21 dec 2017
Ahed Tamimi, 16, is taken out of a military court at the Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, 20 December. According to her father Bassem Tamimi, the teenager from a well-known activist family is refusing to speak to Israeli occupation authorities.
Oren Ziv ActiveStillsAhed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi are in high spirits and are sending greetings to supporters around the world from their cells in HaSharon prison where Israel is detaining them.
Ahed, 16, her mother Nariman and her 21-year-old cousin Nour were arrested in recent days by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
This followed violence on Friday when occupation forces shot Muhammad Fadel Tamimi, a 14-year-old member of the extended family, in the head leaving him gravely injured.
The Tamimi women then ordered the occupation soldiers off the family property and tried to remove them physically.
A video of heavily armed Israeli soldiers being forcefully confronted by Palestinian civilians defending their village was widely shown in Israeli media and prompted a campaign of threats and revenge by Israeli leaders against the Tamimi family.
The Israeli army published a video to brag about its night raid to seize Ahed Tamimi from her home, prompting outrage and expressions of solidarity with the teenager and her family from all over the world.
Oren Ziv ActiveStillsAhed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi are in high spirits and are sending greetings to supporters around the world from their cells in HaSharon prison where Israel is detaining them.
Ahed, 16, her mother Nariman and her 21-year-old cousin Nour were arrested in recent days by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.
This followed violence on Friday when occupation forces shot Muhammad Fadel Tamimi, a 14-year-old member of the extended family, in the head leaving him gravely injured.
The Tamimi women then ordered the occupation soldiers off the family property and tried to remove them physically.
A video of heavily armed Israeli soldiers being forcefully confronted by Palestinian civilians defending their village was widely shown in Israeli media and prompted a campaign of threats and revenge by Israeli leaders against the Tamimi family.
The Israeli army published a video to brag about its night raid to seize Ahed Tamimi from her home, prompting outrage and expressions of solidarity with the teenager and her family from all over the world.
Nariman and Nour Tamimi are led out of the courtroom at Ofer Military Court at the end of a hearing. A ruling on their remand will be handed down later. Joint List head Ayman Odeh came to the court to show his support for the family.
On Thursday, Nariman and Nour were taken before Israel’s Ofer military court in the occupied West Bank. Just as the court did with Ahed in a hearing the day before, their detention was extended at least until Monday.
Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father, posted on Facebook following Thursday’s hearing that all three are being held in HaSharon prison – Nariman and Nour in one cell and Ahed in another.
According to Bassem, they are being held in the section of the prison for Israeli criminals instead of the section where Palestinian women are usually detained.
Ahed, Nariman and Nour are in high spirits and “sending their love and respect for you, our partners in our struggle for freedom and justice,” Bassem Tamimi wrote.
Silent resistance
On Wednesday there had been reports that Bassem, himself a former prisoner of conscience in Israel’s jails, had again been detained by occupation forces.
According to extended family member Manal Tamimi, Bassem had not been formally arrested but has been summoned for questioning.
Bassem also posted a Facebook message after Wednesday’s hearing for Ahed. He said his daughter was “refusing to speak with Israeli officers who are trying to interrogate her.”
“Despite the abuse and ongoing imprisonment, she is staying silent and refusing to have any cooperation with [the] occupation,” Bassem added.
He also appealed for ongoing support “to defend our family from the propaganda the Israeli media is instigating against us.”
Bassem also told media after the hearing the he feels proud of Ahed, “but I also worry about her because she is in the hands of this terrorist regime.” He added that he had no trust in Israel’s military court, because it is a part of the occupation.
Bassem also said that he faced interrogation by Israeli authorities.
500 arrested
Israel has been waging a long-running campaign to suppress the nonviolent resistance to its occupation and colonization in Nabi Saleh.
Israel’s violence has cost the lives and freedom of many members of the Tamimi family and others in the village.
The Tamimi women are among more than 500 Palestinians detained since Israel began an intensified arrest campaign following US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on 6 December, prisoners rights group Addameer said on Thursday.
In the early hours of Thursday alone, occupation forces detained 85 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.
“These mass arrest and harassment campaigns are part of Israel’s collective punishment measures,” which violate international law, Addameer stated.
Editor’s note: This article has been amended to give Ahed Tamimi’s age as 16, the age provided by the human rights group Defense for Children International-Palestine.
On Thursday, Nariman and Nour were taken before Israel’s Ofer military court in the occupied West Bank. Just as the court did with Ahed in a hearing the day before, their detention was extended at least until Monday.
Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father, posted on Facebook following Thursday’s hearing that all three are being held in HaSharon prison – Nariman and Nour in one cell and Ahed in another.
According to Bassem, they are being held in the section of the prison for Israeli criminals instead of the section where Palestinian women are usually detained.
Ahed, Nariman and Nour are in high spirits and “sending their love and respect for you, our partners in our struggle for freedom and justice,” Bassem Tamimi wrote.
Silent resistance
On Wednesday there had been reports that Bassem, himself a former prisoner of conscience in Israel’s jails, had again been detained by occupation forces.
According to extended family member Manal Tamimi, Bassem had not been formally arrested but has been summoned for questioning.
Bassem also posted a Facebook message after Wednesday’s hearing for Ahed. He said his daughter was “refusing to speak with Israeli officers who are trying to interrogate her.”
“Despite the abuse and ongoing imprisonment, she is staying silent and refusing to have any cooperation with [the] occupation,” Bassem added.
He also appealed for ongoing support “to defend our family from the propaganda the Israeli media is instigating against us.”
Bassem also told media after the hearing the he feels proud of Ahed, “but I also worry about her because she is in the hands of this terrorist regime.” He added that he had no trust in Israel’s military court, because it is a part of the occupation.
Bassem also said that he faced interrogation by Israeli authorities.
500 arrested
Israel has been waging a long-running campaign to suppress the nonviolent resistance to its occupation and colonization in Nabi Saleh.
Israel’s violence has cost the lives and freedom of many members of the Tamimi family and others in the village.
The Tamimi women are among more than 500 Palestinians detained since Israel began an intensified arrest campaign following US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on 6 December, prisoners rights group Addameer said on Thursday.
In the early hours of Thursday alone, occupation forces detained 85 Palestinians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem.
“These mass arrest and harassment campaigns are part of Israel’s collective punishment measures,” which violate international law, Addameer stated.
Editor’s note: This article has been amended to give Ahed Tamimi’s age as 16, the age provided by the human rights group Defense for Children International-Palestine.
20 dec 2017
Nour Tamimi, left, in an undated photo posted on Facebook by her father
Israel has escalated its revenge against the extended family of Muhammad Tamimi, the boy who is lying in a coma after occupation forces shot him in the head last Friday.
Soldiers in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh detained 21-year-old Nour Naji Tamimi from her home in a night raid.
Naji Tamimi posted on Facebook on Wednesday that “occupation gangs raided my house at dawn and arrested my daughter Nour, on accusations of attacking a soldier.”
Affirming the family’s pride and support for Nour, Naji Tamimi said he believed the arrest was an effort by Israel to “lift morale” and restore the “lost dignity” of its army.
Nour was seen in a viral video filmed last Friday, along with her 17-year-old cousin Ahed Tamimi. It shows them ordering Israeli soldiers off the family’s property and then attempting to physically remove the soldiers when they refuse to comply.
The soldiers were reportedly from the Israeli army’s Givati Brigade, which has also been involved in serious war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a night raid early Tuesday, Israeli forces detained Ahed from her home.
Israeli forces later arrested her mother Nariman.
On Wednesday, Ahed was brought to an Israeli military court which extended her detention at least until Monday.
The military judge denied a request to release Ahed despite acknowledging that she posed no danger.
Israel has arrested at least 17 people in Nabi Saleh in an ongoing sweep, the newspaper Haaretz reported.
Israeli forces also summoned Ahed’s father Bassem Tamimi for questioning Wednesday when he went to the Ofer military court to see his daughter.
But they had not formally arrested him at that point, according to a Wednesday afternoon tweet from family member Manal Tamimi.
Later on Wednesday, prisoner solidarity group Samidoun stated that Bassem Tamimi remains in Israeli custody.
Bassem is a well-known activist and former prisoner of conscience, part of a family renowned for their resistance and sacrifices in Nabi Saleh’s struggle to defend itself against Israeli occupation and colonization.
Shot in the head
Earlier on Friday, before the videotaped confrontation, soldiers in the village shot 14-year-old Muhammad Fadel Tamimi, another member of the extended family, in the face with a rubber-coated metal bullet, gravely injuring him.
Manal Tamimi, a cousin of the victim, told Al Jazeera that “the blood was pouring from his face like a fountain.”
The bullet entered the boy’s face below his nose and broke his jaw before getting lodged into his skull, Al Jazeera reported.
Muhammad underwent six hours of surgery at a hospital near the West Bank city of Ramallah and remains in a medically induced coma. Doctors fear he may be left with permanent disabilities as a result of the attack.
In a Facebook post early Tuesday, Bassem Tamimi alleged that one of the soldiers involved in the incident on the video was responsible for the shooting of Muhammad.
Muhammad Tamimi is another victim of Israel’s allegedly “less lethal” weapons – including rubber-coated, sponge-tipped and 22-caliber bullets – that have regularly caused death and serious injury to Palestinians, especially children.
He was among hundreds of Palestinians injured on Friday alone, a day when Israeli forces also killed four Palestinians amid ongoing protests sparked by US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Incitement, revenge and collective punishment
Israel’s revenge against the Tamimi family does indeed appear – as Naji Tamimi asserted – to be an Israeli effort to restore some kind of lost honor at seeing Palestinian women and girls courageously challenging heavily armed men.
As noted by The Electronic Intifada on Tuesday, the Israeli army posted a video of Ahed Tamimi’s arrest, but only on its Hebrew, not its English, Twitter account – suggesting the detention was meant to appease a domestic appetite for retribution.
An analysis in Haaretz observed that the order to arrest Ahed Tamimi only after the video appeared across Israeli media, “was an exercise in damage control and in satisfying the urge of the Israeli public to somehow expunge the humiliation.”
Israeli leaders are publicly inciting against the Tamimi family.
Haaretz reported that one former lawmaker responded to the incident by tweeting that he “missed [Elor] Azarya,” the army medic who received a hero’s response and a lenient sentence for the cold-blooded execution in March 2016 of an injured, incapacitated Palestinian.
Education minister Naftali Bennett told army radio that Ahed and the Tamimi women seen in the video “should finish their lives in prison.”
Defense minister Avigdor Lieberman promised collective punishment, telling Israeli media that “Everyone involved, not only the girl but also her parents and those around them will not escape from what they deserve.”
But the Tamimi family is not bowing to Israel’s threats.
In his Facebook posting announcing the arrest of his daughter Nour, Naji Tamimi said: “We confirm that that the crimes of the terrorist state will not deter us from our legitimate struggle until liberation and victory, and the establishment of a free state on all Palestinian soil in which everyone enjoys freedom, justice and equality.”
Israel has escalated its revenge against the extended family of Muhammad Tamimi, the boy who is lying in a coma after occupation forces shot him in the head last Friday.
Soldiers in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh detained 21-year-old Nour Naji Tamimi from her home in a night raid.
Naji Tamimi posted on Facebook on Wednesday that “occupation gangs raided my house at dawn and arrested my daughter Nour, on accusations of attacking a soldier.”
Affirming the family’s pride and support for Nour, Naji Tamimi said he believed the arrest was an effort by Israel to “lift morale” and restore the “lost dignity” of its army.
Nour was seen in a viral video filmed last Friday, along with her 17-year-old cousin Ahed Tamimi. It shows them ordering Israeli soldiers off the family’s property and then attempting to physically remove the soldiers when they refuse to comply.
The soldiers were reportedly from the Israeli army’s Givati Brigade, which has also been involved in serious war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a night raid early Tuesday, Israeli forces detained Ahed from her home.
Israeli forces later arrested her mother Nariman.
On Wednesday, Ahed was brought to an Israeli military court which extended her detention at least until Monday.
The military judge denied a request to release Ahed despite acknowledging that she posed no danger.
Israel has arrested at least 17 people in Nabi Saleh in an ongoing sweep, the newspaper Haaretz reported.
Israeli forces also summoned Ahed’s father Bassem Tamimi for questioning Wednesday when he went to the Ofer military court to see his daughter.
But they had not formally arrested him at that point, according to a Wednesday afternoon tweet from family member Manal Tamimi.
Later on Wednesday, prisoner solidarity group Samidoun stated that Bassem Tamimi remains in Israeli custody.
Bassem is a well-known activist and former prisoner of conscience, part of a family renowned for their resistance and sacrifices in Nabi Saleh’s struggle to defend itself against Israeli occupation and colonization.
Shot in the head
Earlier on Friday, before the videotaped confrontation, soldiers in the village shot 14-year-old Muhammad Fadel Tamimi, another member of the extended family, in the face with a rubber-coated metal bullet, gravely injuring him.
Manal Tamimi, a cousin of the victim, told Al Jazeera that “the blood was pouring from his face like a fountain.”
The bullet entered the boy’s face below his nose and broke his jaw before getting lodged into his skull, Al Jazeera reported.
Muhammad underwent six hours of surgery at a hospital near the West Bank city of Ramallah and remains in a medically induced coma. Doctors fear he may be left with permanent disabilities as a result of the attack.
In a Facebook post early Tuesday, Bassem Tamimi alleged that one of the soldiers involved in the incident on the video was responsible for the shooting of Muhammad.
Muhammad Tamimi is another victim of Israel’s allegedly “less lethal” weapons – including rubber-coated, sponge-tipped and 22-caliber bullets – that have regularly caused death and serious injury to Palestinians, especially children.
He was among hundreds of Palestinians injured on Friday alone, a day when Israeli forces also killed four Palestinians amid ongoing protests sparked by US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Incitement, revenge and collective punishment
Israel’s revenge against the Tamimi family does indeed appear – as Naji Tamimi asserted – to be an Israeli effort to restore some kind of lost honor at seeing Palestinian women and girls courageously challenging heavily armed men.
As noted by The Electronic Intifada on Tuesday, the Israeli army posted a video of Ahed Tamimi’s arrest, but only on its Hebrew, not its English, Twitter account – suggesting the detention was meant to appease a domestic appetite for retribution.
An analysis in Haaretz observed that the order to arrest Ahed Tamimi only after the video appeared across Israeli media, “was an exercise in damage control and in satisfying the urge of the Israeli public to somehow expunge the humiliation.”
Israeli leaders are publicly inciting against the Tamimi family.
Haaretz reported that one former lawmaker responded to the incident by tweeting that he “missed [Elor] Azarya,” the army medic who received a hero’s response and a lenient sentence for the cold-blooded execution in March 2016 of an injured, incapacitated Palestinian.
Education minister Naftali Bennett told army radio that Ahed and the Tamimi women seen in the video “should finish their lives in prison.”
Defense minister Avigdor Lieberman promised collective punishment, telling Israeli media that “Everyone involved, not only the girl but also her parents and those around them will not escape from what they deserve.”
But the Tamimi family is not bowing to Israel’s threats.
In his Facebook posting announcing the arrest of his daughter Nour, Naji Tamimi said: “We confirm that that the crimes of the terrorist state will not deter us from our legitimate struggle until liberation and victory, and the establishment of a free state on all Palestinian soil in which everyone enjoys freedom, justice and equality.”
19 dec 2017
Israeli occupation forces arrested a teenage girl in a night raid on the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh early Tuesday and then released a video on Twitter apparently to brag about their exploit:
“Our forces and the Border Police last night arrested a female Palestinian resident of Nabi Saleh on suspicion of attacking an officer and a soldier of the Israel Defense Forces,” the tweet states. “The suspect, who was brought to interrogation, took part in violent disturbances last Friday in which about 200 Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces.”
The girl seen being marched out of her home by occupation soldiers appears to be Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old member of the Nabi Saleh family that has become known for its fearless defiance of the Israeli forces that regularly raid the town.
“Ahed was arrested over a video [that] went viral on social media of her slapping an armed Israeli officer during a raid on Nabi Saleh,” the Ma’an News Agency reported, citing local sources.
Israeli forces “raid[ed] my home and arrested my daughter Ahed Tamimi after the Israeli media attack[ed] her, after she [stopped] the soldier in front of our house when he shot [a] child on his head,” the well-known human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Bassem Tamimi posted on Facebook.
Tamimi said that Israeli soldiers “beat my wife and children,” searched the house and seized the family’s phones, cameras and computers.
On Tuesday, 14-year-old Muhammad Fadel Tamimi, Ahed’s cousin, remained in a medically induced coma after being shot in the head on Friday in Nabi Saleh with a rubber-coated steel bullet, Ma’an News Agency reported.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that on Friday nearly 900 Palestinians were injured in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, more than 650 of them during protests sparked by the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Four Palestinians were killed amid the protests.
Most of those injuries were caused by tear gas inhalation, while 29 were injured by live fire and 133 by rubber bullets. In Gaza, there were more than 200 injuries reported.
Israeli media disseminated this video filmed on Friday:
It appears to show Ahed Tamimi ordering occupation soldiers to leave the family’s property. When the soldiers fail to obey the order, several women attempt to implement it by pushing the soldiers away and then holding hands in a line to prevent their return.
Following Ahed’s arrest, Israeli forces reportedly also arrested her mother Nariman Tamimi when she went to check on her daughter.
Members of the Tamimi family reported that the Israeli military have decided to detain the pair at least until Thursday.
Prisoners solidarity group Samidoun has issued an action alert calling for pressure on Israel to immediately release Ahed and her mother.
Propaganda and spin
Notably, the Israeli army posted the video of Ahed’s arrest only on its Hebrew Twitter account, not on its internationally facing English-language account.
This may indicate that while the army wants to show how “tough” it is on Palestinians to its domestic audience, it understands how damaging images of occupation forces dragging children from their homes in the middle of the night are to Israel’s already battered international reputation.
Israeli American author Miko Peled observed that Israeli media have been “fully supportive” of the army’s “assault and arrest” of Ahed Tamimi.
Israeli journalist Edo Konrad summed up the mood in a tweet comparing the harsh treatment being demanded for Ahed Tamimi with the leniency shown toward Israeli Jewish teens who commit serious violent crimes.
Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett told army radio that Ahed and the Tamimi women seen in the video “should finish their lives in prison.”
Israel’s propaganda machinery went into full gear to smear Ahed and the Tamimi family.
“The Tamimi family – which may not be a real family – dresses up kids in American clothes and pays them to provoke IDF troops on camera,” Michael Oren, Israel’s deputy minister for diplomacy, suggested in a bizarre tweet. More.
Oren, the former Israeli ambassador in Washington, has previously peddled the conspiracy theory that the 2014 Nakba Day killings by Israeli forces of two Palestinian teenagers had not really happened.
Avi Mayer, a spokesperson for Israel’s state-backed settlement organization the Jewish Agency, praised Israeli occupation forces for their supposed restraint in the face of the Tamimis’ defense of their home.
Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir responded: “I wouldn’t call the arrest of a young girl after an early morning raid of her house (and later her mother) and reported confiscation of the family’s phones and computers ‘quiet restraint’ … particularly given [the] army’s record of systematically abusing children in detention.”
“Our forces and the Border Police last night arrested a female Palestinian resident of Nabi Saleh on suspicion of attacking an officer and a soldier of the Israel Defense Forces,” the tweet states. “The suspect, who was brought to interrogation, took part in violent disturbances last Friday in which about 200 Palestinians threw stones at Israeli forces.”
The girl seen being marched out of her home by occupation soldiers appears to be Ahed Tamimi, a 16-year-old member of the Nabi Saleh family that has become known for its fearless defiance of the Israeli forces that regularly raid the town.
“Ahed was arrested over a video [that] went viral on social media of her slapping an armed Israeli officer during a raid on Nabi Saleh,” the Ma’an News Agency reported, citing local sources.
Israeli forces “raid[ed] my home and arrested my daughter Ahed Tamimi after the Israeli media attack[ed] her, after she [stopped] the soldier in front of our house when he shot [a] child on his head,” the well-known human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Bassem Tamimi posted on Facebook.
Tamimi said that Israeli soldiers “beat my wife and children,” searched the house and seized the family’s phones, cameras and computers.
On Tuesday, 14-year-old Muhammad Fadel Tamimi, Ahed’s cousin, remained in a medically induced coma after being shot in the head on Friday in Nabi Saleh with a rubber-coated steel bullet, Ma’an News Agency reported.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said that on Friday nearly 900 Palestinians were injured in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, more than 650 of them during protests sparked by the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Four Palestinians were killed amid the protests.
Most of those injuries were caused by tear gas inhalation, while 29 were injured by live fire and 133 by rubber bullets. In Gaza, there were more than 200 injuries reported.
Israeli media disseminated this video filmed on Friday:
It appears to show Ahed Tamimi ordering occupation soldiers to leave the family’s property. When the soldiers fail to obey the order, several women attempt to implement it by pushing the soldiers away and then holding hands in a line to prevent their return.
Following Ahed’s arrest, Israeli forces reportedly also arrested her mother Nariman Tamimi when she went to check on her daughter.
Members of the Tamimi family reported that the Israeli military have decided to detain the pair at least until Thursday.
Prisoners solidarity group Samidoun has issued an action alert calling for pressure on Israel to immediately release Ahed and her mother.
Propaganda and spin
Notably, the Israeli army posted the video of Ahed’s arrest only on its Hebrew Twitter account, not on its internationally facing English-language account.
This may indicate that while the army wants to show how “tough” it is on Palestinians to its domestic audience, it understands how damaging images of occupation forces dragging children from their homes in the middle of the night are to Israel’s already battered international reputation.
Israeli American author Miko Peled observed that Israeli media have been “fully supportive” of the army’s “assault and arrest” of Ahed Tamimi.
Israeli journalist Edo Konrad summed up the mood in a tweet comparing the harsh treatment being demanded for Ahed Tamimi with the leniency shown toward Israeli Jewish teens who commit serious violent crimes.
Israel’s education minister Naftali Bennett told army radio that Ahed and the Tamimi women seen in the video “should finish their lives in prison.”
Israel’s propaganda machinery went into full gear to smear Ahed and the Tamimi family.
“The Tamimi family – which may not be a real family – dresses up kids in American clothes and pays them to provoke IDF troops on camera,” Michael Oren, Israel’s deputy minister for diplomacy, suggested in a bizarre tweet. More.
Oren, the former Israeli ambassador in Washington, has previously peddled the conspiracy theory that the 2014 Nakba Day killings by Israeli forces of two Palestinian teenagers had not really happened.
Avi Mayer, a spokesperson for Israel’s state-backed settlement organization the Jewish Agency, praised Israeli occupation forces for their supposed restraint in the face of the Tamimis’ defense of their home.
Human Rights Watch’s Omar Shakir responded: “I wouldn’t call the arrest of a young girl after an early morning raid of her house (and later her mother) and reported confiscation of the family’s phones and computers ‘quiet restraint’ … particularly given [the] army’s record of systematically abusing children in detention.”
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Systematic abuse
Hundreds of Palestinian children are subjected to night raids and Israeli military detention each year, where they suffer abuse including torture and solitary confinement. Concern over this systematic violence against Palestinian children prompted US lawmakers last month to introduce a historic bill to prevent US military aid to Israel being diverted to such practices. Ahed Tamimi came to broad international attention after an incident in 2015 when she and several women from her family successfully prevented Israeli occupation forces from detaining another child, her brother. |
This video profiles Ahed. It was published earlier this year by Friends of Sabeel North America after she was unable to obtain a visa to the United States to speak about the situation in Nabi Saleh.
The determination of the people of Nabi Saleh to resist the theft of their land for Israeli colonization has repeatedly cost members of the Tamimi family their lives and freedom.
The village’s struggle against Israeli occupation and colonization is documented in the film Thank God It’s Friday, which Belgian director Jan Beddegenoodts recently made free for all to watch online.
After Tuesday’s arrests, support for Ahed and Nariman Tamimi has spread quickly on social media.
The determination of the people of Nabi Saleh to resist the theft of their land for Israeli colonization has repeatedly cost members of the Tamimi family their lives and freedom.
The village’s struggle against Israeli occupation and colonization is documented in the film Thank God It’s Friday, which Belgian director Jan Beddegenoodts recently made free for all to watch online.
After Tuesday’s arrests, support for Ahed and Nariman Tamimi has spread quickly on social media.
18 dec 2017
Israeli military spokesperson Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar uses his verified Facebook page to threaten protesters in Germany with violence.
An Israeli military officer is openly threatening civilians in Germany with violence or death.
On Friday, reservist Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar posted on Facebook an article about Israel’s undercover gunmen – so-called mistaravim – who dress up as Palestinians to abduct and injure civilians during protests against Israel’s military occupation.
Shalicar added his own comment: “Please share! The message of this article also goes out to all those in Germany who think they can burn the Star of David publicly without being punished for it. We know who you are, where you are and how we can bring you to justice. We determine time and place. Live in fear!”
The linked article is illustrated with a masked Israeli gunman waving a pistol with one hand as he grabs a Palestinian by the head with another.
Mistaravim have regularly been involved in Israeli assassinations of Palestinians, including inside a hospital room.
Threat of violence
Shalicar’s comment is an open threat of violence against civilians on German soil.
When one Facebook user in Germany objected to Shalicar – as a representative of a foreign government – taking justice into his own hands, the Israeli officer doubled down: “Nice to know that you as a German are ready to watch how Jewish symbols are burned on German soil as in the 1930s. I’m not ready for that. And I’m German too.”
Shalicar seems to be following the Israeli government line that the burning of Israel’s national flag as a form of protest against its decades-long military occupation and massive systematic violence against Palestinians – carried out in the name of the self-declared “Jewish state” – should be viewed as anti-Semitism.
There have been protests in many countries, including Germany, since US President Donald Trump legitimized Israel’s military occupation and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem by recognizing the city as Israel’s capital earlier this month.
But Shalicar seems to be going a step further by threatening to harm or kill protesters in Germany, just as Israel routinely slays Palestinians who protest or resist its violent land thefts and incursions into their villages, cities and refugee camps by heavily armed occupation forces.
Yet there is reason for concern, as Israel’s Mossad spy agency does have a long history of carrying out assassinations around the world.
“Gangsta”
An Israeli military officer is openly threatening civilians in Germany with violence or death.
On Friday, reservist Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar posted on Facebook an article about Israel’s undercover gunmen – so-called mistaravim – who dress up as Palestinians to abduct and injure civilians during protests against Israel’s military occupation.
Shalicar added his own comment: “Please share! The message of this article also goes out to all those in Germany who think they can burn the Star of David publicly without being punished for it. We know who you are, where you are and how we can bring you to justice. We determine time and place. Live in fear!”
The linked article is illustrated with a masked Israeli gunman waving a pistol with one hand as he grabs a Palestinian by the head with another.
Mistaravim have regularly been involved in Israeli assassinations of Palestinians, including inside a hospital room.
Threat of violence
Shalicar’s comment is an open threat of violence against civilians on German soil.
When one Facebook user in Germany objected to Shalicar – as a representative of a foreign government – taking justice into his own hands, the Israeli officer doubled down: “Nice to know that you as a German are ready to watch how Jewish symbols are burned on German soil as in the 1930s. I’m not ready for that. And I’m German too.”
Shalicar seems to be following the Israeli government line that the burning of Israel’s national flag as a form of protest against its decades-long military occupation and massive systematic violence against Palestinians – carried out in the name of the self-declared “Jewish state” – should be viewed as anti-Semitism.
There have been protests in many countries, including Germany, since US President Donald Trump legitimized Israel’s military occupation and ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem by recognizing the city as Israel’s capital earlier this month.
But Shalicar seems to be going a step further by threatening to harm or kill protesters in Germany, just as Israel routinely slays Palestinians who protest or resist its violent land thefts and incursions into their villages, cities and refugee camps by heavily armed occupation forces.
Yet there is reason for concern, as Israel’s Mossad spy agency does have a long history of carrying out assassinations around the world.
“Gangsta”
Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar, an Israeli army spokesperson, at the office of Trump “peace process” adviser Jason Greenblatt in November.
According to the “About” section on his verified Facebook page, Shalicar was born in Germany in 1977 to parents who immigrated from Iran. He completed service in the German military as a paramedic in 1997, before settling in Israel in 2001, where he joined the army as a paratrooper.
After stints working for Germany’s public broadcaster ARD in Tel Aviv and for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he began working as an Israeli army spokesperson and media liaison to Europe in 2009.
Although his Facebook page now identifies him as a “former” spokesperson, Shalicar still provides an official Israeli army email address as a contact: shalicar@idf.gov.il.
In a 2015 tweet, the Israeli embassy in Berlin invited Shalicar to lecture to its staff about his life story.
According to the “About” section on his verified Facebook page, Shalicar was born in Germany in 1977 to parents who immigrated from Iran. He completed service in the German military as a paramedic in 1997, before settling in Israel in 2001, where he joined the army as a paratrooper.
After stints working for Germany’s public broadcaster ARD in Tel Aviv and for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he began working as an Israeli army spokesperson and media liaison to Europe in 2009.
Although his Facebook page now identifies him as a “former” spokesperson, Shalicar still provides an official Israeli army email address as a contact: shalicar@idf.gov.il.
In a 2015 tweet, the Israeli embassy in Berlin invited Shalicar to lecture to its staff about his life story.
Israeli media have promoted Shalicar as a former “gangsta” who spent his teenage years “fighting for his life in a Muslim-dominated suburb of Berlin.”
Shalicar also appears to have been received by the Trump administration. Last month he posted a photo of himself at the office of Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s “special representative” for the so-called peace process.
A request for comment has been sent to the German foreign ministry.
Shalicar also appears to have been received by the Trump administration. Last month he posted a photo of himself at the office of Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s “special representative” for the so-called peace process.
A request for comment has been sent to the German foreign ministry.
17 dec 2017
At least six Palestinians were injured with live ammunition and others suffocated by tear gas as clashes continued, along the Gaza borders, in protest of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli’s capital, said sources.
Israeli army forces deployed along the eastern borders between Gaza and Israel fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at Palestinian youth who demonstrated near the borders.
Six youth were shot and injured with live ammunition and transferred to hospitals and medical facilities for medical treatment. Their medical conditions were described as moderate. Many others suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired by the army.
Two Palestinians were killed and at least 103 others injured with live ammunition during violent clashes that broke out during protests along the Gaza borders on Friday.
WAFA further reports that a journalist and a woman, Saturday, were injured in Jerusalem as Israeli police continued to crack down on Palestinian protesters who took to the streets to protest the Trump decision.
Israeli forces used excessive force to disperse protesters who demonstrated outside Bab al-Amoud, one of the old gates in the old city of Jerusalem, against Trump’s Jerusalem declaration. A journalist and a woman were injured after being physically attacked by Israeli police forces.
A Jerusalemite activist was also detained during a similar demonstration that took place in Salah Eddin Street, in central Jerusalem.
Clashes reportedly erupted in Salah Eddin Street as Israeli police suppressed demonstrators. Tear gas canisters were used, but no injuries were reported.
A beefed-up presence of security forces has been witnessed across Jerusalem since the early morning hours as rallies continued in protest of Trump’s announcement.
In related news, Israeli media has reportedly waged a hate campaign against Palestinian journalists following false info that Mohammed Aqel, who attacked Israeli soldiers near the military checkpoint known as DCO, at the northern entrance to the city of el-Bireh near Ramallah, was a journalist.
Israeli Commentator Barrack Bat Chen Nachum wrote, in a Facebook post, that it is time to issue orders that prevent Palestinian journalists from approaching Israeli soldiers, and if that did happen, the camera of the photographer should be smashed. “We must act quickly with these animals.”
Social media activists also posted hate comments against Palestinian journalists following false news about Aqel being a journalist; one activist who was identified as Shimon Burg said: “Journalists must die, they are part of the enemy.”
Another activist, named Haim Levy, wrote: “Bastards,” referring to journalists, “we have to send them to hell.”
Eriet Shani, also an activist, pjournaliosted on her page saying, “Why do they allow people with cameras to move? Soldiers must break their cameras and keep everyone away from them.”
Israeli army forces deployed along the eastern borders between Gaza and Israel fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at Palestinian youth who demonstrated near the borders.
Six youth were shot and injured with live ammunition and transferred to hospitals and medical facilities for medical treatment. Their medical conditions were described as moderate. Many others suffocated after inhaling tear gas fired by the army.
Two Palestinians were killed and at least 103 others injured with live ammunition during violent clashes that broke out during protests along the Gaza borders on Friday.
WAFA further reports that a journalist and a woman, Saturday, were injured in Jerusalem as Israeli police continued to crack down on Palestinian protesters who took to the streets to protest the Trump decision.
Israeli forces used excessive force to disperse protesters who demonstrated outside Bab al-Amoud, one of the old gates in the old city of Jerusalem, against Trump’s Jerusalem declaration. A journalist and a woman were injured after being physically attacked by Israeli police forces.
A Jerusalemite activist was also detained during a similar demonstration that took place in Salah Eddin Street, in central Jerusalem.
Clashes reportedly erupted in Salah Eddin Street as Israeli police suppressed demonstrators. Tear gas canisters were used, but no injuries were reported.
A beefed-up presence of security forces has been witnessed across Jerusalem since the early morning hours as rallies continued in protest of Trump’s announcement.
In related news, Israeli media has reportedly waged a hate campaign against Palestinian journalists following false info that Mohammed Aqel, who attacked Israeli soldiers near the military checkpoint known as DCO, at the northern entrance to the city of el-Bireh near Ramallah, was a journalist.
Israeli Commentator Barrack Bat Chen Nachum wrote, in a Facebook post, that it is time to issue orders that prevent Palestinian journalists from approaching Israeli soldiers, and if that did happen, the camera of the photographer should be smashed. “We must act quickly with these animals.”
Social media activists also posted hate comments against Palestinian journalists following false news about Aqel being a journalist; one activist who was identified as Shimon Burg said: “Journalists must die, they are part of the enemy.”
Another activist, named Haim Levy, wrote: “Bastards,” referring to journalists, “we have to send them to hell.”
Eriet Shani, also an activist, pjournaliosted on her page saying, “Why do they allow people with cameras to move? Soldiers must break their cameras and keep everyone away from them.”
27 nov 2017
The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs has said that dozens of Palestinian citizens have been detained for expressing their opinions on social media pages by Israel since the Jerusalem Intifada (uprising) started over two years ago.
In a press release on Sunday, Abdul-Naser Farwana, director of the documentation unit at the commission, stated that 280 Palestinians, including women, children, journalists and writers, had been arrested since early October 2015 after they had posted remarks, pictures or photos on different social media websites.
Some of them were also arrested for sharing, liking or commenting on postings published by others on Facebook or Twitter pages, or for joining other accounts, Farwana added.
According to him, several of those were indicted for incitement, sentenced to different jails terms with sometimes financial penalties, and others were transferred to administrative detention, with no indictment or trial.
However, some detainees were released on condition of not using Facebook for different periods of time.
Farwana described the detention and punishment of Palestinians because they expressed their own opinions on social media as “arbitrary and a violation of the international law.”
In a press release on Sunday, Abdul-Naser Farwana, director of the documentation unit at the commission, stated that 280 Palestinians, including women, children, journalists and writers, had been arrested since early October 2015 after they had posted remarks, pictures or photos on different social media websites.
Some of them were also arrested for sharing, liking or commenting on postings published by others on Facebook or Twitter pages, or for joining other accounts, Farwana added.
According to him, several of those were indicted for incitement, sentenced to different jails terms with sometimes financial penalties, and others were transferred to administrative detention, with no indictment or trial.
However, some detainees were released on condition of not using Facebook for different periods of time.
Farwana described the detention and punishment of Palestinians because they expressed their own opinions on social media as “arbitrary and a violation of the international law.”
21 nov 2017
Israeli right-wing activist Baruch Marzel called for the execution of all Palestinians who are shot and injured during alleged anti-occupation attacks instead of providing them with medical treatment.
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Marzel, a rabbi, said, "I've noticed that the State of Israel has been deteriorating since the Elor Azariya affair.
Terrorists are not killed and soldiers do not finish the job and do not make sure that the terrorist is dead. The terrorist is evacuated by MDA to our hospitals and receives treatment for hundreds of thousands of shekels alongside the wounded Jew.”
“The time has come for the Israeli government to stop humiliating its victims and the people of Israel. The terrorist must not be treated. A terrorist must die as soon as he comes to harm Jews," he continued.
“Have we gone crazy? To give treatment to a terrorist instead of killing him - that’s our morality? ‘He who comes to kill you, pamper him first.”
The Israeli soldier Elor Azariya who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian, who was incapacitated having already been shot, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for manslaughter.
The March 24 shooting, in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, was filmed by activists from the Israeli B'Tselem human rights group.
That video shows the young Palestinian lying on the ground while bleeding.
Azariya then delivers the fatal blow, shooting him again in the head without any provocation.
In an interview with Arutz Sheva, Marzel, a rabbi, said, "I've noticed that the State of Israel has been deteriorating since the Elor Azariya affair.
Terrorists are not killed and soldiers do not finish the job and do not make sure that the terrorist is dead. The terrorist is evacuated by MDA to our hospitals and receives treatment for hundreds of thousands of shekels alongside the wounded Jew.”
“The time has come for the Israeli government to stop humiliating its victims and the people of Israel. The terrorist must not be treated. A terrorist must die as soon as he comes to harm Jews," he continued.
“Have we gone crazy? To give treatment to a terrorist instead of killing him - that’s our morality? ‘He who comes to kill you, pamper him first.”
The Israeli soldier Elor Azariya who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian, who was incapacitated having already been shot, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for manslaughter.
The March 24 shooting, in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil, was filmed by activists from the Israeli B'Tselem human rights group.
That video shows the young Palestinian lying on the ground while bleeding.
Azariya then delivers the fatal blow, shooting him again in the head without any provocation.
