Dag: 28 februari 2018

The Israeli occupation forces at nightfall Tuesday kidnapped a Palestinian boy after they aggressively beat him and left dozens of civilians injured in clashes rocking the southern West Bank province of al-Khalil.

Israeli army patrols rolled into al-Harika al-Kasara area, near Kiryat Arba illegal settlement outpost, built on Palestinian lands east of al-Khalil, and attacked the Palestinian locals with randomly-discharged spates of bullet fire, teargas canisters, and toxic gas grenades, resulting in dozens of suffocation cases.

The clashes culminated in the abduction of the Palestinian boy Rani al-Rajabi after he fell unconscious as a result of the violent beating he had been made to endure by the occupation soldiers.

(Source / 28.02.2018)

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested Tuesday evening former governor of al-Khalil city Abdel Halim Ja’bari after being summoned for investigation.

Local sources affirmed that Ja’bari, 70, was summoned Tuesday morning for investigation in Etzion investigation center where he was later detained.

Ja’bari was the head of al-Khalil University for Academic Affairs, al-Khalil’s governor between 2002 and 2007, and Jericho’s governor in 2008.

(Source / 28.02.2018)

The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) on Wednesday handed Burin village council in Nablus orders to confiscate Palestinian lands in the village in favor of the construction of a new settlement road.

Head of Burin village council Yahya Qadous told the PIC reporter that the orders involve the confiscation of 24 dunums of land to build a road connecting Brakha settlement, built by force on Palestinian lands south of Nablus, with an Israeli military camp in al-Marba’a area.

Qadous said that the IOA claimed that the road will be established for security purposes and that opposition is not allowed but affected citizens can apply for compensation.

He stressed that this project is so dangerous not only because of the areas confiscated but also because it would help tighten the Israeli grip on the village from four sides.

(Source / 28.02.2018)

Palestinian citizen Ali al-Wahsh, aged 92, was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces from his family home in Bethlehem’s southern town of al-Khader, in the West Bank.

Al-Wahsh’s son, Ahmed, told a PIC news correspondent that an Israeli military patrol broke into their home in al-Balou’ area, in al-Khader, at 05:00 a.m. and ransacked the building before they forced the inhabitants out.

The son added that his father was kidnapped by the occupation forces during the home raid and dragged to the Kiryat Arbaa detention center.

The occupation soldiers seized al-Wahsh’s personal gun which he uses during his work and following the consent of the Palestinian Authority.

Al-Wahsh is known as a consensus figure throughout the occupied West Bank. He is often consulted to work out local issues, particularly family disagreements.

Al-Whash has been diagnosed with prostate disease and has 18 sons and over 100 grandsons.

(Source / 28.02.2018)

Settlers stormed Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus under Israeli army protection on 28 February 2018

Some 1,500 settlers stormed the Joseph’s Tomb, east of the occupied city of Nablus, early this morning, under Israeli army protection.

Clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and the occupation forces at dawn in the eastern part of Nablus after settlers stormed the holy site and performed Talmudic rituals there.

A Quds Press correspondent said occupation forces raided the area and closed its perimeter, preventing the movement of citizens to protect the settlers who stormed Joseph’s Tomb.

He reported that Israeli buses carried hundreds of settlers to the area, amid heavy protection by military personnel and vehicles.

Israeli occupation forces used live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas to disperse Palestinian demonstrators who had come out in opposition.

Read: Israel military raids Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus

The Hebrew site 0404 reported that 1,500 settlers raided the religious site.

Joseph’s Tomb was a flashpoint in Nablus with scores of Palestinians killed and wounded during clashes in the area in 1995. In 1996 nine Israeli soldiers were killed and after another was targeted in 2000 the army left the area.

Jews in Israel claim the site contains the tomb of a rabbi, however the site is part of an old mosque where Muslim scholar Yousef Dweekat was buried.

An Israeli military brigade raided the site in December last year for the first time in 17 years.

(Source / 28.02.2018)