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Israeli Occupation Forces Drown Gaza Fisher in his Boat, Fire at Homes and Protests, Abduct Civilians, Censure Palestinian Facebook Pages

January 7, 2017 

Editor's Note:

The following news stories are just few examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, in a part of just one day, which cannot continue without the full financial and military support from the US-EU governments.

 

Palestinian fisherman, Muhammed Al-Hissi, went missing after an Israeli navy vessel drowned his boat off Gaza shore, January 3, 2017	US House of Representatives votes against the UN resolution against the illegal Israeli settlements, on Thursday, January 5, 2017,

 

Peaceful protest met with violence from Israeli military in Kafr Qaddoum

January 7, 2017 11:46 AM IMEMC News

A protest in Kafr Qaddoum village in the northern part of the West Bank on Friday was met with Israeli military violence, including tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs.

The protesters, which included local Palestinians as well as Israeli and international supporters, held a march and rally to oppose the Israeli military takeover of large parts of their town over the past 14 years for the construction of illegal colonial Jewish-only settlements.

As the march began, Israeli soldiers stormed the village in armored jeeps and vehicles, assaulting the protesters with tear gas and other semi-lethal weapons.

The Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported that Murad Shteiwi, one of the protest organizers, told their reporter that the soldiers also raided the home of Helmi Shteiwi during their invasion of the village. The soldiers ransacked the home, destroying property, but they did not find anything and did not abduct anyone.

A day before the weekly protest was scheduled to take place, Israeli soldiers invaded the village before dawn and raided Hikmat Shteiwi’s home. According to Muraq Shteiwi, the soldiers locked the man’s wife in one room and then interrogated the two children, aged 12 and 13, in another room without the presence of their parents.

The attacks on Kafr Qaddoum, and particularly the crackdown on the Shteiwi family, has come in the wake of a video that was released publicly last month showing Israeli soldiers using a seven-year old village child as a human shield.

Israeli occupation soldiers open fire at Palestinian homes to the east of Khan Younis

January 7, 2017

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The Israeli occupation army soldiers on Saturday morning opened fire at Palestinian homes to the east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in Gaza, Israeli soldiers behind the security fence opened machinegun fire, with no reason, at homes and agricultural areas in Khuza’a town.

Luckily, no one was hurt in this gunfire attack, he added.

It was not the first time Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinian areas east of Gaza. Similar incidents had occurred repeatedly against citizens and homes.

Palestinian fisherman, Muhammed Al-Hissi, went missing after an Israeli navy vessel drowned his boat off Gaza shore, January 3, 2017

January 6, 2017

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Searching works for the Gazan missing fisherman, Mohammad Al-Hissi, who went missing on Wednesday after Israeli occupation navy drowned a Palestinian-fishing boat off Gaza shores, are ongoing for the third day on Friday.

Fishermen syndicate chief, Nizar Ayyash, denied the news about finding his body in the northern Gaza sea after the Israeli navy hit the fishing boat deliberately. Ayyash also underlined that the family of the Palestinian victim denied the news as well.

The navy attack triggered a wave of anger amid Palestinians in Gaza whereas many parties condemned such Israeli repeated attacks against Gazan fishermen off Gaza shores.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad Movements charged the Israeli occupation authorities with full responsibility for the continuation of such violations and perceived the attack as part of systematic Israeli crimes that need a firm position on the part of the international human rights institutions.

Israeli Occupation Forces launched at dawn Saturday a raid and search campaign throughout the West Bank

January 7, 2017

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The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched at dawn Saturday a raid and search campaign throughout the West Bank.

Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli forces were deployed in large numbers in the western and southern parts of Jenin to the north of West Bank.

A car was being chased near Salem military camp, west of the city, for unknown reasons, the sources pointed out.

A local resident was also stopped and questioned as Israeli soldiers stormed Yamoun town early today, while a military checkpoint was erected south of Jenin city.

In Nablus, IOF soldiers confiscated a shipping container after breaking into Balata refugee camp east of the city.

Nearly five Israeli patrols stormed the area at 1 a.m. before confiscating the container.

In al-Khalil, a young man was arrested at Abu Rish military checkpoint erected near his house south of the city.

Local sources identified the detainee as Atta Abu Isneineh, 22, from the Old City.

The young man was detained for nearly an hour at the checkpoint before being taken handcuffed and blindfolded to an unknown detention center.

Facebook launched a widespread suspension campaign against dozens of pro-Palestinian pages, as part of its agreement with the Israeli occupation, apartheid regime

January 7, 2017

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The administration of Facebook launched a widespread suspension campaign against dozens of pages linked to Hamas and Palestinian activists as part of its agreement with the Israeli regime to censure and remove anti-Israeli occupation accounts.

The campaign, which was described as the biggest compared to previous ones, targeted over 90 pages belonging to institutions, figures and activists believed to be affiliated with Hamas, in addition to 30 other accounts of individuals supporting the Palestinian people and their national cause.

This fierce Facebook campaign came close on the heels of the pro-Hamas campaign titled “Be like Ayyash,” which marked the 21th martyrdom anniversary of engineer Yahya Ayyash, a senior member of al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas and received widespread participation by social media users.

Facebook also blocked dozens of accounts belonging to Palestinian activists and citizens who joined and supported the social media campaign, “Be like Ayyash.

Israeli occupation soldiers attack peaceful Palestinian protest in  the Jordan Valley

January 6, 2017

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 Scores of Palestinian activists and journalists suffered injuries on Thursday afternoon when Israeli occupation soldiers attacked them during a peaceful protest rally against the establishment of a new settlement outpost on Palestinian land in the northern Jordan Valley.

Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that dozens of anti-settlement activists and journalists from different media outlets rallied in a new Israeli outpost under construction in Wadi al-Maleh area before soldiers stormed the area and viciously attacked them.

The sources added that the activists stood up in the face of the soldiers, who showered them with volleys of tear gas grenades and rubber bullets.

Several journalist and protesters suffered rubber bullet and tear gas injuries during the events, according to the same sources.

The soldiers also physically assaulted many journalists and protesters, while other media crews were prevented by the Israeli army from accessing the area to cover the events.

Beit El  anti-occupation shooter arrested by Palestinian police

January 6, 2017

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The Palestinian Authority (PA) forces arrested on Friday morning a Palestinian citizen who carried out an anti-occupation shooting attack near the illegal Israeli settlement of Beit El last week.

According to the Israeli Channel 7, the PA security forces arrested the anti-occupation shooter near the illegal Beit El settlement built on Palestinian lands near the central West Bank province of Ramallah.

The newly-arrested Palestinian allegedly unleashed gunshots as he drove near the aforementioned settlement last week, before he fled the scene without injuring anyone.

Observers said the move makes part of ongoing security coordination between the Abbas-chaired PA and the Israeli occupation forces.

Shutting down of a Gaza power plant generator because of Israeli closure of Karm Abu Salem crossing

January 6, 2017

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The Palestinian energy and natural resources authority condemned Israel's exceptional closure of Karm Abu Salem crossing on Friday in front of the entry of extra fuel quantities in full disregard of its ceaseless efforts and demands.

The energy authority announced, in a press statement, that “due to the closure of the crossing on Friday, one of Gaza power plant’s generators was unfortunately shut down temporarily. Only one generator is left working which is due to the lack of enough fuel”.

This was coincided with the breakdown of the Egyptian lines for a few days which affected the current power distribution schedules.

The authority renewed its appeals to the concerned authorities for opening the crossing and entering extra quantities of fuel as well as allowing postpaid prices in order not to aggravate the crisis.

The authority also asked the public to cooperate with the teams of the power distribution company in order to overcome the dilemma and undertook to operate the generator once the crossing is opened and extra fuel is entered.

Earlier in a statement on Thursday, the authority explained the reason of its inability to run the power plant completely by saying that the taxes (Value Added Tax, Blue Tax and other taxes) increase the fuel price leading to shortage at the power plant.

The statement showed some details on the power plant’s fuel costs and taxes over the year 2016. 78 million liters were imported with a total cost estimated at 259 million shekels. 135 million shekels of which were spent on different taxes on fuel prices after the partial exemption of the Blue tax.

This means that the taxes reached 52% out of the total fuel cost with the partial exemption of the Blue tax. The authority pointed out that if all taxes are cancelled, the power plant will be fully operated.

For 10 years, the Gaza Strip has been suffering from a massive electricity crisis especially in the past days leaving Gazans forced to live according to a daily distribution table including 4 hours of electricity connection and 12 hours of electricity cut.

US House of Representatives votes against the UN resolution against the illegal Israeli settlements pic

January 6, 2017

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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution Thursday, January 5, 2017, calling for the repeal of a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements that the United States allowed to pass last month by abstaining from the vote.

The motion, passed 342 to 80 on Thursday, described last month’s resolution as “an obstacle to Israel-Palestinian peace,” and was a rebuke to President Barack Obama’s approach to the US-Israel relationship.

It noted that the Obama administration’s decision to abstain – and not veto – the Security Council resolution “undermined” Washington’s decades-long policy of shielding Israel at the UN.

“Today we put Congress on record objecting to the recent U.N. Security Council resolution that hurt our ally,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) said.

Last month, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution which states that Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 have no legal validity, constitute a flagrant violation under international law, and are a major obstacle to a two-State solution and a comprehensive peace.

The adoption of the resolution prompted debate and political posturing based on the fact that the United States did not veto the resolution.
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Peaceful protest met with violence from Israeli military in Kafr Qaddoum

January 7, 2017 11:46 AM IMEMC News

A protest in Kafr Qaddoum village in the northern part of the West Bank on Friday was met with Israeli military violence, including tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and sound bombs.

The protesters, which included local Palestinians as well as Israeli and international supporters, held a march and rally to oppose the Israeli military takeover of large parts of their town over the past 14 years for the construction of illegal colonial Jewish-only settlements.

As the march began, Israeli soldiers stormed the village in armored jeeps and vehicles, assaulting the protesters with tear gas and other semi-lethal weapons.

The Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported that Murad Shteiwi, one of the protest organizers, told their reporter that the soldiers also raided the home of Helmi Shteiwi during their invasion of the village. The soldiers ransacked the home, destroying property, but they did not find anything and did not abduct anyone.

A day before the weekly protest was scheduled to take place, Israeli soldiers invaded the village before dawn and raided Hikmat Shteiwi’s home. According to Muraq Shteiwi, the soldiers locked the man’s wife in one room and then interrogated the two children, aged 12 and 13, in another room without the presence of their parents.

The attacks on Kafr Qaddoum, and particularly the crackdown on the Shteiwi family, has come in the wake of a video that was released publicly last month showing Israeli soldiers using a seven-year old village child as a human shield. 

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