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Former Political Prisoner Assassinated, a Child Killed, Scores Injured and Abducted by Israeli Occupation Soldiers

IMEMC, October 18, 2021 

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 apartheid regime 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 forces targeted, shot, and killed the former political prisoner Midhat Saleh al-Saleh, October 16, 2021	Palestinian teenager, Amjad Osama Jalal Abu Sultan, 15, was killed in Bethlehem by Israeli occupation soldiers, on October 14, 2021 imemc

 

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, seven Palestinian children in occupied Jerusalem, October 16, 2021	Illegal Israeli settlers and soldiers invaded Palestinian village of Burin, injuring 12 civilians in their homes, file, October 16, 2021

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child, Abduct Another, Near Bethlehem

 OCT 15, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers killed, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian child, and abducted another near Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

Local sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds at two Palestinian children in the Be’er Owna area in Beit Jala city, killing one.

The slain Palestinian child has been identified as Amjad Osama Jalal Abu Sultan, 15, from the Hindaza Mountain area, southeast of Bethlehem.

They added that the soldiers abducted another child, identified as Mohammad Khalil ‘ Al-Arouj, 14, and took him to an interrogation facility.

In a short statement, the Israeli army claimed the soldiers opened fire at the Palestinians when they “tried to hurl Molotov cocktails at the Tunnels Road,” connecting the Gush Etzion colony with occupied Jerusalem.

In related news, Israeli sources said a Border Police officer was seriously injured after being struck by a Palestinian car near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.

They added that the officer sustained several injuries to the head and abdomen and was rushed to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The Israeli army claimed that the incident was a “deliberate attack,” and added that the driver, Salah Nazzal, 22, from Qalqilia, was also injured in the head before he was taken to Hadassah hospital, where he was also interrogated by the Israeli Shin Bet security service.

On Thursday evening, the soldiers injured many Palestinians in Douma village, south of Nablus, and abducted two at the nearby Za’tara permanent military roadblock, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

On Thursday at dawn, the soldiers abducted at least fifteen Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.

Israeli Occupation Forces Assassinate Former Prisoner in Golan Heights

 OCT 17, 2021

Israeli occupation forces targeted, shot and killed the former political prisoner Midhat Saleh al-Saleh while he was on his way home in the Golan Heights on Saturday.

Al-Saleh was the head of the Office of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights affairs in the Syrian Cabinet.

He was returning home to Ein al-Tina town, near the Israeli-occupied town of Majdal Shams, according to a report by the Syrian news agency Sana.

Al-Saleh survived numerous attempts by the Israeli military to assassinate him. In 2011, the Israeli military fired several times at his home while he was in it. Al-Saleh always said that the assassination attempts merely increased his determination to stay near Majdal Shams and maintain his steadfastness to remain on his land.

The Syrian Cabinet issued a statement condemning the extrajudicial assassination by Israeli forces, who were within Syrian territory when they carried out the assassination – constituting an act of war against Syria.

In their statement, the Syrian cabinet stressed that such terrorist acts will only increase the determination of the Syrian Arab people to continue resisting the occupier and liberating the occupied Syrian Golan Heights.

The statement condemned the Israeli military for their “cowardly criminal act”, affirming that it is not unusual for the “criminal Israeli occupation” to target the Syrians living in Golan Heights.

“The cabinet offers its deepest and sincerest condolences to the Syrian people and to the family and relatives of the martyr, asking God to have mercy upon him ” the statement said.

This assassination comes just days after the Israeli military dispatched a “large number of tanks” to the Golan Heights, on October 12th, following an announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that the number of Israeli settlers would be doubled in the Golan Heights, calling it a “strategic goal.”

According to the United Nations, “The Syrian Golan is a region in southwest Syria which was occupied on June 5, 1967 by Israeli forces. The Golan’s overall land mass is 1,860 square kilometers, which is approximately 1 percent of Syria’s total area, about 1,500 square kilometers remains under Israeli occupation.

“Before this Israeli occupation, the Golan was home to over 140,000 Syrians, most of whom were driven out of their homeland and into Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) status. Till this day, almost 40 years later, the Syrian inhabitants of the Golan are still unable to return to their homes, towns and cities. Today these Syrians exceed 500,000 people.

“Some Syrians remained in the Occupied Syrian Golan and continue to live in small villages amounting to approximately 20,000 Syrians. Most of the Syrian cities, towns and villages in the Golan were destroyed by Israeli occupation forces, who in turn have built over 40 illegal settlements despite all international condemnation. Israel continues not only to occupy the Syrian Golan but to also destroy its ancient ruins and geopolitical atmosphere for the sole purpose of cleansing the Golan of its Syrian people and their history. “

Twelve Palestinians Injured By Israeli Occupation Soldiers, Colonizers, Near Nablus

 OCT 17, 2021

Twelve Palestinians were injured, Saturday, when illegal Israeli settlers and soldiers invaded Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, attacked homes, and burned trees.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said dozens of colonizers invaded the town, before attacking a home, owned by Ibrahim Adel Eid, in the eastern part of Burin.

He added that the Palestinians from the town, gathered near the property to repel the attack before the colonizers assaulted them with batons, wounding four.

Daghlas also stated that Israeli soldiers invaded the town, and fired gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinians, causing at least eight to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation, instead of removing the invading colonizers.

Furthermore, the colonizers invaded farmlands in Burin, and set them ablaze, before the Palestinians rushed to extinguish the fire.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians While picking Their Olive Trees In Jenin

 OCT 17, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers injured, Saturday, many Palestinians after the army invaded their orchards while they were picking their olive trees, in Zabbouba village, west of Jenin, in northern West Bank.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired gas bombs at dozens of Palestinians, including volunteers from the Al-Quds Open University while picking the olive trees in Palestinian orchards in Zabbouba.

They added that dozens of residents suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, before receiving treatment by Palestinian medics.

The orchards are near the illegal Israeli Annexation Wall in Zabbouba and are subject to frequent Israeli violations by the soldiers and the illegal colonizers.

The Palestinians in that areas are also frequently attacked by the soldiers and the colonizers, especially during the olive harvest season.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinian Children In Jerusalem

 OCT 17, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Saturday evening, seven Palestinian children in occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. The soldiers also shot a young man and abducted two.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) said the soldiers chased many Palestinians who were sitting in Bab al-Amoud area and a nearby street, to force them away.

Silwanic added that the soldiers told the Palestinians that they cannot sit in that area, and abducted three children, before moving them to an interrogation facility.

Firas al-Jebrini, a lawyer with Silwanic, said the soldiers abducted Wasim Ba’rani, Mustafa Salim, and Mos’ab al-Obeid.

Silwanic stated that the soldiers also abducted three children in Silwan town, in Jerusalem, and took them to an interrogation center.

In addition, the soldiers assaulted and abducted a child in Shu’fat refugee camp, in Jerusalem, and threatened to shoot a young man who tried to convince them to release the child.

In related news, the soldiers shot a young man, and abducted two others in Bab al-Amoud, in Jerusalem, and took them to an interrogation facility.

Israeli Occupation Army Detains Several Palestinians from the West Bank, including a Former Prisoners

IMEMC, OCT 18, 2021

Several Palestinian civilians from across the occupied West Bank were detained by the Israeli occupation army, Sunday evening and overnight Monday, local sources reported.

A 70-year-old Palestinian writer and former political prisoner, identified as Ahmad Qatamesh, was detained by the army after invading his home in al-Bireh city, in central West Bank, north of Jerusalem.

In Turmus Ayya town, north of Ramallah city, in central west Bank, soldiers stormed the home of another Palestinian civilian, and detained him.

Israeli forces invaded and searched the home of a former prisoner in the al-Tireh neighborhood in Ramallah city.

Sources confirmed the detention of a Palestinian teenager in Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, in central West Bank.

The Israeli occupation army stormed the northern West Bank town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin, and detained two more Palestinian civilians.

South of Nablus in northern West Bank, another Palestinian resident of Silat al-Harithiya village, northwest of Jenin, was detained as he attempted to cross the Za‘atar military roadblock.

In Silwan town in occupied Jerusalem, soldiers detained three more residents after storming and searching their homes.

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian teenagers from the Be’er Ayyoub neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem.

Lastly, one Palestinian was detained from the Damascus Gate (Bab al-Amoud) at the entrance to the old city of Jerusalem.

~ WAFA

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Demolish A Palestinian Home In Hebron

 OCT 18, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers demolished Monday an under-construction Palestinian home in the Sika village, southwest of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.

The Alliance For Human Rights, a nonviolent activist group that documents Israeli violations, has reported that the soldiers and personnel of the so-called “Civil Administration Office,” invaded the village and demolished the under-construction home of Ahmad Jawa’da.

The Palestinian was building the home on his property to provide shelter to his family of seven, including children, but the army claimed the home was being constructed without a permit from the Civil Administration Office, the administrative branch of the illegal Israeli occupation.

The invasion and the demolition led to protests before the soldiers fired gas bombs and concussion grenades.

The WAFA Palestinian News Agency quoted Walid Hshaish, the head of the Sika Village Council, stating that “Israel has constructed a section of the apartheid wall, confiscating hundreds of dunams of the villagers’ farmland for colonial settlement activities and pushing the villagers into a crowded enclave, a ghetto, surrounded by walls, settlements and military installations.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinian Children In Silwan

 OCT 18, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian children from the Be’er Ayyoub neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied Jerusalem.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the soldiers abducted Adam Ashraf Zeitoun and Abed Da’na, before moving them to a police station in Salahudin Street in Jerusalem.

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The soldiers also stopped and interrogated many Palestinians, especially young men, and teenage boys, and examined their ID cards.

In related news, a child, identified as Mohammad Hani al-Haymouni, 16, was released from a detention facility after Israel held him captive for 13 months.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Bethlehem And Jerusalem

 OCT 17, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, earlier Sunday, two Palestinians, both former political prisoners, in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank.

Several army jeeps invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem before the soldiers abducted a former pollical prisoner, identified as Raghad Raed Shamrookh, 26, after storming his home and ransacking it.

It is worth mentioning that Raghad was imprisoned by Israel for two and a half years, and was only released on August 27, 2021.

In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted a young man, identified as Raed Zghayyar while walking near Bab al-Majles, one of the gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and took him to an interrogation center in the city.

Zghayyar, a former political prisoner, is an employee of the Construction Committee of the Islamic Endowment Department at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

In related news, the soldiers invaded Kafr Ni’ma village, northwest of Ramallah, leading to protests; the soldiers fired live rounds, gas bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets.

WAFA: Illegal Israeli settlers chop down olive trees, steal harvesting equipment in Nablus

 OCT 18, 2021

NABLUS, Monday, October 18, 2021 (WAFA) –

Israeli settlers Monday morning chopped down scores of olive trees and stole harvesting equipment in the Nablus district, according to local sources.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors colonial settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that Palestinian farmers of Salem town, east of the northern West Bank city, were shocked to find out in the morning that dozens of their olive trees, east of the town, were chopped down by settlers from nearby colonial settlements.

Meanwhile, Nasser Snubar, a farmer from Yatma village, south of the city, said that a group of illegal Israeli settlers sneaked their way into his olive orchard, south of the village, and stole his harvesting equipment.

While the olive harvest season is meant to be a celebratory time in Palestine, the joyful time has become overshadowed by Israeli land restrictions and brutal settler attacks.

Illegal Israeli settlers have recently stepped up their attacks against olive harvesters in the southern district of Nablus, attacking farmers of Burin town and preventing them from picking their olives. Similar attacks recently occurred in other Nablus-district villages and towns, including Sebastia, Aqraba and Deir al-Hatab.

Over 9,000 olive trees have been destroyed in the West Bank since August 2020, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which called on Israel to ensure safe, timely, and adequate access for Palestinians to their olive groves in the occupied West Bank.

With more than 12 million olive trees planted across 45% of the West Bank’s agricultural land, the olive harvest constitutes one of the biggest sources of economic sustainability for thousands of Palestinian families.

According to UN OCHA, the olive oil industry supports the livelihoods of more than 100,000 families and accounts for a quarter of the gross agricultural income of the occupied territories.

But, as local NGO MIFTAH notes, “olive trees carry more than an economic significance in the lives of Palestinians. They are not just like any other trees, they are symbolic of Palestinians’ attachment to their land.”

“Because the trees are drought-resistant and grow under poor soil conditions, they represent Palestinian resistance and resilience. The fact that olive trees live and bear fruit for thousands of years is parallel to Palestinian history and continuity on the land.”

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