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Weekly Report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 13 - 26 Dec 2007
Three people killed, nine injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Gaza
Three Palestinians have been killed and nine others wounded after Israeli war planes launched an air strike on southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army shells areas in southern Gaza strip
The Israeli army shelled the areas of Abassan and Al Qarrarah, located near Khan Younis city in the southern part of the Gaza strip on Thursday morning.
Palestinian resistance fighter dies as tunnel collapses on him in Gaza
Palestinian sources in the Gaza strip reported on Thursday that a Palestinian resistance fighter died late Wednesday night when a tunnel collapsed on him in the city of Rafah in the southern part of the costal region.
Tubas governor slams Israeli settlement expansion policy in the plains area
Sami Musallam, the governor of Tubas in the West Bank plains area, slammed the ongoing and rapidly increasing Israeli settlement construction and expansion, and considered these policies as further obstacles placed by Israel in the path of the peace process.
Seven Palestinians kidnapped from Nablus by Israeli army
In a pre-dawn invasion on Thursday, Israeli army kidnaps seven Palestinians from the northern West Bank city of Nablus and nearby refugee camp of Balata.
A leader of the al Quds brigade kidnapped in Nablus by undercover Israeli unit
Undercover unit of Israeli forces kidnapped Samer Al Sa'di, 23 from Jenin refugee camp claiming him to be a leader of the al Quds brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad on Thursday morning.
Pregnant Palestinian women forced to give birth at home because of fence
In village surrounded by separation fence on outskirts of Qalqiliya, pregnant women prefer to stay elsewhere in later months of pregnancy for fear they will not be able to pass through gate in fence in order to give birth in hospital.
Female detainee on hunger strike in protest to repeated administrative detention
Detainee Nour Al Hashlamoon started an open ended hunger strike on December 18 after the Ofer Israeli military court renewed her administrative detention for the sixth consecutive time without any charges pressed against her.
A female prisoner is about to give birth in Israeli detention center
Fatima Al Zuq is from Gaza and was kidnapped a few months ago, she's the fourth Palestinian prisoner to give birth inside an Israeli prison since the beginning of the Al Aqsa Intifada.
Shooting Back: The Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem Gives Palestinians Video Cameras to Document Life Under Occupation
B'Tselem has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to document how they are treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Some of the videos depicting abuse by settlers sparked a national debate earlier this year after they were broadcast on Israeli television. We speak with Oren Yakobovich who coordinates B'Tselem's video department. [includes rush transcript]
Two Palestinian Villages Ask Susan Sarandon to Repudiate Leviev over Israeli Settlements
Dear Ms. Sarandon, We felt sorrow when we learned that you accepted Lev Leviev's invitation to attend the opening night event for his new jewelry store in New York City on November 13 while our friends protested outside, because we respect you for your support for human rights, for your courage in speaking since 2002 against the US war on Iraq, and for your many other honorable public positions.
Officials: Olmert didn't commit to settlement halt
Israeli PM, Palestinian leader Abbas meet in Jerusalem, agree to refrain from steps that would hinder efforts to reach permanent agreement; sources say Olmert did not guarantee Israel would withdraw plans to expand Har Homa.
OPT: Mideast talks already tangled a month after Annapolis summit
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are set to meet Thursday amid rising tensions over whether the promises of peace they made a month ago in Annapolis, Md., can be fulfilled.
Blair's misguided economic optimism
The Quartet's Middle East envoy, Tony Blair, wanted to raise $5.6 billion US at the donor conference in Paris in December 2007. Since 1999 the per capita gross domestic product in occupied Palestine has declined by 40 percent. As a result Palestinians are getting poorer and 65 percent live below the poverty line. To give the hard hit economy a boost, Blair came up with a cure of ten "quick impact projects." The World Bank has another opinion: pouring money into the occupied Palestinian territory will do little to revive the economy unless the occupation is ended. Instead, some of Blair's proposed projects are firmly rooted in the structure of the occupation.
Arab-Israeli Parliamentarians call new airport profiling "discrimination by a different name"
A long-standing Israeli policy of taking any Arab-looking person aside at the airport for long interrogation sessions is being reviewed, following a petition filed by human rights groups in Israel. But Arab Members of the Israeli Knesset (Parliament) have criticized the review, saying that the recommended changes in policy are simply more of the same.
In-laws force aide to Arab MK to quit or lose fiancé
Parliamentary aide to MK Nadia Hilou forced to leave post after his ultra-Orthodox future in-laws threatened to cancel the wedding if he continued to work for an Arab. Hilou: 'I never believed that racism would arrive at my doorstep'
A West Bank struggle rooted in land
NAHALIN, WEST BANK -- From his hilltop farm, Daoud Nassar can see the sun rise over the Jordan Valley and set in the Mediterranean, an arc that spans the territorial breadth of his people's conflict with Israel. He also can see the neighbors whose rival claim has drawn the idyllic 100-acre plot deeply into that fight.
Gaza census renewed after Hamas agrees to use of data
Employees of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics began collecting data Monday for a population census in the Gaza Strip after a hiatus of several weeks. In August, the PCBS began a comprehensive survey of populations, economic enterprises, homes and other buildings in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Rightists to give Bush warm 'welcome' in Jerusalem
Organizations representing Israelis opposed to America's land-for-peace efforts plan to greet US President George W. Bush with a large demonstration when he visits Israel next month. The protest is scheduled to take place in Har Homa - a southern-Jerusalem neighborhood which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently condemned Israel for developing.
Hamas' test of responsibility
Hezbollah has never recognized Israel or agreements with it, has not stopped using violence, and continues to get stronger and acquire rockets. Nevertheless, the situation in the North reminds us of the time before the Second Lebanon War. A balance of fear on both sides of the border between Hezbollah's long-range rockets and the Israel Air Force's firepower guarantees calm even without diplomatic agreements.
State comptroller to investigate sale of contested Hebron house
The Knesset State Control Committee decided Wednesday to instruct State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss to investigate the conduct of state authorities in the matter of a home taken over by Jewish settlers near Hebron.
The right to explode in anger
The negotiations over the future of our land, from the sea to the river, and the two peoples living in it, are proceeding along two parallel channels. It has been that way since the Madrid and Oslo talks for 17 years now. One channel is between the Palestinians and Israelis - such as Tuesday's meeting in Jerusalem between chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. The other is being conducted between the Israelis and themselves. Will the only genuine point of contact between these two channels be another explosion of blood, as occurred in 1996 and 2000?
Egypt aid conditioned on enforcing Gaza siege
CAIRO, December 27 (IPS) - Last week, both houses of US Congress agreed to withhold 100 million dollars in financial assistance to Egypt following Israeli claims that Egyptian authorities were failing to prevent weapons smuggling to the Gaza Strip. Cairo, for its part, denounced the decision, while local political analysts saw the move as a heavy-handed pressure tactic on the part of Washington's pro-Israel lobby.
A Palestinian love story
A few months ago, a European professional in Ramallah threw a farewell party after completing part of the project for which he was recruited. The European himself, a Belgian, spent many years previously in the Palestinian territories and was very well liked locally, not least because he married a Palestinian woman, but that's another story. A friend and old colleague of mine came up to me at the party and asked me discretely about A., a good-looking and outgoing woman who works with us.
Israeli experts say force against Iran is still an option
Force remains an option of last resort should Israel eventually conclude that the weapons threshold is about to be crossed, according to Israeli experts and former intelligence officials.
U.S. report on Iran forces Israel to alter strategy
In the wake of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate's finding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Israel must prove Iran is cheating without being accused of trying to push the United States into war.
Iranian Jews: Reports of Iranians immigrating to Israel an 'outright lie'
After 40 new Iranian immigrants arrive in Israel, Jewish community head in Iran tells reporters that Iranian Jews remain tied to their homeland.
The Israel Football Association tribunal was in session again to discuss the meaning of racist and derisive chants. This time it ended with Beitar Jerusalem being punished with one match without a crowd and a fine of NIS 10,000. However, in light of how these things turned out in the past, it is still too early to determine how this will develop based on the fact that the sentence will be appealed to the IFA's highest court.
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