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, Auckland, New Zealand www.palestine.org.nz) [If you have difficulty with the display of this report, it may be better viewed on our website]

NB: We shall always do our utmost to verify the accuracy of all items in these IOP newsletters/reports wherever possible – but please forgive us for any errors or omissions (not of our own making) that may occur!

Once again, for several days now there have been no available daily Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG) situation reports (sitreps). It could be because of another holiday but we have no way of knowing. If anyone can enlighten us, we'd be very grateful! Meanwhile, we shall continue with our irregular IOP Reports. If and when PMG catches up with the missing sitreps, we shall, as always, process them. We know that for the Palestinians their ordeal is daily. Let us hope that the daily situation reports start to become regular again as soon as possible. — Marian and Leslie.

IOP Report {Number 7 for September 2017}

US establishes first

permanent

military base in Israel

Hamas ready to hand Gaza to

Palestinian unity government

Have Israel put on the

UN list of abusers of children

100 years of murderous injustice:

Marking Balfour with BDS

Video: Soldiers assault

woman who resists as they

weld shut her door

Recent news updates:

Hamas ready to hand Gaza to Palestinian unity government. 17 September 2017 | On Sunday, Hamas agreed to dissolve its Gaza administration, a major step towards handing control to a Palestinian unity government. Hamas says it has taken “a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee” and hand power to some form of unity government. Hamas and Fatah agreed in 2014 to form a national reconciliation administration but could not agree on the details. A unity government formed after Hamas won the last Palestinian general election in 2006 was short-lived. Aiming to pressure Hamas into relinquishing control of Gaza, Abbas cut payments to Israel for the electricity it supplies to Gaza which led to power being provided for less than four hours on some days, and never more than six hours on others. Azzam Al-Ahmad, who headed Fatah’s delegation to the talks in Cairo, told WAFA: “This step will enhance the unity of the Palestinians and end ugly division.” The United Nations’ envoy welcomed Sunday’s news. “All parties must seize this opportunity to restore unity and open a new page for the Palestinian people,” UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, said in a statement, adding that the UN was ready to assist the talks in order to alleviate hardship in Gaza. Opinion polls have showed that if parliamentary elections were held now, Hamas would win both in Gaza and the Israeli-Occupied West Bank. Abbas (82) is 12 years into what was meant to be a four-year term as President and the opinion polls show him to be unpopular. http://world.einnews.com/article/404404047/A7lWl-PTLMtuQsjn?lcf=ZX9dkeSQfK-5FADPuwjBkQ%3D%3D

NZ to sign prohibition of nuclear weapons treaty. Monday, 18 September 2017 | New Zealand's Foreign Minister, Gerry Brownlee, announced today he will sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at a ceremony during the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week. New Zealand will sign the Treaty on the first day it is open for signature (20 September). Mr Brownlee says: “Our signing at this first opportunity is consistent with New Zealand’s long-standing commitment to international nuclear disarmament efforts. While no state currently in possession of nuclear weapons will be signing along with us, this Treaty nevertheless represents an important step towards a nuclear-free world. It establishes the first global prohibition on nuclear weapons and provides the international legal framework for a world without these weapons.” New Zealand joined over 120 other states in supporting the adoption of the treaty at a United Nations conference in July this year. The Treaty will enter into force once 50 states have ratified it. http://www.icanw.org.nz/

Have Israel put on the UN list of abusers of children. PressTV-Israel arrests some 1000 Palestinian children this year. New figures from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission reveal the Israeli Army has abducted at least 927 children since the beginning of the year. Palestinian human rights groups warn that Israeli military courts are imposing longer sentences on Palestinian children in order to deter popular resistance to Israeli military Occupation. Sign the petition

100 years of murderous injustice: Marking Balfour with BDS. The one hundredth year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration will soon be upon us. The declaration, made by the British government during World War One, endorsed “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. It also declared “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine” — reducing the indigenous Palestinian population to nondescript 'non-Jewish communities' in one slight of the pen. A century later, it couldn't be clearer that the latter part has actively been neglected. By Malia Bouattia http://europalforum.org.uk/en/post/2977 8 September 2017.

Video: Soldiers assault woman who resists as they weld shut her door. Israeli Occupation forces violently assault and attempt to handcuff 55-year-old Zleikhah al-Muhtaseb in her family home in Hebron. Israeli forces invaded the home in order to weld shut one of its two entrances. Zleikhah lives with her niece, Rania al-Muhtaseb, and her husband, Bassem, and their three children. Their home has a back door facing Hebron’s market, and a front entrance facing towards the Ibrahimi Mosque. The front entrance area is heavily controlled by Israeli Occupation forces and family members using that door must pass through Israeli military Occupation checkpoints. Israeli forces finally welded the back door shut, causing the family considerable hardship. “Before they welded the back door shut, I would go in and out of the house through the market”, Bassem explained. “Now, I have to get home by walking on the rooftops of the houses near the market. It’s dangerous at night, because the military watches the rooftops in the area.” The alternative is to go through one of the military checkpoints, where Palestinians face long delays and routine harassment. “On top of this, my wife is pregnant, and I’m worried she’ll go into labour at night and we’ll have to get to hospital,” Bassem added, noting that Occupation forces rarely agree to open the emergency gate in the checkpoint. http://europalforum.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=57937686bafbc030f7aa17537&id=1bb077af77&e=9271108746

US establishes first permanent military base in Israel. On 18 September, Brig. Gen. Zvi Haimovitch, head of Israel's Aerial Defense Division, celebrated the establishment of the US base as a demonstration of the “years-old alliance between the United States and the State of Israel.” He also warned that this permanent presence of a US base on Israeli soil sends a “message to the region and our surroundings that our partnership with our friend the United States is important.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-us-establishes-permanent-military-base-in-israel

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The genocide the world ignores

by Diana Lodge

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