31 mar 2020
Israeli colonial settlers on Tuesday, razed vast areas of Palestinian-owned farm lands in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Local media outlets said that the lands razed, are located near the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Shefout Rahel.
The sources confirmed that today’s bulldozing caused widespread harm to tens of olive trees, owned by local Palestinian farmers from Nablus city.
Previously, Israeli defense minister, Naftali Bennett, announced his government’s plan to expand the Shefout Rahel colonial settlement with another nearby colonial settlement, called Shelo.
In the area, where the bulldozing took place, there are a number of illegal colonial settlements, including Shelo, Aadi Aad, Codeish, Keda and Ahya.
Israeli colonial settlements on Palestinian-owned lands has been Israeli systematic policy, initially announced in late 1970’s for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Over the past decade, Israel has accelerated settlement building in a way that has strangulated Palestinian-populated cities, towns and villages in the West Bank which includes occupied East Jerusalem.
Back in 2005, Israel unilaterally dismantled 17 Israeli colonial settlements in the tiny coastal Gaza Strip and two years later, it enforced a crippling blockade on the territory, in place now, for 13 years.
Israeli colonial settlement construction is deemed illegal by international law and United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, 242 and 338, given the fact that Gaza Strip and the West Bank are Arab-Palestinian lands, which Israel occupied by force, back in 1967.
Local media outlets said that the lands razed, are located near the illegal Israeli colonial settlement of Shefout Rahel.
The sources confirmed that today’s bulldozing caused widespread harm to tens of olive trees, owned by local Palestinian farmers from Nablus city.
Previously, Israeli defense minister, Naftali Bennett, announced his government’s plan to expand the Shefout Rahel colonial settlement with another nearby colonial settlement, called Shelo.
In the area, where the bulldozing took place, there are a number of illegal colonial settlements, including Shelo, Aadi Aad, Codeish, Keda and Ahya.
Israeli colonial settlements on Palestinian-owned lands has been Israeli systematic policy, initially announced in late 1970’s for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Over the past decade, Israel has accelerated settlement building in a way that has strangulated Palestinian-populated cities, towns and villages in the West Bank which includes occupied East Jerusalem.
Back in 2005, Israel unilaterally dismantled 17 Israeli colonial settlements in the tiny coastal Gaza Strip and two years later, it enforced a crippling blockade on the territory, in place now, for 13 years.
Israeli colonial settlement construction is deemed illegal by international law and United Nations Security Council’s resolutions, 242 and 338, given the fact that Gaza Strip and the West Bank are Arab-Palestinian lands, which Israel occupied by force, back in 1967.
28 mar 2020
A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Saturday chopped off dozens of olive trees in Sa’ir town, east of al-Khalil city in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, settlers from the illegal settlement of Asfar cut off and stole more than 300 olive trees on a tract of land in al-Qanoub area of Sa’ir town.
The olive grove is around 40 dunums and belongs to a local resident called Sameer Shalaldeh.
Incidents of sabotage and violence by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.
However, Israeli security and military authorities exhibit extreme incompetence in addressing such widespread occurrence of settlers’ crimes.
According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, settlers from the illegal settlement of Asfar cut off and stole more than 300 olive trees on a tract of land in al-Qanoub area of Sa’ir town.
The olive grove is around 40 dunums and belongs to a local resident called Sameer Shalaldeh.
Incidents of sabotage and violence by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the West Bank.
However, Israeli security and military authorities exhibit extreme incompetence in addressing such widespread occurrence of settlers’ crimes.
25 mar 2020
Israeli settlers Wednesday damaged 50 olive trees and grapevines in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem city.
Hisham Mohammad Sbeih, the landowner, told WAFA that he entered his grove, located in proximity to the Gush Etzion colonial settlement bloc, today, but he was completely shocked to find out that settlers had damaged 40 grapevines and 10 olive trees.
He pointed out that this was not the first time that settlers wreaked havoc in his land, and that settlers were exploiting the lockdown enforced on Bethlehem district over coronavirus spread to expedite the destruction of Palestinian groves.
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
It includes arsons of property and mosques, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
Hisham Mohammad Sbeih, the landowner, told WAFA that he entered his grove, located in proximity to the Gush Etzion colonial settlement bloc, today, but he was completely shocked to find out that settlers had damaged 40 grapevines and 10 olive trees.
He pointed out that this was not the first time that settlers wreaked havoc in his land, and that settlers were exploiting the lockdown enforced on Bethlehem district over coronavirus spread to expedite the destruction of Palestinian groves.
Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
It includes arsons of property and mosques, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
23 mar 2020
Nearly 1,600 trees have been vandalized by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2020, according to United Nations OCHA.
According to the agency’s latest report, during the period 3-16 March, Israeli settlers vandalized at least 385 Palestinian-owned trees and vehicles in the West Bank.
Three such attacks involved settlers cutting down or uprooting some 200 olive trees and 150 grapevines “belonging to farmers from Al Khader and Khallet Sakariya villages that are planted next to the Gush Etzion settlement area (Bethlehem), and 35 olive trees next to Bruchin settlement (Salfit)”.
Meanwhile, five additional attacks in the Nablus governorate, in northern West Bank, “involved slashing the tires of 11 vehicles in Huwwara town, hurling stones and damaging two houses and four vehicles in ‘Einabus village, and vandalizing an uninhabited house in Burin village.”
In addition, UN OCHA stated, Palestinian residents of the ‘Ein ar Rashash herding community near Ramallah, in central West Bank, reported 25 lambs “stolen by a settler residing in an adjacent settlement outpost”.
On top of the numerous incidents of attacks on Palestinian-owned property and livestock, Israeli settlers “physically assaulted and injured three Palestinians”, including a woman, in three separate incidents in Al Auja town and the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron city (H2), in southern West Bank.
“Additional settler attacks not resulting in injuries or damage were reported in the H2 area on 10 and 11 March, during celebrations of a Jewish holiday (Purim),” the UN OCHA report added.
The UN OCHA report is issued once a fortnight, and documents human rights violations by Israeli forces and settlers, and the impact of occupation for Palestinians.
Over the reporting period, UN OCHA documented the punitive demolition of two homes, as well as the demolition or seizing of an additional 14 Palestinian-owned structures on the grounds of a lack of building permits, displacing 29 people and affecting around 60 others.
Israeli forces also “bulldozed a section of a dirt road connecting five herding communities in southern Hebron to their main service center”, meaning that “residents must use a long detour to access their main service center and market in Yatta town”.
~ Middle East Monitor, United Nations-Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
According to the agency’s latest report, during the period 3-16 March, Israeli settlers vandalized at least 385 Palestinian-owned trees and vehicles in the West Bank.
Three such attacks involved settlers cutting down or uprooting some 200 olive trees and 150 grapevines “belonging to farmers from Al Khader and Khallet Sakariya villages that are planted next to the Gush Etzion settlement area (Bethlehem), and 35 olive trees next to Bruchin settlement (Salfit)”.
Meanwhile, five additional attacks in the Nablus governorate, in northern West Bank, “involved slashing the tires of 11 vehicles in Huwwara town, hurling stones and damaging two houses and four vehicles in ‘Einabus village, and vandalizing an uninhabited house in Burin village.”
In addition, UN OCHA stated, Palestinian residents of the ‘Ein ar Rashash herding community near Ramallah, in central West Bank, reported 25 lambs “stolen by a settler residing in an adjacent settlement outpost”.
On top of the numerous incidents of attacks on Palestinian-owned property and livestock, Israeli settlers “physically assaulted and injured three Palestinians”, including a woman, in three separate incidents in Al Auja town and the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron city (H2), in southern West Bank.
“Additional settler attacks not resulting in injuries or damage were reported in the H2 area on 10 and 11 March, during celebrations of a Jewish holiday (Purim),” the UN OCHA report added.
The UN OCHA report is issued once a fortnight, and documents human rights violations by Israeli forces and settlers, and the impact of occupation for Palestinians.
Over the reporting period, UN OCHA documented the punitive demolition of two homes, as well as the demolition or seizing of an additional 14 Palestinian-owned structures on the grounds of a lack of building permits, displacing 29 people and affecting around 60 others.
Israeli forces also “bulldozed a section of a dirt road connecting five herding communities in southern Hebron to their main service center”, meaning that “residents must use a long detour to access their main service center and market in Yatta town”.
~ Middle East Monitor, United Nations-Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
9 mar 2020
Israeli forces today uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in the village of Wadi Fukin, to the West of Bethlehem in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to a local source.
Nidal Manasra, member of Wadi Fukin village council, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided the village and uprooted about 400 olive saplings planted in land belonging to a local Palestinian resident.
It is worth noting that illegal Israeli settlers uprooted during the last couple of weeks about 800 olive and vine tress from al- Khader land, located to the south of Bethlehem.
Nidal Manasra, member of Wadi Fukin village council, told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided the village and uprooted about 400 olive saplings planted in land belonging to a local Palestinian resident.
It is worth noting that illegal Israeli settlers uprooted during the last couple of weeks about 800 olive and vine tress from al- Khader land, located to the south of Bethlehem.
4 mar 2020
Israeli settlers today placed a fence around a privately-owned Palestinian land in Beit Ummar, a town in the south of the occupied West Bank, in an effort to take it over, said activist Mohammad Awad.
He told WAFA that settlers, under army protection, placed the fence around a 12-dunum plot of land planted with almonds, grape vines, olive trees and forest trees in the north of the town owned by Saqer Abu Ayyash.
He said Abu Ayyash has been leading a 20-year legal battle against the settlers to prove his ownership of the plot by presenting land deeds proving ownership.
“They came back today and placed a fence around the land and when I showed up to stop them, they said I should go to the (Israeli military) Civil Administration and ask them about the land,” said Abu Ayyash.
He told WAFA that settlers, under army protection, placed the fence around a 12-dunum plot of land planted with almonds, grape vines, olive trees and forest trees in the north of the town owned by Saqer Abu Ayyash.
He said Abu Ayyash has been leading a 20-year legal battle against the settlers to prove his ownership of the plot by presenting land deeds proving ownership.
“They came back today and placed a fence around the land and when I showed up to stop them, they said I should go to the (Israeli military) Civil Administration and ask them about the land,” said Abu Ayyash.
2 mar 2020
A horde of Jewish settlers on Monday chopped off and uprooted dozens of olive trees and grapevines in Husan town in the west of Bethlehem and other olive trees in Bruqin town in western Salfit.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Brukhin wreaked havoc on and removed about 40 olive trees belonging to local residents in Bruqin town.
In Bethlehem, setters from the illegal settlement of Beitar Illit — built illegally on seized Palestinian lands in the towns of Husan, Wadi Fukin and Nahalin — also went on the rampage through olive groves and vineyards, destroying 100 olive trees and 60 grapevines in al-Qiddees area of Husan town.
The fields belong to farmers Mohamed Hamamra and Hamza Hamamra.
In a similar incident, a horde of Jewish settlers on Sunday evening uprooted about 200 olive saplings belonging to a Palestinian farmer from al-Mughayir village in eastern Ramallah, north of the occupied West Bank.
During the last few days, about 780 trees in Palestinian olive groves and vineyards in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, were destroyed or uprooted by Jewish thugs.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Brukhin wreaked havoc on and removed about 40 olive trees belonging to local residents in Bruqin town.
In Bethlehem, setters from the illegal settlement of Beitar Illit — built illegally on seized Palestinian lands in the towns of Husan, Wadi Fukin and Nahalin — also went on the rampage through olive groves and vineyards, destroying 100 olive trees and 60 grapevines in al-Qiddees area of Husan town.
The fields belong to farmers Mohamed Hamamra and Hamza Hamamra.
In a similar incident, a horde of Jewish settlers on Sunday evening uprooted about 200 olive saplings belonging to a Palestinian farmer from al-Mughayir village in eastern Ramallah, north of the occupied West Bank.
During the last few days, about 780 trees in Palestinian olive groves and vineyards in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, were destroyed or uprooted by Jewish thugs.
A horde of Jewish settlers on Sunday evening uprooted about dozens of olive saplings belonging to a Palestinian farmer from al-Mughayir village in eastern Ramallah, north of the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Adei Ad infiltrated into an agricultural area near Mughayir village and uprooted and stole 200 olive saplings on a plot of land belonging to farmer Hussein Abu Alya.
In an attempt to hide their crime, the settlers plowed the land, the sources said.
During the past three days, about 780 trees in Palestinian olive groves and vineyards in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, were destroyed or uprooted by Jewish settlers.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Adei Ad infiltrated into an agricultural area near Mughayir village and uprooted and stole 200 olive saplings on a plot of land belonging to farmer Hussein Abu Alya.
In an attempt to hide their crime, the settlers plowed the land, the sources said.
During the past three days, about 780 trees in Palestinian olive groves and vineyards in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, were destroyed or uprooted by Jewish settlers.
