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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 24 hours to 8am 27 July 2010 Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG). Central Gaza homes and farms under fire – crops bulldozed Home invasion – Israeli Army vandalism 2:30am home invasions – youth (17) abducted by Israeli troops Nablus – armed Zionist militants set fire to olive trees Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 11 towns and villages 3 attacks – 28 raids including home invasions – 2 injured 17 taken prisoner – 14 detained – 83 restrictions of movement Home invasions & occupations: 02:00, the village of Beit Iksa - 16:45, the village of Qatanna - 03:30, the town of Silwad - 02:00, Qalqilya - 02:30, the village of Qarawat Bani Zeid. Peace disruption raids: 12:30, the town of Arraba - 13:30, the village of Fahma - 02:50-05:30, Jenin - 00:25, the village of Al Far’a - 09:45, the town of Anabta - 09:45, the village of Kafr Al Labad - 01:00, Tulkarem - 11:40, the village of Hajja - 11:40, the village of Kur - 23:50, the village of Asla - 02:30, the town of Asira Ash Shamaliya - 00:40, the village of Al Auja - 15:35, the village of Wadi Rahhal - 15:40, the village of Husan - 09:25, the town of Surif - 09:25, the town of Kharas - 09:25, the town of Nuba - 09:25, the town of Beit Ula - 10:50, Hebron - 19:50, Hebron - 03:20, Hebron - 14:20, the town of Adh Dhahiriya - 01:35, the town of Surif. Palestinian attacks: noneIsraeli attack – agricultural sabotage: Central Gaza – evening, Israeli armoured vehicles and bulldozers, covered by reconnaissance aircraft, shot their way onto farms to the east of the Al Bureij refugee camp, opened fire on houses and bulldozed crops. Israeli attack – home invasions – abduction: Ramallah – 02:30, Israeli Occupation troops raided the village of Qarawat Bani Zeid, shot their way inside a number of houses, abducted a 17-year-old youth, Fathi Hamdallah Shareef Arar, and left orders for a person to report to Israeli Military Intelligence. Israeli attack – Occupation settler violence – injuries: Nablus – 08:55, two people were injured when a stone-throwing gang of armed Israeli settlers attacked the village of Burin and opened indiscriminate fire while storming a house under construction. Home invasion – vandalism: Ramallah – 03:30, the Israeli Army raided the town of Silwad, searched a house and vandalised the contents, and took a person prisoner. Non-violent resistance – tear gas casualties: Hebron – 10:30, a number of demonstrators were overcome by Israeli tear gas during an assault by Occupation troops on an international protest in the area of Al Buweira near the settlement of Kharsina. The people were demonstrating against attacks by Occupation settlers and the theft of Palestinian land. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Ramallah – 09:30, an Israeli mob near the road junction leading to the village of Ras Karkar stoned passing vehicles and impeded traffic. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Ramallah – 10:35, a gang of settlers near the road junction leading to the town of Turmus’aya stoned passing vehicles on the main Ramallah-Nablus road. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Ramallah – 19:55, Israeli militants from the settlement of Halamish stoned passing vehicles, damaging a truck. The driver was forced to abandon his lorry and flee the area. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Ramallah – 21:30, militants from the settlement of Shilo stoned passing vehicles on the main Ramallah-Nablus road. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Ramallah – 21:30, an Israeli mob from the settlement of Kokhav Hashaher stoned passing vehicles on the main road near Ein Samya, damaging a taxi. Occupation settler violence – arson – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 08:40, Zionist fanatics set fire to and destroyed olive trees near the Huwara checkpoint and attacked a Palestinian Civil Defence crew that attempted to extinguish the fire. Occupation settler armed violence – arson – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 09:10, an armed settler mob attacked houses on the outskirts of the town of Huwara and set fire to olive trees. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Nablus – 09:20, louts from the settlement of Yitzhar stoned nearby passing vehicles which led to the closure of the road. Occupation settler violence – arson – agricultural sabotage: Nablus – 14:30, Zionist militants settlers set fire to olive trees belonging to the village of Burin. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Nablus – 19:25, an Israeli mob stoned vehicles near the checkpoint at Beit Furik, damaging a vehicle belonging to police officer Nidal Abu Hait. Occupation troops intervened and prevented the officer from recovering his vehicle. Occupation settler violence – vandalism: Nablus – 20:15, a gang of Israeli settlers, aided by the Israeli Army, stoned passing vehicles near the road junction leading to the village of Deir Sharaf. Recent news updates: URGENT: Thousands of Israeli apartheid forces ethnically cleanse and demolish the Bedouin village of El-Araqib in the Negev. Pictures at www.amgadalarab.com/?todo=view&cat=2&id=00002880 Please write to media, politicians etc. Yeela Raanan wrote earlier: ”The village of el-Araqib is between Rahat and Beer Sheva, and in a location that the Goldberg commission deemed outside of the areas allowed for the Negev Arabs... an area designated only for Jews... the JNF (Jewish National Fund) is planting a forest on this village's land - to make sure that the Bedouin cannot live on their village lands or use them for agriculture. The villagers turned to the Israeli courts, as the JNF were planting this forest at the bequest of the Israeli government... the people of el-Araqib won the court battle... but this morning it seems that the Government of Israel has started a war -- of the Government against its own citizens.” For more information: Dr. Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognised Villages (RCUV). +972 54 7487005
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From Mazin Qumsiyeh: Quote of the day "[The US gave] $392 million in rehabilitating and training PA [Palestinian Authority] security forces since 2007 - more than $160 million to fund certain units of the security forces, $89 million for vehicles and non-lethal equipment, $99 million for the renovation or construction of PA security forces' installations and $22 million in programmes to increase the forces' capacity. The State Department has requested an additional $150 million for 2011.” (Haaretz) I am in Istanbul, where we (3 Palestinians plus 17 others from many countries) attended a workshop exploring development of curricula on non-violent or popular resistance. The examples used include Eastern Europe, South Africa, Latin America, Palestine and elsewhere. It was a very useful opportunity to network and reflect on our common human struggles and strategise as to how to advance the causes of justice around the globe. The country is very beautiful, grand mosques and grand parks, good food, and friendly down to earth people. Many Arabs are here on vacations. Mosques are busy. The city is bustling. Everyone who finds out we are Palestinian is happy to see us. I can see why Turkish people mobilised the humanitarian aid ships to break the illegal siege on Gaza. Today, we crossed from the European part of Istanbul to the Asian side of the same city. This is truly at the crossroad of Europe and Asia. I believe letting Turkey join the European Union and insisting on respect for human rights in all the countries bordering the Mediterranean (starting with Israel), would be in the best interest of Europe and Asia. While here, the usual mix of bad and good news is received. In bad news, the Israeli occupied US Congress is trying to pass a resolution that will give the green light to Israel to attack Iran! Meanwhile, there is no resolution to condemn Israel for ethnically cleansing yet another village (to add to the hundreds of Palestinian villages depopulated in the past 62 years. Wikileaks published on its site thousands of classified documents on Afghanistan showing that US and NATO forces and intelligence community know this war is not winnable. The war now in its ninth year claims more lives and treasure. The documents validated my long-held belief that unless the US and Europe shed the policies that created fundamentalism, fundamentalism will continue to grow. These policies include a) the unconditional support of Israeli violations of human rights and International law, b) the support of ‘friendly’ dictators that are keeping their own societies in misery (while claiming verbally to support human rights and International Law). In good news, the legal case for Al-Walaja moved in a positive direction as the court decided to re-open the case and ask the Israeli government to re-think, if the Wall is for security purposes, why can't it be built on the Green line. The Court also rejected a settler petition to include all Al-Walaja behind the wall on the so called ‘Israeli side’. (Article in Arabic on Al-Walaja decision www.panet.co.il/online/articles/1/2/S-317185,1,2.html). In other good news, Bishop Munib Younan was elected president of the Lutheran World Federation. www.lwf-assembly.org/experience/lwi-assembly-news/news-detail/article/520/8/ ACTION: Help the legal struggles in different countries against Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity: http://www.humanrightsfund.org/ Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD – A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a Villager at Home www.qumsiyeh.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Palestinian Resistance Ali Kazak's newsletter Occupied Palestine: News and Articles This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Visit http://www.sapienspromise.org/ for further news. See this In Occupied Palestine newsletter at: the PHRC website: www.palestine.org.nz the Scottish PSC's website: www.scottishpsc.org.uk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simpol: Restoring Democracy – Enabling JusticeSimultaneous Policy (SP) www.simpol.org Global justice movement Since the atrocities of September 11, 2001, the tolerance of state authorities to street protest or to other forms of protest has become extremely low. Since SP would operate through existing political systems it does not depend on any form of protest but only on the continued upholding of citizens' right to vote. Unlike most other NGOs Simpol could not therefore be accused of being undemocratic, in any way disruptive or of refusing to engage in established political processes. However, this is not to suggest that non-violent protest represents an inappropriate form of action. Indeed, protest is surely vital if world problems are to be brought to wider public attention. But the key point is that, since SP does not depend on protest nor on conventional lobbying, it offers the global justice movement an entirely complementary and potentially highly effective means of pursuing its political objectives. www.simpol.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Leslie Bravery Palestine Human Rights Campaign www.palestine.org.nz PO Box 56150 Dominion Rd Auckland PHRC Declaration We, the Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand 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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