"Every [illegal] settlement is basically a military base, and that's what you see by the fact that the [Israeli] army is now arming the settlers and training them to fight the Palestinians."
The Israeli Defence Force is reportedly preparing settlers for the mass uprising of Palestinians, expected after the UN votes on a Palestinian statehood in September. The preparations include handing out tear gas and stun grenades to civilians.
Military resistance to Palestinians will only bring international sanctions on Israel after Palestine is recognised in September's vote. That's the view of Jeff Halper, a political activist and co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
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Israeli settlers living in violation of international law in the West Bank have been issued stun grenades and tear gas by the Israeli military, in preparation for anticipated protests by Palestinians following the UN statehood declaration later this month.
The Israeli military has codenamed the planned attack on Palestinians "Operation Summer Seeds", which sounds much like the 2006 "Operation Summer Rains" in which 40,000 sound grenades and live missiles were dropped on the Gaza Strip over the course of the summer.
According to an internal Israeli government document leaked to the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz [Link]Israeli troops distributed maps with red lines drawn on them around Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with instructions to soldiers that if Palestinian protesters get too close to the settlements, they should be shot in the legs [...]
124 Out Of 193 Countries Recognize Palestinian Independence [Link]
Barak: Gaza groups planning new major terror attack on Israel [Link]
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Palestinians call for investigation into high incidence of illness in Israeli jails [Link]
A Palestinian rights centre has called for an investigation into the high incidence of illness and disease among Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails. A significant number die very soon after leaving prison, it is claimed [...]
Israel harvests organs from Palestenian martyrs bodies [Link]
Qaraqi' said during the national day of Palestinian campaign to retrieve martyrs' bodies said that "Israel is the major harvesting and trading centre in the world."
The minister said that Israel holds the remains of Palestinian martyrs "to conceal the crimes it committed against the martyrs bodies and to punish their families." "Holding of the martyrs' remains for many years cats doubts and accusations that Israel assassinated them after detention or harvested their organs," the minister said.
He added that "Israel is holding the remains of 338 Arab and Palestinian fighters in the secret Israeli cemeteries known as the Cemeteries of Numbers." [...]
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The new Syria- Pre-approved by Israel and it's supporters [Link]