The Israeli Occupation, Apartheid Regime on Rampage of Killing, Injuring, Abducting, Blockading, and Repressing the Palestinian People, February 26, 2020

The Israeli Occupation, Apartheid Regime on Rampage of Killing, Injuring, Abducting, Blockading, and Repressing the Palestinian People

February 26, 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/


Two million Palestinians in Gaza Strip, blockaded and sieged by Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces, in the largest prison in the world.	An Israeli occupation navy ship threatening a Palestinian fishing boat, off Gaza shore, file, February 25, 2020


Israeli occupation soldiers abucting a Palestinian teenager, file, February 25, 2020	Israeli occupation soldiers blocking the way of Palestinians marching towards the Jordan Valley, February 25, 2020 imemc.jpg

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Army Injures Twenty Palestinians In Nablus

February 26, 2020 11:49 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the eastern area of Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and injured twenty Palestinians, during protests that took place after the army accompanied hundreds of illegal colonialist settlers in “Joseph’s Tomb” area.

Medical sources stated that several military jeeps stormed Amman Street and the vicinity of the historic site, and fired gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets towards dozens of young men, who protested the invasion.

They added that the army injured 20 Palestinians; four were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, and 16 suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

The invasion was carried out by around 2,000 colonialist settlers, and dozens of soldiers in armored vehicles.

Joseph the Patriarch is revered by Jews, Muslims, Christians, and Samaritans alike. The Israeli military allows Jews to visit as part of organized pilgrimages, despite the site’s location in Area A of the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority has full control, and prohibits Muslims from worshiping at the site.

Ultra-orthodox and nationalist Jews regularly try to visit the shrine without approval, as many Jews believe the tomb to be the final resting place of the biblical figure in the Old Testament.

Palestinians believe that Joseph’s Tomb is the funerary monument to Sheikh Yousif Dweikat, a local religious figure.

In related news, illegal colonists infiltrated into Yasuf Palestinian village, east of Salfit in central West Bank, punctured tires of many cars, and wrote racist graffiti.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Soldiers Abduct 28 Palestinians, Including Children, Former Political Prisoners, In West Bank”

February 25, 2020 4:12 PM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers abducted, Tuesday, twenty-eight Palestinians, including children, siblings, and a young woman, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PPS said the soldiers abducted sixteen Palestinians from their homes in Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank.

It added that the soldiers also abducted a father and his son from their home in Ramallah, in central West Bank, and a young female university student.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Airstrike Injures Palestinian Motorcycle Driver

February 25, 2020 6:40 AM IMEMC & Agencies

A Palestinian citizen was injured, Monday evening, in an airstrike by Israeli occupation apartheid regime planes targeting his motorbike, east of Gaza City.

WAFA correspondent, quoting medical sources, stated that the occupation planes targeted, with at least one missile, a motorcycle on Salah El-Din Street, east of the city, which resulted in one injured Palestinian civilian.

Tensions have been running high in the besieged Gaza Strip since Sunday, when Israeli forces killed a Palestinian resistance member and desecrated the slain man’s body, also injuring several Palestinians that were attempting to rescue the body.

Image: Alray

Eight Palestinians Injured by Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Missiles in Gaza

February 25, 2020 6:46 AM IMEMC & Agencies

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced, Monday evening, that a number of citizens were injured by the Israeli aggression in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The ministry said in a press statement: “The arrival of 8 different injuries from eastern Gaza to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex due to the Israeli escalation.”

A Shehab correspondent reported that an Israeli missile, fired by the Iron Dome – air defense system, towards Gaza’s rockets, landed in a Palestinian citizen’s home in the Shejaiya area, eastern Gaza Strip.

Collective Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Punishment of Gaza Strip: Israel Closes Gaza Border Crossings and Fishing Zone, As Part of Ceasefire Agreement

February 26, 2020 12:43 AM IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime closed Gaza’s border crossings and the entire fishing area, Monday night, as part of the ceasefire agreed between Israel and the Palestinian factions in Gaza, according to Days of Palestine.

The ceasefire went into effect at 11:30 p.m. local time, on Monday, after 2 days of intense fire, that began after Israel murdered a Palestinian man, then continued to desecrate the slain man’s body.

Reports said Israel ordered the Karm Abu Salem/Kerem Shalom border crossing to be closed, which is considered Gaza’s only commercial crossing with Israel, except for food, fuel and medical supplies.

Erez/Beit Hanoun border crossing will also be closed, except for humanitarian cases, in addition to closing the entire fishing area, which is one of the besieged Gaza Strip’s main income sources.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Army Invades Palestinians Lands, Navy Attacks Fishing Boats, In Southern Gaza

February 26, 2020 1:25 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers, on military vehicles, invaded, on Wednesday morning, Palestinian lands east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, while navy ships opened fire on fishing boats.

Media sources said three armored D9 bulldozers, a digger, and a few military jeeps, advanced dozens of meters into Palestinian farmlands before bulldozing several sections and digging trenches.

They added that the invasion was carried out in the same area where the Israeli army killed, last Sunday, Mohammad Ali an-Na’em, 27, who was not only shot by the soldiers, but also had his body crushed by a military bulldozer, before it was lifted in the air by its blade before it was swung back and forth in the air.

In addition, Israeli navy ships opened fire, and used water cannons, against Palestinian fishing boats in Khan Younis sea, forcing the fishermen back to the shore without being able to fish and provide for their families.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Soldiers Abduct Eight Palestinians, Including Children, In Hizma

February 26, 2020 12:52 PM IMEMC News Israeli attacks, Jerusalem, News Report, West Bank 0

Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town of Hizma, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, searched and ransacked many homes, before abducting eight Palestinians, including three former political prisoners, and three children.

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers abducted three former political prisoners, identified as Issa Odah Khatib, 50, Ahmad Wahid Khatib, 21, and Mohammad Fawzi Khatib, 25.

The PPS added that the soldiers also abducted Mohammad’s brother, a teenage boy identified as Ahmad.

It also said that the soldiers abducted Mohammad Roshdi Salahuddin, 17, Fadi Hamed Khatib, 15, Mahmoud Hussein Khatib, 18, and Rami Sbeih Khatib.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Soldiers Abduct 27 Palestinians, Including Children, In West Bank”

February 26, 2020 2:13 PM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, 27 Palestinians, including children and the father of a slain young man, from their homes during extensive and very violent searches of property across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.

The PPS stated that the soldiers abducted twelve Palestinians, including children and former political prisoners, from occupied Jerusalem and nearby Hizma and ar-Ram towns.

It identified them as Ahmad Wahid Khatib, 21, Issa Odah Khatib, 50, Mohammad Fawzi Khatib, 25, his brother Ahmad, 15, Mahmoud Hussein Khatib, 18, Fadi Hamed Khatib, 15, Rami Fayez Sbeih, and Mohammad Roshdi Salahuddin, 17.

The soldiers also abducted Saed al-Hittawi, and his son Zoheir, from their home, but released them later.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Khalil Tafakji, 70, the head of the Maps Department of the Arab Studies Society, and the head of the Chamber of Commerce in occupied Jerusalem, Jamal Obeidat.

In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers invaded many homes in the al-Jalazoun refugee camp, Deir Abu Mashal and Deir Nitham villages, and abducted four Palestinians, identified as Yousef Nathmi Ata, Omar Sobhi al-Far, 24, Mohammad Abdul-Sattar Zahran, 30, and Firas Tamimi.

It is worth mentioning that Firas is the father of Mos’ab Tamimi, who was only 17 years of age when Israeli soldiers killed him, on January 3, 2018, after shooting him with a live round in his neck in Deir Nitham.

In Nablus governorate, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted two Palestinians, identified as Jom’a Ramadan and Sufian al-Hayek, from Zeita Jama’in town, south of Nablus city, and Laith Yahia Edrees, 17, from Askar refugee camp.

In Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Essam Mohammad Salim, 13, from his home in Jayyous town, east of the city.

In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Shadi Ali Hasasna, 34, from his home.

In the Northern Plains of the Jordan Valley of the West Bank, the soldiers abducted Moath Abdul-Rahim Bisharat and his brother Sakher.

In Jericho, the soldiers abducted a child, identified as Mohammad Mofeed al-Hindi, in addition to Ahmad Faraj Sa’aida, Jasser Fahed Atiyyat, and Mustafa Thieb Atiyyat.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians During A Peace Protest In Jordan Valley

February 25, 2020 3:50 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers attacked, Tuesday, dozens of nonviolent Palestinian protesters near a military roadblock in the northern area of the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank, causing many injuries.

The nonviolent procession was organized by the National Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies, in addition to Fateh movement’s anti-colonies committee in Tubas.

The protesters marched against the ongoing illegal Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands, and Tel Aviv’s policies aiming at the annexation of the Jordan Valley as part of the so-called “Deal of the Century,” which was presented by U.S. President D. Trump on January 28th.

The protesters marched near Tayasir military roadblock, east of Tubas, before the soldiers fired live rounds, rubber-coated metal bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at them.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has confirmed that one Palestinian was shot with live fire, two with rubber-coated steel bullets, and many others suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

Ceasefire Between Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime and Palestinian Resistance

February 24, 2020 7:19 PM IMEMC & Agencies

Shortly after the Israeli occupation apartheid regime so-called prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, concluded a security meeting in Tel Aviv, on Monday, Israeli warplanes resumed its airstrikes against targets in the besieged Gaza Strip, Days of Palestine reports.

The following is a breakdown of Israel’s assault on Gaza.

2:55 PM: Israeli warplanes attacked a Palestinian post belonging to the resistance in the city of Rafah. southern Gaza Strip.

4:50 PM: An Israeli drone targeted a group of citizens in the northern Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, no injuries have been reported so far.

5:05 PM: Israeli warplanes targeted a Palestinian post in the northern of the Gaza Strip.

5:12 PM: Israeli artillery targeted a Palestinian post in the city of Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip.

5:19 PM: Israeli artillery fired a shell towards the northeastern areas of Rafah Governorate.

5:25 PM: Israeli artillery fired a shell towards the eastern Gaza Strip and towards Beit Lahia city, northern Gaza Strip.

5:39 PM: Israeli artillery renews shelling towards eastern border areas of the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis, and the power is cut in the area.

5:48 PM: Heavy Israeli airstrikes north of Gaza city.

5:50 PM: At least one Palestinian man is targeted by Israeli tanks in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

Updated at 7:19pm February 24

7:08 PM: Israeli warplanes targeted an area in the West of Deir al-Balah with two missiles.

7:13 PM: A Palestinian man was targeted by an Israeli drone missile east of Gaza.

(Updated at 11:33 pm from: Israel Resumes Airstrikes and Shelling of Gaza Strip)

11:30 PM: A truce has come into effect, ending the aggression.

On Sunday, the Palestinian resistance fired rockets toward Israel in retribution for the murder and sadistic treatment of the slain man, Israel responding with airstrikes.

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