Destruction and Desperation

  AJ plus: Israel returned dozens of Palestinians (c. 31/1)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2TW7SO2dig4

TRT (Turkish Radio and Television): Israelis block trucks bound for Gaza at Ashdod port (north of Gaza): Israeli protesters trying block the deliveries; desperate people over-running the vehicles (1/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMjB4y32mXM

EriGP (Canada): Speech by Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy. He lives in Tel Aviv and writes for Israeli centre/left wing newspaper Haaretz (3/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjy_vVTv6Ok

Al Jazeera (Qatar): On the brink of starvation (3/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49P5oGUgFw

Al Jazeera: Gaza's water crisis: Destruction and desperation (6/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzSFwFiWiA

Al Jazeera: Israeli strikes Rafah city in the south of Gaza, close to the Rafah Border crossing to Egypt. Rafah has now according to Wikipedia a population of about 1,4 million. In 2017 the population was 171,899 according to the census (8/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN1-qc2oPqk

Al Jazeera: Displaced medics provide aid in Rafah (10/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLNZo3uIgZI

CBS News Network (USA): Israel prepares ground offensive in Rafah (10/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTBaFIySuU

Longer videos:

TRT: Who are the Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and where do they come from? (6 min. video) (18/12)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pi8ejxKTAI

AJ plus: Al Jazeera correspondent Zena Al Tahhan travels by car in the occupied West Bank. West Bank is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip). It is situated on the west bank of the Jordan river and has an estimated population of 2,747,943 Palestinians, and around 400,000 Israeli settlers (10/2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0fLOPol9ao

7 myths about Israel’s ‘Separation Wall’

Published

October 2018

Language

English pages

ISBN

978-1-907433-36-8

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In 2002, Israel decided to build the so-called Separation Wall. By 2003, it had already constructed 143 kilometres of the colossal structure, most of which cut deep into the West Bank, the Palestinian territory that Israel has occupied since the Six Day War of 1967. Its route through occupied West Bank territory means that the Wall infringes directly on the rights and lives of 210,000 Palestinians residing in 67 villages, towns and cities.

In the 16 years since construction began, the lives of almost three million Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem have been transformed almost beyond recognition. Military checkpoints are now a part of people’s daily routine. The Wall cuts Palestinians off from their land; Jerusalemites are separated from family members in the West Bank; ambulances and patients cannot reach hospitals; and babies are born in the street.

Despite all of this, myths abound about the Separation Wall that minimise its impact on Palestinians and paint it as just one aspect of an allegedly “benign occupation”. Sections of it have become spectacles, daubed with street art and marketed as a tourist attraction. The language of “security” is frequently employed to justify its existence.

Netanyahu advances death penalty bill for Palestinians

Netanyahu advances death penalty bill for Palestinians

November 5, 2018 at 3:48 pm | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine

Israeli Prime Minster, Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a Knesset session [Prime Minister of Israel/Flickr]

November 5, 2018 at 3:48 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has approved legislation which would make it easier for courts to hand death sentences to Palestinians who have killed Israelis or soldiers.

While Israel has a law permitting the death penalty, no executions have been carried out since the 1962.

Under the current law, the death penalty may only be imposed by unanimous decision from a panel of three judges. A bill proposed by Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party, which Netanyahu backed yesterday, would remove this requirement, allowing both civilian and military courts to execute Palestinians with a majority decision.

The bill is expected to be brought up at the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee in the next few days to prepare the legislation for its first reading in the Knesset.

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