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With Israel having cut the Palestinians’ water supply, I visited two settlements where the people are supposedly suffering too.

Thus tweeted MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) on Friday: “No joke: We’ve gone back 100 years!” He reported on five stations for providing drinking water that were placed that morning in the settlement of Kedumim.

That day, the religious Zionist weekly Makor Rishon published an article titled “The water crisis in Judea and Samaria: In the settlement of Eli huge bags of drinking water were distributed to the residents.”

So I set out to witness this suffering at two settlements. I left before I saw the tweet by one Avraham Benyamin in response to Smotrich: “We’re waiting for a series of empathetic articles in Haaretz. We’ll continue to wait.”
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Israel Incapable of Telling Truth About Water It Steals From Palestinians

Israeli spokespeople have three answers ready to pull out when they respond to questions on the water shortage in West Bank Palestinian towns – which stands out starkly compared to the hydrological smugness of the settlements: 1) The Palestinian water system is old, so it suffers from water loss; 2) the Palestinians steal water from each other, and from the Israelis; and 3) in general, Israel has in its great generosity doubled the amount of water it supplies to the Palestinians, compared to what was called for in the Oslo Accords.

“Supplies,” the spokespeople will write in their responses. They will never say Israel sells the Palestinians 64 million cubic meters of water a year instead of the 31 million cubic meters agreed to in the Oslo Accords. Accords that were signed in 1994, and that were supposed to come to an end in 1999. They will not say that Israel sells the Palestinians water that it first stole from them.
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Israeli forces detain at least 73 Palestinians in the last week
http://bit.ly/29f6gCm

“We’ll never give up”

“We love our land and we will fight.”

So reads a mural painted on a wall in Kafr Qaddum, a Palestinian village in the northern occupied West Bank.

The slogan, adorned with butterflies in the color of the Palestinian flag flying over a barbed wire fence, is the backdrop to the regular demonstrations against the Israeli occupation held in the village since July 2011.

For five years now, villagers have protested every week, demanding access to the main road leading to the city of Nablus and other nearby towns.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/well-never-give/17266

In Photos: Five years of popular struggle in Palestinian village Kufr Qaddum
http://972mag.com/in-photos-five-years-of-popular-struggle-in-palestinian-village-kufr-qaddum/120308/

Palestinian dies of tear gas inhalation, 40 others wounded in clashes at Qalandiya

A Palestinian man was pronounced dead on Friday after suffering from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces heavily fired tear gas at crowds, reportedly wounding some 40 others, as Palestinians attempted to cross the Qalandiya checkpoint from Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank into Jerusalem to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The man, identified by medical sources as Muhammad Mustafa Habash, 63, from the Asira al-Shamaliya village in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, was one of at least 40 Palestinians who suffered from severe tear gas inhalation during clashes that broke out at the Qalandiya checkpoint.

Witnesses told Ma’an that Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics were prevented by Israeli forces from treating the man at the start of the incident. However, they eventually were able to reach him.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772079

Israeli forces injure 3 Palestinians with live fire during protests in Kafr Qaddum
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772085

2 Palestinians injured by live fire in Hebron-area clashes with Israeli forces

Two Palestinian youths were shot and injured and several others suffered from tear-gas inhalation during clashes with Israeli forces Saturday afternoon in the Hanina area of the village of Dura in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772095

Hebron on lockdown after two days of deadly attacks

The Israeli military imposed closure on the occupied West Bank city of Hebron and its surroundings on Friday, affecting some 700,000 people, following a spike in deadly attacks over the past two days.

An Israeli army spokesperson told the Ma’an News Agency that movement in and out of the city and its surrounding villages would be closed indefinitely.

The closure has been described by the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz as the largest since a massive crackdown following the kidnapping and slaying of three Israeli youths in the West Bank in June 2014.

The closure affects only Palestinians, and not Israelis living in settlements in the area, an army spokesperson told media.

Such collective punishment measures are considered war crimes under international law.

The closure was declared after an Israeli and two Palestinians were killed in three separate incidents in the West Bank on Friday, and one day after the slaying of an Israeli girl at a settlement, after which her attacker was shot dead, and another Palestinian was killed after allegedly stabbing and injuring two Israelis in the city of Netanya.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/hebron-lockdown-after-two-days-deadly-attacks

Israel can’t crush solidarity

Amal Mukhamara is fed up with the questions. She is tired of journalists inquiring why her son Khaled and his cousin Muhammad killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv earlier this month. She is tired of being asked if she condemns their actions or if she knew of their plans beforehand.

“No mother will allow her son to put his life in danger,” she said. “But our sons do not ask us for our opinions or approval. They are driven to act because of all the injustice and aggression they have been subjected to by Israel.”

The killings took place in an upmarket Tel Aviv square. Both of the alleged attackers were wounded before being arrested.

Israel is using the Tel Aviv killings as a pretext to inflict more injustice and aggression on their family and neighbors in Yatta, a town near Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-cant-crush-solidarity/17261

Israeli settlers raid lands in Bethlehem, spray "Death to Arabs" on Palestinian property

Israeli settlers from the illegal Betar Illit settlement raided Palestinian lands in the village of Wadi Fukin in the central occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem on Tuesday, according to local witnesses.

Ahmad Sukkar, the head of the Wadi Fukin village council, told Ma’an that a group of Israeli settlers raided agricultural lands in the al-Fuwwar area of the village, destroying two greenhouses and tearing up plants belonging to local residents Maher Sukkar, Jamil Assaf, and Muhammad Manasra.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772053

Israel to construct new housing in Hebron settlement after killing of teenage resident

The Israeli government reportedly approved on Friday the construction of new housing units in the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron, after a Palestinian boy stabbed an Israeli girl to death in her bedroom in the settlement Thursday.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772098

Israeli forces demolish Bedouin village in Negev for 100th time in six years

Israeli authorities demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib on Wednesday for the second time during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and 100th time total, locals told Ma'an.

“The Israeli authorities have left us homeless after they demolished the village for 100th time," local activist Aziz Sayyah al-Tuhri said.

"Imagine that you eat sahour at 4 a.m in your house," he continued, referring to the meal Muslims who fast during Ramadan eat before dawn, "and shortly after that the house is demolished?”

“The authorities do not care about Ramadan or other times as they practice this police of displacement and uprooting, as the only language they understand is that of power and criminality," al-Tuhri said. "They want us to reach desperation and leave our land willingly.”

Fellow activist Salim al-Arakib described the demolition as "tyrannical," saying that the "criminal policy seeks to uproot us and displace us, but this policy will only make us more determined and more adamant to stay firm in the land of our fathers and grandfathers.”
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772046

Israeli court rejects appeal against punitive demolitions of Tel Aviv suspects' family homes

An Israeli military court rejected an appeal against house demolition orders presented to the families of two Palestinians suspected of carrying out a deadly attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month.

Muhammad Ahmad Moussa Makhamreh and Khalid Muhammad Moussa Makhamreh, two cousins from the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, were detained after a shooting attack which killed four Israelis in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on June 8.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772055

PFLP political prisoners suspend hunger strike for Bilal Kayed pending upcoming Israeli ruling

Palestinian political prisoners affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced a ten day suspension of their hunger strike on Wednesday until Israeli authorities' issue a ruling on Bilal Kayed's freedom.
https://www.facebook.com/alternativenews.org/posts/1025983220772926

Prisoners determined to resist dangerous precedent set by Israel

Twenty-nine Palestinian prisoners suspended a hunger strike launched in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, who was ordered to remain in prison under administrative detention after completing a nearly 15-year prison sentence.

But they are set to resume it if Kayed is not freed at a hearing early next month.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/prisoners-determined-resist-dangerous-precedent-set-israel

[VIDEO] Not an occupation? Whatever it is, it's disgusting

Black-clad mounted Border Police galloping into and nearly trampling a crowd of unarmed civilians, old men and women lucky enough to meet the army’s criteria to pray in Jerusalem mutely line up to pass through what look like cattle lanes. Notes on one scene of ugliness and occupation.
http://972mag.com/not-an-occupation-whatever-it-is-its-disgusting/120346/

Sorry, Mahmoud Rafat Badran, 15, Was Killed by 'Mistake'

By mistake the soldiers stood on the bridge, by accident they sprayed the car driving on the road below them with heavy fire, without any idea who was in it. Unintentionally they killed the youth, by accident wounded four of his friends seriously. By mistake the soldiers thought the passengers of the car had thrown rocks and poured oil on the road, mistakenly they thought this allowed them to shoot to their hearts’ desire.

Clearly by accident, because if the youth had thrown rocks, they would have been allowed to kill him. By mistake the IDF initially reported that its soldiers had killed the “terrorist” and wounded his partners, and only after a few hours corrected the mistake and admitted the youth was killed “by accident.” Unintentionally, Israelis have forgotten that Route 443, the high road to the capital, passes deep through the occupied territories on the lands of the surrounding villages, whose residents cannot drive on that road to anywhere.
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Turkey-Israel deal leaves Gaza siege intact

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip expressed anger and dismay on Monday about the deal normalizing relations between Israel and Turkey that leaves them under a suffocating siege.

An Israeli human rights group that monitors the decade-old Israeli blockade of Gaza has also confirmed that the deal does not end Israel’s tight control over the territory that has greatly exacerbated the devastation to Gaza’s economy and society from three major Israeli military assaults since 2008.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/turkey-israel-deal-leaves-gaza-siege-intact

British Muslims detained in Israel and kicked off flight home

Four people, including 10-year-old boy, had planned to visit al-Aqsa mosque but were detained and deported from Israel
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-muslims-kicked-flight-home-after-days-israeli-detention-283322852

Israel’s killer bureaucracy

There are scores of ways by which Israel kills Palestinians; shedding their blood with sophisticated weapons is only one.

This is the story of my cousin Awad Alareer, who died because Israel imposes severe restrictions on Palestinian patients seeking medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip, especially in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.

Awad, an 18-year-old from Gaza, died less than a year after he was diagnosed with bone cancer.

He needed permits to get treatment outside Gaza. Israel delayed issuing those permits on several occasions.

Awad came from a family of farmers. They were expelled from land in the greater Gaza Strip during the Nakba, the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-killer-bureaucracy/17226

Neocon NGO Pressures Google, Facebook to Censor Content

Executives from Google and Facebook have faced enormous political pressure from forces as diverse as Pres. Obama himself to the Israel Lobby, to rid their sites of Islamist content. Over the years, videos portraying ISIS beheadings have outraged the public (though not on YouTube or Facebook, which immediately removes them). Now it appears that the Israel Lobby and their right-wing allies are demanding further action restricting access for videos they deem offensive.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/06/27/neocon-ngo-pressures-google-facebook-to-censor-content/

Elie Wiesel’s Decidedly Mixed Legacy

decidedly mixed legacy. He was initially a sainted Holocaust survivor, international moral witness to depravity, captivating storyteller; later he morphed into a Palestine denier, settler advocate, Iranophobe and right-wing apologist for Israel.
When I was 12 or 13, my congregation Rabbi Henry Sosland, would drive me to hear him speak at synagogues in Rockland County (NY) where I grew up. He was a mesmerizing raconteur, a profound Jewish moral witness with charisma beyond measure. As an audience member, you felt under a spell of brilliance, drama, and pathos.
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2016/07/02/elie-wiesels-decidedly-mixed-legacy/

Ich bin Jüdin und möchte, dass die Leute Israel boykottieren

2009 lebte ich während der Operation Gegossenes Blei in Tel Aviv. Während jenes Angriffs tötete Israel ungefähr 1.400 Palästinenser in Gaza. Wenn wir in kleinen Gruppen auf die Straßen gingen, um gegen den Krieg zu demonstrieren, wurden wir oft von Passanten mit Eiern beworfen oder angegriffen. Als ich meine Kinder von deren Vorschule abholte, unterhielten sich die Eltern, als würde gar nichts Ungewöhnliches im Gange sein. Als sie mich fragten, was schief ginge, antwortete ich ihnen, ich sei von den Ereignissen in einer Entfernung von nur 40 Meilen von uns zutiefst betrübt. Ihre Antwort: ein peinliches Schweigen oder eine wütende Verteidigung der israelischen Operationen.
http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=18290