13 july 2019
Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and delivered a demolition order, targeting a Palestinian home in Wad ash-Sheikh area, near the main entrance of the town.
Mohammad Awad, a local media and human rights activists, said the soldiers delivered the order to Mohammad Ali al-Allami, informing him of the army’s decision to demolish his property of 150 square/meters, consisting of one floor and a basement.
Awad added that the land where the home is located is under the administrative control of Beit Ummar town council, and the Palestinian had all needed legal documents, including permits and proof of ownership.
Mohammad Awad, a local media and human rights activists, said the soldiers delivered the order to Mohammad Ali al-Allami, informing him of the army’s decision to demolish his property of 150 square/meters, consisting of one floor and a basement.
Awad added that the land where the home is located is under the administrative control of Beit Ummar town council, and the Palestinian had all needed legal documents, including permits and proof of ownership.
Israeli navy boats attacked this morning Palestinian fishermen near Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, detained two fishermen and seized their boat, according to fishermen.
The told WAFA that the Israeli navy shot live fire at the boat owned by Mohammad and his brother Ahmad Bardawil and opened the water hoses at it while sailing in the sea before detaining the two brothers and seizing their boat.
Gaza fishermen report of daily harassment by the Israeli navy, which prevents them from doing their work and earning a decent living.
The told WAFA that the Israeli navy shot live fire at the boat owned by Mohammad and his brother Ahmad Bardawil and opened the water hoses at it while sailing in the sea before detaining the two brothers and seizing their boat.
Gaza fishermen report of daily harassment by the Israeli navy, which prevents them from doing their work and earning a decent living.
12 july 2019
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday delivered stop-work orders issued against six homes and one farm structure in Rummanah village, west of Jenin in the West Bank.
According to local sources, a large number of Israeli troops stormed Rummanah village and took photos of six homes under construction and one small barn, which belong to local residents.
The stop-work and removal notices, which the owners received, claimed the structures were built near the separation wall.
According to local sources, a large number of Israeli troops stormed Rummanah village and took photos of six homes under construction and one small barn, which belong to local residents.
The stop-work and removal notices, which the owners received, claimed the structures were built near the separation wall.
11 july 2019
Israeli soldiers invaded, Thursday, the town of Ethna, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and delivered demolition orders targeting several homes, agricultural structures and a barn.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers delivered many demolition orders, which included several homes, agricultural structures and sheds, in addition to a barn.
They added that the targeting buildings and structures are in the section of the town, which is in “Area C” of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli military and administrative control.
More than two-third of the town is designated as Area C, and the army frequently targets with demolition Palestinian buildings, barns and various structures.
Area C: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Over 60 per cent of the West Bank is considered Area C, where Israel retains near exclusive control, including over law enforcement, planning and construction.
Most of Area C has been allocated for the benefit of Israeli settlements or the Israeli military, at the expense of Palestinian communities.
This impedes the development of adequate housing, infrastructure and livelihoods in Palestinian communities, and has significant consequences for the entire West Bank population.
Structures built without permits are regularly served with demolition orders, creating chronic uncertainty and threat, and encouraging people to leave. Where the orders are implemented, they have resulted in displacement and disruption of livelihoods, the entrenchment of poverty and increased aid dependency.
The humanitarian community has faced a range of difficulties in providing aid in Area C, including the demolition and confiscation of assistance by the Israeli authorities.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers delivered many demolition orders, which included several homes, agricultural structures and sheds, in addition to a barn.
They added that the targeting buildings and structures are in the section of the town, which is in “Area C” of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli military and administrative control.
More than two-third of the town is designated as Area C, and the army frequently targets with demolition Palestinian buildings, barns and various structures.
Area C: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA): Over 60 per cent of the West Bank is considered Area C, where Israel retains near exclusive control, including over law enforcement, planning and construction.
Most of Area C has been allocated for the benefit of Israeli settlements or the Israeli military, at the expense of Palestinian communities.
This impedes the development of adequate housing, infrastructure and livelihoods in Palestinian communities, and has significant consequences for the entire West Bank population.
Structures built without permits are regularly served with demolition orders, creating chronic uncertainty and threat, and encouraging people to leave. Where the orders are implemented, they have resulted in displacement and disruption of livelihoods, the entrenchment of poverty and increased aid dependency.
The humanitarian community has faced a range of difficulties in providing aid in Area C, including the demolition and confiscation of assistance by the Israeli authorities.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) destroyed a monument erected in commemoration of the martyr Mohammed Samir Obaid by the residents of Issawiya village, east Jerusalem, on Wednesday evening. video
According to local sources, the IOF stormed the village and removed the memorial.
21-year-old Obeid was killed on June 27 after the IOF entered Issawiya. One of the soldiers fired at him from close range.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed the village and removed the memorial.
21-year-old Obeid was killed on June 27 after the IOF entered Issawiya. One of the soldiers fired at him from close range.
10 july 2019
The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian mobile home in Ezbet Salman village south of Qalqilya.
Head of Ezbet Salman's village council Salman Salman said that the Israeli forces stormed the village and knocked down a mobile home owned by the Palestinian citizen Othman Atmawi.
The Israeli forces on a regular basis demolish Palestinian homes and other facilities in the West Bank and Jerusalem over baseless pretexts with the aim of pushing the Palestinians to leave their villages and cities.
Head of Ezbet Salman's village council Salman Salman said that the Israeli forces stormed the village and knocked down a mobile home owned by the Palestinian citizen Othman Atmawi.
The Israeli forces on a regular basis demolish Palestinian homes and other facilities in the West Bank and Jerusalem over baseless pretexts with the aim of pushing the Palestinians to leave their villages and cities.
A Palestinian family who has been battling against a shadowy Israeli settler group for 25 years was forced Wednesday morning to evict their house in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
WAFA correspondent said that dozens of heavily-armed Israeli police stormed the house of the Siyam family in Silwan and removed all furniture and electrical appliances to make room for settlers.
Silwan-based watchdog Wadi Hilweh Information Center posted a video showing police officers using ladders to storm the Siyam house and scuffling with family members to force them out of the house. video video video video
The center confirmed that the Siyam family refused to comply with the eviction order and at least a family member was detained.
This came twenty days after an Israeli court dismissed the Siyam family’s appeal to remain in their house and ruled in favor of the Elad shadowy settler group.
Elad group seeks to forcefully displace Palestinians from Jerusalem in line with the policy championed by successive Israeli governments to Judaize Jerusalem.
This also came few days after the Elad group confiscated money raised to help Siyam family fight their evacuation order.
It is worth noting that parts of the Siyam’s building were seized by the Israeli state under Israel’s Absentee Property Law, which which declares properties belonging to Palestinians who were displaced, often by war or poverty, as “absentee” and therefore state property.
These parts of the family home were then sold to Elad.
WAFA correspondent said that dozens of heavily-armed Israeli police stormed the house of the Siyam family in Silwan and removed all furniture and electrical appliances to make room for settlers.
Silwan-based watchdog Wadi Hilweh Information Center posted a video showing police officers using ladders to storm the Siyam house and scuffling with family members to force them out of the house. video video video video
The center confirmed that the Siyam family refused to comply with the eviction order and at least a family member was detained.
This came twenty days after an Israeli court dismissed the Siyam family’s appeal to remain in their house and ruled in favor of the Elad shadowy settler group.
Elad group seeks to forcefully displace Palestinians from Jerusalem in line with the policy championed by successive Israeli governments to Judaize Jerusalem.
This also came few days after the Elad group confiscated money raised to help Siyam family fight their evacuation order.
It is worth noting that parts of the Siyam’s building were seized by the Israeli state under Israel’s Absentee Property Law, which which declares properties belonging to Palestinians who were displaced, often by war or poverty, as “absentee” and therefore state property.
These parts of the family home were then sold to Elad.
A group of Israeli soldiers on Wednesday detained Palestinian municipal employees in the village of Beit Fourik, in the northern West Bank, and seized several vehicles used for trash collection.
According to local sources, the vehicles that were seized include a garbage truck, a tractor used for hauling garbage and a third vehicle used in trash collection.
The vehicles were loaded with garbage and were headed to a landfill site east of the village, located near Nablus in the northern West Bank, when they were detained by Israeli soldiers in military vehicles.
The soldiers approached with weapons drawn and ordered the municipal employees out of their vehicles, then held them for several hours in the hot sun, and took the vehicles away to an unknown location.
The Palestinian Wafa News Agency spoke with Ata Samara, a health inspector with the Beit Fourik village council, who told them that this trash collection by the municipality is a daily collection, and this is the first time they have been harassed by Israeli occupation forces.
Samara added that the trash dump is located in Area B of the West Bank, which is administered by the Palestinian Authority but falls under Israeli military rule, adding that the village council was not informed by the army that it would no longer be allowed to dump there. He said the seizure of the truck and car is part of an effort by the Israeli army to make life difficult for the Palestinians in that village.
Without a trash truck or a place to put garbage, the Palestinians of the village will be forced to fend for themselves, which will likely result in a buildup of trash at homes in the village, and unsanitary conditions will result.
Israeli authorities have created multiple landfill sites for Israeli garbage on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank, and frequently haul and dump Israeli garbage onto Palestinian village land. However, in recent years the Israeli authorities have made it harder and harder for Palestinians in the West Bank to dump their garbage, instead closing off the Palestinian landfills and dumps or putting roadblocks to prevent the Palestinians from reaching them.
Israeli forces have targeted the village of Beit Fourik for collective punishment, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, since March, when an Israeli settler was killed in a settlement nearby.
According to local sources, the vehicles that were seized include a garbage truck, a tractor used for hauling garbage and a third vehicle used in trash collection.
The vehicles were loaded with garbage and were headed to a landfill site east of the village, located near Nablus in the northern West Bank, when they were detained by Israeli soldiers in military vehicles.
The soldiers approached with weapons drawn and ordered the municipal employees out of their vehicles, then held them for several hours in the hot sun, and took the vehicles away to an unknown location.
The Palestinian Wafa News Agency spoke with Ata Samara, a health inspector with the Beit Fourik village council, who told them that this trash collection by the municipality is a daily collection, and this is the first time they have been harassed by Israeli occupation forces.
Samara added that the trash dump is located in Area B of the West Bank, which is administered by the Palestinian Authority but falls under Israeli military rule, adding that the village council was not informed by the army that it would no longer be allowed to dump there. He said the seizure of the truck and car is part of an effort by the Israeli army to make life difficult for the Palestinians in that village.
Without a trash truck or a place to put garbage, the Palestinians of the village will be forced to fend for themselves, which will likely result in a buildup of trash at homes in the village, and unsanitary conditions will result.
Israeli authorities have created multiple landfill sites for Israeli garbage on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank, and frequently haul and dump Israeli garbage onto Palestinian village land. However, in recent years the Israeli authorities have made it harder and harder for Palestinians in the West Bank to dump their garbage, instead closing off the Palestinian landfills and dumps or putting roadblocks to prevent the Palestinians from reaching them.
Israeli forces have targeted the village of Beit Fourik for collective punishment, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, since March, when an Israeli settler was killed in a settlement nearby.
Israeli forces confiscated a bulldozer working on the rehabilitation of an agricultural land in Kufr Qaddoum village, east of Qalqilia, in the occupied West Bank, said local WAFA sources.
Israeli forces were said to have confiscated a bulldozer belonging to Suhaib Jamal, while he was working on rehabilitating an agricultural land belonging to one of the village residents in the north-eastern part of the village.
In Jerusalem, Israeli forces demolished the foundations and concrete pillars of a residential building under construction in az-Za’ayyem village, said a local official.
The head of az-Za’ayyem village council said Israeli forces demolished the foundations and concrete pillars of a residential building under construction, and razed a 700-square-meter of land belonging to local resident Dawood ‘Adwan, in the Sheikh Anbar area, in az Za’ayyem neighborhood.
Israeli forces were said to have confiscated a bulldozer belonging to Suhaib Jamal, while he was working on rehabilitating an agricultural land belonging to one of the village residents in the north-eastern part of the village.
In Jerusalem, Israeli forces demolished the foundations and concrete pillars of a residential building under construction in az-Za’ayyem village, said a local official.
The head of az-Za’ayyem village council said Israeli forces demolished the foundations and concrete pillars of a residential building under construction, and razed a 700-square-meter of land belonging to local resident Dawood ‘Adwan, in the Sheikh Anbar area, in az Za’ayyem neighborhood.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday stormed Halhul town, north of al-Khalil, and confiscated equipment from a printery, amid clashes with local youths.
According to local sources, the IOF confiscated stormed Babel Printery and confiscated its printing equipment and clashed for hours with local young men.
A plot of cultivated land caught fire as a result of the intensive firing of tear gas and stun grenades during the events.
Meanwhile, the IOF stormed al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil, and Idhna town to the west and raided homes, without making arrests.
According to local sources, the IOF confiscated stormed Babel Printery and confiscated its printing equipment and clashed for hours with local young men.
A plot of cultivated land caught fire as a result of the intensive firing of tear gas and stun grenades during the events.
Meanwhile, the IOF stormed al-Arroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil, and Idhna town to the west and raided homes, without making arrests.
Israeli bulldozers at dawn Wednesday demolished a Palestinian-owned concrete wall in Hizma town, east of Occupied Jerusalem.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli soldiers escorting bulldozers knocked down a concrete wall in Tablas neighborhood of the town at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several homes in Hizma town, with no reported arrests.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IOF demolished foundations and concrete columns and bulldozed about 700 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Sheikh Anbar neighborhood of the Za’im village, east of Jerusalem.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli soldiers escorting bulldozers knocked down a concrete wall in Tablas neighborhood of the town at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several homes in Hizma town, with no reported arrests.
Earlier on Tuesday, the IOF demolished foundations and concrete columns and bulldozed about 700 dunums of Palestinian-owned land in Sheikh Anbar neighborhood of the Za’im village, east of Jerusalem.
9 july 2019
Israeli soldiers demolished, Tuesday, a Palestinian home in Khirbat Bayruq village, north of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the National Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, said the soldiers invaded Khirbat Bayruq after surrounding it, and demolished a home owned by Rashid Ismael Abu Hadid.
Jabour added that the army claimed that the demolished home was built without a permit from the “Civil Administration Office,” the executive branch of the illegal Israel occupation in the West Bank.
The demolished home was a one-story building, providing shelter for eight family members.
Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the National Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, said the soldiers invaded Khirbat Bayruq after surrounding it, and demolished a home owned by Rashid Ismael Abu Hadid.
Jabour added that the army claimed that the demolished home was built without a permit from the “Civil Administration Office,” the executive branch of the illegal Israel occupation in the West Bank.
The demolished home was a one-story building, providing shelter for eight family members.
Israeli bulldozers stormed the village of al-Zaim in east Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.
Local sources told the PNN that the bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli Occupation Forces, demolished the foundations of a residential building that was under construction, claiming it was being built without a licence.
The sources confirmed that 700 square meters of land was demolished.
Local sources told the PNN that the bulldozers, accompanied by Israeli Occupation Forces, demolished the foundations of a residential building that was under construction, claiming it was being built without a licence.
The sources confirmed that 700 square meters of land was demolished.
Israeli settlers destroyed 24 acres of land and property belonging to Palestinian citizens, east of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
The land was adjacent to Kiryat Arba settlement which is illegal under international law.
‘Aref Jaber, a local human rights activist, said that the settlers from Kiryat Arba, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, used heavy vehicles to destroy the land owned by ‘Abd al-Samad Jaber.
Jaber added that the owners of the land filed a number of complaints in the Israeli courts, and they have both Palestinian records and Israeli documents that prove their ownership.
The land was adjacent to Kiryat Arba settlement which is illegal under international law.
‘Aref Jaber, a local human rights activist, said that the settlers from Kiryat Arba, protected by the Israeli occupation forces, used heavy vehicles to destroy the land owned by ‘Abd al-Samad Jaber.
Jaber added that the owners of the land filed a number of complaints in the Israeli courts, and they have both Palestinian records and Israeli documents that prove their ownership.
Crews from Israel's Jerusalem municipality, under heavy police guard, on Sunday evening stormed Wadi al-Hummus neighborhood in Sur Baher town, south of Jerusalem, and took measurements of homes threatened with demolition.
Head of Wadi al-Hummus Committee, Hamada Hamada, said that the planned demolition campaign will include 237 apartments that are homes for about 500 people.
Hamada said that the Jerusalem municipality asked the residents to demolish their own homes. Otherwise, it would do the demolition and force them to pay steep fines.
He added that an Israeli court has given the families a time limit until 18 July to evacuate and demolish their homes.
The demolition campaign comes under the pretext that the targeted homes are close to the separation wall and pose a security threat.
Israeli laws stipulate that Palestinian homes must be at least 250 meters away from the wall.
Wadi al-Hummus is inhabited by over 6,000 Palestinians, 500 of whom will be forced to leave after the demolition.
Head of Wadi al-Hummus Committee, Hamada Hamada, said that the planned demolition campaign will include 237 apartments that are homes for about 500 people.
Hamada said that the Jerusalem municipality asked the residents to demolish their own homes. Otherwise, it would do the demolition and force them to pay steep fines.
He added that an Israeli court has given the families a time limit until 18 July to evacuate and demolish their homes.
The demolition campaign comes under the pretext that the targeted homes are close to the separation wall and pose a security threat.
Israeli laws stipulate that Palestinian homes must be at least 250 meters away from the wall.
Wadi al-Hummus is inhabited by over 6,000 Palestinians, 500 of whom will be forced to leave after the demolition.
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