- 28 nov 2011
Israel Arrests Palestinian Ex-detainee with Cancer
HEBRON, (WAFA) – The Israeli army Monday arrested a Palestinian ex-detainee, who was released in 2009 after being diagnosed with cancer, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Club (PPC).
Amjad Najjar, head of PPC in Hebron, told WAFA that Hamzah al-Tarayreh, 23, from Bani Naim, a town east of Hebron city, was arrested at the “Container” checkpoint, which links the north of the West Bank to the south, on his way back from a visit to Jordan for medical treatment.
Najjar condemned the renewed arrest of released, ill prisoners, considering it a violation of humanitarian and international norms, and called on international and rights groups to intervene and save al-Tarayreh, who needs continuous medical treatment.
According to PPC, al-Tarayreh was arrested in 2008 and diagnosed with mouth (oral) cancer in 2009. About a month later, the Israeli Supreme Court released him due to his deteriorated health condition.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18148 24 sep 2012, 15:27 , Respect -
Maria 30 nov 2011
Israel Bulldozes Land in Salfit, Demolishes Homes in Jordan Valley, Seize Computers, Cash in Nablus
On Wednesday morning, Israeli forces demolished tents belonging to Palestinians in the northern Jordan Valley, bulldozed land in the central West Bank governorate of Salfit, and seized computers and $20,000 in cash from a Palestinian rental car company in Nablus.
Local sources told Palestinian government news wire Wafa that Israeli bulldozers demolished houses and tents in the villages of al-Hemma and Kardala. The demolitions were ongoing at the time of writing.
In Salfit, the farmer Hani Mohammed Amer called on Israel to stop bulldozing his land and uprooting the roughly 100 olive trees planted in the area Israeli forces plan to use to build the separation wall. Amer said that the wall would designate more land for the nearby illegal settlements of Azon Atma and Masha.
“I was surprised in the morning when I went to my land in Bayarrat al-Shalla area and I found the bulldozers uprooting my trees,” he said. Amer called on human rights organizations in Palestine to get involved.
In Nablus, Israeli troops raided a rental car company belonging to Wa’el al-Fattouh and seized computers, bank checks, customer applications, and $20,000 in cash.
Eyewitnesses said the forces also raided a building near the company, searched several nearby houses, and entered the old building of the Palestinian financial market in the al-Qaser Hotel.
24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 30 nov 2011
More Israeli Raids and Arrests near Hebron, Farmers Given 45 Days to Uproot Own Trees
On Wednesday, Israeli forces raided Beit Omar village, northwest of Hebron, and arrested three citizens. Israel has increased its encroachments into Beit Omar, often targeting children. Out of the 16 people arrested in the village, 13 were children.
Eyewitnesses told the official Palestinian news wire Wafa that Israeli forces raided and searched houses in the al-Bayadeh and Wadi al-Sheikh neighborhoods. The houses belonged to
--17-year-old Rashid Mohamad Issa Awad,
--22-year-old Mahamad Mahmoud Mahamad Ikhlil, and
--17-year old Yasser Faiz Mohamad Abu Fanous.
The three individuals were detained and taken to Etzion military detention center.
The soldiers arrested Rafeq Abdul Razaq Jaradat and Umar al-Sheikh Bhis from the villages of Sa'eer and Yatta, respectively.
Israeli forces also arrested 32-year-old Marwan Ahmed Sakharneh from Beit Ola village west of Hebron. The soldiers confiscated his tractor while he was plowing the lands in the Enjasat area, near the Israeli separation wall.
The towns and villages of Arabeh, Kufur Ra’e, al-Zawyeh, Anzeh, and Fahmeh were also raided but no arrests were recorded.
Israeli forces handed out demolition notices to the residents of Sourif, a village near Hebron. Activist Yousef Abu Maria told Wafa that the Israelis gave notices to Jamal Mohamad al-Qadi and Ibrahim Abdul Hadi Hamedat, informing them that their irrigation well and dozens of olive and almond trees would be destroyed. The well and trees are located in a 12-dunum (3 acre) plot of land near the separation wall. The soldiers gave al-Qadi and Hamedat 45 days to uproot their trees before bulldozers demolish them.
24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 1 dec 2011
IOF soldiers detain young woman, four Jerusalemite schoolchildren
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian young woman at a roadblock leading to the Ibrahimi mosque in Al-Khalil on Thursday, local sources said.
They said that Ola Al-Rejoub, 23, is from Al-Koum village to the south west of Al-Khalil city, adding that the occupation authorities informed the young woman’s family with the detention but did not mention a reason.
Meanwhile, Israeli policemen detained four Palestinian schoolchildren while passing the Shufat refugee camp’s barrier in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.
Jerusalemite sources said that Israeli policemen in plain clothes abducted the four children.
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Maria 2 dec 2011
Israel Prevents Thirty Farmers From Entering Their Lands
The Israeli Authorities prevented on Thursday thirty Palestinian farmers from Anin village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, from entering their lands and orchards isolated behind the Annexation Wall in the area.
Local sources reported that soldiers stationed at one of the gates of the separation wall, rejected thirty permits granted to the farmers in order to be able to reach their lands. The villagers were trying to harvest their olive orchards.
The villagers voiced an appeal to human rights groups and the Palestinian Authority to intervene, and to pressure Israel into allowing the residents to reach their own orchards and harvest their trees.
To access their land, the villagers must obtain permits, issued by the so-called Civil Administration office run by the army. The permits are rarely granted, and when they are, they limit the time and dates the residents are allowed to cross.
The route of the Israeli Annexation Wall is designed in a way that isolates the residents from their lands, an issue that requires them to apply for special permits.
http://www.imemc.org/article/62599 24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 3 dec 2011
Occupation forces set up tent next to the home of liberated captive
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces on Saturday afternoon set up a tent on the roof of a house adjacent to the house of liberated captive Randah Shahatit from the village of Abu Seif to the south of Dor in al-Khalil district in the southern Gaza Strip.
Sources close to liberated captive Shahatit told the PIC correspondent: "IOF troops boarding four military vehicles raided the village in the afternoon and they built a tent on the roof of a house belonging to Ismail Shawamra, adjacent to the home of liberated captive Randah Shahatit.”
The sources added that the soldiers were still on the roof at the time of the writing of this report and that when Shahatit went out of her home to visit a friend in the village the soldiers were watching.
Villagers are staying in their homes fearing the IOF have aggressive intentions.
The IOF troops raided the home of liberated captive Shahatit last Sunday and summoned her to Etsion interrogation centre to the south of al-Khalil on Wednesday where she was warned of participating in any activities and that she was being watched by the occupation army.
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Maria 3 dec 2011
Israeli station airs footage of soldiers attacking handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinians
in Hebrew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5iCjW_TIEs
with Arab subtitles http://fwd4.me/0hw4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFkI_ZX9fzo
World's "most respected" army at work. Two teens are tortured and threatened by the "world's most respected" army.
One of them ask the teenager: Why are you bothering us soldiers? The teenager says not to do so. The soldier hits him and says: why are you lying! The teenager says not to lie. The soldier beats, kicks, and threatens to break his hand and leg.
The teenager begs the soldier not to break his hands and legs and begs him, crying and screaming in pain, not to kick and beat him again. The soldiers are laughing, they enjoy hearing the teenagers beg. It must give them a feeling of power.
De other teen also is terrified and starts to cry in pain and fear.
Its not the first time to see this kind of behaver on video. There's even a video of a soldier shooting a prisoner in the knee while blindfolded and handcuffed. The soldier was acquitted.
A video of a soldier dancing in a vulgar way around a female prisoner. The female prisoner didn't know about the dancing untill the video appeared on the Internet. She was disgusted. I think it must almost feel like rape for her to see the video, but thats my personal feeling.
Photographs of soldiers with prisoners and marters on facebook, posed as if the prisoners/marters are toys and prey for them, not human beings.
Soldiers who incite others to treat the Palestinians like animals. Writing things like:
--Happy [Yom] Kippur to all. Surely, all the kids are going to the main drag (or downtown) to throw stones at Arabs.
--Fuck your mothers you sons of whores!! Sons of whores them and anyone who likes them. May God repay them.
--Any [Jewish] girl who goes out with Arabs should die. I have no more curses left in me. The most important thing is that they [Jewish women] should suffer before they kill them.
Many prisoners are sexually humiliated or raped. It is also a sport to urinate on prisoners.
If this is world's 'most respected" army than I wonder what cave they live in.
FlotillaHyves
24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 4 dec 2011
Operation Dove: Israeli Army Arrests Palestinian Boy in Susiya
HEBRON, (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers arrested a Palestinian boy on Saturday during a demonstration in Khirbet Susiya, a locale south of Yatta in Hebron, Sunday said a press release by Operation Dove.
It said about fifty people, including men, women, children, Israeli and international peace activists, walked with flags to protest against the blocking of a road by the Israeli army, and started clearing the blocking passage, accompanied by the singing of protests from women and children.
The work on improving the road by the Palestinians is considered illegal under Israeli administration, and Israeli soldiers soon arrived at the scene, said Operation Dove.
“With the arrival of the Israeli army, many children walked toward the soldiers, singing and waving flags, making them go back. After a while soldiers arrested a Palestinian boy who they claim to be guilty of having damaged a truck with a flag,” said the press release.
It added that, in the attempt to prevent the arrest of the boy, an international activist received an elbow on her face by an Israeli policeman.
The Palestinian boy was grabbed by three police officers and carried off in an army van, which sped in the direction of a woman that stood in the path of the vehicle to stop it. In addition, an elderly woman was yanked by a soldier at the scene.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18229 24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 11 dec 2011
Israeli policemen beat up 8-year-old Jerusalemite child, igniting clashes
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinians in Bab El-Amud neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem were infuriated to witness Israeli policemen savagely assaulting an 8-year-old child, and threw stones at them.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the police forces closed off the entire suburb and the Old City in the wake of the clashes that erupted between them and the angry inhabitants.
They said that special forces and undercover agents chased the young men who were throwing stones at the soldiers and arrested a number of them after five policemen were reportedly hurt in the clashes.
http://fwd4.me/0iPw
Israeli Forces Severely Beat Jerusalemite Child, Injure 2 Palestinians
JERUSALEM, (WAFA) – Israeli forces Sunday severely beat a Palestinian child, 8, in the courtyard of the Damascus Gate, one of the main gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that the incident aroused anger among Palestinians present at the scene, who responded by attacking the soldiers, leading to confrontations between them and the Israeli soldiers; two Palestinians were injured during the confrontations.
He added that a large Israeli force arrived at the scene, imposed a military cordon around it and closed the road leading to the old city of Jerusalem and the courtyard of the Damascus Gate.
Soldiers began chasing Palestinian youths and arrested one of them.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18317 24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 20 dec 2011
Palestinians Clash with Israeli Forces in Tulkarm
TULKAREM, December 20, 2011 (WAFA) – Clashes erupted Tuesday between Palestinian residents of Tulkarm and its refugee camp and Israeli soldiers who raided the area, according to witnesses.
They told WAFA that five military vehicles raided the refugee camp causing clashes to erupt.
The patrols roamed the city streets, especially the eastern area, which is close to the refugee camp, to provoke the city’s residents, said the witnesses.
No injuries were reported.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18433 24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 21 dec 2011
Israeli Soldiers Unleash Police Dogs at Woman, Arrest 3 Palestinians
HEBRON, (WAFA) – Israeli army Wednesday unleashed police dogs at a Palestinian woman, injuring her, and arrested three youth in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron, according to a WAFA correspondent.
Israeli forces unleashed police dogs at Amira Awad while arresting her son
1- Mohammad, 25,
from the family residence in Edna, a town west of Hebron.
Family members told WAFA that Israeli soldiers raided and ransacked the family house, unleashed the dogs at the mother and ignored her cries for help; she suffered from several bites and was immediately transported to hospital for treatment.
In addition, Mohammed Awad, spokesman of the National Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, a town north of Hebron, said that Israeli forces raided the town and arrested
2- Rafat Sabarneh, 18, and
3- Hussam Abu Mariah, 19.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18441 24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria Video: documenting the reality in the West Bank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2hnR6ppA88
24 sep 2012, 15:28 , Respect -
Maria 28 dec 2011
Taxi driver injured after collision with Israeli army jeep
QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian taxi driver was injured after his vehicle collided with an Israeli military jeep in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, officials said.
Civil defense crews extracted the man, who was not named, from his damaged vehicle after the crash near Azzun village in Qalqiliya district.
He was moderately bruised and transferred to hospital, civil defense staff said in a press statement.
An Israeli army spokesman said he was familiar with the incident, adding that the military personnel and vehicle were not harmed by the crash.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=448469