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Human Rights Group B’Tselem Creates Interactive Map of 52 Year Israeli Settlement Growth

“This visualization of the occupation shows how a combination of measures – annexation; establishment of settlements; declaration of ‘state land,’ firing zones, nature reserves and national parks; construction of the Separation Barrier; division of the West Bank into Areas A, B and C with varying forms of control; and severing the Gaza Strip from the West Bank – has broken up Palestinian space into separate units that are easier to control in isolation,” B’Tselem said.

through the annexation efforts Palestinian communities are more isolated from one another and therefore are “easier to control” by the Israeli government.

EU Gives Pre-Fab School Rooms to Palestinian Children, Israel Steals and Sells Them

Yumna Patel:

A decision by Israeli authorities to auction off prefabricated classrooms that were confiscated from a Palestinian village last year is causing controversy among local and international leaders.

A report from the Guardian last Friday said that the Israeli Defense Ministry was planning on holding an auction this coming week to sell the two prefab classrooms, citing an advertisement for the “seized property” in the Israeli Maariv newspaper.

The classrooms, along with two tents and three metal sheds, were confiscated by Israeli forces last October from the rural Palestinian village of Ibziq, in the northern occupied West Bank.

The classrooms had been donated to the community by the European Union, which has donated hundreds of similar structures to primarily Bedouin communities across the occupied territories.

They were confiscated under the pretext that they were built “illegally” in Israeli-controlled Area C of the West Bank, where Palestinian are required to obtain Israeli construction permits in order to build anything — a nearly impossible task.

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Update: EU Rewards Israel for Selling Classrooms Donated to Palestinians

Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe

https://i2.wp.com/www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Assange-1.jpg?ssl=1AP:

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday.

The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean the preliminary investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange doesn’t face extradition to Sweden any time soon.

Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she has not decided whether to appeal.

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