23 aug 2019

Jewish settlers attacked with stones this afternoon Palestinian civilian cars driving on West Bank roads causing panic and concern for the safety of the passengers, according to witnesses.
They said settlers blocked roads in the south and north of the occupied West Bank and hurled stones at cars with Palestinian license plates causing damage to cars. There were no reports of injuries.
Palestinians as a result avoided the main roads where the settlers had gathered and took alternate longer routes to get to their destinations or homes.
The Israeli army had also set up roadblocks on different roads in the West Bank following an attack earlier in the day against settlers near Ramallah in which one settler was killed and two others injured and attacked the P.
The army blocked dozens of roads and stopped and searched cars that piled up on the road.
The roadblocks were later removed and traffic was back to normal except in places where settlers gathered and attacked Palestinian commuters.
They said settlers blocked roads in the south and north of the occupied West Bank and hurled stones at cars with Palestinian license plates causing damage to cars. There were no reports of injuries.
Palestinians as a result avoided the main roads where the settlers had gathered and took alternate longer routes to get to their destinations or homes.
The Israeli army had also set up roadblocks on different roads in the West Bank following an attack earlier in the day against settlers near Ramallah in which one settler was killed and two others injured and attacked the P.
The army blocked dozens of roads and stopped and searched cars that piled up on the road.
The roadblocks were later removed and traffic was back to normal except in places where settlers gathered and attacked Palestinian commuters.
22 aug 2019

Party leaders from the right-wing alliance, Yamina, on Wednesday announced a plan to construct 113,000 housing units in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to different Hebrew media outlets.
According to Yamina, the plan – which would see the settler population rise by some half a million – is a solution to Israel’s housing crisis, which has seen rising house prices.
“The Tel Aviv metropolitan area is almost as crowded as Gaza and as expensive as New York,” Yamina chief and former justice minister Ayelet Shaked claimed at a press conference held to launch the plan in Etz Efraim settlement.
“The different magic tricks we have seen in recent years have not worked. The solution is simple: to lower prices you must increase supply,” she said.
Yamina wants to construct these settler homes over a period of five years, which will link Ariel – deep in the northern occupied West Bank – with Rosh Ha’ayin inside the Green Line.
Its plan is aimed at increasing the number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank by half a million people, which will bring their total number to about one million.
The right-wing alliance claims the Israeli population will reach 10 million by the year 2024, so it wants one million of those people to live in the West Bank.
According to Yamina, the plan – which would see the settler population rise by some half a million – is a solution to Israel’s housing crisis, which has seen rising house prices.
“The Tel Aviv metropolitan area is almost as crowded as Gaza and as expensive as New York,” Yamina chief and former justice minister Ayelet Shaked claimed at a press conference held to launch the plan in Etz Efraim settlement.
“The different magic tricks we have seen in recent years have not worked. The solution is simple: to lower prices you must increase supply,” she said.
Yamina wants to construct these settler homes over a period of five years, which will link Ariel – deep in the northern occupied West Bank – with Rosh Ha’ayin inside the Green Line.
Its plan is aimed at increasing the number of Jewish settlers living in the West Bank by half a million people, which will bring their total number to about one million.
The right-wing alliance claims the Israeli population will reach 10 million by the year 2024, so it wants one million of those people to live in the West Bank.

An Israeli settler ran over a six-year-old Palestinian girl in the village of Jabaa to the southwest of Bethlehem, the southern occupied West Bank, said eyewitnesses.
Eyewitnesses said a settler ran over Jana Abu Loha, 6, as she was passing near the entrance connecting between the villages of Jabaa and Surif, which necessitated her transfer to a hospital for medical treatment.
The entrance was previously closed by the Israeli authorities by an iron gate, which forced the child, as is the case for other Palestinian residents there, to take an alternative road heavily used by vehicles, which puts their lives at risk of being run over.
The girl’s medical condition remains unknown until the moment.
Eyewitnesses said a settler ran over Jana Abu Loha, 6, as she was passing near the entrance connecting between the villages of Jabaa and Surif, which necessitated her transfer to a hospital for medical treatment.
The entrance was previously closed by the Israeli authorities by an iron gate, which forced the child, as is the case for other Palestinian residents there, to take an alternative road heavily used by vehicles, which puts their lives at risk of being run over.
The girl’s medical condition remains unknown until the moment.

"Previous incident "
A horde of Jewish settlers on Wednesday night infiltrated into Haris town, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, and caused damage to tires of several cars.
Local sources reported that settlers slashed tires of many cars and spray-painted racist slurs against the Palestinians on walls of some houses in the town.
According to human rights groups, incidents of sabotage and violence by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.
However, Israeli law enforcement authorities exhibit extreme incompetence in addressing such widespread occurrence of settlers’ crimes.
The vast majority of investigation files regarding harm to Palestinians and their property are closed due to deliberate police failure to investigate properly.
The deficiencies and flaws in the work of the Israeli police are clearly noticed at every stage of an investigation when the victim is a Palestinian citizen.
A horde of Jewish settlers on Wednesday night infiltrated into Haris town, west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, and caused damage to tires of several cars.
Local sources reported that settlers slashed tires of many cars and spray-painted racist slurs against the Palestinians on walls of some houses in the town.
According to human rights groups, incidents of sabotage and violence by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.
However, Israeli law enforcement authorities exhibit extreme incompetence in addressing such widespread occurrence of settlers’ crimes.
The vast majority of investigation files regarding harm to Palestinians and their property are closed due to deliberate police failure to investigate properly.
The deficiencies and flaws in the work of the Israeli police are clearly noticed at every stage of an investigation when the victim is a Palestinian citizen.
21 aug 2019

Jewish settlers planted forest trees on Palestinian land to south of Bethlehem, as a prelude for taking it over, said Diab Mashaleh, head of Jabah village council where the targeted land it located, today.
Mashaleh told WAFA that residents of the village were surprised to see the settlers, and under army protection, planting forest trees in a hilly area about 300 meters away from the nearest home in the village, and without any prior notice.
He said that the land amounts to thousands of dunams, and that part of it has been planted with olive trees for decades.
Mashaleh explained that the army had closed most of that area and would often prevent local farmers from reaching their land to cultivate it, even after coordinating their visit to their land with the army.
He said Israel’s intentions in taking over the land were clear when they would not allow farmers to reach it, and after closing a road to the nearby town of Sourif with dirt, since the year 2000, which was later replaced by a metal gate, making movement of Jabah villagers, mainly high school students seeking to reach their schools in Sourif, very difficult and arduous.
Mashaleh told WAFA that residents of the village were surprised to see the settlers, and under army protection, planting forest trees in a hilly area about 300 meters away from the nearest home in the village, and without any prior notice.
He said that the land amounts to thousands of dunams, and that part of it has been planted with olive trees for decades.
Mashaleh explained that the army had closed most of that area and would often prevent local farmers from reaching their land to cultivate it, even after coordinating their visit to their land with the army.
He said Israel’s intentions in taking over the land were clear when they would not allow farmers to reach it, and after closing a road to the nearby town of Sourif with dirt, since the year 2000, which was later replaced by a metal gate, making movement of Jabah villagers, mainly high school students seeking to reach their schools in Sourif, very difficult and arduous.
20 aug 2019

Groups of Israeli settlers, on Tuesday, broke into Al-Hafira hill, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, and performed Talmudic rituals after spreading out in the area.
Local Al Ray sources reported that the settlers have dispersed over the hill, and in the area classified as an archaeological site which is located among the lands of Arraba town, where several Palestinian families reside.
The sources added that the settlers frequently storm Al-Hafira hill and perform multiple Talmudic rituals, on the claim that it’s a Jewish historical site.
They indicated that Israeli soldiers accompanied the settlers during the storming, to give them protection.
Local Al Ray sources reported that the settlers have dispersed over the hill, and in the area classified as an archaeological site which is located among the lands of Arraba town, where several Palestinian families reside.
The sources added that the settlers frequently storm Al-Hafira hill and perform multiple Talmudic rituals, on the claim that it’s a Jewish historical site.
They indicated that Israeli soldiers accompanied the settlers during the storming, to give them protection.

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the town of Um Safa to the north of Ramallah, and placed barbed wire on land located in area 'B’ and 'C’ of the West Bank as a prelude to seize it, said a local official.
Head of Um Safa village council told WAFA settlers from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish attacked farmers near Um Safa village and released their cows into residents’ land, destroying the crops.
Settlers further fenced off a land exceeding 150 dunums in area with barbed wires, in an apparent prelude to take over the land.
The land is located in Area B and C of the West Bank; area B is under the Palestinian Authority’s administrative control and Israel’s security control and makes up 21% of the West Bank. Area C, which makes up 61% of the West Bank, is under Israeli administrative and security control.
Head of Um Safa village council told WAFA settlers from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Halamish attacked farmers near Um Safa village and released their cows into residents’ land, destroying the crops.
Settlers further fenced off a land exceeding 150 dunums in area with barbed wires, in an apparent prelude to take over the land.
The land is located in Area B and C of the West Bank; area B is under the Palestinian Authority’s administrative control and Israel’s security control and makes up 21% of the West Bank. Area C, which makes up 61% of the West Bank, is under Israeli administrative and security control.

The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements in its latest weekly report said that Israeli Occupation Authorities continue their settlement activities in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, where the Israeli Local Planning and Building Committee recently approved a plan to build 641 settlement units in Jerusalem.
They also approved the construction of thousands of units in order to attract more voters living in settlements, who support settlement construction.
This raised real concern among the Palestinians of the Trump administration collusion with the Likud party and its leader Netanyahu by offering additional free gifts at the expense of the rights and interests of the Palestinian people, to help them win the upcoming Israeli 19th Knesset elections.
These concerns centered around the possibility that the Trump administration will repeat its gifts as it did before the last Knesset elections in April, when it recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli occupation state, and decided to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan.
There are frequent voices in Israel, which call for the imposition of sovereignty over Area C in the West Bank, where the Settlements Council and ministers from the Netanyahu’s office called on him to declare Israeli sovereignty over the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in response to the recent Eliezer operation that seriously wounded two settlers. Moreover, the Israeli technology company, in cooperation with the Israeli army is deploying monitoring cameras that can identify faces in the occupied West Bank by 99.0%.
In the Nablus governorate, settlers from the “Homesh” settlement that was evacuated in 2005 set fire to the eastern area of Burqa village and prevented residents and civil defense crews from reaching the area to put the fire off.
Jewish racist gangs wrote racist slogans against Arabs and Palestinians on the walls of houses and some gates in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus, where they wrote that “Jews would no longer be calm,” “death for the Arabs” and punctured tires of some Palestinian cars in the village. They also painted the Star of David on the walls and some cars, indicating that the attack was carried out by settler gangs known as “pay the price.”
Settlers also broke into the Masudia archaeological area near Burqa village on the road between Nablus and Jenin, they carried out military training under the protection of the Israeli army. In Salfit, settler groups belonging to “pay the price” groups attacked citizens and their property in the village of Zawiya, and racist slogans on houses and vehicles of many citizen.
Extremist settlers also broke into Irfaeieh area east of Yatta town in Hebron governorate, assaulted citizens’ property, wrote racist slogans calling for revenge against Palestinians, and threw stones and empty bottles at the vehicles east of Hebron.
The Israeli police and the Israeli Judiciary System always collude with settler attacks against the Palestinians as they deliberately closed the investigation into a complaint filed twice by a Palestinian on his land. A senior Israeli police official admitted that the complaint of the Palestinian citizen Ibrahim Allam was neglected, before the investigation was closed after his private land was subjected to illegal acts by the army and settlers in the last four years.
Jerusalem, the last week witnessed a serious escalation of settlers as they stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on the eve of the Eid Al-Adha, where they stormed several neighborhoods in Jerusalem and chanted racist slogans in memory of the so-called destruction of the Temple.
On the first day of Eid al-Adha, more than 100,000 Palestinians participated in the Eid prayer, but the Israeli occupation forces stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, assaulted worshipers with sticks and batons, and fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at them, wounding 61 Palestinians and arresting 5 others.
The Palestinian side held the Israeli government headed by Netanyahu full and direct responsibility for all attempts to change the legal and historical situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque since it was occupied in 1967 and for its flagrant violation of all international and religious laws and customs, without giving any attention to the International Law.
They also approved the construction of thousands of units in order to attract more voters living in settlements, who support settlement construction.
This raised real concern among the Palestinians of the Trump administration collusion with the Likud party and its leader Netanyahu by offering additional free gifts at the expense of the rights and interests of the Palestinian people, to help them win the upcoming Israeli 19th Knesset elections.
These concerns centered around the possibility that the Trump administration will repeat its gifts as it did before the last Knesset elections in April, when it recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Israeli occupation state, and decided to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan.
There are frequent voices in Israel, which call for the imposition of sovereignty over Area C in the West Bank, where the Settlements Council and ministers from the Netanyahu’s office called on him to declare Israeli sovereignty over the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in response to the recent Eliezer operation that seriously wounded two settlers. Moreover, the Israeli technology company, in cooperation with the Israeli army is deploying monitoring cameras that can identify faces in the occupied West Bank by 99.0%.
In the Nablus governorate, settlers from the “Homesh” settlement that was evacuated in 2005 set fire to the eastern area of Burqa village and prevented residents and civil defense crews from reaching the area to put the fire off.
Jewish racist gangs wrote racist slogans against Arabs and Palestinians on the walls of houses and some gates in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus, where they wrote that “Jews would no longer be calm,” “death for the Arabs” and punctured tires of some Palestinian cars in the village. They also painted the Star of David on the walls and some cars, indicating that the attack was carried out by settler gangs known as “pay the price.”
Settlers also broke into the Masudia archaeological area near Burqa village on the road between Nablus and Jenin, they carried out military training under the protection of the Israeli army. In Salfit, settler groups belonging to “pay the price” groups attacked citizens and their property in the village of Zawiya, and racist slogans on houses and vehicles of many citizen.
Extremist settlers also broke into Irfaeieh area east of Yatta town in Hebron governorate, assaulted citizens’ property, wrote racist slogans calling for revenge against Palestinians, and threw stones and empty bottles at the vehicles east of Hebron.
The Israeli police and the Israeli Judiciary System always collude with settler attacks against the Palestinians as they deliberately closed the investigation into a complaint filed twice by a Palestinian on his land. A senior Israeli police official admitted that the complaint of the Palestinian citizen Ibrahim Allam was neglected, before the investigation was closed after his private land was subjected to illegal acts by the army and settlers in the last four years.
Jerusalem, the last week witnessed a serious escalation of settlers as they stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque on the eve of the Eid Al-Adha, where they stormed several neighborhoods in Jerusalem and chanted racist slogans in memory of the so-called destruction of the Temple.
On the first day of Eid al-Adha, more than 100,000 Palestinians participated in the Eid prayer, but the Israeli occupation forces stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, assaulted worshipers with sticks and batons, and fired rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at them, wounding 61 Palestinians and arresting 5 others.
The Palestinian side held the Israeli government headed by Netanyahu full and direct responsibility for all attempts to change the legal and historical situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque since it was occupied in 1967 and for its flagrant violation of all international and religious laws and customs, without giving any attention to the International Law.

Scores of Israeli settlers on Tuesday broke into al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem under police guard.
Local sources reported that dozens of Jewish settlers forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque via al-Maghareba Gate and roamed its courtyards.
Israeli settlers carry out daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque, except on Fridays and Saturdays, usually in two rounds: in the morning and afternoon.
Local sources reported that dozens of Jewish settlers forced their way into al-Aqsa Mosque via al-Maghareba Gate and roamed its courtyards.
Israeli settlers carry out daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque, except on Fridays and Saturdays, usually in two rounds: in the morning and afternoon.
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Several Palestinians were injured by Israeli gunfire today overnight as hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into Joseph’s Tomb near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, said security sources.
Israeli forces escorted a convoy of buses packed with hundreds of fanatic Jewish settlers into the site, located in the Palestinian-controlled area, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents. Soldiers opened fire on Palestinians protesting the raid and attempting to block settlers’ access to the site, injuring several protestors with rubber coated steel bullets. video video video Soldiers also showered protesters with tear gas canisters, causing several to suffocate. All suffocation cases received first aid treatment at the scene. |
Settlers repeatedly break into Joseph’s Tomb, located in a densely Palestinian populated area in Nablus, provoking chaos and confrontation with local residents. video