Daily Archives: April 12, 2020

2020-04-12: News Headlines

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-12). A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and "Dutch Candy" dissidentvoice.org Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried …

yenisafak (2020-04-12). Turkey to send medical aid to Palestine. yenisafak.com Turkey will send medical aid to Israel and Palestine to help them battle coronavirus, the country's presidential spokesman said on Sunday."There was a demand for medical aid from Israel, and it will be completed within days. We will simultaneously send medical supplies to Palestine," Ibrahim Kalin told CNN Turk.Kalin said Armenia's medicine demand was also approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and it was currently in process by the Health Ministry.Ankara is helping multiple states to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. So far it has sent aid to Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo…

sputniknews (2020-04-12). Enemy of My Enemy? Israel Sells Missile System to UAE for Haftar's Libyan National Army – Report. sputniknews.com The war-torn nation of Libya, which descended into a foreign-backed civil war in 2011 after NATO warplanes helped rebels topple Muammar Gaddafi, has faced a major escalation of fighting in the past year as Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) attempts a final push to drive the Government of National Accord (GNA) out of Tripoli.

Ali Salam (2020-04-11). Israeli Colonists Desecrate Palestinian Cemetery near Nablus. imemc.org Illegal Israeli settlers desecrated, on Wednesday night, several gravestones in a Palestinian cemetery in the village of Burqa, north of city of Nablus, Days of Palestine reported. Local official in charge of documenting Israeli settlement crimes in the northern occupied West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas said that illegal Israeli settlers invaded …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-11). PLO Warns Against Joint US-Israeli Annexation Plans. imemc.org The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), warned on Saturday against a recently-leaked understanding between the USA and Israel over some Israeli plans for the possible annexation of Palestinian lands, for the purpose of illegal colonial settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement, issued by the Department for the Defense …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-11). Prisoners Committee Concerned Over Palestinian Prisoner's Condition. imemc.org The Ramallah-based Palestinian Committee for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners Affairs, on Saturday, expressed its deep concern over the condition of a Palestinian prisoner, inside Israel's Ramon prison. In a statement, released by the committee, the condition of prisoner, Mohammed Halabi, 42, from the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia, is getting …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-10). Israeli Forces Suppress Weekly Protest, Many Palestinians Suffer Inhalation Injuries. imemc.org Palestinian media reports said that Palestinian residents in the central West Bank town of Kufur Qaddoum suffocated on tear-gas, fired by Israeli troops on Friday. Spokesperson for the Popular Committee for the Resistance of Israel's Apartheid Wall in the Qalqilia city of the West Bank, Morad Eshteiwi, told media outlets …

Ramzy Baroud (2020-04-10). Faith, Humor and Dutch Candy: A Palestinian Guide to Surviving Quarantine. mintpressnews.com The coronavirus quarantine is no radical departure for many Palestinians, who have learned to live in a state of virtual 'lockdown' since the late 1940s.

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-10). Israeli Troops Abduct One Palestinian, Close Town East of Hebron. imemc.org Israeli troops reportedly closed down the entrance to Bany Naeem town, on Friday, on the eastern edge of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron. Local media sources and witnesses said that an Israeli army force surrounded the town, before it abducted a Palestinian youth, identified as Mahdi Abusnaina, …

PCHR (2020-04-10). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (02 — 08 April 2020). imemc.org Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) Summary Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to violate Palestinians' human rights and commit crimes against civilians and their properties, conducting raids into Palestinian cities without regard to the state of emergency declared across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) since 06 March 2020, in the …

teleSUR (2020-04-10). Mideast: COVID-19 Cases in Israel Exceed 10,000; Yemen 1st Case. telesurenglish.net The number of novel coronavirus cases in Israel increased to 10,408 on Friday. Meanwhile, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government declared the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country. | RELATED: | The death toll of COVID-19 has reached 95 in Israel, with a daily increase of nine deaths on Friday. | The Israeli government has put emergency regulation restrictions to reduce the COVID-19 spread, as Israelis on Wednesday beg…

Miko Peled (2020-04-09). COVID-19: The Zionist Underpinnings of Israel's Violent Crackdown on Haredi Jews. mintpressnews.com In a conversation I had with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro for an upcoming episode of the "They did not get these values, of loving their guns and stealing Palestinian land, from Judaism," he said. He explained that Jewish people throughout history have kept to themselves, avoided violence and war, and, in fact, are prohibited by heavenly decree from sovereignty over the Holy Land. "Establishing sovereignty in the Holy Land, from which we were expelled by the Almighty…

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-09). Senior PLO Member: Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians Go Unabated. imemc.org Senior member of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, held the international community legally and morally responsible for what she described as the Israeli military's continued crimes against the unarmed Palestinian people. In a statement, the senior PLO member released on Thursday on the 72nd …

IMEMC News (2020-04-09). Israeli Police Officers Assault, Abduct Three Palestinians In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli police officers assaulted, on Thursday evening, three young Palestinian men, before abducting them, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the police officers invaded Maragha neighborhood in Silwan, and assaulted Ala' Tawfiq Abu Tayeh, Ahmad …

PCHR (2020-04-09). PCHR: In New Israeli Violation, Israeli Naval Forces Wound 2 Fishermen in Northern Gaza Sea. imemc.org Israeli naval forces continue their attacks against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Sea preventing them from sailing and fishing freely, accessing the zones rich in fish, despite the fact that fishermen posed no threat to the lives of Israeli naval forces deployed in Gaza waters. The Israeli naval forces' attacks …

IMEMC & Agencies (2020-04-09). Arab States: Israel Attacks Palestinians Amidst the Fight Against Covid-19. imemc.org League of Arab States, comprising of 22 Arab countries, stated on Thursday, that Israeli occupation authorities continue 'aggression' toward the Palestinian people by carrying out killing, arrests, expulsion and illegal settlement construction. In a statement issued on Thursday, on the 72nd anniversary of the Israeli-perpetrated massacre of civilian Palestinians in …

John Ranson (2020-04-08). The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News are closing down. thecanary.co The A statement in the JC

Middle East Eye (2020-02-07). Russia Says Israel Used Civilian Plane as Human Shield During Syria Strikes. theantimedia.com Russia accused Israel of "making a total mockery of the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians."

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A Palestinian Guide to Surviving a Quarantine: On Faith, Humor and "Dutch Candy"
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-12
Call it a 'quarantine', a 'shelter-in-place', a 'lockdown' or a 'curfew', we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all voluntarily. Personally, the first 23 years of my life were lived in virtual 'lockdown'. My father's 'quarantine' was experienced much earlier, as did his father's 'shelter-in-place' before him. They both died and were buried …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/a-palestinian-guide-to-surviving-a-quarantine-on-faith-humor-and-dutch-candy/

Turkey to send medical aid to Palestine
yenisafak.com | 2020-04-12
Turkey will send medical aid to Israel and Palestine to help them battle coronavirus, the country's presidential spokesman said on Sunday."There was a demand for medical aid from Israel, and it will be completed within days. We will simultaneously send medical supplies to Palestine," Ibrahim Kalin told CNN Turk.Kalin said Armenia's medicine demand was also approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and it was currently in process by the Health Ministry.Ankara is helping multiple states to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. So far it has sent aid to Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-to-send-medical-aid-to-palestine-3516700

Enemy of My Enemy? Israel Sells Missile System to UAE for Haftar's Libyan National Army – Report
sputniknews.com | 2020-04-12
The war-torn nation of Libya, which descended into a foreign-backed civil war in 2011 after NATO warplanes helped rebels topple Muammar Gaddafi, has faced a major escalation of fighting in the past year as Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) attempts a final push to drive the Government of National Accord (GNA) out of Tripoli.
sputniknews.com/military/202004121078928005-enemy-of-my-enemy-israel-sells-missile-system-to-uae-for-haftars-libyan-national-army—report/

Israeli Colonists Desecrate Palestinian Cemetery near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-04-11
Illegal Israeli settlers desecrated, on Wednesday night, several gravestones in a Palestinian cemetery in the village of Burqa, north of city of Nablus, Days of Palestine reported. Local official in charge of documenting Israeli settlement crimes in the northern occupied West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas said that illegal Israeli settlers invaded …
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PLO Warns Against Joint US-Israeli Annexation Plans
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-11
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), warned on Saturday against a recently-leaked understanding between the USA and Israel over some Israeli plans for the possible annexation of Palestinian lands, for the purpose of illegal colonial settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories. In a statement, issued by the Department for the Defense …
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Prisoners Committee Concerned Over Palestinian Prisoner's Condition
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-11
The Ramallah-based Palestinian Committee for Prisoners and Ex-prisoners Affairs, on Saturday, expressed its deep concern over the condition of a Palestinian prisoner, inside Israel's Ramon prison. In a statement, released by the committee, the condition of prisoner, Mohammed Halabi, 42, from the Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia, is getting …
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Israeli Forces Suppress Weekly Protest, Many Palestinians Suffer Inhalation Injuries
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-10
Palestinian media reports said that Palestinian residents in the central West Bank town of Kufur Qaddoum suffocated on tear-gas, fired by Israeli troops on Friday. Spokesperson for the Popular Committee for the Resistance of Israel's Apartheid Wall in the Qalqilia city of the West Bank, Morad Eshteiwi, told media outlets …
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Faith, Humor and Dutch Candy: A Palestinian Guide to Surviving Quarantine
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-10
The coronavirus quarantine is no radical departure for many Palestinians, who have learned to live in a state of virtual 'lockdown' since the late 1940s.
mintpressnews.com/palestinian-guide-surviving-coronavirus-lockdown/266502/

Israeli Troops Abduct One Palestinian, Close Town East of Hebron
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-10
Israeli troops reportedly closed down the entrance to Bany Naeem town, on Friday, on the eastern edge of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron. Local media sources and witnesses said that an Israeli army force surrounded the town, before it abducted a Palestinian youth, identified as Mahdi Abusnaina, …
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Mideast: COVID-19 Cases in Israel Exceed 10,000; Yemen 1st Case
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-10
The number of novel coronavirus cases in Israel increased to 10,408 on Friday. Meanwhile, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government declared the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country. | RELATED: | New York Uses Mass Graves Due to Increase COVID-19 Deaths | The death toll of COVID-19 has reached 95 in Israel, with a daily increase of nine deaths on Friday. | The Israeli government has put emergency regulation restrictions to reduce the COVID-19 spread, as Israelis on Wednesday beg…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mideast-COVID-19-Cases-in-Israel-Exceed-10000-Yemen-1st-Case-20200410-0011.html

Senior PLO Member: Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians Go Unabated
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-09
Senior member of the Executive Committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, held the international community legally and morally responsible for what she described as the Israeli military's continued crimes against the unarmed Palestinian people. In a statement, the senior PLO member released on Thursday on the 72nd …
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COVID-19: The Zionist Underpinnings of Israel's Violent Crackdown on Haredi Jews
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-09
In a conversation I had with Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro for an upcoming episode of the Miko Peled Podcast, Rabbi Shapiro referred to Jewish Zionists as "idol worshipers." | "They did not get these values, of loving their guns and stealing Palestinian land, from Judaism," he said. He explained that Jewish people throughout history have kept to themselves, avoided violence and war, and, in fact, are prohibited by heavenly decree from sovereignty over the Holy Land. "Establishing sovereignty in the Holy Land, from which we were expelled by the Almighty…
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Israeli Police Officers Assault, Abduct Three Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2020-04-09
Israeli police officers assaulted, on Thursday evening, three young Palestinian men, before abducting them, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the police officers invaded Maragha neighborhood in Silwan, and assaulted Ala' Tawfiq Abu Tayeh, Ahmad …
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PCHR: In New Israeli Violation, Israeli Naval Forces Wound 2 Fishermen in Northern Gaza Sea
PCHR | imemc.org | 2020-04-09
Israeli naval forces continue their attacks against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Sea preventing them from sailing and fishing freely, accessing the zones rich in fish, despite the fact that fishermen posed no threat to the lives of Israeli naval forces deployed in Gaza waters. The Israeli naval forces' attacks …
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Arab States: Israel Attacks Palestinians Amidst the Fight Against Covid-19
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-09
League of Arab States, comprising of 22 Arab countries, stated on Thursday, that Israeli occupation authorities continue 'aggression' toward the Palestinian people by carrying out killing, arrests, expulsion and illegal settlement construction. In a statement issued on Thursday, on the 72nd anniversary of the Israeli-perpetrated massacre of civilian Palestinians in …
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The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News are closing down
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2020-04-08
The Jewish Chronicle (JC) and Jewish News (JN) are set to close down after announcing the company which owns them is seeking a liquidation agreement. | A statement in the JC said: The liquidation is expected to be finalised in the coming 2 to 3 weeks and every effort will be made to ensure that the paper continues to be published over this period and the website continues to provide regular upda…
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