Israel has retroactively legalised about 800 homes in four settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian occupied territory, the interior ministry said. They included 377 homes in the Yakir settlement, 187 in Itmar and 94 in Shilo in the northern West Bank, as well as 97 more in Sansana in the south of the occupied Palestinian territory, it said.
Daily Archives: 31. Oktober 2015
Israel/OPT: Israeli authorities must protect Palestinian civilians in wake of settler attacks in Hebron
Amnesty International found evidence that at least some of the killings of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Hebron were extrajudicial executions, and four more Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Hebron since Tuesday morning. But Palestinian residents of Hebron have told Amnesty International that they feel just as threatened by the Israeli civilians, many of them armed, living in illegal settlements in and around the city.
Palestinian Residents of Hebron Required to Register in Preparation for Severe New Restrictions
Due to the increase in violence by army and settlers against Palestinians they do not dare to refuse registration this time.
Hebron rages against ethnic cleansing of its youth at funeral for five young martyrs
When the funeral procession passed close to Bab al-Zawwiyah, Israeli forces from a nearby checkpoint fired tear gas and stun grenades, unprovoked, at the mourners who were solemnly walking towards the cemetery. Once at the cemetery, mourners flooded in to say their last goodbyes.
Thousands rally in Hebron funeral procession for 5 Palestinians ‘killed by IDF’ (PHOTOS)
Thousands have marched through Hebron on the West bank in a funeral procession to commemorate five Palestinians allegedly killed by Israeli forces a few weeks ago. Earlier, their bodies were returned to the Palestinian authorities.
Social media was flooded with photos and videos of scores of Palestinians taking part in the demonstration.
Newly-Discovered Geoglyphs Are So Big, NASA Is Helping Study Them From Space
Turgai, Kazakhstan might not look like much besides wide, sweeping plains. But over the past few years, archaeologists have revealed more than 200 massive earthworks, so large that you’d never notice them from the ground. As the New York Times reports today, no one knows their purpose–yet.
NASA releases images of enormous 8,000-year-old patterns
The massive earthwork patterns called the Steppe Geoglyphs were originally discovered by a Kazakh economist when he was browsing Google Earth in 2007. When browsing through an otherwise empty Central Asian landscape, Dimitriy Dey found intriguing markings in the soil.
Crypto is For Everyone—and American History Proves It
Please join us in acting to SaveCrypto and urge President Obama to commit to supporting strong cryptography for everyone.
6 Spooky Ways Local Law Enforcement Is Watching You
Often, the discussion on government surveillance in the US is all about the NSA or the FBI. But the feds aren’t the only ones spying on you. Local law enforcement has been getting in on the action, and it’s not good.
US Congress Signs Off on Latest $50Bln Spy Agencies‘ Budget
However, the Director of National Intelligence refused to disclose any details about how the money was apportioned between the 16 agencies, or on what it will be spent.
„Beyond the disclosure of the NIP top-line figure, there will be no other disclosures of currently classified NIP budget information, because such disclosures could harm national security,“ the Director of National Intelligence explained.
Ordering troops to Syria, Barack Obama crosses his own red line: analysis
Even as President Barack Obama sent U.S. troops back to Iraq and ordered the military to stay in Afghanistan, he insisted Syria would remain off limits for American ground forces. Now the president has crossed his own red line.
Rabin‘s Widow Calls Netanyahu a ‚Nightmare‘ in Decade-old Letter
(26.September 2009) Leah Rabin died in 2000. In November 1998, about two weeks after the third anniversary of the assassination, Leah wrote: „I hope, pray, that the days of this government are numbered. Benjamin Netanyahu is a corrupt individual, a contentious liar who is ruining everything that is good about our society. He is breaking it to bits, and in the future, we will have to rebuild it all over.“
President of Palestine, H.E. Mr Mahmoud Abbas visits the ICC Prosecutor
The Prosecutor opened a preliminary examination of the situation in Palestine in January 2015. In this context, the Prosecutor stated that her Office will also examine whether any of the newly reported incidents of violence constitute crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the ICC, and for the same purpose, will continue to record any new instances of violence or incitement to violence that may occur in the future. She warned that anyone – on either side – who commits, orders, incites, encourages or contributes in any other way to the commission of crimes falling within the jurisdiction of the ICC is liable to prosecution either at the national level or at the Court.
Palestinians hand fresh alleged war crimes evidence to ICC
The Palestinians handed a fresh dossier of evidence to the International Criminal Court in an attempt to get the war crimes tribunal to expand its existing probe of last year‘s Gaza conflict to include the upsurge in violence of the past month.
دهس واطلاق نار على فلسطيني في رام الل
Veröffentlicht am 30.10.2015
Eight-month-old Palestinian Baby Dies of Tear Gas Inhalation in West Bank Clashes
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the baby, Mohammed Faisal Thouabta, was rushed to a Bethlehem hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Earlier on Friday, a Palestinian was run over by a security forces vehicle after he tried to attack an officer. According to a Border Police statement, the man was wielding a knife, but a video of the incident shows the man raising a rock over the Israeli officer.
Israeli forces to Aida camp: ‚We will gas you until you all die‘
(29.Oktober) Yazan Ikhlayel, 17, was at Aida refugee camp’s local community center when Israeli forces stormed the camp. He was filming Israeli jeeps rolling through one of the camp’s main roads shooting off tear gas from his iPhone when a soldier began issuing a message to residents from one of the jeep’s loud speakers
Egypt Says It Lost Contact With a Russian Aircraft
Earlier in the day, an Egyptian official with the government‘s Incidents Committee told local media that the plane had briefly lost contact but was now safely in Turkish airspace.
It‘s NOT confirmed that this flight has crashed. It descended 5000 feet before Flightradar24 coverage was lost.
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USA verweisen auf „Presseberichte“ als Beweis für russische Angriffe auf Krankenhäuser in Syrien
RT-Reporterin Gayane Chichakyan hat das US-Außenministerium gefragt, auf welchen Beweisen die schwerwiegenden Vorwürfe basieren, Russland hätte zahlreiche Krankenhäuser in Syrien bombardiert. Die Antwort des US-Außenamtssprechers John Kirby spricht für sich selbst: „Wir haben einige Presseberichte und einige zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen in Syrien, die dies aussagen“. Der Sprecher des US-Außenministeriums spezifizierte in diesem Zusammenhang keine einzige Organisations- oder Pressequelle.
Russisches Passagierflugzeug im Sinai abgestürzt
Laut der russischen Luftfahrtbehörde sei der Radar- Kontakt zu der Maschine über zypriotischem Luftraum abgerissen.
Joint Press Availability with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura
SECRETARY KERRY: .. We agreed that Daesh and other terrorist groups as designated by the UN Security Council and as agreed by the participants must be defeated. Pursuant to the 2012 Geneva communique and UN Security Council Resolution 2118, we invited the UN to convene representatives of the Government of Syria and the Syrian opposition for a political process leading to a credible, inclusive, non-sectarian governance followed by a new constitution and elections. We agreed that these elections must be administered under UN supervision to the satisfaction of the government and to the highest international standards of transparency and accountability, free and fair, with all Syrians, including the diaspora, eligible to participate.
We agreed that this political process will be Syrian-led and Syrian-owned and that the Syrian people will decide the future of Syria. And we agreed together with the United Nations to explore modalities for and implementation of a nationwide ceasefire to be initiated on a date certain and in parallel with this renewed political process.
An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
(30. November 2009) „It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That‘s the way General Washington insisted it must be. That‘s what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. „You‘re fired!,“ said Truman, and that was that. „
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 10/29/2015
Q: What has the President’s reaction been to the proposals that military commanders and others have made so far? And when do you expect a decision on that next stage?
MR. EARNEST: I don’t have any — well, I’m not going to get into the back and forth that the President has with his national security team, including his military advisors, other than to say that the President’s approach time and again here has been to look for ways that we can redouble our efforts in those areas where our strategy is yielding some progress.
Syrien-Konferenz: Waffenstillstand und freie Wahlen als Ziel
Bei der Wiener Syrien-Konferenz haben sich die teilnehmenden Staaten auf ein Mehr-Punkte-Programm zur Beendigung des Bürgerkriegs geeinigt. Angestrebt werden ein landesweiter Waffenstillstand und international überwachte freie Wahlen.
SAS and US special forces forming hunter killer unit to ‚smash Islamic State‘
(23.August 2014) The undercover warriors will aim to “cut the head off the snake” by hitting the command structure of the Islamist terror group responsible for a trail of atrocities across Iraq and Syria, reports the Sunday People.
PM David Cameron has told the SAS and UK spy agencies to direct all their resources at defeating IS after a video of US journalist James Foley being beheaded shocked the world.
British special forces will work with America’s Delta Force and Seal Team 6. T
Syrien: USA schicken erste Bodentruppen
(30.Oktober 2015) Zum Kampf gegen die Extremistenmiliz Islamischer Staat wollen die USA eine kleine Spezialtruppe als Ausbilder und Berater nach Syrien schicken. Es handle sich um Spezialkräfte, erklärte ein Regierungssprecher in Washington.
Syrien-Konferenz: Grundsätzliche Einigkeit
Bei der Wiener Syrien-Konferenz haben sich die teilnehmenden Staaten am Freitag auf ein Mehr-Punkte-Programm zur Beendigung des Bürgerkriegs geeinigt. Wie US-Außenminister John Kerry mitteilte, werden ein landesweiter Waffenstillstand und international überwachte freie Wahlen angestrebt. Es handle sich um „den Beginn eines neuen diplomatischen Prozesses“ in Syrien.
Zarif, Kerry meet for second, third rounds
Mohammad Javad Zarif and his US counterpart John Kerry met for the second and third times on Friday evening and night.
The first meeting between Zarif and Kerry was held in the Austrian capital on Thursday.
Iran threatens Arabs as much as Islamic State says Bahrain
Iranian support for subversion in Arab states is as big a threat to the region as the Islamic State jihadist group, Bahrain‘s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said on Saturday at a security conference in Manama.
Saudi says Assad, Iran-backed foreign forces must quit Syria
Russia and Iran must agree to a date and means for Syria‘s President Bashar al-Assad to quit the country, and agree to withdraw all foreign forces from Syria, Saudi Arabia‘s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in an interview with Sky News Arabia broadcast on Saturday.
Li und Merkel begrüßen Zunahme an Investitionen
Chinas Ministerpräsident Li Keqiang und Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel sind am Freitag mit Mitgliedern des chinesisch-deutschen Wirtschaftsausschusses zu Gesprächen zusammengekommen.
Partnerschafts-Erklärung zwischen China und Großbritannien veröffentlicht
(23.Oktober) China und Großbritannien haben am Donnerstag in London die gemeinsame „Erklärung zum Aufbau einer globalen umfassenden strategischen Partnerschaft im 21. Jahrhundert“ veröffentlicht.
Beide Seiten sind sich demnach einig, dass der Großbritannien-Besuch von Chinas Staatspräsident Xi Jinping den bilateralen Beziehungen als Höhepunkt der hochrangigen Kontakte im laufenden Jahr eine historische Chance geboten habe.
European Union sides with United States on South China Sea incident
„The U.S. are exercising their freedom of navigation,“ a senior EU official said at a briefing, chiming with the U.S. line.
A U.S. Navy spokesman had said that the patrol was part of the U.S. freedom of navigation operations meant to „protect the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea and airspace guaranteed to all nations under international law“.
Adolf, Amin und Bibi
ES IST nicht sehr erfreulich, wenn ernste Leute in aller Welt – Historiker, Psychiater, Diplomaten – sich fragen, ob mein Ministerpräsident seine Sinne psychisch noch beieinander hat.
The Little #Hashtag That Changed the World
You might not give much thought to the hashtag – that little # symbol you sprinkle between your daily tweets and online messages. But what started as a tool to classify topics and relevant conversations has now become a rallying cry for sociopolitical action.
“We look at the hashtag as kind of a symbol that lets people get behind it as opposed to just kind of throwing their opinions out there, and they’re part of a larger conversation,” said Tim Receveur, Director of PeaceTech Exchanges at the United States Institute of Peace. ” … There’s a symbol of empowerment around the hashtag”
Tech expert Chris Messina is credited with creating the first Twitter hashtag in August 2007. The whole thing started with this tweet:
how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?
— ⚒ Chris Messina ⚔ (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007
World Powers Agree on UN Plan for Syria
World powers involved in talks on Syria‘s political future have agreed to a U.N.-led process that involves talks between the Syrian government and opposition and also to explore a cease-fire that would still allow strikes against terrorist groups.
The plans were outlined in a Friday news conference held by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.N. Special Envoy Staffan De Mistura.
Kolumbianer kämpfen unter saudischem Kommando im Jemen
Die Bewerbung als militärische Fachkraft kann über eine Arbeitsvermittlung in Bogotá laufen, mit der das kolumbianische Arbeitsministerium kooperiert. Geboten werden hier lukrative Arbeitsverträge in den Arabischen Emiraten.
Baby Suffocates to Death from Tear Gas near Bethlehem
An eight-month-old Palestinian baby died Friday, from tear gas inhalation, in Beit Fajjar village, to the south of Bethlehem during clashes in the area, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
Israeli forces storm hospital for 3rd time to seize Palestinian suspect’s records (VIDEO)
Israeli police officers raided the Bagthamha Makassed Hospital in the Jerusalem neighborhood of al-Tur using rubber bullets, smoke grenades and sound bombs on Thursday. Authorities were trying to find a medical record belonging to a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, who was allegedly hit with a .22 caliber Ruger bullet during a recent clash with Israeli security forces, Haaretz reports.
Western media publishing photo collages as proofs of Russian pilots’ zero hits
As the evidence, the media offer photocollages of some kind or the video footage of some ruins without indications of either place or time of the events featured on the photographs, Gen Kartapolov said.
Mogherini terms Syria crisis talks ‚historic, substantial‘
Following the conclusion of the international talks on the Syrian crisis, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has described the negotiations held in Vienna, Austria, as „historic“ and „very substantial.“