11 june 2016
Jewish settlers on Friday erected new caravans in Elon Moreh settlement to the west of Deir al-Hatab town near Nablus.
Abdurrahman al-Jammal, ian nhabitant of the town, said that the caravans which included houses and stockyards were being installed in the settlement while a drone was hovering over the area.
Elon Moreh settlement was forcibly established over Palestinians’ lands in the West Bank towns of Deir al-Hatab, Salem, and Azmout. It is only ten kilometers far from Occupied Jerusalem.
Abdurrahman al-Jammal, ian nhabitant of the town, said that the caravans which included houses and stockyards were being installed in the settlement while a drone was hovering over the area.
Elon Moreh settlement was forcibly established over Palestinians’ lands in the West Bank towns of Deir al-Hatab, Salem, and Azmout. It is only ten kilometers far from Occupied Jerusalem.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, Beit Amra village, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished a home of a Palestinian teen accused of stabbing an Israeli settler woman to death.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Hebron Rateb Jabour said a large number of soldiers and military vehicles invaded the village, during early dawn hours, and demolished the home of Bader Abdullah Ed’eis, whose son was taken prisoner on January 18th, 2016.
Israel accuses his son, Morad, 16, of carrying out a deadly stabbing attack in Otniel Israeli colony, nearly six months ago.
Jabour stated that the demolished home was a 2-story building, inhabited by several family members, and that the army did not even allow them to remove their furniture and belongings.
The soldiers also kidnapped one Palestinian, identified as Mahmoud Jamal Makhamra, 27, from his home in Yatta, in addition to invading and searching several other homes and a medical center, causing excessive property damage.
In addition, the soldiers invaded a medical lab in Hebron city, and violently searched it, causing excessive damage, in addition to searching many homes in the area.
The soldiers also invaded several homes in Bani Neim town, and Hebron city, before violently searching them, and interrogated several Palestinians.
Ed’eis: “My Son Did Not Kill The Settler, He Was Playing In Schoolyard”|
Coordinator of the Popular Committee in Hebron Rateb Jabour said a large number of soldiers and military vehicles invaded the village, during early dawn hours, and demolished the home of Bader Abdullah Ed’eis, whose son was taken prisoner on January 18th, 2016.
Israel accuses his son, Morad, 16, of carrying out a deadly stabbing attack in Otniel Israeli colony, nearly six months ago.
Jabour stated that the demolished home was a 2-story building, inhabited by several family members, and that the army did not even allow them to remove their furniture and belongings.
The soldiers also kidnapped one Palestinian, identified as Mahmoud Jamal Makhamra, 27, from his home in Yatta, in addition to invading and searching several other homes and a medical center, causing excessive property damage.
In addition, the soldiers invaded a medical lab in Hebron city, and violently searched it, causing excessive damage, in addition to searching many homes in the area.
The soldiers also invaded several homes in Bani Neim town, and Hebron city, before violently searching them, and interrogated several Palestinians.
Ed’eis: “My Son Did Not Kill The Settler, He Was Playing In Schoolyard”|
10 june 2016
Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier on Friday, Yatta town and Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, searched many homes and kidnapped six Palestinians.
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers kidnapped Mohammad Yousef Makhamra, Ibrahim Mousa Makhamra, 34, and Ehab Abdul-Aziz Abu Hussein, from their homes in Yatta town, south of Hebron.
The soldiers also kidnapped Ibrahim Makhamra, after searching his home and took its measurements, threatening to demolish it within 24 hours.
Another Palestinian from Yatta was kidnapped from his work in Jerusalem. He has been identified as Mohyeddin Abu Fannar.
Local sources said that dozens of soldiers surrounded the town before invading many of its neighborhoods, especially Roq’et al-Khalla, al-Heela, Khallet al-May and Reef, and violently searched many homes causing excessive damage.
In addition, the soldiers invaded Beit ‘Amra area, in Yatta town, and kidnapped Ismael Ed’eis after violently searching his home.
In Hebron city, the soldiers invaded the home of Ramadan al-Qawasmi, and kidnapped him, after searching his property. Al-Qawasmi is a student of the Al-Quds Open University.
The army also invaded and searched homes in Sa’ir town, north of Hebron, and fired many flares and sound bombs.
The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) said the soldiers kidnapped Mohammad Yousef Makhamra, Ibrahim Mousa Makhamra, 34, and Ehab Abdul-Aziz Abu Hussein, from their homes in Yatta town, south of Hebron.
The soldiers also kidnapped Ibrahim Makhamra, after searching his home and took its measurements, threatening to demolish it within 24 hours.
Another Palestinian from Yatta was kidnapped from his work in Jerusalem. He has been identified as Mohyeddin Abu Fannar.
Local sources said that dozens of soldiers surrounded the town before invading many of its neighborhoods, especially Roq’et al-Khalla, al-Heela, Khallet al-May and Reef, and violently searched many homes causing excessive damage.
In addition, the soldiers invaded Beit ‘Amra area, in Yatta town, and kidnapped Ismael Ed’eis after violently searching his home.
In Hebron city, the soldiers invaded the home of Ramadan al-Qawasmi, and kidnapped him, after searching his property. Al-Qawasmi is a student of the Al-Quds Open University.
The army also invaded and searched homes in Sa’ir town, north of Hebron, and fired many flares and sound bombs.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) have leveled Palestinian lands in southern Bethlehem city as part of an underway project to construct the second-largest Jewish synagogue in the West Bank.
Member of the national anti-settlement committee Ahmad Salah said the IOA leveled Palestinian lands covering an area of 80 dunums, which were confiscated last year in al-Khader town as part of a plan to build the so-called Yashiva Second Jewish synagogue and school.
The activist added that the project includes the establishment of a kindergarten for settlers’ children, along with parks and gardens. He said Israeli bulldozers and army vehicles ruined Palestinians’ cultivated lands and uprooted several fruitful trees in the process.
According to Abu Salah the project makes part of an Israeli plan to annex more Palestinian lands to nearby illegal settlement and to tighten noose around farmers’ necks.
Activist Hassan Brijiyeh also said the IOA imposed the project by force despite the objections frequently made by the Palestinians. He warned of Israel’s daily violations of Palestinians’ land rights and arbitrary confiscation of the Khader lands in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
Brijiyeh appealed to local authorities and international organizations to urge the Israeli occupation to stop such an unabated scramble for Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.
According to data from the Land Research Center, 1,580 dunums of Palestinian lands in Bethlehem were confiscated by the IOA last year, out of a total of 6,300 confiscated dunums.
Member of the national anti-settlement committee Ahmad Salah said the IOA leveled Palestinian lands covering an area of 80 dunums, which were confiscated last year in al-Khader town as part of a plan to build the so-called Yashiva Second Jewish synagogue and school.
The activist added that the project includes the establishment of a kindergarten for settlers’ children, along with parks and gardens. He said Israeli bulldozers and army vehicles ruined Palestinians’ cultivated lands and uprooted several fruitful trees in the process.
According to Abu Salah the project makes part of an Israeli plan to annex more Palestinian lands to nearby illegal settlement and to tighten noose around farmers’ necks.
Activist Hassan Brijiyeh also said the IOA imposed the project by force despite the objections frequently made by the Palestinians. He warned of Israel’s daily violations of Palestinians’ land rights and arbitrary confiscation of the Khader lands in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
Brijiyeh appealed to local authorities and international organizations to urge the Israeli occupation to stop such an unabated scramble for Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.
According to data from the Land Research Center, 1,580 dunums of Palestinian lands in Bethlehem were confiscated by the IOA last year, out of a total of 6,300 confiscated dunums.
9 june 2016
Israeli bulldozers on Thursday demolished, for the 99th time, the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqeeb in the Negev desert at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
A local resident told Quds Press that several Bedouin families became homeless again after Israeli bulldozers escorted by police forces stormed the village and razed all their crude homes.
As always, the residents will manage to rebuild their village anew and challenge Israel's repeated attempts to uproot them from their native land.
The Israeli authorities consider al-Araqeeb and dozens of other Negev villages illegal and refuses to recognize them as Palestinian communities, arguing that their residents cannot prove their ownership of the lands they are living on.
A local resident told Quds Press that several Bedouin families became homeless again after Israeli bulldozers escorted by police forces stormed the village and razed all their crude homes.
As always, the residents will manage to rebuild their village anew and challenge Israel's repeated attempts to uproot them from their native land.
The Israeli authorities consider al-Araqeeb and dozens of other Negev villages illegal and refuses to recognize them as Palestinian communities, arguing that their residents cannot prove their ownership of the lands they are living on.
Two Palestinians choked on teargas on Wednesday evening during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Qasra town, in Nablus.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Akraba town, Youssef Diriyeh, said clashes burst out in Qasra after the IOF seized an agricultural tractor owned by a Palestinian farmer.
Two Palestinians sustained breathing disorders after the occupation troops showered the area with teargas canisters.
Meanwhile, wildfires burst out in Nablus’s western town of Gibt after the IOF rolled into the area and unleashed random spates of light bombs.
Eyewitnesses said IOF soldiers stormed the town at nine p.m. and checked Palestinians’ IDs. Local inhabitants said dozens of acres of cultivated land and crops were reduced to ashes after the IOF prevented them from putting out the fires.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Akraba town, Youssef Diriyeh, said clashes burst out in Qasra after the IOF seized an agricultural tractor owned by a Palestinian farmer.
Two Palestinians sustained breathing disorders after the occupation troops showered the area with teargas canisters.
Meanwhile, wildfires burst out in Nablus’s western town of Gibt after the IOF rolled into the area and unleashed random spates of light bombs.
Eyewitnesses said IOF soldiers stormed the town at nine p.m. and checked Palestinians’ IDs. Local inhabitants said dozens of acres of cultivated land and crops were reduced to ashes after the IOF prevented them from putting out the fires.
The Israeli authorities demolished 1,041 Bedouin structures in Negev between 2013 and 2015, with a further 1,711 structures being destroyed by their owners after receiving demolition orders.
According to a new report by the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF), in 2015 alone, nearly 1,000 structures were demolished in Negev — 365 by the Israeli authorities, and 617 by the homeowners themselves.
The waves of demolitions have displaced thousands of Bedouins over the past three years, according to Michal Rotem, the author of the report. Those who demolished their own homes were pushed into doing so by Israeli police officers and municipal inspectors, who frequently turned up at their door to put pressure on them.
The same tactics were used to coerce around 210 home owners into demolishing their own homes even though they hadn’t received demolition orders, under the threat that one would be issued if their home stayed standing.
Most of the limited attention the situation of the Negev’s Bedouin receives tends to revolve around the area’s unrecognized villages — localities that Israel does not recognize as legal, and which are therefore ineligible for basic municipal services and are not connected to electricity grids or water networks.
These villages were the subject of the notorious Prawer Plan, currently back off the table, which sought to forcibly relocate the residents of these villages into designated townships. Some localities are still vulnerable to total demolition in order to be replaced with Jewish towns, as is the fate looming over Umm el-Hiran and Atir.
In 2014, Rotem reveals, 46 percent of demolitions took place in unrecognized villages. In a statement, NCF Executive Director Haia Noach accused the government of failing to work for the entire Negev population, instead “approving more and more Jewish settlements…while pushing the Bedouin community into crowded urban towns that cannot receive more residents.”
The relentless pace of demolitions in the Negev — outstripping even that in the West Bank— is in essence driven by a policy of ethnic discrimination, which sees land expropriated for new illegal settlements.
In comments made last year following the approval of plans to build five new Israeli settlements on top of Bedouin villages, Housing Minister Yoav Galant spoke of Israel’s “responsibility to settle the Negev … to turn it into a desirable and thriving area, in keeping with the Zionist vision.” The destruction caused by that vision is plain to see.
According to a new report by the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF), in 2015 alone, nearly 1,000 structures were demolished in Negev — 365 by the Israeli authorities, and 617 by the homeowners themselves.
The waves of demolitions have displaced thousands of Bedouins over the past three years, according to Michal Rotem, the author of the report. Those who demolished their own homes were pushed into doing so by Israeli police officers and municipal inspectors, who frequently turned up at their door to put pressure on them.
The same tactics were used to coerce around 210 home owners into demolishing their own homes even though they hadn’t received demolition orders, under the threat that one would be issued if their home stayed standing.
Most of the limited attention the situation of the Negev’s Bedouin receives tends to revolve around the area’s unrecognized villages — localities that Israel does not recognize as legal, and which are therefore ineligible for basic municipal services and are not connected to electricity grids or water networks.
These villages were the subject of the notorious Prawer Plan, currently back off the table, which sought to forcibly relocate the residents of these villages into designated townships. Some localities are still vulnerable to total demolition in order to be replaced with Jewish towns, as is the fate looming over Umm el-Hiran and Atir.
In 2014, Rotem reveals, 46 percent of demolitions took place in unrecognized villages. In a statement, NCF Executive Director Haia Noach accused the government of failing to work for the entire Negev population, instead “approving more and more Jewish settlements…while pushing the Bedouin community into crowded urban towns that cannot receive more residents.”
The relentless pace of demolitions in the Negev — outstripping even that in the West Bank— is in essence driven by a policy of ethnic discrimination, which sees land expropriated for new illegal settlements.
In comments made last year following the approval of plans to build five new Israeli settlements on top of Bedouin villages, Housing Minister Yoav Galant spoke of Israel’s “responsibility to settle the Negev … to turn it into a desirable and thriving area, in keeping with the Zionist vision.” The destruction caused by that vision is plain to see.
8 june 2016
Israeli settlers, Wednesday, razed Palestinian-owned lands in the village of al-Khader, to the south of occupied Bethlehem, according to local sources.
Hasan Burajeya, of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Bethlehem, told WAFA that a group of illegal Israeli settlers, accompanied by a military escort, proceeded to raze about 15 dunams of land near al-Khader. The razed land belongs to local Palestinians from the village.
Burajeya asserted that the razing of said lands comes as part of Israeli plan to construct a yeshiva (Jewish school) at the site.
According to Israeli human rights group Peace Now, over the years, Israel used a number of legal and bureaucratic procedures in order to appropriate West Bank lands, with the primary objective of establishing settlements and providing land reserves for them.
“Using primarily these five methods: seizure for military purposes; declaration of state lands; seizure of absentee property; confiscation for public needs; and initial registration, Israel has managed to take over about 50% of the lands in the West Bank, barring the local Palestinian public from using them,” the group argues.
Hasan Burajeya, of the Anti-Settlement Committee in Bethlehem, told WAFA that a group of illegal Israeli settlers, accompanied by a military escort, proceeded to raze about 15 dunams of land near al-Khader. The razed land belongs to local Palestinians from the village.
Burajeya asserted that the razing of said lands comes as part of Israeli plan to construct a yeshiva (Jewish school) at the site.
According to Israeli human rights group Peace Now, over the years, Israel used a number of legal and bureaucratic procedures in order to appropriate West Bank lands, with the primary objective of establishing settlements and providing land reserves for them.
“Using primarily these five methods: seizure for military purposes; declaration of state lands; seizure of absentee property; confiscation for public needs; and initial registration, Israel has managed to take over about 50% of the lands in the West Bank, barring the local Palestinian public from using them,” the group argues.
7 june 2016
On Monday morning, the Israeli army invaded Hawwara village, north of the West Bank city of Nablus.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers occupied at least ten Palestinian houses in the center of the village. Soon after, Israeli soldiers built fences and installed security cameras around the confiscated homes.
A local committee in the village expressed grave concern about the military’s fortified presence. The military takeover will no doubt disrupt the ability of Hawwara’s 10,000 residents to move about their own village with any sense of safety or freedom.
According to Ma’an News Agency, an Israeli army spokesperson described the outposts as “temporary viewpoints in the area to overlook the road for security measures.”
The Israeli army claims that the new military outposts are a consequence of Palestinian attacks against Israeli settlers along the main road of the town, though no Israelis were injured at the time of the supposed attacks.
The road that runs through Hawwara is used regularly by many settlers living on occupied land in the surrounding area.
An Israeli officer told residents that Israeli authorities will not hesitate to double-down on the occupation of Huwwara if the alleged attacks continue.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers occupied at least ten Palestinian houses in the center of the village. Soon after, Israeli soldiers built fences and installed security cameras around the confiscated homes.
A local committee in the village expressed grave concern about the military’s fortified presence. The military takeover will no doubt disrupt the ability of Hawwara’s 10,000 residents to move about their own village with any sense of safety or freedom.
According to Ma’an News Agency, an Israeli army spokesperson described the outposts as “temporary viewpoints in the area to overlook the road for security measures.”
The Israeli army claims that the new military outposts are a consequence of Palestinian attacks against Israeli settlers along the main road of the town, though no Israelis were injured at the time of the supposed attacks.
The road that runs through Hawwara is used regularly by many settlers living on occupied land in the surrounding area.
An Israeli officer told residents that Israeli authorities will not hesitate to double-down on the occupation of Huwwara if the alleged attacks continue.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday, the village of Douma, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and handed demolition orders targeting two homes, and a carpentry workshop.
The WAFA News Agency quoted Adeeb Dawabsha, the deputy mayor of Douma village, stating that the army is alleging the properties were built without constriction permits.
He added that the two homes, and the carpentry workshop, are owned by local Palestinians of the Dawabsha family.
Douma is located in Area C of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli control, but the Civil Administration, run by the army in the occupied West Bank, rarely issues construction permits, while Israel continues the construction and expansion of its illegal colonies, built in direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Expanding Palestinian families find themselves unable to find residences, and some start building in their own lands, without the approval of the occupation authorities, due to the lack of other alternatives.
Area C is more around %60 of the occupied West Bank under the Oslo Interim Agreement that was signed in 1995 between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
The WAFA News Agency quoted Adeeb Dawabsha, the deputy mayor of Douma village, stating that the army is alleging the properties were built without constriction permits.
He added that the two homes, and the carpentry workshop, are owned by local Palestinians of the Dawabsha family.
Douma is located in Area C of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli control, but the Civil Administration, run by the army in the occupied West Bank, rarely issues construction permits, while Israel continues the construction and expansion of its illegal colonies, built in direct violation of International Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Expanding Palestinian families find themselves unable to find residences, and some start building in their own lands, without the approval of the occupation authorities, due to the lack of other alternatives.
Area C is more around %60 of the occupied West Bank under the Oslo Interim Agreement that was signed in 1995 between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).
The agreement divided the West Bank into three main areas, A, B and C — More than 300.000 Palestinians live in area C, while 360.000 Jewish settlers live in 135 illegal colonies, and 100 outposts, in direct violation of International Law.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (PCHA) said in a report that the Israeli “Civil Administration” has issued 14.000 demolition orders against Palestinian homes and structures, in the period between 1988 and 2014 – 11.000 of these orders are still outstanding.
The report also indicated that the Israeli zoning laws applied in the occupied West Bank, are rendering it largely impossible for the Palestinians to obtain construction permits in the majority of Area C.
Israel classified 70% of Area C (44% of the West Bank) as areas for its illegal colonies, firing and training zones for the army, and as ‘natural reserves’ – all completely off limited to the Palestinians.
The remaining 30% of Area C, where the Palestinians are allowed to build, are subject to very strict Israeli laws that make only 1% of it eligible for Palestinian development.
Under the Oslo Accords, Israel was supposed to gradually transfer Areas B and C to the Palestinian Control (Area A) but instead, kept illegally confiscating Palestinian lands to build and expand its colonies and military bases, dividing the West Bank into 277 isolated enclaves.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (PCHA) said in a report that the Israeli “Civil Administration” has issued 14.000 demolition orders against Palestinian homes and structures, in the period between 1988 and 2014 – 11.000 of these orders are still outstanding.
The report also indicated that the Israeli zoning laws applied in the occupied West Bank, are rendering it largely impossible for the Palestinians to obtain construction permits in the majority of Area C.
Israel classified 70% of Area C (44% of the West Bank) as areas for its illegal colonies, firing and training zones for the army, and as ‘natural reserves’ – all completely off limited to the Palestinians.
The remaining 30% of Area C, where the Palestinians are allowed to build, are subject to very strict Israeli laws that make only 1% of it eligible for Palestinian development.
Under the Oslo Accords, Israel was supposed to gradually transfer Areas B and C to the Palestinian Control (Area A) but instead, kept illegally confiscating Palestinian lands to build and expand its colonies and military bases, dividing the West Bank into 277 isolated enclaves.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, and kidnapped one Palestinian. The soldiers also invaded Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem, and handed demolition orders targeting two barns.
The soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, before breaking into and searching a few homes, and kidnapped Mohammad Ja’far Taqatqa, 25.
The invasion led to clashes between the soldiers and local youths, who hurled stones on the military vehicles, while the army fired gas bombs and concussion grenades.
In addition, the soldiers invaded Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem, and handed demolition orders targeting two barns, allegedly for being built near a “military zone.”
Local sources said the orders were handed to Ali Odah and Farhan Ali Rashayda, and that the two residents use the sheds to for their sheep in this grazing area.
Fawwaz Rashayda, the head of the Rashayda Village Council, said the soldiers have been targeting the shepherds in this area, known as Rajm an-Naqa, and that the barns are located in Palestinian lands that were declared by the army as a closed military zone.
In The Gaza Strip, several israeli military bulldozers and tanks invaded Palestinian lands, east of Gaza City, and fired several live rounds.
The soldiers also installed several sand hills, in the area that faces the border fence, and a military base.
The soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar, before breaking into and searching a few homes, and kidnapped Mohammad Ja’far Taqatqa, 25.
The invasion led to clashes between the soldiers and local youths, who hurled stones on the military vehicles, while the army fired gas bombs and concussion grenades.
In addition, the soldiers invaded Rashayda village, east of Bethlehem, and handed demolition orders targeting two barns, allegedly for being built near a “military zone.”
Local sources said the orders were handed to Ali Odah and Farhan Ali Rashayda, and that the two residents use the sheds to for their sheep in this grazing area.
Fawwaz Rashayda, the head of the Rashayda Village Council, said the soldiers have been targeting the shepherds in this area, known as Rajm an-Naqa, and that the barns are located in Palestinian lands that were declared by the army as a closed military zone.
In The Gaza Strip, several israeli military bulldozers and tanks invaded Palestinian lands, east of Gaza City, and fired several live rounds.
The soldiers also installed several sand hills, in the area that faces the border fence, and a military base.
6 june 2016
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has accused Israel of escalating its systematic demolition and appropriation of humanitarian projects funded by the European Union (EU) in Palestine.
"Damage to European Union-funded projects in Palestine during Israeli attacks and other incursions is nothing new.
However, following the union’s move in 2015 to label Israeli settlement products, the number of EU-funded projects demolished or confiscated by Israel increased dramatically," the monitor stated in a report released on Monday under the title "Squandered aid."
In the first three months of 2016, the number of monthly demolitions of either private property, or internationally and EU–funded projects increased to 165 compared to an average of 50 demolitions every month during the period between 2012 and 2015.
It also pointed to Israel's demolition of over 120 EU-financed structures in the first quarter of 2016.
The human rights group estimates that since 2001, the total value of EU squandered aid money (development and humanitarian projects) has amounted to 65 million euros, of which at least 23 million euros were lost during Israel's 2014 war on Gaza alone.
"Damage to European Union-funded projects in Palestine during Israeli attacks and other incursions is nothing new.
However, following the union’s move in 2015 to label Israeli settlement products, the number of EU-funded projects demolished or confiscated by Israel increased dramatically," the monitor stated in a report released on Monday under the title "Squandered aid."
In the first three months of 2016, the number of monthly demolitions of either private property, or internationally and EU–funded projects increased to 165 compared to an average of 50 demolitions every month during the period between 2012 and 2015.
It also pointed to Israel's demolition of over 120 EU-financed structures in the first quarter of 2016.
The human rights group estimates that since 2001, the total value of EU squandered aid money (development and humanitarian projects) has amounted to 65 million euros, of which at least 23 million euros were lost during Israel's 2014 war on Gaza alone.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) issued on Sunday stop-construction orders of two Palestinian homes in al-Khalil and filmed other homes in Beit Ummar town north of al-Khalil to the south of the West Bank.
Local activist Mohamed Awad told a PIC reporter that Israeli forces stormed Sunday afternoon Beit Ummar town and delivered two stop-reconstruction orders against two local homes of two and three floors.
Several other neighboring homes were stormed and filmed during the raid, he added.
Local activist Mohamed Awad told a PIC reporter that Israeli forces stormed Sunday afternoon Beit Ummar town and delivered two stop-reconstruction orders against two local homes of two and three floors.
Several other neighboring homes were stormed and filmed during the raid, he added.
5 june 2016
Israeli bulldozers on Sunday morning demolished different parts of three houses in al-Basra street in Jaffa city on allegations that they were built on lands belonging to the Israel land authority.
According to Yaffa48 website, the bulldozers demolished a wall in one house, three rooms in a nearby house and two rooms in another.
Israeli policemen escorted employees from the land authority during the demolitions.
Several Palestinian homes have been demolished recently in Jaffa city, including ones belonging to the families of Annajjar and Dakka.
According to Yaffa48 website, the bulldozers demolished a wall in one house, three rooms in a nearby house and two rooms in another.
Israeli policemen escorted employees from the land authority during the demolitions.
Several Palestinian homes have been demolished recently in Jaffa city, including ones belonging to the families of Annajjar and Dakka.
