26 mar 2017
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Israeli forces were recently caught harassing and assaulting Palestinian girls as they were watching clashes between children and Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem published a video, last week, showing the Israeli occupation soldiers also trying to kidnap one of the Palestinian girls. B’Tselem said, according to Days of Palestine, that a group of Palestinian boys and teens threw rocks at Israeli forces, who fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at them, in addition to throwing stun grenades. “Seven women and girls from the extended Jaradat family stood outside one of the family’s homes watching the clashes,” the group stated. |
“Four Border Police jeeps arrived on the scene and the policemen who got out began pursuing the youths as they fled. The Jaradat girls also fled.
“A videographer who came on the scene captured the end of the incident on video. The clip shows a masked Border Police officer gripping 13-year-old Khadijeh Jaradat by the arm, while a Border Police commanding officer pushed away her mother, who was trying to help her.
“After the officer let go of Khadijeh, he was caught on video assaulting her cousin, 20-year-old Duha Badawi, beating her on the head.”
Later on, “B’Tselem’s inquiries indicate that Siraj Jaradat, 28, fled with her 10-year-old cousin Samar to the latter’s home. Three of Samar’s sisters were home at that time: Hiba, 18, Shirin, 17 and Kifah, 11. The two closed the front yard’s iron gate behind them, went inside, and then heard loud banging at the front door.
“Siraj and Hiba said that the police pounded on the door and kicked it until they broke the lock, and then came inside.
“The women and girls, who were frightened by the officers, screamed and held on to each other. One of the officers approached Siraj, grabbed her by the shoulder, and pulled her out of the house. Siraj, who was screaming and crying, told the officer she had done nothing.”
“B’Tselem said that after Ibrahim Jaradat, Khadijeh’s and Hiba’s father, had intervened and got the girls and his wife away, and after the Border Police commanding officer kept the officer from hitting Duha again, the officers left the village without making any arrests.
“In the testimony, she Duha gave on 21 January 2017, Hiba said she still had pain in her back, and other parts of her body, as a result of the officer’s assault.”
“The violence of the Border Police officers, who detained, assaulted and hit women and girls, the youngest of whom was 13, is yet another in a long list of incidents documented by B’Tselem over the years, in which security forces used violence against Palestinian children and youths.
“The recurrence of this conduct, and the lack of accountability indicates it is tacitly condoned by the most senior officials of Israel’s security establishment.”
“A videographer who came on the scene captured the end of the incident on video. The clip shows a masked Border Police officer gripping 13-year-old Khadijeh Jaradat by the arm, while a Border Police commanding officer pushed away her mother, who was trying to help her.
“After the officer let go of Khadijeh, he was caught on video assaulting her cousin, 20-year-old Duha Badawi, beating her on the head.”
Later on, “B’Tselem’s inquiries indicate that Siraj Jaradat, 28, fled with her 10-year-old cousin Samar to the latter’s home. Three of Samar’s sisters were home at that time: Hiba, 18, Shirin, 17 and Kifah, 11. The two closed the front yard’s iron gate behind them, went inside, and then heard loud banging at the front door.
“Siraj and Hiba said that the police pounded on the door and kicked it until they broke the lock, and then came inside.
“The women and girls, who were frightened by the officers, screamed and held on to each other. One of the officers approached Siraj, grabbed her by the shoulder, and pulled her out of the house. Siraj, who was screaming and crying, told the officer she had done nothing.”
“B’Tselem said that after Ibrahim Jaradat, Khadijeh’s and Hiba’s father, had intervened and got the girls and his wife away, and after the Border Police commanding officer kept the officer from hitting Duha again, the officers left the village without making any arrests.
“In the testimony, she Duha gave on 21 January 2017, Hiba said she still had pain in her back, and other parts of her body, as a result of the officer’s assault.”
“The violence of the Border Police officers, who detained, assaulted and hit women and girls, the youngest of whom was 13, is yet another in a long list of incidents documented by B’Tselem over the years, in which security forces used violence against Palestinian children and youths.
“The recurrence of this conduct, and the lack of accountability indicates it is tacitly condoned by the most senior officials of Israel’s security establishment.”
24 mar 2017
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About 15 Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian child in al-Khalil city a few days ago and forced him to accompany them for about one hour in search for stone throwers, although he was not a resident of the area, a human rights group said.
According to information received by B’Tselem human rights center in Israel, eight-year-old Sufyan Abu Hitah was wandering on March 19, 2017 barefoot outside his grandparents’ house in al-Khalil looking for a toy he had lost, when a group of at least 15 soldiers seized him. Then, two soldiers grabbed the boy by the arms and dragged him to the al-Harika neighborhood, where they told him to point out children who had |
allegedly thrown stones and a Molotov cocktail at the Kiryat Arba settlement earlier in the day.
That day, Sufyan’s mother, Amani Abu Hitah, was visiting her parents’ home in the neighborhood with her two youngest sons. She asked Sufyan to pick his six-year-old brother Muhammad up from school and bring him to the grandparents’ house. Sufyan and Muhammad arrived at about 1:30 pm. After Sufyan took off his shoes, he realized that he had lost a toy he had bought on the way. His mother, who had heard that soldiers were patrolling the neighborhood, forbade him to go outside but he sneaked out to look for the toy.
A few minutes later, children from the neighborhood came to the house and told Amani that soldiers had seized her son and were leading him toward the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba.
May D’ana, 25, married with two children, is a B'Tselem volunteer who lives in the neighborhood and captured the incident on video. In testimony taken on 21 March 2017 by B'Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bri, May stated:
On Sunday, 19 March 2017, while I was making lunch, my brother-in-law, who lives in the apartment below mine, telephoned me and told me that soldiers had seized a little boy. He asked me to film what was happening. I took my camera and quickly went to a window that overlooks the street. I saw some soldiers, about 12, two of whom were holding a little boy who must have been no older than eight. They ran with him to the gate of Kiryat Arba. I heard one of the soldiers asking the boy in Arabic to give him the names of children who had thrown stones and a Molotov cocktail at the settlement. The boy was crying and very scared. He tried to convince the soldiers that he didn’t know anything. I noticed that he didn’t have any shoes on, only socks.
In a testimony she gave to B'Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bri on March 21, 2017, Amani Abu Hitah, the mother, described what happened when she went out to the street looking for her son:
I saw more than fifteen soldiers surrounding Sufyan. Two of them were holding him by both arms and dragging him towards the gate of Kiryat Arba. A few neighbors had already gathered in the street and were trying to rescue Sufyan from the soldiers.
I went up to one of the soldiers and asked him to give me back my son. He refused and said: “If you want to get him back, convince him to tell us the names of the children who were throwing stones.” I tried to explain that we do not live in the neighborhood and were just visiting my parents. I told the soldier that Sufyan does not know the names of the neighborhood kids. He ignored me, and the soldiers kept on dragging Sufyan by the arms. First they took him in the direction of Kiryat Arba and then towards the street that leads to the Jabal Juhar area.
Sufyan was shaking with fear. I saw him talk to the soldiers and tell them that he does not know anything, but it didn’t help. The soldiers dragged him along and made him enter Muhammad a-Nahnush’s house with them. When they came out, about five minutes later, Sufyan was crying. They did not arrest anyone in that house. I do not know whether they beat Sufyan while they were in there, or what happened inside. I was really scared and worried about Sufyan. I started crying and ran after the soldiers as they moved from house to house, to try and get them to let him go. I saw them take him into Ashraf Abu Ghazaleh’s house. They came out a few minutes later.
The soldiers then dragged Sufyan to Jabal Juhar Street, where a woman tried to pull him from their hands. Meanwhile, more women gathered around the soldiers. Eventually, more than an hour after the incident began, they managed to extricate Sufyan and return him to his mother.
Two residents of the neighborhood, one of them B’Tselem volunteer May D’ana, captured the incident on video.
That day, Sufyan’s mother, Amani Abu Hitah, was visiting her parents’ home in the neighborhood with her two youngest sons. She asked Sufyan to pick his six-year-old brother Muhammad up from school and bring him to the grandparents’ house. Sufyan and Muhammad arrived at about 1:30 pm. After Sufyan took off his shoes, he realized that he had lost a toy he had bought on the way. His mother, who had heard that soldiers were patrolling the neighborhood, forbade him to go outside but he sneaked out to look for the toy.
A few minutes later, children from the neighborhood came to the house and told Amani that soldiers had seized her son and were leading him toward the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba.
May D’ana, 25, married with two children, is a B'Tselem volunteer who lives in the neighborhood and captured the incident on video. In testimony taken on 21 March 2017 by B'Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bri, May stated:
On Sunday, 19 March 2017, while I was making lunch, my brother-in-law, who lives in the apartment below mine, telephoned me and told me that soldiers had seized a little boy. He asked me to film what was happening. I took my camera and quickly went to a window that overlooks the street. I saw some soldiers, about 12, two of whom were holding a little boy who must have been no older than eight. They ran with him to the gate of Kiryat Arba. I heard one of the soldiers asking the boy in Arabic to give him the names of children who had thrown stones and a Molotov cocktail at the settlement. The boy was crying and very scared. He tried to convince the soldiers that he didn’t know anything. I noticed that he didn’t have any shoes on, only socks.
In a testimony she gave to B'Tselem field researcher Manal al-Ja’bri on March 21, 2017, Amani Abu Hitah, the mother, described what happened when she went out to the street looking for her son:
I saw more than fifteen soldiers surrounding Sufyan. Two of them were holding him by both arms and dragging him towards the gate of Kiryat Arba. A few neighbors had already gathered in the street and were trying to rescue Sufyan from the soldiers.
I went up to one of the soldiers and asked him to give me back my son. He refused and said: “If you want to get him back, convince him to tell us the names of the children who were throwing stones.” I tried to explain that we do not live in the neighborhood and were just visiting my parents. I told the soldier that Sufyan does not know the names of the neighborhood kids. He ignored me, and the soldiers kept on dragging Sufyan by the arms. First they took him in the direction of Kiryat Arba and then towards the street that leads to the Jabal Juhar area.
Sufyan was shaking with fear. I saw him talk to the soldiers and tell them that he does not know anything, but it didn’t help. The soldiers dragged him along and made him enter Muhammad a-Nahnush’s house with them. When they came out, about five minutes later, Sufyan was crying. They did not arrest anyone in that house. I do not know whether they beat Sufyan while they were in there, or what happened inside. I was really scared and worried about Sufyan. I started crying and ran after the soldiers as they moved from house to house, to try and get them to let him go. I saw them take him into Ashraf Abu Ghazaleh’s house. They came out a few minutes later.
The soldiers then dragged Sufyan to Jabal Juhar Street, where a woman tried to pull him from their hands. Meanwhile, more women gathered around the soldiers. Eventually, more than an hour after the incident began, they managed to extricate Sufyan and return him to his mother.
Two residents of the neighborhood, one of them B’Tselem volunteer May D’ana, captured the incident on video.
23 mar 2017
Several Palestinians, including a 14-year-old minor, were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at predawn Thursday in mass abduction sweeps launched across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
The IOF kidnapped seven Palestinians from the northern West Bank province of Qalqilya.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF rolled into Qalqilya city in over 20 military jeeps and attacked the Palestinian protesters with spates of teargas canisters, resulting in several suffocation cases.
The assault triggered violent clashes with Palestinian anti-occupation youth.
The list of arrestees included ex-prisoner Tahseen al-Adl, who was kidnapped by the IOF from his own family home.
The occupation army further stormed Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun, where Palestinian vehicles and civilians were subjected to thorough inspection.
Another Palestinian youth—Baraa Abu Nawas—was kidnapped by the IOF from Qatr al-Nada residential apartment in Nablus’s western neighborhood of al-Ma’ajin.
Abu Nawas was later dragged to an anonymous location in an armored military truck.
Overnight, Palestinian citizen Bashar Mleitat, from Nablus’s eastern town of Beit Furik, sustained wounds after he had been heavily beaten by the Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli soldiers also stormed Attil town, in Tulkarem, in a number of army vehicles and kidnapped the youngster Youssef al-Shalabi before they wreaked havoc on his family home and attacked his relatives.
A military checkpoint was also pitched by the IOF in al-Mesriyeh Mount.
Palestinian citizen Muthana al-Sadala was kidnapped by the Israeli soldiers from his home in Anabta town, east of Tulkarem.
Meanwhile, another Palestinian citizen was kidnapped by the IOF from Bethlehem.
At the same time, the Israeli forces set up ambushes across Jenin province and a checkpoint on the Jenin-Haifa access road, near the main entrance to Zabouba town, where Palestinian drivers have been made to endure intensive questioning.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of 14-year-old minor Jamal al-Ghoul from Occupied Jerusalem.
The IOF kidnapped seven Palestinians from the northern West Bank province of Qalqilya.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF rolled into Qalqilya city in over 20 military jeeps and attacked the Palestinian protesters with spates of teargas canisters, resulting in several suffocation cases.
The assault triggered violent clashes with Palestinian anti-occupation youth.
The list of arrestees included ex-prisoner Tahseen al-Adl, who was kidnapped by the IOF from his own family home.
The occupation army further stormed Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun, where Palestinian vehicles and civilians were subjected to thorough inspection.
Another Palestinian youth—Baraa Abu Nawas—was kidnapped by the IOF from Qatr al-Nada residential apartment in Nablus’s western neighborhood of al-Ma’ajin.
Abu Nawas was later dragged to an anonymous location in an armored military truck.
Overnight, Palestinian citizen Bashar Mleitat, from Nablus’s eastern town of Beit Furik, sustained wounds after he had been heavily beaten by the Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli soldiers also stormed Attil town, in Tulkarem, in a number of army vehicles and kidnapped the youngster Youssef al-Shalabi before they wreaked havoc on his family home and attacked his relatives.
A military checkpoint was also pitched by the IOF in al-Mesriyeh Mount.
Palestinian citizen Muthana al-Sadala was kidnapped by the Israeli soldiers from his home in Anabta town, east of Tulkarem.
Meanwhile, another Palestinian citizen was kidnapped by the IOF from Bethlehem.
At the same time, the Israeli forces set up ambushes across Jenin province and a checkpoint on the Jenin-Haifa access road, near the main entrance to Zabouba town, where Palestinian drivers have been made to endure intensive questioning.
The campaign culminated in the abduction of 14-year-old minor Jamal al-Ghoul from Occupied Jerusalem.
22 mar 2017
Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until morning hours Wednesday, sixteen Palestinians, including two children, in the West Bank, and one from a village near Nazareth.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded homes in Betunia town, near Ramallah, and abducted two children, identified as Wafa Hasan Marshoud, 11, and his brother Ahmad, 12.
The soldiers also abducted Mohammad Saleh Hassouna, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, Hasan Rebhi Nafe’, from Ni’lin village, Morad Suleiman Ata, from Deir Abu Mashal village, and Mohammad Ahmad Khattab, in Beit Seera, in Ramallah.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted Wael Amjad Khatib, Mohammad Jamal al-‘Azza and Nawwaf Sawarka, after invading their homes and searching them.
Another Palestinian, identified as Ali Yousef Marouf, was abducted from his home in ‘Allar town, in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, while Abdullah Fuad Tareeq was abducted in the al-Jiftlik village, in Jericho.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Sheikh Firas Omari, a member of the Freedoms and Detainees Committee, from Sandala village, between Nazareth and Jenin.
In Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted two sibling children, identified as Majd and Jawad Hani Abu Rmeila, from their home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers invaded homes in Betunia town, near Ramallah, and abducted two children, identified as Wafa Hasan Marshoud, 11, and his brother Ahmad, 12.
The soldiers also abducted Mohammad Saleh Hassouna, from the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, Hasan Rebhi Nafe’, from Ni’lin village, Morad Suleiman Ata, from Deir Abu Mashal village, and Mohammad Ahmad Khattab, in Beit Seera, in Ramallah.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted Wael Amjad Khatib, Mohammad Jamal al-‘Azza and Nawwaf Sawarka, after invading their homes and searching them.
Another Palestinian, identified as Ali Yousef Marouf, was abducted from his home in ‘Allar town, in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, while Abdullah Fuad Tareeq was abducted in the al-Jiftlik village, in Jericho.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Sheikh Firas Omari, a member of the Freedoms and Detainees Committee, from Sandala village, between Nazareth and Jenin.
In Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted two sibling children, identified as Majd and Jawad Hani Abu Rmeila, from their home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
21 mar 2017
The occupation forces arrested on Monday early morning three children from the village of Esawyeh and transferred them for interrogation at Salah Eddin Street police station in the city.
Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud explained that the Israeli forces arrested Mohammad Ramzi Mheisen (13), Ahmad Naser Mheisen and his twin-brother Mohammad (13).
Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud explained that the Israeli forces arrested Mohammad Ramzi Mheisen (13), Ahmad Naser Mheisen and his twin-brother Mohammad (13).