Human rights abuse: Israeli forces assault Palestinian and international activists taking part in a protest in the Masafer Yatta area
Israel and its military trample Palestinian human rights on a daily basis. Here are just a few headlines from the last week.
compiled by If Americans Knew
This is the kind of news Americans will never know about, although is amounts to dozens of human rights violations a day – even as the US sends Israel $10 million in military aid a day.
All headlines are linked. Sources include the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), the Gaza Post, the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA), Middle East Monitor, and the Palestine Chronicle.
Notice the recurring themes of abduction, destruction, and violence.
MONDAY Jan. 11 headlines
- Former Political Prisoner Dies From Cancer That Went Untreated In Prison
- Israeli Colonists Attack Cars, Injure Palestinian In The Eye, Near Nablus (NOTE: the use of the word “colonist” is an apropos substitute for “settler.” Global Social Theory explains: “Settler colonialism is a distinct type of colonialism that functions through the replacement of indigenous populations with an invasive settler society that, over time, develops a distinctive identity and sovereignty…[Key features include:] settler colonisers “come to stay”…settler colonial invasion is a structure, not an event: settler colonialism persists in the ongoing elimination of indigenous populations, and the assertion of state sovereignty and juridical control over their lands…settler colonisation trends towards the ending of colonial difference in the form of a supreme and unchallenged settler state and people.”)
- Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fourteen Palestinians In West Bank
- Soldiers Confiscate Heavy Machinery In Jordan Valley
- Israeli Soldiers Bulldoze Palestinian Lands Near Nablus
- Israeli Forces Arrest Young Man from Aida Refugee Camp
- Israeli Forces Shoot Six Palestinian Workers Near the Apartheid Wall (read about the Apartheid Wall here)
- Hebrew Media Concerned about Attacks on Palestinians by Israeli Settlers (“An official source in the security system confirmed that the Israeli police have lost their control over the behavior of this terrorist organization, which may eventually lead to a national disaster, and may spark new attacks in the West Bank.”)
- Israeli Forces Close Districts and Streets in Hebron, attack Palestinian Press (read about Hebron here)
- Two Prisoners Enter their 8th Year in Israeli Prisons
TUESDAY Jan. 12 headlines
- Israeli Colonists Uproot Dozens Of Olive Trees, Grapevines, Near Hebron
- Jordan Provides Convoy of Humanitarian Aid to the Gaza Strip
- Israel Rejects WHO’s Request to Provide Palestine Medics Covid Vaccines
- EU Calls On Israel To Stop Construction Of [Illegal] Colonies In West Bank (read about settlements here)
- Israeli Soldiers Shoot And Abduct A Palestinian In Hebron
- Palestinian Loses Arm After Israeli Explosive Detonates Near Him In Hebron
- Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fourteen Palestinians In West Bank
- Israeli Colonists Invade Palestinian Lands, Injure A Father and Son (NOTE: Eyewitnesses said Israeli soldiers were present in the area even before the attack took place, and did not even attempt to stop the colonists.)
- Israeli Army Uproots Dozens Of Trees Near Hebron (NOTE: Time magazine reported in 2019: “Over 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been uprooted by Israeli authorities and settlers since 1967..In the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 45 percent of agricultural land is planted with olive trees, with the olive oil industry making up a quarter of the region’s gross agricultural income, and supporting the livelihood of about 100,000 families”.)
- Cancer-Stricken Palestinian Detainee Enters Serious Health Condition
- Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinian Teenage Boys In Hebron
- As Israel Refuses to Inoculate Palestinian Prisoners Against Coronavirus, Number of Cases is on the Rise
WEDNESDAY Jan. 13 headlines
- Israeli Colonists Attempt To Annex Palestinian Land Near Hebron
- Child Injured After Being Rammed By An Israeli Army Jeep Near Jenin
- Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eight Palestinians In Jerusalem, Two In Hebron
- Israeli Colonists Burn Two Palestinian Cars Near Ramallah
- Soldiers Abduct 19 Palestinians Near Ramallah
- Army Abducts Five Palestinians In Jenin, Tulkarem And Bethlehem
- Palestinian Teen Shot and Killed by Israeli Police Near Haifa
- Palestinian Resident Of East Jerusalem Self-Demolishes House To Avoid Heavy Israeli Fines And Charges (read about home demolitions here)
- Minor among 21 Palestinians detained from West Bank
- EU Calls On Israel To Stop Construction Of Colonies In West Bank
THURSDAY Jan. 14 headlines
- Israeli Military Court Remands Palestinian Resistance Icon Saeed Arma for 30 Days
- The bizarre case of Mohammad El-Halabi displays Israeli “justice” (NOTE: The Palestinian human rights worker and Humanitarian Hero award winner made his 154th court appearance since his arrest in 2016, on false charges of embezzling from the World Vision charity.)
- Israeli Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian In Jerusalem
- Army Abducts A Palestinian Near Jericho
- Israeli Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Near Ramallah
- Soldiers Seal Entrances Of Tiwana Village, Near Hebron
- Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians In Kufur Qaddoum (Since 2011, residents of Kufur Qaddoum have regularly protested the Israeli blockade of their village, and through to 2020, 100 members of the community, including 6 minors, have been shot and wounded by Israeli troops)
- More than 23 Palestinians Arrested During Night Raids in the Villages of Kufr Malik and Al Mughayyir
- Army Injures Many Palestinians, Including Woman, Abducts Elderly Man, Near Hebron
- Israeli Occupation Soldiers Arrest Two Palestinian Children in the Tel Rumeida Area
FRIDAY Jan. 15 headlines
- Injuries Reported as Israeli Forces Attack Weekly Protests in West Bank
- Israeli Soldier Injured in Al- Mughayer, Where 16 Palestinians were Arrested the Night Before
- Now 249 Palestinian Prisoners in Israel Infected with COVID-19 (NOTE: this is about 5.7% of the Palestinian prison population)
- Israeli Forces Attack Activists During the Weekly At-Tuwani Village Protest (NOTE: Earlier this month, in the same town, Israeli soldiers shot a young man in the neck; he is paralyzed from the neck down and on life support.)
- Two Palestinian Political Prisoners Complete 18 Years Behind Bars
- Palestinian Detained from Jerusalem Neighborhood
SATURDAY Jan. 16 headlines
- Israel Welcomes Hundreds of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants (NOTE: Israel has a poor track record vis-a-vis African Jews, including asylum seekers.)
- Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Residents of Masafer Yatta villages in West Bank
- Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure One Palestinian, Detain Others
- Palestinian Leaders Condemn Israeli court’s ban on film documenting Israeli Army Massacre of Palestinians
- B’Tselem Position Paper: “This is Apartheid”
- Israeli Colonists Hurl Stones At Palestinian Cars In Nablus And Ramallah, Close Junctions In Hebron And Bethlehem
- Three More Palestinian Detainees Diagnosed with Coronavirus
- Soldiers Demolish Eleven Kiosks Near Jenin
- Israel Reportedly Agrees To Vaccinate Palestinian Political Prisoners
- Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Bethlehem And Jerusalem
- Israeli Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Jerusalem
- Palestinian Prisoner Moved to Hospital due to COVID-19 Complications
SUNDAY Jan. 17 headlines
- Israeli Bulldozers Destroy 750 Olive Trees and a Family’s Dreams
- Israeli Colonists Injure A Palestinian Child While Trying To Kidnap Her
- Army Orders Demolition Of School, Under-Construction Mosque, Near Hebron
- Israeli Forces Shoot, Injure Six Palestinians, Including a Paramedic at Weekly Kufur Qaddoum March
- Rainwater Floods Rooms of Palestinian Detainees in Huwwara Prison
A partial list of NGOs that document and report on Israeli human rights violations is available here.
RELATED READING:
- Israel shoots 100 people, Washington Post calls the area ‘quiet’
- Israeli forces violated int’l law 262 times in past week (23–29 Jan.2020)
- Israeli forces committed 183 violations of international law in past week (16-22 Jan.2020)
- VIDEO: Another typical week in the Palestinian territories (7-14 Dec.2019)
- VIDEO: A week in the life of a Palestinian child (3-9 Oct. 2019)
