Israeli forces seize solar panels, injure child in village raid

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

Last edited Fri Apr 3, 2015, 12:00 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760233

JERICHO (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Wednesday injured a child during a raid on a West Bank Bedouin village in which they also confiscated solar energy panels donated to locals by a local sustainability organization, a local official said.

A Fatah party official in Jahalin, an area in the central West Bank near Abu Dis where large numbers of Bedouins live in small villages, said that Israeli soldiers raided the encampment near al-Khan al-Ahmar where 22 families live.

He said that the soldiers seized 12 portable solar power panels which had been donated to them for their electricity needs by the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem, a Palestinian organization that focuses on sustainability and self-sufficiency for Palestinians.

During the raid, the Fatah official said, a child was assaulted and left with bruises. He was subsequently taken to a Jericho hospital unconscious.

What? Did the Palestinians not have the proper permits for solar?

End Israeli Apartheid. BDS.

[NYC_SKP]

1. WTF is wrong with them?

For the cradle of civilization, this part of the world sure lack civility.

[Scootaloo]

5. Racial supremacism paired with military superiority and unconditional American support

[King_David]

10. I have read that exact same thing on the web

About racial supremism.

Usually on extremist right wing sites that strangely enough accuse Jews and Jewish Israelis themselves of racial supremacy. Which is strange considering the sources.

Have never ever read it on a Leftish Democratic Party supporting website , ever(well besides your own previous pronouncements of such)

This thread however proves there are others that believe this in our community.

[Scootaloo]

17. Do you have something to say, Dave? An argument to make?

If so, please - proceed, your grace.

[lofty1]

3. Being Jewish

does not mean you automatically side with Israel on every issue.

The question to ask is how many in the US government hold dual US/Israeli citizenship.

[marble falls]

4. Thankyou, the Jewish are no more monolithic than Christians are. Or Islam is, for that matter.....

following an election in Israel would prove that in a hurry.

[oberliner]

6. That from a member since 2006

One wonders how many have those same thoughts but keep them to themselves.

[King_David]

7. I was relieved the post was hidden .

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. One also wonders how some always sidestep the OP

when it is easier to complain about a subthread?

[marble falls]

9. Its how they derail an OP.

[oberliner]

12. Solar panels are great

I think everyone should be encouraged to use them.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. See post #9.

[Little Tich]

18. I would have liked to respond to that post.

Perhaps it's better that it was hidden, though.

[Jefferson23]

11. The link is missing:

http://www.maannews.com/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=760233

During the raid, the Fatah official said, a child was assaulted and left with bruises. He was subsequently taken to a Jericho hospital unconscious.

The encampment raided by Israeli soldiers is one of 21 where Bedouins live in the Jahalin area.

Israeli forces have shut a number of roads into the area in the past, part of a wider effort to evict Bedouins from the area, which is close to the Jewish-only settlement of Maale Adumim.

The Jahalin area is located in the strategic E1 corridor which connects Jerusalem and Maale Adumim. Israeli authorities have frequently expressed their desire to build in the area, a move that would cut the Palestinian West Bank in half and effectively make any Palestinian state impossible.

Since early February, Palestinian activists have maintained a protest camp nearby set up in opposition to Israeli plans to displace Palestinian Bedouin families from their dwellings in the corridor.

Last summer, Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank released a series of plans that would concentrate Bedouins in two places and destroy more than 20 of their current villages.

Rights groups slammed the plans, adding that the forcible transfer amounts to a massive land grab and an attempt by authorities to annex the crucial E1 area and effectively cut the West Bank in two.

A statement released in September co-signed by 42 Palestinian, international, and Israeli organizations said that the plans "include moving Bedouins out of the politically sensitive area referred to as the Jerusalem Periphery or 'E1,' where Israel has long-intended to demolish 23 Bedouin villages in order to expand and link settlements, established in violation of international law."

The majority of Bedouins in Israel and the West Bank live a relatively settled but still sometimes semi-nomadic lifestyle, residing in permanent villages but pasturing livestock in adjacent areas.

Israeli restrictions on movement -- in order to build Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands previously used by Bedouins or through the construction of the Separation Wall to cut through the West Bank -- have severely curtailed Bedouins' traditional nomadism.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. Sorry about that.

[Jefferson23]

14. No problem. n/t

[Aerows]

16. Clearly

the Bedouins were going to build a nuclear bomb with those solar panels.