6 mar 2018
by Jonathan Cook
It is has been a very bad week for those claiming Israel has the most moral army in the world. Here’s a small sample of abuses of Palestinians in recent days in which the Israeli army was caught lying.
A child horrifically injured by soldiers was arrested and terrified into signing a false confession that he was hurt in a bicycle accident. A man who, it was claimed, had died of tear-gas inhalation was actually shot at point-blank range, then savagely beaten by a mob of soldiers and left to die. And soldiers threw a tear gas canister at a Palestinian couple, baby in arms, as they fled for safety during a military invasion of their village.
In the early 2000s, at the dawn of the social media revolution, Israelis used to dismiss filmed evidence of brutality by their soldiers as fakery. It was what they called “Pallywood” – a conflation of Palestinian and Hollywood.
In truth, however, it was the Israeli military, not the Palestinians, that needed to manufacture a more convenient version of reality.
Last week, it emerged, Israeli officials had conceded to a military court that the army had beaten and locked up a group of Palestinian reporters as part of an explicit policy of stopping journalists from covering abuses by its soldiers.
Israel’s deceptions have a long history. Back in the 1970s, a young Juliano Meir-Khamis, later to become one of Israel’s most celebrated actors, was assigned the job of carrying a weapons bag on operations in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. When Palestinian women or children were killed, he placed a weapon next to the body.
In one incident, when soldiers playing around with a shoulder-launcher fired a missile at a donkey, and the 12-year-old girl riding it, Meir-Khamis was ordered to put explosives on their remains.
That occurred before the Palestinians’ first mass uprising against the occupation erupted in the late 1980s. Then, the defence minister Yitzhak Rabin – later given a Hollywood-style makeover himself as a peacemaker – urged troops to “break the bones” of Palestinians to stop their liberation struggle.
The desperate, and sometimes self-sabotaging, lengths Israel takes to try to salvage its image were underscored last week when 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi was grabbed from his bed in a night raid.
Back in December he was shot in the face by soldiers during an invasion of his village of Nabi Saleh. Doctors saved his life, but he was left with a misshapen head and a section of skull missing.
Mohammed’s suffering made headlines because he was a bit-player in a larger drama. Shortly after he was shot, a video recorded his cousin, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, slapping a soldier nearby after he entered her home.
Ahed, who is in jail awaiting trial, was already a Palestinian resistance icon. Now she has become a symbol too of Israel’s victimization of children.
So, Israel began work on recrafting the narrative: of Ahed as a terrorist and provocateur.
It emerged that a government minister, Michael Oren, had even set up a secret committee to try to prove that Ahed and her family were really paid actors, not Palestinians, there to “make Israel look bad”. The Pallywood delusion had gone into overdrive.
Last week events took a new turn as Mohammed and other relatives were seized, even though he is still gravely ill. Dragged off to an interrogation cell, he was denied access to a lawyer or parent.
Shortly afterwards, Israel produced a signed confession stating that Mohammed’s horrific injuries were not Israel’s responsibility but wounds inflicted in a bicycle crash.
Yoav Mordechai, the occupation’s top official, trumpeted proof of a Palestinian “culture of lies and incitement”. Mohammed’s injuries were “fake news”, the Israeli media dutifully reported.
Deprived of a justification for slapping an occupation soldier, Ahed can now be locked away by military judges. Except that witnesses, phone records and hospital documentation, including brain scans, all prove that Mohammed was shot.
This was simply another of Israellywood’s endless productions to automatically confer guilt on Palestinians. The hundreds of children on Israel’s incarceration production line each year have to sign confessions – or plea bargains – to win jail-sentence reductions from courts with near-100% conviction rates.
It is more Franz Kafka than Hollywood.
A second army narrative unraveled last week. CCTV showed Yasin Saradih, 35, being shot at point-blank range during an invasion of Jericho, then savagely beaten by soldiers as he lay wounded, and left to bleed to death.
It was an unexceptional incident. A report by Amnesty International last month noted that many of the dozens of Palestinians killed in 2017 appeared to be victims of extra-judicial executions.
Before footage of Saradih’s killing surfaced, the army issued a series of false statements, including that he died from tear-gas inhalation, received first-aid treatment and was armed with a knife. The video disproves all of that.
Over the past two years, dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, have been shot in similarly suspicious circumstances. Invariably the army concludes that they were killed while attacking soldiers with a knife – Israel even named this period of unrest a “knife intifada”.
Are soldiers today carrying a “knife bag”, just as Meir-Khamis once carried a weapons bag?
A half-century of occupation has not only corrupted generations of teenage Israeli soldiers who have been allowed to lord it over Palestinians. It has also needed an industry of lies and self-deceptions to make sure the consciences of Israelis are never clouded by a moment of doubt – that maybe their army is not so moral after all.
- Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His article is published in Palestine Chronicle.
It is has been a very bad week for those claiming Israel has the most moral army in the world. Here’s a small sample of abuses of Palestinians in recent days in which the Israeli army was caught lying.
A child horrifically injured by soldiers was arrested and terrified into signing a false confession that he was hurt in a bicycle accident. A man who, it was claimed, had died of tear-gas inhalation was actually shot at point-blank range, then savagely beaten by a mob of soldiers and left to die. And soldiers threw a tear gas canister at a Palestinian couple, baby in arms, as they fled for safety during a military invasion of their village.
In the early 2000s, at the dawn of the social media revolution, Israelis used to dismiss filmed evidence of brutality by their soldiers as fakery. It was what they called “Pallywood” – a conflation of Palestinian and Hollywood.
In truth, however, it was the Israeli military, not the Palestinians, that needed to manufacture a more convenient version of reality.
Last week, it emerged, Israeli officials had conceded to a military court that the army had beaten and locked up a group of Palestinian reporters as part of an explicit policy of stopping journalists from covering abuses by its soldiers.
Israel’s deceptions have a long history. Back in the 1970s, a young Juliano Meir-Khamis, later to become one of Israel’s most celebrated actors, was assigned the job of carrying a weapons bag on operations in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank. When Palestinian women or children were killed, he placed a weapon next to the body.
In one incident, when soldiers playing around with a shoulder-launcher fired a missile at a donkey, and the 12-year-old girl riding it, Meir-Khamis was ordered to put explosives on their remains.
That occurred before the Palestinians’ first mass uprising against the occupation erupted in the late 1980s. Then, the defence minister Yitzhak Rabin – later given a Hollywood-style makeover himself as a peacemaker – urged troops to “break the bones” of Palestinians to stop their liberation struggle.
The desperate, and sometimes self-sabotaging, lengths Israel takes to try to salvage its image were underscored last week when 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi was grabbed from his bed in a night raid.
Back in December he was shot in the face by soldiers during an invasion of his village of Nabi Saleh. Doctors saved his life, but he was left with a misshapen head and a section of skull missing.
Mohammed’s suffering made headlines because he was a bit-player in a larger drama. Shortly after he was shot, a video recorded his cousin, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, slapping a soldier nearby after he entered her home.
Ahed, who is in jail awaiting trial, was already a Palestinian resistance icon. Now she has become a symbol too of Israel’s victimization of children.
So, Israel began work on recrafting the narrative: of Ahed as a terrorist and provocateur.
It emerged that a government minister, Michael Oren, had even set up a secret committee to try to prove that Ahed and her family were really paid actors, not Palestinians, there to “make Israel look bad”. The Pallywood delusion had gone into overdrive.
Last week events took a new turn as Mohammed and other relatives were seized, even though he is still gravely ill. Dragged off to an interrogation cell, he was denied access to a lawyer or parent.
Shortly afterwards, Israel produced a signed confession stating that Mohammed’s horrific injuries were not Israel’s responsibility but wounds inflicted in a bicycle crash.
Yoav Mordechai, the occupation’s top official, trumpeted proof of a Palestinian “culture of lies and incitement”. Mohammed’s injuries were “fake news”, the Israeli media dutifully reported.
Deprived of a justification for slapping an occupation soldier, Ahed can now be locked away by military judges. Except that witnesses, phone records and hospital documentation, including brain scans, all prove that Mohammed was shot.
This was simply another of Israellywood’s endless productions to automatically confer guilt on Palestinians. The hundreds of children on Israel’s incarceration production line each year have to sign confessions – or plea bargains – to win jail-sentence reductions from courts with near-100% conviction rates.
It is more Franz Kafka than Hollywood.
A second army narrative unraveled last week. CCTV showed Yasin Saradih, 35, being shot at point-blank range during an invasion of Jericho, then savagely beaten by soldiers as he lay wounded, and left to bleed to death.
It was an unexceptional incident. A report by Amnesty International last month noted that many of the dozens of Palestinians killed in 2017 appeared to be victims of extra-judicial executions.
Before footage of Saradih’s killing surfaced, the army issued a series of false statements, including that he died from tear-gas inhalation, received first-aid treatment and was armed with a knife. The video disproves all of that.
Over the past two years, dozens of Palestinians, including women and children, have been shot in similarly suspicious circumstances. Invariably the army concludes that they were killed while attacking soldiers with a knife – Israel even named this period of unrest a “knife intifada”.
Are soldiers today carrying a “knife bag”, just as Meir-Khamis once carried a weapons bag?
A half-century of occupation has not only corrupted generations of teenage Israeli soldiers who have been allowed to lord it over Palestinians. It has also needed an industry of lies and self-deceptions to make sure the consciences of Israelis are never clouded by a moment of doubt – that maybe their army is not so moral after all.
- Jonathan Cook won the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His article is published in Palestine Chronicle.
A group of Palestinian youths were suspected of attacking a number of Israeli settlers’ cars while passing near their town of Halhoul, north of al-Khalil.
Israeli media sources claimed that the youths spray painted settlers’ cars.
Similar incidents were allegedly reported over the past two weeks, the sources added.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, 30 heavily armed settlers stormed Einabus town, south of Nablus, and brutally attacked a bulldozer driver while working in an agricultural land.
The settlers also opened fire at local residents when they tried to prevent the attack.
In the absence of any protection from the Israeli army or the PA, Palestinian villages are routinely subjected to similar attacks.
More than 600,000 Israeli settlers live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
Israeli media sources claimed that the youths spray painted settlers’ cars.
Similar incidents were allegedly reported over the past two weeks, the sources added.
Earlier on Tuesday morning, 30 heavily armed settlers stormed Einabus town, south of Nablus, and brutally attacked a bulldozer driver while working in an agricultural land.
The settlers also opened fire at local residents when they tried to prevent the attack.
In the absence of any protection from the Israeli army or the PA, Palestinian villages are routinely subjected to similar attacks.
More than 600,000 Israeli settlers live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
A group of Palestinian young protesters on Monday afternoon managed to infiltrate into the no-go area on the eastern border of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and cause damage to the barbed wire security fence and its gate there.
According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), the young men cut through strands of barbed wire in the security fence, which is located in front of the Israeli military post known locally as al-Farrahin.
They were also able to place Palestinian flags at the fence and infiltrate into the Israeli-controlled border area before returning safely to Gaza.
Since the US recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, several angry protests have taken place in different areas of Palestine, including on the eastern border of Gaza.
According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), the young men cut through strands of barbed wire in the security fence, which is located in front of the Israeli military post known locally as al-Farrahin.
They were also able to place Palestinian flags at the fence and infiltrate into the Israeli-controlled border area before returning safely to Gaza.
Since the US recognition of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, several angry protests have taken place in different areas of Palestine, including on the eastern border of Gaza.
4 mar 2018
A Palestinian was shot and injured by Israeli police on Sunday after he allegedly ran over three Israelis in Acre city, in territories occupied in 1948.
According to a statement by the Israeli police, three Israeli soldiers were injured in the alleged anti-occupation car-ramming attack.
The police claimed they opened fire after at the driver after he hit passengers and headed to the city’s central station, where he attempted to hit other persons.
Haaretz daily claimed one of the soldiers sustained critical wounds in the attack.
According to the same source, the Palestinian driver was shot and critically injured by Israeli cops. Video
Police confirm Acre car-ramming a terror attack
Four, among them 2 soldiers and a cop, left in light-moderate condition after Arab-Israeli driver plows his vehicle into them near city's train station and market; police originally unsure whether attack was result of driver being issued a parking ticket, but later clarify it was fully nationalistically-motivated.
An Arab-Israeli ran over and lightly-to-moderately wounded two soldiers, a border policeman and a pedestrian in the city of Acre on Sunday morning in what police confirmed in the afternoon was a terror attack.
Security forces were orinially unsure as to the motives of the driver, with varying reports indicating that he had gone on the rampage with his vehicle after being issued an expensive parking fine. However, the security forces dispelled the rumors, stating that the attack and the parking ticket were entirely unrelated.
The driver, 51 from northern Israel, ran over a soldier near the city market, before proceeding toward the train station where he plowed his vehicle into more victims.
A wounded border policeman managed to pull off a shot at the terrorist and according to initial reports managed to neutralize him.
However, conflicting testimony was provided by eye witnesses. Shimon Cohen said that the policeman loaded his gun and shot but he didn’t hit him. The driver continued to drive toward the train station and hit another two. I didn’t see that part."
Cohen, along with others, also said that the driver received a fine of NIS 1,000 for parking in a disabled spot. "He got annoyed and drove onto the sidewalk, hit some street signs and bushes and then ran over a border policeman."
The terrorist was evacuated to hospital in moderate to serious condition.
Despite the police’s conclusions, the terrorist’s family expressed their shock. “It is hard for me to believe that this was a nationalistically-motivated incident,” said one of his family members. “Maybe he was angry over receiving a ticket and that’s why he did it. He never thought about hurting people. He doesn’t have those types of thoughts.”
Moreover, the police’s evaluations have not yet satisfied the Shin Bet, who have yet to investigate the driver, in determining his motive.
In footage that captured the attack, the driver can be seen accelerating his SUV and plowing into a soldier, propelling him into the air and over the car.
“We received reports from security forces about an attempted terror attack using a car … At the moment we are in the first stages of the investigation and are trying to figure out what happened here,” said the city’s Chief Superintendent Yaniv Ronen before police concluded that the attack was nationalistically-motivated.
“This is an extremely serious incident but we don’t want to draw conclusions yet. The identity of the driver is known and we are also looking into that,” he said.
One eyewitness told Ynet that he was standing at the train station when he suddenly hear screaming.
“After that I heard a few gun shots, I crossed the road towards the parking lot of the market, saw two soldier lying on the ground, one near the side of the station and the other near the vehicle,” he said, adding that the gun shots were fired by more than one person, likely soldiers and border policemen.
Another eyewitness said that she was on a bridge when she saw the attacking vehicle rapidly turn a corner toward the market.
“I stopped in shock, and after that I saw how the police were giving him a report. They told me he received a ticket on Yehoshafat street and started going mad,” she said.
Magen David Adom (MDA) received reports at 11:37am that a vehicle had struck one man on Yehoshafat street and continued driving in the direction of the train station, where he rammed into two others.
The paramedics evacuated the wounded victims, approximately 20 years old, who were lightly-moderately wounded to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
Police launched an investigation to determine the motives behind the incident.
“When I got to the scene with other paramedics who live nearby I came across a driver who was shot and seriously wounded and pedestrians who were lightly and moderately wounded as a result of being hit by a vehicle,” said one medic.
According to a statement by the Israeli police, three Israeli soldiers were injured in the alleged anti-occupation car-ramming attack.
The police claimed they opened fire after at the driver after he hit passengers and headed to the city’s central station, where he attempted to hit other persons.
Haaretz daily claimed one of the soldiers sustained critical wounds in the attack.
According to the same source, the Palestinian driver was shot and critically injured by Israeli cops. Video
Police confirm Acre car-ramming a terror attack
Four, among them 2 soldiers and a cop, left in light-moderate condition after Arab-Israeli driver plows his vehicle into them near city's train station and market; police originally unsure whether attack was result of driver being issued a parking ticket, but later clarify it was fully nationalistically-motivated.
An Arab-Israeli ran over and lightly-to-moderately wounded two soldiers, a border policeman and a pedestrian in the city of Acre on Sunday morning in what police confirmed in the afternoon was a terror attack.
Security forces were orinially unsure as to the motives of the driver, with varying reports indicating that he had gone on the rampage with his vehicle after being issued an expensive parking fine. However, the security forces dispelled the rumors, stating that the attack and the parking ticket were entirely unrelated.
The driver, 51 from northern Israel, ran over a soldier near the city market, before proceeding toward the train station where he plowed his vehicle into more victims.
A wounded border policeman managed to pull off a shot at the terrorist and according to initial reports managed to neutralize him.
However, conflicting testimony was provided by eye witnesses. Shimon Cohen said that the policeman loaded his gun and shot but he didn’t hit him. The driver continued to drive toward the train station and hit another two. I didn’t see that part."
Cohen, along with others, also said that the driver received a fine of NIS 1,000 for parking in a disabled spot. "He got annoyed and drove onto the sidewalk, hit some street signs and bushes and then ran over a border policeman."
The terrorist was evacuated to hospital in moderate to serious condition.
Despite the police’s conclusions, the terrorist’s family expressed their shock. “It is hard for me to believe that this was a nationalistically-motivated incident,” said one of his family members. “Maybe he was angry over receiving a ticket and that’s why he did it. He never thought about hurting people. He doesn’t have those types of thoughts.”
Moreover, the police’s evaluations have not yet satisfied the Shin Bet, who have yet to investigate the driver, in determining his motive.
In footage that captured the attack, the driver can be seen accelerating his SUV and plowing into a soldier, propelling him into the air and over the car.
“We received reports from security forces about an attempted terror attack using a car … At the moment we are in the first stages of the investigation and are trying to figure out what happened here,” said the city’s Chief Superintendent Yaniv Ronen before police concluded that the attack was nationalistically-motivated.
“This is an extremely serious incident but we don’t want to draw conclusions yet. The identity of the driver is known and we are also looking into that,” he said.
One eyewitness told Ynet that he was standing at the train station when he suddenly hear screaming.
“After that I heard a few gun shots, I crossed the road towards the parking lot of the market, saw two soldier lying on the ground, one near the side of the station and the other near the vehicle,” he said, adding that the gun shots were fired by more than one person, likely soldiers and border policemen.
Another eyewitness said that she was on a bridge when she saw the attacking vehicle rapidly turn a corner toward the market.
“I stopped in shock, and after that I saw how the police were giving him a report. They told me he received a ticket on Yehoshafat street and started going mad,” she said.
Magen David Adom (MDA) received reports at 11:37am that a vehicle had struck one man on Yehoshafat street and continued driving in the direction of the train station, where he rammed into two others.
The paramedics evacuated the wounded victims, approximately 20 years old, who were lightly-moderately wounded to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
Police launched an investigation to determine the motives behind the incident.
“When I got to the scene with other paramedics who live nearby I came across a driver who was shot and seriously wounded and pedestrians who were lightly and moderately wounded as a result of being hit by a vehicle,” said one medic.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Sunday stormed Kifl Haris town north of Salfit to search for Palestinians accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at settlers' vehicles.
The Hebrew website "0404" reported that unknown Palestinians attacked settlers' vehicles with two Molotov cocktails near the town on Saturday night.
Local sources said that the IOF withdrew from the area after arresting a Palestinian youth, adding that a military vehicle was placed in the morning at the town's entrance.
Kifl Haris is repeatedly raided by the IOF or Israeli settlers to perform Talmudic rituals in its Islamic shrines.
The Hebrew website "0404" reported that unknown Palestinians attacked settlers' vehicles with two Molotov cocktails near the town on Saturday night.
Local sources said that the IOF withdrew from the area after arresting a Palestinian youth, adding that a military vehicle was placed in the morning at the town's entrance.
Kifl Haris is repeatedly raided by the IOF or Israeli settlers to perform Talmudic rituals in its Islamic shrines.
3 mar 2018
About 2,982 Israeli violations were reported in February 2018 against Palestinians in the West Bank including 374 violations in Jerusalem alone.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out 1,241 raids and break-ins in addition to 26 demolition and confiscation operations during the same period.
According to statistics by Hamas's information department in the West Bank, the IOF in February killed five Palestinians in the West Bank and injured 468 others, twice the number of those injured in January.
The same statistics revealed that 129 arrests were documented in Jerusalem, 84 in Ramallah, 72 in Bethlehem, 62 in Nablus, 59 in Jenin, 55 in al-Khalil, 25 in Qalqilya, 25 in Salfit, 24 in Tulkarem, 17 in Jericho and 6 in Tubas.
The IOF demolished 8 houses, expelled 3 Palestinians from Jerusalem and prevented 211 Palestinians from travel, while nearly 24 break-ins were reported into al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli settlers.
Five Palestinians were killed by the IOF in February named Ahmad Abu Obeid, 19, Ahmad Jarrar, 22, Khalid al-Tayeh, 22, Hamza Zama'ra, 19, and Yasin al-Saradih, 33, who died after being severely beaten by the Israeli soldiers during his arrest.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out 1,241 raids and break-ins in addition to 26 demolition and confiscation operations during the same period.
According to statistics by Hamas's information department in the West Bank, the IOF in February killed five Palestinians in the West Bank and injured 468 others, twice the number of those injured in January.
The same statistics revealed that 129 arrests were documented in Jerusalem, 84 in Ramallah, 72 in Bethlehem, 62 in Nablus, 59 in Jenin, 55 in al-Khalil, 25 in Qalqilya, 25 in Salfit, 24 in Tulkarem, 17 in Jericho and 6 in Tubas.
The IOF demolished 8 houses, expelled 3 Palestinians from Jerusalem and prevented 211 Palestinians from travel, while nearly 24 break-ins were reported into al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli settlers.
Five Palestinians were killed by the IOF in February named Ahmad Abu Obeid, 19, Ahmad Jarrar, 22, Khalid al-Tayeh, 22, Hamza Zama'ra, 19, and Yasin al-Saradih, 33, who died after being severely beaten by the Israeli soldiers during his arrest.
1 mar 2018
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday kidnapped coordinator of Youth against Settlement in al-Khalil city Issa Amr.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers kidnapped Amr from the headquarters of Youth against Settlement in al-Khalil and took him to an interrogation center.
In a separate incident, an Israeli bus carrying Jewish settlers was thrown with paint as it was traveling near al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil.
Meanwhile, hundreds of settlers celebrated the last day of the Purim holiday, during which they held provocative marches in Tel Rumeida neighborhood and in the Ibrahimi Mosque’s courtyards.
The IOF also intensified its presence in the Old City of al-Khalil to secure the settlers’ celebration of the holiday.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli soldiers kidnapped Amr from the headquarters of Youth against Settlement in al-Khalil and took him to an interrogation center.
In a separate incident, an Israeli bus carrying Jewish settlers was thrown with paint as it was traveling near al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil.
Meanwhile, hundreds of settlers celebrated the last day of the Purim holiday, during which they held provocative marches in Tel Rumeida neighborhood and in the Ibrahimi Mosque’s courtyards.
The IOF also intensified its presence in the Old City of al-Khalil to secure the settlers’ celebration of the holiday.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Thursday a Palestinian girl, north of Bethlehem, for alleged knife possession.
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that an 18-year-old girl was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint north of Bethlehem after allegedly finding a knife in her bag.
Israeli military sources claimed that the detainee tried to attack the soldiers before being arrested.
The girl, whose identity remained unknown, was later taken to a nearby investigation center.
The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that an 18-year-old girl was detained at an Israeli military checkpoint north of Bethlehem after allegedly finding a knife in her bag.
Israeli military sources claimed that the detainee tried to attack the soldiers before being arrested.
The girl, whose identity remained unknown, was later taken to a nearby investigation center.
27 feb 2018
A group of anti-occupation youths on Tuesday evening opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint near al-Bireh city in the central West Bank.
Spokesperson of Israeli army claimed that armed youths opened their gunfire at an Israeli checkpoint erected near Psogot settlement, illegally built in Palestinian-owned land.
No injuries were reported in the alleged shooting attack.
Following the incident, Israeli army patrols scoured the area in the hunt for the alleged perpetrators.
Spokesperson of Israeli army claimed that armed youths opened their gunfire at an Israeli checkpoint erected near Psogot settlement, illegally built in Palestinian-owned land.
No injuries were reported in the alleged shooting attack.
Following the incident, Israeli army patrols scoured the area in the hunt for the alleged perpetrators.
Israeli Army Minister Avigdor Lieberman claimed that his army forces thwarted between 20 and 30 “Palestinian attacks” in the West Bank each week over the past few months.
Lieberman admitted that Palestinian resistance’ operations have notably escalated in al-Khalil's old city.
“In the Central Command, and especially in the area of the old city, a large-scale operation to thwart [attacks] has been undertaken in recent months — between 20 and 30 each week — in response to an increasing effort by terrorist forces,” Lieberman said during a tour of al-Khalil.
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities announced the imposition of a comprehensive security cordon on the occupied West Bank and the closure of the crossings into the Gaza Strip during the Jewish “Purim” holiday.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Army said that the authorities have ordered the cordon to be in place from Tuesday till next Saturday.
Lieberman admitted that Palestinian resistance’ operations have notably escalated in al-Khalil's old city.
“In the Central Command, and especially in the area of the old city, a large-scale operation to thwart [attacks] has been undertaken in recent months — between 20 and 30 each week — in response to an increasing effort by terrorist forces,” Lieberman said during a tour of al-Khalil.
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli occupation authorities announced the imposition of a comprehensive security cordon on the occupied West Bank and the closure of the crossings into the Gaza Strip during the Jewish “Purim” holiday.
A spokesperson for the Israeli Army said that the authorities have ordered the cordon to be in place from Tuesday till next Saturday.
23 feb 2018
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday arrested a Palestinian citizen in al-Khalil during a raid into the city following an alleged Molotov cocktail attack on Kiryat Arba settlement.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that large numbers of military jeeps and infantry soldiers stormed several areas in al-Khalil in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba settlement.
They said that the IOF raided a number of houses, searched them and arrested Arafat al-Qawasmeh amid heavy firing of sound bombs and tear gas canisters.
According to the witnesses, the IOF before the raid announced a state of alert claiming that a Molotov cocktail was thrown near Kiryat Arba settlement illegally built on Palestinian lands.
The IOF soldiers on a daily basis carry out overnight raid and arrest campaigns in the West Bank under the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that large numbers of military jeeps and infantry soldiers stormed several areas in al-Khalil in the vicinity of Kiryat Arba settlement.
They said that the IOF raided a number of houses, searched them and arrested Arafat al-Qawasmeh amid heavy firing of sound bombs and tear gas canisters.
According to the witnesses, the IOF before the raid announced a state of alert claiming that a Molotov cocktail was thrown near Kiryat Arba settlement illegally built on Palestinian lands.
The IOF soldiers on a daily basis carry out overnight raid and arrest campaigns in the West Bank under the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday stormed Ya’bad town, west of Jenin, and nearby areas after the illegal settlement of Hermesh were reportedly attacked with Molotov cocktails.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that young men hurled Molotov cocktails at the settlement, provoking the Israeli army to launch a manhunt for the perpetrators.
According to the sources, the IOF closed the road between the towns of Ya’bad and Qaffin and intensified its presence at Dotan checkpoint and on the road leading to Hermesh.
Soldiers were also deployed in Amriha town near Ya’bad and at the junction of Barta'a, where they scanned the area.
Meanwhile, violent clashes broke out between local young men and soldiers after the latter stormed Ya’bad town.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that young men hurled Molotov cocktails at the settlement, provoking the Israeli army to launch a manhunt for the perpetrators.
According to the sources, the IOF closed the road between the towns of Ya’bad and Qaffin and intensified its presence at Dotan checkpoint and on the road leading to Hermesh.
Soldiers were also deployed in Amriha town near Ya’bad and at the junction of Barta'a, where they scanned the area.
Meanwhile, violent clashes broke out between local young men and soldiers after the latter stormed Ya’bad town.
18 feb 2018
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at noontime Sunday kidnapped a Palestinian young man near the Salem military court, west of Jenin, on claims that he had a knife in his possession.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers cordoned off the Salem military camp and cracked down on Palestinians before they kidnapped a young man at a checkpoint set at the camp’s outer entrance.
Hebrew-speaking radio stations said Israeli forces arrested a young man from Nablus after a Carlo gun was spotted in his bag at the main entrance to Salem court.
According to local sources, Israeli soldiers cordoned off the Salem military camp and cracked down on Palestinians before they kidnapped a young man at a checkpoint set at the camp’s outer entrance.
Hebrew-speaking radio stations said Israeli forces arrested a young man from Nablus after a Carlo gun was spotted in his bag at the main entrance to Salem court.
Israel's Shin Bet security agency on Sunday announced that it has recently arrested an Islamic Jihad cell composed of six Palestinians from Bethlehem and claimed that they were plotting to assassinate the Israeli war minister Avigdor Lieberman.
According to a statement released by the agency, the six Palestinians were planning to place a bomb on a West Bank road near Gush Etzion settlement on which Lieberman's convoy was to travel.
The statement noted that the cell had planned to carry out other operations without giving details. No response from the Islamic Jihad Movement has been issued yet to the Shin Bet accusation.
The Shin Bet also claimed foiling a plot by another Islamic Jihad armed cell operating in Bethlehem to launch shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Lieberman was the target of a similar plot in 2014 when a Hamas cell planned to hit the vehicle in which he was traveling with an RPG.
The Shin Bet said that the Islamic Jihad cell members were aware of past failed attempts to kill Lieberman and therefore believed that if they planted an explosive device on the Israeli minister's travel route they would be more successful.
Based on the Shin Bet allegations, the cell's location had been identified and its plan thwarted at a very early stage of its work.
According to a statement released by the agency, the six Palestinians were planning to place a bomb on a West Bank road near Gush Etzion settlement on which Lieberman's convoy was to travel.
The statement noted that the cell had planned to carry out other operations without giving details. No response from the Islamic Jihad Movement has been issued yet to the Shin Bet accusation.
The Shin Bet also claimed foiling a plot by another Islamic Jihad armed cell operating in Bethlehem to launch shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Lieberman was the target of a similar plot in 2014 when a Hamas cell planned to hit the vehicle in which he was traveling with an RPG.
The Shin Bet said that the Islamic Jihad cell members were aware of past failed attempts to kill Lieberman and therefore believed that if they planted an explosive device on the Israeli minister's travel route they would be more successful.
Based on the Shin Bet allegations, the cell's location had been identified and its plan thwarted at a very early stage of its work.
14 feb 2018
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Wednesday stormed a cave in Ellar town north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem and blasted high explosives in the area.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers brought two Palestinian prisoners of the town and forced the detainees while being chained to show them the site of bombs.
A few weeks ago, IOF troops arrested a large number of Palestinians from the town and the nearby villages after the Palestinian Authority security forces had found a minefield in the area.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers brought two Palestinian prisoners of the town and forced the detainees while being chained to show them the site of bombs.
A few weeks ago, IOF troops arrested a large number of Palestinians from the town and the nearby villages after the Palestinian Authority security forces had found a minefield in the area.
The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday arrested three Palestinian young men near the Salem military court, west of Jenin province, on claims that they were holding an explosive device.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, an Israeli army patrol cordoned off the Salem court shortly before explosives experts showed up in the area to inspect the alleged device.
The three young men were dragged to an Israeli detention center pending intensive questioning.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, an Israeli army patrol cordoned off the Salem court shortly before explosives experts showed up in the area to inspect the alleged device.
The three young men were dragged to an Israeli detention center pending intensive questioning.
13 feb 2018
Political bureau member of Hamas Husam Badran hailed on Tuesday Palestinian anti-occupation protesters throughout the West Bank who have been standing on guard to ongoing Israeli crimes.
In tweets published in response to the security cooperation between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority forces, Badran condemned the ongoing security coordination and paid tribute to the Palestinian anti-occupation youth who have been defending their land regardless of their partisan affiliations.
“Those who have been protecting the occupiers at gunpoint and siding against their people do not represent the Palestinian people,” said Badran.
The Hamas leader spoke out against underway attempts to cooperate with the Israelis despite their simmering terrorism and crimes across the occupied Palestinian territories. “When on earth will such parties follow their people’s choices?” he wondered.
In tweets published in response to the security cooperation between the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority forces, Badran condemned the ongoing security coordination and paid tribute to the Palestinian anti-occupation youth who have been defending their land regardless of their partisan affiliations.
“Those who have been protecting the occupiers at gunpoint and siding against their people do not represent the Palestinian people,” said Badran.
The Hamas leader spoke out against underway attempts to cooperate with the Israelis despite their simmering terrorism and crimes across the occupied Palestinian territories. “When on earth will such parties follow their people’s choices?” he wondered.
