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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 28 July 2010 Main source of statistics: Palestinian Monitoring Group (PMG). Israeli troops destroy botanical gardens and shops Israeli Army issues demolition orders on 6 homes Occupation forces block roads to farms belonging to 2 villages Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 8 towns and villages 1 attack – 16 raids including home invasions – 6 injured 6 taken prisoner – 13 detained – 71 restrictions of movement Home invasions & occupations: 01:50-06:55, the town of Yatta. Peace disruption raids: dawn, the village of Beit Duqqu - 01:00, the village of Hizma - 08:45, the town of Az Zababida - 08:50, Jenin - 02:00, the village of Deir Abu Da’if - 00:30, Tubas - 01:25-04:40, Tulkarem - 01:25-04:40, the Nur Shams refugee camp - 12:00, the village of An Nabi Elias - 01:35, the village of Jit - 14:00, the village of Burqa - 14:15, the village of Beit Imrin - 15:00, the town of Asira Ash Shamaliya - 09:30, the town of Idhna - 22:20, Hebron. Palestinian attacks: noneResistance: Khan Yunis – morning, an Israeli Army patrol came under fire to the east of the town of Khuza’a and opened fire in reply. Israeli attack – injuries: Jerusalem – evening, six people were injured in the Occupied Jerusalem district of Silwan when the Israeli Army fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas grenades at them. Raid – destruction: Jerusalem – 01:00, Israeli troops raided the village of Hizma and destroyed a botanical garden and three shops. Raid – house demolition orders: Hebron – 09:30, the Israeli Army raided the town of Idhna and left demolition orders on five houses and a shanty home. Agricultural sabotage: Salfit – the Israeli Army is blocking access to two roads between the village of Marda and its agricultural land. Recent news updates: Gaza man killed and five bystanders wounded in Israeli shelling. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded five others near Beit Hanun on Wednesday, Gaza security and medical sources said. Israel admitted its tanks opened fire and eyewitnesses said that one shell hit downtown Beit Hanun, injuring two people. Mossad chief reported visit to Saudi Arabia concerning secret military co-operation. Mossad chief Meir Dagan visited Saudi Arabia recently, if unofficial reports published over the weekend on the WorldNetDaily website are accurate. According to the reports, the talks conducted in Saudi Arabia with the head of Israel's espionage agency dealt with Iran. The account follows a series of recent reports on increasing secret co-operation between Israel and the Saudis, including military collaboration related to possible military action against Iran. Two months ago, the Times of London reported that an air defence system was halted for a few hours during a Saudi military exercise to rehearse the possible crossing of Saudi Arabian air space by Israeli fighter planes. Report: www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mossad-chief-reportedly-visited-saudi-arabia-for-talks-on-iran-1.304032 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UK PM Cameron calls Gaza 'prison camp' Cameron wants a new partnership with Turkey – He says the "situation in Gaza has to change" – Israel says residents of Gaza are prisoners of Hamas A CNN article reports British Prime Minister David Cameron calling Gaza a "prison camp" on Tuesday. Cameron made the remarks in Ankara, on a visit to Turkey to show his support for Turkish membership of the European Union. "Let me also be clear that the situation in Gaza has to change. Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp," Cameron said, according to a transcript of the speech provided by his office. Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to Britain, was quoted as saying that, "The people of Gaza are the prisoners of the terrorist organisation Hamas," and raised the issue of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier taken prisoner four years ago. Article ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ British Judge faces anti-Semitism probe 24 July 2010 Full article at: Daily Mail A senior judge was under investigation yesterday after being accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in court that may have swayed his jury into acquitting a group of protesters. Judge George Bathurst-Norman was said by critics to have persuaded a jury to clear a group of campaigners who smashed up a factory making parts for Israeli war planes. Summing up in the criminal damage trial, he compared Israel to the Nazi regime and accused the country of ignoring international law. The judge added that "there may be much to be admired" about the chief protester, and that "in the last war he would probably have received a George Medal." The activists claimed they believed their invasion was necessary for the protection of property in Gaza. Several similar defences by protesters have been successful in recent years. Describing evidence shown in court, Judge Bathurst-Norman told the jury that he could only describe the "horrific" events shown as "scenes which one would rather have hoped to have disappeared with the Nazi regimes of the last war." In his summing up, he gave his backing to the evidence of one defendant, Ornella Saibene, a former Greenham Common activist. The judge said: "She took us through the horrors, and there really is no other word for it than horrors, that emerged in the press and on the news and the footage as to what the Israelis were doing in Gaza. You may think that perhaps 'Hell on Earth' would be an understatement of what the Gazans endured." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 Justice Simultaneous 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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