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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

PALESTINE NEWS - November 16 - 2011

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Israel launches raids against Gaza violence. Two Palestinians wounded


Gaza - Special InfoPal. The Israeli air force launched, between last night and this morning, heavy air strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip.
The attacks have hit Gaza from the north, west and east.
Our correspondent reports from Gaza: "Israeli F-16 launched missiles at a site of the Brigades' id Ezz-Din al-Qassam Brigades, military wing of Hamas, was almost completely destroyed.
"Another attack was launched against a group of fighters near the station Khazandar, north-west of Gaza.
A few minutes after these two raids, a third offensive was launched on Jabal as-Sourani, east of the district at-Tuffah (East Gaza), where the fixtures were destroyed many houses. "
Two Palestinians were wounded, one of the first news, we talk about a woman and a resistance fighter.

Stories of abuse ordinary Israeli family robbed of his Jerusalem residence


InfoPal.   The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported that the Israeli authorities have torn the right of abode in Badriyya Khaled Ammar and his family. I live in the suburb of al Badriyya Matar, at Qalandia, in occupied Jerusalem. The family consists of father, mother and three children.
In March 2009 Israel suspended the services of the "social security" to the family Badriyya, claiming that it did not live in Jerusalem. In addition, churches that pay a million shekels for "services provided by Social Security for the past ten years."
Badriyya JCSER Ammar told the Israeli authorities have handed all the documents attesting to their residence within the border of the Municipality of Jerusalem, and even the official maps of Jerusalem, issued by Israel after the 1967 occupation.
The technical office in Jerusalem said that 85% instead of the family dwelling is located in the West Bank Badriyya and the remaining 15% is located within the boundaries of Jerusalem.
Based on these speculations that only a state based on apartheid and theft of Palestinian land and property can afford, the services for social security and the Municipality of Jerusalem have determined that the home is classified as a resident in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
On 21 September 2011, an Israeli court ruled that the family Badriyya lives in the West Bank, and said that Ammar "is unable to produce any documentation proving the contrary."
The decree was issued despite the fact that Badriyya had instead presented the official documentation to the so-called "Israeli authorities for the land" (Israel Land Authority), and that the department had delayed its request.
"As a result of this decree - Badriyya said Ammar - Social Security has blocked all the services for me and my family, including health, despite the fact that my youngest daughter suffers from several health problems and needs frequent hospital admissions.
"My lawyer told me that Israel's decision effectively removes the right of residence for me and my family."
Badriyya was born in Jerusalem, and in the last 12 years has resided with his family in the suburb of al Matar.

Israel demolished 4 houses south of Jericho. 18 Palestinian families without a roof

Ariha (Jericho) - InfoPal. The Israeli occupation forces have demolished four Palestinian homes yesterday in the Lower Dweik (Tahet), south of Ariha (Jericho).
As expected, backhoes and bulldozers arrived escorted by huge military force and police to prevent residents to get closer to the houses to be destroyed.
The demolished houses were home to 18 Palestinian families since yesterday no longer have a home. The pretext used by Israel was the unquestionable "lack of building permit."
This area has experienced particular: the legitimate Palestinian owners had already been sent away from their homes by Israeli settlers who they sequestered properties. Following the signing of the Oslo Accords, the settlers were evacuated and the Palestinians were allowed to return home, in those reconstructed.
Today, there are Israeli institutions to dispose of the second expulsion.
Families invested by the latest episode of theft are those of Mohammed 'Abdallah ash-Shaykh' Ali az-Zalama, 'Emad al-Fakhouri, Musbah' Ali.


In 3 years, motorists have paid Palestinians to Israel $ 1 million for traffic offenses


Ramallah - InfoPal. A Palestinian research found that "motorists Palestinians to the Israeli authorities have paid an amount equal to one million dollars between September 2008 and July 2011, for traffic offenses."
"Mas", Research Institute of the Palestinian political and economic, thus explained the new data in light of territorial fragmentation created by Israel in the occupied West Bank, and interdict access to most of the roads imposed on Palestinians.
About 2.5 million Palestinians are moving on the roads connecting one village and another, and only a few sporadic cases, have access to main roads.
Palestinian Israeli police encounter motorists on the roads outside towns and villages of connection between the Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority police (ANP) on the inside.
They pay their fines on these roads that Israel applies its own traffic. The money is paid into the Treasury of Israel, is paid directly to the court or, alternatively, local banks or the post office in Israel.
The document reports an increase in the payment of fines to Israel.
In 2009 the Palestinians had paid 213mila dollars in fines, paid in 2010 dollars and 460mila 303mila dollars in the first seven months of 2011.
France summons Israeli ambassador over Gaza attack
November 16, 2011
Summons Israeli ambassador in Paris after the French consul and his family were injured in a rocket attack against the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian was killed and four others wounded in the same attack that wounded the family of the French consul [Reuters]
France has summoned Israel's ambassador to Paris for a meeting at the Foreign Ministry after an air strike in Gaza wounded the French consul, with his wife and daughter.
A ministry spokesman announced Wednesday that the French Ambassador in Tel Aviv complained to the Israeli authorities for the attack, and Israel's envoy was asked to meet with senior officials in Paris.
The consul, his wife and 13 year-old daughter were injured during an Israeli air strike on Sunday night, Bernard Valero, spokesman of the French Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Valero told reporters that the three were hit by shrapnel to their residence in Gaza, which is located 200 meters from the site of an Israeli missile attack.
"France condemns the consequences of the raid," he said. "While we are all for the security of Israel, France recalls the need for everything to avoid civilian damage," Valero Adde.
Although Valero has not commented on the nature of their injuries, the French media have reported that Shaqqoura Majda, the consul's wife, suffered a hemorrhage, and miscarriage.
Palestinians killed
The raid, which also killed a Palestinian policeman and wounded four other people, it is likely strain already difficult relations between France and Israel.
Nicolas Sarkozy, French president earlier this month called Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, a "liar" in a conversation with Barack Obama that was accidentally broadcast to journalists.
Israeli aircraft carried out two raids on the Gaza Strip overnight, wounding a Palestinian, a Hamas official said on Wednesday.
The raids have been on achieving and Beit Lahya in northern Gaza, said a member of the security service of Hamas, which controls the Palestinian territory.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raid on "terrorist sites" in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian fighters in Gaza fired two rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday evening, damaging a farm but causing no casualties, Israeli police said.
The rockets were a revenge attack following the death of a Palestinian policeman in the Israeli air strikes on Sunday.
A Palestinian was killed and four others wounded in the same attack that wounded the family of the French consul [Reuters]






A sign for Vik


At Vik is a plaque was dedicated at the University of Naples, in the Great Hall of the Oriental.




14 - November - 2011: Students and activists in solidarity with Palestine gathered in the Aula Magna of the University East (Matthew Ripa) to hear from some students came back from Palestine, what is the situation in which the people pay Palestinian Authority and to remind seven months after the death Vittorio Arrigoni.
Since the voice of Victor from the hell of Gaza has been turned off, many things have happened: the recognition of Palestine by the UNESCO, the hunger strike of Palestinian political prisoners, new and bloody raid by Israel on the Strip Gaza, barring yet another illegitimate international ships ("Freedom to Gaza Waves").
Upon hearing the news of the kidnapping and death of Victor, we promised to ourselves and to the many people who read his daily reports from Gaza, to all those who do not want to surrender to the everyday brutality of war in Palestine, which we would not have forgotten .
Every promise is a promise. We have collected over 500 signatures (including students, teachers and workers) because affiggesse Eastern University in the Great Hall, where that room many times his voice rang out in the link from Gaza, a plaque remember it.
Unfortunately, the University, perhaps under the pressure of those who defend the indefensible, that is Israel and its apartheid policy, has rejected our proposal. And 'why we decided to do for us, we put up a plaque that reads "Vik Vittorio Arrigoni, an internationalist. We are human "We are confident that no one will dare to take it off.


I'm not afraid of strong violence, but the silence of the honest (Martin Luther King)

Students and Neapolitan studetesse

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

PALESTINE NEWS - November 15 - 2011


Algiers Declaration: XXIII anniversary of the Palestinian State


Occupied Palestine - InfoPal. Today is the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence XXIII of the Palestinian state, also known as the Algiers Declaration called for here is the nineteenth session of the Palestinian National Council (PNC).  
It was during the First Intifada in full and that was an extraordinary session, remembered as the "Intifada and Independence."
Written by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the statement was intended as a formal commitment of the Palestinian resistance and to abstain from violence, for the first time, implicitly posed the basis for a recognition of the State of Israel.
"Renounce violence does not negate our support for the right of peoples to fight foreign occupation", pointed out the leader Yasir 'Arafat, determined not to delegitimize the popular Intifada.
During that meeting, November 15, 1988, we welcomed all the UN resolutions in which to recognize the national rights of Palestinians, first 242/67 on the Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967 against the recognition, and peace, and 338/73 on the cease-fire and negotiations.
In Palestinian history, the Declaration of Algiers remains among the most relevant documents, because they contributed to the internationalization of the national cause of liberation and independence, allowed him to start diplomatic relations, though still only with Europe, and why it was accepted to start of a peace conference under the umbrella of the UN Security Council.
Despite the immense production of conferences, negotiations and agreements, it followed only worsened the plight of the Palestinians, folded from a state of employment and a stifling. Referring to those commitments on time, up to date confirms this.

Incursion Israeli artillery east of Gaza City


Gaza - InfoPal. Another Israeli artillery raid was reported east of Gaza City this morning. There are no injuries or damage.
Some local observers have reported sudden arrival of Israeli armored vehicles started from the Nahal Oz military site.
They have launched several gun shots against Palestinian-owned land, the height of the ash-Shaja'iyah district, east of Gaza.
Our correspondent in Gaza reported that gunshots were heard pleasant 14.
The farmers on their fields present in the early hours of the morning were forced to evacuate the area would be safe.

TODAY IN ACTION The "Freedom Riders"

Palestinian and international activists trying to get on the bus carrying Israeli settlers from the West Bank to Jerusalem

GEORGE MICHAEL
Jerusalem, November 15, 2011, Nena News - Rise of Israeli settlers on the bus, go to Jerusalem and to break the climate of segregation that is emerging ever more clearly in the occupied West Bank. At the risk of ending up in handcuffs for input "illegal", without Israeli permits in Jerusalem. It's called "Freedom Riders", takes place today and is the latest initiative of the Popular Resistance Committees employment. "We invite all to join the international committees Palestinians. It is an action that is inspired, the fight against racial segregation in the United States conducted when the bus in front of seats were reserved for whites, "says one of the promoters, Mazin Qumsiyeh, a professor at Bethlehem University. "We know the risk - adds Qumsiyeh - for a Palestinian with West Bank identity card, the penalty for illegal entry into Israel can get to seven years in prison."
For the promoters of "Freedom Riders" the Palestinian state would be even worse than that of African-Americans in the '60s. Then, they explain, people of color in the United States had to sit in the back of the bus while the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are not even allowed to enter the bus. "Freedom Riders" also claims that an "apartheid" is carried forward through the "bypass road" connecting roads that break the continuity of Palestinian territory, particularly at the expense of workers and students forced to use secondary roads for moving . Not to mention the consequences for the economy of the West Bank. "The Palestinians are forbidden to cross the bypass road with their vehicles - has denounced the Israeli organization B'Tselem human rights -. But not only. Access is also restricted to roads that run close to the bypass. In this case, the Palestinians are forced to descend from their car, cross the road then a walk and look for alternative means of transportation on the other side. "
Meanwhile, is creating serious concern in the Israeli NGOs and associations that deal with civil rights and the protection of human rights, the decision taken by the Israeli Cabinet to obtain from Parliament a new law that limits to just 20 thousand shekels (4 thousand euros) contributions annual that these structures of civil society can receive from foreign lenders.

RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE NAME OF THE WAR TO IRAN

The Republicans promise the military attack on Iran, and say they also favor the use of forms of torture. Barack Obama on his part could endorse the new war just to win a second term.

GEORGE MICHAEL
Rome, November 14, 2011, Nena News - Mount the pressure on Iran accused by Israel and the U.S. of wanting to give nuclear weapons. Britain is increasingly a new war in the Middle East, "not ruling out military intervention," said Foreign Minister William Hague, while the other European governments crumble in front of (apparently) opposed to military intervention. France also calls for the focus on new sanctions to force Iran to cooperate with the IAEA on its nuclear program. "We must be prepared to step up sanctions to prevent any intervention beyond repair," urged the partners, the French Minister Alain Juppe. An "alt" is explicit in the war from Russia, also opposed new sanctions: "The road is full of sanctions, has orchestrated a campaign against the Iranian nuclear program to feed the tension."
Barack Obama has sided with Israel - which in recent weeks has threatened an attack on Iran - and let people know that "no option is ruled out," but states that "diplomacy is the privileged way." Soon, however, the U.S. president could become an avid supporter of the war to earn his second term in the White House. There was an intensification bellicose rhetoric of the Republicans, especially the potential U.S. presidential candidates. "If re-elected Barack Obama, Iran has the bomb. If you elect me, but this does not happen, "he proclaimed last Saturday, the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and conservative, at the time considered the favorite among Republicans involved in primaries. "You need to run covert operations against Iran's nuclear program ... even against their scientists," he said of him Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House and ally of Romney. "We should follow what Israel has done in Iraq and Syria (attacks on nuclear sites, real and alleged, ed), we must stop the Iranian nuclear program, before (Tehran) to conduct the first atomic explosion (experimental)," said For its part the former Republican Senator Rick Santorum.
And to be even more explicit Cain, Representative Michele Bachmann, Santorum and the presidential candidate Rick Perry, have also promised to lift the ban enacted by Obama after his election as President of the use of torture on suspected terrorists. "Were I the President autorizzarei been the method of" waterboarding "," Bachmann said. The "waterboarding" is a form of torture consisting immobilize an individual so that the feet are higher than the head, and pouring water on my face. It 'a kind of controlled drowning, as the water invades the respiratory tract, causing the gag reflex can be interrogated without the stop, or escape, and then feels that his death is imminent.
"I do not consider it a form of torture," he said with a confident tone Rick Perry. Nena News



Freedom Riders Challenge Segregration on the bus route of the Israeli settlers



Tuesday, November 15, 2011 19:42 by Adam Kerry and William Gibson - IMEMC & Agencies
As people around Palestine celebrate their independence, six Palestinian activists trying to make the trip to Jerusalem on a bus of settlers only, highlighting segregation prevalent in Israeli society.
Giornalisti convergenti su Freedom Riders, foto themedialine.org
Journalists converged on Freedom Riders, photos themedialine.org
This year marks the 50 anniversary of the Freedom Rides, which were an integral part of the American movement for civil rights. The activists have defied the laws of segregation, with non-violent action and traveled by bus throughout the South. The reaction that was caused helped the civil rights movement gains momentum and put the issue into the national spotlight. Fifty years later, the Palestinians faced the same prejudices are trying to do the same.
The Freedom Riders Palestinians strive to bring the daily violation of human rights that the Palestinians have to suffer at the hands of the Israeli occupation to the attention of the world. A statement from the campaign group says: "We launch this campaign in the belief that it will not get freedom, justice and self-determination, if not to charge the Israeli occupation, economically and politically, for its daily violations of our rights and dignity. "
The Freedom Riders boarded the bus to Jerusalem with about forty other passengers made ​​up of international journalists and activists sitting side by side with Jewish settlers. The bus was stopped near the Israeli settlement Kochav Yakov, and was boarded by Israeli border police. With thousands of people watching proceedings streamed live around the world, the Freedom Riders were asked to get off the bus, when they refused, police used force to drag them away.
Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, one of the Freedom Riders, spoke to IMEMC over the phone, providing updates on the situation. He said that the Israeli border police were surrounding the bus and claiming they were under arrest, because they tried to "enter Jerusalem illegally."
While treatment of the activists was not nearly as brutal as those dished out to their counterparts for civil rights in America, their efforts will resonate around the world today. As events were unfolding, the tweets of support came pouring in from all angles, but it is too early to say what the impact will be complete.
One of the most memorable moments of the day was when Huwaida Arraf, a young Palestinian-American civil rights lawyer, was forcibly removed by Israeli border police. While she was dragged off moving proclaimed "My name is Huwaida Aarraf, I am a Knight of freedom, and I just want to go to Jerusalem. "
category jerusalem | human rights | news report E-mail author adamjohncarey at gmail dot com
Huwaida Arraf essere rimosso dal bus, foto activestills.org Huwaida Arraf be removed from the bus, photos activestills.org