9 july 2019
Israeli soldiers detained, Tuesday, several Palestinian journalists while documenting illegal colonialist settlers bulldozing and uprooting Palestinian lands, east of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Hamza Khattab, a multimedia professional working with the WAFA Palestinian News Agency, said the soldiers detained him, along with WAFA camerawoman Samar Bader, in addition to several other reporters from various news agencies.
Khattab added that he, and his colleagues, were documenting illegal Israeli colonists bulldozing and uprooting Palestinian lands in the al-Baq’a area, east of Hebron.
He said that Israeli soldiers invaded the area, and attacked many Palestinians, before detaining him and several other journalists, and released them later.
The army claimed that the area was a “closed military zone,” although they were on Palestinian lands.
Hamza Khattab, a multimedia professional working with the WAFA Palestinian News Agency, said the soldiers detained him, along with WAFA camerawoman Samar Bader, in addition to several other reporters from various news agencies.
Khattab added that he, and his colleagues, were documenting illegal Israeli colonists bulldozing and uprooting Palestinian lands in the al-Baq’a area, east of Hebron.
He said that Israeli soldiers invaded the area, and attacked many Palestinians, before detaining him and several other journalists, and released them later.
The army claimed that the area was a “closed military zone,” although they were on Palestinian lands.
Israeli settlers destroyed 24 acres of land and property belonging to Palestinian citizens, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
The land was adjacent to Kiryat Arba settlement which is illegal under international law.
‘Aref Jaber, a local human rights activist, said that the settlers from Kiryat Arba, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, used heavy vehicles to destroy the land owned by ‘Abd al-Samad Jaber.
Jaber added that the owners of the land filed a number of complaints in the Israeli courts, and they have both Palestinian records and Israeli documents that prove their ownership.
The land was adjacent to Kiryat Arba settlement which is illegal under international law.
‘Aref Jaber, a local human rights activist, said that the settlers from Kiryat Arba, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, used heavy vehicles to destroy the land owned by ‘Abd al-Samad Jaber.
Jaber added that the owners of the land filed a number of complaints in the Israeli courts, and they have both Palestinian records and Israeli documents that prove their ownership.
8 july 2019
At least 50 Israeli settlers on Monday broke into al-Aqsa Mosque under police guard.
The settlers carried out provocative tours inside al-Aqsa compound, while the restrictions imposed on the Palestinian worshipers entering the site were tightened.
Israeli settlers carry out mass break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque on a daily basis, except Fridays and Saturdays, in two rounds: in the morning and afternoon.
The settlers carried out provocative tours inside al-Aqsa compound, while the restrictions imposed on the Palestinian worshipers entering the site were tightened.
Israeli settlers carry out mass break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque on a daily basis, except Fridays and Saturdays, in two rounds: in the morning and afternoon.
7 july 2019
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Every Saturday, illegal Jewish settlers from around the West Bank take a “tour” of the busy souq (market) in Old City of Hebron, the busiest market street in the area since the closure of Shuhada Street.
Local Palestinians believe that the Israeli authorities facilitate the tour as a deliberate method of intimidation, making life intolerable and unsustainable for them in order to prompt displacement. On the tour, current and prospective settlers are given a skewed history of Hebron which disregards and contradicts the documented history of peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews in the city before 1948. Instead, it identifies the land’s heritage as solely Jewish. As shown, the settlers are escorted by numerous Israeli soldiers and Border Police officers, who randomly detain Palestinians for ID checks and |
prevent free movement in the souq during the duration of the tour.
Military and police can also be seen on the rooftops of Palestinian homes, many of which are now empty as a result of forced evictions for surveillance purposes.
Palestinians living in the Old City are under constant threat of home invasions by the Israeli military and Jewish settlers, further contributing to displacement and the theft of Palestinian property.
Military and police can also be seen on the rooftops of Palestinian homes, many of which are now empty as a result of forced evictions for surveillance purposes.
Palestinians living in the Old City are under constant threat of home invasions by the Israeli military and Jewish settlers, further contributing to displacement and the theft of Palestinian property.
A number of illegal Israeli colonists infiltrated, on Sunday at dawn, into Awarta Palestinian village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, punctured tires of several Palestinian cars and wrote racist graffiti.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the assailants punctured the tires of four cars, owned by Suleiman at-Tammouni, Salah Awwad, Nasr Awwad and Samer ‘Attouri.
He added that the colonists also wrote racist and anti-Palestinian graffiti, some calling for “revenge,” and “killing the Arabs,” on walls of several homes, and on cars, in addition to a kindergarten and a school.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the assailants punctured the tires of four cars, owned by Suleiman at-Tammouni, Salah Awwad, Nasr Awwad and Samer ‘Attouri.
He added that the colonists also wrote racist and anti-Palestinian graffiti, some calling for “revenge,” and “killing the Arabs,” on walls of several homes, and on cars, in addition to a kindergarten and a school.
6 july 2019
Several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers assaulted, Saturday, a Palestinian child in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing lacerations and bruises.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the Israeli assailants attacked the child, Raed Abu Rmeila Tamimi, 10, while crossing the Sahla Street, near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron city.
WAFA added that the child was rushed to Hebron Governmental Hospital, suffering several lacerations and bruises.
The child’s father said that he was heading to his pottery shop in the Old City, after returning from the markets’ area in Hebron, and then asked his child to carry some items to take them home in the southern part of the city.
He added that, while his child was walking in the Sahla Street area, a few colonists assaulted him, causing his injuries, and deliberately smashed his mobile phone, while Israeli soldiers, constantly deployed in the area, failed to intervene.
“While the soldiers just stood and watched, many Palestinians intervened and managed to take my child away from the assailants, and took him to the hospital,” the father stated.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the Israeli assailants attacked the child, Raed Abu Rmeila Tamimi, 10, while crossing the Sahla Street, near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron city.
WAFA added that the child was rushed to Hebron Governmental Hospital, suffering several lacerations and bruises.
The child’s father said that he was heading to his pottery shop in the Old City, after returning from the markets’ area in Hebron, and then asked his child to carry some items to take them home in the southern part of the city.
He added that, while his child was walking in the Sahla Street area, a few colonists assaulted him, causing his injuries, and deliberately smashed his mobile phone, while Israeli soldiers, constantly deployed in the area, failed to intervene.
“While the soldiers just stood and watched, many Palestinians intervened and managed to take my child away from the assailants, and took him to the hospital,” the father stated.
Israeli settlers from the terrorist price-tag group spray-painted racist graffiti outside the Arab dormitory, in Tele Aviv University, students said.
The students told journalists that settlers broke into the surroundings of their dormitory and spray-painted racist, hate and anti-Arab graffiti on walls.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
“Price tag” refers to an underground anti-Palestinian Israeli group that routinely attack Palestinians in the occupied territories and inside Israel.
The Israeli government still refuses to label it as a terrorist organization and considers it only as group of vandals, WAFA reports.
The students told journalists that settlers broke into the surroundings of their dormitory and spray-painted racist, hate and anti-Arab graffiti on walls.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
“Price tag” refers to an underground anti-Palestinian Israeli group that routinely attack Palestinians in the occupied territories and inside Israel.
The Israeli government still refuses to label it as a terrorist organization and considers it only as group of vandals, WAFA reports.
From left to right: Otzma Yehudit members Baruch Marzel, Michael Ben Ari, Rabbi Dov Lior and Itamar Ben Gvir at the extremist party's campaign launch in Jerusalem on July 4, 2019
Far-right Israeli faction Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) has launched its election campaign by calling for the expulsion of Palestinians to what he described as their “countries of origin”.
Otzma Yehudit launched its campaign in Jerusalem yesterday, ahead of Israel’s general election, which will be held on September 17 after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a ruling coalition, following his re-election on April 9.
Party head Michael Ben Ari told the audience that, “we want to resettle our enemies in their countries […] we’ll give them a bottle of mineral water and even a sandwich. We’ll find them countries of origin they can go to.”
Otzma Yehudit has a history of anti-Palestinian incitement, and had previously called for the expulsion of Palestinians from both Israel and the West Bank.
Its members are followers of extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was banned from the Knesset in the 1980s. Kahane’s ideology also inspired Baruch Goldstein’s 1994 massacre at Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, which left 29 Muslim worshippers dead and scores wounded.
In March, WAFA further reports, Israel’s Central Elections Committee mulled barring Otzma Yehudit from contesting April’s election due to its anti-Palestinian rhetoric, with the Supreme Court eventually deciding only to ban Ben Ari from the list of candidates.
The party head slammed this decision at yesterday’s campaign launch, saying “they told us this [rhetoric] is racist […] they said they disqualified me for this”.
Far-right Israeli faction Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) has launched its election campaign by calling for the expulsion of Palestinians to what he described as their “countries of origin”.
Otzma Yehudit launched its campaign in Jerusalem yesterday, ahead of Israel’s general election, which will be held on September 17 after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a ruling coalition, following his re-election on April 9.
Party head Michael Ben Ari told the audience that, “we want to resettle our enemies in their countries […] we’ll give them a bottle of mineral water and even a sandwich. We’ll find them countries of origin they can go to.”
Otzma Yehudit has a history of anti-Palestinian incitement, and had previously called for the expulsion of Palestinians from both Israel and the West Bank.
Its members are followers of extremist rabbi Meir Kahane, whose Kach party was banned from the Knesset in the 1980s. Kahane’s ideology also inspired Baruch Goldstein’s 1994 massacre at Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque, which left 29 Muslim worshippers dead and scores wounded.
In March, WAFA further reports, Israel’s Central Elections Committee mulled barring Otzma Yehudit from contesting April’s election due to its anti-Palestinian rhetoric, with the Supreme Court eventually deciding only to ban Ben Ari from the list of candidates.
The party head slammed this decision at yesterday’s campaign launch, saying “they told us this [rhetoric] is racist […] they said they disqualified me for this”.
5 july 2019
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday morning prevented Palestinian citizens from entering the archeological area of Sebastia town, north of Nablus, and allowed dozens of Jewish settlers to visit it.
Sebastia mayor Mohamed Azem said that scores of settlers stormed under military protection the ancient area of the town.
Azem added that the IOF cordoned off the area and bared local residents from getting near it.
The archeological area of Sebastia town is exposed to repeated break-ins by Israeli soldiers and settlers, who falsely claim it is a Jewish ritual site.
Sebastia is a mixture of structural remains and modern buildings and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the West Bank.
It was once a major city, home to successive civilizations from its Arab Canaanite founders to the Romans and then its modern-day Palestinian inhabitants.
Both the major archaeological site above the village and the historic center of the town itself are still fascinating tourist attractions.
However, this unique ancient town is exposed to systematic attempts by Israel and its ministry of tourism to obliterate and Judaize its Palestinian history and identity.
According to Azem, Israel prevents the Palestinian local authorities from carrying out any restoration or cleaning works at the historical sites.
Every once in a while, groups of Jewish settlers escorted by soldiers provocatively storm the main archaeological site of the town in broad daylight to perform religious rituals as part of an Israeli attempt to claim it as a Jewish shrine.
At nighttime, the site becomes vulnerable to acts of sabotage and plundering from Jewish thieves.
Sebastia mayor Mohamed Azem said that scores of settlers stormed under military protection the ancient area of the town.
Azem added that the IOF cordoned off the area and bared local residents from getting near it.
The archeological area of Sebastia town is exposed to repeated break-ins by Israeli soldiers and settlers, who falsely claim it is a Jewish ritual site.
Sebastia is a mixture of structural remains and modern buildings and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the West Bank.
It was once a major city, home to successive civilizations from its Arab Canaanite founders to the Romans and then its modern-day Palestinian inhabitants.
Both the major archaeological site above the village and the historic center of the town itself are still fascinating tourist attractions.
However, this unique ancient town is exposed to systematic attempts by Israel and its ministry of tourism to obliterate and Judaize its Palestinian history and identity.
According to Azem, Israel prevents the Palestinian local authorities from carrying out any restoration or cleaning works at the historical sites.
Every once in a while, groups of Jewish settlers escorted by soldiers provocatively storm the main archaeological site of the town in broad daylight to perform religious rituals as part of an Israeli attempt to claim it as a Jewish shrine.
At nighttime, the site becomes vulnerable to acts of sabotage and plundering from Jewish thieves.
4 july 2019
The Israeli occupation police on Thursday morning provided protection for dozens of extremist Jewish settlers as they were touring the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards.
Groups of 74 settlers, including rabbi Yehuda Glick, desecrated the Mosque under police guard in the morning, according to Quds Press.
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.
Groups of 74 settlers, including rabbi Yehuda Glick, desecrated the Mosque under police guard in the morning, according to Quds Press.
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.
Israeli Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel, guarded by a special forces unit of the Israeli occupation police stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning, via the Moroccan Gate, and performed Talmudic rituals.
At around 7:30am ,Israeli soldiers were deployed at the mosque gates and in its courtyards, securing the raid by extremist settlers headed by Ariel.
Ariel was guarded by Israeli forces as he performed Talmudic rituals.
Israeli forces-imposed restrictions on Palestinian entry into the mosque, seizing their personal IDs.
Al Ray further reports that some 2,857 Israeli extremists stormed the mosque last June, under guard of Israeli police.
Al-Aqsa mosque subjected to a daily storm by Israeli settlers, in an attempt to impose Israeli sovereignty over it.
At around 7:30am ,Israeli soldiers were deployed at the mosque gates and in its courtyards, securing the raid by extremist settlers headed by Ariel.
Ariel was guarded by Israeli forces as he performed Talmudic rituals.
Israeli forces-imposed restrictions on Palestinian entry into the mosque, seizing their personal IDs.
Al Ray further reports that some 2,857 Israeli extremists stormed the mosque last June, under guard of Israeli police.
Al-Aqsa mosque subjected to a daily storm by Israeli settlers, in an attempt to impose Israeli sovereignty over it.
