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Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill a Palestinian Teenager, Injure and Abduct Scores Others, Demolish Homes

March 15, 2020 

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:

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

 

Palestinian Mohammad Abdul-Karim Hamayel, 15, was killed in Nablus by Israeli occupation soldiers, on March 12, 2020

 

New IOF Crime in Nablus: Palestinian Child Killed and 14 Civilians Wounded including a Journalist

March 12, 2020 4:15 AM PCHR

The Palestinian Centre For Human Rights (PCHR): Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed on Wednesday, 11 March 2020, a Palestinian child and wounded 14 other civilians, including a journalist during its suppression of civilian gathering on al-‘Arma Mountain, southeast Bita village, Nablus, Northern West Bank. Two of the wounded were deemed in critical condition.

According to PCHR investigations, approximately at 05:00 on Wednesday, Israeli forces backed by at least 40 military vehicles and 2 construction vehicles moved into al-‘Arma Mountain, and proceeded to suppress a civilian gathering (dozens) who had an overnight sit-in starting at 20:00 on Tuesday, 10 March 2020, as IOF provided protection for settlers. IOF fired live and rubber bullets, as well as tear gas canisters at the civilian gathering in order to disperse them.

Clashes erupted until 07:00 Wednesday morning. As a result, IOF aggression resulted in the injury of 14 civilians. Mohammed Abdulkarim Khassab Hamayel (15) was shot with a live bullet in the head and deemed critical, until his death was announced at 12:00 today at the Intensive Care Unit at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus. Among those wounded was journalist Baker Mohammed Abdulhaq (30) who was shot with a rubber bullet in his left leg while covering the incident for Palestine TV; two others were deemed in an extremely critical conditions, while dozens suffocated due to tear gas inhalation and were attended to in the field.

According to eyewitnesses’ statement to PCHR fieldworker, IOF did not allow paramedics to evacuate the wounded, including Hamayel (15) and left them to bleed on the ground for more than half an hour before ambulance were allowed to enter after the area was forcibly evacuated from all civilians. All of the above occurred despite the fact that the civilian gathering did not pose any danger to the lives of Israeli soldiers.

This is the 3rd IOF raid into al-‘Arma Mountain in the past 2 weeks against civilian gatherings intended to obstruct settlers’ overtake of the area, where 146 Palestinians sustained wounds.

Al-‘Arma Mountain is one of the highest points of altitude in the Nablus governorate (843m above the sea level), and it has a historic site (60 dunums) and it is part of Bita village, southeast of Nablus. Israeli settlers intend to control it and annex it to settlements “Givat Arnon” and “Itamar” under religious pretexts.

PCHR strongly condemns IOF continued use of excessive force that led to the killing of Hamayel and wounding others, which provides further evidence of the Israeli doctrine of excessive lethal force without the presence of any threats to Israeli soldiers’ lives.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Cause Damage To Twenty Palestinian Vehicles Near Nablus

March 15, 2020 10:56 AM IMEMC News

Many fanatic illegal Israeli settlers invaded, on Sunday morning, the western area of Huwwara town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and caused damage to at least twenty cars, trucks and buses.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel’s illegal settler activities in northern West Bank, said the assailants hurled stones at more than twenty Palestinian cars and buses, causing excessive damage.

Daghlas added that the locals intercepted the invading colonists and started pushing them out of the village.

The settlers fired many live rounds at random and fled from the village; there have been no reports of injuries in the incident.

In related news, a group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded the al-Janiya Palestinian village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Detain And Interrogate Dozens Of Palestinians In Jenin

March 15, 2020 10:42 AM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers installed, on Sunday evening, a military roadblock at the entrance of Kharrouba neighborhood, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, before detaining many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped and searched dozens of cars and residents and were questioning many Palestinians.

They added that, although the soldiers did not abduct any Palestinian in this incident, they detained many of them for a few hours, before eventually allowing them to leave.

On Sunday, a group of fanatic Israeli colonists, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded the al-Janiya Palestinian village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Invade Village Near Ramallah

March 15, 2020 9:31 AM IMEMC News

A group of illegal fanatic Israeli settlers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, invaded earlier Sunday the al-Janiya Palestinian village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

Eyewitnesses said the settlers invaded the outskirts of the village, before the locals intercepted them, and started forcing them away.

They added that Israeli soldiers rushed to the area and started firing gas bombs and concussion grenades at the Palestinians to secure the retreat of the illegal colonists.

It is worth mentioning that this is the second attack against the village in the last few days.

Journalist Among 19 Injured by Israeli Occupation Forces in Kufur Qaddoum

March 14, 2020 6:09 AM Ali Salam

Two Palestinians, including a journalist, were shot by Israeli occupation forces, while 17 others suffocated, on Friday, during the weekly protest, in the village of Kufur Qaddoum in the northern West Bank district of Qalqilia, local sources said.

Morad Eshteiwi, the coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Colonies, told Palestinian WAFA News Agency that Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated rounds and teargas at the the protesters. 2 people were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, and 17 others suffered the toxic effects of tear-gas inhalation.

Ja’far Shtayyeh, a journalist affiliated with the Agence France-Presse (AFP) was shot and injured by Israeli forces. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned the targeting of a photojournalist, describing it as a result of Israeli government’s campaign against Palestinian journalists.

The Palestinians in the village of Kufur Qaddoum and surrounding community have been holding weekly protests since 2002, when the Israeli occupation closed the main road connecting the villages to the city of Nablus. Every Friday, locals come out to show their objection to illegal Israeli settlements and the apartheid wall.

Images: Shehab News Agency

Defying Coronavirus Closure, Israeli Occupation Soldiers Allow Dozens Of Colonists Into Sebastia Archaeological Site

March 12, 2020 3:45 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers accompanied, Thursday, dozens of illegal Israeli settlers into the archaeological site in Sebastia Palestinian town, northwest of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, defying a closure by Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Nablus governor in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus disease.

Mohammad Azem, the mayor of Sebastia, said the invasion comes in defiance of the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) to avoid large gatherings, in addition to a decision by the Palestinian governor, and the Tourism Ministry to close the site as a precaution, due to the current Coronavirus outbreak.

He added that the soldiers closed many roads around the site, before invading it along with the illegal colonists.

Azem stated that the Palestinian Authority has been taking various serious measures across the occupied West Bank, to contain and prevent the spread of the disease.

The Israeli occupation army frequently invades the site to accompany dozens, and in some cases hundreds, of colonists into the area, after closing it and forcing the Palestinians away.

The number of confirmed “Covid-19” cases in Israel currently stands at 100, while 31 confirmed cases have been recorded in the West Bank.

“Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In West Bank”

March 12, 2020 3:08 PM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians in several parts of the occupied West Bank, after the army invaded and violently searched many homes.

The PPS stated that the soldiers invaded Sa’ir town, northeast of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and abducted five Palestinians, identified as Samer Issa Froukh, Bara’ Mohammad Froukh, Fadel ‘Adel Froukh, Mohammad ‘Adel Froukh, and Ziad Abdul-Aziz Jabarin.

It added that the soldiers also invaded the al-Am’ari refugee camp, east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, before abducting Mohammad Shamali and Diab Mohammad Barrash.

In Tubas, in northeastern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Qussai Majdi Abdul-Razeq, 22.

In occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Rawhi al-Kolghasi, Mustafa Hashlamoun, and ‘Abada Najeeb.

In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers abducted Abdul-Rahim Abu Mahameed.

In Jenin, also in northern West Bank, several army jeeps invaded the al-Basateen neighborhood and conducted extensive searches.

In Nablus, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Wa’ad Ghazi al-Mokhtar and Salah Wa’el Khammous, from their homes in Huwwara town, south of the city.

It is worth mentioning that, two days ago, the two Palestinians were assaulted and injured by several fanatic Israeli colonialist settlers.

Another Palestinian, identified as Zeid Seitan Sawafta, 20, from his home in Nablus.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Demolish A Palestinian Home In Bethlehem

March 12, 2020 1:49 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers demolished, Thursday, a Palestinian home in al-Ferdis village, in the Eastern Bedouin area, east of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank.

Hassan Breijiyya, the head of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission in Bethlehem, said the soldiers invaded the village, and demolished a one-story, 130 square/meter home, owned by Hazem Hashem Abu Mheimeed.

The army claimed that the home was not licensed by the so-called Civil Administration office, the administrative branch of Israel’s illegal military occupation of the West Bank.

Breijiyya added that the soldiers also invaded and ransacked another home of the village, before withdrawing.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Homes Near Nablus

March 12, 2020 1:33 PM IMEMC News

Several illegal Israeli settlers attacked, on Thursday at dawn, a few Palestinian homes in Einabus village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing damage.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel’s illegal settler activities in northern West Bank, said the Israeli assailants infiltrated into the village and started hurling stones at two homes, owned by Awwad Amin Hamad and Shokri Shaqqour, causing damage to several windows.

Daghlas added that the colonists also attacked a car, owned by Hani Nabli, causing damage to its windows, and hurled stones at a few surrounding homes.

In addition, the colonists invaded the eastern area of Burin town, south of Nablus, and partially damaged an under-construction Palestinian home, owned by Montaser Mansour.

Israeli Settlers Attack, Injure Palestinian Woman and Minor in Hebron

March 12, 2020 4:48 AM Ali Salam

A Palestinian woman and a minor were injured, Wednesday, when illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the city of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Sources told Palestinian WAFA News Agency settlers attacked homes in Wadi al-Hussein area, located near the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba, and assaulted the woman and the youth, identified as Mohannad Jabari.

In related news, two Palestinian youths were assaulted by a group of settlers in Huwwara town, south of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

It is important to note that Palestinian teen, Mohammad Hamayel, 15, died, on Wednesday, due to his critical head wound, after being shot by Israeli forces with live ammunition, at Mount Al-‘Arma, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Image: Alray

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct 12 Palestinians Wednesday Morning Before Dawn

March 11, 2020 12:49 PM IMEMC & Agencies

In their daily pre-dawn raids throughout the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces abducted 12 Palestinian civilians.

In Ramallah, Israeli occupation forces abducted two boys after one of them was injured at the entrance to Deir Nizam village, northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces shot the two boys while they were at the entrance to the village, which resulted in the injury of one of them to a live bullet in the thigh, before they were taken by the soldiers.

The occupation forces also abducted two young men, Mohammad Darwish Ata, and Abdel-Rahman Fathi Al-Barghouthi, after they raided their homes in the village of Deir Abu Mishaal, northwest of Ramallah.

In addition, Israeli troops abducted the young Zia Mishaal Al-Barghouthi from the town of Kober, and handed over three young men from the town of Abu Shkhidem, in order to interrogate them.

The soldiers also abducted the young man, Mohammad Essam Hamad, from the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah.

In Jenin on Wednesday before dawn, Israeli forces abducted six young men: Mohammad Musa Ajawi, Youssef Nasser Salah Al-Din, Muhammad Zuhair Balawi, Ahmad Asaad Nabhan, and Imad Ghassan Habb al-Reeh, after they raided their homes in the city of Jenin, and abducted the young Tawfiq Murad from Jenin camp.

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“Israeli Occupation Soldiers Kill One Child, Injure 112 Palestinians In Nablus”

March 11, 2020 12:56 PM IMEMC News

The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that Israeli occupation soldiers killed, Thursday, one child, and injured at least 112 Palestinians, during the ongoing protest on the al-‘Arma Mountain, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The Ministry said the child, Mohammad Abdul-Karim Hamayel, 15, was shot with an expanding bullet in the head, and he was rushed to a local hospital before succumbing to his serious wounds.

Tarif Ashour, the spokesperson of the Health Ministry, said at least thirteen Palestinians were rushed to Rafidia governmental hospital, including a child, seventeen years of age, who was shot with two rubber-coated steel bullets in his head, before he was rushed to surgery, and remains in critical condition.

Shortly afterward, the soldiers shot two Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets in their heads, causing hemorrhaging in the brain; one of them remains in life-threatening condition.

In addition, a journalist working for the Palestinian TV, identified as Bakr Abdul-Haq, was shot with a rubber-coated steel bullet in his lead, and at least thirteen other residents were shot with similar rounds.

The total number of injuries stood at more than 112 Palestinians at the time of this report, among them, 90 were suffered the severe effects of teargas inhalation, and eighteen who were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also abducted at least three young men, after more than 40 additional military vehicles invaded the area.

The protests are still ongoing as more soldiers and fanatic illegal settlers continue to flock to the mountain and prevented many Palestinian ambulances from approaching it.

The head of the Beita Fuad Maali Village Council told Wafa reporters that scores of illegal Israeli colonists began storming the mountain last night and are still in the place, explaining that hundreds of Palestinian citizens remain stationed on the mountain to repel their invasion.

Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel’s settler activities, said that there have been calls by colonists to storm the mountain, in an attempt to control an archaeological historical site above its summit, and install an illegal colony after occupying the entire Palestinian Mountain.

Updated From: Israeli Occupation Soldiers Fire at Palestinian Protesters Near Nablus, Wounding 17 – Mar 11, 2020, at 12:04

Israeli occupation soldiers shot and injured 17 Palestinian civilians Tuesday with live bullets and rubber-coated metal bullets, as well as firing tear gas at demonstrators who gathered at the Al-Arma Mountain south of Nablus, in the northern West Bank.

The Head of the Committee Against the illegal Israeli Wall and Settlements, Walid Assaf, was among those injured during the demonstration, which took place near the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

Two Palestinians were hit with live bullets and both are in serious condition at Rafidia Hospital. In addition, four Palestinians wounded from rubber-coated steel bullets were also taken to Rafidia. Three others were taken to Huwwara hospital with complications resulting from tear gas inhalation.

Among those injured was a reporter for Palestine TV, Bakr Abdel-Haq.

The Ministry of Health told reporters with the Palestinian Wafa news agency that the medical teams dealt with 17 injuries during the demonstrations taking place in the area, including two with live bullets, both of which are serious injuries.

The Israeli forces prevented ambulances from reaching the area, and the soldiers assaulted the Palestine TV crew.

The head of the Beita Fuad Maali Village Council told Wafa reporters that illegal Israeli settlers began storming the mountain last night and are still in the place, explaining that hundreds of Palestinian citizens are still stationed on the mountain to repel the invasion of Israeli settlers.

He added that a large number of military jeeps stormed the mountain at dawn, and the soldiers attacked a peaceful sit-in there, by firing a barrage of live bullets, metal bullets, and sound and gas bombs towards them, which led to the casualties.

Hundreds of citizens flocked last night to the top of Mount Al-Arma, which belongs to the villagers of Beita, and held a sit-in there, following an invasion of the mountain by Israeli settlers.

Ghassan Douglas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors Israel’s colonialist activities, said that there have been calls by settlers to storm the mountain, in an attempt to control an archaeological historical site above its summit.

It is reported that the residents of the village, and the neighboring towns and villages, responded to previous attempts by the settlers to storm the top of the mountain two weeks ago.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers killed 10,000th Palestinian since 2000, US media largely ignore it

March 12, 2020 3:25 AM If Americans Knew

If Americans Knew Blog: By Alison Weir: Israeli occupation forces invading Palestinian Territory have just killed a 15-year-old unarmed Palestinian boy. A sniper shot him in the head with an expanding bullet. This is the 10,000th Palestinian killed by an Israeli since the round of violence that began in fall 2000. The boy was reportedly shot in the face.

During the same period, Palestinians have killed 1,270 Israelis. See the list and details on this Timeline of Israeli and Palestinian deaths.

Because US media rarely cover Palestinian deaths, while often emphasizing Israeli deaths, most Americans are unaware that Israeli forces have killed far more people than Palestinian resistance groups, and that Israel kills first in nearly all cycles of violence.

If the situation were reversed, and a Palestinian military force invaded an Israeli town and shot a teenager in the head, it would in all probability be front page news across the U.S.

US news reports also fail to mention that the violence began when colonizers began moving to Palestine in the early 1900s with the intention of taking over the land for a Jewish state, and that Israel was established through a war of what an Israeli historian terms “ethnic cleansing.”

Once again, U.S. news media are largely ignoring Israel’s latest killing of a Palestinian youth. Other than an automatic Associated press feed buried on their websites, there don’t seem to have been any reports on the death by NPR, CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS, etc.

Source: IsraelPalestineTimeline.org

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