31 may 2015
Israeli settlers from Beit Hadassa, Beboya and Ramat Yishai settlements on Saturday attacked citizens from Tel Rumeideh, central Hebron using sharp tools.
According to the official agency, seven settlers from those settlements constructed on Palestinian lands in Hebron attacked citizens with sharp tools, and attempted to assault them with the presence of soldiers who did not move a muscle. Settlers also were shouting racist slogans and insulting the Palestinians.
PNN reporter said that the settlers attacked Palestinians in their twenties. No injuries reported.
Settlers attack Palestinians in al-Khalil
Groups of Jewish settlers on Sunday attacked Palestinians and their property in the Old City of al-Khalil.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that fanatic settlers threw stones at Palestinian homes in Tel Rumeida area and al-Shuhadaa street and verbally attacked citizens near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
In an earlier incident, settlers tried at dawn to set the house of a Palestinian anti-settlement activist ablaze while the Israeli occupation army imposed restrictions on the movement of Palestinians at military checkpoints in the city.
According to the official agency, seven settlers from those settlements constructed on Palestinian lands in Hebron attacked citizens with sharp tools, and attempted to assault them with the presence of soldiers who did not move a muscle. Settlers also were shouting racist slogans and insulting the Palestinians.
PNN reporter said that the settlers attacked Palestinians in their twenties. No injuries reported.
Settlers attack Palestinians in al-Khalil
Groups of Jewish settlers on Sunday attacked Palestinians and their property in the Old City of al-Khalil.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that fanatic settlers threw stones at Palestinian homes in Tel Rumeida area and al-Shuhadaa street and verbally attacked citizens near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
In an earlier incident, settlers tried at dawn to set the house of a Palestinian anti-settlement activist ablaze while the Israeli occupation army imposed restrictions on the movement of Palestinians at military checkpoints in the city.
A horde of Israeli fanatic settlers, escorted by border cops, on Saturday evening attacked and injured a Palestinian family living in Jerusalem’s Old city after the latter protested the abuse of their children.
Family member Ahmad Jaber said in a press statement clashes burst out after Israeli border police, who have seized the second floor of the family’s multi-story apartment in al-Sa’diya neighborhood, harassed a group of Palestinian children.
The heavily-armed Israeli soldiers attacked the Jaber family and the other natives of al-Sa’diya quarter with randomly-shot barrages of rubber bullets and pepper gas.
The family members had also been heavily beaten by the Israeli officers and vandals as they voiced their protest over the abuse of their children.
45-year-old Tawfiq Jaber and his elderly mother, reportedly in her 60’s of age, along with his wife and two sons, sustained injuries and bruises in the assault.
Family member Ahmad Jaber said in a press statement clashes burst out after Israeli border police, who have seized the second floor of the family’s multi-story apartment in al-Sa’diya neighborhood, harassed a group of Palestinian children.
The heavily-armed Israeli soldiers attacked the Jaber family and the other natives of al-Sa’diya quarter with randomly-shot barrages of rubber bullets and pepper gas.
The family members had also been heavily beaten by the Israeli officers and vandals as they voiced their protest over the abuse of their children.
45-year-old Tawfiq Jaber and his elderly mother, reportedly in her 60’s of age, along with his wife and two sons, sustained injuries and bruises in the assault.
A number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked, late on Saturday night after midnight, a Palestinian home in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, by throwing rocks and several Molotov cocktails at the building, as the family slept.
Palestinian nonviolent activist, Emad Abu Shamsiyya, said the fanatics first threw stones at the property, in Tel Romeida neighborhood, and then hurled several Molotov cocktails causing fires to spread all over the exterior of the building.
“I woke my children up, and we rushed out of the building to avoid being trapped in the fire,” he said, “the neighbors rushed to save us, and we managed to extinguish the fire but all of our exterior furniture and belongings were completely burnt.”
He added that extremist Israeli settlers, living in illegal colonies in the center of the city, are responsible for numerous assaults and violations against the residents and their property.
On Saturday, a number of Israeli extremists assaulted at least seven Palestinians in the same area, and tried to stab them.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers were shouting and cursing at the Palestinians, and physically assaulted several residents, while the soldiers did not attempt to stop them.
Palestinian nonviolent activist, Emad Abu Shamsiyya, said the fanatics first threw stones at the property, in Tel Romeida neighborhood, and then hurled several Molotov cocktails causing fires to spread all over the exterior of the building.
“I woke my children up, and we rushed out of the building to avoid being trapped in the fire,” he said, “the neighbors rushed to save us, and we managed to extinguish the fire but all of our exterior furniture and belongings were completely burnt.”
He added that extremist Israeli settlers, living in illegal colonies in the center of the city, are responsible for numerous assaults and violations against the residents and their property.
On Saturday, a number of Israeli extremists assaulted at least seven Palestinians in the same area, and tried to stab them.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers were shouting and cursing at the Palestinians, and physically assaulted several residents, while the soldiers did not attempt to stop them.
On a day like many others, Mrs. Um Yehia went to feed her sheep in her family's fields in Susya, South Hebron Hills, next to an Israeli settlement. But this time around, she got an unpleasant surprise.
"Two settlers came to me. They harassed me and tried to steel my sheep," Mrs Um Yehia recalls from her house inSusya village, Area C in the West Bank.
Fellow villagers soon came to her rescue, but the whole incident had made her feel both anxious and sick.
A history of displacement
Um Yehia's case is far from exceptional. Villagers of Susya describe how they have faced harassment from settlers since the IOF occupied the lands 30 years ago.
In 1986, the Israeli army demolished the caves that the villagers had been living in for decades, claiming Susya was an important Jewish archaeological site.
"My family used to live in the old Susya but were forced displaced. They were shocked and did not understand why" Mr Um Yenia explains.
Most villagers thought the displacement was temporary. But as years passed by, they realized they would never be able to return and so, they started building new caves during the 1990's.
In 2001, the new caves were also demolished, as the IOF claimed the Palestinian villagers were constructing an illegal settlement. Not having a roof over their heads, the Susya residents were forced to erecting the tents in which they are living today.
No protection
To the family of Um Yehia, the harassment from settlers (at times occurring on a daily basis) is an evidence of the unjust and lack of legal protection prevailing in the area.
After the incident with the two settlers, who tried to steel Mrs Um Yehia's sheep, she filed a complaint to the Israeli authorities, hoping for some protection. But the IOF ended up categorizing her as the security threat.
"That is how it works around here. You ask for your right and end up losing even more of it! Today, I am still considered a security threat although I was the violated part" she says.
According to Mr Um Yehia, the Israeli police generally does not believe the villagers when they report about daily violence from settlers:
"One time, an Israeli police officer went undercover here to see if the villagers were really speaking the truth. He dressed up as a Palestinian and started shouting, " This is our land". The settlers attacked him, and fortunately, it was filmed by the Channel 2 so we could prove ourselves right. It became a big story in the media" he says.
A greater plan
As if two forced displacements and daily harassment were not enough, the Israeli High Court of Justice on 5 May ruled to allow the IOF to demolish the entire village of Susya and expel its residents.
Mahmoud Zwahre of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee explains how the relocations are part of a greater plan to displace Palestinian communities from Area C to Area A, where they are cramped together.
"They are not only targeting Susya, but villages in the area from Jericho to Jordan Valley to South Hebron Hills," he says.
Not leaving
As for the Um Yehia family, they have no intention of falling into line with the new ruling by the High Court of Justice.
"I am not leaving. I am staying in this land, which belongs to my ancestors. We have raised our heads and healed our wounds many times, and we will do it again. The Israelis may be experts in demolishing houses, but we are experts in defending ourselves" says Mr Um Yehia.
He calls for international activists to come and stay with the villagers for protection. "We need their help, because we never know when the IOF will come."
"Two settlers came to me. They harassed me and tried to steel my sheep," Mrs Um Yehia recalls from her house inSusya village, Area C in the West Bank.
Fellow villagers soon came to her rescue, but the whole incident had made her feel both anxious and sick.
A history of displacement
Um Yehia's case is far from exceptional. Villagers of Susya describe how they have faced harassment from settlers since the IOF occupied the lands 30 years ago.
In 1986, the Israeli army demolished the caves that the villagers had been living in for decades, claiming Susya was an important Jewish archaeological site.
"My family used to live in the old Susya but were forced displaced. They were shocked and did not understand why" Mr Um Yenia explains.
Most villagers thought the displacement was temporary. But as years passed by, they realized they would never be able to return and so, they started building new caves during the 1990's.
In 2001, the new caves were also demolished, as the IOF claimed the Palestinian villagers were constructing an illegal settlement. Not having a roof over their heads, the Susya residents were forced to erecting the tents in which they are living today.
No protection
To the family of Um Yehia, the harassment from settlers (at times occurring on a daily basis) is an evidence of the unjust and lack of legal protection prevailing in the area.
After the incident with the two settlers, who tried to steel Mrs Um Yehia's sheep, she filed a complaint to the Israeli authorities, hoping for some protection. But the IOF ended up categorizing her as the security threat.
"That is how it works around here. You ask for your right and end up losing even more of it! Today, I am still considered a security threat although I was the violated part" she says.
According to Mr Um Yehia, the Israeli police generally does not believe the villagers when they report about daily violence from settlers:
"One time, an Israeli police officer went undercover here to see if the villagers were really speaking the truth. He dressed up as a Palestinian and started shouting, " This is our land". The settlers attacked him, and fortunately, it was filmed by the Channel 2 so we could prove ourselves right. It became a big story in the media" he says.
A greater plan
As if two forced displacements and daily harassment were not enough, the Israeli High Court of Justice on 5 May ruled to allow the IOF to demolish the entire village of Susya and expel its residents.
Mahmoud Zwahre of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee explains how the relocations are part of a greater plan to displace Palestinian communities from Area C to Area A, where they are cramped together.
"They are not only targeting Susya, but villages in the area from Jericho to Jordan Valley to South Hebron Hills," he says.
Not leaving
As for the Um Yehia family, they have no intention of falling into line with the new ruling by the High Court of Justice.
"I am not leaving. I am staying in this land, which belongs to my ancestors. We have raised our heads and healed our wounds many times, and we will do it again. The Israelis may be experts in demolishing houses, but we are experts in defending ourselves" says Mr Um Yehia.
He calls for international activists to come and stay with the villagers for protection. "We need their help, because we never know when the IOF will come."
30 may 2015
Israeli soldiers attacked, Saturday, scores of Palestinian and international peace activists protesting in front of the Al-Baraka home, near the main Jerusalem-Hebron Road, north of the southern West bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
The soldiers kidnapped Yousef Abu Mariya, 45, of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, after attacking him, and took him to an unknown destination.
The protesters marched carrying Palestinian flags and chanting against the ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activities that aim at controlling more Palestinian property and farmlands.
Soldiers attacked the protesters as they marched demanding the removal of extremist Israeli settlers who controlled on old church property, that was constructed as a free tuberculosis treatment center, known as Beit al-Baraka (House of Blessing) more than 70 years ago on 35 Dunams; it shut down in 1983.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements Rateb Jabour said the soldiers attacked the protesters, and tried to prevent them from reaching the site, but they managed to advance.
He added that the protest came to express rejection to Israel’s illegal policies and violations against the Palestinians in different parts of occupied Palestine, especially in areas close to illegal Israeli colonies, built on Palestinian property and lands.
It is worth mentioning that a Swedish lawyer, who represents Beit al-Baraka, denied Israeli allegations that the settlers have purchased the property and the lands around it.
The lawyer said the recent maintenance and construction work in the place is part of the owners’ decision to turn the property into a hotel and park, not a settlement. The settler named the property Bet Bracha.
More than a week ago, Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, right-wing settler, Aryeh King, has allegedly purchased a compound of an abandoned church, three years ago, and started working on it to create a new outpost.
The new settlement is meant to house at least 20 families in the already refurbished eight buildings, including a large commons structure.
Ha'aretz said that the settlers have been conducting massive reconstruction for the last several months, and built a fence around the compound, challenging an order by the Civil Administration Office in the Occupied West Bank, as no permit was issued for the fence.
Related:
Settlers Secretly Establishing New Outpost On Church Compound
The soldiers kidnapped Yousef Abu Mariya, 45, of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, after attacking him, and took him to an unknown destination.
The protesters marched carrying Palestinian flags and chanting against the ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activities that aim at controlling more Palestinian property and farmlands.
Soldiers attacked the protesters as they marched demanding the removal of extremist Israeli settlers who controlled on old church property, that was constructed as a free tuberculosis treatment center, known as Beit al-Baraka (House of Blessing) more than 70 years ago on 35 Dunams; it shut down in 1983.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements Rateb Jabour said the soldiers attacked the protesters, and tried to prevent them from reaching the site, but they managed to advance.
He added that the protest came to express rejection to Israel’s illegal policies and violations against the Palestinians in different parts of occupied Palestine, especially in areas close to illegal Israeli colonies, built on Palestinian property and lands.
It is worth mentioning that a Swedish lawyer, who represents Beit al-Baraka, denied Israeli allegations that the settlers have purchased the property and the lands around it.
The lawyer said the recent maintenance and construction work in the place is part of the owners’ decision to turn the property into a hotel and park, not a settlement. The settler named the property Bet Bracha.
More than a week ago, Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, right-wing settler, Aryeh King, has allegedly purchased a compound of an abandoned church, three years ago, and started working on it to create a new outpost.
The new settlement is meant to house at least 20 families in the already refurbished eight buildings, including a large commons structure.
Ha'aretz said that the settlers have been conducting massive reconstruction for the last several months, and built a fence around the compound, challenging an order by the Civil Administration Office in the Occupied West Bank, as no permit was issued for the fence.
Related:
Settlers Secretly Establishing New Outpost On Church Compound
29 may 2015
Activists confronted participants in the so-called "Jerusalem Hug" march, in which Palestinian and Israelis participated in Jerusalem, on Thursday.
Palestinians from Jerusalem gathered near Damascus Gate, where the march took place, and started telling Palestinian participants in the event that it had "normalization" goals.
There were minor scuffles and exchanges of swearing between the two sides.
Head of Fateh's Jerusalem youth council Ahmad al-Ghoul told Ma'an News Agency that Palestinian participants in the march -- from the West Bank cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, and Tulkarem -- were deceived into joining it by luring them with permits to enter Jerusalem.
Al-Ghoul said that the organization claimed that the march was a "humanitarian project for people in the West Bank" and provided them with permits and the necessary transportation without showing them the "normalization" goals of the visit.
He added that such organizations equate the "victim and the executioner" and show the world a picture of Palestinians and Israelis living in peace and love, spending millions of shekels in the process.
Israeli police detained Mahdi Abu Sbeih and Shadi al-Labban, who were trying to stop the march.
Palestinians from Jerusalem gathered near Damascus Gate, where the march took place, and started telling Palestinian participants in the event that it had "normalization" goals.
There were minor scuffles and exchanges of swearing between the two sides.
Head of Fateh's Jerusalem youth council Ahmad al-Ghoul told Ma'an News Agency that Palestinian participants in the march -- from the West Bank cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, and Tulkarem -- were deceived into joining it by luring them with permits to enter Jerusalem.
Al-Ghoul said that the organization claimed that the march was a "humanitarian project for people in the West Bank" and provided them with permits and the necessary transportation without showing them the "normalization" goals of the visit.
He added that such organizations equate the "victim and the executioner" and show the world a picture of Palestinians and Israelis living in peace and love, spending millions of shekels in the process.
Israeli police detained Mahdi Abu Sbeih and Shadi al-Labban, who were trying to stop the march.
A Swedish company established in 2007 was used to cover up the sale and transfer of a West Bank church compound to settlers funded by American millionaire Irving Moskowitz, Israeli media reports.
Spotlight has been held on the church compound, located nearby the Palestinian refugee camp al-'Arroub, between Bethlehem and Hebron, for the last week, due to contradicting allegations regarding the compound's ownership.
According to Ma'an News Agency, Pastor Keith Coleman, head of the church that originally owned the compound since the 1940's, told Haaretz that the compound was sold to a Swedish company called Scandinavian Seamen Holy Land Enterprises in March 2008.
While Coleman believed group was a church group based in Haifa planning to renew the use of the church, Haaretz reported that, "The Swedish group was established in Stockholm in 2007, and seems to have been used as a cover for transferring the ownership of the compound to the settlers. The group does not seem to have any offices."
After buying the property, the Swedish group registered the purchase with the Israeli Civil Administration in 2012 and received necessary approval, the report said.
Following registration with the Civil Administration, the Swedish company announced its dissolution. The group had no offices or assets except for this church compound at the time, Haaretz said.
Ownership was then passed to the nonprofit organization American Friends of the Everest Foundation. The American organization operates from occupied East Jerusalem. and its sole contributor is American millionaire Irving Moskowitz.
Haaretz reports that the Everest Foundation owns several properties in occupied East Jerusalem totaling a value of $12 million.
The report added that Moskowitz is also the main funder behind the activities of Israeli right-wing activist Aryeh King, founder and director of Israel Land Fund, an organization that buys Palestinian property and homes for resale to Jews with the aim of 'Judaizing' occupied East Jerusalem as well as Palestinian neighborhoods in Israel.
The report came after last week Arie Suchovolsky, an lawyer who told Ma'an he represented a Swedish church that owned the compound, rejected claims that the church had been sold, saying that "the church is the owner of the compound, and we are refurbishing it to be a hostel to serve Jews, Muslims and Christians who pass by."
Actual renovations being carried out to prepare the church compound for transformation into a new West Bank outpost comes to the dismay of local Palestinians.
The church lies in a sensitive location, which when settled, will see Israeli settlements stretch all the way from the Gush Etzion settler bloc south of Jerusalem to the cluster of settlements around Hebron.
Spotlight has been held on the church compound, located nearby the Palestinian refugee camp al-'Arroub, between Bethlehem and Hebron, for the last week, due to contradicting allegations regarding the compound's ownership.
According to Ma'an News Agency, Pastor Keith Coleman, head of the church that originally owned the compound since the 1940's, told Haaretz that the compound was sold to a Swedish company called Scandinavian Seamen Holy Land Enterprises in March 2008.
While Coleman believed group was a church group based in Haifa planning to renew the use of the church, Haaretz reported that, "The Swedish group was established in Stockholm in 2007, and seems to have been used as a cover for transferring the ownership of the compound to the settlers. The group does not seem to have any offices."
After buying the property, the Swedish group registered the purchase with the Israeli Civil Administration in 2012 and received necessary approval, the report said.
Following registration with the Civil Administration, the Swedish company announced its dissolution. The group had no offices or assets except for this church compound at the time, Haaretz said.
Ownership was then passed to the nonprofit organization American Friends of the Everest Foundation. The American organization operates from occupied East Jerusalem. and its sole contributor is American millionaire Irving Moskowitz.
Haaretz reports that the Everest Foundation owns several properties in occupied East Jerusalem totaling a value of $12 million.
The report added that Moskowitz is also the main funder behind the activities of Israeli right-wing activist Aryeh King, founder and director of Israel Land Fund, an organization that buys Palestinian property and homes for resale to Jews with the aim of 'Judaizing' occupied East Jerusalem as well as Palestinian neighborhoods in Israel.
The report came after last week Arie Suchovolsky, an lawyer who told Ma'an he represented a Swedish church that owned the compound, rejected claims that the church had been sold, saying that "the church is the owner of the compound, and we are refurbishing it to be a hostel to serve Jews, Muslims and Christians who pass by."
Actual renovations being carried out to prepare the church compound for transformation into a new West Bank outpost comes to the dismay of local Palestinians.
The church lies in a sensitive location, which when settled, will see Israeli settlements stretch all the way from the Gush Etzion settler bloc south of Jerusalem to the cluster of settlements around Hebron.
27 may 2015
Jewish settlers seized and planted on Wednesday a land plot belonging to a Palestinian man from Howarah town in southern Nablus.
The settlement official in the northern West Bank Ghassan Daghlas told the PIC reporter that a group of extremist Jewish settlers from Yitzhar settlement, which is constructed on Palestinians’ lands, planted ten dunums to the west of Howarah town with grapes.
Daghlas pointed out that the land belongs to a Palestinian citizen called Yasser Ali who was shocked by the settlers planting his land.
"The Jewish settlers also barred the Palestinians from approaching the land after they had seized and planted it," Daghlas said.
The settlement official in the northern West Bank Ghassan Daghlas told the PIC reporter that a group of extremist Jewish settlers from Yitzhar settlement, which is constructed on Palestinians’ lands, planted ten dunums to the west of Howarah town with grapes.
Daghlas pointed out that the land belongs to a Palestinian citizen called Yasser Ali who was shocked by the settlers planting his land.
"The Jewish settlers also barred the Palestinians from approaching the land after they had seized and planted it," Daghlas said.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) closed overnight the two military checkpoints east of Nablus city to the north of occupied West Bank following an alleged attack on settlers’ vehicles.
Local sources said two checkpoints were closed from both directions in Beit Furik and Beit Djan villages after IOF violently broke into the towns amid heavy fire of tear gas bombs.
Dozens of Palestinian cars were stopped and denied entry into the villages from both directions till the morning hours.
The closure came after Israeli sources claimed that Israeli settlers’ vehicles were subjected to an alleged Molotov cocktail attack at the road linking between Itamar and Alon Moreh settlements.
Meanwhile, four Palestinian youths were nabbed at dawn today after Israeli forces stormed and searched a number of homes in Assira town to the north of the city.
Local sources said two checkpoints were closed from both directions in Beit Furik and Beit Djan villages after IOF violently broke into the towns amid heavy fire of tear gas bombs.
Dozens of Palestinian cars were stopped and denied entry into the villages from both directions till the morning hours.
The closure came after Israeli sources claimed that Israeli settlers’ vehicles were subjected to an alleged Molotov cocktail attack at the road linking between Itamar and Alon Moreh settlements.
Meanwhile, four Palestinian youths were nabbed at dawn today after Israeli forces stormed and searched a number of homes in Assira town to the north of the city.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was injured after being struck by an Israeli settler’s car, in Ras al-‘Amoud area in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
The sources said the child, Hani Eskafi, 15 years of age, suffered various cuts and bruises when the car struck him while riding his bicycle, and apparently drove away.
The incident took place near Ma'ale ha-Zeitim illegal settlement, in Ras al-‘Amoud area; medics provided the child with the needed first aid and moved him to Hadassah Hospital.
Paramedic Hani Zeidani said the child suffered various cuts and bruises, and that settlement guards told the family they managed to obtain the information of the driver.
The guards did not provide further information to the family, and told them they needed to file a complaint with the Police.
On Thursday, May 7, a young man was injured after being struck by a speeding Israeli settlement bus, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
On Tuesday, April 28, a child was moderately injured, in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after being hit by an Israeli settler’s car.
There have been hundreds of "hit and run" incidents that largely went uninvestigated by the Israeli authorities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, even though many of those incidents have led to fatalities.
One of those incidents is the case of Enas Dar Khalil, five years of age, who was killed in 2014, and the settler who killed her fled the scene.
Palestinian minor injured in settler’s hit-and-run in Jerusalem
A Jerusalemite minor was injured on Tuesday in a hit-and-run by a female settler in Silwan town to the south of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Eyewitnesses revealed that the Jewish woman hit the15-year-old boy called Hani Skafi near Maale Heyzetem outpost in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood in the town.
The boy was injured and was transferred to Hadassah Hospital for treatment, the eyewitnesses said.
Ras al-Amoud neighborhood witnesses ceaseless confrontations with the Israeli soldiers and settlers. It is close to the Jewish settlement Maale Heyzetem which is constructed on the neighborhood’s land.
The sources said the child, Hani Eskafi, 15 years of age, suffered various cuts and bruises when the car struck him while riding his bicycle, and apparently drove away.
The incident took place near Ma'ale ha-Zeitim illegal settlement, in Ras al-‘Amoud area; medics provided the child with the needed first aid and moved him to Hadassah Hospital.
Paramedic Hani Zeidani said the child suffered various cuts and bruises, and that settlement guards told the family they managed to obtain the information of the driver.
The guards did not provide further information to the family, and told them they needed to file a complaint with the Police.
On Thursday, May 7, a young man was injured after being struck by a speeding Israeli settlement bus, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
On Tuesday, April 28, a child was moderately injured, in Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, after being hit by an Israeli settler’s car.
There have been hundreds of "hit and run" incidents that largely went uninvestigated by the Israeli authorities, in different parts of the occupied West Bank, even though many of those incidents have led to fatalities.
One of those incidents is the case of Enas Dar Khalil, five years of age, who was killed in 2014, and the settler who killed her fled the scene.
Palestinian minor injured in settler’s hit-and-run in Jerusalem
A Jerusalemite minor was injured on Tuesday in a hit-and-run by a female settler in Silwan town to the south of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Eyewitnesses revealed that the Jewish woman hit the15-year-old boy called Hani Skafi near Maale Heyzetem outpost in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood in the town.
The boy was injured and was transferred to Hadassah Hospital for treatment, the eyewitnesses said.
Ras al-Amoud neighborhood witnesses ceaseless confrontations with the Israeli soldiers and settlers. It is close to the Jewish settlement Maale Heyzetem which is constructed on the neighborhood’s land.
26 may 2015
Jewish extremist settlers in separate groups stormed Tuesday the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem under tight security measures by Israeli police.
Quds Press revealed that 18 settlers escorted by Israeli policemen broke into the Aqsa Mosque Tuesday morning from the Israeli-controlled Magharebah gate.
The Palestinian worshipers were deployed in the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque in order to confront, by chants of Allahu Akbar, the extremist settlers who conduct storming operations into the courtyards of the Mosque on semi-daily basis, Quds Press noted.
Just on Monday, 79 Jews broke into the plazas of the holy site within the celebration of the Jewish holiday called The Weeks or the Descent of Torah.
The escalated settlers’ incursion followed the calls for massive pilgrimage to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holiday, which have been launched by the Jewish groups of the alleged Temple of Solomon.
Quds Press revealed that 18 settlers escorted by Israeli policemen broke into the Aqsa Mosque Tuesday morning from the Israeli-controlled Magharebah gate.
The Palestinian worshipers were deployed in the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque in order to confront, by chants of Allahu Akbar, the extremist settlers who conduct storming operations into the courtyards of the Mosque on semi-daily basis, Quds Press noted.
Just on Monday, 79 Jews broke into the plazas of the holy site within the celebration of the Jewish holiday called The Weeks or the Descent of Torah.
The escalated settlers’ incursion followed the calls for massive pilgrimage to Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holiday, which have been launched by the Jewish groups of the alleged Temple of Solomon.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, Monday, a Palestinian from the northern West Bank city of Jenin, after stopping him on a roadblock east of Bethlehem. Extremist Israeli settlers torch several Dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands near Bethlehem.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers installed a sudden roadblock, near the main entrance of Teqoua’ village, east of Bethlehem, searched cars, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
The kidnapped Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud al-Qadery, 27 years of age, is from Bir al-Basha, near Jenin; he was heading to his work in Hebron.
In related news, a number of Israeli extremists set fire to nearly 10 Dunams (2.47 Acres) of Palestinian agricultural lands in the al-Kaneesa area, in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem.
Local firefighters managed to contain the fire before it spread further.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers installed a sudden roadblock, near the main entrance of Teqoua’ village, east of Bethlehem, searched cars, and kidnapped one Palestinian.
The kidnapped Palestinian, identified as Mohammad Mahmoud al-Qadery, 27 years of age, is from Bir al-Basha, near Jenin; he was heading to his work in Hebron.
In related news, a number of Israeli extremists set fire to nearly 10 Dunams (2.47 Acres) of Palestinian agricultural lands in the al-Kaneesa area, in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem.
Local firefighters managed to contain the fire before it spread further.