimes which “Cohen” commits against Palestinian citizens in Hebron and even against the israeli Police.
See my former neighbor Anat Cohen beneath the bus from Umm al-Fahm to Hebron. Would you want to live with such a crank as a neighbor? This is the people which the USA is financing with billions of dollars each year.
Shlomit and her terrorist military husband live at the vegetable market colony “Avraham Avino”. “Yonadav Zar”, another son of Moshe Zar, is a colonist and terrorist. He occupies the mount of Grizim in the center of Nablus district in the north of the occupied West Bank. “Yonadav” or “Yehonadav” established a colony called “Har Bracha”, a zionist religious colony where he teaches the fundamental principles of stealing the hilltops of Palestinian agricultural land at his “Yeshivat Har Bracha”.
He is married to Atia Levinger, the daughter of “Kach” terrorist Moshe Levinger . Tzipi Zar, another son of Moshe Zar, is a colonist and terrorist. He occupies oanother Palestinian land in Jericho. Another terrorists Oren Zar lives in a colony of so-called “Shomron”.
The establishment of the “Itamar” colony and other zionist colonies remind all Palestinians of an era of theft, terrorism and a bloody history. This is why colonist “Udi Vogel” and four members of his family were killed at “Itamar”.
For instance: If any Palestinian decided to go and to occupy a small piece of lands in the USA or any other place and to build a house where is father was died and buried, or even if he decide to put a tent and not a colony, then he would be executed or jailed and described as a terrorist and given many other ugly titles. As human beings, the Palestinians do not rejoice in the death of human beings, whatever their religion, color or sex.
They do not wish that anyone in the world is killed. But at the same time, the Palestinians would not cry or condemn the death of the zionist occupation soldiers, war criminals, the members of “Gush Emunim” and “Yesha” who steal our homeland, our dreams, ambitions and killed our feeling of love and peace. The Palestinians will never cry the deaths and killings of the colonists in the heart of Palestine. The Palestinians have lived for decades under the zionist occupation of US and EU origins. We have had enough of them.
The colonist of “Gush Emunim”, Udi Vogel was killed himself and his children as a result of his greed and because he wanted to live on a stolen land of other people after humiliating them and creating by his actions a backlash of hatred and revenge in the souls of the victims.
No one likes to hear the stories about killing children. No one supports killing children, but that’s what the “Udi” brought to himself and to his children by living in the wrong place. The killing of “Udi” was the end of any thief who steals other people’s land and their livelihood with the power of arms and violent terrorism.
No one has any right to blame us for not crying the murder of some zionist colonists. Why should they cry? The Palestinians are not President Barak Obama and his counterpart Mahmoud Abbas who condemned and cried for the death of the “Gush Emunim” colonist Ehud “Udi Vogel, a war criminal who took part in the second war on Lebanon in 2006 and in Gaza “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008/2009.
The White House said in a statement issued on the death of “Udi”: “There is no possible justification for the killing of parents and children in their home”.
Which home??? “We call on the Palestinian Authority to unequivocally condemn this terrorist attack”. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reacted on the fatal stabbing in “Itamar” saying that he opposes any form of violence against citizens, regardless of the reasons for it. “Violence will only bring more violence and we must hurry to find a comprehensive, just solution to the conflict”.
As is always the case with the corrupt politicos and cleptocrats who support zionism everywhere, both Mr. Barack and Mr. Mahmoud have all the facts wrong.
Mr. Barack, who supposedly studied law and whose mother Ann Dunham was reportedly involved, as a CIA employee, in compiling extermination lists in remote villages in Indonesia, should know that under Article 51 of the UN Charter, we Palestinians have “the full right of individual and collective self-defense”, what means that we have the right to do anything and everything to compel the invaders to leave, or to kill them if necessary in order to defend our persons, families, livelihoods and property.
The Vogel family was not living “in their home” but on stolen land, they found themselves at the wrong end of this precept of international humanitarian law. As for the feckless Mr. Mahmoud, a “just and comprehensive resolution of the conflict” involves removing the terrorists and ample reparations from them and those who finance or otherwise support their terrorist activities.
Both Presidents Obama and Abbas are thugs of the israeli zionist occupation and its criminal terrorist groups. President Abbas is guilty of legitimizing the israeli occupation during the past 23 year of useless “peace” negotiation.
Abbas and his israeli and American friends and paymasters helped israel to perpetrate ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, war crimes, fattening colonists in the occupied territories and Jerusalem, stealing Palestinian lands, jailing and murdering thousands. With Abbas and the US we as Palestinians are losing our human dignity.
Both Abbas and Obama are culpable of “facilitating the commission of the crimes (of the jewish colonists) by aiding, abetting or otherwise assisting (them) in the commission or attempted commission of (their) crimes, including providing the means for the commission of these crimes, or in any other way contributing to the commission or attempted commission of the crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose” (Article 25 Rome Statute of the ICC), meaning the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the colonists and the occupation against the Palestinian people.
The Palestinians, whether they live in Palestine or at the exile, live daily horror made by Israel. When I put my head on the pillow, I spend hours and hours thinking of my past and of my future which has been stolen by the zionist colonists. Whenever I close my eyes, nightmares attack me.
The zionist horrors which I experienced is rooted in the depths of my heart. It is bigger than anything I could forget. In the exile I live together with alienation, loneliness, injustice and poverty. No work, no family and homeland, daily tragedy without end. This still is not enough for israel and the zionist organizations, but still they have to send people to watch and walk behind me in the exile.
Colonist Ehud (Udi) Vogel, 36, was killed at the Itamar colony on the stolen Palestinian lands of Nablus. He was not murdered in his home in israel, which was built on the ruins of Palestinian cities and town in 1948.
The killing of colonist Vogel came as the normal end of a thief who insists in looting and terrorizing Palestinians by the power of the machine gun and the occupation.
Not far away and a short time before, Vogel had lived in “Gush Katif” in Gaza. He received the fantastic financial compensation of NIS 3.37 million (about 750.000 EUR) from the American tax-payers when he left the “Gush Katif” colony. He would have been able to live in israel together with his family and to enjoy the financial compensation from the Americans tax-payers instead of searching for another Palestinian hill-top to steal, speculating on a further financial compensation in future when he would be forced to relinquish what he had stolen.
(… total compensation to the evacuees from NIS 6 billion to NIS 7.5 billion, or NIS 3.37 million on average per family …)
(Additional low-interest loans of NIS 250,000 will be available to those building their homes, and families who are unable to afford to build a new home will have the option of moving their "caravilla" temporary homes to the lots they will be given their community's new location. In a statement, the Gush Katif Residents' Committee said that despite the agreements, there were still three major areas that need to be resolved. http://fwd4.me/0BW3 )
Vogel lived a short time at the “Ariel” colony in the central West Bank, but since the Israeli government stated that they would add “Ariel” colony to Israel in any final status with Palestinians, “Vogel” moved to live on the hill-top of the “Itamar” colony, where he thought that he could receive a new financial compensation as part of any new deal of evacuation of colonists.
This is simply a kind of theft, it is criminality and exploitation of the American tax-payers. This has nothing to do with religion, judaism or belonging to israel.
Ariel is a colony located in the center of the occupied territories hills on the northern part of the West Bank. It was established in August 1978. In July 2008, israel approved the construction of 27 new factories in the colony.
In August 2007, the Ariel “college” declared itself as a “university”. On Wednesday January 19 2010, the Israeli war criminal Ehud Barak (self-anointed as “defense minister”) recognized the “Ariel” college in the West Bank town as a “university center”.
The colony was established on the territory of the Palestinian city of Salfit and the villages of Marda, Yasuf, Iskaka, Kefel Hares and Farkha with the acquisition of large tracts of land “confiscated” from their owners for the purposes of settlement.
Vogel’s family is of Polish origin and carried American passports. His wife Ruth, 35, was of French origin. Her father is rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai, a member of the terrorist group “Bnei Akiva”. He was born, then trained and studied terrorism against Arabs in France and then immigrated to Palestine and settled at the neighborhood of Baka.
Ben-Yishai has nine criminal zionist offspring, all of them members of extremist zionists groups. Hillel, 33, and Hannan, 24, are members of the yeshiva “Machon Meir” which the father headed. Eligio, 21 is a soldier with the so-called “Nahal” unit.
Baka in Arabic means valley. It is a Palestinian neighborhood which was established in the 1920s by wealthy Muslim and Christian families who built very beautiful architectural houses in the area, which demonstrate its features until now, long after the forced displacement to the Palestinians and the theft of their properties.
The Baka neighborhood had an agricultural character until the 1950s. The zionist American and Europeans immigrants, particularly from France and in particular like the zionist rabbi Yehuda Ben-Yishai have heavily migrated into the neighborhood.
I remember that Engineer Khaled Al-Qwasmi, son of the former Major of Hebron Fahed Al-Qawasmi, who was assassinated by an israeli mossad agent in front of his house in the exile in Amman-Jordan on Dec. 29 1986, said that they had stolen the house in the Baka neighborhood in Jerusalem where he lived during his childhood.
Haim or “Chaim” Fogel, the father of colonist “Udi”, is a zionist member of “Gush Emunum” and thief who heads the so-called “Amana” group, the colonies movement which constructs the colonies in the occupied territories. Fogel’s organization is directly involved in corruption, not only stealing the Palestinian lands but the Americans money too.
The “Amana” movement continues constructing illegal houses on the hilltops in the occupied territories and marketing them to American and European jews, begging them to buy the houses in the Palestinian occupied territories and then allowing the colonist couples to live in these houses on their behalf.
Haim “Vogel” and his wife Zila Michal “Vogel” are another couple of zionist thieves. They stole a Palestinian hill-top located in the southwest of Ramallah and established a colony called “Neve Tzuf” or Halamish where they live until now.
The colony has several outposts, among them a religious outpost called “Mechina Elisha”, a zionist “yeshiva” for graduating colonists and preparing them for committing crimes against Palestinians during their military service in the occupied territories. Haim and Zila have five zionist children, Moti, 38, Udi who was killed at 36, Shannon, 33, John, 30, and Yaron, 22.
Udi “Vogel” who was killed at “Itamar” colony is not a victim of a terrorist but rather a war criminal zionist and military Captain, a colonist, a Tank soldier and armored battalion intelligence officer at the south of Lebanon the so-called “Northern Command”.
This means that he perpetrated terror, genocide and war crimes in the West Bank, in Gaza and in Lebanon. He was a yeshiva zionist rabbi in charge of students completing military service. His oldest daughter Tamar, 12, is an activist with the terrorist hilltop thieves “Bnei Akiva”. Vogel was a criminal who did not pay the salary of Thailandese and Filipino workers who worked at his house on the stolen land of Nablus.
The Asian workers threatened Vogel to kill him and his family if he did not pay their outstanding salaries, but it is unlikely that they would have been able to carry through with their threat.
A rash of hate crimes followed the “Vogel” family deaths
Following the death of the colonists at “Itamar”, friends of Vogel from the “Gush Emunim” and “Bnei Akiva” terror gangs started a rash of hate crimes against Palestinians in different cities and town. In Israel, masked Haredim stabbed 10 times in head, legs, and neck a Christian Israeli Arab-Arab, Alber Halul, 22, from Gush Halav.
Two other Palestinians from Beit Ummer town were shot by a jewish colonist driving on the bypass road 60 north of Hebron. The victims were an elderly man, 66, who was shot in the neck, and Iyad Bassam Khalil Zaaaqiq, 35, who was shot in a leg. Another Palestinian, the shepherd Mahmoud Ibrahim Awad, 32, a resident of Khirbet Umm Tuba south east of Yatta in the Hebron district was stabbed in the chest by members of the so-called “hill-top youth” from the colony of “Maon”.
Also, several Palestinians were stabbed in Bethlehem and Nablus by masked jewish colonists after the death in Itamar of Vogel and his family.
Since the deaths at “Itamar” 40 days ago, the IDF and the “Shin Bet” have joined the colonists in perpetrating continued horrors and crimes in Nablus and other West Bank cities. The “Shin Bet” has arrested thousands of Palestinian residents of the village of Awarta near the “Itamar” colony, among them were 600 Palestinian women.
Over one thousand Palestinian men were jailed and tortured for no crime;
almost all men from Awarta were jailed;
Several Palestinian houses have been set on fire, trees cut down, water sources destroyed, cars were burnt, workers and farmers were stabbed, 1000 dunums were “confiscated”, licenses for building new colonies were issued to the colonists, all this as revenge by the jewish occupiers.
500 new colony houses will be built on Palestinian hill-tops as a punishment for the alleged offense. According to Netanyahu, 150 apartments are the price for the blood of an adult (Udi and Ruth) and about 50 apartments for every child. Nablus and the surrounding villages are subjected to the toughest possible restrictions; the hardest was the invasion of the nearest village, Awarta.
There, the Israeli military went from house to house destroying everything they could.
The news of the inhuman collective punishment was carried outside by two Swedes and one woman from Norway who were in Awarta. They documented the destruction and said that the devastation was enormous in most houses. After the soldiers ended their presence at the village, they became very careful in this rampage.
According to the Swedish woman, a Palestinian was shot dead during the rampages. Also, zionist colonists attacked houses in the West Bank villages of Burin and Hawara near Nablus and the “Itamar” colony.
All over the West Bank, colonists blocked the main road which connects Jerusalem-Bethlehem-Hebron, they gathered at the junction near the “Gush Etzion” colony and hurled stones at Palestinians and their cars. In “Beit Ummer” in the north of the Hebron district, the jewish colonists driving on the bypass road 60 opened fire at Palestinians who were participating in a funeral.
The crime led to the injury of an elderly man, age 66, who was shot in the neck and his condition is described very serious, and wounded the citizen Iyad Bassam Khalil Zaaaqiq, 35. Another Palestinian shepherd was stabbed by the so-called “hill-top youth” near “Maon” colony near Yatta in the southern district of Hebron.
According to Palestinian local media, Mahmoud Ibrahim Awad, 32, a shepherd from Khirbet Umm Tuba south-east of Yatta was stabbed in the chest. The settlers attacked the young man with knives, stabbed him in the abdomen and chest and beat him with batons on the head causing him to lose consciousness. The victim was transferred to the hospital in critical conditions while the settlers fled to the colony of “Maon”. Near Bethlehem, a group of masked settlers attacked two Palestinian construction workers and an israeli security guard working at “Shilo” colony.
The crime led to the injury of the workers and the israeli security guard.
Near Nablus, the colonists set fire to four cars and a tractor in the same village. The Israeli occupation forces uprooted 400 olive trees in the village of Beit Dagan east of Nablus. At the entrance of the “Qadumim” colony on the road Nablus – Qalqilia, in presence of the israeli soldiers , the jewish colonists set fire to two Palestinian cars, one Opel and one Peugeot.
In the village of Aqraba near Nablus, colonists uprooted hundreds of olive trees and destroyed two water reservoirs. International witnesses stated that dozens of settlers from the “Yitsahar” colony stoned Palestinian cars and threw empty bottles on the road Nablus – Qalqilya, and that the colonists were accompanied by a number of IDF soldiers to protect them during their rampage.
In Jerusalem, jewish colonists from the “hill-top youth” attacked Palestinian workers during a wedding at the “nation building” hall in the city. The clashes between colonists and police officers have caused many injuries.
At the end, israel should go to hell if it wants to stay as a zionist occupation state and not as a respectable and peaceful neighbor next a Palestinian State, if they do not renounce violence. Israel must learn something from the Awarta operation and get out of our homeland before facing more “children and minors committing new operations on their own responsibility”.
The most important lesson from “Itamar” for all israelis, and indeed for all those who support israel, which they must sear into their minds forever, is that no amount of army and weapons and money and violence will protect them from the consequences of their crimes.
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23 dec 2010, 09:27 , Respect -
Maria Israel Only Knows War And Killing
Stand with Palestine and Egypt against Israeli aggression
Brussels – In face of the world’s increasing support for the intended legitimate and legal demand of Palestine to be recognized as an independent UN member state; in face of the success of the peaceful Egyptian revolution in making profound changes to liberate Egypt from foreign dictates in order to defend Egypt’s security and rights; and in face of Israel’s failure to offer a decent life for Jews and Arabs under its authority, Israel returns, in breach of international law and international agreements, to an aggressive military policy of indiscriminately bombing civilians in Gaza, of killing Egyptian soldiers, and threatening — with US support — to occupy the Egyptian land of Sinai or part of it.
It is evident that Israel, with the complicity of the US, wants to use the attack in Eilat, even before any investigation has been conducted, as pretext to turn attention away from the Palestinian project of becoming a member state of the UN, to threaten the Egyptian revolution, and to turn international public opinion away from the ascending Arab revolution towards an Arab-Israeli conflict.
We condemn Israeli aggression. We support the people of Gaza against Israeli attacks. We support Palestinians in their struggles for their rights. We condemn Israeli attempts to prevent Egyptians from deepening their revolution to build an independent, democratic and developed new Egypt by waging war against it.
Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Iraqi political analyst
Hana Al Bayaty, activist and author
Ian Douglas, analyst and author
Members of the BRussells Tribunal Executive Committee
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3 jan 2011, 18:24 , Respect -
Maria 18 oct 2011
Israel Insults Egypt After The Release of Shalit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoBmiaUdfDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OTFCkZQhtQ
Israeli Channels 2 and 10, TV channels known as extreme right wing and close to the military, managed by former IDF officers and war criminals, thanked the Egyptian authorities for their role in helping to release Israeli soldier Shalit in the usual way, which shows the real face and the true character and moral of the jewish “state” Israel.
These official TV stations launched a brutal attack on Egyptians and the Egyptian television broadcast after interviewer Shahira Amin from the Egyptian TV aired an interview with Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit where she asked him among other things: “There are more than 5.000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. Will you help to start a campaign for their release?” Shalit spoke about the good treatment he received from his captors, elements of the Islamic Resistance Hamas Movement, saying also that he hoped that all Palestinian prisoners will be released and able to return to their families.
Yaakov Ayalon from Channel Ten and his correspondent described the interview as a “very bizarre” and “barbaric” one. Israeli Channel Two said that the interview was “not comfortable” or civilized. The Israeli TV stations asked Israelis to comment on the release of Shalit, they broadcast how individuals wished death to the Egyptian interviewer Amin. Another one of them said “I wish that I could spit her on face”. Yet others cursed her with obscene and immoral insults describing her as “more than brazen” and characterizing her with words which can not be repeated. Newspapers and people commenting on their online releases also allowed themselves to go far beyond what can be described as polite.
Ynetnews wrote: “Amin’s crude interview with Shalit Tuesday morning featured heavy pro-Egyptian and pro-Palestinian propaganda”. “It appeared that Amin was virtually abusing Shalit, moments after he was brought to Egypt from Gaza.
In another report Ynet wrote: The Egyptian anchorwoman, Shaira Amin, later took pride in her great “scoop” in an interview with Israeli TV, highlighting how clueless she is in respect to enlightened journalistic standards. With her shameful performance she joined a long list of fellow Arabs who had proved time and again in the past that speaking fluent English and wearing modern clothes does not make one intelligent, civilized or humane.
Notably, while all this was going on, Israel went about its side of the deal with the customary dignity, avoiding any disparagement of the freed Palestinian prisoners.
The above statements should be qualified with two notes: Firstly, not all Arabs are like this. It is not the Arab “race” that is flawed, but rather, Arab culture and society which are mired in a cesspool of primitivism and barbarity. One can only pity the honorable, intelligent citizens of these societies for being surrounded by such spectacular mediocrity.
Secondly, despite our neighbors’ unsavory character, these are our “partners for coexistence” in our home region, the Middle East. As such, we must do everything in our power to maintain our peace treaty with Egypt, a priceless asset for Israel, and attempt to secure some kind of understandings (rather than “peace”) with our Palestinian foes.
As a Palestinian I can only thank the Egyptian authorities for their good offices in this issue and the good will of the Egyptian people towards Palestinians.
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10 jan 2011, 20:54 , Respect -
Maria 15 nov 2011
Israel Wounds French Consul To Gaza And Pregnant Wife
During shelling last night on Gaza by the israeli occupation, the French Consul to Gaza, his children and his pregnant wife were injured. The wife of the Consul lost her child as a result of the criminal bombing.
Until now, there is no reaction from the French government. The French, who are constantly screeching after each big or small complaint by the israelis and who for years whined because of the wayward Gilad from the family of french criminals Shalit, have lost their voice. Nothing to say about a member of their diplomatic corps being wounded in a criminal attack. Nothing to say about three injured children. Nothing to say about a miscarriage as a consequence of the bombing, a crime of the occupation.
What debased level of racism has found its home in the French diplomatic corps and the French government that there is not even a complaint about this? Is the life and security of an Arab worth nothing? Is the life and security of an Arab member of the French diplomatic corps worth less than the life and security of the many jews in the French diplomatic corps? Is it against French laws to complain against crimes perpetrated by jews in the name of zionism and israel? Why does everybody, including the French government, shut up before the uncounted crimes of israel, even against their own citizens? Has the French government lost its shame and its pride?
From the Palestinian center for Human Rights (PCHR) – Monday, 14 November 2011 18:45 – Ref: 113/2011
The French Consul and his Family in Gaza were Wounded in an Israeli Attack on a Palestinian Navy Site in the Northern Gaza Strip.
On Monday, 14 November 2011, the French Consul in the Gaza Strip, Majdi Jameel Yaseen Shaqqoura, 44, and his two children were wounded in an Israeli attack on the Palestinian Navy site in the southwest of Beit Lahia, located in northern Gaza. They were in their home when they were injured by shrapnel. Additionally, as a result of the same attack, the consul’s wife suffered from hemorrhage that led to a miscarriage.
According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), Majdi Shaqqoura was in his home, located behind al-Nawras Resort in al-Soudaniya area southwest of Beit Lahia, at the time of the attack.
Shaqqoura was watching TV in the house’s sitting room which is surrounded by large windows, together with his relatives and three children:
Arwa, 9,
Rawan, 13, and
Mohammed, 8.
At 2:00 in the morning they suddenly heard an explosion that rocked the house.
In his testimony to PCHR, Shaqqoura said that windows of the sitting room broke in the blast. He and his relative rushed to protect the children. Then a second explosion took place which broke all the windows, and resulted in shrapnel injuries to Shaqqoura’s leg and Rawan’s hand and back.
Shaqqoura added that, at the same time, his wife Majda Shaqqoura, 42, and her brother were on their way to the home in her car. They were 150 meters away from the bombardment site. As a result, Majda suffered a hemorrhage. Her brother transported her to al-Awda Hospital, where she miscarried, being in the second month of her pregnancy.
At approximately 01:55 on Monday, 14 November 2011, Israeli warplanes launched four missiles at a Palestinian Navy site located at the beach, in front of al-Nawras Resort, in the al-Soudaniya area. This area is located in the southwest of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
The attack resulted in the killing of first sergeant Mohammed Zaher Zaki al-Kilani, 22, from Beit Lahia, whose body was torn into pieces. The Civil Defense found al-Kilani’s body buried under the rubble after approximately one hour of searching for him.
Five other members were wounded, one of whom sustained serious wounds. The attack resulted in the full destruction of the Navy’s site, which is has an approximate surface of 2,000 square meters. The building consists of an operation office, bedroom, place for prayer, administration office, office of the site’s chief, and five additional offices for meetings and detention. Besides, a blue Magnum jeep and a motorbike were destroyed.
Additionally, two other civilians were wounded by glass shrapnel throughout their bodies and were transported to the hospital for treatment.
PCHR reiterates its condemnation of these crimes, and:
1. Stresses that these crimes form part of systematic violations perpetrated in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly the Gaza Strip, which reflects Israeli forces’ disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians;
2. Warns of further escalation in hostilities, which may result in the targeting of civilians and their property, in light of statements made by Israeli politicians and military leaders; and
3. Calls upon the international community to immediately take an action to stop such crimes and reiterates its call for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1 which stipulates “the High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances,” and their obligations under Article 146 which requires that the Contracting Parties prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and under Protocol I Additional to Geneva Conventions.
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