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IOF opens fire at farmers and fishermen in Gaza

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday morning opened fire at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the Gaza Strip with no reported casualties.

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GAZA, (PIC)

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday morning opened fire at Palestinian farmers and fishermen in the Gaza Strip with no reported casualties.

Local sources said that the IOF in the morning heavily fired live ammunition and tear gas bombs at Palestinian farmers and shepherds working in their lands east of Khan Yunis and Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israeli gunboats attacked fishermen sailing off the shore of northern Gaza.

No injuries were reported in the attacks.

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IOF opens fire at farmers and fishermen in Gaza
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A Palestinian teacher broadcasts an electronic lesson as students stay at home to halt the spread of the novel Coronavirus in Gaza. Photo by Mahmoud Ajjour.

 

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Mai Qudaih picks tomatoes at her farm in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip. Photo by Ashraf Amra.

 

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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday kidnapped five Palestinians, including Jerusalem affairs minister, from their homes in the West Bank and Jerusalem.

Local sources said that at daybreak the IOF stormed Sawwana village in Jerusalem, arrested Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs Fadi al-Hidmi from his home, and transferred him to an Israeli interrogation center.

Local residents said that the IOF raided the house while accompanied by police dogs, smashed doors and windows, and seized a sum of money estimated at 10,000 NIS.

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Minister among five Palestinians arrested in West Bank raids
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Abdelrahman Shteiwi, 9, with his mother at their home in the northern West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum. The child was shot in the head with live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers in July last year and remains immobile and unable to speak. Photo by Keren Manor.

 

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Because of the coronavirus lockdown, a Palestinian grocery owner in Ramallah has left these free vegetable boxes near his shop with a note saying "take what you need".

 

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COVID313 Family and Student Virtual Town Hall | Rashida Tlaib & Debbie Stabenow Week 2 Highlights

 

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Israeli occupation forces destroy a Palestinian industrial facility in al-Khalil, Occupied West Bank, today. Photo by Mashhour Wahwah.

 

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Israeli police kidnap J’lem mayor Adnan Ghaith from his home

The Israeli occupation police on Sunday morning kidnaped Jerusalem mayor Adnan Ghaith from his home in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque in the holy city.

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation police on Sunday morning kidnaped Jerusalem mayor Adnan Ghaith from his home in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque in the holy city.

According to local sources, police forces and intelligence officers stormed and ransacked the house of mayor Ghaith and detained him, with no known reason.

Ghaith has been arrested and interrogated several times since he became the Jerusalem mayor. He is also banned from entering the West Bank and communicating with certain people.

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Israeli police kidnap J’lem mayor Adnan Ghaith from his home
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Land Day: Palestinians never forget

The Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and the diaspora every year, on 30 March, commemorate the Land Day when Israeli forces in 1976 killed six Palestinians protesting against land confiscation in the Galilee.

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)

The Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and the diaspora every year, on 30 March, commemorate the Land Day when Israeli forces in 1976 killed six Palestinians protesting against land confiscation in the Galilee.

Land Day has become an important event in the Palestinian collective narrative which emphasizes Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonization.

Land Day is usually marked with mass demonstrations and tree-planting campaigns in areas threatened with illegal confiscation in favor of Israeli settlement expansion.

In 2018, the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip launched a major event to commemorate the Land Day called the Great March of Return (peaceful protests along the border between the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948).

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Land Day: Palestinians never forget
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Israeli aircrafts spray Gaza farmlands with toxic chemicals

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Sunday sprayed once again toxic herbicides on farmlands near the border fence in the east of Gaza City.

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GAZA, (PIC)

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Sunday sprayed once again toxic herbicides on farmlands near the border fence in the east of Gaza City.

Local farmers from al-Zeitoun and Johr al-Dik areas of Gaza City reported that Israeli agricultural aircrafts sprayed toxic chemicals on vast tracts of land planted with wheat, barley, corn, okra, molokhia (corchorus olitorius) and other crops, affirming the chemical spray caused widespread damage to the crops.

The farmers said that the Israeli measure caused them heavy financial losses and poisoned the agricultural environment in the area.

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Israeli aircrafts spray Gaza farmlands with toxic chemicals
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[RoccoR]

RE: Palestine Today?
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This cartoon is cute, but a poor analogy. This is about the idea that Israel is using excessive combat power in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.

BLUF: Bullshit...

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(COMMENT)

This topic is really a propaganda effort to change the discussion:

◈ FROM: Rule 23 -- to avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas.​

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◈ TO: Rule 14 -- the question of excessive force in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.​

The concrete and direct military objective is to make the hostile action (rocket launches) by the Arab Palestinians so costly that it totally suppresses hostile rocket fire as a tactic (criminal acts committed hostile Arab Palestinians (HoAP) to further ideological goal).

IF the hostile Arab Palestinians continue to launch rocket as a tactic to coerce the Israel government,
THEN the first application of fire was insufficient and additional targeted missions are necessary.

This brings up the issue of the HoAP using the general population as cover and concealment of rocket launches (human shields) (see Rule 97) as a preventative measure against Israeli counter-fire. The HoAP intentionally avoid their responsibility to do everything feasible must be done to separate military objectives from the civilian population.

You are still implying that the Palestinians are the aggressors.

(COMMENT)

The HoAP insurgency has grown and evolved since the time of the Six-Day War (1967) to the present. It has many heads that present themselves as Jihadist, Fedayeen Activist, Hostile Insurgents, Radicalized Islamic Followers, and Asymmetric Fighters. They do so as an effort calculated to create and "disrupt" the safe atmosphere of fear in the minds of the Israeli citizen. The Israelis want to change the paradigm one in which rocket fire is a fact of daily life to one that is safe and secure. The HoAP has the exact opposite as an objective in mind.

The real agenda, obscured by the HoAP, is to obscure the fact that the HoAP are violating two international laws:

◈ The prohibition of indiscriminate attacks is set forth in Article 51(4) of Additional Protocol I.​

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◈ Rule 23. Each party to the conflict must, to the extent feasible, avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas; set forth in Article 58(b) of Additional Protocol I. ​

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◈ 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, set forth in A/RES/52/164.​

HoAP indiscriminately launch against a place of public use, with intent to kill or cause serious bodily injury or cause extensive destruction. ​

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Finally, the use of armed force by the HoAP against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of Israel is, without question, the very image of the aggressor.

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Most Respectfully,
R

 

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◈ TO: Rule 14 -- the question of excessive force in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.

What direct military advantage are they anticipating?

Take out Hamas? Fail!

Stop rockets? Fail!

Bomb the shit out of a lot of civilians? Ahh, there you go!

 

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Jihadist, Fedayeen Activist, Hostile Insurgents,

People attempting to go back to their own homes are called insurgents.

Israel is soooooooooo full of shit.

 

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RE: Palestine Today?
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,

This cartoon is cute, but a poor analogy. This is about the idea that Israel is using excessive combat power in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.

BLUF: Bullshit...

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(COMMENT)

This topic is really a propaganda effort to change the discussion:

◈ FROM: Rule 23 -- to avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas.​

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◈ TO: Rule 14 -- the question of excessive force in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.​

The concrete and direct military objective is to make the hostile action (rocket launches) by the Arab Palestinians so costly that it totally suppresses hostile rocket fire as a tactic (criminal acts committed hostile Arab Palestinians (HoAP) to further ideological goal).

IF the hostile Arab Palestinians continue to launch rocket as a tactic to coerce the Israel government,
THEN the first application of fire was insufficient and additional targeted missions are necessary.

This brings up the issue of the HoAP using the general population as cover and concealment of rocket launches (human shields) (see Rule 97) as a preventative measure against Israeli counter-fire. The HoAP intentionally avoid their responsibility to do everything feasible must be done to separate military objectives from the civilian population.

You are still implying that the Palestinians are the aggressors.

(COMMENT)

The HoAP insurgency has grown and evolved since the time of the Six-Day War (1967) to the present. It has many heads that present themselves as Jihadist, Fedayeen Activist, Hostile Insurgents, Radicalized Islamic Followers, and Asymmetric Fighters. They do so as an effort calculated to create and "disrupt" the safe atmosphere of fear in the minds of the Israeli citizen. The Israelis want to change the paradigm one in which rocket fire is a fact of daily life to one that is safe and secure. The HoAP has the exact opposite as an objective in mind.

The real agenda, obscured by the HoAP, is to obscure the fact that the HoAP are violating two international laws:

◈ The prohibition of indiscriminate attacks is set forth in Article 51(4) of Additional Protocol I.​

​

◈ Rule 23. Each party to the conflict must, to the extent feasible, avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas; set forth in Article 58(b) of Additional Protocol I. ​

​

◈ 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, set forth in A/RES/52/164.​

HoAP indiscriminately launch against a place of public use, with intent to kill or cause serious bodily injury or cause extensive destruction. ​

​

Finally, the use of armed force by the HoAP against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of Israel is, without question, the very image of the aggressor.

​

Most Respectfully,
R

Finally, the use of armed force by the HoAP against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of Israel is, without question, the very image of the aggressor.

What Israeli border have the Palestinian ever crossed?

 

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RE: Palestine Today?
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BLUF: You are absolutely, and without question → correct.

◈ TO: Rule 14 -- the question of excessive force in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.

What direct military advantage are they anticipating?

Take out Hamas? Fail!

Stop rockets? Fail!

Bomb the shit out of a lot of civilians? Ahh, there you go!

(COMMENT)

So, what is the solution?

Increase the fire-power applied, or increase the number of sortes; or both. They should gradually increase until the Arab Palestinians comply with the principles of international law concerning friendly relations and co-operation among States (the military expectation). (A/RES/25/2625)

Most Respectfully,
R