Contents
- Western Sahara expected to top agenda during President Ghali’s visit to SA
- ADDRESS AT THE WESTERN SAHARA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN EVENT BY ANC EKURHULENI REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON, CDE MZWANDILE MASINA
- REVEALED: Tension looming as Sergeant Dumsile Khumalo who led police officers in a historic protest faces arrest
- State of Palestine
- Forty years after his passing, the famous artist is considered the most universal of Cuban painters.
- The real Cuba has the Family Code it deserves, one of the most advanced in the world.
- Palestinian Factions Sign Reconciliation Agreement in Algiers
- Palestinian Killed by Israeli Soldiers in Southern West Bank
Western Sahara expected to top agenda during President Ghali’s visit to SA
The ANC in Ekurhuleni will also march to the Moroccan embassy to demand the withdrawal of Moroccan troops in Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is expected to top the agenda as President Cyril Ramaphosa prepares to meet Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) counterpart President Brahim Ghali.
Ramaphosa will host Ghali for a State Visit on 18 October 2022, at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
The Presidency said the visit aims to strengthen the already existing good political relations fortified by the strong historical ties dating back from the years of the struggle against colonialism and apartheid.
Western Sahara
“The two Presidents will exchange views on recent developments related to the question of Western Sahara, including the mobilisation of regional, continental and international support toward finding a sustainable resolution to the Western Sahara conflict in line with the provisions of the 1991 Ceasefire Agreement.”
In 2019, South Africa hosted a Solidarity Conference for the region’s support of self-determination.
The Presidency said government remains concerned about the impasse in a dialogue toward finding a lasting solution that will provide for the self-determination of the Sahrawi people in line with the relevant AU, UN resolutions and the objectives and principles of the Constitutive Act of the African Union.
“South Africa remains steadfast in its support for the Sahrawi people and continues to provide humanitarian and material support to alleviate the harsh living conditions that they have continued to suffer.”
ANC march
Meanwhile, the African National Congress (ANC) in Ekurhuleni said it will be marching with the Gauteng PEC to the Moroccan embassy to demand the withdrawal of Moroccan troops in Western Sahara.
“The freedom struggle of the Sahrawi people is a plight we join openly because we know all too well what it is like to be denied freedom and comfort in your own place of birth.
The party hosted the Western Sahara Ambassador Mohamed Yeslem Beisat Deich anticipating the official state visit by Ghali.
Neo-colonialism
ANC Ekurhuleni spokesperson Lesiba Mpya said while most African countries still suffer from neo-colonialism imposed by “Western imperialists”, the people of Western Sahara find themselves under the oppression of a fellow African country.
“Morocco was an ally of apartheid South Africa, today, they are one of the biggest allies of Israel an oppressor of Palestinians, defenders of the Swaziland Monarch which denies its people freedom, and an enemy of progress for the African people.”
Moroccan monarchy
“The Moroccan monarch actively participates in the detriment and destabilisation of the African continent through their invasion and oppression of the Western Saharan people,” Mpya said.
The ANC in Ekurhuleni believes the party should be deliberate and unapologetic on its stance of solidarity with the Sahrawi people.
“The African Union should rescind its 2017 decision to re-admit Morocco into the union until the country ceases to use their military to invade and oppress the Western Saharan people,” it said.
ReferenceADDRESS AT THE WESTERN SAHARA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN EVENT BY ANC EKURHULENI REGIONAL CHAIRPERSON, CDE MZWANDILE MASINA
12 OCTOBER 2022
WATVILLE YOUTH CENTRE
Ambassador of Western Sahara to South Africa, His Excellency Mohamed Yeslem Beisat Delch.
- The Regional Executive Committee of the ANC in Ekurhuleni.
- Members of the ANC, ANC Women’s League, Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association.
- Members of the SA Communist Party, COSATU and SANCO.
- Members of the ANC Youth League and the Young Communist League.
- Members of the South African Students Congress and the Congress of South African Students.
- Leaders of business, civil society and labour.
- Members of the broader community of Ekurhuleni.
- Members of the media.
It is an honour and a privilege to stand before you this afternoon, on this occasion of hosting the Ambassador of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, also known as Western Sahara. This occasion is important as we reflect on the untold struggles that are being endured in a country of brave men and women who are engaged in a resistance struggle against forces bigger than itself. It is also important to us as the ANC in Ekurhuleni, and all component structures of the Mass Democratic Movement, as we seek to reaffirm our commitment to extending meaningful solidarity to the people of Western Sahara.
This event takes place during a significant month in the calendar of the ANC and the broader Congress Movement. It was in the month of October 105 years ago that the giant of our movement and one of the greatest revolutionaries who has ever lived, comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, was born in the village of Nkantolo in Bizana. Comrade O.R, as he was affectionately known, led our organisation at the most difficult time – a time when the boot of apartheid was placed on the necks of our people, rending them unable to breathe.
Prior to our gathering in this hall, we travelled with Ambassador Delch to Wattville Cemetery for wreath laying at the grave sites of comrades O.R and Mama Adelaide Tambo, whose own contributions to our struggle for liberation and her activism in the post-apartheid dispensation played a significant role in our attainment of democracy. It is symbolic that on this day, as we gather here to extend our solidarity with the people of Western Sahara, we do so with the spirit of true revolutionaries and African nationalists guiding us.
Comrades,
It is often said that Africa is a continent that is living in a post-colonial era. Scholars and governments alike, speak of the African continent as having obtained independence. In this discourse, there is a critical omission, because not all African countries have been liberated and not all have their independence. Western Sahara is a colonised country – a country that is largely occupied by a colonising power which administers the country’s affairs from across the border. Morocco, which has arrogated itself the right to govern Western Sahara, is a coloniser no different to Spain, which had occupied Western Sahara until 1975.
Literature on Western Sahara claims that the country is a disputed territory. While this might sound politically correct, it is in fact a language that cements the idea that those fighting for the country have equal claims to legitimacy. An occupied territory is a region distinct from the recognised territory of the sovereign states but which the occupying state controls, usually with military forces. By this definition, Morocco has the upper hand, for it enjoys its own sovereignty while the Saharawi people are denied their own. It also enjoys the monopoly of violence, for its military forces are well resourced, better connected and far more advanced. There is no equality between the occupied and the occupier, and for this reason, Western Sahara must not be called a disputed territory. It must be called by its proper name – an occupied and colonised territory.
The occupation of Morocco in Western Sahara benefits some superpowers in the world who seek to maintain their exploitative relations with Africa. Despite the fact that the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, led by the Polisario, is formally recognised by numerous states, we have seen a regression in commitment to the principle on its sovereignty. Just over a year ago, the United States, going against the position of United Nations member states, recognised Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in exchange for Moroccan normalisation of relations with Israel, an apartheid state which is also involved in illegal and unjust occupation in Palestinian territory. This is crass demonstration of how the lives of the Saharawi people are treated as nothing more than chess pieces on a chess board.
Comrades,
While the USA and France can be dismissed as imperialists with a history of disregard for human rights in the developing world, it is the actions of our own people, our own continent, that begs for critical reflection. In 1984, Morocco ceased to be a member of the Organisation of African Unity, a predecessor of the African Union. Its decision to withdraw from the organisation was welcome by many states, who recognised the dangers that Morocco represented as a colonialist in a continent still reeling from the effects of centuries of colonialism. Its withdrawal was not challenged, for there was a collective understanding that the principle of recognising the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic as a full member of the OAU, which Morocco was opposed to, was non-negotiable.
But in 2017, the African Union re-admitted Morocco, arguing that the conflicting claims between Morocco and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic would be solved peacefully. It also claimed that Morocco would be stopping the extension of its exclusive military control by building additional walls. This decision, masking itself as progressive and diplomatic, is a betrayal of everything that the AU must represent. The African Union effectively asserted that it would continue to provide peacekeeping contingent to the UN mission which is deployed to control a buffer zone near the de facto border of walls built by Morocco within Western Sahara. And even with this problematic solution has proven to be a failure because the Moroccan government continues to use its military might, as seen just over a year ago when the ceasefire broke, forcing Polisario to confront a highly armed and highly resourced Moroccan army yet again.
The reality of the situation is that the Saharawi people are not fighting to have equal military presence on their land, they are fighting for their right to self-govern and to self-determine. The AU’s solution will continue to be a failure for as long as it does not address the fundamental question of justice for the Saharawi people. Comrades,
While some turn their backs on the people of Western Sahara, it must remain our commitment to extend our solidarity by putting pressure on our own government to lobby other governments to take decisive action by meaningfully standing on the side of the Saharawi people. We must maintain our stance on the full sovereignty of Western Sahara – a country whose struggle mirrors our own, and which has been an ally to us at the darkest of moments in our liberation struggle.
In closing, I would like to invite all of you gathered here today, to join us on a march to the Moroccan Embassy on the 17th of October – next Monday. The purpose of the march is to highlight the plight of the Saharawi people as well as to demand that Morocco withdraw its troops from Saharawi territory. We want to make it clear that as the ANC, we stand on the side of the people of Western Sahara, and that we do not recognise an occupying force as legitimate in any way. And to the African Union, we want to communicate that if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Neutrality is not a choice.
Amandla! Reference
REVEALED: Tension looming as Sergeant Dumsile Khumalo who led police officers in a historic protest faces arrest
Wednesday, 12th October, 2022
By Zweli Martin Dlamini
MBABANE: Sergeant Dumsile Khumalo, the Secretary General of the Police Staff Association is now facing arrest after leading disgruntled law enforcers into a historic protest march in demand for a salary increment.
As exclusively reported by this Swaziland News on Monday evening, police officers eventually marched to the Prime Minister’s office on Tuesday morning, they are demanding their money meant to increase their salaries under Phase Two(2).
It has been disclosed that members of Executive Command have looted over R100million in monies meant to increase salaries for junior police officers, the money was misappropriated through the creation of over twenty(20)Deputy National Commissioner and Assistant Commissioners posts that are now redundant.
It has been disclosed that after creating the posts and falsely convincing King Mswati that they were benchmarking with the Southern African Development Community(SADC) standards, the Executive Command subsequently allocated themselves huge salaries that depleted the millions meant to increase salaries for junior officers:
Reached for comments, Sergeant Dumsile Khumalo confirmed that a warrant of arrest was being prepared against her, however, she declined to comment further and referred this journalist to the Police Spokesperson, Superintendent Phindile Vilakati.
“I am aware of the warrant of arrest, please contact the Police Spokesperson,” said the influential police officer.
But junior police officers who spoke to this Swaziland News on Wednesday warned the Police Executive Command against touching their leader Seargent Dumsile Khumalo.
“Nothing will happen to Madam Dumsile, if they arrest her we will forcefully release her ,wait and see.We are police officers and we want our money. This is not end, even if they can release this money under Phase Two(2), we want the other monies that disappeared under the Death Benefit Fund,” said a junior police officer.
Police Staff Association Secretary General Sergeant Dumsile Khumalo, a police officer based at Malkerns Police Station has been described by junior police officers as a human rights defender who has been advocating for the welfare of police officers since she joined the organization.
“She is brave and powerful but she needs our support as police officers, we know the strategic places and individuals that we can target if they arrest her. We are working for this government and we know it’s operations,” said the police officer.
A questionnaire was sent to Superintendent Phindile Vilakati, however, she had not responded at the time of compiling this report.
Reached for comments, Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, a highly regarded human rights lawyer said the allegations suggesting that the police officer who led the protest might be arrested are misplaced adding that the law enforcers had a right to bargain collectively.
In terms of labour laws, collective bargaining refers to the negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
“Police officers have a right to collectively bargain for better terms and conditions of service.If the junior police officers are alleging that within their place of employment, there were different phases that were implemented and were not favorable to their working conditions, they have a right to confront the Minister responsible for police which is the Prime Minister. So there is no criminal offense when you say you are bargaining collectively for purposes of better terms and conditions of service. The Police Service Act established the Police Staff Association solely for such matters. So you cannot therefore say, when an employee raises grievances, it’s a criminal offense. If it can happen that a police officer gets arrested for collective bargaining, that would mean the country has reached a deep end,” said the human rights lawyer. Reference
State of Palestine
12th October 2022
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates
Date: 12th October 2022 The State of Palestine warns against Israel’s escalating crimes, including collective punishment and unlawful blockades imposed on Palestinian cities, villages, and refugee camps. The international community to urgently intervene to protect the Palestinian people, in occupied East Jerusalem, Nablus, Jenin, Gaza, and others.
For the past week, Israel, the occupying Power, has been besieging hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into enclaves, depriving them of access to health services, education, and food supplies, in violation of international law.
The State of Palestine holds Israel, the occupying Power, fully responsible for the repercussions of its deliberate and dangerous escalation and calls on it to immediately cease its criminal policies and practices.
Collective punishment is a war crime and a form of persecution and is an affront to the elementary principles of humanity, dignity, and rule of law.
Israel, the occupying Power, continues to employ such declared criminal policies with full impunity, with the intent to punish the Palestinian people collectively, cause immeasurable suffering to millions of people, and lead to the eventual displacement of the Palestinian people from their homes and lands.
No amount of methodical violence and chaos of Israel’s making will overshadow its willful failure to end its illegal occupation and engage in a political process.
In line with the international legal obligations respecting state responsibility, the international community should take all measures, including countermeasures and sanctions, necessary to hold Israel accountable for its crimes.
The Palestinian people will continue to collectively persist and exercise their legitimate right to resist Israel’s crimes until their fundamental rights are realized, respected, and upheld.
Forty years after his passing, the famous artist is considered the most universal of Cuban painters.
12th October 2022
Wifredo Lam died in Paris on September 11, 1982, but his ashes have been in Cuba since December 6 of that year. He was Cuban through and through.
Author: Virginia Alberdi | internet@granma.cu
october 11, 2022
The work discovered in France. Photo: Courtesy of Centro Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam died in Paris on September 11, 1982, but his ashes have been in Cuba since December 6 of that year. He was Cuban through and through.
His long stay in Europe did not diminish one iota the Cuban identity he carried in his blood and in his eyes, and that he understood as a melting pot of the crossbreeding that he forged in our Afro-Latin-Caribbean identity, from a distinctly modern vision.
He never ceases to surprise and to place himself at the forefront of the Cuban avant-garde. These days he is in the news again, due to the discovery of one of his works in France, which has aroused the interest of enthusiasts, collectors and critics.
The work was found when in October last year appraiser Guillaume Cornet went through the inventory of the funds of the American photographer, based in France, John Pole-Woods, in his house in Sologne.
He looked at a painting in which he found Picassian resonances, but on closer inspection, he concluded that it was a reproduction.
A neighbor of the photographer, present on during the inventory, corrected the appraiser. "That is a reproduction; the original was given to me to keep by John Pole-Woods."
The quality of the painting won out. It was a Lam in the best style of the Cuban creator. "The work is not signed - appraiser Cornet commented in recent days, when giving the scoop- but we quickly discovered that it was made by Wifredo Lam, thanks to a correspondence illustrated with small drawings between the Pole-Woods couple and the painter, a photograph of the painting on the wall of the couple's Parisian apartment, as well as a certificate of authenticity issued by Madame Lou Laurin-Lam, dated October 25, 2007".
The work, painted in Cuba in 1950, reveals how intensely Lam decanted the constituent elements of his visual universe, after his reunion with his native land in those years and his contact with Haiti, which took place in 1946.
Crowned with horns, the dominant female figure and animal stands out frontally, like a totem, on a monochromatic brown background that evokes the color of the wood of ritual masks.
Forty years after his passing, Lam is also in the news in Argentina. On August 26, the exhibition Third Eye (Costantini Collection), whose most important pieces are Diego and I (1949), by Mexico's Frida Kahlo, and Omi Obini (1943), by Wifredo Lam, opened at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) and will be on display for the next 11 months.
The work entered the collection two years ago, when it was auctioned at Sotheby's. The media emphasized the amount of the acquisition and not the extraordinary aesthetic values of a composition that is related to The Jungle, due to the exuberant dialectic between myth, vegetation and Antillean texture.
Translated by ESTIThe work discovered in France. Photo: Courtesy of Centro Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam died in Paris on September 11, 1982, but his ashes have been in Cuba since December 6 of that year. He was Cuban through and through.
His long stay in Europe did not diminish one iota the Cuban identity he carried in his blood and in his eyes, and that he understood as a melting pot of the crossbreeding that he forged in our Afro-Latin-Caribbean identity, from a distinctly modern vision.
He never ceases to surprise and to place himself at the forefront of the Cuban avant-garde. These days he is in the news again, due to the discovery of one of his works in France, which has aroused the interest of enthusiasts, collectors and critics.
The work was found when in October last year appraiser Guillaume Cornet went through the inventory of the funds of the American photographer, based in France, John Pole-Woods, in his house in Sologne.
He looked at a painting in which he found Picassian resonances, but on closer inspection, he concluded that it was a reproduction.
A neighbor of the photographer, present on during the inventory, corrected the appraiser. "That is a reproduction; the original was given to me to keep by John Pole-Woods."
The quality of the painting won out. It was a Lam in the best style of the Cuban creator. "The work is not signed - appraiser Cornet commented in recent days, when giving the scoop- but we quickly discovered that it was made by Wifredo Lam, thanks to a correspondence illustrated with small drawings between the Pole-Woods couple and the painter, a photograph of the painting on the wall of the couple's Parisian apartment, as well as a certificate of authenticity issued by Madame Lou Laurin-Lam, dated October 25, 2007".
The work, painted in Cuba in 1950, reveals how intensely Lam decanted the constituent elements of his visual universe, after his reunion with his native land in those years and his contact with Haiti, which took place in 1946.
Crowned with horns, the dominant female figure and animal stands out frontally, like a totem, on a monochromatic brown background that evokes the color of the wood of ritual masks.
Forty years after his passing, Lam is also in the news in Argentina. On August 26, the exhibition Third Eye (Costantini Collection), whose most important pieces are Diego and I (1949), by Mexico's Frida Kahlo, and Omi Obini (1943), by Wifredo Lam, opened at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) and will be on display for the next 11 months.
The work entered the collection two years ago, when it was auctioned at Sotheby's. The media emphasized the amount of the acquisition and not the extraordinary aesthetic values of a composition that is related to The Jungle, due to the exuberant dialectic between myth, vegetation and Antillean texture.
Translated by ESTI Reference
The real Cuba has the Family Code it deserves, one of the most advanced in the world
october 13, 2022
The opponents of Cuba's political system cannot grant it something positive. As they often express their concern about the "lack of democracy" on the island, it was expected they would react favorably to the approval of a Family Code that guarantees more rights; however, in not a few cases, it has been exactly the opposite.
Author: Karima Oliva Bello | informacion@granmai.cu
The opponents of Cuba's political system cannot grant it something positive. As they often express their concern about the "lack of democracy" on the island, it was expected they would react favorably to the approval of a Family Code that guarantees more rights; however, in not a few cases, it has been exactly the opposite.
The reading we can make is that they do not really care about democracy; they simply prefer to continue making propaganda about a supposed dictatorship that violates all human rights. The result of the referendum is anachronistic with respect to the stigmatized image to which they reduce Cuba in the many digital campaigns paid from Washington, in which they write, or in the pages of El País or The Washington Post, just to mention a few.
The real Cuba, and not the one of their inventions, has the Code it was able to create and defend at the ballot box. Accused of being a failed state, prey to an economic terrorism unparalleled in history, facing a major economic crisis that is having a significant social and imaginary impact, under media siege, it made a referendum on a Code of a revolutionary scope, one that few can match in the world. Finally, the population went out to vote with numbers that would cause envy in most democratic countries today.
Although it is hard for them to recognize it, the Code can only be understood objectively as a result of the functioning of our political system. They continue to talk about the fact that the protagonist in the struggle for greater rights in Cuba is a civil society, largely produced by the media with foreign money, destined for internal subversion, which ignores our institutions. The truth is that, at this point, the argument is not valid anymore. This Code, a step in the deepening of the democratic character of the system, is explained by the sense of justice of our people, the decisions of the National Assembly of People's Power, the drive of the Government, the leadership of the Party and of the organizations and institutions, in the midst of one of the times of greatest dispute for ideological and cultural hegemony in Cuba.
Internally, the referendum has a great merit as it put on the scene of public debate issues on which there were countless taboos, gaps and silences for a long time. This already marks a before and after. However, behind the No or the abstentions, there is not only the punishment vote, as they want to present it. It has also shown how heteropatriarchy, instituted for centuries, is still present in our society. There were those who voted No without necessarily having a position against the system or the Government, but because they did not understand or did not identify with the contents of the document.
Fundamentalism has supporters today, even among the youngest. At the same time, a sector of the population ended up being manipulated by disinformation campaigns of all kinds. And these are data that require us to take a rigorous and inquiring look at the current Cuban socio-political context. The victory in the referendum opens a door, but the road will be arduous if we wish to deepen the democratic character of the system following the route marked by the Code and deepen the Revolution on a cultural level.
For now, many of those who live by writing about the failed State and the dictatorship have lost the possibility of showing a little coherence. The annoyance of running out of arguments on one of the topics in which they have entrenched themselves weighed more. But for the people (whatever their vote may have been), the possibilities of rights are expanding, and that is what matters. Reference
Palestinian Factions Sign Reconciliation Agreement in Algiers
13 October 2022
They praised the "legitimacy" of the negotiations sponsored by Algeria, which promoted this reconciliation attempt before the Arab League summit.
Palestinian factions led by the nationalist Fatah party and the Islamist movement Hamas on Thursday signed a reconciliation agreement to end fifteen years of division. This happened after two days of negotiations hosted by Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune
The Algiers Declaration "will constitute a solid platform for achieving unity among the various Palestinian factions that have reached an unprecedented consensus," the Algerian government said in a statement, as reported by EFE.
The Palestinian National Initiative Party secretary Mustafa Barghouti said that the factions had accepted a large part of the reconciliation document, which contemplates the holding of presidential and legislative elections within a year from the signing of the agreement.
In July, Tebboune met with both the Hamas leader Ismail Haniye, who has participated in these negotiations, and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) president Mahmoud Abbas, who was not at the meeting as he traveled to the summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, where he held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The last two days of negotiations were preceded by months of high-level meetings in Algiers during which the factions presented their proposals to end the divisions that began in 2007, when Hamas expelled Fatah forces from the Gaza Strip.
The most recent attempt at reconciliation came in 2017, when Fatah and Hamas announced an agreement under which the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which controls the West Bank, would retake control of Gaza and hold legislative and presidential elections.
On Thursday, the Palestinian factions praised the "legitimacy" of the negotiations sponsored by Algeria that promoted this reconciliation attempt before the Arab League summit, which will begin on Nov. 1 in Algiers.
"This blessed initiative bodes well for the Palestinian people... We are satisfied with the results of this conference marked by openness, positive interaction, and understanding," Haniye said at the closing of the talks.
The Palestinian Popular Struggle Front (FLPP) secretary Ahmed Majdalani valued the conference as an "undeniable" demonstration of Algeia's national objectives, which include "the right of refugees to return to their homeland and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.” Reference
Palestinian Killed by Israeli Soldiers in Southern West Bank
12 October 2022
Over 100 Palestinians have been killed since early January by Israeli soldiers, including children and women.
On Wednesday, a Palestian 18-year-old man was killed and three other were injured during clashes with the Israeli soldiers in Al-Aroub refugee camp north of the city of Hebron.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said that Osama Adawi was killed after he was shot by an Israeli soldier during clashes broke out in the afternoon, adding three other Palestinian demonstrators sustained gunshot injuries in their legs.
"Osama Adawi, like all his generation, aspired to reach the faraway horizon and realize his beautiful dream, so he was killed by the occupation machine. Stop Israeli occupation, Free Palestinian People," media personality Ameer Makhoul tweeted.
Palestinian eyewitnesses said that an Israeli army force stormed the refugee camp to arrest stone-throwing demonstrators. The occupation forces fired teargas canisters, rubber bullets, and live ammunition to disperse the stone throwers.
Tension in the West Bank has been mounting since March after the Israeli army intensified its military actions and operations against Palestinian protesters. Over 100 Palestinians have been killed since early January by Israeli soldiers, including children and women.
Israel has carried out manhunts in the cities of Nablus and Jenin in the northern West Bank for Palestinian suspects involved in attacks against Israel.
In the 1967 Middle East war, Israel occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem which are claimed by the Palestinians, and has controlled the areas ever since. Reference
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