8 mar 2017
The Israeli police on Wednesday morning prevented al-Aqsa Mosque personnel from repairing the gate of the Qibli place of worship and arrested two staff members.
The Israeli police arrested al-Aqsa staff members Issa al-Dabagh and engineer Basam al-Halaq as they headed to the Qibli Mosque to repair its entrance gate.
At the same time, 23 Israeli settlers, escorted by police troops, stormed the plazas of al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate as part of the morning break-in shift.
The Israeli settlers performed sacrilegious rituals at the holy site, stirring furor among the Muslim worshipers and sit-inners.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces broke into al-Rahma Cemetery, adjacent to al-Aqsa Mosque, and prevented Palestinian mourners from digging a grave to bury their Muslim relative.
The Israeli police arrested al-Aqsa staff members Issa al-Dabagh and engineer Basam al-Halaq as they headed to the Qibli Mosque to repair its entrance gate.
At the same time, 23 Israeli settlers, escorted by police troops, stormed the plazas of al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate as part of the morning break-in shift.
The Israeli settlers performed sacrilegious rituals at the holy site, stirring furor among the Muslim worshipers and sit-inners.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces broke into al-Rahma Cemetery, adjacent to al-Aqsa Mosque, and prevented Palestinian mourners from digging a grave to bury their Muslim relative.
6 mar 2017
Hordes of Israeli settlers at dawn Monday stormed Kafl Haris town, north of Salfit province, and defiled holy Islamic shrines.
Prior to the break-in, the Israeli occupation army cordoned off Kafl Haris and set up arbitrary military checkpoints on the main access roads to the area.
The Israeli military patrols further blocked Palestinians’ access out of and into the town while fanatic settlers verbally assaulted the Palestinian locals.
The Israeli settlers also pasted racist and anti-Muslim flyers on Palestinian homes and civilian structures in Kafl Haris.
According to eye-witnesses, a series of flying checkpoints was randomly set up by the Israeli army across the area, restricting Palestinians’ movement inside and out.
The Israelis claim that Kafl Haris is home to Jewish temples. Historical documents and chronicles bear witness to the inherently Islamic identity of the town.
Prior to the break-in, the Israeli occupation army cordoned off Kafl Haris and set up arbitrary military checkpoints on the main access roads to the area.
The Israeli military patrols further blocked Palestinians’ access out of and into the town while fanatic settlers verbally assaulted the Palestinian locals.
The Israeli settlers also pasted racist and anti-Muslim flyers on Palestinian homes and civilian structures in Kafl Haris.
According to eye-witnesses, a series of flying checkpoints was randomly set up by the Israeli army across the area, restricting Palestinians’ movement inside and out.
The Israelis claim that Kafl Haris is home to Jewish temples. Historical documents and chronicles bear witness to the inherently Islamic identity of the town.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at daybreak Monday stormed West Bank provinces and kidnapped Palestinian citizens, including two MPs and a senior Hamas leader.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF stormed the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil and rummaged into the home of prisoner Tareq Id’is before they seized his father’s car.
Another Israeli military patrol stormed Bethlehem’s eastern town of Zaatara and kidnapped the Palestinian MP Khaled Tafesh (Hamas) from his home.
Another MP—Anwar Azaboun (Hamas)—along with the senior Hamas leader Hassan al-Wardian and the lecturer at the Quds Open University Ghassan Hirmas were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Bethlehem.
Hamas MPs Hassan Youssef, Ahmed Mubarak, Mohamed Jamal al-Natsha and Azzam Salahab are currently serving administrative sentences in Israeli jails with neither charge nor trial. Other MPs, including Marwan al-Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat, have also been held in Israeli lock-ups.
The IOF further ravaged the home of the Palestinian citizen Mootaz al-Ja’bah and summoned him to questioning in Etzion camp.
At the same time, the occupation army wreaked havoc on civilian homes near Gharnata (Granada) School.
Overnight Sunday, two Palestinian protesters choked on teargas after IOF soldiers broke into al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar and attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed waves of teargas grenades.
The Palestinian protesters reacted by hurling stones at a bus carrying Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts across the occupied Palestinian territories.
A PIC news correspondent said the IOF stormed the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil and rummaged into the home of prisoner Tareq Id’is before they seized his father’s car.
Another Israeli military patrol stormed Bethlehem’s eastern town of Zaatara and kidnapped the Palestinian MP Khaled Tafesh (Hamas) from his home.
Another MP—Anwar Azaboun (Hamas)—along with the senior Hamas leader Hassan al-Wardian and the lecturer at the Quds Open University Ghassan Hirmas were kidnapped by the Israeli forces from Bethlehem.
Hamas MPs Hassan Youssef, Ahmed Mubarak, Mohamed Jamal al-Natsha and Azzam Salahab are currently serving administrative sentences in Israeli jails with neither charge nor trial. Other MPs, including Marwan al-Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat, have also been held in Israeli lock-ups.
The IOF further ravaged the home of the Palestinian citizen Mootaz al-Ja’bah and summoned him to questioning in Etzion camp.
At the same time, the occupation army wreaked havoc on civilian homes near Gharnata (Granada) School.
Overnight Sunday, two Palestinian protesters choked on teargas after IOF soldiers broke into al-Khalil’s northern town of Beit Ummar and attacked Palestinian anti-occupation youth with randomly-unleashed waves of teargas grenades.
The Palestinian protesters reacted by hurling stones at a bus carrying Israeli settlers residing in illegal outposts across the occupied Palestinian territories.
5 mar 2017
The Israeli occupation army on Sunday evening intensified their presence on the main access road to Kafl Haris, north of Salfit, paving the way for a mass settler break-in into the area.
Local sources said hundreds of Israeli settlers, escorted by army patrols, are expected to storm Kafl Haris to perform sacrilegious rituals, in a barefaced provocation to the village’s Muslim population.
According to eye-witnesses, Israeli military squads have been scattered at Kafl Haris crossroads, near Ariel illegal settlement outpost.
Israeli fanatic settlers frequently storm the area on claims that it is home to Jewish shrines.
Local sources said hundreds of Israeli settlers, escorted by army patrols, are expected to storm Kafl Haris to perform sacrilegious rituals, in a barefaced provocation to the village’s Muslim population.
According to eye-witnesses, Israeli military squads have been scattered at Kafl Haris crossroads, near Ariel illegal settlement outpost.
Israeli fanatic settlers frequently storm the area on claims that it is home to Jewish shrines.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, a young Palestinian man near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Ali Ballout, 21, and took him to an unknown destination.
The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers stopped and searched the Palestinian, and “found out that he carried a knife.”
In related news, approximately 50 extremist Israeli colonialist settlers from Yitzhar colony, attacked Huwwara village, from its eastern side.
Scores of Palestinians from the town intercepted the assailants, and clashed with them, forcing them to retreat.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Ali Ballout, 21, and took him to an unknown destination.
The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers stopped and searched the Palestinian, and “found out that he carried a knife.”
In related news, approximately 50 extremist Israeli colonialist settlers from Yitzhar colony, attacked Huwwara village, from its eastern side.
Scores of Palestinians from the town intercepted the assailants, and clashed with them, forcing them to retreat.
4 mar 2017
In Nabi Saleh village Friday, a group of Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists held a non-violent march to the location of a water well which was seized by armed Israeli colonial militia fighters in the area. The demonstrators were then attacked by both Israeli soldiers and armed colonizers.
Among those who participated in the protest were members of a delegation of US Veterans, who wrote an extended account of their experience at the protest. They observed that the Israeli colonial militia members appeared to be most focused on attacking women, children, and people with cameras, while leaving the larger adult male veterans alone.
A video of the incident shows Israeli settler militia members rushing into a crowd of protesters and grabbing, pushing and beating people. Israeli soldiers, as if to provide backup for the violent assault, fire tear gas and concussion grenades at the demonstrators.
Throughout the video, the international and Palestinian non-violent activists can be heard chanting “1-2-3-4 Occupation no more”. The Israeli settler militia members also push down the videographer at one point, as well as attacking another journalist wearing a bright vest labelled ‘PRESS’.
Nabi Saleh has a long history of non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation and illegal colonial expansion onto their land. A 2015 profile in the Guardian newspaper describes the impact of the occupation and the non-violent resistance on the Tamimi family, one of the main extended families in the village.
According to that article, “The Nabi Saleh Solidarity Campaign – led by Bassem Tamimi, who was once designated a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International when he was jailed by Israel for his activism – hold their demonstrations to protest against the theft of their land and water by Israelis who live opposite the hilltop village in the settlement of Halamish.”
That article continues, “They are clashes that have sometimes cost the lives of Palestinians. Bassem Tamimi’s brother-in-law Rushdi died after being shot at another protest in 2012 while Tamimi was in prison. Another member of the extended family died after being hit in the face by an Israeli teargas canister.”
Most recently, 16-year old Ahed Tamimi was denied a visa to travel to the US to participate in a speaking tour. According to Nora Barrows-Friedman of the Electronic Intifada, the visa for Ahed Tamimi was put into “administrative review” by the US consulate without an explanation.
Tamimi is part of a family known for their activism work in the village, where residents have long resisted Israeli land confiscation for nearby settlement colonies. In August 2015, Tamimi, her mother and her aunt intervened to rescue her 12-year-old brother from an attempted abduction by an Israeli soldier. The incident was caught on video.
Among those who participated in the protest were members of a delegation of US Veterans, who wrote an extended account of their experience at the protest. They observed that the Israeli colonial militia members appeared to be most focused on attacking women, children, and people with cameras, while leaving the larger adult male veterans alone.
A video of the incident shows Israeli settler militia members rushing into a crowd of protesters and grabbing, pushing and beating people. Israeli soldiers, as if to provide backup for the violent assault, fire tear gas and concussion grenades at the demonstrators.
Throughout the video, the international and Palestinian non-violent activists can be heard chanting “1-2-3-4 Occupation no more”. The Israeli settler militia members also push down the videographer at one point, as well as attacking another journalist wearing a bright vest labelled ‘PRESS’.
Nabi Saleh has a long history of non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation and illegal colonial expansion onto their land. A 2015 profile in the Guardian newspaper describes the impact of the occupation and the non-violent resistance on the Tamimi family, one of the main extended families in the village.
According to that article, “The Nabi Saleh Solidarity Campaign – led by Bassem Tamimi, who was once designated a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International when he was jailed by Israel for his activism – hold their demonstrations to protest against the theft of their land and water by Israelis who live opposite the hilltop village in the settlement of Halamish.”
That article continues, “They are clashes that have sometimes cost the lives of Palestinians. Bassem Tamimi’s brother-in-law Rushdi died after being shot at another protest in 2012 while Tamimi was in prison. Another member of the extended family died after being hit in the face by an Israeli teargas canister.”
Most recently, 16-year old Ahed Tamimi was denied a visa to travel to the US to participate in a speaking tour. According to Nora Barrows-Friedman of the Electronic Intifada, the visa for Ahed Tamimi was put into “administrative review” by the US consulate without an explanation.
Tamimi is part of a family known for their activism work in the village, where residents have long resisted Israeli land confiscation for nearby settlement colonies. In August 2015, Tamimi, her mother and her aunt intervened to rescue her 12-year-old brother from an attempted abduction by an Israeli soldier. The incident was caught on video.
2 mar 2017
A large number of Jewish settlers on Wednesday night stormed the evacuated site of Tersella outpost south of Jenin city in the occupied Jerusalem and desecrated an old Mosque.
Local residents told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that dozens of settlers rallied at the site as a military helicopter dropped soldiers in a nearby area located close to Juba town.
They added that Israeli patrol vehicles were also deployed at the main entrance leading to the abandoned outpost during the presence of settlers there.
They said that the settlers broke into an old Mosque at the site and occupied its rooftop, where they provocatively performed rituals.
Local residents told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that dozens of settlers rallied at the site as a military helicopter dropped soldiers in a nearby area located close to Juba town.
They added that Israeli patrol vehicles were also deployed at the main entrance leading to the abandoned outpost during the presence of settlers there.
They said that the settlers broke into an old Mosque at the site and occupied its rooftop, where they provocatively performed rituals.
1 mar 2017
Sa’adi Mahmoud Ali Qaisiyya 25
A colonialist Israeli settler shot and killed, Wednesday, a young Palestinian man, allegedly after he attacked him with a knife and stabbed him, in Teneh Omarim illegal colony, built on private Palestinian land, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army said its soldiers rushed to the scene and initiated an investigation into the incident. The Palestinian was later identified as Sa’adi Mahmoud Ali Qaisiyya, 25, from ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron.
Several Israeli ambulances were seen rushing to the colony, amidst extensive deployment of soldiers, and many armed colonists, while a military helicopter flew overhead.
Israeli sources said the settler was attacked and mildly injured in his home, before “he drew his weapon and shot the Palestinian.”
The sources added that the wounded Israeli, 33 years of age, suffered mild injuries to his limbs, and received treatment by Israeli medics.
Israeli Ynet News said the incident took place in “Mor Farm” outpost, near Taneh Omarim settlement.
It added that the Palestinian entered the farm before the settler heard noises outside his property, and reportedly “saw a man carrying two knives, then the settler ran towards his home to grab his weapon, while the Palestinian chased him, and stabbed him in front of his family.”
It added that the wounded settler then managed to shoot and kill the young Palestinian man.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA News Agency that the Palestinian bled to death without receiving medical treatment.
A colonialist Israeli settler shot and killed, Wednesday, a young Palestinian man, allegedly after he attacked him with a knife and stabbed him, in Teneh Omarim illegal colony, built on private Palestinian land, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army said its soldiers rushed to the scene and initiated an investigation into the incident. The Palestinian was later identified as Sa’adi Mahmoud Ali Qaisiyya, 25, from ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron.
Several Israeli ambulances were seen rushing to the colony, amidst extensive deployment of soldiers, and many armed colonists, while a military helicopter flew overhead.
Israeli sources said the settler was attacked and mildly injured in his home, before “he drew his weapon and shot the Palestinian.”
The sources added that the wounded Israeli, 33 years of age, suffered mild injuries to his limbs, and received treatment by Israeli medics.
Israeli Ynet News said the incident took place in “Mor Farm” outpost, near Taneh Omarim settlement.
It added that the Palestinian entered the farm before the settler heard noises outside his property, and reportedly “saw a man carrying two knives, then the settler ran towards his home to grab his weapon, while the Palestinian chased him, and stabbed him in front of his family.”
It added that the wounded settler then managed to shoot and kill the young Palestinian man.
Eyewitnesses told WAFA News Agency that the Palestinian bled to death without receiving medical treatment.
Dozens of Israeli settlers on Wednesday morning stormed al-Aqsa Mosque escorted by Israeli policemen.
Well-informed sources affirmed that 98 Israeli settlers broke into the plazas of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque via the Magharibeh Gate, as part of the morning break-in shift, from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Three Israeli Intelligence officers and students of Jewish religious schools were among the Israelis who stormed the site.
Over the past month, 1,599 Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa Mosque, among whom 118 Israeli soldiers and military officers in civilian clothes or military uniforms.
Well-informed sources affirmed that 98 Israeli settlers broke into the plazas of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque via the Magharibeh Gate, as part of the morning break-in shift, from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Three Israeli Intelligence officers and students of Jewish religious schools were among the Israelis who stormed the site.
Over the past month, 1,599 Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa Mosque, among whom 118 Israeli soldiers and military officers in civilian clothes or military uniforms.