Overplaying Its Hand, Israel Still Holds Plenty of US Cards
Palestinians back Standing Rock Sioux in struggle for all humanity
Palestinians are expressing support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their months-long resistance to the US governments plan to install an oil pipeline on their land.
The people of Palestine supports you and all those standing with you right now in North Dakota to protect your tribal lands and resist the desecration and destruction of your sacred burial sites at the hands of the Energy Transfer Partners corporation and the Dakota Access Pipeline they are building, the Palestinian BDS National Committee said on Friday. https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/andrew-kadi/palestinians-back-standing-rock-sioux-struggle-all-humanity
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Why does Palestinian Authority support Chinese colonialism?
Eóin Murray and James Mehigan The Electronic Intifada 9 September 2016
Chinas Vice Premier Liu Yandong shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, last March. Both governments have invoked spurious historical backing for territorial claims that violate international law. Gil Cohen Magen Xinhua
As preparations were being made in Washington for the Gulf War, a group of Palestinian intellectuals gathered in a Manhattan apartment to discuss how the Palestine Liberation Organization should respond to Saddam Husseins 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, was among those in attendance. He has confirmed to us that after much debate the conclusion was clear: occupation is occupation, no matter who was responsible and even if the impending American war was equally illegitimate.
The group then dispatched Edward Said, a member of the Palestinian National Council, to Tunis.
Said was asked to try to convince Yasser Arafat, the PLO leader, that he should condemn the Iraqi invasion. Arafat ignored Said and many others and backed Saddam.
It was a moral and political miscalculation which led to approximately 400,000 Palestinians being expelled or fleeing from Kuwait after Iraqi forces were dislodged in 1991.
PA security officer arrested after criticizing Abbas' participation in Peres funeral
Palestinian security forces arrested a Palestinian military liaison officer from his home in Jenin on Saturday, a day after he shared a post on his Facebook criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' participation in the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres.
A member of Osama Abu Arabs family told Maan via telephone that large numbers of Palestinian security officers surrounded Abu Asabs home Saturday morning and took him into custody.
The source highlighted that hours before Abu Arab was arrested, he was notified that he was suspended from his work as a major in the Palestinian Authority military liaison office.The military liaison is a unit with the Palestinian security forces responsible for coordinating security with Israel.
The caller also said that the family believed Abu Arab was suspended from his work and arrested as a result of a post he published on his Facebook page asking Abbas to reconsider his decision to attend Peres funeral. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773371
Fatah Youth Movement at Birzeit demands Abbas' resignation
The Fatah Youth Movement of Birzeit University on Saturday slammed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his humiliating participation in the funeral of former Israeli president and criminal Shimon Peres, and demanded that Abbas step down as president.https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773372
Genocide advocate Ayelet Shaked revives Peres plan for West Bank
Ayelet Shaked, Israels justice minister, faced protests as she spoke to law students and professors at Columbia Universitys law school on 19 September.
In a secret audio recording taken during the closed event, Shaked can be heard seeking to revive a discredited idea long championed by Shimon Peres, the leading Israeli politician who died this week.
The idea is that a deal could be struck with Jordan to push Palestinians under its jurisdiction as Israel maintains effective control over the occupied West Bank.
A key objective behind Peres plan the so-called Jordanian option was to sideline the Palestine Liberation Organization and neuter Palestinian resistance to Israel. Palestinians saw it as an affront to their right of self-determination.
Shaked denies Israel is an occupier, claiming that the West Bank is merely territory under dispute.https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/genocide-advocate-ayelet-shaked-revives-peres-plan-west-bank
Shimon Peres was no peacemaker. Ill never forget the sight of pouring blood and burning bodies at Qana
Palestinians Criticize Abbas for Attending Peres Funeral, Shaking Netanyahus Hand
Palestinians despise Peres more than they despise [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon, he said. Sharon may have starved the Palestinians, but Peres besieged them with his soft-spoken rhetoric. Thats worse. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.745323
Palestinian elections postponed until next year
The Palestinian government decided Tuesday to delay municipal elections for up to four months after the high court ruled they should be held only in the West Bank and not in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian court excludes Gaza from municipal elections
The Palestinian high court on Monday ordered municipal elections to be held only in the West Bank and not in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, though a new date for the suspended polls was not set.
The ruling could bring to an end hopes that the municipal elections would be the first since 2006 in which both Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah, which runs the West Bank, would participate. .....There has been no Palestinian presidential election since 2005 and Abbas has remained in office despite the expiry of his term https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-court-orders-west-bank-only-elections-1435623447
Conflicting reports over deadly shooting by Palestinian police in Nablus
Conflicting reports have emerged over clashes that broke out early Wednesday morning in Nablus City that left one alleged Palestinian gunman shot dead and three others injured by Palestinian security forces.
Spokesperson for the Palestinian security services Adnan Dmeiri told Maan that video footage would soon be made public showing four gunmen opening fire on Palestinian police before the officers returned fire, while local Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Tirawi says he had footage proving the four were unarmed when they were shot. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773337
Palestinian officer sentenced to one year in prison for criticizing Abbas
A Palestinian military court in Ramallah ordered that a Palestinian military liaison officer be sentenced to a year in prison and have his military rank suspended for writing a post on social media criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for attending the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773536
Tthe PA is not targeting diaspora Palestinians critical of Abbas...
Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki denied on Monday claims that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had ever asked him or other Palestinian Authority (PA) officials to go after diaspora Palestinians who criticized Abbas on social media.
In an interview with Maan on Monday, al-Maliki said that he was "surprised with the false accusations which pass from mouth to mouth."
A number of posts on the Internet have accused Abbas of requesting that PA officials use their diplomatic positions to target diaspora Palestinians who take to social media to defame and incite against Abbas, al-Maliki said. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773495
Palestinian officials play down leaked conversation with Egypt intelligence chief
The Palestinian Authority and other Palestinian factions declined to react to Saturday's leaked phone conversation between the Egyptian intelligence chief Wael Safti and the exiled Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, during which Safti harshly criticised president Abbas - purportedly to avoid a further deterioration in their relationship with Egypt. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dahlan-safti-abbas-1544109740
Khan Eshieh camp under renewed attack
Russian and Syrian government air strikes hit the Palestinian refugee camp west of Damascus in the pre-dawn hours, killing a baby, while shelling throughout the day killed another two.
Since the end of last month, shelling on the camp has intensified, said Emad al-Muslimani, a media activist inside the camp. Barrel bombs, cluster munitions, bunker-buster missiles, you name it. It is like the camp is being used as a testing ground for weapons.
On one day during last week, al-Muslimani counted 50 shells pounding the camp within the space of 15 minutes. He described it as the worst period he can remember going through.https://electronicintifada.net/content/khan-eshieh-camp-under-renewed-attack/18216
Palestinians in Syria's Khan al-Shih refugee camp demand end to bombardment
Residents of the Palestinian refugee camp of Khan al-Shih in war-torn Syria southwest of Damascus held a protest Tuesday condemning the bombardment of the camp and threats of heavier siege conditions.
A statement released on Facebook during the protest listed several demands from residents of the camp, including the end of all bombardments, securing safe passage for residents, providing bread for residents, reinstating UNRWA-run and social services for the besieged camp, while giving medicine to children, women, and the elderly in the camp, and resuming the provision of services from all foundations and institutions.
The statement went on to urge the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and all Palestinian factions to fulfill their responsibilities in maintaining and protecting the camp, while protecting its refugee residents until they return back to their original homes in Palestine. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=773525
Missed Opportunity
Fatehs 7th Congress shows how far the movement has sunk reduced to choosing between two disastrous options: Abbas or Dahlan.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had a great opportunity to begin making some badly needed changes at the just-concluded 7th Congress of Fateh, the dominant Palestinian political grouping and mainstay of the PLO. But judging by the Congress outcomes, the identity of the delegates and the criteria by which they were chosen, the discussions they held on its side-lines or behind closed doors and their reactions it was an opportunity squandered. https://www.bariatwan.com/english/?p=2212
Where is Fatah Headed after Its Seventh Congress?
After years of holding the Palestinian struggle hostage to their factional-feud, the current enemy of Palestinian unity today is not just the Fatah-Hamas dispute. According to Mouin Rabbani, writing in Al Jazeera, another pressing problem is the power struggle within Fatah itself.
Hold Your Applause, Fatah: The Palestinian Body Politic is Rotten to the Core
In July 2003, the then Palestinian Authority Chairman, Yasser Arafat, described Mahmoud Abbas as a traitor who betrayed the interests of the Palestinian People. Arafat loathed Abbas to the very end. This particular outburst was made during a meeting with United Nations envoy Terje Larsen. The meeting took place a few months after Arafat was coerced by the US, Israel and other Western powers to appoint Abbas as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hold-your-applause-fatah-the-palestinian-body-politic-is-rotten-to-the-core/
Abbas the Politician Spoils It for Abbas the Statesman
In his speech to Fatah delegates, the Palestinian president implied that his people should abandon armed struggle and focus on attainable goals. Yet his power doesn't stem from this stance but from his control of funds and jobs.The Mahmoud Abbas that Fatah delegates discussed among themselves (or when talking to journalists) at the seventh Fatah conference this week is a wily and clever politician. He managed to oust opponents from his party while pushing others to the margins, as well as allowing resolutions made by his own Central Committee to fizzle out such as the cessation of security cooperation with Israel. https://kbnews.eu/bdm-news/1783-abbas-the-politician-spoils-it-for-abbas-the-statesman
Killing Arafat: Does Abbas have any evidence?
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has revived long-standing suspicions that his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, was murdered. Abbas announced last week that he knew the killers identity, adding that the world would be amazed when you know who did it.
As Fatah meets, a time bomb ticks in Palestinian camps
The Palestinian camps are on edge. Often they are subject to raids and arrests by the Palestinian Authority (PA), as its forces try to locate those it accuses of murder, arms smuggling and drug trafficking.
Is rapprochement underway between Palestinian rivals Dahlan, Hamas?
The recent rapprochement between Hamas and dismissed Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan and the "Democratic Reformist Current," which Dahlan formed with some Fatah leaders after his dismissal in 2011, was predicted. Dahlan has been repeatedly praising Hamas most recently during an interview with Dream TV Egypt on Oct. 23 when he implied that rapprochement with Hamas is the solution to all of Gazas problems. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/rapprochement-between-hamas-and-fatah-dismissed-dahlan.html
Has Fatah put Dahlan secession to rest?
At times, it has seemed as if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were trying single-handedly to fend off pressure from friend and foe to reinstate the expelled renegade Mohammed Dahlan in Fatah's ranks or continue to postpone the movement's long-anticipated congress. If Abbas felt lonely before the congress, he didnt feel at all isolated after it convened Nov. 29, also the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Abbas, who was scheduled to give a speech on the opening day, decided midway through the evening to postpone it so the 60 delegates from 28 countries could show the world how much support he and Fatah have. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/fatah-seventh-congress-abbas-regional-international-support.html
How Peres' funeral highlighted rift among Israeli Arabs
The decision by Knesset members of the Joint List of predominantly Arab parties to boycott the funeral of former President Shimon Peres on Sept. 30 continues to stir deep emotions among Israels Arab citizens. Many see it as the latest in a string of moves by party members that is deepening the rupture between them and the countrys Jewish society. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/10/israel-peres-funeral-highlights-rift-within-israeli-arabs.html
Why 30 Palestinians celebrated Jewish holiday with settlers
Palestinian with Israeli citizenship shot dead in Galilee-area town
A Palestinian with Israeli citizenship was shot dead in the town of Kafr Kanna in northern Israel on Saturday.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri identified the slain Palestinian as 48-year-old Anan Hakroush, adding in her statement that Hakroush was shot while in a private vehicle near the Mercantile Bank in the Galilee.
According to al-Samri, he was found with several gunshot injuries in his vehicle and was evacuated to a hospital near Tiberias, where he was later pronounced dead.
Local sources in Kafr Kanna told Maan that the victims uncle Jamal Hakroush is a high-ranking official in the Israeli police, in charge of improving police services in Palestinian neighborhoods in Israel.
Palestinian-majority neighborhoods in Israel have seen an increase in gun violence in recent years, while members of the Arab Joint List of Israels parliament, the Knesset, have called on authorities to crack down on illegal weapons in Israels Palestinian communities, where there is a disproportionate lack of policing compared to Jewish-majority neighborhoods. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774036
Why Palestinian camp is protesting Lebanese 'wall of shame'
Abu Sherif Aqul sits back on the row of dark leather chairs, the table in front of him lined with neat glass bottles of pineapple juice. "The wall being built around Ain al-Hilweh is like the one built by the Israelis, he says forcefully. The sheikh from the Salafist faction Usbat al-Ansar is clearly being diplomatic about the structure that the Lebanese Army has started building around his home. But the frustration is there. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/wall-shame-palestinian-camp-protests-lebanon-barrier-plan-78914773
Gaza comedian arrested after video on electricity crisis
Adel Meshoukhi was summoned by police and arrested, an interior ministry source said.
On Wednesday Meshoukhi published an online video about the ongoing shortages of electricity and employment in Gaza which included the line "Hamas enough".
After Aleppos fall, Hamas finds itself resisting Tehran as well as Tel Aviv
The fall of Aleppo to Iran-backed pro-government forces has brought a bubbling conflict between Iran and Hamas to the boil, with the former making thinly-veiled threats to cut off the Palestinian group.
The threats came from Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, a member of the Iranian Foreign Affairs and National Security Committee, in the wake of increasing solidarity from Hamas to Aleppo.
PA asks Attorney General to shut down 13 local radio, TV stations
Officials of the Palestinian Authoritys (PA) Ministry of Information sent an official request to the office of the attorney general on Monday asking to shut down 13 local radio and TV stations who are allegedly operating without a license.
The ministry's director general in the northern occupied West Bank, Majid Kittana, told Ma'an that the ministry asked the attorney general to shut down eight local radio stations and five TV stations. He highlighted that in general, 75 radio stations and 15 TV stations were currently operating across the West Bank. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=774833
Fatah leader speaks out on Abbas' exclusive congress
Eine Musikschule in Gaza nutzt Mozart und Fairuz zur Verarbeitung von Kriegstraumata
Direkt außerhalb eines Gebäudes im Stadtteil Tal al-Hawa in Gaza versammelt sich eine Gruppe junger Leute unter einem Fenster, um die schöne klassische Musik zu hören, die aus einem Fenster ein paar Meter über ihnen kommt. https://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=19580
Hope hard to come by in Lebanon camp
For young people in Ein al-Hilweh, Lebanons largest Palestinian refugee camp, there are few glimmers of hope for a better life.
Like many of his peers in the impoverished community not far from the coastal city of Sidon in the south Khaled, 17, dropped out of school years ago. But unlike many of his peers, he hasnt taken up arms in exchange for a monthly stipend from one of the camps many political factions, saying he would rather play video games and spend time with friends.
Syria refugees test Palestinian solidarity in Lebanon
When Palestinian Fuad Abu Khaled fled Syria's war in 2013, he sought refuge among his own, looking for solidarity among Palestinian refugees based in Lebanon's Shatila camp.
But instead he found a community already struggling to get by and sometimes resentful of new arrivals who are testing the limited resources of the UN agency dedicated to helping Palestinian refugees.
'Afro-Palestinians' forge a unique identity in Israel
In the shadow of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem's Old City lies the "African Quarter" home to a little-known community of nearly 50 Arab families of African descent.
Descended from Muslim pilgrims from a variety of African countries, they now consider themselves proud Palestinians, despite widespread poverty and occasional discrimination from both Palestinians and Israelis. Several have even participated in violent attacks against Israel.
"We regard ourselves to be Afro-Palestinian," said community leader Ali Jiddah.
Jiddah, a former member of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, spent 17 years in Israeli prison for taking part in a 1968 bombing that wounded nine Israelis before he was freed in a prisoner swap. Jiddah, who long ago renounced violence, is now a well-known tour guide in the Old City, offering what he calls an "alternative" perspective on the conflict with Israel. https://bigstory.ap.org/article/f6bf554b21d04b56be9d6385fbf36d31/afro-palestinians-forge-unique-identity-israel
How Palestinian left hopes to renew political system
Al-Monitor met with Jamil Mezher, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's political bureau, at his office in Gaza City. Among the several Palestinian issues he discussed in the interview were the decline of Arab and Palestinian leftism at the expense of the advancement of Islamist movements, the most efficient Palestinian tools to resist Israel, the obstruction of the Palestinian internal reconciliation and general elections since 2006 and the current situation, problems and stances of the PLO toward ongoing Arab armed conflicts. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/01/palestine-interview-popular-front-jamil-mezher-al-monitor.html
PA bans Palestinian novel for 'indecent' terminology
The Palestinian Authority's (PA) Attorney General Ahmad Barak on Monday decided to ban the distribution of a novel by Palestinian novelist Abbad Yahya for containing "indecent and improper terminology."
The Office of the Attorney General confirmed that a decision was taken to collect all copies of the novel "Crime in Ramallah" by Abbad Yahya.
Gaza court sentences Palestinian to 20 years in prison for 'unintentional murder'
A Palestinian in Gaza convicted of unintentional murder was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday in a court in Khan Yunis.
Prosecution head Iyad Mismah said in a statement that the charge was changed from premeditated murder to unintentional killing for the death of Khalid Nizar Hadayed.
Mismah added that the prosecution sought to provide evidence and prepare charges in order to prevent murders and homicides, to achieve the laws aims in preventing crimes, punish those responsible, and maintain security. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775104
Gaza court sentences 8 Fatah members to prison, including 3 for life, for spying
A Gaza military court sentenced eight Palestinians affiliated to the Fatah party -- three of whom to life in prison -- for allegedly gathering information about Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza for intelligence forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The court, which only identified the defendants by their initials, said that the eight were convicted of harming the Palestinian peoples interests by coordinating to collect information about resistance factions in the besieged Gaza Strip, including on tunnels built by groups such as Hamas. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775109
Relatives of Fatah supporters jailed by Hamas demonstrate in Gaza
Relatives of Fatah movement supporters jailed by the Hamas-led security services in the Gaza Strip demonstrated on Monday outside the building of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City.
Demonstrators told Ma'an that they wanted Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Legislative Council to intervene and get their relatives released "immediately."
Our children should be honored and dignified rather than being jailed, they said.
The wife of Samer al-Nims, who has been sentenced to lifetime imprisonment, said that "these prisoners have been jailed only because they are affiliated to Fatah." https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775327
Why Palestinian camp is protesting Lebanese 'wall of shame'
Lebanon: Schools in Palestinian camp reopen after gun battles
Schools and social services have resumed in Lebanons largest Palestinian refugee camp, amid sporadic violence which has interrupted lessons and raised questions about local forces ability to keep the peace.
It is the first time in four months that shootings have prompted UNRWA, the UN agency that provides aid for Palestinian refugees, to halt operations at Ain al-Hilweh on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Saida.
UNRWA: 'Don't forget over half a million Palestinians from Syria'
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Pierre Krahenbuhl is set to attend an international conference in Helsinki, Finland, on Monday, where he will tell the attendees that the world should not forget some 560,000 Palestinian refugees living in Syria whose lives have been impacted by the deepening conflict.
According to statement from UNRWA, the conference has been called to launch the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) in response to the crisis in Syria, when Krahenbuhl will and explain to delegates that a staggering 430,000 Palestine refugees -- 95 per cent Palestinian refugees remaining in Syria -- are in need of emergency humanitarian assistance.
According to UNRWA, overall, 280,000 Palestinian refugees in Syria have been internally displaced, while around 43,000 have been trapped in hard-to-reach or besieged areas.
Additionally, the UN agency reported that there were more than 30,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria who have fled to Lebanon and nearly 17,000 who have fled to Jordan, where they face a marginalized and precarious existence. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775071
Tulkarem woman sets herself ablaze to protest local crackdown on street vendors
A Palestinian woman sustained moderate burns on Sunday after she set fire to herself in front of a police station in the Iktaba neighborhood of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank.
Palestinian police spokesman Luay Irzeiqat said that the woman torched herself to protest a move by Tulkarem municipality to remove a vendor stand used by her husband. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775425
Families of Palestinians killed in Gaza war protest at Palestine TV office
Dozens of family members of Palestinians killed during the 2014 Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip broke into the office of the state-run Palestine TV news network in Gaza City on Tuesday for second time in two weeks.
The relatives have been protesting since January against the Palestinian Authoritys (PA) failure to disburse allowances to martyrs families. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775467
Fatah objects to Qatari accusations that PA 'impeding' Gaza electricity situation
The Palestinian Authoritys ruling Fatah party has reportedly rejected criticism made by a Qatari official last week, who said the PA was impeding efforts to resolve the besieged Gaza Strips ongoing electricity crisis.
Qatari special envoy to the Gaza Strip Muhammad al-Amadis interview with Hebrew-language news outlet Walla, which was also published in the English-language Times of Israel, was said to be the first time an official Qatari representative gave an interview to an Israeli news outlet.
In regards to the besieged Gaza Strips severe electricity crisis, al-Amadi told Walla that he believed Israel was ready to help with the plan Qatar proposed, but the Palestinian Authority is impeding it."
He said Qatar has given several suggestions to solve the ongoing crisis, including the establishment of a new power line from Israel to fuel the besieged coastal enclaves sole power plant. https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775460
Bei die letzten sätzen Qatar sagt , wie sie die Gaza-Blokade brechen möchtest ...... und sie sind die palästinenschen freunden..... liebe nicht habe dieser freuden....
Ramallah protesters clash with police over security coordination
Basil al-Araj assassinated by Israeli occupation forces after PA imprisonment and months in hiding
In a pre-dawn raid attacking a home in el-Bireh, Basil al-Araj, 31, Palestinian youth activist and writer pursued by Israel for nearly a year, was assassinated by invading Israeli occupation forces this morning.
Al-Araj, from the village of Walaja near Bethlehem, fought back and resisted the invading forces for two hours before the attacking occupation soldiers broke into the home where he was staying and executed him at close range. They then seized his body and took it to an unknown location.
The attack on the home included rocket fire as well as al-Arajs extrajudicial execution in a hail of bullets. Al-Arajs family home in al-Walaja had been repeatedly raided by occupation forces for months.
Al-Araj, a writer and activist involved in a wide array of Palestinian grassroots struggles for liberation, was among the Palestinian youth dedicated to reviving the Palestinian national liberation movement. One of six Palestinian youth released from Palestinian Authority prisons after nearly six months of detention when they launched a hunger strike, Al-Araj and other youth had been seized in April in what was touted as a victory for security coordination between the PA and Israel. While they were imprisoned by the PA, they were subject to torture and ill-treatment by PA security forces. https://samidoun.net/2017/03/basil-al-araj-executed-by-israeli-occupation-forces-after-pa-imprisonment-and-months-in-hiding/
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