29 oct 2011
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Beit Ummar residents demonstrated on their land by the Carmei Tzur settlement.
Soldiers enabled settlers to attack them from within a buffer strip surrounding the settlement. |
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Video shows the abduction of Mahmoud al-Khaseeb
Settler association Elad has demanded an apology from Arabic daily The Jerusalem News for its reporting on Elad head David Biery’s abduction of 10-year old Silwan resident Mahmoud al-Khaseeb. Khaseeb was taken by Biery, assaulted by an Arab man and delivered to Israeli forces. Video evidence exists of the event. Khaseeb told Silwanic that “Biery gripped my hand very tight – my hand which was broken in the past – and although I asked him to stop he kept doing it. An Arab man nearby then slapped my face and yelled at me. Biery then took me to the police, who kept me in their van for a long time.” http://silwanic.net/?p=21631 |
28 oct 2011
Palestinian ex-prisoners harassed by Jewish extremists
This is not the Wild West, this is happening here in Palestine.
Not one day did the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan enjoy being out of prison. A Jewish settler family from the illegal settlement Yitzahar has declared that it will reward $100,000 to whoever murders Khuweiled or Nizar. The ad for this ugly bounty has appeared on the Hebrew daily Maariv.
This ad has appeared on various Jewish settler sites in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Turkish. Khuwailed and Nizar are accused of killing a Kahanist Yitzahar settlement guard in a shooting incident back in 1998.
In the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a $100,000 bounty was placed on the head of freed prisoner Mostafa Moslimani from Tubas. Mostafa is accused of killing Binyamin Kahaneh and his wife. Binyamin Kahane is the son of the notorious extremist anti-Arab and recognized terrorist Meir Kahane.
Jewish extremist settlers and fanatics are committing savagery in this lawless land. The Israeli government might condemn such actions in words, but it supports those settlers financially and morally. Settlers are being supplied with weapons and are being encouraged to move into settlements by the current Israeli government.
In response to those ugly bounties by extremist settlers, Saudi Cleric Dr. Awad al-Qarni offered $100,000 in reward to any Palestinian who kidnaps an Israeli soldier. Later, Jewish groups announced rewards for whoever kills al-Qarni. A bounty of $1,000,000 was offered by one group of Jewish settlers for al-Qarni’s head.
In a second response Saudi Prince Khaled bin Talal Abdulaziz al-Saud has offered $900,000 to match the previous $100,000 reward offered by al-Qarni for the capture of any Israeli soldier. The total reward of $1 million is to be a response to similar offers by Israeli settlers for the capture or murder of freed Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinian Wattan TV has quoted Prince Khaled saying:
“Al-Qurni offered $100,000 for whoever kidnaps a soldier, then [unnamed Israeli groups] offered $1 million to kill al-Qarni, and now I’m saying to al-Qarni that I’m supporting you by offering another $900,000, which will make it a million for whoever kidnaps a soldier.”
Palestinian ex-prisoners harassed by Jewish extremists
This is not the Wild West, this is happening here in Palestine.
Not one day did the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan enjoy being out of prison. A Jewish settler family from the illegal settlement Yitzahar has declared that it will reward $100,000 to whoever murders Khuweiled or Nizar. The ad for this ugly bounty has appeared on the Hebrew daily Maariv.
This ad has appeared on various Jewish settler sites in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Turkish. Khuwailed and Nizar are accused of killing a Kahanist Yitzahar settlement guard in a shooting incident back in 1998.
In the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, a $100,000 bounty was placed on the head of freed prisoner Mostafa Moslimani from Tubas. Mostafa is accused of killing Binyamin Kahaneh and his wife. Binyamin Kahane is the son of the notorious extremist anti-Arab and recognized terrorist Meir Kahane.
Jewish extremist settlers and fanatics are committing savagery in this lawless land. The Israeli government might condemn such actions in words, but it supports those settlers financially and morally. Settlers are being supplied with weapons and are being encouraged to move into settlements by the current Israeli government.
In response to those ugly bounties by extremist settlers, Saudi Cleric Dr. Awad al-Qarni offered $100,000 in reward to any Palestinian who kidnaps an Israeli soldier. Later, Jewish groups announced rewards for whoever kills al-Qarni. A bounty of $1,000,000 was offered by one group of Jewish settlers for al-Qarni’s head.
In a second response Saudi Prince Khaled bin Talal Abdulaziz al-Saud has offered $900,000 to match the previous $100,000 reward offered by al-Qarni for the capture of any Israeli soldier. The total reward of $1 million is to be a response to similar offers by Israeli settlers for the capture or murder of freed Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinian Wattan TV has quoted Prince Khaled saying:
“Al-Qurni offered $100,000 for whoever kidnaps a soldier, then [unnamed Israeli groups] offered $1 million to kill al-Qarni, and now I’m saying to al-Qarni that I’m supporting you by offering another $900,000, which will make it a million for whoever kidnaps a soldier.”
Another event of harassment against Palestinian freed prisoners in the news this morning, al-Quds news paper’s front page (Arabic):
A publication has been distributed throughout Jerusalem by extremist Jewish groups to warn people of the prisoners that were released, the publications includes pictures and home address of freed prisoners. Extremist settlers are stalking the freed prisoners and reporting every move. There are fears for the safety of those prisoners now as extremist Jewish groups have vowed to take revenge.
http://fwd4.me/0fsb
Jewish settlers assault Palestinian farmers
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Azmut village to the east of Nablus on Saturday morning and prevented from collecting their olive crops.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that tens of settlers along with their dogs attacked the farmers and prevented their work in collecting olives despite the presence of earlier coordination.
The farmers engaged in heated debates and fistfights with the settlers but no casualties were reported.
Injuries in IOF, settlers attack on peaceful march
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas and stun grenades at a peaceful march in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, afternoon Saturday, local sources said.
They said that dozens of citizens took part in the march along with French and other foreign peace activists during which they called for ending occupation and settlement activity, releasing prisoners, and lifting the siege on Beit Ummar.
Groups of armed settlers confronted the march, which was heading to an area threatened with confiscation, and insulted the participants, locals said, adding that the settlers voiced racist slurs before starting to throw stones.
The locals noted that the soldiers did not budge to stop the settlers, who deliberately targeted journalists, adding that a number of injuries were sustained as a result.
Update: Israeli settlers blow up Palestinian home
Israeli settlers have again attacked a Palestinian household in the village of Beit Fureeq near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, blowing up a vehicle and part of a house, Press TV reports.
Belongings of several members of the Palestinian family were destroyed in the attack, which took place in early hours of Thursday.
Atef Hanani, the mayor of the town, said the settlers had poured inflammable liquid on the vehicle and placed a gas tank inside a room in the Palestinian house before setting both on fire.
Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority (PA) official in charge of West Bank affairs, called on the international community to intervene, saying that the attack marked a new climb in Israeli settler violence.
Meanwhile, Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied territories also cut down some 20 Palestinian olive trees in the outskirts of the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhoods of Beit Safafa on Thursday.
Olive cultivation and its related businesses in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, have been severely damaged due repeated attacks by the US-backed Israeli regime.
Over the past weeks, Israel's Jewish settlers have uprooted hundreds of olive trees and attacked a number of mosques.
Israeli soldiers have occasionally clashed with the settlers, who describe their violent attacks against Palestinian households, mosques and farming as the “price tag” for “unfair” policies of the Israeli regime.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207039.html
A publication has been distributed throughout Jerusalem by extremist Jewish groups to warn people of the prisoners that were released, the publications includes pictures and home address of freed prisoners. Extremist settlers are stalking the freed prisoners and reporting every move. There are fears for the safety of those prisoners now as extremist Jewish groups have vowed to take revenge.
http://fwd4.me/0fsb
Jewish settlers assault Palestinian farmers
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Azmut village to the east of Nablus on Saturday morning and prevented from collecting their olive crops.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that tens of settlers along with their dogs attacked the farmers and prevented their work in collecting olives despite the presence of earlier coordination.
The farmers engaged in heated debates and fistfights with the settlers but no casualties were reported.
Injuries in IOF, settlers attack on peaceful march
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas and stun grenades at a peaceful march in Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, afternoon Saturday, local sources said.
They said that dozens of citizens took part in the march along with French and other foreign peace activists during which they called for ending occupation and settlement activity, releasing prisoners, and lifting the siege on Beit Ummar.
Groups of armed settlers confronted the march, which was heading to an area threatened with confiscation, and insulted the participants, locals said, adding that the settlers voiced racist slurs before starting to throw stones.
The locals noted that the soldiers did not budge to stop the settlers, who deliberately targeted journalists, adding that a number of injuries were sustained as a result.
Update: Israeli settlers blow up Palestinian home
Israeli settlers have again attacked a Palestinian household in the village of Beit Fureeq near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, blowing up a vehicle and part of a house, Press TV reports.
Belongings of several members of the Palestinian family were destroyed in the attack, which took place in early hours of Thursday.
Atef Hanani, the mayor of the town, said the settlers had poured inflammable liquid on the vehicle and placed a gas tank inside a room in the Palestinian house before setting both on fire.
Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority (PA) official in charge of West Bank affairs, called on the international community to intervene, saying that the attack marked a new climb in Israeli settler violence.
Meanwhile, Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied territories also cut down some 20 Palestinian olive trees in the outskirts of the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhoods of Beit Safafa on Thursday.
Olive cultivation and its related businesses in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially in the Gaza Strip, have been severely damaged due repeated attacks by the US-backed Israeli regime.
Over the past weeks, Israel's Jewish settlers have uprooted hundreds of olive trees and attacked a number of mosques.
Israeli soldiers have occasionally clashed with the settlers, who describe their violent attacks against Palestinian households, mosques and farming as the “price tag” for “unfair” policies of the Israeli regime.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207039.html
27 oct 2011
Settlers Kill Sheep, Set Fire to Beit Furik Home, Army Raids Balata Camp and Arrest 4 in Hebron
On Wednesday and Thursday, two separate settler attacks throughout the West Bank led to property damage and panic. On Wednesday, west of Hebron, settlers killed 10 sheep belonging to villagers of al-Litwani and al-Jawaya villages, while in the North, settlers threw a Molotov cocktail into a house in Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
In Beit Furik, a group of settlers emptied a container of gasoline in a room in the home of Shahir Issa Hanani, then set a fire that destroyed the room. Hanani’s car engine was also burned, causing an explosion that woke the village. Municipality chairman Atef Hanani blamed settlers from Itamar and Alon Moreh.
In Nablus, Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp, searched houses and shot rubber bullets and flashbang grenades. The houses raided belong to Marshod Yousef Terawi, the brothers Mouhamad and Eyad Ma’zoz Terawi, the brothers Mahmoud and Basil Shtewi Abu Hamdan, Ashraf Qatawi Abo al-Al, and the brothers Na’el and Tawfiq Qetawi.
Hatem Abdulsalaam and “Abu Warda,” who witnessed the raid, said soldiers entered the camp at 2 a.m. and started searching houses and breaking electrical appliances. There were no arrests.
In the southern West Bank village of al-Samu', in the south Hebron hills, Israeli troops arrested Ismail Ali al-Hawamdeh after searching his home. Mohammed Awad, the spokesman for the Beit Omar Committee Against the Wall and Settlements told Palestinian official news wire Wafa that three other Palestinians were arrested in the Beit Za'ata area: Ayman and Mohammed Sabarneh, both 17, and 19-year-old Marwan Sabarneh. All four were taken to unknown locations.
Rabbi Moishe Turner Enters Not Guilty Plea
Settlers Kill Sheep, Set Fire to Beit Furik Home, Army Raids Balata Camp and Arrest 4 in Hebron
On Wednesday and Thursday, two separate settler attacks throughout the West Bank led to property damage and panic. On Wednesday, west of Hebron, settlers killed 10 sheep belonging to villagers of al-Litwani and al-Jawaya villages, while in the North, settlers threw a Molotov cocktail into a house in Beit Furik, east of Nablus.
In Beit Furik, a group of settlers emptied a container of gasoline in a room in the home of Shahir Issa Hanani, then set a fire that destroyed the room. Hanani’s car engine was also burned, causing an explosion that woke the village. Municipality chairman Atef Hanani blamed settlers from Itamar and Alon Moreh.
In Nablus, Israeli forces raided Balata refugee camp, searched houses and shot rubber bullets and flashbang grenades. The houses raided belong to Marshod Yousef Terawi, the brothers Mouhamad and Eyad Ma’zoz Terawi, the brothers Mahmoud and Basil Shtewi Abu Hamdan, Ashraf Qatawi Abo al-Al, and the brothers Na’el and Tawfiq Qetawi.
Hatem Abdulsalaam and “Abu Warda,” who witnessed the raid, said soldiers entered the camp at 2 a.m. and started searching houses and breaking electrical appliances. There were no arrests.
In the southern West Bank village of al-Samu', in the south Hebron hills, Israeli troops arrested Ismail Ali al-Hawamdeh after searching his home. Mohammed Awad, the spokesman for the Beit Omar Committee Against the Wall and Settlements told Palestinian official news wire Wafa that three other Palestinians were arrested in the Beit Za'ata area: Ayman and Mohammed Sabarneh, both 17, and 19-year-old Marwan Sabarneh. All four were taken to unknown locations.
Rabbi Moishe Turner Enters Not Guilty Plea
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A self-proclaimed Rockland County rabbi pleaded not guilty in a Spring Valley court this morning to repeatedly molesting a 14-year-old boy.
Moishe Turner, 58, of Monsey, said he was innocent of charges that he sexually molested the boy on at least seven occasions throughout Ramapo and Spring Valley. Turner was arrested last week and charged with seven counts of committing a criminal sexual act and child endangerment. Police and the district attorney are investigating the possibility Turner molested other boys as well. Turner is due back in court on Nov. 17. |
Home near Nablus 'firebombed by settlers'
A family in Nablus says Israeli settlers blew up a room in their home and firebombed their jeep early Thursday.
Shaheer Hanini, 40, told Ma'an the family was woken by two blasts at their home in Beit Furik at around 2 a.m.
They found a room at the back of the house burnt out and their jeep, parked in front of the home, on fire. Hanini says he used a water tank to put out the blaze.
Hanini said a gas tank outside the home attached to an oven had been dragged into the living room and set on fire, and he blamed settlers for the attack.
The family's furniture, TV, laptop and cell phone were destroyed in the blast.
Palestinian Authority settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas said the attack marked an escalation in settler violence. He urged the international community to intervene.
Palestinian People's Party politburo member Nasr Abu Jaish told Ma'an that the incident was an organized and provocative action targeting civilians.
Abu Jaish said parties would meet in Nablus on Thursday to form committees to protect homes and guard communities from further attacks.
David Haivri, an advocate for settlements in the northern West Bank, said his community was unaware of the allegations and doubted their validity.
"We think they're making it up," he told Ma'an.
Meanwhile near Jerusalem, settlers uprooted some 20 olive trees in southern Jerusalem, police official Luba al-Samri said. They vandals left a banner reading "price tag," al-Samri said.
Israeli police are investigating the incident, al-Samri added.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=432997
Kiryat Arba councilman calls for killing liberated prisoner
Kiryat Arba councilman Bentzi Goffstein has called for the killing of a liberated Palestinian prisoner in Al-Khalil, who was recently freed in the prisoners’ exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
Jewish settlers, from the Kiryat Arba settlement built in Al-Khalil city, recently circulated a statement in Al-Khalil in both Arabic and Hebrew calling for the murder of Hani Jaber, who was released after 18 years in jail, with a photo of him attached.
Goffstein said that Jaber would not enjoy a stable life and that he might be hit in the very near future.
He said that the safest place for Jaber is behind bars.
Jaber was jailed for killing a Jewish settler who used to pester Palestinian citizens in Al-Khalil especially children on their way to school. The settler used to beat the children, pull the hair of schoolgirls, throw garbage on civilians and insult them, and throw stones at their homes.
Palestinians repeatedly complained about his acts to the Israeli authorities but no one stopped him.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk
Activists against the occupation
A family in Nablus says Israeli settlers blew up a room in their home and firebombed their jeep early Thursday.
Shaheer Hanini, 40, told Ma'an the family was woken by two blasts at their home in Beit Furik at around 2 a.m.
They found a room at the back of the house burnt out and their jeep, parked in front of the home, on fire. Hanini says he used a water tank to put out the blaze.
Hanini said a gas tank outside the home attached to an oven had been dragged into the living room and set on fire, and he blamed settlers for the attack.
The family's furniture, TV, laptop and cell phone were destroyed in the blast.
Palestinian Authority settlement affairs official Ghassan Doughlas said the attack marked an escalation in settler violence. He urged the international community to intervene.
Palestinian People's Party politburo member Nasr Abu Jaish told Ma'an that the incident was an organized and provocative action targeting civilians.
Abu Jaish said parties would meet in Nablus on Thursday to form committees to protect homes and guard communities from further attacks.
David Haivri, an advocate for settlements in the northern West Bank, said his community was unaware of the allegations and doubted their validity.
"We think they're making it up," he told Ma'an.
Meanwhile near Jerusalem, settlers uprooted some 20 olive trees in southern Jerusalem, police official Luba al-Samri said. They vandals left a banner reading "price tag," al-Samri said.
Israeli police are investigating the incident, al-Samri added.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=432997
Kiryat Arba councilman calls for killing liberated prisoner
Kiryat Arba councilman Bentzi Goffstein has called for the killing of a liberated Palestinian prisoner in Al-Khalil, who was recently freed in the prisoners’ exchange deal between Hamas and Israel.
Jewish settlers, from the Kiryat Arba settlement built in Al-Khalil city, recently circulated a statement in Al-Khalil in both Arabic and Hebrew calling for the murder of Hani Jaber, who was released after 18 years in jail, with a photo of him attached.
Goffstein said that Jaber would not enjoy a stable life and that he might be hit in the very near future.
He said that the safest place for Jaber is behind bars.
Jaber was jailed for killing a Jewish settler who used to pester Palestinian citizens in Al-Khalil especially children on their way to school. The settler used to beat the children, pull the hair of schoolgirls, throw garbage on civilians and insult them, and throw stones at their homes.
Palestinians repeatedly complained about his acts to the Israeli authorities but no one stopped him.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk
Activists against the occupation
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In times that the Palestinians at the West Bank suffers from the extending violence by their neighboring Jewish settlers, and the IDF -- who is supposed to keep the peace -- is not filling its role, the presence of Israeli activists on the ground is more important than ever before.
Acts of solidarity between Israelis and Palestinians are happening in several locations through out the West Bank. - Israel Social TV - |
Israeli Settlers Set Room, Car on Fire near Nablus
Jewish settlers Thursday set fire to a room and a car that belong to a Palestinian resident of Beit Furik, a town southeast of Nablus, according to Atef Hanani, mayor of the town.
He said that settlers, apparently from nearby settlements of Itamar and Alon Moreh, came to the house of Mashhour Hanani in the northern section of the town where they set fire to a room in the back of the house by cutting off the hose of a gas cylinder and setting it on fire causing heavy damage to the entire room and its contents.
The settlers also poured flammable material on a car parked near the house, burning it down.
Residents woke up at the sound of the blast of the gas cylinder and the smell of fire. They called the fire department for help.
Settlers have conducted several attacks against Nablus area villages in recent months, sabotaging property and carrying out arsons.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17889
In South Hebron Hills, Even Sheep Are Not Safe from Settlers
by Juwaid al-Tamimi (Wafa)
The villages of al-Litwani and al-Jawaya, in the south Hebron hills, are suffering from settler attacks and even the sheep are not spared. Settlers from the illegal outposts of Ma’on, Susya, and Karmel, all built on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Yatta, made their latest attack on Thursday and killed 10 sheep.
“As always, the settlers attacked the villages under the protection of the army,” said 31-year-old Kamal Ruba’i. “They detain the citizens to give the settlers time to steal our homes and kill our sheep. And that’s not all, they drove 300 of our sheep to eat the crops we’ve been working in it the whole year.”
Ruba’i said the settlers then stole the sheep.
Ratib al-Jabour, the coordinator of the Yatta Committee Against the Wall and Settlements said many people who live in the south Hebron hills came out to help and protect their friends from the settlers, but were stopped by Israeli soldiers, who blocked the area and declared it a closed military zone.
Mohammed Mohayna, 43, said that the occupation has turned thousands of acres of Yatta land into a military training area over the past years and destroyed their income sources. Nevertheless, he says he plans to stay.
“We will keep to our land, living in it and for it,” said Mahmoud Dababseh, 46. “We will not leave until they put us on their shoulders and carry us out, no matter how hard it becomes for us.”
The president of the al-Litwani village council, Sabr al-Hraini, said the village was being targeted because settlers coveted the land, but said “the attacks will only make us stronger.”
“We are in a continued war with settlers,” said Zahran Abu Qubeita, the mayor of Yatta. “No day goes by without an attack on our children, lands and even our sheep.”
According to Yatta municipality figures, of the village’s original 95,000 dunums (a dunum is about a quarter of an acre), Israeli soldiers and settlers have taken around 30,000.
http://occupiedpalestine
26 oct 2011
Settlers attack Palestinians east of Nablus
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian cars travelling on the Yitzhar settlement road to the south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that a group of more than ten settlers hurled rocks at Palestinian cars passing by. The settlers who came from Yitzhar settlement stopped Palestinians from the village of Hawwara from reaching their fields to harvest their olives.
Ghassan Daghlas, who is in charge of the settlement file, said that these settlers' acts against Palestinians take place despite the fact the PA is in contact with the occupation authorities and have already arranged for these Palestinians to harvest their olives.
Settlers Stop Farmers from Picking Olives
Jewish settlers Wednesday morning prevented Palestinian farmers from picking their olives in Huwara, a town south of Nablus, according to a local activist.
Ghassan Daghlas, an activist monitoring settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told WAFA a number of settlers prevented farmers from accessing their land near Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus, despite prior coordination between the farmers and Israeli authorities.
Jewish settlers’ attacks have escalated recently to coincide with the olive picking season, a time of great significance for the Palestinian community.
Daghlas noted that a group of settlers attacked Palestinian cars near Huwara, a town south of Nablus, breaking the windshields of several. No injuries were reported.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17874
Palestinians: Settlers vandalized 25 olive trees in West Bank
Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Bitilu reported that 25 of their olive groves were vandalized overnight by settlers.
Sikrikim Terrorist (attackers of Jerusalem Book Store & Ice Cream Store) gets a taste of his own medicine
One of the leaders of the Frum Terrorists group called Sikrikim, Avraham Hirschman, messed with the wrong Chassidim and got beaten to a pulp.
He should stick to terrorizing defenseless storekeepers, like the Jerusalem Book Store, and the Ice Cream Store, and break their windows in the dark of the night, instead of messing with Gerrer Chasidim!
According to reports, a commercial vehicle packed with Gerrer Chasidim was traveling on Tzefanya Street corner of Yona Street in Jerusalem’s Geula neighborhood when they spotted one of the sikrikim they have been looking for in connection to the brawl which has resulted in threats against Gerrer Chassidim accompanied by derogatory comments regarding the Rebbe Shlita.
Some 20 persons got out of the truck with sticks and batons and beat Avraham Hirschman, who was standing at that location.
Hirschman is reportedly a major player among the radical Meah Shearim element known today as the ‘sikrikim’. He is believed to have been behind the violence and destruction surrounding ‘Kollel Poland’ and the ‘Batei Warsaw’ as well as the attacks against the Ohr Chaim seforim store. Most pertinent to this case, he is believed to have ordered the attack against the son of the Rebbe Shlita, a resident of Meah Shearim. That seems to have been the red line that should not have been crossed.
According to preliminary reports from the trauma unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, the victim arrived in serious condition with internal bleeding, fractures, and head injuries. There are no reports of any arrests in the case at the time of this report.
http://dusiznies.blogspot
25 oct 2011
PA: Israeli inaction encourages settler violence
The Palestinian Authority on Monday said the Israeli government was "implicitly encouraging settlers to continue on their rampage" by failing to hold them to account for violent crimes.
"Israeli violations against Palestinians and their property and livelihood continue to increase with little or no action by the Israeli authorities to hold people to account under the rule of law," a government statement said.
The PA criticized Israeli settlers' ongoing assaults on Palestinians harvesting olives in Qalqiliya, Nablus, Salfit and Ramallah, and said settlers shot at villagers harvesting olives in Jaloud near Nablus on Friday, injuring four including a 12-year-old boy.
The Ramallah-based government also noted that the soldier who killed 33-year-old Issam Kamal Odeh in the northern West Bank in September has not been arrested.
The soldier's commander has been demoted following several operational and disciplinary events but will remain in the army, the PA noted.
Odeh was shot dead by Israeli forces following a settler raid in Qusra, near Nablus. An army inquiry said opening fire in response to a settler raid was an error in judgment, the Israeli news site Ynet reported, adding that the decision to remove the officer came after a number of different incidents.
No further action has been taken over the killing of Odeh, who was the father of seven children.
Meanwhile, several Palestinian children have been attacked in the last week. In Jerusalem, settlers kidnapped a child in Jerusalem and beat him before handing him to the Israeli army, the PA said, while undercover police kidnapped a 9-year-old child in Silwan.
Settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars near Ramallah, injuring an 11-year-old girl, and attacked students and teachers at a school near Hebron, the government said, adding that Israeli authorities had made no arrests in any of the incidents.
"We call on the international community to ensure that lawlessness is not allowed to pass unnoticed and, without consequences. As the occupying power, Israel is obliged by international law to prevent abuse of the occupied population. It is failing to do so."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=432028
Police want victims molested by Turner to come forward
Jewish settlers Thursday set fire to a room and a car that belong to a Palestinian resident of Beit Furik, a town southeast of Nablus, according to Atef Hanani, mayor of the town.
He said that settlers, apparently from nearby settlements of Itamar and Alon Moreh, came to the house of Mashhour Hanani in the northern section of the town where they set fire to a room in the back of the house by cutting off the hose of a gas cylinder and setting it on fire causing heavy damage to the entire room and its contents.
The settlers also poured flammable material on a car parked near the house, burning it down.
Residents woke up at the sound of the blast of the gas cylinder and the smell of fire. They called the fire department for help.
Settlers have conducted several attacks against Nablus area villages in recent months, sabotaging property and carrying out arsons.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17889
In South Hebron Hills, Even Sheep Are Not Safe from Settlers
by Juwaid al-Tamimi (Wafa)
The villages of al-Litwani and al-Jawaya, in the south Hebron hills, are suffering from settler attacks and even the sheep are not spared. Settlers from the illegal outposts of Ma’on, Susya, and Karmel, all built on land belonging to the Palestinian village of Yatta, made their latest attack on Thursday and killed 10 sheep.
“As always, the settlers attacked the villages under the protection of the army,” said 31-year-old Kamal Ruba’i. “They detain the citizens to give the settlers time to steal our homes and kill our sheep. And that’s not all, they drove 300 of our sheep to eat the crops we’ve been working in it the whole year.”
Ruba’i said the settlers then stole the sheep.
Ratib al-Jabour, the coordinator of the Yatta Committee Against the Wall and Settlements said many people who live in the south Hebron hills came out to help and protect their friends from the settlers, but were stopped by Israeli soldiers, who blocked the area and declared it a closed military zone.
Mohammed Mohayna, 43, said that the occupation has turned thousands of acres of Yatta land into a military training area over the past years and destroyed their income sources. Nevertheless, he says he plans to stay.
“We will keep to our land, living in it and for it,” said Mahmoud Dababseh, 46. “We will not leave until they put us on their shoulders and carry us out, no matter how hard it becomes for us.”
The president of the al-Litwani village council, Sabr al-Hraini, said the village was being targeted because settlers coveted the land, but said “the attacks will only make us stronger.”
“We are in a continued war with settlers,” said Zahran Abu Qubeita, the mayor of Yatta. “No day goes by without an attack on our children, lands and even our sheep.”
According to Yatta municipality figures, of the village’s original 95,000 dunums (a dunum is about a quarter of an acre), Israeli soldiers and settlers have taken around 30,000.
http://occupiedpalestine
26 oct 2011
Settlers attack Palestinians east of Nablus
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian cars travelling on the Yitzhar settlement road to the south east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that a group of more than ten settlers hurled rocks at Palestinian cars passing by. The settlers who came from Yitzhar settlement stopped Palestinians from the village of Hawwara from reaching their fields to harvest their olives.
Ghassan Daghlas, who is in charge of the settlement file, said that these settlers' acts against Palestinians take place despite the fact the PA is in contact with the occupation authorities and have already arranged for these Palestinians to harvest their olives.
Settlers Stop Farmers from Picking Olives
Jewish settlers Wednesday morning prevented Palestinian farmers from picking their olives in Huwara, a town south of Nablus, according to a local activist.
Ghassan Daghlas, an activist monitoring settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told WAFA a number of settlers prevented farmers from accessing their land near Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus, despite prior coordination between the farmers and Israeli authorities.
Jewish settlers’ attacks have escalated recently to coincide with the olive picking season, a time of great significance for the Palestinian community.
Daghlas noted that a group of settlers attacked Palestinian cars near Huwara, a town south of Nablus, breaking the windshields of several. No injuries were reported.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17874
Palestinians: Settlers vandalized 25 olive trees in West Bank
Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Bitilu reported that 25 of their olive groves were vandalized overnight by settlers.
Sikrikim Terrorist (attackers of Jerusalem Book Store & Ice Cream Store) gets a taste of his own medicine
One of the leaders of the Frum Terrorists group called Sikrikim, Avraham Hirschman, messed with the wrong Chassidim and got beaten to a pulp.
He should stick to terrorizing defenseless storekeepers, like the Jerusalem Book Store, and the Ice Cream Store, and break their windows in the dark of the night, instead of messing with Gerrer Chasidim!
According to reports, a commercial vehicle packed with Gerrer Chasidim was traveling on Tzefanya Street corner of Yona Street in Jerusalem’s Geula neighborhood when they spotted one of the sikrikim they have been looking for in connection to the brawl which has resulted in threats against Gerrer Chassidim accompanied by derogatory comments regarding the Rebbe Shlita.
Some 20 persons got out of the truck with sticks and batons and beat Avraham Hirschman, who was standing at that location.
Hirschman is reportedly a major player among the radical Meah Shearim element known today as the ‘sikrikim’. He is believed to have been behind the violence and destruction surrounding ‘Kollel Poland’ and the ‘Batei Warsaw’ as well as the attacks against the Ohr Chaim seforim store. Most pertinent to this case, he is believed to have ordered the attack against the son of the Rebbe Shlita, a resident of Meah Shearim. That seems to have been the red line that should not have been crossed.
According to preliminary reports from the trauma unit of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, the victim arrived in serious condition with internal bleeding, fractures, and head injuries. There are no reports of any arrests in the case at the time of this report.
http://dusiznies.blogspot
25 oct 2011
PA: Israeli inaction encourages settler violence
The Palestinian Authority on Monday said the Israeli government was "implicitly encouraging settlers to continue on their rampage" by failing to hold them to account for violent crimes.
"Israeli violations against Palestinians and their property and livelihood continue to increase with little or no action by the Israeli authorities to hold people to account under the rule of law," a government statement said.
The PA criticized Israeli settlers' ongoing assaults on Palestinians harvesting olives in Qalqiliya, Nablus, Salfit and Ramallah, and said settlers shot at villagers harvesting olives in Jaloud near Nablus on Friday, injuring four including a 12-year-old boy.
The Ramallah-based government also noted that the soldier who killed 33-year-old Issam Kamal Odeh in the northern West Bank in September has not been arrested.
The soldier's commander has been demoted following several operational and disciplinary events but will remain in the army, the PA noted.
Odeh was shot dead by Israeli forces following a settler raid in Qusra, near Nablus. An army inquiry said opening fire in response to a settler raid was an error in judgment, the Israeli news site Ynet reported, adding that the decision to remove the officer came after a number of different incidents.
No further action has been taken over the killing of Odeh, who was the father of seven children.
Meanwhile, several Palestinian children have been attacked in the last week. In Jerusalem, settlers kidnapped a child in Jerusalem and beat him before handing him to the Israeli army, the PA said, while undercover police kidnapped a 9-year-old child in Silwan.
Settlers threw stones at Palestinian cars near Ramallah, injuring an 11-year-old girl, and attacked students and teachers at a school near Hebron, the government said, adding that Israeli authorities had made no arrests in any of the incidents.
"We call on the international community to ensure that lawlessness is not allowed to pass unnoticed and, without consequences. As the occupying power, Israel is obliged by international law to prevent abuse of the occupied population. It is failing to do so."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=432028
Police want victims molested by Turner to come forward
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Anyone with Information about this molester is asked to call Ramapo Police
I wonder how many Rabbonim in Monsey knew about this monster and kept it quiet. Why are they obsessed with Tznius issues of women, but will protect a man that sexually abuses hundreds of victims. How many innocent children have to die before the Rabbonim start condemning these gangsters? Read the following and weep! A 58-year-old Monsey man has been charged with sexually molesting a 14-year-old boy. |
Ramapo
police accused Moishe Turner of 5 Dana Road of having anal and oral
sex on seven occasions throughout Ramapo and Spring Valley.
The police investigation led to Turner's arrest last week on seven felony counts of second-degree criminal sex act and one misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child.
Ramapo Police Detective Sgt. Brian Corbett said Monday that the investigation found the sexual activities occurred across Ramapo and in Spring Valley.
He said Ramapo detectives kept the case because the alleged crimes started in the town's jurisdiction.
"At this point in our investigation, we think there may have been more victims," Corbett said.
Turner was ordered held in the county jail in New City on $75,000 bail set during his arraignment on the charges in Spring Valley Justice Court. He is to return to court on Thursday, according to his attorney, Kenneth Gribetz.
Gribetz on Monday evening maintained his client's innocence.
"We want to state, without commenting further, that Mr. Turner intends to enter a plea of not guilty and that we intend to litigate this matter in court," Gribetz said.
A felony hearing will be held on the charges and on the setting of bail. The hearing could be adjourned and the case moved to criminal court in New City if the case is presented to a Rockland grand jury and an indictment is returned this week.
While Turner calls himself a rabbi, Corbett said police have no definitive information on his rabbinical status.
Rabbi Noson Leiter said Turner might have been educated in yeshiva but he doesn't lead a congregation and isn't a religious leader in the community. Leiter is a member of Torah Jews for Decency in Monsey.
Leiter said Turner has "misused the term rabbi to cover himself for unspeakable, egregious acts."
"The Orthodox and Hasidic community response to his arrest was very positive," Leiter said, adding Turner has been in the community for some time and religious leaders were helpful.
"We're obliged to uproot these people in our midst," Leiter said, "and make sure they don't harm others in the community or outside the community."
23 oct 2011
Student village emerges in desert
Group of young activists finds way to bypass planning red tape by establishing temporary community in Negev.
Residents of the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council were surprised to learn recently that a new village is being built in the area. One structure that resembles a shack has already been set up, and the lingering tractors signaled that more buildings are to come.
The village, called Shezaf, is to become a new student community, orchestrated by the Ayalim Association, a group that promotes the settlement of the Negev and the Galilee. The group reached an agreement with the regional council, which allows them to establish temporary student housing there with a special permit – a legal loophole of sorts.
"The council supports the establishment of temporary student dorms," the local authorities said.
Government approval is required before a new town can be founded, and even if approval is received that measure must also be examined by the national planning authorities. The red tape is endless as the state is trying to discourage new towns from being built due the shortage of open spaces in Israel.
According to planning officials, the only region where settlements tend to crop up unchecked is the West Bank.
100 families in 5 years
Ayalim said that the budding community will house 100 families within five years, and will continue to grow. The village is expected be self sufficient and to become a draw for locals and tourists alike.
Environmental advocacy organizations claim that new towns hurt the ecology by taking over open spaces, installing infrastructure and paving roads. But Ayalim said that Shezaf is meant to "integrate with the desert environment and not take over it."
Howerver, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and the nearby Sde Boker Field School oppose the move.
"The Negev should be empowered through the growth of existing communities, and not through the surreptitious establishment of new settlements," they claim. "Such a move wastes the public's money and unnecessarily damages the landscape."
Ayalim said in response that its student villages encourage students to permanently settle in the Negev and the Galilee, although a establishing a permanent village would require it to go through the lengthy legal procedure.
Sources in the Israel Land Administration said that the authorities have previously issued injunctions that stopped the association from building settlements in other sites in the Negev.
Jerusalem village under siege for second day
Israeli occupation forces continued on Sunday to cordon off the village of Beit Egza in occupied Jerusalem for the second day running in search of a Palestinian youth who allegedly stabbed a Jewish settler in the holy city on Saturday.
Local sources said that the IOF troops blocked entrances to the village and banned traffic in and out of it since Saturday evening and started searching homes looking for the alleged attacker, arresting two citizens in the process.
They said that the soldiers beat up and wounded three citizens who tried to enter the city on Saturday night.
The settler was stabbed in the Jewish suburb of Ramot on Saturday and was hospitalized in serious condition.
The Israeli police claimed that a Palestinian youth was the perpetrator.
The police investigation led to Turner's arrest last week on seven felony counts of second-degree criminal sex act and one misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a child.
Ramapo Police Detective Sgt. Brian Corbett said Monday that the investigation found the sexual activities occurred across Ramapo and in Spring Valley.
He said Ramapo detectives kept the case because the alleged crimes started in the town's jurisdiction.
"At this point in our investigation, we think there may have been more victims," Corbett said.
Turner was ordered held in the county jail in New City on $75,000 bail set during his arraignment on the charges in Spring Valley Justice Court. He is to return to court on Thursday, according to his attorney, Kenneth Gribetz.
Gribetz on Monday evening maintained his client's innocence.
"We want to state, without commenting further, that Mr. Turner intends to enter a plea of not guilty and that we intend to litigate this matter in court," Gribetz said.
A felony hearing will be held on the charges and on the setting of bail. The hearing could be adjourned and the case moved to criminal court in New City if the case is presented to a Rockland grand jury and an indictment is returned this week.
While Turner calls himself a rabbi, Corbett said police have no definitive information on his rabbinical status.
Rabbi Noson Leiter said Turner might have been educated in yeshiva but he doesn't lead a congregation and isn't a religious leader in the community. Leiter is a member of Torah Jews for Decency in Monsey.
Leiter said Turner has "misused the term rabbi to cover himself for unspeakable, egregious acts."
"The Orthodox and Hasidic community response to his arrest was very positive," Leiter said, adding Turner has been in the community for some time and religious leaders were helpful.
"We're obliged to uproot these people in our midst," Leiter said, "and make sure they don't harm others in the community or outside the community."
23 oct 2011
Student village emerges in desert
Group of young activists finds way to bypass planning red tape by establishing temporary community in Negev.
Residents of the Ramat Hanegev Regional Council were surprised to learn recently that a new village is being built in the area. One structure that resembles a shack has already been set up, and the lingering tractors signaled that more buildings are to come.
The village, called Shezaf, is to become a new student community, orchestrated by the Ayalim Association, a group that promotes the settlement of the Negev and the Galilee. The group reached an agreement with the regional council, which allows them to establish temporary student housing there with a special permit – a legal loophole of sorts.
"The council supports the establishment of temporary student dorms," the local authorities said.
Government approval is required before a new town can be founded, and even if approval is received that measure must also be examined by the national planning authorities. The red tape is endless as the state is trying to discourage new towns from being built due the shortage of open spaces in Israel.
According to planning officials, the only region where settlements tend to crop up unchecked is the West Bank.
100 families in 5 years
Ayalim said that the budding community will house 100 families within five years, and will continue to grow. The village is expected be self sufficient and to become a draw for locals and tourists alike.
Environmental advocacy organizations claim that new towns hurt the ecology by taking over open spaces, installing infrastructure and paving roads. But Ayalim said that Shezaf is meant to "integrate with the desert environment and not take over it."
Howerver, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency and the nearby Sde Boker Field School oppose the move.
"The Negev should be empowered through the growth of existing communities, and not through the surreptitious establishment of new settlements," they claim. "Such a move wastes the public's money and unnecessarily damages the landscape."
Ayalim said in response that its student villages encourage students to permanently settle in the Negev and the Galilee, although a establishing a permanent village would require it to go through the lengthy legal procedure.
Sources in the Israel Land Administration said that the authorities have previously issued injunctions that stopped the association from building settlements in other sites in the Negev.
Jerusalem village under siege for second day
Israeli occupation forces continued on Sunday to cordon off the village of Beit Egza in occupied Jerusalem for the second day running in search of a Palestinian youth who allegedly stabbed a Jewish settler in the holy city on Saturday.
Local sources said that the IOF troops blocked entrances to the village and banned traffic in and out of it since Saturday evening and started searching homes looking for the alleged attacker, arresting two citizens in the process.
They said that the soldiers beat up and wounded three citizens who tried to enter the city on Saturday night.
The settler was stabbed in the Jewish suburb of Ramot on Saturday and was hospitalized in serious condition.
The Israeli police claimed that a Palestinian youth was the perpetrator.
22 oct 2011
Settlers attack olive harvesters in Nablus district
Jewish settlers on Friday attacked a group of around 200 Palestinians who were picking olives in the village of Jalud near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that the olive pickers consisted of the farmers themselves and Palestinian and foreign volunteers who came to the village to help them harvest their crop.
Head of the village council Abdullah Qasem said that a group of settlers attacked the olive harvesters and that fist fights broke out before IOF troops arrived and fired teargas extensively causing dozens of cases of breathing difficulty.
Palestinian medical sources said that 3 injured people were taken to Rafidia hospital.
On Thursday a Palestinian woman picking olives in Beit Fourik ended up with two broken legs when settlers attacked her and her two teenage sons.
Israeli forces storm Beit Iksa after Jerusalem stabbing
Israeli forces attacked 3 Palestinians on Saturday in the East Jerusalem village of Beit Iksa, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Two others were detained as Israeli forces closed the military checkpoint to the village, reportedly in pursuit of an attacker who had earlier stabbed an Israeli man in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot.
An Israeli police spokesman could not be reached for comment.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=431491
Some Honesty from Israeli Soldiers
Settlers attack olive harvesters in Nablus district
Jewish settlers on Friday attacked a group of around 200 Palestinians who were picking olives in the village of Jalud near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that the olive pickers consisted of the farmers themselves and Palestinian and foreign volunteers who came to the village to help them harvest their crop.
Head of the village council Abdullah Qasem said that a group of settlers attacked the olive harvesters and that fist fights broke out before IOF troops arrived and fired teargas extensively causing dozens of cases of breathing difficulty.
Palestinian medical sources said that 3 injured people were taken to Rafidia hospital.
On Thursday a Palestinian woman picking olives in Beit Fourik ended up with two broken legs when settlers attacked her and her two teenage sons.
Israeli forces storm Beit Iksa after Jerusalem stabbing
Israeli forces attacked 3 Palestinians on Saturday in the East Jerusalem village of Beit Iksa, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Two others were detained as Israeli forces closed the military checkpoint to the village, reportedly in pursuit of an attacker who had earlier stabbed an Israeli man in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot.
An Israeli police spokesman could not be reached for comment.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=431491
Some Honesty from Israeli Soldiers
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Israeli soldiers explaining to international activists that the settlers would hurt anyone.
The soldiers closed the checkpoint from 5 pm to 10 pm and did not let anyone get through to go to their homes. Also, the reason for closing the checkpoint is to protect the Palestinians...yet right. Its very low, so listen carefully. |
Settler stabbed in Jerusalem
A settler was stabbed with a knife in Ramout neighbourhood in east Jerusalem by a Palestinian who fled the scene, according to Israel occupation police.
Yediot Ahranot quoted occupation police on Saturday that the settler was transported to Shaar Tzidik medical centre for treatment, adding that police were investigating the incident.
This attack comes at a time when Israeli occupation is escalating measures against the Palestinian residents of occupied Jerusalem in terms of home demolitions, land confiscation and withdrawal of residential rights.
Settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank have also been on the increase, especially that settlers know they can carry out their attacks against Palestinians with impunity.
WATCH: Olive harvest brings settler violence in West Bank
A settler was stabbed with a knife in Ramout neighbourhood in east Jerusalem by a Palestinian who fled the scene, according to Israel occupation police.
Yediot Ahranot quoted occupation police on Saturday that the settler was transported to Shaar Tzidik medical centre for treatment, adding that police were investigating the incident.
This attack comes at a time when Israeli occupation is escalating measures against the Palestinian residents of occupied Jerusalem in terms of home demolitions, land confiscation and withdrawal of residential rights.
Settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank have also been on the increase, especially that settlers know they can carry out their attacks against Palestinians with impunity.
WATCH: Olive harvest brings settler violence in West Bank
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On the outskirts of the northern West Bank village of Qasra, a 19-year-old resident recently told me that settlers are not going to stop attacking Palestinians, simply because they don’t have too. According to the man, settlers live in a world of no consequence as if removed from the normal social contract of Western societies. One look at this year’s olive harvest, taking place throughout the West Bank over the next two weeks, proves the statement to be correct.
This morning (Friday), a group of armed settlers from the illegal outpost of Ash Kodesh (Sacred/Holy Light) approached a group of Palestinians picking olives, accompanied by Israeli and international activists. The Palestinians were from the nearby village of Jalud and had been picking olives in peace until settlers descended from their outpost. The settlers claim that the Palestinians “provoked” them by throwing stones, a claim |
denied
by the Palestinians and activists. Settlers also noted that the
Palestinians did not get permission from the proverbial master of the
land – the Israeli army – to have an olive harvest. You can read
their fantastic understanding of how the events unfolded on Ynet.
Palestinians claim that the settler attack was driven by pure malice. As you can see in the embedded video, many settlers had covered their faces with masks, with some carrying metal poles in addition to several firearms. Had the settlers only been defending themselves, one wonders why they would cover their faces—a practice popular among setters engaged in wanton violent attacks on Palestinian civilians and their supporters.
The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity movement, a leftist activist outfit based in Jerusalem, posted the embedded video on Twitter, claiming that it shows a sound grenade thrown by settlers at Palestinians this morning. While this has not been independently confirmed, it comes weeks after the Israeli government announced that it would arm settlers with “less lethal”riot control gear, such as tear gas and sound grenades, ahead of feared violence surrounding the PLO statehood bid in the United Nations. West Bank settlers remain the only group in Israel/Palestine with the ability to use violence in a brash and dangerous way while suffering virtually zero consequences.
Jewish settlers perform religious rituals at the Aqsa Mosque
In a provocative step, a group of extremist Jewish settlers on Friday performed religious rituals near Bab al-Qattanin gate, one of the Aqsa Mosque gates.
Local sources said that dozens of the men and women gathered under heavy protection by the Israeli occupation police and carried out their activity.
Palestinian residents of Jerusalem said that what the settlers have done is part of a series of provocative acts carried out by extremist Jews and is part of the occupation authorities efforts to Judaize the holy city.
They added: “We will remain steadfast in our Jerusalem, we will not move out and will remain faithful to Jerusalem and holy places.”
Palestinians claim that the settler attack was driven by pure malice. As you can see in the embedded video, many settlers had covered their faces with masks, with some carrying metal poles in addition to several firearms. Had the settlers only been defending themselves, one wonders why they would cover their faces—a practice popular among setters engaged in wanton violent attacks on Palestinian civilians and their supporters.
The Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity movement, a leftist activist outfit based in Jerusalem, posted the embedded video on Twitter, claiming that it shows a sound grenade thrown by settlers at Palestinians this morning. While this has not been independently confirmed, it comes weeks after the Israeli government announced that it would arm settlers with “less lethal”riot control gear, such as tear gas and sound grenades, ahead of feared violence surrounding the PLO statehood bid in the United Nations. West Bank settlers remain the only group in Israel/Palestine with the ability to use violence in a brash and dangerous way while suffering virtually zero consequences.
Jewish settlers perform religious rituals at the Aqsa Mosque
In a provocative step, a group of extremist Jewish settlers on Friday performed religious rituals near Bab al-Qattanin gate, one of the Aqsa Mosque gates.
Local sources said that dozens of the men and women gathered under heavy protection by the Israeli occupation police and carried out their activity.
Palestinian residents of Jerusalem said that what the settlers have done is part of a series of provocative acts carried out by extremist Jews and is part of the occupation authorities efforts to Judaize the holy city.
They added: “We will remain steadfast in our Jerusalem, we will not move out and will remain faithful to Jerusalem and holy places.”
21 oct 2011
The past week: settlers poisoned grazing land – six sheep killed
Between the 5-11 of October, Israeli settlers committed several crimes including physical assault and spraying grazing lands with chemicals. This is according to the UN agency OCHA, The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, who publish a report every week with the purpose to monitor and document the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestinians attacked during olive harvest – despite coordination with Israeli authorities
Settler violence increased again this week with the onset of the annual olive harvest. OCHA writes:
In three separate incidents, Israeli settlers physically assaulted and injured four Palestinians, including an elderly man, while they were harvesting their olives near the villages of Jit and Jinsafut in the Qalqiliya governorate and Awarta in the Nablus governorate.
In another five incidents, resulting in no injuries, settlers attacked Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest and damaged or stole their crops. All of these incidents occurred on Palestinian-owned land located in the vicinity of Israeli settlements, during times which had been allocated by the Israeli authorities to allow farmers to access their land and harvest their olive crop.
In some of the incidents, Israeli forces intervened and removed the settlers, allowing farmers to resume their work.
Grazing lands poisoned by settlers – six sheep killed
OCHA writes:
Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that settlers from Tuqu’ settlement sprayed grazing land near the settlement with chemicals that subsequently caused the death of six sheep and injured ten others belonging to Palestinian herders.
Also, settlers set fire, cut down and uprooted around 250 olive, fig and almond trees belonging to Palestinians in the Bethlehem and Nablus governorates. There have been no reports of compensation for these acts of violence.
Also this week, seven other Palestinians, including three children (aged between 12 and 14 years), an elderly man and two women, were injured after being stoned or physically assaulted by settlers in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates. In a separate incident,
During the week, there were also a number of stone-throwing incidents by settlers that led to the damage of three Palestinian vehicles in the Jerusalem and Qalqiliya governorates.
Settler-related incidents:
--Incidents resulting in Palestinian injuries or property damage in 2011: 347
--Palestinians injured this week: 11
--Palestinians injured in 2011: 155
--Settlers injured in 2011: 28
Worth noticing from the past week
OCHA writes: In Hebron, Israeli forces physically assaulted and injured six students (aged between 11 and 12) while they were en route to their schools. The incident occurred at a checkpoint at the entrance of Al Shuhada Street, after the students refused to pass through a metal detector. While students, teachers and pregnant women were allowed to pass the checkpoint without being checked in previous years, Israeli forces imposed this measure again during the week on every Palestinian crossing the checkpoint.
Demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in Area C, due to a lack of Israeli-issued building permits, continued this week, with the Israeli authorities’ demolition of 13 structures, including residences, a mosque, a water cistern and animal structures. Read more about why Palestinians build without permission here.
Violation of international law
Israel is, as an occupying power, responsible for upholding public order and security on the West Bank according to international humanitarian law. The final responsibility rests on the Israeli army, who are obligated to protect the civilians living under their control. Israeli soldiers that witness the crimes tend to ignore them,
Building settlements is prohibited by international law. Today about 500 000 israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Read more about the impact of the settlements here.
Settlers Attack Farmers, Foreign Volunteers Harvesting Olives
A group of settlers attacked on Friday Palestinians, Israeli and foreign solidarity volunteers helping farmers to harvest olives in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus, injuring four of them and causing three suffocation cases, according to local sources.
The coordinator of the campaign “we are with you”; a campaign to help farmers to harvest olives, Khaled Mansour told WAFA that settlers attacked the farmers and the volunteers with batons and rifles butts, injuring four of them and causing three cases of suffocations by tear gas bombs.
Among the injured were Israeli peace activists from “fighters for freedom,” he said
He also stressed that farmers and solidarity activists stood up to the settlers armed with machine guns, batons and tear gas and sound bombs.
He added that reinforced forces of the Israeli army came to the scene and began firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, causing fire in large areas of Jalud’s land and burning dozens of olive trees.
Mansour pointed out that today’s activity in the village of Jalud includes more than 200 volunteers and solidarity activists. It was held in collaboration with the Dutch agricultural work committees.
The campaign “we are with you” was launched by the Agricultural Relief on October 10, to help farmers harvest olives, and includes 28 activities.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17827
Taxi driver 'attacked by settlers'
A taxi driver says his car was attacked by Israeli settlers on Thursday evening near his home south of Bethlehem.
Izzat Shakarneh told Ma'an he was driving to Nahhalin village when settlers pelted his car with stones, causing damaging to the vehicle and its windscreen.
Shakarneh said he has complained to Israeli police about previous attacks but that no action was taken.
The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din says Israeli civilians commit acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank "on a daily basis."
The attacks are not isolated incident, but "part of a sophisticated, wider strategy designed to assert territorial domination over Palestinians in the West Bank," Yesh Din says.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces neglect their obligation under international law to protect residents of its occupied territories, according to the rights group.
"The IDF (Israeli army) and police are neither prepared nor willing to provide the necessary protection to Palestinians attacked by violent settlers," the organization says.
"Law enforcement agencies display repeated failure to conduct proper investigations of these incidents. When convictions are made, Israeli citizens involved in such violent acts are handed light sentences."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=431194
Settler attacks damage the olive harvest in the West Bank
Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and international aid and development organizations working to improve Palestinian olive oil warned today.
The agencies Oxfam, Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), say that for Palestinian farmers the cost of such attacks is particularly high, as olives collected in the month long harvesting season are expected to produce only half the oil that was produced last year.
“Burning an olive tree is like burning a farmer’s bank account,” says Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam International.
“Over 100,000 Palestinian families depend on the money they earn during harvest season. Especially because this is a bad harvest, every olive counts.”
20 oct 2011
Jewish settler throws chemical material on Palestinian youth
A Jewish settlers threw an unknown chemical material on the face of a Palestinian youth in Hawara village, south of Nablus, on Wednesday, his family said.
They said that Omad Dumaidi, 20, was walking in the main street in the village when a group of settlers in a speeding car passed by him and one of them threw the chemical material on his face.
They said that the next day Dumaidi’s face reddened and he started to nauseate and they took him to Rafidia hospital in Nablus where the doctors could not determine the type of this material.
Jewish settlers ran over two brothers on the same street earlier this month while on their way to college.
http://fwd4.me/0fJx
Settlers earmark $100,000 “bounty” for anyone who kills two liberated prisoners
A Jewish family in Yitzhar settlement near Nablus earmarked the sum of 100000 dollars for anyone killing the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan who have been released in the exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.
Hebrew daily Maariv published the ad in which the family claimed that the prisoners, who were deported one to the Gaza Strip and the other to Turkey, killed two of their relatives 13 years ago.
The ad was published on a website for one of the Jewish fanatic settlers in Hebrew, Arabic, English, and Turkish languages along with a recent photo for the prisoners.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk
Settlers, Soldiers Continue Attacks on Hebron Schools
Groups of extremist Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers Thursday continued their attacks against students and teachers in Qurtuba and Susiya schools in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, according to local sources.
Qurtuba school principal Ibtisam Al-Jondi said a group of extremist settlers from the settlement of Anat Cohen attacked the students as they were leaving the school. The deputy principal, Feryal Abu Haykal, with the help of several Palestinian residents, tried to keep the settlers away from the students.
Israeli soldiers intervened, handcuffing her hands and arresting her and another resident.
Al-Jondi said Israeli soldiers continue, for the second week, preventing teachers and students from entering the school via the usual road, under the pretext of a decision by the Israeli authorities. Israeli soldiers are preventing the entry of any resident without a thorough search through the electronic gateway at the entrance of Al-Dabboyah checkpoint.
The principle and teachers protested in front of the Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Shuhada Street in central Hebron, condemning such a decision.
WAFA reporter said that Israeli soldiers tried to prevent journalists from approaching, noting that settlers followed the students all the way to their homes, beating and assaulting them.
Soldiers also attacked Susiya school, east of Yatta in Hebron, and forced teachers and students to leave it, according to the Popular Committee Coordinator in Yatta, Rateb al-Jabour.
He told WAFA that Israeli soldiers, accompanied by officials from civil administration, stormed the school and beat several students, then forced the teachers, students and workers who were carrying out renovation work to leave.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17821
Oxfam: Settlers cost farmers over $500,000 this harvest
Israeli settlers have cost Palestinian farmers over $500,000 this year by destroying olive trees in the West Bank, Oxfam and local organizations warned Thursday.
Oxfam, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees and the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees estimated that olives collected this year would produce half the oil of the 2010 harvest, a statement from Oxfam said.
"Burning an olive tree is like burning a farmer’s bank account," said Oxfam director Jeremy Hobbs.
"Over 100,000 Palestinian families depend on the money they earn during harvest season. Especially because this is a bad harvest, every olive counts."
Oxfam says over 2,500 olive trees were destroyed in September, and 7,500 this year. Since 1967, 800,000 olive trees have been uprooted resulting in a loss of around $55 million to the Palestinian economy, the international organization estimates.
In 97 incidents of tree destruction documented between 2005 and 2010, no court cases have yet been brought against culprits, according to research by Israeli NGO Yesh Din, the release said.
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees advocacy director Munjed Abu Jaish urged Israeli authorities to "stop protecting and supporting the settlers over Palestinians.
"Israeli settlers must understand that they are not above the law."
Aside from settler attacks, tens of thousands of olive trees have been uprooted to make way for Israel's wall, and nearly one million more are caught between the illegal wall and the Green Line separating Israel from the West Bank. Thousands more trees are off limits to farmers because they are close to illegal settlements in the West Bank, Oxfam notes.
Union of Agricultural Work Committees official Omar Tabakhna says farmers don't want to be dependent on aid handouts.
"They want to work on their land and earn money from a product they are proud of. In order for them to do this, we must ensure that their rights are upheld."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=430878
19 oct 2011
Army: Woman detained after trying to stab settler
A Palestinian woman was detained Wednesday after she tried to stab an Israeli settler near the Gush Etzion junction in Hebron, an army spokesman said.
Soldiers detained the woman, the military official said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=430762
18 oct 2011
Child abducted by settler and turned over to officials
The past week: settlers poisoned grazing land – six sheep killed
Between the 5-11 of October, Israeli settlers committed several crimes including physical assault and spraying grazing lands with chemicals. This is according to the UN agency OCHA, The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, who publish a report every week with the purpose to monitor and document the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank.
Palestinians attacked during olive harvest – despite coordination with Israeli authorities
Settler violence increased again this week with the onset of the annual olive harvest. OCHA writes:
In three separate incidents, Israeli settlers physically assaulted and injured four Palestinians, including an elderly man, while they were harvesting their olives near the villages of Jit and Jinsafut in the Qalqiliya governorate and Awarta in the Nablus governorate.
In another five incidents, resulting in no injuries, settlers attacked Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest and damaged or stole their crops. All of these incidents occurred on Palestinian-owned land located in the vicinity of Israeli settlements, during times which had been allocated by the Israeli authorities to allow farmers to access their land and harvest their olive crop.
In some of the incidents, Israeli forces intervened and removed the settlers, allowing farmers to resume their work.
Grazing lands poisoned by settlers – six sheep killed
OCHA writes:
Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that settlers from Tuqu’ settlement sprayed grazing land near the settlement with chemicals that subsequently caused the death of six sheep and injured ten others belonging to Palestinian herders.
Also, settlers set fire, cut down and uprooted around 250 olive, fig and almond trees belonging to Palestinians in the Bethlehem and Nablus governorates. There have been no reports of compensation for these acts of violence.
Also this week, seven other Palestinians, including three children (aged between 12 and 14 years), an elderly man and two women, were injured after being stoned or physically assaulted by settlers in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates. In a separate incident,
During the week, there were also a number of stone-throwing incidents by settlers that led to the damage of three Palestinian vehicles in the Jerusalem and Qalqiliya governorates.
Settler-related incidents:
--Incidents resulting in Palestinian injuries or property damage in 2011: 347
--Palestinians injured this week: 11
--Palestinians injured in 2011: 155
--Settlers injured in 2011: 28
Worth noticing from the past week
OCHA writes: In Hebron, Israeli forces physically assaulted and injured six students (aged between 11 and 12) while they were en route to their schools. The incident occurred at a checkpoint at the entrance of Al Shuhada Street, after the students refused to pass through a metal detector. While students, teachers and pregnant women were allowed to pass the checkpoint without being checked in previous years, Israeli forces imposed this measure again during the week on every Palestinian crossing the checkpoint.
Demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in Area C, due to a lack of Israeli-issued building permits, continued this week, with the Israeli authorities’ demolition of 13 structures, including residences, a mosque, a water cistern and animal structures. Read more about why Palestinians build without permission here.
Violation of international law
Israel is, as an occupying power, responsible for upholding public order and security on the West Bank according to international humanitarian law. The final responsibility rests on the Israeli army, who are obligated to protect the civilians living under their control. Israeli soldiers that witness the crimes tend to ignore them,
Building settlements is prohibited by international law. Today about 500 000 israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Read more about the impact of the settlements here.
Settlers Attack Farmers, Foreign Volunteers Harvesting Olives
A group of settlers attacked on Friday Palestinians, Israeli and foreign solidarity volunteers helping farmers to harvest olives in the village of Jalud, south of Nablus, injuring four of them and causing three suffocation cases, according to local sources.
The coordinator of the campaign “we are with you”; a campaign to help farmers to harvest olives, Khaled Mansour told WAFA that settlers attacked the farmers and the volunteers with batons and rifles butts, injuring four of them and causing three cases of suffocations by tear gas bombs.
Among the injured were Israeli peace activists from “fighters for freedom,” he said
He also stressed that farmers and solidarity activists stood up to the settlers armed with machine guns, batons and tear gas and sound bombs.
He added that reinforced forces of the Israeli army came to the scene and began firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, causing fire in large areas of Jalud’s land and burning dozens of olive trees.
Mansour pointed out that today’s activity in the village of Jalud includes more than 200 volunteers and solidarity activists. It was held in collaboration with the Dutch agricultural work committees.
The campaign “we are with you” was launched by the Agricultural Relief on October 10, to help farmers harvest olives, and includes 28 activities.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17827
Taxi driver 'attacked by settlers'
A taxi driver says his car was attacked by Israeli settlers on Thursday evening near his home south of Bethlehem.
Izzat Shakarneh told Ma'an he was driving to Nahhalin village when settlers pelted his car with stones, causing damaging to the vehicle and its windscreen.
Shakarneh said he has complained to Israeli police about previous attacks but that no action was taken.
The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din says Israeli civilians commit acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank "on a daily basis."
The attacks are not isolated incident, but "part of a sophisticated, wider strategy designed to assert territorial domination over Palestinians in the West Bank," Yesh Din says.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces neglect their obligation under international law to protect residents of its occupied territories, according to the rights group.
"The IDF (Israeli army) and police are neither prepared nor willing to provide the necessary protection to Palestinians attacked by violent settlers," the organization says.
"Law enforcement agencies display repeated failure to conduct proper investigations of these incidents. When convictions are made, Israeli citizens involved in such violent acts are handed light sentences."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=431194
Settler attacks damage the olive harvest in the West Bank
Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and international aid and development organizations working to improve Palestinian olive oil warned today.
The agencies Oxfam, Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), say that for Palestinian farmers the cost of such attacks is particularly high, as olives collected in the month long harvesting season are expected to produce only half the oil that was produced last year.
“Burning an olive tree is like burning a farmer’s bank account,” says Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam International.
“Over 100,000 Palestinian families depend on the money they earn during harvest season. Especially because this is a bad harvest, every olive counts.”
20 oct 2011
Jewish settler throws chemical material on Palestinian youth
A Jewish settlers threw an unknown chemical material on the face of a Palestinian youth in Hawara village, south of Nablus, on Wednesday, his family said.
They said that Omad Dumaidi, 20, was walking in the main street in the village when a group of settlers in a speeding car passed by him and one of them threw the chemical material on his face.
They said that the next day Dumaidi’s face reddened and he started to nauseate and they took him to Rafidia hospital in Nablus where the doctors could not determine the type of this material.
Jewish settlers ran over two brothers on the same street earlier this month while on their way to college.
http://fwd4.me/0fJx
Settlers earmark $100,000 “bounty” for anyone who kills two liberated prisoners
A Jewish family in Yitzhar settlement near Nablus earmarked the sum of 100000 dollars for anyone killing the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan who have been released in the exchange deal between Israel and Hamas.
Hebrew daily Maariv published the ad in which the family claimed that the prisoners, who were deported one to the Gaza Strip and the other to Turkey, killed two of their relatives 13 years ago.
The ad was published on a website for one of the Jewish fanatic settlers in Hebrew, Arabic, English, and Turkish languages along with a recent photo for the prisoners.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk
Settlers, Soldiers Continue Attacks on Hebron Schools
Groups of extremist Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers Thursday continued their attacks against students and teachers in Qurtuba and Susiya schools in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, according to local sources.
Qurtuba school principal Ibtisam Al-Jondi said a group of extremist settlers from the settlement of Anat Cohen attacked the students as they were leaving the school. The deputy principal, Feryal Abu Haykal, with the help of several Palestinian residents, tried to keep the settlers away from the students.
Israeli soldiers intervened, handcuffing her hands and arresting her and another resident.
Al-Jondi said Israeli soldiers continue, for the second week, preventing teachers and students from entering the school via the usual road, under the pretext of a decision by the Israeli authorities. Israeli soldiers are preventing the entry of any resident without a thorough search through the electronic gateway at the entrance of Al-Dabboyah checkpoint.
The principle and teachers protested in front of the Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Shuhada Street in central Hebron, condemning such a decision.
WAFA reporter said that Israeli soldiers tried to prevent journalists from approaching, noting that settlers followed the students all the way to their homes, beating and assaulting them.
Soldiers also attacked Susiya school, east of Yatta in Hebron, and forced teachers and students to leave it, according to the Popular Committee Coordinator in Yatta, Rateb al-Jabour.
He told WAFA that Israeli soldiers, accompanied by officials from civil administration, stormed the school and beat several students, then forced the teachers, students and workers who were carrying out renovation work to leave.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17821
Oxfam: Settlers cost farmers over $500,000 this harvest
Israeli settlers have cost Palestinian farmers over $500,000 this year by destroying olive trees in the West Bank, Oxfam and local organizations warned Thursday.
Oxfam, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees and the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees estimated that olives collected this year would produce half the oil of the 2010 harvest, a statement from Oxfam said.
"Burning an olive tree is like burning a farmer’s bank account," said Oxfam director Jeremy Hobbs.
"Over 100,000 Palestinian families depend on the money they earn during harvest season. Especially because this is a bad harvest, every olive counts."
Oxfam says over 2,500 olive trees were destroyed in September, and 7,500 this year. Since 1967, 800,000 olive trees have been uprooted resulting in a loss of around $55 million to the Palestinian economy, the international organization estimates.
In 97 incidents of tree destruction documented between 2005 and 2010, no court cases have yet been brought against culprits, according to research by Israeli NGO Yesh Din, the release said.
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees advocacy director Munjed Abu Jaish urged Israeli authorities to "stop protecting and supporting the settlers over Palestinians.
"Israeli settlers must understand that they are not above the law."
Aside from settler attacks, tens of thousands of olive trees have been uprooted to make way for Israel's wall, and nearly one million more are caught between the illegal wall and the Green Line separating Israel from the West Bank. Thousands more trees are off limits to farmers because they are close to illegal settlements in the West Bank, Oxfam notes.
Union of Agricultural Work Committees official Omar Tabakhna says farmers don't want to be dependent on aid handouts.
"They want to work on their land and earn money from a product they are proud of. In order for them to do this, we must ensure that their rights are upheld."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=430878
19 oct 2011
Army: Woman detained after trying to stab settler
A Palestinian woman was detained Wednesday after she tried to stab an Israeli settler near the Gush Etzion junction in Hebron, an army spokesman said.
Soldiers detained the woman, the military official said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=430762
18 oct 2011
Child abducted by settler and turned over to officials
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A 10-year old boy was abducted from Abu Tur neighborhood by a settler yesterday, Monday 17 October. Muhammad al-Khaseeb was taken from the front of his preparatory school by a man said to be a manager in the Elad settler association.
Khaseeb was physically assaulted by the settler and a Palestinian man connected to the settler. Silwanic uncovered the abduction yesterday and Khaseeb was eventually returned home to his parents. Details of the attack to be published tomorrow. http://silwanic.net/?p=21250 |
Settlers Prevent Farmers from Harvesting Olive Trees
Settlers and Israeli soldiers prevented Tuesday a number of Palestinian farmers from reaching their lands to harvest olive trees, according to local sources.
Nathmi al Salman, mayor of Deir Istia, a village northwest of salfit, said that a number of settlers from ‘Rafafa’, a settlement built on Deir Istia land, forced Palestinian farmer Mohammad Abu Ali, from Deir Istia, from reaching his land in the area known as Sayda, which is close to the settlement, and prevented him from harvesting the olive trees.
He added that the guards of the settlement forced resident Farhan Souf to leave his land, which is close to the settlement, in the area known Beir Jafar , and prevented him from harvesting the olive trees.
He pointed out that they forced Palestinian Ayman Zaghloul to leave his land, in the vicinity of Rafafa settlement, preventing him from continuing olive harvesting.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17805
Ultra-strict Jewish sect trashes ice cream parlour claiming licking cones in public promotes promiscuity
An ultra-orthodox Jewish sect trashed a Jerusalem ice cream parlour because they were disgusted by people licking cones in public believing it promotes promiscuity.
The owners of the Zisalek parlour in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood had put up posters asking people not to consume the snacks in public and installed separate entrances for men and women.
But religious zealots from the ultra strict Sikrikim sect did not believe the measures went far enough and broke in during the night to vandalise the premises.
Owner Guy Ammar said: 'They had a real ball with us.
'But we were not deterred. Residents here told us not to give up and business is going well now.'
The Sikrikim are named after a Jewish group which 2,000 years ago fought against Roman rulers and suspected Jewish collaborators.
They wear masks to hide their identity and strike mainly at night.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 8 percent of Israel's 7.7 million population. With an average of eight children per family, they are a fast-growing population.
Many live below the poverty line and tend keep to their own towns and neighbourhoods.
Mea Shearim area is small, less than half a square mile, and home to about 30,000 residents considered among the most tight-knit and reclusive of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Other stores in the neighbourhood, where men wear traditional black garb and women bare little but their face, have had their windows broken, locks glued and foul-smelling liquid smeared on walls.
Marlene Samuels, manager of the nearby Or Hachaim bookshop said: 'They also threw once a bag of excrement inside and smashed our windows three times.'
Marlene's shop has been attacked more than 10 times since it opened a year and a half ago, Samuels said. The latest assault was last week when one of the store's branches had its locks glued overnight.
The shop's owner met with the Sikrikim several times.
Although the store stocks only religious books, they include volumes published by Zionist organsiations while the Sikrikim believe a Jewish state can be established only with the coming of the Messiah.
Sikrikim attacks have also been reported at Beit Shemesh, a mixed secular and religious town with a growing ultra-Orthodox community, about half an hour's drive from Jerusalem. The latest target there has been a religious girls' school.
The Sikrikim who reside near the school object to the way the girls dress. Since the school year began in September they have regularly picketed outside shouting out at the students, most of them younger than 12, that they are promiscuous.
'They claim to be religious but what they do is a crime against God, against the Torah and against humanity,' said David Rotenberg, who works at Or Hachaim.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
17 oct 2011
New Israeli excavations in Wadi al-Hilwa
The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that Elad settler organisation started new excavations in Wadi al-Helwa neighbourhood of Silwan to the south of the Aqsa Mosqu in occupied Jerusalem with a plan to take over an old well and Judaize it.
The well is planned to become part of the tunnel network that is being dug under the Aqsa Mosque and around it. The excavations are managed by the Israeli antiquities authority.
AFEH said in a statement on Monday that these excavations are part of the occupation’s efforts to Judaize the areas surrounding the Aqsa Mosque through changing the Islamic and Arab features in the old city.
AFEH stressed that, Arabs whose history in Jerusalem goes back thousands of years, built many water wells and water-networks in the holy city and for the occupation to claim now that these historical wells are part of the Hebrew history is a fabrication of history.
AFEH added that according to information available to the organisation that the occupation aims to take control of an old 7-meter deep well which has a 15 meter diameter at the bottom and to Judaize it using its "executive arms" such as Elad settler organisation. The occupation plans to give this well the name "Jeremiah well" and make it a Jewish religious tourist attraction.
Locals informed AFEH that there are three such wells in their area and that they hear and feel digging near their homes and that they are worried that such excavations might endanger the structures of their homes.
16 oct 2011
Jewish extremists storm the Aqsa Mosque
Groups of Jewish extremist settlers stormed the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday through the Bab al-Magharbeh gate under the protection of IOF troops and made provocative tours of the holy site, according to local sources.
The sources added that IOF troops at the gates of the Mosque barred students attending religious circles at the mosque from entering, allowing only those over 50 years of age to enter.
They also pointed out that there was heavy IOF presence in the areas of the Mosque were religious learning circles are held, especially near Bab al-Magharebeh and Bab al-Sisila.
The sources also said that the heavy presence of Israeli occupation troops and police aims to terrorize students attending the many study circles held in various areas of the Aqsa plazas and to provide a comfortable atmosphere for the settlers to enter and desecrate the Mosque at will.
This was corroborated by the Aqsa Guards, who said that a number of those students were arrested, four of them on Saturday.
A number of extremist Jewish leaders and groups incited Jews to storm the Aqsa Mosque in groups during the Sukkot Jewish festival starting on Sunday.
15 oct 2011
Update: Settlers 'burn olive trees' near Ramallah
Israelis from a settlement outpost in the central West Bank set fire to dozens of dunams of olives tree forest belonging to farmers in Ras Karkar village on Friday evening, locals told Ma'an.
Residents of Nira outpost burned down over 120 olive trees in the Ramallah-district village, on land owned by Adnan Fkhida, Naman Nofal and Hafeth Shaban, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Israeli forces blocked farmers and firemen from approaching to control the fire, he added.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=429309
Settlers and Israeli soldiers prevented Tuesday a number of Palestinian farmers from reaching their lands to harvest olive trees, according to local sources.
Nathmi al Salman, mayor of Deir Istia, a village northwest of salfit, said that a number of settlers from ‘Rafafa’, a settlement built on Deir Istia land, forced Palestinian farmer Mohammad Abu Ali, from Deir Istia, from reaching his land in the area known as Sayda, which is close to the settlement, and prevented him from harvesting the olive trees.
He added that the guards of the settlement forced resident Farhan Souf to leave his land, which is close to the settlement, in the area known Beir Jafar , and prevented him from harvesting the olive trees.
He pointed out that they forced Palestinian Ayman Zaghloul to leave his land, in the vicinity of Rafafa settlement, preventing him from continuing olive harvesting.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=17805
Ultra-strict Jewish sect trashes ice cream parlour claiming licking cones in public promotes promiscuity
An ultra-orthodox Jewish sect trashed a Jerusalem ice cream parlour because they were disgusted by people licking cones in public believing it promotes promiscuity.
The owners of the Zisalek parlour in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood had put up posters asking people not to consume the snacks in public and installed separate entrances for men and women.
But religious zealots from the ultra strict Sikrikim sect did not believe the measures went far enough and broke in during the night to vandalise the premises.
Owner Guy Ammar said: 'They had a real ball with us.
'But we were not deterred. Residents here told us not to give up and business is going well now.'
The Sikrikim are named after a Jewish group which 2,000 years ago fought against Roman rulers and suspected Jewish collaborators.
They wear masks to hide their identity and strike mainly at night.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 8 percent of Israel's 7.7 million population. With an average of eight children per family, they are a fast-growing population.
Many live below the poverty line and tend keep to their own towns and neighbourhoods.
Mea Shearim area is small, less than half a square mile, and home to about 30,000 residents considered among the most tight-knit and reclusive of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Other stores in the neighbourhood, where men wear traditional black garb and women bare little but their face, have had their windows broken, locks glued and foul-smelling liquid smeared on walls.
Marlene Samuels, manager of the nearby Or Hachaim bookshop said: 'They also threw once a bag of excrement inside and smashed our windows three times.'
Marlene's shop has been attacked more than 10 times since it opened a year and a half ago, Samuels said. The latest assault was last week when one of the store's branches had its locks glued overnight.
The shop's owner met with the Sikrikim several times.
Although the store stocks only religious books, they include volumes published by Zionist organsiations while the Sikrikim believe a Jewish state can be established only with the coming of the Messiah.
Sikrikim attacks have also been reported at Beit Shemesh, a mixed secular and religious town with a growing ultra-Orthodox community, about half an hour's drive from Jerusalem. The latest target there has been a religious girls' school.
The Sikrikim who reside near the school object to the way the girls dress. Since the school year began in September they have regularly picketed outside shouting out at the students, most of them younger than 12, that they are promiscuous.
'They claim to be religious but what they do is a crime against God, against the Torah and against humanity,' said David Rotenberg, who works at Or Hachaim.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
17 oct 2011
New Israeli excavations in Wadi al-Hilwa
The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) said that Elad settler organisation started new excavations in Wadi al-Helwa neighbourhood of Silwan to the south of the Aqsa Mosqu in occupied Jerusalem with a plan to take over an old well and Judaize it.
The well is planned to become part of the tunnel network that is being dug under the Aqsa Mosque and around it. The excavations are managed by the Israeli antiquities authority.
AFEH said in a statement on Monday that these excavations are part of the occupation’s efforts to Judaize the areas surrounding the Aqsa Mosque through changing the Islamic and Arab features in the old city.
AFEH stressed that, Arabs whose history in Jerusalem goes back thousands of years, built many water wells and water-networks in the holy city and for the occupation to claim now that these historical wells are part of the Hebrew history is a fabrication of history.
AFEH added that according to information available to the organisation that the occupation aims to take control of an old 7-meter deep well which has a 15 meter diameter at the bottom and to Judaize it using its "executive arms" such as Elad settler organisation. The occupation plans to give this well the name "Jeremiah well" and make it a Jewish religious tourist attraction.
Locals informed AFEH that there are three such wells in their area and that they hear and feel digging near their homes and that they are worried that such excavations might endanger the structures of their homes.
16 oct 2011
Jewish extremists storm the Aqsa Mosque
Groups of Jewish extremist settlers stormed the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday through the Bab al-Magharbeh gate under the protection of IOF troops and made provocative tours of the holy site, according to local sources.
The sources added that IOF troops at the gates of the Mosque barred students attending religious circles at the mosque from entering, allowing only those over 50 years of age to enter.
They also pointed out that there was heavy IOF presence in the areas of the Mosque were religious learning circles are held, especially near Bab al-Magharebeh and Bab al-Sisila.
The sources also said that the heavy presence of Israeli occupation troops and police aims to terrorize students attending the many study circles held in various areas of the Aqsa plazas and to provide a comfortable atmosphere for the settlers to enter and desecrate the Mosque at will.
This was corroborated by the Aqsa Guards, who said that a number of those students were arrested, four of them on Saturday.
A number of extremist Jewish leaders and groups incited Jews to storm the Aqsa Mosque in groups during the Sukkot Jewish festival starting on Sunday.
15 oct 2011
Update: Settlers 'burn olive trees' near Ramallah
Israelis from a settlement outpost in the central West Bank set fire to dozens of dunams of olives tree forest belonging to farmers in Ras Karkar village on Friday evening, locals told Ma'an.
Residents of Nira outpost burned down over 120 olive trees in the Ramallah-district village, on land owned by Adnan Fkhida, Naman Nofal and Hafeth Shaban, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Israeli forces blocked farmers and firemen from approaching to control the fire, he added.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=429309
