News from Palestine/Israel: Adalah Series

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Thursday March 10, 2011 · 7:28 AM PST

2011/03/10 · 07:28

Two reports from B'tselem this week. The first on apartheid in Hebron, where Palestinian movement is severely restricted (as is most places in the occupied West Bank) and Palestinians can not walk or drive on Shuhada Street, in the city's center - while Jewish settlers are allowed to move freely.

17 years after Goldstein massacre, Hebron city center paralyzed, March 3 '11

The closing of Shuhada Street is part of the policy of separation that Israel imposes in the heart of Hebron. This policy has led to Palestinian mass abandonment of the city center and has brought with it severe, continuing breach of the human rights of Palestinians. It is, de facto, an unacceptable regime of discriminatory separation.

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Thursday February 03, 2011 · 7:43 AM PST

2011/02/03 · 07:43

This past week two Palestinian youths in the occupied West Bank were shot and killed by Israeli settlers, via Ma`an. Oday Maher Hamza Qadous on January 27th, and Yousef Fakhri Ikhlaylon, January 28th.

Joseph Dana reports:

19 year old Oday Maher Hamza Qadous was shot to death this afternoon while farming his land in Iraq Burin near Nablus. Qadous was farming with his cousin, Omer Ahmed Qadous, on the west side of Iraq Burin when settlers from Barcha entered the farmland and shot Oday in the stomach. Omer Ahmed Qadous saw the entire event and reported that there was no confrontation with the settlers before the shooting. He said that settlers entered the farmland and began to shot. Qadous was evacuated from the area to a Nablus hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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Thursday January 06, 2011 · 7:42 AM PST

2011/01/06 · 07:42

As noted by Tony Karon in Time, January 4th, an alliance of Palestinians and Israelis in a popular struggle of unarmed protests against the Wall, the occupation, Palestinian house demolitions and evictions in East Jerusalem seems to be gaining steam and causing worry in Israel's government.

This is evidenced in the series of arrests, imprisonments of leaders from both the ranks of Palestinian and Israeli activists, (the Palestinian activists being treated much more harshly) deportations of Palestinian activists in East Jerusalem, and violent repression directed at protesters against the Wall in the West Bank.

Karon points out that their message is directed more toward international civil society than the Israeli public which has moved ever right-ward in recent years.

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