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

(Compiled by Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign POB 56150, Dominion Rd, Auckland, New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz)

12 & 13 January 2013 [Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG).]

Hebron: Israeli Army opens fire on labourers – 1 dead – several wounded

Israeli Army invades Khan Yunis farmland – opening fire and bulldozing crops

Dawn home invasion: Israeli troops abduct 17-year-old youth

Several Israeli Army stun grenade and tear gas attacks on children and protesters

7-year-old boy in hospital after being run over by settler vehicle

Israeli Navy continues to enforce 6-nautical-mile Gaza fishing limit

Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 19 towns and villages

2 attacks – 28 raids including home invasions

3 beaten – 1 dead – several injured

2 acts of economic sabotage

39 taken prisoner – 17 detained – 107 restrictions of movement

January 12 & 13

Home invasions & occupations: 01:15, al-Ubeidiya - 03:00, al-Khadr. Dawn, Silwan - evening, Jenin - 02:50, al-Yamun - 01:50, Qalqilya - 23:50, Nablus - 23:50, Biddya - 23:20, Beit Fajjar.

Peace disruption raids: 23:40, Jit - 01:30, Kafr Khalil - 01:45, Nablus - 04:20, Beit Fajjar - 00:50, Beit Ula - 00:50, Nuba - 02:00, Hebron. 02:00, Beit Duqqu - 06:35, Aqaba - 18:00, Izbat Al-Tabib - 10:00, al-Naqura - 13:30, Nusf Al-Jabal - 14:00, Beit Immarin - 15:25, Sabastiya - dawn, Rujeib - 00:45, al-Fasayil - 02:45, Bethlehem - 02:45, Al-Khadr - 01:00, Hebron.

January 12

Palestinian attacks: none

Israeli attack: Hebron – 14:15, Israeli troops in al-Thahiria opened fire on a group of labourers, killing one of them, Oday AL-Darwish, a resident of Dura, and wounding several others.

Non-violent resistance: Jerusalem – 03:50, the Israeli Army raided Bab Al-Shames village and assaulted a protest demonstration camp, forcibly removing protesters and destroying their tents, assaulting two cameramen and several residents, and injuring four international peace activists. Twenty protesters were taken prisoner.

Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce six-nautical-mile Gaza fishing limit.

January 13

Palestinian attacks: none

Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Khan Yunis – morning, the Israeli Army invaded east Khan Yunis farmland and opened fire while bulldozing crops.

Destruction orders: Hebron – the Israeli Army issued a destruction order on a tent-dwelling and issued another one on a tent used as a nursery in south Yatta.

Home invasion and abduction: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded a house in the Ein Al-Louz area of Silwan and abducted a 17-year-old youth: Khalid Odeh.

Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 10:15, Israeli troops fired tear gas grenades at children near the Ofer Prison.

Israeli Army stun grenades and tear gas assault: Bethlehem – 15:35, the Israeli Army fired stun and tear gas grenades at children near the entrance to the Billa Bin Rabah Mosque.

Israeli Army stun grenades and tear gas assault: Hebron – 10:40, Occupation troops fired stun and tear gas grenades at university students near the entrance to the al-Urub refugee camp.

Occupation settlement development: Tubas – the Israeli Ministry of Defence published plans for the construction of 170 settlement units, plus an additional 80 units in the Rotim Occupation settlement in the Jordan Valley.

Occupation road casualties: Jerusalem – morning, a seven-year-old boy, Ali Jahalin, was admitted to hospital after being run over by a settler vehicle on the main road in Al-Eizariya.

Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce a six-nautical-mile Gaza fishing limit.

Recent news updates:

In photos: Bab al-Shams challenges Israeli occupation. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=555707

Bab al-Shams – settlements constitute a war crime.

Israeli forces arrest cancer patient in Nablus. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=555734

New York Times erases (literally) the Occupation from coverage of Bab al-Shams news.

Prisoners in the Etzion detention centre complained of the sadistically harsh conditions during the cold weather. http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/

Appeals to save life of captive patient Sami Shabalo. Occupied Palestine

We Remember: Tom Hurndall. http://palsolidarity.org/2012/01/we-remember-tom-hurndall/

Eyewitness to Operation Pillar of Cloud. | The devastating Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip, the far-reaching effects of the Gaza blockade and the influence of the Israel lobby and corporate news media. http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/progressive-voices/2013/01/eyewitness-operation-pillar-cloud

Noam Chomsky: The responsibility of privilege.

Auckland, Waiheke Island – Theatres of Resistance 2013 – Community Cinema Evening – Feisty FUN and Discussion! 15 January at 8pm – Billy Hania is speaking to a piece by Chris Hedges on Palestine followed by a discussion. For more information contact: Carol – This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Anna – This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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The crime of 'sociocide' in Palestine

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine denounces Israel. PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 622 / 11 January 2013.

The Russell Tribunal was created in 1966 to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 2009 it established the Russell Tribunal on Palestine to investigate such crimes in Palestine. That tribunal has used the term 'sociocide' to describe Israel’s systematic destruction of Palestinian territory, institutions, socio-economic infrastructure and culture and society in general. Indeed, the Tribunal’s 2012 session dealt extensively with the question of 'sociocide' in Palestine.

The term 'sociocide' is used to describe the destruction of Palestinian society by the following means:

a) Israel’s continued military occupation of Palestinian territory, continuous development of colonies on illegally occupied Palestinian land, the building of the ‘Security Wall’ (Apartheid Wall) in the West Bank, and the blockade of Gaza, which deprives Palestinians of access to part of their territory;

b) Israel’s widespread destruction of Palestinian schools and cultural venues to prevent Palestinians from sharing in their cultural and social identity;

c) Israel’s systematic denial of Palestinians’ right of return to their original homes and properties and right of restitution, thereby reinforcing the institutionalisation of their exile;

d) Israel’s discrimination against its Palestinian citizens, who constitute Israel’s indigenous population, on the basis of their non-Jewish identity, thereby endangering the survival of Palestinians as a social group.

The Tribunal has condemned Israel’s refusal to recognise the nationality of its indigenous Palestinian population. It has also condemned the fact that Israel prevents Israeli Palestinians from marrying Palestinians from the Occupied Territories or from neighbouring countries.

The Tribunal’s 2012 session concluded that Israel is committing cultural genocide in Palestine. It emphasised that Israel’s actions have already been condemned under international law – including the Convention on the Suppression of Apartheid – as crimes against humanity or war crimes. These crimes, it should be stressed, are subject to prosecution at the International Criminal Court under the terms of the Rome Statute of 1998.

Adapted from: http://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/sessions/future-sessions .

Distributed by PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) WWW.PAJUMONTREAL.ORG

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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!

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/f_shadi

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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

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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:

• observe all relevant UN Resolutions and Geneva conventions

• cease ethnic discrimination and territorial annexation

• abandon its militarism and violence