5 sept 2018
Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the green light for the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar village east of Occupied Jerusalem.
Anti-settlement activist Waleed Assaf said that the Israeli court rejected petitions filed by the residents of the Bedouin village and gave the Israeli army a one-week time limit to start the demolition.
Assaf said that the court also issued a decision preventing Palestinian citizens from returning to Khan al-Ahmar.
"No further legal actions can be taken in this case. All we can do is march in Khan al-Ahmar to prevent the demolition," he added.
Hebrew TV channel Seven reported that Israel fears that violent confrontations might be witnessed in the region in view of stepped-up social media campaigns urging Palestinian citizens to march in the threatened village and support its residents.
For his part, Israel's War Minister congratulated the judges of the Supreme Court for their "courageous and clear decision".
The fate of Khan al-Ahmar has drawn heavy international attention, and the demolition decision has been frozen several times following unremitting efforts by Palestinian lawyers to save the village.
Clashes over the Israeli plan to demolish Khan al-Ahmar has been repeatedly witnessed between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli occupation forces in all West Bank provinces. A sit-in tent was installed near the village for Palestinians to gather in a protest step against the demolition.
Khan al-Ahmar is one of 45 villages threatened with demolition in favor of a settlement project called E1. The project is aimed at creating a physical link between Ma'ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem, and that would effectively complete a crescent of Israeli settlements around East Jerusalem dividing it from the rest of the West Bank.
Anti-settlement activist Waleed Assaf said that the Israeli court rejected petitions filed by the residents of the Bedouin village and gave the Israeli army a one-week time limit to start the demolition.
Assaf said that the court also issued a decision preventing Palestinian citizens from returning to Khan al-Ahmar.
"No further legal actions can be taken in this case. All we can do is march in Khan al-Ahmar to prevent the demolition," he added.
Hebrew TV channel Seven reported that Israel fears that violent confrontations might be witnessed in the region in view of stepped-up social media campaigns urging Palestinian citizens to march in the threatened village and support its residents.
For his part, Israel's War Minister congratulated the judges of the Supreme Court for their "courageous and clear decision".
The fate of Khan al-Ahmar has drawn heavy international attention, and the demolition decision has been frozen several times following unremitting efforts by Palestinian lawyers to save the village.
Clashes over the Israeli plan to demolish Khan al-Ahmar has been repeatedly witnessed between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli occupation forces in all West Bank provinces. A sit-in tent was installed near the village for Palestinians to gather in a protest step against the demolition.
Khan al-Ahmar is one of 45 villages threatened with demolition in favor of a settlement project called E1. The project is aimed at creating a physical link between Ma'ale Adumim settlement and Jerusalem, and that would effectively complete a crescent of Israeli settlements around East Jerusalem dividing it from the rest of the West Bank.
4 sept 2018
Madeeha Araj/ NBPRS/PNN
(photo: The illegal settlement of Ofra, Reuters)
The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement stated that the Israeli Central Court’s resolution on keeping hundreds of settlement units in the occupied West Bank, under an Israeli judicial procedure called “market regulations,” is a dangerous precedent that retroactively paves the way for the renewal of building settlements, and grants the settlers more incentives to steal more Palestinian lands without punishment.
The market regulations stipulated that any deal in the West Bank with or without the consent of the Civil Administration is valid, which means the settlement of the Jews in the West Bank is legal, and the compensation of the land owners is possible. Therefore, no need to evacuate the settlers and the decision is applied on hundreds of settlement units in the West Bank, so there will no longer be a need to evacuate those units, either. The Judge, Arnon Dral assured his acceptance of the settlers’ claims that they settled the land with the consent of the military governor and therefore do not have to evacuate.
The central court in Jerusalem’s decision came to ground the settlement outposts of “Mitzpe Kramim”, to reveal once again the reality of the political maneuvers that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stands behind, to gradually legitimize settlement outposts, recalling the deliberations conducted by the Israeli Supreme Court, several years ago, that revealed the truth of the leadership position which, by all means, intends to plunder Palestinian land.
These deliberations have repeatedly confirmed that this is a settlers’ government.
Members of the Knesset and ministers of the Israeli government welcomed the decision of the Central Court in Jerusalem, to settle the settlement outpost of Mitzpe Kramim, under the claim that it was established “in good faith.” Not only was the decision of the Central Court welcomed, but asserted that the high court shall not deal with Palestinian appeals as MK, Nissan Slomiansky of the Jewish House said that the Central Court is worthy of respect because it activated an item that prevented the high court from enforcing any decision.
For his part, Knesset Spokeperson, Yuli Edelstein said that “the determination of the settlers in Mitzpe Kramim has proven itself,” and welcomed the decision of the Central Court, considered it “just” and that it is required to be issued by the court. He also stressed the continuation of strengthening settlement. Moreover, the Central Court clearly proposed that a person who is settled by a State permit can act in good faith that his home will not be evicted, adding that this is a blessed month for settlement, in that the decision of the central court regarding the settlement of Mitzpe Kramim comes after the approval of the establishment of 3 new settlements.
Hebrew media also welcomed the decision, as Hebrew newspaper “Yediot Ahronot” said that the decision to legitimize outpost came under the pressure of the Israeli Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, who praised the judicial decision. The decision of the court will be reflected on the fate of hundreds of settlement units built on private Palestinian land.
Recently, settlers have established an illegal settlement outpost near the settlement of Eli, on the land of the Qariot and Sawiya villages, south of Nablus. Five buildings were erected in the area. The Civil Administration stated that it didn’t have any idea on that. Head of the Settlement Council, Mati Binyamin, said that he also does not know about the settlement.
A tent was also found in the area, and a building likely to be used for housing. A commercial vehicle was seen loaded with furniture. According to Palestinian sources, a group of settlers from the evacuated settlement of Amona set up 5 tents and foundations to construct a sheep-tent on privately owned Palestinian land located between the settlements of Shilo and Eileh.
On the other hand, there is competition between party leaders and public opinion in Israel, which is more supportive of settlement activities, especially as the municipal elections in Jerusalem are drawing nearer. It has been revealed that the work will begin in early September, on a project to build hundreds of settlement units in the heart of the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem. Mayor of the occupation in Jerusalem, during a closed political conference said that 124 settlement units, approved by the Planning Committee of the 324, is expected to be built in the heart of the Palestinian town, claiming that the lands on which the settlement will be built were purchased 15 years ago, by Jewish funds, with the aim of creating a series of settlements in Jerusalem.
Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett said that the momentum of settlement construction in West Bank settlements and occupied Jerusalem should continue. He added, in remarks broadcast by the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, that “the discourse on the Israeli street has changed so that it is now focused on the application of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and Jerusalem, instead of talking about the principle of a two-state solution . In a meeting with settler leaders in the West Bank, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, he said that his party was working through the ruling coalition to expand settlements in the West Bank and raise the number of Jewish settlers to one million, over the coming years. Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman threatened to continue settlement construction in response to continued operations in the West Bank: “Israel will continue to build settlements, in the settlement of Adam, and everywhere.”
In Ras Karkar village, west of Ramallah, the head of the Wall and Settlement resistance committee, Walid Assaf, was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet, in the ear, during the course of his protest against Israeli soldiers’ attempt to seize the Jabal al-Risan area, to the west of the village. Israeli occupation forces fired rubber-coated bullets at Assaf from a close range, wounding him in the left ear, while two of his bodyguards were wounded in the hand and the back. Two other demonstrators also suffered injuries, along with an Israeli solidarity activist.
In Jerusalem, settlers confiscated accompanied by representatives of the “General Trustee – Custodian of Absentees’ Property”, a private plot of land belonging to Abdul Razaq Sheikh, near his house. The land is about 50 square miles, located in the western part of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where Israelis bulldozed and uprooted fruitful trees, and of which the General Trustee – Custodian of Absentee Property has claimed ownership.
(photo: The illegal settlement of Ofra, Reuters)
The National Bureau for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement stated that the Israeli Central Court’s resolution on keeping hundreds of settlement units in the occupied West Bank, under an Israeli judicial procedure called “market regulations,” is a dangerous precedent that retroactively paves the way for the renewal of building settlements, and grants the settlers more incentives to steal more Palestinian lands without punishment.
The market regulations stipulated that any deal in the West Bank with or without the consent of the Civil Administration is valid, which means the settlement of the Jews in the West Bank is legal, and the compensation of the land owners is possible. Therefore, no need to evacuate the settlers and the decision is applied on hundreds of settlement units in the West Bank, so there will no longer be a need to evacuate those units, either. The Judge, Arnon Dral assured his acceptance of the settlers’ claims that they settled the land with the consent of the military governor and therefore do not have to evacuate.
The central court in Jerusalem’s decision came to ground the settlement outposts of “Mitzpe Kramim”, to reveal once again the reality of the political maneuvers that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu stands behind, to gradually legitimize settlement outposts, recalling the deliberations conducted by the Israeli Supreme Court, several years ago, that revealed the truth of the leadership position which, by all means, intends to plunder Palestinian land.
These deliberations have repeatedly confirmed that this is a settlers’ government.
Members of the Knesset and ministers of the Israeli government welcomed the decision of the Central Court in Jerusalem, to settle the settlement outpost of Mitzpe Kramim, under the claim that it was established “in good faith.” Not only was the decision of the Central Court welcomed, but asserted that the high court shall not deal with Palestinian appeals as MK, Nissan Slomiansky of the Jewish House said that the Central Court is worthy of respect because it activated an item that prevented the high court from enforcing any decision.
For his part, Knesset Spokeperson, Yuli Edelstein said that “the determination of the settlers in Mitzpe Kramim has proven itself,” and welcomed the decision of the Central Court, considered it “just” and that it is required to be issued by the court. He also stressed the continuation of strengthening settlement. Moreover, the Central Court clearly proposed that a person who is settled by a State permit can act in good faith that his home will not be evicted, adding that this is a blessed month for settlement, in that the decision of the central court regarding the settlement of Mitzpe Kramim comes after the approval of the establishment of 3 new settlements.
Hebrew media also welcomed the decision, as Hebrew newspaper “Yediot Ahronot” said that the decision to legitimize outpost came under the pressure of the Israeli Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, who praised the judicial decision. The decision of the court will be reflected on the fate of hundreds of settlement units built on private Palestinian land.
Recently, settlers have established an illegal settlement outpost near the settlement of Eli, on the land of the Qariot and Sawiya villages, south of Nablus. Five buildings were erected in the area. The Civil Administration stated that it didn’t have any idea on that. Head of the Settlement Council, Mati Binyamin, said that he also does not know about the settlement.
A tent was also found in the area, and a building likely to be used for housing. A commercial vehicle was seen loaded with furniture. According to Palestinian sources, a group of settlers from the evacuated settlement of Amona set up 5 tents and foundations to construct a sheep-tent on privately owned Palestinian land located between the settlements of Shilo and Eileh.
On the other hand, there is competition between party leaders and public opinion in Israel, which is more supportive of settlement activities, especially as the municipal elections in Jerusalem are drawing nearer. It has been revealed that the work will begin in early September, on a project to build hundreds of settlement units in the heart of the town of Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem. Mayor of the occupation in Jerusalem, during a closed political conference said that 124 settlement units, approved by the Planning Committee of the 324, is expected to be built in the heart of the Palestinian town, claiming that the lands on which the settlement will be built were purchased 15 years ago, by Jewish funds, with the aim of creating a series of settlements in Jerusalem.
Israeli Education Minister, Naftali Bennett said that the momentum of settlement construction in West Bank settlements and occupied Jerusalem should continue. He added, in remarks broadcast by the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, that “the discourse on the Israeli street has changed so that it is now focused on the application of Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank and Jerusalem, instead of talking about the principle of a two-state solution . In a meeting with settler leaders in the West Bank, on the eve of the Jewish New Year, he said that his party was working through the ruling coalition to expand settlements in the West Bank and raise the number of Jewish settlers to one million, over the coming years. Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman threatened to continue settlement construction in response to continued operations in the West Bank: “Israel will continue to build settlements, in the settlement of Adam, and everywhere.”
In Ras Karkar village, west of Ramallah, the head of the Wall and Settlement resistance committee, Walid Assaf, was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet, in the ear, during the course of his protest against Israeli soldiers’ attempt to seize the Jabal al-Risan area, to the west of the village. Israeli occupation forces fired rubber-coated bullets at Assaf from a close range, wounding him in the left ear, while two of his bodyguards were wounded in the hand and the back. Two other demonstrators also suffered injuries, along with an Israeli solidarity activist.
In Jerusalem, settlers confiscated accompanied by representatives of the “General Trustee – Custodian of Absentees’ Property”, a private plot of land belonging to Abdul Razaq Sheikh, near his house. The land is about 50 square miles, located in the western part of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where Israelis bulldozed and uprooted fruitful trees, and of which the General Trustee – Custodian of Absentee Property has claimed ownership.
Waleed Assaf, the head of the National Commission against the Israeli Annexation Wall and Colonies, said that the al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, is still facing the Israeli demolition of 189 of its homes.
Speaking to the Palestinian Radio on Tuesday morning, Assaf said the demolitions are part of a large illegal colonialist plan to expand its colonies in the southern part of occupied Jerusalem, and link them with Gush Etzion Block.
His statement came after the army demolished, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinian homes in the village, after an Israeli court rendered its final ruling against them.
He added that the families of the demolished homes are now living in tents, and received some basic aid to survive until a solution is found to ease their plights.
Several months ago, the Jerusalem City Council announced the annexation of large areas of Palestinian lands, in order to build and expand its illegally segregated colonies.
This illegal policy places an imminent threat of demolition of 189 Palestinians homes in the village.
Speaking to the Palestinian Radio on Tuesday morning, Assaf said the demolitions are part of a large illegal colonialist plan to expand its colonies in the southern part of occupied Jerusalem, and link them with Gush Etzion Block.
His statement came after the army demolished, on Monday at dawn, four Palestinian homes in the village, after an Israeli court rendered its final ruling against them.
He added that the families of the demolished homes are now living in tents, and received some basic aid to survive until a solution is found to ease their plights.
Several months ago, the Jerusalem City Council announced the annexation of large areas of Palestinian lands, in order to build and expand its illegally segregated colonies.
This illegal policy places an imminent threat of demolition of 189 Palestinians homes in the village.
29 aug 2018
The Israeli District Court in occupied Jerusalem green-lighted in a ruling issued Tuesday evening the legalization of the Mitzpe Kramim settlement, illegally built on a Palestinian-owned land in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
Using a policy known as “market regulation,” Judge Arnon Darel ruled that the outpost built without the necessary permits need not be razed because the settlers erected the community “in good faith” and have rights to the property, Israeli media sources reported.
The sources considered the ruling as an unprecedented legal tactic that could pave the way for regulating dozens of other illegal settlements in occupied West Bank.
Israel’s ultranationalist justice minister Ayelet Shaked on Wednesday hailed the Israeli court’s decision, announced late on Tuesday, relating to Mitzpe Kramim, an outpost established in 1999 near the Palestinian city of Ramallah and now home to 40 settler families.
“The ruling ... is an important achievement for settlement in Judea and Samaria,” Shaked wrote on Twitter using the Biblical names for the West Bank.
Israel’s Peace Now organization said the “granting of property rights to criminals who settled in an illegal outpost ... without permits, on private Palestinian land is outrageous”.
It noted that Israel’s right-wing government, which originally had opposed the settlers’ land claim, later supported their position in an attempt to implement a controversial law on unauthorized settlement.
Although settlements building in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal under international law, Israel continues to expand existing settlements, as well as annexing more Palestinian land to create new outposts. The cumulative effect has been to deny Palestinians the ability to create a viable state in even a small part of historic Palestine.
Israeli Court Ruling Sets Precedent: Illegal Outpost Colonies Can be ‘Legalized’
An Israeli Court ruled on Tuesday that an Israeli colony that was established on stolen Palestinian land can be recognized and legitimized by the Israeli state, thus setting a precedent for further expansion of colonies onto Palestinian land.
This is despite the fact that all Israeli settlement colonies are considered illegal under international law, due to the fact that they are created through the seizure of Palestinian land through military force.
The Jerusalem District Court issued the ruling, with Judge Arnon Darel agreeing with the Israeli settlers in their argument that they obtained the land “in good faith” – even though the land was, in fact, stolen from its Palestinian owners.
The colonial outpost in question is called Mitzpeh Kramin, which was established in 1999 on six plots of land: one of which was owned by the Israeli government (after having been taken from its Palestinian owners in 1948), and the other five of which were owned by Palestinians who held the legal deeds to the land.
The judge ruled that the residents of Mitzpeh Kramim are the legal owners of the land and that the Israeli Military Civil Administration in the West Bank cannot revoke their ownership. In addition, the judge ruled that the Palestinians whose land was stolen are not entitled to the return of their land.
According to the judge, because the colonial settlers moved onto the land “in good faith”, their takeover is legally justified.
The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reports that “the government did not know at the time [1999] that the land was privately owned because of confusion in the mapping of the area, and now admits that the land should not have been allocated to the settlement.”
acording to Ha’aretz, “In 1999, 10 buildings were constructed in what is now Mitzpeh Kramim with permits and help from the government. Since then, more structures have gone up – but without permits.
In 2011, Palestinians petitioned the High Court of Justice asking to revoke the master plan for Mitzpeh Kramim and prevent any further building.
This case has been frozen for now, partly because of the proceedings underway concerning the new law on expropriation of privately-owned land in the West Bank in return for above-market compensation. Known as the regularization law, the new law legalizes previously illegally seized land used for Jewish settlement.”
The case sets a precedent for more illegal colonies constructed through the forced seizure of Palestinian land, often accompanied by violence carried out by paramilitary Israeli settlers, to be ‘recognized’ and ‘legalized’ by the Israeli government.
Using a policy known as “market regulation,” Judge Arnon Darel ruled that the outpost built without the necessary permits need not be razed because the settlers erected the community “in good faith” and have rights to the property, Israeli media sources reported.
The sources considered the ruling as an unprecedented legal tactic that could pave the way for regulating dozens of other illegal settlements in occupied West Bank.
Israel’s ultranationalist justice minister Ayelet Shaked on Wednesday hailed the Israeli court’s decision, announced late on Tuesday, relating to Mitzpe Kramim, an outpost established in 1999 near the Palestinian city of Ramallah and now home to 40 settler families.
“The ruling ... is an important achievement for settlement in Judea and Samaria,” Shaked wrote on Twitter using the Biblical names for the West Bank.
Israel’s Peace Now organization said the “granting of property rights to criminals who settled in an illegal outpost ... without permits, on private Palestinian land is outrageous”.
It noted that Israel’s right-wing government, which originally had opposed the settlers’ land claim, later supported their position in an attempt to implement a controversial law on unauthorized settlement.
Although settlements building in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal under international law, Israel continues to expand existing settlements, as well as annexing more Palestinian land to create new outposts. The cumulative effect has been to deny Palestinians the ability to create a viable state in even a small part of historic Palestine.
Israeli Court Ruling Sets Precedent: Illegal Outpost Colonies Can be ‘Legalized’
An Israeli Court ruled on Tuesday that an Israeli colony that was established on stolen Palestinian land can be recognized and legitimized by the Israeli state, thus setting a precedent for further expansion of colonies onto Palestinian land.
This is despite the fact that all Israeli settlement colonies are considered illegal under international law, due to the fact that they are created through the seizure of Palestinian land through military force.
The Jerusalem District Court issued the ruling, with Judge Arnon Darel agreeing with the Israeli settlers in their argument that they obtained the land “in good faith” – even though the land was, in fact, stolen from its Palestinian owners.
The colonial outpost in question is called Mitzpeh Kramin, which was established in 1999 on six plots of land: one of which was owned by the Israeli government (after having been taken from its Palestinian owners in 1948), and the other five of which were owned by Palestinians who held the legal deeds to the land.
The judge ruled that the residents of Mitzpeh Kramim are the legal owners of the land and that the Israeli Military Civil Administration in the West Bank cannot revoke their ownership. In addition, the judge ruled that the Palestinians whose land was stolen are not entitled to the return of their land.
According to the judge, because the colonial settlers moved onto the land “in good faith”, their takeover is legally justified.
The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reports that “the government did not know at the time [1999] that the land was privately owned because of confusion in the mapping of the area, and now admits that the land should not have been allocated to the settlement.”
acording to Ha’aretz, “In 1999, 10 buildings were constructed in what is now Mitzpeh Kramim with permits and help from the government. Since then, more structures have gone up – but without permits.
In 2011, Palestinians petitioned the High Court of Justice asking to revoke the master plan for Mitzpeh Kramim and prevent any further building.
This case has been frozen for now, partly because of the proceedings underway concerning the new law on expropriation of privately-owned land in the West Bank in return for above-market compensation. Known as the regularization law, the new law legalizes previously illegally seized land used for Jewish settlement.”
The case sets a precedent for more illegal colonies constructed through the forced seizure of Palestinian land, often accompanied by violence carried out by paramilitary Israeli settlers, to be ‘recognized’ and ‘legalized’ by the Israeli government.
26 aug 2018
Some 450 Palestinian administrative detainees have been on open-ended boycott refusing to attend Israeli military court hearings since February 2018.
Spokesman for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, Hasan Abed Rabbo, on Sunday told Voice of Palestine radio that three prisoners affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will start a hunger strike in support of administrative detainees.
Abed Rabbo pointed out that three other prisoners have been on hunger strike for three weeks now in protest at their administration detention.
Spokesman for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission, Hasan Abed Rabbo, on Sunday told Voice of Palestine radio that three prisoners affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will start a hunger strike in support of administrative detainees.
Abed Rabbo pointed out that three other prisoners have been on hunger strike for three weeks now in protest at their administration detention.
The Israeli military court of Ofer has extended the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Ismail Farraj for the fourth consecutive time.
The court made its decision in the absence of the prisoner and his lawyer after all Palestinian administrative detainees decided recently to boycott all Israeli military courts, which they described as “kangaroo courts”
The court verdict was handed to prisoner Farraj in Ofer jail, and it stated that the court responded to the request of the military prosecutor, who asked for the extension at the pretext that the detainee was still a threat to Israel’s national security.
Farraj, a university student, was kidnapped from his home by Israeli soldiers in April 23 in al-Dawha town in Bethlehem.
The court made its decision in the absence of the prisoner and his lawyer after all Palestinian administrative detainees decided recently to boycott all Israeli military courts, which they described as “kangaroo courts”
The court verdict was handed to prisoner Farraj in Ofer jail, and it stated that the court responded to the request of the military prosecutor, who asked for the extension at the pretext that the detainee was still a threat to Israel’s national security.
Farraj, a university student, was kidnapped from his home by Israeli soldiers in April 23 in al-Dawha town in Bethlehem.
23 aug 2018
A new Israeli bill, proposed by Likud MK Anat Berko on Wednesday, would prohibit the Palestinian flag from being raised at demonstrations, Israeli sources said.
The bill, which will be presented when the Knesset returns from its summer recess, came in response to a protest organized two weeks ago in Tel Aviv by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab citizens of Israel during which Palestinian flags were waved and anti-Israel slogans were chanted.
According to Israel Hayom paper, “the legislation would subject violators to up to a year in prison. It would apply to the flag of the PLO and to flags of enemy states.”
Berko said she expected the government to support the bill and expedite its passage.
On August 11, tens of thousands of Arabs gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square for the second large-scale protest in eight days against the recently passed racist Nation-State Law.
The bill, which will be presented when the Knesset returns from its summer recess, came in response to a protest organized two weeks ago in Tel Aviv by the High Follow-Up Committee for Arab citizens of Israel during which Palestinian flags were waved and anti-Israel slogans were chanted.
According to Israel Hayom paper, “the legislation would subject violators to up to a year in prison. It would apply to the flag of the PLO and to flags of enemy states.”
Berko said she expected the government to support the bill and expedite its passage.
On August 11, tens of thousands of Arabs gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square for the second large-scale protest in eight days against the recently passed racist Nation-State Law.
22 aug 2018
The Israeli government has informed the High Court of its decision refusing to allow medical treatment for Gaza patients, even those who require life-saving intervention, “if they are related to members of Hamas,” except for patients 16 years of age, or younger.
The government said that even if the patients’ illness is fatal, and Gaza hospitals cannot treat them; they will still be denied access to Israeli and Palestinian hospitals in the country, especially in occupied Jerusalem.
It informed the High Court of its decision after seven women from Gaza filed an appeal after being forbidden from leaving the Gaza Strip for several months, although they had referrals to hospitals in occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli Supreme Court Justice Uzi Vogelman said the decision to ban the patients from entering the country is “based on assessments,” if the patients are deemed to pose a security risk.
It is worth mentioning that a similar decision was made in 2017, in order to impose further pressure on Hamas, by denying the patients access to life-saving treatment.
Hundreds of patients from the Gaza Strip, including children, women and elderly, have died due to the Israeli siege on the coastal region, since 2007, and after being denied travel permits for medical treatment, and due to the lack of medication and equipment.
At least 769 Palestinian patients have been denied exit from the blockaded Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities, since January 2018.
|“Cancer Patient Dies at Gaza Border Crossing With Israel After Repeated Denial of Medical Permit”|
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The government said that even if the patients’ illness is fatal, and Gaza hospitals cannot treat them; they will still be denied access to Israeli and Palestinian hospitals in the country, especially in occupied Jerusalem.
It informed the High Court of its decision after seven women from Gaza filed an appeal after being forbidden from leaving the Gaza Strip for several months, although they had referrals to hospitals in occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli Supreme Court Justice Uzi Vogelman said the decision to ban the patients from entering the country is “based on assessments,” if the patients are deemed to pose a security risk.
It is worth mentioning that a similar decision was made in 2017, in order to impose further pressure on Hamas, by denying the patients access to life-saving treatment.
Hundreds of patients from the Gaza Strip, including children, women and elderly, have died due to the Israeli siege on the coastal region, since 2007, and after being denied travel permits for medical treatment, and due to the lack of medication and equipment.
At least 769 Palestinian patients have been denied exit from the blockaded Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities, since January 2018.
|“Cancer Patient Dies at Gaza Border Crossing With Israel After Repeated Denial of Medical Permit”|
|Teenage Patient Dies After Israel Denied Him Permit For Urgent Surgery|
