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IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG  Israeli filmmaker David Fisher. 'There is pressure from the establishment and Holocaust survivors to preserve the symbols that have been set.'Credit: Hadas Parush (Ha'aretz) A major Israeli newspaper reports on a new documentary by an Israeli filmmaker that investigates how many Jews were killed by the Nazis. A staff member at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Center told him the ‘6 million’ was ‘not a precise number.’ Israeli scholars say: “The importance of this number long ago exceeded the issue of historical accuracy.” He learns that among scholars it is constantly changing… Fundraising for the film was difficult – European networks such as BBC and Arte, they wouldn’t touch the subject… Meanwhile, Israel passed a UN resolution today that call...

Palestinian senior citizen dies after hit-and-run by Israeli police IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Suleiman Hathaleen, an icon of nonviolent resistance in the South Hebron Hills On January 5th, an Israeli tow truck escorted by a police vehicle hit Suleiman Hathaleen, a 70+ year-old shepherd, and dragged him several meters. Then both Israeli vehicles fled. Official Israeli narrative of the incident doesn’t even mention that a Palestinian had been struck. Hathaeen died Sunday of his injuries. His death was just the latest incident in the alarming story of Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills. by Kathryn Shihadah Suleiman Hathaleen’s story is brief, but his struggle lasted for decades and ended unnecessarily early. It is the struggle of an entire community of Palestinians living in...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Friday at night, three Palestinian construction workers in an under-construction school in the Tbeil area in Kafr Malek town, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and confiscated their car. Local sources said the Nazi soldiers invaded the Ein Samia area in Kafr Malek, before storming the construction site where the workers were spending the night, and abducted them, in addition to confiscating their car. They added that the Nazi soldiers alleged the school is being built in Area C of the Nazi occupied West Bank and did not receive a permit from the so-called Civil Administration Office, the administrative branch of Nazi’s illegal occupation. It is worth mentioning that, four days ago, the Nazi soldiers invaded the same school construction...

Nazi soldiers abducted, early on Saturday morning, a young Palestinian man from Faqqu’a village, northeast of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank. On Friday night, the Nazi soldiers injured several Palestinians near Nablus, also in the northern West Bank. Local sources said the Nazi soldiers abducted Thaker Abdul-Rahim and took him to a nearby military base. They added that the young man was walking on Palestinian lands near the illegal annexation wall, built on Palestinian lands in the village. On Friday at night, the Nazi soldiers invaded Burqa town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, leading to protests. Medical sources said several Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation before receiving the needed treatment by local medics. ...

Nazi soldiers shot, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man near Sinjil town, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. Medical sources said the Nazi soldiers shot Saher Fuqaha’, 22, with three live rounds in the thigh and pelvis, causing moderate to serious wounds, before he was rushed to the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah. Surgeons performed an urgent surgery on the wounded young man to stop the excessive bleeding, before performing a second injury to treat him for the damage caused by the bullets. After shooting Fuqaha’, the Nazi soldiers also detained another young man for a few hours before releasing him. Nizar Fuqaha’, the uncle of the wounded young man, said Saher and some of his friends were driving near a Palestinian agricultural hothouse near colonialis...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, a former political prisoner, and detained four others, at the Dothan military roadblock near Ya’bad town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Omar Daoud, from Qaffin village, northeast of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, after stopping him at Dothan roadblock. They added that the Nazi soldiers also detained four young men, identified as Arabi Walid Abu Bakr, his brother Mohammad, in addition to Mohammad Abdul-Hakim Abu Bakr and Dia’ Sa’id Abu Bakr. The four were detained and interrogated at the roadblock for a few hours before the Nazi soldiers released them.

A group of illegal Nazi JEWISH colonizers invaded, Friday, Palestinian farmlands in Kafr ed-Deek town, west of the central West Bank city of Salfit, before illegally occupying four dunams of private Palestinian lands. Ahmad Younis, the owner of the lands, said dozens of Nazi JEWISH colonizers invaded the area and fenced his land before planting saplings. Younis added that the colonizers placed banners warning the Palestinians not to approach the area. He also said that, in the year 2019, Nazi soldiers prevented him from working on his land, and stopped the digging of a well in the area. All of Nazi’s JEWISH colonies in the Nazi occupied West Bank, including those in and around the Nazi occupied East Jerusalem, are illegal under International Law, the Fourth Geneva Conventi...

Nazi soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Media sources said the Palestinians marched from the center of the village before the Nazi soldiers attacked them with a barrage of rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. They added that six Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, and dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. It is worth mentioning that the Nazi soldiers invaded homes and Nazi occupied rooftops to use them as firing posts. On Thursday evening, the Nazi soldiers shot two Palestinians and destroyed the main water pipeline in Kufur Qaddoum. It is worth mentioning that Kufur Qaddoum is subject to con...

Nazi soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly nonviolent processions against the illegal Annexation Wall and Colonies in Beita and Beit Dajan, south and east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Nablus office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the Nazi soldiers shot nine Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets, in Beita. He added that at least 52 Palestinians suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation and received the needed treatment by the medics. Jibril also said that the soldiers caused seventeen Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation in Beit Dajan. He added that Nazi soldiers prevented Palestinian ambulances from reaching the areas of protesters, forcing the medics ...

The Salhia family threatens to set the house on fire if the Israeli forces expel them. (Photo: via ActiveStills) A Palestinian man has threatened to set himself and his family on fire in protest of Nazi eviction order, Anadolu News Agency reported on Monday. Nazi municipal authorities issued an order to expel Mahmoud Al-Salhia and his family from their house in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to build a school in their place. Years-long attempts by the family to have the order revoked have https://twitter.com/i/status/1482972662330798089 Nazi army, on Monday, managed to vacate the house and a nearby plant nursery by force and sought to evacuate the house, but Mahmoud climbed to the roof of the house and threatened to set himself and his family ablaze in the ev...