- 21 mei 2011
9 Palestinians injured in IOF attack on Nablus village
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used rubber bullets and teargas to attack Palestinian citizens in Asira Al-Qabaliya village south of Nablus city on Friday night wounding nine of them, locals reported.
They said that the IOF soldiers stormed the village after confrontations between Jewish settlers from the nearby Yitzhar settlement, who attacked the village, and villagers.
The sources affirmed that the soldiers protected the settlers instead of curbing their attacks, adding that the injured were treated on the field.
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Maria 21 mei 2011
IOF uses violence against fresh West Bank protests
WEST BANK, (PIC)-- Two Palestinians were injured and dozens sustained breathing difficulties after Israeli occupation forces IOF) suppressed a weekly anti-separation wall march in Bil'in village west of Ramallah.
The soldiers fired a barrage of stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets, and gas canisters at the marchers, injuring Ibrahim Abdul-Fattah Barnat, 29, after he was hit in the back with a canister, and Mohammed Suleiman Yassin, 20.
Scores more suffered severely from the effects of breathing tear gas. Vast amounts of land cultivated with olive trees were burnt along the separation wall.
Hundreds of Nal'in villagers also took to the streets in Na'lin after Friday prayers near the apartheid wall there holding Palestinian flags and banners to commemorate the Nakba in 1948.
Locals reported that, when they arrived at the wall's gates, Israeli soldiers showered them with tear gas and stun grenades, causing dozens in the crowd to choke and vomit.
The same day in Al-Ma'sara, IOF soldiers arrested three Palestinians and four foreign peace activists while suppressing there a weekly march condemning the separation wall and Jewish settlement activity.
Witnesses said the soldiers acted aggressively with media and forced them to leave before using violence against the demonstrators.
Separately, in Al-Aroub refugee camp north of Al-Khalil, youth hurled stones at the buses and cars of Jewish settlers as they travelled along the main road near the camp.
Israeli sources said that the vehicles underwent some material damages. In the wake of that, Israeli soldiers combed and raided the area.
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Maria 22 mei 2011
IOF soldiers ransack village, fire teargas inside homes in Al-Khalil
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas into citizens homes in the Old City of Al-Khalil on Saturday night and earlier wreaked havoc in a nearby village.
Witnesses said that Jewish settlers during a march in the Old City threw stones at Palestinian homes and burnt Palestinian flags and banners while shouting racial slurs.
They said that soldiers escorting the march fired teargas and sonic bombs at the Palestinians who retaliated to the settlers provocations.
The locals said that Palestinian ambulance vehicles carried 8 Palestinians to local clinics to be treated for gas inhalation including four children.
Meanwhile, an Israeli border police patrol stormed the village of Qalqas southeast of Al-Khalil city escorting an officer of the civil administration and military bulldozers. They closed the main road in the village and blocked hundreds from heading to their fields.
Local sources said that the soldiers demolished a sheep pen at the entrance of the village at the pretext of being built without permit and ploughed and destroyed ten dunums of cultivated land.
The inhabitants denounced the destruction streak, and appealed to human rights groups to expose the occupation's crimes.
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Maria 23 mei 2011
Palestinian minor sentenced to six months in prison
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Ofer military court has sentenced Palestinian boy Amjad Ayid Abu Rahma, 15, from Bil'in village near Ramallah to six months prison.
He was arrested four months ago while taking part in the weekly anti-wall protest which takes place at the village.
There are about 300 Palestinian minors detained in Israeli occupation jails.
Meanwhile, families of Palestinians held in Israeli occupation jails called for the release of their loved ones during a protest they held near the Red Cross in Nablus city.
The protest was organized by the Palestinian Prisoner Society and Prisoner family association in Nablus and was aimed at protesting conditions in Israeli jails.
They demanded that the prisoners be allowed family visits and a stop to the policy of regular raids and the use of prisoner isolation.
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Maria 23 mei 2011
Israel detains mother of senior Hamas official
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Israeli forces arrested Monday morning the mother of senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri after raiding her home in Aroura village near Ramallah.
Soldiers surrounded the Arouri residence in the village and then tampered with the contents inside while searching the premises, Salama al-Arouri told the Palestinian Information Center.
He added that they notified Arouri's mother Aisha, 70, that an arrest warrant had been issued against her. The soldiers brutally apprehended her when she expressed refusal to respond.
Arouri said his mother suffers from several illnesses and is unable to walk without the help of others. He held Israel liable for harm caused to her.
Arouri's son Asim was arrested a few days back for questioning.
The Hamas politburo member spent a total of 18 years in Israeli prisons before Israel exiled him to Syria last year.
The Ahrar prisoner studies center said in a statement that the ”cowardly act” was aimed at pressuring the Arouris, an active Palestinian family.
It was not the first incident where Israel abducted the mothers of activists, said Fuad al-Khuffash, Ahrar center director. A year back, Rabi'a Bilal was arrested to pressure her sons during interrogations. Israel also arrested the mother and wife of Yahya Ayyash, who was wanted and on the run.
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Maria 25 mei 2011
IOF soldiers take positions on rooftops of Nablus village, arrest boy
NABLUS, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed on rooftops of a number of buildings in Hawara village, south of Nablus , on Wednesday, local sources said.
They added that the soldiers took positions on the rooftops of a number of buildings overlooking the main road leading to Nablus without any known reason, noting that IOF armored vehicles were seen moving along that road.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses reported that an IOF patrol stormed the village of Til near Nablus on Wednesday and arrested a university student. They also took away a 16-year-old boy with special needs in Surra village in the vicinity of Nablus .
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Maria 26 mei 2011
Peace Activist Brutally Assaulted by AIPAC Thugs Speaks out: Time to stop Israeli war crimes
(2:06) Peace Activist Brutally Assaulted by AIPAC Thugs Speaks out: Time to stop Israeli war crimes
Peace activist: Time to stop Israeli war crimes
CODEPINK activist Rae Abileah was taken to George Washington University Hospital in Washington D.C. after having been assaulted and tackled to the ground by AIPAC members of the audience in the House Gallery during Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
"I was shouting the truth about what's going on in Israel, it's time to stop Israeli war crimes and the occupation and the siege of Gaza and the settlements; the occupation is really indefensible," Rae Abileah told Press TV's U.S. Desk in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.
"There were hundreds of people who came together for a big event in Washington D.C. called 'Move Over AIPAC' that's moveoveraipac.org. We are all promoting peace and justice in the region contrary to what Netanyahu presented yesterday (May 24) to the U.S. government and I think it's appalling that (the) U.S. government is going to condone and support war crimes and occupation and even to pay for it," Abileah added.
"I hope to press charges against the people who assaulted me and my next move is to encourage people all across the United States to oppose Israeli war crimes and to really take this opportunity right now to take action for justice and specifically to support economic action against the Israeli government and against settlement corporations," Abileah concluded.
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Maria 26 mei 2011
Disabled man shaken after military assault
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- "Ashraf was as usual near the shop. I heard a gunshot outside and then my son was shouting and trying to open the door. More than ten soldiers were behind him," his mother told Ma'an on Wednesday.
The day before, 23-year-old Ashraf Muhammad Suleiman Mousa, who lives with a developmental disability and has the cognitive ability of a four-year-old, was assaulted by Israeli forces apparently searching for stone thrower on Tuesday evening, witnesses said.
Ashraf, from the town of Al-Khader southwest of Bethlehem, was socializing with a shop owner, who told Ma'an the young man was near the door to the street when three military jeeps entered the area near the football stadium.
"They seem to have been attacked with stones somewhere," he said assuming the jeeps were in town looking for the boys who threw the stones. "Ashraf was afraid, so he ran away to his home some fifty meters away."
When Ashraf ran, the shopkeeper said, soldiers fired one shot into the air.
Communicating in his own form of sign language, Ashraf explained that he was handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded by the soldiers when they caught up with him at home.
Ashraf's mother, 42-year-old Karima said that when her son arrived at the door to the home the soldiers ran up on foot behind him.
"They grabbed him, tackled him to the ground and started beating him mercilessly. They trod him with their military shoes. I tried by all means to tell them he was disabled. I tried to speak to them in English, but all they did was order me to go inside. Then they cuffed Ashraf’s hands and legs, blindfolded him and took him to the jeep. I brought a medical report to show it to the soldiers, but they did not even look at it."
In distress, Karima called her neighbors who came about half an hour later to check up on the situation, bringing with them a Hebrew speaker.
Karima, whose husband lives and works in Saudi Arabia, and lives alone with her five children, the eldest of whom is in university, said the wait was agonizing.
A neighbor finally succeeded in communicating to the soldiers that Ashraf was disabled and the matter was a misunderstanding.
An hour after his detention, Ashraf was released, witnesses said. "He came out of the jeep shouting and shivering," his mother said.
Israeli military officials were contacted for comment, but were unable to provide information.
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Maria 27 mei 2011
Israeli army shuts down 'illegal' Palestinian protests
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shut down anti-wall protests in villages across the West Bank on Friday.
The Israeli army says the unarmed weekly protests in Palestinian villages are illegal.
Asked why the protests were illegal, an army spokesman said the areas between Israel's separation wall and villages Ni'lin and Bil'in, near Ramallah, were declared "closed military zones" every Friday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Any civilian who entered the area was breaking Israeli law, the army official said,
Palestinians, Israelis and foreign nationals join protests every Friday in villages along Israel's separation wall, which runs deep inside the West Bank and confiscates villagers' land.
The International Court of Justice and Israel's Supreme Court have ruled that the route of the wall is illegal under international law.
In Nil'in, the wall cuts off around one third of the village. On May 20, protesters marked the third anniversary of non-violent protests against the wall. Since 2008, Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians and injured hundreds more at demonstrations in the village.
On Friday, the army installed a checkpoint at the entrance to Ni'lin, stopping activists from joining the rally. Troops fired tear-gas grenades into fields, setting fire to over 100 olive trees, witnesses said.
At a simultaneous rally in Nabi Saleh, soldiers declared a closed military zone and detained 6 protesters for entering the area and "hurling rocks" at forces, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.
In Al-Ma'sara, south of Bethlehem, more than 30 international activists joined the weekly demonstration against the wall, but Israeli forces shut down the rally.
Popular committee coordinator Mahmud Zawahra said villagers would continue to protest Israel's confiscation of their land "despite Israel's suppression."
Israeli forces frequently raid villages which participate in non-violent resistance and detain protest organizers and residents, including children.
In Ni'lin, entering its fourth year of protests, popular committee member Salah Khawaja said that despite Israel's military campaign against the village, the demonstrations would continue.
"We lost five people, 700 have been injured and 150 arrested, many of them children.
"But we vow to continue and to bring more people to our strategy of non-violent resistance. We saw in Egypt what can be achieved when the people work together," Khawaja said.
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Maria 27 mei 2011
Palestinian held over collision with settler's car
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian man said Israeli police detained and threatened him on Wednesday, several days after he was involved in a car accident with a settler.
Sharif Azmi Al-Shyoukhi, 21, said police tried to force him to take full responsibility for the accident, which happened Sunday.
Al-Shyoukhi said an Israeli settler sped after him, causing the accident. He sustained moderate injuries in the crash.
He said Israeli officers detained him for several hours on Wednesday and tried to bribe him, offering to drop the case for 3,000 shekels ($864).
He was told the case would be taken to court if he did not pay, and the investigator threatened to hold him at the Russian compound in Jerusalem, Al-Shyoukhi added.
His father, secretary-general of the People's Committees Azmi Al-Shyoukhi, urged human rights groups to monitor settlers' attacks on Palestinians.
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Maria 28 mei 2011
Israeli soldiers suppress West Bank protests injuring many
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation soldiers fired bullets and stun grenades as they delved into violent clashes on Friday afternoon with Palestinian youths in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of Jerusalem's Silwan district.
They arrested three locals in the confrontations, but it is not known where they were taken.
The same day in Al-Ma'sara near Ramallah, Israeli forces suppressed a weekly anti-apartheid wall march and clashed with those involved before they got to their destination, the wall.
Witnesses said the soldiers halted the march as it proceeded to property that was threatened with confiscation near the wall. The soldiers closed the main entrance with barbed wire and proceeded to assault the participants with rifle butts and fists.
Tens of Palestinians who marched suffered breathing conditions after more soldiers cracked down on a second weekly anti-wall march in Bil'in.
Locals there said the Israeli soldiers provoked the march and fired stun grenades, tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and sprayed the protesters down with waste water mixed with chemicals.
In other West Bank marches, hundreds of Ni'lin residents took to the streets bound for the apartheid wall. When they reached the main gates, Israeli soldiers showered them with tear gas and stun grenades. Dozens suffered the effects of breathing tear gas.
In a separate development, an Israeli settler raided the Aqsa Mosque after Friday prayers. Israeli occupation police transported him to safety after angered locals discovered him.
The locals chased him inside the mosque's plazas and handed him over to the soldiers when they caught him.
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Maria 30 mei 2011
More clashes erupt in Iraq Burin following IOF raid
NABLUS, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces on Monday afternoon clashed with Palestinian natives after raiding Iraq Burin village south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank.
Israeli patrols were met with stones after making a surprise raid on the village, said local councilman Abdul-Raheem Qaddous. He added that the soldiers fired bullets and tear gas at the locals.
Witnesses said a man identified as Dhib Mustafa was shot in the face during the exchange, and the IOF hindered the ambulance from reaching him.
Repeated friction has been reported in the village as it subjected to raids from time to time by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers.
More clashes broke out on Saturday during a weekly march staged by locals protesting settlement activity, when the army declared the village a closed military zone and prohibited supporters from entry in order to torpedo the effort.
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Maria 31 mei 2011
Report: Israel rounded up 1,200 minors since start of 2010
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- A report released Tuesday reveals a drastic escalation in friction between Israeli police and the Palestinian citizens of Jerusalem, especially those in the Silwan and Al-Issawiyya districts.
Issued by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the report documents that police since the beginning of 2010 rounded up 1,200 Palestinian suspected of throwing stones and kept some 760 of them in custody. About a third of those arrested were indicted and imprisoned until the end of the legal proceedings, the ACRI said.
“The large numerical gap between the youth who were questioned and arrested and those who were actually indicted speaks to the suspicions of Palestinians, who believe that most of these arrests and interrogations are intended solely to intimidate the minors,” the report says.
It details that in the past few months, wide-ranging clashes have erupted between Israeli police and Jerusalemites, where the police used excessive force killing one child in Al-Issawiyya after he breathed toxic gas that police hurled into residential areas.
The report also highlights the police's use of collective punishment, violence, and pressure against the Palestinian population when enforcing Israeli laws in Jerusalem. It adds that complaints that civilians file against Israeli occupation authorities have often gone ignored.
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Maria 31 mei 2011
IOF deploys large force along Arab borders ahead of Naksa Day protests
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Israel occupation forces (IOF) has deployed extra forces along the border with Syria and Lebanon as events marking the anniversary of the 1967 occupation of Palestine draw nearer, Haaretz reported on Monday.
The move comes to avoid a repeat of what happened as Palestinian refugees marked Nakba Day on 15 May when some 15 Arabs were shot dead by Israeli forces.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have joined a Facebook-organized campaign calling for the Naksa Day protests to mark the 1967 occupation of the rest of Palestine.
After the Nakba Day protests, pro-Palestinian activists began gearing to launch a week of peaceful protests and marches to the borders of occupied Palestine by refugees who have been denied return to their homes.
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