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Scores of Palestinians Injured and Abducted by Israeli Occupation Soldiers, Attacked by Illegal Settlers

May 27, 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/

 

Palestinian protesters inside Gaza Strip attacked with tear gas bombs by Israeli occupation soldiers, May 24, 2018 pchr

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Two Siblings In Hebron

May 26, 2019 6:22 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, two Palestinian siblings in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Quds News Network has reported that the soldiers abducted Zidan Sharabati, and his brother, Mofeed, from Shuhada Street, in Hebron city.

In related news, the soldiers closed many roads near Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards. The army said Palestinian youngsters hurled stones at a settler’s car, causing damage.

On Sunday at dawn, the soldiers abducted ten Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Ten Palestinians In The West Bank

May 26, 2019 5:01 PM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, ten Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PPS said the soldiers invaded and searched homes in Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank, and abducted four Palestinians, identified as Mohannad Abdul-Hamid Abu Mariya, 19, Ala’ Sadem Sleibi, 28, Yasser Jihad Abu Dayya, 17, and Mos’ab Zghayyar.

It added that the soldiers also abducted Mo’taz Rajabi, Lu’ay Rajabi and Omar Bassem Zghayyar, from occupied East Jerusalem.

In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Ibrahim Khaled Misfir.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Na’im Salah, from the al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.

In Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Monther Aziziya.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Jerusalem

May 25, 2019 11:28 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, and Friday evening and on Saturday at dawn, four Palestinian men from several parts of occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to detention and interrogation centers in the city.

Media sources said the soldiers invaded and ransacked several homes in the al-Ezariyya town, southeast of Jerusalem, and abducted two siblings identified as Hazem Edkeidik and his brother Ghaleb.

It is worth mentioning that the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), said the soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, two young men, identified as Jadallah Rajabi and Yazan Rajabi from their homes in Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injure Sixteen Palestinians In Gaza

May 25, 2019 7:32 AM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli occupation soldiers injured, Friday, sixteen Palestinians during the Great Return March processions, ongoing for the 59th week, in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Health Ministry in Gaza said the injuries varied between rubber-coated steel bullets and gas inhalation, including some who were shot with high-velocity gas bombs.

It added that a journalist, and a female medic volunteer, were among the injured Palestinians.

All the wounded Palestinians received the needed treatment in make-shift clinics, without the needed to move them to hospitals.

Israeli soldiers have killed 307 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, and injured more than 29000, since the Great Return March procession started in the Gaza Strip, on Palestinian land Day, March 30th, 2018.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Injure Many Palestinians In Kufur Qaddoum

May 24, 2019 5:38 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession against the illegal Annexation Wall and colonies, causing many protesters to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

Morad Eshteiwi, the media coordinator of the Popular Committee in Kufur Qaddoum, said the protest started from the center of the village, where the protesters marched carrying Palestinian flags, and chanting against the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.

He added that the soldiers resorted to the excessive use of force against the protesters, and fired many gas bombs, concussion grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at them.

The soldiers also invaded and ransacked a few homes in the town, and occupied their rooftops, before using them as firing posts.

Several Palestinian youngsters protested the invasions, and attacks, and hurled stones at the soldiers, in addition to burning tires.

Medical sources said dozens of residents suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, in addition to cuts and bruises.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct A Child Near Jenin

May 24, 2019 3:43 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Friday morning, a Palestinian child in Sielet al-Harithiyya town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The child’s father said the soldiers stopped his son, Amjad Ziad Zyoud, 15, on the main Jenin-Haifa Road, and maced him with pepper spray before repeatedly striking and punching him.

The child suffered many cuts and bruises to several parts of his body, before Palestinian medics rushed him to Jenin Governmental Hospital.

It is worth mentioning that the army has recently increased its deployment on main roads leading to various villages and towns in Jenin governorate, in addition to installing many roadblocks.

At Least Four Palestinians Injured In Tunnel Collapse In Gaza

May 24, 2019 2:51 PM IMEMC News

Medical sources said at least four Palestinians were injured, including one who suffered serious wounds, in a tunnel collapse accident, in northern Gaza.

The sources said medics, and rescue volunteers rushed to the collapsed tunnel, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and managed to locate the four Palestinians.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has reported that one of the wounded young men suffered a life-threatening injury.

Although some of the tunnels are used by armed resistance factions in Gaza Strip, many tunnels are used for smuggling, among several other materials, food supplies, medicine and fuel into the besieged and impoverished coastal region.

In February of this year, two Palestinians were killed, and nine were injured in a tunnel accident on the border with Egypt, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

There have been dozens of casualties, including fatalities in similar incidents, in addition to those who were killed or injured when Israel, and sometimes Egypt, bombarded the tunnels.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Again Storm Al Aqsa Mosque

May 27, 2019 12:21 PM Celine Hagbard

A group of illegal Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli forces, stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Monday, for the third time during the past two weeks of the Holy Month of Ramadan (an important annual holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide).

The Israeli military has, during the past week alone, invaded the mosque compound twice in order to harass and intimidate worshipers.

Israeli settlers and right-wing extremist Jewish religious groups have, in recent months, increased the number and severity of their invasions of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which are carried out with the full support of the Israeli military.

These right-wing Jewish extremist groups have frequently noted their intention regarding the mosque: to tear it down and erect a Jewish Temple in its place.

The invasion of the mosque on Monday involved around a dozen Israeli right-wingers, accompanied by about 30 Israeli special forces soldiers, who stationed themselves in different parts of the mosque compound to ensure the Israeli right-wing settlers could take over sections of the mosque compound and force out the Muslime worshipers who had gathered there to pray.

The right-wing group that organized the invasion also vowed to return on June 2nd to the mosque to further desecrate and deny Muslim worshipers access to the mosque. They have planned their next attack for that day because it is known as ‘Jerusalem Day’.

June 2nd is also three days before the final day of Ramadan, which is a major feast for Muslims – many of whom travel to Al-Aqsa mosque from different parts of Palestine and the Arab world for the occasion.

According to local sources, the Israeli invaders entered the mosque through the Mugrabi Gate, and they toured Al-Aqsa Square. Israeli police who accompanied the settlers took photos of Palestinians in the Square, and arrested three young Palestinians there.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Attack Home in Qalqilia, Assault Shepherd in Tubas

May 27, 2019 1:09 AM IMEMC News & Agencies

Hordes of illegal Israeli settlers, on Saturday, broke into a Palestinian home in Kafr Laqif village, Qalqilia, and placed an Israel flag on its rooftop.

Local sources told a PIC reporter that Israelis from the illegal settlement of Karnei Shomron stormed the house of the Palestinian citizen Amin Jaber, in the afternoon.

The settlers deployed in large numbers in the area and placed an Israel flag on the rooftop of the house before they withdrew.

There are about 427 random settler outposts in the West Bank and Jerusalem, covering 47% of the total area. Nearly 800,000 Israelis live in these outposts and carry out attacks on the Palestinian citizens and their properties on a daily basis.

Furthermore, Days of Palestine reports, a Palestinian shepherd was injured on Saturday, after being attacked by Israeli settlers in Khillat Hamad village, near Tubas.

Local sources said that shepherd Rabi’ Awwad suffered bruises after he was violently beaten by Israeli settlers.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Injure A Palestinian Shepherd, Soldiers Abduct One

May 25, 2019 11:00 AM IMEMC News

Several fanatic illegal Israeli settlers invaded, Saturday, Palestinian grazing lands in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, wounding one shepherd, before Israeli soldiers arrived in the area, attacked the shepherds and abducted one.

Aref Daraghma, a Palestinian human rights activist, said the illegal colonists chased several Palestinian shepherds in Khallet Hamad area.

He added that the colonists assaulted one shepherd, identified as Rabea’ Mahmoud Awwad, causing cuts and bruises.

Israeli soldiers also invaded the area during the attack, and abducted a Palestinian shepherd, identified as Bassem Mahmoud Awwad.

The soldiers did apprehend any of the illegal Israeli colonists who attacked the Palestinian shepherds.

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PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (16 – 22 May 2019)

May 24, 2019 5:12 AM PCHR

Israeli occupation forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 16-22 May, 2019.

Eight Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were wounded in the northern West Bank. Israeli forces conducted 55 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 6 other incursions into Jerusalem. 47 Palestinian civilians, including 12 children, were arrested in the West Bank. Five Shooting incidents were reported against the fishing boats in the Gaza Strip Sea.
Shooting:
 
During the reporting period, Israeli forces continued to use lethal force against the participants in the peaceful protests organized along the Gaza Strip borders. In the West Bank, Israeli forces wounded 8 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children. Five of them, including 2 children, were wounded in the northern West Bank, while 3 others, including a child, were wounded in the southern West Bank. In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli forces continued to escalate their attacks against the Palestinian fishermen and target their livelihoods.

In the West Bank, in excessive use of lethal force against the participants in the peaceful protests, Israeli forces wounded 5 protestors, including 2 children, while participating in Qaddoum weekly protest, northeast of Qalqiliyia. The abovementioned protest was organized on Friday, 17 May 2019, and on Saturday, 18 May 2019.
 
On 21 May 2019, Israeli forces opened fire at Mahmoud Husain Salah (15), from al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem, when he was near the annexation wall, which surrounds the village. As a result, Mahmoud was hit with 2 live bullets to the lower limbs. The soldiers then arrested him and took him to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in West Jerusalem to receive medical treatment.
 
On 22 May 2019, Israeli forces wounded 2 protestors while moving into al-Duhisha refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, to carry out an arrest campaign. They then opened fire at dozens of Palestinian young men who were protesting against them. 
 
As part of targeting the Palestinian fishermen in the sea, the Israeli forces continued to escalate their attacks against the Palestinian fishermen, indicating the on-going Israeli policy to target their livelihoods. During the reporting period, PCHR documented 5 incidents were as follows: 3 incidents in the northern Gaza Strip Shore and 2 incidents in the southern Gaza Strip Shore.
 
Incursions:
 
During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 55 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 6 other incursions into Jerusalem and its suburbs. During those incursions, Israeli forces arrested at least 29 Palestinians, including 2 children, from the West Bank, while 18 other civilians, including 10 childre, were arrested from Jerusalem and its suburbs.
 
Israeli Forces continued their settlement activities, and the settlers continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property
 
As part of the Israeli house demolitions and notices, on 16 May 2019, Israeli forces moved into Sosiya village, south of Yatta, south of Hebron. They dismantled a 30-sqaure-meter residential tent built with sheds, rubber tires and steel pillars. The tent belongs to Hussain Radi Nawaj’ah (55). The Israeli authorities claimed that the tent was confiscated and demolished under the pretext of non-licensing. It should be noted that it was the fourth time that the tent was confiscated and the latest was on 16 April 2019.
 
Israeli authorities continued to create a Jewish majority in occupied East Jerusalem.
 
Despite their claims to provide facilities for Palestinian civilians in Ramadan and allow them to perform prayers in al-Aqsa Mosque yards in occupied Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli forces continued to impose restrictions on them, including the city residents. During this week, a large force of Israeli soldiers raided al-Aqsa Mosque after al-‘Isha and al-Taraweeh prayers and forcibly ordered al-Mo’takefeen, who are staying in the al-Aqsa Mosque for a certain number of days to perform prayers, to leave the mosque.
 
In the same context, the Israeli authorities confiscated dozens of food parcels prepared by Jerusalem Endowment Fund. Those parcels were supposed to be distributed to poor families. The Jerusalem Endowment fund said that the Israeli authorities claimed that the food parcels are funded by the Palestinian Authority (PA) that is banned by the Israeli authorities and considered in violation of its law.
Use of Force against Demonstrations in Protest against the U.S. President’s Decision to Recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel:
 
Israeli forces continued its excessive use of lethal force against peaceful demonstration organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and it was named as “The Great March of Return and Breaking Siege.” The demonstration was in protest against the U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration to move the U.S. Embassy to it. According to PCHR fieldworkers’ observations, the border area witnessed large participation by Palestinian civilians as the Israeli forces continued to use upon highest military and political echelons excessive force against the peaceful demonstrators, though the demonstration were fully peaceful. The demonstration was as follows during the reporting period:
 
West Bank:
 
At approximately 13:30 on Friday afternoon, 17 May 2019, a group of Palestinians organized a peaceful demonstration from the center of Kufor Qaddoum village, northeast of Qalqiliyah, into the eastern entrance to the village, which has been closed for 15 years in favor of “Kedumim” The protestors threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed behind sand barriers. The soldiers immediately fired rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them. As a result, 4 civilians, including a child, were hit with rubber bullets.
(PCHR keeps the names of the injured civilians)
 
At approximately 16:30, on Saturday, 18 May 2018, a group of Palestinians organized a peaceful demonstration from the center of Kufor Qaddoum village, northeast of Qalqiliyah, into the eastern entrance to the village, which has been closed for 15 years in favor of “Kedumim” The protestors threw stones at Israeli soldiers stationed behind sand barriers. The soldiers immediately fired rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at them. As a result, a child was hit with a rubber bullet to the head.
(PCHR keeps the name of the injured child)
Israeli forces’ attacks:
 
At approximately 10:00 on Thursday, 16 May 2019, Israeli forces backed by 2 military vehicles and accompanied with a bulldozer and a vehicle of the Israeli Civil Administration moved into Sosiya village, south of Yatta, south of Hebron. The Israeli Civil Administration officers dismantled a 30-sqaure-meter residential tent built with sheds, rubber tires and steel pillars. The tent belongs to Hussain Radi Nawaj’ah (55). The Israeli authorities claimed that the tent was confiscated and demolished under the pretext of non-licensing. It should be noted that it was the fourth time that the tent was confiscated and the latest was on 16 April 2019.
 
Recommendations to the International Community

1. PCHR calls upon the international community to respect the Security Council’s Resolution No. 2334 and to ensure that Israel respects it as well, in particular point 5 which obliges Israel not to deal with settlements as if they were part of Israel.
2. PCHR calls upon the ICC this year to open an investigation into Israeli crimes committed in the oPt, particularly the settlement crimes and the 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip.
3. PCHR Calls upon the European Union (EU) and all international bodies to boycott settlements and ban working and investing in them in application of their obligations according to international human rights law and international humanitarian law considering settlements as a war crime.
4. PCHR calls upon the international community to use all available means to allow the Palestinian people to enjoy their right to self-determination through the establishment of the Palestinian State, which was recognized by the UN General Assembly with a vast majority, using all international legal mechanisms, including sanctions to end the occupation of the State of Palestine.
5. PCHR calls upon the international community and United Nations to take all necessary measures to stop Israeli policies aimed at creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem and at voiding Palestine from its original inhabitants through deportations and house demolitions as a collective punishment, which violates international humanitarian law, amounting to a crime against humanity.
6. PCHR calls upon the international community to condemn summary executions carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinians and to pressurize Israel to stop them.
7. PCHR calls upon the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC to work hard to hold Israeli war criminals accountable.
8. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions to fulfill their obligations under article (1) of the Convention to ensure respect for the Conventions under all circumstances, and under articles (146) and (147) to search for and prosecute those responsible for committing grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions to ensure justice and remedy for Palestinian victims, especially in light of the almost complete denial of justice for them before the Israeli judiciary.
9. PCHR calls upon the international community to speed up the reconstruction process necessary because of the destruction inflicted by the Israeli offensive on Gaza.
10. PCHR calls for a prompt intervention to compel the Israeli authorities to lift the closure that obstructs the freedom of movement of goods and 1.8 million civilians that experience unprecedented economic, social, political and cultural hardships due to collective punishment policies and retaliatory action against civilians.
11. PCHR calls upon the European Union to apply human rights standards embedded in the EU-Israel Association Agreement and to respect its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights when dealing with Israel.
12. PCHR calls upon the international community, especially states that import Israeli weapons and military services, to meet their moral and legal responsibility not to allow Israel to use the offensive in Gaza to test new weapons and not accept training services based on the field experience in Gaza in order to avoid turning Palestinian civilians in Gaza into testing objects for Israeli weapons and military tactics.
13. PCHR calls upon the parties to international human rights instruments, especially the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to pressurize Israel to comply with its provisions in the oPt and to compel it to incorporate the human rights situation in the oPt in its reports submitted to the relevant committees.
14. PCHR calls upon the EU and international human rights bodies to pressurize the Israeli forces to stop their attacks against Palestinian fishermen and farmers, mainly in the border area.

Fully detailed document available at the official website of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).

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