Palestina & Israël #88

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Op zondag 9 oktober 2011 16:21 schreef Disana het volgende:

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Schokkend, maar ik mis de context.

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Op zondag 9 oktober 2011 16:26 schreef rakotto het volgende:

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Wat is de precieze reden dat zij zo behandeld werden? En waarom zitten zij nu in een tentenkamp?

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Op zondag 9 oktober 2011 16:25 schreef C_N het volgende:

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Deze familie woonde in het tent kamp in jaffo. toen gingen ze naar het huis van moeder die supporten deze familie toen ze (de moeder ) overleed kwam er geen huur meer . en na 3 eviktion papieren bleven ze , en werden verwijderd door politie.

hij wilden het kind bij zich hebben en dacht dat de politie niet in verwijderen over ging maar dat was dus niet het geval.
ook zetten hij een gas tank aan die naast hem stond .
en wilden de boiel in brand steken .
nu wonen ze weer in dat tent kamp .

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Jaffa family to sue for excessive force in house eviction

Video taken at scene shows YASSAM police kicking, punching father of squatter family as he lays on ground; family do not appear to resist.

A Muslim family from Jaffa said Thursday it plans to file a lawsuit against the police, after officers allegedly used excessive force to evict it two days earlier from a south Tel Aviv house in which it was squatting.

In a video, a group of Yassam riot police can be seen wrestling with Sameer Kassem, 34, as he holds his four-year-old daughter.

Police kick and punch Kassem as he lays on the ground, and one officer puts his sister, a woman wearing a veil, in a headlock and throws her to the ground.

No social workers or female officers were at the scene, even though a family with young children was being evicted.

Kassem was still nursing his wounds in Jaffa’s Hashtayim Park tent city on Thursday, where he is staying with his family. He sported two black eyes, and what he said was a broken nose and a bruised rib following the incident, which was filmed by an activist and uploaded to the Internet on Thursday.

Kassem said his family has been homeless since May, when his mother, who used to help him with his expenses, died and he could no longer pay rent. He said that he, his wife, and their five children moved to the vacant house on Salameh Street about two weeks ago after someone set their tent on fire at Hashtayim Park.

He said his children were having trouble sleeping at the tent city, especially after it rained recently. Kassem’s sister had been living at the vacant house for a few weeks and invited him to stay there with his children he added.

According to Kassem, on Tuesday they were informed by police that they would arrive in the afternoon to evict them and he decided to begin packing their belongings in the meantime.

When police finally arrived, he said he decided to take his infant and hole up in the house, hoping that maybe police would relent and allow them to stay.

“At 2:30 p.m. they arrived to evict us and I didn’t know what to do – to evacuate or to stay – so I decided to take the little girl and not leave, hoping that they would give us more time. Then four or five police came in, didn’t say anything to me, just began hitting me from all directions.”

Kassem said that police opened a charge of assaulting a police officer against him and released him on Wednesday without charges after the video was presented to the court.

He said that the rest of the children were in school when the incident happened and have not viewed the video either. The four-year-old daughter who was present however, has been suffering from trauma ever since he added.

“My daughter has been in trauma and panic ever since it happened. She has been afraid and not able to sleep.”

Kassem’s 10-year-old daughter Dunya said that she did not want to watch the video and that she was happy because no one at school had talked about it to her yet. She added that she has been doing her homework recently under a street-lamp in the park, and was very sad to return to the tent city on Tuesday.

The video was made by an activist named Haim Shwartzenberger, an activist in the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement, who said he made the video through the window of the house while hiding from police.

According to a police response to the Walla! website on Thursday, police used force because Kassem “threatened to blow up the building using a gas tank and to harm his daughter. His sister threw shards of glass at police and opened the gas line. Reasonable force was used in order to rescue the daughter from her father.”

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Thursday, October 6 2011|Joseph Dana
WATCH: Violent eviction of Palestinian family from Jaffa home
New video shows Israeli police beating a Palestinian man during a house eviction in Jaffa. The video raises fresh questions about Israel’s treatment of non-Jewish citizens.

A new video has been posted on YouTube of Israeli policeman from the special YASSAM riot police unit beating and kicking a 34 year old Jaffa man during a house eviction which took place earlier this week. The man, Sameer Kassem, is seen holding his four year daughter while policemen attempt to remove him from the house using excessive force.

According to a Jerusalem Post report on the eviction,

Sameer said he and his family have been homeless since May when his mother, who used to help him with his expenses, died and he could no longer pay rent. He said that he, his wife, and their five children moved to the vacant house on Salameh Street about two weeks ago after someone set their tent at the Shtayim park on fire. He also said that his children were having trouble sleeping at the tent city, especially after recent rainfall. Kassem’s sister had been living at the vacant house for a few weeks and invited him to stay there with his children, he added.

According to Kassem, on Tuesday they were informed by police that they would arrive in the afternoon to evict them and he decided to begin packing their belongings in the meantime. When police finally arrived, he said he decided to take his infant and hole up in the house, hoping that maybe police would relent and allow them to stay.

The Israeli police have rationalized their use of force by stating in a media comment that Kassem ‘“threatened to blow up the building using a gas tank and to harm his daughter. His sister threw shards of glass at police and opened the gas line. Reasonable force was used in order to rescue the daughter from her father.”

Kassem has filed a lawsuit against the police for their use of force during the eviction. The video was shot by an Israeli activist named Haim Shwartzenberger. Often the only witnesses to house evictions in Jaffa, which is part of the Tel Aviv municipality, are Israeli activists who routinely document and distribute their materials on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

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Probe into Jaffa cemeteries vandalism continues
Detectives collect fingerprints, as Jaffa residents recall incident, say 'hooligan settlers' behind attack
Roi Mandel
Published: 10.09.11, 17:05 / Israel News

The investigation surrounding the vandalism of 25 tombstones at two Jaffa cemeteries continued on Sunday, as detectives arrived at the scene to collect fingerprints – two days after the incident occurred.

An Arab resident living in the cemetery compound for the past 27 years was the one to call the police over the weekend to report the heinous crime.


"I saw someone walking around in the Muslim cemetery taking pictures. I asked him what he was doing there and he showed me the spray-painted slogans, so I called the police," he said.

The tombstones were sprayed with the slogan "GA02," linked to the "Green Monkeys" – the nickname of Maccabi Haifa soccer fans

Local residents claimed Sunday the police attempted to erase a "Price Tag" slogan, sprayed on another tomb nearby, making it hard for the detectives to examine it.

A Jaffa resident recalled seeing some people walking around the cemetery on the eve of Yom Kippur. "I wanted to go and take a look but I wasn't looking for trouble. I was afraid to intervene."

Another resident, whose family's tombstones were vandalized that night, blamed National-Religious members belonging to the Project Emunah, which have settled in the heart of the Arab population in Jaffa.

"We're no dummies," he said. "It was peaceful here for many years and suddenly, since they came here, trouble began in Jaffa and the police lets them do whatever they want."

"We look after our Jewish neighbors and their synagogues… and then these hooligan settlers come here and create provocations," he added.

'Crazy right-wing atmosphere'
Meanwhile, Ahmed Ashharawi, a member of the Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council, believes the perpetrators are just hooligans looking to stir up trouble.

However, Ashharawi did add that "it is clear that whoever was trying to create a provocation, and maybe even incite a clash between Jews and Arabs, was influenced by the crazy right-wing atmosphere existing in Israel recently."

On Sunday, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai met with Muslim and Christian clerics and expressed sorrow over the events. "I am ashamed to come here today under these circumstances. I am here to say I'm sorry on behalf of the State of Israel," he said. "It doesn't matter to me who wrote those racist messages and why. We need to solve the problems immediately and return to normal.


Huldai added: "I expect to see the hands of whomever is behind these racist messages cut off, no matter who they are. Everyone must know that we must live together and the police must catch these people."http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4133062,00.html

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Op zondag 9 oktober 2011 17:50 schreef Hans_van_Baalen het volgende:
Laatst publiceerde iemand een ellenlang interview, en volgens mij ook een boek naar aanleiding daarvan, over de tegenzin waarmee 'veel' Israëlische jongeren de dienstplicht / bezetting uitvoeren.

Iemand enig idee welk artikel / boek dit nog is?

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Op zondag 9 oktober 2011 16:05 schreef C_N het volgende:

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Dat zou dan helemaal triest zijn: mensen die niets met de kwestie van doen hebben die voor eigen rechter gaan spelen.

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Op zondag 9 oktober 2011 17:56 schreef C_N het volgende:
het is meer een tegenzin van diensplicht in het algemeen .
het zijn vaak jongeren van linkse afkomst die dan de bezetting aanvoeren voor niet in het leger te gaan .

oke zij het leger jullie gaan dan naar een,, job nik,, basis maar dat was ook niet goed .
disana weet het wel denk ik.

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Op maandag 10 oktober 2011 00:53 schreef waht het volgende:

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Ongeveer hetzelfde verhaal als in andere westerse landen dus.

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Op maandag 10 oktober 2011 01:01 schreef Kees22 het volgende:

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Ik denk dat het verschijnsel van soldaten die tot andere gedachten komen na hun diensttijd en dat ook bekend maken, wel apart is.

Het is wat makkelijk om dat links te noemen, met de bedoeling om het verschijnsel te stigmatiseren.
Zijn de overlopende Syrische en Libische soldaten dan ook links? Dan betekent links niet meer dan: het belang van de bevolking, de gewone burger, de kiezer op de eerste plaats zetten, desnoods tegenover het belang van de machthebbers.

In dat geval is links een erenaam, vergelijkbaar met geuzen.

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Op maandag 10 oktober 2011 01:14 schreef bastibro het volgende:
De dienstplicht in Israel is alleen wel even wat anders dan die in andere landen is/was.
Het afschaffen van de dienstplicht in Israel? Denk is na man

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Op maandag 10 oktober 2011 00:53 schreef waht het volgende:

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Ongeveer hetzelfde verhaal als in andere westerse landen dus.