20 june 2020
Several fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers prevented, on Friday evening, a Palestinian family from reaching their own home in the center of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. video
The family was trying to reach its home in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city.
Eyewitnesses said the colonists stopped members of Abu Aisha family from reaching their home, while Israeli soldiers stood and watched without even attempting to intervene, and instead started pushing the Palestinians away.
Members of the family tried to talk to the soldiers, and were asking them to call the commander to come over, or the person in charge, but to no avail.
Tal Romeida is frequently targeting by the colonists, and the army, and the Palestinians are subject to constant escalating violations.
Also Friday, a group of armed fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers assaulted a child near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into the territory it occupies and from creating any permanent change in an occupied territory not intended for the benefit of the occupied population.
The construction and expansion of the illegal colonies in occupied Palestine constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into the territory it occupies and from creating any permanent change in an occupied territory not intended for the benefit of the occupied population.
The construction and expansion of the illegal colonies in occupied Palestine constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law.
The family was trying to reach its home in Tal Romeida neighborhood, in the center of Hebron city.
Eyewitnesses said the colonists stopped members of Abu Aisha family from reaching their home, while Israeli soldiers stood and watched without even attempting to intervene, and instead started pushing the Palestinians away.
Members of the family tried to talk to the soldiers, and were asking them to call the commander to come over, or the person in charge, but to no avail.
Tal Romeida is frequently targeting by the colonists, and the army, and the Palestinians are subject to constant escalating violations.
Also Friday, a group of armed fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers assaulted a child near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, south of the occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into the territory it occupies and from creating any permanent change in an occupied territory not intended for the benefit of the occupied population.
The construction and expansion of the illegal colonies in occupied Palestine constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law.
Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits an occupying power from transferring its civilian population into the territory it occupies and from creating any permanent change in an occupied territory not intended for the benefit of the occupied population.
The construction and expansion of the illegal colonies in occupied Palestine constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law.
19 june 2020
A Palestinian child suffered wounds and bruises after he was attacked by Israeli settlers on Friday afternoon in al-Khader town in Bethlehem district, West Bank.
Local sources reported that a group of Israeli settlers assaulted Wadi’ Salah, 15, near his home in al-Khader town.
They said that Salah was chased near a settler road, pushed over, and violently beaten. The boy suffered injuries and bruises in different parts of his body.
Al-Khader is one of the West Bank's hardest-hit areas by Israeli attacks, mainly settler violence and land seizures.
Local sources reported that a group of Israeli settlers assaulted Wadi’ Salah, 15, near his home in al-Khader town.
They said that Salah was chased near a settler road, pushed over, and violently beaten. The boy suffered injuries and bruises in different parts of his body.
Al-Khader is one of the West Bank's hardest-hit areas by Israeli attacks, mainly settler violence and land seizures.
18 june 2020
An Israeli settler today attacked an elderly Palestinian man in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, pepper-spraying him in the face, said witnesses.
They said that a settler approached Mohammad Daoud Abbasi and pepper-sprayed him in the face, causing him to suffer burning sensation and temporary blindness.
Abbasi, along with his sons, were attempting to protect their land in Wadi al-Rababeh area in Silwan from being taken over by the settler when the attack took place.
The Silwan-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center posted a video showing Abbasi sitting in the shade of one of his olive trees following the assault, with Israeli police and paramedics around.
The sound of an excavator which settlers escorted to dig the land can be heard in the background.
The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem along with settlers are trying to lay their hand on the privately-owned Palestinian land in Wadi al-Rababeh area, which is planted with olive trees, and turn it into some sort of park.
They said that a settler approached Mohammad Daoud Abbasi and pepper-sprayed him in the face, causing him to suffer burning sensation and temporary blindness.
Abbasi, along with his sons, were attempting to protect their land in Wadi al-Rababeh area in Silwan from being taken over by the settler when the attack took place.
The Silwan-based Wadi Hilweh Information Center posted a video showing Abbasi sitting in the shade of one of his olive trees following the assault, with Israeli police and paramedics around.
The sound of an excavator which settlers escorted to dig the land can be heard in the background.
The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem along with settlers are trying to lay their hand on the privately-owned Palestinian land in Wadi al-Rababeh area, which is planted with olive trees, and turn it into some sort of park.
Jewish settlers on Wednesday bulldozed several dunums of Palestinian land in Qusra town, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, in order to build a new road.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said bulldozers belonging to settlers started to level many dunums of land in Qusra town in order to build a seven-kilometer road connecting, in particular, Esh Kodesh outpost and Migdalim settlement with each other.
The road will also connect all settlements and outposts in the north of the West Bank with those in the Jordan Valley, according to Daghlas.
The Israeli occupation government and its settlers recently embarked on escalating their settlement activities in the West Bank as part of premier Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley and parts of the occupied Palestinian territories.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said bulldozers belonging to settlers started to level many dunums of land in Qusra town in order to build a seven-kilometer road connecting, in particular, Esh Kodesh outpost and Migdalim settlement with each other.
The road will also connect all settlements and outposts in the north of the West Bank with those in the Jordan Valley, according to Daghlas.
The Israeli occupation government and its settlers recently embarked on escalating their settlement activities in the West Bank as part of premier Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley and parts of the occupied Palestinian territories.
An extremist Jewish settler on Wednesday continued to bulldoze a vast tract of Palestinian land in the Bedouin area of Arab al-Malihat in the northwest of Jericho city.
Local sources said that an armed settler from the illegal outpost of Mevo’ot Yericho resumed bulldozing over 350 dunums of land on the eastern side of the Bedu al-Ka'abneh High School.
Recently, this settler started to bulldoze the same area in order to build a wall separating his outpost from the Bedouin community of Arab al-Malihat.
Local sources said that an armed settler from the illegal outpost of Mevo’ot Yericho resumed bulldozing over 350 dunums of land on the eastern side of the Bedu al-Ka'abneh High School.
Recently, this settler started to bulldoze the same area in order to build a wall separating his outpost from the Bedouin community of Arab al-Malihat.
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Wednesday set fire to an olive grove in Burin town, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar stormed an agricultural area in Burin and set ablaze a plot of land planted with olive trees.
Daghlas added that the settlers also attacked, under military protection, some local residents in the town, where soldiers showered them with tear gas canisters and fired rubber bullets at them.
In a separate incident, the Israeli occupation army on Wednesday notified a Jerusalemite family in as-Sawahira al-Gharbiya town of its intent to demolish his house.
Head of a local land defense committee Yunis Jaafar said that Israeli soldiers stormed the town and handed Yassin Zaatera a demolition notice against his home.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar stormed an agricultural area in Burin and set ablaze a plot of land planted with olive trees.
Daghlas added that the settlers also attacked, under military protection, some local residents in the town, where soldiers showered them with tear gas canisters and fired rubber bullets at them.
In a separate incident, the Israeli occupation army on Wednesday notified a Jerusalemite family in as-Sawahira al-Gharbiya town of its intent to demolish his house.
Head of a local land defense committee Yunis Jaafar said that Israeli soldiers stormed the town and handed Yassin Zaatera a demolition notice against his home.
17 june 2020
David Elhayani criticizes Donald Trump's plan at a protest in Jerusalem
Settlement heads suggest alterations to Trump map of West Bank land to be annexed by Israel, saying their proposal ensures territorial contiguity; Israeli officials warn White House will only accept 'cosmetic changes'
As July 1, the date of Israel’s West Bank annexation, looms ever closer, settler leaders are working to curb, or at least amend, U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
The issue has already led to clashes between settler leaders and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is a staunch supporter of the U.S. plan.
The heads of the Yesha Council of Settlers now propose an alternative annexation plan, hoping to avoid leaving 19 settlements as isolated enclaves within Palestinian territory.
The settlers want to connect the isolated settlements to the blocs without exceeding the 30% of the West Bank that the U.S. plan stipulates will be under Israeli rule.
As such, the alternative plan proposes to expand the enclaves so their borders connect with the West Bank’s larger settlements, thus creating territorial contiguity.
For example, the territory of the Ma'ale Amos and Asfar settlements in the southern West Bank would be expanded and connected to the Gush Etzion junction.
Similarly, the plan calls for the roads in the northern West Bank connecting the settlements of Itamar, Har Bracha, Elon Moreh and Yitzhar to become part of the enclave itself and then expanded to Tapuah Junction when the areas around them are annexed.
In exchange for these additional areas, the settlers are ready to postpone at this stage the annexation of other areas that under the Trump plan should be under Israeli sovereignty.
The settlers argue that annexation can be delayed in some places, such as the area near Highway 443 west of Jerusalem, where thousands of Palestinians live, so as to not exceed the 30% of West Bank allocated to Israel.
Thousands of maps showing the alternative proposal have already been drawn up. Yesha leaders have already submitted the map to the Americans and are preparing to distribute them across the West Bank in the coming days.
Israeli officials are lowering expectations, however, explaining that the White House has refused to make any alterations to maps it has drafted and will accept only "cosmetic changes."
"Despite the Americans' refusal, Netanyahu should insist on these changes," said David Elhayani, chairman of the Yesha Council, who himself was recently criticized by Netanyahu for his opposition to Trump’s plan.
"We demand that he listen to the needs of the settlements and draft a better map of sovereignty, not a map of a Palestinian state,” he said.
Settlement heads suggest alterations to Trump map of West Bank land to be annexed by Israel, saying their proposal ensures territorial contiguity; Israeli officials warn White House will only accept 'cosmetic changes'
As July 1, the date of Israel’s West Bank annexation, looms ever closer, settler leaders are working to curb, or at least amend, U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
The issue has already led to clashes between settler leaders and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is a staunch supporter of the U.S. plan.
The heads of the Yesha Council of Settlers now propose an alternative annexation plan, hoping to avoid leaving 19 settlements as isolated enclaves within Palestinian territory.
The settlers want to connect the isolated settlements to the blocs without exceeding the 30% of the West Bank that the U.S. plan stipulates will be under Israeli rule.
As such, the alternative plan proposes to expand the enclaves so their borders connect with the West Bank’s larger settlements, thus creating territorial contiguity.
For example, the territory of the Ma'ale Amos and Asfar settlements in the southern West Bank would be expanded and connected to the Gush Etzion junction.
Similarly, the plan calls for the roads in the northern West Bank connecting the settlements of Itamar, Har Bracha, Elon Moreh and Yitzhar to become part of the enclave itself and then expanded to Tapuah Junction when the areas around them are annexed.
In exchange for these additional areas, the settlers are ready to postpone at this stage the annexation of other areas that under the Trump plan should be under Israeli sovereignty.
The settlers argue that annexation can be delayed in some places, such as the area near Highway 443 west of Jerusalem, where thousands of Palestinians live, so as to not exceed the 30% of West Bank allocated to Israel.
Thousands of maps showing the alternative proposal have already been drawn up. Yesha leaders have already submitted the map to the Americans and are preparing to distribute them across the West Bank in the coming days.
Israeli officials are lowering expectations, however, explaining that the White House has refused to make any alterations to maps it has drafted and will accept only "cosmetic changes."
"Despite the Americans' refusal, Netanyahu should insist on these changes," said David Elhayani, chairman of the Yesha Council, who himself was recently criticized by Netanyahu for his opposition to Trump’s plan.
"We demand that he listen to the needs of the settlements and draft a better map of sovereignty, not a map of a Palestinian state,” he said.
Dozens of Jewish settlers escorted by police forces desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. video
According to local sources, the Israeli occupation police expelled Muslim worshipers from the eastern area of the Mosque as settlers were touring its courtyards.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing, for the first time, a policewoman from the ultra-Orthodox Haredi sect among the police officers who were guarding the settlers during their tours.
In recent days, groups of settlers intensified their provocative ritual tours in the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards where the police prevent the presence of Muslim worshipers in order to protect the settlers against any angry reactions.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces 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.
The Israeli occupation police, who have no jurisdiction over the Aqsa Mosque, also issue or extend arbitrary entry bans ordering Jerusalemite citizens and figures not to enter the Islamic holy site for weeks or months.
Recently after the Islamic Awqaf authority in Jerusalem reopened the Aqsa Mosque to Muslim worshipers following its closure for over two months as a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the Israeli police intensified the banishment of Palestinian citizens from the Islamic holy site.
During the last few weeks, Aqsa entry ban orders were issued against dozens of Jerusalemite figures, Aqsa employees and activists.
Such illegal policy is believed to be part of practices aimed at allowing Jewish settlers to perform rituals without Palestinian opposition and paving the way for the Israeli occupation state to control the holy site.
According to local sources, the Israeli occupation police expelled Muslim worshipers from the eastern area of the Mosque as settlers were touring its courtyards.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing, for the first time, a policewoman from the ultra-Orthodox Haredi sect among the police officers who were guarding the settlers during their tours.
In recent days, groups of settlers intensified their provocative ritual tours in the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards where the police prevent the presence of Muslim worshipers in order to protect the settlers against any angry reactions.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces 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.
The Israeli occupation police, who have no jurisdiction over the Aqsa Mosque, also issue or extend arbitrary entry bans ordering Jerusalemite citizens and figures not to enter the Islamic holy site for weeks or months.
Recently after the Islamic Awqaf authority in Jerusalem reopened the Aqsa Mosque to Muslim worshipers following its closure for over two months as a measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the Israeli police intensified the banishment of Palestinian citizens from the Islamic holy site.
During the last few weeks, Aqsa entry ban orders were issued against dozens of Jerusalemite figures, Aqsa employees and activists.
Such illegal policy is believed to be part of practices aimed at allowing Jewish settlers to perform rituals without Palestinian opposition and paving the way for the Israeli occupation state to control the holy site.
16 june 2020
Dozens of Jewish settlers escorted by police forces on Tuesday morning entered the Aqsa Mosque and desecrated its courtyards.
According to local sources, different groups of settlers toured the Mosque’s courtyards under police guard and some of them performed Talmudic prayers.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces 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.
According to local sources, different groups of settlers toured the Mosque’s courtyards under police guard and some of them performed Talmudic prayers.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces 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.
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Illegal Israeli settlers committed vandalism of Palestinian-owned property by damaging solar panels, on Monday, in the village of Aqraba, south of Nablus city, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official monitoring Israel’s colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said that colonists attacked the homes of farmers and shepherds in Aqraba, and smashed solar panels, which were vital in providing the village with electricity. Daghlas added that the illegal colonists damaged Palestinian-owned shelters and animal barns, stealing equipment and other items. |