Bruxelles,Acrata, Film, Omar , Un film de Hany Abu-Assad, 2013, Palestine

Omar by acratabxl

Mardi 23 décembre à 19H30

Projection
(Un film de Hany Abu-Assad, 2013, Palestine)

Omar vit en Cisjordanie. Habitué à déjouer les balles des soldats israéliens, il franchit quotidiennement le mur qui le sépare de Nadia qu’il aime passionnément et de ses deux amis d’enfance, Tarek et Amjad. Les trois amis ont décidé de créer leur propre groupe de résistance armée et sont prêts à passer à l’action.
Le jeune boulanger Omar devient alors un combattant pour la liberté qui va devoir affronter les choix douloureuses de la vie. Quand Omar est incarcéré suite à une action de résistance, son combat va se heurter aux méthodes de répression et de manipulation de l’Etat israélien.

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Palestine : Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici - Luglio - PALESTINE, THE HOSTAGE PERENNIAL (it)

[machine translation]

Continues the war in the Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, even if worldwide continue 
demonstrations against Israel's guerrafondaie choices. The disappearance of the three 
settlers from Gush Etzion, (Cologne only for Jews under the total control of the State of 
Israel in the West Bank), Israel has laid siege to four million Palestinians, bombing 
hospitals, schools, all sorts of civilian targets, destroying and looting homes, stealing, 
doing kidnapping, wounding and killing both in a targeted way that indiscriminate outside 
of any international law. ---- Over five hundred Gazans were killed, among them many women 
and children, and the killing doesn't stop; There are no more casualties and terror does 
everything else on a people in jail who cannot escape or hide in bunkers.

This ordinary brutality is the official policy of the State of Israel carried out by its 
military, without forgetting the violence committed by Israeli settlers, whose 
paramilitaries continue aggressions against Palestinian civilians have increased in recent 
weeks, the latest episode is the kidnapping and then killing (burnt alive) by Mohammad abu 
Khdeira.

But the goal of the Government of Israel is twofold, prevent the acceleration of the peace 
accords and breaking the unity of the Palestinian Government.

Since the election of Obama has continued to increase the international pressure exerted 
on Israel since it withdrew from the occupied territories in the 1967 war. Most Israeli 
efforts goes in the direction of loosen this pressure and blow up the recent agreement 
between the Palestinian elite to the Government in the West Bank and the Hamas government 
elites of the Gaza Strip. The surrender of Hamas, brought to its knees by the economic 
crisis, the Palestinian Authority, complicated by the choices of the Egyptian Government, 
seriously threatens that project of permanent division of Palestinians that Israel has 
devoted much effort, and the total collapse of the Hamas Government in the Gaza Strip 
Israel frightens more than anything else.

When in Israel, 2005 to dodge the Palestinian request to quit the occupied territories in 
the 1967 war, made some sort of retreat, doing his settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip, 
moving the army and putting an end to his direct control on the Strip, made a giant ghetto 
in continual hostage, that checks everything that enters and exitsas well as all the 
movements of the residents. This Israeli strategy aimed to "liberate" in the Gaza Strip, 
aimed to prevent the jurisdiction and the Government on the Strip to go to the Palestinian 
Authority, to make it possible instead that the control was taken by separatist 
fundamentalists of Hamas, which Israel had sponsored himself years earlier as a competitor 
of Palestinian ruling elite that had signed the Oslo agreements 20 years ago.

Check for residents and the Government in the Gaza Strip, but not involving made entirely 
free from Israeli hegemony, was the means to protect the efforts Israelis into the West Bank.

When the change of regime in Egypt led to the defeat of the Muslim Brotherhood, of which 
Hamas is an ally, the siege on Gaza was tightened even more with almost total closure of 
supply routes means and funds for the Hamas regime. In desperation, the elite in power of 
Hamas had reached a truce agreement with the elite to the Government of the Palestinian 
Authority in the West Bank. This agreement is presented as a threat to the Israeli 
strategy of divide-and-conquer that had worked for so many years and partly justifying the 
Israeli rejection to a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority and for the 
withdrawal from the occupied West Bank in the 1967 war.

To blow up the truce agreement and unity that DOE of overcome internal divisions to the 
Palestinian elite Israel launched an attack against Hamas ? both in the West Bank and the 
Gaza Strip-hoping to provoke and stir up a tough clash whose outcome would have been the 
restoration to power of independent but weakened Hamas and submissive to .... But the 
Egyptian Government headed by General Sisi, who was primarily responsible for the cutting 
of supplies to the Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, he refused to do his part because of his 
hostility to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and accordingly did fail this time around. 
Necessary at this point to Israel find a reason, or disproportionate to be plausible for a 
diversionary and another military and media offensive. Hence the slaughter endless, finta 
& retaliation in terrible name of three innocent young victims.

Not just a cease-fire and an end to the infinite moment hitting the Palestinians: in 
conjunction with social forces around the world, including Israel, are these days, we call 
for the end of the siege of Gaza, the restoration of civil rights, Chief among them that 
peace and life, land and water, for everyone those who inhabit the territories, the 
cessation of illegal occupations and double legislation.

We support all social and political forces in Israel and the West Bank fighting unit from 
below against the Israeli occupation, against the militarization and apartheid. Even in 
these tough weeks there have been demonstrations in Palestinian popular committees unit, 
international activists and Anarchists against the wall, as the forms of protest, even 
severely challenged by the Israeli right, the anti-militarists, women and men who are 
opposed to this infamous policy of oppression and hatred and who know that building 
justice, together, is the first step in building peace. We are with everyone of them.
Beyond borders, beyond ethnic and religious affiliations, as well as each State.

www.fdca.it

World : GAZA : UP TO DATE NEWS : Aftermath – Hearing the Stories from Victims of Israeli Attacks

Updated stats for the dead and injured of Palestine as of this publication July 22, 2014:
632 killed
161 children
66 women
35 elderly
4030 injuries
1213 children
698 women
161 elderly

By Awni Farhat

*Please note this article was originally published July 16 on the ninth day of the Israeli aggression.

It was 7 am in the morning and I could hardly wake up after barely sleeping. 2 great Finnish journalists were coming through the Erez crossing to cover the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and I was going to translate for them. I got dressed and finally Mom slept after being awake for the whole night. I kissed her forehead and left.

Photo: Hosam Salem

The streets were deserted, and the sounds of drones and bombings were terrible. I felt that the drones were watching every Palestinian step. I took a car to meet the journalists, on the radio they were talking about a ceasefire but there was no ceasefire on the ground as we heard several explosions on the journey.

We met up, it was good to see the two guys again. “We are just here for few hours, we have to come back to Israel and then go back home tomorrow”, Tuomas said,

“We are going to make interviews with people who took UNRWA schools as shelter and with some families whose houses were bombed ” said Hosam the fixer, sitting beside the driver.

Photo: Ezz Al Zanoon

Once we entered the UNRWA school, you could clearly see the immense anger and fear in people’s eyes and hearts. Most of them were from Beit Lahia and the northern border areas – they left their houses, fleeing from the continuing Israeli air strikes. According to UNRWA, there are currently *19,000 refugees taking shelter in their schools.

(*figure as of July 16 2014 – current refugees in UNRWA shelters numbered at 118,300)

We did some interviews with a family there who left everything behind after midnight, surviving with their lives. The school was full of children and women, some people were sleeping on the floor, children were playing at the school yard. It broke my heart to see this.

Next we went down to the Gaza’s sea port, even though it wasn’t safe to go there as Israeli gunboats keep shelling the port. “You have just less than 10 minutes – the whole port is under Israeli navy gunboats fire. Its not safe to be there.” the port security told us.

Once we entered the port’s gate, I headed fast down to see the Gaza’s Ark, the ‘Building Hope’ boat which was attacked by Israeli Navy gunboats on 11 July at 2am. Gaza’s Ark was supposed to sail this September, carrying Palestinian products and challenging the Israeli blockade which has been imposed for several years.

Gaza’s Ark is helping many Palestinians producers and marginalized women who work in cooperatives to help their families and improve their lives.

I have been working on Gaza’s ark project as products coordinator for over the past 2 years. It wasn’t just a boat it was a dream of hope.

I was totally shocked when I saw the rubble of the Gaza’s Ark – there was nothing left except some metal fuel tanks. Fires were still going on in the fishing boats nearby.

I got a flash of all the memories, workers, builders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and producers I worked with on this project. Gaza’s Ark project helped different Palestinians to have a job, at a time when unemployment is at over 40% in Gaza. My heart tore apart when I saw what was left of the Gaza’s Ark, over 2 years of hard work left as rubble, it was so painful moment.

32 fishing boats were partially and totally damaged, destroying the livelihoods of some of Gaza’s 4000 fishermen, 90% of whom are in poverty. Already while working they are only allowed to go three nautical miles from the shore, while Israeli naval forces constantly harass and arrest them.

Afterwards, we drove to visit a civilian house which was totally annihilated by an Israeli air raid. The streets were covered in broken glass and lined with damaged cars. Neighbors said that they had less than 3 minutes to evacuate.

After these interviews, we headed to Al Shijaii neighborhood in the eastern Gaza Strip where 18 people from Al Batsh family were massacred by F-16 warplanes. 9 children were among the dead, found under the rubble. I met Khaled whose photo has been seen around the world – in it he sits against a car, weeping. He lost his dad, uncles, granny and cousins.

After this last interview, we drove to the Erez crossing as the Finnish journalists wanted to return home as soon as possible. When they left I knew the meaning of being imprisoned in besieged Gaza, and how bad the Israeli blockade is. And how important the freedom of movement is for Palestinians.

I took this (photo). While we were in the car , a huge air strike happened nearby.

On the car ride home, a woman who was sitting nearby with her 6 year old child said, “We left our house, we don’t know what’s going to happen. In any single moment we may get murdered and leave this life, if an Israeli missile hit this car”. Sigh. She said again, “When the aggression ends, you will be shocked by the numbers of friends and colleagues who have been injured or killed by Israeli attacks.”

I took a deep breath and tried to stop thinking about what she said.

Sources:
Awni Farhat on TumblrGaza’s Ark

http://revolution-news.com/

World : Bombing for Oil: Gaza, Israel and the Levant Basin

With recent developments between Palestine and Israel we feel its necessary to bring the following facts and potential un-discussed motives into the light.  This article will focus on the large oil discoveries made in the Levant Basin, off the coast of the Gaza Strip in recent years and the war surrounding who will reap the billions of dollars when those wells become a new major producer in the area.

With strong indications of extensive gas and oil reserves in Palestinian lands and waters, the British Gas Group (BG) and the Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) were ‘granted’ gas exploration rights in Gaza’s offshore, in a 25-year agreement signed in 1999 with the Palestinian Authority (PA). In 2000, as drilling operations began, BG and CCC found gas fields in the Gazan off-shores, including Gaza Marine 1 and the Gaza border field (Gaza Marine 2).

Under the agreement, BG and CCC were granted gas exploration rights and exclusive rights for marketing in the event that reserves were discovered. The two companies were granted a total 90% ownership of any reserves (60% and 30% respectively for BG and CCC), with only 10% for the Palestinian side.

Gaza Marine 1 is entirely located in the Palestinian territorial waters facing the city of Gaza, with reserves estimated at 28 billion cubic meters. The Gaza border field is located within the maritime border area between the Gaza Strip and Israel as illustrated in image above. The border field’s well reserves are estimated to be on the order of 3 billion cubic meters. Gaza’s gas reserves are estimated at 31 billion cubic meters and are valued at more than $6.5 billion.

When gas reserves were discovered in 2000, late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat held a special ceremony for the occasion, which gave Palestinians hope that their homeland would thrive and join other Gulf countries as a major gas exporter.

Yet Palestine over the past 14 years has been unable to properly exploit its own gas due to the political and economic impediments with Israel, and due to internal division and the absence of legislative control. Israel has managed to be the sole purchaser of the 10% allocated Palestinian gas, setting its own conditions to any sale agreement.

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat insisted on transporting gas to Gaza first and then pumping it through ground pipelines to Israel, in a move intended to stress Palestinian sovereignty over their own resources. Negotiations over gas deals beginning in 2001 broke down in 2007 due to differences on where the pipeline would come on shore, the complications of increasing violent events, and the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007. These all contributed to circumstances whereby, in 2007, BG Group withdrew from negotiations with the government of Israel for the sale of gas from the Gaza Marine field and in 2008, BG Group closed its office in Israel, yet remained in contact with both the PA and Israel.

Israeli defence minister and former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon in 2007, a year before Operation Cast Lead, focused on the 1.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in 2000 off the Gaza coast, valued at $6.5 billion. Ya’alon dismissed the notion that “Gaza gas can be a key driver of an economically more viable Palestinian state” as “misguided.” The problem, he said, is that:

“Proceeds of a Palestinian gas sale to Israel would likely not trickle down to help an impoverished Palestinian public. Rather, based on Israel’s past experience, the proceeds will likely serve to fund further terror attacks against Israel…

A gas transaction with the Palestinian Authority [PA] will, by definition, involve Hamas. Hamas will either benefit from the royalties or it will sabotage the project and launch attacks against Fatah, the gas installations, Israel – or all three… It is clear that without an overall military operation to uproot Hamas control of Gaza, no drilling work can take place without the consent of the radical Islamic movement.”

Operation Cast Lead began in June 2008, at the exact same time that Israel contacted BG to discuss critical negotiations around Gaza’s natural gas. As these negotiations continued, 1,417 Palestinians were killed, displacing over 50,000 Gazans and destroying over 4,000 homes through air strikes and a deadly ground invasion with the declared purpose of securing areas within the Gaza strip that rockets were fired from.

Operation Cast Lead did not succeed in uprooting Hamas, but the conflict did take the lives of 1,387 Palestinians (773 of whom were civilians) and 9 Israelis (3 of whom were civilians).

Israel has made it’s own successive major discoveries in recent years, such as the Leviathan field estimated to hold 18 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Huge obstacle’s to that extraction are that much of the 122 trillion cubic feet of gas and 1.6 billion barrels of oil in the Levant Basin Province lies in territorial waters 81 kilometers off the coast where borders are hotly disputed between Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Cyprus.

Despite these findings Israel, which is said to be dependant on Egyptian gas for some 40 percent of its electricity needs was cut off by Egypt in April of 2012. 

After the February 2011 ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and 15 pipeline attacks in the Sinai, Islamist groups mobilized against Israel and pressured the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company to cancel the 20-year contract, even as Egyptian hard currency reserves dwindled.

The month before in January 2011, Prime Minister Netanyahu described the offshore gas fields in the Levant Basin as a “strategic objective that Israel’s enemies will try to undermine” and vowed that “Israel will defend its resources.”

Two of the Israeli government’s chief scientists of the Nation Gas Authority said in a letter that the government chose not to publicize that Israel will need 50% more natural gas than has been forecast until now and its offshore reserves will be empty in less than 40 years.

“We believe Israel should increase its [domestic]use of natural gas by 2020 and should not export gas. The Natural Gas Authority’s estimates are lacking. There’s a gap of 100 to 150 billion cubic meters between the demand projections that were presented to the committee and the most recent projections. The gas reserves are likely to last even less than 40 years.”

But even after a new round of negotiations was kick-started between the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority and Israel in September 2012, Hamas was excluded from these talks, and thus rejected the legitimacy of any deal.

Earlier this year, Hamas condemned a PA deal to purchase $1.2 billion worth of gas from the Israeli Leviathan field over a 20 year period once the field starts producing. Simultaneously, the PA has held several meetings with the British Gas Group to develop the Gaza gas field, albeit with a view to exclude Hamas – and thus Gazans – from access to the proceeds.

But the PA is also courting Russia’s Gazprom to develop the Gaza marine gas field, and talks have been going on between Russia, Israel and Cyprus, though so far it is unclear what the outcome of these have been. Also missing was any clarification on how the PA would exert control over Gaza, which is governed by Hamas.

According to Anais Antreasyan in the University of California’s Journal of Palestine Studies, the most respected English language journal devoted to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Israel’s stranglehold over Gaza has been designed to make “Palestinian access to the Marine-1 and Marine-2 gas wells impossible.” Israel’s long-term goal “besides preventing the Palestinians from exploiting their own resources, is to integrate the gas fields off Gaza into the adjacent Israeli offshore installations.”

The 2012 annual report of the PIF noted that the value of the natural gas off Gaza depends “largely on global prices” but put a total value at “several billion dollars.” It noted that about $100 million had been invested so far in the project with total exploration and developments projected to reach $800 million.

Current plans for the development of the Gaza Marine field involve the construction of well-heads on the sea-bed, the laying of pipes to a collection unit, and a sub-sea pipeline from this to the shore, making landfall at the coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon. The volume of production is predicted to be around 1.6 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year (around 57 billion cubic feet) giving a lifetime of 20 years to the field, a key investment requirement. It is predicted that it will take three years from the decision to go ahead with exploitation before the first gas flows ashore.

Since there are only 10 years left in BG’s original license BG would need an extension to the license, opening the table for renegotiations.

In January 2014 the Palestine Power Generation Company (PPGC) agreed to buy $1.2 billion worth of natural gas over a 20-year period. The volume of the gas was given as 4.75 bcm, which, spread over a 20-year period is very small. Estimates of the size of Leviathan exceed 530 bcm. The Leviathan gas would fuel a new $300 million, 200MW (though some reports say 300MW) power plant planned for construction near the city of Jenin in the north of the West Bank. The Jenin power station would take between two and two-and-a-half years to come into operation, a time period compatible with plans for the Leviathan field coming on stream in either late 2016 or early 2017.

Overall plans, according to Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa, are “to have the capacity to domestically produce 1,000MW of electricity using offshore gas in five years, up from just 70MW at present, turning Palestine from being energy dependent on Israeli imports to an exporter, which would greatly benefit Palestinians.

In March 2014, the Palestinian Authority announced plans to explore for oil in the West Bank in an area of about 400 square kilometers along the Green Line, the ceasefire line until 1967. Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Muhammad Mustafa said initial studies indicated the area may have between 30 million and 186 million barrels of oil. The PA announced it would accept bids from potential partners through June 2014.

The Palestinians proclaimed the project, close to a small oil field in Israel, a key step toward their dream of developing the local economy and gaining independence in the West Bank. But Israel, which wields overall control of the area, gave no indication it has agreed to the plan, and far less ambitious attempts at economic development have repeatedly sputtered in large part because of Israeli restrictions.

The PA is looking for Russian support for it’s power plant projects. Technopromexport, an engineering company involved in energy projects in Russia and abroad, is mentioned as a contractor to build a 200MW power plant in the West Bank, according to material prepared for the January 2014 meeting in Moscow between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Abbas.

Palestine moving closer to becoming a sovereign state in the eyes of the United Nations, complicates this situation for Israel’s interest in the region even further. The current government was sworn in by the President of the State of Palestine, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, on 2 June 2014. It was recognized by the United Nations on the 4th of June stating:

“The Bureau of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People welcomes the formation of the Government of national consensus of the State of Palestine, which was sworn in on 2 June in Ramallah by President Mahmoud Abbas. The Government, headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, is comprised of independent figures, and will report to President Abbas. The Bureau observes that the new unity Government will have a mandate focused on preparing for legislative and presidential elections within six months, and on rebuilding Gaza. The Bureau welcomed the assurances given by President Abbas and Prime Minister Hamdallah that the new Government is committed to respect past agreements, international political initiatives and peaceful solutions.”

Palestine being internationally recognized as a sovereign state would solidify it’s offshore rights, essentially guaranteeing future benefits from its own resources.

Sources and links for more info:

International Business Times July 2014 – Israel Invading to Secure Palestinian $4bn Gas Reserves

Guardian July 2014 – IDF’s Gaza Assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis

United Nations General Assembly June 2014

Government of the State of Palestine June 2014

Globes May 2014 – Noble Energy: 3b barrels oil potential in Levant Basin

German Marshall Fund March 2014 – Natural Gas in the Palestinian Authority: The Potential of the Gaza Marine Offshore Field

The Daily Beast February 2014 – Are These Gas Fields Israel’s Next Warzone?

UPI Jan 2014 – Abbas seeks $1B deal with Russia on Gaza natural gas field

Al-Monitor Jan 2014 – Russia preparing to develop Gaza gas field

Journal of Palestinian Studies 2013 – Gas Finds in the Eastern Mediterranean: Gaza, Israel and Other Conflicts

The Washington Institute Oct 2013 – The Diplomatic Bonus of Gaza’s Offshore Natural Gas

Forbes 2013 – Can Gas Ease Eastern Mediterranean Tension?

American Enterprise Institute July 2013 – Will the Eastern Mediterranean Become the Next Persian Gulf?

Financial Post May 2013 – Why Russia is in Syria

Al-Monitor March 2013 – Gaza Gas Can’t Help Palestinians

Haaretz 2012 – Israel’s gas reserves insufficient for exports

Le Monde Diplomatique Nov 2012 – Israel’s War for Gaza’s Gas

Gulf News Oct 2011 – In The Pipeline: Flare-up Likely over Levant basin gas find

New English Review 2011 – Will Israel Win the Energy Prize in the Levant Basin?

Reuters Nov 2010 – How Natural Gas Could Change the Holy Land

Global Research Jan 2009 – War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

The Palestine Chronicles 2009 – Israel Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files March 2007

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 2007 – Does the Prospective Purchase of British Gas from Gaza Threaten Israel’s National Security?

Bron : http://revolution-news.com/

Belgium : WE ARE WITH YOU-SOLIDARITY PROTEST FOR PALESTINE - 9 JULY

Since mid-June Israeli war crimes in Palestine have escalated, allegedly in response to the disappearance and death of 3 teenage Israeli settlers. However, this latest attack is part and parcel of the illegal occupation of Palestinian land and ongoing Israeli war crimes. 

According to international media sources, in just one night Monday June 30 to dawn on Tuesday July 1 at dawn, the Israeli army carried out more than 34 air strikes against different areas in the Gaza Strip, in particular densely populated refugee camps. Additionally, in a sweeping offensive, Israeli Occupation Forces have kidnapped and detained more than 600 Palestinians, including women and children. Settlers have started lynch mobs in which a 17 year old Mohammed Abu Khdair was burned alive.

We are calling for a rally to protest this latest round of war crimes enacted against the Palestinian people.

End Israeli War Crimes Now! No Belgian Government Support for Israeli War Crimes! Boycott Israeli Apartheid! Free All Political Prisoners Now!

Bron :  Nadine Farah Naffah

Mission française vers la Palestine : nouveau départ samedi...‏

Amis désobéissants,

l'opération BIENVENUE EN PALESTINE, ou flottille des airs pour la libre-circulation en Palestine, prend un nouveau départ... via la Jordanie !

Plus d'une centaine d'entre nous s'apprête à se rendre en Palestine, à l'invitation du Gouverneur de Bethléem, pour accompagner les enfants palestiniens dans leur rentrée scolaire. Cette initiative non violente est menée par nos partenaires de l'association Europalestine.

Seulement, comme le 8 juillet 2011 et le 15 avril 2012, il est probable qu'Israël fera tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour nous empêcher d'arriver en Palestine. Après avoir tenté de pousser la porte via Tel Aviv, au prix de nombreux incidents dans les aéroports d'Europe et de l'emprisonnement de dizaines d'entre nous dans les prisons israéliennes, nous passerons cette fois-ci par la Jordanie et le Pont Allenby (contrôlé par les Israéliens), comme nous y invitait un officiel du gouvernement israélien le 15 avril dernier... On verra comment la Jordanie et Israël traiteront les militants non violents que nous sommes cette fois.

Notre action commencera ce week-end, depuis la capitale jordanienne. Si vous le pouvez, nous vous demandons d'interpeller le gouvernement français afin qu'il exige que ses ressortissants soient traités comme sont traités les Israéliens qui viennent en France.

Merci d'envoyer un message à Monsieur Laurent Fabius, ministre des Affaires étrangères pour qu'il protège "le droit de circuler librement vers la Cisjordanie", et la sécurité de la centaine de ressortissants français (principalement) participant à notre action de solidarité internationale. Vous pouvez utiliser ces adresses mail :

- alexis.lecour-grandmaison@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- Secretariat.CM2@diplomatie.gouv.fr
- alexandre.diebolt@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Merci de suivre les infos sur le site de la mission
(http://bienvenuepalestine.com/) et de prévoir des manifestations dans toutes les villes si nous sommes empêchés d'entrer en Cisjordanie, alors que nos
hôtes nous attendrons dans la ville de Jéricho, juste à la sortie du Pont Allenby.

Des réunions sont organisées dans plusieurs villes avant le départ pour rassembler les fournitures scolaires (peinture, feutres, petits sacs à dos, jeux) que nous emportons pour les enfants. Contactez-nous pour connaître les participants à la mission de votre ville si vous voulez nous apporter des choses à remettre aux Palestiniens. Il est aussi possible de nous envoyer un chèque pour que nous puissions les acheter de votre part (à l'ordre de CAPJPO-EuroPalestine, au 16 bis rue d'Odessa 75014 Paris. Vous recevrez un reçu si vous envoyez votre adresse).

Bron :

www.desobeir.net

Palestine-Israel, The harassment of Israeli and Palestinians involved in the joint struggle escalate.

In the past, Israeli activists detained in joint struggle activities were released after
the action ended or on bail late evening/night after interrogation in the police station
and banned for two weeks from the specific region. Seldom activists were detained for the
night and released at court the next day or banned for up to a month. In very seldom cases
activists were detained for two nights, or asked by prosecution for longer time. Last
Friday an Israeli comrade was detained at Nebi Saleh. Three days later, on Monday evening
at about 6pm, he was released after a Jerusalem District Court judge ruled that there was
no evidence to substantiate the soldiers? allegation of assault. He was however indicted
for ?reckless behavior? and will face court proceedings for this charge. He also was
banned from participation in actions for the following three months.


Beit Ommer

?Saturday, 2 Israeli activists got arrested in the weekly demo in Beit Ommer.
They were released after few hours in time to participate in the Tel Aviv Saturday night
demo of social struggle.


Bil'in

Friday weekly Demonstration. Palestinian, Israeli and international activists participated
in today's demonstration in the village of Bil'in. Israeli soldiers shot rubber bullets
and teargas: several demonstrators were shot by rubber bullets and many suffered from
asphyxiation. Three photographers were seriously suffered from asphyxiation, including
this young photographer.
http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/8110_410156882363967_820383312_n.jpg
17 year-old boy injured during Bi'lin protest . See http://t.co/YLvaGsSv


Ma'asara

8 Israelis and 30 internationals joined the 20 local activists in a relatively peaceful
Friday demo.


Ni'ilin

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=388633291197612


Nabi Saleh

Seven years old protester - safappa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MiX_osLa7A
The hearing in the case of the 3 activists (2 international and 1 Israeli) arrested
yesterday in Nabi Saleh, will take place tonight at 21:00 in Jerusalem. They are charged
with assaulting a soldier. The Israeli remained in jail and released only Monday evening.
A Palestinian woman uses a slingshot to throw stones towards Israeli troops during a
demonstration
http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/181388_464860723524237_353372959_n.jpg
Army Targets Women at Nabi Saleh Demo. See http://t.co/LglD1gG9
David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEWYZC1lJQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i38aI3XhLOw
http://t.co/qMQSrFjh
http://youtu.be/YOWPLcgpd-k

Qaddoum

The first demonstration in our second year of the continuous struggle against the Israelis
was so remarkable. There was great participation from the whole village -youngsters and
old people- to emphasize the fact that we will not give up until we achieve our
objectives. There was a larger number of soldiers than before and they were so brutal
targeting the bodies of the youngsters with their bombs which resulted in many casualties.
They also set an ambush behind one of the houses to arrest some of the demonstrators, but
luckily all our youngsters who were in that area managed to escape except for one who was
arrested and brutally hit with sticks by the soldiers. Fires erupted in some parts because
of the tear gas bombs they fired. The message is still the same"there's only one option
which is the opening of our road and free access to all our lands."
One arrested during Qaddoum demo. See http://t.co/GUgAtW3o
Arrest of Majdi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltm6LoCcd0g


South Hebron hills

This week we will accompany Palestinians farmers and shepherds to their lands in several
locations in South Hebron hills. Harassment of Palestinian farmers and shepherds in the
area by both settlers and the army continues.
This coming Saturday, July 7, we need as many activists as possible to accompany them and
stand up for their rights. There is a direct link between the number of activists who come
to accompany the farmers and their ability to harvest and work their lands.


Susiya

Saturday, 4 activists were arrested. Will be probably in court late evening. They detained
for damage to possessions as they were erasing defamation graphite made by colonialist
settlers and writing better ones.
Lior Ben Eliahu http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3260651446161.160251.1563442697
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngkvex4ejAc


Court solidarity

Saturday night: The arrest of the Israeli activist imprisoned Friday in Nabi Saleh was
extended in one night. His hearing will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 1pm in Jerusalem.
The American girl, also arrested in Nabi Saleh will soon be released, with two weeks
restraining order from the village.
4 Taayush activists were arrested today in Susiya for painting over settler colonialist
"price tag" graffiti. Their hearing will take place tomorrow at 2pm, also in Jerusalem.
Solidarity to all from those waiting outside the Russians Compound police station in
Jerusalem.


Tel Aviv

Saturday, another social struggle demonstration. Nearly thousands of us converged at the
state offices building and marched towards the Habima national theater square. From there
we marched along the Rothschild boulevards and continued to the near by stock exchange
building.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupyisrael
yisraelpnm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLXgh4pT6nU

Bron : (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

Palestine-Israel, The joint struggle continue while Spring change to Summer

In addition to the regular locations of joint struggles anarchists against the wall  initiative were involved with the struggle against the racist attacks on the African refugees. Within Israel were actions in solidarity with the Bedouins who are subject to creeping transfer lately accelerated. In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem it was mainly with the refugees and social justice. In the occupied west bank of Palestine it was the fifth yearof Al-Ma'asara, Beit Ummar for the sixth year, in Bilin now already in the eighth year of continued struggle, in Nabi Saleh already the third year, in Ni'ilin that is just completing the fourth year, in Quaddum that started this year, and the Sheikh Jarraneighborhood of occupied east Jerusalem-Al-Quds already in the third year.

Al-Arakib

Solidarity visit in the village on Sunday (May 27th) after the 38th demolition of it.


Beit Ummar

Saturday May 26 
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441648165845493.107864.136633479680298


Bi'lin

Weekly demonstration, May, 25, 2012.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440856675924642.107733.136633479680298
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.345364155533988.79603.319396991464038


Al-Ma'asara

Friday weekly protest, May, 22, 2012
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440860892590887.107735.136633479680298


Jerusalem-Al-Quds

The residents of Sheikh Jarrah are continuing their protest vigils in the neighborhood every Friday, protesting their violent evictions from their homes


Nabi Saleh

Activists are reporting that on average 1500 teargas cannisters are fired by the Israeli Occupation Forces in Nabi Saleh every Friday. To day is very hot and the IOF teargas has set the mountain and other grass areas on fire. Unarmed protestors are currently under fire, with IOF firing teargas, rubber bullets and spraying skunk. Lots of teargas and smoke from fires. At least one person has been report as being unconscious as a result of being overwhelmed by teargas and taken to an ambulance.  "We are gradually making our way closer to the spring with intervals of sitting and singing."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/7269145488/
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440943225915987.107750.136633479680298
Haim Schwarczenberg 
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.215101471942888.44757.202358256550543
David Reeb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCthWxnr3sQ
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150321861177554.340078.691717553
Palestinian, Israeli and international women enjoy a picnic near a water spring in Nabi 
Saleh, May 27, 2012.
Since more than two years, the spring has been confiscated by the settlers of the nearby illegal settlement of Halamish.
"With all that has passed over the last week, in a place were hatred and anger reign, the holiday spirit was all but lost. I have found it again, today, though, by the spring, in Nabi Saleh, sitting with my feet playing in the water, and all around me women drumming and chanting, "Return".
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.442240625786247.107971.136633479680298

Over the weekend, joined by international and Israeli activists, Palestinians went on three direct actions to establish and maintain their hold on West Bank lands. Farmers in Tuqu? returned to lands they have been banned from farming, residents of Mufagarah built anew home after a series of demolitions, and the women of Nabi Saleh marched to the village spring for the second time in a month.
http://972mag.com/photos-a-weekend-of-direct-actions-to-protect-palestinian-lands/47033/


Ni'lin

Friday weekly demonstration, May, 22, 2012
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440854245924885.107732.136633479680298

TODAY (28-5-12) IS THE 4th anniversary of the start of the popular struggle in Ni'lin village, today we enter the 5th year of struggle against the segregation wall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcyYXR01zkQ

The struggle will continue. Join the Friday 01.06.2012 march of loyalty to Ni'lin marty who were brutally murdered during a Peaceful protests against the apartheid Israeli wal in Ni'lin:

Ahmad Mousa, 10 years old,killed on 29.07.2008
Yousef Amireh, 17 years old, killed on 30.07.2008
Arafat kawaja, 22 years old, killed on 27.12.2008
Muhammed Kawaja, 18 years old, killed on 27.12.2008
Aqil Srour, 36 years old, killed on 05.06.2009

more info: contact : http://www.nilin-village.org/


Quadum

"Friday the -25/5 about 200 Palestinians, 4 Israelis and five international marched in the weekly demonstration against blocking the main access road to Nablus - the county city. Following the road blocking and expansion of Kdumim colonial settlement, excess to 11,00 dunnam (2750 acres) of farmland the village was blocked. Thus, the villagers appealed to the Israeli High Court and subsequently won their case. The court held that the roadshould be opened, but the army did not comply with it and declared the road closed for 
safety of travelers... (Strangely, the health and safety of the Palestinians became very important to the army...) Just after that step, the villagers began to protest against the illegal closure of the road. Like every week the army placed a barrier at the entrance to the village to block Israeli and other participants from out of the village to come to the 
demo, but we passed around it easily through the agricultural area. The demonstration began ceremoniously as usual, walked toward the soldiers who were waiting in invaded homes in the village near the road. It continued with shouting at the soldiers with megaphone, with music, and dancing. soon after that began an exchange of tear gas shooting and thrown stones in response. Canisters of tear gas were fired directly into the crowd and five protesters was directly hit by these and two of them were evacuated to hospital in Qalqilya. The skunk spraying car stayed by and made sorties from time to time to the improvised road block prepared by the demonstrators. When it could not hit the demonstrators, it sprayed in stead the houses and the fruit trees around it "generosity".
At the same time, two teams of troops began moving from the hills surrounding the village  into the olive groves and there too developed exchange of stones and tear gas. Some two hours later, the soldiers began to retreat pursued by the youth of the village with theirs houts of victory and stone throwing.
After the soldiers exited from the area of ??the village back to the settlement of Kedumim, the protesters advanced up the road, burned tires as a sign of victory blackened the air of the settlement of Kedumim (the wind was friendly to us and took the black smoke directly to the settlement. On the road one can clearly see burn marks from previous demos one further than the other... it seems that every demonstration advance more and more forward and liberate another part of the road and also challenging the occupation soldiers. This time the youngsters reached a point very close to the expansion of the Qdumim colonial settlement and set there fire to the last tire."


Tel Aviv

It will not be called "The Crystal Night" - It will be called "The Silicon Night".
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/african-migrants-attacked-in-tel-aviv/
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See http://awalls.org
See Previous reports about the joint struggles the Anarchists Against the Wall take part 
in at: http://ilanisagainstwalls.blogspot.com

Demonstrations against the hate mongering of parliament members and the pogrom in the poor southern neighborhood.