17 apr 2020
A Palestinian herder was injured today as illegal Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian herders who were grazing sheep in open pastures near the village of Tuwaneh, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to a local official.
Fouad al-Amour, a Palestinian official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlement activities in the area, told WAFA that settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, attacked herders and chased them out of the pastures, injuring one of them. video
The herder injured was identified as Akram Raba'ee, 20.
Shepherds in the area, mainly nomadic Bedouins, make a living from raising livestock and they often take their sheep to the open pastures for their food.
Attacks by settlers against herders and other civilians in the area aim to force them to leave their homes and land, located in what is known as Area C, which makes over 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
Israel is trying to fill the region with settlers and later annex it to its sovereignty after displacing its indigenous Palestinian population.
Fouad al-Amour, a Palestinian official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlement activities in the area, told WAFA that settlers, protected by Israeli soldiers, attacked herders and chased them out of the pastures, injuring one of them. video
The herder injured was identified as Akram Raba'ee, 20.
Shepherds in the area, mainly nomadic Bedouins, make a living from raising livestock and they often take their sheep to the open pastures for their food.
Attacks by settlers against herders and other civilians in the area aim to force them to leave their homes and land, located in what is known as Area C, which makes over 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
Israel is trying to fill the region with settlers and later annex it to its sovereignty after displacing its indigenous Palestinian population.
Israeli media reports said on Thursday that around 20 Israeli settlers, who represent an extremist Jewish organization, called Hilltop Youth, reportedly escaped from quarantine, in the Jordan Valley, near the Dead Sea, and attacked several local Palestinians.
Israel Today Arabic online paper, reported that the 20 settlers, who are Coronavirus patients, were able to flee the quarantine and carry out an assault on Palestinian residents in the area, injuring one.
According to the paper, the incident took place at 11 PM on Tuesday, as some Palestinians were quarrelling with two Israeli settlers. Some time later, around twenty other illegal settlers came from a nearby quarantine center and engaged in the clash with Palestinians.
A young female Palestinian was wounded after being beaten by the illegal colonists, and was subsequently transferred to an Israeli hospital for treatment, the source added.
The source also noted that the same settlers also attacked Palestinians with stones and tear gas canisters and set fire to two Palestinian-owned vehicles, parked nearby.
The Hilltop Youth organization has recently been reported to have attacked Palestinian-populated areas, near the Dead Sea, mainly the fertile Palestinian agriculture region of Alghour.
Concurrently, Israeli officials, including Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have signalled intentions to annex the Alghour area to Israel, in violation of international law and United Nations’ resolutions, pertaining to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Israel Today Arabic online paper, reported that the 20 settlers, who are Coronavirus patients, were able to flee the quarantine and carry out an assault on Palestinian residents in the area, injuring one.
According to the paper, the incident took place at 11 PM on Tuesday, as some Palestinians were quarrelling with two Israeli settlers. Some time later, around twenty other illegal settlers came from a nearby quarantine center and engaged in the clash with Palestinians.
A young female Palestinian was wounded after being beaten by the illegal colonists, and was subsequently transferred to an Israeli hospital for treatment, the source added.
The source also noted that the same settlers also attacked Palestinians with stones and tear gas canisters and set fire to two Palestinian-owned vehicles, parked nearby.
The Hilltop Youth organization has recently been reported to have attacked Palestinian-populated areas, near the Dead Sea, mainly the fertile Palestinian agriculture region of Alghour.
Concurrently, Israeli officials, including Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have signalled intentions to annex the Alghour area to Israel, in violation of international law and United Nations’ resolutions, pertaining to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
15 apr 2020
Israeli settlers today afternoon attacked a Palestinian shepherd to the east of Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, local sources said.
Fo'ad Amour, a local rights activist, told WAFA that a number of fanatic Israeli settlers forced their way into farmlands in At-Tuwani locality, east of Yatta, under heavy military protection by Israeli forces, where they assaulted shepherds, injuring one of them and causing terror among local residents.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The number of settlers has almost tripled since the Oslo Accords of 1993, when settlers’ number estimated 252,000. Illegal colonial settlements have leapt from 144 to 515 in that time.
Israel’s nation-state law states that building and strengthening the settlements is a “national interest.”
Fo'ad Amour, a local rights activist, told WAFA that a number of fanatic Israeli settlers forced their way into farmlands in At-Tuwani locality, east of Yatta, under heavy military protection by Israeli forces, where they assaulted shepherds, injuring one of them and causing terror among local residents.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The number of settlers has almost tripled since the Oslo Accords of 1993, when settlers’ number estimated 252,000. Illegal colonial settlements have leapt from 144 to 515 in that time.
Israel’s nation-state law states that building and strengthening the settlements is a “national interest.”
Israeli colonial settlers unleashed their cattle, on Wednesday, onto Palestinian-owned farm lands in the northern Alghour area of the Jordan Valley, in the West Bank.
Local legal activist, Aref Daraghma, told Palestinian Wafa News Agency that tens of cows were released onto farm lands of wheat and barely, in the Umm al-Qaba village in the Alghour area.
The legal activist believed that those cattle, which belong to Israeli colonists, living nearby, have been herded excessively, causing large quantities of wheat and barley to be destroyed.
Palestinian farm lands have recently been frequently exposed to attacks by nearby illegal Israeli settlers in the Alghour area of the Jordan Valley, which is considered to be a rich farming region.
Local legal activist, Aref Daraghma, told Palestinian Wafa News Agency that tens of cows were released onto farm lands of wheat and barely, in the Umm al-Qaba village in the Alghour area.
The legal activist believed that those cattle, which belong to Israeli colonists, living nearby, have been herded excessively, causing large quantities of wheat and barley to be destroyed.
Palestinian farm lands have recently been frequently exposed to attacks by nearby illegal Israeli settlers in the Alghour area of the Jordan Valley, which is considered to be a rich farming region.
In a step Israeli settlers often follow as a prelude to seize Palestinian land, several settlers today set up a mobile home in the northern West Bank village of Qaryout, south of Nablus, according to a local official.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, said settlers from the illegal Shilo settlement placed a mobile home on Qaryout village land.
He said the settlers are taking advantage of the lockdown in the West Bank in light of the coronavirus outbreak to seize Palestinian land and establish a settlement outpost.
Settlers yesterday also chopped 36 olive trees in the same village, said Daghlas.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, said settlers from the illegal Shilo settlement placed a mobile home on Qaryout village land.
He said the settlers are taking advantage of the lockdown in the West Bank in light of the coronavirus outbreak to seize Palestinian land and establish a settlement outpost.
Settlers yesterday also chopped 36 olive trees in the same village, said Daghlas.
Israeli settlers attacked late last night a Palestinian youth center in the occupied section of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, reported WAFA correspondent.
The settlers, under army cover, attacked the center run by the Youth Against Settlements located in Tel Rumeida attempting to break into it.
Palestinian activists rushed to the center to protect it when they learned of the attempt by the settlers to vandalize it and got into verbal showdown with them.
Jewish settlers attack Sumoud and Tahaddi Center in al-Khalil
A horde of Jewish settlers last night attacked Sumoud and Tahaddi Center, an affiliate of Youth Against Settlement, in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in al-Khalil city.
According to eyewitnesses, a group of extremist and armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Ramat Yishai attacked, under military protection, Sumoud and Tahaddi Center and tried to destroy the fence around it.
The settlers also verbally attacked Palestinian activists from the center after they rushed to the area to protect the building, where they used their phone cameras to document the attack.
In a separate incident, several settlers set up a prefabricated house on a plot of land in Qaryut town in southern Nablus, while security guards from the illegal settlement of Eli expelled Palestinian citizens from their lands.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Shilo deployed a mobile house in Ras Mayous area in Qaryut town.
The settlers, under army cover, attacked the center run by the Youth Against Settlements located in Tel Rumeida attempting to break into it.
Palestinian activists rushed to the center to protect it when they learned of the attempt by the settlers to vandalize it and got into verbal showdown with them.
Jewish settlers attack Sumoud and Tahaddi Center in al-Khalil
A horde of Jewish settlers last night attacked Sumoud and Tahaddi Center, an affiliate of Youth Against Settlement, in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in al-Khalil city.
According to eyewitnesses, a group of extremist and armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Ramat Yishai attacked, under military protection, Sumoud and Tahaddi Center and tried to destroy the fence around it.
The settlers also verbally attacked Palestinian activists from the center after they rushed to the area to protect the building, where they used their phone cameras to document the attack.
In a separate incident, several settlers set up a prefabricated house on a plot of land in Qaryut town in southern Nablus, while security guards from the illegal settlement of Eli expelled Palestinian citizens from their lands.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Shilo deployed a mobile house in Ras Mayous area in Qaryut town.
14 apr 2020
Jewish settlers believed infected with coronavirus today attacked Palestinian villages in the Jordan Valley and set two vehicles on fire, according to Israeli media.
They said that settlers from the terror group known as “Youth of the Hills”, who were quarantined in an army post in the Jordan Valley after they were suspected to contracting the deadly coronavirus disease, escaped from their post and attacked Palestinian civilians in the area with stones and teargas and set cars ablaze.
The soldiers reportedly later arrested the vandals.
They said that settlers from the terror group known as “Youth of the Hills”, who were quarantined in an army post in the Jordan Valley after they were suspected to contracting the deadly coronavirus disease, escaped from their post and attacked Palestinian civilians in the area with stones and teargas and set cars ablaze.
The soldiers reportedly later arrested the vandals.
13 apr 2020
For the second week in a row, Israeli settlers from the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc today opened the wastewater drains to flood Palestinian farmlands in nearby Beit Ummar village in the south of the West Bank, according to Mohammad Awad, a local activist.
He told WAFA that the wastewater flooded the farms planted with grape vines in a step that the settlers intentionally repeat every year to destroy the crops causing serious damage and financial losses to the farmers.
The land is estimated at 20 dunums in area and owned by two local families.
He told WAFA that the wastewater flooded the farms planted with grape vines in a step that the settlers intentionally repeat every year to destroy the crops causing serious damage and financial losses to the farmers.
The land is estimated at 20 dunums in area and owned by two local families.
Jewish settlers pitched a tent on Palestinian land in Tel Rumaida in al-Khalil in the West Bank on Sunday night.
A spokesman for the youth against settlement in al-Khalil said that dozens of settlers pitched the tent as a prelude to building a settlement outpost in the land plot that is planted with olives and belong to Natshe family. video
He said that the settlers who claim they own the land lot entered the land under protection of the Israeli occupation forces.
A spokesman for the youth against settlement in al-Khalil said that dozens of settlers pitched the tent as a prelude to building a settlement outpost in the land plot that is planted with olives and belong to Natshe family. video
He said that the settlers who claim they own the land lot entered the land under protection of the Israeli occupation forces.