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4 Palestinians Killed, Scores Injured and Abducted, Home Demolished by Israeli Occupation Soldiers September 4, 2022 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 abuse, mistreatment, and 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 Abduct A Journalist In Jerusalem IMEMC, SEP 4, 2022 On Sunday, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted a Palestinian journalist from her home in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said several Israeli army jeeps invaded the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in the city and abducted Lama Ghosha from her home. The source added that the soldiers violently searched the journalist’s home and abducted her before moving her to an interrogation facility in the city. During the violent search of her home, the soldiers confiscated her laptop and phone. The abducted journalist is a married mother of two children, five and three years of age. The soldiers also invaded Jabal al-Mokabber town, southeast of Jerusalem, and closed several streets, obstructing the freedom of movement of the Palestinians. Child Suffers Heatstroke After Israeli Occupation Soldiers Detain Schoolchildren In The Sun IMEMC, SEP 4, 2022 On Sunday, a Palestinian child suffered a heatstroke when Israeli occupation soldiers detained many schoolchildren and activists while distributing free books and school supplies to children in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Fuad Jabour, the coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees in Masafer Yatta and Southern Hebron Hills, said the soldiers stopped and detained many school children and the activists who accompanied them near the al-Fakheet community. Jabour added that the children and the activists were distributing free books and school supplies to the children in various schools in Masafer Yatta, subject to constant violations by the Israeli soldiers and the illegal colonizers. He said the soldiers detained the children and forced them to wait in the sun for several hours before one child, Sinmar al-Amour, suffered heatstroke and fainted. Palestinian medics rushed to the area and provided the child with the needed medical treatment. Israeli Occupation Regime Forces Palestinian Family To Demolish Its Home In Occupied Jerusalem IMEMC, SEP 4, 2022 On Saturday, the Israeli authorities in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, forced a Palestinian family to demolish its home in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) said the local Hadiya family was informed that it either demolishes its own home or face very high fines and fees if the city used its workers and equipment to destroy the property. Silwanic added that the family tried to obtain all needed permits and filed costly appeals to save the property, built twelve years earlier, but to no avail. Three families live in the 120-square/meter home, and the owners were recently informed that they have just a few days to demolish the property or face the consequences. Last month, 35 Palestinian homes were demolished occupied Jerusalem, including eleven homes that the families had to self-demolish, and the army also issued five demolition orders in Silwan, al-Isawiya, and al-Walaja, in addition to issuing an order for the destruction and removal of an asphalt street linking Mikhmas town with Doweir public garden. On Saturday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its monthly report: The Israeli authorities demolished, confiscated, or forced people to demolish 55 Palestinian-owned structures in East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank, citing the lack of Israeli-issued building permits; ten of the structures were funded by donors. As a result, 61 people, including 31 children, were displaced, and the livelihoods of about 200 others were affected. Some 47 of the structures were in Area C, including seven in Al Jiftlik Ash Shuneh, in a designated ‘firing zone’ for Israeli military training, and where Palestinian communities are at risk of forcible transfer. Eight other structures were demolished in East Jerusalem, including five destroyed by their owners to avoid paying fines imposed by Israeli authorities when they conduct the demolitions. Israeli Occupation Regime Navy Attacks Palestinian Fishing Boats In Gaza IMEMC, SEP 4, 2022 On Saturday night, Israeli soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, gas bombs, and flares at Palestinian fishing boats in Palestinian waters in the central and southern parts of the coastal region. Media sources said the navy chased the boats and fired live rounds and flares at them while fishing near the Nusseirat and Deir al-Balah shores in central Gaza. They added that the navy also attacked fishing boats with live fire and gas bombs in Rafah, in the southern part of the coastal region. The attacks caused damage and forced the fishermen to leave without being able to fish to provide for their families. The attacks are part of constant Israeli violations against the Palestinians, especially the fishermen, farmers, shepherds, and workers in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, and resulted in dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to severe property damage and the confiscation of many boats after abducting the fishermen. In March of 2021, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said Israeli mines were responsible for an explosion that led to the death of three fishermen. Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Jerusalem And Ramallah IMEMC, SEP 3, 2022 On Saturday evening, Israeli soldiers abducted three Palestinians, including a guard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Hamza Khalaf, a guard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, after stopping him near the Chain Gate leading to the holy site and took him to an interrogation center. It is worth mentioning that the army frequently attacks, injures, interrogates, and abducts the civilian guards of Al-Aqsa and issues orders barring them from entering the holy compound for different periods varying between three to six months, and sometimes these orders are renewed. In Ramallah, in the central West Bank, the soldiers abducted two former political prisoners, Mohammad Tha’er Abu Alia and Amer Atef Abu Alia, from the al-Mughayyir village northeast of Ramallah, after stopping them at a sudden roadblock the army installed at the eastern entrance of the village. Detained Siblings Continue Hunger Strike For 27th Day IMEMC, SEP 3, 2022 On Saturday, the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee reported that two siblings imprisoned by Israel under arbitrary Administrative Detention orders without charges or trial continue a hunger strike they started 27 days earlier. The Committee stated that the imprisoned siblings, Ahmad, 44, and his brother Adal Mousa, 34, from the Al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, started the hunger strike one day after the soldiers abducted them on August 7th, 2022. Hasan Abed-Rabbo, the Committee’s spokesperson, said Ahmad Mousa has serious heart and kidney conditions and was moved to Kaplan Israeli medical center this past Thursday, where he underwent some tests and was moved Friday to the infamous Ramla prison clinic that lacks specialists and basic supplies. The two detained siblings are also former political prisoners, and in the year 2019, Ahmad held a hunger strike for 31 days, protesting being held under Administrative Detention orders, and suffered a stroke that impacted his arm and leg. At the time, he ended the strike after reaching an agreement for his release. He also has a heart condition and previously underwent open heart surgery and other surgeries before he was abducted and imprisoned by the Israeli occupation army. Ahmad is also a married father of seven children. His brother Adal, a married father of two children, was imprisoned by Israel for seven years, including five years of continued imprisonment. Also Saturday, Palestinian sources confirmed that a Palestinian political prisoner, Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, held by Israel has died at the Assaf Harofeh Israeli medical center. Palestinian Detainee Dies At An Israeli Occupation Regime Hospital IMEMC, SEP 3, 2022 On Saturday, Palestinian sources confirmed that a Palestinian political prisoner held by Israel has died at an Israeli medical center. The sources said Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, died at the Assaf Harofeh Israeli medical center. Two days before his death, his family from Beit Ta’mar village, east of Bethlehem, held Israel responsible for the sharp and sudden health deterioration which eventually led to his death. His father, Haron, said he was surprised to be informed by the International Committee of the Red Cross that his son, who was healthy when he was taken prisoner, was not in prison when he tried to apply for a permit to visit with him, an issue that was of great concern to the family before it contacted human rights groups. Haron added that he was later informed that his son was admitted to the Assaf Harofeh Israeli medical center. Mousa had a psychological condition and received treatment prior to being abducted, but was otherwise healthy, not suffering from any health condition or diseases. When the father was finally able to head to the hospital on Wednesday, August 21, 2022, the doctors told him that his son was in a critical condition and that he was admitted on August 7, but neither the family nor the Red Cross or any other group were informed. The Israeli occupation soldiers abducted Mousa in June of 2021 while crossing a military roadblock heading to his work in Jerusalem. The army said Mousa was taken prisoner because he had no permit to enter or work in occupied Jerusalem. The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) held Israel responsible for Abu Mahameed’s death, adding that Israel has escalated its violations against the Palestinian workers since the beginning of this year, not only by assaulting and abducting them, but also by opening fire at them at crossing points and military roadblocks. Israeli soldiers abducted more than 2140 Palestinians since the beginning of this year, 2022, including more than 450 Palestinians, among them many children, who were abducted on April 15 in the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Also, there are more than 600 ailing Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, among them 200 with chronic conditions and 22 who have cancer and tumors, including Nasser Abu Hmeid, who is in a serious condition due to lung cancer. It is worth mentioning that Israel still holds the corpses of 357 Palestinians, including 106 who were killed after 2015, and continues to refuse them to their families and 256 buried in the so-called “Numbers Graveyards.” Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Near Hebron IMEMC, SEP 3, 2022 On Friday, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a young Palestinian man, after an alleged stabbing attack targeting soldiers, near Beit Einoun village junction, northeast of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. The young man was shot with live fire before the soldiers closed the entire area and prevented Palestinian medics from approaching him while he bled before moving him to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem, where he was pronounced dead. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired several live rounds at the young man from a close range, even after he fell to the ground. They added that the soldiers also fired gas bombs and concussion grenades at Palestinians who tried to reach him. The soldiers then called for an Israeli ambulance that arrived later while he continued to bleed and moved the Palestinian, Fadi Mohammad Fayez Ghattas, 19, to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem, where he was officially pronounced dead. It is worth mentioning that Fadi is from the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem city, in the West Bank. The Israeli occupation army claimed the young stabbed and moderately injured a soldier near Kiryat Arba’ colony before another soldier opened fire and “neutralized him.” Israeli Paramedics and army medical personnel provided treatment to the wounded soldiers before moving him to Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. They said the soldier was fully conscious. The army alleged that, according to its initial investigation, Fadi got out of a car and walked towards the soldiers before approaching one of them and stabbing him in the neck. After the fatal shooting, dozens of Palestinians marched in the area, chanting against the illegal Israeli occupation, its colonies, and escalating Israeli violations. Commenting on how he was informed of his son’s death, Mohammad Ghattas said: I returned from work before the wife told me that an Israeli intelligence officer phoned our home and informed her that my brother Mahmoud and I have been summoned for interrogation at Etzion military base. After heading there, an officer asked me about my son and if I knew where he was and what he was wearing when he left home before showing me a picture of him after he was shot and covered in his own blood. They executed my son. I asked them why they didn’t just shoot him in the legs to incapacitate him, and why they had to deliver fatal shots, but they never answered my questions. Israeli Occupation Regime Illegal Settlers Assault A Palestinian In Jerusalem IMEMC, SEP 3, 2022 On Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted and injured a Palestinian man in occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank The Wadi Hilweh Information Center In Silwan (Silwanic) said the colonizers attacked Nidal Nastsha while walking in his hometown, Silwan, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied capital. Silwanic added that the young Palestinian man suffered various cuts and bruises, mainly to the upper body, especially his head and left arm, after a colonizer struck him with an iron bar. The wounded man said he called the police, but they never arrived, before Palestinian medics rushed to the scene and moved him to a hospital in Jerusalem. “The colonizers attacked me, one of them struck me with an iron bar to the head,” Nidal said, “The police is not coming over, nobody is…” Israeli Occupation Soldiers, Colonizers, Attack Nonviolent Procession Near Jerusalem IMEMC, SEP 2, 2022 On Friday, Israeli soldiers and illegal colonizers attacked a nonviolent procession in Nabi Samuel village, northwest of the occupied capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and abducted four Palestinians. The residents marched carrying Palestinian flags and calling for ending the Israeli siege on the village of 300 inhabitants. The procession was held before the permanent Israeli military roadblock before the soldiers assaulted them and used loudspeakers threatening to use more force if the nonviolent protesters did not leave. Illegal Israeli colonizers, led by the leader of the fanatic right-wing Otzma Yehudit party, Itamar Ben-Gvir, also attacked the nonviolent protests in front of the soldiers. The army also abducted four Palestinians, including a member of Fateh’s revolutionary council in occupied Jerusalem, Ahed Resheq. It is worth mentioning that Ben-Gvir led a large group of illegal colonies in their provocative march and tried to invade the village before the Palestinians intercepted their attack. The Palestinians in Nabi Samuel started holding weekly procession two months earlier, protesting the illegal Israeli policies, especially the siege and severe restrictions on them, affecting their daily lives and denying them the Freedom of Movement, in addition to barring them from entering their lands. The village has one mosque that has been subject to frequent attacks, including when it was burnt, surrounded by barbed wires and surveillance cameras, and the destruction of its loudspeakers. The Israeli soldiers and the colonizers also closed the second floor of the mosque and stopped work on its third floor, as Israel and its colonizers are trying to occupy it and turn it into an archaeological site and a National Garden for the Israelis. In related news, Israeli colonizers installed two tents on Palestinian lands outside the Al-Auja village, near Jericho in the northeastern West Bank. The colonizers also harassed many Palestinians touring the area and forced them to leave. Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injure Dozens Of Palestinians Near Nablus IMEMC, SEP 2, 2022 On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly procession against the illegal colonies in Beita town, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians marched on their lands carrying Palestinian flags, chanting for liberation and independence and ending Israel’s illegal colonialist activities on stolen lands. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said the soldiers attacked the Palestinians with a barrage of rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. The PRCS added that its medics provided the needed treatment to 39 Palestinians without the need for hospitalization. Some of the wounded were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, but most suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, cuts, and bruises. The PRCS said some of its medics also suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation after the soldiers targeted them with gas bombs. The Palestinians have been holding ongoing processions on their lands in Sbeih Mountain in Beita, and in Beit Dajan, after a group of illegal Israeli colonizers installed an outpost atop the Mountain. The soldiers injured thousands of Palestinians during these protests and killed several others, including children. The Mountain, owned by the Palestinians, has significant strategic importance, especially since if the colonizers occupy it, the colony will lead to the annexation of 20 Dunams of Palestinian lands and would also lead to the isolation of a large area of Palestinian lands. Israeli Occupation Regime Army Injures Dozens Of Palestinians In Kufur Qaddoum IMEMC, SEP 2, 2022 On Friday, Israeli soldiers attacked the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, wounding dozens of Palestinians. The Palestinians marched in the village and headed to its blockaded main entrance before the soldiers attacked them with rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. Many Palestinian youngsters responded by throwing stones at the soldiers and burning tires, while the army also attempted to ambush and abduct several Palestinians. Media sources said the soldiers shot seven Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets and caused dozens to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. The Palestinians have been holding weekly processions in Kufur Qaddoum for the last eighteen years, demanding the army to reopen the village’s main road the soldiers blockaded to allow easy access to the illegal colonizers driving to and from Kedumim illegal colony built on stolen Palestinian lands. Israeli Occupation Regime Army Kills A Palestinian In Ramallah IMEMC, SEP 1, 2022 On Thursday dawn, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian man after the army invaded the Al-Biereh city in the Ramallah and Al-Biereh governorate, in the central part of the occupied West Bank. Media sources said many army jeeps invaded the city, leading to protests before the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. Medical sources said the soldiers killed a young man, Yazan Naim Affana, 24, after shooting him with live fire while the army withdrew from Um ash-Sharayet neighborhood in Al-Biereh city. They added that Affana, from the Qalandia refugee camp, north of occupied Jerusalem and south of Ramallah, was shot with live rounds in his heart. The soldiers also invaded and ransacked many homes and buildings and abducted a young man. Also, the Israeli soldiers fatally shot Samer Mahmoud Suleiman Khaled, 25, in front of the main entrance of Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill A Palestinian In Nablus IMEMC, SEP 1, 2022 Early Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers fatally shot a young Palestinian man in front of the main entrance of Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Palestinian sources said the young man, Samer Mahmoud Suleiman Khaled, 25, from the al-Ein refugee camp in Nablus, was shot with a live round in the neck while sitting in his car. The sources added that undercover Israeli soldiers infiltrated the area and exchanged fire with Palestinian resistance fighters. The soldiers also invaded the Balata refugee camp, searched homes, and abducted a former political prisoner, Jasser Abu Hamada. The Israeli army fired a barrage of live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades, resulting in serious damage to a store causing it to catch fire and burn. Israeli Occupation Soldiers Demolish An Under-Construction Home, Sheds, And Uproot Trees, In Bethlehem IMEMC, AUG 31, 2022 On Wednesday, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Tuqu, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, demolished an under-construction home and two sheds, and uprooted 50 trees. Mousa Sha’er, the Mayor of Tuqu, said the soldiers demolished a 150 square/meter under-construction home in the Al-Halqoum area in the town. Sha’er added that the army claimed the home, owned by Mohammad Shouriyya, was built without a permit from the so-called “Civil Administration Office,” the administrative branch of the illegal Israeli occupation. The soldiers also demolished two agricultural sheds and uprooted at least fifty olive trees in the town before withdrawing. Israeli Occupation Soldiers Shoot 25 Palestinians In Nablus IMEMC, AUG 30, 2022 On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers shot 25 Palestinians and caused at least twenty to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation while withdrawing from Rojeeb village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Media sources said dozens of soldiers surrounded a house owned by members of the Sawalhi family in the western part of Rojeeb and fired many shells at it before forcing the father of one of the Palestinians to use a loudspeaker the army gave him to ask his son and another Palestinians to surrender. The army invaded the village to abduct two resistance fighters, Nabil Eyad Sawalhi and Nihad Oweiss, and informed their families that they would start demolishing the house they were held up in if they did not surrender. Hours into the invasion, the two Palestinians surrendered to avoid getting killed, and to prevent the military from widening its offensive an issue that could mean serious damage to many homes in the area and numerous casualties. The army then started withdrawing from Rojeeb amidst massive protests and fired a barrage of live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades. Ahmad Jibreel, the head of the Nablus office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said four Palestinians were shot with live rounds, at least one seriously, three suffered shrapnel wounds, and one was shot with a gas bomb in the chest before they were rushed to Rafidia hospital. Jibreel added that thirteen Palestinians suffered shrapnel wounds from live fire, five were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, four fell and were injured while the soldiers chased them, and at least twenty suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation and received treatment at the scene without the need for hospitalization. The soldiers also attacked Palestinian ambulances and prevented the medics from reaching wounded Palestinians, especially in the besieged house, for at least three hours. Jibril condemned the Israeli escalation and said the soldiers not only endangered the lives of civilians in the area, but also used medics as human shields, and prevented them from performing their life-saving duties. The soldiers also fired live rounds at a Palestinian Medical Relief ambulance, causing damage, and used their armored bulldozers to destroy cars and other property. *** Share the link of this article with your facebook friendsFair Use Notice This site contains copyrighted material the
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