20 june 2019
Employees from the Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem handed a Palestinian citizen on Thursday a demolition order against his house in al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli municipality justified its intent to demolish the house, which belongs to Yacoub al-Rasheq, by claiming it is unlicensed.
According to Wadi Hilweh Information Center, the same municipal crew and police forces stormed many neighborhood in Silwan and embarked on issuing financial penalties against car drivers.
Recently, the Israeli occupation authority has launched a massive demolition campaign against Palestinian homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The Israeli municipality justified its intent to demolish the house, which belongs to Yacoub al-Rasheq, by claiming it is unlicensed.
According to Wadi Hilweh Information Center, the same municipal crew and police forces stormed many neighborhood in Silwan and embarked on issuing financial penalties against car drivers.
Recently, the Israeli occupation authority has launched a massive demolition campaign against Palestinian homes in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, two Palestinians, from ‘Aida refugee camp, and Beit Fajjar town, in Bethlehem governorate, south of occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.
Media sources said several armored army jeeps invaded ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, searched homes and abducted Firas Nasrallah.
The soldiers also summoned Ammar Mustafa Abu Bakr, and his brother, Majdi, for interrogation in Etzion military base and security center, south of Bethlehem.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Omar Anwar Thawabta, from Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, after stopping him at a military roadblock in the area.
In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers confiscated a container, used for moving trash to a garbage dump site, in Barta’a town, southwest of Jenin.
Media sources said several armored army jeeps invaded ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, searched homes and abducted Firas Nasrallah.
The soldiers also summoned Ammar Mustafa Abu Bakr, and his brother, Majdi, for interrogation in Etzion military base and security center, south of Bethlehem.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Omar Anwar Thawabta, from Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, after stopping him at a military roadblock in the area.
In Jenin, in northern West Bank, the soldiers confiscated a container, used for moving trash to a garbage dump site, in Barta’a town, southwest of Jenin.
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the Tayba area in Tarqoumia town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, demolished two agricultural sheds, bulldozed lands and closed agricultural roads.
Media sources said the soldiers demolished two agricultural sheds owned by a local farmer, identified as Khalil al-Hroub.
They added that the soldiers also bulldozed and uprooted a farmland, owned by Shaher al-Hammouri, and closed roads used by the farmers to reach their lands in the same area.
Media sources said the soldiers demolished two agricultural sheds owned by a local farmer, identified as Khalil al-Hroub.
They added that the soldiers also bulldozed and uprooted a farmland, owned by Shaher al-Hammouri, and closed roads used by the farmers to reach their lands in the same area.
19 june 2019
The al-Dababsh family watch as their home is demolished
International Solidarity Movement | South Hebron Hills
Occupation forces went on a demolition spree yesterday in the South Hebron Hills, bulldozing the homes of four families in two villages.
A convoy of border police, Israeli Civil Administration officials, soldiers and two JCB bulldozers arrived in the village of Khalet al Dabeh at around 9am to destroy a house belonging to Mohammad al Dababsh. video
Twelve members of the al Dababsh family including seven children, who have lived in the region for generations, are now homeless and have been given tents to sleep in by the Red Cross.
“People used to live in tents and caves and they had their dream come true to live in a house – they came up from under the ground into the light,’ Basil Adraa, a youth activist from the neighbouring village of al-Tuwani, told ISM.
“Now they have gone back 10 years, living before without light and houses.”
Adraa along with other local activists and ISMers arrived to Khalet al Dabeh just ahead of the demolition.
Members of the al Dababsh family were shouting in distress and at one point attempted to run through the line of border police – who had announced a closed military zone around the house – in a bid to protect his home before it was raised to the ground.
Omar al Dababsh was thrown to the floor by soldiers as he ran. His injuries required urgent medical attention and he was taken to Hebron hospital.
Soldiers also shoved local activists and ISMers in the scuffle.
International Solidarity Movement | South Hebron Hills
Occupation forces went on a demolition spree yesterday in the South Hebron Hills, bulldozing the homes of four families in two villages.
A convoy of border police, Israeli Civil Administration officials, soldiers and two JCB bulldozers arrived in the village of Khalet al Dabeh at around 9am to destroy a house belonging to Mohammad al Dababsh. video
Twelve members of the al Dababsh family including seven children, who have lived in the region for generations, are now homeless and have been given tents to sleep in by the Red Cross.
“People used to live in tents and caves and they had their dream come true to live in a house – they came up from under the ground into the light,’ Basil Adraa, a youth activist from the neighbouring village of al-Tuwani, told ISM.
“Now they have gone back 10 years, living before without light and houses.”
Adraa along with other local activists and ISMers arrived to Khalet al Dabeh just ahead of the demolition.
Members of the al Dababsh family were shouting in distress and at one point attempted to run through the line of border police – who had announced a closed military zone around the house – in a bid to protect his home before it was raised to the ground.
Omar al Dababsh was thrown to the floor by soldiers as he ran. His injuries required urgent medical attention and he was taken to Hebron hospital.
Soldiers also shoved local activists and ISMers in the scuffle.
A Palestinian man lies injured after being thrown to the ground by occupation forces by his demolished home
Adraa was filming the demolition from a roof near the al Dababsh house when soldiers threatened to throw a sound grenade at him if he refused to get down.
A separate building storing solar panel batteries was also destroyed and the panels were confiscated.
After forcing a family of 12 into homelessness, the convoy moved on to the village of al Halawe where they destroyed a further three homes belonging to the Aram family.
Adraa told ISM that a ‘demolition day’ has happened every week this year, except during Ramadan when there were two demolitions in five weeks.
The region of the South Hebron Hills is in Area C of the West Bank where almost all construction by Palestinians is banned by the Israeli government.
Most of the region’s 30 Palestinian villages have demolition orders on at least one building meaning they could be bulldozed at any time.
Local activist group, the Good Shepherd Collective, which raises awareness about demolitions in the South Hebron Hills area stated on its Facebook page: “It is worth noting that these demolitions, injuries, and confiscations do not simply impact and traumatize the families and individuals immediately affected – demolitions, especially during the oppressive heat of the summer, force families to rebuild in order to meet their basic needs, and in the meantime rely on their extended family and community members.”
Adraa was filming the demolition from a roof near the al Dababsh house when soldiers threatened to throw a sound grenade at him if he refused to get down.
A separate building storing solar panel batteries was also destroyed and the panels were confiscated.
After forcing a family of 12 into homelessness, the convoy moved on to the village of al Halawe where they destroyed a further three homes belonging to the Aram family.
Adraa told ISM that a ‘demolition day’ has happened every week this year, except during Ramadan when there were two demolitions in five weeks.
The region of the South Hebron Hills is in Area C of the West Bank where almost all construction by Palestinians is banned by the Israeli government.
Most of the region’s 30 Palestinian villages have demolition orders on at least one building meaning they could be bulldozed at any time.
Local activist group, the Good Shepherd Collective, which raises awareness about demolitions in the South Hebron Hills area stated on its Facebook page: “It is worth noting that these demolitions, injuries, and confiscations do not simply impact and traumatize the families and individuals immediately affected – demolitions, especially during the oppressive heat of the summer, force families to rebuild in order to meet their basic needs, and in the meantime rely on their extended family and community members.”
An Israeli border police aggressively pushes locals and humanitarian observers
Adraa added: “It seems like a Nakba for these people, because the biggest goal for the occupation is to evacuate the people from these villages to the cities. So in this kind of demolition, big demolition, it’s a serious step to evacuate the people and take them from their land which is illegal by international law. They want to demolish houses so that the settlement can expand.”
Despite the ban, which also forbids Palestinians to hook up to the electricity grid and water supply, illegal settlers in the region continue to construct new buildings unimpeded by Israeli forces.
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Adraa added: “It seems like a Nakba for these people, because the biggest goal for the occupation is to evacuate the people from these villages to the cities. So in this kind of demolition, big demolition, it’s a serious step to evacuate the people and take them from their land which is illegal by international law. They want to demolish houses so that the settlement can expand.”
Despite the ban, which also forbids Palestinians to hook up to the electricity grid and water supply, illegal settlers in the region continue to construct new buildings unimpeded by Israeli forces.
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Political and conventional policy has not put an end to Israel settlement policy, but it enhances the Israeli expropriate of Palestinian lands, Secretary General of the Christian Islamic Organization for Supporting of Jerusalem and Holy Sites, Hanna Issa said.
Issa said, in a statement on Wednesday, that settlement is a war crime under the article VIII, paragraph 8, of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Occupied Palestinian lands are subjected to the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits and criminalizes all acts of seizing Palestinian land, forced eviction, settlement, and changing the demographic composition of the country.
He explained, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that the Palestinian Authority (PA) controls 18% of occupied Palestinian lands (“Area A”), under the signed conventions, while “B” areas constituted 21% of occupied lands in 1976, where the PA would have civilian powers only, under joint Israeli-Palestinian security control.
He pointed that the largest part of Palestinian lands are categorized as “C” areas, in addition to East Jerusalem, which are under Israeli civil and security control. Thus, the PA has no authority over these areas, but limited powers relating to the Palestinian population, in some of those areas.
He pointed out that the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip are still under Israeli occupation according to the international law, despite Israeli unilateral withdrawal in 2005.
He added that settlement expansion policy is illegal under international humanitarian law. Article 46 of the Hague Convention of 1907 states that the Occupying Power may not confiscate private property. Article 55 provides that the occupying power shall be deemed to be the administrator of the territory of the occupied country, private property.
He explained that the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, article 49, states: “the Occupying Power shall not have the right to transfer its citizens to the territories it occupies or to carry out any action leading to its demographic change.”
Article 53 also states that “the occupation forces shall not have the right to destroy individual or collective personal property or the property of individuals or of the state or of any authority of the occupied state.”
UN Security Council and UN General Assembly resolutions have condemned Israeli policies in all its forms, in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether it be the seizure of Palestinian land for various military purposes, the construction of Israeli settlements, the creation of bypass roads, or other examples.
After the war of June 1967, Israel seized the state-owned princely lands, mainly for military and military purposes, and sought to build large and scattered settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, to Judaize the area, absorb immigrants, acquire and requisition the necessary land, to form a vital perimeter for army camps and settlements.
Issa said that the basic legal obligation of “Israel,” as an occupying power of the Palestinian territories, is to committed by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, until the final demise of the occupation from all parts of the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
Issa said, in a statement on Wednesday, that settlement is a war crime under the article VIII, paragraph 8, of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Occupied Palestinian lands are subjected to the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, which prohibits and criminalizes all acts of seizing Palestinian land, forced eviction, settlement, and changing the demographic composition of the country.
He explained, according to Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency, that the Palestinian Authority (PA) controls 18% of occupied Palestinian lands (“Area A”), under the signed conventions, while “B” areas constituted 21% of occupied lands in 1976, where the PA would have civilian powers only, under joint Israeli-Palestinian security control.
He pointed that the largest part of Palestinian lands are categorized as “C” areas, in addition to East Jerusalem, which are under Israeli civil and security control. Thus, the PA has no authority over these areas, but limited powers relating to the Palestinian population, in some of those areas.
He pointed out that the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip are still under Israeli occupation according to the international law, despite Israeli unilateral withdrawal in 2005.
He added that settlement expansion policy is illegal under international humanitarian law. Article 46 of the Hague Convention of 1907 states that the Occupying Power may not confiscate private property. Article 55 provides that the occupying power shall be deemed to be the administrator of the territory of the occupied country, private property.
He explained that the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, article 49, states: “the Occupying Power shall not have the right to transfer its citizens to the territories it occupies or to carry out any action leading to its demographic change.”
Article 53 also states that “the occupation forces shall not have the right to destroy individual or collective personal property or the property of individuals or of the state or of any authority of the occupied state.”
UN Security Council and UN General Assembly resolutions have condemned Israeli policies in all its forms, in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether it be the seizure of Palestinian land for various military purposes, the construction of Israeli settlements, the creation of bypass roads, or other examples.
After the war of June 1967, Israel seized the state-owned princely lands, mainly for military and military purposes, and sought to build large and scattered settlements in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, to Judaize the area, absorb immigrants, acquire and requisition the necessary land, to form a vital perimeter for army camps and settlements.
Issa said that the basic legal obligation of “Israel,” as an occupying power of the Palestinian territories, is to committed by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, until the final demise of the occupation from all parts of the West Bank, including Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday bulldozed Palestinian agricultural lands and stone hedges in Battir town, west of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Battir mayor Tayseer Qattoush said that bulldozers razed, under military escort, plots of land and hedges separating them.
The lands belong to the local residents, Khalil Abu Ni’mah, Omar al-Qaisi, Jawad al-Qisi.
The reason for bulldozing these land is still unknown.
Battir mayor Tayseer Qattoush said that bulldozers razed, under military escort, plots of land and hedges separating them.
The lands belong to the local residents, Khalil Abu Ni’mah, Omar al-Qaisi, Jawad al-Qisi.
The reason for bulldozing these land is still unknown.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday kidnaped seven Palestinian citizens during campaigns in different West Bank areas.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, the Israeli army arrested seven wanted Palestinians on suspicion of their participation in hostile activities.
In a related context, local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that dozens of soldiers stormed and ransacked the house of prisoner Rabhi Amara in Tulkarem refugee camp and confiscated money from his family.
Prisoner Amara has been serving 16 years in Israeli jails and his son Amjad is a martyr.
In Qalqilya, the IOF stormed at dawn Azzun town after local youths attacked Jewish settlers’ cars with stones and Molotov cocktails.
Scores of soldiers stormed the town, wreaked havoc on furniture and personal belongings during their raids on homes, and brutalized and assaulted many citizens, according to local sources.
According to Israel’s Channel 7, the Israeli army arrested seven wanted Palestinians on suspicion of their participation in hostile activities.
In a related context, local sources told a reporter for the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that dozens of soldiers stormed and ransacked the house of prisoner Rabhi Amara in Tulkarem refugee camp and confiscated money from his family.
Prisoner Amara has been serving 16 years in Israeli jails and his son Amjad is a martyr.
In Qalqilya, the IOF stormed at dawn Azzun town after local youths attacked Jewish settlers’ cars with stones and Molotov cocktails.
Scores of soldiers stormed the town, wreaked havoc on furniture and personal belongings during their raids on homes, and brutalized and assaulted many citizens, according to local sources.
The Israeli high court of justice has given the green light to demolish 13 large apartment buildings in Sur Baher town, southeast Jerusalem, an area which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
The buildings threatened with demolition consist of about 100 housing units
This court ruling sets a precedent that will enable the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to demolish thousands of buildings in the West Bank.
The Wadi Hummus neighborhood is located on the edge of Sur Baher, in southeast Jerusalem. Unlike the rest of the village, this neighborhood lies beyond the city’s municipal boundaries, in the West Bank. Most of the area it occupies is designated as part of Area A, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
But after local residents submitted a petition while the separation fence was being built, beginning in 2003, the location of the wall was moved so that it would not pass through the heart of Sur Baher. Thus Wadi Hummus ended up on the Israeli side of the barrier, although legally it is considered to be part of the West Bank and under the PA’s control, according to Haaretz newspaper.
Haaretz quoted Sur Baher residents as saying that “Wadi Hummus is the only area that remains for future expansion of the village, which is surrounded by the fence and Jewish neighborhoods. Many buildings were erected in the neighborhood over the last decade or so, most occupied by young couples and families from the village. The buildings set for demolition have some 100 apartments, 20 of which are tenanted and the rest are under construction.
Building permits for the construction were issued by the PA's planning ministry. However, seven years ago, the Israel army’s central command issued an injunction banning construction of buildings within 250 meters of the separation barrier. Locals say the order was not publicized and they had no knowledge of it, and that in any case, it is the PA that has planning authorization in the area.
Two years ago, the army issued demolition orders for 13 new buildings constructed in the area mentioned in the injunction. Residents appealed to the Israeli high court, reiterating that the army does not have the authority to demolish buildings that received building permits from the PA, that the order was not publicized and that they built their homes without knowing that the Israeli army had prohibited it.
The buildings threatened with demolition consist of about 100 housing units
This court ruling sets a precedent that will enable the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) to demolish thousands of buildings in the West Bank.
The Wadi Hummus neighborhood is located on the edge of Sur Baher, in southeast Jerusalem. Unlike the rest of the village, this neighborhood lies beyond the city’s municipal boundaries, in the West Bank. Most of the area it occupies is designated as part of Area A, which is under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
But after local residents submitted a petition while the separation fence was being built, beginning in 2003, the location of the wall was moved so that it would not pass through the heart of Sur Baher. Thus Wadi Hummus ended up on the Israeli side of the barrier, although legally it is considered to be part of the West Bank and under the PA’s control, according to Haaretz newspaper.
Haaretz quoted Sur Baher residents as saying that “Wadi Hummus is the only area that remains for future expansion of the village, which is surrounded by the fence and Jewish neighborhoods. Many buildings were erected in the neighborhood over the last decade or so, most occupied by young couples and families from the village. The buildings set for demolition have some 100 apartments, 20 of which are tenanted and the rest are under construction.
Building permits for the construction were issued by the PA's planning ministry. However, seven years ago, the Israel army’s central command issued an injunction banning construction of buildings within 250 meters of the separation barrier. Locals say the order was not publicized and they had no knowledge of it, and that in any case, it is the PA that has planning authorization in the area.
Two years ago, the army issued demolition orders for 13 new buildings constructed in the area mentioned in the injunction. Residents appealed to the Israeli high court, reiterating that the army does not have the authority to demolish buildings that received building permits from the PA, that the order was not publicized and that they built their homes without knowing that the Israeli army had prohibited it.
Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, an under-construction Palestinian home in the al-Matar area, in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers demolished a one-story 150 square/meter home, owned by Shadi Sunnoqrot, reportedly for being built without a permit from the Israeli “Civil Administration Office,” in the occupied West Bank.
They added that the soldiers invaded the area, after surrounding and isolating it, before demolishing the property.
Media sources said the soldiers demolished a one-story 150 square/meter home, owned by Shadi Sunnoqrot, reportedly for being built without a permit from the Israeli “Civil Administration Office,” in the occupied West Bank.
They added that the soldiers invaded the area, after surrounding and isolating it, before demolishing the property.
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