Remember the catch dry from the Israeli Zionists was always, “take what you can you will never have to give it back.” With that as a fundamental position and strategy there can never be meaningful negotiations from the Israeli fascist, apartheid regime. No matter what propositions they are [...]
A picture of the dirt road in Tel Rumeida.(MaanImages/file) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces blocked off a dirt road in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron on Wednesday, a local advocacy group said. Youth Against Settlements said the closure aims to put pressure on the Abu Heikal family to leave the area, as they [...]
(MaanImages/Mamoun Wazwaz, File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities notified a Palestinian farmer in south Nablus on Sunday they will confiscate 20 dunams of his land and ordered the destruction of two wells in the area. PA official monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank Ghassan Daghlas said forces told Farhan Abdul Raziq of the [...]
(MaanImages/Rami Swidan, File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers chopped down more than 100 olive trees belonging to Palestinians south of Nablus on Friday evening, a PA official said.The group tore down the produce in the valley neighboring the Tappuah settlement, between Yaduf and Jamain villages, Palestinian Authority official monitoring settlement activity Ghassan Doughlas said. Another [...]
(MaanImages/Stringer) HEBRON (Ma’an) –Israeli settlers in Hebron attacked two Palestinian children in the West Bank city on Sunday, their family said. The group threatened Muhammad Abu Eisha, 12, and his brother Ibrahim, 11, with a knife before striking the children in the Tel Rumeida area, their father, also named Muhammad, told Ma’an. Israeli soldiers did [...]
Israeli settlers from Bracha settlement attack villagers from Burin near Nablus during the olive harvest. (MaanImages/Rami Swidan, File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Armed Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers on Saturday attacked villagers in Nablus in the northern West Bank, Palestinian Authority officials said. PA settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas told Ma’an that residents of the illegal [...]
Laborer ‘attacked by settler‘ Published Friday 30/12/2011 (updated) 30/12/2011 15:53 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A Palestinian laborer was attacked on Friday at work in Betar Illitsettlement near Bethlehem, medics said.Khaled Hussein Hamamra, 40, sustained facial wounds after a settler attacked him with a sharp tool, said Abdul Halim Jaafra, head of the Red Crescent‘s Bethlehem [...]
A checkpoint is also there to mold consciousness and ideology. (Tamar Fleishman) By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Shuafat checkpoint that was inaugurated a few days ago disconnects the residents of the refugee camp from the center of their lives. It separates family members, employees from their place of work, patients from [...]
Palestinian students wear traditional clothing during a cultural event at the Bethlehem University, in the West Banktown of Bethlehem, Thursday, March 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) Did you know that Israel allows Gaza residents to enter the West Bank to attend their relatives’ weddings but not to get betrothed themselves? You don’t believe it? [...]
Israeli residents of Jerusalem stand in front of racist graffiti sprayed onto a Palestinian mosque early Wednesday in Jerusalem (Reuters) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An attack on a Palestinian holy site in Jerusalem gave some Israelis pause Wednesday, after right-wing activists brought to home the tactics more often employed in the occupied West Bank. After stepping [...]
A municipal worker looks at the vandalized walls of a disused mosque in Jerusalem. (AFP/Marco Longari) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Right wing Israelis set fire to a mosque in Jerusalem overnight, Israeli police said. “During the night, there was an attempt to set fire to a disused mosque in the city center,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld [...]
Israeli military base attacked by Jewish extremists in West Bank Attack came hours after settlers stormed monument as some say ‘homegrown terrorism’ is now greatest threat to security reddit this Phoebe Greenwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 December 2011 17.56 GMT Article history Jewish protesters gain access to Qasar al-Yahud baptism site on the Jordanian border. Link [...]
Settlers smashed the windshield of a Palestinian car after attacking the vehicle with rocks.(MaanImages).Click image to see more. QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Settlers threw rocks at a Palestinian car on a main road east of Qalqiliya on Monday, injuring three people including a toddler, the driver of the vehicle said. link http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=444507Adnan Suwwan told Ma’an that he [...]
Israeli settlers are pictured at a protest near the city of Tulkarem. (MaanImages/file) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over 50 settlers infiltrated an Israeli military base near Tulkarem early Tuesday, the army said. Right wing settlers set fire to tires, vandalized vehicles and placed nails along the road at the Ephraim regional division headquarters. They also threw [...]
An Israeli soldier stands guard near a Jewish settler during skirmishes near the West Bank village of Immatin.(MaanImages/file) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Hundreds of settlers stormed the Nablus village of Asira al-Qibliya overnight Sunday, causing damage to Palestinian property. Witnesses told Ma’an that around midnight more than 200 settlers from the notorious Yitzhar settlement entered the [...]
After Friday prayers, residents of Nabi Saleh, along with international activists, marched towards land they say was stolen by an Israeli settlement [credit: Lazar Simeonov] Nabi Saleh, a small village of about 550 people 20km northwest of Ramallah in the West Bank, has been organising nonviolent protests against land theft since 2009.On December 9, 2011, the [...]
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces will finish this week building a barrier around Shufat refugee camp in north Jerusalem, Israel‘s Maarivdaily reported Wednesday.The 45,000-person camp will become isolated from the city and residents will only be able to enter through a new checkpoint. Maariv reported that Israeli police were preparing for the possibility of [...]
An Israeli soldier mans a control post over a West Bank road. (AFP/File Yoav Lemmer) JERUSALEM (AFP) — The Israeli army’s inquiries into Palestinian complaints against its soldiers are frequently flawed and less than four percent result in an indictment, an Israeli rights group said on Wednesday. In a report entitled “Alleged Investigation,” Yesh Din [...]
Settlers ‘burn 3 cars’ in Hebron Published today 17:35 HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers from the illegal Gush Etzion settlement attacked Palestinian houses in Beit Ummarand set fire to three cars overnight, a local activist said.Muhammad Awad said the settlers damaged cars belonging to Habes Hussein Baragheeth and Suheil and Yousef Muhammad Hussein Baragheeth. [...]
Israeli FM Rules Out Future Negotiation With Palestinians Insists Israel Will Continue to Withhold Tax Funds by Jason Ditz, November 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in a meeting with his Montenegrin counterpart, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ruled out any future negotiations with the upcoming Palestinian unity government, saying Israel won’t [...]
Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 23 November 2011 Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians with Impunity – by Stephen Lendman Palestinians are doubly cursed. Israel‘s military attacks them regularly. During the past week alone, Israeli air strikes killed four Gazans, wounding another 14. Al-Nabi Saleh village residents participating in a peaceful demonstration were [...]
Israeli forces guard a home demolition in Silwan. (MaanImages/Stringer, File) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settler organizations have been given the green light by the Israeli government to take over a number of central Jerusalem homes belonging to Palestinians, a presidential legal adviser said on Sunday. Ahmad Ruweidi said the Israeli government had waited until [...]
Israeli soldiers clashed with settlers while trying to keep them away from Jaber’s house in Hebron Dozens of Israeli settlers have attacked a house in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron in protest against the release of a man in the recent Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap. Israeli soldiers on Saturday clashed with the settlers [...]
Israel‘s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem (REUTERS/Abir Sultan/Pool) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will delay a bill which would impose restrictions on international funding for Israeli NGO‘s, Haaretz newspaper said Sunday. The Israeli daily quoted sources on Saturday as [...]
Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? By Neve Gordon* Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack against Iran. “[United States Secretary of Defence Leon] Panetta Demanded Commitment to Coordinate Action in Iran” read one headline, and [...]
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine hearing in Cape Town in November 2011 (MaanImages/Hanan Chehata, HO) By Frank Barat and Victor Kattan The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international citizen-based tribunal of conscience, has found that “Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalized regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law.” [...]
Freedom Riders on the West Bank? by Bill Fletcher ZNet 14 November 2011 When I first heard about the planned Freedom Rides scheduled for Tuesday, November 15th to take place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories I realized that this was a brilliant tactic. Much as with the Freedom Rides that were used in [...]
Israel’s Defense Chief OK’s Hundreds of Israeli Deaths by Ira Chernus “If we take out the Iranian nuke facilities, sure, they’ll strike back at us,” Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said yesterday. “But if every American stays in their home when the Iranian rockets start falling, well, it will be uncomfortable. It won’t [...]
It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares Israel routinely produces new ploys to counter Palestinian pleas for justice. But is anybody interested? By Amira Hass* The affair of the rapist president Moshe Katsav is always associated in my mind with my limitations as a journalist. [...]
By Tamar Fleishman – The West Bank Jaba checkpoint is a great example of the deep connection between the infliction of the checkpoint regime in the West Bank on the Palestinian population, and the effort to satisfy the settlers’ needs and caprices. Jaba checkpoint lies on the road leading from Qalandiya to Ramallah, it merges [...]
Insanity, not logic, guides Israel‘s leadership The mens’ men who are threatening Iran now are the real cowards’ cowards. The brave ones are in fact those who are trying to thwart the insanity, from former Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Interior Minister Eli Yishai. By Gideon LevyTags: Iran Iran nuclear Tehran Eli Yishai Palestinian Authority Muammar [...]
Israel Postpones Dismantling Illegal Settlements Israel had initially promised to force an evacuation of the illegal settlement but has kicked it at least six months down the road by John Glaser, November 09, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Israeli government says it is postponing the dismantlement of illegal Jewish settlements in the West [...]
HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers torched three cars Wednesday at dawn in the village of Beit Ummar in the northern West Bank, locals said. Popular committee spokesman Muhammad Ayyad Awad said settlers from Kfar Etzion settlement torched the cars of Habes Husein Baragheeth, Suheil Muhammad Hussein Baragheeth and his brother Yousef. He added that [...]
Harvesters were told to stop picking olives in Burin. (Photo: ISM) By Ben Lorber, ISM, West Bank As this year’s olive harvest sends Palestinian families across all of historic Palestine out to their olive trees, a new nonviolent resistance group called Refusing to Die In Silence is patrolling the West Bank, protecting harvesters from increased [...]
A woman stands near a construction site in Gilo, a Jewish settlement that Israel erected on land it captured in 1967 on Sept. 27, 2011. (Reuters/Baz Ratner) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israel’s Jerusalem municipality plans to build more than 50,000 new homes in the city’s occupied eastern sector over two decades, Israeli media reported on [...]
An Israeli soldier looks out of his tank as he manoeuvres it on the border with northern Gaza near kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 12, 2011. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shelled the eastern Shujaiyeh district of Gaza City on Monday, with medics reporting three people were injured. Witnesses told Ma’an [...]
Robben Island in South Africa housed political prisoners during apartheid, but Israeli jails hold even more [GALLO/GETTY] This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression [...]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits before his address at the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem Oct. 31, 2011. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun) JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking cabinet support for a military strike on Iran, Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday, after days [...]
New Jewish homes will be built in East Jerusalem and the West Bank settlements of Gush Etzion, pictured, and Ma’ale Adumim. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Israel is to expedite the construction of about 2,000 homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in response to the Palestinians‘ successful bid to join Unesco. Israel [...]
BDS Claims Victory after Alstom Project Derails The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement has declared victory against the Alstom group after it lost a nearly $10-billion bid for part of a railway project in Saudi Arabia. On Wednesday, authorities announced that several Spanish companies beat the French rival [...]
The settlement of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem. (MaanImages/file) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — PLO official Saeb Erekat said Tuesday that the US had not officially informed the Palestinian leadership of any proposal to partially freeze settlement building. The Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported Tuesday that the US had made an offer to the Israeli government [...]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel’s security cabinet approved unanimously on Tuesday the freeing of 25 Egyptian prisoners to secure the release of a US-Israeli national held by Cairo on suspicion of espionage, government officials said. The arrangement, brokered with US help, was announced on Monday and an Israeli official said it was likely to take [...]
A woman stands near her house as an Israeli bulldozer, in the background, uproots olive trees in the West Bank city of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, on March 3, 2010. (MaanImages/Luay Sababa) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces issued a military order on Sunday to confiscate 37,000 square meters of private land from near the [...]
Issam Kamal Odeh was shot dead by Israeli forces in Qusra near Nablus on Sept. 23 during confrontations after morning prayers. (MaanImages) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Authority on Monday said the Israeli government was “implicitly encouraging settlers to continue on their rampage” by failing to hold them to account for violent crimes. “Israeli [...]
Israel‘s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman gestures as he speaks during an Yisrael Beiteinu party meeting ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, in Jerusalem on Sept. 26. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks Monday calling for President Mahmoud Abbas‘ resignation were “deeply troubling,” said UN spokesman Richard Miron. [...]
Former Palestinian prisoners, who have arrived from Cairo, Egypt to live in exile in Syria, walk among a crowd at Damascus airport early Oct. 19. (Reuters/SANA) DAMASCUS (Reuters) — Sixteen Palestinian prisoners arrived in Damascus on Wednesday after being released by Israel on Tuesday as part of a swap deal for Israeli soldier Gilad [...]
A Palestinian rides a donkey past Givat Hamatos in East Jerusalem on land seized by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, where Israel plans to build more than 2,600 housing units, October 16, 2011. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO official Saeb Erekat called Israel’s plan for a new settler district a “mockery” [...]
Click the image to enlarge or see more MaanImages/ Trevor Lewis The Badar family harvest olives in the village of Beitillu, northwest of Ramallah. Beitillu was historically a farming village but between the first and second Intifada most residents worked in construction within Israel. The village has now turned back to farming as the [...]
Locals: Israeli forces detain 6 in dawn raids Published yesterday (updated) 14/10/2011 09:59 JENIN (Ma’an) — Six people were detained by Israeli forces in dawn raids in the West Bank on Thursday, witnesses said. Shadi Talal, Samer Zakarneh and Rami Abdul Latif were detained from Qabatiya village south of Jenin, locals told Ma’an. Israeli [...]
(MaanImages/Rami Swidan, File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces blocked villagers in Nablus from harvesting olives on lands near Israeli settlements on Friday, locals told Ma’an. Israeli troops told harvesters in Qaryut and Azmut villages that security coordination had expired and blocked them from picking olives, a Ma’an correspondent said. International activists accompanying farmers said [...]
