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Israeli soldiers detained, on Sunday evening, four Palestinian children in Beit Ijza village, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and interrogated them for several hours.

The Detainees’ Media Center has reported that the soldiers invaded Beit Ijza, and stopped the four children before detaining and interrogating them for several hours.

The center said the children have been identified as Majd Ramadan Abu Kafia, 10, Mo’tasem Ahmad Gharib, 9, Mohammad Salim Gharib, 10, and Mousa Eid Salem, 10.

The children were all released, on Sunday at night, after the soldiers interrogated them for several hours.

On Monday at dawn, the soldiers abducted eight Palestinians from the West Bank governorates of Ramallah and Bethlehem, and summoned six others for interrogation, in Hebron, in southern West Bank.

(Source / 25.01.2021)

On Sunday afternoon, a Palestinian official identified as Sheikh Muhammad Abu Najem, was shot and killed in the city of Jaffa, in the western part of Israel. The Hamas party issued a statement blaming Israel for the murder. Israeli police in Jaffa say they opened an investigation into the shooting, but have not identified any suspects.

According to local sources, Abu Najem, said to be in his forties, was shot dead and his cousin was seriously injured from gunshots fired at them by an assailant in the Old City neighborhood of Jaffa.

Hamas officials held the Israeli occupation forces responsible for the assassination of Sheikh Abu Najem. The statement issued by the party condemned “the malicious scheme carried out by the occupier to liquidate the occupied land from the Palestinian people, especially those working to preserve Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa, and those confronting the [Israeli] attempts to capture the sacred land.”

The statement called on Palestinians living inside what is now Israel (who constitute 20% of the population of Israel) to “confront the conspiracies of the enemy, the instigators of sedition and the perpetrators of crimes within our steadfast Palestinian society.”

According to the Palestinian news site “Arabs 48”, Sheikh Muhammad Abu Najem, was shot dead by an unknown person in Jaffa, while another young man, a relative of the Sheikh, was wounded. The imam of the Hassan Bek mosque in Jaffa, Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajwa, also confirmed the death of Sheikh Muhammad Abu Najem, as a result of his injury in the shooting.

The Israeli police claimed to have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the crime, but no suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder.

It is worth noting that Palestinians who lived in the occupied interior of Israel, known as “48 Arabs”, since they are descendants of about 160,000 Palestinians who remained in their lands after the establishment of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948. These Palestinians live within the borders of the Israeli state, possess Israeli citizenship, and number about one million people.

Palestinians in Israel say that the Israeli authorities do little to prevent crime in the ‘Arab’ areas and neighborhoods. Since the beginning of 2021, six Palestinians with Israeli citizenship have been killed in unsolved murders in Arab areas in Israel.

(Source / 25.01.2021)

Israeli soldiers invaded, Sunday, the al-Khader town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and handed demolition orders targeting privately-owned Palestinian agricultural structures.

Ahmad Salah, a local nonviolent activist against the Israeli occupation and its colonies, said the soldiers handed Ibrahim Suleiman a demolition order targeting his shack which he uses to store his harvest and agricultural tools.

Salah added that the army is alleging the shack, although on land privately owned by Salah, was not licensed by the “Civil Administration Office,” the administrative branch of Israel’s illegal occupation.

The soldiers also handed a demolition order targeting a well, used by the farmers to irrigate their crops and farmlands.

The structures and the well are in Area C of the occupied West Bank, about %60 o the occupied territory, under full Israeli control.

The lands are under the constant threat of illegal annexation, and the structures on them face repeated demolitions and other violations under the pretext of lacking a permit issued by the Israeli occupation authorities, even if they are licensed by the local town councils.

On Monday, the soldiers abducted two Palestinians from Hebron, including one who was taken prisoner near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

The soldiers also abducted eight Palestinians from the West Bank governorates of Ramallah and Bethlehem.

On Sunday evening, the soldiers detained four children in Beit Ijza village, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and interrogated them for several hours.

(Source / 25.01.2021)

Many Palestinians, on Monday were shot and wounded by rubber-coated steel bullets, others suffered inhalation injuries, and one teenager was detained after Israeli troops invaded al-Walaja town, 4 kilometers northwest of Bethlehem, to demolish a Palestinian-owned home.

The army stormed the central occupied West Bank village, surrounded the under-construction home, and knocked down the home based on the pretext of lacking an Israeli issued building permit.

Several Palestinian residents gathered in the area to protest the destruction of the home, according to local sources. Soldiers reacted by opening fire at the unarmed civilians with rubber-coated steel rounds and teargas canisters.

As a result, many Palestinian civilians were shot and injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, while others suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

Sources added that Israeli forces detained a local Palestinian teenager, identified as Nabiel Ali, and took him to an unknown location when they retreated from the village.

(Source / 25.01.2021)

Illegal Israeli settlers uprooted, on Monday, dozens of Palestinian-owned olive trees in the Al Baq’a area, east of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.

Aref Jaber, owner of the olive trees, told the Palestinian WAFA News Agency, that illegal settlers from Kiryat Arba, an illegal Israeli colony, built on Palestinian lands, invaded his privately-owned land and uprooted dozens of olive trees under the protection of Israeli soldiers.

Jaber added that Israeli colonists often attack Palestinian farmers in the area by uprooting trees or destroying water tanks in attempts to force Palestinians out of their lands in order to take over.

In related news, a crowd of extremist Israeli colonists attacked, on Saturday evening, Palestinian journalists who were documenting their actions, south of Hebron.

Similarly, on Friday, east of Yatta town, south of Hebron, several colonialist settlers attacked Palestinian homes attempting to invade them, however the local Palestinian community intercepted and forced the settlers too retreat.

(Source / 25.01.2021)

A group of Israeli settlers attacked, on Monday, Palestinian shepherds attending to their sheep at the village of Kiysan near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Abi Hanahal  hurled stones and released attack dogs  at Palestinian shepherds and their sheep near the village injuring one shepherd, local sources reported.

Khalaf Ebyiat sustained light wounds and some of his sheep where also injured after being hit with a stone hurled by the settlers, sources added.

Recently settler attacks targeting Palestinian shepherds in the area have escalated, head of the village council Ahmad Ghazal told local news sources. He added that settlers are installing new caravans on lands owned by the villages in an attempt to build a new settlement there.

(Source / 25.01.2021)