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IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Palestinian children light candles during a protest near destroyed buildings in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, May 25, 2021. Instead of holding perpetrators accountable, Israel is criminalizing the work that human rights organizations are doing to protect Palestinian children’s rights. by Khaled Quzmar, reposted from +972Magazine, December 14, 2021 This year was unlike any other I can remember from my decades of defending Palestinian children’s rights. Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip in May, amidst a mass youth-led uprising across historic Palestine, sparked an outcry around the world, with more people than ever demanding Israel be held accountable for its violence toward Palestinians and calling for an end t...

This Christmas remember how Israel desecrated the Church of the Nativity By Stuart Littlewood Nearly 20 years ago Israeli occupation troops viciously murdered innocent civilians inside and outside Christianity’s oldest church At this time of year most Christians’ thoughts turn to that little Palestinian town of Bethlehem, the wellspring of their faith. Prior to the imposition of the Israeli state Christians made up about 85% of Bethlehem’s population. By 2016 this had reduced to only 15%. Today it is feared that the Christian element may be as low as 10%. A visit will tell you why. Heavy encroachment by Israeli squats and theft of Palestinian lands has robbed many of their homes and livelihoods. The town is surrounded by Israel’s 8-metre high apartheid barrier wall he...

People march in Dublin, Ireland to support Palestine (File photo) Veronika Honkasalo, a member of Finland's parliament, has introduced a legislative motion which seeks to ban the import of goods manufactured in the JEWISH settlements illegally built in the Nazi-occupied Palestinian Territory. The motion targets all goods imported from "regions where occupying powers practice serious violations of international humanitarian law or human rights agreements." An example of such violations includes cases where "homes of people living in the region are demolished and the residents deported or forcibly removed to make way for illegal settlements by the occupying power." The motion primarily focuses on the Nazi occupied Palestinian Territory and the Nazi JEWISH settlements ...

Masked Nazi JEWISH settlers pelt stones at Palestinians (File photo) Under Nazi army protection, Nazi JEWISH settlers have carried out large-scale attacks against Palestinian civilians and their properties in the West Bank, in what appears to be state-sponsored violence, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said Friday in a statement. During the past few days, violence has escalated, taking a vengeful and collective punishment nature. The Nazi army protected the perpetrators after a settler was killed and two others were injured in an armed clash near the entrance of the Homesh settlement—evacuated since 2005—on December 16 evening. The Nazi JEWISH settlers carried out 38 attacks since the incident, most of which were executed with full protection from the Nazi army, accor...

Seven Palestinian herders, including four siblings, were detained by the Nazi occupation army today shortly after a group of settlers attacked and chased them out of a pasture in the northern Jordan Valley region, northeast of the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. The herders were grazing their sheep when around 60 Nazi JEWISH settlers broke into the area, assaulted them and pelted them with stones, injuring at least one herder, said Muataz Besharat, an official in charge of the Nazi JEWISH settlement file in the area. Besharat said Nazi army force which later arrived at the scene to secure the Nazi JEWISH settlers out of the area detained seven of the herders who were assaulted, including the one injured. Four of the seven herders are siblings. They were identified as...

The site of the setter car-ramming attack near Sinjil entrance Nazi JEWISH settler today rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian elderly at the entrance of Sinjil town, northeast of Ramallah, killing her, according to security sources. They said that the Nazi JEWISH settler rammed his car into Ghadir Anis Abdullah Fuqaha while the latter was at the entrance of the town, instantly killing her. The assailant fled the scene. In a post at the official Facebook page of Sinjil Municipality, mayor Hazem Tawafsha said that 63-year-old Fuqaha was with her husband at the town entrance, close to the bypass Road 60, waiting for a taxi to be picked up to Nablus city, when the Nazi JEWISH settler rammed his car into her before speeding away in a deliberate hit and run attack. He added ...

A group of rampaging Nazi JEWISH settlers protected by Nazi army today attacked Palestinian vehicles driving at a section of Nablus-Jenin road in the north of the Nazi occupied West Bank, immediately outside the evacuated Nazi JEWISH settlement of Homesh, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, an official in charge of the settlement file in Nablus, told WAFA that a group of Nazi JEWISH settlers gathered outside the evacuated settlement and pelted stones at Palestinian vehicles driving at Route 60, causing damage to some of them. Also in Nablus province, a Palestinian man was beaten up and kidnapped for two hours outside the village of Azmut. The man, identified as Obada Amer, was hospitalized, and his condition was described as stable. Meantime, the Nazi JEWISH settlers...

A Palestinian was injured by gunfire today and three others detained by the Nazi occupation forces during clashes which erupted between the Nazi military and local Palestinian civilians in the village of Azzun, in the occupied West Bank province of Qalqilia, local sources said. During the clashes, Nazi soldiers opened gunfire at some of the civilians, injuring one of them in his foot. He was moved to a nearby hospital for medical treatment, where his condition was described as moderate. The Nazi occupation army also detained three Palestinian minors during the clashes in Azzun. They were identified as Mohammad Hashash, Imad Shubeita, and Saqr Saleem. The three are 16 years old. In the meantime, clashes erupted between the Nazi occupation army and Palestinian protesters in dow...