1 june 2019
Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, the village of Abwein, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted the father of the young Palestinian man, who was killed a day earlier in occupied Jerusalem, after he reportedly stabbed and injured two Israelis.
Media sources in Ramallah said dozens of soldiers invaded the village, before storming and ransacking the home of Wajeeh Sohweil, the father of Yousef, 18, who was killed in Jerusalem, and abducted him.
The Israeli army apparently intends to demolish the home in an act of illegal collective punishment, similar to previous incidents where homes of Palestinians who attacked or believed to have attacked Israelis, including soldiers, were destroyed.
The army also constantly abducts and imprisons family members, and in some cases friends, of Palestinians who are believed to be behind attacks against the military or Israelis in general.
The sources added that the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs at dozens of Palestinian youngsters, who protested the invasion, and hurled stones at the invading army jeeps.
Media sources in Ramallah said dozens of soldiers invaded the village, before storming and ransacking the home of Wajeeh Sohweil, the father of Yousef, 18, who was killed in Jerusalem, and abducted him.
The Israeli army apparently intends to demolish the home in an act of illegal collective punishment, similar to previous incidents where homes of Palestinians who attacked or believed to have attacked Israelis, including soldiers, were destroyed.
The army also constantly abducts and imprisons family members, and in some cases friends, of Palestinians who are believed to be behind attacks against the military or Israelis in general.
The sources added that the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs at dozens of Palestinian youngsters, who protested the invasion, and hurled stones at the invading army jeeps.
31 may 2019
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly protest against the Annexation Wall and colonies, in the northern West Bank village of Kufur Qaddoum, east of Qalqilia city.
Media coordinator of the Popular Committee, Morad Eshteiwi, said that the peaceful demonstration was attacked by Israeli forces, who shot rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity tear-gas canisters, injuring four Palestinians.
Eshteiwi added that all the injured protesters were treated at the scene, while many others suffered the suffocating effects of tear-gas inhalation.
Since 2011, villagers from Kufur Qaddoum and surrounding villages have organized a nonviolent demonstration on Fridays, to object to the illegal Israeli colonies, and to call on the Israeli occupation authorities to reopen the village’s main road, which has been closed by the army since 2002.
IOF injures, detains Palestinians in West Bank protests
At least four Palestinian youths were injured on Friday by rubber-coated metal bullets when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled an anti-settlement demonstration in Kafr Qaddum village in Qalqilya.
Activist Murad Shtewi said that the IOF heavily opened fire at the demonstrators and assaulted journalists.
Dozens of Palestinians choked on tear gas fired by the IOF at peaceful protesters in Ni'lin village in Ramallah following Friday prayer.
Meanwhile, the IOF detained three Palestinian youths at a checkpoint east of Jenin city.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF stopped a car at the checkpoint, forced three Palestinian youths out of the vehicle, and interrogated them for hours before releasing them.
Media coordinator of the Popular Committee, Morad Eshteiwi, said that the peaceful demonstration was attacked by Israeli forces, who shot rubber-coated steel bullets and high-velocity tear-gas canisters, injuring four Palestinians.
Eshteiwi added that all the injured protesters were treated at the scene, while many others suffered the suffocating effects of tear-gas inhalation.
Since 2011, villagers from Kufur Qaddoum and surrounding villages have organized a nonviolent demonstration on Fridays, to object to the illegal Israeli colonies, and to call on the Israeli occupation authorities to reopen the village’s main road, which has been closed by the army since 2002.
IOF injures, detains Palestinians in West Bank protests
At least four Palestinian youths were injured on Friday by rubber-coated metal bullets when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled an anti-settlement demonstration in Kafr Qaddum village in Qalqilya.
Activist Murad Shtewi said that the IOF heavily opened fire at the demonstrators and assaulted journalists.
Dozens of Palestinians choked on tear gas fired by the IOF at peaceful protesters in Ni'lin village in Ramallah following Friday prayer.
Meanwhile, the IOF detained three Palestinian youths at a checkpoint east of Jenin city.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF stopped a car at the checkpoint, forced three Palestinian youths out of the vehicle, and interrogated them for hours before releasing them.
A number of Palestinian citizens were injured on Friday when the Israeli occupation forces opened fire at the peaceful demonstrators taking part in the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporter said, quoting the Ministry of Health, that 11 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire, while dozens others choked on tear gas.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched along the border between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied territories on the 60th Friday of the Great March of Return to mark the International Quds Day.
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip on 30 March 2018 launched the Great March of Return to demand the refugees' right of return and call for an end to the blockade on the coastal enclave.
Since the start of the border protests, the Israeli occupation army has killed 317 Palestinians and injured over 31,000.
The PIC reporter said, quoting the Ministry of Health, that 11 Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire, while dozens others choked on tear gas.
Hundreds of Palestinians marched along the border between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied territories on the 60th Friday of the Great March of Return to mark the International Quds Day.
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip on 30 March 2018 launched the Great March of Return to demand the refugees' right of return and call for an end to the blockade on the coastal enclave.
Since the start of the border protests, the Israeli occupation army has killed 317 Palestinians and injured over 31,000.
Israeli soldiers caused, Friday, dozens of Palestinians to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation, during the weekly nonviolent procession against the illegal Annexation Wall and colonies, in Ni’lin village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The procession started after Friday prayers, when the protesters marched while carrying Palestinian flags, and chanted against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, its colonies and escalated violations.
Some protesters also carried fire extinguishers in order to extinguish fires that could burn their farmlands and orchards due to Israeli gas bombs and concussion grenades.
The soldiers fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in addition to causing fires in unplanted lands.
In related news, the soldiers detained three young Palestinian men at a sudden military roadblock which was installed on the Arab American University road, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and interrogated them for more than one hour, before releasing them. The three are from Zababda town, south of Jenin.
The soldiers also installed many roadblocks on roads leading to several villages and towns in Jenin Governorate, before stopping and searching dozens of cars
The procession started after Friday prayers, when the protesters marched while carrying Palestinian flags, and chanted against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, its colonies and escalated violations.
Some protesters also carried fire extinguishers in order to extinguish fires that could burn their farmlands and orchards due to Israeli gas bombs and concussion grenades.
The soldiers fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets, causing many to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, in addition to causing fires in unplanted lands.
In related news, the soldiers detained three young Palestinian men at a sudden military roadblock which was installed on the Arab American University road, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and interrogated them for more than one hour, before releasing them. The three are from Zababda town, south of Jenin.
The soldiers also installed many roadblocks on roads leading to several villages and towns in Jenin Governorate, before stopping and searching dozens of cars
Abdullah Ghaith 15 video
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday morning killed a Palestinian child and wounded a young man as they were trying to enter Jerusalem to pray at the Aqsa Mosque.
The shooting incident happened near Dar Salah village, east of Bethlehem.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers at Mazmouriya checkpoint in eastern Bethlehem opened fire at a group of Palestinian citizens during their attempt to reach Jerusalem to perform prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Consequently, a 15-year-old child was seriously wounded in the chest and left to bleed for a while before transferring him to hospital where he was proclaimed dead. Another young man was also critically injured.
Medical sources at al-Hussein Hospital in Bethlehem said that a child called Abdullah Ghaith arrived in the hospital in very critical condition before he was pronounced dead.
They added that 21-year-old Mu’men Abu Tabeesh, from al-Fawwar refugee camp in al-Khalil, was badly injured in his abdominal area, describing his condition as “serious.”
The IOF on Friday morning prevented thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank from entering Jerusalem to perform prayers at the Aqsa Mosque on the last Friday of Ramadan.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday morning killed a Palestinian child and wounded a young man as they were trying to enter Jerusalem to pray at the Aqsa Mosque.
The shooting incident happened near Dar Salah village, east of Bethlehem.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers at Mazmouriya checkpoint in eastern Bethlehem opened fire at a group of Palestinian citizens during their attempt to reach Jerusalem to perform prayers on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Consequently, a 15-year-old child was seriously wounded in the chest and left to bleed for a while before transferring him to hospital where he was proclaimed dead. Another young man was also critically injured.
Medical sources at al-Hussein Hospital in Bethlehem said that a child called Abdullah Ghaith arrived in the hospital in very critical condition before he was pronounced dead.
They added that 21-year-old Mu’men Abu Tabeesh, from al-Fawwar refugee camp in al-Khalil, was badly injured in his abdominal area, describing his condition as “serious.”
The IOF on Friday morning prevented thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank from entering Jerusalem to perform prayers at the Aqsa Mosque on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Israeli soldiers, accompanying buses loaded with illegal colonists, invaded late on Thursday at night, the northern West Bank city of Nablus, heading to Joseph’s Tomb, before the army injured 25 Palestinians, during ensuing protests.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot a young man with a live round in his leg, eight pothers with rubber-coated steel bullets to several parts of his body, and caused 16 others to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation.
The protests took place in Amman Street, east of Nablus city, after the army jeeps and several buses invaded it.
Palestinians believe that Joseph’s Tomb is the funerary monument to Sheikh Yousef Dweikat, a local religious figure. Others believe that the tomb belongs to the Biblical patriarch Joseph, revered by Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims alike.
Although the site is in the city of Nablus, which is under the Oslo Accords is defined as Zone A and therefor under Palestinian administrative and security control, the Israeli army frequently invades the area and prevents the Palestinians from reaching it; the site of Joseph’s Tomb was under Israeli control until they left in October 2000.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot a young man with a live round in his leg, eight pothers with rubber-coated steel bullets to several parts of his body, and caused 16 others to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation.
The protests took place in Amman Street, east of Nablus city, after the army jeeps and several buses invaded it.
Palestinians believe that Joseph’s Tomb is the funerary monument to Sheikh Yousef Dweikat, a local religious figure. Others believe that the tomb belongs to the Biblical patriarch Joseph, revered by Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims alike.
Although the site is in the city of Nablus, which is under the Oslo Accords is defined as Zone A and therefor under Palestinian administrative and security control, the Israeli army frequently invades the area and prevents the Palestinians from reaching it; the site of Joseph’s Tomb was under Israeli control until they left in October 2000.
30 may 2019
a new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Na'ale on January 1, 2019
Israeli officials are planning to construct hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem al-Quds irrespective of international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Thursday that 460 settler units will be constructed in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement, while another 345 will be built in Ramot neighborhood in the northern part of East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The report added that plans for the construction of the settler units had been approved two years ago.
Israeli settlers storm agricultural land in Ramallah
Meanwhile, dozens of extremist Jewish settlers have stormed an agricultural land in the al-Tira neighborhood of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem al-Quds.
An informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the settlers performed prayers as well as acts deemed provocative by Palestinians, triggering clashes with local residents.
Israeli forces fired teargas canisters and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. There were no reports of casualties.
About 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Less than a month before US President Donald Trump took office, the United Nations Security Council in December 2016 adopted Resolution 2334, [pdf] calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem” al-Quds.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.
The last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was Israel’s continued settlement expansion on Palestinian territories.
Trump backtracked on Washington’s support for a “two-state solution” in 2017, saying he would support any solution favored by both sides.
“Looking at two-state or one-state, I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the one both parties like. I can live with either one,” the US president said during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on February 15, 2017.
Israeli officials are planning to construct hundreds of new housing units in East Jerusalem al-Quds irrespective of international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Thursday that 460 settler units will be constructed in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement, while another 345 will be built in Ramot neighborhood in the northern part of East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The report added that plans for the construction of the settler units had been approved two years ago.
Israeli settlers storm agricultural land in Ramallah
Meanwhile, dozens of extremist Jewish settlers have stormed an agricultural land in the al-Tira neighborhood of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem al-Quds.
An informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the settlers performed prayers as well as acts deemed provocative by Palestinians, triggering clashes with local residents.
Israeli forces fired teargas canisters and stun grenades to disperse the crowd. There were no reports of casualties.
About 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.
Less than a month before US President Donald Trump took office, the United Nations Security Council in December 2016 adopted Resolution 2334, [pdf] calling on Israel to “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem” al-Quds.
Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.
The last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed in 2014. Among the major sticking points in those negotiations was Israel’s continued settlement expansion on Palestinian territories.
Trump backtracked on Washington’s support for a “two-state solution” in 2017, saying he would support any solution favored by both sides.
“Looking at two-state or one-state, I like the one that both parties like. I’m very happy with the one both parties like. I can live with either one,” the US president said during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on February 15, 2017.
29 may 2019
Israeli soldiers displaced, Wednesday, fifteen Palestinian Bedouin families from their homes and dwellings, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, so that the army can conduct extensive live-fire military drills.
Palestinian Human Rights activist Aref Daraghma said the military training, which includes the use of live fire and explosives, started at seven in the morning, and added that many tanks are also part of the drills.
He stated that the training is being held in Hamsa, Wadi al-Maleh, Khirbat Samra and Masharef ar-Ras al-Ahmar.
The army also prevented the Palestinian families from entering the grazing grounds in the area.
Daraghma stated that the military trainings on Palestinian lands have been ongoing for the last fifteen years, and have led to serious property damage.
They are frequently carried out in the occupied West Bank, and the near Bedouin communities in the Negev, resulting in displacing the families in addition to the dozens of casualties, including fatalities, due to explosives dropped by the army during training.
Palestinian Human Rights activist Aref Daraghma said the military training, which includes the use of live fire and explosives, started at seven in the morning, and added that many tanks are also part of the drills.
He stated that the training is being held in Hamsa, Wadi al-Maleh, Khirbat Samra and Masharef ar-Ras al-Ahmar.
The army also prevented the Palestinian families from entering the grazing grounds in the area.
Daraghma stated that the military trainings on Palestinian lands have been ongoing for the last fifteen years, and have led to serious property damage.
They are frequently carried out in the occupied West Bank, and the near Bedouin communities in the Negev, resulting in displacing the families in addition to the dozens of casualties, including fatalities, due to explosives dropped by the army during training.
