News from Jerusalem - May 2021
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As the evictions off Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem is happening, here are some current articles that will help you follow the situation.
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Saying Goodbye to Shireen Abu Akleh
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Video compilation dedicated to Shireen:
Instagram video by Rābet #SaveMasaferYatta • May 11, 2022 at 8:06 AM |
Media Response to Fourth Gaza War
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For a list of Canadian press articles in response to the events in Palestine, visit here.
Other responses: Middle East Christians denounce state-sanctioned violence in Gaza and Jerusalem |
3 minute video by Sheikh Jarrah resident.
(Arabic with English subtitles)
https://youtu.be/bI-QBlmH_W0
(Arabic with English subtitles)
https://youtu.be/bI-QBlmH_W0
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Female journalists speak from Gaza front lines
May 28, 2021 - Mai Abu Hasaneen
During the fourth war on Gaza, female Palestinian journalists left their mark on the images and reports from the field. The Israeli shelling threatened both their homes and the media institutions they worked for.
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/female-journalists-speak-gaza-front-lines#ixzz6waQEAsJb
During the fourth war on Gaza, female Palestinian journalists left their mark on the images and reports from the field. The Israeli shelling threatened both their homes and the media institutions they worked for.
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/05/female-journalists-speak-gaza-front-lines#ixzz6waQEAsJb
This story is an excellent personal story from the experience of journalists. It reminds me of the book I read by a journalist mother written during the first Gaza "war" in 2008-2009, called "Gaza Mom", by Laila El-Haddad. She wrote the book as a journal, describing her experiences as a mother with a young child and journalist while Gaza was being besieged and harassed by drones, eventually bombed. I met her in a workshop at one of the US Presbyterian Church Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) conferences. The book gave me a better understanding of the role of Hamas. Besides being designated as war-mongering "terrorist" group, it is also a social service organization as well as a political/military entity.
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Good News from Jerusalem and Canada
Letter to the Prime Minister from the
Canada-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group
With the good news of a "cease fire", comes this action by the "Canada-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group." This may be the sign that the growing popular solidarity movement is bearing fruit at the political level. Like the South African Anti-Apartheid movement, it will need the real support of everyone. Curtis Marwood (Web editor)
21-05-2021
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau,
We write as a group of parliamentarians, including 24 Members of Parliament and two Senators, working together in a shared, non-partisan commitment to peace in the Middle East. Our focus as the Canada-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group is to advance the recognition and protection of human rights for Palestinian people. We are also joined with Parliamentarians from outside the Friendship Group.
We write in the immediate aftermath of reports of a ceasefire being announced between the parties in the Middle East. We are carefully watching and hoping this reported ceasefire holds so that no more civilian lives are lost.
Clearly, there can be no two-state solution with ongoing illegal settlement expansions year over year and if there is no territory for the Palestinians. The current situation of the escalating crisis, with a significant threat of a widening conflict, prompts us to write.
We share the views expressed by the UN Special Rapporteurs in their May 11, 2021 statement, as an appendix.
It is no longer adequate for Canada to ignore the multiple violations of Palestinian human rights by the Israeli Government. Canada must go beyond statements of concern and work with the international community to condemn forced evictions, settlement building, unequal treatment, attacks on journalists, the bombing of humanitarian and medical facilities, the loss of civilian lives, and to require that international law be upheld.
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Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau,
We write as a group of parliamentarians, including 24 Members of Parliament and two Senators, working together in a shared, non-partisan commitment to peace in the Middle East. Our focus as the Canada-Palestinian Parliamentary Friendship Group is to advance the recognition and protection of human rights for Palestinian people. We are also joined with Parliamentarians from outside the Friendship Group.
We write in the immediate aftermath of reports of a ceasefire being announced between the parties in the Middle East. We are carefully watching and hoping this reported ceasefire holds so that no more civilian lives are lost.
Clearly, there can be no two-state solution with ongoing illegal settlement expansions year over year and if there is no territory for the Palestinians. The current situation of the escalating crisis, with a significant threat of a widening conflict, prompts us to write.
We share the views expressed by the UN Special Rapporteurs in their May 11, 2021 statement, as an appendix.
It is no longer adequate for Canada to ignore the multiple violations of Palestinian human rights by the Israeli Government. Canada must go beyond statements of concern and work with the international community to condemn forced evictions, settlement building, unequal treatment, attacks on journalists, the bombing of humanitarian and medical facilities, the loss of civilian lives, and to require that international law be upheld.
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Canadian Press Response to Fourth Gaza War
- NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh calls for Canada to block arms sales to Israel amid escalating violence
- Green Party of Canada reiterates call for immediate ceasefire and respect for international law
- Green party rift over Israeli-Palestinian conflict widens as MPs break from leader
- Violence in Gaza and Israel has left behind a changed political landscape in Canada
- Canada’s languishing position on Israel and Palestine needs to catch up with the world
Jerusalem clashes: How Palestinians rallied behind Sheikh Jarrah
The fight by Palestinian residents in Jerusalem against their eviction from their homes by organizations seeking to settle Jews in their neighborhood has become a pan-Palestinian cause.
Over 200 Palestinians wounded in clashes with Jerusalem police as tensions boil over - Israel News - Haaretz.com
Worshippers stayed at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after the final Friday prayer of Ramadan to protest planned evictions in Sheikh Jarrah, where police also clashed with protesters.
What's behind the latest flare-up in Jerusalem
Who lived in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood before the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, how did right-wing groups gain control of land there and what turned the fight into a cause for Palestinians everywhere?
Palestinians in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are fighting their eviction by organizations seeking to settle Jews in the area.
Palestinians in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are fighting their eviction by organizations seeking to settle Jews in the area.
Gaza-Israel escalation: End violence now, then work to end occupation, say UN experts
GENEVA (18 May 2021) – UN human rights experts* called on the international community to demand an immediate end to the violence in Gaza and Israel, and to act decisively to address the underlying source of the conflict: the denial of collective and individual rights of the Palestinian people.
"This most recent violence has a depressingly familiar pattern to it," said the experts. "Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza exchange missiles and rockets following dispossession and the denial of rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, with Israel's far greater firepower inflicting far higher death tolls and injuries and a much larger scale of property destruction."
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"This most recent violence has a depressingly familiar pattern to it," said the experts. "Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza exchange missiles and rockets following dispossession and the denial of rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, with Israel's far greater firepower inflicting far higher death tolls and injuries and a much larger scale of property destruction."
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