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Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injure 30 Palestinian Schoolchildren, Assault A Blind Man in His Home, Provoke Worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque

February 22, 2019 

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: https://english.palinfo.com/, http://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injured 30 Schoolchildren In Hebron, February 21, 2019	Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted, Monther Mezher, a blind Palestinian man, at his home in Bethlehem, February 21, 2019

 

Israeli Soldiers Injure 30 Schoolchildren In Hebron

February 21, 2019 7:46 AM IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers injured, Thursday, thirty Palestinians schoolchildren, including one who suffered a serious injury, after a group of soldiers and colonialist settlers attacked them, in Hebron, in southern West Bank.

Medical sources in Hebron said thirty children suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation, including one child who suffered a serious injury, before he was rushed to Mohammad Ali Hospital in the city.

The school principal said a group of illegal colonialist settlers surrounded the school before assaulting several children and added that the soldiers then started firing gas bombs and concussion grenades at the children, instead of removing the assailing colonists.

He stated that one of the colonists who attacked the children is known as Ofar, who frequently calls for killing the Palestinians and expelling them Palestinians from Hebron, and the rest of occupied Palestine.

Soldiers Assault A Blind Man in His Home, Near Bethlehem

February 20, 2019 1:02 PM IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Wednesday at dawn, a blind Palestinian man who also suffers from a Kidney disease, after invading his home in Doha town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

The Palestinian, Monther Mezher, told WAFA News Agency the soldiers stormed his home and started a violent search of the property, before beating him up on his head, shoulders and other parts of his body.

From his hospital bed, Mezher said that, besides his visual impairment, he cannot walk without help, and that he also has a kidney disease, requiring dialysis.

He stated that he lost his eyesight fifteen years ago and has been undergoing dialysis for the last eleven years.

“We heard some noises inside our house, my wife and I though it was one of our kids who might have woken up, we had no idea who was inside our home and what they were doing,” he said, “We first though that they were thieves, and they started beating me up while shouting at me ‘we are the Israeli Defense Force’.”

“They left me and went to the living room, and my wife helped me walk there; my children were forced against the wall, and I kept asking them what are they doing here, and what do they want, only then we released they also invaded the house above us to arrest a young man.”

The family of the young man told the soldiers not to invade Mezher’s home, because he is blind and sick, but the soldiers insisted on breaking into the property.

Mezher’s sister told WAFA that she rushed to the property to see her brother and his family and was shocked to see how her blind brother was beaten up and all bloody, and how the home was ransacked.

“When I saw what they have done to my brother, his family and home, I saw how those soldiers were behaving… like wild beasts, not human beings,” she added.

The attack came after many army vehicles invaded Doha, abducted two young men, and fired a barrage of gas bombs, causing one car to burn.

In related news, dozens of invaded the southern West Bank city of Hebron, al-‘Arroub refugee camp and the nearby Halhoul and Beit Ummar towns, before storming and searching many homes, and abducted eight Palestinians, including a child, in addition to summoning two others for interrogation.

The soldiers also abducted two Palestinians from Tulkarem and Nablus, in northern West Bank.

Furthermore, the soldiers injured ten Palestinians, including a journalist, in Nablus, after dozens of soldiers and colonialist settlers invaded the city and headed to Joseph’s Tomb.

For Third Day, Palestinians Remove Metal Gate at Al-Aqsa

February 21, 2019 5:20 AM IMEMC News & Agencies

Palestinians, this evening, removed a metal gate which Israeli occupation soldiers had placed at the entrance to a building in Al-Aqsa Mosque’s Bab al-Rahmeh, on Sunday, and held prayer in the area, according to witnesses.

Dozens of worshippers held the prayers at Bab al-Rahmeh, one of the gates of Al-Aqsa compound, in Jerusalem’s Old City district, in a show of defiance of Israeli attempts to prevent Muslims from being in that area, and after calls were made to hold all five daily prayers at Bab al-Rahmeh.

Palestinians fear Israel is planning to turn that area and the building into a Jewish temple in the heart of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam, after Jewish fanatics were seen, in recent days and weeks, holding religious rituals under police protection, in that area.

Police had also attempted to keep Muslim worshippers away from the area at all times, provoking the strong Palestinian reaction to the closure of the metal gate, as a result.

Confrontations broke out inside Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, between Israeli police and Palestinians who attempted to remove the gates, leading to several injuries and around 16 arrests.

An Israeli court, on Wednesday, freed 14 of the Palestinian detainees on condition of staying away from the Old City of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque for 60 days, except for those who live in the Old City but still ordered not to be in Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, in addition to paying around $400 in bail, according to Mohammad Mahmoud, an attorney with the Prisoners Commission.

Two were remanded in custody until Friday, he said.

WAFA further reports that Israeli police, on Wednesday, detained a woman who is active in defending Al-Aqsa Mosque, at her Jerusalem home, and summoned another woman for interrogation. Both women, Hanadi Halawani and Khadija Khweis, have been targeted before, by the police, held in detention several times and ordered to stay away from Al-Aqsa for many weeks.

The Islamic Waqf, which is in charge of Al-Aqsa Mosque, has vowed to push for free Muslim worship at Bab al-Rahmeh, as part of Al-Aqsa compound, despite the Israeli ban.

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