Meanwhile, in Israel and the West Bank...

[Comrade Grumpy]

http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/tomorrow-children-israeli.html

‘Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left’ — Israeli chant
Kate on July 28, 2014 6
West Bank / Jerusalem / Historic Palestine

Merciless Israeli mobs are hunting Palestinians

Electronic Intifada 27 July by Rania Khalek — All eyes are on Gaza, where the death toll from Israel’s merciless bombing campaign has topped 1,000. But back in Jerusalem, where sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khudair was burned alive by Jewish vigilantes in a “revenge killing” incited by Israeli politicians early this month, right-wing lynch mobs continue to roam the streets in search of Arabs to attack. Their most recent victims are twenty-year-old Palestinians Amir Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz from the Beit Hannina neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem. The pair were severely beaten into unconsciousness on Friday night by Israeli youths armed with iron bars and baseball bats. …

Last week in Haifa, the Arab deputy mayor and his son were brutally beaten by a mob of Jewish supremacists chanting “death to Arabs” and “death to leftists” in response to a rally against the Gaza onslaught. Police did nothing to stop the assault. Similar fascist demonstrators have surfaced in supposedly liberal Tel Aviv as well, verbally and physically attacking Palestinians and leftists protesting the war on Gaza. Israeli blogger Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has been regularly attending and live-tweeting the racist attacks against anti-war demonstrators in recent weeks, heard a new racist chant mocking the more than two hundred children slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign in Gaza: “Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/merciless-israeli-mobs-are-hunting-palestinians

Israeli army arrests 18 in West Bank, 5 in Jerusalem

HEBRON (WAFA) 27 July — Israeli forces on Sunday arrested 18 Palestinians across the West Bank areas, in addition to five Palestinians from the Jerusalem area, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC). PPC said 11 Palestinians were arrested in Hebron City, five in nearby Beit Awwa area, in addition to one in Fara‘a refugee camp, near Tubas, and another one in the city of Al-Bireh. The recent arrests come in the midst of a surge of escalation in the West Bank following public and youth protests against the ongoing aggression on Gaza.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=26029

Israel army arrests 5 in Hebron

HEBRON (WAFA) 27 July — Israeli forces on Sunday arrested five Palestinians in the Hebron Governorate, in the southern West Bank, according to local and security sources. The sources said whereas three Palestinians were arrested in the town of Bani Na‘im, one Palestinian was arrested in Hebron City and another in the village of Beit Ummar. They were arrested during predawn raids where soldiers stormed their homes and sabotaged their furniture.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=26025

Suffocation cases, injuries in confrontations in Hebron

HEBRON (WAFA) 27 July – At least 1 Palestinian was injured with live ammunition, while several others were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and others suffocated by tear gas during confrontations with Israeli forces which erupted at predawn Sunday across Hebron in the southern West Bank, according to media sources. WAFA correspondent said confrontations broke out across Hebron, where Israeli soldiers fired live and rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and poison gas towards local residents, shooting and injuring at least one man with live ammunition. He was transferred to hospital for medical treatment. During the offensive, several Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated bullets, while others suffocated by poison gas inhalation. They all received medical treatment at the scene except two Palestinians who were transferred to hospital for treatment after being shot with rubber-coated bullets.
In the meantime, army stormed the nearby Al-‘Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron, amid firing rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters towards local residents and homes. At least one Palestinian was injured with a steel bullet in the incident. He was transferred to hospital for medical treatment. Thirteen others were also reported injured with rubber-coated bullets, while dozens others suffocated after inhaling poison gas, which is internationally prohibited.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=26028

Group: Israeli forces detain 13 Palestinians overnight

BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 27 July — Israeli forces detained 13 Palestinians overnight [Sat-Sun] in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, a prisoners’ rights group said. In the Hebron district, Israeli force arrested six Palestinians, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said in a statement. They were identified as Fadi al-Joulani, Ali al-Joulani, Fadi Abu Zweid, Eyhab Rmeilat, Saed al-Amlah, and Muhammad Saad. Israeli forces also detained Yousef Issa al-Ghuzlawi from the Nablus district and Munthir al-Uri from Ramallah. Five Palestinians were detained in East Jerusalem overnight, PPS said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716559

Israeli forces detain Palestinian in al-Bireh before iftar

JERUSALEM (Ma’an) 27 July — Israeli forces detained a young Palestinian man from his home in al-Bireh near Ramallah on Saturday evening, threatening his family members throughout the raid. Muhammad Munthir al-Auri, 22 was detained after a raid on his home near Ali Ibn Abu Talib Mosque minutes before the evening breaking of fast, or iftar. Family members told Ma‘an that Israeli forces hand-cuffed Sheikh Munthir al-Auri and all his sons Muhammad, Ibrahim, Mousa, and Sufyan during the raid, assaulting them with clubs before they took Muhammad into custody. The detainee’s mother and aunt, meanwhile, were locked inside a room at gunpoint. The soldiers fired six live gunshots inside the house, family members said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716484

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops in Jerusalem, Bethlehem

BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 27 July — Clashes erupted across East Jerusalem and Bethlehem on Saturday night as Israeli forces violently dispersed Palestinian protests in solidarity with the besieged Gaza Strip for the second night in a row. One child was hospitalized and dozens were injured during the clashes, which came one night after Israeli forces shot dead nine Palestinians across the West Bank late Friday and in the early morning hours on Saturday. East Jerusalem A toddler from the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem was hospitalized Saturday evening after she inhaled tear gas during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces in the neighborhood. Majdi al-Abbasi of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said that in Silwan clashes broke in Ein al-Luzah and Beer Ayyub. Palestinians, he said, threw molotov cocktails and fireworks at an Israeli police patrol and at a security vehicle belonging to a settler. Al-Abbasi also said that a tear gas canister was fired at home of Jawad Siyam and as a result his two-year-old daughter Jana was seriously hurt and was evacuated to hospital. Cameramen Majd Gheith and Ahmad Siyam were also hurt. Fierce clashes broke out late on Saturday evening in several neighborhoods across East Jerusalem including Silwan, Isawiya, Beit Hanina and Shufat as thousands marched in solidarity with Gaza. Clashes continued until after midnight as Israeli troops firing tear-gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the protestors. The soldiers also hosed protesters down with a cannon shooting foul-smelling liquid.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716493

One Palestinian shot and injured in Salfit town clashes

SALFIT (WAFA) 26 July – A Palestinian was shot and injured early Saturday during clashes with Israeli forces in Qarawat Bani Hassan to the west of Salfit, according to local sources. The town residents held a rally in protest of the Israeli military aggression against besieged Gaza population who has been under heavy bombardment for the past nineteen days. They chanted slogans condemning Israeli massacres against Gaza defenseless civilian population. Clashes erupted with Israeli forces deployed at the entrance of the village; forces fired live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, tear gas canisters and concussion grenades, injuring a Palestinian in his leg with live ammunition. He was transferred to hospital for treatment
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=26015

Israeli forces vandalize public institutions in al-Bireh

AL-BIREH (WAFA)26 July– Israeli forces vandalized early Saturday the premises of public institutions, including the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission, in Al-Bireh, said an official. President of the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission Rafiq Al-Natsha said that Israeli forces stormed the building housing the Palestinian Anti-Corruption Commission, Higher Shariah Court Council, and the PLO Refugees Affairs Department near City-Inn roundabout in the city. They fired live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at the commission premises, causing damage to the building windows, exterior walls. They vandalized several vehicles parked there, including Al-Natsha’s, throwing stones and firing bullets at their windshields.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=26017

Israeli forces fire live ammunition injuring 15 protesters in Beit Furik

BEIT FURIK, Occupied Palestine (ISM Nablus Team) 27 July — At 22:00 in the evening of Friday, July 25th, Israeli forces injured 15 Palestinians during a protest in the village of Beit Furik, which is located fifteen km southeast of Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. Approximately 2000 protesters were marching towards the checkpoint near the village. Roughly 40 Israeli soldiers were waiting for them there, and when they came into view, the soldiers began to shoot tear gas canisters in their direction. Shortly after the protest began, the soldiers changed from firing tear gas, to live ammunition. 23-year-old Yousef Mfeed Mletat was struck by a bullet in his left hip. He recounted the scene tearfully in his bed in Rafidia hospital in Nablus. “They were less than four meters away when they shot me. And then they started to beat me. A soldier was standing on my stomach while some of the others were kicking me. This went on for 15 minutes.” He revealed several welts on his arms and shoulders. Yahya Hanay, who is 25 years old, was trying to escape from the scene, when a stun grenade struck his hand, which was covering his face at the time. As he lay on the ground, another stun grenade hit his knee. Yahya has nerve damage in his left thumb, which is said to be serious. 19-year-old Yezen Tala Khatatba was attempting to help an injured protester when he was shot in the left knee. The bullet exited his left knee and then entered and exited his right one. He was wearing bandages on both knees as he told his story. “The ambulance was taking me to the hospital when soldiers twice stopped me for half an hour at a checkpoint. When I told them I had a leg injury, they said it would have been better if I’d been hit in the head.” Yezen also mentioned that another injured protestor had been taken from the ambulance at the checkpoint and beaten by soldiers.
http://palsolidarity.org/2014/07/israeli-forces-fire-live-ammunition-injuring-15-protesters-in-beit-furik/

5 injured with live bullets in clashes with Israel forces at Beit El

RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 25 July — Five Palestinians were injured with live bullets in clashes with Israeli forces near the illegal settlement of Beit El [near al-Bireh] on Friday.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716168

Two Palestinian teenagers were murdered by an Israeli settler and an Israeli soldier in separate incidents in Huwwara

HUWWARA, Occupied Palestine (ISM, Nablus Team) 27 July — On Friday, July 25, an Israeli settler murdered a Palestinian teenager in the village of Huwwara, which lies approximately 10 km south of Nablus in the northern half of the West Bank. Two hours later, an Israeli sniper killed another Palestinian teenager in the same village. After Friday prayers at the mosque in Huwwara, villagers began marching in solidarity with the victims of the Gaza massacre. The protest included many children, some of whom were carrying signs in support of their Gazan brothers and sisters. Two Israeli military jeeps were along the route, and some of the soldiers were taking pictures of the peaceful protest. As the procession wound its way back to the mosque, a settler suddenly raced alongside and slammed on the brakes. “He was about a meter away from the kids and just started firing out the window of his car,” stated a witness. “It was clear he was trying to kill people.” The settler managed to shoot four people before fleeing the scene. 19-year-old Khalid Owda [or Khalid Azmi Odeh] died from a gunshot wound to his abdomen, while Tarik Dmadi was shot in the chest and remains in critical condition. Hassan Dmadi was shot in the hip, while Jihad Owda was shot in the hand and has been released from the hospital. “Had he had more ammunition, he would have kept on shooting and killed more people,” said a witness. “Killing Palestinians is no big deal for the settlers, because there is no punishment. And what about the soldiers? They were just standing there, doing nothing.”
Tragedy struck the town of Huwwara a second time two hours later, when an Israeli sniper gunned down 18-year-old Tayeb Shohaada [or Tayeb Abu Shehada], who, like Khalid Owda, was a student at an-Najah University in Nablus. Israeli forces were shooting tear gas at Tayeb and roughly ten other young men, who were throwing stones in their direction from a distance of approximately 100 meters. According to Red Crescent medic, Ahmed Owda, a female Israeli sniper shot Tayeb in the face. Her sergeant then congratulated her and clapped her on the shoulder. Ahmed subsequently attempted to reach Tayeb but was unable to do so because of Israeli fire. Tayeb was eventually taken to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, where he was declared clinically dead. The attending surgeon revealed that the damage to Tayeb’s brain was consistent with that caused by expanding bullets. Expanding bullets are banned according to the 1899 Hague Convention, but Israel has frequently been accused of employing them against Palestinians.
http://palsolidarity.org/2014/07/two-palestinian-teenagers-were-murdered-by-an-israeli-settler-and-an-israeli-soldier-in-separate-incidents-in-huwwara/

Extremist settlers clash with rabbis over Palestinian olive groves in West Bank

Reuters 25 July – Human Rights Activists Act as Harvest ‘Human Shields’ — Jewish settlers clashed with activists of the Rabbis for Human Rights movement near the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday as they protected Palestinians beginning the annual olive harvest. Israeli police and soldiers grappled with settlers who tried to drive off local Palestinians and international supporters of Palestinian rights in the West Bank. “This is just the beginning of the olive harvest which will be going on for the next two months,” said the executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, Arik Ascherman. He said activists were going to 40 Palestinian villages to protect olive growers and uphold their right to work the land, and harvest. They would act “as human shields” if necessary. A settler woman screamed “Murderer, murderer” at the rabbi, and settlers angrily shouted down any activists trying to explain their aims to TV reporters. The West Bank olive harvest has developed over the past decade into a regular confrontation between Palestinian farmers and Israelis who have settled on nearby land. Palestinians say settler harassment often turns to encroachment and eventually seizure of more land in the name of settler “security”. “There are those who say all the land of Israel belongs only to the Jewish people,” Ascherman said. “Everybody knows these are Palestinian-owned trees.” “It’s unfortunate that some people so filled with mistaken religious fervor are choosing to insult, be violent, trying to steal the olives.” The settlers say they want a secure route from the settlement through the olive grove, to a cave regarded as a Jewish holy site. “The settlers would like to make a path … as part of their effort to create facts on the ground,” Ascherman said. “They’ve been trying to create this outpost here to take more and more Palestinian land.” Rabbis For Human Rights said in a statement that delegations also joined Palestinians for the olive harvest near Nablus, “where there is a long history of the army preventing agricultural work”. “In several locations olives have already been stolen in recent weeks, and this year’s harvest will be all the more difficult because of the recent wave of settler violence,” the group said. Its members would “work to insure that Israeli security forces meet their obligations under international law and the ruling of the Israeli High Court”, the statement added.
http://forward.com/articles/202842/extremist-settlers-clash-with-rabbis-over-palestin/

Palestinian minister injured during Qalandiya rally

RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 26 July — President of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics Ola Awad was shot and injured in the foot on Thursday night during a rally in solidarity with Gaza at Qalandia checkpoint. Local sources told Ma‘an that Awad and her son took part in the rally, which marched from al-Amari refugee camp to Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem. Israeli troops fired at the protestors and Awad was hit in the foot. She was taken to the Makassed Hospital on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=716305

Settlers break into Palestinian home, Palestinians arrested

HEBRON, Occupied Palestine (ISM, Khalil Team) 25 July — Israeli settlers in the H2 (under full Israeli military civil and security control) area of Hebron, forced entry into a basement and passage connected to the home of a Palestinian, Abed Sider, which is bordered by a sealed-off building now occupied by settlers at around 15:00 on July 24th (Thursday). Four International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists arrived following a phone call from Abed telling them that the neighboring settlers broke through a door into an unused part of Abed’s home. Shortly after the ISM volunteers arrived, several Israeli soldiers, two police officers, and two plain clothes men, who appeared to be settlers, arrived. The police began to question Abed’s brother, Shaady, who also came to the house after receiving a phone call from Abed about the break in. After 30 minutes of questioning at the house, the police and army then took Shaady and Abed to Kiryat Arba police station. Abed’s wife had believed they were being taken to file a report as victims of the break-in. A few hours after being taken by Israeli forces, family members of Abed and Shaady were informed that he had been arrested and interrogated. They were being falsely accused of attempting to break into the neighboring settlement by the settlers who had forced entry into Abed’s basement. They were released yesterday morning.
http://palsolidarity.org/2014/07/settlers-break-in-to-palestinian-home-palestinians-arrested/

PHOTOS: Ten killed across West Bank in Gaza solidarity protests

Activestills 27 July Photos by: Mustafa Bader, Oren Ziv, Ahmad Al-Bazz, Yotam Ronen Text by: Keren Manor – In the last four days [July 22-25], Israeli forces have killed ten Palestinians across the West Bank during protests in solidarity with Gaza. More than 600 have been wounded, and several remain in critical condition.[details of 12 killings from Wed-Fri were in Friday's newslist]
http://972mag.com/photos-ten-killed-across-west-bank-in-gaza-solidarity-protests/94420/

Israeli forces invade ‘Azzun and use Palestinian civilians as human shields

‘AZZUN, Occupied Palestine (ISM Nablus Team) 24 July — On Monday, July 21st, Israeli forces used Palestinian civilians as human shields in the village of Azzun, a village west of the city of Nablus. On most evenings several Israeli jeeps are stationed just outside ‘Azzun’s north gate. At 10 o’clock in the evening on the night in question, approximately 15 soldiers entered the main square of the village. Witnesses report that a few young men responded to this invasion by throwing stones at the jeeps from a distance of approximately 200 meters. The soldiers spent the next few minutes stopping cars on the road and began forcing the drivers to arrange their cars in a circle. The soldiers then forced these residents of ‘Azzun to surrender their keys. The occupants of the cars included women and children. They were very frightened and the soldiers did not allow them to leave. The Israeli forces positioned themselves inside the circle formed by the cars, began to fire tear gas at the youths, and knelt behind the civilian occupants of the cars as to protect themselves. The use of civilian human shields is prohibited by Fourth Geneva Convention. Israel ratified this convention in 1951.Israeli forces have a long history of using Palestinian civilians as human shields. From the years 2000 to 2005, they admitted to using human shields more than 1,200 times.
http://palsolidarity.org/2014/07/israeli-forces-invade-azzun-and-use-palestinian-civilians-as-human-shields/

[HERVEPA]

1. Lots of unbiased sources you have there.

[Scootaloo]

7. We'll just wait for the Tower and Gatestone Institute to cover it, sure

Waiting...
Waiting...
Waiting...

[arikara]

8. So what. Its not being reported anywhere else.

All the mainstream media and western governments are biased the other way.

Those Israelis remind me of vicious f*cking fire ants, with what they are doing to those poor people. Sickening.

[JI7]

13. mainstream media has not been as pro israel as other times , on CNN they give details

of the palestinians who have been wounded and killed.

[Divernan]

2. Mocking the more than 200 children slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign

Israeli blogger Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has been regularly attending and live-tweeting the racist attacks against anti-war demonstrators in recent weeks, heard a new racist chant mocking the more than two hundred children slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign in Gaza: “Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.”
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/merciless-israeli-mobs-are-hunting-palestinians

The horror of this level of hatred beggars belief.

[ballyhoo]

4. Right. About a third of this board should be on ignore.

[m-lekktor]

5. you might miss out on a good charles krauthammer article if you did that.

[ballyhoo]

6. Oh, God, that would be devastating...I'd rather clean a garbage disposal with

my tongue than listen to that wacko regurgitate nonsense.

[ReRe]

3. All of Israel...

... seems to be in a hate-filled frenzy. Filled with war. Why would anyone want to live there?

[Dustlawyer]

9. God's chosen people! Victims of the Holocaust.

I am sure he is proud!

(Sarcasm)

[azurnoir]

10. Thank you for posting this

with all eyes focused on Gaza the West Bank seems almost forgotten

[JI7]

11. any other sources for these stories ?

[riverwalker]

12. here is the video of the singing

[cpwm17]

14. And we impose sanctions on Iran just to keep the Israel worshipers in the US happy

Iranians are some of the nicest people on earth. One can't say the same thing about Israelis.

Poll: 86.5% of Israelis oppose cease-fire: http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Poll-865-percent-of-Israelis-oppose-cease-fire-369064

[Pharaoh]

15. What goes around comes around

Full circle.

They have become what they despised for so many years. They have become Nazis..........