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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! L & M.

IOP Report {Number 3 for October 2017}

Israeli Occupation forces

abduct and abuse

Palestinian youngsters

Charity Commission warns

grants to Israeli settlements

could breach UK law

176 more Occupation

settlement units to be built

in the heart of East Jerusalem

London cabs to display

Palestinian Mission ads

censored by TfL

UN step towards holding

Israel accountable for violating

Palestinian human rights

Arrogant territorial ambition –

Netanyahu: "Jordan Valley will

always remain a part of Israel"

Israeli bulldozers rape

Palestinian agriculture

along Gaza border

Recent news updates:

Israeli Occupation forces abuse abducted Palestinian youngsters. 25 October 2017 | One 14-year-old child was riding horses with friends in a park in Jerusalem's Old City when the Yassam, a special Israeli police unit, firing stun grenades, arrived at the scene. One grenade landed near Mohammed's feet, so he picked up a stone and threw it at the attacking forces. The Israeli police, who had been photographing him, later abducted him in Saladin Street as he was making his way back home. They handcuffed him and subjected him to interrogation, without his parents' knowledge or the advice of a lawyer. The child's mother told Al Jazeera that she was only informed of the abduction following the interrogation. She said: “He spent the night in gaol and was due in court the next day. He was imprisoned for a further two weeks and in that period, he had another court appearance that was postponed four or five times”. More than a year later, Mohammed is still under house arrest. He is one of the hundreds of Palestinian minors in the Occupied territories that are 'arrested' every year by Israeli forces. The most common charge is stone-throwing which, under Israeli military law, can carry a sentence of up to 20 years in gaol. Stone-throwing settlers are almost never arrested or charged. A new report Unprotected: The detention of Palestinian Teenagers in East Jerusalem, published by Israeli rights groups HaMoked and B'tselem, provides evidence of the violations committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian minors. The study, includes 60 affidavits provided by Palestinian teenagers abducted between May 2015 and October 2016. The report makes clear that the abuses are official policy. The IPS (Israel Prison Service) keeps the boys incarcerated under harsh conditions and in court, the judges, virtually routinely, keep extending the boys' remand in custody. The youngsters are never informed of their rights. While Israeli law supposedly prohibits night interrogations, 91% of the minors interviewed, described being awakened from their beds during the night and abducted for interrogation. Eight out of ten of those interviewed told the rights groups how they had been handcuffed, with a further 70% reporting that they had been kept in restraints, even while undergoing interrogation. Through the application of physical and emotional stress, interrogators are able to force 83% of their young prisoners to sign 'confessions'. A further abuse is that these so-called confessions are written in Hebrew, which the the interrogators know will not be understood by their victims. International organisations, including UNICEF, have also highlighted “widespread, systematic and institutionalised” ill-treatment of Palestinian minors in Israeli military detention. Disruption of education: Israeli forces raided the child's home regularly while he was under arrest. He was taken prisoner once abducted again when he was seen standing on the threshold of his home. The Israeli Occupation then extorted 10,000 shekels (US$2,575) from the family to purchase their son's release from prison. Although, after one year, the Israeli Occupation granted permission for the child to return to school, he has since been abducted for further interrogation on six occasions, sometimes even being held captive overnight. His mother is distraught with worry: “He is depressed and does not want to go to school any more”, said his mother. The boy's next court appearance is on 15 November and he is terrified that his house arrest will be reinstated. He has begged his lawyer to allow him to request a prison sentence so that he can end the uncertainty, once and for all. He finds the present situation suffocating and intolerable. Al Jazeera reports that, according to the Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer, more than 12,000 Palestinian children have been taken prisoner by Israel since 2000. As of August 2017, there were 331 Palestinian minors in Israeli prisons. Radi Darwish, an Addameer lawyer, told Al Jazeera that there has been “an escalation in targeting children . . . especially in Palestinian neighbourhoods such as Silwan, Ras al-Amoud, Issawiya and Shuafat”. The lawyer noted that the arrests of children “. . . is part of the Israeli policy to make life unbearable for Jerusalemites”." See also Al Jazeera article.

Charity Commission warns grants to Israeli settlements could breach UK law. 21 October 2017 | The Charity Commission has warned that making grants to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) could potentially constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions Act of 1957, in a significant hardening of the Commission’s approach to the issue. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171021-grants-to-israeli-settlements-could-breach-uk-law-charity-commission-warns/

176 settlement units to be built in the heart of East Jerusalem.

Good News! adverts banned by TfL will now appear on London black cabs. As the centenary of the Balfour Declaration approaches, the Palestinian Mission to the UK is sending out a message to the British public via a simple but potent media campaign. In 1917 Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote a letter promising Palestinian land to the Zionist movement. This ‘declaration’ became part of British foreign policy and was implemented under the British Mandate of Palestine. Our campaign aims to raise awareness about the consequences of the Balfour Declaration, which subsequently led to the forced expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948. The campaign consists of images of Palestinians leading ordinary lives before their dispossession, contrasted with images of them as refugees and victims of war and Occupation. The resilience of the Palestinian people will eventually impel the British Government to shoulder its historic and moral responsibility for the infamous Balfour Declaration. http://palestinianmissionuk.cmail20.com/t/ViewEmail/j/3AE6678CEA2281532540EF23F30FEDED/ABE81A8E14E9C3839A8E73400EDACAB4

Settler fanatics break into Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. | 26 October 2017

UN has taken concrete step to hold Israel accountable for violating Palestinian human rights. 27 September 2017. News media reports revealed that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights sent letters to 150 companies in Israel and around the globe, warning them that they could be added to a database of complicit companies doing business in illegal Israeli settlements based in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, including East Jerusalem. https://bdsmovement.net/news/un-takes-first-concrete-step-hold-israel-accountable-violating-palestinian-human-rights

Kuwaiti official tells Israeli delegation to leave Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference. The Speaker of Kuwait’s National Assembly, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, told the Israeli delegation: “You should pack your bags and get out of the hall after you saw the reactions of the world’s honourable parliaments.” He continued: “I say to the brutal occupier, if you do not feel shame, then do as you please.” Al-Ghanim said the Israeli delegate “represents the most dangerous form of terrorism; state terrorism”. The head of the delegation of the Palestinian National Council at the IPU, Azzam Al-Ahmad, said Al-Ghanim’s words expressed the thoughts of all the Arab nations. “Al-Ghanim’s words in front of the delegates shine a light on the wounds Palestinians have suffered,” Al-Ahmad said. He added that international parliaments have now been made aware of the Palestinians’ suffering in their quest for their “right to self-determination, to end the Israeli Occupation and to establish an independent Palestinian state.” The 137th session of the IPU is currently underway in St Petersburg. The international organisation sees representatives from 176 sovereign states come together for negotiations and talks.

Arrogant territorial ambition – Netanyahu: “Jordan Valley will always remain a part of Israel”. Netanyahu made the claim at a ceremony celebrating 50 years of belligerent Israeli Occupation settlement in the Jordan Valley. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.818231

Child's Rights Briefing: October 2017. News and updates on the situation of Palestinian children.

Israeli bulldozers rape Palestinian agriculture along Gaza border. 24 October 2017 | Several Israeli Army bulldozers made an incursion into the central Gaza Strip and bulldozed crops on Tuesday morning. Palestinian sources told Ma’an that, as the bulldozers laid waste in the Juhor al-Dik area, Israeli drones flew overhead. Over the past ten years Israel has destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sector in Gaza.

UN Weekly Report:

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s responsibility in Palestine

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