31 oct 2014
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Friday four Jerusalemites from Wadi Hilwa neighborhood in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque, and another Palestinian from his home in Zababda town, south of Jenin.
Wadi al-Hilweh Information Center said that nearly dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Wadi al-Hilweh neighborhood at o'clock in the morning, raided a number of homes and kidnapped four citizens arrested including head of the center Jawad Siyam and his nephew.
The detainees were transferred to Maskubiya detention center to the west of the occupied city for interrogation.
In another incident, IOF soldiers nabbed at dawn today a Palestinian young man from his home in Zababda town south of Jenin and ransacked other homes belonging to Al-Sharqawi family.
Security sources in the west Bank stated in press remarks that the IOF kidnapped 30-year-old Ibrahim Turkman after violently raiding his parents' house in the town.
The IOF also ransacked the houses of three brothers from Al-Sharqawi family in the same town and interrogated them.
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Wadi al-Hilweh Information Center said that nearly dozens of Israeli soldiers stormed Wadi al-Hilweh neighborhood at o'clock in the morning, raided a number of homes and kidnapped four citizens arrested including head of the center Jawad Siyam and his nephew.
The detainees were transferred to Maskubiya detention center to the west of the occupied city for interrogation.
In another incident, IOF soldiers nabbed at dawn today a Palestinian young man from his home in Zababda town south of Jenin and ransacked other homes belonging to Al-Sharqawi family.
Security sources in the west Bank stated in press remarks that the IOF kidnapped 30-year-old Ibrahim Turkman after violently raiding his parents' house in the town.
The IOF also ransacked the houses of three brothers from Al-Sharqawi family in the same town and interrogated them.
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Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday evening and on Friday at dawn, at least six Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem. One of the kidnapped is the head of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan.
Local sources in Zababda town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, has reported that the soldiers kidnapped one Palestinian and searched several other homes.
The sources said the soldiers kidnapped Aysar Ibrahim Turkman, 30, after storming and ransacking his home, and several nearby homes, and took him to an unknown destination.
Several soldiers also surrounded the home of former political prisoner Ahmad Sharqawi, and interrogated him while searching and ransacking his property.
They also conducted searches in different parts of the town.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem, has reported that the soldiers kidnapped the center’s head Jawad Siyam, his nephew Yazan Siyam, and two other Palestinians identified as Mahmoud Gheith and Montaser Faraj.
The Center said the kidnapped were moved to the al-Maskobiyya interrogation center in West Jerusalem.
On Thursday at night, soldiers invaded the Sawahra ash-Sharqiyya town, east of Jerusalem, and kidnapped a young man.
Israeli sources said the soldiers searched the house of the kidnapped Palestinian, and allegedly located two Kalashnikov rifles and a pistol.
On Thursday evening, clashes took place between dozens of Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers invading the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Local youths clashed with the soldiers and hurled stones them and their military tower of the Annexation Wall, while the army fired gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Local sources in Zababda town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, has reported that the soldiers kidnapped one Palestinian and searched several other homes.
The sources said the soldiers kidnapped Aysar Ibrahim Turkman, 30, after storming and ransacking his home, and several nearby homes, and took him to an unknown destination.
Several soldiers also surrounded the home of former political prisoner Ahmad Sharqawi, and interrogated him while searching and ransacking his property.
They also conducted searches in different parts of the town.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied Jerusalem, has reported that the soldiers kidnapped the center’s head Jawad Siyam, his nephew Yazan Siyam, and two other Palestinians identified as Mahmoud Gheith and Montaser Faraj.
The Center said the kidnapped were moved to the al-Maskobiyya interrogation center in West Jerusalem.
On Thursday at night, soldiers invaded the Sawahra ash-Sharqiyya town, east of Jerusalem, and kidnapped a young man.
Israeli sources said the soldiers searched the house of the kidnapped Palestinian, and allegedly located two Kalashnikov rifles and a pistol.
On Thursday evening, clashes took place between dozens of Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers invading the ‘Aida refugee camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Local youths clashed with the soldiers and hurled stones them and their military tower of the Annexation Wall, while the army fired gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated metal bullets.
30 oct 2014
Provocations by Israeli soldiers and settlers continued in the occupied Palestinian territories, on Wednesday, with multiple violations occurring across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while militant Jewish settlers again broke into al-Aqsa Mosque via the Mughrabi gate.
West Bank
Masked Israeli forces were reported to have brutally attacked a 13-year-old elementary student before taking him into custody from inside his school, in the old town of Hebron, according to the student’s father, Arif Jabir.
Mr. Jabir told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that forces raided the school, attacked and severally beat his son Bara’a before leading him out of the school in a brutal manner and using foul language.
The soldiers violently forced Bara’a into the back of a military jeep, severely bruising his body. He was transferred to a hospital for treatment.
WAFA notes that educational facilities, including students and teachers, are not spared from Israel’s regular attacks, including obstruction of access to schools and the violation of the right to education.
During the recent 51-day military assault on the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces bombarded a number of schools, including those run by the UN -- a serious violation of international law.
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, also demolished several structures used for housing and livestock, in addition to a traditional oven in Yatta town, to the south of the Hebron and Jerusalem districts, according to local activist Rateb Jabour.
Mr. Jabour, who is coordinator of the local anti-wall and settlement committee said that a large Israeli force, backed by bulldozers and military jeeps, broke into Khashem al-Daraj, where they cordoned off the area and demolished a residential structure, a cave, an out-door toilet facility and a livestock shed, all which belong to Mustafa, Mousa and Eid al-Tibni.
Jabour slammed the demolition as an ‘arbitrary act of revenge’ perpetrated as part of Israeli plans to displace Palestinians and illegally replace them with Israeli settlers.
Meanwhile, forces demolished a traditional tabon (oven) in the village of Umm al-Khair, to the east of Yatta, under the pretext that it disturbed Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of ‘Karmiel’.
Mr. Jabour additionally stated that Israeli forces demolished a traditional oven for the second time in just a week, under the pretext of unlicensed building. Forces brutalized anyone who attempted to confront them and save the oven, inflicting multiple wounds and bruises on several local residents.
The tabon provides bread for the family who owns it, as well as for other members of al-Hathalin family.
Israeli settlers frequently harass Palestinian locals. Last February, a settler from ‘Karmiel’ filed a lawsuit claiming that he, along with his family, suffer from the smoke emitted by the oven and requested a compensation of some $72,000.
To the west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces raided the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, where they kidnapped five Palestinians after inspecting their homes.
The Salfit governorate issued a statement which identified the five as Majd Nassim Assi, 23, Ali, 20, Ahmad 22, Layth, 19, and Muhammad Rayyan, age19.
Governor of Salfit, Mr. Issam Abu Bakr, denounced the raiding and inspection residents’ homes, as well as the arrests which followed. He said that most of those who are arrested by Israeli forces are youth and children.
According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, Israel has arrested a total of 3,000 Palestinian children since 2010.
Abu Bakr noted that such actions appall residents and deprive children from living a normal life.
He further called on human rights organizations to take urgent action in stopping all aggressive Israeli practices against Palestinians in the Salfit district.
Jerusalem
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Israeli police, accompanied by West Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers broke into Silwan, where they demolished the a cave-like structure used as a shelter by a Palestinian family.
The cave is located in a plot of land belonging to Khaled al-Zir, who, together with his family, were forced to take shelter in the cave following the demolition of their house, again under a pretext of unlicensed building.
Khaled and his relative, Fahmi, were both brutally assaulted and abducted, following a confrontation with Israeli troops as they attempted to stop the demolition process.
According to the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem, the residents of Umm al-Khair are originally Palestinian refugees who were driven out from their original homeland of ‘Arad and Beersheva in 1948.
WAFA further reports that the residents of this village, as well as those of Khashem al-Daraj, are mainly dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. More than 85% of the residents are engaged in agricultural activities, especially animal husbandry.
Jewish militant settlers again broke into al-Aqsa Mosque through the Mughrabi gate, on Wednesday, as well, touring its yards in a provocative manner under the protection of Israeli police, said witnesses.
Israeli police were stationed at the gates of al-Aqsa, where they imposed strict measures on worshipers who wished to enter the compound, seizing identity cards and returning them when they had left the compound.
Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli police, on Tuesday evening, also stormed al-Aqsa, raided al-Marwani Mosque, and seized the back packs of students who study there.
Furthermore, several extremist Jewish organizations which call for the demolition of al-Aqsa Mosque and construction of the “Jewish Temple”, have reportedly organized a conference under the title of “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount”.
The conference coincides with the Jewish event which celebrates a group of Jews' journey of prayer at what they consider to be the 'Temple Mount', set to be held in the presence of high ranking Israeli figures, right-wing parties and members of various “Temple Mount” extremist groups.
The ceremonies celebrating this event will last for an entire week.
Jewish groups have called for a mass raid of al-Aqsa Mosque, during which they are expected to perform provocative tours and prayers. According to sources, they aim to schedule a program for the Jewish Students of the Temple and Israeli rabbis to visit al-Aqsa compound.
Jews hold al-Aqsa to be the site of the first and second temples, with a number of advocates attempting to recruit Christian groups (mostly of Western denominations) into the campaign, with some having gone so far as to suggest bombing the mosque.
Christians at large, however, remain divided on the issue, as biblical prophecy states: "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." ~Revelation 21:22
Escalating attacks against both Islamic and Christian holy shrines in Israel and the oPt now total over 500, in just the past five years.
A number of churches have since taken up the cause of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in response to the violations by both Israeli authorities and settlers in this regard.
Pope Francis, on the last day of a recent 3-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, called for allowing all believers free access to holy sites in Jerusalem.
The mounting tension in the Old City of Jerusalem has sparked numerous violent confrontation between Palestinians and Israeli settlers backed by police.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is currently administered by Jordan, according to a treaty signed between Jordan and Israel in 1994, WAFA further notes.
As the main custodian of all Muslim and Christian sites in Palestine, Jordan expressed concerns over calls by several prominent Israeli officials to take over the sovereignty of the holy site.
According to media sources, a debate held in the Israeli Knesset, introduced under the title “The Loss of Israeli Sovereignty Over the Temple Mount”, was initiated by Moshe Feiglin, a Jewish far-right member of PM Netanyahu’s Likud party, to take control of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Further abductions
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, abducted at least nine Palestinians from the occupied West Bank districts of Jenin and Nablus, while taking on youth from the Jerusalem area, according to reports by local and security sources.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians in the town of Qabatiya, to the south of Jenin, after raiding and searching their families’ homes. They were identified as Ibrahim Sabaghneh, 53, Tariq Abu Elrob, 20, and Asyad Zakarneh, 22.
Forces also took Bilal Sharqawi and Ahmad Torkman, both from the town of Yabod, while they were present at ‘Dotan’ military checkpoint, near Jenin.
Meanwhile, forces detained and interrogated two brothers from the same town, for hours, before releasing them.
WAFA further notes that the town of Yabod is a target destination for daily Israeli raids and arrest campaigns, leading to regular confrontations, the last of which took place on Tuesday, where four Palestinian youth were shot with live ammunition; one of the injured is reported to be in critical condition.
In the town of Jaba’a, forces abducted two brothers; Mahmoud and Mohammad Khalilyeh, 35, 45, respectively, and Nayif Hamammreh, 30, following a raid on their homes and motor shops, where they confiscated a motor bike and several car parts.
In Nablus, forces took into their custody 31-year-old Samih Jaber, from the town of Aqraba, to the south, after raiding his family home.
In occupied East Jerusalem, special police units further raided the town of Silwan, to the south of the Old City, where they took Morad Ghaith, who was taken to an interrogation center in Jerusalem.
Police also kidnapped Sameera Edrees, from Jerusalem, as she tried to leave al-Aqsa Mosque from one of its main gates; she was subsequently led to a police station in the Old City.
The police additionally arrested an elderly at the compound. His identity remains unknown, but he was reportedly taken for chanting religious slogans and attempting to fend off settlers’ who broke into the holy compound.
According to guards who work at al-Aqsa Mosque, Israeli police seized worshipers’ identity cards at the main gates and referred many of them to a detention center for further interrogation.
See this week's Opinion/Analysis section for further information on the escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
West Bank
Masked Israeli forces were reported to have brutally attacked a 13-year-old elementary student before taking him into custody from inside his school, in the old town of Hebron, according to the student’s father, Arif Jabir.
Mr. Jabir told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that forces raided the school, attacked and severally beat his son Bara’a before leading him out of the school in a brutal manner and using foul language.
The soldiers violently forced Bara’a into the back of a military jeep, severely bruising his body. He was transferred to a hospital for treatment.
WAFA notes that educational facilities, including students and teachers, are not spared from Israel’s regular attacks, including obstruction of access to schools and the violation of the right to education.
During the recent 51-day military assault on the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces bombarded a number of schools, including those run by the UN -- a serious violation of international law.
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, also demolished several structures used for housing and livestock, in addition to a traditional oven in Yatta town, to the south of the Hebron and Jerusalem districts, according to local activist Rateb Jabour.
Mr. Jabour, who is coordinator of the local anti-wall and settlement committee said that a large Israeli force, backed by bulldozers and military jeeps, broke into Khashem al-Daraj, where they cordoned off the area and demolished a residential structure, a cave, an out-door toilet facility and a livestock shed, all which belong to Mustafa, Mousa and Eid al-Tibni.
Jabour slammed the demolition as an ‘arbitrary act of revenge’ perpetrated as part of Israeli plans to displace Palestinians and illegally replace them with Israeli settlers.
Meanwhile, forces demolished a traditional tabon (oven) in the village of Umm al-Khair, to the east of Yatta, under the pretext that it disturbed Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of ‘Karmiel’.
Mr. Jabour additionally stated that Israeli forces demolished a traditional oven for the second time in just a week, under the pretext of unlicensed building. Forces brutalized anyone who attempted to confront them and save the oven, inflicting multiple wounds and bruises on several local residents.
The tabon provides bread for the family who owns it, as well as for other members of al-Hathalin family.
Israeli settlers frequently harass Palestinian locals. Last February, a settler from ‘Karmiel’ filed a lawsuit claiming that he, along with his family, suffer from the smoke emitted by the oven and requested a compensation of some $72,000.
To the west of Salfit, in the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces raided the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, where they kidnapped five Palestinians after inspecting their homes.
The Salfit governorate issued a statement which identified the five as Majd Nassim Assi, 23, Ali, 20, Ahmad 22, Layth, 19, and Muhammad Rayyan, age19.
Governor of Salfit, Mr. Issam Abu Bakr, denounced the raiding and inspection residents’ homes, as well as the arrests which followed. He said that most of those who are arrested by Israeli forces are youth and children.
According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, Israel has arrested a total of 3,000 Palestinian children since 2010.
Abu Bakr noted that such actions appall residents and deprive children from living a normal life.
He further called on human rights organizations to take urgent action in stopping all aggressive Israeli practices against Palestinians in the Salfit district.
Jerusalem
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem, Israeli police, accompanied by West Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers broke into Silwan, where they demolished the a cave-like structure used as a shelter by a Palestinian family.
The cave is located in a plot of land belonging to Khaled al-Zir, who, together with his family, were forced to take shelter in the cave following the demolition of their house, again under a pretext of unlicensed building.
Khaled and his relative, Fahmi, were both brutally assaulted and abducted, following a confrontation with Israeli troops as they attempted to stop the demolition process.
According to the Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem, the residents of Umm al-Khair are originally Palestinian refugees who were driven out from their original homeland of ‘Arad and Beersheva in 1948.
WAFA further reports that the residents of this village, as well as those of Khashem al-Daraj, are mainly dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. More than 85% of the residents are engaged in agricultural activities, especially animal husbandry.
Jewish militant settlers again broke into al-Aqsa Mosque through the Mughrabi gate, on Wednesday, as well, touring its yards in a provocative manner under the protection of Israeli police, said witnesses.
Israeli police were stationed at the gates of al-Aqsa, where they imposed strict measures on worshipers who wished to enter the compound, seizing identity cards and returning them when they had left the compound.
Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli police, on Tuesday evening, also stormed al-Aqsa, raided al-Marwani Mosque, and seized the back packs of students who study there.
Furthermore, several extremist Jewish organizations which call for the demolition of al-Aqsa Mosque and construction of the “Jewish Temple”, have reportedly organized a conference under the title of “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount”.
The conference coincides with the Jewish event which celebrates a group of Jews' journey of prayer at what they consider to be the 'Temple Mount', set to be held in the presence of high ranking Israeli figures, right-wing parties and members of various “Temple Mount” extremist groups.
The ceremonies celebrating this event will last for an entire week.
Jewish groups have called for a mass raid of al-Aqsa Mosque, during which they are expected to perform provocative tours and prayers. According to sources, they aim to schedule a program for the Jewish Students of the Temple and Israeli rabbis to visit al-Aqsa compound.
Jews hold al-Aqsa to be the site of the first and second temples, with a number of advocates attempting to recruit Christian groups (mostly of Western denominations) into the campaign, with some having gone so far as to suggest bombing the mosque.
Christians at large, however, remain divided on the issue, as biblical prophecy states: "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." ~Revelation 21:22
Escalating attacks against both Islamic and Christian holy shrines in Israel and the oPt now total over 500, in just the past five years.
A number of churches have since taken up the cause of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in response to the violations by both Israeli authorities and settlers in this regard.
Pope Francis, on the last day of a recent 3-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, called for allowing all believers free access to holy sites in Jerusalem.
The mounting tension in the Old City of Jerusalem has sparked numerous violent confrontation between Palestinians and Israeli settlers backed by police.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is currently administered by Jordan, according to a treaty signed between Jordan and Israel in 1994, WAFA further notes.
As the main custodian of all Muslim and Christian sites in Palestine, Jordan expressed concerns over calls by several prominent Israeli officials to take over the sovereignty of the holy site.
According to media sources, a debate held in the Israeli Knesset, introduced under the title “The Loss of Israeli Sovereignty Over the Temple Mount”, was initiated by Moshe Feiglin, a Jewish far-right member of PM Netanyahu’s Likud party, to take control of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Further abductions
Israeli forces, on Wednesday, abducted at least nine Palestinians from the occupied West Bank districts of Jenin and Nablus, while taking on youth from the Jerusalem area, according to reports by local and security sources.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped three Palestinians in the town of Qabatiya, to the south of Jenin, after raiding and searching their families’ homes. They were identified as Ibrahim Sabaghneh, 53, Tariq Abu Elrob, 20, and Asyad Zakarneh, 22.
Forces also took Bilal Sharqawi and Ahmad Torkman, both from the town of Yabod, while they were present at ‘Dotan’ military checkpoint, near Jenin.
Meanwhile, forces detained and interrogated two brothers from the same town, for hours, before releasing them.
WAFA further notes that the town of Yabod is a target destination for daily Israeli raids and arrest campaigns, leading to regular confrontations, the last of which took place on Tuesday, where four Palestinian youth were shot with live ammunition; one of the injured is reported to be in critical condition.
In the town of Jaba’a, forces abducted two brothers; Mahmoud and Mohammad Khalilyeh, 35, 45, respectively, and Nayif Hamammreh, 30, following a raid on their homes and motor shops, where they confiscated a motor bike and several car parts.
In Nablus, forces took into their custody 31-year-old Samih Jaber, from the town of Aqraba, to the south, after raiding his family home.
In occupied East Jerusalem, special police units further raided the town of Silwan, to the south of the Old City, where they took Morad Ghaith, who was taken to an interrogation center in Jerusalem.
Police also kidnapped Sameera Edrees, from Jerusalem, as she tried to leave al-Aqsa Mosque from one of its main gates; she was subsequently led to a police station in the Old City.
The police additionally arrested an elderly at the compound. His identity remains unknown, but he was reportedly taken for chanting religious slogans and attempting to fend off settlers’ who broke into the holy compound.
According to guards who work at al-Aqsa Mosque, Israeli police seized worshipers’ identity cards at the main gates and referred many of them to a detention center for further interrogation.
See this week's Opinion/Analysis section for further information on the escalating violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Army hands demolition orders in Bethlehem
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians in different communities in the occupied West Bank.
The PPS said many military vehicles invaded Qarawat Bani Hassan town, in the central West Bank district of Salfit, broke into several homes and violently searched them, and kidnapped five Palestinians.
The kidnapped have been identified as Majd ‘Aasi, Laith Adnan Shaqliyya, Hatem Ali Rayyan, Mohammad Rashid Rayyan and Ahmad Mohammad Rayyan.
Soldiers also invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped ‘Aseed Haitham Abu Zeina, 24, after ransacking his home.
The army further installed a number of roadblocks around the Ya’bad village, west of Jenin.
In addition, several military vehicles invaded Deir Abu Mashal village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped a Palestinian identified as ‘Odai Yahia al-Barghouthi, 21.
The soldiers handed several Palestinians military warrants for interrogation at a nearby military and security base.
On Wednesday evening, soldiers handed two Palestinians military warrants ordering one of them to demolish his home, and the other to stop the construction.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, Ahmad Salah, told the WAFA news agency that the soldiers, and personnel of the “Civil Administration Office," invaded Om Rokba area, and handed resident Khaled Saleh Salah a military order to demolish his 140 square/meter home.
Resident Mohammad Ali Mousa, 38, received an order to stop the conduction of his 100 square/meter home.
The army previously demolished the home of Mousa three times before, while many homes in Om Rokba are facing the same threats.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, at least seven Palestinians in different communities in the occupied West Bank.
The PPS said many military vehicles invaded Qarawat Bani Hassan town, in the central West Bank district of Salfit, broke into several homes and violently searched them, and kidnapped five Palestinians.
The kidnapped have been identified as Majd ‘Aasi, Laith Adnan Shaqliyya, Hatem Ali Rayyan, Mohammad Rashid Rayyan and Ahmad Mohammad Rayyan.
Soldiers also invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and kidnapped ‘Aseed Haitham Abu Zeina, 24, after ransacking his home.
The army further installed a number of roadblocks around the Ya’bad village, west of Jenin.
In addition, several military vehicles invaded Deir Abu Mashal village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and kidnapped a Palestinian identified as ‘Odai Yahia al-Barghouthi, 21.
The soldiers handed several Palestinians military warrants for interrogation at a nearby military and security base.
On Wednesday evening, soldiers handed two Palestinians military warrants ordering one of them to demolish his home, and the other to stop the construction.
Coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, Ahmad Salah, told the WAFA news agency that the soldiers, and personnel of the “Civil Administration Office," invaded Om Rokba area, and handed resident Khaled Saleh Salah a military order to demolish his 140 square/meter home.
Resident Mohammad Ali Mousa, 38, received an order to stop the conduction of his 100 square/meter home.
The army previously demolished the home of Mousa three times before, while many homes in Om Rokba are facing the same threats.
Mo’taz Ibrahim Hijazi 32
A former Palestinian political prisoner from the ath-Thoury neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by live fire of undercover Israeli soldiers. Israel alleges the slain Palestinian is behind the attempted assassination of fanatic rabbi Yehuda Glick.
Local sources said Mo’taz Ibrahim Hijazi, 32, was killed after the undercover forces invaded his home approximately around 2:30 after midnight.
They added that Hijazi apparently returned fire as the soldiers also took positions on neighboring rooftops, before a short exchange of fire took place.
The Arabs48 news website said the soldiers fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition at Hijazi after surrounding him on his rooftop, and invaded his home after ensuring, he suffered multiple gunshot injuries.
Hijazi was bleeding heavily while the soldiers left him on the ground without providing him with urgently needed medical care.
The soldiers kidnapped Ibrahim, the father of Hijazi, and his brother Odai, and assaulted several family members and Palestinians in the neighborhood.
The Police in occupied Jerusalem said the army invaded the home “of a Jerusalemite Palestinian believed to be behind the attempted killing of Glick," and that he allegedly initiated fire targeting the soldiers “who returned fire and killed him,” according to the Israeli statement.
The Police also said they obtained Hijazi’s pistol, and sent it to forensic labs to determine whether it is the same weapon used in the attempted killing of Glick.
Hani Gheith, head of the Ath-Thoury Athletic Club, said dozens of soldiers surrounded the home of Hijazi, and did not invade it until they made sure he was shot and completely incapacitated.
Dozens of local youths attempted to reach the home of Hijazi to ensure he receives the needed medical attention, but the soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets wounding at least fifteen of them.
Gheith said the soldiers turned the Ath-Thoury club into a military base, and that the soldiers were still withholding the body of the slain Palestinian on his rooftop. Clashes also took place between dozens of local youths and the invading soldiers.
Hijazi is a former political prisoner who was held by Israel for 11 years, including 10 years in solitary confinement, and was released on June 5, 2012. He was initially sentenced to six years, but in 2004, he received an additional four-year imprisonment allegedly after attacking a soldier.
Extremist Israeli Rabbi Shot at Jerusalem Rally
A former Palestinian political prisoner from the ath-Thoury neighborhood in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, was shot and killed by live fire of undercover Israeli soldiers. Israel alleges the slain Palestinian is behind the attempted assassination of fanatic rabbi Yehuda Glick.
Local sources said Mo’taz Ibrahim Hijazi, 32, was killed after the undercover forces invaded his home approximately around 2:30 after midnight.
They added that Hijazi apparently returned fire as the soldiers also took positions on neighboring rooftops, before a short exchange of fire took place.
The Arabs48 news website said the soldiers fired dozens of rounds of live ammunition at Hijazi after surrounding him on his rooftop, and invaded his home after ensuring, he suffered multiple gunshot injuries.
Hijazi was bleeding heavily while the soldiers left him on the ground without providing him with urgently needed medical care.
The soldiers kidnapped Ibrahim, the father of Hijazi, and his brother Odai, and assaulted several family members and Palestinians in the neighborhood.
The Police in occupied Jerusalem said the army invaded the home “of a Jerusalemite Palestinian believed to be behind the attempted killing of Glick," and that he allegedly initiated fire targeting the soldiers “who returned fire and killed him,” according to the Israeli statement.
The Police also said they obtained Hijazi’s pistol, and sent it to forensic labs to determine whether it is the same weapon used in the attempted killing of Glick.
Hani Gheith, head of the Ath-Thoury Athletic Club, said dozens of soldiers surrounded the home of Hijazi, and did not invade it until they made sure he was shot and completely incapacitated.
Dozens of local youths attempted to reach the home of Hijazi to ensure he receives the needed medical attention, but the soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets wounding at least fifteen of them.
Gheith said the soldiers turned the Ath-Thoury club into a military base, and that the soldiers were still withholding the body of the slain Palestinian on his rooftop. Clashes also took place between dozens of local youths and the invading soldiers.
Hijazi is a former political prisoner who was held by Israel for 11 years, including 10 years in solitary confinement, and was released on June 5, 2012. He was initially sentenced to six years, but in 2004, he received an additional four-year imprisonment allegedly after attacking a soldier.
Extremist Israeli Rabbi Shot at Jerusalem Rally
