17 mar 2019
A group of Israeli settlers showered Palestinian vehicles with rocks, on Sunday afternoon, that were passing on road 60, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, east of the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron.
According to local sources, a group of Israeli settlers from the Kiryat Arba settlement threw rocks towards Palestinian vehicles, which were forced to stop along the road for their own safety.
Sources added that Israeli soldiers and police were present in the area, however, did not intervene.
No injuries were reported.
The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
According to a report by the Israeli rights group B'Tselem, "Settler violence and vandalism takes place with full backing by the Israeli authorities.
Sometimes soldiers take part in the assault; at other times, they stand idly by. The police makes no substantial effort to investigate the incidents, nor takes measures to prevent them or stop them in real time."
According to local sources, a group of Israeli settlers from the Kiryat Arba settlement threw rocks towards Palestinian vehicles, which were forced to stop along the road for their own safety.
Sources added that Israeli soldiers and police were present in the area, however, did not intervene.
No injuries were reported.
The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
According to a report by the Israeli rights group B'Tselem, "Settler violence and vandalism takes place with full backing by the Israeli authorities.
Sometimes soldiers take part in the assault; at other times, they stand idly by. The police makes no substantial effort to investigate the incidents, nor takes measures to prevent them or stop them in real time."
Dozens of Jewish settlers and soldiers on Sunday stormed the site of an illegal settlement called Tarsala, which was evacuated in many years ago in southern Jenin.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the settlers remained at the site for hours where they embarked on performing Talmudic rituals and chanting hostile slurs against Arabs and Muslim.
Tarsala is one of four sites evacuated by the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank in 2005 shortly after the Israeli government decided to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the settlers remained at the site for hours where they embarked on performing Talmudic rituals and chanting hostile slurs against Arabs and Muslim.
Tarsala is one of four sites evacuated by the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank in 2005 shortly after the Israeli government decided to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
Dozens of Jewish settlers on Sunday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under tight police protection.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation police allowed 67 settlers to tour the Mosque’s courtyards and plateaus, adding that some settlers performed rituals near Bab al-Rahma.
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.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation police allowed 67 settlers to tour the Mosque’s courtyards and plateaus, adding that some settlers performed rituals near Bab al-Rahma.
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.
16 mar 2019
Israel’s higher court of justice rejected a petition filed by a Jewish settler group calling for demolishing a Palestinian school in Beit Ta’mir village, east of Bethlehem.
Local official Hasan Berejiya said that anti-settlement activists extracted a decision from the court against the petition, which called for demolishing Tahadi 5 School in the village.
Berejiya affirmed that the settler group was thinking there were no Palestinian ownership documents for the land or signatures from the owners allowing the school to be built on their land.
Tahadi 5 School was built and opened in 2017 and later was demolished by the Israeli occupation authority but rebuilt within days.
Local official Hasan Berejiya said that anti-settlement activists extracted a decision from the court against the petition, which called for demolishing Tahadi 5 School in the village.
Berejiya affirmed that the settler group was thinking there were no Palestinian ownership documents for the land or signatures from the owners allowing the school to be built on their land.
Tahadi 5 School was built and opened in 2017 and later was demolished by the Israeli occupation authority but rebuilt within days.
14 mar 2019
Israeli soldiers held a Palestinian journalist and an activist in the al-Shuhada Street in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on Wednesday, as they were documenting the soldiers’ violations against Palestinians.
Palestinian activist with Defenders of Human Rights, Badie Dweik, said that Israeli settlers held journalist Amer al-Shaludi, and Defenders of Human Rights activist Zeidan al-Sharabati for more than one hour.
Dweik added that al-Shaludi and al-Sharabati were documenting Israeli soldiers’ firing tear-gas bombs and stun grenades towards Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers had also sealed off the military checkpoint leading to the al-Shuhada Street, preventing residents from entering.
Dweik said that Israeli soldiers confiscated his camera and mobile phone.
Palestinian activist with Defenders of Human Rights, Badie Dweik, said that Israeli settlers held journalist Amer al-Shaludi, and Defenders of Human Rights activist Zeidan al-Sharabati for more than one hour.
Dweik added that al-Shaludi and al-Sharabati were documenting Israeli soldiers’ firing tear-gas bombs and stun grenades towards Palestinians.
Israeli soldiers had also sealed off the military checkpoint leading to the al-Shuhada Street, preventing residents from entering.
Dweik said that Israeli soldiers confiscated his camera and mobile phone.
Members of extremist temple groups on Thursday morning carried out provocative break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque amid tight police guard.
Spokesman for the Islamic Awqaf Authority Firas al-Dibs said that over 150 settlers from those groups stormed the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards within one hour.
Eyewitnesses reported that the groups of settlers who entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and then left through al-Silsila Gate repeated their entry to the holy site more than once through al-Maghariba Gate in order to set a record in the number of break-ins at the Mosque.
Jewish temple groups recently incited their members and the Jewish community to participate in mass break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
Spokesman for the Islamic Awqaf Authority Firas al-Dibs said that over 150 settlers from those groups stormed the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards within one hour.
Eyewitnesses reported that the groups of settlers who entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and then left through al-Silsila Gate repeated their entry to the holy site more than once through al-Maghariba Gate in order to set a record in the number of break-ins at the Mosque.
Jewish temple groups recently incited their members and the Jewish community to participate in mass break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
Hundreds of Jewish settlers escorted by Israeli soldiers stormed Kifl Haris town, north of Salfit, last night and performed rituals at the area of ancient shrines.
Local sources said that dozens of settlers entered the town overnight after a large number of Israeli troops were deployed through its streets and on the rooftops of some house.
The Israeli occupation forces also closed entrances to some neighborhoods and prevented local residents from moving in the cordoned area, the sources added.
A statement released by the Israeli army said its forces provided protection for 600 Israelis (settlers) during their presence in the town for rituals.
Every once in a while, Jewish settlers intentionally enter Palestinian cities and town in order to perform rituals at Islamic shrines and historic sites as a prelude to imposing Israel’s control over the sites.
Local sources said that dozens of settlers entered the town overnight after a large number of Israeli troops were deployed through its streets and on the rooftops of some house.
The Israeli occupation forces also closed entrances to some neighborhoods and prevented local residents from moving in the cordoned area, the sources added.
A statement released by the Israeli army said its forces provided protection for 600 Israelis (settlers) during their presence in the town for rituals.
Every once in a while, Jewish settlers intentionally enter Palestinian cities and town in order to perform rituals at Islamic shrines and historic sites as a prelude to imposing Israel’s control over the sites.
The Israeli occupation police on Thursday morning kidnapped one of the Aqsa Mosque’s guards during his presence in front of al-Majles or al-Nader Gate.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that police officers rounded up Aqsa guard Samer al-Qabbani and took him to a detention center in the Old City of Jerusalem to interrogate him.
In the morning hours, dozens of extremist Jewish settlers from temple mount groups participated in provocative break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque under police protection.
Spokesman for the Islamic Awqaf Authority Firas al-Dibs said that over 150 settlers stormed the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards in groups within one hour.
Jewish temple groups recently incited its members and the Jewish community to participate in mass break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
A reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) said that police officers rounded up Aqsa guard Samer al-Qabbani and took him to a detention center in the Old City of Jerusalem to interrogate him.
In the morning hours, dozens of extremist Jewish settlers from temple mount groups participated in provocative break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque under police protection.
Spokesman for the Islamic Awqaf Authority Firas al-Dibs said that over 150 settlers stormed the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards in groups within one hour.
Jewish temple groups recently incited its members and the Jewish community to participate in mass break-ins at the Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
Jerusalemite youth groups have called for staging massive rallies in the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards and the Bab al-Rahma prayer area on Thursday to defend them against intended settlers’ break-ins.
The popular committee for the defense of the Aqsa Mosque and other Jerusalemite institutions also called on the Palestinian masses to march en masse to the Aqsa Mosque on Friday, March 15.
The Jerusalemite institutions called on the Palestinians to intensify their presence at the Aqsa Mosque to prevent any Israeli plan to impose new faits accomplis at the holy site.
They affirmed that the Israeli police’s recent closure of the Aqsa Mosque and their assaults on Palestinian worshipers as well as the detention and banishment of many Jerusalemites would be confronted with more popular rallying around the Mosque.
The Israeli police on Tuesday closed the Aqsa Mosque, stormed its courtyards, assaulted Muslim worshipers and prevented the holding of prayers inside it. They also arrested 19 Jerusalemites on Thursday.
The popular committee for the defense of the Aqsa Mosque and other Jerusalemite institutions also called on the Palestinian masses to march en masse to the Aqsa Mosque on Friday, March 15.
The Jerusalemite institutions called on the Palestinians to intensify their presence at the Aqsa Mosque to prevent any Israeli plan to impose new faits accomplis at the holy site.
They affirmed that the Israeli police’s recent closure of the Aqsa Mosque and their assaults on Palestinian worshipers as well as the detention and banishment of many Jerusalemites would be confronted with more popular rallying around the Mosque.
The Israeli police on Tuesday closed the Aqsa Mosque, stormed its courtyards, assaulted Muslim worshipers and prevented the holding of prayers inside it. They also arrested 19 Jerusalemites on Thursday.
13 mar 2019
Yinon Reuveni
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine condemned the decision of an Israeli court to acquit two Israeli settlers, for torching Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey in February 2016, on the basis of “insufficient evidence,” on Tuesday.
The committee said in a press release that the Israeli court’s decision is a “deviation from justice, even in the courts, when it comes to convicting Jews while arresting young Palestinians without charge or evidence or trials and for long periods of times that can reach dozens of years.”
The committee added that these racist and subversive actions by extremist Israelis under the protection of the courts and the Israeli government will lead to the creation of future Israeli generations molded with ideas and actions hostile toward the Palestinians.
One of the Israeli settlers, Yinon Reuveni, 23, was also accused of arson of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, in June 2015.
The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine condemned the decision of an Israeli court to acquit two Israeli settlers, for torching Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey in February 2016, on the basis of “insufficient evidence,” on Tuesday.
The committee said in a press release that the Israeli court’s decision is a “deviation from justice, even in the courts, when it comes to convicting Jews while arresting young Palestinians without charge or evidence or trials and for long periods of times that can reach dozens of years.”
The committee added that these racist and subversive actions by extremist Israelis under the protection of the courts and the Israeli government will lead to the creation of future Israeli generations molded with ideas and actions hostile toward the Palestinians.
One of the Israeli settlers, Yinon Reuveni, 23, was also accused of arson of the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes at Tabgha, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, in June 2015.
12 mar 2019
A group of Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of Palestinian-owned olive trees, on Tuesday, in an agricultural area near the Burin village, south of the northern occupied West Bank.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement stormed an agricultural area near the main road of the settlement.
Daghlas pointed out that about 33 olive trees were uprooted by Israeli forces and belong to Palestinian resident, Castro Mahmoud Qadrous.
According to a report by Israeli NGO B'Tselem, Israeli settlers' vandalism in the occupied West Bank is a daily routine and is fully backed by Israeli authorities.
B'Tselem reported that "In just over two months, from the beginning of May to 7 July 2018, B'Tselem documented 10 instances in which settlers destroyed a total of more than 2,000 trees and grapevines and burned down a barley field and bales of hay."
B'Tselem also argued that under the guise of a "temporary military occupation," Israel has been "using the land as its own: robbing land, exploiting the area’s natural resources for its own benefit and establishing permanent settlements," estimating that Israel had dispossessed Palestinians from some 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of lands in the occupied Palestinian territory over the years.
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.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Israeli settlers from the illegal Yitzhar settlement stormed an agricultural area near the main road of the settlement.
Daghlas pointed out that about 33 olive trees were uprooted by Israeli forces and belong to Palestinian resident, Castro Mahmoud Qadrous.
According to a report by Israeli NGO B'Tselem, Israeli settlers' vandalism in the occupied West Bank is a daily routine and is fully backed by Israeli authorities.
B'Tselem reported that "In just over two months, from the beginning of May to 7 July 2018, B'Tselem documented 10 instances in which settlers destroyed a total of more than 2,000 trees and grapevines and burned down a barley field and bales of hay."
B'Tselem also argued that under the guise of a "temporary military occupation," Israel has been "using the land as its own: robbing land, exploiting the area’s natural resources for its own benefit and establishing permanent settlements," estimating that Israel had dispossessed Palestinians from some 200,000 hectares (494,211 acres) of lands in the occupied Palestinian territory over the years.
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.
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An Israeli settler was filmed by Palestinian activists from protection committees in the al-Shuhada Street in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on Monday, threatening another activist from the committees.
The video shows extremist Israeli settler Ofeh Yohanna threatening activist Ahmad al-Azzeh, who is a member of the al-Shuhada Street protection committees. The committees said that they will continue to observe and record human rights violations, despite continuous threats by Israeli settlers. |
Dozens of Israeli settlers on Tuesday morning defiled al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem under police guard.
Quds Press said, quoting the Islamic Awqaf, that 61 extremist settlers stormed the Mosque in the early morning hours through al-Maghareba Gate.
The settlers performed Talmudic rituals at Bab al-Rahma prayer rea, while restrictions were tightened on Muslim worshipers.
The Israeli police allowed another round of settler break-in after noon prayer, according to Quds Press.
Israeli settlers carry out daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque except on Fridays and Saturdays.
Quds Press said, quoting the Islamic Awqaf, that 61 extremist settlers stormed the Mosque in the early morning hours through al-Maghareba Gate.
The settlers performed Talmudic rituals at Bab al-Rahma prayer rea, while restrictions were tightened on Muslim worshipers.
The Israeli police allowed another round of settler break-in after noon prayer, according to Quds Press.
Israeli settlers carry out daily break-ins into al-Aqsa Mosque except on Fridays and Saturdays.
A horde of Jewish settlers on Monday afternoon attacked Palestinian farmers in Burin town, south of Nablus, as they were working their lands.
Burin mayor Yahiya Qadous said that more than 25 settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar brutalized a group of farmers as they were plowing their plots of land in al-Mayadin area, south of the town, and tried to expel them from their own lands.
After obtaining a permit from the Israeli military authorities, the farmers had brought agricultural tractors to their lands in the morning to plow them.
They have been prevented many times by the Israeli army to reach their lands at the pretext they are located near Yitzhar settlement.
Burin mayor Yahiya Qadous said that more than 25 settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar brutalized a group of farmers as they were plowing their plots of land in al-Mayadin area, south of the town, and tried to expel them from their own lands.
After obtaining a permit from the Israeli military authorities, the farmers had brought agricultural tractors to their lands in the morning to plow them.
They have been prevented many times by the Israeli army to reach their lands at the pretext they are located near Yitzhar settlement.
