3 feb 2019
A Palestinian youth was injured on Sunday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at the residents of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyya village in Nablus.
Local sources said that violent confrontations broke out in the village after the IOF chased Palestinian schoolchildren on their way back home on Ramallah-Nablus road.
The IOF closed the eastern and northern entrances to the village for about three hours and fired tear gas bombs, stun grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets at the Palestinians.
Local sources said that violent confrontations broke out in the village after the IOF chased Palestinian schoolchildren on their way back home on Ramallah-Nablus road.
The IOF closed the eastern and northern entrances to the village for about three hours and fired tear gas bombs, stun grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets at the Palestinians.
The Israeli occupation forces on Sunday afternoon arrested a Palestinian boy in al-Khalil city.
Local sources said that so-called Israeli border guards arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy at a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
The Israeli soldiers claimed a knife was found in the detainee's possession while he was being searched at the checkpoint.
Local sources said that so-called Israeli border guards arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian boy at a military checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
The Israeli soldiers claimed a knife was found in the detainee's possession while he was being searched at the checkpoint.
In pre-dawn raids Sunday morning in the southern part of the West Bank, Israeli forces raided the homes of ten Palestinians and took all ten from their beds, forcing them into military vehicles and taking them to unknown destinations for interrogation and detention.
The military abducted five Palestinians from the Bethlehem area, and five from the Hebron area.
In the Bethlehem area, the Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a father and his sons, during raids to the south and east of Bethlehem.
According to the Wafa News Agency, the Palestinians abducted by the Israeli military Wednesday morning were Hatem Jabr Deeriyya, 42, and his sons Yusef, 17, and Mousa, 15, from Beit Fajar village in the south, after raiding and searching his family home.
In the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem, the Israeli forces abducted Mohammad Nayef Abu Farah, 24, and Mohammad Suleiman Abu Farah, 29, and searched their homes.
Israeli occupation forces abducted four citizens from Al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron on Sunday.
The troops also abducted former prisoner and editor Zaid Akram al-Qawasmi, and handed him over to the Israeli Intelligence unit – a unit that is infamous for so-called ‘harsh interrogation’ techniques that are classified as torture under international law.
Palestinian security sources reported that the Palestinians abducted by the Israeli military in al-Arroub refugee camp as: Kareem Muslim Abu Sal, Obaida Imad Al-Ra’i, Hussin Yousef Jawabra and Haytham Al-Badawi .
The military abducted five Palestinians from the Bethlehem area, and five from the Hebron area.
In the Bethlehem area, the Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a father and his sons, during raids to the south and east of Bethlehem.
According to the Wafa News Agency, the Palestinians abducted by the Israeli military Wednesday morning were Hatem Jabr Deeriyya, 42, and his sons Yusef, 17, and Mousa, 15, from Beit Fajar village in the south, after raiding and searching his family home.
In the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem, the Israeli forces abducted Mohammad Nayef Abu Farah, 24, and Mohammad Suleiman Abu Farah, 29, and searched their homes.
Israeli occupation forces abducted four citizens from Al-Arroub refugee camp north of Hebron on Sunday.
The troops also abducted former prisoner and editor Zaid Akram al-Qawasmi, and handed him over to the Israeli Intelligence unit – a unit that is infamous for so-called ‘harsh interrogation’ techniques that are classified as torture under international law.
Palestinian security sources reported that the Palestinians abducted by the Israeli military in al-Arroub refugee camp as: Kareem Muslim Abu Sal, Obaida Imad Al-Ra’i, Hussin Yousef Jawabra and Haytham Al-Badawi .
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Israeli forces took into custody some 380 Palestinians, including 5 women and 67 children, in January of 2019, the Palestinian Prisoners Center for Studies said on Saturday.
In a statement, the Center explained that Israeli forces detained 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 5 fishermen who were kidnapped while sailing off Gaza shore. One Palestinian youth was detained at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, and 6 others were taken while allegedly attempting to cross the border fence east of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center said that, in January, the Israel Prison Service launched a crime, against Palestinian detainees being housed in |
Ofer jail, that was described as “the most dangerous” since the 2007 attack in Negev prison.
According to the statement, dozens of Palestinian detainees suffered bruises, wounds, and fractures as a result of being beaten, sprayed with gas, and hit with rubber-coated metal bullets by the Israel prison guards.
During the same period, the Israeli occupation authorities issued 55 administrative detention orders, issuing 18 new ones and renewing the detention of 37 detainees for 2-6 months, Days of Palestine reports.
Editor’s note: Administrative detention is an archaic legal procedure, dating back to the days of British Mandate, in which detainees are imprisoned without charge or trial, for renewable periods of up to six months.
According to the statement, dozens of Palestinian detainees suffered bruises, wounds, and fractures as a result of being beaten, sprayed with gas, and hit with rubber-coated metal bullets by the Israel prison guards.
During the same period, the Israeli occupation authorities issued 55 administrative detention orders, issuing 18 new ones and renewing the detention of 37 detainees for 2-6 months, Days of Palestine reports.
Editor’s note: Administrative detention is an archaic legal procedure, dating back to the days of British Mandate, in which detainees are imprisoned without charge or trial, for renewable periods of up to six months.
1 feb 2019
A Palestinian has teenager sustained multiple fractures in his legs after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers near Jenin city, in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC).
PRC official, Mahmoud Saadi, told WAFA that 17-year-old Majdi Abu-Ghali, from Jenin, was beaten severely, by Israeli soldiers, after he entered the site of the abandoned Israeli settlement of Ghanim, east of Jenin.
The teen was reportedly unaware of the Israeli soldiers who had raided the evacuated settlement, and was surprised by soldiers who shortly attacked and brutally beat him for no reason.
The teenager was moved to nearby Khalil Suleiman public hospital for medical treatment.
Israeli occupation forces have a long record of physically assaulting Palestinians while briefly detaining them. Earlier today, an Israeli court indicted five Israeli soldiers for beating two handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees.
According to the indictment, on a day in early January, the soldiers punched, slapped, kicked and beat the two detainees, hitting them in their head, face, chest, legs and more.
PRC official, Mahmoud Saadi, told WAFA that 17-year-old Majdi Abu-Ghali, from Jenin, was beaten severely, by Israeli soldiers, after he entered the site of the abandoned Israeli settlement of Ghanim, east of Jenin.
The teen was reportedly unaware of the Israeli soldiers who had raided the evacuated settlement, and was surprised by soldiers who shortly attacked and brutally beat him for no reason.
The teenager was moved to nearby Khalil Suleiman public hospital for medical treatment.
Israeli occupation forces have a long record of physically assaulting Palestinians while briefly detaining them. Earlier today, an Israeli court indicted five Israeli soldiers for beating two handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees.
According to the indictment, on a day in early January, the soldiers punched, slapped, kicked and beat the two detainees, hitting them in their head, face, chest, legs and more.
29 jan 2019
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested on Tuesday afternoon a Palestinian minor at Jalama military checkpoint, north of Jenin, for allegedly holding an explosive device in his possession.
0404 Hebrew site claimed that Israeli soldiers rounded up a 17-year-old Palestinian after allegedly discovering a homemade explosive device hidden in his bag.
Other tools were also found in the bag, the sources added without revealing more details.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman was detained for “illegally residing” in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian ID-holder was arrested in the Old City and immediately taken to a nearby police station for investigation, eyewitnesses reported.
0404 Hebrew site claimed that Israeli soldiers rounded up a 17-year-old Palestinian after allegedly discovering a homemade explosive device hidden in his bag.
Other tools were also found in the bag, the sources added without revealing more details.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman was detained for “illegally residing” in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian ID-holder was arrested in the Old City and immediately taken to a nearby police station for investigation, eyewitnesses reported.
28 jan 2019
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Monday opened fire on a school in the blockaded Gaza strip, injuring a Palestinian, according to local sources.
"The Mahdia Shawa School today came under fire which wounded employee Ramez Za'anin", the Ministry of Education in Gaza said.
Ministry official Ziad Thabet condemned the shooting, which, he said, was part of an ongoing Israeli policy to target Palestinian educational institutions.
The attack came in flagrant violation to international las and norms, he added.
He also called on international community to condemn the incident and to hold Israel accountable for its escalated crimes against the Gaza Strip.
Israel has stepped up attacks in Gaza, which claimed over 295 Palestinian lives in 2018, marking the highest death toll since the 2014 Gaza conflict, many of them were shot during the March of Return protests, amid a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave.
"The Mahdia Shawa School today came under fire which wounded employee Ramez Za'anin", the Ministry of Education in Gaza said.
Ministry official Ziad Thabet condemned the shooting, which, he said, was part of an ongoing Israeli policy to target Palestinian educational institutions.
The attack came in flagrant violation to international las and norms, he added.
He also called on international community to condemn the incident and to hold Israel accountable for its escalated crimes against the Gaza Strip.
Israel has stepped up attacks in Gaza, which claimed over 295 Palestinian lives in 2018, marking the highest death toll since the 2014 Gaza conflict, many of them were shot during the March of Return protests, amid a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in the besieged enclave.
27 jan 2019
Israeli forces detained at least nine Palestinians, including minors, on predawn Sunday, from the southern and central occupied West Bank districts of Bethlehem and Ramallah.
The Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) confirmed that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem.
The three detainees were identified as Saed Abu Hadroos, Shadi Abu Hadroos, and Muhammad Jalal Abu Hadroos.
PPS also confirmed that in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, six Palestinians were detained. They were identified as Muhammad Ali Ahmad Ali, 15, Anas Majed Abed al-Hafeth, 16, Muataz Salah al-Khuwaja, Muhammad Salah al-Khuwaja, Muhammad Hatem al-Khuwaja, and Ibrahim Srour.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,500 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, including 230 minors, 41 of whom under 16 years old.
The Palestine Prisoner’s Society (PPS) confirmed that Israeli forces detained three Palestinians in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the southern West Bank district of Bethlehem.
The three detainees were identified as Saed Abu Hadroos, Shadi Abu Hadroos, and Muhammad Jalal Abu Hadroos.
PPS also confirmed that in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, six Palestinians were detained. They were identified as Muhammad Ali Ahmad Ali, 15, Anas Majed Abed al-Hafeth, 16, Muataz Salah al-Khuwaja, Muhammad Salah al-Khuwaja, Muhammad Hatem al-Khuwaja, and Ibrahim Srour.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,500 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, including 230 minors, 41 of whom under 16 years old.
26 jan 2019
A Palestinian father and his son were injured on Friday evening during a settler attack on al-Khalil.
Local sources said that dozens of armed Israeli settlers coming from Kiryat Arba settlement attacked Palestinian homes in Wad al-Hasin neighborhood in al-Khalil with rocks.
Hesham Abu Eseifan, 48, and his son Mohammed, 10, suffered wounds and bruises in the attack and were treated in the field.
Local sources said that dozens of armed Israeli settlers coming from Kiryat Arba settlement attacked Palestinian homes in Wad al-Hasin neighborhood in al-Khalil with rocks.
Hesham Abu Eseifan, 48, and his son Mohammed, 10, suffered wounds and bruises in the attack and were treated in the field.
25 jan 2019
A Palestinian child was critically injured on Friday afternoon after he was run over by an Israeli military jeep near Yatta town in al-Khalil.
The PIC reporter said that Saber al-Jabarin, 12, was kidnapped by the Israeli force riding the jeep that hit him.
Al-Jabarin was transferred to an Israeli hospital in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948, he added.
The PIC reporter said that Saber al-Jabarin, 12, was kidnapped by the Israeli force riding the jeep that hit him.
Al-Jabarin was transferred to an Israeli hospital in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948, he added.
24 jan 2019
Undercover Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday evening, Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied Jerusalem, and shot a Palestinian child, causing life-threatening wounds.
Tha’er Fasfous, the spokesperson of Fateh Movement in Shu’fat, said the undercover soldiers chased four children while walking in Ras Khamis area in the refugee camp, and fired many live rounds at them, seriously wounding one of them.
He added that the child, identified as Mohammad Essam al-Qawasmi, 15, was shot with live fire in his back, and was rushed to Hadassah Medical Center, in a very serious condition.
Fasfous also started that, despite the serious wounds of the child, the soldiers chained him to his hospital bed, and added that the child was admitted to the surgery room.
Palestinian child injured by Israeli bullet fire in occupied Jerusalem
A Palestinian boy was seriously injured on Thursday evening in an ambush set up by undercover Israeli troops in Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics said a 15-year-old child received urgent treatment for serious back injuries after he was shot by Israeli occupation forces.
Sometime later, Israeli forces kidnapped the injured boy Mohamed Essam al-Kawasmi on his way to the operating suite at Hadassha Hospital.
Eye-witnesses said a 15-year-old child sustained serious back wounds after he was directly hit with live ammunition by undercover Israeli forces.
They added that the attack culminated in the abduction of three Palestinians by the occupation forces.
Tha’er Fasfous, the spokesperson of Fateh Movement in Shu’fat, said the undercover soldiers chased four children while walking in Ras Khamis area in the refugee camp, and fired many live rounds at them, seriously wounding one of them.
He added that the child, identified as Mohammad Essam al-Qawasmi, 15, was shot with live fire in his back, and was rushed to Hadassah Medical Center, in a very serious condition.
Fasfous also started that, despite the serious wounds of the child, the soldiers chained him to his hospital bed, and added that the child was admitted to the surgery room.
Palestinian child injured by Israeli bullet fire in occupied Jerusalem
A Palestinian boy was seriously injured on Thursday evening in an ambush set up by undercover Israeli troops in Shu’fat refugee camp, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics said a 15-year-old child received urgent treatment for serious back injuries after he was shot by Israeli occupation forces.
Sometime later, Israeli forces kidnapped the injured boy Mohamed Essam al-Kawasmi on his way to the operating suite at Hadassha Hospital.
Eye-witnesses said a 15-year-old child sustained serious back wounds after he was directly hit with live ammunition by undercover Israeli forces.
They added that the attack culminated in the abduction of three Palestinians by the occupation forces.
An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced a Palestinian minor to a one-year prison-term over allegations of hurling Molotov cocktails at Israeli patrols.
According to the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners’ Families, Israel’s Central Court in occupied Jerusalem ruled that 17-year-old Ameer Awad be jailed for one year in Israeli occupation prisons.
The court also slapped a fine of $410 against the minor.
The occupation authorities claimed that Ameer was spotted on cameras installed in Jerusalem’s eastern town of al-Tur while throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops.
The boy has been held in Israeli custody for six months running.
At the same time, Israeli border cops attacked Palestinian civilians in Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, before they arrested the young man Ali Qursh.
According to the Committee of Jerusalemite Prisoners’ Families, Israel’s Central Court in occupied Jerusalem ruled that 17-year-old Ameer Awad be jailed for one year in Israeli occupation prisons.
The court also slapped a fine of $410 against the minor.
The occupation authorities claimed that Ameer was spotted on cameras installed in Jerusalem’s eastern town of al-Tur while throwing Molotov cocktails at Israeli troops.
The boy has been held in Israeli custody for six months running.
At the same time, Israeli border cops attacked Palestinian civilians in Beit Hanina, north of occupied Jerusalem, before they arrested the young man Ali Qursh.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, at least fifteen Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the soldiers invaded and ransacked dozens of homes and property.
In occupied Jerusalem, southeast and northeast of the city, and abducted Mousa Dabash and Sharif Ja’abis, from their homes in Sur Baher, southeast of Jerusalem, in addition to Emad Silwadi, from his home in Anata town, northeast of the city.
In Nablus, in northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded Beit Forik town, east of the city, searched homes and abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Yazan Mahmoud Nasrallah Hanani.
The soldiers also invaded the home of a former political prisoner, identified as Majd Azem, from Sebastia town, north of Nablus, and summoned him for interrogation.
In Qalqilia governorate, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Saleh Odah Nazzal, 20, from Qalqilia city, in addition to two former political prisoners, identified as Obai Hamza Hussein, 25, and Yahia Ali Adwan, 25, from Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, Mohammad Abdul-Rahim Salim, 22, from Jayyous town, east of Qalqilia, and Mohammad Mahmoud Za’rour, 20, from Sir town, east of the city.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Malek Basbous, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after stopping him at the adjacent military roadblock near Beit El illegal colony.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Omar Ammar Shakarna, 17, and Fadi Ribhi Zeidan, 24, from their homes in Nahhalin town, west of Bethlehem, in addition to Shawqi Amjad Salah, 15, from his home in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.
The soldiers also fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to several rounds of live ammunition, at Palestinian protesters in the al-Bawwaba area in al-Khader.
In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Nasr Taleb Abu Sneina, 20, from his home in Abu Sneina neighborhood, after ransacking the property and searching it using K9 units, in addition to Ahmad Mahmoud Awad, after invading his home and searching it, in Beit Ummar town, north of the city.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Ejja town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and conducted extensive searches in the area surounding the local mosque.
The soldiers also installed roadblocks on the Jenin-Nablus road, and the areas surrounding Jaba’ and Silat ath-Thaher town, south and southwest of Jenin.
In occupied Jerusalem, southeast and northeast of the city, and abducted Mousa Dabash and Sharif Ja’abis, from their homes in Sur Baher, southeast of Jerusalem, in addition to Emad Silwadi, from his home in Anata town, northeast of the city.
In Nablus, in northern West Bank, the soldiers invaded Beit Forik town, east of the city, searched homes and abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Yazan Mahmoud Nasrallah Hanani.
The soldiers also invaded the home of a former political prisoner, identified as Majd Azem, from Sebastia town, north of Nablus, and summoned him for interrogation.
In Qalqilia governorate, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Saleh Odah Nazzal, 20, from Qalqilia city, in addition to two former political prisoners, identified as Obai Hamza Hussein, 25, and Yahia Ali Adwan, 25, from Azzoun town, east of Qalqilia, Mohammad Abdul-Rahim Salim, 22, from Jayyous town, east of Qalqilia, and Mohammad Mahmoud Za’rour, 20, from Sir town, east of the city.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Malek Basbous, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after stopping him at the adjacent military roadblock near Beit El illegal colony.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Omar Ammar Shakarna, 17, and Fadi Ribhi Zeidan, 24, from their homes in Nahhalin town, west of Bethlehem, in addition to Shawqi Amjad Salah, 15, from his home in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.
The soldiers also fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to several rounds of live ammunition, at Palestinian protesters in the al-Bawwaba area in al-Khader.
In Hebron, in southern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Nasr Taleb Abu Sneina, 20, from his home in Abu Sneina neighborhood, after ransacking the property and searching it using K9 units, in addition to Ahmad Mahmoud Awad, after invading his home and searching it, in Beit Ummar town, north of the city.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Ejja town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and conducted extensive searches in the area surounding the local mosque.
The soldiers also installed roadblocks on the Jenin-Nablus road, and the areas surrounding Jaba’ and Silat ath-Thaher town, south and southwest of Jenin.
