Israeli Occupation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint meeting of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, May 24, 2011. Photo by AFP
 
 
 

Image: Child Khalil Al Anati, executed in a refugee camp near Hebron, by Israeli terrorist soldiers this morning.

 

It’s not clear why an Israeli soldier shot Khalil Anati in the Al-Fawar refugee camp. What is clear is that the shooter didn’t stay around long enough to offer assistance, or to watch the boy die.

Oxford Circus, London (Getty Images)
  

“Israel is in illegal occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel has no right to defend itself from territories it occupies. It only has an obligation to withdraw. The Palestinians are an occupied people. They have a right to defend themselves from the occupier.”…….. Seamus Milne, Guardian columnist and associate editor

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Israeli soldiers kidnap a young boy. I can’t believe this is still happening and awareness needs to raise more to the point where people can’t stay quiet anymore!
 

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Post by Karim Metwaly.

“Israel has many different ways to make life very hard for Palestinians so that they will be driven off their land,” said Dror Etkes, an Israeli expert on the settlements. “But the firing zones are the number one method.”

 
 
Military training areas leave villagers in West Bank with stark choice: leave or risk being 

Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum
 

What Israel is doing in Gaza now is collective punishment. It is punishment for Gaza’s refusal to be a docile ghetto. It is punishment for the gall of Palestinians in unifying, and of Hamas and other factions in responding to Israel’s siege and its provocations with resistance, armed or otherwise, after Israel repeatedly reacted to unarmed protest with crushing force. Despite years of ceasefires and truces, the siege of Gaza has never been lifted.

 

I mean, would a British government be mad enough to illegally occupy its next door neighbours for nearly 50 years, trash their heritage, steal their resources, move settlers into choice locations, cage the natives within the sealed remnants then bomb them all to hell and back for firing garden-shed rockets? Well yes, I guess a Cameron government might do exactly that if told to… and call it self defence just like their Israeli buddies.

Israel is distorting/reinterpreting international law to justify its use of militarized force in order to protect its colonial authority. Although it rebuffs the de jure application of Occupation Law, Israel exercises effective control over the West Bank and Gaza and therefore has recourse to police powers. It uses those police powers to continue its colonial expansion and apartheid rule and then in defiance of international law

Seize the moment! There was never a better moment for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement to mass-mobilise for a mega-campaign to not only impact more heavily on the lawless Israeli state.

Update July 19, 2014 – Daily Star - The Daily Star

BEIRUT: NBC’s reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, whose removal by the network from Gaza had raised questions and criticism, will go back to report from the city he knows well, an NBC statement said Friday.

“As with any news team in conflict zones, deployments are constantly reassessed,” said the statement issued on the network’s website.