26 may 2020
Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli forces, seized today vast areas of land located between the towns of Deir Dibwan and Rammun to the east of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, according to a local official.
Head of Deir Dibwan municipality, Mansour Mansour, told WAFA dozens of settlers stormed an area between the said towns and seized around 47 dunums.
Settlers used bulldozers to raze the land belonging to residents from both towns.
Israeli forces, who provided the settlers with protection, prevented residents’ access to their lands and forced them to leave the area.
Head of Deir Dibwan municipality, Mansour Mansour, told WAFA dozens of settlers stormed an area between the said towns and seized around 47 dunums.
Settlers used bulldozers to raze the land belonging to residents from both towns.
Israeli forces, who provided the settlers with protection, prevented residents’ access to their lands and forced them to leave the area.
25 may 2020
An Israeli settler ran over and killed three sheep while injuring a dozen others as other settlers set fire to crops in the south of the West Bank, according to local activists.
Rateb Jabour, from the anti-wall, anti-settlements popular committees in the south of the West Bank, told WAFA that a settler driving a 4-wheel-drive vehicle, sped when he saw sheep in the fields in the al-Dirat village and ran them over killing three and injuring 12 others before running away.
Raising sheep and herding is an important source of income for thousands of Palestinians who live in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank.
In another incident, settlers from the illegal Havat Maon outpost in Masafer Yatta, set fire to more than 30 dunums of land planted with wheat and barley, totally destroying them, according to Fouad al-Imour, from the land defense committee in Masafer Yatta.
Rateb Jabour, from the anti-wall, anti-settlements popular committees in the south of the West Bank, told WAFA that a settler driving a 4-wheel-drive vehicle, sped when he saw sheep in the fields in the al-Dirat village and ran them over killing three and injuring 12 others before running away.
Raising sheep and herding is an important source of income for thousands of Palestinians who live in Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank.
In another incident, settlers from the illegal Havat Maon outpost in Masafer Yatta, set fire to more than 30 dunums of land planted with wheat and barley, totally destroying them, according to Fouad al-Imour, from the land defense committee in Masafer Yatta.
Israeli settlers today opened fire and injured two Palestinian herders near the Ramallah-area village of al-Mughayyer, according to a local activist.
The activist, Kathem Haj Mohammad, told WAFA that settlers attacked the herders while they were in the open fields between al-Mughayyer and Turmous Ayya injuring one in the stomach and the other in leg.
He said the two were rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah for treatment.
Israeli soldiers attacked with teargas villagers who came to the aid of the shepherds, said Mohammad.
The activist, Kathem Haj Mohammad, told WAFA that settlers attacked the herders while they were in the open fields between al-Mughayyer and Turmous Ayya injuring one in the stomach and the other in leg.
He said the two were rushed to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah for treatment.
Israeli soldiers attacked with teargas villagers who came to the aid of the shepherds, said Mohammad.
23 may 2020
Palestinian WAFA News correspondent reported that Israeli settlers, on Saturday, attacked Palestinians in the Al-Sahla neighborhood of the Old City of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
The video shows illegal settlers, youths and adults, harassing Palestinians, shouting, throwing stones among other objects at the Palestinians. video video
Israeli soldiers are seen walking among the crowd, making no attempt to stop the attack against the so-called ‘protected’ Palestinian people. No injuries were noted at the time of this report.
Human Rights Defenders reported that the victims in this case are the Qafisha family in the Al-Sahla area, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, on Saturday, the last day of the holy month of Ramadan, only hours before Iftar (breaking fast).
The video shows illegal settlers, youths and adults, harassing Palestinians, shouting, throwing stones among other objects at the Palestinians. video video
Israeli soldiers are seen walking among the crowd, making no attempt to stop the attack against the so-called ‘protected’ Palestinian people. No injuries were noted at the time of this report.
Human Rights Defenders reported that the victims in this case are the Qafisha family in the Al-Sahla area, near the Ibrahimi Mosque, on Saturday, the last day of the holy month of Ramadan, only hours before Iftar (breaking fast).
Palestinian-American civil rights activist Alex Odeh
David Sheen, a friend of mine and a fellow journalist, published a great investigative story the other month. It tells a tale of murder, racism, duplicity, and justice denied.
In October 1985, Palestinian-American civil rights activist Alex Odeh was murdered by Zionist fanatics in California.
Odeh was blown to smithereens by a pipe bomb. His murderers have never been arrested.
Hours after Odeh’s brutal slaying, Irv Rubin, the national chairperson of the Jewish Defence League (JDL) at the time, justified the murder: “I have no tears for Mr. Odeh. He got exactly what he deserved.”
Despite a $1 million reward being announced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for information leading to the conviction of Odeh’s killers, no arrests have ever been made.
The police and the FBI’s main suspects have so far escaped justice. They are Baruch Ben-Yosef (born Andy Green) and Israel Fuchs (formerly known as Keith Fuchs).
They have been able to do so for one reason: Ben-Yosef/Green and Fuchs fled the US for Israel some months after the terrorist bombing.
In my view, they are being protected by the Israeli government.
The FBI is being obstructed in its investigation by the Israelis. On the flip side, it seems clear that the US government is not exactly pulling out all the stops.
No pressure is being put on Israel to bring Odeh’s killers to justice, to extradite them to stand trial in the US, or even to cooperate with the investigation in any way.
As Sheen detailed in his extensive piece, Odeh was a Palestinian born in the majority-Christian village of Jifna in the West Bank (close to a particularly extremist Israeli colony). He dedicated his life and activism in the US working for the Arab-American Discrimination Committee, or ADC.
He worked to build awareness of the plight of his people under Israeli occupation and to build bridges with US Jews. On the very day of his murder, he had been due to speak at the Congregation B’nai Tzedek, a Reform synagogue in Santa Ana.
Very clearly, his killers saw such efforts as a threat to their extremist Zionist agenda.
Due to Israel’s racist “Law of Return”, Fuchs and Ben-Yosef were able to claim citizenship in the country where they are now fugitives from the law. Israel has for decades stonewalled FBI attempts to bring the killers to justice.
This is all quite typical behaviour for Israel – certainly one of the world’s worst rogue states. Jewish extremists like Fuchs and Ben-Yosef are habitually harboured in Israel.
Israeli protection of these racist criminals is no aberration. Zionist extremists fleeing justice from all over the world know they will be safe in Israel. Grégory Chelli for example, the French hacker, known as Ulcan, is accused in a French court of making hoax phone calls, one of them lethal. Chelli was a member of the French branch of the JDL and fled to Israel before the court could try him.
Using weasel words, the official Israeli government has in the past stated its condemnation of the JDL’s openly racist founder, Meir Kahane. He won a seat in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in the 1980s, but his party was later banned.
In reality, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and his “moderate” ally Benny Gantz, along with his coalition government and allies in the so-called Labour Party, have all endorsed the racism of Kahane – even if they had a personal rivalry with him.
In practice, Kahane’s policy of driving all Palestinians out of the so-called “Land of Israel” by force is endorsed in one form or another by all Zionist parties in Israel. The differences between them are merely ones of emphasis, strategy, and personal rivalry.
Kahanist settlers occupying the West Bank today raise the slogan: “Today everybody knows Kahane was right!” Kahanism is the logical conclusion of Zionism.
Today, Odeh’s killers are being sheltered in the illegal Zionist colonies which occupy stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.
Ben-Yosef is particularly brazen – as Sheen’s reporting shows. He is a high-profile lawyer in Israel, defending some of the most fanatical Zionist terrorists, religious extremists, and murderers.
He is also at the forefront of the “Temple Movement”, the Jewish extremist group that wants to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque and raze the Dome of the Rock – which are some of Islam’s holiest sites, two important Palestinian national symbols – in order to build a synagogue.
David Sheen, a friend of mine and a fellow journalist, published a great investigative story the other month. It tells a tale of murder, racism, duplicity, and justice denied.
In October 1985, Palestinian-American civil rights activist Alex Odeh was murdered by Zionist fanatics in California.
Odeh was blown to smithereens by a pipe bomb. His murderers have never been arrested.
Hours after Odeh’s brutal slaying, Irv Rubin, the national chairperson of the Jewish Defence League (JDL) at the time, justified the murder: “I have no tears for Mr. Odeh. He got exactly what he deserved.”
Despite a $1 million reward being announced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for information leading to the conviction of Odeh’s killers, no arrests have ever been made.
The police and the FBI’s main suspects have so far escaped justice. They are Baruch Ben-Yosef (born Andy Green) and Israel Fuchs (formerly known as Keith Fuchs).
They have been able to do so for one reason: Ben-Yosef/Green and Fuchs fled the US for Israel some months after the terrorist bombing.
In my view, they are being protected by the Israeli government.
The FBI is being obstructed in its investigation by the Israelis. On the flip side, it seems clear that the US government is not exactly pulling out all the stops.
No pressure is being put on Israel to bring Odeh’s killers to justice, to extradite them to stand trial in the US, or even to cooperate with the investigation in any way.
As Sheen detailed in his extensive piece, Odeh was a Palestinian born in the majority-Christian village of Jifna in the West Bank (close to a particularly extremist Israeli colony). He dedicated his life and activism in the US working for the Arab-American Discrimination Committee, or ADC.
He worked to build awareness of the plight of his people under Israeli occupation and to build bridges with US Jews. On the very day of his murder, he had been due to speak at the Congregation B’nai Tzedek, a Reform synagogue in Santa Ana.
Very clearly, his killers saw such efforts as a threat to their extremist Zionist agenda.
Due to Israel’s racist “Law of Return”, Fuchs and Ben-Yosef were able to claim citizenship in the country where they are now fugitives from the law. Israel has for decades stonewalled FBI attempts to bring the killers to justice.
This is all quite typical behaviour for Israel – certainly one of the world’s worst rogue states. Jewish extremists like Fuchs and Ben-Yosef are habitually harboured in Israel.
Israeli protection of these racist criminals is no aberration. Zionist extremists fleeing justice from all over the world know they will be safe in Israel. Grégory Chelli for example, the French hacker, known as Ulcan, is accused in a French court of making hoax phone calls, one of them lethal. Chelli was a member of the French branch of the JDL and fled to Israel before the court could try him.
Using weasel words, the official Israeli government has in the past stated its condemnation of the JDL’s openly racist founder, Meir Kahane. He won a seat in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in the 1980s, but his party was later banned.
In reality, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and his “moderate” ally Benny Gantz, along with his coalition government and allies in the so-called Labour Party, have all endorsed the racism of Kahane – even if they had a personal rivalry with him.
In practice, Kahane’s policy of driving all Palestinians out of the so-called “Land of Israel” by force is endorsed in one form or another by all Zionist parties in Israel. The differences between them are merely ones of emphasis, strategy, and personal rivalry.
Kahanist settlers occupying the West Bank today raise the slogan: “Today everybody knows Kahane was right!” Kahanism is the logical conclusion of Zionism.
Today, Odeh’s killers are being sheltered in the illegal Zionist colonies which occupy stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.
Ben-Yosef is particularly brazen – as Sheen’s reporting shows. He is a high-profile lawyer in Israel, defending some of the most fanatical Zionist terrorists, religious extremists, and murderers.
He is also at the forefront of the “Temple Movement”, the Jewish extremist group that wants to blow up Al-Aqsa Mosque and raze the Dome of the Rock – which are some of Islam’s holiest sites, two important Palestinian national symbols – in order to build a synagogue.
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Israeli security forces, on Friday, blocked several streets in occupied Jerusalem as illegal Israeli settlers provocative March outside Jaffa Gate, celebrated the so-called “reunification of Jerusalem as capital of Israel”, Quds News reported. video
Also on Friday, occupation forces assaulted Palestinians, near Bab Al-Asbat or Lion’s Gate, in the old city of Jerusalem, southern occupied West Bank, Shehab News Agency reported. video |
The Secretary of the Fatah movement, Qusi Diab Thiyab al-Tamimi, along with the young Ziyad al-Tamimi, were attacked, on Friday, northwest of Ramallah, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.
Al-Tamimi was reportedly injured while fighting off a group of illegal settlers who were attacking Palestinian farmers, near the village of Deir Nizam, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
WAFA correspondent said that settlers from the illegal “Halamish” colony, attacked local Palestinian farmers, while they were cultivating their land in the “Wadi Raya” area.
The confrontations led to the injury of the Secretary of the Fatah movement and another young man, whom was wounded in the head, in addition to a number of other citizens who were mildly injured in the attack.
Also on Friday, illegal colonists set fire to Palestinian agricultural lands, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The video shows Israeli soldiers providing cover for the illegal colonists attacking Palestinian civilians.
Al-Tamimi was reportedly injured while fighting off a group of illegal settlers who were attacking Palestinian farmers, near the village of Deir Nizam, northwest of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
WAFA correspondent said that settlers from the illegal “Halamish” colony, attacked local Palestinian farmers, while they were cultivating their land in the “Wadi Raya” area.
The confrontations led to the injury of the Secretary of the Fatah movement and another young man, whom was wounded in the head, in addition to a number of other citizens who were mildly injured in the attack.
Also on Friday, illegal colonists set fire to Palestinian agricultural lands, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The video shows Israeli soldiers providing cover for the illegal colonists attacking Palestinian civilians.
