31 dec 2014
A Palestinian family from a village east of the town of Yatta, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, narrowly escaped death on Wednesday at dawn, when a number of fanatic Israeli settlers hurled Molotov cocktails into their home as they slept.
The head of the Yatta City Council Mousa Makhamra told the Maan News Agency that the attack is a very serious and dangerous escalation, adding that it is an attempt to annihilate a family of seven; five children and their parents.
Makhamra added that the fanatic settlers, from Karmiel illegal settlement, infiltrated into ad-Deerat village, east of Yatta, at approximately 3 am, and throw the Molotov cocktails into the Palestinian home after writing racist graffiti on its outer walls.
Makhamra further stated that the family woke up in time, and their neighbors rushed in when they saw the house on fire, and rescued the family.
The fires consumed the furniture in the living room, but was controlled before it spread.
The settlers wrote racist anti-Arab graffiti, including the infamous statement “Death To Arabs”, and other graffiti.
The head of the Yatta City Council Mousa Makhamra told the Maan News Agency that the attack is a very serious and dangerous escalation, adding that it is an attempt to annihilate a family of seven; five children and their parents.
Makhamra added that the fanatic settlers, from Karmiel illegal settlement, infiltrated into ad-Deerat village, east of Yatta, at approximately 3 am, and throw the Molotov cocktails into the Palestinian home after writing racist graffiti on its outer walls.
Makhamra further stated that the family woke up in time, and their neighbors rushed in when they saw the house on fire, and rescued the family.
The fires consumed the furniture in the living room, but was controlled before it spread.
The settlers wrote racist anti-Arab graffiti, including the infamous statement “Death To Arabs”, and other graffiti.
A 10-year-old Palestinian boy was hit Wednesday morning by a vehicle driven by an Israeli fanatic settler, causing him injuries and bruises.
Palestinian medics in Bethlehem said the child, Amir Majed Suleiman, was rushed to the Beit Jala public hospital after an Israeli fanatic settler ran over him on the main road to Takoua village while he was on his way to school.
Meanwhile, a gang of Israeli vandals at dawn Wednesday set fire to a Palestinian family home in Yatta, to the south of al-Khalil city, using Molotov Cocktails.
The house was partially torched by the settlers who sprayed anti-Arab and racist graffiti, reading “leave with dignity,” on its walls.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) summoned two Palestinian youths from al-Khalil for interrogation following a round of abrupt assaults on family homes in Beit Ummar and Awa towns.
A number of schoolchildren were treated for breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas unleashed by the IOF during the wave of cashes that rocked southern al-Khalil, local sources reported.
In a related development, the Palestinian natives of Qasra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, were on the alert to a round of assaults launched by setter hordes of the so-called Aish Kodesh settlement outpost built over Palestinian lands.
The assault came a few hours after the Israeli vandals urged the IOF to force Palestinian farmers out of their cultivated land tracts in the neighboring towns of Jaloud and Qaryout.
Palestinian medics in Bethlehem said the child, Amir Majed Suleiman, was rushed to the Beit Jala public hospital after an Israeli fanatic settler ran over him on the main road to Takoua village while he was on his way to school.
Meanwhile, a gang of Israeli vandals at dawn Wednesday set fire to a Palestinian family home in Yatta, to the south of al-Khalil city, using Molotov Cocktails.
The house was partially torched by the settlers who sprayed anti-Arab and racist graffiti, reading “leave with dignity,” on its walls.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) summoned two Palestinian youths from al-Khalil for interrogation following a round of abrupt assaults on family homes in Beit Ummar and Awa towns.
A number of schoolchildren were treated for breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of tear gas unleashed by the IOF during the wave of cashes that rocked southern al-Khalil, local sources reported.
In a related development, the Palestinian natives of Qasra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, were on the alert to a round of assaults launched by setter hordes of the so-called Aish Kodesh settlement outpost built over Palestinian lands.
The assault came a few hours after the Israeli vandals urged the IOF to force Palestinian farmers out of their cultivated land tracts in the neighboring towns of Jaloud and Qaryout.
At Least 14 Kidnapped in West Bank, East Jerusalem
Several Palestinians suffered from excessive teargas inhalation, Tuesday, as Israeli forces stormed the village of Housan, to the west of Bethlehem. At least 14 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli forces between late Monday and early Tuesday, in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces abducted at least 14 Palestinians in different cities and towns of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, between late Monday and early Tuesday, according to security and local sources reports.
In the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, 10 Palestinians were taken after forces invaded the town in a massive predawn arrest raid, according to Mayor Ayoub Swaid.
Swaid said that Israeli forces knocked the door of a wedding hall down and locked a dozen Palestinians in the hall for interrogation.
A few of those arrested were identified by local sources as: Mohammad Ghafari, Azzam Shabana, Ziad Khalil, Ahmed and Islam Toafsheh, Shadi Masalmeh and journalist Mohammad Ghafari.
Related: 12/29/14 Ramallah-area Journalist Arrested by Palestinian Security Forces
Soldiers assaulted the mother of Islam Toafsheh and hit her in the face when they tried to arrest her son. They also attacked an ambulance driver upon refusal to allow a canine unit from entering the vehicle for inspection.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians were taken Tuesday morning, in the town of Housan, to the west of Bethlehem.
According to village council member Mohammed Shusha, Israeli soldiers arrested 18- year-old Mohammed Hamamrah, and 25 –year-old Moataz Hamamrah, after raiding and searching their houses.
Local sources from Housan told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that an Israeli army force broke into the area and began firing teargas canisters towards the school complex, causing multiple cases of suffocation.
The soldiers also deployed heavily across the village, breaking into several homes and spreading panic among residents.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers stationed at Abu ar-Rish checkpoint, in Hebron's Old City district, shot toxic gas canisters toward a number of students, causing them to suffocate. They received first aid treatment at the scene.
According to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, Israeli soldiers and border police “often fire tear-gas grenades directly at demonstrators with the aim of hitting them, or fire carelessly, without ensuring that demonstrators are not in the direct line of fire, in direct contravention of regulations.”
The legal center, in a summary report published in 2013, demanded that Israeli security forces “completely prohibit the firing of 40mm tear gas canisters, either directly at individuals or horizontally, in a way that could cause result in injuries.”
In an attempt to pressure the residents of Imnezil village in Hebron, Israeli soldiers prevented Palestinian farmers from entering their farmlands, said local sources on Tuesday.
Coordinator of the National Committee Against the Wall and the Settlements, Rateb Jabour, said that Israeli forces prevented the Ismirat family from entering their lands and farming the land, under the pretext of having no entry permit.
Imnezil is surrounded by settlements from both the north and south, in addition to the Israeli apartheid wall, built around the village in 2005.
In previous attempts, Israeli forces demanded, through military orders delivered to the residents, the removal of solar cells which supply electricity to the village, and stopped the project that provides the village with water access.
Related: 06/02/14 Tens of Thousands of Jerusalemite Palestinians Still Lacking Water
Another Palestinian was taken from the town of Bani Neim, east of Hebron.
According to local sources, 22-year-old Anees al-Khdoor was arrested after raiding his house and searching it. The soldiers confiscated two computers and his personal mobile phone and, then, took him to an unknown destination.
Israeli forces also kidnapped, on Monday evening, Adli Abu Tayeh, after raiding the Ein al-Louzeh neighborhood, in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Silwan.
According to witnesses, Israeli forces raided several homes in the area before taking Abu Tayeh to one of the detention and interrogation facilities in the Old City.
Several Palestinians suffered from excessive teargas inhalation, Tuesday, as Israeli forces stormed the village of Housan, to the west of Bethlehem. At least 14 Palestinians were abducted by Israeli forces between late Monday and early Tuesday, in various areas of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli forces abducted at least 14 Palestinians in different cities and towns of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, between late Monday and early Tuesday, according to security and local sources reports.
In the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, 10 Palestinians were taken after forces invaded the town in a massive predawn arrest raid, according to Mayor Ayoub Swaid.
Swaid said that Israeli forces knocked the door of a wedding hall down and locked a dozen Palestinians in the hall for interrogation.
A few of those arrested were identified by local sources as: Mohammad Ghafari, Azzam Shabana, Ziad Khalil, Ahmed and Islam Toafsheh, Shadi Masalmeh and journalist Mohammad Ghafari.
Related: 12/29/14 Ramallah-area Journalist Arrested by Palestinian Security Forces
Soldiers assaulted the mother of Islam Toafsheh and hit her in the face when they tried to arrest her son. They also attacked an ambulance driver upon refusal to allow a canine unit from entering the vehicle for inspection.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians were taken Tuesday morning, in the town of Housan, to the west of Bethlehem.
According to village council member Mohammed Shusha, Israeli soldiers arrested 18- year-old Mohammed Hamamrah, and 25 –year-old Moataz Hamamrah, after raiding and searching their houses.
Local sources from Housan told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that an Israeli army force broke into the area and began firing teargas canisters towards the school complex, causing multiple cases of suffocation.
The soldiers also deployed heavily across the village, breaking into several homes and spreading panic among residents.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers stationed at Abu ar-Rish checkpoint, in Hebron's Old City district, shot toxic gas canisters toward a number of students, causing them to suffocate. They received first aid treatment at the scene.
According to Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, Israeli soldiers and border police “often fire tear-gas grenades directly at demonstrators with the aim of hitting them, or fire carelessly, without ensuring that demonstrators are not in the direct line of fire, in direct contravention of regulations.”
The legal center, in a summary report published in 2013, demanded that Israeli security forces “completely prohibit the firing of 40mm tear gas canisters, either directly at individuals or horizontally, in a way that could cause result in injuries.”
In an attempt to pressure the residents of Imnezil village in Hebron, Israeli soldiers prevented Palestinian farmers from entering their farmlands, said local sources on Tuesday.
Coordinator of the National Committee Against the Wall and the Settlements, Rateb Jabour, said that Israeli forces prevented the Ismirat family from entering their lands and farming the land, under the pretext of having no entry permit.
Imnezil is surrounded by settlements from both the north and south, in addition to the Israeli apartheid wall, built around the village in 2005.
In previous attempts, Israeli forces demanded, through military orders delivered to the residents, the removal of solar cells which supply electricity to the village, and stopped the project that provides the village with water access.
Related: 06/02/14 Tens of Thousands of Jerusalemite Palestinians Still Lacking Water
Another Palestinian was taken from the town of Bani Neim, east of Hebron.
According to local sources, 22-year-old Anees al-Khdoor was arrested after raiding his house and searching it. The soldiers confiscated two computers and his personal mobile phone and, then, took him to an unknown destination.
Israeli forces also kidnapped, on Monday evening, Adli Abu Tayeh, after raiding the Ein al-Louzeh neighborhood, in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Silwan.
According to witnesses, Israeli forces raided several homes in the area before taking Abu Tayeh to one of the detention and interrogation facilities in the Old City.
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy on Tuesday afternoon was left wounded as the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) unleashed heavy barrages of bullets on a group of Palestinian unarmed protesters south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
A PIC journalist quoted local sources as reporting that the minor Amid Nasr al-Din, 16, sustained a bullet injury in his thigh during the wave of violent confrontations that flared up in Nablus’ town of Burin.
The young casualty was evacuated to the Rafidia hospital, in Nablus, to receive urgent treatment.
Several cases of suffocation were detected among dozens of Palestinian civilians due to heavy inhalation of tear gas fumes unleashed by the IOF throughout the attack.
Meanwhile, the IOF on Tuesday evening launched abrupt assaults on Palestinians’ commercial stores and interrogated shopkeepers in the towns of Araba and Kafr Ra’i, to the south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
A number of flying roadblocks have been reportedly pitched across the aforementioned villages, where large troops of the IOF have been deployed, particularly across olive groves.
The IOF on Tuesday sealed off the main entrances to Housan and Batir villages, west of Bethlehem city, with a series of flying checkpoints.
The IOF soldiers have come down heavily on Palestinian civilians and vehicles at the checkpoints, by-standers at the scene told a PIC news reporter.
The IOF soldiers have been cordoning off Housan village for two days, all along which a wave of abrupt break-ins have rocked Palestinian family homes while civilians have been targeted with arbitrary arrests under pretext that a Molotov cocktail was thrown on an Israeli military vehicle at the bypass road near the Israeli illegal Beitar Illit settlement.
Three Palestinian young men, aged respectively 18, 25, and 28, have been kidnapped from the village in the process.
A PIC journalist quoted local sources as reporting that the minor Amid Nasr al-Din, 16, sustained a bullet injury in his thigh during the wave of violent confrontations that flared up in Nablus’ town of Burin.
The young casualty was evacuated to the Rafidia hospital, in Nablus, to receive urgent treatment.
Several cases of suffocation were detected among dozens of Palestinian civilians due to heavy inhalation of tear gas fumes unleashed by the IOF throughout the attack.
Meanwhile, the IOF on Tuesday evening launched abrupt assaults on Palestinians’ commercial stores and interrogated shopkeepers in the towns of Araba and Kafr Ra’i, to the south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
A number of flying roadblocks have been reportedly pitched across the aforementioned villages, where large troops of the IOF have been deployed, particularly across olive groves.
The IOF on Tuesday sealed off the main entrances to Housan and Batir villages, west of Bethlehem city, with a series of flying checkpoints.
The IOF soldiers have come down heavily on Palestinian civilians and vehicles at the checkpoints, by-standers at the scene told a PIC news reporter.
The IOF soldiers have been cordoning off Housan village for two days, all along which a wave of abrupt break-ins have rocked Palestinian family homes while civilians have been targeted with arbitrary arrests under pretext that a Molotov cocktail was thrown on an Israeli military vehicle at the bypass road near the Israeli illegal Beitar Illit settlement.
Three Palestinian young men, aged respectively 18, 25, and 28, have been kidnapped from the village in the process.
30 dec 2014
Several Israeli military vehicles invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, the town of Sinjel, north of the central West bank city of Ramallah and kidnapped ten Palestinians after breaking into their homes.
Head of the Sinjel Local Council Ayyoub Sweid said a large military force invaded the town, broke into and ransacked dozens of homes, and detained dozens of young men.
Sweid added that the soldiers broke into a wedding hall in the town, after detonating its main door, rounded up all detained young men there, and interrogated them before kidnapping ten, and took them to an unknown destination.
In related news, scores of Palestinians, mainly schoolchildren, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation near the Abu ar-Reesh roadblock, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that clashes took place, on Tuesday morning, between local youths and Israeli soldiers near the Tareq Junction, in Hebron, after the army invaded it.
Head of the Sinjel Local Council Ayyoub Sweid said a large military force invaded the town, broke into and ransacked dozens of homes, and detained dozens of young men.
Sweid added that the soldiers broke into a wedding hall in the town, after detonating its main door, rounded up all detained young men there, and interrogated them before kidnapping ten, and took them to an unknown destination.
In related news, scores of Palestinians, mainly schoolchildren, suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation near the Abu ar-Reesh roadblock, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that clashes took place, on Tuesday morning, between local youths and Israeli soldiers near the Tareq Junction, in Hebron, after the army invaded it.
A number of citizens were wounded and others suffered from teargas inhalation in violent confrontations with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in northern and southern al-Khalil city on Tuesday morning.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the clashes took place after IOF soldiers fired teargas canisters at students and citizens in southern al-Khalil. They said the students responded by throwing stones and empty bottles on the soldiers, who occupied rooftops near a school to control the situation.
Another round of clashes started in northern al-Khalil after IOF soldiers set up a roadblock at the entrance of the Aroub refugee camp and fired teargas at nearby houses.
Dozens of young men and inhabitants confronted the soldiers and threw stones at them.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the clashes took place after IOF soldiers fired teargas canisters at students and citizens in southern al-Khalil. They said the students responded by throwing stones and empty bottles on the soldiers, who occupied rooftops near a school to control the situation.
Another round of clashes started in northern al-Khalil after IOF soldiers set up a roadblock at the entrance of the Aroub refugee camp and fired teargas at nearby houses.
Dozens of young men and inhabitants confronted the soldiers and threw stones at them.
Israeli navy vessels opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning.
Palestinian sources told Quds Press that the incident took place off the northern coast of the Strip and that no casualties were suffered as a result of the shooting.
They said, however, that the heavy gunfire forced fishermen to return to shore.
The incident constituted yet a fresh breach of the ceasefire agreement reached with Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza under Egyptian mediation on 26 of last August.
Palestinian sources told Quds Press that the incident took place off the northern coast of the Strip and that no casualties were suffered as a result of the shooting.
They said, however, that the heavy gunfire forced fishermen to return to shore.
The incident constituted yet a fresh breach of the ceasefire agreement reached with Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza under Egyptian mediation on 26 of last August.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) raided and violently searched Monday evening a liberated prisoner’s home in Silwad town to the east of Ramallah.
The IOF soldiers also broke into his parents’ home in addition to stores and a car belonging to his family.
During the raid, the liberated prisoner Mohamed Hamed, 22, was brutally attacked and severely beaten before being summoned for investigation.
Hamed was nabbed twice before and spent more than for four years behind Israeli bars, in addition to being summoned more than once.
Also on Monday, a Palestinian young man was detained after raiding his parents’ home in Jenin.
Local sources confirmed that several Israeli vehicles stormed Jenin refugee camp and broke into Nasser Jas’s home before his arrest.
Meanwhile, combing operations were carried out throughout the camp, the sources added.
The IOF soldiers also broke into his parents’ home in addition to stores and a car belonging to his family.
During the raid, the liberated prisoner Mohamed Hamed, 22, was brutally attacked and severely beaten before being summoned for investigation.
Hamed was nabbed twice before and spent more than for four years behind Israeli bars, in addition to being summoned more than once.
Also on Monday, a Palestinian young man was detained after raiding his parents’ home in Jenin.
Local sources confirmed that several Israeli vehicles stormed Jenin refugee camp and broke into Nasser Jas’s home before his arrest.
Meanwhile, combing operations were carried out throughout the camp, the sources added.
Two Palestinian young men were shot and wounded, oen of them seriously, at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Beit Umamr village, north of al-Khalil, at midnight Monday.
Mohammed Awad, the spokesman for the anti-wall committee in the village, told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers fired at a car near the entrance of the village and injured the two youths.
He said that one of them, Mohammed Ibrahim Awad, was seriously wounded with a bullet in the head while the other Ayesh Khaled Awad was moderately wounded.
Awad said that both young men were hospitalized while the IOF troops intensified their presence at the entrance of the town.
Other sources said that the IOF arrested a third young man who was with the two injured youths in the car but could not determine his identity.
Mohammed Awad, the spokesman for the anti-wall committee in the village, told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers fired at a car near the entrance of the village and injured the two youths.
He said that one of them, Mohammed Ibrahim Awad, was seriously wounded with a bullet in the head while the other Ayesh Khaled Awad was moderately wounded.
Awad said that both young men were hospitalized while the IOF troops intensified their presence at the entrance of the town.
Other sources said that the IOF arrested a third young man who was with the two injured youths in the car but could not determine his identity.