31 dec 2013
A number of Israeli settlers on Tuesday morning stormed al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate, and toured its courtyards, under the protection of the occupation forces. Large numbers of Jerusalemite worshipers and students have intensified their presence inside al-Aqsa in order to confront any attempt to storm it, despite the ongoing security measures imposed against them on the mosque's gates.
Al-Aqsa Mosque has been exposed to almost daily incursions by settlers in an attempt to divide it and impose the Israeli control over it.
Another group of extremist settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles east of Ramallah near the Israeli settlement of Beit El, early Tuesday
Ghassan Daghlas, PA official in charge of Israeli Settlements File in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, said that Price Tag gangs set fire to the citizens' cars and sprayed racist slogans on the walls of houses nearby.
He pointed out that statistics of 2013 showed that there are a significant increase in the pace of attacks by the occupation forces and settlers compared to last year, especially with regard to settlement expansion and attacks on citizens' properties and lands.
Separately, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested at dawn a Palestinian young man after raiding his home in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.
Locals reported that the IOF withdrew after vandalizing and damaging the residents' houses.
Al-Aqsa Mosque has been exposed to almost daily incursions by settlers in an attempt to divide it and impose the Israeli control over it.
Another group of extremist settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles east of Ramallah near the Israeli settlement of Beit El, early Tuesday
Ghassan Daghlas, PA official in charge of Israeli Settlements File in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, said that Price Tag gangs set fire to the citizens' cars and sprayed racist slogans on the walls of houses nearby.
He pointed out that statistics of 2013 showed that there are a significant increase in the pace of attacks by the occupation forces and settlers compared to last year, especially with regard to settlement expansion and attacks on citizens' properties and lands.
Separately, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested at dawn a Palestinian young man after raiding his home in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem.
Locals reported that the IOF withdrew after vandalizing and damaging the residents' houses.
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A group of extremist Israeli settlers torched three Palestinian vehicles in a Ramallah outskirt near the Israeli settlement of Beit El in the central West Bank Tuesday morning, locals told Ma’an.
Hatim Subuh, a local resident, says a group of settlers set fire to a BMW, Peugeot, and Reno parked in front of his neighbors’ houses. The saboteurs, he added, sprayed “racist” slogans in Hebrew on his walls. He explained that the slogans translate in English as “there will be a war in Judea and Samaria", and "a lot of blood will be shed.” Subuh highlighted that it was the third time settlers torched vehicles and sprayed racist slogans in his neighborhood. |
30 dec 2013
Israeli settlers chopped down more than 8000 olive trees in the West Bank during 2013 , Nablus is the most affected area, al- Tadamun Human Right reported. Al-Tadamun tracked the Israeli settlers attacks against Palestinians olive trees in the West Bank , and explained that they followed several ways to destroy the olive crop; they burned, uprooted , chopped down , pumped swage water at the olive trees and recently they used chemical materials to burn the trees.
The settlers' attacks vary between the uprooting of olive trees and the theft of the crop to physical attacks on the farmers and preventing them from reaching their land.
The mayors of the Nablus villages said that the settlers of "Yitzhar" and "Bracha" colonial settlements used petrochemicals in burning 1500 olive trees in last June. The fire destroyed more than 200 dunums of land owned by the people of Burin and Asira villages. The losses estimated to more than a million dollars.
The foundation tracked 24 incidents of settlers' vandalism against Palestinians olive trees , in which 5289 olive trees were destroyed just in Nablus, 1125 in Bethlehem, 600 in Hebron, 350 in Jerusalem and 150 in Ramallah.
According to the documents the Israeli attacks were concentrated on the countryside of Nablus, specifically in the villages of Awarta , Qasra , Urif , Burin , Asira and Hawara villages, which are exposed to daily attacks as they are adjunct to the illegal Israeli settlements which the Israeli army provides protection for.
The foundation reported that the Israeli settlers usually launched their attacks in the first week of olive harvest ; such attacks deny Palestinians safe access to their lands and deprive them of a key source of annual income. In the last olive season , Israeli settlers chopped down more than 2000 olive trees. Local witnesses said that the settlers used chainsaws to cut the trees at the base in the midnight , " the farmers were shocked by the sight of the felled trees, which they had been nourishing for years," they explained.
Yasser Faqha , 54, from Dier Sharaf in Nablus recalled that on the morning of 2 October, while he was at a local gas station, a worker there told him that he had seen settlers stepping out of buses and wandering around the Faqha family’s land. Despite the worker’s warning, Yasser did not anticipate that the settlers would attack his land and did not go to check on it. However, on 5 October, when Yasser, his wife and children headed towards their land for the olive harvest, Yasser’s wife saw that some olive trees had been destroyed and some of the olives stolen. Yasser asserted that a number of his trees were fruitless and many had broken branches. According to Yasser, a total of 40 olive trees were damaged in the attacks. Yasser depend s on these olive trees to provide an annual income to support his family. Each year the trees produce 20 tanks (approximately 360 kilograms) of olive oil that Yasser sells for revenue. (Al-Haq Affidavit 9052/2013)
The settlers did not only destroyed the fruit and perennials trees but they also uproot the seedlings. It is reported that more than 1400 seedlings were uprooted in the West Bank . In Jerusalem 350 seedlings were flooded with swage water and more than 300 seedlings were destroyed in Qalqilya.
The daily attacks of the settlers during the olive harvest are an integral part of the Israeli overall policy of occupation, ethnic cleansing and land theft. The kind of attacks, the locations where they are carried out and the coordination between the settlers and the Israeli military are demonstrating the existence of a systematic policy.
The attacks aimed to drive Palestinian farmers from geo-strategic locations in Area C, in order to ensure that the occupied West Bank is effectively fragmented into unviable Bantustans and Israel can ensure full control not only of the natural resources but as well the movement.
There is a strong psychological impact to the vandalism against Palestinian olive trees, since these symbolize the attachment of Palestinians to their land. Palestinians are descended from the ancient Canaanites and have been farming that land for millennia.
The settlers' attacks vary between the uprooting of olive trees and the theft of the crop to physical attacks on the farmers and preventing them from reaching their land.
The mayors of the Nablus villages said that the settlers of "Yitzhar" and "Bracha" colonial settlements used petrochemicals in burning 1500 olive trees in last June. The fire destroyed more than 200 dunums of land owned by the people of Burin and Asira villages. The losses estimated to more than a million dollars.
The foundation tracked 24 incidents of settlers' vandalism against Palestinians olive trees , in which 5289 olive trees were destroyed just in Nablus, 1125 in Bethlehem, 600 in Hebron, 350 in Jerusalem and 150 in Ramallah.
According to the documents the Israeli attacks were concentrated on the countryside of Nablus, specifically in the villages of Awarta , Qasra , Urif , Burin , Asira and Hawara villages, which are exposed to daily attacks as they are adjunct to the illegal Israeli settlements which the Israeli army provides protection for.
The foundation reported that the Israeli settlers usually launched their attacks in the first week of olive harvest ; such attacks deny Palestinians safe access to their lands and deprive them of a key source of annual income. In the last olive season , Israeli settlers chopped down more than 2000 olive trees. Local witnesses said that the settlers used chainsaws to cut the trees at the base in the midnight , " the farmers were shocked by the sight of the felled trees, which they had been nourishing for years," they explained.
Yasser Faqha , 54, from Dier Sharaf in Nablus recalled that on the morning of 2 October, while he was at a local gas station, a worker there told him that he had seen settlers stepping out of buses and wandering around the Faqha family’s land. Despite the worker’s warning, Yasser did not anticipate that the settlers would attack his land and did not go to check on it. However, on 5 October, when Yasser, his wife and children headed towards their land for the olive harvest, Yasser’s wife saw that some olive trees had been destroyed and some of the olives stolen. Yasser asserted that a number of his trees were fruitless and many had broken branches. According to Yasser, a total of 40 olive trees were damaged in the attacks. Yasser depend s on these olive trees to provide an annual income to support his family. Each year the trees produce 20 tanks (approximately 360 kilograms) of olive oil that Yasser sells for revenue. (Al-Haq Affidavit 9052/2013)
The settlers did not only destroyed the fruit and perennials trees but they also uproot the seedlings. It is reported that more than 1400 seedlings were uprooted in the West Bank . In Jerusalem 350 seedlings were flooded with swage water and more than 300 seedlings were destroyed in Qalqilya.
The daily attacks of the settlers during the olive harvest are an integral part of the Israeli overall policy of occupation, ethnic cleansing and land theft. The kind of attacks, the locations where they are carried out and the coordination between the settlers and the Israeli military are demonstrating the existence of a systematic policy.
The attacks aimed to drive Palestinian farmers from geo-strategic locations in Area C, in order to ensure that the occupied West Bank is effectively fragmented into unviable Bantustans and Israel can ensure full control not only of the natural resources but as well the movement.
There is a strong psychological impact to the vandalism against Palestinian olive trees, since these symbolize the attachment of Palestinians to their land. Palestinians are descended from the ancient Canaanites and have been farming that land for millennia.
Israeli settlers from the Illegal Israeli settlement of Meirav Monday pumped waste water coming out of the settlement into the nearby Palestinian village of Jalboun, east of Jenin, according to local sources. Director General of Marj Ibn Amer municipality, Helal Nassar, told WAFA that the municipality filed an official complaint against the Israeli side and Meirav’s settlers who deliberately pumped waste water into the village.
Locals expressed concern that their houses would be flooded by wastewater which causes serious health and environmental problems and destroys agricultural crops.
The municipal council called upon human rights organizations to put an end to these practices.
Locals expressed concern that their houses would be flooded by wastewater which causes serious health and environmental problems and destroys agricultural crops.
The municipal council called upon human rights organizations to put an end to these practices.
Children playing in the Bracha B outpost in December 2013
While settlers covet a West Bank hill, the army is using stun grenades to keep Palestinian farmers off their land.
Want to meet the victims of hostile acts? Go to the village of Burin, south of Nablus, because no article can convey the fear, methodicalness, hypocrisy and collaboration of each entity that seeks to make the villagers loathe their lives.
If the settlers from Yitzhar and its outposts take a rest from their sacred harassment of these villagers, then, thank God, there are still the Bracha B outpost and the mini-outpost Givat Ronen to show these goyim just who the chosen people are.
And let’s not deprive the army and the Border Police, who work day and night to carry out their supreme mission of protecting Israeli citizens, even when those citizens are shooting at Palestinians, throwing stones at them, setting trees and cars on fire, keeping Palestinians from harvesting their olive groves despite pre-coordination with the army, rolling burning tires onto fields, or expelling people from their land.
Burin’s eastern neighborhood is a special target of attack, 500 to 800 meters away from a hilltop claimed by Bracha B and Givat Ronen. Daringly, young Palestinian couples are building their homes in the neighborhood, as Israelis come down the hill and try to stop the construction. Heroically, they raise their children, who sometimes see psychologists from Doctors Without Borders to help them cope with their fear and powerlessness.
Here is a partial list of some of the latest attacks, taken from a letter sent by human rights group Yesh Din to Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, the general in charge of the army’s Central Command:
* October 31: Israelis go down the hill from Bracha B to Burin. The Israel Defense Forces arrives at the village’s eastern neighborhood and fires tear gas at village residents.
* November 9: Israelis go down the hill from Bracha B to eastern Burin and throw stones. IDF soldiers are present but don’t intervene. Village residents throw stones back at the Israeli assailants. The army fires tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets – at the Palestinians, of course.
* November 10: Same as the day before.
* November 13: Same as November 9 and 10.
* November 14: Same thing, but with a few light injuries and three arrests, including that of a 13-year-old boy. Injuries and arrests among the Palestinians, what else?
* November 25: Anonymous assailants throw two firebombs at the Omran family home at night. Since then, the youngest child has been having nightmares and is frightened by noises. Playing outside the house is dangerous, because at any moment “the neighbors” could come down the hill and spread fear.
Let there be no doubt: The settlers are coveting the hill on whose slope the eastern neighborhood of Burin is built. After all, there are dozens of dunams of pastoral landscape and air as pure as in the Alps. The settlers have already evicted the owners of the one house that’s already there, glory be to God. As for a road, they halted that project a decade ago. Now olives are harvested there, but only in the presence of a rescue team from Rabbis for Human Rights.
'Two leftists and two locals'
The IDF and Border Police don’t sit idly by. They do some expulsions of their own. Last Monday, about 10 minutes after this reporter, a photographer and two Burin residents reached the top of the hill, three Border Police officers approached us. One of them, Saher Ghanem, put the stun grenade he had been holding in his hand back in his pocket only when he was about 10 meters from us. “This is a closed military zone,” he announced.
“Show us the order,” I challenged. He didn’t produce it. The other Border Police officer, Niran Yadin, called in the situation.
“There’s two leftists and two locals,” he reported.
Above us, at the edges of Bracha B, soldiers gathered and came down toward us. Sgt. Liran Fuchs acted friendly and extended a hand to one of the Burin residents. He had no order to show us either. Of course, when only the locals are around, who needs an order if you have stun grenades and tear gas?
Now take a look at what the IDF Spokesman’s Office wrote to Haaretz:
* “The Palestinians’ presence in the area under discussion does not constitute a violation of the law, and it is indeed Area B” (which is under Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli and Palestinian security control).
What generosity. We, the Settler Defense Forces, allow Palestinians to step foot (for now) on the land they have been cultivating since before Theodor Herzl was born.
* “Nonetheless, the site is a known locus of conflict between the populations of the area.”
Yes, after all, everything in life is symmetrical, isn’t it? Between those on the hilltop and those in the valley, between shepherds and farmers, between boys from Mars and girls from Venus.
* “During disturbances of the peace, the way we deal with the disorderly is identical and is determined in accordance with a situation assessment on the ground.”
Identical? Is that why when settlers attack Palestinians, the army expels the Palestinians from their land? Is that why the army broke into the Omrans’ home three weeks after assailants firebombed it?
* “Due to a misunderstanding, at the beginning it was indeed said that the area had been designated a closed military zone, but the matter was then clarified and no action was taken to disperse those present in the area. Directives on the matter will be clarified to the forces.”
Sure. Let’s talk the next time the Palestinian residents are forcibly dispersed.
The outposts are illegal, even according to the Israeli laws of plunder. But the IDF and Border Police must protect Israeli criminals as long as they’re settlers in occupied territory. The toddlers of the Bracha B outpost, with large knitted kippot and long sidelocks, who last week were still playing soccer with what was left of the snow, are indeed entitled to any protection there is. But no one is protecting them from the malignant disease of a master race.
While settlers covet a West Bank hill, the army is using stun grenades to keep Palestinian farmers off their land.
Want to meet the victims of hostile acts? Go to the village of Burin, south of Nablus, because no article can convey the fear, methodicalness, hypocrisy and collaboration of each entity that seeks to make the villagers loathe their lives.
If the settlers from Yitzhar and its outposts take a rest from their sacred harassment of these villagers, then, thank God, there are still the Bracha B outpost and the mini-outpost Givat Ronen to show these goyim just who the chosen people are.
And let’s not deprive the army and the Border Police, who work day and night to carry out their supreme mission of protecting Israeli citizens, even when those citizens are shooting at Palestinians, throwing stones at them, setting trees and cars on fire, keeping Palestinians from harvesting their olive groves despite pre-coordination with the army, rolling burning tires onto fields, or expelling people from their land.
Burin’s eastern neighborhood is a special target of attack, 500 to 800 meters away from a hilltop claimed by Bracha B and Givat Ronen. Daringly, young Palestinian couples are building their homes in the neighborhood, as Israelis come down the hill and try to stop the construction. Heroically, they raise their children, who sometimes see psychologists from Doctors Without Borders to help them cope with their fear and powerlessness.
Here is a partial list of some of the latest attacks, taken from a letter sent by human rights group Yesh Din to Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, the general in charge of the army’s Central Command:
* October 31: Israelis go down the hill from Bracha B to Burin. The Israel Defense Forces arrives at the village’s eastern neighborhood and fires tear gas at village residents.
* November 9: Israelis go down the hill from Bracha B to eastern Burin and throw stones. IDF soldiers are present but don’t intervene. Village residents throw stones back at the Israeli assailants. The army fires tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated metal bullets – at the Palestinians, of course.
* November 10: Same as the day before.
* November 13: Same as November 9 and 10.
* November 14: Same thing, but with a few light injuries and three arrests, including that of a 13-year-old boy. Injuries and arrests among the Palestinians, what else?
* November 25: Anonymous assailants throw two firebombs at the Omran family home at night. Since then, the youngest child has been having nightmares and is frightened by noises. Playing outside the house is dangerous, because at any moment “the neighbors” could come down the hill and spread fear.
Let there be no doubt: The settlers are coveting the hill on whose slope the eastern neighborhood of Burin is built. After all, there are dozens of dunams of pastoral landscape and air as pure as in the Alps. The settlers have already evicted the owners of the one house that’s already there, glory be to God. As for a road, they halted that project a decade ago. Now olives are harvested there, but only in the presence of a rescue team from Rabbis for Human Rights.
'Two leftists and two locals'
The IDF and Border Police don’t sit idly by. They do some expulsions of their own. Last Monday, about 10 minutes after this reporter, a photographer and two Burin residents reached the top of the hill, three Border Police officers approached us. One of them, Saher Ghanem, put the stun grenade he had been holding in his hand back in his pocket only when he was about 10 meters from us. “This is a closed military zone,” he announced.
“Show us the order,” I challenged. He didn’t produce it. The other Border Police officer, Niran Yadin, called in the situation.
“There’s two leftists and two locals,” he reported.
Above us, at the edges of Bracha B, soldiers gathered and came down toward us. Sgt. Liran Fuchs acted friendly and extended a hand to one of the Burin residents. He had no order to show us either. Of course, when only the locals are around, who needs an order if you have stun grenades and tear gas?
Now take a look at what the IDF Spokesman’s Office wrote to Haaretz:
* “The Palestinians’ presence in the area under discussion does not constitute a violation of the law, and it is indeed Area B” (which is under Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli and Palestinian security control).
What generosity. We, the Settler Defense Forces, allow Palestinians to step foot (for now) on the land they have been cultivating since before Theodor Herzl was born.
* “Nonetheless, the site is a known locus of conflict between the populations of the area.”
Yes, after all, everything in life is symmetrical, isn’t it? Between those on the hilltop and those in the valley, between shepherds and farmers, between boys from Mars and girls from Venus.
* “During disturbances of the peace, the way we deal with the disorderly is identical and is determined in accordance with a situation assessment on the ground.”
Identical? Is that why when settlers attack Palestinians, the army expels the Palestinians from their land? Is that why the army broke into the Omrans’ home three weeks after assailants firebombed it?
* “Due to a misunderstanding, at the beginning it was indeed said that the area had been designated a closed military zone, but the matter was then clarified and no action was taken to disperse those present in the area. Directives on the matter will be clarified to the forces.”
Sure. Let’s talk the next time the Palestinian residents are forcibly dispersed.
The outposts are illegal, even according to the Israeli laws of plunder. But the IDF and Border Police must protect Israeli criminals as long as they’re settlers in occupied territory. The toddlers of the Bracha B outpost, with large knitted kippot and long sidelocks, who last week were still playing soccer with what was left of the snow, are indeed entitled to any protection there is. But no one is protecting them from the malignant disease of a master race.
Jewish settlers leveled land of Kufr Al-Deek village, west of Salfit, to annex more Palestinian land and expand their settlement. Khaled Ma’ali, a researcher in settlement activity, said in a press release on Sunday that the settlers of Lishim settlement put on signs clearly indicating the establishment of their new settlement.
He pointed out that the new settlement was announced during the recent round of PA-Israeli negotiations.
Ma’ali said that the Jewish settlements were rapidly spreading in Salfit governorate.
He pointed out that the new settlement was announced during the recent round of PA-Israeli negotiations.
Ma’ali said that the Jewish settlements were rapidly spreading in Salfit governorate.
A group of settlers injured a local Palestinian official in the south Hebron hills on Saturday after attacking him with a rock, a local peace group said Monday.
"On Dec. 28, a group of settlers attacked Palestinians who were plowing a field in the South Hebron Hills village of At Tuwani. Hafez Huraini, a member of the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee, was injured in the attack," Operation Dove said in a statement.
Huraini told the group that five settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Maon, four of whom were children, attacked the villagers as they worked on their land.
One of the settlers approached Huraini and hit him over the head with a rock.
Residents from at-Tuwani gathered and managed to force the settlers away, but they continued to throw rocks at the villagers before finally leaving the area.
The attack took place at 2.45 p.m. and Israeli forces arrived in the area at 4.15 p.m., by which time Huraini was at a hospital in Yatta receiving treatment.
"This is resistance: to go daily to your land. We are protesting every day, every night," Huraini said.
In November, Operation Dove said the illegal outpost of Havot Maon was expanding at a "phenomenal" rate.
Home to around 200 settlers, the outpost is one of the most violent and radical in the occupied West Bank.
"On Dec. 28, a group of settlers attacked Palestinians who were plowing a field in the South Hebron Hills village of At Tuwani. Hafez Huraini, a member of the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee, was injured in the attack," Operation Dove said in a statement.
Huraini told the group that five settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Maon, four of whom were children, attacked the villagers as they worked on their land.
One of the settlers approached Huraini and hit him over the head with a rock.
Residents from at-Tuwani gathered and managed to force the settlers away, but they continued to throw rocks at the villagers before finally leaving the area.
The attack took place at 2.45 p.m. and Israeli forces arrived in the area at 4.15 p.m., by which time Huraini was at a hospital in Yatta receiving treatment.
"This is resistance: to go daily to your land. We are protesting every day, every night," Huraini said.
In November, Operation Dove said the illegal outpost of Havot Maon was expanding at a "phenomenal" rate.
Home to around 200 settlers, the outpost is one of the most violent and radical in the occupied West Bank.
29 dec 2013
The Israeli rightists assaulted and injured on Saturday evening a Palestinian youth from the occupied Jerusalem. According to Wadi Hilwa Information Center, eight Israeli extremists attacked Ismail al-Abassi,29, threw stones and empty bottles at him, leading to serious injuries in the head.
The center indicated that the extremists assaulted the young man while driving his taxi in Jaffa main street in Jerusalem.
The center indicated that the extremists assaulted the young man while driving his taxi in Jaffa main street in Jerusalem.
Groups of Jewish settlers stormed al-Aqsa Mosque on Sunday from the Mughrabi Gate under the protection of the Israeli occupation police. Local sources said that the extremist Rabbi Yehuda Glick led one of these groups during a tour in the courtyards of the mosque and briefed them on a Talmudic story about the alleged temple.
The settlers have been storming al-Aqsa Mosque in small and successive groups, while the Israeli police have tightened procedures imposed on Jerusalemite worshipers at the mosque’s main gates.
Meanwhile, the Jordanian Minister of Tourism Nidal Qatamin visited on Saturday Jerusalem, and called on Muslims and Christians to visit the city, which has angered the citizens and activists who described his visit as a normalization step.
Many comments were published on social networking websites rejecting the Jordanian minister's step and calling for not responding to his call, because whoever visits Jerusalem under the occupation is recognizing the existence of occupation in the city.
Earlier, PA President Mahmoud Abbas called upon Christians from all over the world to come to Palestine and the holy land, on the occasion of the visit to be held by Pope of the Vatican to the Holy Land next March 14.
The settlers have been storming al-Aqsa Mosque in small and successive groups, while the Israeli police have tightened procedures imposed on Jerusalemite worshipers at the mosque’s main gates.
Meanwhile, the Jordanian Minister of Tourism Nidal Qatamin visited on Saturday Jerusalem, and called on Muslims and Christians to visit the city, which has angered the citizens and activists who described his visit as a normalization step.
Many comments were published on social networking websites rejecting the Jordanian minister's step and calling for not responding to his call, because whoever visits Jerusalem under the occupation is recognizing the existence of occupation in the city.
Earlier, PA President Mahmoud Abbas called upon Christians from all over the world to come to Palestine and the holy land, on the occasion of the visit to be held by Pope of the Vatican to the Holy Land next March 14.
Jewish settlers damaged dozens of Palestinian cars passing along roads in different areas of Nablus province on Saturday night. Ghassan Daghlas, monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said on Sunday that the settlers threw stones and bottles on passing cars.
He said that the settlers inflicted material damage on a big number of cars, pointing out that Israeli occupation forces were providing protection for the settlers.
He said that the settlers inflicted material damage on a big number of cars, pointing out that Israeli occupation forces were providing protection for the settlers.
28 dec 2013
French New Immigrants Departing from Paris for Israel
The Israeli government intends to announce a three-year plan aimed at attracting more French Jews to settle in the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands, according to different Israeli newspapers.
They said the plan would be funded by the governments of Israel and France.
Maariv newspaper said the government would start to carry out its plan during the first four months of the next year in order to increase the number of Jewish immigrants after scores of Israeli settlers emigrated from Israel to the US, Britain and Canada during 2013.
It added that the relevant ministries formed a few months ago a team of specialists to determine the reasons that prompt a large segment of Jews from around the world to choose to live in countries other than the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.
In order to divert the migration of those Jews into the 1948 occupied lands, the team suggested that the government should provide them with jobs and homes and accept them in educational institutions.
The Israeli government intends to announce a three-year plan aimed at attracting more French Jews to settle in the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands, according to different Israeli newspapers.
They said the plan would be funded by the governments of Israel and France.
Maariv newspaper said the government would start to carry out its plan during the first four months of the next year in order to increase the number of Jewish immigrants after scores of Israeli settlers emigrated from Israel to the US, Britain and Canada during 2013.
It added that the relevant ministries formed a few months ago a team of specialists to determine the reasons that prompt a large segment of Jews from around the world to choose to live in countries other than the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands.
In order to divert the migration of those Jews into the 1948 occupied lands, the team suggested that the government should provide them with jobs and homes and accept them in educational institutions.
Palestinian Workers At Roadblock
Palestinian medical sources have reported that three Palestinian workers have been injured near the annexation wall, in the Ramadeen village, south of the southern West bank city of Hebron.
The sources said that the workers were returning from work in Beersheba (Be’er As-Sabe’), when they were chased and assaulted by the soldiers.
The three have been identified as Shady Ahmad Al-Ajarma, 21, Idrees Yousef At-Torshan, 22, and Mohammad Ishak Khrekis, 22.
They were moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital after suffering fractures and bruises to various parts of their bodies.
Mohammad Al-Arawna, head of the Media Department of the Palestinian Workers Syndicate, denounced the attack, saying that the union lodged a complaint with the International Workers Association, asking it to intervene, investigate the ongoing Israeli violations against the workers, and to hold Israel accountable to its crimes.
Al-Atawna said that the army, especially on roadblocks, frequently attacks Palestinian workers.
In related news, a number of settlers from the Havat Gal illegal settlement outpost, east of Hebron, attacked on Friday evening Palestinian orchard, cut and uprooted dozens of olive trees.
The 10-Dunam (2.47 Acres) orchard is located in Jabal Jales area, close to the illegal settlement outpost, and has been repeatedly attacked by the settlers in an attempt to expand their outpost.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that three Palestinian workers have been injured near the annexation wall, in the Ramadeen village, south of the southern West bank city of Hebron.
The sources said that the workers were returning from work in Beersheba (Be’er As-Sabe’), when they were chased and assaulted by the soldiers.
The three have been identified as Shady Ahmad Al-Ajarma, 21, Idrees Yousef At-Torshan, 22, and Mohammad Ishak Khrekis, 22.
They were moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital after suffering fractures and bruises to various parts of their bodies.
Mohammad Al-Arawna, head of the Media Department of the Palestinian Workers Syndicate, denounced the attack, saying that the union lodged a complaint with the International Workers Association, asking it to intervene, investigate the ongoing Israeli violations against the workers, and to hold Israel accountable to its crimes.
Al-Atawna said that the army, especially on roadblocks, frequently attacks Palestinian workers.
In related news, a number of settlers from the Havat Gal illegal settlement outpost, east of Hebron, attacked on Friday evening Palestinian orchard, cut and uprooted dozens of olive trees.
The 10-Dunam (2.47 Acres) orchard is located in Jabal Jales area, close to the illegal settlement outpost, and has been repeatedly attacked by the settlers in an attempt to expand their outpost.
26 dec 2013
A Palestinian child was seriously injured after being run over by a car driven by an Israeli settler in the Northern West Bank town of Deir Istiya near Salfit.
A Ma'an correspondent citing local and medical sources said that Yasser Ibrahim Abu Zeid, 7, was seriously wounded after being hit by an Israeli settler's car.
Yasser was subsequently taken to an Israeli hospital in Petah Tiqva.
Deir Istiya is located directly between two large Israeli settlement blocs in the northern West Bank.
A Ma'an correspondent citing local and medical sources said that Yasser Ibrahim Abu Zeid, 7, was seriously wounded after being hit by an Israeli settler's car.
Yasser was subsequently taken to an Israeli hospital in Petah Tiqva.
Deir Istiya is located directly between two large Israeli settlement blocs in the northern West Bank.
Responding to damage, the occupation claims 'price tag' victims at fault for failing to duly protect their land.
The Israeli occupation is claiming that Palestinians who were the recent target of a “price tag” attack are to blame for their misfortune - because they failed to adequately protect their plot of land.
This position arises from the occupation’s response to a damages filed by the owners of an olive grove situated in Area C in the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli military and civilian control.
The IOF, for its part, is refusing to install lighting around the olive grove to protect it from future vandalism, arguing that a complaint for damages has already been filed. The grove, which belongs to the Amour family, lies adjacent to highway 317 in the southern Hebron hills, across from A-Tawani village, the illegal settlement of Maon and the outpost Havat Maon. This case can well serve as a litmus test for the seriousness of declarations made by civilian and military authorities, according to which they will take action against price tag vigilantes.
In 2006, unknown persons cut down all 120 trees in the grove. In 2011, part of a surrounding fence was destroyed and a tree was felled. On the night of May 9 of this year, half of the trees belonging to the Amour family were chopped down, and the act was accompanied by a message sprayed in Hebrew letters, saying that “price tag is fed up with thieves – mutual responsibility” and “regards from Eviatar”. The perpetrators used hand saws to achieve their mission.
After each of the incidents, the Amour family filed a complaint with the police, asking for protection against future vandalism.
Ten days after the third incident, attorney Itai Mack, representing the family, appealed to occupation Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz, who was then head of the Civil Administration in the territories, asking him to specify what actions he would undertake to prevent further acts of vandalism. Mack was relying on a 2006 decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice which ruled that the authorities must “devote manpower for the protection of Palestinian property, must open an immediate inquiry when reports of harassment are received, and send out patrols by security forces to locate such activities.”
Almoz’s bureau responded by saying that the person to handle such matters was Lt. Ronnie Rivlin, the officer in charge of public complaints at the IOF’s Central Command. However, two letters to Lt. Rivlin, sent on May 23 and June 5 by attorney Mack, went unanswered.
On June 13 Mack filed a comlaint for damages against the occupation state, amounting to 65,840 shekels ($18,709) since, according to him, “the state’s incompetence, negligence and lack of serious attention to the complaints only encouraged extremist Israelis to continue their actions, giving them a sense of immunity vis-à-vis law enforcement authorities.” Mack mentioned in his petition that the state routinely safeguards the property of colonial settlers and funds security measures for them, such as fences and surveillance cameras.
The occupation state’s response to the petition was brought on October 20 by attorney Moshe Vilinger. It says that “the state’s contention is that the bulk of the blame lies with the plaintiff, who at the very least was a main contributor to the damage. The state claims that the plaintiff did not take sufficient measures to prevent the incident. For example, the plaintiff claims that had the defendant had set up lighting, the incident would have been avoided. However, he decided to wait it out, relying on security forces and the authorities to undertake an action which he could have resorted to himself.” The attorney also argued that the vandals were not emissaries of the state, which did not sanction or approve their actions.
In the meantime, the officer in charge of public complaints responded to Mack on October 3, and upon her suggestion, on October 28 representatives of the occupied West Bank illegal colonial settlements counsel and officers of the occupation Civil Administration toured the grove in order to investigate methods of protecting it. A month later, unknown persons vandalized an adjacent grove belonging to another family.
In response to a query from Haaretz regarding the setting up of lighting around the grove, the occupation military spokesman said this week that “the family’s request was carefully addressed, including tours to the area. The family chose to turn to the courts before a decision was reached by the IOF. The issue is now being handled by the legal system, and the family will be notified in the customary manner when a decision is reached.”
The Israeli occupation is claiming that Palestinians who were the recent target of a “price tag” attack are to blame for their misfortune - because they failed to adequately protect their plot of land.
This position arises from the occupation’s response to a damages filed by the owners of an olive grove situated in Area C in the occupied West Bank, under full Israeli military and civilian control.
The IOF, for its part, is refusing to install lighting around the olive grove to protect it from future vandalism, arguing that a complaint for damages has already been filed. The grove, which belongs to the Amour family, lies adjacent to highway 317 in the southern Hebron hills, across from A-Tawani village, the illegal settlement of Maon and the outpost Havat Maon. This case can well serve as a litmus test for the seriousness of declarations made by civilian and military authorities, according to which they will take action against price tag vigilantes.
In 2006, unknown persons cut down all 120 trees in the grove. In 2011, part of a surrounding fence was destroyed and a tree was felled. On the night of May 9 of this year, half of the trees belonging to the Amour family were chopped down, and the act was accompanied by a message sprayed in Hebrew letters, saying that “price tag is fed up with thieves – mutual responsibility” and “regards from Eviatar”. The perpetrators used hand saws to achieve their mission.
After each of the incidents, the Amour family filed a complaint with the police, asking for protection against future vandalism.
Ten days after the third incident, attorney Itai Mack, representing the family, appealed to occupation Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz, who was then head of the Civil Administration in the territories, asking him to specify what actions he would undertake to prevent further acts of vandalism. Mack was relying on a 2006 decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice which ruled that the authorities must “devote manpower for the protection of Palestinian property, must open an immediate inquiry when reports of harassment are received, and send out patrols by security forces to locate such activities.”
Almoz’s bureau responded by saying that the person to handle such matters was Lt. Ronnie Rivlin, the officer in charge of public complaints at the IOF’s Central Command. However, two letters to Lt. Rivlin, sent on May 23 and June 5 by attorney Mack, went unanswered.
On June 13 Mack filed a comlaint for damages against the occupation state, amounting to 65,840 shekels ($18,709) since, according to him, “the state’s incompetence, negligence and lack of serious attention to the complaints only encouraged extremist Israelis to continue their actions, giving them a sense of immunity vis-à-vis law enforcement authorities.” Mack mentioned in his petition that the state routinely safeguards the property of colonial settlers and funds security measures for them, such as fences and surveillance cameras.
The occupation state’s response to the petition was brought on October 20 by attorney Moshe Vilinger. It says that “the state’s contention is that the bulk of the blame lies with the plaintiff, who at the very least was a main contributor to the damage. The state claims that the plaintiff did not take sufficient measures to prevent the incident. For example, the plaintiff claims that had the defendant had set up lighting, the incident would have been avoided. However, he decided to wait it out, relying on security forces and the authorities to undertake an action which he could have resorted to himself.” The attorney also argued that the vandals were not emissaries of the state, which did not sanction or approve their actions.
In the meantime, the officer in charge of public complaints responded to Mack on October 3, and upon her suggestion, on October 28 representatives of the occupied West Bank illegal colonial settlements counsel and officers of the occupation Civil Administration toured the grove in order to investigate methods of protecting it. A month later, unknown persons vandalized an adjacent grove belonging to another family.
In response to a query from Haaretz regarding the setting up of lighting around the grove, the occupation military spokesman said this week that “the family’s request was carefully addressed, including tours to the area. The family chose to turn to the courts before a decision was reached by the IOF. The issue is now being handled by the legal system, and the family will be notified in the customary manner when a decision is reached.”