Vile! #Israeli soldiers violently assaulted a Palestinian *child* who refused to take off his pants for a security check at the Shu'fat checkpoint today.
Then they assaulted a Palestinian woman when she dared talk to them or film the incident!
Occupation with ZERO consequences!
2\ The #Israeli soldiers forced the Palestinian child to STRIP NAKED at gunpoint for a "security check."
He told them it was too cold to take off his pants (6 C°/41 F), so they assaulted & arrested him, then assaulted & arrested a woman who dared talk to them & tried to film
3\ Israeli soldiers have been subjecting Palestinians to humiliating searches & arrests this morning at the Shu'fat checkpoint in #Jerusalem, while Israelis pass through unchecked.
4\ Other Palestinian children are being assaulted & arrested in this same area today by #Israeli soldiers.
5\ Palestinian students in Shufat were prevented from going to school today by #Israeli soldiers who arbitrarily decided to close down the checkpoint & humiliate, assault & arrest kids at random to instill fear in the local population.
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An #Israeli Knesset member put herself in front of a bulldozer to prevent the evacuation of an illegal Israeli farm build on privately owned Palestinian land
Israel's Security & Finance Ministers & dozens of MKs are voicing unequivocal support for the settlers who stole the land
2\ The #Israeli farm was built on stolen private Palestinian land 15 years ago.
The settlers made fortunes in profit while it took the owner a decade of litigation to get an Israeli court ruling that the farm is illegal!
Settlers climbed on trees today to prevent the evacuation
3\ Israeli ministers, Knesset members & public figures are condemning in the strongest terms the evacuation of a farm that Israel's own law considers illegal.
"An injustice that screams to heaven," says the Finance Minister.
Left: Khalil Sakakini's home in 1934 Jerusalem; which he put everything he had into building.
Zionist Haganah militants took his home in 1948.
Right: #Israel gave the house to the Women's International Zionist Org.
Sakakini became a penniless refugee & died of a broken heart🧵
2\ In 1934, Khalil Sakakini sent a jubilant letter to his son Sari, who was studying in the US, telling him that they finally have a place to call home. He described his relief that he can retire peacefully & his wife's excitement of not having to move between rented places...
3\Khalil Sakakini (1878 – 1953), who was one of the most influential Palestinian intellectuals, named each room in his house after an Arab capital: Cairo, Damascus, Sanaa, Baghdad
His home had a rich library & was a meeting place for artists, poets & leaders from the MENA region
1st thing Palestinians in #Jericho woke up to was dozens of #Israeli soldiers in armored vehicles & bulldozers raiding the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp & wreaking havoc!
14 Palestinians wounded; multiple homes & cars damaged; multiple young Palestinians kidnapped without charge...
2\ Eyewitnesses say #Israeli soldiers bombed a Palestinian civilian's house with a rocket then bulldozed parts of it around 7:00AM in #Jericho's Aqabat Jabr refugee camp.
Jericho has been under blockade for 8 days.
3\ The neighbor living next to the targeted house said he woke up to #Israeli bombs & shootings around 5:30AM, then bulldozing started at 7:00AM
They weren't allowed to flee. "If you dare look out of a window, you'd get shot"
He smuggled his kids to safety out of a back window
A🧵debunking #Israel's "Pay for Slay" myth:
The Palestinian Authority NEVER pays for killing Jewish Israelis!
The PA's "Martyr Fund" provides modest stipends to families of ANYONE killed, injured or imprisoned by Israel
Israel's gov has a SIMILAR fund called "Prisoners of Zion"
2\ #Israel's "Prisoners of Zion and Families of Martyrs" fund provides a number of benefits, including financial stipends, to individuals (& their families) who have been imprisoned or killed for "putative Zionist activity" abroad or in mandate Palestine.
Pay for slay?!?
3\ #Israeli kangaroo courts' conviction rate of Palestinians is over 99%. So prisoner ≠ terrorist.
The Palestinian martyr fund pays Palestinian prisoners in #Israel (including those imprisoned for non-political crimes) about $327. It goes to the Israeli prisons' canteen.
🧵#Israeli public streets & monuments named after convicted terrorists who are now deemed "National Heroes & Martyrs."
The Mordechai Alkahi street in #Jerusalem: named in honor of a member of the terrorist Irgun militia who was sentenced to death by the British.
2\ Shlomo Ben-Yosef street in #Jerusalem - Israel: named after a convicted terrorist member of the Irgun who attacked a bus full of civilians & was sentenced to death.
#Israel erected a monument honoring his bravery in Safed with the line "To die or conquer the mountain."
3\ Yehiel Dresner street in Tel-Aviv: named after a convicted terrorist member of the Irgun militia who took part in attacking the Lydda railway station, where 4 Palestinian civilians & 2 British security personnel were killed & several buildings were blown up.