5 aug 2011
Jewish settlers set Palestinian fields on fire
Fanatic Jewish settlers on Thursday evening set fire to Palestinian agricultural fields in the village of Bourin to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Ali Eid, head of the Bourin village council, told PIC that a number of Jewish settlers set fields planted with olive trees to the east of the village.
He said that it was not easy to estimate the damage, at the time, because settlers stopped villagers and the fire crews from reaching the affected fields to put the fire out.
He also said that settlers assaulted the fire crews who reached the scene and that there were altercations between the settlers and IOF troops.
The village of Bourin and nearby villages are often the target of settler violence, including setting crops and trees on fire to bankrupt Palestinian farmers and force them to leave their lands so that the settlers can confiscate them.
Jewish settlers set Palestinian fields on fire
Fanatic Jewish settlers on Thursday evening set fire to Palestinian agricultural fields in the village of Bourin to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Ali Eid, head of the Bourin village council, told PIC that a number of Jewish settlers set fields planted with olive trees to the east of the village.
He said that it was not easy to estimate the damage, at the time, because settlers stopped villagers and the fire crews from reaching the affected fields to put the fire out.
He also said that settlers assaulted the fire crews who reached the scene and that there were altercations between the settlers and IOF troops.
The village of Bourin and nearby villages are often the target of settler violence, including setting crops and trees on fire to bankrupt Palestinian farmers and force them to leave their lands so that the settlers can confiscate them.
4 aug 2011
Zionist Thugs Beating Up Jewish Rabbis
Zionist Thugs Beating Up Jewish Rabbis
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Video 2006 of a similar attack
Zionist Israeli Thugs are beating up and using tasers on members of the Orthodox Jewish Faith Neturei Karta. Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews protesting the desecration of graves by a highway construction project near Haifa were attacked and brutally beaten by private security guards hired by the Ministry of Transportation. The group, known for being outspokenly critical of the State of Israel and its very existence were peacefully demonstrating at the time. This attack follows a long history of violence against the Orthodox Jewish community. Consistent with fundamental Jewish beliefs, some of these protesters |
often take part in demonstrations, side by side with Palestinians, against the State of Israel and its inhuman policies toward the Palestinian people.” The apparent strategy of using organized violence through private security personnel against these peaceful protesters is only one of many tactics used by the State of Israel to intimidate and discourage further protests. The police were nowhere to be found at the time or even hours after the melee. Several Rabbis and children were attacked with electric stun gun devices and knives, requiring some to be hospitalized.
Among the injured were Rabbi Leibl Deutsch and Rabbi Yisroel Rothchild, both of Jerusalem who were stabbed in the lower back and leg respectively. The Jewish cemetery at the heart of the incident dates back to the Second Temple era, over 2000 years ago.Some of the caves that comprise the cemetery have been destroyed as a result of the ongoing highway work and there are heightened fears of further desecration as the highway project continues unabated.
Among the injured were Rabbi Leibl Deutsch and Rabbi Yisroel Rothchild, both of Jerusalem who were stabbed in the lower back and leg respectively. The Jewish cemetery at the heart of the incident dates back to the Second Temple era, over 2000 years ago.Some of the caves that comprise the cemetery have been destroyed as a result of the ongoing highway work and there are heightened fears of further desecration as the highway project continues unabated.
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Israel OKs new settler units in al-Quds
Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of illegal residential units for Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On Thursday, Tel Aviv allowed the building of 900 settlement units in the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) settlement neighborhood of Har Homa, AFP reported.
"This is a program which was approved by the regional (planning and construction) committee two years ago," Efrat Orbach, an Israeli official, said.
"According to the planning process in Israel, [it] needed the completion of amendments, therefore it was finally approved today," the official said.
Tel Aviv occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) alongside the other Palestinian land of the West Bank in 1967 and later annexed both territories. The international community has refused to recognize either of the moves.
In November 2009, Israel put a 10-month halt on its settlement activities, but refused to renew the partial moratorium.
Meanwhile, the PA's chief negotiator said the organization would press ahead with its plans of requesting the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a full member state despite Israel's obstructionist efforts.
Saeb Erakat dismissed as a mere public relations stunt the recent statements by an Israeli official who alleged that Tel Aviv was inclined to renew talks with the Palestinians if they drop their UN membership bid.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192313.html
Palestinian man banished for ‘harassing’ usurping settler
Israeli authorities have banished a Palestinian native of Beit Safafa for allegedly harassing Jewish settlers who usurped the residence of close relatives.
In a bizarre decision by the Israel Magistrates Court, Mohammed Salah, 47, was ordered to pack up from his family of ten and reside in Tarqumiya, south of Al-Khalil, for 90 days after allegedly ‘’humiliating’’ the settlers.
‘’One of the settlers attacked me and threatened to create a problem and have me banished, but I paid no attention to the threats. But unfortunately the occupation police listened to his lies, so I was arrested,’’ Salah said.
Salah added he was forced to pay fines as well as several bail bonds worth thousands of Israeli shekels.
He said the settlers had seized a house that belonged to his father and brother on property owned by his family since the period of Jordanian rule.
Before Salah was arrested, the settlers physically assaulted his wife and daughter and demolished a wall on his residence and began digging on his property to extend water and sewage lines, Salah said.
‘’The same settler, accompanied by another group of settlers, had threatened to kill me and confirmed that he had paid a sum of money to have me killed if I didn’t depart from the land,’’ Salah also said.
The Gilo settlement, established in 1971, was built on Beit Safafa and stretches to Beit Jala city. It has grown so it has consumed smaller settlement communities, all of them built on Palestinian lands.
Jewish settlers have become an increasing menace for the native Palestinian people in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The natives fight for existence as the Israelis have aimed at displacing them claiming the land as their own.
According to a report released by the Palestinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, the settler population of the West Bank has increased 40 times since 1972.
The report said the population as 2010 came to an end was 519,974, marking a 1.4 percent increase from the closure of the previous year.
About 51 percent of them have settled in East Jerusalem, where most of the new settlements have been established, the report says.
3 aug 2011
Israeli attacks on children alarmingly high
Israel has approved the construction of hundreds of illegal residential units for Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories.
On Thursday, Tel Aviv allowed the building of 900 settlement units in the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) settlement neighborhood of Har Homa, AFP reported.
"This is a program which was approved by the regional (planning and construction) committee two years ago," Efrat Orbach, an Israeli official, said.
"According to the planning process in Israel, [it] needed the completion of amendments, therefore it was finally approved today," the official said.
Tel Aviv occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) alongside the other Palestinian land of the West Bank in 1967 and later annexed both territories. The international community has refused to recognize either of the moves.
In November 2009, Israel put a 10-month halt on its settlement activities, but refused to renew the partial moratorium.
Meanwhile, the PA's chief negotiator said the organization would press ahead with its plans of requesting the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a full member state despite Israel's obstructionist efforts.
Saeb Erakat dismissed as a mere public relations stunt the recent statements by an Israeli official who alleged that Tel Aviv was inclined to renew talks with the Palestinians if they drop their UN membership bid.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/192313.html
Palestinian man banished for ‘harassing’ usurping settler
Israeli authorities have banished a Palestinian native of Beit Safafa for allegedly harassing Jewish settlers who usurped the residence of close relatives.
In a bizarre decision by the Israel Magistrates Court, Mohammed Salah, 47, was ordered to pack up from his family of ten and reside in Tarqumiya, south of Al-Khalil, for 90 days after allegedly ‘’humiliating’’ the settlers.
‘’One of the settlers attacked me and threatened to create a problem and have me banished, but I paid no attention to the threats. But unfortunately the occupation police listened to his lies, so I was arrested,’’ Salah said.
Salah added he was forced to pay fines as well as several bail bonds worth thousands of Israeli shekels.
He said the settlers had seized a house that belonged to his father and brother on property owned by his family since the period of Jordanian rule.
Before Salah was arrested, the settlers physically assaulted his wife and daughter and demolished a wall on his residence and began digging on his property to extend water and sewage lines, Salah said.
‘’The same settler, accompanied by another group of settlers, had threatened to kill me and confirmed that he had paid a sum of money to have me killed if I didn’t depart from the land,’’ Salah also said.
The Gilo settlement, established in 1971, was built on Beit Safafa and stretches to Beit Jala city. It has grown so it has consumed smaller settlement communities, all of them built on Palestinian lands.
Jewish settlers have become an increasing menace for the native Palestinian people in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The natives fight for existence as the Israelis have aimed at displacing them claiming the land as their own.
According to a report released by the Palestinian Authority Central Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, the settler population of the West Bank has increased 40 times since 1972.
The report said the population as 2010 came to an end was 519,974, marking a 1.4 percent increase from the closure of the previous year.
About 51 percent of them have settled in East Jerusalem, where most of the new settlements have been established, the report says.
3 aug 2011
Israeli attacks on children alarmingly high
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According to the Palestinian Government Media Center, there is an alarming rate of accelerated Israeli attacks on Palestinian children in the year 2011. So far this year, 9 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers, and approximately 200 children have been injured by either the Israeli occupation forces or by Israeli settlers.
The statement claimed that “Hundreds of children are being illegally rounded up monthly by Israeli forces and detained, abused, and imprisoned without due process of law and in direct violation of international, Israeli, and Palestinian laws.” The majority of these children are abducted by the Occupation forces, without informing their parents, and are questioned by the occupation forces. The Palestinian Authority urged the UN to implement resolution 1998 |
which protects the right of children in conflict. The PA also urged non-governmental organizations to take legal action against these clear violations of international humanitarian laws.
The killing, injuring, abducting and imprisonment of Palestinian children by the Israeli occupation forces and Israeli settlers is a policy seen my many observers as targeting the future, since they believe that targeting Palestinian children is targeting the Palestinian future.
B'Tselem backs right-wing activists
Human rights organization issues statement denouncing administrative restraining orders issued against 12 settlers. 'State should use legal means, not confidential information to curb settler violence'.
Unlikely advocate? B'Tselem Human Rights organization on Tuesday strongly denounced the IDF for issuing administrative restraining orders against 12 West Bank settlers, barring them from the area.
The organization, usually viewed as advocating for the rights of Palestinian, issued a statement, saying: "Undoubtedly, the State should act determinedly against settlers who harm Palestinians and their property, but the way to achieve this is via criminal proceedings and not administrative orders that are based on confidential information."
GOC Central Command Major-General Avi Mizrahi signed off on the orders, following a Shin Bet recommendation to the effect.
The restraining orders were issued following an investigation suggesting the 12 men in question – all known right-wing activists – were involved in devising and executing violent acts against Palestinians, mainly vandalizing mosques, vehicles and buildings, over the past two years.
The act stirred a storm among settlement leaders, Yitzhar Spokesperson Avraham Binyamin calling it "a cruel expulsion without trial."
Attorney Yitzhak Bam from the Legal Forum for the Land of Israel said he will appeal the restraining orders with the High Court of Justice.
"If the police or the Shin Bet have evidence – they must present them in court. Using draconian regulations from the mandate era is unbefitting a democratic state," he said.
2 aug 2011
Update: 'Alarming' rise in attacks on Palestinian children
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The Palestinian Authority on Sunday warned that Israel's attacks on Palestinian children were escalating at "an alarming rate" and urged the UN to step in.
Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed nine children so far in 2011, and almost 200 children have been injured by settler violence and the Israeli military, a statement by the Government Media Center said. "Hundreds of children are being illegally rounded up monthly by Israeli forces and detained, abused, and imprisoned without due process of law and in direct violation of international, Israeli, and Palestinian laws," the PA added. The statement referred to a recent event caught on camera in which young |
Palestinians were kidnapped by masked, armed Israeli forces while playing football.
One of the children in the video, 13-year-old Islam Jaber, was taken to a graveyard and beaten up, the PA said, adding that he suffered severe anxiety attacks since the incident.
The PA said Israel attempted to bypass humanitarian law by applying "military orders" against Palestinians. The government urged the UN to implement resolution 1998 which protects the right of children in conflict.
The resolution notes that "certain parties persist in committing violations and abuses against children and expresses its readiness to adopt targeted and graduated measures against persistent perpetrators."
The PA urged the UN and non-governmental organizations to take legal action and end Israel's impunity, noting that Israel had been violating and abusing Palestinian children "for decades now."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=410191
Israel slaps restraining orders on 12 settlers
Twelve Israeli settlers accused of setting fire to Palestinian mosques, property and vehicles have been slapped with restraining orders limiting their movement in the West Bank, the military said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it had signed off on the restraining orders based on recommendations from the Israel Security Agency, the internal security service.
The orders range from three months to a year, with six settlers told to stay away from certain communities, three prohibited from entering the Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus, and three more prevented from entering the West Bank at all.
"The orders follow the culmination of information recently gathered by the ISA, according to which a group of extreme activists living in the vicinity of Yitzhar have been, for the past two years, involved in leading, directing and executing violent and clandestine activity targeting Palestinian residents," the statement said.
"These activities include igniting a number of mosques, vehicles, and buildings that belong to Palestinians, therefore endangering lives and disrupting public order."
"According to security assessments these acts, and more so the igniting of mosques, can be potentially detrimental to the entire area."
The Palestinians regularly accuse settlers in the West Bank of attacking them and their property.
Hardline settlers have adopted what they call a "price tag" policy under which they attack Palestinians, their fields or villages, whenever the Israeli government takes measures to curb settlement construction.
In June, attackers rolled lit tires inside a mosque in Al-Mughayyir village, some 20 kilometers northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, starting a small fire that damaged prayer mats.
They also spray-painted anti-Arab slogans on the walls along with the words "Alei Ayin," the name of a nearby settlement outpost demolished by Israeli police in an operation that sparked fierce clashes with the settlers.
The mosque attack was condemned by the Israeli government and much of the international community.
A report by the Palestinian Authority found that settler violence increased "dramatically" in June 2011, documenting 139 attacks in the West Bank and the destruction of over 3,600 olive trees and vineyards.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=410409
Jerusalemite youths abort settlers’ attempt to storm Aqsa Mosque
Jerusalemite youths managed on Monday night to abort an attempt by a group of 20 Jewish settlers to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque during Tarawih prayers.
One of the mosque’s guards said that the settlers from Kiryat Arba, in Al-Khalil, managed to enter the Aqsa plaza through the Asbat gate while chanting racist slogans including “Death to the Arabs”.
He said that the youths repelled the settlers and blocked their entry into the mosque where worshipers were performing the late night prayers in Ramadan known as the Tarawih.
The guard said that Israeli police arrived to the scene, arrested five young Jerusalemites, and took the settlers away.
One of the children in the video, 13-year-old Islam Jaber, was taken to a graveyard and beaten up, the PA said, adding that he suffered severe anxiety attacks since the incident.
The PA said Israel attempted to bypass humanitarian law by applying "military orders" against Palestinians. The government urged the UN to implement resolution 1998 which protects the right of children in conflict.
The resolution notes that "certain parties persist in committing violations and abuses against children and expresses its readiness to adopt targeted and graduated measures against persistent perpetrators."
The PA urged the UN and non-governmental organizations to take legal action and end Israel's impunity, noting that Israel had been violating and abusing Palestinian children "for decades now."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=410191
Israel slaps restraining orders on 12 settlers
Twelve Israeli settlers accused of setting fire to Palestinian mosques, property and vehicles have been slapped with restraining orders limiting their movement in the West Bank, the military said on Tuesday.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it had signed off on the restraining orders based on recommendations from the Israel Security Agency, the internal security service.
The orders range from three months to a year, with six settlers told to stay away from certain communities, three prohibited from entering the Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus, and three more prevented from entering the West Bank at all.
"The orders follow the culmination of information recently gathered by the ISA, according to which a group of extreme activists living in the vicinity of Yitzhar have been, for the past two years, involved in leading, directing and executing violent and clandestine activity targeting Palestinian residents," the statement said.
"These activities include igniting a number of mosques, vehicles, and buildings that belong to Palestinians, therefore endangering lives and disrupting public order."
"According to security assessments these acts, and more so the igniting of mosques, can be potentially detrimental to the entire area."
The Palestinians regularly accuse settlers in the West Bank of attacking them and their property.
Hardline settlers have adopted what they call a "price tag" policy under which they attack Palestinians, their fields or villages, whenever the Israeli government takes measures to curb settlement construction.
In June, attackers rolled lit tires inside a mosque in Al-Mughayyir village, some 20 kilometers northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, starting a small fire that damaged prayer mats.
They also spray-painted anti-Arab slogans on the walls along with the words "Alei Ayin," the name of a nearby settlement outpost demolished by Israeli police in an operation that sparked fierce clashes with the settlers.
The mosque attack was condemned by the Israeli government and much of the international community.
A report by the Palestinian Authority found that settler violence increased "dramatically" in June 2011, documenting 139 attacks in the West Bank and the destruction of over 3,600 olive trees and vineyards.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=410409
Jerusalemite youths abort settlers’ attempt to storm Aqsa Mosque
Jerusalemite youths managed on Monday night to abort an attempt by a group of 20 Jewish settlers to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque during Tarawih prayers.
One of the mosque’s guards said that the settlers from Kiryat Arba, in Al-Khalil, managed to enter the Aqsa plaza through the Asbat gate while chanting racist slogans including “Death to the Arabs”.
He said that the youths repelled the settlers and blocked their entry into the mosque where worshipers were performing the late night prayers in Ramadan known as the Tarawih.
The guard said that Israeli police arrived to the scene, arrested five young Jerusalemites, and took the settlers away.
1 aug 2011
Settlers torch Nablus village fields
Israeli settlers torched acres of land near Nablus on Sunday, a Palestinian official said.
Palestinian Authority settlements official Ghassan Doughlas said settlers set fire to 150 dunums of fields belonging to Palestinian villagers south of the northern West Bank city, destroying dozens of olive trees.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=409939
Jewish settlers burn 150 dunums of Palestinian land
Jewish settlers set alight tens of dunums in the Palestinian village of Jallud in the Nablus province completely damaging 150 dunums of land lots.
Ghassan Daghlas, the head of the anti-settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the settlers set on fire cultivated fields.
He said that the blaze raged for hours before the Palestinian fire brigades managed to extinguish it, noting that the land owners have suffered big material losses.
Meanwhile, dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the village of Awarta, southeast of Nablus, at dawn Monday and performed Talmudic rituals at alleged shrines.
The Israeli occupation forces in 15 armored vehicles provided protection for the settlers who offered the rituals at three "shrines" then left the village before dawn prayers.
OCHA: More Palestinians displaced this year than 2009, 2010
The UN Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories has issued a report documenting that home demolitions in Area C of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem this year had nearly doubled when compared to the same period of last year.
The document reveals that more people have been displaced so far this year than in 2009 or 2010.
On July 24, 28 Bedouins including 20 children were left homeless after Israeli authorities demolished five residences, four animal structures, and five outdoor kitchens in Mughayir and Deir Bedouin community near Ma'ale Mikhmas settlement in Ramallah governorate, the report says.
Also highlighted in the report was that orders to stop-work were issued against 34 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank in the week of 20-26 July. Two families were issued eviction notices there as well, it adds.
Also in that time frame, at least four settler attacks were recorded where injuries to Palestinians or damage to their property occurred. In one incident, among the injured were three women and a child aged 7.
That week, the report says, around 110 Bedouins residing near Ma'ale Mikhmas settlement packed up their tents and were forcibly displaced amid fears of settler violence after an assault a week earlier that injured three children.
Settlers torch Nablus village fields
Israeli settlers torched acres of land near Nablus on Sunday, a Palestinian official said.
Palestinian Authority settlements official Ghassan Doughlas said settlers set fire to 150 dunums of fields belonging to Palestinian villagers south of the northern West Bank city, destroying dozens of olive trees.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=409939
Jewish settlers burn 150 dunums of Palestinian land
Jewish settlers set alight tens of dunums in the Palestinian village of Jallud in the Nablus province completely damaging 150 dunums of land lots.
Ghassan Daghlas, the head of the anti-settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the settlers set on fire cultivated fields.
He said that the blaze raged for hours before the Palestinian fire brigades managed to extinguish it, noting that the land owners have suffered big material losses.
Meanwhile, dozens of Jewish settlers stormed the village of Awarta, southeast of Nablus, at dawn Monday and performed Talmudic rituals at alleged shrines.
The Israeli occupation forces in 15 armored vehicles provided protection for the settlers who offered the rituals at three "shrines" then left the village before dawn prayers.
OCHA: More Palestinians displaced this year than 2009, 2010
The UN Organization for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories has issued a report documenting that home demolitions in Area C of the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem this year had nearly doubled when compared to the same period of last year.
The document reveals that more people have been displaced so far this year than in 2009 or 2010.
On July 24, 28 Bedouins including 20 children were left homeless after Israeli authorities demolished five residences, four animal structures, and five outdoor kitchens in Mughayir and Deir Bedouin community near Ma'ale Mikhmas settlement in Ramallah governorate, the report says.
Also highlighted in the report was that orders to stop-work were issued against 34 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank in the week of 20-26 July. Two families were issued eviction notices there as well, it adds.
Also in that time frame, at least four settler attacks were recorded where injuries to Palestinians or damage to their property occurred. In one incident, among the injured were three women and a child aged 7.
That week, the report says, around 110 Bedouins residing near Ma'ale Mikhmas settlement packed up their tents and were forcibly displaced amid fears of settler violence after an assault a week earlier that injured three children.