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Tents in a bedouin community demolished Today, the occupation forces demolished the tents in a Bedouin community located on the lands of the village of Kufur Malik, Ramallah District. And here the children sit under this arbor to take cover from the heat of the sun. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: ". Today, the occupation forces demolished the tents in a Bedouin community located on the lands of the village of Kufur Malik, Ramallah…"

Gaza: A chronology of oppression Under the 1947 United Nations partition plan that split Palestine apart, giving 52 percent to a Jewish state of Israel, the Gaza Strip was supposed to be part of the now-smaller Palestinian nation. However, when the state of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948, the Egyptian Army moved into Gaza and the territory became a magnet for Palestinians fleeing from all over. Gaza was, as one refugee described it, the “Noah’s Ark” of a lost Palestine. One in four Palestinians from the former British-governed Palestine thus took refuge in a strip of land that represented just 1 percent of its land area. Seen another way, 200,000 refugees were packed into a territory previously inhabited by just 80,000 Palestinians. (The proportion is about the same today: 1.2 million refugees out of a population of 1.8 million.) During Israel’s Six-Day War against its Arab neighbors in June 1967, Gaza was invaded by the Jewish army and the surrendering Egyptians were soon evacuated. Some 8,000 Israeli settlers moved in. In December 1987, a Palestinian generation born and raised under two decades of occupation found in its frustration the energy for an unprecedented intifada (the “First Intifada”), or uprising. The cradle of this uprising was the Gaza Strip, although it soon spread to the West Bank. (A Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, began September 2000, when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount with hundreds of soldiers, seen by Palestinians as highly provocative. Palestinian protesters were dispersed by the Israeli army, using tear gas and rubber bullet.) The Second Intifada did not wind down until 2005, when the Israeli cabinet also directed the withdrawal of its military forces and 8.000 settlers from Gaza. The pull-out was part of a unilateral disengagement plan that allowed Israel to attack the Strip with less caution, as well as provide cover for settlement expansion in the West Bank. However, Israel continued a virtual occupation through total control of its crossings in and out of Gaza. In January 2006, Israel and the United States pushed for Palestinian elections, and were surprised when the Hamas movement won control of the Palestinian legislative council. In retaliation for the victory of what they considered “terrorists,” Israeli authorities imprisoned many of the moderate members of Hamas who had run for office (including 28 still in prison today). In June of that year, Hamas operatives captured Israeli solider Gilad Shalit, saying he would not be released until female and under-age Palestinian political prisoners were freed. (A deal for Shalit’s release was not finalized until 2011.) Meanwhile, as documented in Vanity Fair magazine, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice forbade the Palestinian Authority from forming a unity government (threatening a total cutoff of aid), then armed a faction of Fatah forces to prevent Hamas from assuming leadership. Hamas pre-empted the “coup” and in 2007, expelled the Palestinian Authority from Gaza. In retaliation, Israel imposed a blockade on the movement of goods and human traffic in and out of Gaza that has continues today. As a direct result, the Strip’s 1.8 million population has been plunged into poverty and conflicts erupt regularly as attempts to enforce international law against collective punishment fail and resistance turns violent. In the first of three wars on Gaza, Israeli forces invaded the Strip on Dec. 27, 2008, calling it “Operation Cast Lead.” Six months previously, Israel had negotiated a ceasefire with Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in Gaza. Under the agreement, both sides agreed to stop hostilities across the Green Line, the de facto border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. And, despite minor violations by both sides, the truce was largely successful. That is, until Nov. 4, 2008, when Israeli soldiers staged a raid into the Strip, killing six members of Hamas. The attack, which took place on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections, ended the ceasefire. Over the course of 22 days, 13 Israelis, including 10 soldiers, were killed, while more than 1,300 Palestinians were killed and 5,500 injured. In addition, 4,000 buildings were destroyed and 20,000 damaged throughout the Gaza Strip. On Jan. 18, 2009, under enormous international pressure and just two days before Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States, Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew its forces from Gaza. Palestinian armed groups followed with a separate unilateral ceasefire. The second major assault, called Operation Pillar of Defense by Israel, came on Nov. 14, 2012. Triggered by the Israeli killing of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing of Hamas, it lasted eight days. Four Israeli civilians and two soldiers were killed by Palestinian rocket attacks, compared to 158 Palestinians, including 102 civilians – of which 30 were children and 13 were women. The most recent war, dubbed “Operation Protective Edge” by Israel, was the most devastating – lasting 50 days (or 51, depending on when you start the clock). After the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations stalled, Fatah moved toward reconciliation with Hamas in Gaza, and the two factions formed a Palestinian consensus government in early June of 2014. Meanwhile, Israel blamed Hamas for the June 12 kidnapping of three teenage settlers in the occupied West Bank and conducted massive arrests. Rocket fire from Gaza increased in protest. When the youth's bodies were found on July 1, Israel warned that Hamas "would pay" for their deaths. Its massive assault began July 8, 2014, with extensive air raids and artillery strikes. On July 17, the Israeli military launched a ground invasion. It is estimated that 2,191Palestinians killed (1,473 of whom were civilians) and 11,000 were wounded. According to the UN, 18,000 housing units were totally destroyed or severely damaged by Israeli attacks during the summer 2014 war, leaving approximately 108,000 of Gaza’s 1.8 million Palestinians homeless. This is in addition to the 12,000 Palestinians still displaced from Israel’s 2008-09 assault. At the peak of Israel’s war, an estimated 485,000 people (approximately 28 percent of Gaza’s population) were displaced. And then there is the extensive damage to Gaza’s infrastructure (such as the power supply), commercial enterprises (419 businesses were damaged and 128 totally destroyed) and civic institutions (for example, 22 schools were destroyed and 118 damaged). Today, months after the Aug. 26 ceasefire, almost no reconstruction has occurred, and Israel violates the terms of the truce almost daily – shooting at farmers who venture into the “buffer zone” along Gaza’s border with Israel, as well as fishermen who try to sail more than five miles out. The world is looking away, and we must refocus its attention https://wearenotnumbers.org/Background/Gaza_Strip

The village of Ar-Raqeeb Since the 1950s, the people of Al-Araqeeb have been resisting the Israeli occupation and preventing its attempts to displace them. They have rebuilt their demolished village around 200 times.

Health clinic confisicated! Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || The occupation forces demolished 2 rooms and an agricultural wall in the Bani Naim area, and then confiscated a health…"

Monthly march of Is-ra'eeli settlers The monthly march of settlers in the old city of Jerusalem under the protection of occupation forces. The Israeli occupation forces restricted the movement of Palestinians in the city to secure the march of settlers. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || The monthly march of settlers in the old city of Jerusalem under the protection of occupation forces. The Israeli occupation…"

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Green Blood - The Occupation's war against our Trees The massive expansion of illegal Israeli settlements has produced a war on objects older than the settler colony of “Israel” itself.Read more about the “mass executions” of trees in Palestine: MetrasGlobal (@metras_global) • Instagram photos and videos

Teachers’ unions in LA, San Francisco, Seattle and Vermont are speaking out against Israel’s apartheid rule over Palestinians. IMEU (@theimeu) • Instagram photos and videos

IOF started to evacuate Palestinians near the house of the prisoner Muntaser Al Shalaby demolishing it with explosives Our Voice Matters (@our.voicematters) • Instagram photos and videos

Humsa is forcibly displaced, Humsa lives the Nakba again ..Yesterday, during the day, the occupation pressured the citizens of Humsa to get into military vehicles in order to transport them outside the community. They brought female soldiers in order to force the women onto cars if they refused. The residents of Humsa decided to refuse to get into military cars and refused to leave, even the delegation of the Consul and diplomats from the European Union who arrived at the community were prevented by the Occupation forces from entering the entrances to Humsa. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || Humsa is forcibly displaced, Humsa lives the Nakba again .. Yesterday, during the day, the occupation pressured the…"

What is the "Israel Defence Force"? The Israel defence force is the armed forces of Israel, comprising the Israeli army, navy, and air force. The IDF was established on May 31, 1948, just two weeks after Israel’s declaration of independence. Since its creation, its guiding principles have been shaped by the country’s need to defend itself from its numerically superior neighbours. The primary element of this doctrine is the belief that Israel cannot afford to lose a single war. IDF planners believe that this goal can be attained only through a defensive strategy that utilizes the rapid mobilization of overwhelming force to take the war to the enemy.... However Palestinians call it IOF - Israel OCCUPATION Force

From the remains, Gaza Remains "No pebble will be left unused.”The occupation is hell-bent on razing Gaza to the ground, but Palestinians are salvaging material from that very destruction to rebuild their beloved city. MetrasGlobal (@metras_global) • Instagram photos and videos

Pepper Spray Two weeks ago during an art event in Sheikh Jarrah, Israeli settlers attacked four young girls with pepper spray. Pepper spray is a weapon used by the Israeli settlers along with the Occupation Forces to oppress Palestinians. More about it: MetrasGlobal (@metras_global) • Instagram photos and videos

Water network destroyed in Al-Jawaya village Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || The Israeli occupation forces destroyed the water network in Al-Jawaya village, east of Yatta this morning. The Israeli…" The Israeli occupation forces destroyed the water network in Al-Jawaya village, east of Yatta this morning.The Israeli government relies on trying to cut off and destroy the basic necessities of life, the most important is water, as the residents of southern Hebron need water more, especially during the summer season.The occupation is following all these apatahied processes to force the people leave the land and give it to the settlers who are attacking the people by unbelievable way recently. [ Via Alliance For Human Rights]

UPDATE The agreement to leave the Givat Eviatar settlement will still allow a Jewish religious seminary to be constructed in some months' time, according to reports - source

Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || This morning, the occupation forces have changed the location of the concrete cubes from the main entrance of Sheikh Jarrah…"

Why the UK needs to challenge Israel's annexation of the West Bank Once again, the Israeli authorities are demonstrating their complete disregard for international law. The UK government has condemned Israel's plans to illegally annex parts of the occupied West Bank, but it needs to urgently match fine words with effective actions: at a minimum, it should ban Israeli settlement goods from UK markets and prevent UK companies from operating in the settlements. Read more at Amnesty International This was posted in July 2020. Incidents have escalated since then...

Israeli police used 'ruthless excessive force' against Palestinian protesters - new research Amnesty International Posted 24 Jun 2021, 3:51pm ‘Discriminatory crackdown’ allowed Jewish supremacists to freely organise their own violent demonstrations ‘Tonight we are not Jews, we are Nazis’ - Jewish supremacists circulated extremist social media messages to organise attacks on Palestinians ‘This discriminatory crackdown was orchestrated as an act of retaliation and intimidation to crush pro-Palestinian demonstrations’ - Saleh Higazi Israeli police committed a catalogue of violations against Palestinians in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem - including using unlawful force against peaceful protesters, sweeping mass arrests, and subjecting detainees to torture and other ill-treatment - during and after recent armed hostilities in Israel and Gaza, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty researchers spoke to numerous witnesses and Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Lab verified 45 videos and other forms of digital media to document more than 20 cases of Israeli police violations between 9 May and 12 June. Hundreds of Palestinians were injured in the crackdown and a 17-year-old boy was shot dead. Read more...

Gaza under Attack Isr*eli warplanes struck several locations across the Gaza strip tonight, breaching the ceasefire for the fourth time.Local sources said Isr*eli strikes shook Bader and Al Sudaniyyah in the besieged strip.Isr*eli media reported that the Isr*eli army bombarded targets in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons fired from Gaza. The balloons, as the Isr*eli army claimed, caused fire in settlements surrounding Gaza.Multiple isr*eli air strikes hit north-west Gaza: early reports say one Pal-estinian person is killed & one injured . Our Voice Matters (@our.voicematters) • Instagram photos and videos