Dozens of armed Israeli settlers attacked residents of Qusra village in the northern West Bank, as Israeli troops broke up a an anti-settlement rally in Iraq Burin and conducted raids across the West Bank.
The mosque in the village of Maghayer near Ramallah suffered damage and threatening graffiti in a pre-dawn vandal and arson attack—with scrawled slogans calling it a “price tag” by Israeli settlers.
Thousands of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv in support of a return to the 1967 borders—as the IDF fired on protesters attempting to cross the Golan Heights ceasefire line from Syria, leaving several dead.
The Abu Alkiyan Bedouin clan pledge to resist their forcible relocation to make way for a new Jewish town outside Beersheba. Israel says the clan is illegally squatting state lands—although it was transferred there in 1956 by military order.
A new bill in the Knesset would change Jerusalem neighborhoods with Arabic names to Hebrew ones—while Mayor Nir Barakat said the municipality would continue to build Jewish-only housing regardless of “political issues.”
West Bank settlers reportedly set fire to Palestinian agricultural lands near Nablus after being evicted by Israeli troops from nearby Joseph’s Tomb, which they again attempted to occupy.
Israeli army troops shut down Friday anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank, saying the unarmed weekly demonstrations have been declared illegal under new special “closed military zones.”
Following an activist campaign, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s name has been dropped from the list of honorary patrons of the JNF-UK—accused of complicity in the displacement of Palestinians.
Rae Abileah, who interrupted Bibi Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, claims she was beaten by AIPAC activists—as congressmen cheered Bibi’s plans to illegally annex chunks of “Judea and Samaria.”
Mohamed al-Korshan, representative of the Bedouin community in the West Bank, spoke at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, calling for recognition of his people as a displaced indigenous group.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC in Washington DC was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters affiliated with the Move Over AIPAC coalition.
The myopic Israeli leadership seem not to get that Obama’s statement on the 1967 borders is part of his effort to domesticate the Arab Spring—which is in their own interests.
