🇵🇸 A video captures a harrowing scene in Jenin, occupied Palestine, where a Palestinian family – a mother and her two daughters – are seen with their hands raised, being cautiously followed by an Israeli truck.

The family appears terrified, forced to keep their hands visible to avoid being shot.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #OPT #WestBank #Jenin #Occupation #Apartheid #Oppression
17/12/2023

🇵🇸 Christmas under occupation

Learn about the Christmas story in Bethlehem with Dr. Raheb. From struggles under occupation to the quest for justice. Uncover the layers of history, politics, and faith.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Palestine #Bethlehem #OPT #Chistians #Occupation #PalestinianChistians #Christmas
22/12/2023

🇵🇸 The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story of the October 7 Attacks – MintPress

The earth-shattering events in Palestine starting on October 7 have taken many people by surprise. However, attentive observers were not among them.

Few expected that Palestinian fighters would be parachuting into southern Israel on October 7; that instead of capturing a single Israeli soldier – as done in 2006 – hundreds of Israelis, including many soldiers and civilians, would find themselves captive in besieged Gaza.

The reason behind the ‘surprise,’ however, is the same reason that Israel is still reeling under collective shock, which is the tendency to pay close attention to political discourses and intelligence analyses of Israel and its supporters – while largely neglecting the Palestinian discourse.

For better comprehension, let us go back to the start.

#Palestine #Gaza #OPT #WestBank #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid #Resistance #Hamas #OperationAlAqsaFlood
30/12/2023

🇵🇸 Saving Masafer Yatta | Mondoweiss Documentary August 2022

In May 2022 the Israeli Supreme Court ruled to expel the Palestinians living in the South Hebron Hills of the occupied West Bank, known locally as Masafer Yatta, and hand their land over to the Israeli military.

The army has used the land as an active firing zone for years, putting the local communities there at risk. Now, with the backing of the Supreme Court, the army is seeking to completely rid the area of its Palestinian inhabitants. Rights groups say it’s an act that would amount to forcible transfer, a war crime under international law.

With no hope left in the Israeli legal system, the Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are appealing to the international community to help save their communities.

Producer & Correspondent: Yumna Patel, Illustrator: Dahlia Attoui, Camera, Editing, and Graphics: Palestine Productions

#Palestine #OPT #MasaferYatta #WestBank #Colonisation #Occupation #Apartheid #IOF
#EthnicCleansing #WarCrimes

#Documentary

🇵🇸 The people of Masafer Yatta | Stop the Wall Campaign - May 2023

This short documentary called The People  Masafer Yatta depicts the tragedy and resistance of the Palestinian people of Masafer Yatta. This film highlights the ongoing ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians in this region since the Nakba of 1948.

We can gain a fuller understanding of the daily hardships endured by Palestinians throughout this documentary, as well as how recent actions are worsening their plight. We get to see and hear from folks who have been affected by Israel's policies and how they are fighting for their rights and freedom.

This film serves as a vital reminder of why it is critical to advocate for human rights and justice for all. We must not forget.

#Palestine #OPT #MasaferYatta Southern #WestBank #HebronHills #Colonisation #Resistance #Occupation #Dispossession #Apartheid #IOF #ForcedDisplacement
#EthnicCleansing #ForcibleTransfer #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #Testimonies

#Documentary

How Israel indoctrinates its people w/Miko Peled | The Chris Hedges Report - Real News Network

To understand the genocidal campaign unfolding before our eyes, we must examine the roots of Israeli society. Israel is a settler colonial state whose existence depends on the elimination of Palestinians. Accordingly, Israel is a deeply militarized society whose citizens are raised in an environment of historical revisionism and indoctrination that whitewashes Israel's crimes while cultivating a deep-seated racism against Palestinians. Miko Peled, former IOF Special Forces and author of The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a frank conversation on the distortions of history and reality at the foundations of Israeli identity.

#Israel #Palestine #Apartheid #Zionism #Endoctrination #Propaganda #Settler #Colonisation #Dispossession #Hasbara #Occupation #History #MikoPeled
12/01/2023

🇵🇸 A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad | 2008

Origin: Palestine | Fiction | Director: Hany Abu Assad | 4 minutes

Intent on making a film, a group of young boys don't let limited resources
stand in their way. They decide to go where the cameras are... AbuAssad's
(Paradise Now, Rana's Wedding, Ford Transit) short was produced under the
auspices of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as part of a collection of works by artists from around the world.

#Palestine #OPT #TheWall #Wall #WallOfSeperation #Occupation #WestBank #ShortFilm #Documentary #Fiction #Film #HanyAbuAssad #Camera #Surveillance
#Apartheid

Golda Meir (1970) - "we asked them to leave" Palestine

Golda Meir points out she was a Palestinian from 1921 to 1948, says "we asked them [the Arabs] to leave", and is upset that they didn't and don't like it. We were here before, "we've come back". Extract from longer interview with the then Israeli PM Golda Meir, full interview from Thames TV here:

#Palestine #GoldaMeir #Zionism #Zionist #Colonisation #Occupation #Dispossession #Israel

🇵🇸 israel approves largest West Bank land grab in three decades

Israeli authorities last month approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now revealed on 3 July.

The activists said the approval allows for the appropriation of 12.7 square kilometers of land in the Jordan Valley, northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah. By illegally authorizing their seizure, Tel Aviv is allowing the land to be leased to Israelis and banning private Palestinian ownership.

According to Peace Now, this marks the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo Accords. The move comes after the seizure of 8 square kilometers of land in the West Bank in March and 2.6 square kilometers in February.

“2024 marks the peak in the extent of declarations of state land,” Peace Now said in a statement.

#Apartheid #Colonisation #WestBank #OPT #Palestine #Ramallah #Occupation

🇵🇸 Israeli construction signals 'long-term' occupation of Gaza-Egypt border | The Craddle

The IOF is building new infrastructure near the city of Rafah on the Gaza-Egypt border to support the long-term presence of Israeli troops, The Guardian reported on 21 July, in a sign that the now nine-month war is nowhere near an end.

The British newspaper reported that satellite images and social media video uploaded by Israeli soldiers stationed around Rafah show that roads have been widened for armored vehicles, and watch towers have been erected for Israeli troops to observe the #PhiladelphiCorridor, which stretches along the Gaza-Egypt border.

According to a 1979 peace agreement between Israel and #Egypt, Israeli troops are not permitted in the corridor. But Israeli forces took control of it and the Rafah #border #crossing, a lifeline to Palestinians in Gaza, in early May.

#IOF #Rafah #Gaza #Occupation

🇵🇸 “It is very hard to lose five children and have nothing left. You can’t imagine the pain of losing your sons.”

Peter Oborne goes inside the #NurShams #RefugeeCamp in the occupied #WestBank, where Israeli air strikes, #bulldozers and #snipers are reducing it to rubble and ruin.

Residents of the camp say that recent attacks by Israeli forces have taken on a terrifying dimension not seen before, one that amounts to a form of collective punishment, in which civilians and infrastructure have been targeted indiscriminately without red lines or limitations.

In April, at least 14 Palestinians were killed and scores more injured as Israeli forces laid siege to the camp for more than two days, leaving bodies in the streets and ambulances and medical teams unable to reach the wounded.

At least 80 residents of the camp have been killed since 7 October, according to the local popular committee. About 300 homes have been destroyed and at least 2,600 have been damaged. The camp has been raided 28 times.

Video Source
#Palestine #OPT #Apartheid #Colonisation #Dispossession #Occupation

🇵🇸 On July 19, the International Court of Justice, or #ICJ, ruled that Israel’s occupation of #Gaza, the #WestBank, and East #Jerusalem (#OPT) is illegal and must end immediately.

Palestinians, of course, have been saying this for years. The court stated that Israel must halt all new settlement construction, evacuate #settlers, and pay reparations to Palestinians, calling some of Israel’s policies “#Apartheid.”

The ruling emphasizes the #occupation’s illegality and highlights the need for international #accountability and policy shifts. This historic ruling, though non-binding, challenges Israel’s legal defenses for the first time.

With #CraigMokhiber, an international human rights lawyer and activist, and a former senior United Nations human rights official. Craig served at the U.N. for over three decades. In October 2023, he left the U.N, criticizing the organization’s human rights failures regarding Israel’s actions to Gaza, warning of #genocide in Gaza.

#Podcast

PASSIA - MAPS - Jerusalem - THE JERUSALEM MASTER PLAN

Defeating the zionist master plan of dividing the West Bank in two and taking over the entire territory will require that solidarity activists put their bodies on the line to defend threatened Palestinian communities.

http://www.passia.org/maps/view/67

#Maps #Palestine #Occupation #Colonisation #Apartheid #WestBank #OPT #Passia #JerusalemMasterPlan

🇵🇸 Why Israeli Soldiers Rape | Ramzy Baroud for MintPress

Historically, Israel has carried out #massacres with a specific political strategy in mind: to instill the desired fear to drive Palestinians off their land. Deir Yassin, Tantura and the over 70 documented massacres during the Palestinian #Nakba, or Catastrophe, are cases in point.

Israel has also utilized torture, rape and other forms of sexual assault to achieve similar ends in the past, to exact information or to break down the will of prisoners.

UN-affiliated experts said in a report published on August 5 that “these practices are intended to punish Palestinians for resisting #occupation and seek to destroy them individually and collectively.”

In a report entitled ‘Welcome to Hell,’ published on August 5, the Israeli rights group, #Btselem, said that Israel’s detention “facilities, in which every inmate is deliberately subjected to harsh, relentless pain and suffering, operate as de-facto #TortureCamps.”

#Palestine #Rape #OPT #IOF #WarCrimes