Protests against more Israeli Settlements

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Hundreds protest against Israeli settlements
Palestinians and Israeli activists occupy abandoned houses in Jericho to protest against settlements in West Bank.

Hundreds of Palestinians accompanied by Israeli activists have occupied about a dozen abandoned houses near Jericho in the occupied West Bank.

The protest by nearly 300 people on Friday was aimed at denouncing the repeated refusal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to dismantle settlements illegal under international law and agree to a pullout from the Jordan Valley.

Netanyahu on January 24 said that he "did not intend to uproot any Israeli citizen" from Jordan Valley as part of a peace deal, Haaretz newspaper reported.

The protesters arrived by bus and car and paraded a banner proclaiming "No peace with settlements", signed by the Youth Against Settlements group. They brought generators with them, indicating that they plan to at least stay overnight.

Israeli police and soldiers deployed in the area, but made no immediate move to disperse the protest.

In March last year, 200 Palestinian activists set up a protest camp on the site of an Israeli settlement that had been under construction, as US President Barack Obama visited Israel. Israeli police drove them out after several days of protest.

Meanwhile, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories has criticised Israel's demolition of 36 homes in the Jordan Valley and urged a halt to such actions in the occupied West Bank.

The demolitions in the Jordan Valley community of Ain el-Helwe on Thursday displaced 66 people, including 36 children, James Rawley said in a statement.

"I am deeply concerned about the ongoing displacement and dispossession of Palestinians... along the Jordan Valley where the number of structures demolished more than doubled in the last year," he said.

"This activity not only deprives Palestinians of access to shelter and basic services, it also runs counter to international law."

Israeli soldiers open fire

His office said more than 1,000 people had been displaced last year in the West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem by demolitions on the grounds that homes had been built without Israeli permits, "which are virtually impossible to obtain".

In a separate incident, Israeli soldiers shot and wounded 10 Palestinians near the West Bank town of Ramallah during a protest over the killing of a teenager, Palestinian medics and security sources said.

In Gaza, meanwhile, medics said five more Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army gunfire near the border fence with Israel.

The demonstration was called to protest at the Israeli army's killing on Wednesday of Mohammed Mubarak, a 19-year-old from Jalazun working on a project funded by USAID and son of the camp's locally elected leader.

The army said he was shot dead near a settlement outside Ramallah after opening fire on them, but witnesses insisted he was unarmed.

A total of 27 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank in 2013, three times more than the previous year, figures from Israeli rights watchdog B'Tselem showed.

On Thursday, British charity Oxfam severed its ties with Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson over her endorsement of an Israeli firm operating in a settlement in the occupied West Bank - a move that Oxfam said was "incompatible" with its stance.

The spat has come at a delicate time for US-backed peacetalks between Israel and the Palestinians. Israeli officials fear that if the talks fail, a nascent call for an economic boycott of Israel and its settlements might grow.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/01/hundreds-protest-against-israeli-settlements-20141311844770384.html

Shame on the Israeli government, doing their utmost to make sure the peace talks fail, their intention all along, and thieving land that is not theirs against international law.

A boycott should be put in place immediately instead of letting them get away with it year after year.

SEXY MAMA wrote:

smelly_bandit wrote:

Israel has stolen no lands

and i agree that Israel should obey international law, WHEN intentional law starts hammering the Palestinians for attacking Israel

Israel has stolen no lands? Complete bollocks and you know it!

Do you know that the qur'an promises Israel to the Jews??

labour revival wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:@smelly
          
WTF gave you that idea
              

 :::grouch::  :::grouch::  :::grouch::  But come to think about it why the hell not, Solves a lot of problems; over population, world hunger, poverty, environmental pressures and a hell of a lot of wars.


AND its only about 3.5 billion no more than 4         

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations


 ::troll::

You have very interesting and disturbing ideas; Skynet isn't real you know. I'm none too keen on religion myself but genocide for saying Hail Marys seems a bit harsh.

Bit of a difference between these suicide bombing scum and your average Christian I would have thought. The last time I was an active Christian I didn't once feel the urge to bomb my local coffee shop.

Your local Abortion clinic?

Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, there has been an organized campaign by anti-abortion extremists which has resulted in escalating levels of violence against women's health care providers. In an attempt to stop abortion, anti-abortion extremists have chosen to take the law into their own hands.

What began as peaceful protests with picketing moved to harassing clinic staff and patients as they entered clinics and eventually escalated to blockading clinic entrances.

This foundation of harassment led to violence with the first reported clinic arson in 1976 and a series of bombings in 1978. Arsons and bombings have continued until this day. Anti-abortion extremists have also used chemicals to block women's access to abortion employing butyric acid to vandalize clinics and sending anthrax threat letters to frighten clinic staff.

In the early 1990s, anti-abortion extremists concluded that murdering providers was the only way to stop abortion. The first provider was murdered in 1993. Since then, there have been seven subsequent murders and numerous attempted murders of clinic staff and physicians, several of which occurred in their own homes. In 2009, NAF member Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his church in Wichita, Kansas.

Skynet WILL be.. We are getting closer, I am sitting in a room with over 100 people working towards it.