18 nov 2019
Israeli bulldozers, on Monday, razed lands near Jabal al-Baba Bedouin community, located near al-Eizariyah town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, The Palestinian News and Info Agency reported.
Atallah Mazar’a, a community representative, stated that Israeli forces escorted bulldozers onto Palestinian land, where the heavy machinery proceeded to raze a 500-meter-long earth road, severing Jabal al-Baba community from al-Eizariyah town, destroying the main water pipeline.
The Palestinian Bedouin community depends on al-Eizariyah town for services such as education and health clinics. As a result, the Bedouin community will be forced to travel for water, in addition to being cut off from the health and education resources in the nearby town.
Jabal al Baba is one of the 18 Bedouin communities located within the area Israel has allocated for its E1 settlement plan. Israel wants to displace all communities in this area in order to pave the way for building a large new and controversial settlement that is expected to divide the West Bank and separate East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
Israel demolished dozens of makeshift homes and structures in that area, most of them were donated by the European Union as part of its humanitarian assistance for hard-hit Palestinians in the Israeli controlled Area C of the occupied West Bank.
Meanwhile, the so-called Israeli Civil Administration, an arm of the military government, informed residents in the area that their homes are going to demolished for construction without permit, despite an order by the High Court freezing the demolitions.
According to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, scores of farming-shepherding communities, home to thousands of Palestinians, dot the landscape of Area C, which comprises some 60% of the West Bank.
For decades, the Israeli authorities have been implementing a policy aimed at driving out these communities, making living conditions intolerable, in an attempt to get residents to leave, ostensibly of their own volition.
Atallah Mazar’a, a community representative, stated that Israeli forces escorted bulldozers onto Palestinian land, where the heavy machinery proceeded to raze a 500-meter-long earth road, severing Jabal al-Baba community from al-Eizariyah town, destroying the main water pipeline.
The Palestinian Bedouin community depends on al-Eizariyah town for services such as education and health clinics. As a result, the Bedouin community will be forced to travel for water, in addition to being cut off from the health and education resources in the nearby town.
Jabal al Baba is one of the 18 Bedouin communities located within the area Israel has allocated for its E1 settlement plan. Israel wants to displace all communities in this area in order to pave the way for building a large new and controversial settlement that is expected to divide the West Bank and separate East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
Israel demolished dozens of makeshift homes and structures in that area, most of them were donated by the European Union as part of its humanitarian assistance for hard-hit Palestinians in the Israeli controlled Area C of the occupied West Bank.
Meanwhile, the so-called Israeli Civil Administration, an arm of the military government, informed residents in the area that their homes are going to demolished for construction without permit, despite an order by the High Court freezing the demolitions.
According to Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, scores of farming-shepherding communities, home to thousands of Palestinians, dot the landscape of Area C, which comprises some 60% of the West Bank.
For decades, the Israeli authorities have been implementing a policy aimed at driving out these communities, making living conditions intolerable, in an attempt to get residents to leave, ostensibly of their own volition.
Israeli authorities notified Palestinian resident in the village of Khirbet Susiya, south of Hebron, of its intent to demolish the home, the Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the National and Popular Committee in southern Hebron, said that Israeli forces handed local resident Mohammed Zain a demolition notice against his 160-square-meter home.
Israeli forces also photographed residential rooms near Susiya.
According to B’Tselem, from 2006 until 31 Oct. 2019, Israel demolished at least 1,489 Palestinian residential units in the West Bank.
From 2004 until 2018, Israeli Authorities demolished 54 residential units a year, on average. In 2019, Israeli authorities 140 units by the end of September.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the National and Popular Committee in southern Hebron, said that Israeli forces handed local resident Mohammed Zain a demolition notice against his 160-square-meter home.
Israeli forces also photographed residential rooms near Susiya.
According to B’Tselem, from 2006 until 31 Oct. 2019, Israel demolished at least 1,489 Palestinian residential units in the West Bank.
From 2004 until 2018, Israeli Authorities demolished 54 residential units a year, on average. In 2019, Israeli authorities 140 units by the end of September.
17 nov 2019
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has announced its intent to seize hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land in Salfit province, north of the occupied West Bank.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said that the IOA recently delivered notices to Palestinian municipal councils in Salfit province informing them of its intent to annex hundreds of dunums from their towns and villages in order to use for settlement activity.
In recent months, the IOA have annexed thousands of dunums of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Jerusalem for the purpose of expanding settlements and Jerusalem and announced plans to build roads, walls and hundreds of housing units for Jewish settlers.
At the same time, the IOA embarked on carrying out widespread demolitions against Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas said that the IOA recently delivered notices to Palestinian municipal councils in Salfit province informing them of its intent to annex hundreds of dunums from their towns and villages in order to use for settlement activity.
In recent months, the IOA have annexed thousands of dunums of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Jerusalem for the purpose of expanding settlements and Jerusalem and announced plans to build roads, walls and hundreds of housing units for Jewish settlers.
At the same time, the IOA embarked on carrying out widespread demolitions against Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied Palestinian territories.
16 nov 2019
The Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied territories, B’Tselem, has released a report showing that in 2019, the Israeli authorities demolished more Palestinian homes than any other year in the past 15 years.
According to B’Tselem, “from 2004 to 2018, the Israeli authorities demolished 54 residential units [belonging to Palestinians] a year, on average. In 2019, the authorities demolished 140 units by the end of September.”
Its report also highlighted other statistics regarding Israel’s demolition policy, including that “from 2006 until October 31, 2019, Israel demolished at least 1,489 Palestinian residential units in the West Bank (not including east Jerusalem), causing 6,508 people – including at least 3,264 minors – to lose their homes.”
“In Palestinian communities unrecognized by the state of Israel, many which are facing the threat of expulsion, Israel repeatedly demolishes residents’ homes. From 2006 through October 31 2019, the homes of at least 1,048 people living in these communities - including 499 minors - were demolished more than once by Israel.”
“In addition, from January 2016 through October 31 2019, the [Israeli army’s] Civil Administration demolished 756 non-residential structures (such as fences, cisterns, roads, storerooms, farming buildings, businesses and public buildings) in the West Bank (excluding east Jerusalem),” the report elaborated.
According to B’Tselem, “from 2004 to 2018, the Israeli authorities demolished 54 residential units [belonging to Palestinians] a year, on average. In 2019, the authorities demolished 140 units by the end of September.”
Its report also highlighted other statistics regarding Israel’s demolition policy, including that “from 2006 until October 31, 2019, Israel demolished at least 1,489 Palestinian residential units in the West Bank (not including east Jerusalem), causing 6,508 people – including at least 3,264 minors – to lose their homes.”
“In Palestinian communities unrecognized by the state of Israel, many which are facing the threat of expulsion, Israel repeatedly demolishes residents’ homes. From 2006 through October 31 2019, the homes of at least 1,048 people living in these communities - including 499 minors - were demolished more than once by Israel.”
“In addition, from January 2016 through October 31 2019, the [Israeli army’s] Civil Administration demolished 756 non-residential structures (such as fences, cisterns, roads, storerooms, farming buildings, businesses and public buildings) in the West Bank (excluding east Jerusalem),” the report elaborated.
14 nov 2019
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Wednesday forced a Jerusalemite family in Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in the east of the holy city to demolish agricultural structures.
According to local sources, the family of Ja’abis had to remove four structures they used to keep cattle in order to avoid incurring dozens of thousands of shekels if the Israeli municipality had demolished them.
The Israeli municipality in Jerusalem had given the family 24 hours to comply with the demolition order.
According to local sources, the family of Ja’abis had to remove four structures they used to keep cattle in order to avoid incurring dozens of thousands of shekels if the Israeli municipality had demolished them.
The Israeli municipality in Jerusalem had given the family 24 hours to comply with the demolition order.
13 nov 2019
The Israeli army, on Wednesday, began to bulldoze Palestinian land in Beit Ummar town, north of the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, in order to make way for the construction of a settler-only bypass road.
WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli bulldozers, under military protection, proceeded to raze about 400 dunams of Palestinian land belonging to the Hebron-district towns of Halhul and Beit Ummar to make room for the settler-only bypass road.
The road is planned to extend several kilometres on private Palestinian fertile lands from the Gush Etzion settlement junction, north of Hebron, to the Nabi Younes junction, at the eastern entrance of Halhul town, passing through Beit Al Baraka church compound, opposite to al-Arroub refugee camp, and Jabal al-Qarn natural reserve.
Over the last two decades, Jewish-only settlements have expanded rapidly across the occupied West Bank, severely hindering the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state.
The Israeli government provides roads, electricity, water, and sewage systems to over 600,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank, while the same services remain inaccessible to most of the neighbouring Palestinians.
While the international community has been vocal in its condemnation of Israeli settlement activity, it has taken few steps to pressure Israel into ceasing the enterprise.
WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli bulldozers, under military protection, proceeded to raze about 400 dunams of Palestinian land belonging to the Hebron-district towns of Halhul and Beit Ummar to make room for the settler-only bypass road.
The road is planned to extend several kilometres on private Palestinian fertile lands from the Gush Etzion settlement junction, north of Hebron, to the Nabi Younes junction, at the eastern entrance of Halhul town, passing through Beit Al Baraka church compound, opposite to al-Arroub refugee camp, and Jabal al-Qarn natural reserve.
Over the last two decades, Jewish-only settlements have expanded rapidly across the occupied West Bank, severely hindering the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state.
The Israeli government provides roads, electricity, water, and sewage systems to over 600,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank, while the same services remain inaccessible to most of the neighbouring Palestinians.
While the international community has been vocal in its condemnation of Israeli settlement activity, it has taken few steps to pressure Israel into ceasing the enterprise.
The Palestinian News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported that Israeli authorities, on Wednesday, issued military orders to seize more Palestinian land for military purposes in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.
Hasan Brijiyeh, a local anti-settlement and anti-wall activist, told WAFA that Israeli authorities in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of Bethlehem, issued notices seizing unspecified areas of land belonging to Palestinians in Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour cities and Bethlehem-district towns and villages of al-Khader, Battir, al-Jab’a, al-Walaja, Artas, Wadi Rahhal and Wadi al-Nis.
According to the Israeli anti-settlement group, Peace Now, “Over the years, Israel has used a number of legal and bureaucratic procedures in order to appropriate West Bank lands, with the primary objective of establishing settlements and providing land reserves for them.”
The Israeli peace group asserts that Israel uses “primarily these five methods: seizure for military purposes; declaration of state lands; seizure of absentee property; confiscation for public needs; and initial registration, Israel has managed to take over about 50% of the lands in the West Bank, barring the local Palestinian public from using them.”
Hasan Brijiyeh, a local anti-settlement and anti-wall activist, told WAFA that Israeli authorities in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, south of Bethlehem, issued notices seizing unspecified areas of land belonging to Palestinians in Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour cities and Bethlehem-district towns and villages of al-Khader, Battir, al-Jab’a, al-Walaja, Artas, Wadi Rahhal and Wadi al-Nis.
According to the Israeli anti-settlement group, Peace Now, “Over the years, Israel has used a number of legal and bureaucratic procedures in order to appropriate West Bank lands, with the primary objective of establishing settlements and providing land reserves for them.”
The Israeli peace group asserts that Israel uses “primarily these five methods: seizure for military purposes; declaration of state lands; seizure of absentee property; confiscation for public needs; and initial registration, Israel has managed to take over about 50% of the lands in the West Bank, barring the local Palestinian public from using them.”
Israeli soldiers abducted, Wednesday, a Palestinian university student from Tarqoumia town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and illegally confiscated cash and a computer.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers stormed and ransacked the home of Mohammad Sa’adi Abu Dabbous, the coordinator of the Fateh Movement at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron.
They added that the soldiers searched the property, before abducting him, and invaded his father’s Currency Exchange shop, before ransacking it and confiscating cash and a computer.
In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers attacked many Palestinians, nonviolently marching in solidarity with the Gaza Strip amidst the ongoing Israeli military escalation, and fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades at them.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers stormed and ransacked the home of Mohammad Sa’adi Abu Dabbous, the coordinator of the Fateh Movement at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron.
They added that the soldiers searched the property, before abducting him, and invaded his father’s Currency Exchange shop, before ransacking it and confiscating cash and a computer.
In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers attacked many Palestinians, nonviolently marching in solidarity with the Gaza Strip amidst the ongoing Israeli military escalation, and fired a barrage of gas bombs and concussion grenades at them.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, ‘Atouf Palestinian village, south of Tubas in northeastern West Bank, and demolished an under-construction home.
Mo’taz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli’s colonialist activities in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, said several army jeeps and bulldozers invaded Umm Ekbeish area in ‘Atouf village and demolished an under-construction home, owned by Khaled Naji Bani-Odah.
Bisharat added that, a month ago, the soldiers handed the Palestinian an order for the demolition of his property.
The soldiers surrounded the area of the property, and demolished it, before withdrawing.
Mo’taz Bisharat, a Palestinian official who monitors Israeli’s colonialist activities in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, said several army jeeps and bulldozers invaded Umm Ekbeish area in ‘Atouf village and demolished an under-construction home, owned by Khaled Naji Bani-Odah.
Bisharat added that, a month ago, the soldiers handed the Palestinian an order for the demolition of his property.
The soldiers surrounded the area of the property, and demolished it, before withdrawing.
11 nov 2019
Israeli forces, on Monday, demolished two residential structures in the occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem.
Younes Jafar, Chairman of Al-Montar Land Defense Committee, said that soldiers embarked, in the early morning hours, on destroying two residential buildings in the area of al-Montar, under the pretext of being built without permits.
Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency notes that Israeli settlers, on September 15, set up a number of mobile homes and water tanks in the area, in order to establish a settlement outpost there.
Recently, Israeli authorities have launched a massive demolition campaign against Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Younes Jafar, Chairman of Al-Montar Land Defense Committee, said that soldiers embarked, in the early morning hours, on destroying two residential buildings in the area of al-Montar, under the pretext of being built without permits.
Al Ray Palestinian Media Agency notes that Israeli settlers, on September 15, set up a number of mobile homes and water tanks in the area, in order to establish a settlement outpost there.
Recently, Israeli authorities have launched a massive demolition campaign against Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.
In early morning raids on Monday, Israeli forces invaded several parts of the West Bank and abducted nine Palestinians. Soldiers also demolished two homes and a barn in East Jerusalem.
According to local sources, in Bethlehem, Israeli forces abducted Hamza Emad Al-Kamel, 18, and Mohammed Emad Al-Harimi, 18, after the soldiers raided and searched their homes in Wadi Shaheen area in the center of Bethlehem.
In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Israeli forces abducted Qais Mohammad Jabareen after they stormed Jenin refugee camp, invaded his home and pulled him from his bed where he was sleeping. They also ransacked and searched his home.
Clashes erupted between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli forces during the invasion of Jenin refugee camp, during which the soldiers fired tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and live bullets. No injuries were reported.
In Hebron, Israeli troops abducted 3 Palestinians: Mohammad Walid Al-Zama’erah, Ahmad Mousa Abu Rayan and Samer Jamal Madih.
They raided and searched a number of houses belonging to Jamal Mahmoud Madiya, Adnan Ishaq Al-Qashqish, Suhaib Abu Rayyan and others.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli forces demolished two residential rooms in Al-Mentar area in the Al-Quds area.
The Head of the Committee for the Defense of Land, Younis Jaafar, told the Palestinian Wafa News Agency that Israeli forces started demolishing two residential rooms in the areas of Shaab Mousa and Umm Al-Rayyan from Al-Muntar in Al-Sawahra town.
In addition, Israeli forces demolished a barn and destroyed agricultural land in East Jerusalem. The barn that was destroyed belonged to Yasser al-Sayyala, and the Israeli military demolished it under the pretext that it was built without a license.
Israeli authorities in Jerusalem have refused to issue licenses for Palesitnians to build on their own land in Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967.
Pre-dawn raids occur every night in Palestine, as Israeli forces pursue Palestinians they have deemed as ‘wanted’ for questioning. Such actions are considered illegal under Israel’s obligations as an Occupying Power in the Fourth Geneva Convention.
According to local sources, in Bethlehem, Israeli forces abducted Hamza Emad Al-Kamel, 18, and Mohammed Emad Al-Harimi, 18, after the soldiers raided and searched their homes in Wadi Shaheen area in the center of Bethlehem.
In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Israeli forces abducted Qais Mohammad Jabareen after they stormed Jenin refugee camp, invaded his home and pulled him from his bed where he was sleeping. They also ransacked and searched his home.
Clashes erupted between Palestinian civilians and the Israeli forces during the invasion of Jenin refugee camp, during which the soldiers fired tear gas canisters, rubber bullets and live bullets. No injuries were reported.
In Hebron, Israeli troops abducted 3 Palestinians: Mohammad Walid Al-Zama’erah, Ahmad Mousa Abu Rayan and Samer Jamal Madih.
They raided and searched a number of houses belonging to Jamal Mahmoud Madiya, Adnan Ishaq Al-Qashqish, Suhaib Abu Rayyan and others.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli forces demolished two residential rooms in Al-Mentar area in the Al-Quds area.
The Head of the Committee for the Defense of Land, Younis Jaafar, told the Palestinian Wafa News Agency that Israeli forces started demolishing two residential rooms in the areas of Shaab Mousa and Umm Al-Rayyan from Al-Muntar in Al-Sawahra town.
In addition, Israeli forces demolished a barn and destroyed agricultural land in East Jerusalem. The barn that was destroyed belonged to Yasser al-Sayyala, and the Israeli military demolished it under the pretext that it was built without a license.
Israeli authorities in Jerusalem have refused to issue licenses for Palesitnians to build on their own land in Jerusalem and the West Bank since 1967.
Pre-dawn raids occur every night in Palestine, as Israeli forces pursue Palestinians they have deemed as ‘wanted’ for questioning. Such actions are considered illegal under Israel’s obligations as an Occupying Power in the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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