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Weekly Report: On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
OPT: Protection of civilians weekly report 31 Oct - 06 Nov 2007
"The Barrier Gate and Permit Regime Four Years on:
Humanitarian Impact in the Northern West Bank"
VIDEO: Hebron settlers filmed
harassing city's Palestinian residents
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his face. The clergyman prefered not to lodge a complaint with the police and told an acquaintance that he was used to being spat at by Jews. Many Jerusalem clergy have been subjected to abuse of this kind. For the most part, they ignore it but sometimes they cannot.
Settlers set fire to Palestinian olive groves
Abed al Kareem Husein, head of village council of the northern West Bank village of Dir Al Hatab, east of Nablus , on Thursday reported that a group of setterlers had set fire to olive groves belonging to the village.
When the army comes knocking
Umm Zuhir, 87, remembers mainly how the soldiers kept telling her: Keep quiet, quiet. She repeatedly asked to open the windows of her house a little: "I'm sick, you also have a mother, I'm suffocating," she said, and they told her, "Keep quiet," or didn't answer at all. "But it should be mentioned that they didn't steal anything," she added.
Israeli women soldiers recount army trauma in film
One posed for a photo as she scrubbed a Palestinian corpse. Another stripped a man to his underwear and then beat him. A third helped cover up the abuse of a young boy.
Israeli army kidnaps four across West Bank
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army kidnapped at least four Palestinian civilians during predawn invasions across the West Bank on Thursday.
Israeli army attacks peaceful
demonstration west of Ramallah
The Israeli army on Thursday attacked a peaceful demonstration, organized by villagers from several villages west of Ramallah, on the settlers' road known as road 443.
Arab MK holds Israeli ministry
responsible for death of Palestinian girl
Arab member of the Knesset Talab El Sane'e on Wednesday accused the Israeli Ministry of Education, Transportation and Road Safety of negligence in its upkeep of infrastructure sorrounding unrecognized villages.
Homes in illegal Israeli settlements
for sale at London expo
Israeli companies are using UK property shows to sell housing in illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Guardian Unlimited can reveal. At the Israel Property Exhibition at Brent town hall, North London last Sunday, one company, Anglo-Saxon Real Estate, was offering for sale properties in Maale Adumim and Maccabim. Both West Bank settlements lie on the Palestinian side of the so-called green line, the pre-1967 boundary and often cited as the border between Israel and a future Palestinian state.
Israel's economic blockade stops Gaza's
strawberry-farmers selling their crop
Almost all of Gaza's turbulent story is bound up with Jamil Abu Hmaideh's strawberry fields here in the far north of the strip. Between two wispy clouds high in the blue sky above us, two Israeli Apache helicopters hover on the look-out for the Qassam rocket-launching crews as we bite into the luscious, perfectly ripened fruit Mr Hmaideh has picked for us. At the end of the neat plantation rows are the high sandbanks just inside the Gaza town of Beit Lahiya's border
with Israel, the ones from which the military bulldozers descended when they last ploughed up one of his fields before he started planting at the end of August. Hanging on the wall in his two-room farm station is a "martyr portrait" of his 21-year-old son, Nael, who was killed in May, a non-combatant casualty of the savage infighting between Fatah and Hamas.
Four East J'lem Arabs charged with killing alleged collaborator
Authorities in Jerusalem have arrested four residents of the Jabel Mukaber section of East Jerusalem for allegedly conspiring to kill a man they suspected of cooperating with the Israeli security services.
Israeli forces storm northern and central West Bank
Israeli military forces on Friday morning invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and the central West Bank city of al-Bireh, Palestinian security sources have reported.
FACTBOX-Past Mideast peace talks in United States
The Palestinian path to peace
does not go via Annapolis
World opinion is still on the side of the people of the occupied territories. But as long as they are divided, talks are futile.
Abbas reiterates call for a just peace,
wants an end to Hamas's rule in Gaza
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated Thursday Palestinian willingness to achieve a just comprehensive peace with Israel, ahead of the upcoming peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, United States.
Abbas wants Hamas ousted on road
to peace with Israel
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday urged the people of Gaza to oust his Islamist rivals who seized control of the territory in June, as he seeks a lasting peace with Israel. "We must get rid of this clique that took control of the Gaza Strip by force and which is exploiting the suffering and tragedies of our people," he said in a televised speech from his Ramallah office to mark the 19th anniversary of the symbolic declaration of a Palestinian state.
Hamas to release Fatah supporters
detained after Gaza rally
Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza, ordered on Thursday the release of most of the Fatah supporters who were detained by Hamas police forces after a large rally earlier this week. Haniyeh said in a televised speech that he instructed the police to release most of the over 400 Fatah supporters detained, "except those who were involved in riots and disturbances."
Hamas: Fateh security forces broke into girls'
dormitory at Al Najah university in Nablus
Sources in the Hamas movement accused the Palestinian security forces loyal to the Fateh party, including the women's police force, of breaking into a girls' dormitory at al-Najah University in Nablus. The Hamas movement accused the security forces of attacking several students.
Apartheid Masked: Fourth in a Series of
Non-Violent Protests Against Apartheid Road 443
The fourth in a series of non-violent protests against apartheid road 443 took place today. 150 Palestinians and internationals marched to the side of the road to protest the Israeli system of apartheid, of which road 443 is a large part. Even though highway 443 is located in the West Bank, and its expansion was built on seized Palestinian land, Palestinians are not allowed to use it.
Professor resigns abruptly, Students called the professor biased
Berlin and other students in the class said they were concerned that Diskin taught the class with a bias toward Israel. He said the main textbook in the class focuses on the history of Israel, with no counterpart book about Arab states. "We would learn about so much about Israel and specific institutions, but we learned very little about the other states, the Arab states, the Palestinian people … it has to be especially at GW," said Berlin, who is Jewish. "People here are not going to sit down and let professors just tell them how things are if kids think it's another
way. Eventually kids just stood up to her."
HUH????? DID I MISS SOMETHING???? IS THIS FROM THE ONION??
PLO, Fatah hold ceremony to mark anniversary of Palestine's independence
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Fatah Movement in Lebanon held a ceremony Thursday at the UNESCO Palace to mark the 19th anniversary of Palestine's independence and the third anniversary of the death of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Palestinian billionaire launches movement to rival Fatah, Hamas
Hundreds of Palestinian business people and professionals, led by an influential billionaire, launched a new political movement Thursday, reflecting growing disillusionment with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party. Fatah dominated Palestinian politics for decades, but failed to reform or clean up its corrupt image, even after a painful loss to Hamas in parliament elections nearly two years ago. Billionaire businessman Munib al-Masri, 73, inaugurated his Palestine Forum with meetings in Ramallah and Gaza, linked by video conference. Supporters said he would convert the new group into a political party and field candidates in the next Palestinian election. No date for an election has been set. Fatah and Hamas have been locked in a bitter struggle since the 2006 election swept Fatah from power. In June, Hamas forces overran Gaza, prompting Abbas to dismiss the Hamas-led government and appoint his own, which, in effect, rules only the West Bank.
Palestinian leader refuses to be drawn on 'Jewish Israel'
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Thursday refused to be drawn on a demand by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Palestinians recognise the Jewish nature of Israel. "Historic Palestine will be divided into two states -- Israel and Palestine," he told reporters in the West Bank political capital of Ramallah.
Olmert to announce steps on settlements, prisoners
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to announce next week a partial freeze in Jewish settlement activity, the release of up to 400 Palestinian prisoners and the removal of some West Bank travel restrictions.
Israel, free speech, and the Oxford Union
Israel is often portrayed by its supporters as an island of democracy in a sea of authoritarianism. But these very same supporters, in their excessive zeal for their cause, sometimes end up by violating one of the most fundamental principles of democracy - the right to free speech. While accepting free speech as a universal value, all too often they try to restrict it when it comes to Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians. The result is not to encourage but to stifle debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
'Draft-dodgers can't represent Israel'
Broadcasting Authority won't allow singers who didn't serve in army to compete for place as Israel's representative to Eurovision song contest.
Rabbis to Ovadia Yosef: Shas must quit evil government
In letter to Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, prominent rabbis write that Annapolis conference will lead to 'uprooting of dozens of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria'.
E-mail snub to Israel by Prince Charles' aides results in furor
Senior aides to Britain's Prince Charles said there is "no chance" the prince would ever visit Israel as such a visit would boost Israel's international image. The aides wrote the comments, in August e-mails, after outgoing Israeli ambassador to Britain Zvi Heifetz extended an invitation to the prince via principal private secretary Sir Michael Peat and deputy private secretary Clive Alderton.
The Fall of Zionism
Zionism, as a political and ideological movement, has become inseparable from Judaism in the minds of many. In mainstream Canadian media and popular debate, being Jewish and being Zionist has become confounded, as all Jews are portrayed as ardent supporters of the Israeli state and believers in Zionism. The confusion is perhaps understandable in light of the positions taken by the best-funded Canadian Jewish organizations. Claiming to represent all Jews, organizations such as the Canadian Jewish Congress, Canada-Israel Committee, B'nai Brith, and the student networks they fund, spend a great deal of time promoting the notion that questioning Israeli government policy is anti-Semitic.
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