When West Bank settlers shoot at unarmed Palestinians while Israeli soldiers look on without intervening, that’s a story–especially when one of the Palestinians suffers a head wound. So it’s natural that this weekend’s conflict near the Palestinian village of Asira al-Qibliya has been covered widely–in 972, the Guardian, theWashington Post, Haaretz, the Daily Dish, and elsewhere. Still, it’s important [...]
Israeli border police are seen patrolling in Hebron (MaanImages/File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained three Palestinians Tuesday during a raid of their houses in Herodium area east of Bethlehem, locals told Ma’an. Some 20 vehicles raided the village at around 10 a.m., and forces used dogs to conducts searches which damaged furniture and belongings [...]
The Samouni family narrated the horror they lived through in a short movie named ‘Samouni Street’ [AP] Chicago, IL - There is a determined international effort to ensure that Palestinians are shut out of every legal forum where they could pursue justice for Israel’s crimes against them. Nothing illustrates this better than the horrifying case of [...]
Israeli Hawkademia in Australian Universities By Vacy Vlazna The Israeli ‘defense’ industry is embedded in Israeli universities and in universities around the world including Australia. It plunders overseas intellectual property for Israel’s military research-and-development (R&D) programs while strategic bi-lateral research and exchange missions deliberately whitewash or ‘normalize’ the Zionist military occupation [...]
Many Injured, Anger Grows as Israel Cracks Down on Hunger Strike Solidarity ‘We will not accept our prisoners returning in coffins’ – Common Dreams staff Protests and rallies were held around the West Bank and Gaza this week in support of Palestinian hunger strikers currently held in Israeli prisons. As an increasing number of prisoners [...]
(MaanImages/File) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles opened fire on a border area in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, trapping journalists at the scene, witnesses said. Ten military vehicles crossed several hundred meters into Gaza, east of Khan Younis, firing towards houses and farmlands, residents said. A crew of journalists took cover for [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli military vehicles crossed into the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, witnesses told Ma’an. Seven army vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza north of Beit Hanoun and dug up lands in the border area, they said, adding that gunshots were heard in the area. Meanwhile, four Israeli vehicles crossed the border east [...]
The Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed sporadic clashes since the 2006 conflict between Israel and Lebanon [AFP] The Israeli army has begun building a wall that will run several kilometres along part of its border with Lebanon, a military spokeswoman has said. “This construction, which began on Monday, is being carried out in co-ordination with UNIFIL (the [...]
Settler attacks are common and rarely prosecuted. NABLUS (Ma’an) — Settlers in the northern West Bank set up a roadblock and attacked a Nablus village on Thursday, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activity in the northern West Bank, said that settlers blocked a main road that links the West Bank town [...]
NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities on Wednesday ordered villagers in Wadi Qana in the northern West Bank to uproot 1,070 olive trees, a local official said. The mayor of Deir Istiya Nathmi Salman told Ma’an that Israeli forces delivered the orders to Abdul Mansour, Qasem Mansour and Muqbel Awad, who own the trees. The trees [...]
The Israeli village of Metula as seen from Kfar Kila. Both the foreground and the background are in Lebanon. The IDF intends to replace this technical fence with a wall. (NOW Lebanon) link http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=385265 For the first time in its 64-year history, Israel will build a wall along its northern border with Lebanon, according [...]
Protests in solidarity with Hana Shalabi and against the wall brutally suppressed across the West Bank 17/03/2012 Bilin Upon the arrival to the Abu Lemon area participants raised Palestinian flags, posters of prisoner Hana Shalabi and slogans calling for national unity, the end of the occupation, destruction of the apartheid wall, and freedom for [...]
(MaanImages/File) NEGEV (Ma’an) — Israeli forces demolished the Bedouin village Al-Araqib village on Monday for the 37th time, a political official who witnessed the demolition said. The Palestinian residents began to immediately rebuild the site, after forces left just a mosque and cemetery standing, PFLP official Ayman Odeh said on return from the village. [...]
An overview of the southern West Bank town of Yatta. (MaanImages/File) HEBRON (Ma’an) — A teenage boy was injured Sunday after a gunman opened fire near his school in Yatta in the southern West Bank, a Ma’an reporter said. The unidentified assailant shot at Ismail Bheis, 17, and then fled the scene, a Ma’an correspondent [...]
(MaanImages/Screenshot) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli military court released a Palestinian journalist on bail after seeing a video showing him rushing to the aid of his wife at a West Bank demonstration, a popular committee said on Sunday. Bilal Tamimi, an independent journalist, was detained by Israeli forces at a popular protest in Ramallah-district village [...]
A boy surveys the rubble of his home in Azzun Atma near Qalqilia, demolished by Israeli forces. (MaanImages/Khaleel Reash, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel forcibly displaced 67 Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem over the last week, UN agencies said Sunday. On Wednesday, Israeli forces evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem’s Beit [...]
A Palestinian woman at a demonstration in the village of al-Walaja. Photo Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. How We’re Footing the Bill for Violent Crackdowns on [...]
TUBAS (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers shot an 18-year-old shepherd in the chest on Thursday evening during military training exercises in the northern West Bank, medics said. Yasir Suleiman Nijad Kaabnah was shot while herding sheep and camels near Wadi al-Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley, medics told Ma’an. Salem Kaabneh, the victim’s uncle who was [...]
(MaanImages/File) NABLUS (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained at least 13 Palestinians in the West Bank overnight Tuesday, including a group of youth in a Nablus village, officials said. Ten youth were seized in the Burin village, south of Nablus, PA official Ghassan Daghlas said. He identified them as Walid Mursi, 15, Muhammad Suheil Najjar, 16, [...]
Israeli soldier clubs Danish protester with rifle Denmark demands explanation as video shows apparently unprovoked attack by IDF soldier on activist Harriet Sherwood guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 April 2012 21.11 BST Article history Israeli soldier assaults foreign protester. WARNING: This video contains graphic images Source: YouTube/LIKMA38 Link to this videoDenmark has demanded an explanation from the Israeli government [...]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians and two internationals were injured during a weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh, activists said. Usama Bilal Tamimi, 16, was injured near his eye while the unidentified internationals were injured in the hand and one of them in the back. They were taken to the Palestine medical complex. The demonstration was to [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians and international activists went out in a demonstration organized by a local initiative in Beit Hanoun north of Gaza to protest the buffer zone on Tuesday. Coordinator Saber Zaaneen said the demonstration arrived to the zone, which Israel imposed on the borders of Gaza. It prevent hundreds of farmers from [...]
Photograph by Dima Dany Zarkh for KTB Kufr Qadum After Israeli army nightly incursion into Kufr Qadum accompanied by massive arrest of villagers , the children of the village have come out in protest with a message to the occupying army and the world: “You Arrested Our Fathers, So We Lead the [...]
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli soldiers on Monday shot and injured a Palestinian construction worker in eastern Gaza, medics said. The 23-year-old man was taken to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, medical officials told Ma’an. An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Also Monday, witnesses said that dozens of [...]
Israel paves way to war with Iran Monday, 09 April 2012 Israel is paving the way to launch a military attack to destruct Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure. Recent strategic reports in Israel anticipate that human casualties in the Hebrew state could be limited to just 300 persons if a [...]
Scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred on April 9, 1948 [AP] Washington, DC- On April 9, 1948, scores of Palestinian civilians were massacred at the village of Deir Yassin through co-operative efforts of Yishuv forces like the Irgun, Lehi and the Haganah. The Zionist narrative on the events of 1948 and the Nakba - the Arabic word for [...]
Lethal Hawkademia and BDS By Vacy Vlazna ‘It can never be business as usual. Israeli Universities are an intimate part of the Israeli regime, by active choice. While Palestinians are not able to access universities and schools, Israeli universities produce the research, technology, arguments and leaders for maintaining the [...]
(MaanImages/File) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained an American-Palestinian activist in Hebron on Sunday amid closures in the city during the Jewish holidays, a local activist said. Forces evacuated Beersheba road in the center of the southern West Bank city to allow Jewish worshipers to visit the tomb of Othniel Ben Knaz, Hebron defense committee [...]
BDS Update: Israel’s Ides of March By Eric Walberg – Cairo Israeli land confiscations accelerated in the 1970s and led Palestinians to organise the first coordinated demonstrations in the Occupied Territories on 30 March 1976, during which 6 Palestinians were killed. This date has been marked ever since as [...]
(MaanImages/file) QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided the northern West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum before dawn on Thursday and detained locals and two police officers, witnesses said. Witnesses said soldiers detained police officers Thaer Shteiwi, 38, and Riyad Shteiwi, 38, and 18 other residents including four minors. An Israeli army spokeswoman said 19 people [...]
Reporters Without Borders said it was “shocked” by Israeli forces‘ raid on the launch of Hona al-Quds in East Jerusalem on Monday. (MaanImages/HO, Al-Quds Educational TV) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Reporters Without Borders said Wednesday it was shocked by Monday’s raid by Israeli security forces on a Palestinian media network set up by Al-Quds University in [...]
On this Land Day, I was at Erez Crossing. Several hundred youth had managed to find their way around the Hamas policemen blocking the roads leading to Erez. They Shoot the Youth Don’t They? By Johnny Barber (about the author) Become a Fan — Page 1 of 1 page(s) opednews.com On March 30, 1976, the Palestinian people declared a general [...]
Click for more images(MaanImages/HO) HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israeli forces detained a teenage boy during a weekly protest held in Hebron village Beit Ummar on Saturday, locals and security officials said. Spokesman of the local anti-separation wall committee Yousef Abu Maria said forces seized Hussain Ramzi, 14, during the demonstration. An Israeli army spokesman said a [...]
Palestinians mourn next to the body of 20-year-old Mahmoud Zakot during his funeral in the northern Gaza Strip March 30. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli fire killed one young Palestinian man and injured over 30 others in clashes at two sites in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medical official said Friday evening. Adham [...]
Double Speak from Benjamin Netanyahu By Philip Giraldi March 28, 2012 “The Passionate Attachment” — The New York Times’ Isabel Kershner reporting from Jerusalem on March 20th described Israeli government rage at a comment made by the European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton relating to the killing of three Jewish children [...]
(Reuters/file) By Daoud Kuttab Hana Shalabi has been on hunger strike for over a month. Her condition has been deteriorating so badly that prison officials had to transfer her to a Haifa hospital. Shalabi is protesting being held in administrative detention. This is a quasi-legal action through which Israel incarcerates individuals without charge or proper [...]
JENIN (Ma’an) — Israeli forces raided several homes in Yabad in the northern West Bank before dawn Monday, witnesses said. Jamal Abu Bakr said Israeli soldiers and an intelligence officer ransacked his home and the homes of Nizar Abu Bakr and Abdul Abu Bakr at around 2 a.m. He told Ma’an his relatives were held [...]
By REUTERS ‘Iron Dome allotment can’t offer full protection’ By JPOST.COM STAFF link http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=263208 03/24/2012 17:13 Former defense minister Amir Peretz warns Israel will need double the number of planned batteries for full protection Former defense minister Amir Peretz said on Saturday that the number of Iron Dome rocket-defense batteries Israel plans to [...]
Death in war is simply murder no matter who commits the acts. Deaths related to a war are the same. That children can be slain as a part of any cause is the ultimate act of a coward or cowards. There is just no escaping [...]
Palestinian demonstrators run as Israeli forces fire tear gas during a protest near Ramallah (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman, File) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A Palestinian man was shot and injured Saturday during clashes with Israeli settlers who attacked his village in the central West Bank, medical officials said. Hassan Muatan, 40, was shot in the abdomen after armed [...]
(MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces killed 115 Palestinians last year, including 18 minors, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem.The death toll of 2011 shows a marked increase on 2010, when Israeli forces killed 68 Palestinians in Gaza and 12 in the West Bank. Further, [...]
Statements made by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak led analysts to say that the assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi was not about direct prevention [AFP] Beer-Sheva, Israel - In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip, along with another fighter, Palestinians fired rockets at [...]
Bedouin children play near their houses in Arab Ar-Ramaden near the West Bank city of Qalqiliya. (MaanImages/Khaleel Reash, File) BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian children are systematically ill-treated in Israeli detention, and in some cases tortured, an international child rights group said on Tuesday. The report by Defence for Children International records that a majority [...]
UN Report: Settlers Seizing Palestinians’ Water Supplies Palestinian Drinking Water Diverted to Tourist Sites by Jason Ditz, March 19, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new report from the United Nations office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs turns attention to a [...]
Al-Khalil (Hebron), Palestine, February 12, 2012 (PDF version attached Below) Report: Under Attack: Golani Brigade’s war on the Palestinian population of Al-Khalil (Hebron) Since the arrival of the Golani Brigade in Hebron on December 27th, international accompaniment organizations (Christian Peacemaker Teams, International Solidarity Movement, and others) have documented an increase in the number of serious [...]
Why did Israel decide to attack Gaza again? (PalInfo) By Ramzy Baroud The first Israeli missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise of two terrorists. Zuhair Qasis was the head of the Popular [...]
(Reuters/Ma’an) RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — At least eight Palestinians and an Israeli activist were injured on Friday during demonstrations in the West Bank, witnesses and activists said. links to videos http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=468565 http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=468565 Israeli activist Naomi Laet, 22, suffered head injuries in Nabi Saleh after being hit by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli soldiers, a statement [...]
Targeted Killings: US and Israeli Specialties By Stephen Lendman March 15, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — International law permits justifiable self-defense. Targeted killings are prohibited, especially premeditated ones like America and Israel repeatedly commit for reasons other than claimed. These incidents constitute cold-blooded murder. US drone killings and rampaging death squads, [...]
Protesters hold pictures of prisoner Hana Shalabi, during a protest outside Ofer prison near Ramallah March 15. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman) By Noah Browning RAMALLAH (Reuters) — The deteriorating health of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike for the past month is focusing international attention on Israel’s decades-old use of detention without trial. Shrouded by winter gloom, [...]
Gaza violence: ‘we don’t want to escalate but maybe we have no choice’ Rockets from militants are slamming into Israeli cities, Israeli air strikes are killing Palestinian children, and no end is in sight Palestinian relatives of 12-year-old schoolboy Ayoub Useila grieve during his funeral in Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza. Link to this video The yellowing [...]
