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A Palestinian and an Israeli Killed, Scores of Palestinians Injured and Abducted, More Homes Demolished by Israeli Occupation Soldiers

December 25, 2020 

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:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

Israeli occupation soldiers abducting Palestinian civilians, file, December 25, 2020	Palestinian woman, Shahira Ghaith, sitting on the rubble of her home in Silwan, which was destroyed by Israeli occupation soldiers, December 24, 2020

Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Teen In Jerusalem”

 DEC 22, 2020

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Monday evening, a young Palestinian man near Bab Hutta Gate, in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, after he reportedly opened fire at them.

According to the Israeli army, the Palestinian was fatally shot by the soldiers after he opened fire at them using the Carlo weapon.

The slain Palestinian was later identified as Mahmoud Omar Sadeq Kamil, 17, from Qabatia town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

One soldier was mildly injured when he fell while chasing the Palestinian, and was moved to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem.

Palestinian worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque said they heard the shots before dozens of soldiers stormed the courtyards of the holy site and were extensively deployed around it after closing all of its gates, preventing the residents from entering or leaving it.

Dozens of police and security officers also arrived at the scene and installed many iron barriers to close the area.

The Police also stopped and interrogated dozens of young Palestinian men in the courtyards of Al-Aqsa and near it, in addition to assaulting and violently searching some of them.

On Monday at night, the soldiers invaded Qabatia town, before storming the home of Omar Kamil, the father of the slain teen, searched the property, and summoned him for interrogation in Salem military base and security center, west of Jenin.

Female Israeli Settler Killed In Northern West Bank

IMEMC, DEC 21, 2020

An Israeli settler woman was found dead, Monday, near Tel Menashe illegal colony, near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, in what Israel speculates an attack carried out by a Palestinian when she went for a jog in a nearby forest.

Israeli media sources said the corpse of Esther Horgan, 52, a mother of six, was found in the forest close to her home earlier Monday, and added that the attack resulted in a broken skull along with other injuries.

They stated that Horgan left her residence on Sunday afternoon and went jogging in the forest, but never returned home. Her husband then contacted the police before they initiated a search.

After her body was located, the Israeli army and the police initiated a massive search campaign to locate the person/s responsible for her death. Her family and friends started looking for her on Sunday afternoon after she went missing.

Although the circumstances of the incident remain unclear, the army and the police are speculating a Palestinian is responsible for her death, and vowed “imminent arrests.”

In related news, Israeli sources said a setter, 18 years of age, was killed and four others were injured, during a chase by the Israeli police after they hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles near Ramallah, in central West Bank.

The Police said one of its undercover units ordered the vehicle to stop and gave chase after the driver refused to pull over and sped away before the vehicle slid and crashed.

Five settlers who were in the vehicle were injured, four of them suffered mild wounds, and one, identified as Ahuvya Sandak, 19, was pinned under the car and died at the scene.

Israeli Forces Tear Down 2 Palestinian Homes, a Third Demolished by its Owner

IMEMC, DEC 24, 2020

The Israeli municipality, on Monday, forced a Palestinian woman in Silwan town of occupied East Jerusalem, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) reported.

Ms. Shahira Ghaith said that she was living in the home for only three months, and with the help of a lawyer, she was able to postpone the demolition, which was implemented under the pretext of having no building permit.

She added that the occupation municipality rejected any further delays, so she began the demolition process in order to avoid fees which would be imposed by the Israeli municipality if they carried out the demolition.

Video by Wadi Hilweh Information Center – Silwanic

Meanwhile, Israeli forces invaded the al-Simiya hamlet, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank, and demolished two Palestinian-owned homes, a live stock shed and a water well.

Coordinator of the Popular anti-settlement committee, Rateb al-Jabour, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that soldiers invaded the town, with bulldozers, and proceeded to demolish a 500 square meter (sqm) livestock shed, a water well, as well as 2 homes, one 90 sqm, and another 200 sqm in area.

Al-Jabour added that 20 Palestinian civilians are now homeless as a result of the Israeli occupation’s demolition policies.

~ Silwanic, WAFA

Israeli Forces Detain Several Palestinians, Including a Wounded Man

IMEMC, DEC 24, 2020

On Tuesday night and Wednesday at dawn, Israeli forces detained a number of Palestinian civilians from the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) seven civilians were detained on Tuesday night, and at dawn on Wednesday, one of whom was shot and injured before being detained.

From the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, Muhammad Tawfiq Kamil, a family member of the teen recently killed in Jerusalem.

From the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, the army detained Asim Kamal al-Shalabi, 24, and Muhammad Ibrahim Hamarsha, 22, a former prisoner, from the Nour Shams refugee camp.

Ibrahim Hamarsha, director of the PPS in Tulkarem, and the father of a current detainee, was detained, along with another civilian, identified as Majd Hamesh, they were both interrogated and released.

In the central West Bank city of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers took Qusay Ali Abu Mufreh, 18, and Munir Muhammad Taamrah, 37, into custody.

In the central West Bank city of Salfit, a young man, identified as Nizar Darabeh, was detained.

In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, one Palestinian was shot by Israeli forces, and later arrested. No more information was available at the time of this report.

Palestinian Prisoners’ Society

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers, on Tuesday evening, invaded Jabel at-Taweel neighborhood in Al-Beireh city, central West Bank, which resulted in protests by local youths, the Palestinian Information Center reported.

During the onslaught, the army chased young Palestinian men, fired concussion grenades and tear-gas canisters, causing several people to choke on tear-gas.

It added that child with special needs, identified as Yousef Abed, 12, was detained by the army, no information about his location was available at the time of this report.

Furthermore, the PIC reported that on Tuesday night local Palestinians also protested the Israeli military incursion into the town of Qabatiya in Jenin, in which youths were said to have opened fire at the army. Israeli forces fired live rounds, tear-gas, and concussion grenades at the protestors. No injuries were reported.

Occupation forces also stormed the home of the slain teen, Mahmoud Omar Kamil, searched the home and interrogated his family.

East of Hebron, in southern West Bank, the army opened fire at a Palestinian vehicle near Bani Naim town. The young man was moderately injured, and subsequently detained, and his vehicle was confiscated by occupation authorities.

~ PPS, PIC, WAFA

Army Abducts A Palestinian Accused Of Killing A Settler

IMEMC, DEC 24, 2020

Undercover Israeli forces abducted, Thursday, a Palestinian man believed to be behind the death of an Israeli settler, last Monday, near Nablus, in northern West Bank.

Media sources said the undercover soldiers broke into the home of Mohammad Marouh Kabaha, 36, in Toura village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted him.

They added that the soldiers ransacked the home before detaining and interrogating his entire family for many hours in their property.

Israeli sources claimed the Palestinian “confessed under interrogation” that he killed the Israeli settler woman, identified as Esther Horgan, 52, who was found in the forest close to her home in Menashe illegal colony, earlier Monday.

The sources added that, according to the Shin Bet investigation into the incident, the Palestinian has no political affiliation, and is not a member of any resistance group.

Israeli Channel 13 claimed the man “waited in the forest for an Israeli victim,” and added that he surprised the woman before repeatedly striking her on the head and hid her body.

While some Israeli media agencies are trying to claim the incident is “nationally motivated,” or related to the ongoing conflict resulting from the illegal occupation and colonization of Palestine, the motives remain unclear.

Details of the investigation remain under a gag order by the Israeli security and military.

Israeli Colonists Injure A Palestinian Child, Attempt To Ram Three

IMEMC, DEC 22, 2020

Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian land, have escalated their attacks against the Palestinian people, injured one child in addition to attempting to ram three child siblings with a car.

Media sources in Hebron, in southern West Bank, said several Israeli colonists chased and assaulted a Palestinian child in the city.

They added that the child, Mahmoud Tamiza, suffered cuts and bruises to several parts of his body.

In addition, a female Israeli colonist drove her car into Jabal Jales area, in Hebron city, and attempted to ram three child siblings.

Resident Rashid Tamimi said the colonist, from the illegal Havat Gal outpost, sped towards the children, identified as Ghazal Mahmoud Baradeyya, 11, along with her siblings, Nour, 8, and Mustafa, 3.

He added that a Palestinian man noticed the colonist speeding towards the children, and barely managed to move them away from the car’s path.

In related news, several colonists invaded lands belonging to Umm ar-Reehan village, near Ya’bad town, southwest of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and installed an outpost close to the village’s main junction.

Ya’bad is surrounded by the illegal annexation wall and various colonies, in addition to being subject to frequent Israeli violations targeting the Palestinians and their property.

Many colonists also attacked several Palestinian homes in Beit Iskaria village, south of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.

The village is surrounded by colonies of the Gush Etzion colonialist block, south of Bethlehem, and witnesses repeated violations.

Israeli Forces Storm Nablus, Shoot, Injure Five Palestinians

IMEMC, DEC 22, 2020

Israeli forces, on Monday, opened fire at Palestinians in Nablus city, northern occupied West Bank, injuring a number of them, the Palestinian Information Center reported.

Medical sources announced that five Palestinians were shot by occupation soldiers, with live rounds. In addition, a number of people suffocated from tear-gas, when they attempted to resist the Israeli army invasion.

All five shooting injuries were transferred to local Rafidia Hospital for medical intervention.

According to eyewitnesses, the army invaded Sufyan street, and stormed an electronics store, seized the cell phone of the company’s director, and detained the owner, Anan Abu Duhair.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces detained a young man from Al-Basha street, in addition to other unidentified young men.

Nine Palestinians Detained by Occupation Forces in the West Bank

IMEMC, DEC 22, 2020

According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS), Sunday night and at down on Monday, Israeli forces detained nine Palestinian civilians from various parts of the West Bank.

From the northern West Bank city of Jenin, soldiers detained three Palestinians; Yazan Abd al-Raziq Muhammad Hanoon, 19, Saber Muhammad Shaqfah, 20, and Mahmoud Kamel al-Aya. From Nablus, Israeli troops detained Anan Abu Duhair.

Northeast of Ramallah, in the central occupied West Bank, Israeli forces detained Abdullah Zaghloul Abu Alia, 25, in Al-Mughayyir village, where a Palestinian child was recently killed.

Meanwhile, in al-‘Isawiya neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, namely; Omar Marwan Obaid and Amin Omar Hamed, also on Sunday, Israeli soldiers detained Ahmed Yunis Al-Ghoul, from Silwan town in Jerusalem.

Furthermore, from Dhahiriya town in Hebron, southern West Bank, Muhammad Bassam Al-Battat was detained by occupation forces.

The PPS added that the former prisoner, Muhammad Ahmad al-Najjar, from Hebron, was summoned by Israeli intelligence services for questioning.

Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS)

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OCHA: Protection of Civilians Report – Occupied Palestinian Territory

IMEMC, DEC 24, 2020

United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNOCHA)
Protection of Civilians Report: December 8-21, 2020

On 21 December, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy from Qabatiya (Jenin) reportedly opened fire at a police post in the Old City of Jerusalem and was subsequently shot and killed by Israeli forces who chased him. A police officer reportedly fell while running and was lightly injured.

On 20 December, an Israeli woman was found dead in a forest near the Tal Menashe settlement (Jenin), where she lived; the Israeli authorities suspect she had been attacked by a Palestinian. A series of stone throwing and physical assault incidents by Israeli settlers against Palestinians (mostly outside the reporting period) have been associated by the Israeli media with this case.

A total of 73 Palestinians, including 16 children, were injured in multiple clashes with Israeli forces across the West Bank. The bulk of the injuries (57) were recorded in protests against settlement activities in Kufur Qaddoum (Qalqilia), Al Mughayyir and Kafr Malik (Ramallah). Fourteen Palestinians were injured in clashes during search-and-arrest operations in the cities of Tulkarem and Nablus and in Jaba’ village (Jenin). Two Palestinians were injured near Jenin, while trying to cross into Israel through Barrier breaches. Ten of the Palestinians injured during this period were hit by live ammunition, 17 by rubber bullets, and 40 were treated for inhaling tear gas.
Israeli forces carried out 183 search-and-arrest operations and arrested 154 Palestinians across the West Bank. Most operations were recorded in the governorates of Nablus (39) and Tulkarem (35), followed by Jerusalem (28) and Hebron (23).

A home located about one kilometre away from Israel’s perimeter fence east of Gaza city was hit and severely damaged by an Israeli tank shell, reportedly fired accidentally. On at least 22 occasions, Israeli forces opened warning fire near the fence, and off Gaza’s coast, apparently to enforce access restrictions. Twice, Israeli bulldozers levelled land near the fence, inside Gaza. Israeli forces deployed signs at about 100 metres away from the fence ordering Palestinian farmers to move away their crops, or otherwise they would be forcibly removed.

A total of 21 Palestinian-owned structures were demolished or seized due to a lack of Israeli-issued building permits, displacing 14 people and otherwise affecting over 100. Two homes were seized in two Bedouin communities (Abu Nuwar and Az Za’ayyem Za’atreh) located in Area C of the Jerusalem governorate, within or nearby an area planned for a large settlement expansion project (E1). Another 16 structures were demolished or seized elsewhere in Area C, seven of them in another Bedouin community (Ras ‘Ein al ‘Auja) in the Jordan Valley. The remaining three structures, in East Jerusalem, were demolished by their owners to avoid higher expenses and fines. 2020 has recorded the second highest number of structures demolished (after 2016) since OCHA began systematically documenting this practice in 2009.

Israeli forces bulldozed some 30 dunams of agricultural land near Suba village (Hebron), on grounds that it had been declared ‘state land’. About 930 olive, grape, almond and cactus trees were uprooted or damaged during the incident, in addition to agricultural terraces, metal bars and fences and a gate. The livelihoods of eight families were affected.

Eight Palestinians, including three children, were injured and at least 740 Palestinian-owned trees and saplings were damaged by perpetrators believed to be Israeli settlers. In three separate incidents, Israeli settlers physically assaulted and forced out of their land Palestinian farmers from the community of Susiya, injuring a boy and an elderly man; this is one of multiple communities in Area C at risk of forcible transfer. Another three similar incidents affected farmers and other residents from Kisan village (Bethlehem). Three Palestinians were injured nearby Hebron following the death of the above-mentioned Israeli woman, including a boy and his father at Beit ‘Einun junction and a shepherd near Asfar settlement. The other three injuries were physically assaulted in East Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and Nablus. Five incidents involving the vandalizing of some 740 trees and saplings were recorded, one of them in the Khallet Athaba’ community (Hebron), where 400 olive and almond trees were damaged. Since the start of 2020, at least 8,550 trees have been damaged by people known or believed to be Israeli settlers.

Two Israelis were injured and 17 Israeli-plated vehicles were damaged while travelling on West Bank roads by perpetrators believed to be Palestinians, according to Israeli sources. The incidents involved the throwing of stones and paint bottles.

On 21 December, a 16-year-old Israeli boy was killed and four other settlers were injured when their car crashed while being chased by Israeli police, east of Ramallah. The Israeli authorities reportedly suspected they had thrown stones at Palestinian cars.

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PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

IMEMC, DEC 25, 2020

Summary for December 17 – 23, 2020

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse and attacks on civilians that are mostly conducted after midnight and in the early morning hours. This week witnessed an escalation in settler attacks, mainly uprooting and cutting trees and seedlings, assaults on civilian houses and vehicles, and assaults on civilians as one was ran over by a car.

Settlers’ attacks peaked on Monday, as the settlers carried out 12 assaults all under IOF protection across the West Bank. Additionally, IOF demolitions of Palestinian homes and properties continued as part of Israel’s de facto annexation and under various pretexts in the West Bank.

This week, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented 193 violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law (IHL) by IOF and settlers in the oPt. It should be noted that the limitations due to the corona virus pandemic, has limited PCHR’s fieldworkers mobility and ability to conduct field documentation; therefore, the information contained in this report are only part of the continued IOF violations.

IOF shooting and violation of right to bodily integrity:

Six civilians, including a child, were wounded during IOF excessive use of force in the West Bank: a child was wounded near the Annexation Wall in Jenin; 4 civilians were wounded in an IOF incursion into Nablus; and a sixth person was wounded in IOF shooting at his vehicle in Hebron before arresting him. Additionally, dozens of civilians suffocated due to tear gas inhalation, which was used by IOF to suppress protests and during incursions into Palestinian cities.

In the Gaza Strip, 6 IOF shootings were reported at civilians, journalists, farmers, shepherds and agricultural lands, and twice at fishing boats eastern and western Gaza Strip.

IOF incursions and arrests of Palestinian civilians:

IOF carried out 68 incursions into the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem. Those incursions included raids of civilian houses and shootings, enticing fear among civilians, and attacking many of them. During this week’s incursions, 45 Palestinians were arrested, including 6 children and 2 women.

Demolitions:

PCHR documented 6 incidents, including:

Occupied East Jerusalem: barn self-demolished, and 2 houses were demolished (one by its owners) in Silwan; two commercial barracks and a wall in Jabal Mokabber and Wadi Jier area were demolished.

Hebron: 2 houses, barracks and water well were demolished in Khirbet al-Simia, west of as-Samu; manual digging equipment and power generator were also confiscated in Khirbet Zanuta, eastern ad-Dhahiriya.

Settler-attacks:

PCHR fieldworkers reported and documented 19 settler-violence incidents:

250 trees uprooted in Kisan village, eastern Bethlehem; Assault on several houses and shepherds and a Palestinian ran over in Hebron; Water irrigation system, and orange trees cut in Khan al-Laban in Nablus; 30 olive tree seedlings cut in Al-Mughayyir, northeastern Ramallah. 50 olive tree seedlings south east of Nablus.

PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory – – IMEMC News

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