Why the Huwwara pogrom was inevitable

Monday, 27 February 2023 — The Electronic Intifada

Maureen Clare Murphy

Part of the aftermath of a “state-sanctioned” settler rampage in the West Bank village of Huwwara, 27 February, Ilia Yefimovich DPA

In early January, as Israel was forming its most openly extreme right-wing government yet, Nadav Tamir, a former Israeli diplomat and current lobby group director, gave a prescient warning.

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The observer mission in Hebron acted as a restraint on the settlers’ worst excesses. Now that has come to an end

13 February 2019 — Jonathan Cook

The National – 10 February 2019

You might imagine that a report by a multinational observer force documenting a 20-year reign of terror by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers against Palestinians, in a city under occupation, would provoke condemnation from European and US politicians.

But you would be wrong. The leaking in December of the report on conditions in the city of Hebron, home to 200,000 Palestinians, barely caused a ripple.

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Breaking the Silence about Israel’s occupation of Hebron

8 October 2018 — Jonathan Cook

Former Israeli soldiers exposing the brutality of the occupation of the West Bank face fresh challenges

The National – 8 October 2018

Ido Even-Paz switched on his body camera as his tour group decamped from the bus in Hebron. The former Israeli soldier wanted to document any trouble we might encounter in this, the largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank.

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Video: Israeli Government and Press Knew Teenagers Were Dead for Weeks

1 July 2014 — The Real News Network

TRNN Middle East Correspondent Lia Tarachansky says Palestinian anger towards the Palestinian Authority has reached unprecedented levels, and that the Israeli government is now trying to instigate a third intifada in order to legitimize military actions in the West Bank and Gaza (inc. transcript)

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Email your leader, tell him to protest the cruel removal of Palestinians from their lands in Hebron Hills By David Shulman

22 January 2014 — Mondoweiss

David Shulman is a leading writer in Israel and the U.S. who posted this report from a wrenching day of activism in the Hebron Hills at the Ta’ayush website. There it was titled, “Umm al-Ara’is, Khushiyya and Twaneh.” We publish it in full because of Shulman’s desire that western readers alert politicians to the atrocities he describes. –Ed. Continue reading

VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 4 September 2013: PHOTOS: Life before expulsion in the South Hebron Hills

4 September 2013  — VTJP

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Children, Women, Injured As Israeli Extremists Break Into The Al-Aqsa Mosque
IMEMC – Palestinian medical sources in occupied Jerusalem have reported that several children and women were among the injured after extremist Israelis broke into the yards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque since early dawn hours Wednesday [August 4 2013]. Fifty Palestinians have been kidnapped in the Mosque area overnight. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 26 April 2013: Soldiers Uproot 700 Olive Trees Near Jenin

26 April 2013 — VTJP

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Army Attacks Nabi Saleh Nonviolent Protest
IMEMC – Israeli soldiers attacked, on Friday afternoon, the weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Annexation Wall and settlements, in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah. This week’s protest was titled “our detainees will be victorious”. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 April 2013: Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC

23 April 2013 — VTJP

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Police Arrests Two Israeli Teenage Settlers For Torching Palestinian Cars
IMEMC – The Israeli Police announced on Tuesday evening that it apprehended two Israeli teenage setters living in an illegal settlement outpost near Dir Jareer village, north east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as they are believed to be involved in torching 10 Palestinian vehicles earlier on Tuesday. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 April 2013: UNICEF tones down report on child detainees in wake of Israeli pressure

21 April 2013 — VTJP

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Lawyer: Sick prisoner stops taking medication
4/21/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — A sick prisoner on Sunday stopped taking medication in protest against Israeli medical negligence, according to a lawyer from the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs. Ahmad Saed al-Damouni, 43, from the Gaza Strip, has been held in Ashkelon jail since 1994. He is sentenced to a life term. On Sunday….

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 17 April 2013: Israel is the only country in the world that has devised military courts for children

17 April 2013 — VTJP

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Army Opens Fire At Palestinian Ambulance In Bethlehem
IMEMC – Wednesday evening, April 17, 2013, Israeli soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian Red Crescent Ambulance while trying to provide medical care to family members, including an infant, injured by gas bombs fired by the army at their home, in Al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 13 April 2013

13 April 2013 — VTJP

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Israeli forces prevent visit to Samer Issawi
4/13/2013 – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) – Israeli forces on Saturday refused to let 12 Israeli leftist visit hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi at Israel’s Kaplan Medical Center. Israeli media said two female activists were briefly detained after they tried to break into Issawi’s room. Earlier Israel rejected appeals to release the Palestinian prisoner….

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 11 April 2013: PHOTOS: Israeli troops shoot Palestinian photographer in the face

11 April 2013 — VTJP

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Prominent youth activist abducted by Israeli troops in Hebron
IMEMC – The coordinator of the non-violent group called ‘Youth Against Settlements’ was abducted Wednesday by Israeli troops when he responded to a summons to appear at the police station at the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 9 April 2013

9 April 2013 — VTJP

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Palestinians mark 65th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre
IMEMC – In Palestine and around the world on Tuesday, Palestinians and their supporters held vigils and events to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the massacre of over one hundred Palestinian civilians in Deir Yassin village, in what is now Israel. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 8 April 2013: Youth move back to Palestinian village stolen from their families

8 April 2013 — VTJP

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International Middle East Media Center

Palestinian Cameraman Shot In The Face In Bethlehem
IMEMC – Bethlehem, Monday April 8, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian cameraman was shot in the face, on Monday evening, by a rubber-coated metal bullet, in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. …

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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 April 2013: Palestinian Amer Nassar, Aged Seventeen: A Last Poem

4 April 2013 — VTJP

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PCHR: “In Light Of Ongoing Violations, Palestine Must Join The ICC”
IMEMC – PCHR urges President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership to follow through on recent statements they have made, in which they have pledged to sign and ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). …

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