16 jan 2020
Israeli forces, Thursday, demolished the foundations of a new school that was in the process of being built, east of Yatta town, south of the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to Rateb Jabour, member of the National and Popular Committee Resisting the Wall and Settlements.
Jabour added that Israeli soldiers came to the school, located close the illegal Israeli settlement of Beni Hefer, and began to demolish the foundation laid out for the construction, and no advance notice given to school administration.
In related news, Israeli forces, on Tuesday, prevented the opening of the second semester for two schools in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem, Alray reported. Palestinian schools Al-Wad al-Sadiq and Al-Fursan, were closed under the pretext that the schools lack construction permits.
Israeli army demolishes school foundations in a bid to impede Palestinian education
In their bid to impede Palestinian education in remote villages, Israeli forces today demolished the foundations of a new school that was being built east of Yatta town in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to Rateb Jabour, member of the National and Popular Committee Resisting the Wall and Settlements.
He told WAFA that Israeli soldiers came to the school that was being built between Yatta and Bani Naim in an area close the illegal Israeli settlement of Beni Hefer and began to demolish the foundation laid out for the construction of the school.
He said that no prior notice of demolition was given to the school administration.
The school was intended to serve children in the remote villages who often have to travel long distance and through rough and hazardous terrain to reach their schools in nearby towns.
Jabour added that Israeli soldiers came to the school, located close the illegal Israeli settlement of Beni Hefer, and began to demolish the foundation laid out for the construction, and no advance notice given to school administration.
In related news, Israeli forces, on Tuesday, prevented the opening of the second semester for two schools in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem, Alray reported. Palestinian schools Al-Wad al-Sadiq and Al-Fursan, were closed under the pretext that the schools lack construction permits.
Israeli army demolishes school foundations in a bid to impede Palestinian education
In their bid to impede Palestinian education in remote villages, Israeli forces today demolished the foundations of a new school that was being built east of Yatta town in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to Rateb Jabour, member of the National and Popular Committee Resisting the Wall and Settlements.
He told WAFA that Israeli soldiers came to the school that was being built between Yatta and Bani Naim in an area close the illegal Israeli settlement of Beni Hefer and began to demolish the foundation laid out for the construction of the school.
He said that no prior notice of demolition was given to the school administration.
The school was intended to serve children in the remote villages who often have to travel long distance and through rough and hazardous terrain to reach their schools in nearby towns.
Israeli forces today demolished a Palestinian-owned house in the occupied West Bank’s Hebron-district town of Yatta under the pretext of construction without a permit, according to a local source. video
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the National and Popular Committee in southern Hebron, told WAFA that Israeli forces demolished the 150-square-meter house belonging to Hussein Salamah in Yatta.
He said the house, located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli military rule, was first demolished in 2019 before it was rebuilt by its owner. It was inhabited by 10 people.
Israel does not allow Palestinian development of Area C, which makes up more than 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the National and Popular Committee in southern Hebron, told WAFA that Israeli forces demolished the 150-square-meter house belonging to Hussein Salamah in Yatta.
He said the house, located in Area C of the West Bank, which is under full Israeli military rule, was first demolished in 2019 before it was rebuilt by its owner. It was inhabited by 10 people.
Israel does not allow Palestinian development of Area C, which makes up more than 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
33 Palestinian minors has been suffering from harsh incarceration conditions and maltreatment since they were transferred recently from Ofer to Damon jail without being accompanied by their representatives (adult prisoners).
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Israeli prison forces stormed the section of the Damon jail where the 33 juveniles had been locked up after their transfer from Ofer jail and removed all electric equipment from the cells.
Those children also refused several times to take meals served to them, saying the quality and quantity of the food were very bad, and complained of not having enough blankets to protect themselves against the cold atmosphere in the cells.
The section’s bathrooms are also open and with no curtain and the children has not been able to take a shower since they came to the jail.
The administration of the Ramon jail also confiscated money, about 8,000 shekels, allocated to the children to buy their needs from the commissary, falsely claiming that it gave the money to their representatives in Ofer jail.
Consequently, the prisoners in Ofer jail decided to take protest steps in the coming hours to pressure Israeli jailers to end its violations against the children and allow their representatives to be with them in Ramon jail.
There are about 200 Palestinian minors in Israeli jails, and they receive supervision, representation and care by adult prisoners.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner Society, Israeli prison forces stormed the section of the Damon jail where the 33 juveniles had been locked up after their transfer from Ofer jail and removed all electric equipment from the cells.
Those children also refused several times to take meals served to them, saying the quality and quantity of the food were very bad, and complained of not having enough blankets to protect themselves against the cold atmosphere in the cells.
The section’s bathrooms are also open and with no curtain and the children has not been able to take a shower since they came to the jail.
The administration of the Ramon jail also confiscated money, about 8,000 shekels, allocated to the children to buy their needs from the commissary, falsely claiming that it gave the money to their representatives in Ofer jail.
Consequently, the prisoners in Ofer jail decided to take protest steps in the coming hours to pressure Israeli jailers to end its violations against the children and allow their representatives to be with them in Ramon jail.
There are about 200 Palestinian minors in Israeli jails, and they receive supervision, representation and care by adult prisoners.
Israeli bulldozers today morning razed two roads in the village of al-Walaja, located to the west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.
WAFA correspondent said that Israeli forces stormed Ein Jowaize area in the village and cordoned it off, before bulldozers razed two roads.
Soldiers also handed a local resident, identified as Walid Mahmoud al-Atrash, an order, notifying him of the imminent destruction of his recently-reclaimed land, which occupies an area of 600 square meters.
Al-Atrash noted that soldiers plan to tear down the retaining walls surrounding his plot of land and uproot his saplings with no clear reason.
Located at a horizontal distance of 5 kilometers to the west of Bethlehem, al-Walaja has a population of some 2,800 and occupies a total area of 4,328 dunams.
Under the Oslo Accords, an agreement made 25 years ago that was supposed to last just five years towards a self-governing country alongside Israel, the Palestinian Authority was given ed control over a small pocket of land occupying 113 dunams and accounting for only 2.6 percent of the village’s total area.
This area is classified as Area B. In contrast, Israel maintains control over the remainder, classified as Area C.
An area of 4,209 dunams of the village, accounting for 97 percent, is completely isolated by the section of Israel’s apartheid wall. The majority of this land is agricultural land, forests and open spaces.
The village is flanked by two Israeli colonial settlements; Gilo from the east and Har Gilo from the south.
Using the pretext of illegal building, Israel demolishes houses on a regular basis to restrict Palestinian expansion in occupied Jerusalem.
At the same time, the municipality and government build tens of thousands of housing units in illegal settlements for Jews with a goal to offset the demographic balance in favor of the Jewish settlers in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
Israel refuses to permit virtually any Palestinian construction in Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule, forcing residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.
In contrast, Israel much more easily gives the estimated 550,000 Jewish Israeli settlers there building permits and provides them with roads, electricity, water and sewage systems that remain inaccessible to many neighboring Palestinians.
WAFA correspondent said that Israeli forces stormed Ein Jowaize area in the village and cordoned it off, before bulldozers razed two roads.
Soldiers also handed a local resident, identified as Walid Mahmoud al-Atrash, an order, notifying him of the imminent destruction of his recently-reclaimed land, which occupies an area of 600 square meters.
Al-Atrash noted that soldiers plan to tear down the retaining walls surrounding his plot of land and uproot his saplings with no clear reason.
Located at a horizontal distance of 5 kilometers to the west of Bethlehem, al-Walaja has a population of some 2,800 and occupies a total area of 4,328 dunams.
Under the Oslo Accords, an agreement made 25 years ago that was supposed to last just five years towards a self-governing country alongside Israel, the Palestinian Authority was given ed control over a small pocket of land occupying 113 dunams and accounting for only 2.6 percent of the village’s total area.
This area is classified as Area B. In contrast, Israel maintains control over the remainder, classified as Area C.
An area of 4,209 dunams of the village, accounting for 97 percent, is completely isolated by the section of Israel’s apartheid wall. The majority of this land is agricultural land, forests and open spaces.
The village is flanked by two Israeli colonial settlements; Gilo from the east and Har Gilo from the south.
Using the pretext of illegal building, Israel demolishes houses on a regular basis to restrict Palestinian expansion in occupied Jerusalem.
At the same time, the municipality and government build tens of thousands of housing units in illegal settlements for Jews with a goal to offset the demographic balance in favor of the Jewish settlers in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
Israel refuses to permit virtually any Palestinian construction in Area C, which constitutes 60 percent of the occupied West Bank and falls under full Israeli military rule, forcing residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.
In contrast, Israel much more easily gives the estimated 550,000 Jewish Israeli settlers there building permits and provides them with roads, electricity, water and sewage systems that remain inaccessible to many neighboring Palestinians.
Israeli authorities today morning demolished a tent and a mobile home in the area of Beir Ouneh, near Beit Jala city, located to the west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to local sources.
Mohammad Zuraina, a resident, told WAFA that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer into the area, where the heavy machinery tore down his tent, mobile homes for the fifth time since 2016.
He added that his the retaining walls surrounding his home and gate were also torn down.
Israel has intensified its efforts to incorporate Beit Ouneh area into Jerusalem, which is separated from the largely Christian city of Beit Jala by Israel’s segregation barrier, through home demolitions.
Israel has been demolishing the homes of the Palestinian residents of the area purportedly for being constructed without licenses to eventually push them to leave their land and leave it up for grab by Israel.
The Zrinehs are refugees from 1948 when they were expelled from their homes in Malha area in Jerusalem after it was taken over by the Jewish militias and moved to settle in nearby Bir Oneh where they settled over the years.
Mohammad Zuraina, a resident, told WAFA that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer into the area, where the heavy machinery tore down his tent, mobile homes for the fifth time since 2016.
He added that his the retaining walls surrounding his home and gate were also torn down.
Israel has intensified its efforts to incorporate Beit Ouneh area into Jerusalem, which is separated from the largely Christian city of Beit Jala by Israel’s segregation barrier, through home demolitions.
Israel has been demolishing the homes of the Palestinian residents of the area purportedly for being constructed without licenses to eventually push them to leave their land and leave it up for grab by Israel.
The Zrinehs are refugees from 1948 when they were expelled from their homes in Malha area in Jerusalem after it was taken over by the Jewish militias and moved to settle in nearby Bir Oneh where they settled over the years.
15 jan 2020
The Israeli military issued orders seizing hundreds of dunums of agricultural land in the towns of al-Khader and Irtas, south of the southern West Bank biblical city of Bethlehem, today said Hasan Breijieh, from the Commission for the Resistance of the Wall and Settlements.
He told WAFA that Israel issued a military order for the takeover of 350 dunums of farming land in these two towns for the purpose of expanding a settlements road in order to bypass the Palestinian towns and villages in that area.
He stressed that with the building of the new bypass road, more Palestinian agricultural land will also be inaccessible to their Palestinian landowners and farmers since the road will also take along with it 150 meters of land on its both sides.
He told WAFA that Israel issued a military order for the takeover of 350 dunums of farming land in these two towns for the purpose of expanding a settlements road in order to bypass the Palestinian towns and villages in that area.
He stressed that with the building of the new bypass road, more Palestinian agricultural land will also be inaccessible to their Palestinian landowners and farmers since the road will also take along with it 150 meters of land on its both sides.
Two Palestinian citizens were forced to demolish their houses in Jerusalem on Wednesday based on an order by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA).
Local sources said that the Palestinian citizens Mousa Bashir and Ammar Nassar demolished their own homes in Jabal al-Mukabber town in Jerusalem.
The IOA forces many Palestinian families in Jerusalem to demolish their homes and threatens to make them pay heavy fines if they don't carry out the demolition themselves.
Local sources said that the Palestinian citizens Mousa Bashir and Ammar Nassar demolished their own homes in Jabal al-Mukabber town in Jerusalem.
The IOA forces many Palestinian families in Jerusalem to demolish their homes and threatens to make them pay heavy fines if they don't carry out the demolition themselves.
14 jan 2020
The Israeli army informed residents of Hamsa al-Tahta, in the northern Jordan Valley, of its intention to destroy residential structures, remove fences and uproot trees in their area, today said Aref Daraghme, a local rights activist.
He said the army claims the structures, fences and trees are located in an archeological area and therefore they will be removed.
Israel is trying to keep the occupied Jordan Valley off to its Palestinians inhabitants in an effort to later annex it without its Palestinian population, a step the Palestinian fear would kill any chance of reaching peace between them and Israel.
He said the army claims the structures, fences and trees are located in an archeological area and therefore they will be removed.
Israel is trying to keep the occupied Jordan Valley off to its Palestinians inhabitants in an effort to later annex it without its Palestinian population, a step the Palestinian fear would kill any chance of reaching peace between them and Israel.
An Israeli army bulldozer today demolished a blacksmith shop in the village of Hizma, to the northeast of Jerusalem, and seized it contents under the pretext it was built without license, reported WAFA correspondent.
He said that the army demolished the shop built of metal and brick after confiscating its equipment and tools.
He said that the army demolished the shop built of metal and brick after confiscating its equipment and tools.
Israeli war minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that 66,500 shekels (about $19,000) were confiscated from the family of Palestinian prisoner Maher Younis — the second longest-serving detainee in Israeli jails.
In Twitter remarks, Bennett claimed the family received this amount of money from the Palestinian Authority.
He said that this measure was taken in accordance with a previous official decision to seize PA-paid money of prisoners who carried out what he called attacks (resistance operations) and hold an Israeli ID.
A Hebrew website said that it was the first time Israel confiscated money from a Palestinian prisoner’s family in such way.
The family of prisoner Younis lives in Ara village in the Haifa District in northern Israel (the 1948 occupied lands). The prisoner is serving 40 years on a charge of killing an Israeli soldier.
In Twitter remarks, Bennett claimed the family received this amount of money from the Palestinian Authority.
He said that this measure was taken in accordance with a previous official decision to seize PA-paid money of prisoners who carried out what he called attacks (resistance operations) and hold an Israeli ID.
A Hebrew website said that it was the first time Israel confiscated money from a Palestinian prisoner’s family in such way.
The family of prisoner Younis lives in Ara village in the Haifa District in northern Israel (the 1948 occupied lands). The prisoner is serving 40 years on a charge of killing an Israeli soldier.
