13 july 2020
Israeli forces razed a large tract of land belonging to Kisan village, east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, said a municipal source.
Deputy mayor of Kisan Ahmad Ghazal confirmed that Israeli forces provided protection to a bulldozer that razed a tract of land covering approx. ten dunams belonging to the village, and installed power poles around it.
He elaborated that land was bulldozed to expand the nearby Israeli colonial settlement outpost of Ibei Hanahal, also written as Ibei Hanachal, established on 166 dunams of land belonging to Kisan in 1999.
Located 11 kilometers to the south of Bethlehem city, Kisan has a population of some 600 and occupies a total area of 133,330 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 limied control over a tiny pocket of land occupying 112 dunams, accounting for less than 1 percent of the village’s total area.
Israel maintains control over 108,952, classified as Area C, accounting for 81.7 percent. The remaining part of 24,266 dunams, accounting for 18 percent, is classified as nature reserve.
Israel has established three colonial settlements, namely Ma'ale Amos and Mizpe Shalem besides to the settlement outpost of Ibei Hanahal on lands confiscated from the village. It has confiscated further land for the construction of settler-only by-pass road no. 901 and road no. 3698, which extend for 16.1 kilometers on the village land.
Israel has constructed a section of the apartheid wall, confiscating and isolating some 87,344 dunams of fertile land, accounting for 65.5 percent of the village total area, for colonial settlement activities and pushing the villagers into a crowded enclave, a ghetto, surrounded by walls, settlements and military installations.
Deputy mayor of Kisan Ahmad Ghazal confirmed that Israeli forces provided protection to a bulldozer that razed a tract of land covering approx. ten dunams belonging to the village, and installed power poles around it.
He elaborated that land was bulldozed to expand the nearby Israeli colonial settlement outpost of Ibei Hanahal, also written as Ibei Hanachal, established on 166 dunams of land belonging to Kisan in 1999.
Located 11 kilometers to the south of Bethlehem city, Kisan has a population of some 600 and occupies a total area of 133,330 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 limied control over a tiny pocket of land occupying 112 dunams, accounting for less than 1 percent of the village’s total area.
Israel maintains control over 108,952, classified as Area C, accounting for 81.7 percent. The remaining part of 24,266 dunams, accounting for 18 percent, is classified as nature reserve.
Israel has established three colonial settlements, namely Ma'ale Amos and Mizpe Shalem besides to the settlement outpost of Ibei Hanahal on lands confiscated from the village. It has confiscated further land for the construction of settler-only by-pass road no. 901 and road no. 3698, which extend for 16.1 kilometers on the village land.
Israel has constructed a section of the apartheid wall, confiscating and isolating some 87,344 dunams of fertile land, accounting for 65.5 percent of the village total area, for colonial settlement activities and pushing the villagers into a crowded enclave, a ghetto, surrounded by walls, settlements and military installations.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday bulldozed swaths of cultivated land and an agricultural structure in al-Baq'ah area in the east of al-Khalil.
According to local sources, Israeli bulldozers escorted by troops razed three dunums of land planted with vegetables and an agricultural structure belonging to Rabie Jaber and his family.
The agricultural lands in al-Baq’ah area are considered al-Khalil’s food basket, so they are exposed to a frenzied destruction campaign by the IOF and Jewish settlers, who already wreaked havoc on vast tracts of cultivated land and destroyed irrigation wells.
According to local sources, Israeli bulldozers escorted by troops razed three dunums of land planted with vegetables and an agricultural structure belonging to Rabie Jaber and his family.
The agricultural lands in al-Baq’ah area are considered al-Khalil’s food basket, so they are exposed to a frenzied destruction campaign by the IOF and Jewish settlers, who already wreaked havoc on vast tracts of cultivated land and destroyed irrigation wells.
Israeli forces today delivered a military order to seize a Palestinian plot of land located to the east of Yasuf village, northeast of Salfit city, said local sources.
The sources confirmed that Israeli forces delivered a military order to seize the plot of land, which occupies approx. 1.5 dunams and is located near Zaatara military checkpoint.
The landowner, identified as Khalil Ibrahim Yassin, was allowed 40 days to challenge the seizure order at an Israeli military court.
Israeli courts, seen as the last judicial recourse against demolitions and land grab, in fact are complicit in perpetuating the Israeli policies of forcible transfer against Palestinians.
Soldiers in the oxymoronically named Civil Administration determine where Palestinians may live, where and when they may travel (including to other parts of the occupied territories like Gaza and East Jerusalem), whether they can build or expand homes on their own land, whether they own that land at all, whether an Israeli settler can takeover that land among others.
Land grab besides to other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 53-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.
The sources confirmed that Israeli forces delivered a military order to seize the plot of land, which occupies approx. 1.5 dunams and is located near Zaatara military checkpoint.
The landowner, identified as Khalil Ibrahim Yassin, was allowed 40 days to challenge the seizure order at an Israeli military court.
Israeli courts, seen as the last judicial recourse against demolitions and land grab, in fact are complicit in perpetuating the Israeli policies of forcible transfer against Palestinians.
Soldiers in the oxymoronically named Civil Administration determine where Palestinians may live, where and when they may travel (including to other parts of the occupied territories like Gaza and East Jerusalem), whether they can build or expand homes on their own land, whether they own that land at all, whether an Israeli settler can takeover that land among others.
Land grab besides to other measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 53-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.
Israeli bulldozers Monday demolished several Palestinian structures in Izbit Shufa neighborhood, southeast of Tulkarm city, according to witnesses and owners.
Amer Hamed, a shack owner, told WAFA that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer into the neighborhood, where the heavy machinery tore down a shack, the wall surrounding his brother’s parking lot besides to another wall surrounding the land plot of another resident. video
He pointed out that they received a military order to evict the area slated for demolition within 96 hours despite the fact that they have legal documents attesting to their ownership of their properties.
Israel demolishes Palestinian houses and structures almost on a daily basis as a means to achieve “demographic control” of the occupied territories.
Israel denies planning permits for Palestinians to build on their own land or to extend existing houses to accommodate natural growth, particularly in Jerusalem and 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 argues that building within existing colonial settlements is necessary to accommodate the “natural growth” of settlers.
Therefore, it 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.
Amer Hamed, a shack owner, told WAFA that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer into the neighborhood, where the heavy machinery tore down a shack, the wall surrounding his brother’s parking lot besides to another wall surrounding the land plot of another resident. video
He pointed out that they received a military order to evict the area slated for demolition within 96 hours despite the fact that they have legal documents attesting to their ownership of their properties.
Israel demolishes Palestinian houses and structures almost on a daily basis as a means to achieve “demographic control” of the occupied territories.
Israel denies planning permits for Palestinians to build on their own land or to extend existing houses to accommodate natural growth, particularly in Jerusalem and 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 argues that building within existing colonial settlements is necessary to accommodate the “natural growth” of settlers.
Therefore, it 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.
The Israeli military government issued today demolition orders against three Palestinian-owned houses and five barns in a village in the south of the West Bank under the pretext of construction without permit, reported WAFA correspondent.
He said soldiers raided the village of Birin, east of the city of Hebron, and handed owners of three houses that are still under construction demolition orders against their buildings.
Owners of five animal barns built of tin metal were also handed demolition orders.
The illegal settlement of Beni Heifer was built on Birin village land and since then Israel has been harassing the Palestinian villagers in an effort to get them to leave their homes and land in order to incorporate it into the illegal settlement.
He said soldiers raided the village of Birin, east of the city of Hebron, and handed owners of three houses that are still under construction demolition orders against their buildings.
Owners of five animal barns built of tin metal were also handed demolition orders.
The illegal settlement of Beni Heifer was built on Birin village land and since then Israel has been harassing the Palestinian villagers in an effort to get them to leave their homes and land in order to incorporate it into the illegal settlement.
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Monday wreaked havoc on a Palestinian-owned olive grove near Sa’ir town, northeast of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources in al-Khalil said that dozens of settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba destroyed and chopped off about 70 olive trees, aged over 20 years, in al-Uddeisa area, south of Sa’ir town. video
Israeli soldiers also provided protection for the settlers and clashed with local residents after they intervened and tried to prevent further destruction of olive trees.
The grove belongs to a local villager called Yousef Ismail and his family.
Media sources in al-Khalil said that dozens of settlers from the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba destroyed and chopped off about 70 olive trees, aged over 20 years, in al-Uddeisa area, south of Sa’ir town. video
Israeli soldiers also provided protection for the settlers and clashed with local residents after they intervened and tried to prevent further destruction of olive trees.
The grove belongs to a local villager called Yousef Ismail and his family.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday raided homes and kidnaped several Palestinian citizens during campaigns in the West Bank.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three ex-detainees from Arraba town in the southwest of Jenin after ransacking their homes.
The three detainees were identified as Ahmed Adnan, Ja’far Fawzi and Hassan Ramzi.
In Bethlehem, the IOF kidnaped an ex-detainee called Mohamed Kareem from al-Deheisha refugee camp after ransacking his home and confiscating his cellphones and laptop.
Clashes reportedly took place between local youths and soldiers during the IOF campaign in al-Deheisha camp.
Another citizen called Mustafa Kamel was kidnaped by the IOF in the tunnel area in Beit Jala as he was heading for his workplace in Jerusalem.
In al-Khalil, two citizens identified as Yazeed Kareem and Ramzi al-Haymouni were kidnaped from their homes in the areas of Bir al-Mahjar and Wadi Abu Katila.
Three others were taken prisoners during IOF campaigns in Tuqu town and Bethlehem city.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police forces broke into and ransacked the house of prisoner Mutaz Waleed, 18, in al-Thawri neighborhood and confiscated some things, including a Palestinian flag.
According to local sources, the IOF kidnaped three ex-detainees from Arraba town in the southwest of Jenin after ransacking their homes.
The three detainees were identified as Ahmed Adnan, Ja’far Fawzi and Hassan Ramzi.
In Bethlehem, the IOF kidnaped an ex-detainee called Mohamed Kareem from al-Deheisha refugee camp after ransacking his home and confiscating his cellphones and laptop.
Clashes reportedly took place between local youths and soldiers during the IOF campaign in al-Deheisha camp.
Another citizen called Mustafa Kamel was kidnaped by the IOF in the tunnel area in Beit Jala as he was heading for his workplace in Jerusalem.
In al-Khalil, two citizens identified as Yazeed Kareem and Ramzi al-Haymouni were kidnaped from their homes in the areas of Bir al-Mahjar and Wadi Abu Katila.
Three others were taken prisoners during IOF campaigns in Tuqu town and Bethlehem city.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police forces broke into and ransacked the house of prisoner Mutaz Waleed, 18, in al-Thawri neighborhood and confiscated some things, including a Palestinian flag.
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The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Sunday forced a Jerusalemite citizen to demolish his own home in Silwan district, east Jerusalem, at the pretext of unlicensed construction.
According to local sources, Bahaa Zeitoun was forced to dismantle and destroy his prefabricated wooden house with his own hands to avoid incurring exorbitant demolition expenses and fines if the IOA came to remove it. video video In recent weeks, Israeli municipal employees and police forces stormed neighborhoods in Silwan and handed several Jerusalemite citizens demolition orders against homes and structures. |
The Jerusalemites have no choice but to build without licenses because there are no structural maps that respond to the natural increase in their numbers, and for that reason, they are denied house permits.
Since the beginning of the current year, the IOA have razed 31 homes and 11 structures and non-residential buildings in Jerusalem.
Since the beginning of the current year, the IOA have razed 31 homes and 11 structures and non-residential buildings in Jerusalem.
12 july 2020
Israeli occupation authorities demolished a wedding hall today in the Arab town of Tira, in central Israel, under the pretext of construction without a permit.
Heavily armed Israeli police forces accompanied by bulldozers broke into the town in the early morning hours, cordoned off the area where the wedding hall is located, before proceeding to tear it down. video
Clashes erupted between the forces and youths who protested the Israeli demolition. The police fired rubber-coated rounds and teargas to disperse the youths, causing many cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.
Houses and structures Arab cities and towns in Israel are a frequent target for demolitions as Israeli authorities make it very difficult for Arab citizens to obtain building permits.
Currently, thousands of Palestinian-owned homes in Israel are scheduled for demolition, with many accusing the government of selectively carrying out demolitions in Israel’s Arab communities.
Heavily armed Israeli police forces accompanied by bulldozers broke into the town in the early morning hours, cordoned off the area where the wedding hall is located, before proceeding to tear it down. video
Clashes erupted between the forces and youths who protested the Israeli demolition. The police fired rubber-coated rounds and teargas to disperse the youths, causing many cases of suffocation from gas inhalation.
Houses and structures Arab cities and towns in Israel are a frequent target for demolitions as Israeli authorities make it very difficult for Arab citizens to obtain building permits.
Currently, thousands of Palestinian-owned homes in Israel are scheduled for demolition, with many accusing the government of selectively carrying out demolitions in Israel’s Arab communities.
10 july 2020
Israeli occupation forces ordered today a halt on the construction of two homes in the village of al-Khader, near the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Hasan Burajiya, a local anti-settlements activist, told WAFA that a large Israeli army force raided the village and ordered two local Palestinian citizens to stop the ongoing construction of their two homes, under the pretext that they are being built without an Israeli permit. The two were identified as Nader Salah and Mohammad Mahmoud Salah.
The occupation forces also banned workers who were working at one of the two homes from completing the construction works, and briefly withheld the working equipment.
The area where the construction is ordered to stop is located in an area classified as Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli administrative and military control, where Israel rarely issues construction permits to Palestinians, forcing many people to build without permits.
Israel refuses to allow Palestinian development of any kind in Area C, which makes up over 60 percent of the total area of the occupied West Bank, and often demolishes what Palestinians build despite the Israeli ban.
Hasan Burajiya, a local anti-settlements activist, told WAFA that a large Israeli army force raided the village and ordered two local Palestinian citizens to stop the ongoing construction of their two homes, under the pretext that they are being built without an Israeli permit. The two were identified as Nader Salah and Mohammad Mahmoud Salah.
The occupation forces also banned workers who were working at one of the two homes from completing the construction works, and briefly withheld the working equipment.
The area where the construction is ordered to stop is located in an area classified as Area C of the West Bank, under full Israeli administrative and military control, where Israel rarely issues construction permits to Palestinians, forcing many people to build without permits.
Israel refuses to allow Palestinian development of any kind in Area C, which makes up over 60 percent of the total area of the occupied West Bank, and often demolishes what Palestinians build despite the Israeli ban.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Friday kidnapped three Palestinian citizens from their homes in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Asra Media Office said that the IOF arrested Abdullah Dweik and Ahmad Ali Ahmad after raiding their homes in Jalazone refugee camp in Ramallah.
Violent confrontations flared up between Palestinian residents of Jalazone and the IOF soldiers who heavily fired tear gas canisters at them.
Local residents reported that the IOF seized the cellphones of the Palestinian journalists who were present in the scene and prevented them from covering the clashes.
Meanwhile, the IOF stormed a Palestinian house in Jabal al-Mukabber village in Jerusalem and arrested a young man whose identity has not been identified.
IOF arrest and raid campaigns are witnessed on almost a daily basis in the West Bank, but they have seen a noticeable rise lately.
Asra Media Office said that the IOF arrested Abdullah Dweik and Ahmad Ali Ahmad after raiding their homes in Jalazone refugee camp in Ramallah.
Violent confrontations flared up between Palestinian residents of Jalazone and the IOF soldiers who heavily fired tear gas canisters at them.
Local residents reported that the IOF seized the cellphones of the Palestinian journalists who were present in the scene and prevented them from covering the clashes.
Meanwhile, the IOF stormed a Palestinian house in Jabal al-Mukabber village in Jerusalem and arrested a young man whose identity has not been identified.
IOF arrest and raid campaigns are witnessed on almost a daily basis in the West Bank, but they have seen a noticeable rise lately.
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