8 july 2018
The Israeli occupation authorities have prevented Palestinian farmers from Deir Istiya from collecting their summer crops in Wadi Qana.
Speaking with the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), Palestinian farmers spoke out against the crackdowns carried out by the occupation authorities in the area in an attempt to prevent them from reaping their carob, hawthorn, almond, and fig harvests.
The crackdowns have been carried out under the pretext that Wadi Qana is a nature reserve. Farmers caught picking crops in the area are subjected to steep fines.
Researcher Khaled Maali said Israeli wall, settlements, and nature reserves in Salfit have swallowed nearly 70% of Palestinian land in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
He said such violations contravene the international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention prohibiting any abuse of power by the occupation authorities against civilians.
Speaking with the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), Palestinian farmers spoke out against the crackdowns carried out by the occupation authorities in the area in an attempt to prevent them from reaping their carob, hawthorn, almond, and fig harvests.
The crackdowns have been carried out under the pretext that Wadi Qana is a nature reserve. Farmers caught picking crops in the area are subjected to steep fines.
Researcher Khaled Maali said Israeli wall, settlements, and nature reserves in Salfit have swallowed nearly 70% of Palestinian land in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
He said such violations contravene the international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention prohibiting any abuse of power by the occupation authorities against civilians.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at midnight confiscated a Palestinian commercial vehicle used to transport vegetables in an ambush on a road between Nablus and Ramallah.
According to local sources, the vehicle belongs to a young man called Suleiman Saqer, a resident of Nablus city, as he was driving home after he sold vegetables in Ramallah.
The vehicle was confiscated, with no reason, by soldiers at a makeshift checkpoint in an area known as Ayyoun al-Haramiyya between Nablus and Ramallah.
The young man is the son of ex-detainee Ahmed Saqer, whose personal car had been seized by the IOF about one month ago.
According to local sources, the vehicle belongs to a young man called Suleiman Saqer, a resident of Nablus city, as he was driving home after he sold vegetables in Ramallah.
The vehicle was confiscated, with no reason, by soldiers at a makeshift checkpoint in an area known as Ayyoun al-Haramiyya between Nablus and Ramallah.
The young man is the son of ex-detainee Ahmed Saqer, whose personal car had been seized by the IOF about one month ago.
7 july 2018
Israeli settlers Saturday cut down hundreds of fruitful grape trees belonging to Palestinians in the town of al-Khader, in Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank.
Ahmad Salah, coordinator of Anti-Settlement Committee in the town, said that Israeli extremist settlers cut down around 200 fruitful vineyards located adjacent to two illegal Israeli settlements: Efrat and Eliezer.
He added that Israeli occupation forces have recently intensified their measures against the town locals as a prelude to take over the land for settlement expansion.
Ahmad Salah, coordinator of Anti-Settlement Committee in the town, said that Israeli extremist settlers cut down around 200 fruitful vineyards located adjacent to two illegal Israeli settlements: Efrat and Eliezer.
He added that Israeli occupation forces have recently intensified their measures against the town locals as a prelude to take over the land for settlement expansion.
Israeli police on Saturday morning launched a new attack on Bab al-Rahma area east of al-Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem.
According to Jerusalem's Islamic Awqaf Department, Israeli policemen in the early morning hours wreaked havoc in Bab al-Rahma area.
It added in a brief statement that al-Aqsa guards confronted the Israeli police and forced them to stop the attack.
Bab al-Rahma has been repeatedly attacked by the police over the past month after settler groups claimed on social media websites that the cleaning campaign launched in the area following some restorations there is an "act of vandalism".
The Israeli police further uprooted olive trees planted in the area and destroyed the new stairs built of al-Aqsa Mosque stones.
According to Jerusalem's Islamic Awqaf Department, Israeli policemen in the early morning hours wreaked havoc in Bab al-Rahma area.
It added in a brief statement that al-Aqsa guards confronted the Israeli police and forced them to stop the attack.
Bab al-Rahma has been repeatedly attacked by the police over the past month after settler groups claimed on social media websites that the cleaning campaign launched in the area following some restorations there is an "act of vandalism".
The Israeli police further uprooted olive trees planted in the area and destroyed the new stairs built of al-Aqsa Mosque stones.
6 july 2018
Extremist Israeli settlers on Friday raided the village of Urif, to the south of Nablus in the West Bank, troched dozens of dunums of Palestinian farmlands and uprooted olive saplings and trees near the village, according to local sources.
The PIC correspondent said that dozens of settlers, protected by a military escort, assaulted some homes at the entrance to the village and uprooted olive saplings belonging to local residents.
Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and local villagers in the aftermath of the attack. The Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and rubber-coated rounds to disperse the protesting villagers, injuring one of them in the head.
The wounded man was identified as Ahmad Safadi who was transferred to Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus city.
Israeli Soldiers Injure Palestinians Defending Their Village After Colonists Attacked It, Cut And Burnt Dozens Of Trees
Medical sources have reported, Friday, that dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, one was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet, and many others sustained cuts and bruises, after Israeli soldiers attacked them while defending their village, Orif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, when a group of extremist illegal Israeli colonists attacked its farmlands, burnt and cuts dozens of trees.
Adel Omar, an activist with the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem), said the attack was carried out by dozens of assailants from Yitzhar illegal Israeli colony, which was built on private Palestinian lands.
He added that the colonists invaded the eastern area of the village and burnt dozens of Dunams planted with olive and almond trees, in addition cutting many trees.
The soldiers then invaded the village, and attacked the Palestinians, before firing many live rounds at them, gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets.
One Palestinian was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his head, before he was rushed to Rafidia hospital for treatment.
Dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation and received the needed treatment by local medics.
The soldiers also fired live rounds at a press vehicle for Palestine TV.
In a statement, the Committee for Protecting Orif village said the Israeli assailants caused the following damage to the Palestinian lands.
The PIC correspondent said that dozens of settlers, protected by a military escort, assaulted some homes at the entrance to the village and uprooted olive saplings belonging to local residents.
Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and local villagers in the aftermath of the attack. The Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and rubber-coated rounds to disperse the protesting villagers, injuring one of them in the head.
The wounded man was identified as Ahmad Safadi who was transferred to Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus city.
Israeli Soldiers Injure Palestinians Defending Their Village After Colonists Attacked It, Cut And Burnt Dozens Of Trees
Medical sources have reported, Friday, that dozens of Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, one was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet, and many others sustained cuts and bruises, after Israeli soldiers attacked them while defending their village, Orif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, when a group of extremist illegal Israeli colonists attacked its farmlands, burnt and cuts dozens of trees.
Adel Omar, an activist with the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem), said the attack was carried out by dozens of assailants from Yitzhar illegal Israeli colony, which was built on private Palestinian lands.
He added that the colonists invaded the eastern area of the village and burnt dozens of Dunams planted with olive and almond trees, in addition cutting many trees.
The soldiers then invaded the village, and attacked the Palestinians, before firing many live rounds at them, gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets.
One Palestinian was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his head, before he was rushed to Rafidia hospital for treatment.
Dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation and received the needed treatment by local medics.
The soldiers also fired live rounds at a press vehicle for Palestine TV.
In a statement, the Committee for Protecting Orif village said the Israeli assailants caused the following damage to the Palestinian lands.
- Cut 40 olive saplings owned by Issam Safadi.
- Cut and burnt 62 saplings owned by Mohammad Shehada.
- Burnt and cut 12 olive and almond trees owned by Raed Sabah.
- Cut 14 olive saplings owned by Najeh Shehada.
- Burnt 18 fig and pomegranate trees owned by Shaher Shehada.
5 july 2018
Israeli soldiers dismantled and seized, on Thursday, 200 meters of water pipes from residents of the village of Bardalla, in the northern Jordan Valley, who built them in order to provide their village with fresh water, according to Aref Daraghmeh, a local human rights activist.
He said the pipes were not yet ready for use.
Soldiers also demolished, on Wednesday, a pool used to collect rain water in the village of al-Farisiyeh, in the northern Jordan Valley.
Israel, which controls Area C of the occupied West Bank where the two villages are located, does not allow any Palestinian construction, even in infrastructure, as it attempts to keep Palestinian presence in Area C to a minimum in order to later annex the entire, scarcely populated area that makes around 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
He said the pipes were not yet ready for use.
Soldiers also demolished, on Wednesday, a pool used to collect rain water in the village of al-Farisiyeh, in the northern Jordan Valley.
Israel, which controls Area C of the occupied West Bank where the two villages are located, does not allow any Palestinian construction, even in infrastructure, as it attempts to keep Palestinian presence in Area C to a minimum in order to later annex the entire, scarcely populated area that makes around 60 percent of the area of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli colonizers invaded, Thursday, Palestinian lands in the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and cut at least 350 grapevines, near the illegal Daniel colony, built on Palestinian lands.
Ahmad Salah the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in al-Khader, said the land and grapevines are owned by a local farmer, identified as Islam Ali Jaber.
Salah added that the vineyard is in the ath-Thaghra area, next to the illegal Daniel colony, in al-Khader.
Palestinian lands in the area are subject to repeated similar attacks and violations aimed at the illegal annexation of the lands, in order to build and expand the colony.
Ahmad Salah the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in al-Khader, said the land and grapevines are owned by a local farmer, identified as Islam Ali Jaber.
Salah added that the vineyard is in the ath-Thaghra area, next to the illegal Daniel colony, in al-Khader.
Palestinian lands in the area are subject to repeated similar attacks and violations aimed at the illegal annexation of the lands, in order to build and expand the colony.
4 july 2018
Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Iskaka in eastern Salfit have complained that the Israeli occupation army prevented them from reaching their agricultural lands that are located behind the separation wall.
There was prior coordination with the Israeli authorities to allow local farmers to have access to their lands at around six o’clock on Wednesday morning, but soldiers at the wall’s gate made them wait for long hours under the scorching heat of the sun before allowing them in.
Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs Khaled Maali accused the Israeli occupation regime of cunningly using barriers and gates in the West Bank and manipulating dates and times set for their opening in order to make the lives of Palestinian farmers difficult and force them to leave their areas.
Maali said that the Palestinian farmers had filed complaints several times about banning them from reaching their lands behind the separation wall, but all to no avail.
He noted that the Israeli army only opens the wall’s gates or road barriers a few days every year, especially during the olive season.
There was prior coordination with the Israeli authorities to allow local farmers to have access to their lands at around six o’clock on Wednesday morning, but soldiers at the wall’s gate made them wait for long hours under the scorching heat of the sun before allowing them in.
Palestinian specialist in settlement affairs Khaled Maali accused the Israeli occupation regime of cunningly using barriers and gates in the West Bank and manipulating dates and times set for their opening in order to make the lives of Palestinian farmers difficult and force them to leave their areas.
Maali said that the Palestinian farmers had filed complaints several times about banning them from reaching their lands behind the separation wall, but all to no avail.
He noted that the Israeli army only opens the wall’s gates or road barriers a few days every year, especially during the olive season.
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, a senior Palestinian political leader and a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), strongly denounced the Australian decision to end its aid to the Palestinian people.
In a statement, Dr. Ashrawi said, “it is clear Australia has surrendered to American pressures, and is now acting on boosting the illegal Israeli military occupation of Palestine.”
She added that this decision makes Australia part of the punitive illegal measures, targeting the Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, and their families.
“This unfair decision targets our besieged and impoverished people,” Dr. Ashrawi stated, “It also deliberately ignores the ongoing Israeli violations, and war crimes against our unarmed population.”
The Palestinian official added that Article 81of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, outlaws such measures, and obliges the parties of conflict to provide free medical care and prohibit the deduction of “allowances and salaries.” It also prohibits the deduction of allowances needed to repay their costs.
|Parties to the conflict who intern protected persons shall be bound to provide free of charge for their maintenance, and to grant them also the medical attention required by their state of health.
No deduction from the allowances, salaries or credits due to the internees shall be made for the repayment of these costs.
The Detaining Power shall provide for the support of those dependent on the internees, if such dependents are without adequate means of support or are unable to earn a living.
Dr. Ashrawi also said: “I would like to remind the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, that the situation remains the same since the beginning of this Israeli military occupation in 1948; Israel is still brutally attacking the Palestinians, committing war crimes and massacres, killed at least 75.000 of them, and held more than 1.000.000 in its prisons since then.”
“The Palestinian leadership is very concerned about the accusations that it practices ‘politically motivated violence,’ while we have been committed to nonviolent resistance, and political efforts at the United Nations, trying to counter this Israeli terror against our people…
Meanwhile, Israel continues its crimes with impunity; its soldiers and settlers continue to kill our people, and steal their lands, continue to demolish their homes and livelihoods, and we are expected, and even ordered, to remain silent and submit to this occupation!”
Dr. Ashrawi urged Australia to reconsider its decision, and to refrain from encouraging Israel’s unilateral and illegal policies, and to act on “obliging Israel, as an occupying power, to abide by its obligations under International Law, International Humanitarian Law, in addition to all related treaties and resolutions.”
In a statement, Dr. Ashrawi said, “it is clear Australia has surrendered to American pressures, and is now acting on boosting the illegal Israeli military occupation of Palestine.”
She added that this decision makes Australia part of the punitive illegal measures, targeting the Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails, and their families.
“This unfair decision targets our besieged and impoverished people,” Dr. Ashrawi stated, “It also deliberately ignores the ongoing Israeli violations, and war crimes against our unarmed population.”
The Palestinian official added that Article 81of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, outlaws such measures, and obliges the parties of conflict to provide free medical care and prohibit the deduction of “allowances and salaries.” It also prohibits the deduction of allowances needed to repay their costs.
|Parties to the conflict who intern protected persons shall be bound to provide free of charge for their maintenance, and to grant them also the medical attention required by their state of health.
No deduction from the allowances, salaries or credits due to the internees shall be made for the repayment of these costs.
The Detaining Power shall provide for the support of those dependent on the internees, if such dependents are without adequate means of support or are unable to earn a living.
Dr. Ashrawi also said: “I would like to remind the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, that the situation remains the same since the beginning of this Israeli military occupation in 1948; Israel is still brutally attacking the Palestinians, committing war crimes and massacres, killed at least 75.000 of them, and held more than 1.000.000 in its prisons since then.”
“The Palestinian leadership is very concerned about the accusations that it practices ‘politically motivated violence,’ while we have been committed to nonviolent resistance, and political efforts at the United Nations, trying to counter this Israeli terror against our people…
Meanwhile, Israel continues its crimes with impunity; its soldiers and settlers continue to kill our people, and steal their lands, continue to demolish their homes and livelihoods, and we are expected, and even ordered, to remain silent and submit to this occupation!”
Dr. Ashrawi urged Australia to reconsider its decision, and to refrain from encouraging Israel’s unilateral and illegal policies, and to act on “obliging Israel, as an occupying power, to abide by its obligations under International Law, International Humanitarian Law, in addition to all related treaties and resolutions.”
