30 dec 2012
Jewish settlers physically attacked a Jerusalemite kid
Jewish settlers physically attacked a Jerusalemite kid
Extremists Jewish settlers physically attacked a Jerusalemite kid named Abdul-Salam Qaimari, 17, as he was riding his bicycle on Wadi Rababa street in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque.
Wadi Hilwa information center said the boy was admitted to Hadassah hospital in Issawiya district.
The boy, for his part, explained that he was on his way back home along with his eight-year old brother following a visit to their uncle's house in Beer Ayoub neighborhood when four settlers attacked him, pepper sprayed him and pushed him off a 10-meter mountain before fleeing the scene.
He added that three young men passing down the mountain spotted him and called an ambulance.
Many similar attacks on Palestinian young men have been reported lately in the West Bank and Jerusalem, but the Israeli police have not acted to bring the assailants to justice.
Jewish settlers chop down 40 olive trees
Jewish settlers chopped down 40 olive trees in Qasra village, south of Nablus, that witnessed an Israeli teargas attack on Wednesday night.
Eyewitnesses in the village said that the settlers attacked olive fields on Wednesday night and at dawn Thursday in the southern area of the village under Israeli army protection.
They said that farmers and inhabitants of the village went to the fields in the morning and planted new trees instead of those cut by the settlers, noting that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the village and patrolled its streets at the same time.
Locals said that the settlers’ attack was the not the first of its kind and would not be the last.
Dozens of inhabitants were treated for breathing problems on Wednesday night after the joint IOF-settlers’ attack on the village.
Dozens suffer suffocation in IOF gas attack south of Nablus
Dozens of Palestinian citizens were treated for suffocation after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used teargas canisters against them in Qasra village, south of Nablus, afternoon Wednesday.
The chairman of the village’s municipal council said that a number of Jewish settlers stormed the southern area of the village and went on the rampage in its agricultural land.
He said that inhabitants rushed to rescue the farms and confront the settlers at which time IOF soldiers burst into the village mounting armored vehicles and fired teargas at the villagers to disperse them.
He said that smoke covered the facades of nearby houses and many civilians were treated for shock and gas inhalation.
25 dec 2012
Jerusalemite child hospitalized with head injuries after Jewish attack
Jewish settlers attacked and wounded a Palestinian child near St. George Monastery near occupied Jerusalem.
The electronic website of Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot reported that the 15-year-old child was hospitalized after the attack.
It said on Monday that the child was hit on his head by two Jewish settlers, describing his injuries as moderate.
Israeli bus runs over Palestinian child
An Israeli bus carrying Jewish settlers ran over a Palestinian child near the entrance to Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Monday.
Ahmed Abu Hashem, the coordinator of the village’s popular anti-wall committee, told Quds Press that 14-year-old Mohammed Al-Zaqiq was hospitalized in moderate condition after the hit-and-run incident.
He said that violent confrontations took place in the village after the accident during which angry young men threw stones at Israeli soldiers and settlers’ vehicles.
Israeli minister on provocative tour in Silwan
Israeli minister of energy and water Uzi Landau provocatively toured Wadi Hilwe suburb in Silwan in occupied Jerusalem on Monday evening amidst tight security measures.
Eyewitnesses said that Landau, a member of the extremist Yisrael Beiteinu party, started his tour at a settlement outpost to the entrance of Wadi Hilwe then toured a number of other outposts in the suburb.
They pointed out that a big number Israeli soldiers took positions in various areas of the suburb during the tour.
At the same time Israeli municipality teams entered Silwan town and toured shops under heavy security protection.
24 dec 2012
Jewish settlers storm Aqsa plazas
Jewish settlers stormed the internal plazas of the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning in a bid to offer Toratic prayers, eyewitnesses reported.
Sheikh Azzam Salhab, the director of Islamic Awkaf department in the holy city, said that 14 Jewish settlers broke into the mosque as part of the morning tourism tours organized by the Israeli occupation authorities in the holy site.
Dozens of Jewish settlers, rabbis, and Knesset members frequently break into the Aqsa mosque under heavy police escort in an attempt to impose a de facto division of the holy compound.
Jewish extremists defile Al-Kurd area for rituals
Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by the police performed Talmudic rituals in Rubat Al-Kurd area at the western wall of the Aqsa Mosque.
Head of Islamic waqf council in Jerusalem Sheikh Abdul-Azim Salhab said that Al-Buraq wall and Rubat Al-Kurd area are an integral part of the western wall of the Aqsa Mosque and an Islamic holy site.
Sheikh Salhab stressed that every Muslim living near or around the Aqsa Mosque is religiously obliged to prevent such desecration of the Mosque and its premises.
Different Zionist groups had called for performing Jewish rituals in Rubat Al-Kurd area on the occasion of the fasting day on the 10th of the Hebrew month.
One of these group declared that these rituals would be part of the Jewish activities aimed at fully controling Rubat Al-Kurd area, which the Jews describe as the small wailing square.
In a related context, an opinion poll conducted by Maariv newspaper showed on Friday that 71 percent of the ultraorthodox Jews known as the Haredim were in favor of allowing the Jews to perform their rituals inside the Aqsa Mosque, while seven percent were against.
The survey targeted the right-wing Israelis who claim that it is unfair and discriminatory not to allow the Jews to enter the Aqsa Mosque, while the Muslim freely perform their prayers inside it.
The poll has taken place as a number of Israeli extremist figures will run for the upcoming elections.
These figures call for dividing the Aqsa Mosque and building the alleged temple.
For its part, the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage denounced the results of this opinion poll and emphasized that the Aqsa Mosque is indivisible and historically and religiously belong to Muslims.
The Aqsa foundation called on the Arab and Muslim worlds to deal seriously with such information as a danger threatening the Aqsa Mosque.
It also called on the Palestinian official institutions to develop a plan to protect the Aqsa Mosque and prevent its division as happened to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil city.
23 dec 2012
Jewish settlers attack shepherds and their sheep
A big number of Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds and their sheep in Beit Tamar village to the east of Bethlehem on Saturday.
Hassan Breijeh, the head of the anti-settlement and anti-wall committee in Bethlehem, said that the settlers did not spare the sheep as they slit open the bellies of a big number of them in the assault.
He said that dozens of settlers came from Nokdim settlement and attacked the shepherds while tending to their flock of sheep.
Breijeh said that the settlers were escorted by Israeli occupation soldiers who usually monitor the settlers’ attacks without interfering unless the settlers were threatened.
21 dec 2012
Salfit: 2000 settlers storm shrines under protection of occupation army
Thousands of Jewish worshipers accompanied by Israeli soldiers stormed the town of Kifl Haris to the north of Salfit on Friday morning, locals said.
The occupation army forces set up control points and checkpoints at the entrances to the town in order to protect more than two thousand settlers who stormed Muslim shrines in the village, claiming that they are "Jewish shrines that belong to Jewish prophets."
Kifl Haris mayor Issam Abu Yaqoub said the Israelis behaved provocatively during the break-ins, shouting at villagers and dancing in the streets.
Izzat Shuqour, Yaqoub's deputy, added that the group of settlers posted stickers on Palestinian homes and public places in the village.
20 dec 2012
Jewish settlers set Palestinian cars on fire
Jewish settlers set two cars on fire in Majdal Bani Fadel village, south of Nablus, on Thursday and wrote racist slogans on walls of the village.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the setters came from Yash Kodesh outpost and torched two cars, one of them a Mercedes was completely burnt while the other a Fiat was partially burnt.
Daghlas said that the settlers wrote racist and threatening slogans on walls of the village before fleeing the scene. He noted that one of those slogans said that this is a “war zone and you should get out of it”.
19 dec 2012
Several Palestinians Injured In Jenin, Two Children Kidnapped
Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported Wednesday that several residents have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the army fired gas bombs at them near the southern entrance of the city.
Two children were kidnapped in a nearby village.
The sources said that the army installed a sudden roadblock near Jannat Park, stopped dozens of Palestinian vehicles, and detained the residents while interrogating them.
The soldiers also forced the several residents against a wall for an extended period an issue that pushed some residents to hurl stones at the soldiers and their jeeps.
The army then fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets, and withdrew from the area.
Late on Tuesday at evening, the army kidnapped two Palestinian children from Arbona village, east of Jenin.
Local sources reported that the army kidnapped Mohammad Zoheir Bani Hasan, 12, and Ayman Abdul-Nasser Bani Hasan, 11, while they were in their family’s farmland, and took them to an unknown destination.
In related news, the army violently attacked, on Tuesday evening, ten Palestinian day laborers from Hebron after stopping them near Nablus city. The attack took place in Asourin village, southeast of Nablus.
The soldiers stopped a vehicle transporting the workers and violently attacked, kicked and struck them with their weapons for more than one hour, eyewitnesses said.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against Settlements in Yatta, near Hebron, said that the workers, all of the Jabour family, suffered bruises to various parts of their bodies.
In related news, the army kidnapped one Palestinian near Beit El settlement, east of the central West Bank city of Nablus; soldiers claim the Palestinian “intended to stab a Jewish settler”.
The Israeli Police stated that the soldiers noticed a Palestinian walking near the settlement, and after stopping him “due to suspicious behavior” the soldiers found a knife in his possession, and transferred him to an interrogation center.
The Police also claimed that the Palestinian “confessed” during interrogation that he “intended to stab a settler”.
18 dec 2012
Settlers kidnap farmer and shoot another in Nablus
Jewish settlers attacked, on Monday afternoon, a group of Palestinian farmers in the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Ihab al-Kot, the head of the village council in Madama, told Quds Press agency that a group of settlers from the "Yitzhar" settlement attacked, yesterday afternoon, Palestinian farmers in the south of the village while they were working in their lands.
The attackers had also kidnapped one of the farmers, Maamoun Nasser, after abusing him, the head of the village council added.
He continued that the settlers shot Amir Nasser, 27 the brother of the kidnapped farmer, in his foot, noting that he had been taken to one of the hospitals in Nablus to receive treatment.
"Meanwhile, clashes erupted in the village after the intervention of a force of the occupation army, which started firing rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and Stun grenades at the Palestinian citizens, who responded by throwing stones and empty bottles," said al-Kot.
Attacks on the citizens and break-ins in al-Khalil
A group of Israeli settlers attacked, on Monday evening, Palestinian farmers near the town al-Rihiya in the south of al-Khalil.
Local sources said that settlers from the settlement of "Beit Haggai", set up on Palestinian land in the south of al-Khalil, attacked Palestinian farmers and citizens, under the protection of the occupation forces, which had prevented the farmers from entering their lands located near the settlement.
The sources added that the occupation arrested a Palestinian citizen during the attacks, and transferred him to an unknown destination.
Meanwhile, local sources in the south of al-Khalil said that the occupation forces handed over on Tuesday to a number of citizens in Deir Samet, Beit Awwa and Marah Bakar area demolition notices for five installations, including houses, under the pretext that they have been built without permits.
Eyewitnesses told PIC that the Israeli soldiers also raided the areas in the west of al-Khalil where they handed over to the owner of an installation a demolition notice.
The Israeli soldiers have been intensively deployed in several areas in the east of al-Khalil, in the southern West Bank, and at the military checkpoint, which had been set up near the northern entrance of the city.
The policy of abuses adopted against Palestinians at the checkpoints has recently escalated through stopping and searching the vehicles, with no justification, and causing traffic disruption
17 dec 2012
Israeli tourism ministry to carry out new settlement project in Silwan district
Wadi Hilwa information center said the Israeli ministry of tourism intends to carry out a new settlement project in Hawsh Qaraeen road in Silwan district, east of occupied Jerusalem.
In a press release, the center stated that the Israeli ministry of tourism in collaboration with other Zionist institutions would initiate the project of tiling Hawsh Qaraeen road and changing its infrastructure.
The center affirmed that this project is aimed to serve the Jewish settlers, where it would connect this road with the tourist pathway known as Al-Baten in Wadi Hilweh.
The popular committee of Wadi Hilweh natives strongly denounced this project and denied it would be road improvements as the Israeli ministry claimed.
The committee asserted that the project is part of Israel's settlement and Judaization activities in east Jerusalem, especially in Wadi Hilweh.
It added that the Israeli occupation authority does not make repairs and improvements in the alleys and roads of Wadi Hilweh neighborhood and all its projects only take place in annexed areas used by Jewish settlers or tourists.
16 dec 2012
Woman injured in settlers' violent attack on Einabus village
A gang of fanatic Jewish settlers from Yitzhar settlement escorted by Israeli troops savagely attacked Palestinian civilians in Einabus village, south of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses reported that one Palestinian woman suffered injuries during the settlers' attack on a house in the village, adding that their rampage lasted for hours at dawn Sunday.
The settlers did not only attack houses, but also they attacked dozens of Palestinian cars and smashed their windows, especially near Shavi Shomron road west of Nablus, the witnesses said.
Ghassan Daglas, specialist in settlement affairs in the northern West Bank, elaborated that dozens of Jewish settlers broke into the house of Hamdan Hussein in Einabus and embarked on smashing the furniture and glass household appliances.
Daglas added that the wife of Hussein suffered minor injuries because of the broken pieces of glass in the house and was taken to Rafidia hospital.
He affirmed that the attack on Hussein's house triggered violent clashes in the village, but the Israeli troops protected the Jewish assailants and fired a barrage of tear gas grenades on the villagers. Tear gas injuries were reported during the attack.
In another incident in Nablus, violent clashes erupted between Jewish settlers and Palestinian natives from Urif village when a group of settlers tried to storm the village.
The Israeli troops, who escorted the Jewish settlers, fired tear gas grenades to secure their withdrawal from the village.
Some of the Urif villagers suffered suffocation and others fainted as a result of the intensive tear gas smoke.
IOF soldiers close Negohot gate
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the Negohot military gate to the west of Dura town, south of Al-Khalil, on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the IOF soldiers closed the road adjacent to Negohot settlement at the pretext of protecting settlers, who have robbed Palestinian land in the area to establish their settlement.
The gate is closed every Saturday separating villages to the west of Dura from the town all because of alleged “settlers’ security”.
15 dec 2012
Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles; the army also fired dozens of gas bombs at civilian homes leading to dozens of injuries.
The sources said that a young Palestinian woman was injured, Saturday evening, when dozens of extremist settlers attacked a home in Einabous village, south of Nablus, and assaulted its inhabitants.
Extremist settlers also hurled stones at dozens of Palestinian vehicles driving on a road west of Nablus; damage was reported, no injuries.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern West Bank, reported that settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement invaded the home of Hamdan Ahmad Hussein in Einabous, attacked and injured his wife Lialy Odah, 25, and destroyed furniture and property. Lialy was moved to a local hospital suffering cuts and bruises.
Daghlas further stated that the army did not attempt to remove the settlers, and instead fired dozens of gas bombs at the residents who suffocated and were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
He also said that dozens of settlers continued to gather at the main road, that leads to the village, and continued to throw stones at Palestinian vehicles until evening hours Saturday, causing damage to several vehicles.
Meanwhile in Orif, near Nablus, clashes took place when a number of extremist settlers tried to invade the village, but local residents clashed with them and hurled stones and empty bottles; the army arrived at the scene and fired gas bombs at the residents, but did not force the settlers away.
14 dec 2012
Settlers Attack Children in Hebron
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said in a press release that three male settlers speculated to be between seventeen and nineteen years old attacked two Palestinian children in Hebron governorate.
The 9-year-old Younes Azzeh was kicked in the shins, thighs and generally roughed up and his 14-year-old sister Rahad Azzeh was accosted by a hurled stone hitting her lower back.
The settlers attacked the two Palestinians while they were walking home after school at around one o'clock in the afternoon. It's worth mentioning that their house is near to Ramat Yeshay settlement which has historically caused numerous problems for Hashem Azzeh's family, who is the father of the children.
The ISM also said the Azzeh family is of the few Palestinians allowed to walk on the road close to where the incident took place besides Zionists. The incident took place around checkpoint 57 in Tel Rumeida, this means that Israeli soldiers were nearby while the aggression took place.
Wadi Hilwa information center said the boy was admitted to Hadassah hospital in Issawiya district.
The boy, for his part, explained that he was on his way back home along with his eight-year old brother following a visit to their uncle's house in Beer Ayoub neighborhood when four settlers attacked him, pepper sprayed him and pushed him off a 10-meter mountain before fleeing the scene.
He added that three young men passing down the mountain spotted him and called an ambulance.
Many similar attacks on Palestinian young men have been reported lately in the West Bank and Jerusalem, but the Israeli police have not acted to bring the assailants to justice.
Jewish settlers chop down 40 olive trees
Jewish settlers chopped down 40 olive trees in Qasra village, south of Nablus, that witnessed an Israeli teargas attack on Wednesday night.
Eyewitnesses in the village said that the settlers attacked olive fields on Wednesday night and at dawn Thursday in the southern area of the village under Israeli army protection.
They said that farmers and inhabitants of the village went to the fields in the morning and planted new trees instead of those cut by the settlers, noting that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the village and patrolled its streets at the same time.
Locals said that the settlers’ attack was the not the first of its kind and would not be the last.
Dozens of inhabitants were treated for breathing problems on Wednesday night after the joint IOF-settlers’ attack on the village.
Dozens suffer suffocation in IOF gas attack south of Nablus
Dozens of Palestinian citizens were treated for suffocation after the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used teargas canisters against them in Qasra village, south of Nablus, afternoon Wednesday.
The chairman of the village’s municipal council said that a number of Jewish settlers stormed the southern area of the village and went on the rampage in its agricultural land.
He said that inhabitants rushed to rescue the farms and confront the settlers at which time IOF soldiers burst into the village mounting armored vehicles and fired teargas at the villagers to disperse them.
He said that smoke covered the facades of nearby houses and many civilians were treated for shock and gas inhalation.
25 dec 2012
Jerusalemite child hospitalized with head injuries after Jewish attack
Jewish settlers attacked and wounded a Palestinian child near St. George Monastery near occupied Jerusalem.
The electronic website of Hebrew daily Yediot Ahronot reported that the 15-year-old child was hospitalized after the attack.
It said on Monday that the child was hit on his head by two Jewish settlers, describing his injuries as moderate.
Israeli bus runs over Palestinian child
An Israeli bus carrying Jewish settlers ran over a Palestinian child near the entrance to Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Monday.
Ahmed Abu Hashem, the coordinator of the village’s popular anti-wall committee, told Quds Press that 14-year-old Mohammed Al-Zaqiq was hospitalized in moderate condition after the hit-and-run incident.
He said that violent confrontations took place in the village after the accident during which angry young men threw stones at Israeli soldiers and settlers’ vehicles.
Israeli minister on provocative tour in Silwan
Israeli minister of energy and water Uzi Landau provocatively toured Wadi Hilwe suburb in Silwan in occupied Jerusalem on Monday evening amidst tight security measures.
Eyewitnesses said that Landau, a member of the extremist Yisrael Beiteinu party, started his tour at a settlement outpost to the entrance of Wadi Hilwe then toured a number of other outposts in the suburb.
They pointed out that a big number Israeli soldiers took positions in various areas of the suburb during the tour.
At the same time Israeli municipality teams entered Silwan town and toured shops under heavy security protection.
24 dec 2012
Jewish settlers storm Aqsa plazas
Jewish settlers stormed the internal plazas of the holy Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning in a bid to offer Toratic prayers, eyewitnesses reported.
Sheikh Azzam Salhab, the director of Islamic Awkaf department in the holy city, said that 14 Jewish settlers broke into the mosque as part of the morning tourism tours organized by the Israeli occupation authorities in the holy site.
Dozens of Jewish settlers, rabbis, and Knesset members frequently break into the Aqsa mosque under heavy police escort in an attempt to impose a de facto division of the holy compound.
Jewish extremists defile Al-Kurd area for rituals
Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by the police performed Talmudic rituals in Rubat Al-Kurd area at the western wall of the Aqsa Mosque.
Head of Islamic waqf council in Jerusalem Sheikh Abdul-Azim Salhab said that Al-Buraq wall and Rubat Al-Kurd area are an integral part of the western wall of the Aqsa Mosque and an Islamic holy site.
Sheikh Salhab stressed that every Muslim living near or around the Aqsa Mosque is religiously obliged to prevent such desecration of the Mosque and its premises.
Different Zionist groups had called for performing Jewish rituals in Rubat Al-Kurd area on the occasion of the fasting day on the 10th of the Hebrew month.
One of these group declared that these rituals would be part of the Jewish activities aimed at fully controling Rubat Al-Kurd area, which the Jews describe as the small wailing square.
In a related context, an opinion poll conducted by Maariv newspaper showed on Friday that 71 percent of the ultraorthodox Jews known as the Haredim were in favor of allowing the Jews to perform their rituals inside the Aqsa Mosque, while seven percent were against.
The survey targeted the right-wing Israelis who claim that it is unfair and discriminatory not to allow the Jews to enter the Aqsa Mosque, while the Muslim freely perform their prayers inside it.
The poll has taken place as a number of Israeli extremist figures will run for the upcoming elections.
These figures call for dividing the Aqsa Mosque and building the alleged temple.
For its part, the Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage denounced the results of this opinion poll and emphasized that the Aqsa Mosque is indivisible and historically and religiously belong to Muslims.
The Aqsa foundation called on the Arab and Muslim worlds to deal seriously with such information as a danger threatening the Aqsa Mosque.
It also called on the Palestinian official institutions to develop a plan to protect the Aqsa Mosque and prevent its division as happened to the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil city.
23 dec 2012
Jewish settlers attack shepherds and their sheep
A big number of Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian shepherds and their sheep in Beit Tamar village to the east of Bethlehem on Saturday.
Hassan Breijeh, the head of the anti-settlement and anti-wall committee in Bethlehem, said that the settlers did not spare the sheep as they slit open the bellies of a big number of them in the assault.
He said that dozens of settlers came from Nokdim settlement and attacked the shepherds while tending to their flock of sheep.
Breijeh said that the settlers were escorted by Israeli occupation soldiers who usually monitor the settlers’ attacks without interfering unless the settlers were threatened.
21 dec 2012
Salfit: 2000 settlers storm shrines under protection of occupation army
Thousands of Jewish worshipers accompanied by Israeli soldiers stormed the town of Kifl Haris to the north of Salfit on Friday morning, locals said.
The occupation army forces set up control points and checkpoints at the entrances to the town in order to protect more than two thousand settlers who stormed Muslim shrines in the village, claiming that they are "Jewish shrines that belong to Jewish prophets."
Kifl Haris mayor Issam Abu Yaqoub said the Israelis behaved provocatively during the break-ins, shouting at villagers and dancing in the streets.
Izzat Shuqour, Yaqoub's deputy, added that the group of settlers posted stickers on Palestinian homes and public places in the village.
20 dec 2012
Jewish settlers set Palestinian cars on fire
Jewish settlers set two cars on fire in Majdal Bani Fadel village, south of Nablus, on Thursday and wrote racist slogans on walls of the village.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the setters came from Yash Kodesh outpost and torched two cars, one of them a Mercedes was completely burnt while the other a Fiat was partially burnt.
Daghlas said that the settlers wrote racist and threatening slogans on walls of the village before fleeing the scene. He noted that one of those slogans said that this is a “war zone and you should get out of it”.
19 dec 2012
Several Palestinians Injured In Jenin, Two Children Kidnapped
Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported Wednesday that several residents have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation after the army fired gas bombs at them near the southern entrance of the city.
Two children were kidnapped in a nearby village.
The sources said that the army installed a sudden roadblock near Jannat Park, stopped dozens of Palestinian vehicles, and detained the residents while interrogating them.
The soldiers also forced the several residents against a wall for an extended period an issue that pushed some residents to hurl stones at the soldiers and their jeeps.
The army then fired gas bombs and rubber-coated metal bullets, and withdrew from the area.
Late on Tuesday at evening, the army kidnapped two Palestinian children from Arbona village, east of Jenin.
Local sources reported that the army kidnapped Mohammad Zoheir Bani Hasan, 12, and Ayman Abdul-Nasser Bani Hasan, 11, while they were in their family’s farmland, and took them to an unknown destination.
In related news, the army violently attacked, on Tuesday evening, ten Palestinian day laborers from Hebron after stopping them near Nablus city. The attack took place in Asourin village, southeast of Nablus.
The soldiers stopped a vehicle transporting the workers and violently attacked, kicked and struck them with their weapons for more than one hour, eyewitnesses said.
Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against Settlements in Yatta, near Hebron, said that the workers, all of the Jabour family, suffered bruises to various parts of their bodies.
In related news, the army kidnapped one Palestinian near Beit El settlement, east of the central West Bank city of Nablus; soldiers claim the Palestinian “intended to stab a Jewish settler”.
The Israeli Police stated that the soldiers noticed a Palestinian walking near the settlement, and after stopping him “due to suspicious behavior” the soldiers found a knife in his possession, and transferred him to an interrogation center.
The Police also claimed that the Palestinian “confessed” during interrogation that he “intended to stab a settler”.
18 dec 2012
Settlers kidnap farmer and shoot another in Nablus
Jewish settlers attacked, on Monday afternoon, a group of Palestinian farmers in the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Ihab al-Kot, the head of the village council in Madama, told Quds Press agency that a group of settlers from the "Yitzhar" settlement attacked, yesterday afternoon, Palestinian farmers in the south of the village while they were working in their lands.
The attackers had also kidnapped one of the farmers, Maamoun Nasser, after abusing him, the head of the village council added.
He continued that the settlers shot Amir Nasser, 27 the brother of the kidnapped farmer, in his foot, noting that he had been taken to one of the hospitals in Nablus to receive treatment.
"Meanwhile, clashes erupted in the village after the intervention of a force of the occupation army, which started firing rubber bullets, tear gas grenades and Stun grenades at the Palestinian citizens, who responded by throwing stones and empty bottles," said al-Kot.
Attacks on the citizens and break-ins in al-Khalil
A group of Israeli settlers attacked, on Monday evening, Palestinian farmers near the town al-Rihiya in the south of al-Khalil.
Local sources said that settlers from the settlement of "Beit Haggai", set up on Palestinian land in the south of al-Khalil, attacked Palestinian farmers and citizens, under the protection of the occupation forces, which had prevented the farmers from entering their lands located near the settlement.
The sources added that the occupation arrested a Palestinian citizen during the attacks, and transferred him to an unknown destination.
Meanwhile, local sources in the south of al-Khalil said that the occupation forces handed over on Tuesday to a number of citizens in Deir Samet, Beit Awwa and Marah Bakar area demolition notices for five installations, including houses, under the pretext that they have been built without permits.
Eyewitnesses told PIC that the Israeli soldiers also raided the areas in the west of al-Khalil where they handed over to the owner of an installation a demolition notice.
The Israeli soldiers have been intensively deployed in several areas in the east of al-Khalil, in the southern West Bank, and at the military checkpoint, which had been set up near the northern entrance of the city.
The policy of abuses adopted against Palestinians at the checkpoints has recently escalated through stopping and searching the vehicles, with no justification, and causing traffic disruption
17 dec 2012
Israeli tourism ministry to carry out new settlement project in Silwan district
Wadi Hilwa information center said the Israeli ministry of tourism intends to carry out a new settlement project in Hawsh Qaraeen road in Silwan district, east of occupied Jerusalem.
In a press release, the center stated that the Israeli ministry of tourism in collaboration with other Zionist institutions would initiate the project of tiling Hawsh Qaraeen road and changing its infrastructure.
The center affirmed that this project is aimed to serve the Jewish settlers, where it would connect this road with the tourist pathway known as Al-Baten in Wadi Hilweh.
The popular committee of Wadi Hilweh natives strongly denounced this project and denied it would be road improvements as the Israeli ministry claimed.
The committee asserted that the project is part of Israel's settlement and Judaization activities in east Jerusalem, especially in Wadi Hilweh.
It added that the Israeli occupation authority does not make repairs and improvements in the alleys and roads of Wadi Hilweh neighborhood and all its projects only take place in annexed areas used by Jewish settlers or tourists.
16 dec 2012
Woman injured in settlers' violent attack on Einabus village
A gang of fanatic Jewish settlers from Yitzhar settlement escorted by Israeli troops savagely attacked Palestinian civilians in Einabus village, south of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses reported that one Palestinian woman suffered injuries during the settlers' attack on a house in the village, adding that their rampage lasted for hours at dawn Sunday.
The settlers did not only attack houses, but also they attacked dozens of Palestinian cars and smashed their windows, especially near Shavi Shomron road west of Nablus, the witnesses said.
Ghassan Daglas, specialist in settlement affairs in the northern West Bank, elaborated that dozens of Jewish settlers broke into the house of Hamdan Hussein in Einabus and embarked on smashing the furniture and glass household appliances.
Daglas added that the wife of Hussein suffered minor injuries because of the broken pieces of glass in the house and was taken to Rafidia hospital.
He affirmed that the attack on Hussein's house triggered violent clashes in the village, but the Israeli troops protected the Jewish assailants and fired a barrage of tear gas grenades on the villagers. Tear gas injuries were reported during the attack.
In another incident in Nablus, violent clashes erupted between Jewish settlers and Palestinian natives from Urif village when a group of settlers tried to storm the village.
The Israeli troops, who escorted the Jewish settlers, fired tear gas grenades to secure their withdrawal from the village.
Some of the Urif villagers suffered suffocation and others fainted as a result of the intensive tear gas smoke.
IOF soldiers close Negohot gate
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the Negohot military gate to the west of Dura town, south of Al-Khalil, on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the IOF soldiers closed the road adjacent to Negohot settlement at the pretext of protecting settlers, who have robbed Palestinian land in the area to establish their settlement.
The gate is closed every Saturday separating villages to the west of Dura from the town all because of alleged “settlers’ security”.
15 dec 2012
Settlers Attack Residents, Vehicles, Near Nablus
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that several injuries took place in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, after extremist Israeli settlers, and soldiers attacked Palestinian homes and vehicles; the army also fired dozens of gas bombs at civilian homes leading to dozens of injuries.
The sources said that a young Palestinian woman was injured, Saturday evening, when dozens of extremist settlers attacked a home in Einabous village, south of Nablus, and assaulted its inhabitants.
Extremist settlers also hurled stones at dozens of Palestinian vehicles driving on a road west of Nablus; damage was reported, no injuries.
Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern West Bank, reported that settlers of the Yitzhar illegal settlement invaded the home of Hamdan Ahmad Hussein in Einabous, attacked and injured his wife Lialy Odah, 25, and destroyed furniture and property. Lialy was moved to a local hospital suffering cuts and bruises.
Daghlas further stated that the army did not attempt to remove the settlers, and instead fired dozens of gas bombs at the residents who suffocated and were treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation.
He also said that dozens of settlers continued to gather at the main road, that leads to the village, and continued to throw stones at Palestinian vehicles until evening hours Saturday, causing damage to several vehicles.
Meanwhile in Orif, near Nablus, clashes took place when a number of extremist settlers tried to invade the village, but local residents clashed with them and hurled stones and empty bottles; the army arrived at the scene and fired gas bombs at the residents, but did not force the settlers away.
14 dec 2012
Settlers Attack Children in Hebron
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) said in a press release that three male settlers speculated to be between seventeen and nineteen years old attacked two Palestinian children in Hebron governorate.
The 9-year-old Younes Azzeh was kicked in the shins, thighs and generally roughed up and his 14-year-old sister Rahad Azzeh was accosted by a hurled stone hitting her lower back.
The settlers attacked the two Palestinians while they were walking home after school at around one o'clock in the afternoon. It's worth mentioning that their house is near to Ramat Yeshay settlement which has historically caused numerous problems for Hashem Azzeh's family, who is the father of the children.
The ISM also said the Azzeh family is of the few Palestinians allowed to walk on the road close to where the incident took place besides Zionists. The incident took place around checkpoint 57 in Tel Rumeida, this means that Israeli soldiers were nearby while the aggression took place.
