31 dec 2016
The Israeli army stormed late Friday Qaryut town, south of Nablus, and engaged in skirmishes with local young men.
A local activist reported that violent clashes broke out in the town after a large number of Israeli soldiers aboard military vehicles were deployed in its neighborhoods.
He added that the soldiers attacked local young men with tear gas and stun grenades before midnight and injured several of them.
Israeli military patrols were also deployed in the central district of Huwara town, south of Nablus, and at its northern entrance, with no known reason.
In addition, a makeshift checkpoint was set up by soldiers near Beita town, close to the southern entrance of Huwara town.
No arrests have been reported during this army campaign in Nablus towns.
A local activist reported that violent clashes broke out in the town after a large number of Israeli soldiers aboard military vehicles were deployed in its neighborhoods.
He added that the soldiers attacked local young men with tear gas and stun grenades before midnight and injured several of them.
Israeli military patrols were also deployed in the central district of Huwara town, south of Nablus, and at its northern entrance, with no known reason.
In addition, a makeshift checkpoint was set up by soldiers near Beita town, close to the southern entrance of Huwara town.
No arrests have been reported during this army campaign in Nablus towns.
30 dec 2016
Israeli forces Friday opened live fire at Palestinian farmers east of Khan Yunis in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Witnesses told Ma’an that a number of Israeli soldiers stationed behind the border fence between the small Palestinian territory and Israel exited their vehicles and began shooting at Palestinian farmers in the town of Khuzaa.
No injuries were reported.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an she would look into reports on the incident.
Palestinians who work near the “buffer zone” -- the unilaterally declared area between the Palestinian enclave and Israel’s separation barrier -- often come under fire from military forces, as the Israeli military has not made clear the precise area of the designated zone.
The Israeli army regularly open fires on Palestinian fishermen and farmers along the border areas, despite a ceasefire agreement that ended the 2014 war.
The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sectors of the blockaded coastal enclave.
Witnesses told Ma’an that a number of Israeli soldiers stationed behind the border fence between the small Palestinian territory and Israel exited their vehicles and began shooting at Palestinian farmers in the town of Khuzaa.
No injuries were reported.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an she would look into reports on the incident.
Palestinians who work near the “buffer zone” -- the unilaterally declared area between the Palestinian enclave and Israel’s separation barrier -- often come under fire from military forces, as the Israeli military has not made clear the precise area of the designated zone.
The Israeli army regularly open fires on Palestinian fishermen and farmers along the border areas, despite a ceasefire agreement that ended the 2014 war.
The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sectors of the blockaded coastal enclave.
Two Palestinian young men were arrested and an Israeli activist was injured when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) quelled the peaceful anti-settlement weekly march in Kafr Qaddoum village, in Nablus province. A similar march in Bil'in village in Ramallah was quelled causing many suffocation cases among the protesters.
According to the coordinator of the Popular Resistance in Kafr Qaddoum, Murad Shtewi, a large force of the Israeli army attacked the protesters with heavy firing of live bullets, tear gas canisters, sound bombs, and rubber-coated metal bullets injuring the Israeli activist Amnon with a metal bullet in the hand and arresting Jamil al-Barghouti and Ghaleb Shtewi who were taken to an unknown destination.
Shtewi said that the march was organized by Fatah movement and the Popular Resistance Committee. It was joined by hundreds of citizens who raised the Palestinian flags and chanted slogans calling for ending the occupation.
Violent confrontations erupted between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers who stormed the village, raided a number of houses and climbed over their rooftops from where they fired gas canisters.
The protesters called for reinforcing the popular resistance with an actual official and factional involvement.
Meanwhile in Bil'in, the IOF quelled the weekly anti-settlement and anti-wall march organized by the Popular Committee for Settlement and Wall Resistance.
The protesters raised flags of Palestine, Venezuela, Senegal, Malaysia, and New Zealand, as well as photos of martyrs. They roamed the streets chanting slogans calling for national unity and ending the occupation, and demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners.
The media coordinator of the Popular Committee for Settlement and Wall Resistance, Rateb Abu Rahmah, said that the popular resistance will continue as long as the separation wall, settlements, and occupation are still there.
The Committee called on the national factions and the Palestinian people to expand the popular resistance to include all provinces of the country until the end of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
According to the coordinator of the Popular Resistance in Kafr Qaddoum, Murad Shtewi, a large force of the Israeli army attacked the protesters with heavy firing of live bullets, tear gas canisters, sound bombs, and rubber-coated metal bullets injuring the Israeli activist Amnon with a metal bullet in the hand and arresting Jamil al-Barghouti and Ghaleb Shtewi who were taken to an unknown destination.
Shtewi said that the march was organized by Fatah movement and the Popular Resistance Committee. It was joined by hundreds of citizens who raised the Palestinian flags and chanted slogans calling for ending the occupation.
Violent confrontations erupted between the Palestinian youths and the Israeli soldiers who stormed the village, raided a number of houses and climbed over their rooftops from where they fired gas canisters.
The protesters called for reinforcing the popular resistance with an actual official and factional involvement.
Meanwhile in Bil'in, the IOF quelled the weekly anti-settlement and anti-wall march organized by the Popular Committee for Settlement and Wall Resistance.
The protesters raised flags of Palestine, Venezuela, Senegal, Malaysia, and New Zealand, as well as photos of martyrs. They roamed the streets chanting slogans calling for national unity and ending the occupation, and demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners.
The media coordinator of the Popular Committee for Settlement and Wall Resistance, Rateb Abu Rahmah, said that the popular resistance will continue as long as the separation wall, settlements, and occupation are still there.
The Committee called on the national factions and the Palestinian people to expand the popular resistance to include all provinces of the country until the end of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of the Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Violent clashes broke out Friday afternoon between local youths and Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in Takoa town and Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem.
Local sources affirmed that the clashes erupted when IOF stormed the town amid heavy firing of teargas bombs and rubber bullets.
Several teargas suffocation cases were reported during the confrontations.
Aida refugee camp has also witnessed similar clashes after IOF military vehicles stormed the camp.
Meanwhile, dozens of Israeli forces broke into Beit Furik town, east of Nablus, and were deployed throughout its neighborhoods for nearly an hour which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.
Teargas bombs were heavily fired at local homes and several locals suffered breathing problems.
Local sources affirmed that the clashes erupted when IOF stormed the town amid heavy firing of teargas bombs and rubber bullets.
Several teargas suffocation cases were reported during the confrontations.
Aida refugee camp has also witnessed similar clashes after IOF military vehicles stormed the camp.
Meanwhile, dozens of Israeli forces broke into Beit Furik town, east of Nablus, and were deployed throughout its neighborhoods for nearly an hour which led to the outbreak of violent clashes.
Teargas bombs were heavily fired at local homes and several locals suffered breathing problems.
Several Palestinians were kidnapped and civilian homes ravaged by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday in an abrupt sweep launched across the West Bank and Jerusalem.
A PIC news correspondent said eight Israeli army patrols rolled into the northern West Bank province of Tulkarem and cordoned off the Shweika neighborhood. Ambushes were set up across the area in the process.
The assault culminated in the abduction of Palestinian citizen Amjad Bassam from his own family home in Shweika quarter.
A few hours earlier, the IOF stormed Jenin province and set up an ambush near the main entrance to Qabatiya town, to the south.
The IOF stopped a van carrying two Palestinian youths and arrested youngster Basheer Abu al-Rub before they seized the vehicle.
At predawn time, four occupation patrols broke into Nablus’s southern town of al-Sawiya, sparking clashes with the Palestinian locals.
The IOF soldiers attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-discharged spates of acoustic bombs.
A similar assault rocked Qaryout’s western corners, to the south of Nablus.
The IOF reportedly wreaked havoc on civilian homes in Ramallah province and scoured residential neighborhoods, triggering panic in the area.
Meanwhile, 20 Israeli settlers, escorted by dozens of special cops, held sway over a Palestinian building in Wadi al-Hiwleh neighborhood, in Jerusalem’s southeastern town of Silwan.
The targeted two-storey building covers an overall area of 160 square meters.
At the same time, the IOF smashed a memorial statute commemorating the slain Palestinian officer Mazin Areiba in Abu Dis town, in eastern Occupied Jerusalem, on claims of incitement.
The IOF attacked the Palestinian protesters with barrages of acoustic grenades as they objected the arbitrary removal of the statue.
Areiba, a Palestinian cop, was killed by the occupation forces on December 3, 2015 after he opened fire at Israeli soldiers near the Hizma military checkpoint in northern Occupied Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier was injured in the anti-occupation shooting.
A PIC news correspondent said eight Israeli army patrols rolled into the northern West Bank province of Tulkarem and cordoned off the Shweika neighborhood. Ambushes were set up across the area in the process.
The assault culminated in the abduction of Palestinian citizen Amjad Bassam from his own family home in Shweika quarter.
A few hours earlier, the IOF stormed Jenin province and set up an ambush near the main entrance to Qabatiya town, to the south.
The IOF stopped a van carrying two Palestinian youths and arrested youngster Basheer Abu al-Rub before they seized the vehicle.
At predawn time, four occupation patrols broke into Nablus’s southern town of al-Sawiya, sparking clashes with the Palestinian locals.
The IOF soldiers attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-discharged spates of acoustic bombs.
A similar assault rocked Qaryout’s western corners, to the south of Nablus.
The IOF reportedly wreaked havoc on civilian homes in Ramallah province and scoured residential neighborhoods, triggering panic in the area.
Meanwhile, 20 Israeli settlers, escorted by dozens of special cops, held sway over a Palestinian building in Wadi al-Hiwleh neighborhood, in Jerusalem’s southeastern town of Silwan.
The targeted two-storey building covers an overall area of 160 square meters.
At the same time, the IOF smashed a memorial statute commemorating the slain Palestinian officer Mazin Areiba in Abu Dis town, in eastern Occupied Jerusalem, on claims of incitement.
The IOF attacked the Palestinian protesters with barrages of acoustic grenades as they objected the arbitrary removal of the statue.
Areiba, a Palestinian cop, was killed by the occupation forces on December 3, 2015 after he opened fire at Israeli soldiers near the Hizma military checkpoint in northern Occupied Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier was injured in the anti-occupation shooting.
A Palestinian woman was injured after being shot by Israeli soldiers at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank, for allegedly attempting to stab Israeli soldiers Friday morning.
Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire at the woman who was walking towards the vehicle lane of the checkpoint.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in a statement that “an Arab ID-holder suspect" approached Israeli security forces via the vehicles’ lane. "Israeli security forces noticed her approaching with a knife in her hand. They told her to stop, but she ignored and kept walking towards them, and they shot at her.”
Lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud of prisoners' rights group Addameer told Ma'an that the woman was identified as Jihan Muhammad Hashimeh, 35, from the neighborhood of al-Issawiya in occupied East Jerusalem.
Locals said that Hashimeh was ill, and that she was on her way to Jerusalem for medical treatment when she entered the vehicle lane by mistake.
According to witnesses, the victim remained on the ground bleeding and screaming in pain while Israeli soldiers prevented ambulance crews from approaching her for almost an hour. She was then detained and transferred to a hospital for treatment.
The Qalandiya military checkpoint between the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah and Israeli annexed East Jerusalem has been a flashpoint of violence in a wave of unrest across the occupied Palestinian territory that began in October 2015, and has left 246 Palestinians killed, the majority of whom were shot dead by Israeli forces.
During the same time period, 34 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.
Six Palestinians have been killed at the Qalandiya checkpoint alone in that time period, including a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 16-year-old brother.
Most recently, Israeli forces shot and killed Jihad Muhammad Said Khalil, 48, from the village of Beit Wazan in the West Bank district of Nablus at the checkpoint, claiming he attempted to stab soldiers. No injuries among soldiers were reported.
Throughout the unrest, rights groups have repeatedly denounced what they have termed Israeli forces' "shoot-to-kill" policy against Palestinians who did not constitute a threat at the time of their death or who could have been subdued in a non-lethal manner.
While Israel alleges many of those were attempting to attack Israelis when they were shot, Palestinians and rights groups have disputed Israel's version of events in a number of cases.
Injured girl kidnapped by Israeli soldiers near Qalandiya
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday morning kidnapped a Palestinian girl after they shot her near the Qalandiya checkpoint, in northern Occupied Jérusalem.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said the occupation soldiers opened fire at the girl on suspicions of attempting to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.
Palestinian sources said the girl was injured in her lower limbs and that she was arrested just after she was shot.
The Israeli soldiers dragged the injured young lady to an unidentified destination pending exhaustive questioning.
Witnesses told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers opened fire at the woman who was walking towards the vehicle lane of the checkpoint.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in a statement that “an Arab ID-holder suspect" approached Israeli security forces via the vehicles’ lane. "Israeli security forces noticed her approaching with a knife in her hand. They told her to stop, but she ignored and kept walking towards them, and they shot at her.”
Lawyer Muhammad Mahmoud of prisoners' rights group Addameer told Ma'an that the woman was identified as Jihan Muhammad Hashimeh, 35, from the neighborhood of al-Issawiya in occupied East Jerusalem.
Locals said that Hashimeh was ill, and that she was on her way to Jerusalem for medical treatment when she entered the vehicle lane by mistake.
According to witnesses, the victim remained on the ground bleeding and screaming in pain while Israeli soldiers prevented ambulance crews from approaching her for almost an hour. She was then detained and transferred to a hospital for treatment.
The Qalandiya military checkpoint between the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah and Israeli annexed East Jerusalem has been a flashpoint of violence in a wave of unrest across the occupied Palestinian territory that began in October 2015, and has left 246 Palestinians killed, the majority of whom were shot dead by Israeli forces.
During the same time period, 34 Israelis have been killed by Palestinians.
Six Palestinians have been killed at the Qalandiya checkpoint alone in that time period, including a pregnant Palestinian woman and her 16-year-old brother.
Most recently, Israeli forces shot and killed Jihad Muhammad Said Khalil, 48, from the village of Beit Wazan in the West Bank district of Nablus at the checkpoint, claiming he attempted to stab soldiers. No injuries among soldiers were reported.
Throughout the unrest, rights groups have repeatedly denounced what they have termed Israeli forces' "shoot-to-kill" policy against Palestinians who did not constitute a threat at the time of their death or who could have been subdued in a non-lethal manner.
While Israel alleges many of those were attempting to attack Israelis when they were shot, Palestinians and rights groups have disputed Israel's version of events in a number of cases.
Injured girl kidnapped by Israeli soldiers near Qalandiya
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday morning kidnapped a Palestinian girl after they shot her near the Qalandiya checkpoint, in northern Occupied Jérusalem.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said the occupation soldiers opened fire at the girl on suspicions of attempting to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.
Palestinian sources said the girl was injured in her lower limbs and that she was arrested just after she was shot.
The Israeli soldiers dragged the injured young lady to an unidentified destination pending exhaustive questioning.
29 dec 2016
A Palestinian youth was shot and injured by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening during clashes that rocked Occupied Jerusalem.
A PIC news correspondent said confrontations burst out in Hizma’s eastern neighborhood, to the northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, where the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-shot spates of rubber bullets and teargas canisters.
Several youngsters choked on tear gas in the assault, at the same time as a Palestinian youth sustained rubber bullet wounds in his stomach.
The IOF further wreaked havoc on civilian homes, sparking panic among women and children.
The attack emerged just a few hours before another round of clashes rocked Qabatiya town, in southern Jenin province.
A flock of 13 Israeli military vehicles rolled into Qabatiya town, in the northern occupied West Bank, and cordoned off the environs of Salah al-Deen Mosque before they targeted Palestinian civilians with bullet fire and teargas canisters.
The Palestinian protesters responded by hurling stones and empty bottles at the occupation troops.
The Israeli soldiers backtracked from the area on way to Mesliyeh Street at the crack of dawn.
A PIC news correspondent said confrontations burst out in Hizma’s eastern neighborhood, to the northeast of Occupied Jerusalem, where the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-shot spates of rubber bullets and teargas canisters.
Several youngsters choked on tear gas in the assault, at the same time as a Palestinian youth sustained rubber bullet wounds in his stomach.
The IOF further wreaked havoc on civilian homes, sparking panic among women and children.
The attack emerged just a few hours before another round of clashes rocked Qabatiya town, in southern Jenin province.
A flock of 13 Israeli military vehicles rolled into Qabatiya town, in the northern occupied West Bank, and cordoned off the environs of Salah al-Deen Mosque before they targeted Palestinian civilians with bullet fire and teargas canisters.
The Palestinian protesters responded by hurling stones and empty bottles at the occupation troops.
The Israeli soldiers backtracked from the area on way to Mesliyeh Street at the crack of dawn.
At least six Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from the West Bank at dawn Thursday.
The Israeli occupation army claimed, in a statement, responsibility for the abduction of five Palestinians on allegations of taking part in anti-occupation activism.
The campaign targeted a Palestinian citizen from Qalqilya and a Hamas affiliate from Beitouna town, along with three Palestinians from al-Khalil province.
The occupation army also said it detected a homemade tubular bomb during an assault on Jenin’s town of Qabatiya.
At the same time, the IOF broke into civilian homes in the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil and came down heavily on the Palestinian inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the IOF kidnapped two brothers from the Palestinian Hreish family in Ramallah’s western town of Beitouna.
According to local sources, an Israeli army patrol stormed the home of Nouh Hreish and kidnapped his two sons Mahmoud, 25, and Ahmad, 22.
The IOF ravaged the family home and seized a laptop and cell phones, before they aggressively beat the detainees’ mother on her head using riffle butts.
The Israeli occupation army claimed, in a statement, responsibility for the abduction of five Palestinians on allegations of taking part in anti-occupation activism.
The campaign targeted a Palestinian citizen from Qalqilya and a Hamas affiliate from Beitouna town, along with three Palestinians from al-Khalil province.
The occupation army also said it detected a homemade tubular bomb during an assault on Jenin’s town of Qabatiya.
At the same time, the IOF broke into civilian homes in the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil and came down heavily on the Palestinian inhabitants.
Meanwhile, the IOF kidnapped two brothers from the Palestinian Hreish family in Ramallah’s western town of Beitouna.
According to local sources, an Israeli army patrol stormed the home of Nouh Hreish and kidnapped his two sons Mahmoud, 25, and Ahmad, 22.
The IOF ravaged the family home and seized a laptop and cell phones, before they aggressively beat the detainees’ mother on her head using riffle butts.
Many Israeli army vehicles invaded, late on Wednesday at night, the village of az-Zawiya, west of Salfit city, in the occupied West Bank, stormed and violently searched many homes, causing excessive damage.
The soldiers surrounded the village, before several army vehicles invaded it, and broke into many homes.
Owners of some of the invaded homes have been identified as Ahmad Raja, Sameeh Firas, Sari Saqer and Firas Adam.
The soldiers conducted excessively violent searches of the invaded homes, causing substantial property damage, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Az-Zawiya has been subject to nightly invasions and violent searches of homes, in addition to being frequently surrounded, part of illegal collective punishment measures enforced by the military under the allegation that some youngsters continue to hurl stones on army vehicles, driving near the town.
The soldiers surrounded the village, before several army vehicles invaded it, and broke into many homes.
Owners of some of the invaded homes have been identified as Ahmad Raja, Sameeh Firas, Sari Saqer and Firas Adam.
The soldiers conducted excessively violent searches of the invaded homes, causing substantial property damage, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Az-Zawiya has been subject to nightly invasions and violent searches of homes, in addition to being frequently surrounded, part of illegal collective punishment measures enforced by the military under the allegation that some youngsters continue to hurl stones on army vehicles, driving near the town.
Dozens of Israeli army vehicles invaded, on Thursday at dawn, a number of towns and refugee camps in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, searched many homes and summoned several young men for interrogation.
The soldiers invaded the towns of ath-Thaheriyya, Beit Awwa and Sammoa’, south of Hebron, Nouba and Ethna towns, west of Hebron, before storming and searching many homes, causing excessive damage.
The army also invaded and searched homes in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, and summoned several young men for interrogation at the Etzion military base and security center.
Furthermore, the soldiers installed roadblocks at the entrances of ath-Thaheriyya and Sammoa’ towns, in addition to Siddet al-Fahs area, south of Hebron, before stopping and searching dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers.
The soldiers invaded the towns of ath-Thaheriyya, Beit Awwa and Sammoa’, south of Hebron, Nouba and Ethna towns, west of Hebron, before storming and searching many homes, causing excessive damage.
The army also invaded and searched homes in the al-Fawwar refugee camp, south of Hebron, and summoned several young men for interrogation at the Etzion military base and security center.
Furthermore, the soldiers installed roadblocks at the entrances of ath-Thaheriyya and Sammoa’ towns, in addition to Siddet al-Fahs area, south of Hebron, before stopping and searching dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers.
