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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 1 for November 2017}

ABC News term 'indigenous'

displaces Australia's

Palestinian allies

Gaza: 7 Palestinians killed

and 12 others wounded

as Israeli forces blow up

blockade-Resistance tunnel

Israeli Occupation of

Palestinian land gives rise to

UN call to isolate Israel

FIFA Council takes note of

UNSC 2334 but sides with Israel

British anti-Balfour activists

apologise on UK's behalf

The Israel Lobby and

the European Union

Israel seeks to destroy entire

Palestinian Bedouin community

Israeli settlers plunder

Palestinian olive harvest

Israel to establish

200-police presence

in Al-Aqsa Mosque

France refers to

UNSCR 2334 Resolution

in condemnation of Israel

Israel Lobby's

grip on US tightens

Recent news updates:

ABC News – one-eyed use of term 'indigenous' displaces Australia's Palestinian allies. 'Not even classed as citizens”: Remembering the Indigenous soldiers at Beersheba. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-30/battle-of-beersheba-indigenous-soldiers-remembered/9098636

At least 7 Palestinians killed and 12 others wounded as Israeli forces blow up blockade-Resistance tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip.Israeli media described the incident on Monday as 'pre-planned' rather planned, without explaining the difference. The destruction already wrought by three Israeli offensives since 2008, include damage to Gaza’s water, sanitation, energy and medical facilities. The merciless Israeli blockade has drastically slowed reconstruction and the dire situation has led the UN to warn that Gaza could be “uninhabitable” by 2020. https://www.albawaba.com/news/seven-palestinians-killed-12-wounded-israeli-gaza-tunnel-bombing-1041462

Illegal, unrelenting, military Occupation of Palestinian land gives rise to call for UN to isolate Israel. The United Nations must “review Israel’s status as a law-abiding member of the United Nations” by declaring its “Occupation as illegal”, UN Human Rights Council Special Investigator, Michael Lynk, stated on Thursday. Such a move would help to force it to end the Occupation. Lynk was addressing a United Nations press conference in New York, where he proposed a get-tough strategy to force Israel to withdraw from the West Bank. “What if, Lynk asked, “the many forms of military, economic or academic co-operation with Israel would now end?” If that would come to pass, there would be a sea-change in Israel’s attitude toward the Palestinians, he said. Lynk was at the UN to push member states to formulate a resolution that would add strength to the international body's attempts to get Israel to respect international law. This would include a General Assembly resolution that asks the International Court of Justice at The Hague to issue a fresh advisory opinion confirming the illegality of the Israeli Occupation. The UN Human Rights Council's Special Investigator explained that there is a vast difference between a legal and an illegal military Occupation, particularly with regard to the application of UN sanctions. The International Court of Justice has already issued an advisory opinion confirming the illegality of Israel's annexation Wall in the West Bank and, as the Wall is an essential component of Israel's settlement and colonisation project, a precedent has already been set. Should Israel’s “occupation” be declared unlawful, the UN could consider making use of the Uniting for Peace resolution (General Assembly resolution 377A), which would give the GA the power to sanction Israel in the absence of a strategic consensus among the Security Council’s five permanent members: the US, UK, China, France and Russia. Michael Lynk is a Canadian legal expert who holds the post of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories for the UN Human Rights Council. The NGO UN Watch took issue with what it called the one-sided nature of Lynk’s statements, attempting, unconvincingly, to conflate Palestinian Resistance with Israel's belligerent military Occupation. http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Turn-Israel-into-pariah-state-to-end-occupation-UN-official-urges-508622 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEyezR-nDc

The Palestinian Authority (PA) officially took over control of the Gaza side of the border crossings on Wednesday, as part of the transfer of power to the Palestinian unity government. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779424

The FIFA Council takes note of UNSC 2334, but sides with Israel over illegal settlement. Following the report submitted by the FIFA Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine chaired by Tokyo Sexwale and after what it called a 'thorough legal consultation process', the FIFA Council has agreed on a position with regard to the administration of football in the West Bank territories. Fifa ignored its own rules, siding with Israel and accepting Israel's propaganda line that there “is no permanent, recognised border in the area.” https://www.timesofisrael.com/fifa-wont-take-up-palestinian-complaint-against-israeli-clubs/

British anti-Balfour activists apologise on UK's behalf with march from Europe to Palestine.

The Israel Lobby and the European Union report. Researched and written by Public Interest Investigations/Spinwatch and published by EuroPal Forum, the report reveals the extent to which noted American funders and proponents of the Islamophobia industry in the United States and Israel’s illegal settlement project in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are also financing the expanding Israel lobby in Brussels. http://europalforum.org.uk/en/page/51/Buy+?mc_cid=f4fc1bbcfe&mc_eid=7d0a8beff2

Israel denies entry to US employee of Amnesty International as part of its anti-BDS strategy. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-denies-entry-to-amnesty-worker-in-anti-bds-move/

The Israeli Government seeks to destroy an entire Palestinian Bedouin community. The Zionist state has approached its Supreme Court to approve demolition plans it wishes to enforce by mid-2018. This would be the first clearance of an entire Palestinian community since 1967. Khan al-Ahmar, home to 173 people, is located in Area C – the 60% of the West Bank that lies under full Israeli control. The village is home to one of 20 Jahalin Bedouin communities at risk of ethnic cleansing, due to Israeli settlement expansion. The Israeli construction plan for the area has been frozen since 2009, following international outrage. The communities under threat comprise 2,300 Palestinian refugees who had already been displaced by Israel in the 1950s. Plans for this area aim to link the Ma'ale Adumim Occupation settlement to Jerusalem, with the intention of breaking the contiguity of Occupied Palestinian territory. Abu Khamis, the mukhtar of Khan al-Ahmar, knows that his community has become a symbol of the Palestinian struggle to remain in their land. “There's proof this community has been here since 1967. We are only the first piece of the puzzle in the bigger picture”, Abu Khamis told Palestine Monitor. “If they relocate this community, they will relocate all other communities in the area”, he said, adding that he believes international pressure can help postpone the transfer – a strategy that has worked over the years, even though it leaves the community in a constant state of insecurity. Since 2009, residents of the nearby settlement of Kfar Adumim and the pro-settler organisation Regavim, have been filing petitions to demolish the Khan al-Ahmar Primary School, which serves 174 pupils, and evict all the villagers. The community's lawyer, Shlomo Lecker, says: “While the government argues that the residents of Khan al-Ahmar will receive alternative housing, they will in fact be evacuated against their will for the benefit of settlers, and placed above the garbage dump in Abu Dis.” B'Tselem said Israel was asking the High Court for “permission for commit a war crime. No sanctimonious language about a 'planning, proprietary and realistic’ alternate, or 'time to prepare’ can erase the disgrace or hide the facts: the destruction of Khan al-Ahmar means the forcible transfer of protected persons, and forcible transfer is a war crime,” said Hagai El-Ad, B'Tselem's Executive Director. Read more:

Israeli settlers plunder Palestinian olive harvest. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779402

Israel to establish 200-police presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Palestinian women’s council takes charge: 'They depend on us'.

France condemns Israel's decision to build 3,000 new settlement units. France condemned the Israeli Occupation’s recent decision to add some 3,000 new units to the West Bank settlements in the heart of Hebron, for the first time since 2002. A statement by the spokesperson of the French Foreign Ministry said: “The uninterrupted continuation of the settlement policy, confirmed by these new projects, only serves to fuel tensions on the ground . . .” He stressed that, “Settlement activity, as reaffirmed by UNSCR 2334, is illegal under international law. The ongoing settlement activity has reached an unprecedented level since the beginning of the year: The progress of settlement projects tripled between 2016 and 2017.” According to international law, the West Bank and East Jerusalem are under belligerent Occupation and all Israeli settlement-building activity there is illegal. Nevertheless, roughly 500,000 Israelis now live in more than 100 Jewish-only settlements built on these territories since 1967. http://europalforum.org.uk/en/post/3090?mc_cid=9cff7deca1&mc_eid=7d0a8beff2

Israel Lobby's grip on US tightens. US Senate Bill S.720 drafted by the Israel lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as part of its “2017 Lobbying Agenda” is set to punish any individual or company that boycotts Israel for its violation of Palestinian human rights. The severe punishment could reach a million dollars in fines, and up to 20 years in gaol. Although political boycott has been sanctioned by the US Supreme Court, the Congress wants to make a boycott of Israel the exception, even if it means the subversion of US democracy. https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/02/walls-and-militarized-police-how-israel-is-exporting-its-occupation-to-the-united-states/

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