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Detailed U.N. Report on Israeli Occupation of Golan Heights

[email protected] March 22, 2019

Israel “destroyed 244 villages and built-up areas in the Golan and expelled their population, sparing only five villages (Majdal Shams, Buq’ata, Ain Qunya, Mas’ada and al-Ghajar). Not even places of worship, schools and health centres escaped destruction. The underlying aim of the occupation authorities was to eliminate Arab landmarks and obliterate the Arab identity of the Golan, as a result of which anyone who visits the Golan today is able to identify the locations of the former Arab villages only from their ruins…”

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Testimonies from some of the 8,000 Palestinian children Israel has imprisoned

[email protected] March 21, 2019 child arrest, child detention, israel defense forces, torture

Addameer reports that since the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in 1967, more than 800,000 Palestinians have been detained under Israeli military orders–approximately 20 percent of the total Palestinian population in the oPt and as much as 40 percent of the total male Palestinian population… 8,000 Palestinian children have been arrested since 2000. Boys and young men are seized in the dead of night, blindfolded and cuffed, abused and manipulated to confess to crimes they didn’t commit. Every year Israel arrests almost 1,000 Palestinian youngsters, some of them not yet 13.

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B’tselem: Israeli “investigations” whitewash, perpetuate killing in Gaza

[email protected] March 19, 2019 analysis, btselem, Gaza, Great March of Return, open fire, sniper, unhrc

Israeli human rights organization B’tselem discusses Israel’s “investigations” into killings of Palestinians, which have served no authentic purpose, but only created an illusion of inquiry. B’tselem calls on the international community to demand real accountability.

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Israel sets Gaza up for superbug epidemic

[email protected] March 4, 2019 analysis, Bureau of Investigative Journalism, epidemic, Gaza, gaza blockade, superbug, water shortage, zionism

A recent report exposes the serious threat of a superbug epidemic in Gaza, due to Israeli-blockade shortages of sanitation supplies in hospitals, targeting of medical personnel and facilities, and water shortage and contamination. The epidemic would certainly spread beyond Gaza.

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Without Saying a Word, Israeli Troops Beat Up a Blind Man in His Bed

[email protected] March 2, 2019 IDF, israeli defense force, occupation, police brutality, zionism

Israeli soldiers break into a home in the middle of the night, severely beat a blind, diabetic man on dialysis as his wife begs them to stop. Later, an Israeli military spokesman’s explanation does not remotely resemble the family’s description of the incident.

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UN: Israel should face justice for crimes against humanity in Gaza

[email protected] March 1, 2019 Gaza, UN

Israeli forces “have intentionally shot children. They have intentionally shot people with disabilities, they have intentionally shot journalists… We found that one person, a double amputee, was shot and killed as he sat in his wheelchair (see video). On two separate days, two people visibly walking on crutches, were shot in the head…”

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Meet Netanyahu’s new allies, followers of an FBI-designated terrorist

[email protected] February 25, 2019 baruch goldstein, baruch marzel, benzi gopstein, history, itamar ben gvir, jewish power, kach party, meir kahane, michael ben ari, Otzma Yehudit, zionism

Netanyahu is affiliating with an extremist political party named “Jewish Power” whose leaders were disciples of an FBI-designated terrorist… one JP leader referred to Christians as “bloodsucking vampires,” declared Christmas should be outlawed… another has a police record of assaulting both Palestinians and Israelis… another called for violence & a “religious war” against homosexuals… another’s client list reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of suspects in Jewish terror cases and hate crimes in Israel…

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Israel says “No” to clean running water for Palestinian villages

[email protected] February 25, 2019 israeli civil administration, israeli high court of justice, Marco Ben-Shabbat, masafer yatta, occupation, regavim, south hebron hills, water, West Bank, zionism

On February 13, 2019, Israeli forces arrived near the village of a-Tuwani in the South Hebron Hills. The forces used excavating equipment to unearth and destroy a five kilometer stretch of pipe, which was laid just months ago and supplied water to over 1,000 Palestinians. Residents say that without the system, “water has become every family’s largest expense.”

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Israel: “father isn’t sick enough” for son to travel from Gaza to West Bank

[email protected] February 20, 2019 gaza blockade, gisha, oordinator of Government Activities in the Territories

Mohammed suffered a stroke, but Israel says he’s not ill enough for his son to get a travel permit to visit him. He needs care, but that is irrelevant. According to Israeli criteria, travel permits are only granted if first-degree relatives are dead or dying.

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“He can’t breathe”: a Palestinian Eric Garner

[email protected] February 18, 2019 al khalil, analysis, chokehold, eric garner, Hebron, IDF, occupation, police brutality, temporary international presence in hebron, tiph, zionism

As Palestinians in Hebron navigate life without the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) observers, it is worth looking back on how oppressive and violent life was even with outsiders watching. Eric Garner would find the city eerily familiar.

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