9 apr 2014
A Palestinian child was moderately injured Wednesday morning after Israeli colonial settlers stoned his family's vehicle, west of Bethlehem in the West Bank.
Activist against the separation wall and settlement, Ghassan Najajra, said the child, Osaid Fanoon, 4, suffered moderate injury after Israeli settlers from Gush Etzion had thrown stones at Fanoon's vehicle when passing near Nahalin village .
Violating the international humanitarian law, Occupation and Israeli colonial settlers regularly attack Palestinian families, their properties and lands in the West Bank cities.
Activist against the separation wall and settlement, Ghassan Najajra, said the child, Osaid Fanoon, 4, suffered moderate injury after Israeli settlers from Gush Etzion had thrown stones at Fanoon's vehicle when passing near Nahalin village .
Violating the international humanitarian law, Occupation and Israeli colonial settlers regularly attack Palestinian families, their properties and lands in the West Bank cities.
Israeli settler groups and intelligence personnel have desecrated the courtyards of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday morning under strict protection by Israeli police forces. According to eye-witnesses around 30 settlers and 20 intelligence personnel broke into al-Aqsa Mosque, where they listened to explanations about the alleged temple.
Strict security measures were imposed by Israeli police forces, present around al-Aqsa gates, on those who have been allowed in and several identity cards have been confiscated.
Strict security measures were imposed by Israeli police forces, present around al-Aqsa gates, on those who have been allowed in and several identity cards have been confiscated.
Israeli settlers from Ariel settlement built on Salfit land continued to steal the city's groundwater while flooding its agricultural lands with the settlement's sewage waters. Researcher Khalid Maali said on Wednesday that Palestinian farmers in the area left their agricultural lands after being continuously flooded with sewage waters by Israeli settlers.
He pointed out that Israeli authorities continued to steal Salfit's groundwater and resources due to the city's important site where it is located over a lake that contains more than three and a half million cubic meters of water.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers from Efrat settlement have flooded Tuesday Palestinian agricultural lands, an area of 8 acres, in Khader town in Bethlehem with sewage water.
The land's owner is no longer able to use his agricultural land or to reap its grape harvest due to the pollution caused by Israeli settlers.
Large Palestinian agricultural lands have been subjected to such attacks, which led to heavy losses to their owners.
He pointed out that Israeli authorities continued to steal Salfit's groundwater and resources due to the city's important site where it is located over a lake that contains more than three and a half million cubic meters of water.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers from Efrat settlement have flooded Tuesday Palestinian agricultural lands, an area of 8 acres, in Khader town in Bethlehem with sewage water.
The land's owner is no longer able to use his agricultural land or to reap its grape harvest due to the pollution caused by Israeli settlers.
Large Palestinian agricultural lands have been subjected to such attacks, which led to heavy losses to their owners.
A woman and a group of children were left wounded following raids launched on Wednesday by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and dozens of settlers on the native citizens of Um al-Kheir and Tuba south of al-Khalil. PIC reported quoting activist Rateb Jabour: “Mrs. Khadhra Hadhaline was seriously injured and fainted when she was attacked by IOF soldiers in Khirbet Um al-Kheir in Yatta. Another group of children, including two girls, were left wounded in Tuba after Israeli settlers threw stones at them. The injured were immediately carried to hospitals by an ambulance.
The attacks, launched interchangeably by soldiers and settlers within the aforementioned areas, come as a result of the bullying and intimidation policies used by IOF against the Palestinian native citizens so as to force them out of their native soil in favor of settlement projects and judaization schemes in the area.
The attacks, launched interchangeably by soldiers and settlers within the aforementioned areas, come as a result of the bullying and intimidation policies used by IOF against the Palestinian native citizens so as to force them out of their native soil in favor of settlement projects and judaization schemes in the area.
Israeli settlers on Wednesday assaulted Palestinian school children in the southern West Bank, a school official said.
A school principal told Ma'an that a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at school girls in the village of al-Tuwani, leaving them bruised.
Israeli soldiers stood by and watched without taking action as the settlers threw rocks, the principal said.
The girls who sustained injuries were identified as Kifah Omar Abu Jundiyya and Dalal Awad Zein, both seventh graders.
In al-Tuwani and other areas in the southern Hebron district, school children on a daily basis wait at checkpoints for Israeli soldiers to let them through locked gates.
Regardless of Israeli military presence, settler attacks on children en route to and from school remain commonplace, the principal said.
In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
A school principal told Ma'an that a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones at school girls in the village of al-Tuwani, leaving them bruised.
Israeli soldiers stood by and watched without taking action as the settlers threw rocks, the principal said.
The girls who sustained injuries were identified as Kifah Omar Abu Jundiyya and Dalal Awad Zein, both seventh graders.
In al-Tuwani and other areas in the southern Hebron district, school children on a daily basis wait at checkpoints for Israeli soldiers to let them through locked gates.
Regardless of Israeli military presence, settler attacks on children en route to and from school remain commonplace, the principal said.
In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
A number of Israeli settlers from the Efrat settlement, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, flooded Palestinian farmlands in al-Khader town with sewage.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in al-Khader, Ahmad Salah, stated that the settlers pumped sewage into eight dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands belonging to resident Mohammad Yacoub Da’doa’, the Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported.
The attacked lands are close to the Efrat settlement, built on illegally annexed Palestinian lands.
Salah added that this attack will prevent the family from plowing and planting their land, and will not be able to plant grape vines due to the significant degree of contamination.
“Da’doa’ family was preparing for the grape season. They suffered very serious losses,” Salah added. “Those lands cannot be planted any more; this attack was not the first, as the settlers carried out numerous similar attacks against Palestinian lands and orchards in the area.”
Also on Tuesday, soldiers invaded the al-Karkafa area in Bethlehem, and kidnapped Khalil Mousa Zawahra after violently breaking into his home and searching it.
Soldiers also invaded the al-Ehsan Medical Society in Bethlehem after smashing its doors and searching it, causing excessive property damage. They also confiscated computers and documents.
Fanatic settlers in different parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, including occupied Jerusalem are responsible for countless attacks against the Palestinians, their lands and property, in addition to numerous attacks against Islamic and Christian holy sites, and even graveyards.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in al-Khader, Ahmad Salah, stated that the settlers pumped sewage into eight dunams of Palestinian agricultural lands belonging to resident Mohammad Yacoub Da’doa’, the Radio Bethlehem 2000 has reported.
The attacked lands are close to the Efrat settlement, built on illegally annexed Palestinian lands.
Salah added that this attack will prevent the family from plowing and planting their land, and will not be able to plant grape vines due to the significant degree of contamination.
“Da’doa’ family was preparing for the grape season. They suffered very serious losses,” Salah added. “Those lands cannot be planted any more; this attack was not the first, as the settlers carried out numerous similar attacks against Palestinian lands and orchards in the area.”
Also on Tuesday, soldiers invaded the al-Karkafa area in Bethlehem, and kidnapped Khalil Mousa Zawahra after violently breaking into his home and searching it.
Soldiers also invaded the al-Ehsan Medical Society in Bethlehem after smashing its doors and searching it, causing excessive property damage. They also confiscated computers and documents.
Fanatic settlers in different parts of the occupied Palestinian territories, including occupied Jerusalem are responsible for countless attacks against the Palestinians, their lands and property, in addition to numerous attacks against Islamic and Christian holy sites, and even graveyards.
8 apr 2014
Clashes between Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces in the West Bank during the night left eight people including six border guards injured, police said on Tuesday.
"Police came to help soldiers to demolish five illegal constructions near Yitzhar," a settlement in the northern West Bank, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP.
"After they'd finished, several dozen settlers began throwing stones, injuring six border guards," she said.
Police responded by using "riot dispersal means," and two settlers were injured during the clashes, Samri said.
Israel has moved to demolish "wildcat" settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, which normally consist of a few makeshift dwellings set up by extremist Jewish settlers on Palestinian territory.
There are some 100 wildcat settler outposts erected around the West Bank without Israeli government authorization.
The international community regards all West Bank settlements as illegal, regardless of whether they were built with Israeli authorization.
In a violent confrontation in December 2012, more than 200 stone-throwing settlers drove off an attempt by security forces to dismantle structures put up at "Oz Zion," wounding five border policemen. They were demolished the following day.
But Israel quietly "legalized" several of the wildcat outposts in the same year, according to Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now.
The issue of settlement building has long been a key stumbling block in peace talks between Israel and the PLO.
Israel has pushed forward plans for several thousand new settlement homes in the West Bank during faltering negotiations that US Secretary of State John Kerry kick-started in July.
Settlers Attack Israeli Border Police during Demolition in Yitzhar Settlement
Hundreds of settlers clashed with Israeli Border Police who enterered the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar overnight Tuesday to demolish illegal structures.
Israeli Forces were confronted by hundreds of violent settlers who threw rocks, burned tires and blocked streets.Israeli Security forces responded with riot dispersal methods. Six Israeli Border Police officers were wounded by rocks; two required hospitalization.
Four structures were demolished and one was confiscated. Two of them were inhabited.
According to an Israeli military official, hundreds of settlers took part in the clashes. A group of settlers also attacked a guard post in the settlement of reservists responsible for the residents' security. According to witnesses in the area, settlers vandalized the bathroom, punctured a water line and tore up mattresses.
The IOF said in a statement that it sees any damage to its security forces, who are doing their job and enforcing the law, as a grave incident.
In a statement issued by Yitzhar, residents said "the policy of demolition and collective punishment by authorities against residents is disturbing. The Israeli government cannot demolish the homes of innocent people as revenge for other isolated illegitimate incidents, as grave as they may be. We call on the security establishment and its leader to stop this policy immediately."
Four Yitzhar residents were lightly wounded.
Israeli Army Minister Moshe Ya'alon commented on the incident: "In Yitzhar, as opposed to other settlements, there are violent individuals. Not everyone in Yitzhar is violent," he said, adding that residents will have to "obey the law like every other Israeli citizen."
"We will not allow a marginal, violent, extreme group take the law into their hands, disrupt our lives and threaten IOF commanders and soldiers. We will act against them with the full force of the law," Ya'alon said.
Following the incident Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "We will act with zero tolerance against whoever harms IOF soldiers and their commanders. The assailants will pay for their criminal acts."
Source: Haaretz
"Police came to help soldiers to demolish five illegal constructions near Yitzhar," a settlement in the northern West Bank, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP.
"After they'd finished, several dozen settlers began throwing stones, injuring six border guards," she said.
Police responded by using "riot dispersal means," and two settlers were injured during the clashes, Samri said.
Israel has moved to demolish "wildcat" settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, which normally consist of a few makeshift dwellings set up by extremist Jewish settlers on Palestinian territory.
There are some 100 wildcat settler outposts erected around the West Bank without Israeli government authorization.
The international community regards all West Bank settlements as illegal, regardless of whether they were built with Israeli authorization.
In a violent confrontation in December 2012, more than 200 stone-throwing settlers drove off an attempt by security forces to dismantle structures put up at "Oz Zion," wounding five border policemen. They were demolished the following day.
But Israel quietly "legalized" several of the wildcat outposts in the same year, according to Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now.
The issue of settlement building has long been a key stumbling block in peace talks between Israel and the PLO.
Israel has pushed forward plans for several thousand new settlement homes in the West Bank during faltering negotiations that US Secretary of State John Kerry kick-started in July.
Settlers Attack Israeli Border Police during Demolition in Yitzhar Settlement
Hundreds of settlers clashed with Israeli Border Police who enterered the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar overnight Tuesday to demolish illegal structures.
Israeli Forces were confronted by hundreds of violent settlers who threw rocks, burned tires and blocked streets.Israeli Security forces responded with riot dispersal methods. Six Israeli Border Police officers were wounded by rocks; two required hospitalization.
Four structures were demolished and one was confiscated. Two of them were inhabited.
According to an Israeli military official, hundreds of settlers took part in the clashes. A group of settlers also attacked a guard post in the settlement of reservists responsible for the residents' security. According to witnesses in the area, settlers vandalized the bathroom, punctured a water line and tore up mattresses.
The IOF said in a statement that it sees any damage to its security forces, who are doing their job and enforcing the law, as a grave incident.
In a statement issued by Yitzhar, residents said "the policy of demolition and collective punishment by authorities against residents is disturbing. The Israeli government cannot demolish the homes of innocent people as revenge for other isolated illegitimate incidents, as grave as they may be. We call on the security establishment and its leader to stop this policy immediately."
Four Yitzhar residents were lightly wounded.
Israeli Army Minister Moshe Ya'alon commented on the incident: "In Yitzhar, as opposed to other settlements, there are violent individuals. Not everyone in Yitzhar is violent," he said, adding that residents will have to "obey the law like every other Israeli citizen."
"We will not allow a marginal, violent, extreme group take the law into their hands, disrupt our lives and threaten IOF commanders and soldiers. We will act against them with the full force of the law," Ya'alon said.
Following the incident Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "We will act with zero tolerance against whoever harms IOF soldiers and their commanders. The assailants will pay for their criminal acts."
Source: Haaretz
A group of Jewish settlers raided Palestinian houses near Yitzhar settlement west of Nablus city on Tuesday. The attack came in response to a set of Israeli demolition processes carried out in their settlement.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official in charge of monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said in a press release that settlers threw car-tires at Om Aymen Soufan’s house near Yitzhar settlement after torching them, and threw Palestinian vehicles travelling across the Nablus-Ramallah road with stones leading to remarkable destruction to several of them.
According to Israeli Yediot Aharonot newspaper website, four demolition operations were performed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) inside of the settlement of Yitzhar of illegally-built houses, where violent confrontations broke out with settlers who refused to evacuate the houses. Six of the so-called Border Police were left wounded.
Ghassan Daghlas, an official in charge of monitoring settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said in a press release that settlers threw car-tires at Om Aymen Soufan’s house near Yitzhar settlement after torching them, and threw Palestinian vehicles travelling across the Nablus-Ramallah road with stones leading to remarkable destruction to several of them.
According to Israeli Yediot Aharonot newspaper website, four demolition operations were performed by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) inside of the settlement of Yitzhar of illegally-built houses, where violent confrontations broke out with settlers who refused to evacuate the houses. Six of the so-called Border Police were left wounded.
In a Facebook post, Likud Knesset Member and its deputy speaker Moshe Feiglin confirmed that he is working at all levels to impose Jewish sovereignty over al-Aqsa Mosque and allow settlers' access freely to its courtyards. Feiglin broke on Monday into the al-Aqsa Mosque accompanied with a group of settlers under Israeli police heavy protection. “It is possible to impose Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount, but if we really want it,” he said.
For its part, the Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage strongly condemned Feiglin's statements, saying that it represents Israeli government's policies.
The Foundation warned of the seriousness of such statements, stressing the importance of Islamic presence in al-Aqsa Mosque to check Israeli schemes at least at this stage.
For its part, the Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage strongly condemned Feiglin's statements, saying that it represents Israeli government's policies.
The Foundation warned of the seriousness of such statements, stressing the importance of Islamic presence in al-Aqsa Mosque to check Israeli schemes at least at this stage.
For the second time in a single night, Settlers from “Yizhar” settlement, south of Nablus, punctured tires of a military jeep belonged to Israeli reservist forces guarding the settlement. The reservists whose jeep’s tires were punctured said: “ we expected someone to say thank you since we left our families, business and studies to guard the settlers. Yet, we were insulted.”
A soldier in the same unit said: “this act was intentional and not spontaneous. We guarded them then they responded by stabbing us in the back.”
Settlers from the same settlement punctured for the second time in a few months tires of a jeep belongs to the commander of the Israeli forces in the northern WB. Boys from the settlement threw stones at the vehicle of a senior official in the civil administration a few days ago.
Yizhar settlement is the most hostility outpost to the Palestinians in the northern WB. Its settlers carry out weekly attacks against the nearby Palestinian villages.
A soldier in the same unit said: “this act was intentional and not spontaneous. We guarded them then they responded by stabbing us in the back.”
Settlers from the same settlement punctured for the second time in a few months tires of a jeep belongs to the commander of the Israeli forces in the northern WB. Boys from the settlement threw stones at the vehicle of a senior official in the civil administration a few days ago.
Yizhar settlement is the most hostility outpost to the Palestinians in the northern WB. Its settlers carry out weekly attacks against the nearby Palestinian villages.
7 apr 2014
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided several areas in Yatta south of al-Khalil in the southern Western Bank at an early morning hour on Monday, an event that coincided with a series of brutal attacks launched by a group of settlers. PIC quoted Rateb Jabour, an activist in The Palestinian Committee against Settlement, as stating: “IOF raided Yatta at dawn. Several houses, including Bilel Ibrahim Makhamra’s, were ransacked and had most of their properties damaged in the process.”
Jabour further indicated that an attack was carried out, on the same day, by Susiya settlers who moved herds of sheep into the civilians’ lands in Wadi Rekhim east of Yatta. Several winter crops, estimated at around 5 dunums and owned by Ez Mohamed Khalil, were smashed up in the process.
The escalation of such attacks, launched by settlers under the protection of the Israeli forces against the native civilians and their properties, is part of the wide-scale Israeli displacement and dispossession plans, according to Jabour.
Jabour further indicated that an attack was carried out, on the same day, by Susiya settlers who moved herds of sheep into the civilians’ lands in Wadi Rekhim east of Yatta. Several winter crops, estimated at around 5 dunums and owned by Ez Mohamed Khalil, were smashed up in the process.
The escalation of such attacks, launched by settlers under the protection of the Israeli forces against the native civilians and their properties, is part of the wide-scale Israeli displacement and dispossession plans, according to Jabour.
A special Knesset subcommittee will convene Monday and hear arguments for allowing Jews to pray on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Israel Channel 7 reported.
It added, it is the first time that the Knesset is conducting an in-depth examination of Jewish demands to be allowed to pray on the Al-Aqsa Moqsue, which has been under nominal Israeli control for decades, but is administered by the Islamic Waqf.
The committee is a subcommittee of the Israel Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and was appointed by MK Miri Regev (Likud-Beytenu), who heads the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee. Its members are MK David Tzur (Hatnua), MK Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) and MK Nachman Shai (Labor).
In a related context, MK Moshe Feiglin stormed on Monday, the Al-Aqsa Mosque through Bab al-Magharbeh, under the protection of Israeli army forces and police.
Rasem Abed al-Wahed, Specialist in the Jerusalem Affairs, said that a group of settlers also accompanied Fegiln, while Israeli restrictions were imposed on the entry of the Palestinian worshippers into the mosque. The police stopped the worshippers on the main entrances of the mosque, checked their IDs and detained them until they come out of the mosque.
On Friday 4th April, Feiglin expressed his willingness to storm the mosque in preparation for the Passover festival that coincides the 14th of April. Leaders of Jewish groups called the Jews to make sacrifices on this occasion in the compound of the mosque, and they also called the Israeli police to make the appropriate measures for them to perform the Talmudic rituals in the mosque.
Israeli extremist settlers headed by MK Feiglin storm al-Aqsa
Israeli extremist settlers, led by Likud Knesset Member Moshe Feiglin, broke on Monday into the al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate under Israeli police protection. The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that the radical MK Feiglin has stormed the Dome of the Rock square before expeditiously leaving from al-Silsla Gate for fear of Palestinian worshipers' reaction.
The foundation added that 50 settlers and their children raided al-Aqsa Mosque in the same time and roamed different parts of its courtyards.
AFEH said that strict restrictions were imposed by Israeli occupation forces on the entry of Palestinian worshipers, particularly youths, into al-Aqsa Mosque, confiscating identity cards of those allowed in.
Feiglin has declared his intention to break into al-Aqsa Mosque in preparation for the Jewish Passover Feast on the 14th of April amid the alleged Temple organization's escalated calls to offer sacrifices and perform Talmudic rituals inside al-Aqsa Mosque under IOF protection.
On the other hand, Ammar al-Aqsa Foundation reported that 3,168 Israelis stormed al-Aqsa Mosque during the first quarter of 2014, including 2,089 settlers, while the others were policemen, intelligence agents, and soldiers in military uniform.
During March, approximately 1,178 Israelis stormed the holy site including 731 settlers, the report said.
In February, 892 Israelis broke into al-Aqsa Mosque including 667 settlers, while in January 1,098 Israelis raided the Mosque including 691 settlers.
Ammar al-Aqsa Foundation warned that the next few months would witness escalation in Israeli break-ins into the Mosque, calling for intensifying Palestinian presence in the holy site.
It added, it is the first time that the Knesset is conducting an in-depth examination of Jewish demands to be allowed to pray on the Al-Aqsa Moqsue, which has been under nominal Israeli control for decades, but is administered by the Islamic Waqf.
The committee is a subcommittee of the Israel Internal Affairs and Environment Committee and was appointed by MK Miri Regev (Likud-Beytenu), who heads the Internal Affairs and Environment Committee. Its members are MK David Tzur (Hatnua), MK Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) and MK Nachman Shai (Labor).
In a related context, MK Moshe Feiglin stormed on Monday, the Al-Aqsa Mosque through Bab al-Magharbeh, under the protection of Israeli army forces and police.
Rasem Abed al-Wahed, Specialist in the Jerusalem Affairs, said that a group of settlers also accompanied Fegiln, while Israeli restrictions were imposed on the entry of the Palestinian worshippers into the mosque. The police stopped the worshippers on the main entrances of the mosque, checked their IDs and detained them until they come out of the mosque.
On Friday 4th April, Feiglin expressed his willingness to storm the mosque in preparation for the Passover festival that coincides the 14th of April. Leaders of Jewish groups called the Jews to make sacrifices on this occasion in the compound of the mosque, and they also called the Israeli police to make the appropriate measures for them to perform the Talmudic rituals in the mosque.
Israeli extremist settlers headed by MK Feiglin storm al-Aqsa
Israeli extremist settlers, led by Likud Knesset Member Moshe Feiglin, broke on Monday into the al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate under Israeli police protection. The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that the radical MK Feiglin has stormed the Dome of the Rock square before expeditiously leaving from al-Silsla Gate for fear of Palestinian worshipers' reaction.
The foundation added that 50 settlers and their children raided al-Aqsa Mosque in the same time and roamed different parts of its courtyards.
AFEH said that strict restrictions were imposed by Israeli occupation forces on the entry of Palestinian worshipers, particularly youths, into al-Aqsa Mosque, confiscating identity cards of those allowed in.
Feiglin has declared his intention to break into al-Aqsa Mosque in preparation for the Jewish Passover Feast on the 14th of April amid the alleged Temple organization's escalated calls to offer sacrifices and perform Talmudic rituals inside al-Aqsa Mosque under IOF protection.
On the other hand, Ammar al-Aqsa Foundation reported that 3,168 Israelis stormed al-Aqsa Mosque during the first quarter of 2014, including 2,089 settlers, while the others were policemen, intelligence agents, and soldiers in military uniform.
During March, approximately 1,178 Israelis stormed the holy site including 731 settlers, the report said.
In February, 892 Israelis broke into al-Aqsa Mosque including 667 settlers, while in January 1,098 Israelis raided the Mosque including 691 settlers.
Ammar al-Aqsa Foundation warned that the next few months would witness escalation in Israeli break-ins into the Mosque, calling for intensifying Palestinian presence in the holy site.
6 apr 2014
The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage said that Jewish fanatic organizations were planning to build a Jewish synagogue at Al-Aqsa Mosque as a key step towards the construction of the alleged temple. The foundation said in a statement on Sunday that a scheme has recently been charted by the "Yishai Association", led by a number of “Rabanims” who have recently sent a letter to the head of the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to build a synagogue at Al-Aqsa Mosque.
According to the foundation, a mapped description was handed by a right-wing journalist and activist in “alleged temple” organizations, aiming at establishing a synagogue in the western part of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The activist outlined his vision, which he published on an online blog of his own, to build a synagogue that extends over a large area of Al-Aqsa Mosque along with other neighboring areas.
The scheme reveals attempts to open a new door via the western wall of the mosque to ensure the smooth entry of Jews into the synagogue and the overall control of the Buraq Mosque intended to become the synagogue’s main entrance.
The activist also recommended the construction of a glass wall that detaches the projected synagogue from the rest of Al-Aqsa and separates Jewish and Muslim worshippers performing their religious rituals. He further insisted that the wall has to be built in such a way as to allow the synagogue’s congregation to supervise the rest of Al-Aqsa area.
The Aqsa Foundation has spoken out against the move calling for an urgent reaction against the potential execution of such dangerous plans which coincide with demands for immediate construction approvals from Netanyahu.
According to the foundation, a mapped description was handed by a right-wing journalist and activist in “alleged temple” organizations, aiming at establishing a synagogue in the western part of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The activist outlined his vision, which he published on an online blog of his own, to build a synagogue that extends over a large area of Al-Aqsa Mosque along with other neighboring areas.
The scheme reveals attempts to open a new door via the western wall of the mosque to ensure the smooth entry of Jews into the synagogue and the overall control of the Buraq Mosque intended to become the synagogue’s main entrance.
The activist also recommended the construction of a glass wall that detaches the projected synagogue from the rest of Al-Aqsa and separates Jewish and Muslim worshippers performing their religious rituals. He further insisted that the wall has to be built in such a way as to allow the synagogue’s congregation to supervise the rest of Al-Aqsa area.
The Aqsa Foundation has spoken out against the move calling for an urgent reaction against the potential execution of such dangerous plans which coincide with demands for immediate construction approvals from Netanyahu.
5 apr 2014
Settlers taking cover of Israeli forces while throwing stones at Palestinians
A number of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man in Urif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing moderate wounds, while settlers uprooted hundreds of grapevine saplings in Bethlehem. Medical sources said Mohammad Ahmad Ibrahim, 31, suffered various fractures, and bruises, when a number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian villagers.
In related news, several settlers invaded a Palestinian grapevine in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, and uprooted hundreds of saplings, the Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and settlements in al-Khader, Ahmad Salah, told Wafa News that Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene, detained the owners of the land, and handed a resident a warrant ordering him to head to the Etzion military and security base for interrogation.
According to The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in 2013, extremist settlers carried out more than 399 attacks against the Palestinians, their lands and property, in different part of the occupied West Bank.
It added that the Israeli police failed to indict any of the assailants in %90 of the attacks.
The number of Israeli settlers living in various settlements in the occupied West Bank, including in an around occupied East Jerusalem, is more than 500.000, while Israel is ongoing with its illegitimate settlement construction and expansion activities, according the OCHA report.
Settlements violate International Law, and the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory.
Israeli settlers uproot 350 grape vines south of Bethlehem
Israeli settlers on Saturday uprooted 350 grape vines in the village of al-Khadr south of Bethlehem, a local popular committee spokesman said.
Ahmad Salah said settlers destroyed 200 vines that were four years old and another 150 that were planted only two months earlier.
The settlers also stole metal stakes used to support the vines, Salah said.
On Friday, settlers destroyed over 300 newly planted grape vines in the same village.
In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
A number of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian man in Urif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing moderate wounds, while settlers uprooted hundreds of grapevine saplings in Bethlehem. Medical sources said Mohammad Ahmad Ibrahim, 31, suffered various fractures, and bruises, when a number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian villagers.
In related news, several settlers invaded a Palestinian grapevine in the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem, and uprooted hundreds of saplings, the Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and settlements in al-Khader, Ahmad Salah, told Wafa News that Israeli soldiers arrived at the scene, detained the owners of the land, and handed a resident a warrant ordering him to head to the Etzion military and security base for interrogation.
According to The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in 2013, extremist settlers carried out more than 399 attacks against the Palestinians, their lands and property, in different part of the occupied West Bank.
It added that the Israeli police failed to indict any of the assailants in %90 of the attacks.
The number of Israeli settlers living in various settlements in the occupied West Bank, including in an around occupied East Jerusalem, is more than 500.000, while Israel is ongoing with its illegitimate settlement construction and expansion activities, according the OCHA report.
Settlements violate International Law, and the Fourth Geneva Convention to which Israel is a signatory.
Israeli settlers uproot 350 grape vines south of Bethlehem
Israeli settlers on Saturday uprooted 350 grape vines in the village of al-Khadr south of Bethlehem, a local popular committee spokesman said.
Ahmad Salah said settlers destroyed 200 vines that were four years old and another 150 that were planted only two months earlier.
The settlers also stole metal stakes used to support the vines, Salah said.
On Friday, settlers destroyed over 300 newly planted grape vines in the same village.
In 2013, there were 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.
More than 500,000 Israeli settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.
A number of fanatic Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinians, wounding four, while Israeli soldiers kidnapped two more Palestinians, in Sheikh Jarrah, in occupied East Jerusalem.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan has reported that the soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians identified as Morad, 17, and his brother Mohammad Atiyya, 20, and took them to a police station in the Salah Ed-Deen Street.
The Center said that more than 50 settlers invaded Sheikh Jarrah and threw stones at several Palestinian cars, and homes, in the area.
Local Palestinian residents tried to stop the settlers, but were assaulted by them, while a number of settlers used pepper-spray against the Palestinians, and assaulted them, leading to four injuries.
Israeli soldiers then attacked the Palestinians, and kidnapped the two brothers. At least one woman was wounded in the attack; property damage was reported.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan has reported that the soldiers kidnapped two Palestinians identified as Morad, 17, and his brother Mohammad Atiyya, 20, and took them to a police station in the Salah Ed-Deen Street.
The Center said that more than 50 settlers invaded Sheikh Jarrah and threw stones at several Palestinian cars, and homes, in the area.
Local Palestinian residents tried to stop the settlers, but were assaulted by them, while a number of settlers used pepper-spray against the Palestinians, and assaulted them, leading to four injuries.
Israeli soldiers then attacked the Palestinians, and kidnapped the two brothers. At least one woman was wounded in the attack; property damage was reported.