12 jan 2015
Israeli municipal bulldozers on Sunday morning demolished shade
structures built a few week ago in Taso cemetery by the elected Islamic
council in Yaffa (Jaffa) city.
According to the website Yaffa 48, Israeli municipal workers and bulldozers stormed the cemetery at dawn and removed two shade structures built to protect visitors from sunlight and rains at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The Islamic council warned that the demolition of the shade structures in the cemetery would offend the feelings of Muslims in the city.
"Desecrating Taso cemetery and its sanctity is considered a very serious action, and the municipality flouted the feelings of Muslims when it sent its bulldozers to demolish the shades in the cemetery," the council stated.
Consequently, the Islamic council in the city held an emergency meeting on Sunday evening and decided to organize events and rallies during the current week to protest the demolition of structures in the cemetery.
In a statement released following the meeting, the council strongly condemned the Israeli action as "a barbaric act that can only be done by thugs," pointing out that the Tel Aviv municipal authorities broke the locks of the cemetery's main gate at dawn before carrying out the demolition.
It said that it would start on Monday to build three shade structures in the cemetery instead of the razed ones after it had received generous donations from Palestinian citizens in the city.
According to the website Yaffa 48, Israeli municipal workers and bulldozers stormed the cemetery at dawn and removed two shade structures built to protect visitors from sunlight and rains at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The Islamic council warned that the demolition of the shade structures in the cemetery would offend the feelings of Muslims in the city.
"Desecrating Taso cemetery and its sanctity is considered a very serious action, and the municipality flouted the feelings of Muslims when it sent its bulldozers to demolish the shades in the cemetery," the council stated.
Consequently, the Islamic council in the city held an emergency meeting on Sunday evening and decided to organize events and rallies during the current week to protest the demolition of structures in the cemetery.
In a statement released following the meeting, the council strongly condemned the Israeli action as "a barbaric act that can only be done by thugs," pointing out that the Tel Aviv municipal authorities broke the locks of the cemetery's main gate at dawn before carrying out the demolition.
It said that it would start on Monday to build three shade structures in the cemetery instead of the razed ones after it had received generous donations from Palestinian citizens in the city.
10 jan 2015
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday stormed Wadi Baziq area in the Jordan Valley, east of Tubas city, and ordered its residents to evacuate their homes regardless of the harsh weather conditions in the region.
Chief of Baziq area Mohamed Harroub told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israeli troops came to Baziq hamlet on Tubas Mount and threatened its residents with forced evacuation if they did not leave their homes voluntarily.
The residents were given eight days, between 12 and 20 January, to move to another place at the pretext that the army would use the area to conduct military drills, Harroub added.
He affirmed that the residents of Baziq area are exposed to never-ending suffering because the Israeli army systematically orders them to move to another place at the pretext of military activities.
The residents of Baziq are Palestinian refugees who were displaced by the Israeli occupation in 1948. They are barred from utilizing the natural resources in the region at the pretext it is a military zone.
Chief of Baziq area Mohamed Harroub told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israeli troops came to Baziq hamlet on Tubas Mount and threatened its residents with forced evacuation if they did not leave their homes voluntarily.
The residents were given eight days, between 12 and 20 January, to move to another place at the pretext that the army would use the area to conduct military drills, Harroub added.
He affirmed that the residents of Baziq area are exposed to never-ending suffering because the Israeli army systematically orders them to move to another place at the pretext of military activities.
The residents of Baziq are Palestinian refugees who were displaced by the Israeli occupation in 1948. They are barred from utilizing the natural resources in the region at the pretext it is a military zone.
8 jan 2015
An Israeli bulldozer at dawn Thursday demolished under military and police protection a Palestinian building in Arara town in the Negev region.
The Israeli authorities claimed the building was constructed with no license.
Local Bedouins told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli troops prevented Palestinian citizens from approaching the building during the demolition.
They condemned Israel's systematic demolition of their homes and property in the Negev as part of its ethnic cleansing policy that is aimed at expelling all natives from the region in order to build homes and facilities for Jewish settlers.
The Israeli authorities claimed the building was constructed with no license.
Local Bedouins told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that Israeli troops prevented Palestinian citizens from approaching the building during the demolition.
They condemned Israel's systematic demolition of their homes and property in the Negev as part of its ethnic cleansing policy that is aimed at expelling all natives from the region in order to build homes and facilities for Jewish settlers.
6 jan 2015
It does not take a historiographer or even an ordinary observer more than a quick glance at 2014 to perceive the unparalleled upsurge in Israel’s tactics of ethnic cleansing and forcible deportation of Palestinians from such strategic areas as the northern Jordan Valley.
Being a home to dozens of Palestinian residential and native Bedouin communities, the northern Jordan Valley has turned into the sought-after prey of Israel’s misappropriation and displacement policies across the history of Palestinians’ fight for freedom.
Official data proves that the Israeli occupation army grabbed hold of over 13 agricultural tractors, two digging machines, a water tank, pipelines, residential tents, 10 vehicles, and dozens of livestock in the area.
Dozens of Palestinian farmers were forced out of their native lands after the Israeli occupation army issued orders ruling to seal off thousands of Palestinian cultivated land lots in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
On-the-spot observers detected Israeli fanatic settler hordes as wreaking havoc on the seized tracts and exploiting the harvest under police protection.
Israeli armed settlers reportedly held sway over 30,000 dunums of Palestinian land tracts in al-Sakot area in the northern Jordan Valley after having evacuated the Palestinian native landowners out of their terrains.
Some of the deported farmers managed to restore portions of their seized soil after they were forced to shell out dozens of thousands of shekels to the Israeli usurpers.
During 2014, the IOA ordered more than 140 Palestinian civilian families to forcibly quit their family homes and residential shelters to leave larger room for Israel’s military drills, as if by doing so they seemed to attempt at wiping out the traces of a history marked by Palestinians’ footsteps for hundreds of years.
The IOA ordered 150 Palestinian families to stop the construction and repair of residential tents and barracks built over lands whose ownership dates back to dozens of years.
Historiographers said it comes as no surprise that the IOA has stepped up misappropriation and deportation campaigns against the Palestinian native communities in the Jordan Valley. History proves that the seeds of the world’s colonial powers are nurtured by the very germs of such policies of ethnic cleansing.
Being a home to dozens of Palestinian residential and native Bedouin communities, the northern Jordan Valley has turned into the sought-after prey of Israel’s misappropriation and displacement policies across the history of Palestinians’ fight for freedom.
Official data proves that the Israeli occupation army grabbed hold of over 13 agricultural tractors, two digging machines, a water tank, pipelines, residential tents, 10 vehicles, and dozens of livestock in the area.
Dozens of Palestinian farmers were forced out of their native lands after the Israeli occupation army issued orders ruling to seal off thousands of Palestinian cultivated land lots in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
On-the-spot observers detected Israeli fanatic settler hordes as wreaking havoc on the seized tracts and exploiting the harvest under police protection.
Israeli armed settlers reportedly held sway over 30,000 dunums of Palestinian land tracts in al-Sakot area in the northern Jordan Valley after having evacuated the Palestinian native landowners out of their terrains.
Some of the deported farmers managed to restore portions of their seized soil after they were forced to shell out dozens of thousands of shekels to the Israeli usurpers.
During 2014, the IOA ordered more than 140 Palestinian civilian families to forcibly quit their family homes and residential shelters to leave larger room for Israel’s military drills, as if by doing so they seemed to attempt at wiping out the traces of a history marked by Palestinians’ footsteps for hundreds of years.
The IOA ordered 150 Palestinian families to stop the construction and repair of residential tents and barracks built over lands whose ownership dates back to dozens of years.
Historiographers said it comes as no surprise that the IOA has stepped up misappropriation and deportation campaigns against the Palestinian native communities in the Jordan Valley. History proves that the seeds of the world’s colonial powers are nurtured by the very germs of such policies of ethnic cleansing.
A number of nonviolent Palestinian activists managed to raise Palestinian flags, on Monday evening, in the Efrat illegal Israeli settlement, built on Palestinian lands south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem Hasan Breijiyya said a group of activists managed to enter the illegal settlement through its eastern entrance, and raised Palestinian flags near a number of homes.
Israeli soldiers and police officers then notices the Palestinians, and chased them, but was unable to capture any of them.
Mohammad Mheisin, Coordinator of the Popular Committee in the Southern Part of the West Bank, told the WAFA Palestinian News Agency that the Palestinians will continue their nonviolent resistance activities against Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Bethlehem Hasan Breijiyya said a group of activists managed to enter the illegal settlement through its eastern entrance, and raised Palestinian flags near a number of homes.
Israeli soldiers and police officers then notices the Palestinians, and chased them, but was unable to capture any of them.
Mohammad Mheisin, Coordinator of the Popular Committee in the Southern Part of the West Bank, told the WAFA Palestinian News Agency that the Palestinians will continue their nonviolent resistance activities against Israel’s colonies in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.
5 jan 2015
Clashes between Israeli Occupation Forces and hundreds of Palestinian youths erupted in various cities of the West Bank on Monday and late Sunday.
In al-Khalil district, clashes broke out on Monday in Aroub refugee camp, to the north of the city, after Israeli occupation forces had fired grenades and tear gas toward the camp. Young men in the camp, for their part, responded by throwing stones at the soldiers.
Israeli soldiers were deployed in the vicinity of the camp during the clashes, local sources said.
In Jenin district, the IOF stormed, at dawn on Monday, Jenin refugee camp located in the city and launched large-scale search operations in the camp.
Local sources said eight military vehicles stormed the camp and soldiers were deployed inside the camp.
The IOF soldiers set up ambushes in the streets, broke into and searched houses, and erected a military checkpoint that lasted for hours, sources added.
In Bethlehem, the IOF destroyed a carwash, for the fourth time, in addition to two medical stores in Husan village, west of the city.
Local sources said the army forces escorted bulldozers into the village and destroyed the carwash that belongs to Feras Sabri Shushe, claiming it was not licensed.
The army bulldozers also demolished a two-story medical store belonging to Ishaq Hamamreh, the sources added.
Army Demolishes A Carwash Facility, Two Sanitary Storage Rooms, In Bethlehem
Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, earlier on Monday at dawn, the town of Husan, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished a car-wash structure, and two warehouses used for storing sanitary supplies.
Taha Hamamra, a local nonviolent activist of the Popular Resistance Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Husan, said several armored army vehicles and bulldozers invaded the al-Mashahed area, west of the town, and demolished a carwash structure belonging to resident Firas Sabri Shousha.
The army alleged the structure was installed without a permit from the “Civil Administration Office,” run by the military in the occupied West Bank.
Hamamra added that the army previously demolished the facility three times, under the same pretenses.
In addition, soldiers demolished a warehouse for sanitary products, owned by Ishaq Hamamra, after forcing him to empty it.
In al-Khalil district, clashes broke out on Monday in Aroub refugee camp, to the north of the city, after Israeli occupation forces had fired grenades and tear gas toward the camp. Young men in the camp, for their part, responded by throwing stones at the soldiers.
Israeli soldiers were deployed in the vicinity of the camp during the clashes, local sources said.
In Jenin district, the IOF stormed, at dawn on Monday, Jenin refugee camp located in the city and launched large-scale search operations in the camp.
Local sources said eight military vehicles stormed the camp and soldiers were deployed inside the camp.
The IOF soldiers set up ambushes in the streets, broke into and searched houses, and erected a military checkpoint that lasted for hours, sources added.
In Bethlehem, the IOF destroyed a carwash, for the fourth time, in addition to two medical stores in Husan village, west of the city.
Local sources said the army forces escorted bulldozers into the village and destroyed the carwash that belongs to Feras Sabri Shushe, claiming it was not licensed.
The army bulldozers also demolished a two-story medical store belonging to Ishaq Hamamreh, the sources added.
Army Demolishes A Carwash Facility, Two Sanitary Storage Rooms, In Bethlehem
Several armored Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers invaded, earlier on Monday at dawn, the town of Husan, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and demolished a car-wash structure, and two warehouses used for storing sanitary supplies.
Taha Hamamra, a local nonviolent activist of the Popular Resistance Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Husan, said several armored army vehicles and bulldozers invaded the al-Mashahed area, west of the town, and demolished a carwash structure belonging to resident Firas Sabri Shousha.
The army alleged the structure was installed without a permit from the “Civil Administration Office,” run by the military in the occupied West Bank.
Hamamra added that the army previously demolished the facility three times, under the same pretenses.
In addition, soldiers demolished a warehouse for sanitary products, owned by Ishaq Hamamra, after forcing him to empty it.
Battir village
Palestinian villagers from Battir, in the southern part of the West Bank, declared a victory on Sunday in their struggle to save their village from annexation by Israeli forces for the construction of the Wall through the town.
Battir has been the site of non-violent protests and resistance to the Israeli Wall, along with a number of other West Bank villages, which have held weekly non-violent protests for over a decade to try to stop the continuous Israeli expansion and the construction of the Wall on their land.
In Sunday's decision, the Israeli High Court rejected the most recent directive by the Israeli military that ordered the further annexation of village land for the construction of the Wall. Battir is located on the site of an ancient Roman-era irrigation system which is still used by the farmers from the village for the irrigation of their crops.
It is a World Heritage Site, recognized by the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2014 as an 'endangered heritage site'.
In 2012, an Israeli government agency recognized the imminent danger to the historic town, and called for a re-routing of the Wall. In an article by Jillian Kestler-D'Amour in the Electronic Intifada at the time, "For the first time, an Israeli state agency expressed opposition to the route of the wall. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) reportedly withdrew its support due to the damage the wall would cause to the landscape and local wildlife, and to Palestinian residents of Battir. 'No matter how narrow the route of the fence, it will be a foreign engineering element in the heart of the agricultural terraces, and separate the village from its lands among which are plots irrigated by spring water,' the INPA wrote in a letter to the Israeli defense ministry."
According to Akram Badir, the head of Battir's local council, the High Court on Sunday "signed a final decision rejecting a request by the Israeli army to build a section of the annexation wall in the village."
Badir told reporters from the Ma'an News Agency that, "To make any changes to the decision, the Israeli occupation will have to start new procedures from scratch that will take several years. This triumph in Battir is a victory for Palestine as whole."
Around 5,000 Palestinians live in Battir, which is located west of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. It is a farming village which is located in 'Area C', which refers to Palestinian land that was supposed to be transferred back to full Palestinian control by 1998, according to the Oslo Accords, but which was never transferred back and remains under full Israeli military and civil control.
Palestinian villagers from Battir, in the southern part of the West Bank, declared a victory on Sunday in their struggle to save their village from annexation by Israeli forces for the construction of the Wall through the town.
Battir has been the site of non-violent protests and resistance to the Israeli Wall, along with a number of other West Bank villages, which have held weekly non-violent protests for over a decade to try to stop the continuous Israeli expansion and the construction of the Wall on their land.
In Sunday's decision, the Israeli High Court rejected the most recent directive by the Israeli military that ordered the further annexation of village land for the construction of the Wall. Battir is located on the site of an ancient Roman-era irrigation system which is still used by the farmers from the village for the irrigation of their crops.
It is a World Heritage Site, recognized by the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2014 as an 'endangered heritage site'.
In 2012, an Israeli government agency recognized the imminent danger to the historic town, and called for a re-routing of the Wall. In an article by Jillian Kestler-D'Amour in the Electronic Intifada at the time, "For the first time, an Israeli state agency expressed opposition to the route of the wall. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) reportedly withdrew its support due to the damage the wall would cause to the landscape and local wildlife, and to Palestinian residents of Battir. 'No matter how narrow the route of the fence, it will be a foreign engineering element in the heart of the agricultural terraces, and separate the village from its lands among which are plots irrigated by spring water,' the INPA wrote in a letter to the Israeli defense ministry."
According to Akram Badir, the head of Battir's local council, the High Court on Sunday "signed a final decision rejecting a request by the Israeli army to build a section of the annexation wall in the village."
Badir told reporters from the Ma'an News Agency that, "To make any changes to the decision, the Israeli occupation will have to start new procedures from scratch that will take several years. This triumph in Battir is a victory for Palestine as whole."
Around 5,000 Palestinians live in Battir, which is located west of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank. It is a farming village which is located in 'Area C', which refers to Palestinian land that was supposed to be transferred back to full Palestinian control by 1998, according to the Oslo Accords, but which was never transferred back and remains under full Israeli military and civil control.
Israel orders removal of commercial and agricultural structures in Idhna
Israeli authorities, Sunday, abducted at least five Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank district of Bethlehem, according to reports by local and security sources.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police invaded the Old City neighborhood and arrested three Palestinians, WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency reports. They were identified as Mahmoud Teryaki, Abdullah Abu Diab and Ahmad Za’anin.
The three were led to the Russian Compound detention center, in Jerusalem, for interrogation.
Meanwhile, the army stormed the village of Taqu, east of Bethlehem, where they arrested 18-year-old Mohammad Asakrah and 20-year-old Mohammad Sabah, after raiding their homes and damaging their furniture.
Forces also stormed Bethlehem city, serving Ismail Nabahin, 36, with a notification to appear before Israeli intelligence in the nearby Gush Etzion military compound.
In the Hebron city neighborhood of Jabal Jawhar, 18-year-old Haitham al-Rajabi was injured by live Israeli fire during confrontations.
According to Ma'an News Agency, a security guard for the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arbaa shot al-Rajabi during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in the Jabal Juhur neighborhood.
The youth was taken to al-Ahli hospital for treatment.
To the west of Hebron, on Sunday, Israeli authorities served local residents of Idhna village with notices to remove four Palestinian-owned commercial and agricultural structures in the village, according to local sources.
The village is located in Area C, under full Israeli military and administrative control, where issuance of construction permits is strictly limited, forcing many to attempt building without obtaining a permit.
A 1997 agreement split Hebron into areas of Palestinian and Israeli control.
The incident is not the first of its kind in recent months, WAFA further reports, as Israel has repeatedly targeted farmers in the villages by either issuing demolition orders or closing roads to prevent farmers from accessing their land.
In September, Israeli forces closed agricultural roads, which are the linking point between Idhna’s farmers and their lands. Such measures deny Palestinian farmers their right to free movement and access to their property.
Over 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
Israeli authorities, Sunday, abducted at least five Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank district of Bethlehem, according to reports by local and security sources.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police invaded the Old City neighborhood and arrested three Palestinians, WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency reports. They were identified as Mahmoud Teryaki, Abdullah Abu Diab and Ahmad Za’anin.
The three were led to the Russian Compound detention center, in Jerusalem, for interrogation.
Meanwhile, the army stormed the village of Taqu, east of Bethlehem, where they arrested 18-year-old Mohammad Asakrah and 20-year-old Mohammad Sabah, after raiding their homes and damaging their furniture.
Forces also stormed Bethlehem city, serving Ismail Nabahin, 36, with a notification to appear before Israeli intelligence in the nearby Gush Etzion military compound.
In the Hebron city neighborhood of Jabal Jawhar, 18-year-old Haitham al-Rajabi was injured by live Israeli fire during confrontations.
According to Ma'an News Agency, a security guard for the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arbaa shot al-Rajabi during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops in the Jabal Juhur neighborhood.
The youth was taken to al-Ahli hospital for treatment.
To the west of Hebron, on Sunday, Israeli authorities served local residents of Idhna village with notices to remove four Palestinian-owned commercial and agricultural structures in the village, according to local sources.
The village is located in Area C, under full Israeli military and administrative control, where issuance of construction permits is strictly limited, forcing many to attempt building without obtaining a permit.
A 1997 agreement split Hebron into areas of Palestinian and Israeli control.
The incident is not the first of its kind in recent months, WAFA further reports, as Israel has repeatedly targeted farmers in the villages by either issuing demolition orders or closing roads to prevent farmers from accessing their land.
In September, Israeli forces closed agricultural roads, which are the linking point between Idhna’s farmers and their lands. Such measures deny Palestinian farmers their right to free movement and access to their property.
Over 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
3 jan 2015
The Popular Campaign against the Wall and Settlement organized, in collaboration with many Palestinian formal and informal organizations, an event for planting olive trees in Palestinian lands threatened with confiscation by Israeli Occupation Authority south of Nablus city.
The campaign said, in a press release on Saturday, that the event included planting dozens of olive trees in al-Tawil hamlet near Aqraba village, close to the city.
The event coincided with the 114th anniversary of the establishment of the so-called Jewish National Fund that was found to facilitate seizing Palestinian territories for settlement construction purposes.
The Jewish National Fund works in more than 50 countries around the world under the cover of charity associations working on funding the settlement drive in 1967 occupied territories in addition to obliterating the landmarks of Palestinian villages, which were destroyed in 1948.
The campaign said, in a press release on Saturday, that the event included planting dozens of olive trees in al-Tawil hamlet near Aqraba village, close to the city.
The event coincided with the 114th anniversary of the establishment of the so-called Jewish National Fund that was found to facilitate seizing Palestinian territories for settlement construction purposes.
The Jewish National Fund works in more than 50 countries around the world under the cover of charity associations working on funding the settlement drive in 1967 occupied territories in addition to obliterating the landmarks of Palestinian villages, which were destroyed in 1948.
1 jan 2015
Israeli army bulldozers razed a new park bearing the name of Martyr Ziyad Abu Ain in Atouf village of Tubas to the north of the West Bank on Thursday.
According to the head of the village council, Bashar Bani Odeh, the park was opened on Thursday after being planted with trees.
Israeli occupation forces along with bulldozers and heavy vehicles stormed the park, damaged the plants, washed away the soil and detained the workers, Bani Odeh added.
Atouf is a small village in Tubas, home to people who depend on agriculture and livestock breeding for income.
The village also has sustained the harassment of the occupation army, which continuous to grab Palestinian land in the region and displace its owners under the pretext of being a closed military area.
According to the head of the village council, Bashar Bani Odeh, the park was opened on Thursday after being planted with trees.
Israeli occupation forces along with bulldozers and heavy vehicles stormed the park, damaged the plants, washed away the soil and detained the workers, Bani Odeh added.
Atouf is a small village in Tubas, home to people who depend on agriculture and livestock breeding for income.
The village also has sustained the harassment of the occupation army, which continuous to grab Palestinian land in the region and displace its owners under the pretext of being a closed military area.
Israeli army forces demolished Thursday noon Um al-Jamal small Bedouin village to the east of Tubas in Northern Jordan Valley, witnesses reported.
They said a big number of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the hamlet and razed all Bedouin homes leaving them homeless.
Mohammad Daraghmeh, a resident of the village, told the PIC reporter that the Israeli army bulldozers razed dozens of people’s stockyards and tents and asked them to leave the area before being announcing it a closed military zone in which they are prohibited to access.
The IOF had earlier served them notifications, on the second day of Eid Al-Adha, to evacuate their homes, Daraghmeh said, adding the inhabitants’ facilities were demolished a month ago and now the IOF came back and razed their houses and displaced its inhabitants. He noted that the inhabitants largely depend on rearing cattle.
Another resident Ali al-Kaabneh, whose stockyard was demolished more than once, said he will not leave in spite of repeatedly ruining his stockyard.
For his part, Aref Daraghmeh, head of Wadi al-Maleh and Bedouin council, said in a press release on Thursday that more than 25 facilities housing Bedouin families were entirely razed. They consist of tents for people and others for cattle belonging to Bedouins living in the village for decades.
Um al-Jamal hamlet is located in Wadi al-Maleh specifically 12 kilometers east of Tubas city where people of al-Kaabneh clan, displaced in 1948 from Beersheba south of Palestine, currently live. They rear cattle as the sole income source and live under primitive conditions.
They said a big number of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the hamlet and razed all Bedouin homes leaving them homeless.
Mohammad Daraghmeh, a resident of the village, told the PIC reporter that the Israeli army bulldozers razed dozens of people’s stockyards and tents and asked them to leave the area before being announcing it a closed military zone in which they are prohibited to access.
The IOF had earlier served them notifications, on the second day of Eid Al-Adha, to evacuate their homes, Daraghmeh said, adding the inhabitants’ facilities were demolished a month ago and now the IOF came back and razed their houses and displaced its inhabitants. He noted that the inhabitants largely depend on rearing cattle.
Another resident Ali al-Kaabneh, whose stockyard was demolished more than once, said he will not leave in spite of repeatedly ruining his stockyard.
For his part, Aref Daraghmeh, head of Wadi al-Maleh and Bedouin council, said in a press release on Thursday that more than 25 facilities housing Bedouin families were entirely razed. They consist of tents for people and others for cattle belonging to Bedouins living in the village for decades.
Um al-Jamal hamlet is located in Wadi al-Maleh specifically 12 kilometers east of Tubas city where people of al-Kaabneh clan, displaced in 1948 from Beersheba south of Palestine, currently live. They rear cattle as the sole income source and live under primitive conditions.
The Israeli Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon turned down appeals to stop the demolition of three Palestinian family homes in Occupied Jerusalem.
A petition was brought before the Israeli Supreme Court by the HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual on 26 November, 2014 to call off the demolition orders after an earlier petition to that end had been rejected by the District Court.
Lawyer of the Akari family, Midhat Diba, said the Israeli occupation war ministry clung to the demolition issue as a collective punishment policy that coincides with the mounting Israeli vandalism and violence against Palestinians.
The demolition issue targeting al-Akari’s family home was allegedly founded on a set of “inciting” statements released by the martyr’s brother, Mansour, he added.
The lawyer said the order was based on the 1945 Emergency Regulations, which gave Israel’s war ministry the green light to step up such demolitions especially in Occupied Jerusalem.
An annual report released by al-Maqdisi Foundation documented the demolition of 1342 structures east of Occupied Jerusalem city between 2000 and 2014, 112 among which were knocked down in 2014.
Over 5760 Palestinians, including 1506 women and 3031 children, have gone homeless after their residential shelters had been reduced to rubble by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA).
The institution raised alarm bells over the psycho-social impacts of Israel’s demolition processes, dubbing such a policy a crime against humanity and an oppressive measure that flouts the maxims of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
A petition was brought before the Israeli Supreme Court by the HaMoked Center for the Defense of the Individual on 26 November, 2014 to call off the demolition orders after an earlier petition to that end had been rejected by the District Court.
Lawyer of the Akari family, Midhat Diba, said the Israeli occupation war ministry clung to the demolition issue as a collective punishment policy that coincides with the mounting Israeli vandalism and violence against Palestinians.
The demolition issue targeting al-Akari’s family home was allegedly founded on a set of “inciting” statements released by the martyr’s brother, Mansour, he added.
The lawyer said the order was based on the 1945 Emergency Regulations, which gave Israel’s war ministry the green light to step up such demolitions especially in Occupied Jerusalem.
An annual report released by al-Maqdisi Foundation documented the demolition of 1342 structures east of Occupied Jerusalem city between 2000 and 2014, 112 among which were knocked down in 2014.
Over 5760 Palestinians, including 1506 women and 3031 children, have gone homeless after their residential shelters had been reduced to rubble by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA).
The institution raised alarm bells over the psycho-social impacts of Israel’s demolition processes, dubbing such a policy a crime against humanity and an oppressive measure that flouts the maxims of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The Israeli occupation army on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian home in al-Khalil and displaced its residents at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Quds Press quoted a member of the national committee against settlement activities in Yatta town as saying that a bulldozer belonging to the civil administration of the Israeli army removed a tent in al-Mafqara area near the illegal settlement of Ma'on in Yatta, south of al-Khalil.
Qasem Hamamdeh and seven members of his family were living in that tent and now all of them became homeless on their own land.
In a separate incident, the civil administration also issued demolition orders against three business facilities used for scrap metal trade in Idna town, west of al-Khalil, claiming they were built with no license.
Palestinian municipal sources in the town noted the facilities were built over 10 years ago.
Quds Press quoted a member of the national committee against settlement activities in Yatta town as saying that a bulldozer belonging to the civil administration of the Israeli army removed a tent in al-Mafqara area near the illegal settlement of Ma'on in Yatta, south of al-Khalil.
Qasem Hamamdeh and seven members of his family were living in that tent and now all of them became homeless on their own land.
In a separate incident, the civil administration also issued demolition orders against three business facilities used for scrap metal trade in Idna town, west of al-Khalil, claiming they were built with no license.
Palestinian municipal sources in the town noted the facilities were built over 10 years ago.
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