Roger Alan Blackwell
@rogera.bsky.social
Born 1951, Norwich. UK. Studied science age 14-20. Marxist at 19. Politics, history, philosophy, political economy. Photography 1978, Video 2015. Support the WRP & YS Socialist. Variety of interests.
'The raids go on almost nightly, and even the empty promises of reform have receded into memory.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:19 AM
'The raids go on almost nightly, and even the empty promises of reform have receded into memory.'
'She added: ‘It creates this environment of fear where your house is not a safe place, you can always be taken and your children can always be taken.
‘To me it’s just a form of terrorising the population and weakening the young generation from rising up.’
‘To me it’s just a form of terrorising the population and weakening the young generation from rising up.’
September 18, 2026 at 10:19 AM
'She added: ‘It creates this environment of fear where your house is not a safe place, you can always be taken and your children can always be taken.
‘To me it’s just a form of terrorising the population and weakening the young generation from rising up.’
‘To me it’s just a form of terrorising the population and weakening the young generation from rising up.’
'Titi Carmel, chief executive of Parents Against Child Detention, an Israeli group monitoring the occupation forces, said the helplessness of parents during these state-sanctioned abductions ‘breaks the sense of safety, not only in your home, but also in your relationship with family’.
September 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM
'Titi Carmel, chief executive of Parents Against Child Detention, an Israeli group monitoring the occupation forces, said the helplessness of parents during these state-sanctioned abductions ‘breaks the sense of safety, not only in your home, but also in your relationship with family’.
'Former soldiers have testified that the aim is ‘deterrence’, the belief that a frightened population is less likely to rebel.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM
'Former soldiers have testified that the aim is ‘deterrence’, the belief that a frightened population is less likely to rebel.'
'The UN recorded 190 settler attacks on Palestinians in the first four months of 2026 alone.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM
'The UN recorded 190 settler attacks on Palestinians in the first four months of 2026 alone.'
'Amnesty International documented the case of a 14-year-old from Jabaliya seized in January 2024 and held for more than three weeks in the Sde Teiman detention centre with over 100 adults, where he said he was burned with cigarette butts and was denied any contact with his parents or a lawyer.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:17 AM
'Amnesty International documented the case of a 14-year-old from Jabaliya seized in January 2024 and held for more than three weeks in the Sde Teiman detention centre with over 100 adults, where he said he was burned with cigarette butts and was denied any contact with his parents or a lawyer.'
'Since the genocide began, raids targeting children have been added to the drone strikes, sniper fire and carpet bombing.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:16 AM
'Since the genocide began, raids targeting children have been added to the drone strikes, sniper fire and carpet bombing.'
'Night raids have spread to Gaza, where before October 2023 they were rare because Israel had withdrawn its soldiers and settlers in 2005, subjecting the Strip instead to a blockade and repeated bombardments.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
'Night raids have spread to Gaza, where before October 2023 they were rare because Israel had withdrawn its soldiers and settlers in 2005, subjecting the Strip instead to a blockade and repeated bombardments.'
'Of the lasting damage, she said: ‘We’ve heard children say things like they have trouble sleeping after being detained, they are scared of going to bed, they are scared of separating from their parents.’
September 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
'Of the lasting damage, she said: ‘We’ve heard children say things like they have trouble sleeping after being detained, they are scared of going to bed, they are scared of separating from their parents.’
'Alexandra Saieh of Save the Children said her organisation had ‘not seen any significant reform over the last several decades’ and that ‘over the last two years the conditions that detained children are facing have actually deteriorated’.
September 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
'Alexandra Saieh of Save the Children said her organisation had ‘not seen any significant reform over the last several decades’ and that ‘over the last two years the conditions that detained children are facing have actually deteriorated’.
'The three camps remain emptied of their populations, and a recent UN report warned that displacement on that scale and of that systematic character can amount to the crime against humanity of forcible transfer.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
'The three camps remain emptied of their populations, and a recent UN report warned that displacement on that scale and of that systematic character can amount to the crime against humanity of forcible transfer.'
'.....Iron Wall, began in January 2025 and emptied the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank.
More than 33,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced by a weeks-long assault of raids, home demolitions, torn-up roads and sabotaged water and power supplies.'
More than 33,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced by a weeks-long assault of raids, home demolitions, torn-up roads and sabotaged water and power supplies.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:14 AM
'.....Iron Wall, began in January 2025 and emptied the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps in the northern West Bank.
More than 33,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced by a weeks-long assault of raids, home demolitions, torn-up roads and sabotaged water and power supplies.'
More than 33,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced by a weeks-long assault of raids, home demolitions, torn-up roads and sabotaged water and power supplies.'
'In the first nine months of 2025, there were nearly 7,500 raids by day and night, 37 per cent more than in the same period of 2024, itself a sharp rise on 2023.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM
'In the first nine months of 2025, there were nearly 7,500 raids by day and night, 37 per cent more than in the same period of 2024, itself a sharp rise on 2023.'
'The raids have only multiplied.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recorded more than 3,400 search and arrest operations in the West Bank in 2022.'
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recorded more than 3,400 search and arrest operations in the West Bank in 2022.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:13 AM
'The raids have only multiplied.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recorded more than 3,400 search and arrest operations in the West Bank in 2022.'
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recorded more than 3,400 search and arrest operations in the West Bank in 2022.'
'More than 70 per cent had been arrested at night, and of the 58 taken at night only one family had received a summons beforehand.
Asked about the promised reform, the army and police said they had not kept comprehensive data.'
Asked about the promised reform, the army and police said they had not kept comprehensive data.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:12 AM
'More than 70 per cent had been arrested at night, and of the 58 taken at night only one family had received a summons beforehand.
Asked about the promised reform, the army and police said they had not kept comprehensive data.'
Asked about the promised reform, the army and police said they had not kept comprehensive data.'
'A 2013 UNICEF report found that some 7,000 Palestinian children had been detained, prosecuted and at times imprisoned over the previous decade.
The report identified night arrest as a common method and called on Israel to end it.'
The report identified night arrest as a common method and called on Israel to end it.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:12 AM
'A 2013 UNICEF report found that some 7,000 Palestinian children had been detained, prosecuted and at times imprisoned over the previous decade.
The report identified night arrest as a common method and called on Israel to end it.'
The report identified night arrest as a common method and called on Israel to end it.'
'Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights counted more than 170,000 search or arrest incursions across the West Bank between 1967 and October 2023, a large share of them at night.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM
'Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights counted more than 170,000 search or arrest incursions across the West Bank between 1967 and October 2023, a large share of them at night.'
'In August alone, the occupation detained about 500 Palestinians across the West Bank and Jerusalem, 31 of them children, in campaigns accompanied by raids on dozens of homes, property damage and field interrogations after which most were released having been humiliated, beaten and threatened.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:11 AM
'In August alone, the occupation detained about 500 Palestinians across the West Bank and Jerusalem, 31 of them children, in campaigns accompanied by raids on dozens of homes, property damage and field interrogations after which most were released having been humiliated, beaten and threatened.'
'Israel has barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting any Palestinian detainee since 7th October 2023.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
'Israel has barred the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting any Palestinian detainee since 7th October 2023.'
'...Israel Prison Service....figures leave out children held at military interrogation centres, for which no data exists.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:10 AM
'...Israel Prison Service....figures leave out children held at military interrogation centres, for which no data exists.'
'At the end of last year, when the Israel Prison Service put the figure at 351, more than half of those children, 180, were in administrative detention without charge or trial, the highest number and the highest proportion since Defence for Children International Palestine began counting in 2008...'
September 18, 2026 at 10:09 AM
'At the end of last year, when the Israel Prison Service put the figure at 351, more than half of those children, 180, were in administrative detention without charge or trial, the highest number and the highest proportion since Defence for Children International Palestine began counting in 2008...'
'Around 370 Palestinian children were held in Israeli prisons in August, most of them in Megiddo and Ofer, among more than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:08 AM
'Around 370 Palestinian children were held in Israeli prisons in August, most of them in Megiddo and Ofer, among more than 9,400 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.'
'.... assaulted them in the back of army jeeps, interrogated them and returned them to their families the next day, in a night raid of the kind the occupation army has carried out almost every night in the West Bank for nearly six decades.'
September 18, 2026 at 10:08 AM
'.... assaulted them in the back of army jeeps, interrogated them and returned them to their families the next day, in a night raid of the kind the occupation army has carried out almost every night in the West Bank for nearly six decades.'
'ISRAELI soldiers seized two boys aged 13 and 15 from their homes in the Arroub refugee camp between Hebron and Bethlehem at about 2.30am on 25th January, assaulted them in the back of army jeeps, interrogated them and returned them to their families the next day....'
September 18, 2026 at 10:08 AM
'ISRAELI soldiers seized two boys aged 13 and 15 from their homes in the Arroub refugee camp between Hebron and Bethlehem at about 2.30am on 25th January, assaulted them in the back of army jeeps, interrogated them and returned them to their families the next day....'
'Israeli occupation forces carry out overnight raids, making arrests across the West Bank'
September 18, 2026 at 10:07 AM
'Israeli occupation forces carry out overnight raids, making arrests across the West Bank'