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2 Palestinians Killed, 102 Injured, 8 Abducted by Israeli Occupation Forces, Illegal Settlers Steal Olive Harvest

November 3, 2019 

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources: https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

A Palestinian was killed, several seriously injjured in Gaza, by Israeli occupation soldiers from across the border, November 1, 2019 Israeli occipation soldiers abducting a Palestinian child in Al-Issawiyeh, East Jerusalem, file, November 2, 2019

 

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injure Several Schoolchildren In Hebron

November 3, 2019 1:42 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers injured, Sunday, several schoolchildren in the schools’ area, south of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources in Hebron said several army jeeps invaded the Schools’ Area and fired gas bombs at the students who were walking to their educational facilities.

The sources added that many students suffered the effects of teargas inhalation and received the needed treated by medics.

The soldiers repeatedly invade the Schools’ area in southern Hebron, and frequently surround the schools or attack the students, which in some cases leads in protests and throwing stones at the army jeeps.

The students in that area are also frequently attacked and harassed by the illegal colonialist settlers.

Palestinian Minister Among Eight Abducted by Israeli Forces in Pre-Dawn Raids Sunday

November 3, 2019 12:56 PM IMEMC News

Updated: The Israeli Minister of Jerusalem Fadi al-Hadmi, was one of eight Palestinians abducted by Israeli forces in pre-dawn raids on Sunday.

Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the neighborhood of Suwwana, in occupied Jerusalem, and abducted Fadi al-Hadmi, a Palestinian community leader who is a member of the Palestinian government that has worked through non-violent means to assert their sovereignty in the city.

While invading al-Hadmi’s home Sunday before dawn, eyewitnesses reported that the soldiers beat, humiliated and brutalized the government minister in front of his family and children before dragging him away.

This is the third time that al-Hadmi has been singled out for arrest by Israeli authorities, who claim they have the jurisdiction to arrest Palestinians in the city of Jerusalem – in violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the rights of occupying powers.

In addition to abducting him, the Israeli authorities have also summoned him for interrogation on at least 12 occasions.

Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian Governor of Jerusalem, is also frequently abducted by Israeli forces for the ‘crime’ of carrying out Palestinian governmental meetings and activities. Israeli forces justify these abductions of government ministers by claiming that Palestinians have no right to govern in Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem’s Old City, the soldiers also invaded and searched homes and abducted three young Wisam Seder, Yousef al-Hilu and  Razaz ar-Razem.

In the area of Khallet Hadour in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, Israeli troops abducted Mo’men Abu Shamsiya and Ahmad Al-Yamani.

In Bal’a village, east of Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted Nabil Saleh Awwad Hamdan, 52.

The Israeli forces also abducted Daoud Zakaria Mousa after they raided his family’s house and searched it in Al-Khader village south of Bethlehem.

Leaked Video from Israeli Occupation Army Shows Soldier Shooting Unarmed Palestinian with Hands Up

November 3, 2019 11:32 AM IMEMC News

A video taken by an Israeli occupation border patrol officer 18 months ago was released on Israeli television Saturday, and it shows a soldier shooting an unarmed Palestinian with his hands up in a tunnel road in the West Bank.

The 26-second clip shows a Palestinian man holding up his hands and walking away as two soldiers shout at him. Then one of the soldiers shoots the Palestinian in the leg.

It was released on Israeli channel 13.

The Palestinian man appears to be complying with the Israeli soldiers’ orders when he is suddenly shot, and collapses to the ground.

According to Israeli media sources, the Border Police stated that the border officer responsible for the shooting was kicked off the force once the incident was discovered.

But the officer has, according to Israeli sources, been sent to be part of the Israeli military occupying the West Bank, while this incident is being investigated.

The Palestinian victim in the video has not been identified by the Israeli Border Police. It is not clear how badly he was injured by the shot.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Near Jenin

November 3, 2019 10:30 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers shot, on Sunday morning, a young man at the military gate of the illegal Annexation Wall, installed on Palestinian lands in Aneen village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jenin said the soldiers shot Mohammad Ahmad Jaradat, 32, with a live round in his left leg.

It added that the soldiers shot the Palestinian while trying to enter Jerusalem for work, and later handed him to its medics before he was rushed to Jenin Governmental Hospital.

The incident is one of many similar Israeli violations, as the soldiers recently shot nine Palestinians near the gates of the illegal Annexation Wall in that area.

The wounded Palestinians were not abducted or imprisoned by the soldiers, which indicates that they did not attempt to attack the soldiers or pose any danger to them, otherwise, the army would not allow their release to Palestinian medics.

Palestinian Resistance Fires Several Projectiles After Palestinian Killed on Friday

November 2, 2019 11:16 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation government sources reported that Palestinian resistance groups fired around 8 rockets across the border from Gaza into Israel Friday night, with one of the projectiles causing slight damage to a house in southern Israel, after a Palestinian had been Killed by Israeli occupation soldiers, on Friday.

Israeli residents of the town of Sderot reportedly ran into bomb shelters as a siren sounded throughout the town, warning of ‘rocket fire’ from Palestinians.

According to the Israeli military, seven of the eight projectiles fired by the Palestinian resistance on Friday night were intercepted by their anti-rocket ‘defense’ system, Iron Dome.

The projectiles were fired around 9 pm, according to local sources, and Israelis in the town of Sderot went into shelters following the sounding of the siren in the town.

Israeli medics reported a single injury during the incident: a women who tripped and fell during the rush to the underground bunker. 

Israeli Air Strikes Kill One Palestinian, Injure Three, In Gaza

November 2, 2019 10:03 AM IMEMC News

The Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip has confirmed that one Palestinian was killed, on Saturday at dawn, and three others were injured, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region. The Israeli occupation army also fired many missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip, after alleging that “projectiles were fired from Gaza.”

Dr. Ashraf al-Qedra, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry in Gaza, said one Palestinian, identified as Ahmad Mohammad Shahri, 27, was killed by the Israeli missiles, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region.

He added that three other Palestinians were injured, before they were rushed to Nassir Hospital, in Khan Younis.

It is worth mentioning that Fateh Movement issued a press release stating that the slain Palestinian is one of its members.

The Israeli occupation army claimed it was retaliating to “projectiles” that were reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip, into the nearby Negev town of Sderot.

Israeli sources did not report injuries, but stated that the Iron Dome intercepted seven shells, and added that one woman, in her sixties, was mildly wounded when she “fell while heading to a protected area.”

Very minor damage was reported in a wall of one home, while the windshields of a few cars were shattered.

Media sources in Gaza said the army fired many missiles into thirteen sites across the coastal region, causing serious property damage to several buildings and homes.

Among the targeted areas are sites run by the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in Khan Younis and Rafah, in addition to two other sites in northern Gaza, and one in central Gaza, in addition to farmlands, east of Gaza city.

Hamas spokesperson, Fawzi Barhoum, warned Israel of the consequences of escalation against the Gaza Strip and stated that the resistance is ready for any possible scenario.

Israeli Occupation Forces Injure 96 Palestinians At Gaza Border

November 1, 2019 9:21 PM IMEMC & Agencies

At least 96 Palestinians were injured on Friday as Israeli occupation forces attacked dozens of peaceful protesters taking part in the 81st Friday of the Great March of Return at the border between Gaza and Israel.

The Ministry of Health reported that the Israeli occupation forces shot 96 Palestinian non-violent protesters, 57 of whom were wounded with live ammunition, along the eastern border of the besieged Gaza Strip.

Dozens of protesters also sustained inhalation from teargas fired by the Israeli forces. Some of the wounded were moved to hospital, while others were treated in the field hospitals.

According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), 214 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the outbreak of the protests on 30 March 2018, with an additional 14,453 injured.

The weekly protests call for lifting the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and for the return of the Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homes in pre-1948 Palestine, that which is the state of Israel.

Source: Days of Palestine

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Attack School, Abduct A Child And Injure Many, In Jerusalem

November 2, 2019 10:55 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers invaded, on Saturday morning, a Palestinian school in the al-‘Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted one child, in addition to causing many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after throwing gas bombs into their school.

Media sources said the soldiers abducted Saleh Tawil, in the al-‘Isawiya Secondary School for Boys, and took him to an unknown destination.

They added that the soldiers fired gas bombs, in addition to hurling gas grenades into the campus, causing many children to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported.

On Friday evening, the soldiers detained a Palestinian groom and his bride, after stopping their car at the Container military roadblock, north of Bethlehem.

The groom and his bride were detained at the roadblock for more than an hour, before the soldiers allowed them to leave. The army did not provide any reason for its soldiers’ actions.

Video By Silwanic (Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan)

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Force Palestinians Out Of Their Olive Orchards In Nablus

November 2, 2019 1:33 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers invaded, Saturday, Palestinian olive orchards between Burin and Huwwara towns, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and forced the Palestinians out, in addition to threatening them with “binging the settlers to attack them.”

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the orchards near the illegal Yitzhar colony, which was built on private Palestinian lands, and attacked the families.

The soldiers even told the families that if they do not leave, they will bring the colonists from Yitzhar, known for constantly attacking the Palestinians and their lands, to assault them.

The olive harvest season in the occupied West Bank is always accompanied by dozens of Israeli violations by both the soldiers and the illegal colonists.

There have numerous violations this olive harvest season alone, including twelve just recently in Qaryout village, south of Nablus.

The attacks include assaulting the Palestinians, uprooting their trees, burning their lands and orchards, in addition to the military’s refusal in many cases to allow the Palestinians into their lands, isolated behind the illegal Annexation Wall.

It is worth mentioning that the Palestinians in Nablus governorate are not allowed to enter more than 3500 Dunams of their olive orchards, except for a few days a year, after prior coordination and approval from the military.

Even when they receive the permits, the Palestinians and are forced to wait until the soldiers open the gate for them, and sometimes the soldiers do not open it at all or force them to wait for long periods.

On Friday morning, several colonists invaded a Palestinian orchard in Yasuf village, east of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and stole a donkey, blankets and olive picking tools.

Such attacks against Palestinian lands, especially olive orchards, including those carried out by soldiers, take place in various areas across the West Bank, always escalate during the olive harvest season, and include cutting, burning and uprooting trees, picking olive trees and stealing the produce, in addition to assaulting the Palestinians and forcing them out of their orchards.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Pick Palestinian Olive Trees, Steal Produce

November 3, 2019 10:51 AM IMEMC News

In yet another violation, several illegal Israeli settlers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, invaded a Palestinian olive orchard, and harvested nearly 300 trees before stealing the produce.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said the Israeli assailants came from Rahalim nearby illegal colony, which was built on stolen Palestinian lands.

He added that the assailants harvested and stole the produce of nearly 300 Palestinian olive trees, before fleeing to their colony.

The official also stated that, once the Palestinians were able to enter their orchards, isolated behind the Annexation Wall, some colonists attacked them and forced them away, while the soldiers did not intervene.

On Saturday, the soldiers invaded Palestinian olive orchards between Burin and Huwwara towns, south of Nablus, and forced the Palestinians out, in addition to threatening them with “binging the settlers to attack them.”

It is worth mentioning that the Palestinians in Nablus governorate are not allowed to enter more than 3500 Dunams of their olive orchards, except for a few days a year, after prior coordination and approval from the military.

Even when they receive the permits, the Palestinians and are forced to wait until the soldiers open the gate for them, and sometimes the soldiers do not open it at all or force them to wait for long periods.

On Friday morning, several colonists invaded a Palestinian orchard in Yasuf village, east of the central West Bank city of Salfit, and stole a donkey, blankets and olive picking tools.

Such attacks against Palestinian lands, especially olive orchards, including those carried out by soldiers, take place in various areas across the West Bank, always escalate during the olive harvest season, and include cutting, burning and uprooting trees, picking olive trees and stealing the produce, in addition to assaulting the Palestinians and forcing them out of their orchards.

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