12 mar 2013
Al-Aqsa Foundation publish TV report on abuses in "Ma'man Allah" cemetery
Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage has prepared a TV report about the latest occupation abuses and schemes that are taking place in the cemetery of Ma'man Allah in the occupied city of Jerusalem.
The report reviews all the Judaizing projects and schemes which the Jerusalem Municipality has been carrying out on the Islamic graveyard, and highlights the magnitude of the tragedy and the Israeli attempts to obliterate the history and the Islamic landmarks.
Mahmoud Abu Atta, the director of the Media Department at Al-Aqsa Foundation, said: "Ma'man Allah cemetery has been exposed, since 1948, to various Israeli schemes that aim to Judaize it and to obliterate the history and the facts."
He added that after the occupation municipality started implementing its Judaizing projects on the ground, "we became aware of their seriousness", and noted that such projects violate the international norms and the religious charters.
The cemetery extends over an area of about 200 dunums (1dunum=1000 square meters). It has been exposed to the Israeli escalated aggressions and abuses since 1948.
The cemetery has been witnessing plans for the establishment of public parks, gardens for dogs and parks for the settlers' children, in addition to a cafe in the process of construction. The Jerusalem Municipality has also prepared plans to build car parking, walking trails and night clubs on the cemetery.
Abu Atta appealed to every Arab and Muslim to defend Ma'man Allah cemetery and to take serious steps in order to save it from the Israeli occupation schemes.
Al-Aqsa Foundation has asserted that the Israeli occupation authorities and the Jerusalem Municipality have intensified their Judaizing projects in the Islamic cemetery.
It has been recently sending urgent letters to the ambassadors of the Arab and Islamic countries and to the international concerned bodies and organizations in order to inform them of the dangers facing the cemetery and to urge them to act for saving it.
The report reviews all the Judaizing projects and schemes which the Jerusalem Municipality has been carrying out on the Islamic graveyard, and highlights the magnitude of the tragedy and the Israeli attempts to obliterate the history and the Islamic landmarks.
Mahmoud Abu Atta, the director of the Media Department at Al-Aqsa Foundation, said: "Ma'man Allah cemetery has been exposed, since 1948, to various Israeli schemes that aim to Judaize it and to obliterate the history and the facts."
He added that after the occupation municipality started implementing its Judaizing projects on the ground, "we became aware of their seriousness", and noted that such projects violate the international norms and the religious charters.
The cemetery extends over an area of about 200 dunums (1dunum=1000 square meters). It has been exposed to the Israeli escalated aggressions and abuses since 1948.
The cemetery has been witnessing plans for the establishment of public parks, gardens for dogs and parks for the settlers' children, in addition to a cafe in the process of construction. The Jerusalem Municipality has also prepared plans to build car parking, walking trails and night clubs on the cemetery.
Abu Atta appealed to every Arab and Muslim to defend Ma'man Allah cemetery and to take serious steps in order to save it from the Israeli occupation schemes.
Al-Aqsa Foundation has asserted that the Israeli occupation authorities and the Jerusalem Municipality have intensified their Judaizing projects in the Islamic cemetery.
It has been recently sending urgent letters to the ambassadors of the Arab and Islamic countries and to the international concerned bodies and organizations in order to inform them of the dangers facing the cemetery and to urge them to act for saving it.
15 Families Ordered Out Of Their Residence, Lands, Near Hebron
The Israeli army handed 15 Palestinian families living in Al-Janoub area, east if Sair town in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, military warrants ordering them to leave their homes and lands.
The army cited “military considerations” to its new decision that is similar to dozens of orders issued by the army in the area.
The fifteen families are facing eviction and displacement due to the Israeli decision, the Maan News agency has reported.
Maan quoted resident ‘Abed Shalalda stating that fifteen families, including his own, were ordered out of the area, and were told that the army will resort to violence “should they fail to comply”.
The families in this area live in tents; some even live in caves and ancient structures, as the Israeli military and the Israeli Civil Administration Office operating in the occupied West Bank do not recognize their residency rights.
Shalalda said that the families have deeds proving ownership of the land, but the army is not recognizing these documents.
Bedouin tribes in Hebron, as well as in different parts of the West Bank, and in the Negev desert are subject to ongoing violations and attacks carried out by the Israeli Authorities,
Over the weekend a group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers assaulted three Palestinian schoolchildren in Jaba’ village, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The three are brothers; this is the second attack against them since Thursday.
Mahmoud Abu Ghaya, a resident of the Al-Jahaleen Bedouin village, stated that the setters attacked three schoolchildren while walking to school inflicting various injuries.
In 2005, Israel approved the so-called “Negev Development Plan” aiming at building shopping centers and tourist areas, but at the same time displacing around some 65.000 Bedouins living in what Israel refers to as “unrecognized villages”.
Al-Araqeeb village in the Negev is one of the most impacted “unrecognized villages” as it was destroyed more than 41 times.
The “Prawer plan” calls for annexing more than 700.000 Dunams (185329 acres) and displacing the residents by demolishing 14 villages in the area.
All unrecognized villages in the Negev are under continuing Israeli attacks and violations, as Tel Aviv does not recognize the residents' right to live on their land -- land they inhabited long before the 1948 creation of the state of Israel in historic Palestine.
Unrecognized villages in the Negev are under continuing Israeli attacks and violations, as Tel Aviv does not recognize the residents' right to live on their land -- land they inhabited long before the 1948 creation of the state of Israel in historic Palestine.
Occupation notifies 15 families to evacuate their land east of Seir
Israeli occupation forces notified on Tuesday, the residents of Khirbet al-Kanoub east of the town of Seir, north of al-Khalil, to evacuate their land under the pretext that it is under the Israeli occupation military control. Riad Shallaldah, 38, says that more than 15 families live in the area threatened with demolition and confiscation by the Israeli civil administration.
He adds that the occupation has threatened the residents that it will use force against them if they do not implement the decision in the notification and leave within three days.
The residents of the region have been living inside caves and old stone houses, and possess the papers that prove their ownership to this agricultural land rich with fruit trees, livestock and wells.
The army cited “military considerations” to its new decision that is similar to dozens of orders issued by the army in the area.
The fifteen families are facing eviction and displacement due to the Israeli decision, the Maan News agency has reported.
Maan quoted resident ‘Abed Shalalda stating that fifteen families, including his own, were ordered out of the area, and were told that the army will resort to violence “should they fail to comply”.
The families in this area live in tents; some even live in caves and ancient structures, as the Israeli military and the Israeli Civil Administration Office operating in the occupied West Bank do not recognize their residency rights.
Shalalda said that the families have deeds proving ownership of the land, but the army is not recognizing these documents.
Bedouin tribes in Hebron, as well as in different parts of the West Bank, and in the Negev desert are subject to ongoing violations and attacks carried out by the Israeli Authorities,
Over the weekend a group of fundamentalist Israeli settlers assaulted three Palestinian schoolchildren in Jaba’ village, north of occupied East Jerusalem. The three are brothers; this is the second attack against them since Thursday.
Mahmoud Abu Ghaya, a resident of the Al-Jahaleen Bedouin village, stated that the setters attacked three schoolchildren while walking to school inflicting various injuries.
In 2005, Israel approved the so-called “Negev Development Plan” aiming at building shopping centers and tourist areas, but at the same time displacing around some 65.000 Bedouins living in what Israel refers to as “unrecognized villages”.
Al-Araqeeb village in the Negev is one of the most impacted “unrecognized villages” as it was destroyed more than 41 times.
The “Prawer plan” calls for annexing more than 700.000 Dunams (185329 acres) and displacing the residents by demolishing 14 villages in the area.
All unrecognized villages in the Negev are under continuing Israeli attacks and violations, as Tel Aviv does not recognize the residents' right to live on their land -- land they inhabited long before the 1948 creation of the state of Israel in historic Palestine.
Unrecognized villages in the Negev are under continuing Israeli attacks and violations, as Tel Aviv does not recognize the residents' right to live on their land -- land they inhabited long before the 1948 creation of the state of Israel in historic Palestine.
Occupation notifies 15 families to evacuate their land east of Seir
Israeli occupation forces notified on Tuesday, the residents of Khirbet al-Kanoub east of the town of Seir, north of al-Khalil, to evacuate their land under the pretext that it is under the Israeli occupation military control. Riad Shallaldah, 38, says that more than 15 families live in the area threatened with demolition and confiscation by the Israeli civil administration.
He adds that the occupation has threatened the residents that it will use force against them if they do not implement the decision in the notification and leave within three days.
The residents of the region have been living inside caves and old stone houses, and possess the papers that prove their ownership to this agricultural land rich with fruit trees, livestock and wells.
10 mar 2013
Israeli settlement and raid campaigns in al-Khalil
Israeli occupation forces continued on Sunday settlement construction in Kiryat Arba settlement established on Palestinian land east of al-Khalil. The occupation forces have stepped up construction work in the settlement of "Kiryat Arba" settlement built on Palestinian land east of al-Khalil aiming at tightening the siege of the city, eyewitnesses told PIC reporter.
The sources added that the housing units exceed 25 apartments, including multi-floors buildings, construction equipment and cement tankers.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces raided on Sunday towns of Emmerich, Kharsa and al-Sora, south of al-Khalil, where soldiers stormed shops, and set up checkpoints.
The occupation forces stormed the towns Emmerich and al-Sorra and areas in the west of Kharsa, south of al-Khalil, where they raided shops near Emmerich and set up military checkpoints at the entrance of Kharsa and west of Emmerich, eyewitnesses told PIC.
The sources stressed that the occupation soldiers continued to patrol the road that links those three villages, checking the identities of citizens.
The sources added that the housing units exceed 25 apartments, including multi-floors buildings, construction equipment and cement tankers.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces raided on Sunday towns of Emmerich, Kharsa and al-Sora, south of al-Khalil, where soldiers stormed shops, and set up checkpoints.
The occupation forces stormed the towns Emmerich and al-Sorra and areas in the west of Kharsa, south of al-Khalil, where they raided shops near Emmerich and set up military checkpoints at the entrance of Kharsa and west of Emmerich, eyewitnesses told PIC.
The sources stressed that the occupation soldiers continued to patrol the road that links those three villages, checking the identities of citizens.
Bat Ayin settlers attack Palestinian farmer in his land
Fanatic Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday morning a Palestinian farmer during his presence in his agricultural land in Beit Ummar town in Al-Khalil city.
Coordinator of the popular committee against settlement in Beit Ummar Mohamed Awad reported that about 30 Jewish settlers from Bat Ayin settlement verbally and physically attacked farmer Mohamed Al-Salibi, 67, as he was working his land along with sons in Abu Rish area.
Salibi noted that the settlers came aboard a car belonging to a security officer from Bat Ayin settlement, while Israeli soldiers and policemen were watching and doing nothing to protect the farmer against the assailants.
In a separate incident, the IOF on the morning of the same day detained more than 30 Palestinians from Al-Yatim family in Yatta town for more than three hours after they went to Khirba area for a picnic and confiscated two of their vehicles.
Coordinator of the popular committee against settlement in Beit Ummar Mohamed Awad reported that about 30 Jewish settlers from Bat Ayin settlement verbally and physically attacked farmer Mohamed Al-Salibi, 67, as he was working his land along with sons in Abu Rish area.
Salibi noted that the settlers came aboard a car belonging to a security officer from Bat Ayin settlement, while Israeli soldiers and policemen were watching and doing nothing to protect the farmer against the assailants.
In a separate incident, the IOF on the morning of the same day detained more than 30 Palestinians from Al-Yatim family in Yatta town for more than three hours after they went to Khirba area for a picnic and confiscated two of their vehicles.
Palestinian Children Face Forced Expulsion From Their Homes
Christian Peacemaker Teams Palestine – Over 1000 Palestinians, nearly half of them children, face imminent forced expulsion from their homes in Masafer Yatta, which lies within Israeli Firing Zone 918. The residents of Masafer Yatta urgently need your help to prevent the forced removal of their villages.
Their legal status is precarious, and their homes and schools could be demolished at any time.
Such an action by the Israeli military would constitute the largest forced expulsion of Palestinian civilians in many years. Imagine that your neighborhood was declared a firing range.
You would be threatened with forced evacuation. Demolition orders would be issued for your home, your church, and the school your children attend. Your land would cease to belong to you, and your livestock would be removed.
This is what families living in eight villages in the southern West Bank region known as Masafer Yatta face.
Twelve villages lie within the area Israel claims as Firing Zone 918. Residents of four of the villages have been told they are excluded from the attempted eviction only because the ammunition used by soldiers training for war near their homes is not live. The 1000 residents of the other eight villages, half of whom are children, could lose their homes, their schools, their crops and livestock, their mosques and their way of life within the year.
These Palestinian families were forcibly removed by the Israeli military in 1999 and many of their homes, wells and animal shelters were destroyed. Some of the region’s residents returned in 2000 after a successful court battle. Since then they have lived under constant threat of home demolition, settler violence and military harassment.
On January 16 of this year the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a petition on behalf of residents and the Israeli court granted a temporary order preventing forcible transferring of the families pending a further decision.
The temporary order is all that is currently preventing the forced removal of the families living in Masafer Yatta.
In the past month soldiers have repeatedly driven large vehicles across planted fields, confiscated cars, cameras, phones and livestock belonging to residents, landed helicopters next to dwellings and livestock, and threatened families with imminent eviction and destruction of their homes. Children find unexploded ordnance in the fields where their sheep graze.
On February 28 14 Palestinians, including four children aged four to nine, were stopped and detained by Israeli soldiers overnight for 8 hours. The group was traveling to see family members who are residents of Jinba, the largest of the 8 villages under threat. Soldiers confiscated four vehicles and the cell phones of family members who came to find their relatives. The group was unable to contact anyone until police arrived the following morning.
On February 18 Soldiers confiscated two newborn goats and a donkey from Kamel Mahamra, a shepherd from the village of Maghayir al-Abeed, who was grazing his animals near the village of Al-Majaz, inside firing range 918. The soldiers loaded the kids into a Hummer and took the shepherd’s donkey, which was harnessed to a wheeled water container. (See article published in Haaretz by Amira Haas below)
Their legal status is precarious, and their homes and schools could be demolished at any time.
Such an action by the Israeli military would constitute the largest forced expulsion of Palestinian civilians in many years. Imagine that your neighborhood was declared a firing range.
You would be threatened with forced evacuation. Demolition orders would be issued for your home, your church, and the school your children attend. Your land would cease to belong to you, and your livestock would be removed.
This is what families living in eight villages in the southern West Bank region known as Masafer Yatta face.
Twelve villages lie within the area Israel claims as Firing Zone 918. Residents of four of the villages have been told they are excluded from the attempted eviction only because the ammunition used by soldiers training for war near their homes is not live. The 1000 residents of the other eight villages, half of whom are children, could lose their homes, their schools, their crops and livestock, their mosques and their way of life within the year.
These Palestinian families were forcibly removed by the Israeli military in 1999 and many of their homes, wells and animal shelters were destroyed. Some of the region’s residents returned in 2000 after a successful court battle. Since then they have lived under constant threat of home demolition, settler violence and military harassment.
On January 16 of this year the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a petition on behalf of residents and the Israeli court granted a temporary order preventing forcible transferring of the families pending a further decision.
The temporary order is all that is currently preventing the forced removal of the families living in Masafer Yatta.
In the past month soldiers have repeatedly driven large vehicles across planted fields, confiscated cars, cameras, phones and livestock belonging to residents, landed helicopters next to dwellings and livestock, and threatened families with imminent eviction and destruction of their homes. Children find unexploded ordnance in the fields where their sheep graze.
On February 28 14 Palestinians, including four children aged four to nine, were stopped and detained by Israeli soldiers overnight for 8 hours. The group was traveling to see family members who are residents of Jinba, the largest of the 8 villages under threat. Soldiers confiscated four vehicles and the cell phones of family members who came to find their relatives. The group was unable to contact anyone until police arrived the following morning.
On February 18 Soldiers confiscated two newborn goats and a donkey from Kamel Mahamra, a shepherd from the village of Maghayir al-Abeed, who was grazing his animals near the village of Al-Majaz, inside firing range 918. The soldiers loaded the kids into a Hummer and took the shepherd’s donkey, which was harnessed to a wheeled water container. (See article published in Haaretz by Amira Haas below)
8 mar 2013
Occupation hands out demolition notices to Palestinians in Jerusalem, al-Khalil
The occupation authorities handed out demolition notices to residents of Khirbet Khallet Dabaa east of Yatta, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, between a number of Jewish settlements. Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committees against the Wall and Settlement in the south of al-Khalil, said that the occupation authorities and the Civil Administration have notified the demolition of 24 Palestinian buildings in the hamlet located between the settlements of Ma'on, Mitzpe Yair and Ovigal.
Six families, composed of 55 members, live in this hamlet. All of them have received the demolition notifications.
Jabour appealed to all the concerned bodies to immediately intervene to help the land owners and support them in defending their lands that represent their source of livelihood.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces handed over in Shiyah Street in al-Tur neighborhood, east of the city of Jerusalem, a warning and notice to demolish a workshop, under the pretext that it was established without a permit.
Local sources reported that the workshop belongs to Hamza Aslan, and that he has the proper identity papers stating that his workshop was licensed.
Khaled Zabarka, director of Jerusalem Foundation for Development, said that the occupation claims maintaining the law and order by issuing demolition orders to hide its crimes.
"The occupation has been daily issuing or implementing demolition orders against Palestinian shops and houses in Jerusalem, in an effort to expel Jerusalemites from their land", Zabarka added.
Six families, composed of 55 members, live in this hamlet. All of them have received the demolition notifications.
Jabour appealed to all the concerned bodies to immediately intervene to help the land owners and support them in defending their lands that represent their source of livelihood.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces handed over in Shiyah Street in al-Tur neighborhood, east of the city of Jerusalem, a warning and notice to demolish a workshop, under the pretext that it was established without a permit.
Local sources reported that the workshop belongs to Hamza Aslan, and that he has the proper identity papers stating that his workshop was licensed.
Khaled Zabarka, director of Jerusalem Foundation for Development, said that the occupation claims maintaining the law and order by issuing demolition orders to hide its crimes.
"The occupation has been daily issuing or implementing demolition orders against Palestinian shops and houses in Jerusalem, in an effort to expel Jerusalemites from their land", Zabarka added.
New Israeli orders to confiscate hundreds of dunums in Abu Dis town
Israeli Occupation authorities have recently announced the seizure and the confiscation of hundreds of dunums in the town of Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem. The so-called Israeli Civil Administration issued new orders to confiscate and seize lands east of Abu Dis town, in order to expand Jahalin neighborhood established currently on the territory of Abu Dis, The lawyer Bassam Bahar Chairman of the Committee for the Defense of land and resist settlement in Abu Dis said in a press statement on Wednesday.
Bahar added that the Israeli new settlement project aimed to deport thousands of Bedouin families from the surrounding areas of Ma'ale Adumim, Kedar, and Mishor Adumim settlements, and all areas surrounding the city of Jerusalem, in order to establish a new settlement neighborhood in Mishor Adumim area.
He pointed out that this Judaization project began since 1997, and continued in several stages, during which hundreds of Bedouin families were deported to the area of Abu Dis in total violation of the right of return and all international laws and norms.
On the other hand, the lawyer Bahar confirmed that the occupation forces issued an order to the family of Abu Sneineh to halt construction work in their home near the University of Jerusalem, under the pretext that the land area is not entitled to Palestinian citizens.
Bahar pointed out that the occupation authorities have halted expansion work near the Cliff Hotel, where the Israeli Attorney-General Zionist has issued a decision to stop work on the apartheid wall in this area.
Bahar added that the Israeli new settlement project aimed to deport thousands of Bedouin families from the surrounding areas of Ma'ale Adumim, Kedar, and Mishor Adumim settlements, and all areas surrounding the city of Jerusalem, in order to establish a new settlement neighborhood in Mishor Adumim area.
He pointed out that this Judaization project began since 1997, and continued in several stages, during which hundreds of Bedouin families were deported to the area of Abu Dis in total violation of the right of return and all international laws and norms.
On the other hand, the lawyer Bahar confirmed that the occupation forces issued an order to the family of Abu Sneineh to halt construction work in their home near the University of Jerusalem, under the pretext that the land area is not entitled to Palestinian citizens.
Bahar pointed out that the occupation authorities have halted expansion work near the Cliff Hotel, where the Israeli Attorney-General Zionist has issued a decision to stop work on the apartheid wall in this area.
7 mar 2013
Aqsa foundation appeals for urgent action to save Mamanullah cemetary
Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage called for urgent action to save the Islamic historical cemetery Mamanullah in occupied Jerusalem from destruction and Judaization. This came in an urgent letter addressed to the Arab League, the organization of Islamic cooperation, the Muslim world league, and the international union for Muslim scholars as well as the embassies of Egypt, Turkey and Jordan.
"Mamanullah cemetery in occupied Jerusalem is one of the oldest Palestinian burial grounds where a galaxy of the Prophet's companions, their followers, religious scholars, mujahideen and dignitaries of Jerusalem are buried throughout history, but this cemetery has been targeted by the occupation authorities since the Palestinian Nakba until today," its letter highlighted.
"[The occupation] appropriated about 85 percent of its area and turned it into public parks and roads, and established on it buildings, institutions, schools and playgrounds," the foundation added.
Head of the foundation Zaki Ighbariya explained in the letter that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) wiped out dozens of ancient graves and embarked on building the foundations for Judaization projects, most notably, a museum, a café and a dog zone.
He appealed for immediate Arab and Muslim moves to salvage the cemetery and stop its desecration by the Israeli regime.
In a related context, the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage reported on Wednesday that the Israeli municipal council and its construction companies started a few days ago to complete their destruction of the whole cemetery of Mamanullah in order to expand its Judaization projects.
It said that the Israeli workmen established infrastructure projects in new areas of the cemetery, including a network of water pipelines
Fawaz Hasan, an official from the Aqsa foundation, visited the cemetery on Wednesday and witnessed the new violations.
He called on the Arab and Muslim governments to hasten to save the oldest and largest historical Islamic cemetery in occupied Palestine.
"Mamanullah cemetery in occupied Jerusalem is one of the oldest Palestinian burial grounds where a galaxy of the Prophet's companions, their followers, religious scholars, mujahideen and dignitaries of Jerusalem are buried throughout history, but this cemetery has been targeted by the occupation authorities since the Palestinian Nakba until today," its letter highlighted.
"[The occupation] appropriated about 85 percent of its area and turned it into public parks and roads, and established on it buildings, institutions, schools and playgrounds," the foundation added.
Head of the foundation Zaki Ighbariya explained in the letter that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) wiped out dozens of ancient graves and embarked on building the foundations for Judaization projects, most notably, a museum, a café and a dog zone.
He appealed for immediate Arab and Muslim moves to salvage the cemetery and stop its desecration by the Israeli regime.
In a related context, the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage reported on Wednesday that the Israeli municipal council and its construction companies started a few days ago to complete their destruction of the whole cemetery of Mamanullah in order to expand its Judaization projects.
It said that the Israeli workmen established infrastructure projects in new areas of the cemetery, including a network of water pipelines
Fawaz Hasan, an official from the Aqsa foundation, visited the cemetery on Wednesday and witnessed the new violations.
He called on the Arab and Muslim governments to hasten to save the oldest and largest historical Islamic cemetery in occupied Palestine.
6 mar 2013
IOA sets up a new road near Nablus in favor of an Israeli settler
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) inaugurated on Tuesday a new road through Palestinian agricultural land near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank, in favor of an Israeli settler who seized a piece of land in the area.
“An Israeli bulldozer continued to work for the second day to set up a road for a Jewish settler seized an agricultural land near the Khirbet Yanun of the town Aqraba near the city of Nablus," the Committee for the Defense of Aqraba's lands confirmed, pointing out that this step will lead to confiscate more agricultural land in the area.
The Palestinian committee explained that "the mentioned road is hundreds of meters long and links between Itamar settlement and the confiscated land, noting that the occupation continues to target the area, aiming to seize hundreds of dunums of the villagers' agricultural lands.
“An Israeli bulldozer continued to work for the second day to set up a road for a Jewish settler seized an agricultural land near the Khirbet Yanun of the town Aqraba near the city of Nablus," the Committee for the Defense of Aqraba's lands confirmed, pointing out that this step will lead to confiscate more agricultural land in the area.
The Palestinian committee explained that "the mentioned road is hundreds of meters long and links between Itamar settlement and the confiscated land, noting that the occupation continues to target the area, aiming to seize hundreds of dunums of the villagers' agricultural lands.
5 mar 2013
Palestinian Forced To Demolish His Own Home In Jerusalem
A Palestinian resident of occupied East Jerusalem was forced to demolish his own home in Jerusalem’s Old City in order to avoid high fines that would be imposed on him should the Jerusalem Municipality demolish the home after it ruled that the property was constructed without a permit.
Daoud Sa’id, the owner of the property, stated that he demolished his own 60 square/meter home, located in Bab Hatta in the Old City, in order to avoid an 80.000 New Israeli Shekels (NIS) fine. (More than $21.000).
Sa’id added that he built his home 11 years ago without a construction permit as the City Council kept rejecting his applications, and that he recently paid the District Court more than 32.000 NIS (Approximately $8.500) when he filed an appeal against the destruction of his property, but the appeal was denied.
“Now after they have demolished our home, my family and I have to live in a tent, “he said, “I’m still worried the Jerusalem Municipality would impose more fines on me”.
Israel repeatedly rejects construction permits to Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem, an issue that pushed the residents to build without permits in order to fulfill the needs of their growing families.
According to data collected by the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) and was published a few months ago, Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is a systematic policy that aims at forcing the Palestinians to leave Jerusalem in order to maintain Jewish majority.
ICHAD estimates that Israel demolished at least 24.145 homes in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since 1967.
Daoud Sa’id, the owner of the property, stated that he demolished his own 60 square/meter home, located in Bab Hatta in the Old City, in order to avoid an 80.000 New Israeli Shekels (NIS) fine. (More than $21.000).
Sa’id added that he built his home 11 years ago without a construction permit as the City Council kept rejecting his applications, and that he recently paid the District Court more than 32.000 NIS (Approximately $8.500) when he filed an appeal against the destruction of his property, but the appeal was denied.
“Now after they have demolished our home, my family and I have to live in a tent, “he said, “I’m still worried the Jerusalem Municipality would impose more fines on me”.
Israel repeatedly rejects construction permits to Palestinians living in occupied East Jerusalem, an issue that pushed the residents to build without permits in order to fulfill the needs of their growing families.
According to data collected by the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD) and was published a few months ago, Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes is a systematic policy that aims at forcing the Palestinians to leave Jerusalem in order to maintain Jewish majority.
ICHAD estimates that Israel demolished at least 24.145 homes in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip since 1967.
4 mar 2013
HAARETZ: The IDF battles a Palestinian shepherd and his two baby goats
By Amira Hass
According to the army, he planned to steal ammunition, while kindhearted soldiers returned a goat and two kids
If it weren’t for the nudniks of Ta’ayush − a group of Israelis active in the southern West Bank − this story would be yet another unwritten chapter in the chronicles of the hostile rule, another grain of dust from the daily fallout of toxins we’re addicted to.
But for the Ta’ayush nudniks − this time Ezra Nawi and a man named Guy − this isn’t a tiny story because it’s a big deal for Kamel Mahamra, a shepherd from the village of Maghayir al-Abeed in the South Hebron Hills. And it’s a big deal for a she-goat and her two kids, born on February 18, in the hills and green pastures near the village of Al-Majaz.
Two and half hours after the kids were born a group of soldiers, probably serving at the Nahal base at Krayot (not in the West Bank), showed up and confiscated the goat and two newborn kids, loading them on their Hummer. Mahamra’s donkey, which had been harnessed to a water container on wheels, disappeared too.
Under heavy pressure from Ezra and Guy, I sent a question the next day to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office with the details above.
“Ezra Nawi of Ta’ayush spoke by phone with the humanitarian hotline and the district coordination office, and one of the DCO’s officers finally told him that soldiers had indeed confiscated the animals,” I wrote. “At one stage, Nawi and Mahamra were told the goat and kids had been returned to the area, but this morning they were nowhere to be found.”
Nawi says several dozen people called the office asking about the goat, the kids and the donkey after he posted the story on Facebook along with the telephone numbers of the DCO’s officers.
After describing the event I asked the IDF Spokesman’s Office: “Was there an order to confiscate the animals or did the soldiers decide on site? Why were the animals confiscated? Do the soldiers know how to take care of kids so they won’t die? Do the soldiers intend to return the animals to their rightful owner? The High Court of Justice has ruled that the army must not harm residents in the area (firing range 918) until a further ruling is issued. Isn’t the confiscation a breach of the High Court order?”
The IDF Spokesman’s Office responded as follows: “The claims raised do an injustice to the truth of the matter. In this case, a shepherd entered a closed firing zone with the aim of stealing ammunition. The animals weren’t confiscated but were brought by the IDF forces to the tent area from which the shepherd came in order to return them to their owner.”
Let’s have a look at this response.
“An injustice to the truth of the matter,” meaning that Kamel, Ezra and Guy are lying.
“Closed firing zone.” The fate of the 918 area (a 30,000-dunam area where the defense minister ordered the demolition of eight of 12 villages to let the IDF prepare for its next wars), is still being debated by the High Court of Justice.
Until the court rules in favor of justice or arms, the IDF is not supposed to alter the status quo in this area where people live, shepherds lead their flocks, goats graze, kids are born, wheat is grown and the Civil Administration issues demolition orders. In other words, at this point in time, Israel’s High Court of Justice is still allowing Mahamra to raise his livestock just as his forefathers did. It is still allowing his goats to have kids.
“The aim of stealing ammunition.” In other words, the shepherd Mahamra is not only a liar, but also a thief, and a very stupid or brave thief at that. Not only did he plan to steal ammunition in broad daylight, he planned to do so with a flock of goats and newborn kids tied like weights to his feet, preventing him from fleeing swiftly after the theft.
The soldiers are mind readers and guessed what he was planning to do, since he didn’t actually steal ammunition.
The soldiers are kindhearted. Every day the IDF arrests Palestinians suspected of trying to carry out evil deeds. A plan to steal ammunition could easily turn into a plan to kidnap a soldier and lead to a Shin Bet interrogation, which could last 20 days. This could include tying the suspect to a chair and depriving him of sleep, producing a confession that the shepherd was actually dreaming of getting rid of the occupying power, a very serious crime under military law.
But this time the soldiers let him off the hook. Did the mind-reading soldiers actually decide to punish him for his evil intent by “not confiscating” the two newborn kids, the goat and the donkey?
A logical leap and a missing verb. The soldiers did not confiscate the animals and then delivered them to one of the encampments. But to bring them there, they had to first take them, and according to the IDF Spokesman’s Office, they did not confiscate them and did not even take them.
“IDF forces.” This sounds much better than just “soldiers” because “soldiers” implies boredom, lack of sleep and sore feet. IDF forces are those that “return without casualties” or “return safely.”
How about the goat, the kids and the donkey? Did they return safely? They did if one believes the IDF spokesman’s response. The fact that Kamel, Ezra and Guy say they didn’t, and that all their searches were in vain, doesn’t mean anything because the spokesman already implied that they’re all liars.
According to the army, he planned to steal ammunition, while kindhearted soldiers returned a goat and two kids
If it weren’t for the nudniks of Ta’ayush − a group of Israelis active in the southern West Bank − this story would be yet another unwritten chapter in the chronicles of the hostile rule, another grain of dust from the daily fallout of toxins we’re addicted to.
But for the Ta’ayush nudniks − this time Ezra Nawi and a man named Guy − this isn’t a tiny story because it’s a big deal for Kamel Mahamra, a shepherd from the village of Maghayir al-Abeed in the South Hebron Hills. And it’s a big deal for a she-goat and her two kids, born on February 18, in the hills and green pastures near the village of Al-Majaz.
Two and half hours after the kids were born a group of soldiers, probably serving at the Nahal base at Krayot (not in the West Bank), showed up and confiscated the goat and two newborn kids, loading them on their Hummer. Mahamra’s donkey, which had been harnessed to a water container on wheels, disappeared too.
Under heavy pressure from Ezra and Guy, I sent a question the next day to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office with the details above.
“Ezra Nawi of Ta’ayush spoke by phone with the humanitarian hotline and the district coordination office, and one of the DCO’s officers finally told him that soldiers had indeed confiscated the animals,” I wrote. “At one stage, Nawi and Mahamra were told the goat and kids had been returned to the area, but this morning they were nowhere to be found.”
Nawi says several dozen people called the office asking about the goat, the kids and the donkey after he posted the story on Facebook along with the telephone numbers of the DCO’s officers.
After describing the event I asked the IDF Spokesman’s Office: “Was there an order to confiscate the animals or did the soldiers decide on site? Why were the animals confiscated? Do the soldiers know how to take care of kids so they won’t die? Do the soldiers intend to return the animals to their rightful owner? The High Court of Justice has ruled that the army must not harm residents in the area (firing range 918) until a further ruling is issued. Isn’t the confiscation a breach of the High Court order?”
The IDF Spokesman’s Office responded as follows: “The claims raised do an injustice to the truth of the matter. In this case, a shepherd entered a closed firing zone with the aim of stealing ammunition. The animals weren’t confiscated but were brought by the IDF forces to the tent area from which the shepherd came in order to return them to their owner.”
Let’s have a look at this response.
“An injustice to the truth of the matter,” meaning that Kamel, Ezra and Guy are lying.
“Closed firing zone.” The fate of the 918 area (a 30,000-dunam area where the defense minister ordered the demolition of eight of 12 villages to let the IDF prepare for its next wars), is still being debated by the High Court of Justice.
Until the court rules in favor of justice or arms, the IDF is not supposed to alter the status quo in this area where people live, shepherds lead their flocks, goats graze, kids are born, wheat is grown and the Civil Administration issues demolition orders. In other words, at this point in time, Israel’s High Court of Justice is still allowing Mahamra to raise his livestock just as his forefathers did. It is still allowing his goats to have kids.
“The aim of stealing ammunition.” In other words, the shepherd Mahamra is not only a liar, but also a thief, and a very stupid or brave thief at that. Not only did he plan to steal ammunition in broad daylight, he planned to do so with a flock of goats and newborn kids tied like weights to his feet, preventing him from fleeing swiftly after the theft.
The soldiers are mind readers and guessed what he was planning to do, since he didn’t actually steal ammunition.
The soldiers are kindhearted. Every day the IDF arrests Palestinians suspected of trying to carry out evil deeds. A plan to steal ammunition could easily turn into a plan to kidnap a soldier and lead to a Shin Bet interrogation, which could last 20 days. This could include tying the suspect to a chair and depriving him of sleep, producing a confession that the shepherd was actually dreaming of getting rid of the occupying power, a very serious crime under military law.
But this time the soldiers let him off the hook. Did the mind-reading soldiers actually decide to punish him for his evil intent by “not confiscating” the two newborn kids, the goat and the donkey?
A logical leap and a missing verb. The soldiers did not confiscate the animals and then delivered them to one of the encampments. But to bring them there, they had to first take them, and according to the IDF Spokesman’s Office, they did not confiscate them and did not even take them.
“IDF forces.” This sounds much better than just “soldiers” because “soldiers” implies boredom, lack of sleep and sore feet. IDF forces are those that “return without casualties” or “return safely.”
How about the goat, the kids and the donkey? Did they return safely? They did if one believes the IDF spokesman’s response. The fact that Kamel, Ezra and Guy say they didn’t, and that all their searches were in vain, doesn’t mean anything because the spokesman already implied that they’re all liars.
IOF troops advance into eastern Gaza
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into Juhr Al-Deek area to the east of Gaza city at dawn Monday, local sources said.
The sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers in a number of armored vehicles advanced about two hundred meters into the area.
They said that the soldiers escorted bulldozers that started leveling cultivated land lots.
The sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers in a number of armored vehicles advanced about two hundred meters into the area.
They said that the soldiers escorted bulldozers that started leveling cultivated land lots.
2 mar 2013
IOA prosecutes a boy from Jenin and erects checkpoints
Israeli military court in Salem camp, northern Jenin, postponed the trial of a Palestinian boy from the town of Rummaneh, western Jenin, and refused to release him. Zuhair Rashid Ahmad, 17, was arrested by Israeli soldiers on 15/2/2013 after an Israeli military jeep had deliberately run over him.
The court insisted on accusing the Palestinian boy of participating in the demonstration that took place at the Jalama checkpoint.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces have erected, since the early morning hours Saturday, a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Ya'bad south of Jenin, and started confiscating vehicles, abusing the citizens and preventing them from heading to their work places.
The court insisted on accusing the Palestinian boy of participating in the demonstration that took place at the Jalama checkpoint.
Meanwhile, the Israeli forces have erected, since the early morning hours Saturday, a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Ya'bad south of Jenin, and started confiscating vehicles, abusing the citizens and preventing them from heading to their work places.
