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Report on Israeli human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory 13 - 26 Dec
2007
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/PANA-7AAFAT?OpenDocument
Three
people killed, nine injured in an Israeli air strike on southern Gaza
Three Palestinians have been killed and nine others
wounded after Israeli war planes launched an air strike on southern
Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52127
The
Israeli army shells areas in southern Gaza strip
The
Israeli army shelled the areas of Abassan and Al Qarrarah, located
near Khan Younis city in the southern part of the Gaza strip on
Thursday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52115
Palestinian
resistance fighter dies as tunnel collapses on him in Gaza
Palestinian sources in the Gaza strip reported on
Thursday that a Palestinian resistance fighter died late Wednesday
night when a tunnel collapsed on him in the city of Rafah in the
southern part of the costal region.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52120
Tubas
governor slams Israeli settlement expansion policy in the plains area
Sami Musallam, the governor of Tubas in the West Bank
plains area, slammed the ongoing and rapidly increasing Israeli
settlement construction and expansion, and considered these policies
as further obstacles placed by Israel in the path of the peace
process.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52110
Seven
Palestinians kidnapped from Nablus by Israeli army
In a
pre-dawn invasion on Thursday, Israeli army kidnaps seven
Palestinians from the northern West Bank city of Nablus and nearby
refugee camp of Balata.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52112
A
leader of the al Quds brigade kidnapped in Nablus by undercover
Israeli unit
Undercover unit of Israeli forces kidnapped
Samer Al Sa'di, 23 from Jenin refugee camp claiming him to be a
leader of the al Quds brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad on
Thursday morning.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52114
Pregnant
Palestinian women forced to give birth at home because of fence
In
village surrounded by separation fence on outskirts of Qalqiliya,
pregnant women prefer to stay elsewhere in later months of pregnancy
for fear they will not be able to pass through gate in fence in order
to give birth in hospital.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487160,00.html
Female
detainee on hunger strike in protest to repeated administrative
detention
Detainee Nour Al Hashlamoon started an open
ended hunger strike on December 18 after the Ofer Israeli military
court renewed her administrative detention for the sixth consecutive
time without any charges pressed against her.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52109
A
female prisoner is about to give birth in Israeli detention center
Fatima Al Zuq is from Gaza and was kidnapped a few months
ago, she's the fourth Palestinian prisoner to give birth inside an
Israeli prison since the beginning of the Al Aqsa
Intifada.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52117
Shooting
Back: The Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem Gives Palestinians
Video Cameras to Document Life Under Occupation
B'Tselem
has given Palestinian families across the West Bank video cameras to
document how they are treated by Israeli soldiers and settlers. Some
of the videos depicting abuse by settlers sparked a national debate
earlier this year after they were broadcast on Israeli television. We
speak with Oren Yakobovich who coordinates B'Tselem's video
department. [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/26/shooting_back_the_israeli_human_rights
Two
Palestinian Villages Ask Susan Sarandon to Repudiate Leviev over
Israeli Settlements
Dear Ms. Sarandon, We felt
sorrow when we learned that you accepted Lev Leviev's invitation to
attend the opening night event for his new jewelry store in New York
City on November 13 while our friends protested outside, because we
respect you for your support for human rights, for your courage in
speaking since 2002 against the US war on Iraq, and for your many
other honorable public positions.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=14596
Officials:
Olmert didn't commit to settlement halt
Israeli PM,
Palestinian leader Abbas meet in Jerusalem, agree to refrain from
steps that would hinder efforts to reach permanent agreement; sources
say Olmert did not guarantee Israel would withdraw plans to expand
Har Homa.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487532,00.html
OPT:
Mideast talks already tangled a month after Annapolis
summit
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are set to meet Thursday amid
rising tensions over whether the promises of peace they made a month
ago in Annapolis, Md., can be fulfilled.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SSHN-7AAJKA?OpenDocument&rc=3&
amp;emid=ACOS-635PFR
Blair's
misguided economic optimism
The Quartet's Middle East
envoy, Tony Blair, wanted to raise $5.6 billion US at the donor
conference in Paris in December 2007. Since 1999 the per capita gross
domestic product in occupied Palestine has declined by 40 percent. As
a result Palestinians are getting poorer and 65 percent live below
the poverty line. To give the hard hit economy a boost, Blair came up
with a cure of ten "quick impact projects." The World Bank
has another opinion: pouring money into the occupied Palestinian
territory will do little to revive the economy unless the occupation
is ended. Instead, some of Blair's proposed projects are firmly
rooted in the structure of the occupation.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9180.shtml
Arab-Israeli
Parliamentarians call new airport profiling "discrimination by a
different name"
A long-standing Israeli policy of
taking any Arab-looking person aside at the airport for long
interrogation sessions is being reviewed, following a petition filed
by human rights groups in Israel. But Arab Members of the Israeli
Knesset (Parliament) have criticized the review, saying that the
recommended changes in policy are simply more of the same.
http://www.imemc.org/article/52108
In-laws
force aide to Arab MK to quit or lose fiancé
Parliamentary
aide to MK Nadia Hilou forced to leave post after his ultra-Orthodox
future in-laws threatened to cancel the wedding if he continued to
work for an Arab. Hilou: 'I never believed that racism would arrive
at my doorstep'
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487245,00.html
A
West Bank struggle rooted in land
NAHALIN, WEST BANK --
From his hilltop farm, Daoud Nassar can see the sun rise over the
Jordan Valley and set in the Mediterranean, an arc that spans the
territorial breadth of his people's conflict with Israel. He also can
see the neighbors whose rival claim has drawn the idyllic 100-acre
plot deeply into that fight.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-fg-hilltop27dec27,1,6974727.story?
coll=la-headlines-frontpage&track=crosspromo
Gaza
census renewed after Hamas agrees to use of data
Employees
of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics began collecting data
Monday for a population census in the Gaza Strip after a hiatus of
several weeks. In August, the PCBS began a comprehensive survey of
populations, economic enterprises, homes and other buildings in the
Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=938786
Rightists
to give Bush warm 'welcome' in Jerusalem
Organizations
representing Israelis opposed to America's land-for-peace efforts
plan to greet US President George W. Bush with a large demonstration
when he visits Israel next month. The protest is scheduled to
take place in Har Homa - a southern-Jerusalem neighborhood which
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently condemned Israel for
developing.
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2277
Hamas'
test of responsibility
Hezbollah has never recognized
Israel or agreements with it, has not stopped using violence, and
continues to get stronger and acquire rockets. Nevertheless, the
situation in the North reminds us of the time before the Second
Lebanon War. A balance of fear on both sides of the border between
Hezbollah's long-range rockets and the Israel Air Force's firepower
guarantees calm even without diplomatic agreements.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/938768.html
State
comptroller to investigate sale of contested Hebron house
The
Knesset State Control Committee decided Wednesday to instruct State
Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss to investigate the conduct of state
authorities in the matter of a home taken over by Jewish settlers
near Hebron.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=939007
The
right to explode in anger
The negotiations over the future
of our land, from the sea to the river, and the two peoples living in
it, are proceeding along two parallel channels. It has been that way
since the Madrid and Oslo talks for 17 years now. One channel is
between the Palestinians and Israelis - such as Tuesday's meeting in
Jerusalem between chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia and
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. The other is being conducted between
the Israelis and themselves. Will the only genuine point of contact
between these two channels be another explosion of blood, as occurred
in 1996 and 2000?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/938765.html
Egypt
aid conditioned on enforcing Gaza siege
CAIRO, December
27 (IPS) - Last week, both houses of US Congress agreed to withhold
100 million dollars in financial assistance to Egypt following
Israeli claims that Egyptian authorities were failing to prevent
weapons smuggling to the Gaza Strip. Cairo, for its part, denounced
the decision, while local political analysts saw the move as a
heavy-handed pressure tactic on the part of Washington's pro-Israel
lobby.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9183.shtml
A
Palestinian love story
A few months ago, a European
professional in Ramallah threw a farewell party after completing part
of the project for which he was recruited. The European himself, a
Belgian, spent many years previously in the Palestinian territories
and was very well liked locally, not least because he married a
Palestinian woman, but that's another story. A friend and old
colleague of mine came up to me at the party and asked me discretely
about A., a good-looking and outgoing woman who works with us.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9182.shtml
Israeli
experts say force against Iran is still an option
Force
remains an option of last resort should Israel eventually conclude
that the weapons threshold is about to be crossed, according to
Israeli experts and former intelligence
officials.
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&
ID=565145734246432804
U.S.
report on Iran forces Israel to alter strategy
In the wake
of the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate's finding that Iran halted
its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Israel must prove Iran is
cheating without being accused of trying to push the United States
into
war.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2007121120071210iranprogram.html
Iranian
Jews: Reports of Iranians immigrating to Israel an 'outright
lie'
After 40 new Iranian immigrants arrive in
Israel, Jewish community head in Iran tells reporters that Iranian
Jews remain tied to their
homeland.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3487120,00.html
Soccer
/ Beitar Jerusalem / Racist chants mean no fans for Bnei Sakhnin
match
The Israel Football Association tribunal was in
session again to discuss the meaning of racist and derisive chants.
This time it ended with Beitar Jerusalem being punished with one
match without a crowd and a fine of NIS 10,000. However, in light of
how these things turned out in the past, it is still too early to
determine how this will develop based on the fact that the sentence
will be appealed to the IFA's highest court.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/938763.html
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