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call for demonstration of invisible men and women workers of the world 4th June!

transnational movement of migrant and precarious workers and workers IWW (invisible workers of the world) is 15 At its April meeting, they decided that the fourth June in Ljubljana organized manifestation of the rights of migrant workers.

decision is the result of the unwillingness of the authorities of the Republic of Slovenia to take responsibility for the disastrous situation of migrant workers. IWW in recent years and especially intense after the outbreak of the financial and economic crisis, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and other responsible institutions in the country warned of the extremely difficult situation of migrant workers, and the systematic violations and denial of their labor, social and civil rights. Furthermore, they are constantly warned that the State bears the primary responsibility to its migration regime, which should not be ashamed of the most racist and sworn defenders of apartheid. We constantly have insisted that the only solution to such a change of legislation that abolished the dependence of workers between employers and reflected in the welfare state.

government's response to the calls, campaigns and mobilization of the cosmetic changes to existing migration laws, which will not be building a system of dependency and not to eliminate institutional discrimination against migrant workers. The Government of the Republic of Slovenia to the February regulation to attain negligible systematic violations of social rights in the form of humanitarian aid, which many employees viewed as humiliation. Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs did not respond to the legitimate demands of workers who had been banished from the Republic of Slovenia, employers and the state owed them right from work. The last test readiness of the Government to make concrete moves beyond the declarative Compassion is a manifestation of the March was deported from Slovenia and cheated workers in Banja Luka. Call of self-organized injured workers and deported under the IWW, to be involved in solving the problems of migrant workers, did not get any response. Also, nobody in the government and its institutions are not interested in the fate of workers on strike in a former working-class home Vegradovem in Velenje, striking workers in General Discussion Sežana SCT striking workers in workers' hostels in. Count of being swept threat, insecurity, marginalization and poverty.

reasons for the demonstration of migrant workers are therefore at hand. Only with great demonstration of the counteract forget, marginalization, defeat, withdrawal of hope, the normalization of the extreme forms of exploitation of the unscrupulous. It is also obvious reasons, to demonstrate to them everybody else. Nobody has anything from such looting of workers, except construction and other barons, their political circle and the institution of financial capitalism. Moreover, at the height of the crisis is clear that corruption is a major factor - the total flow of wealth into the pockets of a handful and blocking our ability to produce - the systematic denial of rights of men and women workers, their dependency, the absence of any guarantees. The latter is not only a paradigm of working and living condition of migrant workers, but all of them.

We urge everyone to the fourth of June along busy streets to build a power with which we won the rights and guarantees, stop the corruption that is taking us forward. A whole generation was sentenced to brezperspektivnost. Migrants and migrant deny the right to choose, to mobility, to labor, social and civil rights. Students will pehajo the precarity of study and universities working site extreme stratification and the degradation of youth. Precarious workers and workers have their rights denied and pehajo in poverty. Increasingly scarce, which still have some rights may be retained for the price of obedience. Unless you are incorporated. Not to defend anything, but to define and enforce rights, build their strength and change the world.

In Europe, on both sides of the common Mediterranean Sea, in European cities to rise up against the policies of tightening belts and violence of financial capitalism in the European provinces, where the younger generation stood up against subjection, hierarchy, a hopeless situation, the local dictatorship in transnational movement of migrants who cross the border and undermining the regime of the European apartheid, rising new generation. 4. June in Ljubljana, we made a manifestation of this new generation, the moment of its visibility, strength and determination. , Calling for justice for migrant workers and workers who have them in the European apartheid systematically denied. We shall build a new solidarity, a new power, a new joint body - to win our common future.

IWW (Invisible Workers of the World)
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Mobilization:

28th May 2011:

Assembly IWW and mobilizing concert

second June 2011:

Zlatko Kaučič with friends in support of the invisible workers of the world

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From PCHR-Weekly Report on Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory (May 12 to 18, 2011).

to 63 anniversary of the Palestinian nakba Israeli occupation forces in an attack on nonviolent protesters at the border crossing of Beit Hanoun / Erez in the north of the Gaza Strip wounded dozens of civilians

Information from the weekly reports Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12-18 May 2011) on Israeli violations of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory in the period between 12 and 18 May 2011. The full report, with more information, you can read in English on the link .

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Firing:

In the period between 12 and 18 May the Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinian minors. 1 killed in Jerusalem, and others with mental retardation, was killed in Gaza excessive use of lethal force by the occupying forces. Israeli occupation forces were also wounded 148 civilians, including 49 minors and 1 international peace activists. Of the total number of wounded, 144 were injured when Israeli occupation forces used the excessive force to disperse nonviolent demonstrators who were marking the 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian nakba, 3 civilians were injured during a nonviolent protest against the construction of settlements and kolonističkih aneksijskog Wall. One Palestinian child was wounded in the explosion of a suspicious subject who was left behind by the Israeli occupying army.

13th May 2011. in the fourth Silwan in Jerusalem in the West Bank in cold 1 Palestinian killed was a juvenile. The bullet came from the two houses that were previously occupied by the middle of Silwana Israeli colonists. At a time when he was killed, a juvenile was walking on a dirt road between 10 and 15 meters from the 2 houses. One private security agencies and the Israeli border police protect the colonists who occupied the house and 2.

In Gaza 15th May 2011. Israeli occupation forces used the excessive lethal force and killed a mentally retarded Palestinian minors near Nahal Oz border crossing, east of Gaza City. A minor was killed by a grenade was fired at him, the Israeli occupying army. Nursing teams were murdered body is found almost 300 meters west of the Nahal Oz crossing. [...]

15th May 2011. Israeli occupation forces used the excessive force to disperse protesters who were non-violent protests marking the 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian nakba in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Injured 144 Palestinian civilians, including 47 minors, 5 women and 4 journalists. In the Gaza Strip wounded 105 people, including 31 minors, 3 women and 3 journalists. In the West Bank injured 38 civilians, including 16 minors, 2 women and 1 journalist. [...]

Israeli occupation forces have also used the excessive force to disperse nonviolent demonstrators who protested against the building of illegal Israeli settlements and the Wall kolonističkih in the West Bank. 3 demonstrators were wounded, including 1 juvenile and 1 international peace activists. Dozens of Palestinian civilians and international human rights activists who participated in nonviolent protests in the West Bank had health problems due to tear gas inhalation and bruises from the blows of Israeli occupation forces.

One Palestinian was a minor 13th May 2011. seriously injured in an explosion of suspected cases is behind in the Jordan Valley in the northeast of the West Bank has left the Israeli occupying army.


military incursions into Palestinian Community:

In the period between 12 and 18 May the Israeli occupying forces launched at least 20 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank during which they arrested 15 Palestinian civilians, including 3 minors.

Israeli occupation forces continued to repress nonviolent demonstrations, and preventing international human rights activists to participate in nonviolent protests against the construction of settlements and the Wall kolonističkih. As part of its efforts, the Israeli occupation forces arrested four demonstrators, including 2 Israeli peace activists, and brought them to the police station, "Benjamin" in the southeast of Ramallah. They were arrested later exempt. Israeli occupation forces also detained six protesters who participated in nonviolent protest near the checkpoint at the occasion of 63rd Qalandiyji anniversary of the Palestinian nakba.


Restrictions of movement:

Israel to the occupied Palestinian territories continued to impose a strict siege, and Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, severe restrictions of movement.

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Israeli settlers attacks on Palestinian civilians and property:

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14th May 2011. kolonističkog few settlers from the settlements, "Gilad" attacked three Palestinian farmers from Jeet village, northeast of Qalqilyje. [...] The attack happened in front of the Israeli occupation forces.

15th May 2011, a group of Israeli settlers from kolonističkog settlement of Kiryat Arba, south of Hebron, attacked a house in the neighborhood of Wadi al-Hussain which is located beside the kolonističkog settlement. The colonists tried to burn my house and threatened the lives of residents. [...]

17th May 2011, several Israeli settlers caught in the orphanage school in occupied East Jerusalem. The colonists were attacked by students in the classroom, and Israeli police then arrested the principal and his deputy and took them for questioning.


documented Israeli violations of international law in the period between 12 and 18 May 2011.

first Incursions in the Palestinian territories and attacks on Palestinian civilians and property in the West Bank and Gaza Strip

use excessive force against demonstrations which marked the Palestinian nakba anniversary

Sunday 15th May 2011. Israeli occupation forces used a lethal force to disperse participants in nonviolent protests that were organized in Gaza Gaza and the West Bank to mark the 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian nakba. Wounded a total of 144 Palestinian civilians, including 47 minors, 5 women and 4 journalists, and in the Gaza Strip 105 persons (including 31 minors, 3 women, 3 journalists) and the West Bank 38 people, including 16 minors, 2 women and 1 journalists. [...]


According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, the events were loosened in the following way:

Gaza Strip:

about 10:30 am on Sunday 15th May 2011. Dozens of Palestinians have begun to assemble approximately 1700 feet south from the border crossing of Beit Hanoun (Erez) to the north of the Gaza Strip, with the intention to participate in the celebration of 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian nakba. Around 11:30 am Dozens of Palestinians were headed toward the border fence with Israel near the border crossing at Beit Hanoun (Erez). 10 minutes later, Israeli forces positioned at the border had fired four artillery shells into an area where Palestinians have gathered. Israeli soldiers also opened fire on demonstrators from the observatory. The soldiers continued to shoot occasionally until the evening, while flying over the area while helicopters also opened fire on the area around the protesters. The army also fired tear gas and smoke bombs as some protesters caused blackouts and neurological symptoms. 103 Palestinians were injured, and dozens have had health problems due to inhaling tear gas. [...]

were injured and three journalists, and 3 medical staff members of the Palestinian Red Crescent is due to suffocation fainted.

Israeli forces positioned at the border east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza Strip, about 15 hours to have opened fire near dozens of Palestinians participated in a nonviolent protest in the eastern part of the village 'Abasan, east of Khan Yunis and wounded two Palestinians.


West Bank:

Around 13:30 Sunday 15th May 2011. Dozens of Palestinian civilians gathered at the entrance to Qalandya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, where they were headed towards the checkpoint in Qalandyji separating Ramallah from Jerusalem. Protesters by Israeli soldiers threw stones and empty bottles. The soldiers are from the early morning were increasingly deployed in the vicinity of the checkpoint. Israeli forces immediately began firing rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas at protesters. Injured 26 civilians, including 11 minors and 1 woman. [...] Medical sources say that most of the injuries was in the upper body. Israeli forces, using their prerušenih unit, arrested 6 Palestinians, including one who suffered injuries to the head.

also approximately 13:30, dozens of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University, and dozens of Palestinians from nearby villages gathered at the center of the village of Bir Zeit on the non-violent protest on the occasion of 63rd anniversary of the Palestinian nakba. Protesters marched through the streets, chanting slogans and carrying Palestinian flags. Then they reached the checkpoint Attar, north of the village of Bir Zeit, where the Israeli occupation forces hiding behind a cement block. Israeli occupation forces closed the checkpoint, protesters and they began to pelt stones at the Israeli occupation forces responded firing warheads bullets, rubber coated metal bullets, tear gas and sound bombs. Dozens of protesters had difficulty due to tear gas inhalation, and many have sustained bruises from the blows of Israeli occupying forces, but all were assisted at the scene and no one was hospitalized.

Palestinian civilians in Hebron area also organized several nonviolent protests, the center of Hebron and south of the city, at the northern entrance to the city, at the entrance to the village of Beit Ummar, Bani N'eim and Zeef, and at the entrance to the refugee Fawwar camp. In clashes with Israeli forces injured 12 civilians, including 5 minors and 1 woman. Several protesters fainted due to tear gas inhalation, While some suffered bruises from the beating of soldiers.

Israeli occupation forces during the protests deliberately obstructed the work of many journalists. Some of them are directly attacked, the other is prevented from doing their job, some are driven from the scene who were trying to track. Najeh Diab al-Hashlamon (48), cameraman American news agency APA, was wounded by a bullet in the left foot. [...] The Israeli occupation forces also opened fire and smashed the windscreen of a vehicle a cameraman agency AFP.

Al-Hashlamon the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said that on Sunday 15th May, about 15 hours there in the street Talaat Al-Zahed, north of the old town of Hebron. He has a group of Israeli soldiers that were shot by Palestinian protesters from the streets of east Talaat al-Zahed. Then he hit a bullet right in the left foot. He claims that he was clearly in the Israeli soldiers who were away from him, only 8 meters. [...]

On Sunday, 15 May morning, Israeli occupation forces seized a number of roofs in the city of Hebron and the village of Beit Ummar and turned them into military positions. Dozens of gunmen have been deployed on those rooftops in order to target Palestinian civilians who participated in nonviolent protests. [...]


second The use of excessive force against nonviolent protesters against the construction of illegal kolonističkih settlements and the Wall

In the period covered by this report the Israeli occupation forces used force against nonviolent demonstrators - of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights activists - who protested against the construction of the Wall and kolonističkih settlements in the West Bank. 3 demonstrators were wounded, including 1 juvenile and 1 international activists. Dozens of Palestinian civilians and human rights activists have had difficulties due to tear gas inhalation and suffered bruises. Israeli occupation forces also arrested four demonstrators, including 2 Israeli peace activists, and drove them to the police station, "Benjamin", southeast of Ramallah. To freedom were released the same day about 22 hours.

on Friday 13 May 2011. After noon pray dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights activists staged a nonviolent protest in Bil'in village, west of Ramallah. The protest was organized against the construction of Israel's illegal Wall, and coincided with the 63rd is anniversary of the Palestinian nakba. Protesters carried pictures of locals killed Jawaher and Basem Abu Rahme and the big key with the number 63, number of years that have passed since the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes 1948th year. Elderly people and children were driving the car dressed in traditional Palestinian clothing, displaying on the way back to their homeland. Demonstrators then headed towards the illegal Wall. Israeli occupation forces about 100 meters from the Wall set a barrier of barbed wire. Before the protesters arrived to set up obstacles, the Israeli occupation forces started firing real bullets, rubber coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas at protesters. Israeli occupation forces also protesters poured waste water and chased them in the fields of olive groves. 2 Palestinians were wounded, including one juvenile, and dozens have had difficulties due to tear gas inhalation and / or sustained bruises.

same day, also after noon pray, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli activists Human Rights organized a nonviolent protest in the village of Ni'lin, west of Ramallah. The protest was organized against the construction of illegal Israeli Wall. The protesters headed towards the wall and Israeli occupation forces closed the passage to the wall of barbed wire. When the protesters tried to cross the wall and come to a country that is with his other hand, Israeli occupation forces were in fact prevented. Protesters fought back to hitting the Israeli occupation forces with stones, and Israeli occupation forces then began firing at the protesters valid gunpowder ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas. Israeli occupation forces also chased protesters through fields of olive groves. Many protesters had difficulties due to tear gas inhalation.

same day, after noon pray, dozens of Palestinian civilians and international and Israeli human rights activists peacefully protesting against the building of illegal Israeli Wall and settlements in kolonističkih Nabi Saleh village, northwest of Ramallah. The demonstrators passed the streets and shouted slogans against the Israeli occupation and arbitrary procedures. Carrying Palestinian flags were sent to earth by trying to take settlers from kolonističkog settlement Halmish. Israeli occupation forces closed the southern entrance to the village to the Palestinian and international protesters prevented to come to this country. Israeli occupation forces have prevented the activists to come to these countries and the protesters fired valid gunpowder ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets, sound bombs and tear gas. Israeli occupation forces were also protesters poured waste water and gave up in pursuit of them. One is an American activist (23) hit by tear gas cartridge in the head and rushed to a hospital in Ramallah. Many protesters had difficulty due to teargas inhalation and suffered bruising [...] The Israeli occupation forces also arrested four demonstrators, including 2 Israeli peace activists, and transferred them to the police station Benjamin, southeast of Ramallah. They were released the same day in 22 hours.

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Source and more information: Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (12-18 May 2011)


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Man shot dead by gunmen near Nablus
Armed men killed a man near Nablus (21 May 2011.)
One man (32) shot dead on Saturday (May 21, 2011.) in village of Beit Dajan near Nablus in the northern West Bank. Motive for the killing remains unknown, and had previously been killed in a Palestinian jail on accusations that the Israeli agent. This is the second such killing this month. 6th May is next to Ramallah in the West Bank killed a 30-year-old Palestinian who is also suspected of working for Israel.

UNRWA: Palestinian refugees' health at risk still
UNRWA: Health of Palestinian refugees and still threatened (21 May 2011.)
UN agency to assist Palestinian refugees facing major challenges in providing health services to Palestinian refugees, say from these agencies. Despite progress in some key areas - including reducing infant mortality - health of all Palestinian refugees is threatened. Widespread poverty, unemployment and social discrimination are also adversely affect the health of refugees, for example, limited their access to health care. Medical centers are swamped, and one doctor in the average daily hits on 100 patients, according to an UNRWA-ins report. Israel's illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip and restrictions on movement in the West Bank also affect the delivery of health services. In the UNRWA and warned that the increasingly common cases where refugees can not provide an adequate level of medical care and assistance.

Ni'lin marks 3rd anniversary of non-violent protests
Ni'lin marked three years of maintaining non-violent protest (21 May 2011.)
Ni'lin village in the West Bank on Friday (May 20) is marked by three years of weekly nonviolent protest against the Israeli Wall. Since 2008. killed 5 Palestinians protesting against Israeli confiscation of 1 / 3 of land in the village. Hundreds of protesters were injured and detained as the soldiers forcibly repressed protests, sometimes using munitions and battles. In June 2008. The village was under siege by the Israeli army in the summer of that year killed 10-year-old Ahmed Moussa, and his funeral on 18-year-old Yousif Amira. 2 protesters were killed in the village in December 2008. - Arafat Khawaja (22) and Mohammad Khawaja (18). American activist Tristan Anderson suffered a severe head injury and brain when he was Israeli soldier shot in the head cartridge tear gas at protest in March 2009. 2 months later, the soldiers munition warheads hit in the chest and killed by Yousef Awela Sadiq Srour (36). On Friday hundreds of Palestinians gathered and prayed near the illegal Wall, and then along with dozens of international activists, headed to passage in the wall. Israeli forces were waiting for them at the door, firing tear gas at protesters and sound grenades. Although so far the protests have been killed 5, wounded 700 and arrested 150 people, including juveniles, to announce that residents, encouraged changes that have been achieved protests in Egypt, continue with the protests in the village of Ni'lin.

Sha'ath: We will stick to UN plan Statehood
Palestinians will seek recognition of a Palestinian state in the UN in September (22 May 2011.)
Fatahov senior official said Nabil Sha'ath AFP that in his statement that he does not accept withdrawal to the 1967 borders, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu proved that rejects the peace process. Sha'ath added that the Palestinians continue to work on its strategic goal - the UN's recognition of a Palestinian state (on the borders of 1967.) In September this year. Obama in his speech to the Palestinians tried to dissuade from this move.

Un bateau pour français Gaza; des dizaines de personnalités françaises le soutiennent
Dozens of French artists and intellectuals supported the French ship to Gaza in which the civilian international flotilla Stay Human (Stay a man), navigate to the end of June Gaza.
A ce jour, les seuls changements notables observes sont l'augmentation des Importations de biens de consommation et de denrées alimentaires et un accroissement des autorisations de circulation aux hommes et femmes d'affaires. Pour le reste, comme le viento de confirmer un rapport publié par 26 ONG européennes, "Des Espoirs réduits to nothingness. Continuation of the blockade of Gaza, "nothing has changed in Gaza. 80% of the population depends on international aid, power outages lasting from 4 to 6 hours per day and more often, 60% of the population receives piped water only once every 3-4 days for 6-8 hours.


Sirija:
Syria Buries icts dead after anti-regime protests
Qurabi 26 Said Killed In The People were of Idlib province and 13 in Homs. Two People were Killed In The aussi eastern town of Deir Ezzor, one in Daraya, a suburb of the Capital Damascus, One in the coastal city of Latakia and one in central Hama. Among the dead were a 12-year-old boy and four others between the ages of 15 and 18. One was also identified as a soldier. ... Foreign media are not allowed to travel in the country to report on the unrest making it difficult to verify information. Fridays have become a rallying point in the nine-week revolt that has posed the greatest challenge to President Bashar Al-Assad's 11-year rule. ... Assad's regime has responded to the violence with a brutal crackdown that has left at least 850 people dead and hundreds injured, according to rights groups. Thousands more have been arrested and tortured, activists say. ... The protests have posed the greatest challenge to Assad's 11-year regime, dominated by members of his minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The majority of Syria's 23-million population are Sunni Muslims. ... Some 250 people fleeing the unrest in Syria had already crossed into Turkey last month. At least 5.000 have also sought refuge in neighboring Lebanon.

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new protests for the return of refugees announced for the 5th June


Source: Committee: Refugee 'return rallies' planned for June 5

21st May 2011.

organizers of the protest for the return of Palestinian refugees who were held on 15th May announced that the Palestinian refugees sent back to the Israeli border 5th June this year.

Sunday 15th May Israel forces opened fire on thousands of refugees who were trying to return to their land in Israel. 14 protesters were killed: 10 Palestinian refugees who were trying to cross from Lebanon into Israel and 4 Palestinian refugees who were trying to get the Golan Heights, which is under Israeli occupation.

Hundreds of protesters were injured when Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets at Palestinians who were protesting at the Qalandiya checkpoint separating Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. Israeli forces also killed a Palestinian teenager who participated in the protest at the Erez border crossing in northern Gaza.

International Organization for Human Rights Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have demanded an investigation into the murders. Human Rights Watch claims that the Israeli forces for shooting stones by youths responded munition warheads, which predictably led to deadly consequences. Amnesty International has accused Israel of using "excessive force that killed and injured persons who are not a threat to the lives of soldiers or other persons."

protesters 15th May Day marked nakba, the anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and villages during the establishment of the State of Israel 1948th and demanded their right of return.

Committee, which organized the protest for the return of said that this was only the beginning, and urged all Palestinian refugees to fifth June join nonviolent protest march. 5th June, marks the anniversary of the War of 1967. when Israel occupied southern Lebanon, the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and West Bank. On that day thousands of refugees protest at the borders with Israel in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, and in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, demanding their right to return. The statement added that the protests will continue until the Palestinian refugees do not return all the occupied Palestinian cities. Palestinian lawyers are invited to raise a claim for the killing of protesters 15th svibnja.


DODATNI LINKOVI:
Palestina/Izrael:
Jonathan Cook: Is Israel at a Strategic Dead End as Palestinian "Arab Spring" Arrives?
The Palestinian "Arab Spring" is arriving and Israel has no diplomatic or political strategy to deal with it. Instead on Sunday, Israel used the only weapon in its current arsenal - brute force - against unarmed demonstrators. Along the northern borders, at least 14 protesters were killed and dozens wounded, both at Majdal Shams in the Golan and near Maroun al-Ras in Lebanon. In Gaza, a teenager was shot dead and more than 100 other demonstrators wounded as they massed at crossing points. At Qalandiya, the main checkpoint Israel created to bar West Bank Palestinians from reaching Jerusalem, at least 40 protesters were badly injured. There were clashes in major West Bank towns too. And inside Israel, the country's Palestinian minority took their own Nakba march for the first time into the heart of Israel, waving Palestinian flags in Jaffa, the once-famous Palestinian city that has been transformed since 1948 into a minor suburb of Tel Aviv.

Palestinian factions react to Obama's speech
Palestinian People's Party general-secretary Bassam As-Salhi said Obama demonstrated a clear bias toward Israel, particularly by trying to obstruct Palestinian efforts to seek UN recognition of a state. Dismissing Palestinians' intention to seek recognition of their state at the UN, Obama said "Symbolic actions to isolate Israel at the United Nations in September won't create an independent state." As-Salhi said Obama gave "dangerous hints" that he aimed to pursue an interim solution to the occupation. The president also failed to condemn illegal Jewish-only settlements in the occupied West Bank, As-Salhi said. The last round of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations collapsed within weeks over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's refusal to extend a partial freeze on illegal construction on occupied Palestinian land. But Obama tried to equate Palestinian and Israeli responsibility on the breakdown of talks, the PPP official said, adding that the president "evaded" the implementation of UN resolutions. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine also said Obama's speech was biased toward Israel, and ignored the need to respond to democratic changes across the region. It was out of sync with US claims to value freedom, democracy and justice, PFLP said in a statement. Obama had subdued to Israeli pressure and ignored the legitimate demands of Palestinians, the leftist faction said, particularly by trying to prevent Palestine seeking recognition at the UN as a member of the international community. Continued attempts by the US administration to restart the peace process reflected Washington's growing need to distract attention from Israel's invasions and assaults on Palestinian people, PFLP said. While the president applauded uprisings in Arab countries in demand of human rights, he said an end to the Israeli occupation "must be negotiated." PFLP accused the U.S. and Israel of seeking a return to talks to avoid being forced to Comply with international law and the Geneva Conventions.

Palestinian shot dead near Gaza-Israel border
Israeli forces on Saturday (May 21) in the Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian who claimed that the crawling towards the fence on the border with Israel. Israeli forces on Friday (May 20) opened fire and wounded one of demonstrators in southern Gaza.


Syria
Activist: 44 killed Friday in Syria protest
Security forces killed 44 people on Friday during anti-regime protests which swept Syria, with most of the casualties in the western province of Idlib and the central city of Homs, a human right activist told AFP on Saturday. "Syrian authorities are continuing to use excessive force and live ammunition to face popular protests in various regions throughout the country," said Ammar Qurabi, head of the National Organisation for Human Rights, who was reached by telephone. Qurabi said 26 people were killed on Friday in the province of Idlib and 13 in Homs. Two people were also killed in the eastern town of Deir Ezzor, one in Daraya, a suburb of the capital Damascus, one in the coastal city of Latakia and one in central Hama. The authoritarian government has responded to the protests that have swept Syria since March 15 with a brutal crackdown that has left at least 850 people dead and hundreds injured, according to rights groups. Thousands have been arrested.

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Mainly links about Palestine / Israel


Palestina/Izrael:
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment - Book by Mazin Qumsiyeh
Over two-thirds of the 10 million native Palestinians in the world are refugees or displaced people. This outcome, like all other similar situations in history such as in South Africa, could not have come about without resistance to the violence of colonialism. But most of this resistance has been in the form of civil/nonviolent resistance that is little discussed elsewhere. This book will answer an acute need in the literature on this neglected area. Because there has been key transformative events that bookmark chapters of our history, we use the intervening periods as indeed chapters to discuss what acts of civil resistance transpired and what lessons are drawn from them. These periods: the resistance to Zionism during the Ottoman rule (from the first colonies in 1878 til 1917); the British era from 1917 (Balfour Declaration) to 1935; the 1936-1939 uprising; the period between the start of WWII and the Nakba of destruction of hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages between 1947-1949; the period of fragmentation of the Palestinian population in exile and divided among the rule of Israel, Jordan and Egypt (to 1967); the unification under one ethnocentric Jewish state after 1967 to 1987; the uprising of 1987-1991; the Oslo years 1992-2000; and the Al-Aqsa Intifada starting in 2000. Various UN resolutions and customary International law affirmed the legitimacy of armed resistance. For example, UNGA A/RES/33/24 of 29 November 1978 "Reaffirms the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples for independence, territorial integrity, national unity and liberation from colonial and foreign domination and foreign occupation by all available means, particularly armed struggle". The principle of self-determination itself provides that where forcible action has been taken to suppress the right, force may be used in order to counter this and achieve self-determination. Considering decades of ethnic cleansing, violence, destruction, it is actually surprising how few Palestinians engaged in violent resistance as a whole (whether internationally sanctioned or not). In fact, from the first Zionist colony in 1878 until the 1920s, we show in this book that nearly 50 years had elapsed of popular nonviolent resistance.

Pro-Peace Groups to Confront AIPAC's Love-Fest for Israeli Militarism
A cultural and political rift is widening within the Jewish-American community. It's a divide that will be on display later this month in Washington, DC, as the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) holds its annual meeting and a broad coalition of progressive groups answer with a dueling “Move Over, AIPAC” conference highlighting the powerful PAC's disproportionate influence over U.S. policy in the Middle East. “We hope to show the Congress and the administration that AIPAC is not the only game in town,” Code Pink's Medea Benjamin, one of the campaign organizers, told AlterNet. “It doesn't represent all of the opinions of the Jewish community or of the population at large, and it's time for U.S. policy in the Middle East to be made in the interest of the United States and not in the perceived interest of Israel.”

Lord Dubs raises concerns for Palestinian child detainees in UK Parliament
We went to see how children are treated by this system of military justice. Approximately 700 Palestinian children are prosecuted every year in these courts, and at the end of January this year some 222 were in jail. In the court we visited we saw a 14 year-old and a 15-year-old, one of them in tears, both looking absolutely bewildered. What shocked me as much as anything was to see that these young persons-children-had chains or shackles around their ankles while sitting in court. They were also handcuffed as they went into court. Although the handcuffs were taken off while they were in court, they were put on again as they left the court. When being interogated these young people do not have the security of video recordings, lawyers or parents present. In fact, if parents want to visit, their permission might take 60 days to come through, by Which time the young person might have served his or her sentence. The court proceedings are in Hebrew, with translations of a doubtful quality. The Verdicts are mostly based on uncorroborated confession evidence.

Palestinian teen buried in Jerusalem
buried in Jerusalem killed a Palestinian juvenile (14 May 2011.)
Around 2,000 people gathered for the funeral of a Palestinian teenager Milada Said Ayyash (16) who was killed on Friday during a protest by Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem. Protests in the Palestinian territories, the Arab countries, Israel and around the world marks the 63rd Anniversary nakba. The funeral procession moved from Ayyashevog home in the neighborhood of Ras Al-Amud near nearby kolonističkog exclusively Jewish settlements, where the Israeli security forces fired tear gas at youths who pelted them with stones. Israeli media reported that there were wounded and arrested. The protesters carried Palestinian and Fatah flags and Palestinian flags zavijorila is the roof of the mosque where prayers were held for the deceased. One Ayyashov relatives told reporters that the murdered man in the abdomen gunshot hit a Jewish settler in the neighborhood Silwan, while police claimed that Ayyash shoulder suffered minor injuries, whose cause is still unknown, and that the investigation is ongoing. Police argues that neither the settlers nor the security forces did not use valid gunpowder ammunition. The family was murdered izrealskoj refused to allow police to conduct an autopsy and picked up his body from a hospital in East Jerusalem where he died from injuries sustained during the night. Israeli police on Friday arrested 34 Palestinian youths who were suspected of having violated the public order, while on Wednesday and Thursday arrested 13th Police said that in clashes with demonstrators who threw stones at police and Molotov cocktails easier ozblijeđena 3 officers and 3 demonstrators. An AFP correspondent's claims that the Silwanu saw at least 4 Palestinians were injured by rubber bullets police fired at youths who pelted the Silwanu stones. Clashes also erupted in neighborhoods Issawiya, Al-Tur and Ras al-Amud, which is located next to the Old City of Jerusalem. Palestinian organizations on Sunday organized mass rallies and protests, including in neighboring Arab countries. The Egyptian army propalestinskim protesters blocked access to the Sinai Peninsula. Protesters plan on Saturday to go from Cairo to the Gaza Strip. 63 years ago, during the creation of Israel, out of their homes has been expelled or avoid more than 760 000 Palestinians - the vast majority of indigenous peoples. Tim is a people and their descendants, whose number is now estimated at 4.7 million, are still prevented from returning to their homeland, just because the Palestinians, not Jews. Only 160 000 Palestinians inside Israel's borders. They now have about 1.3 million and represent 20% of the Israeli population.

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"Notes on Palestine / Israel"
No stranger to colonization, the British saw that the Zionists were undermining the stability of British rule over Palestine and began limiting Jewish immigration to Palestine and Jewish halted purchases of land in Palestine. This prompted a response by the Zionists: terrorism. Some chose to target Arab villages Which could no longer legally be depopulated by land purchases, and others chose to target the British colonial authorities. The Haganah, the predecessor to the current IDF, targeted Arab villages and civilians in campaigns of ethnic cleansing and intimidation to provoke the exodus of Palestinians. The UN Partition Plan to create a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine would have assigned the Jewish state 55% of the land when in reality they only owned 6%. The alternative offered by the Palestinians and other Arabs was the creation of a single democratic, secular state in Palestine. The hopes for an UN-mediated solution were dashed when the UN Emissary Count Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by Zionist terrorists from Irgun, comprised of extremist Zionists and led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which targeted not only the British but engaged in not just ethnic cleansing but massacres in Palestinian villages such as Deir Yassin. Future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was the commander the Zionist forces that massacred the Muslim men of Lydda and sent the rest of the population into exile including the future founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine George Habash. The Palestinians who refused to be driven from their homes or intimidated into exile make up the current Arab population of Israel, and they were subject to martial law from 1948 until 1967. … The two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just as illegitimate now as it was in 1948. The final resolution of the conflict must include the repatriation of the 1948 refugees to their original homes, not consignment to the rump Palestinian state which would be formed from the leftovers of the Green Line. A just solution must recognize the right of the Palestinian people to live in all parts of historic Palestine with total freedom of movement along with full citizenship coupled with recognition of responsibility for the 63-year-old refugee crisis and reparations from the Zionist state. The ideas and dreams of Zionists have no right to take precedence over the reality of Palestine which was obliterated in 1948. The original solution proposed by the Arab Higher Committee remains the best solution in respects to both Jewish and Palestinian people in Palestine: a single democratic, secular state.

Prof. Rashid Khalidi on Hamas-Fatah agreement (video)
The biggest difference is the earthquake that has affected the entire Arab world and which is one of the main reasons there is an agreement between these two factions. The state of Arab disarray, the decadent authoritarian regimes, most of them aligned with the United States of course, but in the case of Syria it is not, held up the status quo in Palestine. They effectively supported Israel's occupation and were the major factor, besides pressure from Israel and the United States, in keeping the Palestinians divided. That stagnant status quo has now broken like a log jam. The Arab Spring has burst the entire regional structure which effectively upheld Israel's occupation and which was instrumental in keeping the Palestinians divided. Specifically, the fall of the Mubarak regime removed the major obstacle to Palestinian reconciliation. The so called malaf, the folder of Palestinian reconciliation was in the hands of Omar Suleiman for four years. For those four years he worked ceaselessly to ensure that there would be no Palestinian reconciliation because that was Egyptian policy, it was Israeli policy, and it was American policy, and he faithfully followed that policy. Within two months of Omar Suleiman's disappearance the Egyptian Military Intelligence, the same agency that he headed, brokered a reconciliation agreement. It is impossible not to conclude that the fall of the regime in Egypt removed the largest obstacle to Palestinian reconciliation, which means the Mubarak regime was a faithful agent of American and Israeli policy and of its own paranoid fantasies about Hamas. ... I think that American military aid should be stopped entirely. I do not see it doing any good besides fostering war, death, and destruction. … In the case of Palestine, as far as I am concerned, aid to Palestinian security forces which do the work of Israel without protecting Palestinians is monstrously misbegotten on the part of the Palestinians. I do not see why the Palestinians are taking American money in order to repress their own people in a situation where Israel is not reciprocating. If Israel were dismantling the occupation, removing settlers, closing down settlements, and negotiating in good faith on issues like the right of return, on issues like Jerusalem, like giving up water resources then you might have an argument. Palestinian security forces should both protect the security of Palestinians and prevent the agreement from being disrupted by attacks on Israelis. But, in a situation where Israel is expanding settlements, is further entrenching its occupation, and refusing to negotiate in good faith, I do not see why the Palestinians want that. If they want to preserve security and do so in whatever way they chose that is their business. But, if American aid is conditional on doing something which is entirely a one way street, Israel gets what it wants and the Palestinians get nothing, then good riddance to such aid.

Why We Must Sail to Gaza
Now an even larger flotilla, with the participation of more ships and more activists from more countries -- including, crucially, the U.S. ship Audacity of Hope -- is preparing to set sail in June. And -- God willing -- when the Audacity of Hope sets sail, I will be on it. It is our hope and expectation that the Israeli government, after all the negative publicity it received for its attack on last year's flotilla, will allow our ships to pass to Gaza unimpeded. It is our hope and expectation that the Obama Administration will pressure the government of Israel not to attack us, especially with a U.S. boat with well-known American peace activists on board participating in the flotilla. Nonetheless, there is certainly some risk of confrontation with the Israeli authorities. I can say with absolute confidence that everyone on the American boat is committed to nonviolence; if I were not confident of that, I would not go. If the Israeli authorities attempt to seize our boat, we may engage in nonviolent resistance, but we will not attack anyone and we will neither have nor use any form of weapon. If Israeli authorities attack us physically, the world will know that the Israeli authorities attacked unarmed Americans who were not a threat to anyone. That's a key component of what nonviolent resistance, from Montgomery to Tahrir to Budrus, is all about: not providing any excuse for the violence of the oppressor. We engage in this voyage because the world, having accepted and even embraced the right of self-determination of Egyptians and Tunisians, cannot any longer deny this right to the Palestinians.

Israeli army killed unarmed Palestinian demonstrators on the border
within the occupied areas of tens of thousands took to the streets, many holding the keys to their family homes lost 1948th Israel yesterday introduced a halt throughout the West Bank, closing many crossings and checkpoints. The conflict of protesters and Israeli troops took place in Hebron, Wallajehu and Jerusalem, while on the Erez border crossing in Gaza, at least 15 unarmed civilians were wounded Israeli fire. IDF fired by what are called "warning shots", including tank shells and bullets from machine gun directed towards the open field next to the protest. One Palestinian, who Israeli authorities say the bomb was asked, was shot to death. In Egypt, thousands protested outside the Israeli embassy. More than a hundred people were injured, when Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets after he allegedly attempted to storm the building. Al Jazeera reports that at least twenty people were arrested. The worst violence occurred outside the village of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon where thousands of people gathered at the border fence. The protesters were allegedly hung on the barbed wire of the flag and sang songs, and some young men threw stones across the border, before the Israeli and Lebanese soldiers started to shoot. Lebanese forces were initially cracked warning shots, although it remains unclear whether they fired on the crowd. Israeli forces were allegedly responsible for killing. It was the worst violence done to Lebanon since the Israeli invasion 2006th Those who were killed yesterday on the Syrian border were the victims of the Israeli operation re-taking the village of Majdal Shams. According to a report of two hundred protesters who crossed the border waving flags and posters, more than a hundred were wounded in an Israeli attack, showing a reckless use of force. Before the attacks, the villagers were warmly greeted by protesters, the Independent reported that "local residents welcomed the newcomers as heroes and joined them as they marched towards the main square, chanting and waving Palestinian flags. "One of the protesters, Muhammad Umran (35), the Yarmouk refugee camp in the Syrian capital of Damascus, spoke with the Washington Post. "We can not tolerate this anymore," he explains. "We demand their right to return. Do not be afraid. "


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kolonistička Illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank (B'Tselemov report from 2010.) - 1 Part

(Image: B'Tselem)

a partial translation of the report kolonističkim Israeli settlements in the West Bank BY HOOK AND BY Crook Israeli Settlement Policy in the West Bank who in July 2010. published by Israeli human rights organization in the occupied Palestinian territories and B'Tselem, which in its entirety in English can be read on the link . report on the link also contains a map of some illegal Israeli kolonističkih settlements in the West Bank.


Abstract
Around half a million Israelis are currently living outside the Green Line: more than 300 000 of them live in 121 kolonističkom village and about 100 wild kolonističkih illegal settlements, which controls 42% of the country in the West Bank, while others are living in 12 neighborhoods Israel is established on land that was annexed by the city of Jerusalem. [...]

kolonističkih construction of settlements since it marks the beginning of the instrumental, cynical, and even access to international criminal law, local legislation, Israeli military orders and Israeli law, which allowed the continued theft of Palestinian land in the West Bank. The main tool used by Israel to that effect was a declaration that the land surface "state land", the mechanism that resulted in the seizure of more than 900 000 dunums of land (16% of the West Bank), with the majority of such declaration conducted in the period between the 1979th and 1992. year. The interpretation of the concept of "state land" in the Ottoman land law, which has offered the State Attorney's Office is in conflict with the express statutory provisions and Supreme Court rulings. Without this distorted interpretation of Israel could not have such a large area of \u200b\u200bland granted kolonističkim settlements.

In addition, kolonistička settlement took control of the land is privately owned by Palestinians. Checking the data of the Civil Administration, jurisdikcijskog kolonističkih areas of settlements and settlement kolonističkih photos taken from the air 2009, B'Tselem has come to the data that 21% of the constructed area kolonističkih settlement is the land that Israel recognizes as private Palestinian property owners.

Israel, to encourage Israelis to move to kolonistička settlement, introduced a mechanism through which provides benefits and incentives kolonističkim settlements and colonists, regardless of their economic status, which is often financially secured. Most kolonističkih settlements in the West Bank has the status of national priority areas A, thanks to which are entitled to a number of benefits: benefits for housing, allowing the colonists to buy quality and cheap housing, with the automatic allocation of subsidized mortgages, many benefits in education, such as free education for children from 3 years onwards, extended school day, free transport to schools, higher teacher salaries, in industry and agriculture, subsidy allocation and payment of fees for tax on their products imposed by the European Union, in taxation, the imposition of much lower taxes than those paid by communities within the Green Line, and by providing larger subsidies to align budgets to try to cover deficits.

kolonističkih establishment of settlements Israel violates international humanitarian law. Israel has ignored the relevant laws, by applying their own interpretation, which accepts almost none of the leading lawyer in the world nor the international communities.

Building kolonističkih settlement resulted in a cumulative and permanent violations of Palestinian human rights following:
- the right to property, the imposition of control over large parts of the country in the West Bank in favor kolonističkih settlement;
- the right to equality and fair treatment , establishing a separate legal system, in which the rights of people based on her national origin, and the colonists are processed within the Israeli system, which is based on human rights and democratic values, while the Palestinians are processed within the military justice system that systematically denies them their rights;
- right the appropriate standard, given that the settlement kolonistička intentionally established so as to prevent urban development of Palestinian communities and Israeli control over water resources is hampering the development of Palestinian agriculture;
- the right to freedom of movement, through the control point and other obstacles that hinder or inhibit the movement of Palestinians in the West Bank, which are intended to protect settlements and kolonističkih kolonističkih traffic arteries;
- the right to self-determination, splitting Palestinian territorial cohesion and the creation of dozens of enclaves that hinder the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state.

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Comprehensive geo-spatial changes of landscape that Israel has committed in the West Bank undermine the negotiations that led Israel from the Palestinians for 18 years and violate Israel's international obligations. Israeli colonization venture, since it is based on discrimination at the expense of Palestinians living in the West Bank, also weakens the pillars of democracy in Israel and harming the country's position among other countries in the world.

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Chapter
data kolonističkim settlements
In the period between the 1967th year and May 2010. the West the coast was built 121 official Israeli kolonističko village. Was built and about 100 wild kolonističkih settlements - settlements established without official permission, but with the support and assistance to government departments. These figures do not include 4 kolonistička settlements in the northern West Bank, which Israel evacuated 2005th year.

Israel has also established a fourth 12 on land that is annexed to Jerusalem after 1967, these districts are under international law kolonistička settlement. The Government has also supported and helped create several kolonističkih Palestinian enclaves in the middle of the fourth in the eastern part of Jerusalem - including the Muslim Quarter in the Old Town, Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah, the Mount of Olives, Ras al-'Amud, Abu Dis and Jabel Mukabber.

According to the latest figures half a million people live in kolonističkim settlements in the West Bank and Israeli neighborhoods established in East Jerusalem.

A. Population kolonističkih settlement
Table 1: Kolonistička settlements and settlers in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem)

Table 2: The colonists in East Jerusalem

B. Land area kolonističkih settlement
calculation of the total land area kolonističkih settlement in this report are based on official government maps prepared by the Civil Administration in December 2006. According to these maps, the total area of \u200b\u200bthe West Bank, including areas annexed to the jurisdictional area of \u200b\u200bthe city of Jerusalem, 5,602,951 dunums (1 dunums is 1000 square meters, a 0.1 hectare, or 0.247 mornings).

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Table 3: Share kolonističkih surface settlements in the West Bank area

To view kolonističkih expansion of settlements, we have looked at 3 kolonistička largest settlements in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) - Modi'in Illit, Betar Illit and Ma'ale Adummim. Built-up areas of settlements kolonističkih 3 were significantly expanded during the period between 2,001th and 2009. years, a number of their population has grown significantly. Built area of \u200b\u200bModi'in Illit settlement increased by 78%, from 1287 to 2290 dunums, built-up area Betar Illit settlements increased by 55% from 1270 to 1975 dunums, and built-up area in the settlement of Ma'ale Adummim increased by 34% , with 2500 to 3342 dunums ( see the attached map).

population growth in the 3 kolonistička settlement was higher than the annual increment of the total population kolonističkog. Since 2004. year, when Israel was under the Plan Road Map for Peace promised to freeze construction in settlements kolonističkim, until the end of 2009, the population of Modi'in Illit has grown by 64% from 27 386 to 44 900 inhabitants; Betar Illit by 46% , with 24 895 to 36, 400, and Ma'ale Adummima by 20% from 28 923 to 34 600 inhabitants.


C. Spatial distribution kolonističkih
settlements on the West Coast there are currently more than 200 settlements that kolonističkih complex road network associated with each other and Israel. The network passes through areas that were committed under Palestinian control and spill zone A, which is under full Palestinian control, and Zone B, in which the civilian jobs under the Palestinian control, in the territorial islands.

Kolonistička settlements were built on the 3 bands that stretch from north to south, the west coast, and about the wider metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bJerusalem.

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D. Wild kolonistička settlement
Wild kolonistička settlements are settlements built without government approval, but with the support of various government ministries, army and civil administration. Establishment of wild kolonističkih settlement began in 1996, after a government decision to establish new kolonističkih settlement requires the approval of the whole government. Tom is also the decision of the Minister of Defense the authority to approve or freeze any stage of the procedure which the country is awarded a settlement and kolonističkom any stage procedure for approving plans for construction in the settlements kolonističkim. Wild kolonistička settlements were established on land which the government has not committed, and some are built on Palestinian land in private ownership. Were built without approved building plans and without the regional military commander, identified their jurisdictional boundaries. Despite these constant violations of laws and constant assurances that these settlements will be evacuated, Government has so far hesitated to evacuate almost all the wild kolonistička settlements and has not removed any of the big wild kolonističko village.

According to the Israeli organization Peace Now, in June 2009. On the west coast there were about 100 wild kolonističkih settlement. Half of them built after February 2001, when Ariel Sharon became prime minister. The wild kolonistička villages occupied the area from about 16 000 dunums, including 7000 dunums of Palestinian land in private ownership. The organization Peace Now estimates that in 2009. kolonističkim settlements in the wild lived 3371 people.


Chapter
Israeli policy
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In September 1967, only 3 months after Israel occupied the West Bank, the government in this area kolonističko established the first settlement - Kfar Etzion. Over the next decades, governments have promoted the alliance Laburističkog Allonov plan, which has recommended that Israel annex the parts of the West Bank that are densely populated by Palestinians, such as the Jordan Valley, areas around Jerusalem, Gush Etzion, most of the Judean desert and the belt of the country in the southern hills hebronskih. As part of this plan throughout the West Bank was established nearly 30 kolonističkih settlement. Likud, which has been chosen to power the 1977th years, has established dozens of new settlements in the densely kolonističkih populated Palestinian areas, like the mountain belt and the belt of the western mountains near the Green Line. Rabin's government, which came to power in 1992, has decided not to establish new settlements kolonistička, except in the Jordan Valley and the wider area of \u200b\u200bJerusalem. " However, the government expanded existing settlements kolonistička as a part of. "Kolonističkog natural increase of population", a term that is never precisely defined. Since 1993, when they start the negotiations in Oslo, kolonističko the population in the West Bank, excluding those living in East Jerusalem, almost tripled, from 110 900 to 301 200 settlers. Overall kolonističko Population in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has risen from 241 000 to more than half a million people.

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Failure to comply with Israeli obligations
[...] Israel has over the years continued to build in existing settlements kolonističkim, plan and establish new settlements kolonistička, izvlašćivati \u200b\u200bland for their construction and provide exceptional incentives to Israeli citizens who move to kolonistička settlement. Moreover, Israel is evacuating almost none of the wild kolonističkih settlement that promised to remove the part of a Road Map for Peace.

Israel of its obligations under the Road Map plan should begin to implement in May 2003. However, construction in the settlements kolonističkim continued, as well as giving generous incentives that Israel offered the colonists. As a result, the period since 2004. end of 2009. The kolonističko population (not including those living in East Jerusalem) increased by 28%, from 235 263 to 301 200 people. 2008th The annual growth kolonističkog population was 3 times higher than the annual population growth inside Israel - 5% versus 1.8%. In ultraortodoksnim kolonističkim Betar Illit settlements and Modi'in Illit, the figures for 2009. year are even more. Net migration rate kolonističkim settlements in the West coast is higher than the migration rate of any region in Israel. 2006th this figure was 20.1%, more than twice the rate in communities in central Israel, while other regions in Israel have had a negative migration rate.

addition kolonističkih expansion of existing settlements, Israel has continued to build new. For example, the end of 2003. built an extensive infrastructure and prepared the land for construction of residential quarters in the E-1, located north of kolonističkog settlement Ma'ale Adummim. This building was conducted as part of work on the road, which wants to provide access to Police Headquarters of Judea and Samaria in the area, despite the fact that for this construction are not issued any permits. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak also approved the conversion of the preparatory program of religious predvojničkog Maskiyot in the Jordan Valley in New kolonističko village, and construction of new quarters at this location has begun. Barak has also approved the continuation of the planned conversion Sensene, currently part of the settlement kolonističkog Eshkolot, independently kolonističko village.

Israel also continues to plan expansion kolonističkih settlement. According to an analysis developed by the Israeli organization Bimkom based on a database compiled by Brigadier General Baruch Spiegel, the potential for construction in the settlements kolonističkim the existing plans of more than 50 000 dwellings - more than double the current number of dwellings in the area. There are plans to expand settlements kolonističkog Geva'ot, the Etzion bloc of settlements kolonističkih, which is supposedly in the neighborhood kolonističkom settlement of Alon Shvut although physically separate from that settlement, in which 12 families are currently living. The intention is to convert it into an independent kolonističko village which will initially be 500, and then 5000 apartments.

Civil Administration continues to land in the West Bank to declare "state land" (see Chapter). Between 2003rd and 2009. 5114 dunums in Area C was declared government property. States in 2009. The information published in in the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds announced its intention to around 138 000 dunums of land declared "state land", including parts discovered thanks to the evaporation of the Dead Sea. That country seems almost 2.5% of the West Bank. That same year, the state of Israel informed the High Court of Justice that it intends to expropriate Palestinian land in private ownership in order to complete the installation of wastewater treatment in kolonističkom settlement of Ofra. Previous phases of construction, installation took place without the necessary permits.

Government rarely enforced their decisions regarding settlements kolonističkih. State Attorney's Office in April 2010. informed the High Court of Justice that is, from the beginning Freezing construction before 5 months, opened 423 cases of illegal construction in settlements kolonističkim. The current government also has not appointed members of the ministerial committee that was supposed to implement the conclusions Sassoninog report from 2005, but even seeks to recognize and approve the construction of some wild kolonističkih settlement dealt with the report. For example, in the case of wild kolonističkog Migron settlement, which in 2002. established on Palestinian land in private ownership, the government has proposed building a new neighborhood kolonističkom Geva Binyamin settlement of colonists who settled the wild and establishing settlements Migron violated the law, if agreed to leave their current location. The state has recently informed the High Court of its intention to carry out surveying land for the purpose of legalization of building settlements in the wild kolonističkim Derekh Ha'avot, Haresh and Hayovel and expropriating more land, including land that Israel recognizes that it is privately owned by Palestinians.


Chapter
mechanisms for taking control over land in the West Bank and construction of illegal settlements in kolonističkim
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Israel manages complex legal and bureaucratic apparatus in the West Bank in order to master the hundreds of thousands of dunums of Palestinian land, including land that is privately ownership. This country is allocated for the establishment of new or expansion of existing settlements kolonističkih. The main methods that Israel uses the requisition land for "military purposes", declaration or registration of land as "state land" and izvlašćivanje land for "public purposes". Using these methods, Israel gained control of about half the West Bank. K should be added the fact that the colonists often acting independently occupy land that is privately owned by Palestinians, while the competent authorities of not doing almost anything to ensure law enforcement and restore land to its rightful owners.

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A. Requisition of land for "military purposes"
During the first decades of colonization, Israel's military command rekvizicijske used to possess private Palestinian land, arguing that colonist settlements serve the security and military purposes. This claim arose because international humanitarian law of occupation permits to appropriate land is privately owned property for military purposes, though only temporarily. The appropriation of this kind does not give property rights and land occupation is not permitted to sell property that was appropriated. Colonist settlements, some of which were created as a military base Nahal Brigade, which were later declared civilian areas, built rekviriranoj on earth.

High Court of Justice has supported this policy until the case kolonističkog settlement Elon Moreh 1979th year. In this case, the colonists and former Chief of Staff of the Israeli army Haim Bar-Lev a viewpoint presented to court - each with their arguments - which opposed the opinion states that the establishment of settlements kolonističkih necessary for security reasons. The High Court has ordered that the seized property be returned to its owners. After this case, the use of military rekvizicijskih orders dropped sharply, but not completely lost.

In Elon Moreh case, and despite the explicit ruling of the High Court of Justice, Israel is not back country assimilated to military orders its Palestinian owners. According to Spiegel, database and map of land appropriated by the military, and by the Israeli Civil Administration by the Yesh Din NGO, military rekvizicijske commands have been used since 1967. year for taking 31 000 dunums of the country for 42 colonist settlements. In 11 of these kolonističkih settlement land is appropriated after the High Court of Justice ruled in the case of Elon Moreh, and seven villages were kolonističkih rekvizicijske command replaced the declaration of "state land". One is a colonist village were evacuated as part of a plan of withdrawal in 2005. year. [...]

in colonist areas where military rekvizicijske commands are replaced by the declaration of "state land" (see below), these commands are still valid. [...]

Israel in 2002. again extensively used rekvizicijske military command in order to build the separation fence (wall), appropriating tens of thousands of dunums of private Palestinian land. About 85% Barriers located on the territory of the West Bank and 60 kolonističkih settlements located in the area between the bulkhead and the Green Line. Significant parts of the barriers were built in a way that the country intended to expand kolonističkih settlements located west of the barriers, in some cases, the expansion plans were not discussed or approved by the competent authorities. The High Court of Justice has accepted the position of the state to military rekvizicijske commands can be used to build barriers despite the fact that most of the barriers placed in the occupied territories. In some cases, the court even agreed with the views of the path that goes Pregrada may include land intended for settlement expansion kolonističkih, as in the case kolonističkog Giv'at Ze'ev settlement.

rekvizicijske Israel's military command is also used to close the "special security zone" around kolonističkih settlement. So far 12 kolonističkih village surrounded by a new fence, which is far from the house in kolonističkim settlements and building a fence which is actually the land annexed kolonističkim settlements. Using this method, Israel has increased the surface area of \u200b\u200bthese settlements kolonističkih 4559 dunums, an increase of 240% in the period between the 2002nd and 2008. year.


B. The declaration of "state land"
In November 1979, after the verdict in the case of Elon Moreh, the Israeli government has decided "to expand settlements in Judea, Samaria, the Jordan valley, the Gaza Strip and Golan Heights residents, adding to existing communities and establishing additional communities in the country's state-owned. "This decision meant that Israel would no longer take the Palestinian land in private ownership in order to built it kolonistička settlement.

Proclamation of the country, "state", according to the Ottoman Land Law of 1858, has become the primary mechanism by which Israel had gained control of the country, both in terms of frequency of its use, and in view of the surface of the confiscated land. This procedure ensured the high ground for the continued development kolonističkih settlement.

Israel has more than 913 000 dunums of land declared "state land", an area that makes 16% of the West Bank, the country was proclaimed the state mainly in the period between the 1979th and 1992. year. We should add another 600 000 dunums, mainly in the Jordan Valley and the desert of Judea, who, during the British mandate and Jordanian rule considered "state land". "State land" now covers an area of \u200b\u200babout 1.5 million dunums or 26.7% of the West Bank.

kolonističkih Most settlements are located in the middle of built-Palestinian area, the mountain belt and the belt of the western hills along the Green Line, were built on the land. [...]

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1992nd years after the Rabin government's decision to freeze construction in settlements kolonističkim, declaring the country a "state" in huge numbers. 1997, when he came into power the first government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel has renewed this process using the "procedure of surveying the country." However, the frequency of declaring "state land" and the area of \u200b\u200bthe country that has declared a state in this period were small in comparison with the past. In the period between the 2003rd and 2009. The "state land" was proclaimed the 5114 dunums of land in the West Bank.


Legal basis
After the verdict in the case of Elon Moreh, and the government's decision to expand settlements kolonistička early 1980s, the Civil Division in the Office of the State Attorney, who led Plia Albeck, began to examine the possibility of declaring property in the West Bank "state land". [...]

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Israel declaring the country a "state" were not an integral part of an organized process of registering ownership rights over the land, as was the practice during the British mandate and Jordanian rule in the West Bank. Israel failed to implement expensive and complex process, Land Registry, but instead decided to take more land for settlement kolonistička in a way that was declared "state land". Widespread practice of designating land in the West Bank "State" was contrary to key provisions Ottoman legislation and case law during the British mandate, which are binding on Israel. Without handling the interpretation of law by the State Attorney's Office, Israel would not be able to gain control over such a large area of \u200b\u200bland for construction of dozens of settlements kolonističkih.


reappropriation of private Palestinian land located along the "state land"
reappropriation of "state land" is often included land grab by Israel was admitted as a country in the private Palestinian property. Spiegel database lists at least 27 kolonističkih settlements with "discrepancies in the construction" that extend over the "state country "on private Palestinian land. [...] Kolonističkim settlements awarded to private Palestinian land or traversed the country whose property was not found. Earth is used for construction or is involved in the jurisdictional area kolonističkih settlement. [...]

[...] Although they found deviations from a single kolonističkog settlement is not requested that, due to an error when downloading a "state land", returned the land is privately owned by its Palestinian owners.

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D. Izvlašćivanje "public purposes"
Jordanian soil law explicitly states that the state may expropriate land only for public purposes. Given that the public in the West Bank Palestinians, Israel, this measure is not used very much. The exception is kolonističko settlement Ma'ale Adummim, established 1975th at 35 334 dunums of Palestinian land expropriated 1975th and 1977. year. That country seems 74% category that kolonističkog settlement.

Israel is also the measure used for the construction of infrastructure, especially roads linking settlements to each other kolonistička Israel. The High Court of Justice approved the move after the government accepted the view that the road will also serve the needs of the Palestinian public. Israel has recently sought to expropriate land privately owned by Palestinians in the village of 'Ein Yabrud, to complete construction of a wastewater treatment plant in kolonističkom Ofra settlement. The initial phase of construction of this plant is carried out and financed by the government, but without building permits. The High Court has issued an interim order and the case has not yet been resolved.

Izvlašćivanje land for construction of infrastructure carried out by military orders issued in 1969, which has authority to izvlašćivanje transferred to the competent authority - the Director of Civil Administration, or his delegate. This commands are limited by the provisions of Jordan's land law, by according it no longer was necessary to publish the decision on expropriation countries in the press about these decisions or to notify the owners of the country. Civil Administration must now only in its offices in the settlement of Beit El kolonističkom and regional offices to coordinate and link hoist a map of the planned expropriation.

Israel has expropriated in East Jerusalem, about 24 500 dunums of land, mostly in private Palestinian property, or 1 / 3 of the country attached to the Jerusalem municipal jurisdictional area of \u200b\u200bthe 1967th The country was expropriated in accordance with the regulations of the British mandate from the 1943rd was incorporated into Israeli law, which have similarities with Jordan's land law in respect of the acquisition of land "for public purposes." In this country built 12 districts, which are under international law as kolonističkim settlements. Neither piece of the expropriated land is used for Palestinians in East Jerusalem.


E. Annexation of land is privately owned Palestinian
During the second half of the 1990s, after signing the Oslo agreement, areas of most kolonističkih settlements were extended, and "political reasons" and "without any connection with the needs of existing urban communities "[...]

This is an extension to include large areas of the country that recognizes Israel as the land is privately owned by Palestinians. This country is not expropriated or declared "State land". However, its inclusion within the boundaries of the area kolonističkih settlement, which is defined as all closed military zone in which they can enter only with special permission, in fact Palestinian landowners from accessing their land.

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land area is privately owned by Palestinians, which is located within the kolonističkih settlement is almost the same size as the earth's surface covered with a constructed area of \u200b\u200bkolonističkim settlements, which is 2009. totaled 55 479 dunums. According to data from the Israeli organization Peace Now, which apply to all Israeli civilian entities in the West Bank - kolonistička villages, wild kolonistička settlements and industrial zones - the land is privately owned by Palestinians, it seems 32.4% of the country under the control of these entities.

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illegal construction in settlements kolonističkim
Despite being aware of and which have documented a massive illegal construction in kolonističkim settlements, Israeli authorities have not taken any real efforts in order to prevent or force the offenders to comply with the law. Managing Director of the colonization of the World Zionist Organization, one of the body that authorized the government to grant land kolonističkim settlements and to run them architectural projects, even Sasson said that the department intentionally violated the laws on planning and construction which are applicable in the West Bank. He said that such a practice to build up the congregation of Israel, to be determined, and that only a few years later, legalizing the construction of the approved plans. "That's the way we work. Are we supposed to plan the first five years and then establish a community? "

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of illegal construction in settlements kolonističkim cover vast areas of the country. This example covers almost all the built-up area in each of the following kolonističkih settlements: Itamar, Beit El, Hemdat, Yitav, Ofra, and in all southern districts kolonističkog settlement Modi'in Illit. Illegal is built for the institutions in the West Bank would be implemented by law, such as the army (a quarter of mobile barracks in kolonističkom Einav settlement) and police (the access road to the police headquarters of Judea and Samaria in the E-1, near the settlement Ma'ale kolonističkog Adumim). The vast majority of construction was financed by the Ministry of Construction and Housing, Ministry of Defence and the Civil Administration, and Department of colonization of the World Zionist Organization.

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Table 4: Area kolonističkih settlements, according to property (in dunums, and percentages in brackets)

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Oppressing West Bank Palestinian Children
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