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While the Occupation is business as usual for Israel, there should be no business with Israel In Occupied Palestine Zionism in practice Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Property 24 hours to 8am 02 February 2012 Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG) http://www.nad-plo.org/dailyreports.php 10:30pm Israeli tanks shell Beit Hanun farms 10:40pm Israeli war-planes strafe Beit Hanun farms Beit Hanun hit by Israeli missile strike Young persons in the Askar refugee camp under Israeli fire Stone-throwing settler militants hospitalise Palestinian woman Israeli troops invade home and vandalise the contents Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 3 towns and villages 2 air strikes – 2 attacks – 6 raids including home invasions and settler violence – 1 injured – 2 acts of agricultural sabotage – 1 taken prisoner – 1 detained – 100 restrictions of movement Home invasions & occupations: midnight, Yatta - 04:00, Beit Ummar. Peace disruption raids: 03:00, Aqraba - 02:00, the Al-Far'a refugee camp - 07:00, Asira Al-Qibliya - 19:20, Jericho. Palestinian attack: Northern Gaza – evening, seven missiles fired towards the Green Line. Palestinian attack: Khan Yunis – evening, a number of missiles fired towards the Green Line. Air strike – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 22:40, Israeli war-planes strafed farms in Beit Hanun. Air strike: Northern Gaza – 20:00, Beit Hanun hit by Israeli missile strike. Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 22:30, Israeli tanks shelled Beit Hanun farms. Israeli attack: Nablus – 15:15, Israeli forces opened fire on minors in the Askar refugee camp. Home invasion and vandalism: Hebron – midnight, Israeli troops raided Yatta, forced their way into a house and vandalised the contents. House demolition order: Jerusalem – Israeli Occupation troops placed a demolition order on the home of Silwan resident, Maher Isyam. Occupation settler violence: Nablus – 14:00, a Palestinian woman, Miyasar Ismail (61), was admitted to hospital with a head injury caused by stone- throwing Israeli militants near Huwara. Occupation settler violence: Nablus – 03:00, an Israeli mob, accompanied by Israeli forces, raided the Al-Kuroum area in Aqraba. Recent news updates: Israel intends to destroy solar panels in village near Hebron. The Israeli Occupation has issued a demolition notice against a renewable energy project that provides the only source of electric lighting for the village of Al-Mnazel. http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/3336-israel-plans-to-demolish-solar-panels-in-village-near-hebron Rock-throwing settler militants near Nablus inflict head injuries – woman hospitalised. The woman's injuries were so severe that she was kept for 24 hours in the Intensive Care Unit of Nablus Hospital before the doctors considered her condition stable enough for her to be released to a general ward. http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/61-year-old-palestinian-woman-in-intensive-care-after-settler-attack/ also http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=457118 Video: Identities of contradiction. / Moriel Rothman / A 25-minute documentary based on conversations with Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel in Deir al-Assad, Bineh and Majd al-Krum: “I learned so much from making it, and I think the views and insights expressed by the people I talked with in the making of this project cast an important light on an incredibly complex – and, in my mind, under-explored – element of the situation here in Israel/Palestine. 'Every Palestinian here, in this country, has two identities. A national identity, Palestinian. And a civil identity, which is an Israeli identity. Of course, this is reality, and we recognise it'.” http://morielrothman.com/2012/01/30/identities-of-contradiction/ Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says China and Israel have "huge potential and broad prospects for co-operation." Beijing "is ready to continue to expand and deepen" the relationship and is already considering a Chinese-built rail line across the Negev Desert from Haifa, on Israel's Mediterranean coast near new-found offshore gas-fields, to Eilat on the Red Sea, Israel's maritime route to Asia. See article: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2012/02/01/China-flirts-with-Israel-amid-gulf-crisis/UPI-21281328121090/ Israel prevents Occupied Golan Heights farmers from sending their products to Syria. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/224373.html Globalised Palestine The National Sell-Out of a Homeland (By Khalil Nakhleh) The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2012; 286 pages. Order via www.africaworldpressbooks.com or www.amazon.com . Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli air-strike. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/20122372646822157.html Video shows French woman wounded by IDF tear-gas grenade. Israeli settlers beat Palestinian shepherd http://www.imemc.org/article/62954 Israeli Occupation soldiers attack Palestinian youth (18) with dogs and beat up two children. The Israelis abducted the teenager in Tabqa village, south of Al-Khalil after unleashing the dogs on him. http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/israeli-occupation-soldiers-unleash-hounds-at-palestinian-teen-beat-two-children-dci_palestine-hrw-unispal-secgen-warchild/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Youth Conference and Brussels Air promotion of Israeli Apartheid From Mazin Qumsiyeh: Video of the event today at Al-Walaja (three arrested and subsequently released), comments on the just-concluded Herzliya conference, action item to do for Brussels Air, Youth Conference in Palestine in July, and more. This email also blogged at: http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2012/02/youth-conference-and-more.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shamelessly, the head of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, addressed this I guess I should look on the positive side: that this year, there were less Unfortunately, many of our closest supporters and even Palestinians ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Sincerely, “Dear Colleagues in Brussels Air and Ink Global, It was my first trip on Brussels Air and it will likely be the last. Your B.There! Airline magazine soured my trip since it promoted apartheid. Imagine if at the height of Apartheid in South Africa, your magazine chose to highlight the white part of the segregated country and promoted it in three distinct locations in one issue, something you do not do for any other of the nearly 200 destinations to normal cities/countries. This is precisely what you did by promoting Apartheid Israel in three locations in your January 2012 issue: On page 14 you promoted "Tel Aviv Art weekend", on page 50 you promoted a Tel-Aviv "food blog", and in page 55 you had feature article advertising (free) an Israeli company (Uploads). Brussels Air according to your magazine and website flies to nearly 200 destinations I have an email list of more than 50,000 activists and depending on your answer to this email, I will write to them to encourage a boycott of this airline. After all, there are other ways to travel without being pelted with free advertisements for apartheid Israel. Sincerely, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Striving to "Stay Human" http://qumsiyeh.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palestinian Resistance Ali Kazak's newsletter Today in Palestine contains many news summaries that include both armed and non-violent methods of resistance to the Occupation. The newsletter also contains much other useful reporting. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Behind the Wall Rich Wiles is a photographic artist who has been living and working in Palestine for some years. His photographic work has been shown around Europe, the US, Australia and in Palestine itself. 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We advocate the primacy of international law, the acceptance of which by the Israeli regime must be the basis for the ending of Israeli military occupation and all forms of ethnic discrimination. We work to raise awareness of the international community's responsibility for upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the urgent need for the state of Israel to be called to account for its gross abuses of Palestinian human rights. We call for the establishment of a unitary, secular and democratic state in Palestine/Israel, with full and equal citizenship rights for Palestinians, Israeli Jews and all other ethnic communities. The Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand (PHRC) works to raise public awareness of the Palestinian people's struggle to resist Israeli military occupation and Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip. PHRC seeks to bring pressure on the New Zealand Government to join the majority of the international community in requiring Israel to:
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