23 june 2018
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has decided to devour more Palestinian agricultural and pastoral lands in the village of Yasuf, northeast of Salfit province in the West Bank and annex more than 200 dunums of its land for security and settlement purposes.
Yasuf mayor Nashaat Abdul-Fattah explained that the IOA decided to seize 150 dunums of land in the village and classify them as state property as well as another 70 dunums to use them for security purposes.
Abdul-Fattah said that “the land of the village has become depleted by Israel’s settlement expansion, road barriers, the presence of a military base, and a bypass for settlers,” adding that the village is also plagued by daily attacks by Jewish settlers, who blocked the Yasuf-Nablus road a few days ago.
Meanwhile, the IOA refuses to comply with a court verdict ordering the evacuation of settlers from an illegal outpost north of the village
“An Israeli court decided to evacuate the settlement outpost north of the village, but the structures and mobile homes have not been removed, while the settlers are still carrying bulldozing activities there,” Ahmed Abiya, a local farmer, said.
“What has happened is a kind of jiggery-pokery, and the settlers are doing what they want. What the occupation authority did was a theatrical show to embellish its image,” the farmer added.
Yasuf mayor Nashaat Abdul-Fattah explained that the IOA decided to seize 150 dunums of land in the village and classify them as state property as well as another 70 dunums to use them for security purposes.
Abdul-Fattah said that “the land of the village has become depleted by Israel’s settlement expansion, road barriers, the presence of a military base, and a bypass for settlers,” adding that the village is also plagued by daily attacks by Jewish settlers, who blocked the Yasuf-Nablus road a few days ago.
Meanwhile, the IOA refuses to comply with a court verdict ordering the evacuation of settlers from an illegal outpost north of the village
“An Israeli court decided to evacuate the settlement outpost north of the village, but the structures and mobile homes have not been removed, while the settlers are still carrying bulldozing activities there,” Ahmed Abiya, a local farmer, said.
“What has happened is a kind of jiggery-pokery, and the settlers are doing what they want. What the occupation authority did was a theatrical show to embellish its image,” the farmer added.
22 june 2018
A group of fanatic settlers Friday afternoon set fire to Palestinian olive farms in Salman al-Farsi Mount in Bourin town south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank. As a result, tens of dunums caught on fire.
Local sources said that the attacking settlers came from Yitzhar illegal settlement which was forcibly constructed over the lands of Nablus city.
The sources added that Israeli fire extinguishing planes put out fire after it had approached Yitzhar settlement. video
Local sources said that the attacking settlers came from Yitzhar illegal settlement which was forcibly constructed over the lands of Nablus city.
The sources added that Israeli fire extinguishing planes put out fire after it had approached Yitzhar settlement. video
Hundreds of Israeli settlers joined a revelry held overnight Thursday in the plazas of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil.
Director of the mosque, Sheikh Hefdhi Abu Sneineh, said Israeli settler hordes flocked to the exterior squares of the site, before they proceeded with anti-Arab chants and sacrilegious dances.
Dozens of fanatic rabbis along with the minister of internal security were in attendance. video
Abu Sneineh dubbed the assault a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the mosque and a provocation to the Muslim masses.
He held the Israeli government responsible for the fallouts of the assault, which he said makes part of Israeli attempts to Judaize holy sites across the occupied Palestinian territories.
He called on the UNESCO, among other international bodies, to take urgent steps in response to such Israeli violations.
Director of the mosque, Sheikh Hefdhi Abu Sneineh, said Israeli settler hordes flocked to the exterior squares of the site, before they proceeded with anti-Arab chants and sacrilegious dances.
Dozens of fanatic rabbis along with the minister of internal security were in attendance. video
Abu Sneineh dubbed the assault a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the mosque and a provocation to the Muslim masses.
He held the Israeli government responsible for the fallouts of the assault, which he said makes part of Israeli attempts to Judaize holy sites across the occupied Palestinian territories.
He called on the UNESCO, among other international bodies, to take urgent steps in response to such Israeli violations.
A group of extremist illegal Israeli colonizers invaded, on Thursday at noon, Palestinian orchards near the junction between Burqa and Sielet ath-Thaher town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, injured one woman and burnt at least 30 olive trees.
The colonizers invaded the Palestinians orchards, and attacked many villagers, injuring a woman, identified as Darin Mustafa Abu al-Haija, causing mild-to-moderate wounds.
They also burnt at least thirty olive trees during their invasion into the Palestinian orchards.
Two days ago, the colonizers fired many live rounds at the Palestinian in the same area, reportedly after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a one of their cars.
Also Thursday, a Palestinian woman was injured after extremist colonizers attacked her with stones at the entrance to the village of Burqa, to the north of Nablus.
The colonizers invaded the Palestinians orchards, and attacked many villagers, injuring a woman, identified as Darin Mustafa Abu al-Haija, causing mild-to-moderate wounds.
They also burnt at least thirty olive trees during their invasion into the Palestinian orchards.
Two days ago, the colonizers fired many live rounds at the Palestinian in the same area, reportedly after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a one of their cars.
Also Thursday, a Palestinian woman was injured after extremist colonizers attacked her with stones at the entrance to the village of Burqa, to the north of Nablus.
21 june 2018
A Palestinian woman was injured on Thursday, after extremist Israeli settlers attacked her with stones at the entrance to the village of Burqa, to the north of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the area said that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians at the entrance to the village, injuring one woman by with stone.
He said the settlers also set fire to trees in the area, according to WAFA.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
This violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, the uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
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.
Israeli Colonizers Injure A Woman Near Jenin
Israeli colonizers attacked, Thursday, several Palestinian cars driving near the junction of Burqa village and Sielet ath-Thaher town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing damage and wounding one woman.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of illegal colonizers closed the main road near the junction, and burnt many tires, before hurling stones at dozens of cars, causing damage, and wounding the woman.
Resident Mohammad Abu al-Haija said that he was driving in the area, near the evacuated illegal colony of Homish, while was heading to Jenin city with his family, before the colonist started throwing stones at his car.
“We tried to avoid them, and just drive away, but they wounded my wife in her head,” Abu al-Haija stated, “My wife was injured, and our two children suffered anxiety attacks.”
The wounded Palestinian woman was rushed to Khalil Suleiman Governmental hospital in Jenin.
In related news, the soldiers installed a military roadblocks on the Jenin-Nablus Road, south of Jenin, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the area said that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians at the entrance to the village, injuring one woman by with stone.
He said the settlers also set fire to trees in the area, according to WAFA.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
This violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, the uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
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.
Israeli Colonizers Injure A Woman Near Jenin
Israeli colonizers attacked, Thursday, several Palestinian cars driving near the junction of Burqa village and Sielet ath-Thaher town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, causing damage and wounding one woman.
Eyewitnesses said dozens of illegal colonizers closed the main road near the junction, and burnt many tires, before hurling stones at dozens of cars, causing damage, and wounding the woman.
Resident Mohammad Abu al-Haija said that he was driving in the area, near the evacuated illegal colony of Homish, while was heading to Jenin city with his family, before the colonist started throwing stones at his car.
“We tried to avoid them, and just drive away, but they wounded my wife in her head,” Abu al-Haija stated, “My wife was injured, and our two children suffered anxiety attacks.”
The wounded Palestinian woman was rushed to Khalil Suleiman Governmental hospital in Jenin.
In related news, the soldiers installed a military roadblocks on the Jenin-Nablus Road, south of Jenin, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Jewish settler groups intend on Thursday evening to march en masse to the Ibrahimi Mosque to participate in loud musical rituals to be held to celebrate the takeover of the Islamic holy site following the 1994 massacre.
Extremist settlers have started gradually to hold celebratory rituals every year since the Israeli occupation authority decided to Judaize the Ibrahimi Mosque and allow Jews to desecrate it after an armed US-born settler named Baruch Goldstein stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of al-Khalil during a Ramadan Friday prayer On February 25, 1994 and opened fire at Muslim worshipers, murdering 29 of them and wounding over 100 others.
The Islamic Waqf Authority in al-Khalil has strongly denounced the settlers’ intent to hold musical celebration at the Ibrahimi Mosque, saying such sacrilegious behavior would violate the Islamic sanctity of the holy place.
The Waqf Authority appealed to the UNESCO, which registered the Old City of al-Khalil and the Ibrahimi Mosque as endangered Palestinian heritage sites, to intervene to prevent such Israeli practices at the holy site.
Extremist settlers have started gradually to hold celebratory rituals every year since the Israeli occupation authority decided to Judaize the Ibrahimi Mosque and allow Jews to desecrate it after an armed US-born settler named Baruch Goldstein stormed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the Old City of al-Khalil during a Ramadan Friday prayer On February 25, 1994 and opened fire at Muslim worshipers, murdering 29 of them and wounding over 100 others.
The Islamic Waqf Authority in al-Khalil has strongly denounced the settlers’ intent to hold musical celebration at the Ibrahimi Mosque, saying such sacrilegious behavior would violate the Islamic sanctity of the holy place.
The Waqf Authority appealed to the UNESCO, which registered the Old City of al-Khalil and the Ibrahimi Mosque as endangered Palestinian heritage sites, to intervene to prevent such Israeli practices at the holy site.
Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers on Thursday morning were allowed to enter the Aqsa Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and desecrate its courtyards.
According to local sources, scores of settlers started at seven o’clock in the morning to rally outside the Mosque compound before allowing them to tour the Islamic holy site in groups under police escort.
Meanwhile, the Israeli police prevented many Muslim worshipers from entering the Mosque at the pretext of maintaining security and providing protection for the visiting settlers.
According to local sources, scores of settlers started at seven o’clock in the morning to rally outside the Mosque compound before allowing them to tour the Islamic holy site in groups under police escort.
Meanwhile, the Israeli police prevented many Muslim worshipers from entering the Mosque at the pretext of maintaining security and providing protection for the visiting settlers.
A group of extremist illegal colonizers hurled stones, on Wednesday evening, at Palestinian cars trying to cross Huwwara Israeli military roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Media sources said that the Israeli assailants gathered near the military roadblock and started throwing stones at the Palestinian cars, awaiting to be allow through. The attacks did not lead to injuries or damage.
In related news, a group of colonizers blockaded the main road linking between Za’tara and Iskaka Palestinian communities, east of Salfit in northwestern West Bank, preventing the Palestinians from crossing.
Media sources said that the Israeli assailants gathered near the military roadblock and started throwing stones at the Palestinian cars, awaiting to be allow through. The attacks did not lead to injuries or damage.
In related news, a group of colonizers blockaded the main road linking between Za’tara and Iskaka Palestinian communities, east of Salfit in northwestern West Bank, preventing the Palestinians from crossing.
A group of extremist Israeli colonialist settlers installed, Wednesday, a new illegal outpost on Palestinian agricultural lands in Bani Neim town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The armed colonizers invaded the lands, owned by Ed’eis family in the al-Hamra area, and installed a tent, a mobile home, and a barn for their sheep.
The new outpost was installed in twenty Dunams of Palestinian lands, only dozens of meters away from the illegal Bnie Havar colony, which was also installed on private lands.
Younis Arar, the head of the Palestinian Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Hebron, said the new outpost aims at expanding the existing illegal colony, and added that Israeli soldiers invaded the area, and declared it a closed military zone, preventing the Palestinians, not the colonizers, from entering it.
He also said that the Committee will be installing a protest tent on the land and will challenge Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in international courts.
Dozens of activists and local farmers protested in the area, and chanted against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation, and its colonialist activities in direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
They called on the international community, and all related legal and human rights organizations, to intervene and end the Israeli escalation and the ongoing policies of illegal annexation, and theft, of Palestinian lands.
The armed colonizers invaded the lands, owned by Ed’eis family in the al-Hamra area, and installed a tent, a mobile home, and a barn for their sheep.
The new outpost was installed in twenty Dunams of Palestinian lands, only dozens of meters away from the illegal Bnie Havar colony, which was also installed on private lands.
Younis Arar, the head of the Palestinian Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Hebron, said the new outpost aims at expanding the existing illegal colony, and added that Israeli soldiers invaded the area, and declared it a closed military zone, preventing the Palestinians, not the colonizers, from entering it.
He also said that the Committee will be installing a protest tent on the land and will challenge Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in international courts.
Dozens of activists and local farmers protested in the area, and chanted against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation, and its colonialist activities in direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
They called on the international community, and all related legal and human rights organizations, to intervene and end the Israeli escalation and the ongoing policies of illegal annexation, and theft, of Palestinian lands.
20 june 2018
Israeli police offered protection to 67 Jewish settlers who stormed the plazas of al-Aqsa Mosque from al-Magharebah gate on Wednesday.
The media official of the Awqaf (endowment) Department, Feras al-Debes, said that the settlers were allowed to roam the courtyards of the Muslims’ holy shrine during the morning round.
He told Quds Press that settlers performed Talmudic rituals and prayers at several locations in the holy site amid protection of Israeli police and the heavily armed Special Forces.
The media official of the Awqaf (endowment) Department, Feras al-Debes, said that the settlers were allowed to roam the courtyards of the Muslims’ holy shrine during the morning round.
He told Quds Press that settlers performed Talmudic rituals and prayers at several locations in the holy site amid protection of Israeli police and the heavily armed Special Forces.
Hussein Dawabsheh with his grandson Ahmed, the only one to survive the attack
In video filmed outside trial of Jewish settlers accused of perpetrating Duma arson attack, youth heard shouting at Hussein Dawabsheh 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill' in reference to slain 18-month-old baby, adding 'It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well' in reference to Ali's brother.
Hussein Dawabsheh, whose family was murdered in an arson attack in Duma, suffered verbal abuse from right-wing settler youth outside the Lod District Court Tuesday, after it had ruled that the majority of confessions given by two alleged Jewish terrorists are admissible.
On July 31, 2015, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Dawabsheh family's house in the village in the northern West Bank, killing an 18-month-old baby, Ali, and critically wounding his four-year-old brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh, later succumbed to their wounds.
MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint list) posted a video of the incident outside the court on Twitter, which gained many shares and comments from across the political spectrum.
Youths are heard shouting in the video, "Where is Ali? Where is Riham? Where is Saad? It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well."
Police officers and the ministers who were present at the court chose not to intervene, letting the demonstration of hatred and racism continue.
In an interview with Ynet, Tibi described the difficult experienced. "As Hussein Dawabsheh—who is Ali and Ahmed's grandfather—was leaving the court, 20 young settlers, probably 'price tag' activists, gathered around him," Tibi recounted.
"As soon as they saw us—and several women demonstrating against the murder—the 'price tag' activists began shouting: 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill,' while dancing and rejoicing," he went on to say."Others began chanting those words. It's chilling. As I looked at the grandfather, my eyes teared up."
"After Ali and Ahmed's uncle Saad a-Nasser told them, 'Ali was just a child, and he is in heaven now,' they continued dancing and chanting 'Ali was burned,'" the MK continued.
According to Tibi, he asked the police officers outside the court to do something, but they responded with indifference. "What would have happen had the situation been reversed? If 20 Arab youths were shouting about a Jewish fatality 'he's on the grill, he's burning'? How many of them would have gone home with broken legs? How many would have been arrested?" Tibi wondered.
"Part of the reason it was horrifying was the police's indifference, like nothing had happened," he explained.
"They (the police) could have at least removed them from the court. (No need) to break legs. Legs are only broken to Arabs in Haifa, not to Jews. But they could have at least removed them," he added.
Tibi said that after posting the video, many Israeli turned to him and said they felt awful about the display of hatred outside the court.
"The coalition as well as the opposition expressed their disgust of what happened. But lo and behold—not a single minister (said anything), not Miri Regev, not Yisrael Katz, not Ayelet Shaked, not Naftali Bennett and in particularly not the prime minister, who knows how to retweet awful things. He remained quiet instead of condemning this sickening phenomenon," Tibi lashed out.
In video filmed outside trial of Jewish settlers accused of perpetrating Duma arson attack, youth heard shouting at Hussein Dawabsheh 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill' in reference to slain 18-month-old baby, adding 'It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well' in reference to Ali's brother.
Hussein Dawabsheh, whose family was murdered in an arson attack in Duma, suffered verbal abuse from right-wing settler youth outside the Lod District Court Tuesday, after it had ruled that the majority of confessions given by two alleged Jewish terrorists are admissible.
On July 31, 2015, Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Dawabsheh family's house in the village in the northern West Bank, killing an 18-month-old baby, Ali, and critically wounding his four-year-old brother and both parents. The parents, Saad and Riham Dawabsheh, later succumbed to their wounds.
MK Ahmad Tibi (Joint list) posted a video of the incident outside the court on Twitter, which gained many shares and comments from across the political spectrum.
Youths are heard shouting in the video, "Where is Ali? Where is Riham? Where is Saad? It's too bad Ahmed didn't burn as well."
Police officers and the ministers who were present at the court chose not to intervene, letting the demonstration of hatred and racism continue.
In an interview with Ynet, Tibi described the difficult experienced. "As Hussein Dawabsheh—who is Ali and Ahmed's grandfather—was leaving the court, 20 young settlers, probably 'price tag' activists, gathered around him," Tibi recounted.
"As soon as they saw us—and several women demonstrating against the murder—the 'price tag' activists began shouting: 'Ali was burned, where is Ali? Ali is on the grill,' while dancing and rejoicing," he went on to say."Others began chanting those words. It's chilling. As I looked at the grandfather, my eyes teared up."
"After Ali and Ahmed's uncle Saad a-Nasser told them, 'Ali was just a child, and he is in heaven now,' they continued dancing and chanting 'Ali was burned,'" the MK continued.
According to Tibi, he asked the police officers outside the court to do something, but they responded with indifference. "What would have happen had the situation been reversed? If 20 Arab youths were shouting about a Jewish fatality 'he's on the grill, he's burning'? How many of them would have gone home with broken legs? How many would have been arrested?" Tibi wondered.
"Part of the reason it was horrifying was the police's indifference, like nothing had happened," he explained.
"They (the police) could have at least removed them from the court. (No need) to break legs. Legs are only broken to Arabs in Haifa, not to Jews. But they could have at least removed them," he added.
Tibi said that after posting the video, many Israeli turned to him and said they felt awful about the display of hatred outside the court.
"The coalition as well as the opposition expressed their disgust of what happened. But lo and behold—not a single minister (said anything), not Miri Regev, not Yisrael Katz, not Ayelet Shaked, not Naftali Bennett and in particularly not the prime minister, who knows how to retweet awful things. He remained quiet instead of condemning this sickening phenomenon," Tibi lashed out.
19 june 2018
Groups of extremist illegal Israeli colonizers invaded, Tuesday, Palestinian farmlands near Tiwana village, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and uprooted dozens of trees.
Rateb Jabour, the media coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said the Israeli assailants brought electric saws, and bulldozers, before uprooting the trees.
He added that the attacked lands are owned by Palestinians from the families of Morr, Abu Qbeita and Moghannam.
Jabour also stated that the attack is part of the ongoing attempts to expand the illegal Ma’on and Havat Ma’on colonialist outposts, built on private Palestinian lands east of Yatta town.
The colonizers have been conducting repeated violations and invasions into the Palestinian lands in the area to expand many nearby colonies and outposts, such as Karmiel, Avigal, Mitzpe Yair, in addition to Ma’on and Havat Ma’on.
It is worth mentioning that the Palestinians have been denied access to their own lands for several years, due to illegal Israeli policies aiming at removing them from their lands, to build and expand the colonies and outposts.
Rateb Jabour, the media coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said the Israeli assailants brought electric saws, and bulldozers, before uprooting the trees.
He added that the attacked lands are owned by Palestinians from the families of Morr, Abu Qbeita and Moghannam.
Jabour also stated that the attack is part of the ongoing attempts to expand the illegal Ma’on and Havat Ma’on colonialist outposts, built on private Palestinian lands east of Yatta town.
The colonizers have been conducting repeated violations and invasions into the Palestinian lands in the area to expand many nearby colonies and outposts, such as Karmiel, Avigal, Mitzpe Yair, in addition to Ma’on and Havat Ma’on.
It is worth mentioning that the Palestinians have been denied access to their own lands for several years, due to illegal Israeli policies aiming at removing them from their lands, to build and expand the colonies and outposts.
