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Arab protesters & IDF clash at West Bank funerals

Thousands gather for funeral of Palestinian prisoner Abu Hamdiyeh in Hebron, protesters hurl rocks at police & IDF soldiers.

Funerals for 2 Palestinian youths shot by live IDF fire were held in their home village near Tulkarm.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, TOVAH LAZAROFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN

Dozens of Palestinians threw stones at IDF soldiers on Thursday during the funerals of three Palestinians in the West Bank, Army Radio reported. A policeman was lightly wounded in Ramallah, and a CNN cameraman was lightly wounded in Hebron, according to sources.

Body of Maysara Abu Hamdeya before his funeral in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 3, 2013.

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinian prisoners, Palestinian terrorists

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Palestinian Arab at Yad Vashem: ‘A tragedy beyond words’

Bassam Aramin, whose 10 yr-old daughter was killed by an IDF rubber bullet, visiting Yad Vashem, said ‘I surely can identify with feeling like a refugee, humiliated, weak, lost… but the tragedy of the Holocaust is very different’.

Noam (Dabul) Dvir

Ahmed al-Jaafari, a 43-year-old Deheishe refugee camp resident, stands opposite the list of Jews who were sent to the Sobibor death camp. At a certain point, he turns to the guide, Roee Hanani, and asks “why did they keep such an organized list if they planned on killing them all along?”

Hanani replied him in Arabic “the Nazis were very organized. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinians, Yad Vashem

Women banned by Jerusalem Police from holding Kaddish quorum at Kotel

Jerusalem police commander alerts Anat Hoffman, Women of the Wall chairperson of prohibition in letter, warning that women will be arrested & charged with breaking the law if they breach prohibitions.

By The Forward

Add Kaddish to the list of Jewish prayers and ritual objects women are not allowed to be engaged with at the Western Wall, according to the commander of the Jerusalem police.

Anat Hoffman, leader of the Women of the Wall, is arrested for holding a Torah scroll at Judaism’s holiest site. – Photo: Michal Fattal

In a March 14 letter to Anat Hoffman, chair of Women of the Wall, Commander Yossi Pariente of Israel Police department’s Southern District wrote that he met with a deputy attorney general for the government of Israel to go over the rules pertaining to Women of the Wall, which include prohibitions on:

“…Wrapping yourselves in tallitot [prayer shawls], holding a minyan [prayer quorum] of women including the Kaddish or Kedusha prayers, and reading from the Torah.” Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Jerusalem, Jewish World, Western Wall, Women of the Wall

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Arab MK claims no democracy in Israel at Toronto Lecture

MK Jamal Zahalka claimed that Arabs are victims of Israel’s “apartheid” policy & that there is no democracy in Israel.

By Elad Benari

An Arab Knesset member who visited Toronto last week claimed that there is no democracy in Israel and that Arabs are victims of Israel’s “apartheid” policy.

According to a report in Shalom Toronto, MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) made the remarks during an appearance at the “Palestine House” in Toronto in honor of the Arab Land Day, which was marked on March 30.

The report said that MK Zahalka’s lecture, which was entitled “Exposing the secrets of Israeli democracy”, focused on trying to disprove what he said is the “myth” of the existence of a genuine democratic government in Israel. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Palestinian propaganda, ‘Palestinian’ incitement

Terrorist Shot Dead After Throwing Firebomb at IDF Soldiers

1 Palestinian terrorist killed after IDF soldiers open fire at 2 Arab terrorists who threw firebombs at them in northern Samaria.

By Elad Benari

IDF soldiers opened fire on Wednesday night at two terrorists who approached an IDF position near the community of Einav in northern Samaria.

As the two terrorists approached the soldiers, they hurled a firebomb at them. The soldiers returned fire, killing one terrorist and wounding the other.

PA officials told AFP that the killed terrorist was a 16-year-old teen, identified as Amer Nassar.

The latest attack comes after two days of unrest in Judea and Samaria, as Palestinian Authority Arabs rioted over the death of an elderly terrorist who was serving time in an Israeli jail. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: firebomb, IDF, Palestinian terrorist

israelandstuffcom | April 3, 2013

Op-Ed: Why The World Easily Believes Jews Kill Children

French courts to rule on the case of France 2 TV vs. media critic Philippe Karsenty, who exposed the al-Dura anti-Israel “big lie.”

By Giulio Meotti, Italy

A landmark ruling on Mohammed al-Dura, the symbol of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, is about to be released this Wednesday, April 3rd, by the French Supreme Court.

The court case is concerned with the state-owned France 2 TV and one of its senior news producers, Charles Enderlin, and was lodged against Philippe Karsenty, a brave media critic, whom they seek to convict of criminal defamation. (A reminder: The film shown on TV of Mohammed al-Dura cowering behind his father’s back and killed turned out to be doctored; one of the portions cut showed him visibly alive at the end of the event and the place he was in was proven to be out of range of IDF soldiers). Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: anti-Israel, Palestinian propaganda

israelandstuffcom | April 3, 2013

Palestinian who killed by throwing stones convicted of murder

The conviction of the Palestinian attacker who killed a Jewish father & infant son in 2011 has sparked calls for all who attack by throwing stones to be charged with attempted murder.

By Israel Today Staff

An Israeli court has convicted a Palestinian Arab stone-thrower of murder for a 2011 attack on Jewish motorists near Hebron that killed a man and his infant son.

Palestinian convicted of murder for throwing stones – Israel Today

Wa’al al-Araji, 25, was just doing what most other Palestinian Arabs his age have been raised to think is acceptable when he assaulted Jews driving near the biblical town. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Courts, Palestinian terrorism, stone throwers

israelandstuffcom | April 3, 2013

No one hurt as 2 Gaza rockets explode in Israel Again

As children make their way to schools & kindergarten after Passover holiday, 2 Qassams fired from Gaza explode in western Negev.

Defense Minister Ya’alon says Hamas is responsible.

Residents: ‘We knew the calm wouldn’t last.’

By Neri Brenner

Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired two Qassam rockets toward the western Negev Wednesday morning, as Israeli children in Sderot and Sha’ar Hanegev were making their way to schools and kindergartens after the Passover holiday. No injuries or damage were reported.

"מציאות נפיצה". שרידי אחת הרקטות, הבוקר (צילום: רועי עידן)

Rocket in Sderot, Wednesday – Photo: Roee Idan

Sderot residents reported hearing explosions shortly after the Color Red siren sounded in the city at 7:33 am. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Gaza rockets, Hamas missiles, Qassam rockets

Palestinians hid their true intentions from Obama & reporters’ eyes

Stone monument in Bethlehem that replaces all of Israel with a State of Palestine, was temporarily replaced during Obama’s recent visit.

By Israel Today Staff

In a telling example of just how genuine, or, rather, how false, Israel’s peace partners in the Palestinian Authority are, a monument that replaces the entirety of the land of Israel with a State of Palestine was hastily removed from Bethlehem before US President Barack Obama visited a little over a week ago.

Palestinians hid true intentions from Obama

Bethlehem monument that replaces all of Israel with a State of Palestine

Obama had gone to Bethlehem ostensibly to pray for peace at the birthplace of Jesus. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Obam, Palestinian Authority

Israel threatened with ‘potentially crippling’ cyberattack

Israeli Cybersecurity experts say financial system & gov’t websites are likely to be targeted by Anonymous. They say #OpIsrael is meant to “erase Israel from the Internet” in solidarity with the Palestinians & will peak on April 7.

Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

Israel is bracing for a “potentially crippling” cyberattack against the country’s major companies and websites, Israel Hayom learned Tuesday. The attack is set to take place on April 7, which this year will be the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The planned assault is part of hacktivist group Anonymous’s ongoing #OpIsrael campaign, which was launched in March in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians.

Category: Israel News | Tags: cyber-attack, Internet

Exploded rocket reported to police at Sderot kindergarten

Local kindergarten had been closed for Passover holiday, delaying the discovery of a rocket believed fired last month during Obama’s Jerusalem visit.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

The remains of a rocket likely fired into southern Israel during Barack Obama’s visit to Israel last month were found in a kindergarten in Sderot, police stated.

An Israeli policewoman looks at the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza lan

An Israeli policewoman looks at the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza – Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

The rocket’s remains were not located previously barbecue the kindergarten had been closed for the Passover holiday, police added.

Police sappers were on the scene to safely dispose of the rocket.

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Israeli Navy digs in protecting gas fields

Israel’s Navy all prepared for defending Israel’s new found energy independence from ‘every possible scenario’.

Reuters

Israel’s huge new offshore gas resource offers its enemies an obvious target and gives its navy, long overshadowed by other branches of the Israeli armed forces, a big job that will require extra spending. On patrol boat 836, circling two gas platforms in choppy Mediterranean waters, Captain Ilan Lavi flipped through pictures of the possible threats: boat bombs, drones, submarine vessels, rockets and missiles.

Tamar’s gas rig – Photo by Albatross

“We have to build an entire new defensive envelope,” said Lavi, head of the navy’s planning department who talks as knowledgeably about the financial aspects of the gas industry as he does about security. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: Hezbollah, Israel Navy, natural gas, Tamar Gas Field

Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike after prisoner dies of cancer

As clashes erupt in Hebron, PA President Abbas says Israel responsible for death of 64-year-old Maysara Abuhamdieh.

By Yaniv Kubovich, Jack Khoury and Gili Cohen

Maysara Abuhamdieh, a 64-year-old security prisoner from Hebron, died Tuesday morning at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. Following his death, Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces in Hebron, while security detainees in Israeli prisoners announced a three-day hunger strike. Security was beefed up in prisons in case of further unrest.

A Palestinian woman holds a photograph of a prisoner on hunger strike during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron to show solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in February.

Category: Israel News | Tags: hamas, Palestinian prisoners, Palestinians

israelandstuffcom | March 30, 2013