5 feb 2019
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers uprooted, Tuesday, many olive saplings in the al-Hamra area, east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the Popular and National Committees in southern Hebron, said the assailants came from Ma’on illegal colony, which was built on Palestinian lands east of Yatta.
He added that the Israeli assailants uprooted 23 olive saplings in the al-Hamra area, east of the Tiwana village, and that the orchard is owned by Jom’a Mousa Rib’ey.
Jabour also stated that such attacks have witnessed a serious escalation in recent years, and aim at forcing the indigenous Palestinians out of their lands, in order to build and expand the illegal colonies, in direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
He called on various local and international human rights groups to intervene and end the escalating Israeli violations, especially since the illegal colonists are encouraged by the extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the Popular and National Committees in southern Hebron, said the assailants came from Ma’on illegal colony, which was built on Palestinian lands east of Yatta.
He added that the Israeli assailants uprooted 23 olive saplings in the al-Hamra area, east of the Tiwana village, and that the orchard is owned by Jom’a Mousa Rib’ey.
Jabour also stated that such attacks have witnessed a serious escalation in recent years, and aim at forcing the indigenous Palestinians out of their lands, in order to build and expand the illegal colonies, in direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
He called on various local and international human rights groups to intervene and end the escalating Israeli violations, especially since the illegal colonists are encouraged by the extremist government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Monday appropriated a large tract of shrubland near Khirbet Mas’oud village in Ya’bad town, south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that settlers from the expanding illegal settlement of Hermesh annexed a wide area of the shrubland located between their settlement and Khirbet Mas’oud.
The Palestinian villages and hamlets located near the settlements of Movo Dotan and Hermesh are always targeted by the Israeli occupation authority and settlers.
Local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that settlers from the expanding illegal settlement of Hermesh annexed a wide area of the shrubland located between their settlement and Khirbet Mas’oud.
The Palestinian villages and hamlets located near the settlements of Movo Dotan and Hermesh are always targeted by the Israeli occupation authority and settlers.
Israeli settlers, Monday, set up a mobile home on a plot of land belonging to the southern West Bank village of Tuqu, east of Bethlehem, said a local activist.
Head of the Bethlehem Office of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission, Hassan Breijieh, told WAFA that a group of settlers stormed a 200-dunam tract of land, located to the east of the village, and set up a mobile home, aiming to establish an outpost under the protection of Israeli forces.
He added that Palestinian landowners fended off the settlers’ attempt to seize their land and produced their title deeds.
Meanwhile, settlers dropped leaflets warning Palestinian villagers against dealing with human rights and anti-settlement activists in Janatah town, to the southeast of Bethlehem.
Security source and eyewitnesses said that the leaflets were dropped on Palestinian lands in Um al-Natour area.
In specific, the leaflets threatened Palestinian villagers against dealing with human rights and anti-settlement activists, including member of Palestinian Central Council Daoud al-Zeer and member of Janatah Municipal Council Nasri Suleiman.
Al-Zeer said that the leaflets were dropped after Palestinian villagers recently fended off a settler attempt to seize Palestinian lands adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Sde Bar.
The number of settlers living in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in violation of international law, has jumped to 834,000, and settlement expansion has tripled since the signing of Oslo Accords, in 1993.
All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law, particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
Head of the Bethlehem Office of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Commission, Hassan Breijieh, told WAFA that a group of settlers stormed a 200-dunam tract of land, located to the east of the village, and set up a mobile home, aiming to establish an outpost under the protection of Israeli forces.
He added that Palestinian landowners fended off the settlers’ attempt to seize their land and produced their title deeds.
Meanwhile, settlers dropped leaflets warning Palestinian villagers against dealing with human rights and anti-settlement activists in Janatah town, to the southeast of Bethlehem.
Security source and eyewitnesses said that the leaflets were dropped on Palestinian lands in Um al-Natour area.
In specific, the leaflets threatened Palestinian villagers against dealing with human rights and anti-settlement activists, including member of Palestinian Central Council Daoud al-Zeer and member of Janatah Municipal Council Nasri Suleiman.
Al-Zeer said that the leaflets were dropped after Palestinian villagers recently fended off a settler attempt to seize Palestinian lands adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Sde Bar.
The number of settlers living in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, in violation of international law, has jumped to 834,000, and settlement expansion has tripled since the signing of Oslo Accords, in 1993.
All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law, particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.
The residents of Tekoa village, near Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank, were shocked to find placards posted around their village on Sunday by Israeli military settlers threatening their livelihoods if they associated with members of Israeli and international peace groups.
The placards included a ‘hit list’ of photos of some of the leaders of the organizations in question, which include Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements.
The statement also included a caveat that if residents worked with or talked to lawyers to secure their legal rights to their land, they would be targeted by the paramilitary colonial settlers.
The posters stated that if any residents of the area choose to associate with any of the listed people or organizations, they would never be able to work again in the Israeli settlements in the area.
The publications included pictures of a member of the National Council and the Central Council of Fatah, Sheikh Dawood al-Zair, human rights lawyers and Nasri Suleiman, a member of the municipality of Janata responsible for monitoring the land threatened with confiscation.
A member of the National Council of Fatah, and one of those listed on the poster, Sheikh Dawood al-Zair, told Ma’an News Agency that in recent weeks, the municipality of Janata, along with Palestinian officials including himself, had told residents of the village that they could go to their farmland for plowing and planting – despite numerous recent threats from the paramilitary Israeli settlers attempting to take over Palestinian land in the area.
He said that several days ago he himself went to plow his land near Nokdim settlement. The Israeli paramilitary settlers attacked him and the other farmers with him, and forced them to stop plowing on their land. The Israeli army intervened and told the villagers to stop plowing and to leave the land.
Al-Zair pointed out that the Israeli settlers have engaged in violent seizure of land in that area, and have used force to illegally annex Palestinian farmland to their settlements and illegal outposts constructed over the last several years in the area.
According to al-Zair, the distribution of these leaflets was an action by the settlers to try to “intimidate the people and threaten them that if they stand with us, their livelihoods will be cut off. But this threat will not stop us. It is our duty to defend the land.”
He called on the Palestinian citizens to go to their land and farm as they do every year at this time, stressing his readiness and the readiness of official Palestinian bodies to stand by their side and provide them with everything that facilitates their access to their land and plowing and planting.
Farmers and land owners appealed to the authorities to help them reach their land permanently, stressing that they are ready to pay all they have to reclaim their land, where they are facing continual Israeli settler attacks.
In recent years, the Israeli occupation authorities have begun to build dozens of houses between the settlements of Nikodim and Taku’a on the land of the residents of Al Aqaban area, east of Bethlehem, within the framework of a plan to create a geographical settlement by connecting five settlement outposts and three existing settlements Gush Etzion East.
For his part, the mayor of Jenin, Ziad Ali said that the municipality coordinates through the lawyers to facilitate the access of residents of East Bethlehem to their land and plowing, but recently there is no response by the occupation authorities to coordinate access to land.
He added that there is a slowdown in the granting of coordination by the so-called “Civil Administration” of the Israeli occupation army, and even if such permission is granted by the occupying Israeli army, Palestinian citizens who receive permits are often surprised upon arrival to their land by attacks by settlers, and no presence of the Israeli military.
The occupation government announced in the middle of last year that they would be adding 500 settlement units in the settlement outpost “Dad”, located on land owned by Palestinians near Mount Fradis east of Bethlehem.
The representative of the popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem, Hassan Brigieh, said that the Israeli occupation has resorted to the expansion of illegal settlements in order to further divide the West Bank by creating a “settlement belt” on land that the Israeli government considers “wilderness” east of Hebron and south of Bethlehem.
None of the land in question is “wilderness”, however. It is all owned by Palestinian landowners and is farmland and olive groves, not wilderness.
This Israeli policy aims to impose the siege through a separation belt between the Dead Sea (East Jerusalem) and the areas east of Hebron and Bethlehem (south) and Jerusalem to divide and destroy the West Bank, where over 3 million Palestinians live.
The placards included a ‘hit list’ of photos of some of the leaders of the organizations in question, which include Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements.
The statement also included a caveat that if residents worked with or talked to lawyers to secure their legal rights to their land, they would be targeted by the paramilitary colonial settlers.
The posters stated that if any residents of the area choose to associate with any of the listed people or organizations, they would never be able to work again in the Israeli settlements in the area.
The publications included pictures of a member of the National Council and the Central Council of Fatah, Sheikh Dawood al-Zair, human rights lawyers and Nasri Suleiman, a member of the municipality of Janata responsible for monitoring the land threatened with confiscation.
A member of the National Council of Fatah, and one of those listed on the poster, Sheikh Dawood al-Zair, told Ma’an News Agency that in recent weeks, the municipality of Janata, along with Palestinian officials including himself, had told residents of the village that they could go to their farmland for plowing and planting – despite numerous recent threats from the paramilitary Israeli settlers attempting to take over Palestinian land in the area.
He said that several days ago he himself went to plow his land near Nokdim settlement. The Israeli paramilitary settlers attacked him and the other farmers with him, and forced them to stop plowing on their land. The Israeli army intervened and told the villagers to stop plowing and to leave the land.
Al-Zair pointed out that the Israeli settlers have engaged in violent seizure of land in that area, and have used force to illegally annex Palestinian farmland to their settlements and illegal outposts constructed over the last several years in the area.
According to al-Zair, the distribution of these leaflets was an action by the settlers to try to “intimidate the people and threaten them that if they stand with us, their livelihoods will be cut off. But this threat will not stop us. It is our duty to defend the land.”
He called on the Palestinian citizens to go to their land and farm as they do every year at this time, stressing his readiness and the readiness of official Palestinian bodies to stand by their side and provide them with everything that facilitates their access to their land and plowing and planting.
Farmers and land owners appealed to the authorities to help them reach their land permanently, stressing that they are ready to pay all they have to reclaim their land, where they are facing continual Israeli settler attacks.
In recent years, the Israeli occupation authorities have begun to build dozens of houses between the settlements of Nikodim and Taku’a on the land of the residents of Al Aqaban area, east of Bethlehem, within the framework of a plan to create a geographical settlement by connecting five settlement outposts and three existing settlements Gush Etzion East.
For his part, the mayor of Jenin, Ziad Ali said that the municipality coordinates through the lawyers to facilitate the access of residents of East Bethlehem to their land and plowing, but recently there is no response by the occupation authorities to coordinate access to land.
He added that there is a slowdown in the granting of coordination by the so-called “Civil Administration” of the Israeli occupation army, and even if such permission is granted by the occupying Israeli army, Palestinian citizens who receive permits are often surprised upon arrival to their land by attacks by settlers, and no presence of the Israeli military.
The occupation government announced in the middle of last year that they would be adding 500 settlement units in the settlement outpost “Dad”, located on land owned by Palestinians near Mount Fradis east of Bethlehem.
The representative of the popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem, Hassan Brigieh, said that the Israeli occupation has resorted to the expansion of illegal settlements in order to further divide the West Bank by creating a “settlement belt” on land that the Israeli government considers “wilderness” east of Hebron and south of Bethlehem.
None of the land in question is “wilderness”, however. It is all owned by Palestinian landowners and is farmland and olive groves, not wilderness.
This Israeli policy aims to impose the siege through a separation belt between the Dead Sea (East Jerusalem) and the areas east of Hebron and Bethlehem (south) and Jerusalem to divide and destroy the West Bank, where over 3 million Palestinians live.
4 feb 2019
Israel's police chief Yoram Halevy stormed on Monday afternoon Jerusalem's holy al-Aqsa Mosque, heading a group of police officers under heavy military protection.
Jerusalem's Awqaf Department said Halevy broke into the Mosque accompanied with 15 police forces in their military uniform and carried out provocative tours.
Broadcast journalist Ayala Hasson was filming the tours, Awqaf added.
The break-in is the third of its kind to be led by Yoram Halevy within the past two weeks.
Jerusalem's Awqaf Department said Halevy broke into the Mosque accompanied with 15 police forces in their military uniform and carried out provocative tours.
Broadcast journalist Ayala Hasson was filming the tours, Awqaf added.
The break-in is the third of its kind to be led by Yoram Halevy within the past two weeks.
Dozens of Israeli settlers on Monday morning stormed al-Aqsa Mosque under police guard.
Local sources said that 37 Israeli settlers in the early morning hours broke into al-Aqsa Mosque via al-Maghareba Gate and roamed its courtyards while being given presentations on the alleged Temple Mount.
The same sources added that 30 Israeli police officers in civilian clothes entered the Mosque during the same period.
Settler break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque are witnessed on a daily basis, except on Fridays and Saturdays, and they are carried out in two rounds: in the morning and afternoon.
Meanwhile, the Israeli police on Sunday decided to ban seven Palestinian women from entering al-Aqsa Mosque for 15 days over their presence near al-Rahma Gate where the Israeli settlers usually perform provocative rituals.
Local sources said that 37 Israeli settlers in the early morning hours broke into al-Aqsa Mosque via al-Maghareba Gate and roamed its courtyards while being given presentations on the alleged Temple Mount.
The same sources added that 30 Israeli police officers in civilian clothes entered the Mosque during the same period.
Settler break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque are witnessed on a daily basis, except on Fridays and Saturdays, and they are carried out in two rounds: in the morning and afternoon.
Meanwhile, the Israeli police on Sunday decided to ban seven Palestinian women from entering al-Aqsa Mosque for 15 days over their presence near al-Rahma Gate where the Israeli settlers usually perform provocative rituals.
Graffiti reading: 'Here they incite to murder Jews'
Unknown assailants daub 'Here they incite to murder Jews' in front of a mosque in the West Bank village of Deir Dibwan; local residents say shoe rack at entrance to the mosque also smelled of inflammable material.
Unknown assailants on Monday daubed inciteful writing in the Palestinian village of Deir Dibwan i e West Bank. The graffiti, reading "Here they incite to murder Jews," was scrawled at the entrance to a mosque in the village.
In addition, local residents told the Judea and Samaria District Police that the shoe rack at the entrance to the mosque smelled of an inflammable material.
In response, the Tag Meir Forum, an NGO that fights hate crimes and racism, said in a statement that the vandalism was "Jewish terrorism."
"The mosque desecration in Deir Dibwan must be condemned," the NGO said. "What begins with desecration of prayer houses ends with the desecration of human lives. The Israeli government must put an end to this Jewish terrorism."
Last week, three vehicles were vandalized in the Palestinian village of Al-Lubban al-Gharbi near Ramallah in the West Bank. Malicious graffiti and the Star of David were sprayed on the vehicles there, and their tires were punctured.
Local residents said they had spotted the perpetrators and began to give chas. They failed, however, to capture them.
In January, five Israeli teenagers were arrested as part of a police investigation into Jewish terrorism on suspicion of causing the death of a Palestinian woman by hurling stones at the vehicle she was traveling in the West Bank in October.
One of the teenagers was charged with manslaughter after his DNA was found on the rock that hit and killed Aisha al-Rawbi near the Tapuach junction.
The 16-year-old youth from the Mateh Binyamin area was also charged with throwing a stone at a vehicle under aggravated circumstances as an act of terror, and intentional vandalism of a vehicle as an act of terror.
Unknown assailants daub 'Here they incite to murder Jews' in front of a mosque in the West Bank village of Deir Dibwan; local residents say shoe rack at entrance to the mosque also smelled of inflammable material.
Unknown assailants on Monday daubed inciteful writing in the Palestinian village of Deir Dibwan i e West Bank. The graffiti, reading "Here they incite to murder Jews," was scrawled at the entrance to a mosque in the village.
In addition, local residents told the Judea and Samaria District Police that the shoe rack at the entrance to the mosque smelled of an inflammable material.
In response, the Tag Meir Forum, an NGO that fights hate crimes and racism, said in a statement that the vandalism was "Jewish terrorism."
"The mosque desecration in Deir Dibwan must be condemned," the NGO said. "What begins with desecration of prayer houses ends with the desecration of human lives. The Israeli government must put an end to this Jewish terrorism."
Last week, three vehicles were vandalized in the Palestinian village of Al-Lubban al-Gharbi near Ramallah in the West Bank. Malicious graffiti and the Star of David were sprayed on the vehicles there, and their tires were punctured.
Local residents said they had spotted the perpetrators and began to give chas. They failed, however, to capture them.
In January, five Israeli teenagers were arrested as part of a police investigation into Jewish terrorism on suspicion of causing the death of a Palestinian woman by hurling stones at the vehicle she was traveling in the West Bank in October.
One of the teenagers was charged with manslaughter after his DNA was found on the rock that hit and killed Aisha al-Rawbi near the Tapuach junction.
The 16-year-old youth from the Mateh Binyamin area was also charged with throwing a stone at a vehicle under aggravated circumstances as an act of terror, and intentional vandalism of a vehicle as an act of terror.
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers infiltrated, on Monday at dawn, into Deir Dibwan village, east of the central West Bank city or Ramallah, and defaced a mosque and several cars parked nearby.
Mansour Mansour, the mayor of Deir Dibwan, said the colonists defaced the walls of the local mosque, and several cars, with racist graffiti.
He added that the illegal colonists have been escalating their crimes against the Palestinians, their homes and lands, and their holy sites, and are encouraged by the inaction of the Israeli occupation forces.
“The protection of holy sites and places of worship isn’t a task that only the Palestinians have to do,” Mansour said, “such crimes require real measures to counter them, by everybody in the Arab and Islamic countries, and the entire world.”
Mansour Mansour, the mayor of Deir Dibwan, said the colonists defaced the walls of the local mosque, and several cars, with racist graffiti.
He added that the illegal colonists have been escalating their crimes against the Palestinians, their homes and lands, and their holy sites, and are encouraged by the inaction of the Israeli occupation forces.
“The protection of holy sites and places of worship isn’t a task that only the Palestinians have to do,” Mansour said, “such crimes require real measures to counter them, by everybody in the Arab and Islamic countries, and the entire world.”
3 feb 2019
Scores of extremist Israeli settlers on Sunday morning broke into al-Aqsa Mosque.
Quds Press reported that a large number of Israeli police officers accompanied the settlers during their tour.
The news agency said that 45 Israeli settlers entered the Mosque during the early morning hours along with 26 Jewish students from religious institutes and Israeli universities.
The Israeli police allow daily settler break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque, except on Fridays and Saturdays, in two rounds: the morning and the afternoon.
Quds Press reported that a large number of Israeli police officers accompanied the settlers during their tour.
The news agency said that 45 Israeli settlers entered the Mosque during the early morning hours along with 26 Jewish students from religious institutes and Israeli universities.
The Israeli police allow daily settler break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque, except on Fridays and Saturdays, in two rounds: the morning and the afternoon.
Israeli settlers on Saturday attacked a Palestinian home in al-Arroub refugee camp in al-Khalil.
Eyewitnesses said that a group of settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, raided the house of the Palestinian citizen Ahmad Abu Surour, insulted the family, and attempted to force them out.
The Israeli settlers claim that Abu Surour's house belongs to a nearby Christian institution they have taken over.
Eyewitnesses said that a group of settlers, escorted by Israeli soldiers, raided the house of the Palestinian citizen Ahmad Abu Surour, insulted the family, and attempted to force them out.
The Israeli settlers claim that Abu Surour's house belongs to a nearby Christian institution they have taken over.
31 jan 2019
Hordes of Jewish settlers on Thursday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under security protection.
84 settlers, including plain-clothes police officers and religious students, entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards, according to the Islamic Awqaf Authority in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Israeli police close al-Maghariba Gate, which is used by Jews to enter the Mosque, at 10:30 am after the settlers complete their morning tours at the holy site. Later in the afternoon, the same gate is reopened for evening tours by settlers.
During the presence of settlers inside the Mosque compound, entry restrictions are imposed on Muslim worshipers at the entrances leading to the Mosque and their IDs are seized until they leave the holy place.
84 settlers, including plain-clothes police officers and religious students, entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards, according to the Islamic Awqaf Authority in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Israeli police close al-Maghariba Gate, which is used by Jews to enter the Mosque, at 10:30 am after the settlers complete their morning tours at the holy site. Later in the afternoon, the same gate is reopened for evening tours by settlers.
During the presence of settlers inside the Mosque compound, entry restrictions are imposed on Muslim worshipers at the entrances leading to the Mosque and their IDs are seized until they leave the holy place.
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Thursday, many Palestinian shepherds in grazing lands in the al-Farisiyya area, in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank.
Palestinian Human Rights activist Aref Daraghma, said the colonists chased the shepherds, and hurled stones at them and the flocks.
He added that the Israeli assailants came from the illegal Rotem colony, which was built on Palestinian lands.
The attack is part of numerous similar violations and assaults by the illegal colonists against the Palestinians, their homes and property in several parts of the occupied West Bank, especially in the Northern Plains.
They are frequently carried out in front of Israeli soldiers, who do not attempt to stop the colonists, and instead resort to the excessive use of force against the Palestinians.
Palestinian Human Rights activist Aref Daraghma, said the colonists chased the shepherds, and hurled stones at them and the flocks.
He added that the Israeli assailants came from the illegal Rotem colony, which was built on Palestinian lands.
The attack is part of numerous similar violations and assaults by the illegal colonists against the Palestinians, their homes and property in several parts of the occupied West Bank, especially in the Northern Plains.
They are frequently carried out in front of Israeli soldiers, who do not attempt to stop the colonists, and instead resort to the excessive use of force against the Palestinians.
Soldiers Assault Family, Destroy Their Furniture, In Hebron
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian home in the Sahla area, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, before assaulting the family, in addition to destroying their furniture.
Hazem Abu Rajab, said the soldiers invaded his home, and assaulted his family, before confiscating his car.
He added that the soldiers violently searched the property, and deliberately caused damage to the furniture and belongings.
Since the year 2012, the family has been subject to frequent invasions and violations by the army, and the illegal colonialist settlers, who claim to own part of the three-story building, inhabited by fourteen members of Abu Rajab family.
The family has been fighting the ongoing illegal takeover attempts by the colonialist settlers, while Israeli courts are still deliberating the case.
Hazem said the latest invasion, and assault was carried out after he refused to sign documents without fully knowing their contents and added that the incident was reported to the Legal Branch of the Hebron Construction Committee, so that it can conduct all needed measures.
The property is a three-story building, inhabited by fourteen members of Abu Rajab family.
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, a Palestinian home in the Sahla area, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, before assaulting the family, in addition to destroying their furniture.
Hazem Abu Rajab, said the soldiers invaded his home, and assaulted his family, before confiscating his car.
He added that the soldiers violently searched the property, and deliberately caused damage to the furniture and belongings.
Since the year 2012, the family has been subject to frequent invasions and violations by the army, and the illegal colonialist settlers, who claim to own part of the three-story building, inhabited by fourteen members of Abu Rajab family.
The family has been fighting the ongoing illegal takeover attempts by the colonialist settlers, while Israeli courts are still deliberating the case.
Hazem said the latest invasion, and assault was carried out after he refused to sign documents without fully knowing their contents and added that the incident was reported to the Legal Branch of the Hebron Construction Committee, so that it can conduct all needed measures.
The property is a three-story building, inhabited by fourteen members of Abu Rajab family.
30 jan 2019
A Palestinian was hospitalized after an Israeli settler ran him over, on Wednesday, in Fundaq town east of Qalqilia.
According to local sources, a Palestinian identified as Sari Samir, 20, was run over by an Israeli settler while on his bicycle.
Samir suffered injuries and was immediately transferred to a nearby hospital to receive the necessary medical treatment.
Incidents involving Israeli settlers hitting Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory are a relatively regular occurrence, and are usually treated by Israeli security forces as accidents, even in cases when witnesses affirm that the car rammings were deliberate.
According to local sources, a Palestinian identified as Sari Samir, 20, was run over by an Israeli settler while on his bicycle.
Samir suffered injuries and was immediately transferred to a nearby hospital to receive the necessary medical treatment.
Incidents involving Israeli settlers hitting Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory are a relatively regular occurrence, and are usually treated by Israeli security forces as accidents, even in cases when witnesses affirm that the car rammings were deliberate.
Dozens of Israeli illegal settlers, on Wednesday morning, broke into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound via the Mughrabi {Moroccan} gate under heavy military protection.
Jerusalemite sources reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that some 48 settlers, accompanied by rabbis, broke into the mosque, roamed its courtyards, and received explanations on the alleged “Temple Mount”.
According to the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, some of the settlers performed Talmudic rituals at al-Rahma gate, which was being stormed by Israeli intelligence officers at the same time .
Sources added that worshipers, educational students, and guards of the mosque who were present, there, defended it by chants and Takbeer (chanting “Allahu Akhbar… God is Greatest!”), and hampered the settlers from roaming it freely.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound is exposed, on a daily basis, to the storming of extremist Israeli settlers, at which they perform Talmudic rituals and desecrate its sanctity, in an attempt to upset the temporal and special division of the mosque, and further Judaize the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem.
Jerusalemite sources reported, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that some 48 settlers, accompanied by rabbis, broke into the mosque, roamed its courtyards, and received explanations on the alleged “Temple Mount”.
According to the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, some of the settlers performed Talmudic rituals at al-Rahma gate, which was being stormed by Israeli intelligence officers at the same time .
Sources added that worshipers, educational students, and guards of the mosque who were present, there, defended it by chants and Takbeer (chanting “Allahu Akhbar… God is Greatest!”), and hampered the settlers from roaming it freely.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound is exposed, on a daily basis, to the storming of extremist Israeli settlers, at which they perform Talmudic rituals and desecrate its sanctity, in an attempt to upset the temporal and special division of the mosque, and further Judaize the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem.
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Israeli settlers vandalized several Palestinian vehicles in the al-Lubban al-Sharqiyyeh village, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday morning.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Israeli settlers from the Maale Levona illegal Israeli settlement raided the village, spray-painted racist graffiti and Stars of David on three vehicles. Locals chased the settlers, who then managed to flee the village. Known as "price tag" attacks, extremist Israeli settlers carry out violent acts of punishment on Palestinians and their property to demonstrate their opposition to Israeli restrictions on settlements and outposts in the occupied West Bank and Palestinian towns and villages in Israel. |
Many Palestinian activists and rights groups have accused Israel of fostering a "culture of impunity" for Israelis committing violent acts against Palestinians.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
Israeli soldiers abducted, overnight until early morning hours Monday, at least nine Palestinians, including former political prisoners, from their homes Ramallah, Jenin, Nablus and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported.
The PPS office in Ramallah, in central West Bank, said dozens of soldiers invaded the ar-Reehan area, north of the city, searched homes and abducted one Palestinian, who remained unidentified at the time of this report.
In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Samir Abdul-Halim Burhan, 17, after stopping him on a Palestinian land, near the al-Jalama military base.
Also in Jenin, the soldiers searched and ransacked homes in Arraba and Qabatia towns, south of Jenin, and abducted five former political prisoners, identified as Ja’far Ezzeddin, Bakr Mohammad Abu Obeid, and Mustafa Shehada Sheebani, from Arraba, in addition to Naji Samir Nazzal, and Yousef Raed Abu Khamira, from Qabatia.
In Nablus, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted a political prisoner, identified as Zayed Hasan Mleitat, 35, after invading and searching his home in Beit Forik town, east of the city.
In related news, a group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers infiltrated into the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya town, south of Nablus, punctured tired of several cars and wrote racist graffiti, before the locals noticed them and chased them away.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded the Rashaida village, east of the city, and abducted Mohammad Suleiman Rashaida, from his home, after invading and searching it.
The PPS office in Ramallah, in central West Bank, said dozens of soldiers invaded the ar-Reehan area, north of the city, searched homes and abducted one Palestinian, who remained unidentified at the time of this report.
In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Samir Abdul-Halim Burhan, 17, after stopping him on a Palestinian land, near the al-Jalama military base.
Also in Jenin, the soldiers searched and ransacked homes in Arraba and Qabatia towns, south of Jenin, and abducted five former political prisoners, identified as Ja’far Ezzeddin, Bakr Mohammad Abu Obeid, and Mustafa Shehada Sheebani, from Arraba, in addition to Naji Samir Nazzal, and Yousef Raed Abu Khamira, from Qabatia.
In Nablus, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted a political prisoner, identified as Zayed Hasan Mleitat, 35, after invading and searching his home in Beit Forik town, east of the city.
In related news, a group of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers infiltrated into the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya town, south of Nablus, punctured tired of several cars and wrote racist graffiti, before the locals noticed them and chased them away.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded the Rashaida village, east of the city, and abducted Mohammad Suleiman Rashaida, from his home, after invading and searching it.
