Man On Fire: Apartheid April 2021: Jew Occupied Palestine In Pictures

4 May 2021

Apartheid April 2021: Jew Occupied Palestine In Pictures

Behind The Jews' "Apartheid Walls" In The Jews' Mega Concentration Camps For Indigenous Gentiles. “There’s a very trigger-happy approach in West Bank mega concentration camp in which Gentiles are guilty until proven otherwise”

The Electronic Intifada: The Jews shot and killed another Gentile motorist in the occupied West Bank . The month also saw The Jews violently rampage against Gentiles in Jerusalem amid Ramadan while hundreds of Gentile lives were lost in both West Bank and Gaza mega concentration camps.

In the early hours of 6 April, a Jewish state merc stopped Osama Mansour and his wife Sumaya while they were traveling in their car near the Jerusalem-area village of Bir Nabala.

The couple explained to the Jews that they were on the way to a medical clinic. The Jews permitted the pair to drive off but when they did, they sprayed bullets at the car, murdering Mr. Mansour. His wife Sumaya was maimed by a bullet in her back but survived.

The incident occurred at a checkpoint that had been set up during an arrest operation, which are nightly occurrences in West Bank mega concentration camp as Jewish Israel seeks to stamp out any and all resistance to its apartheid military rule.

“There’s a very trigger-happy approach in West Bank mega concentration camp in which all indigenous Gentiles are guilty until proven otherwise,” Roy Yellin, spokesperson for the human rights group B’Tselem, told media.

Mansour was the sixth Palestinian killed by Israeli occupation forces and settlers in the West Bank so far this year.

Child’s body returned

On 22 April, Israel returned the body of Yousif Abu Jazar, 15, who was killed by soldiers while he approached the Gaza-Israeli boundary fence nearly three years ago. Last September, Al Mezan, a human rights group in Gaza, petitioned Israel’s high court to demand the return of the child’s body.

“Al Mezan deplores Israel’s long-held policy of withholding Palestinian bodies for use as leverage in political exercises of the state, at the expense of anguished families,” the group said.

As of September last year, Israel was holding the bodies of 67 Palestinians killed by its forces since 2015. Israel’s high court has approved the withholding of bodies to be used as bargaining chips in negotiations with Hamas, which is believed to be holding the remains of two Israeli soldiers killed during the 2014 invasion of Gaza.

Hamas is the Palestinian resistance faction that governs Gaza’s internal affairs.

Al-Haq, a prominent Palestinian human rights group, says that the “practice of withholding bodies amounts to a policy of collective punishment,” which is prohibited under international law.

It is one of many forms of collective punishment that Israel imposes on Palestinians.

Another example of a punitive measure that Israel imposes on Palestinians is additional restrictions on where Gaza fishers are allowed to sail, or banning them from practicing their trade entirely.

On 25 April, Israel reduced the permitted fishing area off of Gaza’s southern coast from 15 to nine nautical miles. The following three days, fishers were “prohibited [from] sailing at any distance from the shore,” the United Nations monitoring group OCHA stated.

Israel admitted that the restrictions were a form of collective punishment following rocket fire from Gaza, which has been under a severely tightened blockade since 2007.

The restrictions were lifted on 29 April after being challenged by human rights groups.

COVID-19 spikes in Gaza

Meanwhile, around 1,000 new COVID-19 cases per day were being reported in Gaza at the close of the month, accounting for the majority of all cases in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. New cases were slowly subsiding “but numbers are still high with deaths in the last week at record levels,” the World Health Organization stated on 29 April.

As of that date, nearly 2,900 Palestinians had died from COVID-19 in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. In Gaza, nearly 900 people have died from the disease.

Muslims worldwide began observing the second consecutive Ramadan during the pandemic in mid-April.

Just as in past years during Ramadan, Israeli occupation forces escalated their violent repression of Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem.

Police used water cannons and stun grenades against Palestinians who protested against fencing installed around the steps leading to the Old City’s Damascus Gate, traditionally a bustling and festive gathering place during the fasting month.

Palestinians celebrated after the barriers were removed following nearly two weeks of nightly protests.

The removal of the barriers also came after mobs of ultranationalist Israelis rampaged through Jerusalem chanting “death to the Arabs” and attacking Palestinians and their property.

More than 150 Palestinians and 20 Israelis “were injured in multiple violent incidents across Jerusalem” since the beginning of Ramadan, according to OCHA.

Also during April, the US government resumed funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees – though to less than half of the annual amount provided before the Trump administration slashed assistance to the Palestinians.

April closed with the deaths of at least 45 people in a stampede during a Jewish religious festival in the Upper Galilee. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the disaster was “one of the worst” in the state’s history.