13 apr 2017
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) notified the demolition of a mosque in Silwan town, south of holy al-Aqsa Mosque, under the pretext of unlicensed construction.
Media spokesman for Silwan Defense Committee, Fakhri Abu Diab, said Israeli municipal crews threatened the demolition of Abdullah al-Sanawi Mosque, in Silwan town, which was built several years ago on an endowed land tract.
The mosque is the sole place of worship for nearly 4,000 Muslim inhabitants in the area.
Diab added that the Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem has often rebuffed Palestinians’ appeals for construction licenses as part of a larger scheme of ethnic cleansing aiming to wipe out the city’s Islamic character.
According to the activist, Abdullah al-Sanawi Mosque is one among five others threatened with demolition in Silwan, in a flagrant violation of Muslims’ right to the freedom of worship.
Media spokesman for Silwan Defense Committee, Fakhri Abu Diab, said Israeli municipal crews threatened the demolition of Abdullah al-Sanawi Mosque, in Silwan town, which was built several years ago on an endowed land tract.
The mosque is the sole place of worship for nearly 4,000 Muslim inhabitants in the area.
Diab added that the Israeli municipality in Occupied Jerusalem has often rebuffed Palestinians’ appeals for construction licenses as part of a larger scheme of ethnic cleansing aiming to wipe out the city’s Islamic character.
According to the activist, Abdullah al-Sanawi Mosque is one among five others threatened with demolition in Silwan, in a flagrant violation of Muslims’ right to the freedom of worship.
9 apr 2017
Palestinian intifada young men carried out, during the first week of April 2017, 11 heroic operations against the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), killing one soldier and wounding eight others in different areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
According to a report released by the Intifada website, 21-year-old Malek Hamed slammed his car, a few days ago, into a group of Israeli soldiers on a road near the illegal settlement of Ofra, northeast of Ramallah.
Three Israeli policemen also suffered different injuries when 17-year-old Ahmed stabbed them in Bab al-Wad area in the Old City of Jerusalem. He was killed on-site.
In a separate incident, the IOF claimed its forces foiled a stabbing attempt in al-Khalil city and arrested two young men, who tried to carry out the attack.
One soldier was slightly injured when angry young men hurled stones at an Israeli military force that clashed with them in Taqua town, southeast of Bethlehem.
Young men also showered soldiers with stone in al-Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah, wounding one of them.
In Jerusalem, one policeman was moderately wounded after a young man threw a Molotov cocktail at him during skirmishes in Issawiya district.
In Beit Ummar town of al-Khalil, a group of young men detonated an explosive device at an Israeli military force. There was no information if the attack resulted in injuries among soldiers.
In addition, gunfire attacks reportedly took place during the first week of April on different Israeli settlements.
Anonymous gunmen, believed to be from the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank, opened fire at the illegal settlements of Beit Arab, Pisgat, and Shavei Shomron as well as the Salem military base.
In another context, the Intifada website said that 12 Palestinians suffered rubber and live bullet injuries and many others were either beaten or attacked with tear gas during recent clashes with the IOF in different flashpoint areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Its report noted that seven Molotov cocktails were used against Israeli soldiers and policemen during clashes in the West Bank and Jerusalem during the fourth week of March 2017.
It also pointed out that nine bodies of Palestinian martyrs are still being detained by the Israeli security and military authorities.
85 Palestinian citizens, including 10 children and many ex-detainees, were either detained or kidnapped in the West Bank and Jerusalem during the reporting weeks.
According to a report released by the Intifada website, 21-year-old Malek Hamed slammed his car, a few days ago, into a group of Israeli soldiers on a road near the illegal settlement of Ofra, northeast of Ramallah.
Three Israeli policemen also suffered different injuries when 17-year-old Ahmed stabbed them in Bab al-Wad area in the Old City of Jerusalem. He was killed on-site.
In a separate incident, the IOF claimed its forces foiled a stabbing attempt in al-Khalil city and arrested two young men, who tried to carry out the attack.
One soldier was slightly injured when angry young men hurled stones at an Israeli military force that clashed with them in Taqua town, southeast of Bethlehem.
Young men also showered soldiers with stone in al-Jalazoun refugee camp in Ramallah, wounding one of them.
In Jerusalem, one policeman was moderately wounded after a young man threw a Molotov cocktail at him during skirmishes in Issawiya district.
In Beit Ummar town of al-Khalil, a group of young men detonated an explosive device at an Israeli military force. There was no information if the attack resulted in injuries among soldiers.
In addition, gunfire attacks reportedly took place during the first week of April on different Israeli settlements.
Anonymous gunmen, believed to be from the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank, opened fire at the illegal settlements of Beit Arab, Pisgat, and Shavei Shomron as well as the Salem military base.
In another context, the Intifada website said that 12 Palestinians suffered rubber and live bullet injuries and many others were either beaten or attacked with tear gas during recent clashes with the IOF in different flashpoint areas of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Its report noted that seven Molotov cocktails were used against Israeli soldiers and policemen during clashes in the West Bank and Jerusalem during the fourth week of March 2017.
It also pointed out that nine bodies of Palestinian martyrs are still being detained by the Israeli security and military authorities.
85 Palestinian citizens, including 10 children and many ex-detainees, were either detained or kidnapped in the West Bank and Jerusalem during the reporting weeks.
8 apr 2017
A UN report said that Israel killed four Palestinians, wounded 124 others, and demolished and seized 18 homes and structures between March 21 and April 3.
The report, which was released on Friday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that one woman aged 49 and three teenagers were killed during the reporting period.
One of those teenagers was a 16-year-old boy who was killed during an Israeli artillery attack on Rafah area in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the current year, 12 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli occupation forces, the report noted.
Overall, 124 Palestinians, 14 of them children, were injured by Israeli forces in multiple clashes in the West Bank, according to the report.
Most of the injuries occurred during clashes in the context of demonstrations commemorating the 41st anniversary of the Land Day. Other clashes were reported over the course of Israeli search and arrest campaigns, at a funeral of the boy killed in al-Jalazoun refugee camp, and during clashes in various locations of Jerusalem and Ramallah provinces.
In the West Bank, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished or seized 18 Palestinian-owned structures on grounds of lack of building permits, displacing 22 Palestinians and affecting the livelihoods of over 90.
Five of these structures were in east Jerusalem and the remaining 13 structures were in five communities in Area C in the West Bank.
Furthermore, in the Jabal Mukaber area of east Jerusalem, the family home of the perpetrator of an attack in January 2017, which killed four Israeli soldiers, was punitively sealed displacing a woman and her four children.
The report also elaborated that the Israeli authorities declared various non-contiguous plots of land in the Nablus governorate, amounting to nearly 1,000 dunums, as “state land”, for the establishment of a new Israeli settlement, and retroactively legalized three existing settlement outposts.
According to an Israeli cabinet decision, the new settlement will be used for the relocation of settlers recently evacuated from the illegal Amona settlement outpost.
This settlement construction would impact the access to land by farmers from four adjacent villages, which are Sinjil, Qaryut, as-Sawiya and al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, and would further undermine their agricultural livelihoods.
In four separate incidents during the same period, the report said, armed Jewish settlers attacked or threatened Palestinian farmers and forced them out of their land in the vicinity of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
In one of these incidents, a Palestinian farmer was physically assaulted and injured near Beit Furik village (Nablus).
The other three incidents involved threats and intimidation of farmers who accessed their land in Nablus and Qalqiliya, following prior coordination or authorization by the Israeli authorities.
Moreover, three Palestinian-plated vehicles were damaged by settlers in stone-throwing incidents.
The report, which was released on Friday by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that one woman aged 49 and three teenagers were killed during the reporting period.
One of those teenagers was a 16-year-old boy who was killed during an Israeli artillery attack on Rafah area in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the current year, 12 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli occupation forces, the report noted.
Overall, 124 Palestinians, 14 of them children, were injured by Israeli forces in multiple clashes in the West Bank, according to the report.
Most of the injuries occurred during clashes in the context of demonstrations commemorating the 41st anniversary of the Land Day. Other clashes were reported over the course of Israeli search and arrest campaigns, at a funeral of the boy killed in al-Jalazoun refugee camp, and during clashes in various locations of Jerusalem and Ramallah provinces.
In the West Bank, the Israeli occupation authorities demolished or seized 18 Palestinian-owned structures on grounds of lack of building permits, displacing 22 Palestinians and affecting the livelihoods of over 90.
Five of these structures were in east Jerusalem and the remaining 13 structures were in five communities in Area C in the West Bank.
Furthermore, in the Jabal Mukaber area of east Jerusalem, the family home of the perpetrator of an attack in January 2017, which killed four Israeli soldiers, was punitively sealed displacing a woman and her four children.
The report also elaborated that the Israeli authorities declared various non-contiguous plots of land in the Nablus governorate, amounting to nearly 1,000 dunums, as “state land”, for the establishment of a new Israeli settlement, and retroactively legalized three existing settlement outposts.
According to an Israeli cabinet decision, the new settlement will be used for the relocation of settlers recently evacuated from the illegal Amona settlement outpost.
This settlement construction would impact the access to land by farmers from four adjacent villages, which are Sinjil, Qaryut, as-Sawiya and al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, and would further undermine their agricultural livelihoods.
In four separate incidents during the same period, the report said, armed Jewish settlers attacked or threatened Palestinian farmers and forced them out of their land in the vicinity of illegal settlements in the West Bank.
In one of these incidents, a Palestinian farmer was physically assaulted and injured near Beit Furik village (Nablus).
The other three incidents involved threats and intimidation of farmers who accessed their land in Nablus and Qalqiliya, following prior coordination or authorization by the Israeli authorities.
Moreover, three Palestinian-plated vehicles were damaged by settlers in stone-throwing incidents.
7 apr 2017
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) have announced the closure of all points of access out of and into the Gaza Strip and the West Bank for the Jewish holiday of Passover.
The Israeli army said in a statement the blockade will be in effect as of Sunday evening, April 9, and lifted on Monday evening, April 17.
Palestinian citizens will be denied access into Israel (Palestinian territories occupied in 1948) and their workplaces in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The IOA regularly closes off access to the occupied territories for Palestinians during major Jewish festivals.
Thousands of Israeli settlers flock to Occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam—during the seven-day holiday of Passover, which commemorates the Jewish exodus from Egypt in Biblical times.
The Israeli army said in a statement the blockade will be in effect as of Sunday evening, April 9, and lifted on Monday evening, April 17.
Palestinian citizens will be denied access into Israel (Palestinian territories occupied in 1948) and their workplaces in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The IOA regularly closes off access to the occupied territories for Palestinians during major Jewish festivals.
Thousands of Israeli settlers flock to Occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam—during the seven-day holiday of Passover, which commemorates the Jewish exodus from Egypt in Biblical times.
6 apr 2017
A shooting attack on an Israeli military site was reported Thursday evening near Psagot settlement, illegally built north of Ramallah.
According to the Israeli radio, no injuries resulted from the shooting attack.
Meanwhile, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) rushed to the scene and started combing operations in search for the shooters.
Anti-occupation attacks have escalated in recent days. Palestinian fighters carried out three attacks on Thursday, resulting in the death of one Israeli soldier and the injury of another.
Earlier today, Hamas Movement said in brief statement that Jerusalem Intifada will continue till achieving freedom.
“There will be no security for Israel or the settlers as long as it denies our rights, occupies our land, and attacks our people and our holy sites,” spokesman for the Movement Hazem Qasem said.
According to the Israeli radio, no injuries resulted from the shooting attack.
Meanwhile, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) rushed to the scene and started combing operations in search for the shooters.
Anti-occupation attacks have escalated in recent days. Palestinian fighters carried out three attacks on Thursday, resulting in the death of one Israeli soldier and the injury of another.
Earlier today, Hamas Movement said in brief statement that Jerusalem Intifada will continue till achieving freedom.
“There will be no security for Israel or the settlers as long as it denies our rights, occupies our land, and attacks our people and our holy sites,” spokesman for the Movement Hazem Qasem said.
A bid was put forth by Israel’s Western Wall Heritage Foundation to establish the infrastructure of the so-called Haliba Judaization project in Occupied Jerusalem.
Settlement affairs expert Ahmad Sub Laban said the bid suggests the construction of a two-story building covering up to 4,000 meters and comprising exhibition halls and a guest room.
The projected bid will be built in an area located just dozens of meters away from the southern wall of holy al-Aqsa Mosque—Muslims’ third holiest site.
The Beit Haliba project falls in line with Israel’s western wall plan, in reference to a scheme targeting the historic Buraq Wall.
Beit Haliba plan was advanced by the fanatic Israeli rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who pushed for transforming the Buraq Square into a space for holding Jewish parties. Rabinowitz is the head of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, backed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Settlement affairs expert Ahmad Sub Laban said the bid suggests the construction of a two-story building covering up to 4,000 meters and comprising exhibition halls and a guest room.
The projected bid will be built in an area located just dozens of meters away from the southern wall of holy al-Aqsa Mosque—Muslims’ third holiest site.
The Beit Haliba project falls in line with Israel’s western wall plan, in reference to a scheme targeting the historic Buraq Wall.
Beit Haliba plan was advanced by the fanatic Israeli rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz who pushed for transforming the Buraq Square into a space for holding Jewish parties. Rabinowitz is the head of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, backed by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
