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| Prof. Hassassian greeted by the Lord Mayor of Bristol |
Saturday, 15 June 2013
'Embassy' opens in Bristol, UK
In the centre of Bristol's old city, A new Palestinian cultural exchange has opened its doors for the first time. I quote from the Release: Central-Bristol venue, the ARC on Broad Street, was transformed into a “Palestinian Embassy”. Spread across three floors it included a café serving Palestinian food, a cinema showing Palestinian films, and a gallery showing a major exhibition of Palestinian history, culture and solidarity, with West Bank paintings by Bristol artist Hanley. A day-long conference included talks and workshops on Palestine provided by local and UK solidarity activists together with a live video link to Gaza & West Bank. Professor Manuel Hassassian, Palestine's
Ambassador to the UK, was the welcome special guest.
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
Karmel Colony: Israelis unite with Palestinians
On Saturday June: 8 an old Palestinian man from the village of Umm Al Kheer, Suleiman Aid Yameen Hadleen, was detained for more than three hours by the Israeli army while affirming his right to access his own land. In the last two days the soldiers denied the Palestinians from Umm Al Kheer access to their own land until Sunday morning, without any official order. The land in question is on a hill that belongs to the Hadleen family. On the top of it the 'settlers' of Karmel Israeli colony in 2011 planted some olive trees and about two weeks ago built a small tent. Two days ago the settlers started to dig holes on the ground, intending to plant more olive trees in a row that would go along the top of the hill, preventing Palestinians from entering the land behind it. That hill is crossed everyday by Palestinian shepherds, since it is the only way that takes to the valleys grazed by their sheep. On Saturday June 8, three Palestinian shepherds with their flocks, together with other Palestinians, Israeli activists and international volunteers were chased away from the top of the hill by the Israeli army.
< http://palsolidarit
to palsolidarity.
Maan News reports that Negev residents protested against a forced displacement
plan.
<http://www.maannews
Beersheba, Israel (Ma‘an) 9 June -- Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev
announced on Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal
to be put before the Knesset that would see the dismantling of 'unrecognized'
villages and the forced displacement of residents. The Al-Naqab Association
for Land and Human Beings said all residents were being urged to join
Thursday'
< http://www.maannews
www.maannews.
< http://palsolidarit
to palsolidarity.
Maan News reports that Negev residents protested against a forced displacement
plan.
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| A campaign poster reading "One Voice: No to Prawer." (Maan/Naqab.org) |
Beersheba, Israel (Ma‘an) 9 June -- Arab and Bedouin residents in the Negev
announced on Sunday that they would be rallying against a legislative proposal
to be put before the Knesset that would see the dismantling of 'unrecognized'
villages and the forced displacement of residents. The Al-Naqab Association
for Land and Human Beings said all residents were being urged to join
Thursday'
< http://www.maannews
www.maannews.
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Jerusalem family made homeless
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| The Jerusalem municipality is billing Badwan al-Salaymeh for the destruction of his home. (Lazar Simeonov) |
“The human rights organizations will probably care more about the pets — even animals have more rights than us Palestinians,” al-Salaymeh said as he climbed the mound of concrete and metal.
The front yard gives the impression of a miniature war zone: the collapsed home in the centere, the metal fence dented and bent, the garden uprooted, the trees flattened under the bulldozers.
Early in the morning on Wednesday (29 May), approximately 100 Israeli police officers arrived at his home in the Beit Hanina area of Jerusalem, accompanied by two bulldozers. According to witnesses, two minors were arrested for throwing stones, one of whom was said to be around 12 years old. Another was injured after inhaling tear gas.
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-razes-home-13-member-family/12500
Saturday, 25 May 2013
16,000 colonial units built in 3 years
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| armed_israeli_setters_near_hebron__photo_by_michael_ramallah |
Organisation (PLO) Executive Committee, stated that the Israeli government Continues to exercise the settlement policy on the occupied Palestinian
territories.
Benjamin Netanyahu came into office from 2009 to 2012 has reached over 16,000 settlement units. On average, this is 11 new settlement units a day."
He added that an increase of settler acts of violence against the
Palestinians has been observed in the last few years, "At an alarming rate." He explained that the violent acts committed by settlers increased from 2009 to the end of 2012 by 315 per cent. Such acts include killing
innocents and setting fire to trees, mosques, and churches all of which
are carried out under the protection of the Israeli army." He also pointed
out that "Since the appointment of the Minister of Defence, Moshe Ya'alon,
last month, the Israeli 'settlers', along with the occupation army forces,
started establishing road barriers in the West Bank."
< http://www.middleea
to www.middleeastmonit
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Gaza 'forbidden zone' expands
The Coordinator of Government
Activities in the "Territories" has clarified that the 'forbidden
zone in Gaza strip stretches 300 metres from the 'fence' (the Israeli
border), and not 100 metres as it previously announced. Civilians who enter
the area risk being shot by the army. In the past, the killing of
Palestinians who wandered into the forbidden zone has led to retaliatory
rocket launching from the Strip into Israeli territory. The clarification
was made following a request by the human rights organization
Gisha<http://www.gisha.
Gisha had noticed that the IDF Spokesperson’s messages stated a different
distance than did the Coordinator of Government Activities in the
Territories, which claimed that Gazans are not allowed into an area
stretching only 100 metres from the barrier. Recently, the army notified
Gisha that the forbidden zone is indeed three times larger than previously
reported. The army has refused to fully detail the methods it uses to warn
farmers and other civilians from wandering into the forbidden zone it
declared. A spokesman for the army has told Gisha that such methods are
part of "the opening fire procedures, and cannot be disclosed."
< http://972mag.
Activities in the "Territories" has clarified that the 'forbidden
zone in Gaza strip stretches 300 metres from the 'fence' (the Israeli
border), and not 100 metres as it previously announced. Civilians who enter
the area risk being shot by the army. In the past, the killing of
Palestinians who wandered into the forbidden zone has led to retaliatory
rocket launching from the Strip into Israeli territory. The clarification
was made following a request by the human rights organization
Gisha<http://www.gisha.
Gisha had noticed that the IDF Spokesperson’s messages stated a different
distance than did the Coordinator of Government Activities in the
Territories, which claimed that Gazans are not allowed into an area
stretching only 100 metres from the barrier. Recently, the army notified
Gisha that the forbidden zone is indeed three times larger than previously
reported. The army has refused to fully detail the methods it uses to warn
farmers and other civilians from wandering into the forbidden zone it
declared. A spokesman for the army has told Gisha that such methods are
part of "the opening fire procedures, and cannot be disclosed."
< http://972mag.
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
'Settlers' invade monastery
Settlers raise Israeli flag over West
Bank church
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 19 Apr -- Israeli settlers on
Friday took over a monastery in a village near Ramallah and raised an Israeli
flag over the building. Priest Aziz Raei told Ma‘an that Israeli settlers used
force to occupy the monastery and its adjacent chapel in al-Taybeh, a
Christian village in the central West Bank. They raised a flag over the
monastery, which was built by a French monk.
www.maannews.net
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| graffiti sprayed on a wall at the entrance to the Latrun Monastery near Jerusalem September 4, 2012. (Reuters/Baz Ratner) |
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Israel to sieze Dead Sea as 'state land'
Just 0.7% of state land in the West Bank has been allocated to Palestinians, Israel admits
<http://www.haaretz.
Haaretz 28 Mar by Chaim Levinson -- Over the past 33 years the Civil Administration has allocated less than one percent of state land in the West Bank to Palestinians <http://www.haaretz.
compared to 38 percent to settlers, according to the agency’s own documents
submitted to the High Court of Justice. The West Bank includes 1.3 million dunams (approximately 325,000 acres) of "state land," most of which is allocated to Jewish colonies. The declared policy of the previous Netanyahu government was to remove Jewish construction from private Palestinian land in the West Bank and to approve all construction on state lands. According to the classification of the Civil Administration, a small amount of "state land" was registered with the Jordanian authorities until 1967. But most declared "state land" was declared as such after 1979. The need for such a declaration emerged in October 1979, when the High Court struck down as unconstitutional the state’s practice of seizing Palestinian land, ostensibly for "military needs" but in practice in order to establish Jewish settlements. It was after 1979 that the process of the wholesale declaration of territory as state land began. According to the law in the West Bank, any land with continuous agricultural cultivation for at least 10 years becomes the property of the farmer; land under cultivation cannot be seized by the state. Although the Civil Administration team charged with determining which lands are cultivated is supposed to base their conclusions on testimony and aerial photos, a senior official in the Civil Administration conceded recently in the Ofer Military Court that the decisions are political. The hearing at which the official was speaking was over the state lands declared with regard to the Hayovel outpost. The latter has been at the heart of a High Court case for over seven years. The state had decided to retroactively authorize Hayovel, but aerial photos clearly show a number of houses and cultivated land, and the road to Hayovel goes through private Palestinian land. The state therefore devised a method of declaring the area between cultivated spots, for example, between trees, as "uncultivated" and thus it could deem it state land.
<http://www.haaretz.
First published at Today in Palestine
<http://www.haaretz.
Haaretz 28 Mar by Chaim Levinson -- Over the past 33 years the Civil Administration has allocated less than one percent of state land in the West Bank to Palestinians <http://www.haaretz.
compared to 38 percent to settlers, according to the agency’s own documents
submitted to the High Court of Justice. The West Bank includes 1.3 million dunams (approximately 325,000 acres) of "state land," most of which is allocated to Jewish colonies. The declared policy of the previous Netanyahu government was to remove Jewish construction from private Palestinian land in the West Bank and to approve all construction on state lands. According to the classification of the Civil Administration, a small amount of "state land" was registered with the Jordanian authorities until 1967. But most declared "state land" was declared as such after 1979. The need for such a declaration emerged in October 1979, when the High Court struck down as unconstitutional the state’s practice of seizing Palestinian land, ostensibly for "military needs" but in practice in order to establish Jewish settlements. It was after 1979 that the process of the wholesale declaration of territory as state land began. According to the law in the West Bank, any land with continuous agricultural cultivation for at least 10 years becomes the property of the farmer; land under cultivation cannot be seized by the state. Although the Civil Administration team charged with determining which lands are cultivated is supposed to base their conclusions on testimony and aerial photos, a senior official in the Civil Administration conceded recently in the Ofer Military Court that the decisions are political. The hearing at which the official was speaking was over the state lands declared with regard to the Hayovel outpost. The latter has been at the heart of a High Court case for over seven years. The state had decided to retroactively authorize Hayovel, but aerial photos clearly show a number of houses and cultivated land, and the road to Hayovel goes through private Palestinian land. The state therefore devised a method of declaring the area between cultivated spots, for example, between trees, as "uncultivated" and thus it could deem it state land.
<http://www.haaretz.
First published at Today in Palestine
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