Freies Politikforum für Demokraten und Anarchisten

palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

The Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners' Affairs said Monday that Israel is now holding some 520 Palestinian prisoners under administrative detention without trial or charge.

The head of the committee, Issa Qaraqe, told Ma'an that among the administrative detainees were five children and two members of Palestine's parliament, the Palestinian Legislative Council.

He identified the children as Baseer al-Atrash, Muhammad Sharif Abu Turkey, Muhammad Ghaith, Khazem Subaih, and Fadi Abbasi.

The MPs in Israeli custody are Muhammad Jamal al-Natshah and Hassan Yousef. Yousef has been imprisoned by Israel on multiple occasions in the past, and was most recently released from Israeli custody in June after spending a year without trial or charge.

The latest number is up from around 370 administrative detainees before a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory at the beginning of October.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769216

Free Activist Rajeh Abu Ajamieh

Israeli forces issued a new administrative detention order for Hebron Defense Committee (HDC) human rights worker Rajeh Abu Ajamieh.

The order sentences him to prison until March 23rd 2016.

Ajamieh was recently released from prison on November 24th 2015, after completing a yearlong prison sentence under another administrative detention order.

His quick rearrest constitutes Ajamieh’s third time held in administrative detention.

Ajamieh’s multiple arrests are indicative of Israeli authorities’ flagrant use of administrative detention to bypass the judicial system and put Palestinians in prison indefinitely, without charges or trial.

In using this extreme measure so sweepingly, Israel acts with blatant disregard for international law.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1179-act-free-activist-rajeh-abu-ajamieh

Israeli forces detain 22 Palestinians across West Bank

Israeli forces detained at least 22 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank in predawn raids on Monday, including 10 alleged members of Hamas, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

At least six Palestinians were detained from their homes in the Hebron district, locals said, included three children from the town of Halhul to Hebron's north.

They were identified as brothers Laith and Ahmad Bajes al-Baw, 16 and 13-years-old, and Rashid Ali Abu Asabah, 13, who is mute and deaf.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769214

Israel delivers 12 demolition, stop-work notices in Qalqiliya

Israeli forces on Monday delivered demolition notices and stop-work orders to 12 families in the al-Naqqar area of Qalqilya city in the northern occupied West Bank, local officials told Ma'an.

Rafe Rawajba, the governor of Qalqiliya, said that all the buildings that were given demolition or stop-work orders had been built with the necessary licenses, and the families had all gone through the necessary legal procedures to build.

Rawajba said he believed the orders were a form of "collective punishment" against the people of Qalqiliya, adding that they were delivered following days of clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli forces in al-Naqqar.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769221

Israeli forces prepare to demolish 3 Palestinian homes

Israeli military forces on Monday and late Sunday raided the West Bank homes of several Palestinians suspected of carrying out attacks on Israelis in preparation to demolish the properties, locals said.

Israeli forces raided the home of Anas Hammad, 20, in the village of Silwad northeast of Ramallah on Monday and told family members that their home would be demolished.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769212

Thousands join funeral of slain Palestinian in Ramallah-area village

Thousands of Palestinians attended the funeral of 26-year-old Abed al-Rahman Barghouthi on Friday, a day after he was shot dead by Israeli forces outside the village of Abud northwest of Ramallah.

An official military procession, led by officers of the Palestinian National Forces, carried Barghouthi's body from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to Abud, where he was laid to rest in the village ceremony following funeral prayers in the local mosque.

Barghouthi's body was wrapped in a Palestinian flag and carried on mourners' shoulders, a Ma'an reporter said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769186

5 Palestinians shot, injured in clashes in West Bank, Gaza

Israeli forces shot and wounded at least five Palestinians with live rounds in the latest clashes to erupt across the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian sources said.

Medics told Ma'an that a Palestinian child was left in critical condition after he was shot in his abdomen during clashes at the entrance to Silwad village east of Ramallah.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769208

Israeli forces shoot, injure teen during Kafr Qaddum clashes

Israeli forces on Saturday afternoon shot and wounded a 16-year-old Palestinian boy with live fire during clashes in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum near Qalqiliya, a local official said.

Murad Shtewei, a spokesperson for a popular committee in the village, told Ma'an that Israeli soldiers shot Aqel Ramzi in the thigh in clashes that broke out following a demonstration.

He said that Israeli forces had "ambushed" the march, firing live rounds and tear gas canisters at them.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769189

Israeli forces shoot, injure teen during clashes in Nablus

Israeli forces on Sunday shot and injured a Palestinian youth with live fire during clashes in Beit Furik village in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, a member of a local committe told Ma'an.

Munadil Hanini, on the village's central committee for the popular struggle, said that Israeli forces shot 18-year-old Muhammad Hamadna al-Imor in the back during clashes in the village, and detained four Palestinians from the area.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769200

Israeli forces tear gas Hebron schools, raid medical center

Dozens of Palestinian schoolchildren on Sunday suffered from severe tear gas inhalation in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, as Israeli forces fired the gas at multiple schools, the director of the PA Ministry of Education in Hebron said.

Bassam Tahboub said Israeli forces “deliberately" fired tear gas at multiple schools in Hebron, adding that he and the ministry denounced Israel's "provocative" actions against schoolchildren.

The director of a health work committee in Hebron, Ramzi Abu Yousif, told Ma'an that the children who were injured were taken to a nearby medical center. Yousif said Israeli forces raided the medical center while the children were receiving treatment for tear gas inhalation.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769197

Israeli forces detain schoolgirl in Jerusalem, alleging she had knife

Israeli forces on Sunday detained a Palestinian schoolgirl for alleged possession of a knife in the Wadi Hilweh area of Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, the head of a local watchdog said.

Jawad Seyam, who heads the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, said that Israeli forces detained 15-year-old Manar Majdi Shweki on the grounds that the girl was carrying a knife.

Israeli forces found the alleged knife during a search of her belongings, although it was not clear what prompted the search.

Palestinian youths reportedly filmed the search and arrest of the girl on their phones, which were later confiscated by Israeli forces.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769201

U.S. Citizen, Israel Keller, Member of Jewish Terror Ring

The Dawabsheh murder case gets curiouser and curiouser: Walla has just revealed that one of four Israeli settler youth accused of committing the arson fire which murdered three members of the Dawabsheh family and left a boy orphaned, is a U.S. citizen. The family, whose name isn’t mentioned, has turned for assistance to the U.S. embassy and senators. Israeli media acknowledge that the suspects have been tortured in order to extract information about the crime. I imagine that these appeals are meant to protect their child from such treatment.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/12/04/walla-u-s-citizen-member-of-jewish-terror-ring/

Torture Lawyer Named as New Israeli Judge

In order for the Shabak to torture prisoners, it must get the approval of a lawyer, the agency’s “legal advisor.” This person not only approves individual cases of torture, he provides legal justification for it in broader cases that might reach the Supreme Court. He’s the John Yoo of the Israeli security apparatus. Put in Jewish halachic terms, the Israeli agency’s legal advisor is like the rabbi who supervises the slaughter of animals in order to ensure the meat is kosher: the mashgiach. Slaughtering animals, like torture is a dirty business. But if done halachically, the mashgiach permits good Jews to eat confident in notion that they are eating food that satisfies Jewish legal requirements. This lawyer is the mashgiach of torture.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/12/04/torture-lawyer-named-as-new-israeli-judge/

Reclaiming Palestine: How Israeli Media Misread the Intifada

Israeli commentators, Yaron Friedman, of “Ynet News” and Haviv Rettig Gur, of the “Times of Israel” are clueless about the driving force behind the Palestinian mobilization and collective struggle. In two recent articles, and with unmistakable conceit, they attempted to highlight what they perceive as the failure of the current Palestinian uprising, or ‘Intifada’.

Gur argues that 'the terrorism' of the Palestinians is not a surge of opposition to Israel but a “howl against the pervasive sense that resistance has failed”. He reduces the Intifada to the mere act of alleged stabbing of Israelis, and points out to the painful truth that the Palestinian Authority 'elites' are paying lip service to the 'martyrs', while “simultaneously acting with determination on the ground to disrupt and stop attacks”.

In his long-winded article, “Losing Palestine”, Gur essentially claims that the current struggle against Occupation stems mostly from internet fervor and is more a deceleration of defeat than a strategy for victory, and that no Palestinian leader dares to be the first to accept this.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/middle-east/22545-israeli-commentators-yaron-friedman-of-ynet-news-and-haviv-rettig-gur-of-the-times-of-israel-are-clueless-about-the-driving-force-behind-the-palestinian-mobilization-and-collective-struggle-in-two-recent-articles-and-with-unmistakable-conceit-th

Nobody is coming to end the occupation

In meetings between top-ranking Israeli and American officials over the past few weeks, the United States reportedly demanded that Benjamin Netanyahu outline steps he is willing to take to ensure the window for a two-state solution doesn’t slam shut. Netanyahu’s answer has more or less been: nothing.

Asked to make goodwill or humanitarian gestures to the Palestinians to keep a two-state vision alive, Netanyahu reportedly conditioned any step on the United States endorsing Israel’s “right” to build settlements in the occupied West Bank. “Umm, no,” Washington replied for a plethora of obvious reasons.
http://972mag.com/nobody-is-coming-to-end-the-occupation/114274/