❶ Qalandiya camp buries Palestinian shot dead in overnight raid
. . . . . ❶ ―(ᴀ) Israeli troops’ GPS error ends in deadly West Bank clashes
❷ Record number of Palestinians held under administrative detention
❸ Navy Kidnaps 9 Fishermen off Gaza Coast
❹ Japan donates $38m to UNRWA
❺ Opinion/Analysis: ISRAEL’S APARTHEID CHARACTER

❻ Poetry by Mourid Barghouti
❶ QALANDIYA  CAMP  BURIES  PALESTINIAN  SHOT  DEAD  IN  OVERNIGHT  RAID
MA’AN NEWS AGENCY
Mar. 1, 2016
Residents of Qalandiya refugee camp on Monday morning buried 22-year-old Iyad Omar Sajadiyya, just hours after he was shot dead by Israeli forces during an overnight raid into the camp.
___Sajadiyya’s body was moved from the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to his family home near Qalandiya. . . . and then to the camp’s cemetery, where he was laid to rest.
___Mourners chanted slogans calling for revenge against Israel and for retaliation against “the Israeli occupation’s crimes against the Palestinian people.”    More . . .
. . . . . ❶―(ᴀ)  ISRAELI  TROOPS’  GPS  ERROR  ENDS  IN  DEADLY  WEST  BANK  CLASHES
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Mar. 1, 2016
Heavy clashes broke out overnight after two Israeli soldiers using a traffic app mistakenly entered a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, leaving one Palestinian dead and 15 people wounded, officials said on Tuesday.
___The two soldiers travelling in a military vehicle mistakenly entered the Qalandiya refugee camp while using the Israeli navigation app ‘Waze’ and were targeted with rocks and petrol bombs, an Israeli military spokesman said.    More . . . 
❷ RECORD  NUMBER  OF  PALESTINIANS  HELD  UNDER  ADMINISTRATIVE  DETENTION:  NGO
MIDDLE EAST EYE
Feb. 29, 2016
Over the past 10 days, Israel has given “administrative detention” orders to 84 Palestinians, bringing the total number of Palestinians held under the controversial procedure to its highest level since 2009 . . . .
___The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said 39 Palestinians had been arrested and placed under administrative detention for periods of between two and six months, while the other 45 had their detention prolonged.      More . . .

❸ NAVY  KIDNAPS  9  FISHERMEN  OFF  GAZA  COAST
IMEMC NEWS
Feb. 29, 2016
The Israeli navy, on Monday, attacked and abducted nine Palestinian fishermen while they were on board two fishing boats offshore Gaza, according to local sources.
___Zakaria Bakr, a fisherman, told WAFA that Israeli naval boats attacked two fishing boats carrying nine Palestinian fishermen off Gaza. The navy then demanded, at gunpoint, the nine fishermen to swim towards the Israeli boats and detained them. . . .    More . . .
❹ JAPAN  DONATES  $38M  TO  UNRWA
THE MIDDLE EAST MONITOR (MEMO)
Mar. 1, 2016
The Japanese government yesterday donated $38.21 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the Anadolu Agency reported.
___In a statement, UNRWA said that the donation was made through a mutual agreement signed yesterday with the representative of the Japanese government in Ramallah.
___According to UNRWA, this is Japan’s largest donation, noting that $15 million was allocated to the education and health sectors, as well as to the emergency humanitarian needs of the Gaza Strip.     More . . .
Related . . . UAE  Red  Crescent  donates  $2  million  to  renovate  academic  infrastructure  at  BZU
❺ Opinion/Analysis:  ISRAEL’S  APARTHEID  CHARACTER
PALESTINE CHRONICLE
Jamal Kanj
Feb. 28, 2016
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom created a maelstrom in Israel by merely demanding a “credible investigation into deaths of Palestinians in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability”. . . .
___With great help from internationally-dominating Zionist media, Israel has been able to portray the oppressed as the aggressor, and present the occupier as a benevolent victim.    More . . .  

“INTERPRETATIONS,”  BY  MOURID  AL-BARGHOUTI
A poet sits in a coffee shop, writing:
The old lady
thinks he is writing a letter to his mother,
the young woman
thinks he is writing a letter to his girlfriend,
the child
thinks he is drawing,
the businessman
thinks he is considering a deal,
the tourist
thinks he is writing a postcard,
the employee
thinks he is calculating his debts.
The secret policeman
walks slowly, towards him.
―Translated by Radwa Ashour

From Barghouti, Mourid. MIDNIGHT  AND  OTHER  POEMS. Trans. Radwa Ashour. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2008. Available from Amazon.
About Radwa Ashour, late wife of Mourid Barghouti