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Race + Color + Ethnicity

Israel & Palestinian Territories | Palestinians

Numerous Palestinians killed and wounded following clash with army at Gaza border and knife attack by Jewish Israeli man
  • Six Palestinians were killed after Israeli troops opened fire during a confrontation at the Gaza Strip border, with estimates of the wounded ranging from 19 to 50.
  • Four Arab individuals were stabbed by a Jewish Israeli in the town of Dimona because of reportedly “nationalistic” motivations.
  • Violence throughout Israel and the Palestinian territories has been increasing since Israeli authorities limited access to Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem following the murder of Jewish Israelis in the holy city.

Read more:
“Six killed in Gaza as Israeli-Palestinian violence widens” (Reuters)
“Israeli troops kill several Palestinians in Gaza” (Al Jazeera America)
“Four Arabs stabbed in southern Israel, Jewish suspect held” (Reuters)
“At least 6 Palestinians die in clash with IDF along Gaza border” (The Times of Israel)

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Race + Color + Ethnicity

Israel & Palestinian Territories News | Israelis & Palestinians

Palestinian teen dead, Israeli teen wounded as violence grows in Jerusalem and the West Bank
  • A Palestinian teenager was killed as Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces during a police operation in the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
  • Following the murder of two Israeli men in Jerusalem, a follow-up stabbing by another Palestinian wounded an Israeli teenager.
  • As Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the knife attack, PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced the homes of attackers would be destroyed and access to the Old City in Jerusalem limited.

Read more:
“Violence intensifies in Jerusalem, West Bank, raising security concerns” (Reuters)
“Jewish Teen Moderately Wounded in Latest Jerusalem Stabbing Attack” (Haaretz)
“Israel bans Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City after knife attacks” (The Guardian)

(Image Credit: Atef Safadi/EPA, via The Guardian)

Age, Race + Color + Ethnicity

Israel & Palestine News | Palestinian Children

Israeli army arrests five Palestinian children in latest controversial detention of minors
  • The children were detained for allegedly throwing stones at soldiers, punishable by up to 20 years, before being released.
  • Rights groups estimate around 700 Palestinian minors are prosecuted each year in military courts.
  • Video of a small Palestinian boy with a broken arm being violently handled by Israeli officers went viral last month as the army’s aggressive police tactics drew international condemnation.

View the Al Jazeera America video on YouTube.

Nationality + Migration

Global News | Palestinians

UN General Assembly vote will allow Palestinian flag to fly at UN headquarters
  • With 119 in favor, eight against, and 45 abstaining, the Assembly voted to allow observer states–Palestine and the Vatican–to fly their national flags in front of the UN’s New York headquarters.
  • The flag is expected to go up on September 30, when Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to address the General Assembly.
  • The U.S. and Israel criticized the measure as working in conflict with peace efforts in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Read the full story at the New York Times.

Other, Race + Color + Ethnicity

Israel News | Incarcerated Palestinians

Israel looks to release Palestinian hunger-striker after months of charge-less detention
  • Israeli authorities have offered release to prisoner Mohammad Allan on the condition that he be exiled for four years.
  • Allan lost consciousness last week after having been on hunger strike for two months, but vowed to refuse basic nutrients after being revived.
  • One of a number undertaken in protest of Israel’s “administrative detention” of prisoners (overwhelmingly Palestinian) without charge, the hunger strike has continued even as the government recently passed a law allowing for the force-feeding of prisoners.

“I think that, under the circumstances, this is a realistic proposal that would be good if he accepts it.”

Read the full story at The New York Times.

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Israel News | Palestinians

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West Bank arson attack suspected to be work of Jewish extremists leaves Palestinian infant dead and family critically injured
  • Witnesses reported Israeli settlers firebombed two homes in the town of Duma around 2 a.m., leading to the infant’s death and the serious injury of his parents and 4-year-old brother.
  • The government was swift to condemn the violence as “an act of terrorism in every respect,” but Palestinian leaders called for the Israeli government to be held responsible as it continues to green-light Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank.
  • The act was the latest in a string of violent acts traded between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank, where mosques have been burned and an Israeli man murdered in the last month.

“Your soul cries out and cannot find solace — the murder of a child by Jews and the burning of a house is the murder of Abu Khdeir all over again.”

Read the full story at The New York Times.

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Gender, Other

Palestine News | Women

Gender equality advocates campaign to remove marital status from Palestinian ID cards in the West Bank
  • Women testify to facing harassment and discrimination when presenting their cards, including intrusive questioning from landlords while searching for housing rentals.
  • Members of women’s rights groups launched a campaign in April petitioning for the removal of the status, with Sharia judges and other officials indicating openness to the change.
  • The Ministry of the Interior has expressed support for the idea, but deflected responsibility for change to the Palestinian Legislative Council, which would have to create legislation for the removal to take effect.

“I experienced difficulty in finding a home to rent as a divorced woman. Landlords kept telling me, ‘You’re a woman, where are we supposed to find you to collect the rent?’”

Read the full story at Al-Monitor.
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Race + Color + Ethnicity, Religion + Belief
Palestinian man kills one Israeli man and wounds another in attack near Jewish settlement in the West Bank
  • Waving the Israelis down, the gunman asked for directions to the nearby spring before pulling out a pistol and shooting them.
  • The deceased was 25-year-old Danny Gonen, a student from Lod.
  • Hamas praised the act, but authorities have yet to determine whether the gunman acted as a part of a larger organization.

“We will not accept a situation in which a young hiker has his life taken from him in the land of Israel because he is Jewish. … The murderous attack that occurred today is another step in the quiet and serious escalation in acts of terrorism we have witnessed in recent months.”

Read the full story at the New York Times.

Race + Color + Ethnicity
Israel finds no wrongdoing in 2014 killing of four Palestinian boys by military forces
  • The internal investigation concluded that no misconduct had taken place as the children, who were witnessed playing soccer at the time, were mistakenly identified as combatants in an area that was a militant hotbed.
  • The attack generated international outcry, with some calling for war-crime charges to be brought against Israel.
  • More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed during last year’s Israel-Gaza conflict, most of them civilians.

More on this story at Reuters.

Race + Color + Ethnicity
Israeli’s Education Minister removes state support for controversial play about Palestinian prisoner and convicted murderer
  • The play, A Parallel Time, has been produced by Arab theater Al-Midan in Haifa and features a story centered on the prison experience of Walid Daka, an Arab Israeli convicted of abducting and murdering an Israeli soldier in 1984.
  • A ministerial committee twice approved the play as part of the Ministry’s initiative to bring the arts and culture to Israeli schoolchildren, but Naftali Bennett, the Education Minister, accused the play of promoting tolerance of terrorists.
  • The theater has indicated that it will appeal the decision to the High Court of Justice, citing violation of free expression.

More on this story at The Times of Israel.

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Nationality + Migration, Race + Color + Ethnicity
Israel’s controversial plan to resettle the Palestinians of the Susiya community moves forward following high court ruling
  • The resettlement–the third such kind of the Khirbet Susiya community in the last thirty years–involves expropriating the land from the Palestinians, who Israeli rights groups note have had documentary claims to it since 1830.
  • The Israeli government claims that while the Palestinians may own the land, they do not have the proper building permits; residents argue that the government rarely grants permits to non-Jews in Area C, where Susiya is located.
  • Similar to the Australian government’s arguments for indigenous resettlement, the Israeli government states that the displaced Palestinians will find better economic opportunity in their new location, a claim discredited by residents.

“Since the court ruling, people here have gone to bed not knowing whether the bulldozers would come in the morning. It is like trying to balance on a chair with only one leg and not knowing when you will fall off. People here are living on edge.”

More on this story at The Guardian.

(Image Credit: Peter Beaumont for the Observer, via The Guardian)

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Amnesty International releases report finding Hamas guilty of war crimes against Palestinians during the 2014 Israel-Gaza war, including abduction, torture, and murder. More from AFP, via La Presse (in French).