27 apr 2020
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday arrested a Palestinian lawyer at a checkpoint near Beit El settlement in the West Bank district of Ramallah.
Local sources reported that IOF soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint north of al-Bireh City stopped lawyer Amr al-Sal’ous and forced him out of his car.
The IOF seized the car, handcuffed the Palestinian lawyer and transferred him to an undeclared destination.
Local sources reported that IOF soldiers stationed at a military checkpoint north of al-Bireh City stopped lawyer Amr al-Sal’ous and forced him out of his car.
The IOF seized the car, handcuffed the Palestinian lawyer and transferred him to an undeclared destination.
Israeli settlers today chopped down some 40 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, confirmed that a group of settlers from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Rechelim chopped off some 40 olive trees belonging to Abdul-Rahman Mohammad Yousef, a local Palestinian farmer.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
26 apr 2020
Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Sunday issued demolition orders targeting 22 Palestinian homes and agricultural facilities in Qarawat Bani Hassan village in the West Bank district of Salfit.
Salfit’s governor Abdullah Kmeil condemned the IOA daily violations in Salfit and other areas in the West Bank.
Kmeil said that the IOA is exploiting the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolition campaigns and settlement activities in the Occupied West Bank, calling for immediate action by the Palestinians themselves and human rights groups to confront the attack.
Salfit’s governor Abdullah Kmeil condemned the IOA daily violations in Salfit and other areas in the West Bank.
Kmeil said that the IOA is exploiting the coronavirus crisis to escalate demolition campaigns and settlement activities in the Occupied West Bank, calling for immediate action by the Palestinians themselves and human rights groups to confront the attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he is "confident" Israel will apply its sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the Jordan Valley in "a few months from now."
“For decades I have been fighting those who sought to deny the millennial connection of the Jewish people to our homeland. I’m proud to say that the decades-long struggle has borne fruit. Three months ago, the Trump peace plan recognized Israel’s rights in all of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].
And President Trump pledged to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Jewish communities there and in the Jordan Valley,” Netanyahu was quoted by the Times of Israel as saying in a recorded speech broadcast on a Christian Evangelical event marking the 100th anniversary of the San Remo conference.
“A couple of months from now, I’m confident that that pledge will be honored. That we will be able to celebrate another historic moment in the history of Zionism. A century after San Remo, the promise of Zionism is being realized,” Netanyahu said.
The San Remo conference was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council held in April 1920. In the San Remo Resolution, the superpowers recognize the right of the Jewish people to renew their national home in Israel following the Balfour Declaration of 1927.
The resolution was adopted by the United Nations upon its establishment in 1945 and is still valid according to international law.
According to the government deal between the Likud and Blue & White, Netanyahu will be able to bring the agreement reached with the Trump administration over the application of Israeli sovereignty in West Bank and Jordan Valley territories for the approval of the Security Cabinet and Knesset fro July 1.
In addition, “the law will be passed as quickly as possible… and will not be disrupted or delayed by the chairmen of either the House or the Foreign Affairs and Defense committees.”
Gantz managed to add a clause into the deal stating that the prime minister and the deputy prime minister must act in concert with the United States, including on the issue of drawing new roadmaps, and while consulting the international opinion on the issue.
All this while striving to safeguard the security and strategic interests of the State of Israel, including the need to maintain regional stability, preserve peace agreements, and strive for future peace agreements.
With this clause, Gantz wished to ensure that Netanyahu will not be able to take any far-reaching steps that may put a strain on Israel's relations with Jordan, potentially leading to a full diplomatic crisis and the abolition of the peace agreement between the two countries.
Netanyahu's efforts to apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and settlements in the West Bank even before the elections failed because of the White House's opposition to annexation before a joint committee would come to an agreement on the roadmaps to ensure Israel would not appropriate any of the future Palestinian state's territories.
The joint committee has already begun mapping work but was forced to stop due to the coronavirus outbreak.
“For decades I have been fighting those who sought to deny the millennial connection of the Jewish people to our homeland. I’m proud to say that the decades-long struggle has borne fruit. Three months ago, the Trump peace plan recognized Israel’s rights in all of Judea and Samaria [the West Bank].
And President Trump pledged to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Jewish communities there and in the Jordan Valley,” Netanyahu was quoted by the Times of Israel as saying in a recorded speech broadcast on a Christian Evangelical event marking the 100th anniversary of the San Remo conference.
“A couple of months from now, I’m confident that that pledge will be honored. That we will be able to celebrate another historic moment in the history of Zionism. A century after San Remo, the promise of Zionism is being realized,” Netanyahu said.
The San Remo conference was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council held in April 1920. In the San Remo Resolution, the superpowers recognize the right of the Jewish people to renew their national home in Israel following the Balfour Declaration of 1927.
The resolution was adopted by the United Nations upon its establishment in 1945 and is still valid according to international law.
According to the government deal between the Likud and Blue & White, Netanyahu will be able to bring the agreement reached with the Trump administration over the application of Israeli sovereignty in West Bank and Jordan Valley territories for the approval of the Security Cabinet and Knesset fro July 1.
In addition, “the law will be passed as quickly as possible… and will not be disrupted or delayed by the chairmen of either the House or the Foreign Affairs and Defense committees.”
Gantz managed to add a clause into the deal stating that the prime minister and the deputy prime minister must act in concert with the United States, including on the issue of drawing new roadmaps, and while consulting the international opinion on the issue.
All this while striving to safeguard the security and strategic interests of the State of Israel, including the need to maintain regional stability, preserve peace agreements, and strive for future peace agreements.
With this clause, Gantz wished to ensure that Netanyahu will not be able to take any far-reaching steps that may put a strain on Israel's relations with Jordan, potentially leading to a full diplomatic crisis and the abolition of the peace agreement between the two countries.
Netanyahu's efforts to apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and settlements in the West Bank even before the elections failed because of the White House's opposition to annexation before a joint committee would come to an agreement on the roadmaps to ensure Israel would not appropriate any of the future Palestinian state's territories.
The joint committee has already begun mapping work but was forced to stop due to the coronavirus outbreak.
24 apr 2020
Israeli settlers today chopped down some 30 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, confirmed that a group of settlers from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Rechelim chopped off 33 olive trees belonging to Hamad Saleh Jazi, a local Palestinian farmer.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, confirmed that a group of settlers from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Rechelim chopped off 33 olive trees belonging to Hamad Saleh Jazi, a local Palestinian farmer.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Israeli soldiers, on Thursday, dismantled a mobile home belonging to a Palestinian family in al-Dyouk al-Tahta village, west of the city of Jericho, and seized it, according to witnesses.
Witnesses told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the area, and took apart the mobile home and seized it, under the pretext that the owner lacked an Israeli permit. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 17 states that (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. |
23 apr 2020
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Maliki, said today that the State of Palestine is going to prosecute Israel at international courts in the event it goes ahead with its plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.
Al-Maliki said during a meeting with the European Union's Representative to Palestine, Sven Cohan von Burgsdorf, that the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's recent statement – in which he said that it was Israel's decision whether to annex parts of the occupied West Bank – was a proof of the US's "complicity" in this Israeli colonial expansionist project.
He called on the European Union to pressure the Israeli government to halt its annexation plans and to take practical steps and measures to prevent this from happening, as well as take punitive measures in the event of implementation.
Earlier today, the EU reaffirmed its position on the status of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, saying that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law.
"The European Union's position on the status of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 remains unchanged," the EU said in a statement. "In line with international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the European Union does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank."
"The European Union reiterates that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law. The European Union will continue to closely monitor the situation and its broader implications, and will act accordingly."
Al-Maliki said during a meeting with the European Union's Representative to Palestine, Sven Cohan von Burgsdorf, that the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's recent statement – in which he said that it was Israel's decision whether to annex parts of the occupied West Bank – was a proof of the US's "complicity" in this Israeli colonial expansionist project.
He called on the European Union to pressure the Israeli government to halt its annexation plans and to take practical steps and measures to prevent this from happening, as well as take punitive measures in the event of implementation.
Earlier today, the EU reaffirmed its position on the status of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, saying that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law.
"The European Union's position on the status of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 remains unchanged," the EU said in a statement. "In line with international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the European Union does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank."
"The European Union reiterates that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law. The European Union will continue to closely monitor the situation and its broader implications, and will act accordingly."
The Israeli occupation army on Thursday notified several Palestinian families in the Jiftlik village in the central Jordan Valley of its intent to demolish their homes and displace them within a few days.
Local activist Aref Daraghmeh said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested one of the residents in Khilat al-Fula area in Jiftlik, where the demolitions will take place.
Daraghmeh added that the Israeli army claimed the measure was aimed at stopping the destruction of antiquities in the area.
Local activist Aref Daraghmeh said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested one of the residents in Khilat al-Fula area in Jiftlik, where the demolitions will take place.
Daraghmeh added that the Israeli army claimed the measure was aimed at stopping the destruction of antiquities in the area.
The European Union reaffirmed today its position on the status of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, saying that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law.
This came in a statement released today, where the EU said it will not recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.
"The European Union's position on the status of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 remains unchanged," the statement said.
"In line with international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the European Union does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank."
"The European Union reiterates that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law.
The European Union will continue to closely monitor the situation and its broader implications, and will act accordingly."
This came in a statement released today, where the EU said it will not recognize Israel's sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.
"The European Union's position on the status of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 remains unchanged," the statement said.
"In line with international law and relevant UN Security Council resolutions, including resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the European Union does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank."
"The European Union reiterates that any annexation would constitute a serious violation of international law.
The European Union will continue to closely monitor the situation and its broader implications, and will act accordingly."
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