29 jan 2015
Israeli bulldozers, on Thursday, destroyed a water pipe being used in connecting the West Tubas district's Atoof village with Khirbet Yezra, in the northern Jordan Valley.
Head of Al-Maleh local council, Aaref Daraghmeh, said that the pipe had length of 1,000 meters, and was donated by Agricultural Relief to provide the residents of Yezra with water, since the area has no water sources.
According to the PNN, Dr. Hanna Issa, professor and expert on international law, strongly condemned the action, saying that occupation authorities provide settlers with water, while depriving Palestinians of their own sources.
Settlers in the occupied West Bank reportedly get an unlimited supply of water amounting to about four times more than Palestinians' consumption of water.
Issa added that occupation authorities consume about 80% of the mutual water wells, despite the fact that 80-95% of them are located in Palestinian areas, pointing out that this is water theft, and in contravention of international law.
Issa also stressed that Israel has continuously implemented a policy of displacing Palestinians, separating them from homes near water sources.
Israel also prevents Palestinians from digging wells without military permission, while giving privilege to all illegal settlers.
Issa reiterated that Israel was an occupying power and had no sovereignty to tamper with water sources, according to the fourth Geneva convention.
He also demanded Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian land, according to UN Resolution 242 (1967) and Resolution 338 (1973).
Head of Al-Maleh local council, Aaref Daraghmeh, said that the pipe had length of 1,000 meters, and was donated by Agricultural Relief to provide the residents of Yezra with water, since the area has no water sources.
According to the PNN, Dr. Hanna Issa, professor and expert on international law, strongly condemned the action, saying that occupation authorities provide settlers with water, while depriving Palestinians of their own sources.
Settlers in the occupied West Bank reportedly get an unlimited supply of water amounting to about four times more than Palestinians' consumption of water.
Issa added that occupation authorities consume about 80% of the mutual water wells, despite the fact that 80-95% of them are located in Palestinian areas, pointing out that this is water theft, and in contravention of international law.
Issa also stressed that Israel has continuously implemented a policy of displacing Palestinians, separating them from homes near water sources.
Israel also prevents Palestinians from digging wells without military permission, while giving privilege to all illegal settlers.
Issa reiterated that Israel was an occupying power and had no sovereignty to tamper with water sources, according to the fourth Geneva convention.
He also demanded Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian land, according to UN Resolution 242 (1967) and Resolution 338 (1973).
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) demolished Thursday a Palestinian-owned shed in Idna town to the west of al-Khalil.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces using military bulldozers started since the early morning hours demolishing a 1,000 square meters shed belonging to a Palestinian farmer under the pretext of being built without permit.
A mobile home was also demolished in a nearby area in the town, the sources added.
Dozens of homes and agricultural facilities were threatened with demolition for being located in area C, the largest division in the West Bank comprising 60 percent of the territory which is under full Israeli control.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces using military bulldozers started since the early morning hours demolishing a 1,000 square meters shed belonging to a Palestinian farmer under the pretext of being built without permit.
A mobile home was also demolished in a nearby area in the town, the sources added.
Dozens of homes and agricultural facilities were threatened with demolition for being located in area C, the largest division in the West Bank comprising 60 percent of the territory which is under full Israeli control.
28 jan 2015
The Israeli military forced 19 Palestinian families to leave Khirbet Bzik village, near Tubas, on Tuesday morning, under the pretext of carrying out military exercises for two consecutive days.
Local sources reported that more than 100 of the residents were forced to evacuate their houses in the morning hours, as a result of the military carrying out exercises between the houses, Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency reports.
The military was apparently impervious to the danger imposed to some 60 children in the neighborhood, in the case that any of the devices exploded.
Israeli forces also destroyed a number of houses and tents owned by the family of Salem Ektefiat, from the Daba' region, near Jericho.
The Daba' incident involved seven families of Jahalin Bedouin whom the military expelled from inside the green line, in the Arad area, after destroying their houses last year.
See also: 09/04/13 Israeli military rules that mock attacks in Palestinian villages are acceptable
Local sources reported that more than 100 of the residents were forced to evacuate their houses in the morning hours, as a result of the military carrying out exercises between the houses, Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency reports.
The military was apparently impervious to the danger imposed to some 60 children in the neighborhood, in the case that any of the devices exploded.
Israeli forces also destroyed a number of houses and tents owned by the family of Salem Ektefiat, from the Daba' region, near Jericho.
The Daba' incident involved seven families of Jahalin Bedouin whom the military expelled from inside the green line, in the Arad area, after destroying their houses last year.
See also: 09/04/13 Israeli military rules that mock attacks in Palestinian villages are acceptable
According to Haaretz, the head of the Israeli army's Central Command, Nitzan Alon, has appointed an officer to investigate how West Bank Civil Administration turned over lands worth millions of shekels to the Samaria Development Company, despite an explicit order not to do so.
2,400 dunams of West Bank Palestinian land were slated to become an industrial park, just across the Green Line from Rosh Ha'ayin settlement, in the northern occupied West Bank.
PNN reports that the park's establishment has been delayed for years by a three-way dispute between the Samaria Regional Council and the Elkana and Oranit settlements, over control of the highly valued property. Whichever locality controls it will get tens of millions of shekels in development fees and municipal taxes.
Israeli sources claim that Alon had no intention to transfer the land, and will open a probe to find out who signed the documents transferring responsibility for planning to the Samaria Development Company.
Essentially, this means land worth millions of shekels was allocated without a tender and, allegedly, behind Alon's back.
The company is jointly owned by the Samaria Regional Council and the settlements under its jurisdiction. It is headed by Gershon Mesika, who is also chairman of the Samaria Regional Council and a Likud party activist.
Alon reportedly discovered the land allocation by chance and decided to appoint Colonel Uri Mendes to investigate how it happened. The investigation is still in progress, but Haaretz has learned that Defense Ministry officials were apparently involved in the allocation.
Yesterday, Elkana Mayor Asaf Mintzer sent a letter to all the settlements' residents, welcoming Alon's decision to cancel the land allocation.
IOA illegally transfers 2400 Dunums of Qalqilya land to settlers
Haaretz Hebrew newspaper said on Wednesday that the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank transferred the responsibility over planning 2400 dunums of Palestinian land worth millions of shekels to the Samaria Development Company.
The Hebrew newspaper said the 2,400 dunums to be confiscated are located in northern Qalqilya near the Green Line close to Ras al-Ain.
The company plans to establish an industrial zone that would employ Palestinians at cheap wages.
Haaretz reported the establishment of the industrial zone has been planned for years, but the implementation was delayed. The delay was due to a three-way dispute between the Samaria Regional Council and the settlements Elkana and Oranit over control of the Palestinian lucrative property which will yield tens of millions of shekels.
Oranit and the Samaria Regional Council decided to split control of the site evenly while excluding Elkana.
2,400 dunams of West Bank Palestinian land were slated to become an industrial park, just across the Green Line from Rosh Ha'ayin settlement, in the northern occupied West Bank.
PNN reports that the park's establishment has been delayed for years by a three-way dispute between the Samaria Regional Council and the Elkana and Oranit settlements, over control of the highly valued property. Whichever locality controls it will get tens of millions of shekels in development fees and municipal taxes.
Israeli sources claim that Alon had no intention to transfer the land, and will open a probe to find out who signed the documents transferring responsibility for planning to the Samaria Development Company.
Essentially, this means land worth millions of shekels was allocated without a tender and, allegedly, behind Alon's back.
The company is jointly owned by the Samaria Regional Council and the settlements under its jurisdiction. It is headed by Gershon Mesika, who is also chairman of the Samaria Regional Council and a Likud party activist.
Alon reportedly discovered the land allocation by chance and decided to appoint Colonel Uri Mendes to investigate how it happened. The investigation is still in progress, but Haaretz has learned that Defense Ministry officials were apparently involved in the allocation.
Yesterday, Elkana Mayor Asaf Mintzer sent a letter to all the settlements' residents, welcoming Alon's decision to cancel the land allocation.
IOA illegally transfers 2400 Dunums of Qalqilya land to settlers
Haaretz Hebrew newspaper said on Wednesday that the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank transferred the responsibility over planning 2400 dunums of Palestinian land worth millions of shekels to the Samaria Development Company.
The Hebrew newspaper said the 2,400 dunums to be confiscated are located in northern Qalqilya near the Green Line close to Ras al-Ain.
The company plans to establish an industrial zone that would employ Palestinians at cheap wages.
Haaretz reported the establishment of the industrial zone has been planned for years, but the implementation was delayed. The delay was due to a three-way dispute between the Samaria Regional Council and the settlements Elkana and Oranit over control of the Palestinian lucrative property which will yield tens of millions of shekels.
Oranit and the Samaria Regional Council decided to split control of the site evenly while excluding Elkana.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) issued a military order to confiscate more than 500 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Beit Ula to the west of al-Khalil, coordinator of the popular committee against settlement Issa Umla said on Tuesday.
Umla revealed that an Israeli court has recently issued the confiscation order at the expense of Palestinian agricultural lands adjacent to the separation wall.
He pointed out that the agricultural land has been targeted by Israeli forces along the past 20 years under the pretext of being located in area C, the part of West Bank under full Israeli control according to Oslo accords.
“Contacts are being currently made with a number of human rights institutions and lawyers to stop the catastrophic confiscation order which paves the way for more Palestinian land grab in Area C,” he said.
For his part, MP Qais Abdul Karim Abu Leila, member of the politburo of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, described the confiscation order as “part of the Israeli extremist right-wing government’s war against our people.”
Israeli courts are only tools to suppress our people and confiscate their lands, he said.
Abu Leila pointed out that it is not the first time when Israeli authorities resort to courts in order to confiscate more Palestinian lands in favor of settlement expansion.
Israel systematically works at seizing Palestinian lands for establishing more settlement units and to expand the already built settlements at the expense of Palestinian-owned lands in total violation of international laws and resolutions, he added.
He called on human rights institutions and the international community to put an end to Israeli continued violations and confiscation policy.
Umla revealed that an Israeli court has recently issued the confiscation order at the expense of Palestinian agricultural lands adjacent to the separation wall.
He pointed out that the agricultural land has been targeted by Israeli forces along the past 20 years under the pretext of being located in area C, the part of West Bank under full Israeli control according to Oslo accords.
“Contacts are being currently made with a number of human rights institutions and lawyers to stop the catastrophic confiscation order which paves the way for more Palestinian land grab in Area C,” he said.
For his part, MP Qais Abdul Karim Abu Leila, member of the politburo of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, described the confiscation order as “part of the Israeli extremist right-wing government’s war against our people.”
Israeli courts are only tools to suppress our people and confiscate their lands, he said.
Abu Leila pointed out that it is not the first time when Israeli authorities resort to courts in order to confiscate more Palestinian lands in favor of settlement expansion.
Israel systematically works at seizing Palestinian lands for establishing more settlement units and to expand the already built settlements at the expense of Palestinian-owned lands in total violation of international laws and resolutions, he added.
He called on human rights institutions and the international community to put an end to Israeli continued violations and confiscation policy.
27 jan 2015
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Palestine
It has been repeatedly claimed that Anti-Semitism is the other side of Zionism. In fact, this claim contains a preponderant amount of truth.
Zionism can't survive without anti-Semitism, or hate of Jews. Zionism and anti-Semitism are inextricably entwined. Anti-Semitism is a sine-qua-non for the survival and prosperity of Zionism.
Anti-Semitism strengthens and justifies Zionism and constantly renews its life. Indeed, the erosion, let alone demise of anti-Semitism, would pose a serious threat to Zionism.
This is why, Zionist leaders strive to keep up a certain level of anti-Semitism alive and kicking, especially in Europe. In the words of one Zionist leader, the survival of anti-Semitism reminds Jews of who they are and prevents assimilation.
An elderly friend of mine intimated to me a few years ago that a Jewish mother in Hebron used to give Arab kids inducements, e.g. a little money, to hurt and curse her own kids.
"I didn't understand the logic behind her behavior until I grew up," said my elderly friend from Hebron. "She wanted to make her kids feel hated and resented by non-Jews which would bolster their Jewish identity."
Today, Israel's evil behaviors, such as murdering Palestinian civilians, including children, in large numbers by way of dropping huge bombs on their multi-story apartment buildings, do generate indignation and resentment around the world.
But it would be a scandalous abuse of language and misrepresentation of truth to call the indignation and resentment an expression of anti-Semitism.
In the final analysis, people don't hate Israel because Israel is Jewish, whatever "Jewish" is supposed to mean.
The plain truth which Israel is doggedly trying to withhold from the eyes of humanity is that people around the world, including Israel's premier victims, the Palestinians, don't hate Israel because Israel is Jewish. They rather despise Israel's manifestly murderous behavior.
Indeed, when Jews or Arabs or anyone else, think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, then the harshest epithets can be used to describe them. This is not anti-Arab or anti-Jewish or anti-Martian. This is simply telling the truth, it is calling the spade a spade.
I have been more or less a vigilant observer of Israeli behavior since I was a little boy. And in all honesty, I can say that Israel adopts a modus operandi based on mendacity, prevarication and disinformation as well as murder and terror.
Today Israel is effectively telling Europe to unhesitatingly back and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a proof of European resolve against anti-Semitism. Israel would simply like to morph Europe into a full-fledged political whore, very much like the American Congress, which is at Israel's beck and call. Israel wants to eviscerate Europe of any remaining vestiges of morality, humanity, decency, justice and honesty.
This is nothing short of scandalous and criminal. Europe must not allow itself to be duped by the Jewish Golem to fall into the bottomless pit.
Needless to say, an ethnic cleansing of a given people is nothing short of a holocaust against that people. Hence, Israel is effectively demanding that Europe give Israel a green light to complete its decades-old holocaust against the Palestinians so that Europe would finally atone for its own crimes against Jews.
And in case Europe said "No" to Israel's bullying and incessant demands, then the barking dogs of Israeli hasbara-from Sydney to California, would, in unison, accuse the Old Continent of harboring venomous anti-Semitism, succumbing to "Islamic terror" and even "wanting to complete what Hitler started."
To be sure, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of racism and bigotry, including this wanton hatred for Muslims, ought to be condemned without ifs or buts.
However, employing "anti-Semitism" to justify ethnic cleansing and other forms of pornographic oppression meted out to helpless and unprotected Palestinians must be viewed as an expression of malicious and criminal intent.
That is why European states, including governments and parliaments, must forcefully reject this hateful blackmail by the Nazis of our time.
(I know many people might think it is too much to describe some Jews as Nazis. But I am not alluding to Jews who want to live and let live. These are our natural partners for peace and I salute them from my heart.)
I am actually alluding to the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu who don't stop shouting "Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen Belsen, and Mauthausen" while mercilessly murdering Palestinian children in the thousands, starving and tormenting innocent civilians and destroying their homes.
I am really convinced Israel is a cancer on the conscience of Moses, the Torah and Judaism…not the Judaism of Naftali Bennet and Meir Kahana, but the Judaism of the Prophets and the Ten Commandments.
It has been repeatedly claimed that Anti-Semitism is the other side of Zionism. In fact, this claim contains a preponderant amount of truth.
Zionism can't survive without anti-Semitism, or hate of Jews. Zionism and anti-Semitism are inextricably entwined. Anti-Semitism is a sine-qua-non for the survival and prosperity of Zionism.
Anti-Semitism strengthens and justifies Zionism and constantly renews its life. Indeed, the erosion, let alone demise of anti-Semitism, would pose a serious threat to Zionism.
This is why, Zionist leaders strive to keep up a certain level of anti-Semitism alive and kicking, especially in Europe. In the words of one Zionist leader, the survival of anti-Semitism reminds Jews of who they are and prevents assimilation.
An elderly friend of mine intimated to me a few years ago that a Jewish mother in Hebron used to give Arab kids inducements, e.g. a little money, to hurt and curse her own kids.
"I didn't understand the logic behind her behavior until I grew up," said my elderly friend from Hebron. "She wanted to make her kids feel hated and resented by non-Jews which would bolster their Jewish identity."
Today, Israel's evil behaviors, such as murdering Palestinian civilians, including children, in large numbers by way of dropping huge bombs on their multi-story apartment buildings, do generate indignation and resentment around the world.
But it would be a scandalous abuse of language and misrepresentation of truth to call the indignation and resentment an expression of anti-Semitism.
In the final analysis, people don't hate Israel because Israel is Jewish, whatever "Jewish" is supposed to mean.
The plain truth which Israel is doggedly trying to withhold from the eyes of humanity is that people around the world, including Israel's premier victims, the Palestinians, don't hate Israel because Israel is Jewish. They rather despise Israel's manifestly murderous behavior.
Indeed, when Jews or Arabs or anyone else, think, behave and act like the Nazis thought, behaved and acted, then the harshest epithets can be used to describe them. This is not anti-Arab or anti-Jewish or anti-Martian. This is simply telling the truth, it is calling the spade a spade.
I have been more or less a vigilant observer of Israeli behavior since I was a little boy. And in all honesty, I can say that Israel adopts a modus operandi based on mendacity, prevarication and disinformation as well as murder and terror.
Today Israel is effectively telling Europe to unhesitatingly back and support the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as a proof of European resolve against anti-Semitism. Israel would simply like to morph Europe into a full-fledged political whore, very much like the American Congress, which is at Israel's beck and call. Israel wants to eviscerate Europe of any remaining vestiges of morality, humanity, decency, justice and honesty.
This is nothing short of scandalous and criminal. Europe must not allow itself to be duped by the Jewish Golem to fall into the bottomless pit.
Needless to say, an ethnic cleansing of a given people is nothing short of a holocaust against that people. Hence, Israel is effectively demanding that Europe give Israel a green light to complete its decades-old holocaust against the Palestinians so that Europe would finally atone for its own crimes against Jews.
And in case Europe said "No" to Israel's bullying and incessant demands, then the barking dogs of Israeli hasbara-from Sydney to California, would, in unison, accuse the Old Continent of harboring venomous anti-Semitism, succumbing to "Islamic terror" and even "wanting to complete what Hitler started."
To be sure, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of racism and bigotry, including this wanton hatred for Muslims, ought to be condemned without ifs or buts.
However, employing "anti-Semitism" to justify ethnic cleansing and other forms of pornographic oppression meted out to helpless and unprotected Palestinians must be viewed as an expression of malicious and criminal intent.
That is why European states, including governments and parliaments, must forcefully reject this hateful blackmail by the Nazis of our time.
(I know many people might think it is too much to describe some Jews as Nazis. But I am not alluding to Jews who want to live and let live. These are our natural partners for peace and I salute them from my heart.)
I am actually alluding to the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu who don't stop shouting "Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen Belsen, and Mauthausen" while mercilessly murdering Palestinian children in the thousands, starving and tormenting innocent civilians and destroying their homes.
I am really convinced Israel is a cancer on the conscience of Moses, the Torah and Judaism…not the Judaism of Naftali Bennet and Meir Kahana, but the Judaism of the Prophets and the Ten Commandments.
Israeli authorities, Tuesday, notified local residents of At-Tabban, a small village to the south of Hebron, of demolition orders for two animal barns and a residential facility in the village.
Rateb Jabour, of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Hebron, said an Israeli army force broke into the village and served notices to Nasser Abul-Abed and Samir Hamamdah, two local residents, informing them that the said structures would be demolished in a week.
Jabour said that more than 120 similar notices -- in which the demolition of Palestinian-owned animal barns, residential structures, tents, fodder warehouses and water tanks were included -- were handed to local villagers last year alone.
Such demolitions are frequently carried out by the Israeli army and the Israeli Civil Administration in Area C, which is under full Israeli control despite being in the West Bank, on unpermitted construction pretences.
Issuance of construction permits for Palestinians living in Area C, under full Israeli administrative and military control, is strictly limited, forcing Palestinians residing in such areas to construct without obtaining the necessary permits.
Area C, teeming with Israeli settlements and outposts, makes up 60% of the total area of the West Bank, making the chance of a viable Palestinian state near to impossible.
In realted news, Ma'an News Agency reports that Israeli forces have confiscated hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land in Beit Ula town, northwestern Hebron, under the pretext that the property is "state land."
An Israeli court issued an order, earlier in January, for the confiscation of hundreds of dunams in the al-Mekhath and Attus areas of Beit Ula, to "Judaize" Area C and empty it from its original residents, coordinator of a local popular committee, Issa al-Emla, said.
Al-Emla added that owners of these lands have farmed them and resided on them since the Ottoman era, and that Israel started raiding and razing the lands in 1982, in preparation for seizing them.
In addition that Israel was executing its plans to take over Area C, which is around 60 percent of the West Bank.
The confiscated lands belong to Usama Abu Nasir, Farid al-Latif Atrash al-Emla, Ahmad Abd al-Rahim al-Emla, Hamdi Abd al-Muti al-Emla, Harbi Abd al-Muti al-Emla, Muhammad Khalil Abd al-Aziz al-Emla, Issa Abd al-Hafez al-Emla and Fares Wahid Abd al-Aziz al-Emla.
Rateb Jabour, of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Hebron, said an Israeli army force broke into the village and served notices to Nasser Abul-Abed and Samir Hamamdah, two local residents, informing them that the said structures would be demolished in a week.
Jabour said that more than 120 similar notices -- in which the demolition of Palestinian-owned animal barns, residential structures, tents, fodder warehouses and water tanks were included -- were handed to local villagers last year alone.
Such demolitions are frequently carried out by the Israeli army and the Israeli Civil Administration in Area C, which is under full Israeli control despite being in the West Bank, on unpermitted construction pretences.
Issuance of construction permits for Palestinians living in Area C, under full Israeli administrative and military control, is strictly limited, forcing Palestinians residing in such areas to construct without obtaining the necessary permits.
Area C, teeming with Israeli settlements and outposts, makes up 60% of the total area of the West Bank, making the chance of a viable Palestinian state near to impossible.
In realted news, Ma'an News Agency reports that Israeli forces have confiscated hundreds of dunams of Palestinian land in Beit Ula town, northwestern Hebron, under the pretext that the property is "state land."
An Israeli court issued an order, earlier in January, for the confiscation of hundreds of dunams in the al-Mekhath and Attus areas of Beit Ula, to "Judaize" Area C and empty it from its original residents, coordinator of a local popular committee, Issa al-Emla, said.
Al-Emla added that owners of these lands have farmed them and resided on them since the Ottoman era, and that Israel started raiding and razing the lands in 1982, in preparation for seizing them.
In addition that Israel was executing its plans to take over Area C, which is around 60 percent of the West Bank.
The confiscated lands belong to Usama Abu Nasir, Farid al-Latif Atrash al-Emla, Ahmad Abd al-Rahim al-Emla, Hamdi Abd al-Muti al-Emla, Harbi Abd al-Muti al-Emla, Muhammad Khalil Abd al-Aziz al-Emla, Issa Abd al-Hafez al-Emla and Fares Wahid Abd al-Aziz al-Emla.
Hebrew sources disclosed an Israeli plan to encourage 120 thousand French Jews to come and settle in West Bank settlements within the coming four years.
Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Sofa Landver, presented a plan to the Israeli government called “National Emergency Plan to Bring French Jews to Israel”.
The Hebrew sources said the plan aims to summon 120 thousands of French Jews into occupied Palestine in the next four years. For that purpose, the Israeli ministries along with organizations will work on preparing the infrastructure for French Jews absorption and integration in the Israeli work market.
A number of Israeli ministers called for bringing the Jews living in France to be housed in settlements constructed on Palestinian lands in the West Bank. They also called for expanding the settlements to fit the expected large numbers of French Jews.
Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Sofa Landver, presented a plan to the Israeli government called “National Emergency Plan to Bring French Jews to Israel”.
The Hebrew sources said the plan aims to summon 120 thousands of French Jews into occupied Palestine in the next four years. For that purpose, the Israeli ministries along with organizations will work on preparing the infrastructure for French Jews absorption and integration in the Israeli work market.
A number of Israeli ministers called for bringing the Jews living in France to be housed in settlements constructed on Palestinian lands in the West Bank. They also called for expanding the settlements to fit the expected large numbers of French Jews.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Tuesday handed over demolition notifications against a number of homes and agricultural facilities in al-Khalil.
The PIC reporter quoted coordinator of the popular committee against settlement and apartheid wall in Yatta town Rateb Rajoub as saying that Israeli forces stormed this morning Teban village and handed two citizens three notifications to demolish their agricultural facilities.
The Israeli authorities have issued similar demolition notifications ten months ago in the town, aiming to forcibly displace the villagers to allow room for settlement expansion.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers have bulldozed Tuesday morning a Palestinian-owned agricultural land in Salfit, to the north of the West Bank, under Israeli forces’ protection, eyewitnesses reported.
The Palestinian expert in settlement affairs Khaled Ma’ali said that the bulldozing process aims at expanding the near-by Amanoel industrial settlement.
The bulldozing process came in total violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prevents an occupying power from building settlements or factories in occupied territories.
The PIC reporter quoted coordinator of the popular committee against settlement and apartheid wall in Yatta town Rateb Rajoub as saying that Israeli forces stormed this morning Teban village and handed two citizens three notifications to demolish their agricultural facilities.
The Israeli authorities have issued similar demolition notifications ten months ago in the town, aiming to forcibly displace the villagers to allow room for settlement expansion.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers have bulldozed Tuesday morning a Palestinian-owned agricultural land in Salfit, to the north of the West Bank, under Israeli forces’ protection, eyewitnesses reported.
The Palestinian expert in settlement affairs Khaled Ma’ali said that the bulldozing process aims at expanding the near-by Amanoel industrial settlement.
The bulldozing process came in total violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention which prevents an occupying power from building settlements or factories in occupied territories.
26 jan 2015
The Islamic Christian Authority for patronizing Jerusalem and holy sites condemned Israel's demolition of 42 Palestinian homes and structures in the West Bank and Jerusalem during the current month as part of its "ethnic cleansing" policy.
In a press release on Sunday, secretary-general of the Islamic Christian Authority Hanna Issa stated that Israel displaced 77 Palestinian civilians, half of them children, after demolishing their homes between 20 and 23 January in Ramallah, Ariha, Jerusalem and al-Khalil.
Issa said that Israel's systematic demolition of Palestinian homes and its displacement of their residents violate the international law, especially the 1948 universal declaration of human rights, which protects the rights of any individual to housing.
He underscored that Israel flouts human values and the rules of international humanitarian law, which prohibits it as an occupying power from demolishing public and private property.
He also pointed out that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) had released multiple statistics revealing Israel's intent to expel the Palestinians from their lands and appropriate them for settlement expansion projects.
In a press release on Sunday, secretary-general of the Islamic Christian Authority Hanna Issa stated that Israel displaced 77 Palestinian civilians, half of them children, after demolishing their homes between 20 and 23 January in Ramallah, Ariha, Jerusalem and al-Khalil.
Issa said that Israel's systematic demolition of Palestinian homes and its displacement of their residents violate the international law, especially the 1948 universal declaration of human rights, which protects the rights of any individual to housing.
He underscored that Israel flouts human values and the rules of international humanitarian law, which prohibits it as an occupying power from demolishing public and private property.
He also pointed out that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories (OCHA) had released multiple statistics revealing Israel's intent to expel the Palestinians from their lands and appropriate them for settlement expansion projects.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) pushed a Palestinian citizen to knock down a farm of his own in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil.
The farm owner Moslem Abu Juheisha said the IOA impelled him to demolish his 1,000-square-meter-large ranch and to evacuate the cattle he used to rear within, just a few hours before the deadline of an earlier demolition notification was set to end.
Earlier, Saturday, a unit of the Israeli occupation army stormed the farm and threatened to carry out the demolition on early Sunday morning, compelling Abu Juheisha to rashly evacuate the 70-thousand-dollar-worth ranch and knock it down on his own or else face additional fine in return for the Israeli demolition.
Meanwhile, the IOA has reportedly stepped up demolition threats in A-Khalil’s town of Idna allegedly due to the proximity of the targeted structures and homes from Israel’s Apartheid Wall.
The farm owner Moslem Abu Juheisha said the IOA impelled him to demolish his 1,000-square-meter-large ranch and to evacuate the cattle he used to rear within, just a few hours before the deadline of an earlier demolition notification was set to end.
Earlier, Saturday, a unit of the Israeli occupation army stormed the farm and threatened to carry out the demolition on early Sunday morning, compelling Abu Juheisha to rashly evacuate the 70-thousand-dollar-worth ranch and knock it down on his own or else face additional fine in return for the Israeli demolition.
Meanwhile, the IOA has reportedly stepped up demolition threats in A-Khalil’s town of Idna allegedly due to the proximity of the targeted structures and homes from Israel’s Apartheid Wall.