Ashrawi Urges Legal Measures against Israel’s Killing of Palestinian Children

Palestinian Liberation Organization’s Executive Committee member, Hanan Ashrawi Tuesday urged to hold Israel accountable for its use of live ammunition and for the extrajudicial killings of Palestinian civilians, among other violations of international and humanitarian law.

Ashrawi, in a press release, strongly denounced the ‘deliberate execution’ of two Palestinian minors; Palestinian-American teenager, 14-year-old Orwa Hammad and 12-year-old Bahaa Badir, who were shot and killed by Israeli live ammunition near Ramallah. She described the killings as, 'a flagrant policy of terror and violence targeting Palestinian children.”

Ashrwai called on the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and other members of the international community to hold Israel accountable for its use of live ammunition and for the extrajudicial killings of Palestinian civilians, among other violations of international and humanitarian law, by taking immediate action and adopting the necessary punitive measures.”

She stressed that Israel’s “state-sponsored terrorism” contradicts the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child which Israel ratified in 1991.

“Israel’s use of excessive and indiscriminate violence constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity under international law,” stressed Ashrawi.

PLO requested that the UN’s Human Rights Council establishes an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate the circumstances surrounding the unlawful killings of the two minors and the other eight Palestinian children who have been killed by Israeli forces with live ammunition in the West Bank since the beginning of 2014, said the statement.

In addition, Ashrawi condemned Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel’s intent to move into the Palestinian town of Silwan in Occupied Jerusalem.

“I would like to remind Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel that in accordance with international human rights law and international humanitarian law the ‘deportation or transfer, directly or indirectly, by the occupying power of parts of its own population into the territory it occupies’ is illegal.”

“By willfully defying international law and consensus, Israel is inciting terrorism and confirming that it is more interested in creating a ’Greater Israel’ with Jerusalem as its ‘complete and united capital’ than backing any peace resolution that ends the military occupation of Palestine and calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital,” She concluded.

Ceasefire talks delayed until mid-November

Indirect ceasefire talks with Israel has been postponed until the second half of November, the head of the Palestinian negotiations team said Sunday. 

Azzam Al-Ahmad said the Egyptians, who sponsor the negotiations, postponed them due to the situation is northern Sinai and the closure of the Rafah crossing. 

The negotiations were due to start on Monday to discuss preserving the truce which was reached on Aug. 26, ending 50 days of violence between Israel and armed groups in Gaza. 

Earlier, Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesman of the Hamas movement, told that Egypt informed Hamas officials that the talks had been postponed.

"It's Egypt that will set a new date for indirect talks brokered by Egypt, and Hamas will be invited to that round of talks," Barhoum said.

The announcement comes in the wake of a deadly attack in the northern Sinai Peninsula in which a militant drove a car rigged with explosives into a military checkpoint, killing 30 Egyptian officers in addition to himself.

Egypt responded by imposing a curfew on North Sinai, closing the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip, and bombing suspected militant targets in the peninsula.

The Israeli assault on Gaza this summer killed more than 2,140 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.

It ended on Aug. 26 with Israel pledging it would ease the crippling siege on Gaza, loosen restrictions on fishermen, and an agreement to hold future talks on other issues.

The siege on Gaza has been in place over the last seven years and has severely limited imports and exports, including building material.

Palestinians barred from Israeli West Bank buses

Palestinians will be effectively banned from riding the same buses as Israeli settlers in the West Bank, local media said Sunday, with a rights group slamming the plan as "racial segregation."

Hundreds of Palestinians travel each day to work in Israel from the occupied West Bank, mainly in the construction business, using a single crossing point at Eyal where they present travel permits.

Currently they are allowed to return to the West Bank on the same buses as Israeli settlers.

But a new measure announced by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, due to go into effect next month, will require them to again check in at the Eyal crossing point, the Haaretz daily reported.

The workers would have to find separate transportation from that point on.

The directive in effect "bans Palestinian workers from traveling on Israeli-run public transportation in the West Bank," said Haaretz.

The defense minister was not immediately available for comment.

Israeli settlers in the West Bank have called for years for Palestinians to be banned from public transport there, arguing their presence poses a security risk.

But Haaretz reported that the bus ban contradicted the view of the Israeli army, which does not see Palestinian commuters on Israeli transport as a threat, since the workers go through security vetting before receiving their travel permits. 

Israeli rights group B'Tselem accused Yaalon of making a racially motivated decision. 

"It is time to stop hiding behind technical arrangements ... and admit this military procedure is thinly veiled pandering to the demand for racial segregation on buses," a group statement said. 

Last year, the group criticized the Israeli government for its decision to launch separate bus lines for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

90 per cent of Gazans live below poverty line

The Popular Committee for Facing the Siege on Gaza said on Friday "90 per cent of Gazan residents are living below the poverty line."

In a statement issued to mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the committee said that the Gaza Strip has been under strict Israeli siege since 2006. "Today, it records the highest rate of poverty since then," the statement said.

This high poverty rate is attributed to the increasing rate of unemployment, which dramatically increased after the latest 51-day Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

"Hundreds of factories and commercial facilities were destroyed during the war," said the statement. "This has negatively affected the economic situation."

The rate of unemployment among Gaza residents has exceeded the threshold of 65 per cent and the rate of individual income is less than 1 USD per day.

The committee called on the international community to work on lifting the siege imposed on the Strip.

Unexploded Israeli ordnance blows up in Hebron, injuring 3 boys

Three Palestinian children were injured late Tuesday when an unexploded Israeli ordnance blew up in Beit Ummar in the Hebron district, a local official said.

Muhammad Awad, coordinator of the local popular committee, said in a statement that the ordnance exploded near a house on Jerusalem-Hebron road, injuring 9-year-old Hasan Mahmoud Masyif Sabarneh, 10-year-old Yamen Muhammad Nassim Sabarneh, and 6-year-old Muhammad Jamal Mustafa Sabarneh.

Hasan was moderately injured by burns on his face, chest, and hands, Awad said.

Yamen and Muhammad sustained burns on their hands, he added.

The three were treated at Alia governmental hospital in Hebron.

The West Bank has been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.

Nazi crimes Repeated in Gaza

Netanyahu tells in his book a place under the Sun, released in 1997 by the first presidency to Israeli Government: "the leader of the Zionist movement Herzl toured many European Jews to their homeland Palestine, but the Jews were khanghin low waive life humiliation in closed and refused to respond to his request and he took them to despair later warn them of the black days coming in Europe that did not take to immigrate to the land of promise".

Netanyahu then cut the scene talking about Herzl and elaborate on the victims of Nazism.

President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen completes the tale in his book "the imperfect secret relations between Zionism and Nazism is. Zionism and Nazism are two sides of the same coin "and is a PhD by Moscow to encourage Russian Primakov, leader of the historic document without discussion.

The story of victims of Nazism is the story of a mysterious decode Abu Mazen in the 1980s and only this "makes speech light on them."

Years ago I met with Dr. Nabil Shaath, in the Office of the joint-friendly Riad Hassan "which preoccupied about our debate" the viewpoint of Dr. Shaath denied the massacre of Jews in Europe, recovery is useful as a Palestinian and as a cause of something we recognize the suffering of the Jewish people in Europe, and this requires the Jewish people recognize the suffering of the Palestinian people at the hands of the leaders of Israel and does not accept that the leaders of Israel to Jewish massacre massacres against the Palestinian people.

Dr. Shaath delivered a speech on the seminar attended by various nationalities including Israelis found in modern speech logically deserves respect and voices were demanding as demanded by Shaath.

He was a newlywed and Dr. Shaath following the emergence of some Palestinian voices you seek a cure to massacre Jews and those votes have very bad reactions on the Palestinian issue and European and internationally, not only do we get more incitement against Palestinians, especially Israel's leaders, including Netanyahu, speaking highly of the hatred that Haj Amin Al-Husseini's visit to Hitler's Germany.

And Netanyahu in his visit Haj Amin Al-Husseini as a aims to coordinate with Hitler to exterminate the Jews in Palestine by poisoning the water in the 1940s and. The rubbish of Binyamin Netanyahu listed to deepen the hatred between the Jews and the Palestinians while visiting Pilgrim Husseini to Hitler in Germany was real and did not lie in that Netanyahu but the visit was of help Germany against British occupation of Palestine has done that in the same period and Sadat established ties with Nazi Germany as well as some leaders of the Tunisian national movement, but Hitler's defeat prevented Germany help them on the independence of their country.

But if there are secret plots led to the massacre of the Jews in Europe to pressure them to emigrate to Palestine, the historical documents and insiders responded Abbas accurately and scientifically documented in the 1980s.

Since the formation of the Jewish gangs on the land of Palestine before 1948 by Jewish leaders fleeing the Nazi Inferno is the same crimes in mastering any practical application at the Palestinians as they shared in Germany and Europe, using the murder weapon of intimidation to displacement, as happened in Europe after the establishment of the State of Israel continued the same massacres and mass crimes and has not changed, only the method and techniques any allowance to line up a column of Israeli army shooting at innocent Palestinian farmers as they did in. This method is no longer appropriate and no longer practice the planes and tanks are the job better by killing civilians and the demolition of houses on the heads of their owners and within hours destroyed planes and tanks in the densely-populated whole neighborhoods.

One Israeli will shame generation than their parents and grandparents in Deir Yassin and Kafr Qasim massacre cow school, Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai in 1967 in Sabra and Shatila and Qana-Khan Younis and Shati ' Gaza shejaya khuzaa.. The generation Europe ashamed than Nazism against the Jews.

US shares Arab citizens' 'private' information with Israel

The US routinely shares private information about its citizens of Arab and Palestinian descent with Israel, the New York Times revealed yesterday.

In an Op-Ed in the newspaper, James Bamford said that the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden told him that the US "routinely passed private, unedited communications to Israel".

Documents leaked by Snowden reveal that the US passes on "unevaluated and unminimised transcripts, gists, facsimiles, telex, voice and Digital Network Intelligence metadata and content,'' to Unit 8200, an elite Israeli intelligence department.

He said the intercepts included communications of Arab and Palestinian-Americans, whose relatives in Israel and the Palestinian territories could become targets based on the information.

Whistleblower Snowdon said this is ''one of the biggest abuses we've seen", Bamford reported.

Bamford cited a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and Unit 8200 outlining transfers that have occurred since 2009.

Snowden, a former NSA contractor, is wanted by the US on espionage charges after leaking thousands of secret NSA documents.

He claimed asylum in Russia, where he has been granted a three-year residency that allows him to travel abroad.