Palestine

Syrie : SitRep 80 avec Ayssar Midani (26 avril 2020)

Voici le 80ème “SitRep” d’Ayssar Midani sur la Syrie, intitulé « À l’ombre du coronavirus ». Au programme :
Palestine
  – les conditions de détention des palestiniens dans les prisons israéliennes
  – absence de mesures de prévention dans les territoires occupés
  – offensive pour faire fuir les habitants de Cisjordanie
Syrie
  – renforts turques à Idlib
  – renforts américains

Two Palestinians wounded in violent Israeli raid on Kafr Qaddum, Settlers pitch tent in Bethlehem

Palestine Information Center – April 26, 2020

WEST BANK – Two Palestinian young men were badly injured during violent clashes on Saturday with the Israeli occupation forces in Kafr Qaddum town, east of Qalqilya.
Local activist Murad Shetaiwi said that a large number of Israeli troops stormed the town from different sides and embarked on intensively firing live and rubber bullets at local youths.

Palestinians hunker down for Ramadan, facing a virus that doesn’t discriminate but an occupier that does

By Jonathan Cook | Palestine DeepDive | April 25, 2020

As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations’ lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them.

Israel to Seize Ibrahimi Mosque Land in Hebron

Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron
Palestine Chronicle | April 22, 2020

Israeli government’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit yesterday approved the expropriation of Palestinian land adjacent to the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil).
According to Arab48, after Mandelblit’s approval, the Palestinian land will be under the control of Defence Minister Naftali Bennett.

Syrie : SitRep 79 avec Ayssar Midani (15 avril 2020)

Voici le 79ème “SitRep” d’Ayssar Midani sur la Syrie. Au programme :
– présentation du livre “Une femme syrienne” d’Huguette Peyrol
– hommage au Père Lelong
– Coronavirus en Palestine
– Fête de l’indépendance en Syrie (17 avril) : l’occasion d’un retour d’historique sur l’émancipation moderne de l’état syrien
– Coronavirus en Syrie

Spreading the Virus of Occupation

Spitting at someone is a universal insult. In Israel, however, spitting at Palestinians is an entirely different story. Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through saliva droplets, Israeli soldiers and illegal Jewish settlers are working extra hard to spit at as many Palestinians, their cars, doorknobs, and so on, as possible. If this sounds to[Read More...]