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In a joint report, three Palestinian institutions: the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the Prisoners’ Affairs Committee – said that the Israeli occupation authorities arrested 616 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza in February 2016. This number includes 140 children and 18 women and girls. The number of arrests since the beginning of the popular uprising in October 2015 has exceeded 4,120.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1304-february-616-palestinians-arrested

US Palestinian and Arab organizations demand justice for Omar Nayef Zayed

The Palestinian and Arab institutions in the United States express their outrage and condemnation of the assassination of the former prisoner Omar Nayef Zayed inside the Palestinian embassy at the hands of the Zionist Mossad and a handful of paid collaborators who have stained their hands with the blood of strugglers, the honorable children of Palestine.
http://samidoun.net/2016/03/us-palestinian-and-arab-organizations-demand-justice-for-omar-nayef-zayed/

Too dangerous to play: The West Bank children shot dead by Israeli soldiers

Parents in the occupied West Bank say they can no longer allow their children to play outside because of fears that they could be shot dead by Israeli forces.

A report published this month by a children's rights group said that 41 children had been shot dead during six months of upheaval in which Israeli forces have often responded with lethal force to scores of stabbing and shooting attacks by Palestinians.

Nasreen al-Baw, the mother of 14-year-old Haitham al-Baw who was killed by Israeli soldiers on 5 February, told Middle East Eye that her son had died instantly after being shot in the back while playing on a hillside with his cousin and another teenager and his two new dogs.

Israel security forces said Haitham had been throwing stones at passing cars on the outskirts of Halhul village near Hebron, a statement Nasreen al-Baw denied.

“My son was the oldest of four, and our only son,” she said. “He was very responsible. He had a kind soul that fell for every animal he met, from the chickens to the donkeys and the dogs and cats in our neighbourhood. He didn’t have violence in him.”
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestine-west-bank-shootings-children-2034733677

Israeli forces kill 22-year-old Palestinian

Qalandia residents said that on Monday, Israeli soldiers raided the Qalandia Refugee Camp to rescue “a group of undercover [Israeli] officers” who had entered the camp through an alleyway near the camp’s cemetery.

Qalandia residents reported Israeli military helicopter retrieved the soldiers after they were detained by Palestinian gunmen for three hours.

Israeli authorities, however, reported that two Israeli soldiers erroneously drove into Qalandia using the Waze application on their smartphones, and residents threw stones and Molotov cocktails at their jeep, causing both soldiers to flee the vehicle.

One soldier immediately contacted Israeli authorities; the other seemed to be lost in the camp.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1300-israeli-forces-kill-22-year-old-palestinian

4 Palestinians shot as Israeli forces disperse Friday protests

Four Palestinians were shot and scores suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces dispersed weekly protests in the occupied West Bank with rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, and skunk water.

Medics told Ma'an that a teenager was hit in the eye with a rubber-coated steel bullet when clashes broke out with Israeli forces in the town of Abu Dis east of Jerusalem.

Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics said three other Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to 15 others who suffered from tear gas inhalation.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770657

Israeli forces shoot, injure 14-year-old in chest during Ramallah-area clashes

Israeli forces on Sunday shot and seriously injured a 14-year-old Palestinian boy during clashes in al-Mazraa al-Gharbiya village, northwest of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, medical sources told Ma'an.

Medical sources said Adi Kamal Salamah, 14, was shot with a live bullet in the chest, and was taken to Palestine Medical Complex for treatment.

The teen was in serious, but stable condition, medical sources said.

Clashes broke out in the village when Israeli forces entered the area, with Palestinian youth throwing rocks and empty bottles at forces who shot live fire, as well as rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas and stun grenades at protesters.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770685

Israel escalates its assault on Palestinian press

Early in the morning on Friday, March 11th, dozens of Israeli soldiers raided the offices of Palestine Today (Falastin al-Yawm) in al-Bireh in the West Bank. The soldiers damaged the TV station’s offices, confiscated technical equipment, and ordered the station's closure with a military order. The Israeli Army claims the TV station is guilty of “incitement” against Israel.

During the raid, Israeli forces arrested two employees of Palestine Today: Mohammed Amr and Shabeeb Shabeeb.

Israeli soldiers proceeded to raid TransMedia Production Company in the West Bank city of Ramallah. TransMedia provides satellite TV services to stations in Palestine; it is the broadcasting servicer for Palestine Today.

At the same time, another group of Israeli soldiers sought out Farouq Elayyat, the General Director of Palestine Today, at his home in Birziet and arrested him as well.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1312-palestinian-press-under-attack

Israel jails Palestinian journalist for “incitement”

An Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 11 months in prison on Monday for alleged incitement.

Ahmad Hamad al-Betawi, an editor with Quds Net News Agency, had been awaiting trial since he was arrested last June for allegedly violating bail conditions on which he had been released from a previous arrest in February 2014.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/israel-jails-palestinian-journalist-incitement

Aspiring Palestinian journalist killed months before graduation

Iyad Sajadiyya had worked hard to make his way through college.
To pay his tuition fees, he had a job in a clothing store serving Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. He was working there on Monday, 29 February, when two Israeli soldiers drove into the camp, reportedly by mistake.

“We immediately shut down the store to see what was happening,” said a coworker, who asked not to be named. “Later, we saw a massive number of troops storm the camp so we began marching through the camp’s market while chanting.”

Israel invoked the so-called Hannibal Directive after the soldiers were separated from their vehicle and it was attacked by some of the camp’s residents. Under that directive, the Israeli military is authorized to use huge firepower with the objective of preventing a soldier being captured alive.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/aspiring-palestinian-journalist-killed-months-graduation/15886

Family of Palestinian responsible for attack forced to leave Jerusalem

Five family members of a Palestinian killed after shooting and injuring two Israeli officers were denied Jerusalem residency and transferred to the occupied West Bank by the Israeli authorities, according to prisoners’ rights group Addameer.

Lawyer for the group Muhammad Mahmoud said the family members of Fouad Abu Rajab -- all of whom lived in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Issawiya -- were summoned to al-Maskobiya police station in Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770644

Israeli authorities to demolish 13 homes, structures in Azzun

Israeli forces on Thursday delivered stop-work and demolition orders to 13 Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank town of Azzun, locals said.

Hassan Shubaita, a local who documents Israeli violations in the Qalqilya-area town, told Ma’an that Israeli military forces raided the area near route 55 before delivering the orders.

Shubaita added that the notices included demolition of inhabited homes, homes under construction, and tin shacks which were reportedly built without the proper permits.

The owners of the structures, along with the village mayor, plan to appeal the demolitions.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770643

Israel hands demolition notices for two buildings in East Jerusalem area

Israeli authorities on Sunday handed demolition notifications for two buildings in the al-Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, citing construction without building permits, local sources told Ma’an.

Al-Issawiya local committee member Muhammad Abu al-Hummus said Israeli troops raided the neighborhood and handed Fadi al-Issawi and Muhammad Dawood Mahmoud demolition notices for their homes claiming that it was built without prior permission.

Al-Issawi said his house consists of two floors and three apartments and was built in 2001, with prior permission from Israeli municipal authorities.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770687

Palästinensische Beduinengemeinschaft in Ein Ar Rashash fast total zerstört

Am 15. Februar 2016 demolierte die israelische Armee fast alle bestehenden Strukturen der palästinensischen Beduinen-Gemeinschaft von Ein Ar-Rashash im Ramallah-Gouvernement auf Grund fehlender Baugenehmigung.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=17369

Israel acted 'above the law' in killing of Gazan children

The Palestinian Prime Minister’s office on Tuesday slammed Israel for “acting above the law” and called on the international community to hold Israel accountable for the deaths of two children killed in an airstrike on Gaza last week.

Six-year-old Israa Abu Khussa and her 10-year-old brother Yasin were killed on March 12 after a missile fired by the Israeli air force hit near their home in Beit Lahiya.

Addressing the incident, Jamal Dajani, Director of Strategic Communications and Media for Prime Minister Hamdallah said: “Israel continues to act above the law and murder children.”

"Israeli leaders have blood on their hands, how do they justify the killing of innocent children?" Dajani said.

The official said at least 1,000 Palestinian children had been killed during the six major military offenses carried out by Israel on the Gaza Strip since 2005.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770699

A seaport in Gaza, a neoliberal distraction

Anticipation of a fourth Israeli war on Gaza has all but disappeared this week as talk of breakthroughs or even an easing of the siege has taken its place.

Numerous news reports from both Israel and Hamas debated the possibility of negotiations clearing the way for the construction of a seaport in Gaza. Concern about a looming war was replaced with concern about the practicalities of building a port in Gaza: Where would the seaport be? On a Gaza beach? A pier directed toward the Port of Limassol in Cyprus? Or a port similar to what Israel has in Ashdod? The Israeli media indicated through detailed reporting, complete with descriptions and pictures of possible approaches to building such a seaport, the seriousness of the suggestion.

This speculation, however, ended when Yoav Mordechai, coordinator of Israeli government activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, stated that there are no negotiations with Turkey to establish a seaport in Gaza. In any event, he added, if Israel decides to consider such a proposal in the future, it would be through the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1305-a-seaport-in-gaza-a-neoliberal-distraction

'Aleppo's hell is better than this': The Syrians who want out of Gaza

Refugees from Syria in Gaza are protesting to be allowed to leave, with some even saying they want to return home because conditions in the besieged Palestinian territory are so intolerable.

Gaza is currently home to an estimated 1,200 refugees who are mainly from Syria but include others from Libya and Yemen. Most of them arrived through now-demolished tunnels that once linked the enclave to Egypt.

Many say they were drawn there by promises of jobs, or in the hope of starting their own businesses, despite the challenges posed by Gaza’s near-decade-long blockade by Israel and Egypt.

Some of them have Palestinian backgrounds and come from the refugee camp of Yarmouk, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, which is home to the descendants of families displaced from their lands in modern-day Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948 or during the Six Day War of 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbours.

Yarmouk has been the scene of regular fierce fighting between pro-government forces and rebels during Syria’s five-year war and was briefly captured by the Islamic State (IS) group last year.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-syrian-refugees-1269724324

Video: Did Israel target Gaza’s ambulances?

A new documentary shows the devastation Israel’s 2014 bombardment of Gaza caused to medical and rescue teams.

In the documentary, which can be viewed at the top of this page, three medics recall incidents during which their colleagues came under attack.

In total, 11 ambulance drivers and civil defense workers were killed during Israel’s 51 days of aerial bombing and ground invasion.

Twenty-four ambulances and 70 medical facilities were damaged or destroyed.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/video-did-israel-target-gazas-ambulances

Shin Bet Agent Killed by Fellow Agent During Meeting with Palestinian Informer

An Israeli Shin Bet agent was killed yesterday by “security personnel” in a friendly fire incident along the Gaza fence near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The victim’s name was Amir Maimoni. This much has been reported by Israeli media. But this Haaretz report says that the case is under a gag order.
After inquiring from an Israeli security source, I learned this: the Shabak was conducting a security operation in which a rakaz (Shabak officer who “runs” Palestinian spies) was to meet a Palestinian agent at the security fence separating Gaza from southern Israel. Besides the rakaz and the spy, there were two other agents disguised as Palestinians (in Israeli police jargon they would be called mistarvim) who were providing security for the meeting.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/03/10/breaking-shin-bet-agent-killed-in-friendly-fire-incident-at-gaza-fence/

Pro-Israel NGO puts pressure on UNRWA for aiding Palestinian refugees

Operating as a humanitarian organisation in the Palestinian territories presents challenges even during the best of times. The devastation wrought by the Gaza war in 2014 and the conflict in Syria has put unprecedented pressure on relief efforts.

Now one of the oldest and most established humanitarian groups in the region faces another problem - it is under fire from factions that appear set on undermining its reputation and stopping its funding. None of this is helped by the fact that the group in question is facing a funding crisis of its own.

This is no ordinary organisation and no small sum of money - this is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which has a budget of $1.5bn this year for regular programmes and emergency work and provides a lifeline to five million Palestinian refugees, permanently displaced by the Middle East’s most intractable struggle.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/pro-israeli-ngo-puts-pressure-unrwa-aiding-palestinian-refugees-1755634396

Nearly half of Jewish Israelis support expulsion of Palestinians: Poll

Almost half of Jewish Israelis support the transfer or expulsion of Palestinians, while 61 percent believe that God gave the land to the Jewish people, according to the results of a survey published on Tuesday by a US-based think tank.

The survey by the Pew Research Center was conducted from October 2014 until May 2015 and polled 5,601 people, including 3,879 Jewish residents of Israel and settlers and Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem.

Forty-eight percent of Jewish Israelis said they agreed with the statement that “Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel”. Twenty-nine percent said they “don’t really agree” and 17 percent said they “don’t agree at all”.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nearly-half-jewish-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-poll-11055798

What's behind Israel's call for 'economic peace'?

Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, the Israeli military chief of staff, gave the Israeli Cabinet a periodic security briefing Feb. 21. According to press reports, Eizenkot expressed concern over the deteriorating political situation within the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the continuation, for six months by now, of almost daily terror attacks by individual Palestinians. He recommended to the Cabinet that the economic situation in the West Bank be ameliorated, primarily by allowing a greater number of Palestinians to work in Israel.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/israel-palestine-economic-peace-colonialism-equal-partners.html#

Third intifada, terror wave, the 'situation': Just don't mention the 'O' word to Israelis

It is six months into the third Intifada and the Israelis are frustrated; they sense chaos and a constant inability to create order. The Israeli leadership does not understand what to do when it appears that there is no leadership behind the young people who attack Israelis.

And indeed the old order has collapsed. It is interesting that before going to attack Israelis, the last words of young Palestinians to the “old” Palestinian leadership, are: “Don’t print posters after I die, don’t take responsibility for my actions. I am independent.”
The Israelis refuse to see that they themselves are the reason for this uprising, so every day they come up with a new analysis of what’s behind it. Today it’s social media, yesterday it was the Palestinian media and the day before it was the economy. The bottom line, as community activist Jamal Juma says, is that “they don’t see us, they don’t want to acknowledge our needs.”

The Israeli Security Agency (Shabak) has issued several reports about what it calls the latest “wave of terror attacks”. The word military occupation or its euphemism - Israeli military presence - do not appear in these reports.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/israeli-security-agency-and-mau-mau-443206787