"Settler" attack becomes mainstream

The latest attack by hardline Zionists against Palestinians, in which an 18-month child was killed during an attack on a home, has been recognised by the mainstream press including the BBC. The Today interviewer managed to get the Zionist spokesman, Mark Regev, to answer the question asked, e.g. about the percentage of complaints about previous 'settler' violence that have resulted in prosecution. Although he is usually well-armed with all relevant names and dates, on this occasion he was unable to lay his hands on the facts. He claimed that for this, as with all actions by unaligned groups, there would be prosecution and justice. He did not volunteer any information about the Israeli army's (and hence the state's) usual support for the 'settlers' in all circumstances.

Christian and Muslim schools threatened by Israelis

The Israelis are trying to destroy the roots of non-Jewish society in occupied Palestine, as this report by Jonathan Cook details:
Church-run schools in Israel face ‘death sentence’ 29 June 2015 - Israel is seeking to bring dozens of church-run schools under government control, a move that community leaders warn will curb the last vestiges of educational freedom for the country’s large Palestinian minority. The schools, which educate Christians and Muslims and are among the highest-achieving in Israel, are the only hope for most families trying to escape dire conditions in the government-run Arab education system. - See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/#sthash.m6PEO138.dpuf

Israel delivers four stop-work orders in Bethlehem

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BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 22 July -- Israeli forces delivered four stop-work
notices to Palestinians from the village of Za‘tara in eastern Bethlehem
on Wednesday, claiming the buildings were not licensed, locals said.
Muheisen Abu Amriyeh, a local resident, told Ma‘an that Israeli military
vehicles escorted by Israeli Civil Administration officers raided the area
and delivered stop-work notices to houses belonging to the Hassan Muheisin
family. A total of eight houses belonging to the family are now threatened
with demolition, as Israel delivered another four notices to the same
family 10 days ago, Abu Amriyeh said. Five of the houses are at an early
stage of construction while the other three are already inhabited.
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Israeli forces destroy 450 olive trees, Roman-era well in Hebron
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HEBRON (Ma‘an) 22 July -- Israeli forces on Wednesday destroyed 450 olive
trees, levelled land, and demolished a Roman-era water well in the village
of *Beit Ula in northwestern Hebron, after claiming the Palestinian land
belonged to Israel, locals said. Issa al-Imla, the coordinator of a local
popular committee in Beit Ula, told Ma‘an that the olive trees were more
than 10 years old and belonged to a local farmer, Farid Abd al-Latif
al-Imla. Al-Imla said that Israeli forces also levelled lands belonging to
Abd al-Qader al-Imla and demolished the village water well that dated from
the Roman era. Al-Imla said that Israeli forces, officials from the Israeli
Civil Administration, and three bulldozers also raided the Attus and
al-Mekheh areas in western Beit Ula and destroyed crops. On January 27, an
Israeli court issued an order to confiscate hundreds of dunams of land in
western Beit Ula. Al-Imla said that Palestinian landowners followed up the
case in Israeli courts, but added that Israeli courts generally assist
settlers in confiscating Palestinian land. He called on the Palestinian
Minister of Agriculture and Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to help farmers
re-plant trees.
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Navy injures fishermen; power cut hits Gaza

Gaza as a destination for the world's sun-worshipping surfers may still be a way off, as attacks by the navy, and power cuts continue - as in these details from the International Middle East Media Center:
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IMEMC 22 July -- Israeli navy ships opened live fire, on Tuesday at dawn,
on a number of Palestinian fishing boats in Beit Lahia, in the northern
part of the Gaza Strip, wounding two fishers, and kidnapped two including
one of the wounded, before towing a boat to the Ashdod Port. *Ahmad Ismael
Sharafi*, 20 years of age, was shot with a live round in the back, and
several rubber-coated metal bullets in his arm, and was moved to the Shifa
Medical Center in Gaza, suffering a moderate injury. The two kidnapped
fishers were released approximately at six in the evening, while one of
them was moved to a medical center for treatment of wounds resulting from
the Israeli attack, the Union for Agricultural Work Committees has
reported. On Monday evening, the navy attacked a fishing boat belonging to
Yousef Fayez Barakat, 22 years of age, and kidnapped him, along with
Haitham Tareq Bakr, 25.
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 Blackouts hit Gaza as power plant shuts amid tax dispute
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GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 21 July -- The Gaza Strip was reduced to eight hours of
electricity per day on Tuesday after its sole power plant shut down because
it was unable to afford PA-imposed taxes. The Gaza distribution network
will provide just six hours of electricity for every 12 hours without,
averaging eight hours of total power a day