26 feb 2014
Israeli settlers have announced plans to operate armed patrols across the West Bank, a Palestinian official said Wednesday.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said settlers had announced plans to run patrols of three gunmen on Israeli bypass roads as a form of protection.
Daghlas said that settlers planned to station the first patrol on the road between the illegal Yitzar settlement and the Palestinian city of Nablus.
The decision will have "dangerous consequences" if put in to effect, he said.
Daghlas called on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to prevent the move, which he said would result in "more bloodshed and more attacks on Palestinian properties."
In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said settlers had announced plans to run patrols of three gunmen on Israeli bypass roads as a form of protection.
Daghlas said that settlers planned to station the first patrol on the road between the illegal Yitzar settlement and the Palestinian city of Nablus.
The decision will have "dangerous consequences" if put in to effect, he said.
Daghlas called on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to prevent the move, which he said would result in "more bloodshed and more attacks on Palestinian properties."
In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
24 feb 2014
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Dozens of school students suffocated on Monday morning during the clashes that broke out at the checkpoint of Shu’fat refugee camp.
The Jerusalemite activist, Thaer Fasfoos, said that an Israeli force was stationed at the checkpoint since the early morning.
When the students tried to pass through as usual, the forces refused until each one showed them his birth certificate; note that are aged between 12 and 15 years.
He added that the forces detained the students and refused to let them go through to their school which led to the breakout of clashes where the forces deliberately fired gas and bomb grenades towards the students which led to the suffocation of many students. The forces also chased some of the students and assaulted and beat them using their batons.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that a 10-year old child was injured with a rubber bullet in his leg.
The Jerusalemite activist, Thaer Fasfoos, said that an Israeli force was stationed at the checkpoint since the early morning.
When the students tried to pass through as usual, the forces refused until each one showed them his birth certificate; note that are aged between 12 and 15 years.
He added that the forces detained the students and refused to let them go through to their school which led to the breakout of clashes where the forces deliberately fired gas and bomb grenades towards the students which led to the suffocation of many students. The forces also chased some of the students and assaulted and beat them using their batons.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center was informed that a 10-year old child was injured with a rubber bullet in his leg.
15 feb 2014
The occupied Palestinian city of Haifa
A state of tension has prevailed in the 1948 occupied lands over an Israeli official's call for halting Adhan (Islam’s call to prayer) in Haifa.
During a meeting held by the Israeli municipal council, Haifa deputy mayor Julia Shtraim called for banning Adhan in mosques throughout the city, claiming that the number of wild boars' increased in the city and there is no need for "any additional noise" in reference to Adhan.
Second deputy mayor of Haifa Suhail Assad, in turn, considered Shtraim's statements racist and stupid comments, demanding an apology for such remarks.
He stressed that Adhan and church bells have been an integral part of the city for very long centuries..
Representative for the national democratic alliance Jamal Khamis called on the city's mayor to condemn these racist statements and to dismiss Shtraim from her position.
For its part, the Islamic Movement in Haifa stated that these statements came as part of Israeli war against Islam and as a prelude to the confiscation of the mosques' loudspeakers.
The Islamic Movement stressed that Adhan would continue at mosques despite desperate attempts to silence it.
Many Israeli officials have tried repeatedly to forbid mosque from using loudspeakers.
A state of tension has prevailed in the 1948 occupied lands over an Israeli official's call for halting Adhan (Islam’s call to prayer) in Haifa.
During a meeting held by the Israeli municipal council, Haifa deputy mayor Julia Shtraim called for banning Adhan in mosques throughout the city, claiming that the number of wild boars' increased in the city and there is no need for "any additional noise" in reference to Adhan.
Second deputy mayor of Haifa Suhail Assad, in turn, considered Shtraim's statements racist and stupid comments, demanding an apology for such remarks.
He stressed that Adhan and church bells have been an integral part of the city for very long centuries..
Representative for the national democratic alliance Jamal Khamis called on the city's mayor to condemn these racist statements and to dismiss Shtraim from her position.
For its part, the Islamic Movement in Haifa stated that these statements came as part of Israeli war against Islam and as a prelude to the confiscation of the mosques' loudspeakers.
The Islamic Movement stressed that Adhan would continue at mosques despite desperate attempts to silence it.
Many Israeli officials have tried repeatedly to forbid mosque from using loudspeakers.
13 feb 2014
Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters into four schools in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Thursday, witnesses said.
Dozens of school children suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces deployed in the Ras al-Amoud quarter of the neighborhood.
Clashes broke out after soldiers began harassing students and inspecting the ID cards of local residents.
Several schoolboys and girls required treatment after inhaling tear gas.
Dozens of school children suffered excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces deployed in the Ras al-Amoud quarter of the neighborhood.
Clashes broke out after soldiers began harassing students and inspecting the ID cards of local residents.
Several schoolboys and girls required treatment after inhaling tear gas.
10 feb 2014
Israeli forces on Thursday detained a Palestinian man and released him in the middle of the Hebron desert hours later, the directorate of education in the southern West Bank area said.
Bilal Rizq al-Salayma, 27, was heading to his workplace at the ceramics center at the Ministry of Education when Israeli soldiers stopped him, searched him, took his ID card, handcuffed and blindfolded him, and forced him into a military vehicle.
The incident was relayed to the Hebron directorate of education by witnesses and the center’s administration.
The directorate said in a statement: "We received a phone call from al-Salayma at noon telling us that he was in a barren, mountain area … It was filled with sand, and nothing near him was alive."
The directorate added: "We guessed that he was left blindfolded in the al-Masafer area near Bani Naim east of Hebron so we told him to head west, north, and south to tell us if he saw (vehicles). We asked him to head toward them before the call was disconnected after his battery ran out."
After that al-Salayma found himself in Beersheba in Israel after people helped him get to a construction site where laborers from Hebron worked. The laborers took him to Hebron, which he reached at 10 p.m.
Israel's military did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment late Sunday.
Bilal Rizq al-Salayma, 27, was heading to his workplace at the ceramics center at the Ministry of Education when Israeli soldiers stopped him, searched him, took his ID card, handcuffed and blindfolded him, and forced him into a military vehicle.
The incident was relayed to the Hebron directorate of education by witnesses and the center’s administration.
The directorate said in a statement: "We received a phone call from al-Salayma at noon telling us that he was in a barren, mountain area … It was filled with sand, and nothing near him was alive."
The directorate added: "We guessed that he was left blindfolded in the al-Masafer area near Bani Naim east of Hebron so we told him to head west, north, and south to tell us if he saw (vehicles). We asked him to head toward them before the call was disconnected after his battery ran out."
After that al-Salayma found himself in Beersheba in Israel after people helped him get to a construction site where laborers from Hebron worked. The laborers took him to Hebron, which he reached at 10 p.m.
Israel's military did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment late Sunday.
9 feb 2014
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Image from video by alqods.ps
A video, captured by Rami Alarya of the Alqods Independent Media Center, showed a number of Israeli soldiers assaulting a Palestinian child, on Friday evening [February 4 2014], after shooting him by a rubber-coated metal bullet in the leg, and photographing themselves abusing him. The soldiers assaulted the child during clashes that took place in the al-Ezariyya town, east of occupied East Jerusalem. One of the soldiers tried to push the cameraman, Alarya, and his colleague, Amin Alawya, away from the scene, and was yelling at them, |
“Enough, enough…. go away… what do you want…”
Medical sources said the soldiers shot the child, Yassin al-Karaky, 13 years of age, with a rubber-coated metal bullet, which hit the 13-year old in the leg. After he fell, the soldiers began assaulting and abusing him.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot the child, Yassin al-Karaky, 13 years of age, with a rubber-coated metal bullet, which hit the 13-year old in the leg. After he fell, the soldiers began assaulting and abusing him.
Image from video by alqods.ps
The attack took place after soldiers, who hid in a building near the Annexation Wall in the Qabsa area, ambushed a group of children, and one of the soldiers opened fire on the children.
Then several soldiers attacked and assaulting the wounded child before kidnapping him.
The soldiers took pictures of themselves with the wounded child, and a soldier picked up a Molotov cocktail from the ground, while the child shouted in Hebrew, “it’s not mine, it’s not mine”, and a soldier responded, “it’s yours, it’s Ok…it’s yours”.
One of the soldiers was holding him in a chokehold, and was mocking the child by imitating wrestling moves while other soldiers took pictures, although the child was barely able to breathe.
The soldiers then placed the child in their jeep, while one of them was still filming the incident.
The attack took place after soldiers, who hid in a building near the Annexation Wall in the Qabsa area, ambushed a group of children, and one of the soldiers opened fire on the children.
Then several soldiers attacked and assaulting the wounded child before kidnapping him.
The soldiers took pictures of themselves with the wounded child, and a soldier picked up a Molotov cocktail from the ground, while the child shouted in Hebrew, “it’s not mine, it’s not mine”, and a soldier responded, “it’s yours, it’s Ok…it’s yours”.
One of the soldiers was holding him in a chokehold, and was mocking the child by imitating wrestling moves while other soldiers took pictures, although the child was barely able to breathe.
The soldiers then placed the child in their jeep, while one of them was still filming the incident.
1 feb 2014
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A lawyer for the Palestinian Authority ministry of prisoners' affairs Tariq Barghouth alleged on Saturday that Israeli forces launched attack dogs on two Palestinian youths after shooting them multiple times on Thursday night at a checkpoint near Jerusalem.
Adam Abd al-Rouf Jamous, 17, and Jawhar Nasser al-Din Halbieh, 19, were mauled by police dogs after Israeli forces opened fire on them without warning near al-Zayyem checkpoint near Abu Dis east of Jerusalem on January 30, Barghouth said. The pair were visiting a friend's home nearby when Border Police suddenly opened fire in their direction before siccing the dogs on them. |
Barghouth explained that the dogs mauled Jawhar Halbieh's body and inflicted numerous wounds before soldiers dragged the two youth on the ground for a distance of 300 meters while simultaneously beating them with rifle butts and kicking and punching them.
The beatings causing numerous fractures in their body, Barghouth added, and they were later transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem.
Barghouth added that he had visited the pair in the hospital and found that they had suffered severe injuries, both as a result of the bullets fired at them as well as a results of the beatings, which had caused numerous broken bones.
He added that were being held in the hospital under guard by three Israeli soldiers.
He pointed out that both of the youths had been shot numerous times all over their bodies.
Bargouth said that occupation authorities had prevented the families of the two prisoners from visiting them in the hospital and that he planned to launch a complaint against the Border Guard soldiers for their brutal treatment of the youths.
Two Palestinian youths seriously wounded after brutal attack by Israeli soldiers
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last Thursday unjustifiably caused serious bullet injuries to two young men and let their police dogs maul them before they brutally beat them and took them into custody, according to the lawyer of the ministry of prisoners 'affairs in Ramallah. Lawyer Tareq Barghouthi stated on Saturday that 17-year-old Adam Jamous and 19-year-old Jawhar Halabiya, both from Abu Dis town in east Jerusalem, suffered several bullets injuries when Israeli border soldiers suddenly opened fire at them as they were on their way to visit one of their friends in the town on the 30th of last month.
Barghouthi, who visited the young men in hospital, said that the Israeli soldiers also unleashed their dogs on them before they dragged them some 300 meters away and kept beating them with their rifle butts, hands and feet despite their serious injuries.
He affirmed that the two young men are in very difficult health conditions and suffer from multiple bullet wounds, bruises and fractures.
The lawyer noted that the young men are now under tight police guard in Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in occupied Jerusalem and banned from seeing their families.
The beatings causing numerous fractures in their body, Barghouth added, and they were later transferred to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem.
Barghouth added that he had visited the pair in the hospital and found that they had suffered severe injuries, both as a result of the bullets fired at them as well as a results of the beatings, which had caused numerous broken bones.
He added that were being held in the hospital under guard by three Israeli soldiers.
He pointed out that both of the youths had been shot numerous times all over their bodies.
Bargouth said that occupation authorities had prevented the families of the two prisoners from visiting them in the hospital and that he planned to launch a complaint against the Border Guard soldiers for their brutal treatment of the youths.
Two Palestinian youths seriously wounded after brutal attack by Israeli soldiers
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last Thursday unjustifiably caused serious bullet injuries to two young men and let their police dogs maul them before they brutally beat them and took them into custody, according to the lawyer of the ministry of prisoners 'affairs in Ramallah. Lawyer Tareq Barghouthi stated on Saturday that 17-year-old Adam Jamous and 19-year-old Jawhar Halabiya, both from Abu Dis town in east Jerusalem, suffered several bullets injuries when Israeli border soldiers suddenly opened fire at them as they were on their way to visit one of their friends in the town on the 30th of last month.
Barghouthi, who visited the young men in hospital, said that the Israeli soldiers also unleashed their dogs on them before they dragged them some 300 meters away and kept beating them with their rifle butts, hands and feet despite their serious injuries.
He affirmed that the two young men are in very difficult health conditions and suffer from multiple bullet wounds, bruises and fractures.
The lawyer noted that the young men are now under tight police guard in Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in occupied Jerusalem and banned from seeing their families.
30 jan 2014
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped seven Palestinians, including a young woman. Dozens of residents have been injured; soldiers also attacked a pregnant woman inflicting moderate injuries.
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of soldiers invaded the Abu al-Hummus neighborhood, in the town, broke into and searched several homes, attacking the residents. Soldiers also used pepper-spray against several women in the attacked homes.
They added that the soldiers violently searched the invaded homes, and kidnapped seven Palestinians, including a young woman.
Resident Ahmad Abu al-Hummus told the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) that several children and women, members of his family, were violently beaten by the soldiers, and that his pregnant sister-in-law was moved to a local hospital suffering moderate injuries, but which could terminate her pregnancy.
The soldiers invaded the neighborhood, searching for a young man, and started invading and violently searching local homes before assaulting the residents.
Some of the wounded required medical treatment, due to the effects of tear gas inhalation, and to being spared with pepper-spray by the invading soldiers.
The soldiers kidnapped four members of Abu al-Hummus family, including a young woman; the four have been identified as Mohammad Abdullah Abu al-Hummus, Mohammad Ahmad Abu al-Hummus, Abdul-Karim Abu al-Hummus, and Hanin Abu al-Hummus. Three more Palestinians were briefly detained.
Soldiers alleged that Hanin carried a knife when she was taken prisoner, while her family affirmed she was cooking in the kitchen when the attack took place. And, when she heard a loud noise, resulting from the Israeli invasion, she rushed outside to see what was going on, and was kidnapped by the soldiers.
The soldiers were kidnapping her brother when she stopped out, and jumped on her before arresting her as well.
Eyewitnesses said that dozens of soldiers invaded the Abu al-Hummus neighborhood, in the town, broke into and searched several homes, attacking the residents. Soldiers also used pepper-spray against several women in the attacked homes.
They added that the soldiers violently searched the invaded homes, and kidnapped seven Palestinians, including a young woman.
Resident Ahmad Abu al-Hummus told the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) that several children and women, members of his family, were violently beaten by the soldiers, and that his pregnant sister-in-law was moved to a local hospital suffering moderate injuries, but which could terminate her pregnancy.
The soldiers invaded the neighborhood, searching for a young man, and started invading and violently searching local homes before assaulting the residents.
Some of the wounded required medical treatment, due to the effects of tear gas inhalation, and to being spared with pepper-spray by the invading soldiers.
The soldiers kidnapped four members of Abu al-Hummus family, including a young woman; the four have been identified as Mohammad Abdullah Abu al-Hummus, Mohammad Ahmad Abu al-Hummus, Abdul-Karim Abu al-Hummus, and Hanin Abu al-Hummus. Three more Palestinians were briefly detained.
Soldiers alleged that Hanin carried a knife when she was taken prisoner, while her family affirmed she was cooking in the kitchen when the attack took place. And, when she heard a loud noise, resulting from the Israeli invasion, she rushed outside to see what was going on, and was kidnapped by the soldiers.
The soldiers were kidnapping her brother when she stopped out, and jumped on her before arresting her as well.
26 jan 2014
Israeli settlers Saturday night severally beat up a 13-year-old Palestinian in central Hebron, according to the child’s father. The father told WAFA that settlers beat up Yazan al-Shirbati, 13, while he was passing near Beit Hadasa settlement, causing him several bruises throughout his body.
He said that Israeli police arrested him and his son following the incident and detained them for five hours in Ja’bara police station where police accused them of trying to assault the settlers and other soldiers.
They were later released after signing a pledge to appear before court if they were summoned.
He said that Israeli police arrested him and his son following the incident and detained them for five hours in Ja’bara police station where police accused them of trying to assault the settlers and other soldiers.
They were later released after signing a pledge to appear before court if they were summoned.
Hamas terrorist "Camel"
The israeli occupation forces in the district of Bethlehem arrested a camel yesterday under the pretext that it had entered into a “military zone”. The event took place near the Al-Rashaide village east of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian newspapers reported that Fawaz Rshaide, head of the Palestinian village council of Al- Rashaide, told reporters that the israeli soldiers had arrested a camel belonging to Musallam Younis Rshaaidhe because the camel had supposedly entered a “military zone”.
“Military zones” are arbitrarily declared by the occupation to serve as a pretext to seize by force lands owned by Palestinians. It works like this: a “military zone” is declared over an area which the zionists want to steal, what means that the owners of these lands are not allowed to go to their land (and homes). The lands in question are then “confiscated” as a punishment if the owners enter their lands which are now a “military zone”, or they are declared “abandoned” by the occupation if the owners don’t show up for some time, and then seized and turned over to European or American squatters.
Mr. Rshaide added that the israeli soldiers stole the camel, which belonged to a Palestinian, and fled the area. The Camel was taken to the military colony “Ma’ale Adumim” near Al – Eizariya in the West Bank, near occupied Jerusalem.
He explained that the Israeli soldiers arrested the owner of the camel too in order to force him to pay a fine of 2,000 shekels to have his animal released from jail. In addition, the israeli soldiers who stole the camel, “asked” it’s owner to pay 600 shekels as “extra fees” for the transportation of the camel, which they stole and brought from the Palestinian land to the zionist colony.
Al – Eizariya is identified in the Bible as Bethany and in the New Testament it is identified as the home of the siblings Mary and Martha.
Mr. Rshaide commented on this incident of theft by the jewish occupation saying: “This as a way to displace the citizens from there agricultural land east of Bethlehem. It is ethnic cleansing”.
Under the “regulations” which the israeli military laws applies to Palestinians in the occupied territories since 1967, there are no laws which legitimize arresting animals, confiscating the equipments of civilians for military purposes and taking fees and high fines before giving back stolen goods to their rightful owners.
However, the military occupation through it’s so-called “Civil Administration” does exactly this since decades. There troops “arrest” the animals of Palestinian farmers: sheep, herds of goats, cows, chickens and birds, they also “confiscate” their farming equipment under scurrilous pretexts and refuse returned to these animals or equipment to their owners without the payment large sums of money as ransom.
These illegal ransom monies collected by the occupiers is not entered into the budget of the civil administration. No one knows where the money goes, some people assume that the criminals squander these moneys for expanding settlements and making wealth.
The “Civil Administration” claims that money is paid to the so-called patrol for “surveillance and detection” of the civil administration, who one day loot the Palestinian property and next day their money.
The heads of these “monitoring units” at the “Civil Administration” is a well-known settler called David Kishik, son of former prostitute Shula Cohen who received his post as payment because his mother once long ago sold her favours in Lebanon. Mr. Kishik and his team are a bunch of criminal garbage that has made immense wealth on the back of destitute Palestinians in the occupied territories.
The israeli occupation forces in the district of Bethlehem arrested a camel yesterday under the pretext that it had entered into a “military zone”. The event took place near the Al-Rashaide village east of Bethlehem city in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian newspapers reported that Fawaz Rshaide, head of the Palestinian village council of Al- Rashaide, told reporters that the israeli soldiers had arrested a camel belonging to Musallam Younis Rshaaidhe because the camel had supposedly entered a “military zone”.
“Military zones” are arbitrarily declared by the occupation to serve as a pretext to seize by force lands owned by Palestinians. It works like this: a “military zone” is declared over an area which the zionists want to steal, what means that the owners of these lands are not allowed to go to their land (and homes). The lands in question are then “confiscated” as a punishment if the owners enter their lands which are now a “military zone”, or they are declared “abandoned” by the occupation if the owners don’t show up for some time, and then seized and turned over to European or American squatters.
Mr. Rshaide added that the israeli soldiers stole the camel, which belonged to a Palestinian, and fled the area. The Camel was taken to the military colony “Ma’ale Adumim” near Al – Eizariya in the West Bank, near occupied Jerusalem.
He explained that the Israeli soldiers arrested the owner of the camel too in order to force him to pay a fine of 2,000 shekels to have his animal released from jail. In addition, the israeli soldiers who stole the camel, “asked” it’s owner to pay 600 shekels as “extra fees” for the transportation of the camel, which they stole and brought from the Palestinian land to the zionist colony.
Al – Eizariya is identified in the Bible as Bethany and in the New Testament it is identified as the home of the siblings Mary and Martha.
Mr. Rshaide commented on this incident of theft by the jewish occupation saying: “This as a way to displace the citizens from there agricultural land east of Bethlehem. It is ethnic cleansing”.
Under the “regulations” which the israeli military laws applies to Palestinians in the occupied territories since 1967, there are no laws which legitimize arresting animals, confiscating the equipments of civilians for military purposes and taking fees and high fines before giving back stolen goods to their rightful owners.
However, the military occupation through it’s so-called “Civil Administration” does exactly this since decades. There troops “arrest” the animals of Palestinian farmers: sheep, herds of goats, cows, chickens and birds, they also “confiscate” their farming equipment under scurrilous pretexts and refuse returned to these animals or equipment to their owners without the payment large sums of money as ransom.
These illegal ransom monies collected by the occupiers is not entered into the budget of the civil administration. No one knows where the money goes, some people assume that the criminals squander these moneys for expanding settlements and making wealth.
The “Civil Administration” claims that money is paid to the so-called patrol for “surveillance and detection” of the civil administration, who one day loot the Palestinian property and next day their money.
The heads of these “monitoring units” at the “Civil Administration” is a well-known settler called David Kishik, son of former prostitute Shula Cohen who received his post as payment because his mother once long ago sold her favours in Lebanon. Mr. Kishik and his team are a bunch of criminal garbage that has made immense wealth on the back of destitute Palestinians in the occupied territories.
24 jan 2014
Coordinator of Popular Committee to Resist Wall and Settlements in Yatta, Rateb al-Jbour, said that settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, Friday assaulted a number of Palestinians from Um al-Khair village east of Yatta in Hebron governorate.
The settlers severely beat a woman, identified as Maleeha al-Hathaleen, 57, and a young man Bilal al-Hathaleen, while they were heading to their sheep barn in the village, causing them several bruises.
Al-Jbour condemned these brutal measures the settlers and Israeli forces are committing against the Palestinians in these areas, stressing that such measures aim at deporting the Palestinians from their land.
Al-Jbour called on human rights and international institutions to intervene to put an end to these aggressive acts against the Palestinians.
The settlers severely beat a woman, identified as Maleeha al-Hathaleen, 57, and a young man Bilal al-Hathaleen, while they were heading to their sheep barn in the village, causing them several bruises.
Al-Jbour condemned these brutal measures the settlers and Israeli forces are committing against the Palestinians in these areas, stressing that such measures aim at deporting the Palestinians from their land.
Al-Jbour called on human rights and international institutions to intervene to put an end to these aggressive acts against the Palestinians.
23 jan 2014
A Jewish settler ran over a pregnant woman on the main street in Hawara village, south of Nablus, on Wednesday. Abdulkarim Abu Shehada, the husband of the woman, said that his wife Wijdan, 39, who is in her 8th month of pregnancy, was run over while trying to cross the main street in the village.
He charged the settler with over speeding in a street that was not designed for such high speed.
He said that his wife suffered bruises and cuts all over her body and was transferred to a hospital in Nablus where her condition was described as moderate.
He charged the settler with over speeding in a street that was not designed for such high speed.
He said that his wife suffered bruises and cuts all over her body and was transferred to a hospital in Nablus where her condition was described as moderate.
Israeli police Thursday ordered Khalid al-Zir, a resident of Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, to remove a tent he and other Jerusalem residents had set up the night before in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Sheikh Jarrah to protest Israeli demolition of homes in the city. Zir said that the tent was put up to draw attention to the plight of Jerusalem residents whose homes were demolished by the West Jerusalem Israeli municipality for building without permit after efforts to get a permit have failed.
The municipality demolished Zir’s small Silwan home in August and when he attempted to set up a room with a metal roof on his land to house his seven-member family, it was also demolished.
Zir then moved with his family to live in a cave but even then the Israeli antiquities authority ordered him not to change anything in the cave after he attempted to add to it to shelter his family from cold and rain.
Israeli police raided the tent Thursday morning and ordered the people holding a vigil inside to remove it within 30 minutes or else they will be fined.
Zir said he was going to continue with his sit-in in front of the Red Cross until something is done to help him and others restore their homes in East Jerusalem and put a stop to the demolition of homes, a policy Palestinians say aims at forcing them to leave the city while Israel builds thousands of new homes for Jews in it on expropriated Palestinian land.
Palestinian told to Clear out of Four Homes in Five Months
On Thursday, a resident of East Jerusalem were ordered to remove a tent in which was set up to protest the Israeli demolitions of homes in the city.
The man, a local father of seven had seen his house be demolished by Israelis after which the make-do he constructed, were also demolished.
After moving his family to a cave, he was told not to alter anything within the natural construction, when trying to add a shelter to protect his short-term home from wind and rain.
As the last part of the saga the man has now been told to take down the tent in front of the Red Cross in Jerusalem, WAFA reports.
The municipality demolished Zir’s small Silwan home in August and when he attempted to set up a room with a metal roof on his land to house his seven-member family, it was also demolished.
Zir then moved with his family to live in a cave but even then the Israeli antiquities authority ordered him not to change anything in the cave after he attempted to add to it to shelter his family from cold and rain.
Israeli police raided the tent Thursday morning and ordered the people holding a vigil inside to remove it within 30 minutes or else they will be fined.
Zir said he was going to continue with his sit-in in front of the Red Cross until something is done to help him and others restore their homes in East Jerusalem and put a stop to the demolition of homes, a policy Palestinians say aims at forcing them to leave the city while Israel builds thousands of new homes for Jews in it on expropriated Palestinian land.
Palestinian told to Clear out of Four Homes in Five Months
On Thursday, a resident of East Jerusalem were ordered to remove a tent in which was set up to protest the Israeli demolitions of homes in the city.
The man, a local father of seven had seen his house be demolished by Israelis after which the make-do he constructed, were also demolished.
After moving his family to a cave, he was told not to alter anything within the natural construction, when trying to add a shelter to protect his short-term home from wind and rain.
As the last part of the saga the man has now been told to take down the tent in front of the Red Cross in Jerusalem, WAFA reports.
15 jan 2014
An Israeli soldier threatened to kill a Palestinian girl in Hebron on Wednesday.
Asil Jabir, a pupil at Taysir Maraqa preparatory school, said that she was heading to school with some of her friends when a female Israeli soldier stationed at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque forced the group to go back.
The girls were forced to take a bypass route to reach the school, which Asil said Israeli forces usually allow them to use.
Hours later, the schoolgirls returned via the same checkpoint.
"Nobody opposed us, but all of a sudden, the same female soldier, who was hiding, surprised me from the back and grabbed my neck tightly," Asil said.
"She then cuffed my hands and took me to a nearby military post. She tried to bring me into a cabin by force, but I opposed while she was kicking my feet and knocking my chest with her rifle. She threatened to kill me, and whenever somebody came close she asked me to tell them to go away or otherwise she will kill me."
Asil was released after about an hour. The Israeli soldier told her that she would kill her the next time she saw her, Asil said.
In March, Israeli military forces arrested some 30 students who were on their way to school in the southern area of Hebron.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem on Wednesday said Israel's mass arrest of children in Hebron was "unacceptable," and released a video of the detentions.
"This type of mass arrest of a group of minors, not on the basis of individual suspicions is unacceptable, even if the minors are formally over the age of criminal responsibility," B'Tselem said in a statement.
Asil Jabir, a pupil at Taysir Maraqa preparatory school, said that she was heading to school with some of her friends when a female Israeli soldier stationed at a checkpoint near the Ibrahimi Mosque forced the group to go back.
The girls were forced to take a bypass route to reach the school, which Asil said Israeli forces usually allow them to use.
Hours later, the schoolgirls returned via the same checkpoint.
"Nobody opposed us, but all of a sudden, the same female soldier, who was hiding, surprised me from the back and grabbed my neck tightly," Asil said.
"She then cuffed my hands and took me to a nearby military post. She tried to bring me into a cabin by force, but I opposed while she was kicking my feet and knocking my chest with her rifle. She threatened to kill me, and whenever somebody came close she asked me to tell them to go away or otherwise she will kill me."
Asil was released after about an hour. The Israeli soldier told her that she would kill her the next time she saw her, Asil said.
In March, Israeli military forces arrested some 30 students who were on their way to school in the southern area of Hebron.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem on Wednesday said Israel's mass arrest of children in Hebron was "unacceptable," and released a video of the detentions.
"This type of mass arrest of a group of minors, not on the basis of individual suspicions is unacceptable, even if the minors are formally over the age of criminal responsibility," B'Tselem said in a statement.
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