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To understand psychiatric home visits in Palestine necessitates forgoing Western assumptions about patient confidentiality, privacy, and timeliness. Though individual patients often refer themselves to treatment centers after a release from prison, the difficulty of traveling to and from major cities requires therapists to make home visits. Families then participate in the session as a group, thereby coming to better understand their family member’s situation and relieving some of their own symptoms as well. Throughout Palestine, families are regularly made to feel that their own house is unsafe and outside of their control. Violence may overtake a peaceful setting without warning, and to resist an arrest would be to invite danger on the rest of the relatives. A study conducted by the Ramallah Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture (TRC) examining arrests as trauma-inducing events explains that, “92% of arrests [surveyed] happened at home, and most of [them] happened…in the time periods of deep sleep after midnight. This had caused severe emotional and psychological damages to the families, and doubled the impact of emotional suffering and immediate trauma” (“The Impact of Detention on Palestinian Detainees’ Families in Israeli Prisons,” 2011).
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/12/nightmares-families-following

Medics: Bethlehem youth shot dead with illegal ammunition

Malik Akram Shahin, 19, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in Bethlehem overnight Monday, was killed by an explosive bullet fired at his head, medical sources at the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital told Ma'an.

Medics said the explosive bullet smashed Shahin's skull, and exploded inside his head, with the bullet and skull fragments shattering into "hundreds of pieces."

The sources said the positioning of the shot, as well as the type of bullet used, clearly indicates that Israeli forces shot at Shahin with every intention to kill.

The use of explosive bullets, also called expanding bullets or "dum dum" bullets, is illegal under international law, and considered a crime of war under the 1899 Hague Declaration and the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, among others.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769247

Three Palestinians were injured by live fire early Wednesday morning as Israeli forces ransacked homes across the occupied West Bank detaining at least 31, locals said.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces heavily opened fire in the Nablus-area town of Tubas after surrounding the home of a leader of the political group Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769256

Israeli forces detained eight Palestinians early Thursday from across the occupied West Bank, locals and Israel’s army said.

Locals told Ma’an that Saleh Dawood al-Rajabi was detained from his home in the southern area of Hebron city.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769272

A former member of a Jewish terror group and his wife were shot and injured on Wednesday evening in a drive-by shooting near Tulkarem in the northern occupied West Bank, Israel's army and media reported.

Shaul Nir, a former member of the Jewish Underground, a group which carried out a string of terror attacks in the 1980s, was seriously to moderately wounded in the shooting near Tulkarem, and his wife, Rachel Nir was lightly wounded.

Shaul, along with three other members of the group, was sentenced to life after being convicted of a 1983 shooting attack on the Islamic College of Hebron, which killed three students and wounded 33. His sentence was later reduced, and Shaul was released.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769263

Clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli military forces Wednesday night as the military launched a search operation in Tulkarem for a suspected gunman who opened fire on two Israelis, locals said.

Shaul Nir, former member of the Jewish Underground -- a group which carried out a string of terror attacks in the 1980s -- was seriously to moderately wounded in a drive-by shooting shooting near Tulkarem Wednesday night. His wife Rachel Nir was lightly wounded.

The Israeli military raided Palestinian towns and villages throughout the Tulkarem governorate following the shooting in search of the suspect.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769268

Tulkarem completely sealed as Israeli forces search for gunman

Israeli forces maintained a complete closure Thursday of the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem in the search for a gunman who injured a former member of a Jewish terror group and his wife, locals said.

Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces on Wednesday night raided Tulkarem and surrounding areas directly after the shooting, closing entrances leading into the city with cement blocks.

Israeli forces retreated from Tulkarem early Thursday morning and remained deployed near city entrances, locals said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769264

Village in South Hebron Hills Attacked

On Sunday, December 6th 2015, Israeli soldiers invaded the Khirbet al-Taban, a village in the south Hebron hills, damaging residents’ homes.

Soldiers damaged and confiscated windows and doors belonging to the homes of Abu Obaid and the Hamamrea family.

The families now worry that they will be dangerously exposed to the elements during the winter.

The Hebron Popular Committee stated that international organizations supplied some new doors and windows to the affected homes.

Residents of al-Taban are subject to Israeli authorities’ efforts to forcibly displace Palestinians from the area.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1183-village-in-south-hebron-hills-attacked

Israeli military forces level Palestinian land near Gaza border
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769253

Weltkindertag: 400 Kinder in israelischen Gefängnissen

Ramallah (Westbank) Der Palästinensische Gefangenenklub (PPC) machte am Weltkindertag (20. November) öffentlich, dass die israelischen Besatzungsbehörden ca. 400 palästinensische Kinder im Alter zwischen 11 und 17 Jahren in ihren Gefängnissen halten .
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=16626

Number of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons doubles

Marah Bakir, 16, was leaving school in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on 12 October when she was shot and injured by Israeli police. They allege she intended to stab an officer.

However, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights reported that Marah had been walking with a friend when they were harassed by an Israeli who accused her of being a “terrorist.” Witnesses said police quickly surrounded her and opened fire four or five times.

Marah is now one of three Palestinian teenage girls held in Ramle prison with Israeli women convicted of criminal offenses.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/number-palestinian-children-israeli-prisons-doubles

Israel sentences Palestinian lawmaker to 15 months in prison

An Israeli military court has sentenced Khalida Jarrar, the prominent leftist activist and legislator, to 15 months in prison.

Jarrar was seized during a late-night raid on her home in al-Bireh, a town near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, in April. She was held without charge or trial under a six-month administrative detention order.
An Israeli military court has sentenced Khalida Jarrar, the prominent leftist activist and legislator, to 15 months in prison.

Jarrar was seized during a late-night raid on her home in al-Bireh, a town near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, in April. She was held without charge or trial under a six-month administrative detention order.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-sentences-palestinian-lawmaker-15-months-prison