Palestine News April 2016

AUSTRALIA

Labor’s plans for security upgrade in Melbourne

AL AQSA

Jewish groups prepare Buraq Wall area for massive desecration
Israeli settlers break into al-Aqsa Mosque

AL QUDS

Israel’s attempts to monopolise Jerusalem will fail

APARTHEID RACISM

S. African ambassador: Palestinian struggle part of anti-Apartheid journey

“Death to the Arabs” rally draws thousands in Tel Aviv

Zoabi sees ‘shocking similarities between Israel and 1930s Germany’

BDS

PEN director acknowledges ‘legitimate concerns’ about Israel sponsorship but won’t give back the money

NY professor says ‘Israeli apartheid’ akin to campus rape

New head of UK students backed Palestinian violence, wouldn’t condemn IS

Ties between Hamas-linked charities and BDS highlighted in Congressional testimony

Israeli Air Force Officer on Need to Confront BDS: ‘Israel’s Legitimacy at Stake’

DEATHS

Hamas claims Jerusalem bus explosion as Palestinian succumbs to his wounds

Suspected Jerusalem bus bomber ‘was just a typical kid’

Abdel-Hamid Abu Srour 19 years who was seriously wounded in Monday’s Jerusalem bus bombing dies of wounds

DEMOLITION ANNEXATION

Soldiers attacked during op to demolish terrorist’s home

DIPLOMACY

S. African ambassador: Palestinian struggle part of anti-Apartheid journey

Commerce chamber in Gaza receives South Africa’s Ambassador

Jordanian MPs urge government to recall ambassador to Israel

GAZA

Hamas: Zahhar was not interviewed by De Morgen

Students in Gaza watch world’s first virtual reality operation

Hamas denies rift between political and military leadership

Gaza tests its preparedness in case of sudden Israeli offensive

Displaced Palestinians in Gaza protest Israeli ban on cement imports

Hamas and Israel: War or negotiations?

18 Months on, Gaza Donors Still Falling Way Short (VIDEO)

WATCH: IDF releases video of Gaza tunnel demolition

HUMAN RIGHTS/LAW

Blind Palestinian student wins UN human rights competition

ISRAEL

Colonialism’s input on reinvention

No, Herzog, ‘Arab lovers’ is the last thing you can say about Labor

Israel Diamond Exchange broker held in massive fraud case

Bitan to Rivlin: Pardon Hebron shooter

KIDNAPPINGS RAIDS INVASIONS VIOLENCE

IOF kidnaps young man in Zububa village

IOF closes Yitzhar road before Palestinians

Report: Four patients kidnapped at Beit Hanoun crossing in current year

IOF kidnap 25 Palestinians in Issawiya, Jerusalem

MEDIA HASBARA

Media Forum calls for the release of two journalists

Prisoners in Nafha: We are proceeding with our escalated steps

Committee: Journalists’ life at risk in Gaza due to Israeli bans

MILITARY

The Globalization of War, America’s “Long War” against Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky

MOSSAD SHIN BET

Shin Bet nabs anti-occupation cell

Questions Still Abound in Jerusalem Bus-Bombing Probe

ONE TWO STATE

The Palestinian Question: Why the Two-State Solution is Kaput

PA

PA to freeze UN resolution on settlements in wake of French pressure

Under French pressure, PA considers halting UN anti-settlement bid

PFLP: Abbas statements to German magazine provocation to Palestinians

The PA budget and financial planning

PA continues to advance UNSC resolution against Israel

PM Hamdallah: we can learn a great deal from Singapore

PRISONERS

Tension heightens in Nafha jail following violent raid on prisoners

Prisoners in Nafha: We are proceeding with our escalated steps

Palestinian hunger-striker’s health takes turn for worse

Captive Suwaiti on hunger strike for 8 days

Jarbouni and Jarrar: Messages to the Palestinian People on Prisoners’ Day (VIDEO)

RESISTANCE

Clashes reported in Qalqilia, O. J’lem

Why Israel fears nonviolent resistance

SOLIDARITY

Colorado town considers potential conflict of becoming Palestine sister city

Members of European parliament in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners

SETTLERS/SETTLEMENTS

Israeli security agency exposes ‘Jewish terror ring’

UN

UN Security Council discusses resolving Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israel slams UNESCO members for ‘erasing’ Jewish ties to Jerusalem

USA

Biden: Netanyahu leading Israel in ‘wrong direction’

Obama’s November surprise

‘Forward’ columnist and Emily’s List leader relate ‘gigantic,’ ‘shocking’ role of Jewish Democratic donors

A new era of anti-occupation Judaism

LEBANON/SYRIA

The silent occupation: Bringing pre-1967 Golan Heights back to life

World unconvinced by Netanyahu’s claim Golan will remain part of Israel

Members of the European Parliament take action in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners