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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 (Compiled by Leslie Bravery, Palestine Human Rights Campaign POB 56150, Dominion Rd, Auckland, New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz) 16 January & 17 January 2013 [Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG).] 2 Israeli Navy attacks on Gaza fishing boats – damage and hijacking Israeli tanks shell Gaza refugee camp farms Israeli Army opens fire on farmers in Jabalya Jabalya residents under Israeli Army fire again Israeli Army invades West Bank village and uproots 95 olive trees Beit Lahiya under Israeli Army fire for two days running Nablus: armed settler terrorists attack Israeli troops raid West Bank villages and destroy 13 homes Israeli soldiers abduct 14-year-old boy in Jerusalem Israeli soldiers abduct two young shepherds (aged 12 and 16) near Ya’bad 4:45am home invasion: Israeli soldiers abduct 17-year-old youth Israeli troops beat up and hospitalise Jerusalem resident Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 17 towns and villages 7 attacks – 46 raids including home invasions 1 beaten – 2 injured – 1 curfew 9 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage 37 taken prisoner – 20 detained – 111 restrictions of movement January 16 & 17 Home invasions & occupations: 01:20, Beitunya - 20:25, Kafr Ra’I - 00:30-02:30, Tayasir - 03:00, Tamun - 00:25-03:15, Deir Istiya - 03:30, Kifl Hares - 20:40-22:50, the Ein al-Sultan refugee camp - 08:30, Hebron - 21:00, Hebron - 17:10, Qurisya. 23:40-02:00, Silat al-Thaher - 04:45, Beit Fajar. Peace disruption raids: 13:30, Qutna - 19:00, al-Issawiya - midnight, Bab Al-Shams - 11:25, Silwad - 01:30, al-Arqa - 00:40,al-Aqaba - midnight-04:30, Tulkarem - 18:00-23:20, Rujeib - 20:55-21:30, Nablus - 09:55, Jericho - 11:00, Beit Jala - 11:00, Taqou’ - 18:50, Marah Rabah - 18:00, Dura. 07:30, Beit Lahiya – Husan - 11:30, Al-Ram - 14:30, Deir al-Ghazal - 16:00, Jalbun - 22:15, al-Arqa - 20:25, Kafr Ra’I - 10:00, Hamamat al-Malah - 10:00, al-Mayta - 10:40, Fara'un - 11:05, Kafr Qudd - 08:55, Wadi al-Rasha - 15:35, Kharbit al-Yanun - 01:10, Nablus - 08:00, Beit Sahur - 11:50, Hebron - 22:25, Hebron - 22:25, al-Samou’ - 01:00-04:25, Yatta - 04:25-06:45,al-Thahiria. January 16 Palestinian attacks: none Israeli attack: Northern Gaza – 11:30, Israeli Army positions behind the Green Line opened fire on workers near Um Nassar village in the north of Beit Lahiya. Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 13:10, Israeli Army positions behind the Green Line opened fire on farmers at work on local Jabalya farmland. Israeli attack: Northern Gaza – 16:15, Israeli Army positions behind the Green Line again opened fire on Jabalya residents. Israeli attack – damage – economic sabotage: Gaza – 13:00, a fishing vessel was damaged when the Israeli Navy opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Gaza. Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Central Gaza – 08:30, Israeli Army tanks behind the Green Line shelled al-Maghazi refugee camp farmland. Israeli attack – hi-jacking – economic sabotage: Central Gaza – 10:00, the Israeli Navy opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off Deir al-Balah, hijacking a fishing boat and detaining and interrogating three fishermen. Occupation settler armed terrorism: Nablus – 14:00, armed Israeli settler terrorists stormed the area between Salim village and Deir al-Hatab, assaulting a resident, Abdel Fatah Odeh, and opening fire on him as he tried to escape. The settlers eventually withdrew, escorted by Israeli troops. Abductions: Jerusalem – 13:30, Israeli soldiers in Silwan abducted a 14-year-old boy, Ameer Al-Farroukh. Raid – suppression of protest – vandalism: Jerusalem – midnight, the Israeli Army invaded the Bab Al-Shams protest village, removed residents and destroyed their tent dwellings and closed all the entrances leading to the area. Raid – suppression of protest - vandalism: Jenin – 01:30, the Israeli Army raided al-Arqa village, firing flares and searching the area. Raid – curfew: Nablus – 18:00-23:20, Occupation forces raided Rujeib village, imposed a curfew and took five people prisoner. Raid – economic and agricultural sabotage: Jericho – 09:55, Israeli troops raided the city, bulldozing a date processing business to the ground and destroying a greenhouse. Raid – economic sabotage: Bethlehem – 11:00, the Israeli Army raided Beit Jalla and used bulldozers to remove electricity supply poles. Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 14:10, Israeli troops fired tear gas grenades at children near Budrus village. Israeli Army stun and tear gas grenade assault: Bethlehem – 13:10, Israeli soldiers fired stun and tear gas grenades at children near the entrance to the Billa Bin Rabah Mosque. Israeli Army rubber-coated bullets and stun and tear gas assault: Hebron – 15:10, the Israeli Army fired rubber-coated bullets and stun and tear gas grenades at mourners attending a funeral at a local cemetery in Beit Ummar. Several people were overcome by the gas. January 17 Palestinian attacks: none Agricultural sabotage: Bethlehem – Israeli forces invaded Husan village and uprooted 95 olive trees. Israeli attack: Northern Gaza – 07:30, Israeli forces positioned behind the Green Line opened fire workers in the north of Beit Lahiya. Beating – injury – hospitalisation: Jerusalem – 23:00, Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem beat up and hospitalised Ziyad Abu Eid, a resident of Biddu. Home invasions and occupation: Jenin – 23:40-02:00, the Israeli Army raided Silat al-Thaher, invaded several homes and left orders for six people to report to Israeli Military Intelligence.. Home invasions and abduction: Bethlehem – 04:45, Israeli troops raided Beit Fajar, invaded several homes and took 12 people prisoner, including the abduction of a 17-year-old youth. Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 16:30, Israeli troops fired tear gas grenades at children near the Ofer military base. Israeli Army stun and tear gas grenade assault: Bethlehem – 12:20, Israeli forces positioned at a military post in the city fired stun and tear gas grenades at nearby children. Occupation settler violence: Jenin – 17:30, an Israeli settler used his vehicle to block the road leading to Ya’bad, verbally abusing several residents before withdrawing, escorted by Israeli troops. Occupation settler land grab: Bethlehem – 14:10, Israeli settler militants invaded al-Jub’a and set up camp in the area. Abductions – pastoral sabotage: Jenin – 16:00, Israeli soldiers abducted two young shepherds: Ibrahim Himdawi (12) and Mahmoud Himdawi (16) as they herded sheep near Ya’bad. Raid: Jenin – 22:15, Occupation troops, firing flares, raided Al-Arqa village. Raid – house demolitions and economic sabotage: Tubas – 10:00, Israeli forces raided Hamamat al-Malah and al-Mayta villages in the North Jordan Valley, destroying 13 homes and bulldozing a road. Raid – violation: Nablus – 15:35, Israeli forces raided Kharbit al-Yanun, and invaded and photographed a mosque. Violations: Jerusalem – evening, Israeli forces surrounded a mosque in al-Sur village during evening prayers and, firing tear gas grenades, took prisoner several worshippers as they left the mosque. Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce a six-nautical-mile Gaza fishing limit. Recent news updates: Mother and two-year old baby abducted by Israeli Army. Occupied Palestine Israeli forces demolish 70 structures in Jordan Valley. Palestine News Network. Petitioning UEFA President Michel Platini. To be delivered to: UEFA President Michel Platini. Red Card Israeli Racism https://www.change.org/users/1502018 London, United Kingdom. Petition The Black Civil Rights Movement and Zionism. Just before Martin Luther King Day, we present historian Lenni Brenner's new article looking at various Black civil rights leaders and their views regarding Zionism. Some surprises: A NAACP founder and future Communist who was always pro-Zionist – A civil rights leader who testified as to the good character of Ariel Sharon – The supposed article by Martin Luther King Jr, saying that to attack Zionism was to attack Jews – Jesse Jackson's increasingly meek statements on Israel – Malcolm X and a Trotskyite party – The remarkable Stokely Carmichael. Buy a symbolic share in Gaza's Ark – A Share in Hope www.gazaark.org. Gaza's Ark is to build a boat in Gaza and a crew of internationals and Palestinians will sail it out of Gaza. http://www.gazaark.org/2013/01/15/buy-a-symbolic-share-of-gazas-ark-a-share-in-hope/Activists set up new protest village north-west of Jerusalem. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=557212Palestinian film opens Sundance Festival. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=557144 Ministry: Fatah prisoners transferred to different Israeli gaols. http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=557196The Palestinian Prisoners' Intifada. / Ramzy Baroud / http://palestinechronicle.com/the-palestinian-prisoners-intifada/Settlers cut down 50 olive trees near Bethlehem. Saed Bannoura / IMEMC / Member of the Husan village council, Taha Hamara, told Radio Bethlehem 2000 that, for local villager, Ahmad Sabateen, this was the fourth attack on his land and that he had filed several complaints to the Israeli Police in Gush Etzion, to no avail. http://www.imemc.org/article/64908 Israel's worldwide role in repression. The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network has authored a 28-page expose that focuses on the role of the Israeli government, military and private corporations and organisations, in a global industry of violence and repression. http://mondoweiss.net/2013/01/israels-worldwide-repression.htmlEU propaganda exercise names Israel as "world humanitarian leader". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33639.htmSpain's National Court Prosecutor requests ICC referral of case against Netanyahu over 2010 flotilla attack. The prosecutor has formally requested a judge to begin steps to refer a case against Israeli leaders for the attack on the Gaza flotilla in 2010 to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Three Spanish citizens, Manuel Tapial, Laura Arau and David Segarra, were aboard the Mavi Marmara when Israeli forces attacked and commandeered the ship in international waters on 31 May 2010, killing nine people, wounding dozens more, and kidnapping all the crew and hundreds of passengers. Tapial, Arau and Segarra filed the case against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, six ministers and a vice admiral of the Israeli Navy who led the attack … Spain's eldiario.es reported that the prosecutor in the case found that there was “strong evidence” of “crimes against humanity, illegal detention, deportation and torture” that merited investigation by the ICC. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/spain-prosecutor-requests-icc-referral-case-against-israels-netanyahu-2010 OCHA weekly report 9-15 January 2013. http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_protection_of_civilians_weekly_report_2013_01_18_english.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mazin Qumsiyeh: Human Rights Newsletter http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2013/01/choice-between-extremists.html Request: If any individual has good fund-raising experience and can help some worthy Palestinian non-governmental organisations raise funds, please contact me. One of the NGOs is also willing to host the volunteer here (lodging and some of the expenses but not airline tickets). BTW, the recent floods in the north of the West Bank left many people devastated. You can read in the following about various important developments and actions relating to human rights. I draw your attention especially to two Israeli documentaries gaining notoriety despite the frustration of the Israeli government, a book of post-Zionist Jewish recollections, Israeli election choice between extremists, two action calls and more. A new letter from Palestine Freedom Riders (I am proud to be one of those 6) to help with the boycott campaign http://www.stl-psc.org/?p=389 Two Israeli documentaries up for Oscars this year but the apartheid state apparatus is NOT happy. http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/israel_confronts_its_image_problem/ Brilliant book: ‘Beyond Tribal Loyalties’ — new volume spotlights Israeli elections: A choice between extremists. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/02/06/694017/-Israeli-elections-a-choice-between-extremists ACTION CALLS Time For Justice – A call from Palestine to EU citizens: Ask your governments and EMPs to suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement and stand up for human rights in 2013! http://palsolidarity.org/timeforjustice/ From Palestinian Committee, Stuttgart to German Nationals: Act to end ethnic cleansing and destruction in the Negev by the racist “Jewish National Fund” Mazin Qumsiyeh, Professor, Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities Chairman, Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement Between People http://qumsiyeh.org Gate of Dignity built on lands of Beit Iksa, north of Jerusalem Army now in the village Friday 18 January 2013: The Palestinian village of Beit Iksa overlooking Jerusalem just built a new village they called Bab Al-Karama (Gate of Dignity) on their land behind the apartheid wall that Israel has built on their land and call on Palestinians and Internationals to join them in their popular struggle to hold onto their lands. The wall Israel is building on the village land would leave 96% of the village land Over the past 24 hours, the villagers built a mosque and set up five tent dwellings on their land behind the wall. The head of the Beit Iksa village council, Mr Kamal Hababa, stated that the idea of building this village extension is to protect their legally owned lands and to be the second such village built to protect from growing efforts at transforming Arab Jerusalem. Already the threatened village land behind the wall is 7411 dunums, which amounts to half the total threatened lands of the eight Palestinian villages north-west of Jerusalem and 96% of the village land of Beit Iksa. Colonial Jewish-only settlements built on Palestinian lands beyond the Green Line in this area include Ramot, Neve Shmuel, Har Shmuel and Givat Ze’ev. The Army is now in the village (Friday evening) For more information and to help, contact 0598882226 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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