The Fourth National BDS Conference rejects normalisation with Israel | June 14 2013 | ISM Digest (palsolidarity@googlegroups.com)
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Man wounded by gunfire in the southern Gaza StripOn the morning of Monday, 10th June, a Palestinian man was injured by Israeli army fire while working in the area of Sufa, southern Gaza Strip, near the barrier with Israel. Hadayed Abu Amer, 20, was picking up rocks and stones to be sold as building material along with his brothers Yasser and Saher. The three had gone to work at 6:00 am aboard a tuk-tuk. School’s out; harassment continues in HebronThe Hebron street where the Israeli army and Police have recently been regularly intimidating schoolchildren and teachers was today the scene of harassment of a different nature. Tareq Bin Ziyad Street in Hebron was the scene of a mass arrest of schoolchildren earlier this year and intimidation continued until the end of the school year. Now that school’s out for summer, soldiers have found another way to harass the local Palestinian population – using a large military presence to check for cars that, as one soldier said, ‘might have been stolen from Israel.’ Today, four jeeps and a dozen soldiers stopped cars, demanded to see IDs, and chased one driver down the street menacing him with their guns. | The Fourth National BDS Conference rejects normalisation with IsraelBeginning in the early morning, with buses coming from all over the West Bank full of eager participants, the Fourth National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) conference, hosted at Bethlehem University got off to an amazing start with a fully packed auditorium. As the day progressed, a plethora of agenda items on how to further BDS against Israel were discussed by a wide range of speakers who emphasised rejecting normalisation with Israel. |
| “We are the army...we will catch you or come to your house” - Soldiers threaten children in Kafr QaddumIn the early hours of the 7th June, the Israeli military conducted a night raid on the village of Kafr Qaddum for what is reportedly the tenth time in the last three weeks. This follows threats made by soldiers against children of the village and continued harassment, day and night. Friday’s demonstration was a chance for the children of the village to show that they are not afraid and demand justice. Although the peaceful march was violently repressed with excessive use of tear gas, the villagers remain steadfast. Recent weeks have seen a rise in night raids on the village, many for several hours with gas, rubber bullets and live ammunition fired both at random throughout the village and at people who leave their homes to protect their families. |
Jawad Abu Eysheh being handcuffed and arrested (Photo by Youth Against Settlements)Hebron man arrested for filing complaint about settler attackHuman rights activist Jawad Abu Eysheh, 39, was arrested Friday 7th June following a complaint he made four months ago about a settler attack. At 4:20 pm on 7th June, Israeli Police arrived at the house of the Hebron organisation Youth Against Settlements and demanded to see the ID’s of Jawad and three other men present. Read more. Settlers from Bracha attack and harass farmer on his landOn Friday 7th June five settlers from the illegal settlement of Bracha attacked a farmer on his land, using slingshots to throw stones at him near Huwwara checkpoint. The same settlers continued to harass the farmer... Read more. | The wave of night time invasions and arrests by Israeli military continues in the village of Ni’linA wave of night time invasions and arrests by the Israeli military continues in the village of Ni’lin. At 3am on the 10th of June Ahmad Daood, 26 years old, was arrested in his home. Ahmad Daood (Photo courtesy of Ni’lin Sons)Six military jeeps and more than thirty soldiers invaded the village in the night and tore down the gate to the Daood house. Ahmad was awakened from his sleep and brutally dragged out of bed. He was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten in front of his family before being taken away in one of the jeeps. | Area of land stolen from Bruqin, Sarta and Kafr-ad-Dik (Photo by Stop the Wall)Note under a rock: “We’re stealing your landIt was only days after it had been placed that a farmer accidentally found a piece of paper that states he was no longer the owner of his own land. The undated paper, in Hebrew and Arabic, had been hidden under a rock in the farmer’s fields in the village of Bruqin, occupied Palestine. It said that the farmer’s land was being taken for the expansion of the nearby illegal Israeli settler colony of Bruchin [also spelled as Brukhin]. |
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