12 feb 2019
A number of Palestinians were injured at noontime on Tuesday after Israeli forces rolled into Abu Dis town, east of occupied Jerusalem.
The Red Crescent said 17 Palestinians choked on teargas fired by Israeli forces in Adu Dis.
Israeli soldiers also cordoned off Abu Dis School, sparking clashes in the area.
At the same time, the occupation forces detained two students for over six hours on their way to al-Hashmiya school in al-Bireh city, in the central occupied West Bank, and subjected them to heavy beating.
The Red Crescent said 17 Palestinians choked on teargas fired by Israeli forces in Adu Dis.
Israeli soldiers also cordoned off Abu Dis School, sparking clashes in the area.
At the same time, the occupation forces detained two students for over six hours on their way to al-Hashmiya school in al-Bireh city, in the central occupied West Bank, and subjected them to heavy beating.
The Israeli occupation forces at noontime on Tuesday rolled into Jenin’s southern town of Yabad, in the northern occupied West Bank, and cracked down on Palestinian civilians.
Israeli soldiers stormed Yabad town and cordoned off the environs of Ezzedine al-Qassam school, before they subjected Palestinians to intensive questioning.
Israeli patrols ransacked Palestinian shops and stopped Palestinians at the Dutan checkpoint, near Yabad’s entrance.
Israeli soldiers stormed Yabad town and cordoned off the environs of Ezzedine al-Qassam school, before they subjected Palestinians to intensive questioning.
Israeli patrols ransacked Palestinian shops and stopped Palestinians at the Dutan checkpoint, near Yabad’s entrance.
11 feb 2019
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An Israeli extremist settler attacked a journalist and an activist in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on Sunday.
Activist Issa Amr said that had filed several complaints against Israeli extremist settler Inat Cohen, however, when he headed to the Israeli police last month they attempted to detain him. Amr added that Cohen's attacks and assaults against locals and internationals are a proof of the Israel's apartheid and ethnic cleansing policy in Hebron. Palestinian residents of the Old City of Hebron face a large Israeli military presence on a daily basis, with at least 32 permanent and partial checkpoints set up at the entrances of many streets. |
Additionally, Palestinians are not allowed to drive on al-Shuhada Street, have had their homes and shops in the street welded shut, and in some areas of the Old City, are not permitted to walk on certain roads.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers move freely on the street, drive cars, and carry machine guns.
The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers move freely on the street, drive cars, and carry machine guns.
The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
10 feb 2019
Israeli forces banned on Sunday Palestinian teachers’ access to a school in the village of Beit Iksa, north of occupied Jerusalem.
Sa’ade al-Khatib, head of the Beit Iksa village council, said that Israeli forces prevented five teachers from entering the village to reach the Beit Iksa Secondary Girls School, obstructing classes at the institution.
He said the Ministry of Education and Higher Education sent the teachers to another school in the town of Biddo, north of occupied Jerusalem.
Sa’ade al-Khatib, head of the Beit Iksa village council, said that Israeli forces prevented five teachers from entering the village to reach the Beit Iksa Secondary Girls School, obstructing classes at the institution.
He said the Ministry of Education and Higher Education sent the teachers to another school in the town of Biddo, north of occupied Jerusalem.
Palestinian students were evacuated on Sunday afternoon from a high school in Nablus following a settler attack.
Anti-settlement activist Ghassan Daghlas said in press statements that a group of Israeli settlers attacked a high school in Urif village in Nablus.
According to Daghlas, the settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, stormed the school and started to open fire, which forced the school's administration to evacuate the students.
Anti-settlement activist Ghassan Daghlas said in press statements that a group of Israeli settlers attacked a high school in Urif village in Nablus.
According to Daghlas, the settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, stormed the school and started to open fire, which forced the school's administration to evacuate the students.
9 feb 2019
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02/08/19 | International Solidarity Movement | Al-Khalil Team
ISM volunteers were detained by Hebron Police for over 8 hours after Anat Cohen assaulted them outside the Qurtuba school checkpoint on Thursday. In direct response to the violence waged against Palestinians at the hands of settlers (and the military that protects them), a neutral observer force had been present in Hebron (Al-Khalil) for the past 22-years, in part, to ensure that children walking to/from school would not be harmed, harassed, or murdered by settlers. This observer force was called TIPH. Unfortunately, the Israeli government expelled TIPH from Hebron last week. One of the more dangerous checkpoints for Palestinian children in Al-Khalil exists outside the Qurtuba school–which is juxtaposed immediately adjacent to the Beit Hadassah settlement. Another independent observer group, EAPPI, had been peacefully monitoring this checkpoint until last week–when their head offices announced that their team would also withdraw from Hebron following a targeted campaign of harassment by the right-wing fascist group Im Turtsu. To fill this void, ISM volunteers have been monitoring the Qurtuba checkpoint in mornings and afternoons to provide an international presence to ensure the safety of Palestinian schoolchildren. As a result, ISM has become the target of harassment by settlers. On Thursday, this ordinary verbal abuse escalated to physical assault when Anat Cohen–a particularly violent settler with a history of attacking peaceful observers–assaulted ISM volunteers at the Qartuba checkpoint. Minutes after Cohen assaulted the ISM volunteers, she called the police. When the local Hebron Police arrived, they detained the ISM volunteers and informed them that Cohen was pressing charges against the ISM volunteers for assault. The ISM volunteers vehemently deny these accusations, and they have video evidence clearly showing that the only physical violence that occurred was when Cohen assaulted the peaceful ISM volunteers, who were simply observing the checkpoint to ensure the safety of the schoolchildren. |
7 feb 2019
Members of the United Nations Security Council, with the exception of the United States, expressed regret in a closed session held on Wednesday at Israel’s decision to end the mandate of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), an international civilian observer mission based in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron.
While the United States has argued that it is the right of both sides not to renew the mandate of the mission, established over 20 years ago following a massacre by an Israeli settler of some 30 Palestinian civilians while praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, Kuwait and Indonesia, sponsors of a statement expressing regret of the Council members at the Israeli move, argued that it is not Israel’s right to end the TIPH mission.
The US, which reportedly did not believe a statement on the issue was "appropriate" and has repeatedly backed Israel at the UN, blocked the draft statement since it required a unanimous decision to adopt it.
The statement was to express the Security Council's regret about Israel's "unilateral decision" and to stress the importance of the mandate of the TIPH and its efforts to foster calm in a fragile situation on the ground, which "risks further deteriorating, as reflected in the escalating cycle of violence."
The statement was to also warn Israel that it has an obligation under international law "to protect the Palestinian civilian population in Hebron" as well as the rest of the West Bank.
Five European countries that make the 64-person TIPH force have expressed regret in a statement issued on Friday of the Israeli decision, expressing concern that this decision may have a negative impact on the delicate situation in Hebron where some 400 hardcore and extremist Israeli settlers live among 30,000 Palestinians in the Israeli-controlled old section of the Palestinian city referred to as H2.
“Since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 904 in 1994, calling for a temporary international presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, the situation in Hebron remains tense and fragile,” foreign minister of the European countries said in the statement.
“We are concerned that the Israeli government’s decision undermines one of the few established mechanisms for conflict resolution between Israelis and Palestinians and may therefore have a negative impact on the situation. In this regard, we stress Israel’s obligations under international law to protect the people in Hebron and in other parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, and its duty to ensure accountability for violations thereof.”
While the United States has argued that it is the right of both sides not to renew the mandate of the mission, established over 20 years ago following a massacre by an Israeli settler of some 30 Palestinian civilians while praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, Kuwait and Indonesia, sponsors of a statement expressing regret of the Council members at the Israeli move, argued that it is not Israel’s right to end the TIPH mission.
The US, which reportedly did not believe a statement on the issue was "appropriate" and has repeatedly backed Israel at the UN, blocked the draft statement since it required a unanimous decision to adopt it.
The statement was to express the Security Council's regret about Israel's "unilateral decision" and to stress the importance of the mandate of the TIPH and its efforts to foster calm in a fragile situation on the ground, which "risks further deteriorating, as reflected in the escalating cycle of violence."
The statement was to also warn Israel that it has an obligation under international law "to protect the Palestinian civilian population in Hebron" as well as the rest of the West Bank.
Five European countries that make the 64-person TIPH force have expressed regret in a statement issued on Friday of the Israeli decision, expressing concern that this decision may have a negative impact on the delicate situation in Hebron where some 400 hardcore and extremist Israeli settlers live among 30,000 Palestinians in the Israeli-controlled old section of the Palestinian city referred to as H2.
“Since the UN Security Council adopted resolution 904 in 1994, calling for a temporary international presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, the situation in Hebron remains tense and fragile,” foreign minister of the European countries said in the statement.
“We are concerned that the Israeli government’s decision undermines one of the few established mechanisms for conflict resolution between Israelis and Palestinians and may therefore have a negative impact on the situation. In this regard, we stress Israel’s obligations under international law to protect the people in Hebron and in other parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, and its duty to ensure accountability for violations thereof.”
6 feb 2019
Via BNC Official.
February 5, 2019 / By Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) / United StatesThe Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) supports the faculty at Pitzer College calling to suspend a complicit study abroad program in Israel over its discriminatory practices.
PFUUPE, which represents more than 6,000 Palestinian university staff at 13 higher education institutions in the occupied Palestinian territory, commends our colleagues at Pitzer College for overwhelmingly supporting this principled stand for Palestinian human rights and for equality.
Most importantly, we thank you for listening to us and acting upon the call from the vast majority of Palestinians, including academics and students, to refrain from business-as-usual academic relations with Israeli institutions while we are forced to live under oppression.
We hold dear the universal right to academic freedom, on principle and because Palestinians are obliged to fight for it every day, along with our right to education.
Our faculty members have, for decades, faced the policy of restricting movement and travel imposed by the Israeli occupation. This severely hampers our academic freedom, namely to reach our campuses, to teach our students, to conduct research, to collaborate with other academics or institutions and to participate in conferences, whether within the occupied Palestinian territory or abroad.
Israel also obstructs importation of academic material and scientific equipment for Palestinian universities, effectively imposing a boycott on our institutions of higher education.
Israel’s discriminatory policies further prevent international academics and students, in particular those of Palestinian/Arab origins or those supporting Palestinian rights, from teaching, studying and attending conferences at our universities. The past two years have seen an uptick in racially- or opinion- based denial of entry to Israel and refusal of visas and visa renewals, a repressive and deeply discriminatory Israeli policy that has long been customary.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Palestinian schools and universities in Gaza, and its illegal and brutal siege has denied the two million Palestinians there, including hundreds of thousands of students, their basic right to freedom of movement. Israel’s decade-old siege of Gaza is making it uninhabitable, according to the UN.
Palestinian students and faculty in the Israeli-occupied West Bank also face campus raids with Israeli soldiers firing live munitions and tear gas.
Palestinian citizens of Israel are subjected to Israel’s institutionalized racism, while Palestinian students face repressive restrictions on political activities and Palestinian educational facilities are underfunded.
We ask the Pitzer College community to try to imagine what it is like studying, teaching or performing research under these dire conditions of racism, repression and violent oppression.
As long as Israel continues to deny Palestinian human rights and academic freedom and impose discriminatory policies based on origins and political opinion, students, educators and academic institutions have a moral obligation and an ethical responsibility to ensure their campus is not contributing in any way to denying Palestinians our right to education and life.
We urge the Pitzer College Council to uphold the principled stand taken by an overwhelming majority of its faculty not to be complicit in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights and its blatantly racist and anti-democratic discriminatory policies.
Doing so will send a strong signal to the Israeli government and its deeply complicit universities that principled academic institutions will no longer stand by. They will instead use their power of moral persuasion to hold Israel to account and effect a change in the stagnant status quo of oppression, as was the case during the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa.
Please, uphold the vote in support of our struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Keep our hope in freedom, justice and equality alive.
Sincerely,
The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE)
February 5, 2019 / By Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) / United StatesThe Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE) supports the faculty at Pitzer College calling to suspend a complicit study abroad program in Israel over its discriminatory practices.
PFUUPE, which represents more than 6,000 Palestinian university staff at 13 higher education institutions in the occupied Palestinian territory, commends our colleagues at Pitzer College for overwhelmingly supporting this principled stand for Palestinian human rights and for equality.
Most importantly, we thank you for listening to us and acting upon the call from the vast majority of Palestinians, including academics and students, to refrain from business-as-usual academic relations with Israeli institutions while we are forced to live under oppression.
We hold dear the universal right to academic freedom, on principle and because Palestinians are obliged to fight for it every day, along with our right to education.
Our faculty members have, for decades, faced the policy of restricting movement and travel imposed by the Israeli occupation. This severely hampers our academic freedom, namely to reach our campuses, to teach our students, to conduct research, to collaborate with other academics or institutions and to participate in conferences, whether within the occupied Palestinian territory or abroad.
Israel also obstructs importation of academic material and scientific equipment for Palestinian universities, effectively imposing a boycott on our institutions of higher education.
Israel’s discriminatory policies further prevent international academics and students, in particular those of Palestinian/Arab origins or those supporting Palestinian rights, from teaching, studying and attending conferences at our universities. The past two years have seen an uptick in racially- or opinion- based denial of entry to Israel and refusal of visas and visa renewals, a repressive and deeply discriminatory Israeli policy that has long been customary.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Palestinian schools and universities in Gaza, and its illegal and brutal siege has denied the two million Palestinians there, including hundreds of thousands of students, their basic right to freedom of movement. Israel’s decade-old siege of Gaza is making it uninhabitable, according to the UN.
Palestinian students and faculty in the Israeli-occupied West Bank also face campus raids with Israeli soldiers firing live munitions and tear gas.
Palestinian citizens of Israel are subjected to Israel’s institutionalized racism, while Palestinian students face repressive restrictions on political activities and Palestinian educational facilities are underfunded.
We ask the Pitzer College community to try to imagine what it is like studying, teaching or performing research under these dire conditions of racism, repression and violent oppression.
As long as Israel continues to deny Palestinian human rights and academic freedom and impose discriminatory policies based on origins and political opinion, students, educators and academic institutions have a moral obligation and an ethical responsibility to ensure their campus is not contributing in any way to denying Palestinians our right to education and life.
We urge the Pitzer College Council to uphold the principled stand taken by an overwhelming majority of its faculty not to be complicit in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights and its blatantly racist and anti-democratic discriminatory policies.
Doing so will send a strong signal to the Israeli government and its deeply complicit universities that principled academic institutions will no longer stand by. They will instead use their power of moral persuasion to hold Israel to account and effect a change in the stagnant status quo of oppression, as was the case during the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa.
Please, uphold the vote in support of our struggle for freedom, justice and equality. Keep our hope in freedom, justice and equality alive.
Sincerely,
The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE)
5 feb 2019
Israeli soldiers detained, Tuesday, five Palestinian teachers and one child, in Hebron’s Old city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and held them in Keryat Arba’ illegal colony for several hours.
Atef al-Jamal, the head of the Education Ministry in Hebron, said the soldiers detained Sami Zohour, Mohammad Atawna, Hani Sa’ada, Karam Asafra, in addition to Mohammad Awad Zohour and his child, Awad.
All of them are from Beit Kahil town, northwest of Hebron, and were on their way to al-Hajiriya School, in the Old City of Hebron.
Al-Jamal added that the school was unable to locate the teachers and the student, for more than five hours, before contacting the Palestinian police and the District Coordination Office, and realized that they were abducted by the soldiers and were held in Keryat Arba’ illegal colony, which was built on Palestinian lands, east of Hebron.
The five teachers and the child remained in detention for several hours, before the army decided to release them.
Atef al-Jamal, the head of the Education Ministry in Hebron, said the soldiers detained Sami Zohour, Mohammad Atawna, Hani Sa’ada, Karam Asafra, in addition to Mohammad Awad Zohour and his child, Awad.
All of them are from Beit Kahil town, northwest of Hebron, and were on their way to al-Hajiriya School, in the Old City of Hebron.
Al-Jamal added that the school was unable to locate the teachers and the student, for more than five hours, before contacting the Palestinian police and the District Coordination Office, and realized that they were abducted by the soldiers and were held in Keryat Arba’ illegal colony, which was built on Palestinian lands, east of Hebron.
The five teachers and the child remained in detention for several hours, before the army decided to release them.
4 feb 2019
The Israeli police on Monday morning injured a Palestinian man and arrested two children during a raid on Abu Dis town in Occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources said that violent confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli police forces as the latter deployed around al-Quds University.
The Israeli police raided a nearby school and heavily fired tear gas bombs and stun grenades, they added.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that a Palestinian young man fainted as a result of inhaling tear gas and was treated in the field.
According to the Palestinian Liaison, the Israeli police withdrew from the town after kidnapping two children identified as Izz el-Din Mohsen and Sami Jaffal. Both are aged 15.
Local sources said that violent confrontations broke out between Palestinian youths and Israeli police forces as the latter deployed around al-Quds University.
The Israeli police raided a nearby school and heavily fired tear gas bombs and stun grenades, they added.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that a Palestinian young man fainted as a result of inhaling tear gas and was treated in the field.
According to the Palestinian Liaison, the Israeli police withdrew from the town after kidnapping two children identified as Izz el-Din Mohsen and Sami Jaffal. Both are aged 15.
3 feb 2019
A Palestinian youth was injured on Sunday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at the residents of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyya village in Nablus.
Local sources said that violent confrontations broke out in the village after the IOF chased Palestinian schoolchildren on their way back home on Ramallah-Nablus road.
The IOF closed the eastern and northern entrances to the village for about three hours and fired tear gas bombs, stun grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets at the Palestinians.
Local sources said that violent confrontations broke out in the village after the IOF chased Palestinian schoolchildren on their way back home on Ramallah-Nablus road.
The IOF closed the eastern and northern entrances to the village for about three hours and fired tear gas bombs, stun grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets at the Palestinians.
