18 may 2019
Israel has demolished 5,000 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem since the occupation of the city in 1967.
According to a report by the Land Research Center, the number of buildings destroyed between 2000 and 2017 rose to 1,700.
Al-Quds International Foundation said that Israel demolishes Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem under the pretext that they are unlicensed.
Al-Quds Foundation said in a research paper released on Saturday that the Israeli gangs in 1948 committed massacres against the Palestinians, stole their lands, and occupied Sinai and Golan Heights in violation of international law.
Israel, the paper noted, between 1967 and 2017 established about 14 settlements and hundreds of random outposts in East Jerusalem. Nearly 220,000 Israeli settlers are living in these settlements.
It added that Israel pursued a forced displacement policy against the Palestinians and seized over 26% of the total area of East Jerusalem to build new settlements or expand existing ones.
Not only the settlement construction but Israel has also adopted other policies with the aim of wiping out the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, like the apartheid wall, unlawful killing of Palestinians, arbitrary arrests, and control of the education sector.
According to a report by the Land Research Center, the number of buildings destroyed between 2000 and 2017 rose to 1,700.
Al-Quds International Foundation said that Israel demolishes Palestinian homes in Occupied Jerusalem under the pretext that they are unlicensed.
Al-Quds Foundation said in a research paper released on Saturday that the Israeli gangs in 1948 committed massacres against the Palestinians, stole their lands, and occupied Sinai and Golan Heights in violation of international law.
Israel, the paper noted, between 1967 and 2017 established about 14 settlements and hundreds of random outposts in East Jerusalem. Nearly 220,000 Israeli settlers are living in these settlements.
It added that Israel pursued a forced displacement policy against the Palestinians and seized over 26% of the total area of East Jerusalem to build new settlements or expand existing ones.
Not only the settlement construction but Israel has also adopted other policies with the aim of wiping out the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem, like the apartheid wall, unlawful killing of Palestinians, arbitrary arrests, and control of the education sector.
The file photo shows Israeli forces taking into custody a Palestinian protester arrested during clashes at the Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem al-Quds on July 27, 2018
A Palestinian human rights organization says it has documented the arrest of 100 Palestinians, including four women, by Israeli forces during the first ten days of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said in a statement that the Israeli military stormed Palestinian areas across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds, raiding Palestinian homes and arresting dozens of civilians.
The center explained that the detainees included 18 minors, the youngest of whom was nine-year-old Mousa Ramadan. He was arrested at a military checkpoint in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), located 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Jerusalem al-Quds.
The detainees also included twin brothers Mohammed and Ahmed Abu Adi, 13, who were arrested after Israeli forces stormed their home in the town of Kafr Ni'ma, located northwest of Ramallah.
The center also documented the detention of seven journalists and human rights activists. They were arrested while covering the deportation of Palestinian farmers from their land in the Jordan Valley.
Moreover, five Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip were held during Ramadan, including three fishermen who were arrested as they were doing their job off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have apparently been incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention, a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in Israeli detention facilities without trial or charge.
Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to eleven years.
Palestinian inmates regularly stage hunger strikes in protest at the administrative detention policy and their harsh prison conditions in Israeli jails.
According to reports, at least 13 Palestinian lawmakers are currently imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities. Nine of them are being held without trial under administrative detention.
A Palestinian human rights organization says it has documented the arrest of 100 Palestinians, including four women, by Israeli forces during the first ten days of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said in a statement that the Israeli military stormed Palestinian areas across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds, raiding Palestinian homes and arresting dozens of civilians.
The center explained that the detainees included 18 minors, the youngest of whom was nine-year-old Mousa Ramadan. He was arrested at a military checkpoint in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron), located 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Jerusalem al-Quds.
The detainees also included twin brothers Mohammed and Ahmed Abu Adi, 13, who were arrested after Israeli forces stormed their home in the town of Kafr Ni'ma, located northwest of Ramallah.
The center also documented the detention of seven journalists and human rights activists. They were arrested while covering the deportation of Palestinian farmers from their land in the Jordan Valley.
Moreover, five Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip were held during Ramadan, including three fishermen who were arrested as they were doing their job off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
More than 7,000 Palestinians are reportedly held at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have apparently been incarcerated under the practice of administrative detention, a policy under which Palestinian inmates are kept in Israeli detention facilities without trial or charge.
Some Palestinian prisoners have been held in administrative detention for up to eleven years.
Palestinian inmates regularly stage hunger strikes in protest at the administrative detention policy and their harsh prison conditions in Israeli jails.
According to reports, at least 13 Palestinian lawmakers are currently imprisoned in Israeli detention facilities. Nine of them are being held without trial under administrative detention.
15 may 2019
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR): During Protests In Commemoration of 71st Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba: Israeli Forces Wound 144 Palestinian Civilians, including 49 Children, 4 Women and 1 Paramedic:
On Wednesday, 15 May 2019, Israeli forces wounded 144 Palestinian civilians, including 49 children, 4 women, and 1 paramedic, in excessive use of force against the peaceful participants in the protests organized in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
Those protests- which were called for by the Supreme National Authority of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege under the name of “Millions for Land and Return” in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba- were preceded by the Israeli forces’ military reinforcements along the border fence with the Gaza Strip, indicating a deliberate intent to use excessive force against the protesters.
PCHR’s fieldworkers monitored the deployment of dozens of Palestinian police officers to control the situation and try to prevent the protesters from approaching the border fence. Meanwhile, the protesters acted in a fully peaceful manner as there were no attempts to burn tires.
However, in very limited incidents, some protesters approached the border fence and tried to throw stones at the fence.
According to PCHR’s fieldworkers, the Israeli forces stationed in prone positions and in their military jeeps along the border fence with Israel continued to use excessive force against the protesters.
They fired live bullets and teargas canisters at the protesters, wounding dozens of them without posing any imminent threat or danger to the soldiers’ life.
The Israeli forces also used skunk water cannons against the protesters, particularly in Khan Younis and eastern al-Boreij, in addition to using drones that fire teargas canisters amid the protesters, who were hundreds of meters away from the border fence.
The incidents on 15 May 2019 were as follows:
At approximately 13:00, thousands of civilians, including women, children and entire families, started swarming to the five encampments established by the Supreme National Authority of Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege adjacent to the border fence with Israel in eastern Gaza Strip cities.
Hundreds of protesters, including children and women, gathered adjacent to the border fence with Israel in front of each encampment and its vicinity and protested between tens and hundreds of meters away from the fence.
The protesters chanted slogans, raised flags, and in very limited incidents attempted to approach the border fence and throw stones at the Israeli forces.
The Israeli shooting, which continued until around 18:00, resulted in the injury of 144 Palestinian civilians, including 49 children, 4 women and 1 paramedic, with live and rubber bullets and by being directly hit with teargas canisters.
Meanwhile, dozens of protesters, paramedics, journalists and PCHR’s fieldworkers suffered tear gas inhalation and seizures due to tear gas canisters that were fired by the Israeli forces from the military jeeps, riffles and drones in the eastern Gaza Strip.
The following table shows the number of civilian casualties due to the Israeli forces’ suppression of the Great March of Return since its beginning on 30 March 2018:
Killed Wounded
Total 206 12559
Children 44 2492
Women 2 382
Journalists 2 202
Medical personnel 3 203
Persons with disabilities 9 Undefined
Note:
Among those wounded, 548 are in serious condition and 137 had their lower or upper limbs amputated; 123 lower-limb amputations, 14 upper-limb amputations, and 25 children had their limbs amputated according to the Ministry of Health.
The number of those wounded only include those wounded with live bullets and directly hit with tear gas canisters, as there have been thousand others who suffered tear gas inhalation and sustained bruises.
PCHR reiterates Palestinians’ right to peaceful assembly to confront Israel and its forces’ denial of the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination, right to return and right to end the occupation of the Palestinian territory.
PCHR stresses that the Israeli forces should stop using excessive force and respond to the legitimate demands of the protesters, particularly in regard with lifting the closure that is the real solution to end the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
PCHR emphasizes that continuously targeting civilians, who exercise their right to peaceful assembly or while carrying out their humanitarian duty, is a serious violation of the rules of international law, international humanitarian law, the ICC Rome Statute and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Thus, PCHR reiterates its call upon the ICC Prosecutor to open an official investigation in these crimes and to prosecute and hold accountable all those involved in issuing or applying orders within the Israeli forces either at the security or political echelons.
PCHR also emphasizes that the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention should fulfill their obligation under Article 1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances and their obligations under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
PCHR calls upon Switzerland, in its capacity as the Depository State for the Convention, to demand the High Contracting Parties to convene and ensure Israel’s respect for this Convention, noting that these grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions regarding the guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection in the occupied territories.
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On Wednesday, 15 May 2019, Israeli forces wounded 144 Palestinian civilians, including 49 children, 4 women, and 1 paramedic, in excessive use of force against the peaceful participants in the protests organized in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
Those protests- which were called for by the Supreme National Authority of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege under the name of “Millions for Land and Return” in commemoration of the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba- were preceded by the Israeli forces’ military reinforcements along the border fence with the Gaza Strip, indicating a deliberate intent to use excessive force against the protesters.
PCHR’s fieldworkers monitored the deployment of dozens of Palestinian police officers to control the situation and try to prevent the protesters from approaching the border fence. Meanwhile, the protesters acted in a fully peaceful manner as there were no attempts to burn tires.
However, in very limited incidents, some protesters approached the border fence and tried to throw stones at the fence.
According to PCHR’s fieldworkers, the Israeli forces stationed in prone positions and in their military jeeps along the border fence with Israel continued to use excessive force against the protesters.
They fired live bullets and teargas canisters at the protesters, wounding dozens of them without posing any imminent threat or danger to the soldiers’ life.
The Israeli forces also used skunk water cannons against the protesters, particularly in Khan Younis and eastern al-Boreij, in addition to using drones that fire teargas canisters amid the protesters, who were hundreds of meters away from the border fence.
The incidents on 15 May 2019 were as follows:
At approximately 13:00, thousands of civilians, including women, children and entire families, started swarming to the five encampments established by the Supreme National Authority of Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege adjacent to the border fence with Israel in eastern Gaza Strip cities.
Hundreds of protesters, including children and women, gathered adjacent to the border fence with Israel in front of each encampment and its vicinity and protested between tens and hundreds of meters away from the fence.
The protesters chanted slogans, raised flags, and in very limited incidents attempted to approach the border fence and throw stones at the Israeli forces.
The Israeli shooting, which continued until around 18:00, resulted in the injury of 144 Palestinian civilians, including 49 children, 4 women and 1 paramedic, with live and rubber bullets and by being directly hit with teargas canisters.
Meanwhile, dozens of protesters, paramedics, journalists and PCHR’s fieldworkers suffered tear gas inhalation and seizures due to tear gas canisters that were fired by the Israeli forces from the military jeeps, riffles and drones in the eastern Gaza Strip.
The following table shows the number of civilian casualties due to the Israeli forces’ suppression of the Great March of Return since its beginning on 30 March 2018:
Killed Wounded
Total 206 12559
Children 44 2492
Women 2 382
Journalists 2 202
Medical personnel 3 203
Persons with disabilities 9 Undefined
Note:
Among those wounded, 548 are in serious condition and 137 had their lower or upper limbs amputated; 123 lower-limb amputations, 14 upper-limb amputations, and 25 children had their limbs amputated according to the Ministry of Health.
The number of those wounded only include those wounded with live bullets and directly hit with tear gas canisters, as there have been thousand others who suffered tear gas inhalation and sustained bruises.
PCHR reiterates Palestinians’ right to peaceful assembly to confront Israel and its forces’ denial of the legitimate and inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right to self-determination, right to return and right to end the occupation of the Palestinian territory.
PCHR stresses that the Israeli forces should stop using excessive force and respond to the legitimate demands of the protesters, particularly in regard with lifting the closure that is the real solution to end the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
PCHR emphasizes that continuously targeting civilians, who exercise their right to peaceful assembly or while carrying out their humanitarian duty, is a serious violation of the rules of international law, international humanitarian law, the ICC Rome Statute and Fourth Geneva Convention.
Thus, PCHR reiterates its call upon the ICC Prosecutor to open an official investigation in these crimes and to prosecute and hold accountable all those involved in issuing or applying orders within the Israeli forces either at the security or political echelons.
PCHR also emphasizes that the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention should fulfill their obligation under Article 1; i.e., to respect and ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances and their obligations under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
PCHR calls upon Switzerland, in its capacity as the Depository State for the Convention, to demand the High Contracting Parties to convene and ensure Israel’s respect for this Convention, noting that these grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions regarding the guarantee of Palestinian civilians’ right to protection in the occupied territories.
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For more information please call PCHR office in Gaza, Gaza Strip, on +972 8 2824776 – 2825893
Gaza- Jamal ‘Abdel Nasser “al-Thalathini” Street – Al-Roya Building- Floor 12 , El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip. E-mail: pchr@pchrgaza.org, Webpage http://www.pchrgaza.org
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza published statistics, on Wednesday, regarding attacks by Israeli forces against Palestinian protesters during “The Great March of Return” along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip, between March 30th 2018 and May 14th 2019.
The ministry said that 305 Palestinians, including 59 children, 10 women, and one elderly, were killed by Israeli forces, while 17,335 others suffered various injuries.
The ministry confirmed that among the injured were 3,565 children, 1,168 women, and 104 elderly.
The ministry said that 564 Palestinians were critically injured, while 7,345 were moderately injured and 9,426 suffered minor injuries with either live ammunition or rubber-coated steel bullets.
Of the 17,335 Palestinians injured, about 1,685 suffered injuries to the head and neck, in addition to 122 to the lower limbs and 14 in the upper limbs.
The ministry also confirmed that three Palestinian paramedics were killed and 680 medical crew members were injured.
"The Great March of Return" protests were launched on March 30th by thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza -- which has suffered from a decade-long Israeli siege -- who took to the borders to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel.
The ministry said that 305 Palestinians, including 59 children, 10 women, and one elderly, were killed by Israeli forces, while 17,335 others suffered various injuries.
The ministry confirmed that among the injured were 3,565 children, 1,168 women, and 104 elderly.
The ministry said that 564 Palestinians were critically injured, while 7,345 were moderately injured and 9,426 suffered minor injuries with either live ammunition or rubber-coated steel bullets.
Of the 17,335 Palestinians injured, about 1,685 suffered injuries to the head and neck, in addition to 122 to the lower limbs and 14 in the upper limbs.
The ministry also confirmed that three Palestinian paramedics were killed and 680 medical crew members were injured.
"The Great March of Return" protests were launched on March 30th by thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza -- which has suffered from a decade-long Israeli siege -- who took to the borders to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel.
14 may 2019
Settlement watchdog Peace Now published its annual settlement report for 2018, entitled as “A Glance at 10 Years under Netanyahu,” on Tuesday.
The Peace Now report said that regarding construction in the occupied West Bank, some 2,100 new housing units began construction in 2018, 9% above the annual average since 2009 (1,935 units per year) and that nearly 73% (1,539 housing units) of the new construction was in settlements east of the proposed Geneva Initiative border, i.e. settlements likely to be evacuated in a two-state agreement.
Meanwhile, the report showed that at least ten structures were built on private Palestinian land, measuring about 10 dunams, and at least 37 additional dunams of private land were seized for the purpose of constructing a park, a road, and dirt mounds left behind from settlement infrastructure construction.
Concerning Advancement of Plans and Tenders in 2018 (January-December), Peace Now said 5,618 housing units were advanced through plans in 79 settlements and almost 83% (4,672 housing units) of the planned units were east of the proposed Geneva Initiative border.
“Tenders were published for 3,808 housing units, a record number of almost two decades. In addition, tenders for 603 units in East Jerusalem were also published in 2018,” the report stressed.
According to Peace Now’s count, during the decade of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s Prime Minister (2009 – 2018), 19,346 new housing units began construction in illegal settlements.
About 70% (13,608 housing units) of the new construction was in settlements east of the proposed Geneva Initiative border. This translates to an addition of more than 60,000 settlers in illegal Israeli settlements.
Peace Now also showed data, published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statisticson, on construction in Israel and the settlements during the ten years of Netanyahu in power, which stated that 18,502 housing units have been built in the settlements and since the end of 2008 until the end of 2017, 120,518 settlers have been added to the settlements.
The report emphasized on Israeli government’s investments, in the past decade, in which the various government ministries transferred more than 10 billion shekels ($2.8 billion) as surplus budgets to the settlements. In 2016, the amount transferred to the settlements was 1,189 billion shekels. In the following year, the sum was 1,650 billion shekels and in the first half of 2018 the amount was 697 million shekels.
Peace Now concluded its report by focusing on construction on private Palestinian land, saying that due to Peace Now’s and other organizations’ petitions against settlement construction on private Palestinian land, there has been a dramatic decline in the past decade in such construction. In 2018, 10 buildings were built on private land.
In addition, playgrounds and parks were established on private land in the Naaleh settlement, a road was paved in the relocated Migron settlement, and the phenomenon of dumping mounds of dirt from settlement construction on private land in various settlements continued. At least 37 dunams of private land were taken from their Palestinian owners in this way.
The Peace Now report said that regarding construction in the occupied West Bank, some 2,100 new housing units began construction in 2018, 9% above the annual average since 2009 (1,935 units per year) and that nearly 73% (1,539 housing units) of the new construction was in settlements east of the proposed Geneva Initiative border, i.e. settlements likely to be evacuated in a two-state agreement.
Meanwhile, the report showed that at least ten structures were built on private Palestinian land, measuring about 10 dunams, and at least 37 additional dunams of private land were seized for the purpose of constructing a park, a road, and dirt mounds left behind from settlement infrastructure construction.
Concerning Advancement of Plans and Tenders in 2018 (January-December), Peace Now said 5,618 housing units were advanced through plans in 79 settlements and almost 83% (4,672 housing units) of the planned units were east of the proposed Geneva Initiative border.
“Tenders were published for 3,808 housing units, a record number of almost two decades. In addition, tenders for 603 units in East Jerusalem were also published in 2018,” the report stressed.
According to Peace Now’s count, during the decade of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s Prime Minister (2009 – 2018), 19,346 new housing units began construction in illegal settlements.
About 70% (13,608 housing units) of the new construction was in settlements east of the proposed Geneva Initiative border. This translates to an addition of more than 60,000 settlers in illegal Israeli settlements.
Peace Now also showed data, published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statisticson, on construction in Israel and the settlements during the ten years of Netanyahu in power, which stated that 18,502 housing units have been built in the settlements and since the end of 2008 until the end of 2017, 120,518 settlers have been added to the settlements.
The report emphasized on Israeli government’s investments, in the past decade, in which the various government ministries transferred more than 10 billion shekels ($2.8 billion) as surplus budgets to the settlements. In 2016, the amount transferred to the settlements was 1,189 billion shekels. In the following year, the sum was 1,650 billion shekels and in the first half of 2018 the amount was 697 million shekels.
Peace Now concluded its report by focusing on construction on private Palestinian land, saying that due to Peace Now’s and other organizations’ petitions against settlement construction on private Palestinian land, there has been a dramatic decline in the past decade in such construction. In 2018, 10 buildings were built on private land.
In addition, playgrounds and parks were established on private land in the Naaleh settlement, a road was paved in the relocated Migron settlement, and the phenomenon of dumping mounds of dirt from settlement construction on private land in various settlements continued. At least 37 dunams of private land were taken from their Palestinian owners in this way.
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