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Israeli forces assault Palestinians, prepare to demolish village | Israel | Al Jazeera

Posted by M. C. on July 5, 2018

To paraphrase Hillary: We want, we came, they are gone.

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/israeli-forces-assault-palestinians-prepare-demolish-village-180704141245982.html

Israeli Rights group B'Tselem says that the forcible transfer of an entire Palestinian community in the occupied territories would be 'virtually unprecedented' since 1967. [Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]
Israeli Rights group B’Tselem says that the forcible transfer of an entire Palestinian community in the occupied territories would be ‘virtually unprecedented’ since 1967. MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS

Israeli forces have assaulted dozens of Palestinians protesting the demolition of a Bedouin village near occupied East Jerusalem and the forcible transfer of the entire community.

According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 35 Palestinians were wounded, including four who were hospitalised, during the events which took place on Wednesday at the Khan al-Ahmar village.

Videos taken by witnesses and circulated online showed Israeli forces beating and attempting to arrest men, women and children. In one video, Israeli forces were seen violently dragging a Palestinian woman on the ground and pulling off her headscarf.

Israeli forces arrived to the scene with heavy equipment and at least one bulldozer early on Wednesday, after a long legal battle between the community’s close to 180 residents and the Israeli Supreme Court.

Khan al-Ahmar falls in Area C of the occupied West Bank – under total Israeli administrative and military control…

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Why We Should Be Alarmed That Israeli Forces and US Police Are Training Together – Antiwar.com Original

Posted by M. C. on June 17, 2018

Take 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi. He was shot during a protest and had to have part of his skull removed. He was then taken by Israeli forces in the middle of the night, and beaten into confessing that they didn’t shoot him in the face, despite medical records and eyewitness accounts proving otherwise.

You can’t tell the military from the police without a program. they both shoot first and ask later.

It will make the transition to martial law that much easier.

https://original.antiwar.com/domenica_ghanem/2018/06/15/why-we-should-be-alarmed-that-israeli-forces-and-us-police-are-training-together/

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Razan al-Najjar is the latest victim in Israel’s onslaught of Palestinians to go viral. The 21-year-old nurse was shot dead by a sniper. Her only weapon? A wad of medical gauze. She’d been treating protesters who’ve been rallying for their right to return to homes they were expelled from as refugees.

Unfortunately, the death of another unarmed civilian is hardly even news to Palestinians.

May 14, the day the United States moved its embassy to Jerusalem in symbolic support of recognizing the city as Israel’s capital, was also the bloodiest day in this recent wave of demonstrations. In just one day, at least 50 Palestinians were killed and 2,400 more injured by the Israeli military. (Other counts put those figures even higher.)

This isn’t an anomaly. In this latest wave of demonstrations, Israeli forces have killed dozens of unarmed protesters and wounded thousands more. And they’re not apologizing. Read the rest of this entry »

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