10 oct 2016
On the eve of Yom Kippur holiday, Israeli police turned Monday occupied Jerusalem into a military barrack after erecting dozens of military checkpoints throughout the city.
The military restrictions would last for the next two days, Israeli police said in a statement issued Monday.
All preparations have been finalised to protect Israeli settlers while performing their Talmudic rituals on Yom Kippur, the statement added.
Palestinian movement would be restricted during the reported period, according to the statement. “Israeli troops will be deployed on the outskirts of the city in order to prevent any planned riot,” Israeli police said.
The military restrictions would last for the next two days, Israeli police said in a statement issued Monday.
All preparations have been finalised to protect Israeli settlers while performing their Talmudic rituals on Yom Kippur, the statement added.
Palestinian movement would be restricted during the reported period, according to the statement. “Israeli troops will be deployed on the outskirts of the city in order to prevent any planned riot,” Israeli police said.
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) imposed Monday a complete closure in occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip on the occasion of Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.
The military restrictions would last for two days starting from tonight, Israeli authorities said in a statement issued Monday.
Similar restrictions were declared in occupied Jerusalem to protect Israeli settlers while performing their Talmudic rituals on Yom Kippur.
“Israeli troops will be deployed on the outskirts of the city in order to prevent any planned riot,” Israeli police claimed.
The military restrictions would last for two days starting from tonight, Israeli authorities said in a statement issued Monday.
Similar restrictions were declared in occupied Jerusalem to protect Israeli settlers while performing their Talmudic rituals on Yom Kippur.
“Israeli troops will be deployed on the outskirts of the city in order to prevent any planned riot,” Israeli police claimed.
Head of Hamas’s political bureau Khaled Mishaal has said that the Palestinian people will uphold the path of resistance and struggle against the Israeli occupation until they liberate Jerusalem, the Aqsa Mosque and the prisoners, and return to their homes.
This came in a telephone call on Sunday evening with the father of martyr Misbah Abu Subaih, who carried out a drive-by shooting attack in Occupied Jerusalem earlier on the same day.
Mishaal offered his condolences to the father and family of the martyr, and congratulated them on the martyrdom of their son and the great sacrifice he had made in defense of his own people and homeland.
Abu Subaih carried out a shooting attack aboard a vehicle on Sunday morning in east Jerusalem, wounding six Israeli and killing two others.
Later, Hamas claimed the shooter as one of its members, and hailed the operation as “heroic and a natural response to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians and their holy sites.”
This came in a telephone call on Sunday evening with the father of martyr Misbah Abu Subaih, who carried out a drive-by shooting attack in Occupied Jerusalem earlier on the same day.
Mishaal offered his condolences to the father and family of the martyr, and congratulated them on the martyrdom of their son and the great sacrifice he had made in defense of his own people and homeland.
Abu Subaih carried out a shooting attack aboard a vehicle on Sunday morning in east Jerusalem, wounding six Israeli and killing two others.
Later, Hamas claimed the shooter as one of its members, and hailed the operation as “heroic and a natural response to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians and their holy sites.”
9 oct 2016
The Hamas Movement has blessed the commando shooting attack that occurred in Occupied Jerusalem on Sunday morning, describing it as “heroic.”
In a press release, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the operation was a natural response to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people and their holy sites.
“This heroic operation has proved that all the occupation’s attempts to break and liquidate al-Quds intifada (uprising) will not succeed,” Barhoum stated.
In a separate statement, Hamas mourned the death of the shooter, Misbah Abu Subaih, and described him as one of its finest sons.
At least eight settlers and soldiers have suffered gunshot injuries, some seriously, in a drive-by shooting attack that happened on Jerusalem streets today morning.
In a press release, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the operation was a natural response to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people and their holy sites.
“This heroic operation has proved that all the occupation’s attempts to break and liquidate al-Quds intifada (uprising) will not succeed,” Barhoum stated.
In a separate statement, Hamas mourned the death of the shooter, Misbah Abu Subaih, and described him as one of its finest sons.
At least eight settlers and soldiers have suffered gunshot injuries, some seriously, in a drive-by shooting attack that happened on Jerusalem streets today morning.
7 oct 2016
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada in October 2015 nearly 2,155 Palestinian children and minors, a rights activist revealed.
The researcher in prisoners’ affairs Riyad al-Ashqar has documented in a new report the arrest of 8,000 Palestinians over the past year, the quarter of whom were children.
Some of the detained minors were less than ten years old and some of them were injured during their detention, he pointed out. Several girls were also among the detainees, he said.
In an unprecedented measure, Israeli authorities turned a number of the detained minors to administrative detention.
Al-Ashqar underlined that a number of detained minors were subjected to severe beating, torture, ill-treatment, and tough investigation in flagrant violation of the international law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
15 detained minors were shot and injured by the IOF during their arrest for allegedly planning to carry out stabbing attacks, the activist said. According to the activist, Israeli authorities opened two new sections in Ofer prison allocated for minors due to the HaSharon prison overcrowding as Israeli arrests of Palestinian minors have notably increased over the past five years.
There are currently 400 Palestinian children and minors held in Israeli jails and detention centers amid very difficult and inhuman conditions.
The researcher in prisoners’ affairs Riyad al-Ashqar has documented in a new report the arrest of 8,000 Palestinians over the past year, the quarter of whom were children.
Some of the detained minors were less than ten years old and some of them were injured during their detention, he pointed out. Several girls were also among the detainees, he said.
In an unprecedented measure, Israeli authorities turned a number of the detained minors to administrative detention.
Al-Ashqar underlined that a number of detained minors were subjected to severe beating, torture, ill-treatment, and tough investigation in flagrant violation of the international law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
15 detained minors were shot and injured by the IOF during their arrest for allegedly planning to carry out stabbing attacks, the activist said. According to the activist, Israeli authorities opened two new sections in Ofer prison allocated for minors due to the HaSharon prison overcrowding as Israeli arrests of Palestinian minors have notably increased over the past five years.
There are currently 400 Palestinian children and minors held in Israeli jails and detention centers amid very difficult and inhuman conditions.
6 oct 2016
The Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Thursday decided to strip a Palestinian woman of her Israeli residency status, Israel Hayom newspaper revealed.
The Israeli permanent residency status in 1948 occupied Palestine of the Palestinian woman Khudra Masoud, the widow of Wael Abu Salah who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers for allegedly carrying out an anti-occupation attack last June, was revoked, the paper affirmed.
She will be thus deported to areas under Palestinian Authority control, according to the paper. The ministry said that its unprecedented decision is a ‘message of deterrence to Palestinian attackers and their families,’ according to the newspaper.
The Israeli permanent residency status in 1948 occupied Palestine of the Palestinian woman Khudra Masoud, the widow of Wael Abu Salah who was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers for allegedly carrying out an anti-occupation attack last June, was revoked, the paper affirmed.
She will be thus deported to areas under Palestinian Authority control, according to the paper. The ministry said that its unprecedented decision is a ‘message of deterrence to Palestinian attackers and their families,’ according to the newspaper.
4 oct 2016
Israel’s Internal Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, claimed cooperation with Facebook admin is not enough to quell Palestinian anti-occupation activism.
Erdan said more efforts have to be done in order for Israel to be able to quell Palestinians’ right to the freedom of speech and anti-occupation resistance on social media networks.
A few days earlier, Facebook extended an apology over the closure of Palestinian news sites. According to Palestinian activists, the censorship is a direct upshot of a recent meeting between Facebook administrators and Israeli leaders.
The minister referred to the surge in “anti-Israel campaigns” via social media networks, particularly on Facebook.
Over one million Israeli fanatics are expected to pop in the occupied Palestinian territories to mark the Jewish Passover, Erdan added as he called for more efforts to suppress resistance campaigns and activities.
He said the Israeli police and intelligence are sparing no effort to keep an eye on anti-occupation campaigns and posts across social media networks. He hailed the Facebook administration for “meeting Israel’s needs” whenever called for help.
Several Palestinian youths have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces since October 1 last year and sentenced to prison-terms on account of anti-occupation statements posted online.
Erdan said more efforts have to be done in order for Israel to be able to quell Palestinians’ right to the freedom of speech and anti-occupation resistance on social media networks.
A few days earlier, Facebook extended an apology over the closure of Palestinian news sites. According to Palestinian activists, the censorship is a direct upshot of a recent meeting between Facebook administrators and Israeli leaders.
The minister referred to the surge in “anti-Israel campaigns” via social media networks, particularly on Facebook.
Over one million Israeli fanatics are expected to pop in the occupied Palestinian territories to mark the Jewish Passover, Erdan added as he called for more efforts to suppress resistance campaigns and activities.
He said the Israeli police and intelligence are sparing no effort to keep an eye on anti-occupation campaigns and posts across social media networks. He hailed the Facebook administration for “meeting Israel’s needs” whenever called for help.
Several Palestinian youths have been arrested by the Israeli occupation forces since October 1 last year and sentenced to prison-terms on account of anti-occupation statements posted online.
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) has finished all preparations, in cooperation with unnamed Jewish groups, to build a big synagogue called the Jewel of Israel in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem.
It will be located about 200 meters away from the western side of the Aqsa Mosque.
According to the Palestinian news website Qpress, the new synagogue project will cost around 48 million shekels, mostly from the Israeli government and the rest from wealthy Jews.
The synagogue will be composed of six floors, two underground, and will be built on the ruins of an Islamic historical site dating back to the Ottoman and Mamluk eras.
The project is part of a large-scale Israeli plan aimed at planting religious Jewish structures in the heart of Old Jerusalem to change the Islamic and Arab identity of the holy city. It will be the second massive Jewish edifice in the Old City after the Hurva synagogue, which was built in 2010.
It will be located about 200 meters away from the western side of the Aqsa Mosque.
According to the Palestinian news website Qpress, the new synagogue project will cost around 48 million shekels, mostly from the Israeli government and the rest from wealthy Jews.
The synagogue will be composed of six floors, two underground, and will be built on the ruins of an Islamic historical site dating back to the Ottoman and Mamluk eras.
The project is part of a large-scale Israeli plan aimed at planting religious Jewish structures in the heart of Old Jerusalem to change the Islamic and Arab identity of the holy city. It will be the second massive Jewish edifice in the Old City after the Hurva synagogue, which was built in 2010.
The Israeli occupation forces arrested 436 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in September 2016, including 73 children and 11 women, human rights groups reported.
151 of those arrests took place in Occupied Jerusalem, 81 in Al-Khalil, 40 in Bethlehem, 40 in Nablus, 35 in Jenin, 32 in Ramallah and El-Bireh, 23 in Tulkarem, eight in Qalqilya, six in Tubas, six in Salfit, five from Jericho and nine from the Gaza Strip.
There are approximately 7,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including 59 women, 12 of them minor girls.
There is a total of approximately 350 children in Megiddo and Ofer prisons. According to the report, there are 700 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
122 administrative detention orders were issued in September, including 44 new orders. The Battle of Empty Stomachs in September Palestinian prisoners Mohammed and Mahmoud al-Balboul, along with Malik al-Qadi, carried out hunger strikes for over 70 days against the administrative detention orders.
They ended their strikes on 22 September after reaching an agreement for their release without renewal of their administrative detention. Al-Qadi received pledges to be transferred to a Palestinian hospital while the Balboul brothers received promises to be released on 8 December 2016.
Palestinian prisoners Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid launched their hunger strike in September against administrative detention while Jawad Jawarish and Maher Abayat announced their strike against arbitrary transfer and isolation.
The popular uprising which began on 1 October 2015 has had a clear impact on the issue of prisoners. The number of daily arrests has increased over the past year and has culminated in the abduction of civilians from different ages and social groups.
At least 7,955 Palestinians were arrested, including 1963 children, 229 women and girls, 41 journalists and five members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
The highest number of recorded arrests was in Occupied Jerusalem, with 2,355 Palestinians detained since last October, including 842 children and 128 women (among whom 24 minor girls.)
There has also been a surge in the number of administrative detention orders throughout the year. For the first time since 2008, occupation authorities have issued 1,436 administrative detention orders in 2016 so far, including 546 new orders issued without charge or trial under the so-called “secret file” pretext.
Many administrative detention orders were issued against young people and students who are not affiliated with the Palestinian political factions.
Since last October, the Israeli occupation authorities have pursued systematic and deliberate policies of mistreatment against Palestinian prisoners at all stages, from the pre-detention to the post-detention phases.
Notorious among these violations are the use of excessive force and the extrajudicial killing of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.
The human rights organizations also monitored violations and torture against Palestinian detainees, including aggressive beating, intensive interrogation, break-ins into prison cells, and preplanned medical neglect.
A series of draft laws was also enacted against Palestinians, including the extension of prison sentences against “stone throwers,” and administrative detainees in an attempt to quell anti-occupation activism.
In addition, new charges were issued to arrest or deport hundreds of Palestinians on account of their statements on social media networks.
151 of those arrests took place in Occupied Jerusalem, 81 in Al-Khalil, 40 in Bethlehem, 40 in Nablus, 35 in Jenin, 32 in Ramallah and El-Bireh, 23 in Tulkarem, eight in Qalqilya, six in Tubas, six in Salfit, five from Jericho and nine from the Gaza Strip.
There are approximately 7,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, including 59 women, 12 of them minor girls.
There is a total of approximately 350 children in Megiddo and Ofer prisons. According to the report, there are 700 Palestinians held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
122 administrative detention orders were issued in September, including 44 new orders. The Battle of Empty Stomachs in September Palestinian prisoners Mohammed and Mahmoud al-Balboul, along with Malik al-Qadi, carried out hunger strikes for over 70 days against the administrative detention orders.
They ended their strikes on 22 September after reaching an agreement for their release without renewal of their administrative detention. Al-Qadi received pledges to be transferred to a Palestinian hospital while the Balboul brothers received promises to be released on 8 December 2016.
Palestinian prisoners Ahmad Abu Fara and Anas Shadid launched their hunger strike in September against administrative detention while Jawad Jawarish and Maher Abayat announced their strike against arbitrary transfer and isolation.
The popular uprising which began on 1 October 2015 has had a clear impact on the issue of prisoners. The number of daily arrests has increased over the past year and has culminated in the abduction of civilians from different ages and social groups.
At least 7,955 Palestinians were arrested, including 1963 children, 229 women and girls, 41 journalists and five members of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
The highest number of recorded arrests was in Occupied Jerusalem, with 2,355 Palestinians detained since last October, including 842 children and 128 women (among whom 24 minor girls.)
There has also been a surge in the number of administrative detention orders throughout the year. For the first time since 2008, occupation authorities have issued 1,436 administrative detention orders in 2016 so far, including 546 new orders issued without charge or trial under the so-called “secret file” pretext.
Many administrative detention orders were issued against young people and students who are not affiliated with the Palestinian political factions.
Since last October, the Israeli occupation authorities have pursued systematic and deliberate policies of mistreatment against Palestinian prisoners at all stages, from the pre-detention to the post-detention phases.
Notorious among these violations are the use of excessive force and the extrajudicial killing of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers.
The human rights organizations also monitored violations and torture against Palestinian detainees, including aggressive beating, intensive interrogation, break-ins into prison cells, and preplanned medical neglect.
A series of draft laws was also enacted against Palestinians, including the extension of prison sentences against “stone throwers,” and administrative detainees in an attempt to quell anti-occupation activism.
In addition, new charges were issued to arrest or deport hundreds of Palestinians on account of their statements on social media networks.