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Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Continues Abduction of Palestinians, Demolishing of their Homes, Building Exclusive Roads for Illegal Settlers

July 9, 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/

 

Palestinian children looking at their demolished by Israeli occupation regime in East Jerusalem, file, July 8, 2020	Israeli bulldozer demolishing home of a Palestinian political prisoner near Jenin, July 6, 2020 imemc

Israeli Warplanes Strike Several Areas in eastern Gaza Strip, July 6, 2020

Israeli Bulldozers Raze Land for Illegal Settler-only Road near Nablus

IMEMC, July 8, 2020 12:00 PM  Ali Salam 

Israeli apartheid regime bulldozers continued razing, on Monday, Palestinian-owned lands in the northern occupied West Bank, town of Huwara, south of Nablus, to allow for the construction of a bypass road for the illegal Israeli settlers only, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.

Ghassan Daghlas, a local official monitoring illegal Israeli settlement construction, said that Israeli bulldozers proceeded to raze Palestinian-owned land south of the town, damaging agricultural land.

Local Palestinians protested the land levelling operations, and Israeli soldiers responded by firing tear-gas canisters and concussion grenades to suppress the resistors.

The Israeli apartheid regime decision to construct the 7-kilometer-long road came in April 2019, once completed, the colonial project, will lead to the expropriation of approximately 406 dunams (100 acres) of land from seven Palestinian villages, south of Nablus.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Troops Abduct Several Palestinians from West Bank

 July 8, 2020 11:37 AM  IMEMC Staff 

Israeli occupation apartheid troops abducted, early on Wednesday, many Palestinian residents from various parts of the West Bank, including the occupied East Jerusalem.

In the southern West Bank city of East Jerusalem, Israeli police abducted Palestinian engineer, Bassam al-Hallaq, who is in charge of construction works, inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The abduction of al-Hallaq came during an Israeli police interruption of some construction works in the Almarawni part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported.

It added that the police task force of the Israeli authorities, blocked those works, before they took Al-Hallaq to custody for interrogation.

Noteworthy, the Jordanian Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs, is the one in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s affairs, since Israel occupied East Jerusalem, back in June 1967.

Also in East Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces abducted Palestinian resident, Mohammad Abu Al-Hawa, after he completed dawn prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Abu Al-Hawa is a resident of the Altour neighborhood, east of the occupied Palestinian city.

In the meantime, Israeli forces invaded the Shu’fat refugee camp of East Jerusalem. and broke into the home of an unidentified Palestinian civilian, before they abducted he and his wife.

The al-‘Isawiya neighborhood, north-east of occupied East Jerusalem, was stormed by Israeli forces, who encountered local residents of al-‘Isawiya, before beating and abducting Muhammad Esmat Obaid and Muhammad Ghasib Obaid, and taking them to an unknown location.

In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, local Palestinian media sources and witnesses said that Israeli occupation forces invaded various parts of the city, before they abducted a local attorney, Ayed Al-Haymoni, along with Fadi Saleh Ghneimat, a former prisoner, Shadi Shaheen, and Hamza Ghaleb Amro.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation apartheid troops invaded the Qabatia village, on the outskirts of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and abducted Palestinian youth, Mustafa Assaf.

In the northern West Bank, in another Israeli abduction operation, soldiers detained Palestinian youth, Muhannad Jamal Al-Sadah, from Jit village, east of the city of Qalqilia.

In the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli troops abducted Palestinian youths, Omar Tawfiq Hijaz, Ahmed Jamil Azzam, and Obaida Farah Hijaz, after invading the Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya village, east of Ramallah.

Over the past several weeks, Israeli troops, across the occupied West Bank, have increased their abduction operations. This escalation comes at a time when Israeli government officials have signalled annexation of some 30 percent of the West Bank territories, to the occupation state of Israel.

~ Ma’an, Al-Quds, PPS

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Court Orders Muslim Cemetery Destroyed to Build Homeless Shelter

IMEMC, July 8, 2020 11:04 AM  Celine Hagbard 

In Tel Aviv on Tuesday, an Israeli court rejected an appeal by the Islamic Council of Yafa to preserve a 200-year old Muslim cemetery, ruling instead that the municipality of Tel Aviv can move forward with plans to build a homeless shelter on the site.

The ruling followed weeks of protests, in which Israeli police beat Palestinian citizens who challenged the plan to demolish the cemetery. They said it was part of the Israeli government’s policy to erase Palestinian heritage, just as the Israeli government had erased and demolished so many Palestinian towns, villages and historic sites over the past 72 years that Israel has existed.

In addition to ruling that the cemetery could be destroyed, Judge Limor Bibi ordered the Jaffa Islamic Council to pay $2,200 in legal fees.

The case evoked memories of a similar fight that took place in Jerusalem several years ago, in which Palestinians resisted the Israeli plan to demolish a Muslim cemetery in order to build a ‘Museum of Tolerance’. They lost that fight, and the cemetery was destroyed in order to construct the Museum.

In the current case, the Islamic Council had managed to get an Israeli court to temporarily halt construction on the site when they proved that the Tel Aviv municipality had no legal permit to destroy the 200-year old Al-Isaaf cemetery. The original hearing was supposed to be July 22nd. But lawyers for the city of Tel Aviv argued that the city’s finances were being negatively impacted, and the court agreed to move the hearing up to July 7th.

The municipality argued that the site was not a place of special significance to Jaffa’s Muslim community, claiming that it had been abandoned for decades until their construction equipment dug up the skeletons of thirty people while doing excavation on the site.

The director of the Islamic Council, Tarek Ashkar, called the court ruling “legal acrobatics”, and said it was a blatant example of anti-Palestinian discrimination in Israel.

The judge appeared to make the decision based on a technicality – the fact that construction had continued on the site, and had not ceased for an entire year – because of the continuation of the work, Judge Bibi said that the permit was never invalidated, and so the municipality should not have to apply for a new permit.

According to Middle East Eye, the Al-Isaaf cemetery, which lies just north of the walls of Old Jaffa near the Hassan Bek Mosque, was built almost 200 years ago. Despite not being in active use for nearly 90 years, the cemetery holds hundreds of Palestinian tombs.

Middle East Eye points out that Jaffa was once an epicentre of the Palestinian economy, with some 120,000 people living in and around the flourishing city on the Mediterranean Sea in 1948. Almost 95 percent of the Palestinian population of Jaffa and its surrounding villages were expelled by Zionist militias during the Nakba, or the catastrophe, that year, during the formation of the state of Israel.

Over the decades, Jaffa’s historic neighbourhoods were progressively demolished and the city shrank into a small town that was then absorbed by the municipality of Tel Aviv.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Bulldozers Invade Parts of Eastern Gaza City

 July 8, 2020 10:56 AM  IMEMC Staff 

Israeli occupation apartheid regime troops invaded, early Wednesday, eastern areas of Gaza city, in the northern besieged Gaza Strip.

Local Palestinian media outlets, including Maan News Agency, said that a number of armored Israeli army vehicles, including three military bulldozers, invaded a border fence area, between eastern Gaza city and Israel, some tens of meters deep into Palestinian-owned farm lands.

The sources added that during the incursion, a number of Israeli drones hovered over the area as well as other parts of the city.

No causalities were reported.

Israeli incursions into different parts of the coastal enclave, occur frequently, since the Israel authorities imposed an air, land and sea blockade on Gaza, back in 2007.

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime soldiers often open fire towards adjacent Palestinian-owned homes and farm lands, causing injuries to farmers and their family members.

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime to Demolish 30 Palestinian Homes, Structures in East Jerusalem

IMEMC, July 8, 2020 6:13 AM  Ali Salam 

The Israeli occupation apartheid regime municipal staff handed demolition orders to thirty Palestinian households in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of al-“Isawiya, under the pretext of construction without a permit, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported.

Local activist, Muhammad Abu al-Hummus, and member of the follow-up committee, stated that staff of the Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem, delivered 30 orders to demolish Palestinian structures and homes, in the southern occupied West Bank neighborhood.

Abu al-Hummus added that the municipality staff took photos of some of the structures slated for demolition, some which are under construction, while others have occupants.

The Israeli occupation authorities have escalated their punitive policy of collective punishment against the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank.

The incidents of home demolition has increased in recent weeks, and the Israeli pretext is the same; building without an Israeli permit, which Palestinians have great difficulty obtaining.

PPS: Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Forces Detain Nineteen Palestinians from West Bank

MEMC, July 7, 2020 10:16 PM  Ali Salam 

 Overnight Monday util Tuesday dawn, Israeli occupation apartheid regime forces abducted nineteen Palestinian civilians from the central and northern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society reported.

The PPS documented that seven citizens were abducted by Israeli soldiers, from various parts of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem. The detainees were identified as;

1. Majd Ibrahim Al-Hamshari, 23, 2. Mahmoud Atef Abu Zaina, 25, 3. Islambouli Riyadh Badir, 29, 4. Nour Osama Yassin, 23, 5. Muthanna Fouad Al-Masry, 22, 6. Hassan Raed Al-Jumleh, 26, and 7. Abdul Rahman Sabah, 33.

Meanwhile, three citizens from the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia were detained, including;

8. Uday Hanini, 24, 9. Mohamed Enaya, 38, and 10. Mohammed Jaber, 28.

Also north of the West Bank, Israeli troops detained four more Palestinian civilians from Nablus city, including;

11. Musab Abdel Salam Awwad from the town of Awarta, 12. Qusay Shehadeh, from Balata refugee camp 13. Muhammad Behnjawi, also from Balata refugee camp, and 14. Bashir Fathi Badir from the town of Beita.

In the central West Bank city of Ramallah, Israeli forces abducted five more Palestinians, identifed as;

15. Musa Zahran, a former prisoner from Deir Abu Mishaal, 16. Yahya Samer Al-Rimawi, 17. Ahmad Husam Al-Rimawi, 18. Amir Ahmed Al-Rimawi, and 19. Youssef Ahmad Al-Rimawi, all from Beit Rima town.

More than 5,000 Palestinians are currently imprisoned in Israeli jails, including the sick, the elderly, women and children.

~ PPS

Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Warplanes Strike Several Areas in eastern Gaza Strip

IMEMC, July 6, 2020 9:08 PM  Ali Salam 

Israeli occupation apartheid regime warplanes struck several locations in the besieged Gaza Strip, Sunday night, Quds News Network reported.

Israeli occupation apartheid regime jets struck four targets, in Palestinian agricultural lands in the Zaytoun neighborhood, in eastern Gaza, as well as the Tuffah neighborhood.

In a statement, the Israeli army confirmed the strikes, claiming that they struck Hamas targets, in response to alleged missiles launched from the Strip, towards the adjacent Israeli settlements.

No injuries were reported at the time of this report.

Palestinian WAFA News correspondent reported that Israeli fighter jets fired at least five rockets east of Zaytoun, resulting in fire and property damage.

He added that Israeli artillery fired two shells at another plot of agricultural land to the northeast of the al-Shejaiya neighborhood.

Quds Press reported that the Israeli army claimed it had detected rockets, allegedly fired from Gaza, towards the settlements, without any mention of casualties or damages.

Later, the army claimed “The Iron Dome intercepted a missile fired from the Gaza Strip,” while no Palestinian armed factions in Gaza claimed responsibility for a rocket launch.

~ QNN, WAFA, Quds Press

PCHR: “Israeli Occupation Apartheid Regime Soldiers Arrest Civilian Travelling to Donate Bone Marrow for His Brother in Tel HaShomer Hospital”

IMEMC, July 8, 2020 8:41 AM  PCHR 

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the arrest of a civilian from the Gaza Strip by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stationed at Beit Hanoun “Erez” Crossing. The civilian was traveling to Tel HaShomer Hospital as he is scheduled for a bone marrow donation for his ill brother, who is currently at the hospital.

According to PCHR’s investigations, on Monday, 06 July 2020, Israeli authorities arrested ‘Abdullah Shaker Mohammed al-Daghmah (38) from Rafah, while traveling to Tel HaShomer Hospital for a bone marrow donation for his brother Hani  Shaker al-Daghmah (44). Hani suffers from Leukemia and has been in the hospital for a long period and his health condition is extremely critical.

Al-Daghma’s family told PCHR’s fieldworker that after all family members did the necessary medical examinations, Abdullah’s results were the only ones that matched his brother.

Accordingly, necessary procedures were conducted for his travel along with his sister. When they arrived at the Israeli side at Erez Crossing, ‘Abdullah was arrested while his sister was sent back to the Gaza Strip and quarantined according to the measures applied in the Gaza Strip.

It should be noted that PCHR’s lawyer, in his capacity as a legal representative of al-Daghmah, follows up with the Israeli authorities to determine ‘Abdullah’s place of detention and to visit him as soon as possible.

PCHR is gravely concerned over the continued use of Erez Crossing as a trap to arrest civilians leaving the  Gaza Strip for treatment and other humanitarians reasons, which further aggravates the implications of the illegal closure imposed on the Gaza Strip and the suffering of its civilian population, especially patients whose treatment is not available at Gaza hospitals.

It is worth noting that the arrest of civilians, including patients or companions, is not a precedent, as IOF use Beit Hanoun crossing, the sole outlet for the Gaza Strip population to the West Bank and Israel, to blackmail Palestinian patients and individuals in exchange of exit permits.

In light of the above, PCHR:

Strongly condemns arresting Palestinian patients or their companies by IOF while traveling for medical treatment and demands their immediate release and guarantees that their lives will not be at risk; Calls upon the international community, including the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to fulfill their obligations and responsibilities by taking immediate action to put an end to violations of the international humanitarian law perpetrated by IOF against Palestinian civilians; Stresses the seriousness of targeting and blackmailing patients and taking advantage of their need to receive medical treatment at hospitals in Israel or the West Bank; and Demands guarantees of the freedom of movement and travel for Palestinian civilians from and to the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.

For more information please call PCHR office in Gaza, Gaza Strip, on +972 8 2824776 – 2825893

Gaza- Jamal ‘Abdel Nasser “al-Thalathini” Street – Al-Roya Building- Floor 12, El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip. E-mail: pchr@pchrgaza.org, Webpage http://www.pchrgaza.org

Elderly Palestinian Detainee Dies In Israeli Apartheid Regime Captivity  

 July 8, 2020 10:56 AM  IMEMC News 

The Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ Affairs has confirmed, on Wednesday morning, the death of an elderly Palestinian political prisoner at Israeli medical center following years of medical neglect.

The Commission stated that Sa’adi Khalil al-Gharabily, 75, from Gaza, has died on Wednesday morning, at an Israeli medical center, after suffering for several years from various health conditions, including cancer.

Qadri Abu Bakr, the head of the Commission, has reported that Israel confirmed his death to one of its lawyers, adding that the detainee died at Kaplan Medical Center.

Although some media outlets have reported his death, Tuesday, the detainee was still in a critical condition hooked life support machines, before he was declared clinically dead, and eventually died.

It is worth mentioning that his family has been denied the right to visit with him since the year 1999.

The Commission called on Israel to transfer his corpse to the Palestinians for an autopsy and a proper burial ceremony.

Former political prisoner, researcher and the head of the Studies and Documentation Committee of the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees, Abdul-Nasser Ferwana, has confirmed to the IMEMC the death of al-Gharabily, and stated that the deceased was the second oldest detainee in Israeli prisons, the oldest being Fuad Shobaki, 80.

He added that al-Gharabily was serving a life term in prison after an Israeli court convicted him of killing an Israeli officer in Tel Aviv in the year 1994. He spent most of his sentence in solitary confinement under inhumane conditions, including when he was held in a cell from the year 1994 until 2006.

His death brings the number of detainees, who died or were killed, in Israeli prisons since the year 1967 to 224.

Ferwana stated that 73 detainees died after being continuously and severely tortured, and seven others were shot and killed while in prison, and added that hundreds of Palestinians also died after being released from Israeli prisons after being denied proper and specialized medical treatment while in captivity.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) issued a statement denouncing the serious and ongoing Israeli violations against the detainees, including denying them access to specialized medical treatment, in addition to the solitary confinement policies, torture and constant abuse.

The PPS added that at least 700 Palestinian detainees require proper and specialized medical care, but are denied this basic right, and called on forming a nonaligned medical committee that supervises healthcare of ailing detainees, and those with special needs.

It also urged international legal and human rights groups to intervene and provide protection to the Palestinian people, living under the illegal Israeli occupation of their homeland, and to ensure that Israel abides by all related international treaties and conventions.

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