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A gang of Jewish settlers from Tel Armida and Beit Hadassah on Friday attacked three foreign female activists working for human rights groups and stole some of their belongings as they were on Al-Shuhada street in Al-Khalil city.
The activists were documenting and monitoring the violations committed by settlers and troops against the Palestinians. Youth Against Settlements said in a statement that the settlers launched their attacks in conjunction with the Jewish holiday of Purim. The youth group noted that the Jewish settlers intensify their attacks and violations under military protection against the Palestinians in Al-Khalil during their religious holidays. |
Breaking: 2 international activists assaulted by extreme settlers in Al Khalil
2 international activists were assaulted late this morning by extreme Zionist settlers in Al Khalil (Hebron). A female activist was assaulted by a male settler, after being punched in the face and having her camera stolen by this male settler.
Today’s attack comes following weeks of warning and aggression towards photojournalists and activists with cameras by Israeli military and police, which have stated to internationals that Israeli law forbids the photography of their operations, or rather, their breach of international law and human rights.
Activists have received these warnings for weeks now, and today’s attack comes parallel to the deliberate targeting by Israeli military of journalists and activists with cameras, by shooting tear gas canisters and bullets directly at them at most West Bank demonstrations.
About a month ago, Reporters without Borders published this statement regarding these warnings and threats.
While today’s attack is an escalation against internationals in the region, and while it is evident that the Israeli military and illegal settlers are collaborating in attacking Palestinians and internationals, International Solidarity Movement will not desist from bringing proof of Israeli aggression through pictures, videos, and our continued reporting.
We thank the international solidarity community for its continued support in the face of Israeli Zionism, colonialism, discrimination, and militarization of Palestine.
In Solidarity,
International Solidarity Movement- Palestine
2 international activists were assaulted late this morning by extreme Zionist settlers in Al Khalil (Hebron). A female activist was assaulted by a male settler, after being punched in the face and having her camera stolen by this male settler.
Today’s attack comes following weeks of warning and aggression towards photojournalists and activists with cameras by Israeli military and police, which have stated to internationals that Israeli law forbids the photography of their operations, or rather, their breach of international law and human rights.
Activists have received these warnings for weeks now, and today’s attack comes parallel to the deliberate targeting by Israeli military of journalists and activists with cameras, by shooting tear gas canisters and bullets directly at them at most West Bank demonstrations.
About a month ago, Reporters without Borders published this statement regarding these warnings and threats.
While today’s attack is an escalation against internationals in the region, and while it is evident that the Israeli military and illegal settlers are collaborating in attacking Palestinians and internationals, International Solidarity Movement will not desist from bringing proof of Israeli aggression through pictures, videos, and our continued reporting.
We thank the international solidarity community for its continued support in the face of Israeli Zionism, colonialism, discrimination, and militarization of Palestine.
In Solidarity,
International Solidarity Movement- Palestine
Six casualties in Israeli shooting at a bus near Ofer
Six Palestinians were wounded when unknown Israeli shooters fired at their bus while passing near Ofer detention center in Ramallah on Friday night, medical sources said.
Four Palestinians were injured with the shrapnel of the bullets while two were treated for nervous breakdown, the sources said.
They said that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) or Jewish settlers were the culprits, adding that the bus was passing along the bypass road near Ofer when the incident occurred.
Six Palestinians were wounded when unknown Israeli shooters fired at their bus while passing near Ofer detention center in Ramallah on Friday night, medical sources said.
Four Palestinians were injured with the shrapnel of the bullets while two were treated for nervous breakdown, the sources said.
They said that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) or Jewish settlers were the culprits, adding that the bus was passing along the bypass road near Ofer when the incident occurred.
Palestinian farmers, from the southern West Bank villages of Al Khadier and Beit Iskaria, announced that a group of settlers stormed on Thursday morning their lands uprooted 100 young olive trees and took it all away.
100 olive trees were part of some 200 trees that were planted on Wednesday by Norwegian students and their teacher from Oslo on Palestinian farmers lands near the illegal Israeli settlement of Aliazar.
On Wednesday morning a group of 11 Norwegian students and their teacher joined Yassin Da'doua on his land to plant 200 olive trees as part of the olive tree planting campaign organized by Joint Advocacy Initiative of East Jerusalem YMCA and YWCA of Palestine.
The group along with the Palestinian farmer and his family managed to plant half of the trees on Wednesday before the leader of the radical settler organization 'Women in Green', Nadia Matar, arrived along with two other Israeli settlers who started taking photos of the young Norwegians.
“Your grandparents have killed my grandparents in the holocaust and now you are helping the Arabs to steal our land. This is the land for the people of Israel. You are helping the wrong people. You are like the Nazis.” Matar shouted at the Norwegian students.
After some time Israeli soldiers, military police, and uniform police arrived at the scene and demanded the Palestinians and their friends stop planting the trees and leave the area. The military commander said that the land is owned by the state of Israel; a claim that proven wrong by the Palestinian farmer who has ownership papers from both the Ottoman period and from the Israeli court that state he is the private owner of the land.
“How can they call me a Nazi? My grandparents fought the Nazis during the second world war,” said one of the Norwegian students responding to Matar comments."
While planting trees continued; troops arrested Sajied Da'doua, 18, who was helping his uncle to plant olive trees on his land. Sources told IMEMC that Sajied could be released with bail today.
Israeli soldiers agreed to allow the Palestinian family to stay but force the Norwegians and their organizers to leave. The group was then escorted by Israeli police back to the nearby entrance of Bethlehem city.
While the group of students was being lead away from the land by the Israeli police the remaining un-planted olive trees and the tools got confiscated by the army. Today Matar and her group came back and uprooted the planted trees and took them away.
According to the radical Israeli group webpage Women in Green is a registered non-profit organization founded in 1993, and is not affiliated with any political party. Women in Green say they oppose the two-state solution; and end of Israel’s occupation of 967, as well as aggressively supports Israeli settlement of those territories, which Women in Green proposes should be annexed to Israel.
7 mar 2012
Jewish settlers attack Palestinian shepherds
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds to the east of Yatta village, south of Al-Khalil, and threatened them, local sources said.
They said that a settler attacked the sons of a shepherd while rearing their sheep and threw stones and empty bottles on them.
He threatened to fire at their sheep if they grazed again in that same area.
Other groups of settlers clashed with shepherds in another nearby spot and the Israeli occupation forces came to the scene and forced the shepherds out of the area but did nothing to the settlers.
Jewish settlers attack village, wound youth
Jewish settlers attacked the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Ramallah on Tuesday evening and wounded a young man, local sources said.
They said that the armed settlers attacked a water spring in the village and assaulted a number of young men sitting near it, injuring Amir Juma.
The sources said that the settlers fired in the air while withdrawing from the village to terrorize citizens.
Other groups of settlers stormed the site of their evacuated settlement of Homesh south of Jenin on afternoon Tuesday.
Locals said that the settlers installed roadblocks on the Jenin-Nablus main road and checked Palestinian vehicles passing near it under the very eyes of Israeli army troops, who were deployed nearby to protect the settlers.
The sources said that the settlers chanted anti-Arab slogans and tried to assault some of the commuters while vowing to return and re-inhabit the deserted settlement.
Settlers Attack Palestinian Village Near Ramallah
A group of armed Israeli settlers invaded, on Tuesday evening, Qarawat Bani Zeid village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked several residents causing one injury.
Local sources reported that the armed settlers were aiming at occupying a spring in the village, and that, after arriving at the scene, the settlers attacked several youths who were sitting near the spring.
Resident Amir Jom’a was mildly wounded in the attack, and received treatment by local medics.
The settlers also fired rounds of live ammunition into the air while withdrawing from the village; no injuries were reported.
Report: Palestinian arrested in clash with settlers
Israeli police arrested a Palestinian after clashes broke out between settlers and protesters near the illegal settlement outpost Netzer, Israeli media reported.
A clash broke out after the protesters "entered territory owned by settlers," Israel's Ynet news site reported. Police dispersed the rest of the group, according to the report.
6 mar 2012
Settlers Try To Install Outpost In Place Of Evacuated Settlement
A group of armed extremist settlers, attacked on Tuesday afternoon, the location of the former Homesh settlement, in the northern part of the West Bank, and installed an outpost before stopping and searching several Palestinian vehicles.
Local sources reported that the settlers blocked the Jenin-Nablus road, and searched dozens of Palestinian vehicles.
The settlers also chanted racist slogans against the Palestinians and the Arabs, and attacked a number of residents. They also “vowed” to rebuild the evacuated illegal settlement.
The sources added that Israeli soldiers were present in the area but did not intervene.
Homesh was evacuated and dismantled in 2005 as part of the “Disengagement Plan” when Israel evacuated all settlers out of the Gaza Strip, and from four smaller settlements in the West Bank.
In March 2007, Israeli soldiers evacuated some 300 fundamentalist right-wing settlers who camped out at the location of the former Homesh settlement. Two teenage settler girls were apprehended by the police on suspicion of attacking policemen during the evacuation.
Settlers Set Up Checkpoint South of Jenin
A group of Jewish settlers Tuesday set up a checkpoint adjacent to the evacuated Homesh settlement, south of Jenin, according to security sources.
They said the settlers set up the checkpoint under Israeli army protection and presence, stopping and searching Palestinian vehicles.
5 mar 2012
West Bank Becoming “Settler State”
Last week, one of the West Bank's oldest and largest settler outposts, Shvut Rachel, received legal status from the Israeli government. Under Israeli law, outposts – unlike settlements – have no legal status and are illegally built.
According to Shvut Rachel's acting mayor, Yaakov Moshe Levi, the Israeli government provided retroactive legal approval to Shvut Rachel's 115 apartments and authorized the building of 500 more. Shvut Rachel was founded in 1991. According to the Associated Press, 95 families currently live in Shvut Rachel.
The move was condemned by both Israelis and Palestinians.
Hagit Ofran of the Israeli activist organization, Peace Now, said that the decision to provide legal status to Shvut Rachel is, in essence, the creation of a brand new settlement, something she says Israel's government has pledged not to do. The Israeli government rejected the idea that it is creating a new settlement.
The Secretary General of the PLO, Yasser Abed Rabbo, said that Israel is trying to create a "settler state" rather than a "Palestinian state" in the West Bank. "This, at a time when the Palestinians are seeking a negotiated solution on the basis of international legitimacy," Abed Rabbo said.
According to the Israeli news agency Arutz Sheva, the Shvut Rachel outpost was constructed with support from Israeli government though it was never given permits from the Ministry of Defense.
3 mar 2012
Abed Rabbo: Israel is building a settler state
PLO secretary-general says West Bank building's goal is a "state for settlers," denies possibility of renewed talks.
Israel is working toward establishing a state for Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem instead of a Palestinian state, PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo claimed on Saturday.
He said that there would be no negotiations with Israel in the near future due to the wide gap between the sides.
Abed Rabbo also denied that the PA was planning to relay a message to Israel via Jordan, detailing the Palestinians’ conditions for resuming direct peace talks.
The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel reported over the weekend that Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh was slated to deliver the Palestinian message to Israel after bringing it to the attention of the Americans.
“There is no such message and we haven’t handed one to anyone,” Abed Rabbo told the PA’s Voice of Palestine radio station. “These reports are nothing but speculations and assessments.”
Abed Rabbo said that Israel was continuing to build in settlements “so that it could establish a state for settlers, and not for Palestinians, in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
Israel wants to prepare a new map for the Palestinian territories in order to impose it on the Palestinians and the world, he added.
“This, at a time when the Palestinians are seeking a negotiated solution on the basis of international legitimacy,” Abed Rabbo said, ruling out the possibility that the peace talks would resume in the near future.
Israel, he charged, does not want to launch a serious peace process. Rather, it wants contact with the Palestinians, he said.
Abed Rabbo said that Israel also does not want to see an end to the split between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
He claimed that Israel was pushing toward placing the Gaza Strip under Egyptian control.
The PLO official blamed differences within Hamas for the failure of the recent Qatari-brokered reconciliation agreement between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.
Ahmed Assaf, a Fatah spokesman in the West Bank, said on Saturday that the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip has rejected the Qatari-engineered deal “because they want to preserve their privileges and illegitimate jobs.”
100 olive trees were part of some 200 trees that were planted on Wednesday by Norwegian students and their teacher from Oslo on Palestinian farmers lands near the illegal Israeli settlement of Aliazar.
On Wednesday morning a group of 11 Norwegian students and their teacher joined Yassin Da'doua on his land to plant 200 olive trees as part of the olive tree planting campaign organized by Joint Advocacy Initiative of East Jerusalem YMCA and YWCA of Palestine.
The group along with the Palestinian farmer and his family managed to plant half of the trees on Wednesday before the leader of the radical settler organization 'Women in Green', Nadia Matar, arrived along with two other Israeli settlers who started taking photos of the young Norwegians.
“Your grandparents have killed my grandparents in the holocaust and now you are helping the Arabs to steal our land. This is the land for the people of Israel. You are helping the wrong people. You are like the Nazis.” Matar shouted at the Norwegian students.
After some time Israeli soldiers, military police, and uniform police arrived at the scene and demanded the Palestinians and their friends stop planting the trees and leave the area. The military commander said that the land is owned by the state of Israel; a claim that proven wrong by the Palestinian farmer who has ownership papers from both the Ottoman period and from the Israeli court that state he is the private owner of the land.
“How can they call me a Nazi? My grandparents fought the Nazis during the second world war,” said one of the Norwegian students responding to Matar comments."
While planting trees continued; troops arrested Sajied Da'doua, 18, who was helping his uncle to plant olive trees on his land. Sources told IMEMC that Sajied could be released with bail today.
Israeli soldiers agreed to allow the Palestinian family to stay but force the Norwegians and their organizers to leave. The group was then escorted by Israeli police back to the nearby entrance of Bethlehem city.
While the group of students was being lead away from the land by the Israeli police the remaining un-planted olive trees and the tools got confiscated by the army. Today Matar and her group came back and uprooted the planted trees and took them away.
According to the radical Israeli group webpage Women in Green is a registered non-profit organization founded in 1993, and is not affiliated with any political party. Women in Green say they oppose the two-state solution; and end of Israel’s occupation of 967, as well as aggressively supports Israeli settlement of those territories, which Women in Green proposes should be annexed to Israel.
7 mar 2012
Jewish settlers attack Palestinian shepherds
Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds to the east of Yatta village, south of Al-Khalil, and threatened them, local sources said.
They said that a settler attacked the sons of a shepherd while rearing their sheep and threw stones and empty bottles on them.
He threatened to fire at their sheep if they grazed again in that same area.
Other groups of settlers clashed with shepherds in another nearby spot and the Israeli occupation forces came to the scene and forced the shepherds out of the area but did nothing to the settlers.
Jewish settlers attack village, wound youth
Jewish settlers attacked the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in Ramallah on Tuesday evening and wounded a young man, local sources said.
They said that the armed settlers attacked a water spring in the village and assaulted a number of young men sitting near it, injuring Amir Juma.
The sources said that the settlers fired in the air while withdrawing from the village to terrorize citizens.
Other groups of settlers stormed the site of their evacuated settlement of Homesh south of Jenin on afternoon Tuesday.
Locals said that the settlers installed roadblocks on the Jenin-Nablus main road and checked Palestinian vehicles passing near it under the very eyes of Israeli army troops, who were deployed nearby to protect the settlers.
The sources said that the settlers chanted anti-Arab slogans and tried to assault some of the commuters while vowing to return and re-inhabit the deserted settlement.
Settlers Attack Palestinian Village Near Ramallah
A group of armed Israeli settlers invaded, on Tuesday evening, Qarawat Bani Zeid village, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and attacked several residents causing one injury.
Local sources reported that the armed settlers were aiming at occupying a spring in the village, and that, after arriving at the scene, the settlers attacked several youths who were sitting near the spring.
Resident Amir Jom’a was mildly wounded in the attack, and received treatment by local medics.
The settlers also fired rounds of live ammunition into the air while withdrawing from the village; no injuries were reported.
Report: Palestinian arrested in clash with settlers
Israeli police arrested a Palestinian after clashes broke out between settlers and protesters near the illegal settlement outpost Netzer, Israeli media reported.
A clash broke out after the protesters "entered territory owned by settlers," Israel's Ynet news site reported. Police dispersed the rest of the group, according to the report.
6 mar 2012
Settlers Try To Install Outpost In Place Of Evacuated Settlement
A group of armed extremist settlers, attacked on Tuesday afternoon, the location of the former Homesh settlement, in the northern part of the West Bank, and installed an outpost before stopping and searching several Palestinian vehicles.
Local sources reported that the settlers blocked the Jenin-Nablus road, and searched dozens of Palestinian vehicles.
The settlers also chanted racist slogans against the Palestinians and the Arabs, and attacked a number of residents. They also “vowed” to rebuild the evacuated illegal settlement.
The sources added that Israeli soldiers were present in the area but did not intervene.
Homesh was evacuated and dismantled in 2005 as part of the “Disengagement Plan” when Israel evacuated all settlers out of the Gaza Strip, and from four smaller settlements in the West Bank.
In March 2007, Israeli soldiers evacuated some 300 fundamentalist right-wing settlers who camped out at the location of the former Homesh settlement. Two teenage settler girls were apprehended by the police on suspicion of attacking policemen during the evacuation.
Settlers Set Up Checkpoint South of Jenin
A group of Jewish settlers Tuesday set up a checkpoint adjacent to the evacuated Homesh settlement, south of Jenin, according to security sources.
They said the settlers set up the checkpoint under Israeli army protection and presence, stopping and searching Palestinian vehicles.
5 mar 2012
West Bank Becoming “Settler State”
Last week, one of the West Bank's oldest and largest settler outposts, Shvut Rachel, received legal status from the Israeli government. Under Israeli law, outposts – unlike settlements – have no legal status and are illegally built.
According to Shvut Rachel's acting mayor, Yaakov Moshe Levi, the Israeli government provided retroactive legal approval to Shvut Rachel's 115 apartments and authorized the building of 500 more. Shvut Rachel was founded in 1991. According to the Associated Press, 95 families currently live in Shvut Rachel.
The move was condemned by both Israelis and Palestinians.
Hagit Ofran of the Israeli activist organization, Peace Now, said that the decision to provide legal status to Shvut Rachel is, in essence, the creation of a brand new settlement, something she says Israel's government has pledged not to do. The Israeli government rejected the idea that it is creating a new settlement.
The Secretary General of the PLO, Yasser Abed Rabbo, said that Israel is trying to create a "settler state" rather than a "Palestinian state" in the West Bank. "This, at a time when the Palestinians are seeking a negotiated solution on the basis of international legitimacy," Abed Rabbo said.
According to the Israeli news agency Arutz Sheva, the Shvut Rachel outpost was constructed with support from Israeli government though it was never given permits from the Ministry of Defense.
3 mar 2012
Abed Rabbo: Israel is building a settler state
PLO secretary-general says West Bank building's goal is a "state for settlers," denies possibility of renewed talks.
Israel is working toward establishing a state for Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Jerusalem instead of a Palestinian state, PLO Secretary-General Yasser Abed Rabbo claimed on Saturday.
He said that there would be no negotiations with Israel in the near future due to the wide gap between the sides.
Abed Rabbo also denied that the PA was planning to relay a message to Israel via Jordan, detailing the Palestinians’ conditions for resuming direct peace talks.
The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV channel reported over the weekend that Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh was slated to deliver the Palestinian message to Israel after bringing it to the attention of the Americans.
“There is no such message and we haven’t handed one to anyone,” Abed Rabbo told the PA’s Voice of Palestine radio station. “These reports are nothing but speculations and assessments.”
Abed Rabbo said that Israel was continuing to build in settlements “so that it could establish a state for settlers, and not for Palestinians, in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
Israel wants to prepare a new map for the Palestinian territories in order to impose it on the Palestinians and the world, he added.
“This, at a time when the Palestinians are seeking a negotiated solution on the basis of international legitimacy,” Abed Rabbo said, ruling out the possibility that the peace talks would resume in the near future.
Israel, he charged, does not want to launch a serious peace process. Rather, it wants contact with the Palestinians, he said.
Abed Rabbo said that Israel also does not want to see an end to the split between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
He claimed that Israel was pushing toward placing the Gaza Strip under Egyptian control.
The PLO official blamed differences within Hamas for the failure of the recent Qatari-brokered reconciliation agreement between PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.
Ahmed Assaf, a Fatah spokesman in the West Bank, said on Saturday that the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip has rejected the Qatari-engineered deal “because they want to preserve their privileges and illegitimate jobs.”
