West bank tourism takeover continues; more Gaza fundamentalism

Yet more Palestinian homes and property are being destroyed to make room for a planned increase in tourism by the Israeli regime:http://www.imemc.org/article/67098


Meanwhile in Gaza, there are signs that fundamentalism is on the increase with the apparent 'honour killing' of two teenage girls:
http://news.yahoo.com/relatives-arrested-over-suspected-39-honour-39-killing-140027191.html

Israelis push for West Bank splice

Rightists march at Maale Adumim pushing for new settlements

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MAALE ADUMIM (AFP) 14 Feb -- Thousands of young Zionist hardliners marched on Thursday to demand the government build new "settler" homes in E1, a highly sensitive strip of West Bank land near Jerusalem. Police said more than 6,000 people, including major Israeli political figures but mostly teenagers, joined the march which began in the Maale Adumim colony in the occupied West Bank and ended at E1 -- an undeveloped stretch of land just to the west, which borders the already stolen East Jerusalem territory. "Kerry = persona non grata," read one of the signs, referring to US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been trying to coax the Israelis and Palestinians towards a peace agreement. The Israelis have been planning construction in E1 since the early 1990s but nothing has ever been built there due to heavy international pressure. Plans for building 1,200 units unveiled in December 2012 were quickly put on hold after the announcement triggered a major diplomatic backlash. The Palestinians say construction in E1 would effectively cut the West Bank in two and prevent the restoration of a contiguous Palestinian state. "We will keep (the) promise to build in E1," Housing Minister Uri Ariel told a crowd consisting almost entirely of high-schoolers. The demonstration came hours after a Palestinian protest on the site in opposition to Israeli settlement construction in E1. That protest was held in anticipation of the Israeli right wing protest, and Israeli forces detained one activist during the demonstration.

Renewed violence by army and colonisers in The Occupied Territories

Over the last week there have been several instances of violence both by colonisers and the army against Palestinian citizens. Here is one example: an attack against villagers near Hebron:
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IMEMC Sat 1 Feb -- A number of Israeli 'settlers' attacked several
Palestinian villagers working on their own lands in Wad Abu ar-Reesh
Khirbit Safa area -- in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Mohammad Awad, spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, said that several of the colonisers invaded Palestinian farmland and orchards, close to the illegal Beit Ayen colony. He added that the 'settlers' assaulted the villagers, and pushed them out of their lands while threatening and cursing at them. The attack comes just a few days after the colonisers attacked local villagers in the same area.