17 may 2015
Scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards amid tight police protection and measures, which triggered angry reactions from the Muslim worshipers there.
According to local media sources, more than 30 settlers escorted by policemen forced their entry into the Aqsa Mosque coming from the Israeli-controlled Maghariba Gate, which prompted the Muslims in its courtyards to chant religious slogans in protest at their desecration of the Islamic holy place.
Recently, extremist Jewish groups have called on their followers to march en masse to the Mosque to celebrate what they call the Jerusalem reunification day.
Clashes at Damascus Gate ahead of Jerusalem Day celebrations
Dozens of Palestinians hurl stones and bottles at police, lightly wounding one officer; two Palestinians arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Dozens of Palestinians threw stones and bottles at police near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday afternoon, as thousands of people were marking Jerusalem Day with a march to the Western Wall.
A policeman was lightly wounded in the clashes when a stone hit his head. He did not require evacuation to hospital.
One Palestinian was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Earlier, Palestinians hurled stones at a group of Jews who were in the area, and another Palestinian was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Police forces were deployed to the Damascus Gate to secure the thousands of participants who are expected to arrive there for the annual Jerusalem Day Flag Dance, marking 48 years since the divided city was reunited in the 1967 Six-Day War. The march will leave from the city center and head towards the Damascus Gate, through the IDF Square, and from there to the Western Wall through the Muslim Quarter. The march will culminate at a ceremony at the Western Wall, attended by Bayit Yehudi's Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel. The march, which includes dancing, singing and waving of Israeli flags, has been happening every year since 1968.
According to local media sources, more than 30 settlers escorted by policemen forced their entry into the Aqsa Mosque coming from the Israeli-controlled Maghariba Gate, which prompted the Muslims in its courtyards to chant religious slogans in protest at their desecration of the Islamic holy place.
Recently, extremist Jewish groups have called on their followers to march en masse to the Mosque to celebrate what they call the Jerusalem reunification day.
Clashes at Damascus Gate ahead of Jerusalem Day celebrations
Dozens of Palestinians hurl stones and bottles at police, lightly wounding one officer; two Palestinians arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Dozens of Palestinians threw stones and bottles at police near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday afternoon, as thousands of people were marking Jerusalem Day with a march to the Western Wall.
A policeman was lightly wounded in the clashes when a stone hit his head. He did not require evacuation to hospital.
One Palestinian was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Earlier, Palestinians hurled stones at a group of Jews who were in the area, and another Palestinian was arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Police forces were deployed to the Damascus Gate to secure the thousands of participants who are expected to arrive there for the annual Jerusalem Day Flag Dance, marking 48 years since the divided city was reunited in the 1967 Six-Day War. The march will leave from the city center and head towards the Damascus Gate, through the IDF Square, and from there to the Western Wall through the Muslim Quarter. The march will culminate at a ceremony at the Western Wall, attended by Bayit Yehudi's Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel. The march, which includes dancing, singing and waving of Israeli flags, has been happening every year since 1968.
Several dozens of Palestinian protesters also arrived at the area outside the Damascus Gate, waving Palestinian flags and calling out "Free Palestine."
Police was working to separate the Palestinian protesters from the marchers, who started gathering at the scene as well. Policemen created a buffer zone several meters wide in the march's path to prevent confrontations.
Later, the police dispersed the Palestinians' protest, saying it was an illegal gathering without the necessary permits.
March participants drew much criticism over the years from left-wing organizations, who claimed that some of participants were harassing the Arab residents of the city during the march. The organizations Ir Amim and Tag Meir petitioned the Supreme Court, demanding not to allow the marchers go through the Muslim Quarter on the grounds that it opens up the door for racist harassment.
The two organizations presented the court with videos showing marcher calling out racist slurs at Arabs like "Death to Arabs" and "May your village burn." They also claimed the Muslim merchants have been advised by police to close shop early ahead of the march.
The Supreme Court rejected the petition last week, noting it did so "with a heavy heart." In their ruling, the justices stressed there should be "zero tolerance" of anyone involved in violence, and that police should arrest anyone chanting "death to Arabs."
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said there would be both uniformed and undercover officers on the streets, without giving numbers.
Police was working to separate the Palestinian protesters from the marchers, who started gathering at the scene as well. Policemen created a buffer zone several meters wide in the march's path to prevent confrontations.
Later, the police dispersed the Palestinians' protest, saying it was an illegal gathering without the necessary permits.
March participants drew much criticism over the years from left-wing organizations, who claimed that some of participants were harassing the Arab residents of the city during the march. The organizations Ir Amim and Tag Meir petitioned the Supreme Court, demanding not to allow the marchers go through the Muslim Quarter on the grounds that it opens up the door for racist harassment.
The two organizations presented the court with videos showing marcher calling out racist slurs at Arabs like "Death to Arabs" and "May your village burn." They also claimed the Muslim merchants have been advised by police to close shop early ahead of the march.
The Supreme Court rejected the petition last week, noting it did so "with a heavy heart." In their ruling, the justices stressed there should be "zero tolerance" of anyone involved in violence, and that police should arrest anyone chanting "death to Arabs."
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said there would be both uniformed and undercover officers on the streets, without giving numbers.
"The police will show zero tolerance to any display of physical or verbal violence, will act with every means at its disposal against anyone disturbing the peace or rioting, who will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law," she said.
The organizers turned to participants ahead of the march as well, urging them to keep law and order so the event could be a celebration and a significant experience.
Anti-racism group Tag Meir is to hold a counter demonstration outside city hall to protest against what it called the "march of hate".
It said the annual march had become "a focus for extremist groups" and was routinely accompanied by "racist slurs and insults, destruction of property and physical violence against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem".
"This year we say a loud and clear 'No to the violence, the hatred and the incitement' which threaten the delicate fabric of daily life in Jerusalem," it said.
The group said its supporters would walk through the Muslim Quarter handing out flowers to residents as a gesture of peace and coexistence.
Later Sunday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to join President Reuven Rivlin for a ceremony on Ammunition Hill in East Jerusalem, a former Jordanian military post that saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the 1967 war.
Today, there are some 200,000 Israelis living in 15 neighborhoods beyond the Green Line alongside a Palestinian population of 310,000.
The Palestinians want the eastern sector of the city as capital of their promised state, and vigorously oppose any attempt to extend Israeli control.
But Israeli leaders have repeatedly vowed that the city will never again be split, referring to it as the "eternal, indivisible" capital of the Jewish people.
The organizers turned to participants ahead of the march as well, urging them to keep law and order so the event could be a celebration and a significant experience.
Anti-racism group Tag Meir is to hold a counter demonstration outside city hall to protest against what it called the "march of hate".
It said the annual march had become "a focus for extremist groups" and was routinely accompanied by "racist slurs and insults, destruction of property and physical violence against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem".
"This year we say a loud and clear 'No to the violence, the hatred and the incitement' which threaten the delicate fabric of daily life in Jerusalem," it said.
The group said its supporters would walk through the Muslim Quarter handing out flowers to residents as a gesture of peace and coexistence.
Later Sunday evening, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to join President Reuven Rivlin for a ceremony on Ammunition Hill in East Jerusalem, a former Jordanian military post that saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the 1967 war.
Today, there are some 200,000 Israelis living in 15 neighborhoods beyond the Green Line alongside a Palestinian population of 310,000.
The Palestinians want the eastern sector of the city as capital of their promised state, and vigorously oppose any attempt to extend Israeli control.
But Israeli leaders have repeatedly vowed that the city will never again be split, referring to it as the "eternal, indivisible" capital of the Jewish people.
Radical Israeli minister of agriculture Uri Ariel declared his intention to desecrate the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday.
Israel's channel 7 quoted Ariel as saying that he would ascend what he called the temple mount on Sunday.
His entry to the Islamic holy place could spark widespread angry reactions from the Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem, according to observers.
Ariel is the first Israeli minister in the new right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu who has threatened to defile the Aqsa Mosque.
The minister is seen as one of the most extremist Jewish advocates for settlement and Judaization activities in the holy city.
Israel's channel 7 quoted Ariel as saying that he would ascend what he called the temple mount on Sunday.
His entry to the Islamic holy place could spark widespread angry reactions from the Palestinians in the occupied city of Jerusalem, according to observers.
Ariel is the first Israeli minister in the new right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu who has threatened to defile the Aqsa Mosque.
The minister is seen as one of the most extremist Jewish advocates for settlement and Judaization activities in the holy city.
A number of armed Israeli extremists invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Palestinian orchards in the Shiokh village, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and uprooted around 800 olive saplings.
Media sources in Hebron said the assailants stole the uprooted olive saplings, and fled to nearby colonies.
Ahmad al-Halayqa, a local media and social networking activist, said the extremists invaded orchards belonging to Mohammad, Abdul-Qader and Mousa Abu Shanab al-‘Ayayda, in the al-Wasli area, and uprooted the samplings.
Al-Halayqa stated this is the fourth consecutive attack against the same olive orchards, in an attempt to control the land and expand the illegal colonies, built on Palestinian lands.
Media sources in Hebron said the assailants stole the uprooted olive saplings, and fled to nearby colonies.
Ahmad al-Halayqa, a local media and social networking activist, said the extremists invaded orchards belonging to Mohammad, Abdul-Qader and Mousa Abu Shanab al-‘Ayayda, in the al-Wasli area, and uprooted the samplings.
Al-Halayqa stated this is the fourth consecutive attack against the same olive orchards, in an attempt to control the land and expand the illegal colonies, built on Palestinian lands.
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Saturday evening that a man and his wife were injured after a number of Israelis hurled stones on a Palestinian Taxi, near Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem.
The Palestinian Taxi, owned by Sha’ban Ahmad, was driving on the Nahhalin al-Jab’a road, near the Beit Ayin illegal colony, when it was attacked causing property damage, and the injury of a man and his wife.
Medical sources said Abdul-Rahman Rabah Najajra, and his wife, were moved to the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, in Bethlehem, after suffering various cuts and bruises.
Beit Ayin is part of the Gush Etzion settlement block, south of the West Bank district of Bethlehem.
The Palestinian Taxi, owned by Sha’ban Ahmad, was driving on the Nahhalin al-Jab’a road, near the Beit Ayin illegal colony, when it was attacked causing property damage, and the injury of a man and his wife.
Medical sources said Abdul-Rahman Rabah Najajra, and his wife, were moved to the Beit Jala Governmental Hospital, in Bethlehem, after suffering various cuts and bruises.
Beit Ayin is part of the Gush Etzion settlement block, south of the West Bank district of Bethlehem.
16 may 2015
Palestinian activists have called on their compatriots in occupied Jerusalem and the 1948 occupied lands to intensify their presence in the Aqsa Mosque to confront settlers' attempts on Sunday to defile it in order to celebrate what they call the the Jerusalem reunification day.
The activists said that the coalition of temple groups and women for the temple had invited their supporters and settlers from all over the occupied lands to march to the Aqsa Mosque to participate in a ritual and festive program on the occasion of the Jerusalem day.
Their program will also include a speech to be delivered by notorious rabbi Yahuda Glick and attempts to carry Israeli flags into the Mosque.
The activists said that the coalition of temple groups and women for the temple had invited their supporters and settlers from all over the occupied lands to march to the Aqsa Mosque to participate in a ritual and festive program on the occasion of the Jerusalem day.
Their program will also include a speech to be delivered by notorious rabbi Yahuda Glick and attempts to carry Israeli flags into the Mosque.
15 may 2015
Shin Bet arrests suspected driver, 22-year-old Muhammad al-Rafahiya from Hebron, who admitted to committing attack out of nationalistic motives.
Security footage from the scene of the vehicular attack outside Alon Shvut on Thursday, which left four people wounded, shows the terrorist driving his car at high speed and ramming into two of the victims.
After hitting the pedestrians who were waiting at a bus stop outside the Gush Etzion settlement, the car is seen speeding away. The security camera that captured the footage was privately installed by the Alon Shvut residents, who claim the Defense Ministry refuses to help fund the settlement's security cameras.
The Shin Bet said Thursday evening it arrested the suspected driver, 22-year-old Muhammad al-Rafahiya from Hebron, who was released a year ago from Israeli prison after serving time for offenses of rock-throwing and carrying of cold weapons. In his initial interrogation, al-Rafahiya admitted to committing the attack and said he was operating to hurt Israelis out of nationalistic motives.
The Shin Bet said they were looking into the possibility that "incitement online and on Facebook cause him to commit the attack, similar to previous lone attackers."
At around 1:15 pm, a black vehicle drove at high speed heading east on a road outside Alon Shvut and then veered sideways onto a hitchhiking station, hitting a group of people waiting for the bus. The IDF set up roadblocks and searched for the perpetrators in the Halhul area and in villages north of Hebron. Kfir Brigade troops arrested the suspected driver minutes after the attack.
Benjamin Frenkel, aged 25, who was lightly wounded, recounted the attack: "Myself and another person were standing at the station because we both had to get home. He saw the car coming out of the corner of his eye, grabbed me, and called out 'Move!' We moved but the car hit. I was thrown back a meter away, and he was thrown back further. I got up and reported the incident. I ran to try and get to the car but he fled."
Security footage from the scene of the vehicular attack outside Alon Shvut on Thursday, which left four people wounded, shows the terrorist driving his car at high speed and ramming into two of the victims.
After hitting the pedestrians who were waiting at a bus stop outside the Gush Etzion settlement, the car is seen speeding away. The security camera that captured the footage was privately installed by the Alon Shvut residents, who claim the Defense Ministry refuses to help fund the settlement's security cameras.
The Shin Bet said Thursday evening it arrested the suspected driver, 22-year-old Muhammad al-Rafahiya from Hebron, who was released a year ago from Israeli prison after serving time for offenses of rock-throwing and carrying of cold weapons. In his initial interrogation, al-Rafahiya admitted to committing the attack and said he was operating to hurt Israelis out of nationalistic motives.
The Shin Bet said they were looking into the possibility that "incitement online and on Facebook cause him to commit the attack, similar to previous lone attackers."
At around 1:15 pm, a black vehicle drove at high speed heading east on a road outside Alon Shvut and then veered sideways onto a hitchhiking station, hitting a group of people waiting for the bus. The IDF set up roadblocks and searched for the perpetrators in the Halhul area and in villages north of Hebron. Kfir Brigade troops arrested the suspected driver minutes after the attack.
Benjamin Frenkel, aged 25, who was lightly wounded, recounted the attack: "Myself and another person were standing at the station because we both had to get home. He saw the car coming out of the corner of his eye, grabbed me, and called out 'Move!' We moved but the car hit. I was thrown back a meter away, and he was thrown back further. I got up and reported the incident. I ran to try and get to the car but he fled."
21 Palestinian citizens suffered bullet injuries at dawn Friday during clashes with invading Israeli troops east of Nablus city.
Local sources said that the clashes broke out when more than 1,500 Jewish settlers under military protection stormed after midnight the mausoleum of Joseph's Tomb near Balata refugee camp to the east of Nablus
They added that the soldiers showered the angry young men with tear gas and stun grenades, and intensively used live and rubber bullets.
The bullet injuries the young men sustained were described as slight to moderate, according to medical sources at Rafidia hospital in Nablus.
Local sources said that the clashes broke out when more than 1,500 Jewish settlers under military protection stormed after midnight the mausoleum of Joseph's Tomb near Balata refugee camp to the east of Nablus
They added that the soldiers showered the angry young men with tear gas and stun grenades, and intensively used live and rubber bullets.
The bullet injuries the young men sustained were described as slight to moderate, according to medical sources at Rafidia hospital in Nablus.
Yemenite Jews prior to the 1948 Middle East war and on the basis of which Israeli courts have permitted the takeover of several Palestinian-owned homes in Silwan.
Yogev's tour comes as the Palestinian people are these days commemorating 67 years to the nakba, the catastrophe of the Palestinian people.
Yogev himself is a settler, living in the Jerusalem area settlement of Dolev.
The settler population in Silwan has more than doubled to some 700 persons in recent months as settlers occupied 23 houses in the neighbourhood in September while in the following month an additional two buildings were taken over. In March Israeli settlers took over a Palestinian-owned property in Silwan, as well as two plots of land belonging to two Palestinian families.
Fakhri Abu Diab, a member of Silwan's popular committee, told the Palestinian news agency Ma'an that over 62 percent of homes in Silwan are under the threat of demolition, after orders were "randomly" distributed as "collective punishment," which he says aims to displace the residents and control the neighbourhood.
Abu Diab added that some houses which were taken over by settlers last October were built without permits, but none of them received demolition orders.
Israeli Col. (res.) Shauli Arieli, a member of the Geneva Initiative and the Council for Peace and Security, told Haaretz that the presence of Israeli settlers in the heart of East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, does not have a demographic impact. “If we look at the past 20 years, the overall Israeli population has not exceeded 3,000 in a Palestinian population of 120,000”, he stated. “This cannot have a demographic effect.
This statement ignores, however, the deep impact that Israeli settlements have on East Jerusalem communities. Silwan itself is facing a process of “Hebron-isation”, in which a small number of settlers scattered across Silwan and protected by police and security forces are beginning to control the movement, services and freedoms in the neighbourhood, leading to high levels of tension, violence and further Palestinian displacement. Israel's new Agriculture Minister, Uri Ariel, also from the Jewish Home party, is reportedly considering a move to the Jewish settlement in Silwan.
Silwan has long been a target of Israeli settler groups.
Yogev's tour comes as the Palestinian people are these days commemorating 67 years to the nakba, the catastrophe of the Palestinian people.
Yogev himself is a settler, living in the Jerusalem area settlement of Dolev.
The settler population in Silwan has more than doubled to some 700 persons in recent months as settlers occupied 23 houses in the neighbourhood in September while in the following month an additional two buildings were taken over. In March Israeli settlers took over a Palestinian-owned property in Silwan, as well as two plots of land belonging to two Palestinian families.
Fakhri Abu Diab, a member of Silwan's popular committee, told the Palestinian news agency Ma'an that over 62 percent of homes in Silwan are under the threat of demolition, after orders were "randomly" distributed as "collective punishment," which he says aims to displace the residents and control the neighbourhood.
Abu Diab added that some houses which were taken over by settlers last October were built without permits, but none of them received demolition orders.
Israeli Col. (res.) Shauli Arieli, a member of the Geneva Initiative and the Council for Peace and Security, told Haaretz that the presence of Israeli settlers in the heart of East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, does not have a demographic impact. “If we look at the past 20 years, the overall Israeli population has not exceeded 3,000 in a Palestinian population of 120,000”, he stated. “This cannot have a demographic effect.
This statement ignores, however, the deep impact that Israeli settlements have on East Jerusalem communities. Silwan itself is facing a process of “Hebron-isation”, in which a small number of settlers scattered across Silwan and protected by police and security forces are beginning to control the movement, services and freedoms in the neighbourhood, leading to high levels of tension, violence and further Palestinian displacement. Israel's new Agriculture Minister, Uri Ariel, also from the Jewish Home party, is reportedly considering a move to the Jewish settlement in Silwan.
Silwan has long been a target of Israeli settler groups.
Three Israeli settlers were wounded, Thursday afternoon, at crossroads near the illegal settlement of Gush Etsion, south of Bethlehem.
Walla Israeli news site said, according to the PNN, that ambulances reached the area to aid the wounded. Medics reported one injury as moderate to severe, while the other two had light wounds.
Israeli sources claimed that the assailant was a Palestinian from Hebron, who proceeded with the attack in a yellow plate (Israeli) car and, then, fled the scene.
Sources also claimed that the assailant stole the car from Tsur Hadasa settlement.
Israeli forces announced the area closed military zone.
Suspected terror attack: Four hurt in hit and run outside Alon Shvut
Black vehicle escapes scene after hitting pedestrians in Gush Etzion; Palestinian driver questioned in connection with incident.
Four people were wounded Thursday afternoon in a hit and run in Gush Etzion, which the police and IDF suspect might be a terror attack. A Palestinian driver from Hebron was being questioned in connection with the incident.
At around 1:15 pm, a black vehicle with an Israeli license plate drove at high speed heading east on a road outside the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut and then veered sideways onto a hitchhiking station, hitting a group of people waiting for the bus. The vehicle then fled the scene.
The IDF set up roadblocks and was searching the Halhul area and in villages north of Hebron for the perpetrators. Kfir Brigade troops stopped a vehicle matching the description of the one that hit the pedestrians, and were questioning a Palestinian driver in connection with the incident.
Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived at the scene treated one person in moderate condition and two others who were lightly hurt.
Two of the wounded, teens aged 16 and 17, were taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in stable condition. One suffered moderate wounds to his pelvis and was being prepared for operation, while the other was lightly wounded and receiving treatment at the hospital's trauma room.
Two others were taken to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem - a 20-year-old in serious condition and a 25-year-old lightly hurt.
Three of the wounded are students: Two of them attend a high school in the settlement of Efrat and the third is a student in the Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut.
Moshe Savil, the deputy head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, called on the IDF and other security forces "to return the sense of security to the Gush, increase security, and limit the entrance of Palestinians to crowded places."
Walla Israeli news site said, according to the PNN, that ambulances reached the area to aid the wounded. Medics reported one injury as moderate to severe, while the other two had light wounds.
Israeli sources claimed that the assailant was a Palestinian from Hebron, who proceeded with the attack in a yellow plate (Israeli) car and, then, fled the scene.
Sources also claimed that the assailant stole the car from Tsur Hadasa settlement.
Israeli forces announced the area closed military zone.
Suspected terror attack: Four hurt in hit and run outside Alon Shvut
Black vehicle escapes scene after hitting pedestrians in Gush Etzion; Palestinian driver questioned in connection with incident.
Four people were wounded Thursday afternoon in a hit and run in Gush Etzion, which the police and IDF suspect might be a terror attack. A Palestinian driver from Hebron was being questioned in connection with the incident.
At around 1:15 pm, a black vehicle with an Israeli license plate drove at high speed heading east on a road outside the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut and then veered sideways onto a hitchhiking station, hitting a group of people waiting for the bus. The vehicle then fled the scene.
The IDF set up roadblocks and was searching the Halhul area and in villages north of Hebron for the perpetrators. Kfir Brigade troops stopped a vehicle matching the description of the one that hit the pedestrians, and were questioning a Palestinian driver in connection with the incident.
Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived at the scene treated one person in moderate condition and two others who were lightly hurt.
Two of the wounded, teens aged 16 and 17, were taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in stable condition. One suffered moderate wounds to his pelvis and was being prepared for operation, while the other was lightly wounded and receiving treatment at the hospital's trauma room.
Two others were taken to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem - a 20-year-old in serious condition and a 25-year-old lightly hurt.
Three of the wounded are students: Two of them attend a high school in the settlement of Efrat and the third is a student in the Yeshivat Har Etzion in Alon Shvut.
Moshe Savil, the deputy head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council, called on the IDF and other security forces "to return the sense of security to the Gush, increase security, and limit the entrance of Palestinians to crowded places."
Israeli settlers on Thursday pelted Palestinian cars with stones on a main road near the illegal Yitzhar settlement in Nablus, a Palestinian official said.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that dozens of settlers threw stones at vehicles, while others set fire to land in the village of Burin south of Nablus.
Israeli forces closed the Huwwara checkpoint both ways following the incidents.
In 2014, there were 324 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Settlers attack Palestinians’ cars, torch plantings in Nablus
Extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians’ cars by stones and set fire to a Palestinian farm in southern Nablus city.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that a group of Jewish settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles passing on the high way near Yitzhar settlement in Howarah town to the south of Nablus city.
The settlers’ attack caused damage to Palestinians’ cars including breaking its glasses.
The settlers also torched fields implanted with olive and wheat in Borin town which is close to the settlement, the eyewitnesses added.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that dozens of settlers threw stones at vehicles, while others set fire to land in the village of Burin south of Nablus.
Israeli forces closed the Huwwara checkpoint both ways following the incidents.
In 2014, there were 324 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Settlers attack Palestinians’ cars, torch plantings in Nablus
Extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians’ cars by stones and set fire to a Palestinian farm in southern Nablus city.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that a group of Jewish settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles passing on the high way near Yitzhar settlement in Howarah town to the south of Nablus city.
The settlers’ attack caused damage to Palestinians’ cars including breaking its glasses.
The settlers also torched fields implanted with olive and wheat in Borin town which is close to the settlement, the eyewitnesses added.
13 may 2015
50 Israeli Intelligence officers stormed Wednesday al-Aqsa mosque from Magaribeh gate.
Al-Aqsa guards said that 36 Israeli officers stormed today morning the holy shrine in their military uniform accompanied with 17 members of Israeli Intelligence Services.
27 Israeli settlers also broke into al-Aqsa plazas under heavy police protection, the guards pointed out.
Palestinian worshipers in their turn intensified their presence in the mosque since the early morning hours to confront Israeli break-ins.
Al-Aqsa guards said that 36 Israeli officers stormed today morning the holy shrine in their military uniform accompanied with 17 members of Israeli Intelligence Services.
27 Israeli settlers also broke into al-Aqsa plazas under heavy police protection, the guards pointed out.
Palestinian worshipers in their turn intensified their presence in the mosque since the early morning hours to confront Israeli break-ins.