Palestinia Killed, Scores Injured and Abducted by Israeli Occupation Soldiers, Illegal Settlers Attack Farmers and Beat a Rabbi, October 21, 2019

Palestinian Killed, Scores Injured and Abducted by Israeli Occupation Soldiers, Illegal Settlers Attack Farmers and Beat a Rabbi

October 21, 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/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/


73 Palestinians Wounded as Israeli Forces Attack Gaza Protests, October 18, 2019	Palestinian Ra’ad Majed Mohammad al-Bahri was killed by Isralei occupation soldiers on October 18, 2019

Illegal Colonists Attack Palestinian, International Activists, in Olive

Orchards Near Bethlehem

80-Year Old Israeli Rabbi Beaten by Right-Wing Israeli Settlers for Protecting Palestinian Farmers

October 21, 2019 4:33 AM IMEMC & Agencies

A group of around 30 masked Israeli settlers attacked Israeli and international human rights activists on Wednesday, beating them with crowbars while they were protecting Palestinian farmers trying to harvest olives in the village of Burin, in the West Bank. Eighty year old Rabbi Moshe Yehudai told reporters that he “feared for his life” as he was beaten mercilessly on the head, arm and shoulders. He was one of five Israeli human rights activists who was beaten in the attack.

Yehudai was rushed to hospital with severe head injuries and a broken arm. Yehudai is a member of Rabbis for Human Rights, a group made up of Israeli and international Rabbis and supporters that engage in human rights accompaniment in the West Bank, especially in areas known for Israeli settler violence. According to local sources, more than 30 masked Israeli settlers came running into the olive grove where the harvest was going on, and began beating the Palestinian farmers, Israeli rabbis and international human rights activists. While being treated for his injuries, Yehudai told reporters from the Times of Israel, “Suddenly, the settlers came with their faces [covered].

They started running at us, they surrounded me, threw rocks at me, hit me with crowbars, giving me a head injury. I told them I’m 80 years old. Leave me alone.” But the settlers kept coming and beating him and the other activists and observers. Israeli settlers frequently attack Palestinian farmers and civilians, including children. They are rarely arrested or held accountable for their crimes, since the area where they illegally live is under Israeli military occupation, and the Israeli military has no mandate to arrest settlers for criminal or violent acts.

The soldiers are only authorized to attack and abduct Palestinians, not the Israelis who are squatting illegally on Palestinian land. Last week, a gang of Israeli settlers set fire to an olive grove, just as the Palestinian owners of the trees were preparing for the annual harvest — which provides the Palestinians with their main source of income. That arson resulted in the destruction of 70 olive trees.

According to Al-Araby News, more than 600,000 Israeli Jews live in settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, in housing developments that are considered illegal under international law.

The Oslo agreement of 1995 divided the occupied West Bank into three: Area A, Area B and Area C.

Area A is under the administrative and security control of the Palestinian Authority (PA); Area B’s administration is controlled by the PA, with Israel controlling security; Area C is under full administrative and security control of Israel.

Along with stealing land, occupying Israeli forces and settlers are known to harass civilians, demolish Palestinian homes, poison livestock, vandalise property and other forms of violence.

PPS: “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Nine Palestinians In West Bank”

October 20, 2019 11:25 AM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has confirmed that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, nine Palestinians, including a mother and her child, and a wounded young man, in several parts of the occupied West Bank.

The PPS office in Tubas governorate, in northeastern West Bank, said the soldiers abducted Abdullah Hamed Bani Odah, and his brother, Mohammad, in addition to Mohammad Taher Bani Odah, while they were heading to Jerusalem for work.

It added that the soldiers shot Abdullah with a live round in his leg, before abducting him.

In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted a child from the al-‘Isawiya town, identified as Mohammad Gheith, only twelve years of age, along with his mother who tried to dearest him, in addition to Ashraf Dirbas and Abdul-Rahman Basheeti.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted Hamed Nabil ‘Oweiss, 21, from his home in the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, while crossing the nearby Za’tara, after stopping and searching his car.

It is worth mentioning that the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society has reported that Israeli soldiers have abducted twenty-two Palestinians in the West Bank, mainly from Jerusalem and Jericho, in less than 48 hours.

Illegal Colonists Attack Palestinian, International Activists, in Olive Orchards Near Bethlehem

October 20, 2019 2:30 AM IMEMC News

Several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers attacked, Saturday, Palestinian villagers and international solidarity activists, while picking olive trees in Palestinian orchards in the al-Jab’a village, southwest of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Tha Maan News agency qouted Ziad Salah, the coordinator of the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Society, stating that the colonists hurled stones at the Palestinians and the solidarity activists, in addition to attacking homes and cars in the village, causing property damage.

Salah said that the attack took place during a nonviolent activity for aiding the Palestinians in picking their olive trees, dubbed as “We Are With You,” and meant to help the villagers, subject to frequent assaults and violations by both the illegal colonists and the soldiers.

He also stated that the soldiers stopped a bus, transporting local and international activists into the Palestinian orchards.

The coordinator added that in its “We Are With You” Campaign, the Palestinian Agricultural Relief aims at helping the Palestinians in lands and orchards near the illegal Annexation Wall, including lands Israel intends to illegally annex for its wall and colonies.

The villagers in those areas are subject to constant assaults and violations by the soldiers and the illegal fanatic colonists.

Such attacks always witness a sharp escalation by the illegal colonists during the olive harvest season.

Soldiers Injure Several Palestinians Near Hebron

October 19, 2019 10:48 AM IMEMC News

Several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded, earlier Saturday, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of before the soldiers and injured many Palestinians, who protested the invasion into their community.

Local nonviolent media activist, Mohammad Awad, said the soldiers invaded the ath-Thaher area, in Beit Ummar, located right next to the illegal Karmie Tzur colony, which was built on Palestinian lands.

He added that the soldiers fired gas bombs at homes and the protesters, causing several residents to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, and others who sustained cuts and bruises.

It is worth mentioning that, on Friday evening, the soldiers abducted a Palestinian child, only nine years of age, identified as Qussai Ibrahim al-Ja’ar, also in the ath-Thaher area, in Beit Ummar town.

Israeli Soldiers Injure Many Protesters, Abduct International Peace Activist, In Kufur Qaddoum

October 19, 2019 5:33 AM IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and injured several protesters, in addition to abducting an international peace activist.

The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, said the soldiers assaulted the protesters, and ambushed some of them.

It added that the soldiers fired gas bombs, causing many protesters to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, before abducting a solidarity activist from Spain, in addition to wounding another international activist and one Palestinian, while chasing them.

Several Palestinian youngsters started hurling stones at the invading soldiers, who fired more rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.

Kufur Qaddoum witnesses frequent Israeli invasions, assaults and abductions as it continues to hold is weekly nonviolent processions against the illegal Annexation Wall and colonies, and against the closure of the main road, which was blockaded by the military fifteen years ago, to enable easy access for colonialist settlers driving to and from the Kedumim colony, built on private Palestinian lands.

Palestinian Killed at Israeli Military Roadblock near Tulkarem

October 18, 2019 10:03 PM IMEMC News

A young Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces at Jabara military roadblock, south of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, on Friday evening.

The slain Palestinian was later identified as Ra’ad Majed Mohammad al-Bahri, 25, from Kafr Zibad village, south of Tulkarem.

A correspondent with the Palestinian WAFA News Agency confirmed that a young man died after being shot by the Israeli forces at the roadblock after the soldiers shot him.

WAFA also reported that the young man was left to bleed to death when Israeli forces refused to allow the entry of ambulances of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to the roadblock.

The Israeli army claimed that the “man ran towards the military roadblock, intending to attack the soldiers.”

73 Palestinians Wounded as Israeli Forces Attack Gaza Protests

October 18, 2019 9:38 PM IMEMC News

Israeli forces assaulted protesters who gathered at a number of points along the Gaza-Israel border on Friday for the 79th weekly ‘March of Return’ calling for a return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland and an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza.

At least 31 of those injured on Friday were hit by live ammunition fired by Israeli snipers stationed in military observation towers on the Gaza-Israel border. The rest were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas canisters, or suffered from severe tear gas inhalation.

According to the Palestinian Wafa News Agency, Israeli soldiers positioned in military towers and behind earth mounds along the eastern fence fired live bullets, rubber-coated metal bullets, and tear gas canisters at Palestinian civilians, who had flocked to the five communities where the events took place.

In addition, Israeli naval forces opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats near the al-Sudaniya area northwest of Gaza City, despite the fact that they were within the 6 mile zone allowed by the Israeli military (previously the zone was 20 miles). The fishers were forced to abandon their boats and swim to shore, according to local sources. But no injuries were reported.

Israeli Soldiers Attack A Wedding Celebration Near Jerusalem

October 18, 2019 12:50 PM IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, Sur Baher Palestinian town, southeast of occupied East Jerusalem, and assaulted many Palestinians attending a wedding party.

Eyewitnesses said dozens of soldiers invaded the town, before storming a wedding party, and assaulted many Palestinians.

They added that the soldiers struck and clubbed many Palestinians, especially those who objected to the invasion into a wedding party, where the families were celebrating.

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