Humanitarian bulletin Occupied Palestinian territory – April 2019
OCHA – United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
OVERVIEW
Early May witnessed the most serious outbreak of hostilities in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel since the 2014 conflict, and the fifth recorded in the past year. This followed the wounding of two Israeli soldiers by a sniper...
Israeli home demolitions skyrocket in Jerusalem
Tamara Nassar
The Electronic Intifada / May 11, 2019
Israeli occupation forces have sharply escalated their demolitions of Palestinian properties in East Jerusalem.
As a result, more Palestinians have been made homeless this year than in all of 2018.
United Nations humanitarian coordinator Jamie McGoldrick decried the alarming trend, calling on Israel to immediately halt all...
Has Israel already annexed the West Bank?
While official annexation would be seen as a dramatic escalation, many Palestinians feel the area is already annexed.
Jaclynn Ashly
Al-Jazeera / May 7, 2019
While the international community and media created an uproar when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intent to annex the West Bank in a bid to garner votes during last...
Three Israeli hospitals admit to segregating Jewish and Arab women at maternity wards
The Palestine Chronicle / April 27, 2019
Three Israeli hospitals have admitted for the first time that they segregate Jewish and Arab women giving birth, at the women’s request.
In response to a lawsuit filed against four hospitals, three of them – Hadassah University Hospital on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Haemek Hospital in Afula...
One way to silence Israel boycotts? Get lawmakers to pass anti-BDS bills
Liz Essley Whyte
USA Today / May 1, 2019
The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America.
Palestinian rights activists calling for people to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel have racked up policy victories over the past 14 years across the globe and in the USA, particularly on university campuses.
In response, pro-Israel...
VIDEO – The story of Israel’s hazardous waste in the Occupied West Bank
Heinrich Böll Foundation Palestine & Jordan
22 april 2019
Over the past several years, Palestinian and Israeli environmental and human rights organizations have documented the transfer of Israeli solid waste into areas of the occupied West Bank. In December, 2017, B’Tselem an Israeli human rights organization revealed that Israel has supported...
Israel’s fear of democracy
Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada / April 30, 2019
https://youtu.be/-MFWsMN2dFA
In the wake of its recent elections, some of Israel’s liberal backers have been fretting that the self-described Jewish state is becoming ever less democratic.
“The general celebratory line in Israel and among its Western supporters since its establishment in 1948 – that the...
VN-rapporteur: ‘Geen nauwkeuriger woord dan Apartheid voor situatie in Palestina’
Is het tijd voor sancties tegen Israël ?
Brecht Neven
MO* Magazine / 23 maart 2019
Honderdnegenentachtig. 189 grotendeels ongewapende demonstranten werden tijdens hoofdzakelijk vreedzame protesten, die deel uitmaakten van de ‘Great March of Return’ gedood door Israëlische veiligheidstroepen. In een rapport van 28 februari 2019 stelt een speciale VN-onderzoekscommissie dat het geweld met...
De massamoord in Deir Yassin in de nacht van 8 op 9 april 1948
een van de dieptepunten in de grote campagne van etnische zuivering van Palestina
Dit jaar is het 71 jaar geleden dat de massamoord in Deir Yassin plaatsvond. Deze is uitgevoerd door strijders van de joods-zionistische terroristische Irgoen-militie – met medeweten, dan wel indirecte steun van reguliere joods-zionistische gevechtseenheden.
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Haaretz-opiniepeiling: 42 procent van de joodse Israeli’s is vóór de annexatie van de Westelijke...
Haaretz poll: 42% of Israelis back West Bank annexation, including two-state supporters
Thirty-four percent support a two-state solution ■ Twenty percent of non-Jews support entire West Bank annexation ■ Only three Israeli parties openly support two-state solution
Dina Kraft
Haaretz / March 24, 2019
With just a couple of weeks left until the...