6 may 2019
A number of bulldozers, belonging to Israeli settlers, razed and leveled Palestinian-owned agricultural lands, on Monday, in Madama village, south of the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that bulldozers belonging to Israeli settlers started to raze and level Palestinian lands, in order to pave a settler-only road in the area.
Daghlas added that the Israeli settlers were from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar and that the settler-only road would enable Israeli settlers to reach spring water in the area.
The Israeli NGO B'Tselem reported that Israeli settlers' vandalism in the occupied West Bank is a daily routine and is fully backed by Israeli authorities.
The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and violent acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
Over 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that bulldozers belonging to Israeli settlers started to raze and level Palestinian lands, in order to pave a settler-only road in the area.
Daghlas added that the Israeli settlers were from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar and that the settler-only road would enable Israeli settlers to reach spring water in the area.
The Israeli NGO B'Tselem reported that Israeli settlers' vandalism in the occupied West Bank is a daily routine and is fully backed by Israeli authorities.
The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and violent acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
Over 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law, with recent announcements of settlement expansion provoking condemnation from the international community.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, a young Palestinian man, and summoned another for interrogation, in addition to searching many homes, and cars, confiscated surveillance equipment and destroyed solar panels, in Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank.
Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, searched homes and abducted Husam Atef Jawabra, 24.
They added that the soldiers also invaded and searched the home of Tareq Abdul-Samad al-Mitwer, in Sa’ir town north of Hebron and summoned him for interrogation.
In addition, the soldiers invaded and searched homes in Ethna town, north of Hebron, in addition to Khirbat Jouret ash-Sham’a village in Sa’ir town, northeast of Hebron, before confiscating surveillance equipment, in addition to destroying solar panels owned by Ibrahim Mohammad Shalalda.
In related news, the soldiers invaded several neighborhoods in Hebron city, and searched a home, owned by Bashir Rajabi, and installed roadblocks on the entrances of Sa’ir and Halhoul town, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, searched homes and abducted Husam Atef Jawabra, 24.
They added that the soldiers also invaded and searched the home of Tareq Abdul-Samad al-Mitwer, in Sa’ir town north of Hebron and summoned him for interrogation.
In addition, the soldiers invaded and searched homes in Ethna town, north of Hebron, in addition to Khirbat Jouret ash-Sham’a village in Sa’ir town, northeast of Hebron, before confiscating surveillance equipment, in addition to destroying solar panels owned by Ibrahim Mohammad Shalalda.
In related news, the soldiers invaded several neighborhoods in Hebron city, and searched a home, owned by Bashir Rajabi, and installed roadblocks on the entrances of Sa’ir and Halhoul town, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
5 may 2019
The Israeli occupation authorities on Sunday ordered the demolition of a Palestinian sheep barn in al-Walaja village, west of Bethlehem, and imposed a heavy fine on its owner.
Activist Ibrahim Awadallah said that the Israeli forces stormed Khillat al-Samak area in al-Walaja and handed the Palestinian citizen Emad ad-Darras a notice providing for the demolition of his sheep Barn under the pretext of being unlicensed.
Ad-Darras will also be ordered to pay a 30,000-140,000 NIS fine, Awadallah added.
The Israeli forces further took photos of several Palestinian homes and farmlands in the area before they withdrew.
Local residents said that al-Walaja has been recently subjected to a stepped up home demolition campaign.
Activist Ibrahim Awadallah said that the Israeli forces stormed Khillat al-Samak area in al-Walaja and handed the Palestinian citizen Emad ad-Darras a notice providing for the demolition of his sheep Barn under the pretext of being unlicensed.
Ad-Darras will also be ordered to pay a 30,000-140,000 NIS fine, Awadallah added.
The Israeli forces further took photos of several Palestinian homes and farmlands in the area before they withdrew.
Local residents said that al-Walaja has been recently subjected to a stepped up home demolition campaign.
Israeli military bulldozers uprooted 120 olive trees in Lubban al-Gharbiya village in western Ramallah on Sunday morning.
The village’s former municipality council chairman, Fawaz Salem, said that the Israeli occupation authorities informed a village resident, Shafiq Abu Salem, a month ago that his land would be confiscated to allow the construction of a road serving a nearby settlement.
He added that Israeli occupation forces started in the early morning Sunday in uprooting 120 olive trees in Abu Salem’s 3-dunum piece of land.
The village’s former municipality council chairman, Fawaz Salem, said that the Israeli occupation authorities informed a village resident, Shafiq Abu Salem, a month ago that his land would be confiscated to allow the construction of a road serving a nearby settlement.
He added that Israeli occupation forces started in the early morning Sunday in uprooting 120 olive trees in Abu Salem’s 3-dunum piece of land.
3 may 2019
The Jerusalem Center for the Study of Israeli Affairs documented 53 settlement projects implemented by Israel in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, during the month of April.
The center’s report, which was issued on Thursday, said the Israeli settlement projects and activities included the confiscation of Palestinians land, sending out demolition notices to Palestinian structure, and the actual demolition of tens of residential and commercial establishments, as well as the construction of thousands of settlement housing units in the West Bank settlements.
According to the report, the Israeli measures have also affected facilities owned by Arab-Israelis as part of a policy aimed at displacing them.
The center’s director, Imad Abu Awad, said the Israeli demolition and settlement process is growing on an almost monthly basis, which suggests that the Israeli occupation plan aims to use it as political aesthetic to counter any Palestinian movement.
The report added that occupied East Jerusalem remains the first target of these measures but where almost 50% of the demolition orders were issued inside Jerusalem.
The report pointed out that the construction of illegal Israeli settlement housing units has increased in 2018 by 9% compared to 2017.
The report confirmed that Israel built nearly 1,800 settlement units per year during the last 10 years before 2018, however, in 2018, the number increased to 2,000 housing units.
It added that the figure is likely to increase in 2019 ahead of the United States’ announcement of the so-called “Deal of the Century” and the entry of the right-wing parties into the newly elected Israeli government.
The center’s report, which was issued on Thursday, said the Israeli settlement projects and activities included the confiscation of Palestinians land, sending out demolition notices to Palestinian structure, and the actual demolition of tens of residential and commercial establishments, as well as the construction of thousands of settlement housing units in the West Bank settlements.
According to the report, the Israeli measures have also affected facilities owned by Arab-Israelis as part of a policy aimed at displacing them.
The center’s director, Imad Abu Awad, said the Israeli demolition and settlement process is growing on an almost monthly basis, which suggests that the Israeli occupation plan aims to use it as political aesthetic to counter any Palestinian movement.
The report added that occupied East Jerusalem remains the first target of these measures but where almost 50% of the demolition orders were issued inside Jerusalem.
The report pointed out that the construction of illegal Israeli settlement housing units has increased in 2018 by 9% compared to 2017.
The report confirmed that Israel built nearly 1,800 settlement units per year during the last 10 years before 2018, however, in 2018, the number increased to 2,000 housing units.
It added that the figure is likely to increase in 2019 ahead of the United States’ announcement of the so-called “Deal of the Century” and the entry of the right-wing parties into the newly elected Israeli government.
2 may 2019
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Israeli bulldozers demolished, on Thursday, a residential tent that was erected in the town of Yatta, to the south of Hebron, and attacked an elderly man during the demolition.
Local sources PNN confirmed that Israeli police assaulted an elderly man while their bulldozer demolished his tent at the Umm al-Khirif area, populated by Bedouins. |
The Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday demolished a Palestinian tent in Yatta town south of the West Bank city of al-Khalil.
Activist Rateb al-Jbour said that the Israeli forces for the third time dismantled a residential tent belonging to Husein al-Nawaj'a and his 10-member family, leaving them homeless.
Al-Jbour called on the international community and human rights organizations to intervene and immediately stop these violations carried out by Israel in an attempt to force the Palestinians out of their lands.
Activist Rateb al-Jbour said that the Israeli forces for the third time dismantled a residential tent belonging to Husein al-Nawaj'a and his 10-member family, leaving them homeless.
Al-Jbour called on the international community and human rights organizations to intervene and immediately stop these violations carried out by Israel in an attempt to force the Palestinians out of their lands.
The Israeli occupation army’s civil administration approved plans to annex thousands of dunums to build two bypass roads for Jewish settlers in Palestinian areas in the north and south of the West Bank
According to the Hebrew website 0404, the first road will be built in the north of the West Bank and goes around Huwara town in Nablus and the second one will be built near al-Arroub refugee camp in al-Khalil.
Thousands of dunums of agricultural land will be annexed to build these roads.
The council of settlements in the West Bank applauded the plans, affirming that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu gave the go-ahead for the construction of the road.
According to the Hebrew website 0404, the first road will be built in the north of the West Bank and goes around Huwara town in Nablus and the second one will be built near al-Arroub refugee camp in al-Khalil.
Thousands of dunums of agricultural land will be annexed to build these roads.
The council of settlements in the West Bank applauded the plans, affirming that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu gave the go-ahead for the construction of the road.
1 may 2019
Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem revealed that Israeli authorities forced around 3,000 Palestinians from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem between 2004 and 2019.
B’Tselem published a report, stating, “The Jerusalem Municipality demolished 830 residential units, and 120 more were demolished by their owners on the municipality’s orders.”
B’Tselem stressed, “The municipality deliberately left 2,927 people homeless, 1,574 of them minors.”
The report points out that the Israeli-run municipality adopts policies which have deliberately created an acute construction crisis for the city’s Palestinian population, while Jewish neighborhoods enjoy massive development and substantial funding.
B’Tselem explained, “Israel has expropriated more than a third of the land it annexed from the West Bank and has built 11 neighborhoods exclusively for Jews.”
The report noted that these neighborhoods are as “illegal under international law as Israel’s settlements are in the occupied West Bank.”
Israeli authorities use a number of strategies to block Palestinian use of the land, thus according to the report, the authorities either declare Palestinian-owned land as “open scenic areas,” where development is forbidden, or as national parks, where construction and urban development are almost entirely forbidden.
In other parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, large areas, including towns and villages, are declared to be “military zones” almost as a matter of routine, and residents have to leave their homes for set periods when the army moves in.
B’Tselem said that Palestinians in East Jerusalem “have no choice” but to build without permits since the Israeli municipality rarely grants the right to build homes.
Israeli authorities estimate that between 15,000 and 20,000 Palestinian-owned homes have been built or extended without planning permission in the past five years.
B’Tselem stated, “Thousands of Palestinians in the city are living under constant threat to their homes and businesses; in many cases, the authorities follow through on this threat or force residents to demolish the structures themselves.”
“Israel does not see the residents of East Jerusalem [the Palestinians] as human beings with equal rights, but as people it strives to remove from their homes, as they are an obstacle to Judaizing the city.”
The human rights organization stressed that the measures adopted by Israel to achieve that end are all illegal.
“[The authorities are] deliberately denying Palestinians construction permits for residential and other purposes, issuing demolition orders for structures built without a permit for lack of choice, and demolishing dozens of such structures a year.”
“Israel,” concluded B’Tselem, “has implemented this policy, designed to clear parts of the city of Palestinians, since occupying the West Bank and annexing East Jerusalem and the surrounding villages in 1967.”
B’Tselem published a report, stating, “The Jerusalem Municipality demolished 830 residential units, and 120 more were demolished by their owners on the municipality’s orders.”
B’Tselem stressed, “The municipality deliberately left 2,927 people homeless, 1,574 of them minors.”
The report points out that the Israeli-run municipality adopts policies which have deliberately created an acute construction crisis for the city’s Palestinian population, while Jewish neighborhoods enjoy massive development and substantial funding.
B’Tselem explained, “Israel has expropriated more than a third of the land it annexed from the West Bank and has built 11 neighborhoods exclusively for Jews.”
The report noted that these neighborhoods are as “illegal under international law as Israel’s settlements are in the occupied West Bank.”
Israeli authorities use a number of strategies to block Palestinian use of the land, thus according to the report, the authorities either declare Palestinian-owned land as “open scenic areas,” where development is forbidden, or as national parks, where construction and urban development are almost entirely forbidden.
In other parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, large areas, including towns and villages, are declared to be “military zones” almost as a matter of routine, and residents have to leave their homes for set periods when the army moves in.
B’Tselem said that Palestinians in East Jerusalem “have no choice” but to build without permits since the Israeli municipality rarely grants the right to build homes.
Israeli authorities estimate that between 15,000 and 20,000 Palestinian-owned homes have been built or extended without planning permission in the past five years.
B’Tselem stated, “Thousands of Palestinians in the city are living under constant threat to their homes and businesses; in many cases, the authorities follow through on this threat or force residents to demolish the structures themselves.”
“Israel does not see the residents of East Jerusalem [the Palestinians] as human beings with equal rights, but as people it strives to remove from their homes, as they are an obstacle to Judaizing the city.”
The human rights organization stressed that the measures adopted by Israel to achieve that end are all illegal.
“[The authorities are] deliberately denying Palestinians construction permits for residential and other purposes, issuing demolition orders for structures built without a permit for lack of choice, and demolishing dozens of such structures a year.”
“Israel,” concluded B’Tselem, “has implemented this policy, designed to clear parts of the city of Palestinians, since occupying the West Bank and annexing East Jerusalem and the surrounding villages in 1967.”
Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, the ad-Deerat area, east of Yatta town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished a Palestinian home.
Rateb Jabour, the media coordinator of the National and Popular Committees against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said several army jeeps invaded the area, before sealing it and surrounding the home.
He added that the soldiers then invaded the home, owned by Jibreel Mahmoud al-‘Adra, and forced the family out before demolishing it.
The army claims the property was built without a permit from the Israeli “Civil Administration Office,” the executive and administrative branch of the illegal Israeli occupation in the West Bank.
Before demolishing the property, the soldiers invaded the Susiya village, and destroyed a residential tent, inhabited by Hussein Radi Nawaj’a.
It is worth mentioning that the area has recently witnesses a serious Israeli escalation, targeting many homes, sheds and other structures, as part of Israel’s illegal construction and expansion of its colonies.
In the 1970’s, Israel enforced a “firing zone” for its soldiers’ training in Masafer Yatta, after expelling the Palestinians, and later allowed them back, but continued to target their homes and structures, as the threat of being displaced, yet again, is always present.
It is worth mentioning that, except for a small part, Masafer Yatta, also known as Southern Hebron Hills, is in Area C (around 62%) of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli civil and military control, and while the Palestinians continue to face demolitions and violations, around 3000 Israeli colonists illegally live in the area.
According to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem), there are an estimated 622,670 settlers in the West Bank.
It stated that the “figure is derived from two sources: According to data provided by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2017, 413,400 people were living in the settlements of the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. According to data provided by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, the population of the Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem numbered 209,270 people at the end of 2016.”
Rateb Jabour, the media coordinator of the National and Popular Committees against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in southern Hebron, said several army jeeps invaded the area, before sealing it and surrounding the home.
He added that the soldiers then invaded the home, owned by Jibreel Mahmoud al-‘Adra, and forced the family out before demolishing it.
The army claims the property was built without a permit from the Israeli “Civil Administration Office,” the executive and administrative branch of the illegal Israeli occupation in the West Bank.
Before demolishing the property, the soldiers invaded the Susiya village, and destroyed a residential tent, inhabited by Hussein Radi Nawaj’a.
It is worth mentioning that the area has recently witnesses a serious Israeli escalation, targeting many homes, sheds and other structures, as part of Israel’s illegal construction and expansion of its colonies.
In the 1970’s, Israel enforced a “firing zone” for its soldiers’ training in Masafer Yatta, after expelling the Palestinians, and later allowed them back, but continued to target their homes and structures, as the threat of being displaced, yet again, is always present.
It is worth mentioning that, except for a small part, Masafer Yatta, also known as Southern Hebron Hills, is in Area C (around 62%) of the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli civil and military control, and while the Palestinians continue to face demolitions and violations, around 3000 Israeli colonists illegally live in the area.
According to the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem), there are an estimated 622,670 settlers in the West Bank.
It stated that the “figure is derived from two sources: According to data provided by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2017, 413,400 people were living in the settlements of the West Bank, excluding East Jerusalem. According to data provided by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, the population of the Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem numbered 209,270 people at the end of 2016.”
A group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Palestinian olive orchards near the central West Bank city of Ramallah and cut more than 150 trees.
Media sources said the assailants came from an illegal outpost, which was installed on private Palestinian lands in Burqa village, east of Ramallah, and cut more than 150 olive trees.
Ibrahim Kanaan, one of the villagers whose trees were cut, said the attack came just two days after several colonists attempted to assault him while he was plowing his land.
Such violations and assaults are frequent in the occupied West Bank, and include bulldozing Palestinian lands, burning them and even flooding them with sewage.
Media sources said the assailants came from an illegal outpost, which was installed on private Palestinian lands in Burqa village, east of Ramallah, and cut more than 150 olive trees.
Ibrahim Kanaan, one of the villagers whose trees were cut, said the attack came just two days after several colonists attempted to assault him while he was plowing his land.
Such violations and assaults are frequent in the occupied West Bank, and include bulldozing Palestinian lands, burning them and even flooding them with sewage.
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