keskiviikko 25. maaliskuuta 2020

FIRST CORONAVIRUS DEATH IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE

Israeli occupied State of Palestine experienced it's first coronavirus death on Wednesday March 25th, on a same day as the panicking Apartheid regime took an extraordinary step in releasing two political prisoners.

ELDERLY WOMAN DIES IN OCCUPIED WEST BANK

A woman in her 60s died of coronavirus on the early Wednesday evening, less than a day after she was tested positive for the virus. Her health had suddenly worsened during the morning and she was in critical condition before passing away.

The so far unnamed woman was from the village of Biddo near the city of Ramallah on the central part of the Israeli occupied West Bank.

Her 46-year-old son and 41-year-old daughter-in-law have been also both tested positive. They have been transferred to a quarantine center at Turmus Ayya.

These raise the number of confirmed cases in the State of Palestine to 64, 62 of them in the occupied West Bank where the epidemic has concentrated in the city of Beithlehem and nearby town of Beit Jala, and two on the besieged Gaza Strip.

PANICKING ISRAELI REGIME RELEASES ILL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Meanwhile Israeli occupation has released two of the four political prisoners held in quarantine at the notorious Ramle Prison clinic. Ahmed Nassar and Ibrahim Awawda, both from the city of Nablus, have been transferred to a Palestinian hospital in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation had earlier lied that the prisoners were held in quarantine at the Megiddo prison; only now it has been revealed that they had been taken to the prison clinic - which itself has been compared to a slaughterhouse by captive inmates.

This release of political prisoners for health reasons is an extraordinary event, as Israel's regime in the past has refused to release even dying prisoners who have had only a few days to live.

To assume that compassion would have played a role is to be gravely mistaken - behind the release is a fear that prisoners would infect prison staff, who would then spread the virus among Israelis.

Instead it's a sign of panic, which is taking root among Israelis. 2170 positive cases have been confirmed and 5 deaths have taken place in the Apartheid state.

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLS YOUNG MAN AT NI'LIN

A young man was shot and left to bleed to death by Israel's occupation forces on the occupied West Bank late on Sunday March 22nd. His fate an all too common one for Palestinians suffering under the Israeli Apartheid and occupation.

A MURDER AT NI'LIN

Sufian Nawwaf al-Khawaja(29) suffered serious wounds when Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at his car near the entrance to his home village of Ni'lin. He was with his cousin, who was wounded.

Sufian was left to bleed on the scene when the occupation troops stopped a Palestinian ambulance crew from reaching him, a common occupation tactic, and instead waited for an Israeli ambulance to arrive.

Sufian al-Khawaja never reached a hospital, dying on the scene of his shooting. A final photograph shows him on a stretcher, surrounded by Israeli occupation soldiers.

The body of the murdered youth was taken by the occupation, joining hundreds of hoarded bodies of slain Palestinians that are kept by the Israeli regime.

ISRAELI OCCUPATION REPEATS ITS USUAL CLAIMS

Israel's regime has spread its standard narrative of the fatal incident; this was 'naturally' picked up and spread by 'Western' news agencies like the Reuters. In it Sufian was the aggressor and the occupation forces were defending illegal Israeli settlers from stone-throwers.

The occupation narrative is all about trying to justify the murder of an unarmed person by painting him as an attacker against whom his killers would have been defending themselves - but there is no evidence that this standard narrative has truth to it beyond the fact that it at least acknowledges that Israel's occupation soldiers killed Sufian.

It is simply a slightly modified version of the standard claims Israel's regime repeats each time after its troops murder a Palestinian.

RETALIATION BY THE OCCUPATION?

Sufian had no part in throwing stones at illegal settlers' vehicles. He was just passing through with his cousin when they were targeted by the occupation troops. A driver was an easy and tempting target by to the occupation soldiers facing stone-throwers.

This fatal retaliation against bystanders by the occupation is common - and so is the deliberate 'mistaking' of pedestrian stone-throwers with persons in a car: 15-year-old Mahmoud Rafat Badran was shot and killed by Israeli occupation soldiers near Beit Sira on occupied West Bank on June 21st 2016 by Israeli occupation troops which claimed that they had made such 'a mistake'.

The village of Ni'lin is one of the centres of non-violent popular resistance against the Israeli occupation and the illegal Apartheid Wall, organizing a weekly Friday demonstration for the past decade. Defiant resistance when faced by the occupation brutality was a feature of Sufian's life.

This resistance makes it more likely for Israeli occupation soldiers to have reacted with fatal violence as happened on Sunday night. Especially as they can expect no punishment for taking Sufian's life.

As the case of Mahmoud Badran shows, killing innocents has no negative repercussions to the occupation soldiers, which means that it has a stamp of approval from the regime itself.

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