5 apr 2020
Three Palestinian youths were injured on Sunday when Israeli settlers attacked them at their workplace near Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources said that Israeli settlers stormed a car park in Jerusalem and hit a Palestinian young man identified as Majed Fayfous with a sharp object in the head.
His colleagues Ameer al-Dibs and Izz al-Din Mohammed were attacked with pepper gas.
The three Palestinians were transferred to a hospital for treatment.
Local sources said that Israeli settlers stormed a car park in Jerusalem and hit a Palestinian young man identified as Majed Fayfous with a sharp object in the head.
His colleagues Ameer al-Dibs and Izz al-Din Mohammed were attacked with pepper gas.
The three Palestinians were transferred to a hospital for treatment.
Illegal Jewish settlers today flooded sewage into Palestinian-owned farms planted with grapes near the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the south of the West Bank, said a local source.
Mohammad Awad, a local activist, told WAFA that extremist settlers from Gush Etzion settlement bloc, located near the town, flooded their sewage into the grape-planted farms with the aim of damaging crops. video
He said today's flooding of sewage is only an episode in a series of assaults by Jewish settlers which are often noticeable during this time of the year, usually ending up with the destruction of hundreds of trees.
Attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their belongings are a common practice in the occupied West Bank, and are rarely prosecuted by the Israeli authorities. Under signed agreements, the Palestinian Authority has no jurisdiction over Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Mohammad Awad, a local activist, told WAFA that extremist settlers from Gush Etzion settlement bloc, located near the town, flooded their sewage into the grape-planted farms with the aim of damaging crops. video
He said today's flooding of sewage is only an episode in a series of assaults by Jewish settlers which are often noticeable during this time of the year, usually ending up with the destruction of hundreds of trees.
Attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their belongings are a common practice in the occupied West Bank, and are rarely prosecuted by the Israeli authorities. Under signed agreements, the Palestinian Authority has no jurisdiction over Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation forces and extremist settlers today prevented Palestinian farmers from accessing their lands in the village of Tuqu', southeast of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to sources.
Tayseer Abu Mfarreh, mayor of the village, told WAFA that a large military unit of Israeli forces as well as a group of extremist settlers intercepted the farmers and banned their access to their agricultureal lands.
In recent weeks, Israeli forces and settlers escalated their attacks against vulnerable Palestinian communities in the Bethlehem governorate, attacking and chasing farmers, preventing them from reaching their lands and uprooting hundreds of olive and grape trees.
Tayseer Abu Mfarreh, mayor of the village, told WAFA that a large military unit of Israeli forces as well as a group of extremist settlers intercepted the farmers and banned their access to their agricultureal lands.
In recent weeks, Israeli forces and settlers escalated their attacks against vulnerable Palestinian communities in the Bethlehem governorate, attacking and chasing farmers, preventing them from reaching their lands and uprooting hundreds of olive and grape trees.
4 apr 2020
Israeli colonial settlers, on Saturday, stormed the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Alrababa in Silwan village in the internationally-recognized occupied city of East Jerusalem, southern West Bank.
Local media outlets and witnesses said that about 25 armed colonial settlers stormed the neighborhood and embarked on provocative actions towards local unarmed Palestinian civilians.
It is worth mentioning, that the residents of Silwan’s Wadi Alrababa neighborhood have recently been able to extract an Israeli court verdict that their neighborhood is not part of Israeli authorities’ areas of operation, mainly those of the Israeli environmental authority.
Colonial Israeli settlers’ attacks on the occupied east Jerusalem’s neighborhoods have been frequently reported over the past few years, with the Israeli government having approved a series of colonial settlement plans in the internationally-recognized Arab-Palestinian part of East Jerusalem.
Local media outlets and witnesses said that about 25 armed colonial settlers stormed the neighborhood and embarked on provocative actions towards local unarmed Palestinian civilians.
It is worth mentioning, that the residents of Silwan’s Wadi Alrababa neighborhood have recently been able to extract an Israeli court verdict that their neighborhood is not part of Israeli authorities’ areas of operation, mainly those of the Israeli environmental authority.
Colonial Israeli settlers’ attacks on the occupied east Jerusalem’s neighborhoods have been frequently reported over the past few years, with the Israeli government having approved a series of colonial settlement plans in the internationally-recognized Arab-Palestinian part of East Jerusalem.
1 apr 2020
Islam Dwaikat, 22
Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus, pronounced dead, a young Palestinian man, after he had sustained wounds caused by Israeli troops, last month.
The sources identified the young man as Islam Dwaikat, 22, and said he was wounded by Israeli troops that opened fire at Palestinian protestors who defended against an Israeli invasion of Beita town, south of Nablus city.
Mayor of Beita town, Fo’ad Ma’ali, told local media outlets that on March 11, the youth was struck with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head and has remained in a deep coma at a local hospital.
Violent confrontations took place last month, between Israeli troops and local residents in the Erma hilltop area when locals intercepted colonial Israeli settlers, en-route to the Palestinian-populated Erma hill top.
Israeli forces reacted by firing tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition at Palestinians protecting their land.
The Israeli crackdown on the protests claimed the life of a teen boy, Mohammad Hamayel, 15 and caused the injury of 112 other protesters, mainly by rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas inhalation injuries.
Confrontations between local unarmed Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops, along with armed Israeli colonial settlers, across the occupied West Bank, take place on a regular basis.
Illegal Israeli settlements, that surround and isolate Palestinian villages, towns and cities stand as flash points for violent confrontations between the indigenous Palestinian population and illegal settlers not to mention the occupation army.
Palestinian medical sources in the West Bank city of Nablus, pronounced dead, a young Palestinian man, after he had sustained wounds caused by Israeli troops, last month.
The sources identified the young man as Islam Dwaikat, 22, and said he was wounded by Israeli troops that opened fire at Palestinian protestors who defended against an Israeli invasion of Beita town, south of Nablus city.
Mayor of Beita town, Fo’ad Ma’ali, told local media outlets that on March 11, the youth was struck with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head and has remained in a deep coma at a local hospital.
Violent confrontations took place last month, between Israeli troops and local residents in the Erma hilltop area when locals intercepted colonial Israeli settlers, en-route to the Palestinian-populated Erma hill top.
Israeli forces reacted by firing tear-gas canisters, rubber-coated steel bullets and live ammunition at Palestinians protecting their land.
The Israeli crackdown on the protests claimed the life of a teen boy, Mohammad Hamayel, 15 and caused the injury of 112 other protesters, mainly by rubber-coated steel bullets and tear-gas inhalation injuries.
Confrontations between local unarmed Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops, along with armed Israeli colonial settlers, across the occupied West Bank, take place on a regular basis.
Illegal Israeli settlements, that surround and isolate Palestinian villages, towns and cities stand as flash points for violent confrontations between the indigenous Palestinian population and illegal settlers not to mention the occupation army.
Jewish settlers caused serious concern of corona pandemic among Palestinians in the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, when they started to spit on cars entering or leaving the village surrounded by illegal settlements, said witnesses.
They told WAFA that two settles from the illegal Ramot settlement, build on Beit Iksa land, stood at the entrance to the village and started to spit on Palestinian cars entering or leaving the village in an attempt to spread fear of the corona disease.
Village youths confronted the settlers and forced them to leave the area and then proceeded to disinfect the road and cars.
Ramot settlement has reported 17 cases of coronavirus. video 27 mar 2020
Palestinian and international human rights organizations have strongly condemned Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories in this time of the rapid spread of the deadly corona pandemic, particularly Israeli army and settlers’ incursions into Palestinian areas.
The Israeli authorities have also prevented Palestinian volunteers in occupied Jerusalem from performing tests and disinfecting their neighborhoods in light of Israel’s failure to do this work.
They told WAFA that two settles from the illegal Ramot settlement, build on Beit Iksa land, stood at the entrance to the village and started to spit on Palestinian cars entering or leaving the village in an attempt to spread fear of the corona disease.
Village youths confronted the settlers and forced them to leave the area and then proceeded to disinfect the road and cars.
Ramot settlement has reported 17 cases of coronavirus. video 27 mar 2020
Palestinian and international human rights organizations have strongly condemned Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories in this time of the rapid spread of the deadly corona pandemic, particularly Israeli army and settlers’ incursions into Palestinian areas.
The Israeli authorities have also prevented Palestinian volunteers in occupied Jerusalem from performing tests and disinfecting their neighborhoods in light of Israel’s failure to do this work.
31 mar 2020
Israeli colonial settlers on Tuesday, razed vast areas of Palestinian-owned farm lands in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Local media outlets said that the lands razed, are located near the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Shefout Rahel.
The sources confirmed that today’s bulldozing caused widespread harm to tens of olive trees, owned by local Palestinian farmers from Nablus city.
Previously, Israeli defense minister, Naftali Bennett, announced his government’s plan to expand the Shefout Rahel colonial settlement with another nearby colonial settlement, called Shelo.
In the area, where the bulldozing took place, there are a number of illegal colonial settlements, including Shelo, Aadi Aad, Codeish, Keda and Ahya.
Israeli colonial settlements on Palestinian-owned lands has been Israeli systematic policy, initially announced in late 1970’s for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Over the past decade, Israel has accelerated settlement building in a way that has strangulated Palestinian-populated cities, towns and villages in the West Bank which includes occupied East Jerusalem.
Back in 2005, Israel unilaterally dismantled 17 Israeli colonial settlements in the tiny coastal Gaza Strip and two years later, it enforced a crippling blockade on the territory, in place now, for 13 years.
Israeli colonial settlement construction is deemed illegal by international law and United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, 242 and 338, given the fact that Gaza Strip and the West Bank are Arab-Palestinian lands, which Israel occupied by force, back in 1967.
Local media outlets said that the lands razed, are located near the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Shefout Rahel.
The sources confirmed that today’s bulldozing caused widespread harm to tens of olive trees, owned by local Palestinian farmers from Nablus city.
Previously, Israeli defense minister, Naftali Bennett, announced his government’s plan to expand the Shefout Rahel colonial settlement with another nearby colonial settlement, called Shelo.
In the area, where the bulldozing took place, there are a number of illegal colonial settlements, including Shelo, Aadi Aad, Codeish, Keda and Ahya.
Israeli colonial settlements on Palestinian-owned lands has been Israeli systematic policy, initially announced in late 1970’s for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Over the past decade, Israel has accelerated settlement building in a way that has strangulated Palestinian-populated cities, towns and villages in the West Bank which includes occupied East Jerusalem.
Back in 2005, Israel unilaterally dismantled 17 Israeli colonial settlements in the tiny coastal Gaza Strip and two years later, it enforced a crippling blockade on the territory, in place now, for 13 years.
Israeli colonial settlement construction is deemed illegal by international law and United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, 242 and 338, given the fact that Gaza Strip and the West Bank are Arab-Palestinian lands, which Israel occupied by force, back in 1967.
30 mar 2020
Israeli settlers today set up tents in Tuqu' wilderness to the east of Bethlehem, according to sources.
Head of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission Hasan Breijieh told WAFA that the settlers set up three tents in a part of the wilderness, known as Jaljal, and voiced his concerns about the possibility of using the tents as quarantine places for settlers from nearby colonial settlements who contract the novel coronavirus.
Head of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission Hasan Breijieh told WAFA that the settlers set up three tents in a part of the wilderness, known as Jaljal, and voiced his concerns about the possibility of using the tents as quarantine places for settlers from nearby colonial settlements who contract the novel coronavirus.