| IOP - 18 July 2012 |
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While Occupation and blockade are 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 (Compiled by Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign POB 56150, Dominion Rd, Auckland, New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz) 24 hours to 8am 18 July 2012 [Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG).] Armed settler terrorist shoots and wounds Palestinian woman Israeli troops bulldoze West Bank village crops and uproot 30 olive trees 2:10am home invasions: Israeli soldiers abduct three 17-year-old youths Two Gaza areas shelled and invaded by Israeli Army Two minors aged 14 and 17 abducted by Israeli troops in Beit Ummar Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 7 towns and villages 3 attacks – 21 raids including home invasions – 1 injured 3 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage 10 taken prisoner – 9 detained – 104 restrictions of movement Home invasions & occupations: 00:45-04:40, Azzun - 02:10, Bruqin - 02:00, Jericho - 02:15, Beitar - dawn, Surif. Peace disruption raids: Evening, Al-Qarara - evening, Abasan - 11:00, Jalbun - 01:20, Jenin - 18:00, Tubas - 00:25, the Al-Far’a refugee camp - 17:10, Allar - 17:10, Sayda - 23:40, Nablus – morning , Qusri - 11:00, Marda - 13:00, Hares - 19:25, Husan - 21:45, Harmala - 08:25, Hebron - 08:50, Tarqumia. Palestinian attacks: none Israeli attack – incursion – agricultural sabotage: Gaza – evening, Israeli troops, equipped with bulldozers, shot their way onto Al-Zaytun farmland and bulldozed crops. Israeli attacks – incursions: Khan Yunis – evening, Israeli tanks shelled Al-Qarara and Abasan during incursions into both areas. Home invasions and abductions: Salfit – 02:10, Israeli troops raided Bruqin, invaded several homes and abducted three 17-year-old youths: Yafi Barakat, Mohammad Barakat and Mohammad Sbieh Barakat. Detentions of minors: Hebron – Israeli soldiers in Beit Ummar detained two minors: Kamil HashHash (7) and Abed Jawabra (13). Armed Occupation settler terrorism – wounding – hospitalisation: Jerusalem – 15:20, a wounded Palestinian woman, Sanad Abu Libda was admitted to hospital after an armed settler terrorist, waiting near the Qalandya checkpoint, opened fire on her vehicle. Armed Occupation settler violence: Jenin – 18:00, Israeli militants invaded the former Occupation settlement of Homesh and assaulted four residents. Abductions: Hebron – Israeli soldiers in Beit Ummar abducted two minors: Mohammad Bahar (17) and Abdel Rahman Bahar (14). Raid – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – morning, the Israeli Army raided Qusra village farmland, bulldozing crops and uprooting 30 olive trees. http://www.imemc.org/article/63921 Raid: Salfit – 13:00, the Israeli Army raided Hares village and photographed plots of land. Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce a three-nautical-mile fishing zone on the blockaded territory. Violation: Hebron – Israeli Occupation forces continue to enforce a military order prohibiting Palestinian vehicles from using Shalala Old Street and allowing only Israeli civilian and military vehicles on the road. Recent news updates: Apartheid and International Law in the oPt – Virginia Tilley speaks. Saturday, 21 July 2012 at 5.30pm Londoners reject De Beers Forevermark Israeli Blood Diamond. Human Rights activists protested at De Beers in London over its display of an Israeli blood diamond in the Tower of London. The Forevermark blood diamond was crafted by De Beers' partner, Steinmetz, which is complicit in the massacre of the Samouni family in Gaza. http://www.inminds.co.uk/article.php?id=10553 Israeli 'law' in Hebron. http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/the-divine-rule-of-security-in-hebron.html Israeli military forcefully shuts down Hebron Old City. On 10 July Israeli troops entered the Old City without warning or explanation, and with great force shut down every shop in the old market (sooq). At 16:50, after 20 minutes of searching shops and tunnels, the Israeli Army ordered every shopkeeper in H2* from Bab il Baledeyya to the Mosque gate to close within five minutes and evacuate the area. They also detonated stun grenades at close range to shopkeepers and pedestrians whom they had trapped in the narrow streets of the market and searched many homes. (Note: this happened several days ago - it is interesting to note how much is happening with hardly anyone knowing of it, outside the location directly affected. A.K.) http://www.cpt.org/cptnet/2012/07/13/al-khalil-israeli-military-forcefully-shuts-down-old-city What if an American politician came out for preserving a Christian majority? New Israeli policy calls for segregating and testing African migrants in hospitals. http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/new-israeli-policy-calls-for-segregating-and-testing-african-migrants-in-hospitals.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Apartheid Israel selections From Mazin Qumsiyeh: *The right wing Zionists keep **invoking** "anti-Semitism" and the events of WW2 to try to deflect any legitimate criticism of their cherished idol: the apartheid state of Israel. But this is no longer working. The list below just gives a glimpse from the past few days. Even puppets of the Israel lobby like Hilary Clinton get pelted by shoes and tomatoes in Egypt! But Zionists are busy pushing for war on Iran, legalising violations of international law, ignoring human rights violations in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain while exaggerating those happening in Syria, and celebrating the appointment of someone who happens to be Jewish as head of the Superior Court of Great Britain! (Imagine if I was to celebrate such achievements for Christians). Do we live in an Orwellian world.* Response to university president's visit to Israel Prominent scholars and human rights activists issued an open letter to university presidents who participated in a recent (1-19 July 2012) tour of Israel designed to bolster co-operation between US and Israeli universities sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, calling upon the university officials to “not…pursue institutional relationships between your universities and Israeli universities, and to discontinue any existing institutional relationships that might already exist.” http://www.usacbi.org/2012/07/usacbi-issues-letter-to-university-presidents-after-israel-tour/ (the greatest allies of USA unopperialism, story not covered by the Western media because they support this kleptocracy and its torture and murder of dissidents and they are busy building revolution in Syria) Destroy all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – Saudi Grand Mufti http://www.rt.com/news/peninsula-saudi-grand-mufti-701/ HumanRights newsletter: http://lists.qumsiyeh.org/mailman/listinfo/humanrights ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Further news sources 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 For more news see: Today in Palestine! groups.yahoo.com/group/f_shadi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. Since 2006 he has been writing from Occupied Palestine under the title Behind the Wall. Much of this work is based in and around the refugee camps in Palestine, highlighting daily life and memories of refugees who still live in forced exile for over 60 years since Al Nakba (The Catastrophe). www.richwiles.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit http://www.sapienspromise.org/ for further news. See this In Occupied Palestine newsletter at: the PHRC website: www.palestine.org.nz - and you can check out previous editions by clicking on In Occupied Palestine listed under Contents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stop the Violence Coalition Stop the Violence is a coalition aimed at fighting against Israeli violence and crimes all over the world. The purpose of the coalition is to co-ordinate the efforts of groups and individuals working to protest against the historic and continuing oppression of Palestinian people by the Israeli regime. Our coalition is an independent and non-profit organisation, based in Europe, which was formed as part of a global movement against Israeli apartheid. We can also provide the latest news, articles, photos, events and petitions. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Website: www.stoptheviolence.eu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you have friends who would also like to receive these newsletters, please ask them to contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand (PHRC) Declaration We believe that a just peace in Palestine/Israel depends upon the return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and the dismantling of the Zionist structure of the state of Israel, recognising that the further partitioning of Palestine in order to create the so-called two-state solution would lead only to further injustice and suffering. 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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