29 apr 2018
Palestinian and Hebrew media sources reported that the Israeli Price Tag gang on Sunday attacked Palestinian vehicles in Ramallah.
Local sources said that a group of Israeli settlers punctured the tires of 10 Palestinian vehicles and spray painted racist graffiti on the walls of a number of Palestinian houses in Turmus Ayya village north of Ramallah.
Last week witnessed dozens of similar attacks in Occupied Jerusalem and some West Bank villages.
Price Tag gang emerged officially in 2008 and it is composed of groups of settlers who carry out serial attacks on Palestinian citizens, property and places of worship whether Islamic or Christian.
Local sources said that a group of Israeli settlers punctured the tires of 10 Palestinian vehicles and spray painted racist graffiti on the walls of a number of Palestinian houses in Turmus Ayya village north of Ramallah.
Last week witnessed dozens of similar attacks in Occupied Jerusalem and some West Bank villages.
Price Tag gang emerged officially in 2008 and it is composed of groups of settlers who carry out serial attacks on Palestinian citizens, property and places of worship whether Islamic or Christian.
Israel’s Nature Authority on Sunday morning stormed the Rahma cemetery adjacent to the eastern wall of al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam.
The Israeli Nature Authority staff members, escorted by armed officers, stormed the Rahma cemetery and sprayed chemical substances on trees planted in the area.
Israeli policemen closed off the main access road to the cemetery.
The cemetery is home to the bodies of a number of companions of the Prophet of Islam, Mohammed Peace Be Upon Him.
The Israeli occupation authorities have sought to hold sway over parts of the cemetery in an attempt to establish parks for settlers and wipe out the site’s Islamic identity. Video Video
The Israeli Nature Authority staff members, escorted by armed officers, stormed the Rahma cemetery and sprayed chemical substances on trees planted in the area.
Israeli policemen closed off the main access road to the cemetery.
The cemetery is home to the bodies of a number of companions of the Prophet of Islam, Mohammed Peace Be Upon Him.
The Israeli occupation authorities have sought to hold sway over parts of the cemetery in an attempt to establish parks for settlers and wipe out the site’s Islamic identity. Video Video
Dozens of Jewish settlers accompanied by police forces forced their way into Occupied Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday morning.
More than 62 settlers backed by Israeli police have forced their way into the Al-Aqsa compound via the Al-Magharbeh Gate in the morning, Jerusalemite sources reported.
Settlers toured the compound in groups and attempted to perform Talmudic rituals, the sources added.
Meanwhile, Israeli police continue to restrict Palestinian worshipers’ access into al-Aqsa.
More than 62 settlers backed by Israeli police have forced their way into the Al-Aqsa compound via the Al-Magharbeh Gate in the morning, Jerusalemite sources reported.
Settlers toured the compound in groups and attempted to perform Talmudic rituals, the sources added.
Meanwhile, Israeli police continue to restrict Palestinian worshipers’ access into al-Aqsa.
28 apr 2018
Israeli extremist settlers on Saturday cut fruitful olive trees in Palestinian lands in Ourif town, south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that settlers from Yitzhar illegal settlement chopped down 14 fruitful trees in Palestinian olive groves in Ourif town.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that settlers from Yitzhar illegal settlement chopped down 14 fruitful trees in Palestinian olive groves in Ourif town.
A horde of Jewish settlers on Friday punctured tires of a Palestinian heavy truck and spraypainted racist slurs on a wall near a quarry in Urif village, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Local activist Zakariya al-Saddah said that some villagers found out about the settlers’ assault in the evening because the area where it took place is located on the outskirts of the village.
Recently, settlers from the notorious Price Tag gangs escalated their crimes against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank.
Local activist Zakariya al-Saddah said that some villagers found out about the settlers’ assault in the evening because the area where it took place is located on the outskirts of the village.
Recently, settlers from the notorious Price Tag gangs escalated their crimes against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank.
27 apr 2018
Israeli settlers, on Friday, slashed the tires of vehicles and spray-painted racist graffiti on walls near the village of Asira al-Qiblia, to the south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the area, said that illegal Israeli settlers slashed the tires of vehicles and spray-painted racist graffiti on walls.
Settlers, this week, vandalized cars in the villages of Beit Iksa and Burqa, near Ramallah city in the West Bank, and painted hate slogans on cars and walls. They also vandalized cars in Nazareth, an predominantly Arab city inside the Israeli boundaries. No one was arrested in any of these incidents.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the area, said that illegal Israeli settlers slashed the tires of vehicles and spray-painted racist graffiti on walls.
Settlers, this week, vandalized cars in the villages of Beit Iksa and Burqa, near Ramallah city in the West Bank, and painted hate slogans on cars and walls. They also vandalized cars in Nazareth, an predominantly Arab city inside the Israeli boundaries. No one was arrested in any of these incidents.
The day after settlers seize the Zaatari family’s home in downtown Hebron, March 27, 2018.
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Settlers attack the homes of the Kfeisheh and Jaber families in occupied Hebron.
The same group of settlers who recently occupied the Za’tari home in downtown Hebron attempted to displace the Kfeisheh and Jaber families from their nearby homes on April 21, 2018.
The settlers told the Kfeisheh family to leave their house and tried to enter it. The same settlers told the Jaber family to leave their home before threatening to take it over.
Both homes are located in the center of the Old City near the Ibrahimi Mosque. Both attacks happened in the sight of Israeli soldiers who did not stop them.
Activist in Hebron’s Human Rights Defenders Coalition Aref Jaber said of the incident:
It seems that the settlers targeted the houses located in el Sahla in the downtown area, close to the Ibarahimi Mosque, in order to force residents to leave their homes. The settlers want to implement policies to control more and more of the Old City. The settlers targeted most of parts of this area, including the Jaber, Wadi Hussain and Salaima neighborhoods.In downtown Hebron, five small settlements that house between 500 and 1,000 Israelis continue to expand onto Palestinian land and property. Settlers and soldiers infringe upon the human rights of neighboring Palestinians there everyday.
Discriminatory policies and practices have transformed the downtown, where 55,000 Palestinians live, into a real ghetto governed by a system of Apartheid that benefits Israeli settlers. Local and grassroots movements, political parties, and activists have struggled to end the racist rule over the city for years.
Ahmad Jaradat is the Senior Project Coordinator at the Alternative Information Center (AIC.
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Settlers attack the homes of the Kfeisheh and Jaber families in occupied Hebron.
The same group of settlers who recently occupied the Za’tari home in downtown Hebron attempted to displace the Kfeisheh and Jaber families from their nearby homes on April 21, 2018.
The settlers told the Kfeisheh family to leave their house and tried to enter it. The same settlers told the Jaber family to leave their home before threatening to take it over.
Both homes are located in the center of the Old City near the Ibrahimi Mosque. Both attacks happened in the sight of Israeli soldiers who did not stop them.
Activist in Hebron’s Human Rights Defenders Coalition Aref Jaber said of the incident:
It seems that the settlers targeted the houses located in el Sahla in the downtown area, close to the Ibarahimi Mosque, in order to force residents to leave their homes. The settlers want to implement policies to control more and more of the Old City. The settlers targeted most of parts of this area, including the Jaber, Wadi Hussain and Salaima neighborhoods.In downtown Hebron, five small settlements that house between 500 and 1,000 Israelis continue to expand onto Palestinian land and property. Settlers and soldiers infringe upon the human rights of neighboring Palestinians there everyday.
Discriminatory policies and practices have transformed the downtown, where 55,000 Palestinians live, into a real ghetto governed by a system of Apartheid that benefits Israeli settlers. Local and grassroots movements, political parties, and activists have struggled to end the racist rule over the city for years.
Ahmad Jaradat is the Senior Project Coordinator at the Alternative Information Center (AIC.
25 apr 2018
A group of Israeli settlers Wednesday slashed tires of a number of Palestinian-owned vehicles and spray-painted anti-Arab slogans in the village of Jaloud, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Head of the village council Abdulallah al-Haj Mohamed said that settlers vandalized the cars and wrote hate slogans on walls of homes.
He added that the attack was carried out in the eastern part of the village, an area where two illegal Jewish outposts were built.
Jaloud village is surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and is a target of many settlers’ attacks, he continued.
Head of the village council Abdulallah al-Haj Mohamed said that settlers vandalized the cars and wrote hate slogans on walls of homes.
He added that the attack was carried out in the eastern part of the village, an area where two illegal Jewish outposts were built.
Jaloud village is surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and is a target of many settlers’ attacks, he continued.
Israeli police offered protection to 57 Jewish settlers who stormed the plazas of al-Aqsa Mosque from al-Magharebah gate on Wednesday.
Local sources said that the settlers were escorted by 17 members of Israeli intelligence forces while roaming the courtyards of the Muslims’ holy shrine.
Earlier on Tuesday, 4 guards of al-Aqsa Mosque were banned from entering the holy site: three for six months and one for 30 days.
Director of al-Aqsa Mosque Shiekh Omar al-Kiswani condemned the Israeli unjust ban-of-entry orders against al-Aqsa guards and labeling them as “danger to the public” as claimed by Israeli forces.
He reiterated that al-Aqsa Mosque is for Muslims only and that Israeli police have no right to bar the guards from accessing the holy site and fulfilling their duties.
Kiswani opined that the entry-ban orders aimed at paving the way for new measures to be pursued against the workers at the mosque. He stressed that the Jordanian Awqaf Ministry along with Islamic Endowment Department are going to follow up such Israeli orders in addition to legal follow up.
Local sources said that the settlers were escorted by 17 members of Israeli intelligence forces while roaming the courtyards of the Muslims’ holy shrine.
Earlier on Tuesday, 4 guards of al-Aqsa Mosque were banned from entering the holy site: three for six months and one for 30 days.
Director of al-Aqsa Mosque Shiekh Omar al-Kiswani condemned the Israeli unjust ban-of-entry orders against al-Aqsa guards and labeling them as “danger to the public” as claimed by Israeli forces.
He reiterated that al-Aqsa Mosque is for Muslims only and that Israeli police have no right to bar the guards from accessing the holy site and fulfilling their duties.
Kiswani opined that the entry-ban orders aimed at paving the way for new measures to be pursued against the workers at the mosque. He stressed that the Jordanian Awqaf Ministry along with Islamic Endowment Department are going to follow up such Israeli orders in addition to legal follow up.
Israel’s alleged Temple Mount organizations have launched calls for mass break-ins into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam—on May 13.
Leaflets circulated on social media networks by the Temple Mount groups urged Israeli settlers to collectively defile al-Aqsa Mosque on the so-called "Jerusalem Day", in reference to the day when Israel occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem city.
Last year, similar break-ins carried out by Israel’s settler hordes into al-Aqsa fueled tension across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Over recent days, Israeli police stepped up crackdowns against the Muslim guards and staff at al-Aqsa Mosque, banning at least six from the site for periods ranging from 15 days to six months.
May 30, 2018, marks the 51st anniversary of Israel’s takeover of Jerusalem’s eastern part following the 1967 war, known as the Naksa Day, as it has resulted in the displacement of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
Leaflets circulated on social media networks by the Temple Mount groups urged Israeli settlers to collectively defile al-Aqsa Mosque on the so-called "Jerusalem Day", in reference to the day when Israel occupied the eastern part of Jerusalem city.
Last year, similar break-ins carried out by Israel’s settler hordes into al-Aqsa fueled tension across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Over recent days, Israeli police stepped up crackdowns against the Muslim guards and staff at al-Aqsa Mosque, banning at least six from the site for periods ranging from 15 days to six months.
May 30, 2018, marks the 51st anniversary of Israel’s takeover of Jerusalem’s eastern part following the 1967 war, known as the Naksa Day, as it has resulted in the displacement of thousands of Palestinians from their homes.
Members of the Israeli terror organization, Price Tag, set fire on Wednesday to two Palestinian-owned vehicles in the village of Iksal, in Nazareth, in territories occupied in 1948.
Israeli police reportedly arrived at the scene, collected evidence, and interviewed witnesses, but did not make any arrests.
The arson-attack was carried out at dawn time. The settlers also spray-painted graffiti reading “oh Jews let’s make it”.
Price Tag and other similar Israeli terror groups regularly carry out terror attacks against Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Over recent months, Israeli terrorists have increasingly vandalized dozens of Palestinian vehicles in the occupied West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli police reportedly arrived at the scene, collected evidence, and interviewed witnesses, but did not make any arrests.
The arson-attack was carried out at dawn time. The settlers also spray-painted graffiti reading “oh Jews let’s make it”.
Price Tag and other similar Israeli terror groups regularly carry out terror attacks against Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territories.
Over recent months, Israeli terrorists have increasingly vandalized dozens of Palestinian vehicles in the occupied West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
24 apr 2018
Five Muslim guards at holy al-Aqsa Mosque are expected be brought before an Israeli court in Occupied Jerusalem in the next few hours.
Fadi Alyan, Luay Abu al-Saad, Khalil al-Tarhouni, Hamza al-Nebali, and Arafat Najeeb, are slated to be interrogated at an Israeli detention center in Jerusalem’s Salah al-Deen Street, pending a final decision by the Jerusalem police chief.
Director of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, denounced “the preplanned targeting” of al-Aqsa’s supervision staff and incessant crackdowns, including abductions, movement restrictions, and work bans, perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces and authorities against them.
Earlier in the day, some 135 Israeli settlers, escorted by intelligence officers and policemen, broke into holy al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate.
Fadi Alyan, Luay Abu al-Saad, Khalil al-Tarhouni, Hamza al-Nebali, and Arafat Najeeb, are slated to be interrogated at an Israeli detention center in Jerusalem’s Salah al-Deen Street, pending a final decision by the Jerusalem police chief.
Director of al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Omar al-Kiswani, denounced “the preplanned targeting” of al-Aqsa’s supervision staff and incessant crackdowns, including abductions, movement restrictions, and work bans, perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces and authorities against them.
Earlier in the day, some 135 Israeli settlers, escorted by intelligence officers and policemen, broke into holy al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate.
Facts on the ground show that Israel’s investment in the occupied West Bank is much more than the one inside the occupied 1948 borders. Within this context, the Israeli government allocated NIS 417,000,000 for developing settlements, in the Dead Sea area, in order to attract more settlers, expand the settlements outside the Green Line and Judaize it.
According to the above information, the budget is not allocated to remedy the Dead Sea drought, but to strengthen and support the settlement outside of the Green Line, within the so-called “Regional Council Megillot”, north of the Dead Sea, which means expansion under the slogan of development of tourism and maintenance of road no. 90.
In turn, Head of the Tamar Regional Council and a member of Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Dov Latinov, said the decision will serve as a lifeline to save the Dead Sea and to further develop the settlements there, as the sea is an irreplaceable national treasure,” after the government decision.
According to the PNN, the Jordan Valley region is considered part of the Afro-Asian crater pit, one of the lowest in the world, located at a low of about 380 miles below sea level. The Palestinian Jordan Valley stretches along the eastern side of the West Bank, from Ein Gedi (the Dead Sea) southward, to the so-called “Tal Makhkhoz”, on the borders of Bisan, northward inside the Green Line, and from the Jordan River in the east to the eastern slopes of the West Bank of the Jordan Valley in the west. This area accounts for 28.5% of the West Bank 2,400 sq km. Settler profits through investment in the northern Jordan Valley amount to $ 650,000,000, annually.
At the same time, the attacks and violations of the “pay the price gangs”, against Palestinians and their properties, escalated under the protection of the occupation government and silent encouragement from the American administration, during the past week. These terrorist groups carried out several attacks, including those perpetrated against the the eastern village of Lubban, attacking citizens’ property and assaulting farmers from the village of Madma, during the plowing of their land, and forcing them to leave by way of tear gas bombs.
Moreover, they assaulted the villagers of Al-Tawana in Mafassar Yatta, threw rocks at them, attacked a school bus in Yatta, resulting in the injury of 13-year-old Ahmed Abu Aram, as well as assaults on students in the Salameh neighborhood, in the Old City of Hebron, puncturing the tires of 45 vehicles in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, and cutting down about 100 olive fruitful trees in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, and 15 others in the Urief village.
For their part, settlers launched a campaign on Facebook, calling for the killing of Palestinians, to slaughter and burn them, calling hospital maternity wards and threatening to cut off the heads of recently born babies. Another said, “We must revenge for every Jew injured or killed.”
Within this context, the occupation Attorney General decided to abandon the confessions of the perpetrators of the arson attack on the Dawabsha family, in the village of Douma, south of the city of Nablus, 2 years ago, under the pretext that the confessions were illegal because they were obtained in an unusual way. Moreover, the Israeli Kern Keimet Fund decided not to allow the establishment of a memorial for Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who died after he was burned alive, in a crime committed by 3 Israeli settlers in July of 2014, in a forest around Jerusalem.
On the other hand, the 3rd annual report of the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (MADAR), on the “Register of racist and supportive laws for the occupation and settlement,” finds that the situation has been escalated, and even accelerated, by the Israeli right to enact legislation aimed at consecrating Israeli control of as much of the West Bank as possible.
During the 3 years of the parliamentary mandate of the Knesset, 185 laws were enacted, including 54 that were passed or entered into legislation. This clearly implies the involvement of the Knesset in imposing racist legislation aimed at restricting Palestinian citizens and controlling their land and property. Pal Legislation on the Judaization of Jerusalem and legislation on settlement expansion, since the beginning of the Knesset’s 20 mandate, has dealt with 43 laws for the direct and indirect annexation of the occupied West Bank or settlements.
The most important laws that have finally been passed are the Land Grab and Land Privileges Law, the Law for the Consolidation of Jerusalem, the Israeli Higher Education Law on Settlements Institutes, the University in Ariel, and 2 other academic colleges.
The National Bureau said that the positions of US officials helped in radicalizing the behavior of Israelis in general, and settlers in particular, and pointed out that the new escalation in attacks and violations of the terrorist “paying the price gangs” would not have continued seriously in the last few days and weeks, otherwise.
According to the above information, the budget is not allocated to remedy the Dead Sea drought, but to strengthen and support the settlement outside of the Green Line, within the so-called “Regional Council Megillot”, north of the Dead Sea, which means expansion under the slogan of development of tourism and maintenance of road no. 90.
In turn, Head of the Tamar Regional Council and a member of Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Dov Latinov, said the decision will serve as a lifeline to save the Dead Sea and to further develop the settlements there, as the sea is an irreplaceable national treasure,” after the government decision.
According to the PNN, the Jordan Valley region is considered part of the Afro-Asian crater pit, one of the lowest in the world, located at a low of about 380 miles below sea level. The Palestinian Jordan Valley stretches along the eastern side of the West Bank, from Ein Gedi (the Dead Sea) southward, to the so-called “Tal Makhkhoz”, on the borders of Bisan, northward inside the Green Line, and from the Jordan River in the east to the eastern slopes of the West Bank of the Jordan Valley in the west. This area accounts for 28.5% of the West Bank 2,400 sq km. Settler profits through investment in the northern Jordan Valley amount to $ 650,000,000, annually.
At the same time, the attacks and violations of the “pay the price gangs”, against Palestinians and their properties, escalated under the protection of the occupation government and silent encouragement from the American administration, during the past week. These terrorist groups carried out several attacks, including those perpetrated against the the eastern village of Lubban, attacking citizens’ property and assaulting farmers from the village of Madma, during the plowing of their land, and forcing them to leave by way of tear gas bombs.
Moreover, they assaulted the villagers of Al-Tawana in Mafassar Yatta, threw rocks at them, attacked a school bus in Yatta, resulting in the injury of 13-year-old Ahmed Abu Aram, as well as assaults on students in the Salameh neighborhood, in the Old City of Hebron, puncturing the tires of 45 vehicles in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, and cutting down about 100 olive fruitful trees in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, and 15 others in the Urief village.
For their part, settlers launched a campaign on Facebook, calling for the killing of Palestinians, to slaughter and burn them, calling hospital maternity wards and threatening to cut off the heads of recently born babies. Another said, “We must revenge for every Jew injured or killed.”
Within this context, the occupation Attorney General decided to abandon the confessions of the perpetrators of the arson attack on the Dawabsha family, in the village of Douma, south of the city of Nablus, 2 years ago, under the pretext that the confessions were illegal because they were obtained in an unusual way. Moreover, the Israeli Kern Keimet Fund decided not to allow the establishment of a memorial for Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who died after he was burned alive, in a crime committed by 3 Israeli settlers in July of 2014, in a forest around Jerusalem.
On the other hand, the 3rd annual report of the Palestinian Center for Israeli Studies (MADAR), on the “Register of racist and supportive laws for the occupation and settlement,” finds that the situation has been escalated, and even accelerated, by the Israeli right to enact legislation aimed at consecrating Israeli control of as much of the West Bank as possible.
During the 3 years of the parliamentary mandate of the Knesset, 185 laws were enacted, including 54 that were passed or entered into legislation. This clearly implies the involvement of the Knesset in imposing racist legislation aimed at restricting Palestinian citizens and controlling their land and property. Pal Legislation on the Judaization of Jerusalem and legislation on settlement expansion, since the beginning of the Knesset’s 20 mandate, has dealt with 43 laws for the direct and indirect annexation of the occupied West Bank or settlements.
The most important laws that have finally been passed are the Land Grab and Land Privileges Law, the Law for the Consolidation of Jerusalem, the Israeli Higher Education Law on Settlements Institutes, the University in Ariel, and 2 other academic colleges.
The National Bureau said that the positions of US officials helped in radicalizing the behavior of Israelis in general, and settlers in particular, and pointed out that the new escalation in attacks and violations of the terrorist “paying the price gangs” would not have continued seriously in the last few days and weeks, otherwise.
