8 aug 2016
Earlier on Monday morning, Israeli soldiers forced a Palestinian to demolish his own barn and shed in Sabastia town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The Palestinian, Abdullah Jamal Makhamra, said the soldiers handed him a demolition order, on Sunday evening, informing him that he has until dawn Monday to demolish his properties, and threatened to force him to pay a 15.000 Israeli Shekels fine should the army demolish them.
Makhamra said that he, and dozens of residents of Sebastia had to remove more than 130 sheep from his 350 square/meter shed, and emptied his 200 square/meter barn, and added that his losses are close to 50.000 Shekels.
The Palestinian also said that he received a similar order four months ago, and went to the military base in Huwwara, but the army refused to grant him a license, although the properties are built on his own lands.
The area is classified as “Area C”, under full Israeli military, security and administrative control, where the Palestinians are rarely granted a permit, while Israel continues to build and expand its illegal colonies.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem):
Area C, which comprises about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank, and which Israel views as primarily meant to serve its own needs.
Accordingly, Israel acts to establish facts on the ground so as to create a reality that would be difficult to change. The state takes action to displace and expel Palestinians citing flimsy legal pretexts.
For example, one reason given for home demolition is “illegal construction” – an untenable argument given the absence of any real possibility for Palestinians to build legally.
IOF knocks down civilian structures, destroys water line
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early Monday morning knocked down agricultural and residential structures in Nablus and the northern Jordan Valley.
A PIC journalist quoted the Head of the Jeftlek village council, to the east of Nablus, Othman al-Anouz as stating that Israeli army bulldozers rolled into the area at the crack of dawn and demolished two barracks for raising livestock along with a civilian home.
The IOF further demolished a cattle farm in Sebastia town, to the north, under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The IOF soldiers also stormed Aqraba town, in southeastern Nablus, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes. At the same time, the occupation troops destroyed an eleven-kilometer-long water line used by over 250 Palestinians in the Yizra nomadic area in the northern Jordan Valley, to the east of Tubas city, under the pretext that it was installed over the Israeli-controlled Area C.
Palestinian natives of Yizra have often launched a cry for help over the forced deportation policies and tactics of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Israeli occupation authorities in the area. Local activist Mukhlis Masa’id told the PIC that water sources in the area have been the permanent target of Israeli aggressions in an attempt to mar life for the native Bedouin communities.
The Palestinian, Abdullah Jamal Makhamra, said the soldiers handed him a demolition order, on Sunday evening, informing him that he has until dawn Monday to demolish his properties, and threatened to force him to pay a 15.000 Israeli Shekels fine should the army demolish them.
Makhamra said that he, and dozens of residents of Sebastia had to remove more than 130 sheep from his 350 square/meter shed, and emptied his 200 square/meter barn, and added that his losses are close to 50.000 Shekels.
The Palestinian also said that he received a similar order four months ago, and went to the military base in Huwwara, but the army refused to grant him a license, although the properties are built on his own lands.
The area is classified as “Area C”, under full Israeli military, security and administrative control, where the Palestinians are rarely granted a permit, while Israel continues to build and expand its illegal colonies.
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem):
Area C, which comprises about 60 percent of the occupied West Bank, and which Israel views as primarily meant to serve its own needs.
Accordingly, Israel acts to establish facts on the ground so as to create a reality that would be difficult to change. The state takes action to displace and expel Palestinians citing flimsy legal pretexts.
For example, one reason given for home demolition is “illegal construction” – an untenable argument given the absence of any real possibility for Palestinians to build legally.
IOF knocks down civilian structures, destroys water line
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) early Monday morning knocked down agricultural and residential structures in Nablus and the northern Jordan Valley.
A PIC journalist quoted the Head of the Jeftlek village council, to the east of Nablus, Othman al-Anouz as stating that Israeli army bulldozers rolled into the area at the crack of dawn and demolished two barracks for raising livestock along with a civilian home.
The IOF further demolished a cattle farm in Sebastia town, to the north, under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
The IOF soldiers also stormed Aqraba town, in southeastern Nablus, and wreaked havoc on civilian homes. At the same time, the occupation troops destroyed an eleven-kilometer-long water line used by over 250 Palestinians in the Yizra nomadic area in the northern Jordan Valley, to the east of Tubas city, under the pretext that it was installed over the Israeli-controlled Area C.
Palestinian natives of Yizra have often launched a cry for help over the forced deportation policies and tactics of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the Israeli occupation authorities in the area. Local activist Mukhlis Masa’id told the PIC that water sources in the area have been the permanent target of Israeli aggressions in an attempt to mar life for the native Bedouin communities.
7 aug 2016
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) issued a report on Friday showing a 40% increase of the demolished homes, 140 houses, in Occupied Jerusalem compared to year 2015.
The report demonstrates that twenty Palestinian-owned structures were demolished in East Jerusalem due to the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, displacing 17 people and otherwise affecting another 221.
The largest incident took place on 26 July in a section of Qalandia village that falls within the Israeli-declared municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, but is separated from the rest of the city by the Barrier; only one of the 15 structures demolished in this incident was inhabited.
This brings the number of Palestinian-owned structures demolished in East Jerusalem since the beginning of 2016 to 114, an over 40 per cent increase compared to the entire 2015 (80).
No demolitions were recorded during the week in Area C, however, the Israeli authorities issued multiple demolition and stop-work orders for lack of building permits, which are near impossible to obtain.
Six of the targeted structures, including two water wells and one agricultural road, were funded by international donors in Qusra village (Nablus). In the same community, three plots of land that have recently been rehabilitated and cultivated received eviction orders, claiming the land is designated as “state land”.
The report points out that Israeli troops killed 60 Palestinians including 16 children and conducted 100 search operations whereby dozens of Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of 2016.
Israeli settlers threw empty glass bottles at a Palestinian-plated vehicle near Ariel settlement (Salfit), injuring a 20-year-old youth. Israeli soldiers injured 67 Palestinians including 14 children in the Palestinian cities whereas two injuries took place near the security fence in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli soldiers unleashed their gun fire at Palestinian farmers and fishermen and arrested eight of them after confiscating their fishing boats.
The Egyptian-controlled Rafah Crossing remained closed in both directions. Since the beginning of 2016, the crossing has been partially opened for 14 days. Over 30,000 people are registered and waiting to cross, according to the Palestinian authorities in Gaza.
The report demonstrates that twenty Palestinian-owned structures were demolished in East Jerusalem due to the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, displacing 17 people and otherwise affecting another 221.
The largest incident took place on 26 July in a section of Qalandia village that falls within the Israeli-declared municipal boundaries of Jerusalem, but is separated from the rest of the city by the Barrier; only one of the 15 structures demolished in this incident was inhabited.
This brings the number of Palestinian-owned structures demolished in East Jerusalem since the beginning of 2016 to 114, an over 40 per cent increase compared to the entire 2015 (80).
No demolitions were recorded during the week in Area C, however, the Israeli authorities issued multiple demolition and stop-work orders for lack of building permits, which are near impossible to obtain.
Six of the targeted structures, including two water wells and one agricultural road, were funded by international donors in Qusra village (Nablus). In the same community, three plots of land that have recently been rehabilitated and cultivated received eviction orders, claiming the land is designated as “state land”.
The report points out that Israeli troops killed 60 Palestinians including 16 children and conducted 100 search operations whereby dozens of Palestinians have been arrested since the beginning of 2016.
Israeli settlers threw empty glass bottles at a Palestinian-plated vehicle near Ariel settlement (Salfit), injuring a 20-year-old youth. Israeli soldiers injured 67 Palestinians including 14 children in the Palestinian cities whereas two injuries took place near the security fence in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli soldiers unleashed their gun fire at Palestinian farmers and fishermen and arrested eight of them after confiscating their fishing boats.
The Egyptian-controlled Rafah Crossing remained closed in both directions. Since the beginning of 2016, the crossing has been partially opened for 14 days. Over 30,000 people are registered and waiting to cross, according to the Palestinian authorities in Gaza.
6 aug 2016
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) National Bureau to Defend Land released a statement Saturday warning of the “dangerous” consequences of Israel's policy of legalizing illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, in response to recent recommendations by an Israeli government committee seeking to relocated evacuees of the Amona outpost to privately-owned Palestinian land.
The bureau described the actions taking place in Amona as an “unprecedented” move with the goal to “swallow” more Palestinian lands.
The special committee from the Israeli Ministry of Justice, established specially for the purpose of relocating Amona's residents, recently submitted a suggestion to the Israeli Attorney General recommending moving the settlers to a nearby privately-owned Palestinian land whose owners have been living abroad since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967.
The bureau highlighted that the committee suggested that after being relocated to the privately-owned Palestinian land, Amona's residents would pay rent to the Israeli government, which the state would hold in a bank account for the owners.
The committee, according to the Israeli Army Radio, is chaired by Chaya Zandberg, head of the civil law department in the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, and includes the Israeli Defense Ministry’s legal adviser and head of its planning administration, as well as a representative of far-right Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
Israeli human rights watchdog Peace Now slammed on Tuesday the Israeli committee's plan, which would allow the privately held Palestinian properties near the outpost to be leased to Israeli settlers for three years, with the ability to renew the lease after each lease period.
According to Peace Now, the proposal to lease property from absentee Palestinians in the West Bank would “create an opening for the takeover of tens of thousands of dunams in the West Bank. The scope of absentees’ property (property owned by Palestinians not currently residing inside the West Bank) is estimated at around 100,000 dunams (double the size of Tel Aviv and similar to the land taken up by all of the settlements today).”
Peace Now warned that the move could pave the way for the construction of even more settlements across the West Bank.
“The most severe implication is that the state of Israel will crush the basic rights of Palestinians under its rule in the occupied territories, while violating international law -- all out of the will to comply to the demands of a group of settlers that established an illegal outpost on stolen Palestinian land with the backing of the government,” the group added.
Peace Now said that the potential move would constitute “the crossing of a red line.”
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 2008 to demolish the Amona outpost after eight Palestinians from neighboring villages -- with the support of Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din -- successfully petitioned the court to remove the outpost on grounds that the construction was carried out on privately held Palestinian land.
The Amona outpost also received demolition orders after rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1997, 2003, and 2004, with only nine structures having been demolished in 1996.
In 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court issued an injunction on the Israeli government demanding an explanation as to why no steps had been taken to begin the demolition of the illegal outpost.
Allowing the confiscation of privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank under the pretext of the owners of the property being absent would mark a significant development in Israeli land confiscation strategies.
The proposal would also resemble Israel’s 1950 Absentee Property Law, which permits the Israeli government to transfer so-called “absentee" property belonging to Palestinians to Jewish residents, established following the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, that resulted in the mass displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians.
Palestinians have continued to be denied access to their properties for having been absent from their homes, even if just for a few days, as of 1947, when many Palestinians fled from their homes to escape Jewish Zionist forces during the Arab-Israeli war.
The Amona outpost, located near the settlement of Ofra, which was constructed on top of privately held Palestinian land, has some 40 Israeli families residing in the area.
The more than 200 Israeli settler outposts in the West Bank are considered illegal by the Israeli government. However, Israeli authorities often legalize the outposts retroactively by declaring them official settlements after they have been connected to Israel’s water and electricity infrastructure.
Each of the some 196 Israeli government-approved settlements scattered across the Palestinian territory were constructed in contravention to international law.
The bureau described the actions taking place in Amona as an “unprecedented” move with the goal to “swallow” more Palestinian lands.
The special committee from the Israeli Ministry of Justice, established specially for the purpose of relocating Amona's residents, recently submitted a suggestion to the Israeli Attorney General recommending moving the settlers to a nearby privately-owned Palestinian land whose owners have been living abroad since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967.
The bureau highlighted that the committee suggested that after being relocated to the privately-owned Palestinian land, Amona's residents would pay rent to the Israeli government, which the state would hold in a bank account for the owners.
The committee, according to the Israeli Army Radio, is chaired by Chaya Zandberg, head of the civil law department in the Israeli State Attorney’s Office, and includes the Israeli Defense Ministry’s legal adviser and head of its planning administration, as well as a representative of far-right Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked.
Israeli human rights watchdog Peace Now slammed on Tuesday the Israeli committee's plan, which would allow the privately held Palestinian properties near the outpost to be leased to Israeli settlers for three years, with the ability to renew the lease after each lease period.
According to Peace Now, the proposal to lease property from absentee Palestinians in the West Bank would “create an opening for the takeover of tens of thousands of dunams in the West Bank. The scope of absentees’ property (property owned by Palestinians not currently residing inside the West Bank) is estimated at around 100,000 dunams (double the size of Tel Aviv and similar to the land taken up by all of the settlements today).”
Peace Now warned that the move could pave the way for the construction of even more settlements across the West Bank.
“The most severe implication is that the state of Israel will crush the basic rights of Palestinians under its rule in the occupied territories, while violating international law -- all out of the will to comply to the demands of a group of settlers that established an illegal outpost on stolen Palestinian land with the backing of the government,” the group added.
Peace Now said that the potential move would constitute “the crossing of a red line.”
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled in 2008 to demolish the Amona outpost after eight Palestinians from neighboring villages -- with the support of Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din -- successfully petitioned the court to remove the outpost on grounds that the construction was carried out on privately held Palestinian land.
The Amona outpost also received demolition orders after rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1997, 2003, and 2004, with only nine structures having been demolished in 1996.
In 2010, the Israeli Supreme Court issued an injunction on the Israeli government demanding an explanation as to why no steps had been taken to begin the demolition of the illegal outpost.
Allowing the confiscation of privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank under the pretext of the owners of the property being absent would mark a significant development in Israeli land confiscation strategies.
The proposal would also resemble Israel’s 1950 Absentee Property Law, which permits the Israeli government to transfer so-called “absentee" property belonging to Palestinians to Jewish residents, established following the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, that resulted in the mass displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians.
Palestinians have continued to be denied access to their properties for having been absent from their homes, even if just for a few days, as of 1947, when many Palestinians fled from their homes to escape Jewish Zionist forces during the Arab-Israeli war.
The Amona outpost, located near the settlement of Ofra, which was constructed on top of privately held Palestinian land, has some 40 Israeli families residing in the area.
The more than 200 Israeli settler outposts in the West Bank are considered illegal by the Israeli government. However, Israeli authorities often legalize the outposts retroactively by declaring them official settlements after they have been connected to Israel’s water and electricity infrastructure.
Each of the some 196 Israeli government-approved settlements scattered across the Palestinian territory were constructed in contravention to international law.
5 aug 2016
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday rolled into southern and western Nablus province, sparking clashes with Palestinian protesters.
The IOF stormed Nablus’ southern towns of Beita and Ourata. Clashes flared up after the IOF stormed Arak Burin town, to the west, and showered Palestinian civilian homes with stun grenades.
The IOF also raided Beita town and pitched a military checkpoint.
In a related development, the occupation troops stormed eastern Bethlehem city and wreaked havoc on the family home of Muhammad Mussa al-Abiyat.
The IOF further threatened to knock down the home of Muayad Basel Awda in Nablus’ southern town of Hawara. Activist Ghassan Daghlas said the demolitions make part of a larger Israeli plan of ethnic cleansing.
The IOF stormed Nablus’ southern towns of Beita and Ourata. Clashes flared up after the IOF stormed Arak Burin town, to the west, and showered Palestinian civilian homes with stun grenades.
The IOF also raided Beita town and pitched a military checkpoint.
In a related development, the occupation troops stormed eastern Bethlehem city and wreaked havoc on the family home of Muhammad Mussa al-Abiyat.
The IOF further threatened to knock down the home of Muayad Basel Awda in Nablus’ southern town of Hawara. Activist Ghassan Daghlas said the demolitions make part of a larger Israeli plan of ethnic cleansing.
Israeli Occupation Authority bulldozers on Thursday demolished 20 structures used for housing and ranching in al-Kaabne and al-Nuwaime districts near Jericho, leading to the displacement of 13 Palestinian families.
The headman of al-Zayed clan, Suleiman Salameh, told Quds Press that the IOA wages a campaign against Palestinians and their homes in an attempt to expel and displace them by force, but the families are steadfast.
The displaced families, whose homes were knocked down by Israeli forces at dawn Thursday, appealed to the Palestinian government as well as international institutions to intervene and at least offer them shelter.
The headman of al-Zayed clan, Suleiman Salameh, told Quds Press that the IOA wages a campaign against Palestinians and their homes in an attempt to expel and displace them by force, but the families are steadfast.
The displaced families, whose homes were knocked down by Israeli forces at dawn Thursday, appealed to the Palestinian government as well as international institutions to intervene and at least offer them shelter.
4 aug 2016
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday knocked down the homes of the two prisoners Khaled and Muhammad Makhamreh in al-Khalil’s southern town of Yatta.
The Israeli army troops cordoned off the family home of prisoner Khaled Makhamreh, sparking clashes with Palestinian locals.
Shortly afterwards, an Israeli army bulldozer started the demolition, reducing the home to mounds of rubble in the blink of an eye.
The IOF further blew up the home of Khaled’s cousin, Muhammad, with bombs planted in the building. Hundreds of Israeli occupation soldiers cordoned off Yatta’s residential neighborhoods before carrying out the demolitions.
Prisoners Makhamreh carried out an anti-occupation shooting attack in Tel Aviv on June 8, killing four Israeli settlers residing in illegal settlement outposts built in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled for the partial demolition of the family home of the slain Palestinian youth Muhammad al-Tarayreh, who carried out an anti-occupation stabbing in the illegal Kiryat Araba settlement last month.
The Israeli court ordered the demolition of the second floor of Tarayreh’s family home, paying no heed to an appeal filed by the family to cancel the demolition order. Muhammad Tarayreh was fatally shot by the Israeli occupation army following the anti-occupation attack.
The Israeli army troops cordoned off the family home of prisoner Khaled Makhamreh, sparking clashes with Palestinian locals.
Shortly afterwards, an Israeli army bulldozer started the demolition, reducing the home to mounds of rubble in the blink of an eye.
The IOF further blew up the home of Khaled’s cousin, Muhammad, with bombs planted in the building. Hundreds of Israeli occupation soldiers cordoned off Yatta’s residential neighborhoods before carrying out the demolitions.
Prisoners Makhamreh carried out an anti-occupation shooting attack in Tel Aviv on June 8, killing four Israeli settlers residing in illegal settlement outposts built in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled for the partial demolition of the family home of the slain Palestinian youth Muhammad al-Tarayreh, who carried out an anti-occupation stabbing in the illegal Kiryat Araba settlement last month.
The Israeli court ordered the demolition of the second floor of Tarayreh’s family home, paying no heed to an appeal filed by the family to cancel the demolition order. Muhammad Tarayreh was fatally shot by the Israeli occupation army following the anti-occupation attack.
3 aug 2016
Israeli Occupation Forces handed out demolition and stop-of-construction notices against three Palestinian mobile homes in Jabal al-Baba compound east of Occupied Jerusalem.
Attallah Mazara, representative of the Bedouin compound, told Quds Press that the IOF troops detained him along with two other men for one hour until the process of distributing notices had been accomplished.
Israeli military vehicles had earlier Tuesday knocked down a car shop that belongs to the Palestinian Mohammad Elaiyan in Sour Baher village southeast of Occupied Jerusalem under the pretext of lacking construction permits.
Attallah Mazara, representative of the Bedouin compound, told Quds Press that the IOF troops detained him along with two other men for one hour until the process of distributing notices had been accomplished.
Israeli military vehicles had earlier Tuesday knocked down a car shop that belongs to the Palestinian Mohammad Elaiyan in Sour Baher village southeast of Occupied Jerusalem under the pretext of lacking construction permits.
2 aug 2016
Israeli bulldozers on Tuesday demolished an automobile showroom in Sur Baher town, southeast of Occupied Jerusalem, at the pretext that it was unlicensed.
Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops provided protection for an Israeli municipal crew during the demolition of the showroom, which belongs to Mohamed Aliyan.
Different human rights groups condemn Israel's demolition campaigns in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and consider it part of its ongoing ethnic cleansing policy against the Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops provided protection for an Israeli municipal crew during the demolition of the showroom, which belongs to Mohamed Aliyan.
Different human rights groups condemn Israel's demolition campaigns in Jerusalem and the West Bank, and consider it part of its ongoing ethnic cleansing policy against the Palestinians.
Staffers of the Israeli Antiquities and Nature authorities Monday morning stormed and toured al-Rahma gate cemetery adjacent to the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli forces have recently razed four graves in the same cemetery under the pretext of no permitted construction.
The cemetery, however, is one of the oldest Islamic monuments and cemeteries in the city in which a number of Prophet Mohammad’s companions were buried.
Israeli forces bans burying Palestinians in that historical graveyard because of using some of its land in establishing what they call “national parks” for Judaization purposes.
The Israeli forces have recently razed four graves in the same cemetery under the pretext of no permitted construction.
The cemetery, however, is one of the oldest Islamic monuments and cemeteries in the city in which a number of Prophet Mohammad’s companions were buried.
Israeli forces bans burying Palestinians in that historical graveyard because of using some of its land in establishing what they call “national parks” for Judaization purposes.
Clashes burst out in the West Bank after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rolled into the area and kidnapped a number of Palestinian anti-occupation protesters.
Reporting from al-Khalil, a PIC correspondent said IOF soldiers in several Israeli army jeeps and bulldozers stormed Surif town, to the northwest, at the crack of dawn and cordoned off a Palestinian civilian home before they ordered all of its residents, via loudspeakers, to evacuate the building.
The assault culminated in the abduction of two Palestinian citizens from the area.
The IOF further stormed Dura town and wreaked havoc on the family homes of the slain Palestinian activist Muhammad al-Fakih, triggering clashes with Palestinian protesters.
The IOF attacked the protesters with randomly-shot spates of teargas canisters and stun grenades. The occupation troops broke into the family home of the Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Abdul Basit al-Hroub in Deir Samet town and summoned his brother, Ameer, to questioning.
A similar assault targeted the home of Faheem Mahmoud al-Shalaldeh, the father of the anti-occupation attacker Muhammad Faheem al-Shalaldeh. The home is located in Sa’ir town.
The IOF soldiers also stormed the home of the slain Palestinian activist Ahmad Younis Kawazbeh in Sa’ir and rummaged into the building before they summoned ex-prisoner Islam Younis Kawazbeh, along with his older brother, Osama, for interrogation at the Etzion camp.
At predawn time, the Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian youngster from Belaa town, in the northern occupied West Bank province of Tulkarem, just a few days before his wedding. Identified as Anwar Rayeq Ameer, the newly-arrested groom-to-be, was detained after he was subjected to exhaustive questioning by Israeli intelligence officers.
Reporting from al-Khalil, a PIC correspondent said IOF soldiers in several Israeli army jeeps and bulldozers stormed Surif town, to the northwest, at the crack of dawn and cordoned off a Palestinian civilian home before they ordered all of its residents, via loudspeakers, to evacuate the building.
The assault culminated in the abduction of two Palestinian citizens from the area.
The IOF further stormed Dura town and wreaked havoc on the family homes of the slain Palestinian activist Muhammad al-Fakih, triggering clashes with Palestinian protesters.
The IOF attacked the protesters with randomly-shot spates of teargas canisters and stun grenades. The occupation troops broke into the family home of the Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Abdul Basit al-Hroub in Deir Samet town and summoned his brother, Ameer, to questioning.
A similar assault targeted the home of Faheem Mahmoud al-Shalaldeh, the father of the anti-occupation attacker Muhammad Faheem al-Shalaldeh. The home is located in Sa’ir town.
The IOF soldiers also stormed the home of the slain Palestinian activist Ahmad Younis Kawazbeh in Sa’ir and rummaged into the building before they summoned ex-prisoner Islam Younis Kawazbeh, along with his older brother, Osama, for interrogation at the Etzion camp.
At predawn time, the Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian youngster from Belaa town, in the northern occupied West Bank province of Tulkarem, just a few days before his wedding. Identified as Anwar Rayeq Ameer, the newly-arrested groom-to-be, was detained after he was subjected to exhaustive questioning by Israeli intelligence officers.
The Israeli occupation army on Monday evening notified Palestinian citizens of its intents to demolish seven agricultural structures and water wells in Qusra village, southeast of Nablus city.
According to specialist in settlement affairs Ghassan Daglas, the structures and wells are located in the eastern area of the village and near the Esh Kodesh settler outpost.
The Israeli army claimed these structures and wells had been built without permits.
These intended demolitions are part of Israel's systematic ethnic cleansing policy against the Palestinians, which target their existence on their land.
According to specialist in settlement affairs Ghassan Daglas, the structures and wells are located in the eastern area of the village and near the Esh Kodesh settler outpost.
The Israeli army claimed these structures and wells had been built without permits.
These intended demolitions are part of Israel's systematic ethnic cleansing policy against the Palestinians, which target their existence on their land.