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Cave home in Khirbet Jenbah. Area residents traditionally lived in caves, using them as a shared family space, for living, cooking, and sheltering livestock. Today, the authorities prohibit the communities from building permanent homes and developing in accordance with community needs and they continue to live in cramped conditions in the ancient caves. Photo credit: B'Tselem (Osnat Skoblinsk).
B’Tselem: in March alone 64 people homeless, including 28 minors due to demolitions
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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday invaded the Soba area, east of Ethna town, west of Hebron, bulldozed and uprooted 40 Dunams of farmlands, to prepare for building a gravel factory in an illegal settlement.
Furthermore, according to B’Tselem the IOF also demolished a home in the Khirbet Jenbah community, in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron Hills.
Solar panels donated by an international aid agency were also confiscated in the process, B’Tselem added.
The B’Tselem statement said Palestinian residents viewed this demolition demolition as a “message” from the Israel after they filed a petition against Israeli plans to expel them from the Masafer Yatta area to establish a military training area known as “Firing Zone 918.”
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Palestinians are prohibited from entering areas targeted as “firing zones” without rarely-granted permission from Israeli authorities, which has had “a serious humanitarian impact on Palestinian civilians and dramatically reduced the land available to them for residential and livelihood uses.”
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in southern Hebron, said the IOF has recently demolished many barns, sheds, wells and solar panels, and is preventing the shepherds from herding their cattle in Masafer Yatta area, under the pretext of a “closed military zone.”
In Ethna town, Abdul-Rahman Tmeizi, head of the Public Relations Department in Ethna Local Council, said the IOF bulldozed the Palestinian lands in preparation for constructing a gravel factory for an illegal settlement, built on Palestinian lands.
According to B’Tselem, in the first week of March alone, Israel had torn down 17 dwellings, 19 agricultural structures, and a school in two Jordan Valley communities, one in the Nablus area and the other near Jericho — leaving 64 people homeless, including 28 minors.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/03/23/btselem-in-march-alone-64-people-homeless-including-28-minors-due-to-démolitions/
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (10– 16 March 2016)
March 17, 2016
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Israeli forces continue systematic crimes in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
(10 – 16 March 2016)
Bethlehem: Israeli forces demolish house belonging to Joudah Mousa in al-Shorfah area
- Israeli forces continued to use excessive force in the oPt
- 3 Palestinian civilians were killed and a 4th succumbed to his injuries in the West Bank.
- 6 Palestinian civilians, including 5 children, were wounded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- Israeli warplanes carried out 4 airstrikes against training sites and other targets in the Gaza Strip.
- 2 siblings were killed and their 2 other siblings were wounded in an airstrike, north of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli forces continued to target the border areas along the Gaza Strip, due to which, a scrap collector was wounded in the east of Khan Yunis.
- Israeli forces conducted 83 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and a limited one in the southern Gaza Strip.
- 74 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children, 2 women and 3 journalists, were arrested. Two of the journalists were arrested.
- 16 of them, including a child and 2 women, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
- Israeli forces raided TransMedia Production Company and confiscated some contents.
- Israeli forces raided also Palestine Technical (Khadoori) University in Tulkarm twice.
- Israeli forces continued their efforts to create Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
- Siblings of a Palestinian, who carried out a shooting attack, were deported to the West Bank on grounds of collective punishment.
- A clothes’ storehouse in al-Bareed suburb, north of the city, was demolished.
- Israeli forces issued more administrative demolition orders against a number of houses under the pretext of non-licensing.
- Israeli forces continued to target Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip Sea.
- Israeli forces turned the West Bank into cantons and continued to impose the illegal closure on the Gaza Strip for the 9th
- Dozens of temporary checkpoints were established in the West Bank and others were re-established to obstruct the movement of Palestinian civilians.
- 7 Palestinian civilians, including a girl child, were arrested at military checkpoints.
Summary
Israeli violations of international law and international humanitarian law in the oPt continued during the reporting period (10 – 16 March 2016).
Shooting:
Israeli forces have continued to commit crimes, inflicting civilian casualties. They have also continued to use excessive force against Palestinian civilians participating in peaceful protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the majority of whom were youngsters. During the reporting period, Israeli forces killed 5 Palestinian civilians, including 2 siblings, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, while a 6th succumbed to injuries he sustained 2 weeks earlier. Moreover, Israeli forces wounded 9 civilians, including 4 children; 3 of whom, including 2 children, were wounded in the West Bank and 6 others, including 2 siblings, were wounded in the Gaza Strip.
In the West Bank, Israeli forces killed 3 Palestinian civilians while a 4th succumbed to injuries he sustained 2 weeks earlier. They also wounded 3 civilians, including 2 children.
Killings committed by Israeli forces in the West Bank were as follows:
On 14 March 2016, Israeli forces stationed at “Givat Kharsina” settlement’s intersection shot 2 Palestinian civilians dead, claiming they were willing to carry out a shooting attack at Israeli soldiers while they were waiting at a bus stop.
15 minutes later, a number of Israeli soldiers in the abovementioned place opened fire at a vehicle, inside of which, was Yusef al-Tardah (18), from Abu al-Jamal areas, west of Bani Na’im village, east of Hebron. As a result, the aforementioned person was shot dead. Israeli forces claimed that the vehicle was driving fast in the opposite direction, heading towards them.
On 15 March 2016, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Nahed Mtair (24), from Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, succumbed to injuries he sustained earlier. The aforementioned person was wounded during confrontations in the refugee camp after 2 Israeli soldiers had moved into the camp in a car that was discovered and burnt by Palestinian young men then.
In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces killed 2 siblings and wounded 6 others, including 2 siblings of the killed ones.
On 12 March 2016, Israeli warplanes fired 3 missiles at Asqalan military site of al-qasam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas Movement), in al-Sayafa area, northwest of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip. As a result, the training site was destroyed, and the rubble and mud chunks flung over the houses to the northwestern side of the training site. One of the aforementioned houses belongs to Salman Mousa Hasan Abu Khousa and is built of tin plates on an area of 120 square meters. As a result, his children, Ayoub (12); Yasin (9); Israa’ (6) and Ikram (2). The wounded children were taken to the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. Yasin and Israa’ sustained serious wounds due to severe brain haemorrhage, while the two other children sustained moderate wounds. Yasin was pronounced dead after 15 minutes of his arrival at the hospital. However, Israa was transferred to al-Shifa hospital to receive medical treatment in Gaza City. At approximately 13:45 on the same day, the Palestinian medical sources announced that Israa succumbed to her wounds.
In the context of airstrikes as well, on the same day, Israeli warplanes carried out 3 raids on 2 training sites and on al-Sourani Hill. However, no casualties were reported.
In the context of targeting border areas along the Gaza Strip, on 13 March 2016, Israeli forces stationed at the said fence, east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, opened fire at Palestinian civilians collecting scraps. As a result, Jamal Zwayed (19), from al-Daraj neighbourhood, east of the city, sustained 4 bullet wounds to the left hand, belly and legs.
As part of shooting incidents against peaceful protests, on 11 March 2016, Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian youngsters, who headed towards the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. The Palestinian youngsters threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed at the border fence, as a result, 3 Palestinian civilians were wounded.
In the context of targeting Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip sea, on 12 March 2016, Israeli gunboats stationed off the shore, northwest of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, opened fire around Palestinian fishing boats sailing in the sea. A similar attack occurred on 13 March 2016, but neither casualties nor material damage were reported.
Incursions:
During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 83 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 5 ones in occupied East Jerusalem and its suburbs. During these incursions, Israeli forces arrested at least 74 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children and 2 women. Sixteen of them, including a child and the 2 women, were arrested in occupied Jerusalem.
During the reporting period, Israeli forces launched an operation against Palestinian media agencies in the West Bank, accusing them of “incitement”. On 11 March 2016, Israeli forces raided the office of TransMedia Production Company in al-Birah City, from which Palestine Today broadcast news. They confiscated all the sound and lighting equipment, routers, cameras and their tripods, PCs, laptops, files and documents related to the Company’s work, a server and cell phones. Before their withdrawal, Israeli forces affixed a military order issued by the Israeli Military Commander to close the office of Palestine Today. It should be noted that the Company offers media services to a number of news agencies, including Palestine Today.
Moreover, Israeli forces raided Palestine Technical University in Tulkarm twice on the same day and confiscated Islamic Bloc flags.
In the Gaza Strip, on 15 March 2016, Israeli forces moved about 100 meters to the east of Khuza’a village, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. They levelled and dug some lands for few hours and withdrew later.
Restrictions on movement:
Israel continued to impose a tight closure of the oPt, imposing severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
The illegal closure of the Gaza Strip, which has been steadily tightened since June 2007 has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli authorities impose measures to undermine the freedom of trade, including the basic needs for the Gaza Strip population and the agricultural and industrial products to be exported. For 9 consecutive years, Israel has tightened the land and naval closure to isolate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and other countries around the world. This resulted in grave violations of the economic, social and cultural rights and a deterioration of living conditions for 1.8 million people. The Israeli authorities have established Karm Abu Salem (Kerem Shaloum) as the sole crossing for imports and exports in order to exercise its control over the Gaza Strip’s economy. They also aim at imposing a complete ban on the Gaza Strip’s exports. The Israeli closure raised the rate of poverty to 38.8%, 21.1% of which suffer from extreme poverty. Moreover, the rate of unemployment increased up to 44%, which reflects the unprecedented economic deterioration in the Gaza Strip.
Jewish Majority:
In the context of collective punishment measures against Palestinians, who carried out attacks against Israelis, on 12 March 2016, Israeli forces deported the siblings of Fo’ad Abu Rajab, from al-Eisawiya village, northeast of the city, under the pretext of their illegal presence in the city. The deportation decision excluded their mother because she holds an Israeli ID. It should be noted that Fo’ad carried out a shooting attack on Saladin Street in the centre of Jerusalem, on 08 March 2016, that resulted in hi killing.
As part of house demolitions and demolition notices, on 10 March 2016, officers from the Israeli municipality Nature Authority raided Wadi al-Hilwa Information Center in Silwan village, south of the Old City. They fined the centre with NIS 475 under the pretext of placing an iron chain in front of the centre’s gate to protect children when leaving the centre. The Israeli forces gave the centre 7 days to remove it or they will raid the centre again.
On 13 March 2016, Israeli municipality officers moved into al-Eisawiya village, northeast of Jerusalem. They handed over administrative demolition orders against a number of apartments under the pretext of non-licensing.
On the context of settler attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property, on 11 March 2016, a group of settlers attacked Ahmed Badr (40) while he was guarding al-Jaras Garden in West Jerusalem. As a result, he sustained bruises throughout his body and was then taken to one of the hospitals for medical treatment.
On 15 March 2016, Israeli bulldozers demolished a storehouse in al-Bareed suburb, north of occupied Jerusalem, belonging to Waleed al-Hroub, who rented the storehouse from Shadi Matour, under the pretext of non-licensing.
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Recommendations to the International Community
PCHR emphasizes the international community’s position that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are still under Israeli occupation, in spite of Israeli military redeployment outside the Gaza Strip in 2005. PCHR further confirms that Israeli forces continued to impose collective punishment measures on the Gaza Strip, which have escalated since the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, in which Hamas won the majority of seats of the Palestinian Legislative Council. PCHR stresses that there is international recognition of Israel’s obligation to respect international human rights instruments and the international humanitarian law, especially the Hague Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land and the Geneva Conventions. Israel is bound to apply the international human rights law and the law of war sometime reciprocally and other times in parallel in a way that achieves the best protection for civilians and remedy for victims.
In light of continued arbitrary measures, land confiscation and settlement activities in the West Bank, and the latest 51-day offensive against civilians in the Gaza Strip, PCHR calls upon the international community, especially the United Nations, the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention and the European Union – in the context of their natural obligation to respect and enforce the international law – to cooperate and act according to the following recommendations:
- PCHR calls upon the international community and the United Nations to use all available means to allow the Palestinian people to enjoy their right to self-determination, through the establishment of the Palestinian State, which was recognized by the UN General Assembly with a vast majority, using all international legal mechanisms, including sanctions to end the occupation of the State of Palestine;
- PCHR calls upon the United Nations to provide international protection to Palestinians in the oPt, and to ensure the non-recurrence of aggression against the oPt, especially the Gaza Strip;
- PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to compel Israel, as a High Contracting Party to the Conventions, to apply the Conventions in the oPt;
- PCHR calls upon the Parties to international human rights instruments, especially the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, to pressurize Israel to comply with their provisions in the oPt, and to compel it to incorporate the human rights situation in the oPt in its reports submitted to the concerned committees;
- PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to fulfil their obligation to ensure the application of the Conventions, including extending the scope of their jurisdiction in order to prosecute suspected war criminals, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator and the place of a crime, to pave the way for prosecuting suspected Israeli war criminals and end the longstanding impunity they have enjoyed;
- PCHR calls on States that apply the principle of universal jurisdiction not to surrender to Israeli pressure to limit universal jurisdiction to perpetuate the impunity enjoyed by suspected Israeli war criminals;
- PCHR calls upon the international community to act in order to stop all Israeli settlement expansion activities in the oPt through imposing sanctions on Israeli settlements and criminalizing trading with them;
- PCHR calls upon the UN General Assembly to transfer the Goldstone Report to the UN Security Council in order to refer it to the International Criminal Court in accordance with Article 13(b) of the Rome Statute;
- PCHR calls upon the United Nations to confirm that holding war criminals in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a precondition to achieve stability and peace in the regions, and that peace cannot be built on the expense of human rights;
- PCHR calls upon the UN General Assembly and Human Rights Council to explicitly declare that the Israeli closure policy in Gaza and the annexation wall in the West Bank are illegal, and accordingly refer the two issues to the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Israel to compel it to remove them;
- PCHR calls upon the international community, in light of its failure to the stop the aggression on the Palestinian people, to at least fulfil its obligation to reconstruct the Gaza Strip after the series of hostilities launched by Israel which directly targeted the civilian infrastructure;
- PCHR calls upon the United Nations and the European Union to express a clear position towards the annexation wall following the international recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders, as the annexation wall seizes large parts of the State of Palestine;
- PCHR calls upon the European Union to activate Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which provides that both sides must respect human rights as a precondition for economic cooperation between the EU states and Israel, and the EU must not ignore Israeli violations and crimes against Palestinian civilians;
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For further information please visit our website www.pchrgaza.org or contact PCHR’s office in Gaza City, Gaza Strip by email pchr@pchrgaza.org or telephone +972 08 282 4776 – 282 5893.
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Statement of Solidarity: Israeli human rights and civil society organizations condemn attacks against Al-Haq
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Israeli human rights and civil society organizations condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing anonymous attacks against Palestinian human rights organizations, and most recently against Al-Haq. As Israeli organizations, we express our solidarity with our Palestinian counterparts. Al-Haq has indeed been faced with increasing pressure, which started with anonymous emails to staff and donors, citing non-existent fraud investigations, continued with daily calls from blocked numbers meant to intimidate the staff, and culminated in death threats to a staff member and to its General Director, Shawan Jabarin. These recent threats were directly connected to Al-Haq's ongoing work before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
These disturbing intimidation attacks against various groups and activists are clearly aimed at undermining their work and credibility. They are carried out against the backdrop of recurring attempts to undermine and harm the legitimacy and the efforts of all those who are fighting against the occupation.
We call upon the relevant authorities to identify the sources of these threats and bring them to justice. The continuous witch hunt that aims at intimidating and weakening us will not succeed. Together, we are determined to continue exposing the daily violations that stem from the occupation.
Signatories:
ACRI (Association for Civil Rights in Israel),
Adalah,
Akevot,
Bimkom,
B'Tselem -
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories,
Coalition of Women for Peace,
Gisha,
Hamoked:
Center for the Defence of the Individual,
Human Rights Defenders Fund,
Kav LaOved,
Machsom Watch,
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel,
the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel,
Rabbis for Human Rights,
Yesh Din
http://www.btselem.org/press_releases/20160315_solidarity_with_al_haq
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IOF kidnap 15 Palestinians in Jerusalem, Tuesday at dawn
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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) invaded on Tuesday at dawn several Palestinian neighborhoods and towns in occupied east Jerusalem, broke into and violently searched dozens of homes and kidnapped 15 Palestinians, including children, according the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic).
Silwanic stated that many former Palestinian political prisoners are among the kidnapped ones. It added that the IOF stormed and violently searched the homes of the kidnapped Palestinians, in addition to using military dogs.
Amjad Abu Asab, head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, stated to local press that the IOF in addition to kidnapping 15 Palestinians also delivered summons to several Palestinians for interrogation.
He said this kidnapping raid was likely executed as the Israeli authorities prepare for upcoming Jewish holidays, which are often accompanied by increased restrictions on Palestinians.
The kidnapped Palestinians were taken to a number of Israeli military detention and interrogation centers in occupied Jerusalem.
They were identified as:
1. Thaer Zghayyar.
2. Thaer Abu Sbeih.
3. Laith Gheith.
4. Ahmad Shaweesh.
5. Nour Shalabi.
6. Laith Shalabi.
7. Amjad Ghrouf.
8. Raed Ghrouf.
9. Waleed Tuffaha.
10. Amir Balbeesy.
11. Omar Za’anin.
12. Mahmoud Najeeb.
13. Rawhi al-Kolghassi.
14. Bassam Hijazi
15. Mohammad Abu Ghosha.
On Monday at dawn the IOF has kidnapped fifteen Palestinians from different cities across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS).
Nearly 7,000 Palestinians are currently being held in Israeli prisons and up to 40 percent of the male population has been detained at some point in their lives, according to prisoners’ rights group Addameer.
The group added that this number included 670 under administrative detention.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/03/22/iof-kidnap-15-palestinians-in-jerusalem-tuesday-at-dawn/
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IOF seize 1200 acres of land, northern West Bank
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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Monday morning have seized 1200 acres of land in Al-Lubban, Al-Sawiya and Qaryout villages south of Nablus city, northern West Bank.
Ghassan Daghlas, responsible for the wall and settlements file in the northern West Bank, said that IOF decided to confiscate the land, and gave 45 day notice as a period to file objections.
Daghlas added that these lands are close to Shilo and Eilya illegal settlements and that Israel is more likely to annex them to these settlements.
One week ago, the Israeli government announced the seizure of 2340 acres of land in the Jericho area, central West Bank, claiming it “state land”.
The Israeli government has embarked on this confiscation despite pressures from the United States and the United Nations attempting to prevent it.
In most cases, Israel announces thousands of acres as “state lands”, which are then granted to the illegal settlers.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/03/21/iof-seize-1200-acres-of-land-northern-west-bank/
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Home of Key Witness to Dawabsheh arson attack set on fire
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The home of the key-witness to the Duma arson attack, Ibrahim Dawabsheh, on Sunday overnight was set on fire by unidentified persons.
Ghassan Daghlas, responsible for the settlement files in the northern West Bank, said that unidentified suspects at 2 AM have thrown two fast-flammable burning bottles into the house after breaking the windows of Ibrahim’s home while him and his wife were asleep, in an attempt to burn them alive.
Ibrahim and his wife were moved to the Rafidia hospital for treatment, after they suffocated on the gases burning bottles were thrown into the house at about.
Ibrahim is a keywitness to the Duma arson attack that took place on 31 July 2015, and killed an 18-month-old baby, Ali Dawabsheh, and both his parents.
The only survivor of the arson attack is five year old Ahmad Dawabsheh, who has sustained burns on 80% of his body.
Ahmad Dawabsheh
The Israeli settlers who burned the Dawabsheh family were indicted at the beginning of January, and were affilliated to the Pay The Price terrorist organization.
The main suspect was Amiram Ben-Uliel, a 21-year-old West Bank settler, in addition to Yinon Reuveni, 20, and two more minors were charged as an accessory.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/03/20/home-of-key-witness-to-dawabsheh-arson-attack-set-on-fire/
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Un an après les législatives, la coalition de Netanyahu perd du terrain
La coalition de droite du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu perdrait sa majorité ténue au Parlement si de nouvelles élections avaient lieu aujourd’hui. Photo AFP
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La coalition de droite du Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu perdrait sa majorité ténue au Parlement si de nouvelles élections avaient lieu aujourd'hui, indique un sondage publié hier, un an après les dernières législatives.
Les différents partis formant l'actuelle coalition gouvernementale ne réuniraient plus que 57 sièges sur 120, au lieu de 61 actuellement, révèle cette enquête d'opinion pour les quotidiens Maariv et Jerusalem Post. L
a coalition sur laquelle repose un des gouvernements les plus à droite de l'histoire d'Israël est composée du parti de droite de M. Netanyahu (le Likoud), du parti nationaliste religieux Foyer juif, des partis ultraorthodoxes Shass et Judaïsme unifié de la Torah, et du parti de centre-droit Koulanou. Elle avait été formée dans la douleur après les législatives du 17 mars 2015.
Avec une seule voix de majorité, elle est à la merci de la moindre défection, mais elle a jusqu'alors démenti les augures qui ne donnaient pas cher de sa peau. Le sondage d'hier indique que M. Netanyahu, qui en est à son quatrième mandat de Premier ministre, n'est pas irremplaçable pour 46 % des sondés; 41 % pensent le contraire. Mais aucun prétendant à sa succession ne se détache.
Son principal concurrent est son ancien ministre laïc et libéral Yaïr Lapid, aujourd'hui dans l'opposition. Dans une confrontation purement théorique à deux, M. Lapid rallierait 36 % des Israéliens, M. Netanyahu 47 %. Isaac Herzog, du Parti travailliste, ne recueillerait que 25 % de soutien et M. Netanyahu 56 %.
Le principal bénéficiaire de nouvelles élections serait le parti centriste de Yaïr Lapid, Yesh Atid, qui passerait de 11 à 21 sièges.
Le Likoud passerait de 30 à 26, et l'Union sioniste (alliance des travaillistes de M. Herzog et des centristes de Tzipi Livni) tomberait de 24 à 15 sièges.
Le sondage a été réalisé auprès de 511 personnes, avec une marge d'erreur de 4,3 %.
Par ailleurs, un Palestinien a tenté de poignarder des soldats israéliens hier près d'un groupe de colonies en Cisjordanie occupée avant d'être abattu, a indiqué l'armée. L'homme, « armé d'un couteau, est sorti de sa voiture et s'est rué sur les soldats qui gardaient le croisement.
Les forces ont riposté en ouvrant le feu et en tuant l'assaillant », a précisé l'armée. Les faits se sont produits à l'intersection de l'important bloc de colonies de Goush Etzion, situées sur le grand axe qui traverse la Cisjordanie du nord au sud et relie Jérusalem à Hébron.
(Source : AFP)
http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/976350/un-an-apres-les-legislatives-la-coalition-de-netanyahu-perd-du-terrain.html
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IOF attack weekly nonviolent protests in the occupied West Bank
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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday 18 March, attacked the weekly nonviolent protest against the apartheid Wall and the illegal Israeli settlements, in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, Kufur Qaddoum town, northern of Qalqilia, as well as in Nil’in village, causing dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Furthermore, the IOF tried to supress a demonstration in Bethlehem.
In Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, the weekly nonviolent protest started from the center of the village, when locals and international peace activists marched towards the villagers’ orchards.According to locals, the Israeli soldiers fired many gas bombs at the protesters. Many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Today, the protesters were celebrating the death anniversary of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, that was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
In February this year, Bil’in village celebrated the eleventh anniversary of ongoing popular, nonviolent struggle against the construction of the illegal apartheid wall, illegal settlements and the escalating Israeli violations against the Palestinian population.
In Ni’lin village, also west of Ramallah, as in Bil’in, the protesters were celebrating the death anniversary of Rachel Corrie.They marched carrying posters of her and pictures of Tristan Anderson, an American peace activist who was seriously injured after a high-velocity Israeli gas bomb struck him in the forehead, on March 13 2009, causing cognitive impairment and physical disability.
The Ni’lin Popular Committee stated that the Israeli soldiers assaulted dozens of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists with tear gas bombs that can reach more than 1000 meters away.
“Many of those gas bombs struck homes, causing many Palestinians, including children, to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation,” he said, “This is the second week the soldiers use this type of gas bombs in the village,” Mohammad Amira, member of the Popular Committee said to local reporters.
In Kufur Qaddoum town, northern of Qalqilia, the Israeli soldiers assaulted the weekly nonviolent protest with rubber-coated metal bullets and loads of tear gas bombs.
The weekly protest started from the center of the town, following Friday noon prayers, when dozens of residents, accompanied international activists marched carrying Palestinian flags and chanting for the liberation of Palestine.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, Murad Eshteiwy, said to the local press that the Israeli soldiers used excessive forces against the protesters, and deployed many sharpshooters in the village’s olive orchards, and between many homes.
He added that many residents suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, especially after the Israeli soldiers targeted a number of homes in the town.
Furthermore, in Bethlehem, Palestinian medical sources have reported that the Israeli soldiers shot a young man with a live round, while many local residents suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, at the city’s northern entrance.
The medical sources added that the young man was shot in his leg and was moved to Beit Jala Hospital for treatment; his wounds were described as moderate.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/03/19/iof-attack-weekly-nonviolent-protests-in-the-occupied-west-bank-3/
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Envoyez-les à Gaza, la colonie pénitentiaire d’Israël
En expulsant les Palestiniens à Gaza, Israël admettrait officiellement, pour la première fois, que la bande assiégée est une prison, la plus grande au monde.
Gideon Levy, Middle East Eye, mercredi 16 mars 2016
À une heure de route de Tel Aviv : un ghetto. Peut-être le plus grand ghetto au monde, avec une population d’environ deux millions de personnes. Selon les derniers chiffres de Gisha, centre juridique pour la liberté de circulation (une ONG israélienne), le chômage à Gaza atteint 43 % ; 70 % des habitants de Gaza ont besoin d’aide humanitaire ; 57 % vivent dans l’ombre de l’insécurité alimentaire.
Et puis il y a le rapport inquiétant de l’ONU datant d’août 2015 et intitulé « Gaza en 2020 : un lieu vivable ? ». D’ici là, les dommages causés aux infrastructures hydrauliques seront irréversibles et, déjà aujourd’hui, l’eau est imbuvable.
PNB par habitant : 1 161 euros, inférieur à celui d’il y a 25 ans, et peut-être le seul PNB au monde qui ne cesse de baisser. Il faudra 1 000 médecins et 2 000 infirmiers supplémentaires dans le système de santé qui est assiégé et qui s’effondre : d’où viendront-ils ?
De la faculté de santé al-Nuseirat ? Des élèves qui partent à l’étranger pour étudier à Harvard ? L’Égypte a resserré les restrictions de sortie et d’entrée à Rafah ; le monde ignore ses obligations envers Gaza, et Israël exploite les deux – l’intransigeance de l’Égypte et l’indifférence du monde – afin de poursuivre son siège de Gaza, en tandem avec le siège égyptien de Gaza dont Israël retire un encouragement et une légitimité.
Trois heures d’électricité par jour. Parfois six. Sous la pluie et dans le froid, ou sous la chaleur : hiver comme été. Ensuite, douze heures ou plus sans électricité, jusqu’au trois (ou six) prochaines heures. Tous les jours. Près de deux millions de personnes. Dont un million de réfugiés ou d’enfants de réfugiés, en conséquence directe ou indirecte des actions d’Israël.
Près d’un million d’enfants. Peu de gens peuvent imaginer cela. Peu d’Israéliens en ressentent une quelconque culpabilité. Peu d’Israéliens semblent s’en soucier le moins du monde. Le Hamas, vous savez.
Le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou a aujourd’hui une idée originale : dans cet endroit maudit, il veut bannir les familles des auteurs d’attaques au couteau ou à la voiture-bélier des derniers mois.
Désormais, toute fille ou tout garçon avec un couteau ou une paire de ciseaux ne sera plus seulement exécuté sur place, comme cela est arrivé dernièrement, que cela ait été nécessaire ou non ; à partir de maintenant, leurs familles seront punies elles-aussi. Elles payeront.
Netanyahou a déjà consulté son nouveau procureur général, Avichai Mandelblit, pour un avis officiel : si ce dernier le permet, c’est très bien du point de vue de Netanyahou. S’il refuse, Netanyahou peut toujours accuser encore une fois le système judiciaire israélien de l’empêcher de défendre les citoyens de la nation contre le terrorisme. Il gagne sur toute la ligne.
L’opinion publique israélienne soutient largement les idées folles de Netanyahou : la plupart des Israéliens soutiennent toutes les sanctions draconiennes qu’il invente contre les « terroristes » et leurs familles. La sanction collective est contraire au droit international ? Israël obtient un passe-droit. Israël n’accorde aucune considération au droit international, un instrument important et juste, mais, pour Israël, hors de propos.
En principe, une question revêt beaucoup plus d’importance que la démagogie de Netanyahou, alors qu’il a tenté par tous les moyens et à tout prix ces derniers mois de satisfaire l’extrême droite dans un climat d’intense ultranationalisme. Netanyahou sait que les services de sécurité d’Israël n’ont aucun moyen de contrer les attaques perpétrées par des loups solitaires dans cette dernière manifestation de la rébellion contre l’occupation.
Tsahal et le Shin Bet lui disent qu’en matière d’assaillants isolés, qui sont pour la plupart très jeunes, qu’aucune infrastructure logistique ou militaire ne soutient, et en l’absence d’implication d’un quelconque mouvement politique ou d’une quelconque organisation dans leurs attaques principalement spontanées et non planifiées, la grande et forte armée d’Israël n’a aucun moyen de réagir. Aucun moyen de renseignement pour prévenir ou contrecarrer ces attaques. Et les armes technologiques sophistiquées d’Israël n’aideront pas, ni son armée d’informateurs palestiniens, ni l’avion furtif américain ou les sous-marins allemands.
Aucune armée au monde n’a quoi que ce soit pour contrer l’adolescente avec des ciseaux et l’adolescent avec un couteau de cuisine qui se lèvent un matin et décident d’aller commettre une attaque. Il n’y a pas de solution militaire à près de 50 ans de désespoir. Mais Netanyahou doit toujours montrer qu’il « fait quelque chose », ce que veut le public israélien, et qu’il ne reste pas assis là à se lamenter des attaques quotidiennes ou quasi-quotidiennes, lesquelles ne montrent aucun signe quelconque de déclin ou de fin, alors même que la plupart d’entre elles aboutissent à la mort de leurs auteurs et à des pertes relativement faibles du côté israélien.
Donc, une fois de plus, dégainons cette riposte éculée consistant à raser les maisons des familles des auteurs d’attaques. Selon B’Tselem, Israël a déjà démoli ou scellé 31 de ces maisons depuis le début du mois d’octobre 2015. Parmi celles-ci, 14 étaient en fait les maisons des voisins, détruites en même temps que celles des familles des auteurs des attaques, mais encore une fois, tout le monde en Israël s’en moque.
Avec l’imprimatur du système judiciaire israélien, il existe une sanction collective pour tout. Certains, mais pas tous, experts en sécurité affirment que cela a un effet dissuasif sur les terroristes, mais tout au long des intifadas, cette assertion n’a jamais été prouvée. Au contraire, quiconque connaît l’atmosphère palestinienne sait que les démolitions de maisons ont en fait motivé un nombre croissant de jeunes à commettre des attaques, comme vengeance. Lorsque quelqu’un est prêt à payer de sa vie, quand son désespoir est si profond, penser à la démolition de la maison de sa famille ne le dissuadera pas.
Pendant ce temps, la rage intensifie seulement parmi les ruines des maisons détruites. Il y a quelques jours, je me suis rendu dans deux maisons détruites, appartenant aux familles des assaillants dans le village de Dura, au sud d’Hébron. Dix-neuf personnes sont devenues sans abri après la démolition des maisons des familles Harub et Masalma.
Flânant dans les ruines, Haqqi Harub (3 ans), frère cadet de Mohammed Harub, un Palestinien de 22 ans qui a tué deux Israéliens dans une fusillade à la jonction de Gush Etzion en Cisjordanie et a été arrêté par les forces israéliennes. « Je veux tuer un soldat juif », m’a dit l’enfant. Lorsque je lui ai demandé pourquoi, il m’a répondu : « Parce qu’ils ont détruit ma maison. » Haqqi, dont le nom en arabe signifie « c’est mon droit », n’oubliera jamais les ruines de sa maison. Il va grandir sur ce souvenir.
Aujourd’hui, Netanyahou veut être plus sévère avec les familles et les expulser à Gaza. Netanyahou ne sera pas le premier Premier ministre israélien à prendre cette mesure. Au cours de la première et deuxième Intifada, Israël a expulsé des activistes palestiniens en Jordanie, au Liban, à Gaza et dans d’autres pays. La plus grande expulsion s’est en fait déroulée sous le gouvernement de Yitzhak Rabin.
Le 17 décembre 1992, après l’enlèvement et l’assassinat d’un policier aux frontières israélien, Rabin a ordonné l’expulsion de pas moins de 415 militants du Hamas et du Jihad islamique au Liban. Le système judiciaire israélien n’a pas soutenu unanimement cette mesure extrême qu’il a jugée illégale, mais après un appel des expulsés, la Cour suprême l’a autorisée et les 415 militants ont été expulsés vers le Liban. Là, à Marj al-Zouhour, sur une montagne libanaise glacée et sous des températures inférieures à zéro, ont évolué les responsables du Hamas qui dirigent l’organisation à ce jour. Ainsi, non seulement problématique d’un point de vue juridique, l’expulsion n’a par ailleurs jamais fait ses preuves du point de vue des intérêts d’Israël. Il est très peu probable que cette mesure ait ne serait-ce qu’affaibli le terrorisme.
Cependant, Netanyahou veut franchir un pas de plus ou, disons plutôt, faire un autre pas en arrière. Nous ne parlons pas ici de terroristes, mais de leurs familles, qui ne sont pas elles-mêmes soupçonnées d’actes répréhensibles. Si le système judiciaire d’Israël permet que cela se produise – et ce dernier passe généralement tous les caprices des services de sécurité –, les familles (y compris les parents âgés, les femmes et les enfants) de ceux qui s’en sont pris aux Israéliens seront déracinées et expulsées vers Gaza.
En vertu de toute norme judiciaire juste, bien sûr, ce mini-transfert ne pourrait pas résister à un examen. Il viole toute notion de justice naturelle. Il déracinerait des gens innocents de leurs maisons, de leurs communautés, de leurs moyens de subsistance et de leurs racines et transformerait certains d’entre eux en réfugiés pour la deuxième ou la troisième fois dans l’histoire de leur famille.
En outre, cette expulsion n’apportera rien au combat contre le terrorisme. Comme d’autres mesures similaires, celle-ci est principalement destinée aux Israéliens : montrer au public israélien qui a soif de vengeance que son gouvernement punit, par la vengeance. Cette mesure n’a pas d’autre but. Elle pourrait facilement se transformer en option qu’Israël invoquera de manière réitérée, sans retenue.
Soit dit en passant, il y a autre chose dans tout cela qui mérite notre attention : Israël admettrait ainsi officiellement, pour la première fois, que Gaza est une prison, la plus grande au monde, bien sûr. Envoyer les familles des auteurs d’attaques à Gaza est présenté comme une punition et le choix de Gaza comme une colonie pénitentiaire d’Israël, sa propre île du Diable, constitue aussi l’aveu que Gaza est considérée comme un camp de prisonniers, une immense cage en plein air. Israël, tout en affirmant que l’occupation de Gaza est terminée, prouve que cette prison reste une prison, tandis que ses gardes ont simplement préféré aller à l’extérieur et monter la garde de là.
Haqqi Harub erre maintenant en état de choc parmi les ruines de sa maison à Dura dans les collines du sud d’Hébron. Quand je suis allé là-bas, parmi les débris, son père lui a donné un shekel pour acheter des bonbons, comme pour aider l’enfant à oublier sa colère et sa frustration devant l’Israélien nouvellement arrivé.
Si cela ne tenait qu’à Benjamin Netanyahou, Israël ne se contenterait pas de la démolition de la maison familiale du petit Haqqi : il l’enverrait à Gaza, quel que soit le sort qui l’attendrait là-bas, totalement assiégé, sans électricité et sans eau potable, dans un lieu qui, d’ici quatre ans, sera inhabitable. Le nom « Gaza » est lié, en hébreu, au nom « Azazel » – dans la tradition biblique, l’endroit où un bouc émissaire a été précipité au bas de la montagne vers sa mort.
Gideon Levy est un chroniqueur et membre du comité de rédaction du journal Haaretz. Il a rejoint Haaretz en 1982 et a passé quatre ans comme vice-rédacteur en chef du journal. Lauréat du prix Olof Palme pour les droits de l’homme en 2015, il a obtenu le prix Euro-Med Journalist en 2008, le prix Leipzig Freedom en 2001, le prix Israeli Journalists’ Union en 1997 et le prix de l’Association of Human Rights in Israel en 1996. Son nouveau livre, The Punishment of Gaza, vient d’être publié par Verso.
Traduction de l’anglais (original) par VECTranslation.
http://www.france-palestine.org/Envoyez-les-a-Gaza-la-colonie-penitentiaire-d-Israel
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US, UK, Germany, France slam Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank
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The US, UK, French and German governments condemned Israel’s decision to further expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank this week.
The US State Department spokesman John Kirby on Tuesday said the United States was “concerned” with Israel’s moves, noting it was a “significant increase” over two conversions in 2014: nearly 1,000 acres near Bethlehem in the Gush Etzion bloc and another 250 acres in the same area.
“This decision is, in our view, the latest step in what appears to be an ongoing process of land expropriations, settlement expansions and legalization of outposts that is fundamentally undermining the prospects for a two-state solution. As we have said before, we strongly oppose any steps that accelerate settlement expansion, which raise serious questions about Israel’s long-term intentions. ” Kirby said.
The British government on Wednesday deemed the Israeli appropriation of the Palestinian land as “illegal,” urging Israel to reverse the situation.
“We condemn the Israeli government’s decision to take over 585 acres of land in the West Bank as ‘state land’. Such steps clearly damage the diminishing prospects for a two state solution. The UK and our international partners have consistently called for an end to settlement expansion, which is illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace” a British Foreign Office spokeswoman said in a statement.
A spokeswoman for Germany’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday Berlin fears the expropriated land will be used to expand Israeli settlements and make it harder to forge a peace deal with the Palestinians.
“This decision sends a wrong signal at the wrong time. Especially in the current tense situation, both parties in the Middle East conflict are called on to take steps for a de-escalation and to find ways that lead to an urgently needed resumption of peace negotiations,” the German Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
In Paris, Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal said France was “extremely concerned” by the Israeli decision.
“Settlements constitute a violation of international law and contradict commitments made by Israeli authorities in favour of a two-state solution,” the spokesman said.
Paris is lobbying for an international peace conference before May that would outline incentives and give guarantees for Israelis and Palestinians to resume face-to-face talks before August.
Echoing Germany, France, UK and the United States statements, the EU’s foreign policy service also issued a statement criticizing Israel for its appropriation of Palestinian land.
“Israel’s decision … is a further step that risks undermining the viability of a future Palestinian state and therefore calls into question Israel’s commitment to a two-state solution,” the EU said in the statement.
“Any decision that could enable further settlement expansion, which is illegal under international law and an obstacle to peace, will only drive the parties to the conflict even further apart. The European Union remains firmly opposed to Israel’s settlement policy and actions taken in this context, including demolitions and confiscations, evictions, forced transfers or restrictions on movement and access,” the EU said.
On Tuesday this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon approved the designation of 580 acres in the occupied West Bank near the Dead Sea and the Jericho as “Israeli state land”, according to [Israeli] Army Radio.
The Israeli policy of expanding the illegal West Bank settlements is opposed by the international community and widely seen as a violation of the international law.
Peace Now, an NGO which tracks and opposes Israeli illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, said the reported seizure of 579 acres (234 hectares) represented the largest land confiscation in the occupied West Bank in recent years.
The group said plans for expanding nearby Jewish settlements and building tourism and other commercial facilities in the area were already on Israel’s drawing board.
More than half a million Jewish settlers live in 237 illegal settlements throughout the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel administers approximately 20 industrial zones covering 1,365 hectares, in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli settlers additionally enjoy the cultivation of 9,300 hectares of agricultural land, and settlement businesses that operate 187 shopping centers inside settlements as well as 11 quarries that supply around 25 percent of Israel’s gravel market.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/03/18/us-uk-germany-france-slam-israeli-settlement-expansion-in-the-occupied-west-bank/
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