14 aug 2020
Israeli settlers set fire today to agricultural lands in the village of Asira al-Qibliya to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, local sources said.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement and settlers' vandalism in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that extremist settlers set fire to a number of lands in the aforementioned village after its residents fought them back when they raided the eastern area.
He noted that clashes broke out between Israeli occupation soldiers and Palestinians youths following the arson attack, which resulted in some of the latter getting suffocated due to inhaling toxic gas thrown at them by the forces.
To be noted, Israeli settlers are notorious for the attacks against Palestinians and their property. Most of the attacks carried out by Israeli settlers often go unpunished.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement and settlers' vandalism in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that extremist settlers set fire to a number of lands in the aforementioned village after its residents fought them back when they raided the eastern area.
He noted that clashes broke out between Israeli occupation soldiers and Palestinians youths following the arson attack, which resulted in some of the latter getting suffocated due to inhaling toxic gas thrown at them by the forces.
To be noted, Israeli settlers are notorious for the attacks against Palestinians and their property. Most of the attacks carried out by Israeli settlers often go unpunished.
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Israeli warplanes and artillery dawn Friday struck several sites across the besieged Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the an Israeli fighter jet targeted a plot of farmland in Shejaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza city, causing a deep hole in the site. He added that Israeli attack helicopters pounded a site in al-Farrahin area, east of Khan Younes city, and another located to the east of Rafah city, causing extensive material damage to the sites as well as in neighboring buildings and fires to break out. Meanwhile, Israeli artillery opened fire on two sites in Khan Younes and Rafah cities, causing extensive damage to surrounding property. No human casualties were reported in any of the attacks. |
In the early morning hours of Thursday, Israel attacked several targets in the blockaded Gaza Strip. One of the airstrikes damaged an UNRWA-run school at al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza.
Israel claimed that it had struck the sites in retaliation to the flying of dozens of incendiary balloons into southern Israel. video
Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace.
Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
Israel claimed that it had struck the sites in retaliation to the flying of dozens of incendiary balloons into southern Israel. video
Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace.
Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
13 aug 2020
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Israeli settlers today torched a bulldozer and scrawled hate graffiti in Asira al-Qibliya village, southwest of Nablus city, according to a local official. video
Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank, said that some 20 Israeli settlers sneaked into the village during the night, set fire to a bulldozer and spray-painted hate graffiti threatening vandalism of Palestinian property. He said the settlers, who came from Yitzhar, an illegal settlement inhabited by hardcore fanatic Jews, attacked a house situated on the outskirts of the village. |
The villagers managed to fend off the settlers’ attack, prompting confrontations with Israeli occupation forces who provided protection to the settlers.
The soldiers fired a barrage of stun and tear gas grenades towards the villagers and their houses, causing several to suffocate.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers slashed tires of three Palestinian vehicles in the Salfit-area village of Yasouf in the north of the West Bank after sneaking into the village during the night, according to local sources.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by the Israeli occupation authorities.
The soldiers fired a barrage of stun and tear gas grenades towards the villagers and their houses, causing several to suffocate.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers slashed tires of three Palestinian vehicles in the Salfit-area village of Yasouf in the north of the West Bank after sneaking into the village during the night, according to local sources.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by the Israeli occupation authorities.
4 aug 2020
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Israeli settlers set fire early this morning to two Palestinian vehicles in Faraata village, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya, according to Abdul Menem Shanaa, head of Faraata village council.
Settlers, from the nearby illegal settlement of Havat Gilad, sneaked during the night into the outskirts of the village, set fire to two cars, wrote racist graffiti on walls such as “Price Tag,” before leaving the area, he said. Price Tag is the name of a Jewish terror group that targets Palestinians in the occupied territories and inside Israel. |
3 aug 2020
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday caused fire damage to 14 dunums of Palestinian agricultural land in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah. video
Local official Kazem al-Hajj said that Israeli soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and stun grenades towards an agricultural area in the east of Mughayyir, triggering fire that burned 14 dunums of almond crops belonging to a local resident called Suleiman Ahmed.
Hajj added that 12 sheep belonging to Fadel Abu Alya died after they grazed in an area that had been sprayed with a poisonous stuff by Jewish settlers.
Local official Kazem al-Hajj said that Israeli soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and stun grenades towards an agricultural area in the east of Mughayyir, triggering fire that burned 14 dunums of almond crops belonging to a local resident called Suleiman Ahmed.
Hajj added that 12 sheep belonging to Fadel Abu Alya died after they grazed in an area that had been sprayed with a poisonous stuff by Jewish settlers.
27 july 2020
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Israeli settlers set fire early this morning to a mosque in the city of al-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah, and spray-painted racist graffiti on its walls, according to al-Bireh mayor Azzam Ismail. video
He said settlers sneaked into the city during the night, filled the walls of the mosque with racist graffiti before setting parts of it on fire. The mayor and the Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs have condemned this arson saying it exposes the racist and radical state of mind of the occupying state, Israel, while holding Israel responsible for these acts “for its support of these terror groups.” |
25 july 2020
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Dozens of illegal Jewish settlers entered today an agricultural land near the village of Huwara, south of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, and set fire to Palestinian-owned olive and almond trees, according to local sources.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the area, told WAFA that a group of settlers set fire to agricultural land belonging to farmers from the village, destroying olive and almond trees as fire flames engulfed the land. Illegal Israeli settlers are notorious for violence against Palestinians and their property, and are almost never prosecuted by the occupation authorities. There are about 750,000 illegal Israeli settlers living in Jewish-only settlements across the occupied Palestinian Territory, in blatant disregard of international law and the Fourth Geneva Conventions. |
22 july 2020
A horde of Israeli settlers on Tuesday afternoon torched large areas of Palestinian land in Madama village in the West Bank district of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses reported that the fire destroyed dozens of olive trees owned by Palestinian citizens in Madama and neighboring villages.
They said that Israeli occupation forces deliberately hindered the work of Palestinian civil defense crews who rushed to the scene to put out the fire and fired tear gas canisters at them.
Madama residents said that a few days ago, the same Israeli settler group, who come from Yitzhar Settlement, seized a water well in their village and set up a pump to steal water from it and transfer it to their houses.
Settler violations are almost a daily occurrence in the West Bank, and Madama village in Nablus is one of the hardest-hit areas.
Eyewitnesses reported that the fire destroyed dozens of olive trees owned by Palestinian citizens in Madama and neighboring villages.
They said that Israeli occupation forces deliberately hindered the work of Palestinian civil defense crews who rushed to the scene to put out the fire and fired tear gas canisters at them.
Madama residents said that a few days ago, the same Israeli settler group, who come from Yitzhar Settlement, seized a water well in their village and set up a pump to steal water from it and transfer it to their houses.
Settler violations are almost a daily occurrence in the West Bank, and Madama village in Nablus is one of the hardest-hit areas.
