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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) 21 January & 22 January 2013 [Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG).] Israeli Army shoots its way onto Beit Lahiya farmland and bulldozes crops One person wounded as Israeli Army opens fire on refugee camp and farms Israeli Army destroys home – assaults and hospitalises woman resident 5am home invasion – Israeli troops assault 3-year-old child Raid: Israeli Army destroys home, greenhouse and well Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 2 refugee camps and 12 towns and villages 7 attacks – 38 raids including home invasions 5 beaten – 1 dead – 8 injured 12 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage 26 taken prisoner – 18 detained – 105 restrictions of movement January 21 & 22 Home invasions & occupations: al-Issawiya - 05:00, the Qalandya refugee camp - 20:10, Beit Fajjar - 18:20, the al-Urub refugee camp - 17:15, Madma. Dawn, Silwan - 02:30, Saffa - dawn, al-Yamun - 18:00, al-Jiftlik - 02:20, Bethlehem Peace disruption raids: evening, the al-Maghazi refugee camp - 10:30, Beit Safa - 07:15, Osarin - Anata - 09:30, al-Zabada - 01:45, Arraba - 03:05, Jenin - morning, Tulkarem - 15:40, Jinsafut - dawn, Nablus - 23:20, Orif - 03:50, Burqa - 09:00, Salfit - 09:50, Jericho - 00:20-13:15, Jericho - 10:15, Betar - 02:20, Beit Jalla - dawn, Qum - 08:50, al-Rafay’a - 08:50, al-Dirat - 11:00, Hebron - 15:00, Kharsa - 01:00-06:15, al-Thahiria - 13:10, Khilat Al-Fahm. 02:30, al-Bireh city - 19:45, Tulkarem - 02:20, Tulkarem - 02:20, the Nur al-Shams refugee camp - 06:25, Marj al-Ghazal - 01:50, Hebron. January 21 Palestinian attacks: none Israeli attack – incursion – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 08:00, the Israeli Army shot its way onto Beit Lahiya farmland and bulldozed crops. Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 08:30, Israeli forces behind the Green Line opened fire on farmers and farm workers on Beit Lahiya farmland. Israeli attack – wounding – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 09:30, a Gaza resident, Mohammad Marouf, was wounded when Israeli Army positions behind the Green Line opened fire on farmers and farm workers on Beit Lahiya farmland. Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 09:55, Israeli forces positioned at Beit Hanun opened fire on local farm workers. Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Northern Gaza – 15:40, Israeli forces behind the Green Line opened fire on farmers and farm workers on Jabalya farmland. Israeli attack: Central Gaza – evening, Israeli Army positions behind the Green Line opened fire on the al-Maghazi refugee camp. Homes destroyed – woman assaulted and hospitalised: Jerusalem – 10:30, the Israeli Army raided Beit Safa, destroyed an apartment building, left demolition orders on other buildings, took one person prisoner and assaulted and injured a woman, Aya Salah, who was later admitted to hospital. Home invasions: Jerusalem – Israeli troops raided al-Issawiya, invaded two homes and took prisoneran adult and a minor. Home invasion – assault on three-year-old child and others: Jerusalem – 05:00, Israeli soldiers raided the Qalandya refugee camp, invaded a home, took one person prisoner and assaulted three-year-old Suliman Matar, as well as a 16-year-old boy, Basel Matar, and an adult, Wissam Matar. Home invasions and occupation: Hebron – 18:20, Occupation troops raided the al-Urub refugee camp, occupied the roofs of several homes for use as sniper posts and fired stun and tear gas grenades at residents. Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 12:00, Israeli soldiers at the entrance to al-Nabi Saleh village fired tear gas grenades at nearby children. Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 15:35, Israeli troops fired tear gas grenades at children in Budrus village. Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 15:35 and again at 18:35, Israeli forces fired tear gas grenades at children by the entrance to the al-Jalazun refugee camp. Israeli Army rubber-coated bullets and tear gas assault: Bethlehem – 19:55, Israeli forces at the entrance to Beit Fajjar fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas grenades at local residents. Land theft: Nablus – the Israeli Army issued a land grab order for Asira al-Qibliya village land. Occupation settler vandalism: Jerusalem – 18:30, settlers stoned passing vehicles near the Jaba’ road junction. Occupation settlers – attempted agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 13:15, Israeli settler militants attempted to bulldoze crops in the villages of Qusra and Jalud but local residents were able to prevent them from doing any damage. Occupation settler violence: Nablus – 07:15, a settler mob invaded Osarin village and prevented residents from leaving their homes. Occupation road casualty: Hebron – 19:40, a Palestinian man, Ba’hjat Al-Ja’bari, was admitted to hospital after being run over by an Israeli settler vehicle. Abductions: Jerusalem – 13:30, Israeli soldiers in the Old City abducted two 13-year-old boys: Osama Al-Safadi and Ahmad Abu Turk. Abduction: Nablus – Israeli troops abducted a 16-year-old boy, Anwar Awadi. Raid – house demolition orders: Jerusalem – the Israeli Army raided Anata and issued demolition orders on two homes. Raid: Jenin – 09:30, the Israeli Army raided al-Zabada village and conducted 'tests' on several wells. Raid – agricultural sabotage: Qalqilya – 15:40, the Israeli Army raided Jinsafut village and bulldozed farmland. Raid – economic sabotage: Jericho – 00:20-13:15, the Israeli Army raided the city, ordered the removal of a greenhouse and took prisoner an Intelligence Officer. Raid – home destroyed – economic and agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 08:50, the Israeli Army raided the villages of al-Rafay’a and al-Dirat and destroyed a home, a greenhouse and a well. Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce a six-nautical-mile Gaza fishing limit. January 22 Palestinian attacks: none Israeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Rafah – dawn, Israeli Army positions behind the Green Line opened fire on East Rafah farmland. House demolition orders: Hebron – 12:10, Israeli forces issued demolition orders against three homes. Home invasions and abductions: Jerusalem – dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded homes in the Ein al-Louza area of Silwan and abducted three minors: Majdi Abu Tayeh (13), Alaa Abu Tayeh (14) and Munthir Al-Abbasi (15). The Israeli Army also left orders for a 14-year-old boy, Mahdi Thiyab, to report to Israeli Military Intelligence for interrogation. Home invasion and theft: Ramallah – 02:30, Israeli troops raided Saffa village, invaded a home, stole three personal computers and took a person prisoner. Home invasion: Jenin – dawn, the Israeli Army raided al-Yamun village, invaded a home and left orders for a person to report to Israeli Military Intelligence. Home invasion: Jericho – 18:00, Occupation troops raided al-Jiftlik village and invaded a home with international peace activists residing there. Home invasions: Bethlehem – 02:20, the Israeli Army raided the city, invaded several homes and took several prisoners. Seven people were left orders to report to Israeli Military Intelligence for interrogation. Israeli Army tear gas assault: Ramallah – 15:30, Israeli troops fired tear gas grenades at children near the entrance to al-Nabi Saleh village. Israeli Army tear gas assault – injury: Tulkarem – 05:10, Israeli forces positioned at the al-Taybeh checkpoint fired tear gas grenades at several workers, injuring one of them, Mohammad Khaliq, who was struck in the face by a tear gas grenade. Fourteen people were overcome by Israeli tear gas. Land occupation: Qalqilya – 19:30, Israeli forces installed two caravans on privately-owned Palestinian land in Jayus. Occupation settler mosque violation – Israeli Army complicity: Jerusalem – morning, settler militants, escorted by Israeli soldiers, invaded the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers. Israeli troops took prisoner a student at a religious teaching centre who protested against the violations by settlers and troops. Occupation settler violence – Israeli Army complicity – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 07:15, settler militants raided Asira Al-Qibliya farmland, assaulting several farmers and shepherds and withdrawing later, accompanied by the Israeli Army. Occupation settler violence – home invasion – Israeli Army complicity: Nablus – 17:15, a settler mob raided Madma village and invaded a resident's home, forcibly ejecting the family into the street while Israeli forces took some residents prisoner. Occupation settler violence – land theft – agricultural sabotage: Bethlehem – 13:10, Zionist fanatics invaded Khilat Al-Fahm in al-Khadr and bulldozed land to pave a road, uprooting 50 olive trees in the process. Economic sabotage: Gaza – the Israeli Navy continues to enforce a six-nautical-mile Gaza fishing limit. Recent news updates: Britain says two-state solution almost dead. William Hague: “. . . Israel's settlement policy is losing the support of the international community and will make a two-state solution impossible." Hague added that "if we do not make progress in the coming year, people will increasingly conclude that a two-state solution has become impossible." http://www.foa.org.uk/news/britain-says-two-state-solution-almost-dead US objects to "State of Palestine" placard in UN. By Peter James Spielmann – Associated Press / United Nations 24 January 2013. On Wednesday the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, objected when the Palestinian foreign minister spoke at the Security Council seated behind a nameplate that read "State of Palestine." It was the first Palestinian address to the Security Council since the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on November 29 to upgrade the Palestinians from UN observer to non-voting member state. Rice said that the United States does not recognise the General Assembly vote in November "as bestowing Palestinian 'statehood' or recognition." Rice said, "Only direct negotiations to settle final status issues will lead to this outcome." "Therefore, in our view, any reference to the 'State of Palestine' in the United Nations, including the use of the term 'State of Palestine' on the placard in the Security Council or the use of the term 'State of Palestine' in the invitation to this meeting or other arrangements for participation in this meeting, do not reflect acquiescence that 'Palestine' is a state," she added. Robert Serry, the UN special co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told reporters that the nameplate read "state of Palestine" because the UN Secretariat "is guided by the membership, which has pronounced itself on this issue" in the November General Assembly vote. http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/us-protests-state-palestine-placard-18295960 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why? A letter to the Independent Sir, Why is Lubna, an innocent 22-year-old student walking home from college, shot in the face and killed? Because she is Palestinian. Why is Hassan, a 29-year-old human rights defender, handcuffed, blindfolded and taken away to an undisclosed location? Because he is Palestinian. Why are children abducted in the middle of the night by soldiers without their parents knowing where they have been taken? Because they are Palestinian? Why are people made homeless as bulldozers demolish their dwellings often at an hour's notice without means of redress? Because they are Palestinians. Why does the world wag its finger at the perpetrator but favour it with trade concessions? Because it is Israel. Yours, Elizabeth Morley Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Aberystwyth http://palsolidarity.org/2013/01/21-year-old-woman-killed-in-the-west-bank/ http://stopthewall.org/2013/01/23/free-human-rights-defender-and-stop-wall-activist-hassan-karajah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Judaisation=Racism? Really? By Paul Larudee / Wednesday, 23 January 2013 http://www.deliberation.info/judaization-racism-really/#_edn1 (Artwork by Carlos Latuff, all rights reserved.) On Sunday, January 20, 2013, the 'progressive' Israeli newspaper Haaretz published a short editorial titled “‘Judaization’ is racism”1. Before you get your hopes up, let me tell you that the editorial is a criticism of Shimon Gapso, the Jewish mayor of Upper Nazareth, a community intended to diminish the Arab character of Nazareth, the largest Palestinian Arab city inside what most of the world recognises as Israel. Founded in 1957, Upper Nazareth was given priority for development and expansion as part of a campaign by Yitzhak Rabin. The impetus was a trip that Rabin made to the Galilee in 1975. At one point he found himself in the Carmel valley. Looking around, he saw nothing but Palestinian farms and villages. “Am I in Israel or in Syria?” he uttered, whereupon he lent his weight to the mission to “Judaise the Galilee”. Upper Nazareth is one of the Jewish communities that became an important [part] of that mission. It was intended to limit the growth of Nazareth and ultimately marginalise or displace it. Ironically, however, the “Jewish character” of Upper Nazareth is itself being compromised, as Palestinians from Nazareth find that there is no longer enough room in the older city to accommodate their growing population. In response, the mayor of Upper Nazareth has tried to make the city as unfriendly as possible to its non-Jewish residents, including opposition to Arabic language schools in the town and a much-publicised ban on Christmas trees. (Most of the Palestinians in Upper Nazareth are Christian.) The Haaretz editorial is a criticism of the “benighted racist position that sees the presence of Arabs in the Galilee or anywhere else as a national threat.” Nice words, but is not the entire Zionist project one of “Judaisation”? Is that not how its founders conceived it? Is not Israel itself the product of “Judaisation”? What is different about Upper Nazareth? What about the expulsion of the Bedouin in the Naqab (“Negev”)? Is the confiscation and demolition of Palestinian homes in Jerusalem not merely an extension of the ethnic cleansing of 1948? How are the orders to evacuate and obliterate eight villages in the hills south of al-Khalil (“Hebron”) not consistent with the aims of Zionism? If Haaretz wishes to oppose Judaisation, why not start with the Judaisation of 1948? Let them insist upon inviting all Palestinians back to their homes. Let them demand elimination of an immigration policy that is for Jews only. Let them call upon the Custodian for Absentee Property – who is responsible for the more than 80% of Israel that was confiscated from Palestinians in 1948 – to welcome the absentees back and return their property to them, with payment for damages and compensation for 65 years of unauthorised usage. Let them oppose a policy of separate states for Arabs and Jews (forgetting that many are both or neither). Judaisation is just another word for Zionism. And yes, it’s racism. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/judaization-is-racism.premium-1.494990 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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