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Zaid Ayasa, Visual Artist
Palestinian designer
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Gerechtigkeit für Palästina - justicia para Palestina - justice pour Palestine - justice for Palestine
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Jüdische Stimme über die Geiselnahme der israelischen Jugendlichen
http://www.juedische-stimme.de/?p=1461
Stellungnahme zur Berichterstattung über die Geiselnahme der israelischen Jugendlichen
22.06.2014
Wir, Mitglieder der Jüdischen Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost – in Deutschland lebende Juden oder Personen jüdischer Abstammung – bedauern zutiefst, dass die deutsche Presse bei ihren Berichten über die Geiselnahme von drei jungen Israelis am 12. Juni nahe Hebron den Kontext weitgehend außer Acht lässt.
Seit vielen Jahren werden palästinensische Jugendliche von israelischen Soldaten festgenommen und in israelische Gefängnisse verschleppt. Häufig geschieht dies mitten in der Nacht, ohne Haftbefehl und ohne konkreten Haftgrund.
Im Durchschnitt wird alle drei Tage ein palästinensisches Kind inhaftiert oder ermordet.
Seit 2000 sind 1518 palästinensische Kinder von israelischen Sicherheitskräften oder fanatischen Siedlern getötet worden.
Zurzeit befinden sich annähernd 200 palästinensische Jugendliche unter 18 Jahren, darunter fast 30 unter 16 Jahren, in israelischen Gefängnissen – ohne ordentliche Anklage und mit nur unzureichendem Besuchsrecht für Angehörige und Anwälte.
Rund 190 palästinensische Häftlinge werden zurzeit ohne jede Anklage in israelischer Haft festgehalten.
Eine Geiselnahme, besonders wenn die Betroffenen Kinder oder Jugendliche sind, ist in keinem Fall zu rechtfertigen. Darum geht es uns auch nicht. Doch wenn über die Geiselnahme der drei israelischen Jugendlichen berichtet wird, ohne mit einem Wort auf den Kontext der seit Jahrzehnten andauernden israelischen Besatzung mit all ihren Formen der Unterdrückung und Verletzung von Menschenrechten und des Internationalen Rechts einzugehen, handelt es sich in unseren Augen um eine böswillig verzerrende Darstellung. Und wir sind der festen Überzeugung, dass, wer die Geiselnahme zu Recht verurteilt, auch die Geiselhaft einer ganzen Bevölkerung, die der Palästinenserinnen und Palästinenser, im selben Atemzug mit verurteilen muss.
Jegliche politische Instrumentalisierung der Geiselnahme durch die israelische Politik lehnen wir schon allein wegen des Zynismus eines solchen Vorgehens, auch gegenüber den jugendlichen Opfern und ihren Angehörigen, ab. Wir können uns des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, dass ohne irgendwelche Hinweise oder Geständnisse, die Hamas oder andere für die Tat verantwortlich gemacht werden, um die gesamte palästinensische Bevölkerung, selbst die von Gaza, kollektiv zu bestrafen, erneut in hunderte Häuser einzubrechen, Menschen zu verhaften oder zu ermorden. Das politische Ziel dieser Kampagne, die wenig mit der Suche und Befreiung der Geiseln zu tun zu haben scheint, dürfte eher darin liegen, die erst kürzlich erreichte Einigung innerhalb der palästinensischen politischen Lager zu unterminieren. Wir verurteilen dieses Vorgehen der israelischen Regierung entschieden und erwarten von den deutschen Medien, dass sie bei ihrer Berichterstattung den gesamten Kontext kritisch mit berücksichtigen.
Sunday, 22 June 2014
Stone Cold Justice
watch film here please:
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/02/10/3939266.htm
The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force. But now the country's military is facing a backlash at home and abroad for its treatment of children in the West Bank, occupied territory.
Coming up, a joint investigation by Four Corners and The Australian newspaper reveals evidence that shows the army is targeting Palestinian boys for arrest and detention. Reporter John Lyons travels to the West Bank to hear the story of children who claim they have been taken into custody, ruthlessly questioned and then allegedly forced to sign confessions before being taken to court for sentencing.
He meets Australian lawyer Gerard Horton, who's trying to help the boys who are arrested, and talks to senior Israeli officials to examine what's driving the army's strategy.
The program focuses on the stories of three boys. In two cases the army came for the children in the middle of the night, before taking them to unknown locations where they are questioned. A mother of one of the boys described the scene:
"Every soldier stood at the door of a room. I was telling him 'What do you want with him?' He said 'Shut up woman.' And then they started hitting him and pulling him out of bed."
"They started kicking me with their boots in my stomach, slaps on my face. They pulled me up by my t-shirt and took me out of bed." Arrested boy
Is this, as many Israelis suggest, simply part of the drive to maintain security? Or is it, as Palestinians claim, part of a much wider plan to make life in the West Bank intolerable for them?
"I think that they want to kick us out of here and drive us away because they don't want Arabs in this area."
It's a claim that's dismissed out of hand by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
"Let me say this very clearly. There is no such policy. A policy to create fear? There is no such thing. The only policy is to maintain law and order, that's all. If there's no violence, there's no law enforcement." Yigal Palmor
The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) has been investigating these claims and last year released a scathing report finding that "children have been threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault."
As Four Corners discovered, though, Palestinian children have more to fear than the Israeli army. Reporter John Lyons shows clear evidence that Israeli settlers in the West Bank regularly attack Palestinian school children, knowing the authorities will not intervene. He also discovers there are two legal systems operating. One for Israeli children and one for young Palestinians. It's an impossible situation that may provide temporary security for Israel, but in the long term may well breed a new generation of Palestinians prepared to do anything to gain retribution.
STONE COLD JUSTICE, reported by John Lyons and presented by Kerry O'Brien, goes to air on Monday 10th February at 8.30pm on ABC1. It is replayed on Tuesday 11th February at 11.35pm. It can also be seen on ABC News 24 on Saturday at 8.00pm, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2014/02/10/3939266.htm
Stone Cold Justice
Updated
Stone Cold Justice (Sylvie Le Clezio)
A SPECIAL FOUR CORNERS / THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION
Monday 10 February 2014The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force. But now the country's military is facing a backlash at home and abroad for its treatment of children in the West Bank, occupied territory.
Coming up, a joint investigation by Four Corners and The Australian newspaper reveals evidence that shows the army is targeting Palestinian boys for arrest and detention. Reporter John Lyons travels to the West Bank to hear the story of children who claim they have been taken into custody, ruthlessly questioned and then allegedly forced to sign confessions before being taken to court for sentencing.
He meets Australian lawyer Gerard Horton, who's trying to help the boys who are arrested, and talks to senior Israeli officials to examine what's driving the army's strategy.
The program focuses on the stories of three boys. In two cases the army came for the children in the middle of the night, before taking them to unknown locations where they are questioned. A mother of one of the boys described the scene:
"Every soldier stood at the door of a room. I was telling him 'What do you want with him?' He said 'Shut up woman.' And then they started hitting him and pulling him out of bed."
"They started kicking me with their boots in my stomach, slaps on my face. They pulled me up by my t-shirt and took me out of bed." Arrested boy
Is this, as many Israelis suggest, simply part of the drive to maintain security? Or is it, as Palestinians claim, part of a much wider plan to make life in the West Bank intolerable for them?
"I think that they want to kick us out of here and drive us away because they don't want Arabs in this area."
It's a claim that's dismissed out of hand by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
"Let me say this very clearly. There is no such policy. A policy to create fear? There is no such thing. The only policy is to maintain law and order, that's all. If there's no violence, there's no law enforcement." Yigal Palmor
The United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) has been investigating these claims and last year released a scathing report finding that "children have been threatened with death, physical violence, solitary confinement and sexual assault."
As Four Corners discovered, though, Palestinian children have more to fear than the Israeli army. Reporter John Lyons shows clear evidence that Israeli settlers in the West Bank regularly attack Palestinian school children, knowing the authorities will not intervene. He also discovers there are two legal systems operating. One for Israeli children and one for young Palestinians. It's an impossible situation that may provide temporary security for Israel, but in the long term may well breed a new generation of Palestinians prepared to do anything to gain retribution.
STONE COLD JUSTICE, reported by John Lyons and presented by Kerry O'Brien, goes to air on Monday 10th February at 8.30pm on ABC1. It is replayed on Tuesday 11th February at 11.35pm. It can also be seen on ABC News 24 on Saturday at 8.00pm, ABC iview and at abc.net.au/4corners.
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Sunday, 15 June 2014
Monday, 9 June 2014
Before you is the sea by Hisham Zreiq, Palestine
http://www.euromedaudiovisuel.net/p.aspx?l=en&t=news&mid=21&did=1897
MADE in MED short film contest - Finalist
his web: http://hishamzreiq.com/Films.html
MADE in MED short film contest - Finalist
his web: http://hishamzreiq.com/Films.html
Sunday, 8 June 2014
FREEDOM DENIED
http://webapps.aljazeera.net/aje/custom/2014/prisonerday/index.html
An estimated 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territories have been detained under a set of over 1,600 Israeli military laws since Israel’s occupation began in 1967. This figure makes up about 17.5 percent of the total Palestinian population in the area, and approximately 40 percent of the total male population.
"Hostile terror activity" (armed offenses)
Disturbing the public order (throwing stones)
Traditional criminal offenses (theft)
Illegally entering Israel
Traffic violations
An estimated 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territories have been detained under a set of over 1,600 Israeli military laws since Israel’s occupation began in 1967. This figure makes up about 17.5 percent of the total Palestinian population in the area, and approximately 40 percent of the total male population.
"Hostile terror activity" (armed offenses)
Disturbing the public order (throwing stones)
Traditional criminal offenses (theft)
Illegally entering Israel
Traffic violations
Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, an occupying power may suspend local laws to maintain public order, and may set up “properly constituted, non-political” military courts, to be used only if local courts do not function effectively.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, however, found that the “legal foundations and practices of the military justice system [in Israel] do not comply with international standards”.
The conviction rate for Palestinians in Israeli military courts was99.74 percent in 2010.
But what really happens when a Palestinian is arrested in the West Bank, and navigates through Israel’s military detention system?
Find out:
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