13 oct 2018
The Israeli occupation army notified the demolition of Palestinian homes in Wadi al-Seik area, east of Ramallah province.
Eye-witness Abdul Rahman Ka’abna said members of the Israeli civil administration escorted by soldiers handed over five demolition notices to the locals.
The targeted structures provide shelter to at least 30 Bedouins, who have set up roots in the area several years ago.
Sometime earlier, the Israeli military ordered the demolition of the local school under the guise of unlicensed construction.
Eye-witness Abdul Rahman Ka’abna said members of the Israeli civil administration escorted by soldiers handed over five demolition notices to the locals.
The targeted structures provide shelter to at least 30 Bedouins, who have set up roots in the area several years ago.
Sometime earlier, the Israeli military ordered the demolition of the local school under the guise of unlicensed construction.
12 oct 2018
Palestinian owned vehicles were damaged on Thursday near the intersection of the illegal Yitzhar settlement, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
Ma’an News Agency reported that illegal Israeli colonialist settlers threw rocks at Palestinian vehicles, and eyewitnesses said Israeli military checkpoints were erected in many areas of the district of Nablus. There, numerous Palestinians were subjected to extensive searches of their vehicles, and inspection of identification.
The additional checkpoints were supposedly in response to an attack on soldiers at the Huwwara checkpoint earlier on Thursday.
On Wednesday a group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded the village of Quryout, south of Nablus. The settlers, from a nearby settlement, in the southeastern part of Qaryout, punctured the tires of nine Palestinian cars, and wrote racist graffiti on Palestinian property.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official monitoring Israel’s colonialist activities, stated that the settlers fled the village shortly after the incident. According to International law, all of the Jewish-only settlements built in occupied Palestine are illegal.
In a related incident on Wednesday, Israeli settlers invaded a high school in Urif village, in the southern Nablus district. The illegal colonialist setters threw stones at the students, while they were in class, causing injuries, disruption of classes, and damage to the school.
Ghassan Daghlas told Ma’an News Agency that 18 heavily armed settlers were escorted out of the vilage by Israeli military, who protected the settlers, while firing tear-gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets at the students.
These attacks caused the disruption of education, injury by tear-gas inhalation, and property damage.
Ma’an News Agency reported that illegal Israeli colonialist settlers threw rocks at Palestinian vehicles, and eyewitnesses said Israeli military checkpoints were erected in many areas of the district of Nablus. There, numerous Palestinians were subjected to extensive searches of their vehicles, and inspection of identification.
The additional checkpoints were supposedly in response to an attack on soldiers at the Huwwara checkpoint earlier on Thursday.
On Wednesday a group of illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded the village of Quryout, south of Nablus. The settlers, from a nearby settlement, in the southeastern part of Qaryout, punctured the tires of nine Palestinian cars, and wrote racist graffiti on Palestinian property.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official monitoring Israel’s colonialist activities, stated that the settlers fled the village shortly after the incident. According to International law, all of the Jewish-only settlements built in occupied Palestine are illegal.
In a related incident on Wednesday, Israeli settlers invaded a high school in Urif village, in the southern Nablus district. The illegal colonialist setters threw stones at the students, while they were in class, causing injuries, disruption of classes, and damage to the school.
Ghassan Daghlas told Ma’an News Agency that 18 heavily armed settlers were escorted out of the vilage by Israeli military, who protected the settlers, while firing tear-gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets at the students.
These attacks caused the disruption of education, injury by tear-gas inhalation, and property damage.
10 oct 2018
Violent clashes broke out Wednesday morning in Urif town to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Head of the village council told PIC reporter that Palestinians were forced to defend their homes after a group of Israeli settlers attacked a number of local homes and a school.
The school was immediately evacuated following the attack, he said.
Israeli forces later arrived to the town and started firing heavy teargas bombs to disperse the locals.
Head of the village council told PIC reporter that Palestinians were forced to defend their homes after a group of Israeli settlers attacked a number of local homes and a school.
The school was immediately evacuated following the attack, he said.
Israeli forces later arrived to the town and started firing heavy teargas bombs to disperse the locals.
9 oct 2018
Israeli soldiers and employees of the Israeli Health Ministry invaded, Monday, a clinic run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Sahera Gate area, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers and health department employees invaded the clinic, and attempted to break into its pharmacy, allegedly to document the available medicines, their descriptions and usage in addition to the place of manufacturing.
The invasion into the UNRWA clinic came just days after the Jerusalem City Council said it intends to shut down all UNRWA-run facilities in occupied Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat announced that the Agency’s operations in Jerusalem would be shut down, although many Palestinians depend on UNRWA for medical, educational and food services.
In response, UNRWA representatives said that the Israeli shutdown of the Agency’s operations is likely a violation of the agreements made between the Israeli government and the United Nations.
In addition, they questioned Barkat’s motives in making this move, which comes just two months before he is scheduled to leave office. Barkat has also repeatedly expressed anti-Palestinian sentiments, and has taken a number of measures to discriminate against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem and to force their removal.
A report in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz noted that when Barkat made his announcement that he will shut down UNRWA in Jerusalem, he “didn’t give an interview next to UNRWA’s main Jerusalem activity center, in the Shuafat refugee camp. The camp, located on the opposite side of a separation barrier, is barely recognized by the city as a neighborhood and the city hardly provides it with any services. It’s UNRWA that steps in to provide the camp with education, health and welfare services.”
The Jerusalem City Council said it plans to shut down the UNRWA clinic in Shu’fat refugee camp, and in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, under the allegation that the UN-run clinics were not licensed by the Health Ministry, and the patients “can receive services from Kupat Holim health maintenance organization.
The Mayor claims that the 1,800 Palestinian students which attend UNRWA schools in Jerusalem would be “absorbed into existing schools”. But Israeli government schools are highly segregated, and those that are designated for Palestinians in Jerusalem are extremely overcrowded and underfunded already.
The city government of Jerusalem made no indication as to how they would carry out this plan – and Palestinian residents fear that there is no plan, and they will be shut out of schools and medical care altogether.
In addition, UNRWA provides trash service and cleanup for the refugee camp. With the Israeli government takeover, residents fear a backlog of garbage along with excessive fees being imposed on Jerusalem’s poorest residents.
The mayor’s statement claims that UNRWA is “an illegal organization operating to advance terrorism and incitement”. But there is no evidence presented to back this bizarre claim.
There is already a major shortage of classrooms, early childcare centers, medical clinics, maternity clinics, welfare and sanitation services in the Palestinian areas of Jerusalem.
UNRWA has, until now, been able to provide some of the needed services for Palestinian refugees who live within the city of Jerusalem. With the shutdown of UNRWA, the refugees expect that they will simply end up being more neglected and unable to access medical care, education or sanitation.
Attorney Nazreen Elayan told the Israeli paper Ha’aretz, “Instead of establishing infrastructure where needed, Barkat wants to take over existing infrastructure. We are fighting for years with the city to open more mother-child centers in East Jerusalem and it hasn’t done so. So now they’re going to take over the good clinics run by UNRWA”.
In it’s statement in support of Mayor Barkat, the city council of Jerusalem stated, “Barkat’s decision aims to blow up the lie of the ‘Palestinian refugee problem,’ which is part of the Palestinian Authority’s propaganda under UN sponsorship and encouragement, which aims to destroy Israel by eternalizing refugee status and the perpetual call for the ‘right of return’ to Israel,.”
Chris Gunness, a spokesman for UNRWA, told the paper, “The statement (by Barkat) challenges the independent humanitarian, non-discriminatory actions by UNRWA and doesn’t reflect the traditionally positive dialogue between UNRWA and Israel.”
And attorney Danny Seidman told reporters, “How can the mayor of Jerusalem declare war on a recognized international establishment that does no damage and is helpful? It’s all about theater, pure McCarthyism for the sake of Likud primaries”.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers and health department employees invaded the clinic, and attempted to break into its pharmacy, allegedly to document the available medicines, their descriptions and usage in addition to the place of manufacturing.
The invasion into the UNRWA clinic came just days after the Jerusalem City Council said it intends to shut down all UNRWA-run facilities in occupied Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat announced that the Agency’s operations in Jerusalem would be shut down, although many Palestinians depend on UNRWA for medical, educational and food services.
In response, UNRWA representatives said that the Israeli shutdown of the Agency’s operations is likely a violation of the agreements made between the Israeli government and the United Nations.
In addition, they questioned Barkat’s motives in making this move, which comes just two months before he is scheduled to leave office. Barkat has also repeatedly expressed anti-Palestinian sentiments, and has taken a number of measures to discriminate against the Palestinian residents of Jerusalem and to force their removal.
A report in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz noted that when Barkat made his announcement that he will shut down UNRWA in Jerusalem, he “didn’t give an interview next to UNRWA’s main Jerusalem activity center, in the Shuafat refugee camp. The camp, located on the opposite side of a separation barrier, is barely recognized by the city as a neighborhood and the city hardly provides it with any services. It’s UNRWA that steps in to provide the camp with education, health and welfare services.”
The Jerusalem City Council said it plans to shut down the UNRWA clinic in Shu’fat refugee camp, and in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem, under the allegation that the UN-run clinics were not licensed by the Health Ministry, and the patients “can receive services from Kupat Holim health maintenance organization.
The Mayor claims that the 1,800 Palestinian students which attend UNRWA schools in Jerusalem would be “absorbed into existing schools”. But Israeli government schools are highly segregated, and those that are designated for Palestinians in Jerusalem are extremely overcrowded and underfunded already.
The city government of Jerusalem made no indication as to how they would carry out this plan – and Palestinian residents fear that there is no plan, and they will be shut out of schools and medical care altogether.
In addition, UNRWA provides trash service and cleanup for the refugee camp. With the Israeli government takeover, residents fear a backlog of garbage along with excessive fees being imposed on Jerusalem’s poorest residents.
The mayor’s statement claims that UNRWA is “an illegal organization operating to advance terrorism and incitement”. But there is no evidence presented to back this bizarre claim.
There is already a major shortage of classrooms, early childcare centers, medical clinics, maternity clinics, welfare and sanitation services in the Palestinian areas of Jerusalem.
UNRWA has, until now, been able to provide some of the needed services for Palestinian refugees who live within the city of Jerusalem. With the shutdown of UNRWA, the refugees expect that they will simply end up being more neglected and unable to access medical care, education or sanitation.
Attorney Nazreen Elayan told the Israeli paper Ha’aretz, “Instead of establishing infrastructure where needed, Barkat wants to take over existing infrastructure. We are fighting for years with the city to open more mother-child centers in East Jerusalem and it hasn’t done so. So now they’re going to take over the good clinics run by UNRWA”.
In it’s statement in support of Mayor Barkat, the city council of Jerusalem stated, “Barkat’s decision aims to blow up the lie of the ‘Palestinian refugee problem,’ which is part of the Palestinian Authority’s propaganda under UN sponsorship and encouragement, which aims to destroy Israel by eternalizing refugee status and the perpetual call for the ‘right of return’ to Israel,.”
Chris Gunness, a spokesman for UNRWA, told the paper, “The statement (by Barkat) challenges the independent humanitarian, non-discriminatory actions by UNRWA and doesn’t reflect the traditionally positive dialogue between UNRWA and Israel.”
And attorney Danny Seidman told reporters, “How can the mayor of Jerusalem declare war on a recognized international establishment that does no damage and is helpful? It’s all about theater, pure McCarthyism for the sake of Likud primaries”.
30 sept 2018
Israeli occupation authorities have reportedly seized a number of large containers of children’s clothing while on their way to the besieged Gaza Strip, claiming they were to be used for terrorist acts, Israeli media reported on Saturday.
According to Israeli news site Ynet, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that confiscating the clothing is part of the Israeli war on “Palestinian terror.”
He claimed that the containers of children’s clothing, were intended for Gaza merchants who planned to pay the revenues for Hamas.
“Of course, this is a big lie,” a Gaza merchant told Days of Palestine. “This is just a false claim in order to the justify the 12-year-old Israeli siege imposed on the coastal enclave.”
At the beginning of the school year, Palestinian families in Gaza were unable to find school uniforms in the Gaza markets, for their children.
The merchant said that the Israeli occupation blocked tens of items of children’s clothes, including school uniforms.
“Even socks did not exist in the markets,” Sarah, a mother of three school boys, said. “I bought shoes for my kids, and they have been wearing them without socks,” she said.
According to Israeli news site Ynet, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that confiscating the clothing is part of the Israeli war on “Palestinian terror.”
He claimed that the containers of children’s clothing, were intended for Gaza merchants who planned to pay the revenues for Hamas.
“Of course, this is a big lie,” a Gaza merchant told Days of Palestine. “This is just a false claim in order to the justify the 12-year-old Israeli siege imposed on the coastal enclave.”
At the beginning of the school year, Palestinian families in Gaza were unable to find school uniforms in the Gaza markets, for their children.
The merchant said that the Israeli occupation blocked tens of items of children’s clothes, including school uniforms.
“Even socks did not exist in the markets,” Sarah, a mother of three school boys, said. “I bought shoes for my kids, and they have been wearing them without socks,” she said.
27 sept 2018
Israeli soldiers raided, on Thursday, a high school for boys in the northern West Bank village of Einabous, south of the city of Nablus, claiming they were after a student, prompting confrontations with students and suspension of classes, according to a local official.
Ghassan Daghlas, who is responsible for monitoring Israeli settlement and settler activities in the Nablus area, said soldiers raided Einabous School for Boys to detain a student, provoking the rest of the students who tried to keep the soldiers out of their school.
Violent confrontations broke out and soldiers fired tear gas at the students and inside the school, disrupting classes, he said.
Palestinians have regularly complained that Israeli soldiers violate the Palestinians’ right to education by raiding their schools, detaining students and teachers and harassing students on their way to school or home, according to WAFA.
Eight Palestinians, two of whom are journalists, on Wednesday night, were injured during an Israeli incursion into Nablus city, northern West Bank.
PNN security sources said that Israeli occupation forces stormed the eastern area of Nablus, which led to the outbreak of clashes, wounding 8 people.
Palestinian youth also set fire to an Israeli bulldozer, which ran over a Palestinian man who was participating in the clashes. His condition is still unknown. video
Wounds were due to rubber-coated metal bullets and live bullets, mostly in their feet and legs. One sustained an injury in his left eye.
Ghassan Daghlas, who is responsible for monitoring Israeli settlement and settler activities in the Nablus area, said soldiers raided Einabous School for Boys to detain a student, provoking the rest of the students who tried to keep the soldiers out of their school.
Violent confrontations broke out and soldiers fired tear gas at the students and inside the school, disrupting classes, he said.
Palestinians have regularly complained that Israeli soldiers violate the Palestinians’ right to education by raiding their schools, detaining students and teachers and harassing students on their way to school or home, according to WAFA.
Eight Palestinians, two of whom are journalists, on Wednesday night, were injured during an Israeli incursion into Nablus city, northern West Bank.
PNN security sources said that Israeli occupation forces stormed the eastern area of Nablus, which led to the outbreak of clashes, wounding 8 people.
Palestinian youth also set fire to an Israeli bulldozer, which ran over a Palestinian man who was participating in the clashes. His condition is still unknown. video
Wounds were due to rubber-coated metal bullets and live bullets, mostly in their feet and legs. One sustained an injury in his left eye.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, earlier Thursday, at least twelve Palestinians, from several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The PPS office in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded Ethna town, west of the city, and abducted Safwat Rafiq Tmeizi, 29, after violently searching his home, causing damage.
It added that the soldiers also invaded and violently searched the home of Essam Taiseer Tmeizi, in Wad Aziz area, in Ethna.
The soldiers also installed roadblocks on many roads linking Hebron with surrounding towns, and main streets in the city, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
The army said it found and found and confiscated two pistols, during searches in a village near Hebron.
Furthermore, many soldiers invaded Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, searched homes and abducted Mos’ab Hasan Sajdiyya, his brother, Ahmad Sajdiyya, in addition to Moath Ammawi, Hisham Basheeti, and Tawfiq Najeeb.
In Nablus city, in northern West Bank, the soldiers searched many homes and abducted Samer Shansheer from Asira Street, and Ayman Shakhsheer, from Ras al-Ein neighborhood.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Qais Hamadna and Amir Hamadna, from their homes in Asira ash-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus, and Mohammad Azzam Hamdan, from al-Qibliya town, south of the city.
In Qalqilia, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted one Palestinian, identified as Moath Ammawi, 21.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded Wad Rahhal village, installed roadblocks around local schools, while the students were trying to reach them, and searched many cars.
The PPS office in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, the soldiers invaded Ethna town, west of the city, and abducted Safwat Rafiq Tmeizi, 29, after violently searching his home, causing damage.
It added that the soldiers also invaded and violently searched the home of Essam Taiseer Tmeizi, in Wad Aziz area, in Ethna.
The soldiers also installed roadblocks on many roads linking Hebron with surrounding towns, and main streets in the city, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
The army said it found and found and confiscated two pistols, during searches in a village near Hebron.
Furthermore, many soldiers invaded Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem, searched homes and abducted Mos’ab Hasan Sajdiyya, his brother, Ahmad Sajdiyya, in addition to Moath Ammawi, Hisham Basheeti, and Tawfiq Najeeb.
In Nablus city, in northern West Bank, the soldiers searched many homes and abducted Samer Shansheer from Asira Street, and Ayman Shakhsheer, from Ras al-Ein neighborhood.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Qais Hamadna and Amir Hamadna, from their homes in Asira ash-Shamaliya town, north of Nablus, and Mohammad Azzam Hamdan, from al-Qibliya town, south of the city.
In Qalqilia, also in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted one Palestinian, identified as Moath Ammawi, 21.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers invaded Wad Rahhal village, installed roadblocks around local schools, while the students were trying to reach them, and searched many cars.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday afternoon attacked school students in Ya’bad town, south of Jenin in the West Bank.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that soldiers fired a tear gas grenades onto Izz ad-Din al-Qassam school as the students started to leave their classrooms, causing many of them to suffer from the fumes.
The sources added that the soldiers acted provocatively against the students after teargasing them and clashed with them.
Meanwhile, the IOF set up a military checkpoint at the main entrance to the town and intercepted passing cars for security check.
Local sources told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that soldiers fired a tear gas grenades onto Izz ad-Din al-Qassam school as the students started to leave their classrooms, causing many of them to suffer from the fumes.
The sources added that the soldiers acted provocatively against the students after teargasing them and clashed with them.
Meanwhile, the IOF set up a military checkpoint at the main entrance to the town and intercepted passing cars for security check.
24 sept 2018
The Ambassador for the Palestinian Affairs and Representative of Japan to Palestine, Takeshi Okubo, visited the Farkha village, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Salfit, on Sunday, to celebrate the completion of a project funded by the Government of Japan.
According to a press release, Japan funded the Farkha village council with $89,851 to improve the learning environment in the village's secondary mixed school through Japan's Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP).
An additional floor with four classrooms was constructed through the project, with the aim of stopping the use of the old classrooms, which threatened the lives of students.
Due to the completed project, 76 students, from 9th to 12th grade, will benefit from an improved, safe and healthy learning environment.
During Okubo's visit, he emphasized Japan's firm commitment of supporting the Palestinian people from a human security perspective, as well as the "importance of implementing social and economic development projects needed for Palestinian communities."
According to a press release, Japan funded the Farkha village council with $89,851 to improve the learning environment in the village's secondary mixed school through Japan's Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP).
An additional floor with four classrooms was constructed through the project, with the aim of stopping the use of the old classrooms, which threatened the lives of students.
Due to the completed project, 76 students, from 9th to 12th grade, will benefit from an improved, safe and healthy learning environment.
During Okubo's visit, he emphasized Japan's firm commitment of supporting the Palestinian people from a human security perspective, as well as the "importance of implementing social and economic development projects needed for Palestinian communities."