25 june 2019
A horde of Jewish settlers on Monday deployed a barbed wire fence on Palestinian-owned land in the north of Ya’bad area, southwest of Jenin.
Local official Omar al-Khatib, chief Dhaher al-Malih village in northern Ya’bad, said settlers from the illegal settlements of Shaked and Tal Menashe set up a barbed wire fence on a tract of land belonging to local residents.
Khatib said the landowners had obtained a verdict from the Israeli high court of justice prohibiting the settlers living in the area from taking any illegal steps on the land until a final decision was made in this regard.
He affirmed that the local residents are exposed to daily assaults and provocative acts by Jewish settlers in an attempt to force them to leave their areas.
Local official Omar al-Khatib, chief Dhaher al-Malih village in northern Ya’bad, said settlers from the illegal settlements of Shaked and Tal Menashe set up a barbed wire fence on a tract of land belonging to local residents.
Khatib said the landowners had obtained a verdict from the Israeli high court of justice prohibiting the settlers living in the area from taking any illegal steps on the land until a final decision was made in this regard.
He affirmed that the local residents are exposed to daily assaults and provocative acts by Jewish settlers in an attempt to force them to leave their areas.
23 june 2019
The District Court of Jerusalem has ruled to evict the heirs of the late Mariam Abu Zweir from their property in the neighborhood of Wadi Hilweh in Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center / Silwan said that the judges refused the appeal filed by the heirs of Abu Zweir family against the decision to evict them from their property issued by the Israeli Magistrate Court at the end of 2018. video
The center added that the settlers gave the family from 8-28 July to completely vacate the property, with the possibility of eviction during that period. The property consists of a house in which Mrs. Elham Siam and her four children live, in addition to a land of about half a Dunum, and a warehouse.
Elad settlement association also demands that the family pay “rent” for the property for the past years with a value of NIS 400 thousand, in addition to lawyers’ fees of NIS 80 thousand.
The heirs of Abu Zweir family have been engaged in a struggle in the Israeli courts for 24 years to protect the property and to prove ownership of it and to refute the claims of Elad settlement association. During the past years, Elad association has worked hard to seize the property in several ways.
The first is through collusion between brokers and clients in getting the fingerprints of the late Abu Zweir on a document where she would give three of her sons the right to the property while she was dying. However, in 1999 the Israeli courts rejected Elad’s claims, stating that the property belongs to her eight children, according to the heirs of the late Abu Zweir.
In another attempt to file a case against the family in 2001, Elad claimed that it had purchased three plots in the property (the brothers in the United States, headed by Mahmoud Daoud Khalil), and called for other shares to be classified as the Custodian of Absentee Property.
Nihad Siam, one of the heirs, said that after several hearings in the courts, it was revealed that Elad had purchased the shares of four heirs, in addition to two shares under “Custodian of Absentee Property”. Two shares remain for the late Munira and her sister Fatima. The District Court’s decision means that the property will be divided between the heirs and settlers.
Siam added that his late mother Munira Siam and his brothers faced the Israeli courts and the bias of the settlers and settlement associations and the prosecutions and fines imposed on them, and over the past years they were prevented from carrying out any renovations in the house or their land.
Now, they will lose their home and land completely to the Elad Israeli settlement organization.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center / Silwan said that the judges refused the appeal filed by the heirs of Abu Zweir family against the decision to evict them from their property issued by the Israeli Magistrate Court at the end of 2018. video
The center added that the settlers gave the family from 8-28 July to completely vacate the property, with the possibility of eviction during that period. The property consists of a house in which Mrs. Elham Siam and her four children live, in addition to a land of about half a Dunum, and a warehouse.
Elad settlement association also demands that the family pay “rent” for the property for the past years with a value of NIS 400 thousand, in addition to lawyers’ fees of NIS 80 thousand.
The heirs of Abu Zweir family have been engaged in a struggle in the Israeli courts for 24 years to protect the property and to prove ownership of it and to refute the claims of Elad settlement association. During the past years, Elad association has worked hard to seize the property in several ways.
The first is through collusion between brokers and clients in getting the fingerprints of the late Abu Zweir on a document where she would give three of her sons the right to the property while she was dying. However, in 1999 the Israeli courts rejected Elad’s claims, stating that the property belongs to her eight children, according to the heirs of the late Abu Zweir.
In another attempt to file a case against the family in 2001, Elad claimed that it had purchased three plots in the property (the brothers in the United States, headed by Mahmoud Daoud Khalil), and called for other shares to be classified as the Custodian of Absentee Property.
Nihad Siam, one of the heirs, said that after several hearings in the courts, it was revealed that Elad had purchased the shares of four heirs, in addition to two shares under “Custodian of Absentee Property”. Two shares remain for the late Munira and her sister Fatima. The District Court’s decision means that the property will be divided between the heirs and settlers.
Siam added that his late mother Munira Siam and his brothers faced the Israeli courts and the bias of the settlers and settlement associations and the prosecutions and fines imposed on them, and over the past years they were prevented from carrying out any renovations in the house or their land.
Now, they will lose their home and land completely to the Elad Israeli settlement organization.
17 june 2019
Dozens of Israeli police officers invaded, Sunday, Sur Baher Palestinian town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, and demanded the Palestinians to remove a tent, which was installed to protest a Supreme Court ruling to demolish 16 residential buildings of more than 100 flats.
The Israeli decision came after the City Council in the occupied city claimed that the buildings are close to the illegal Annexation Wall, which was installed on Palestinian lands.
Hamada Hamada, the head of the Services Committee of Wad al-Hummus, al-Mintar and Deir al-Amoud neighborhoods, in Sur Baher town, said the neighborhoods are in Areas A, B and C, and the lands are owned by the Palestinians, including the Local Government of the Palestinian Authority.
Hamada added that the targeted Palestinian buildings are 25 apartment buildings of around 250 flats, and said that Israel issued various demolition orders, in addition to orders halting the construction of most buildings in that area alone.
16 of the apartment buildings, which contain altogether more than 100 flats, are under the immediate threat of demolition.
He also stated that, a week ago, the Israeli Supreme Court denied the appeal, which was filed by the residents, and ordered the immediate demolition of the buildings, but without setting a date.
The Palestinians then decided to install a protest tent, and remain there, and the police has since been ordering them to remove it and leave the area.
The Israeli decision came after the City Council in the occupied city claimed that the buildings are close to the illegal Annexation Wall, which was installed on Palestinian lands.
Hamada Hamada, the head of the Services Committee of Wad al-Hummus, al-Mintar and Deir al-Amoud neighborhoods, in Sur Baher town, said the neighborhoods are in Areas A, B and C, and the lands are owned by the Palestinians, including the Local Government of the Palestinian Authority.
Hamada added that the targeted Palestinian buildings are 25 apartment buildings of around 250 flats, and said that Israel issued various demolition orders, in addition to orders halting the construction of most buildings in that area alone.
16 of the apartment buildings, which contain altogether more than 100 flats, are under the immediate threat of demolition.
He also stated that, a week ago, the Israeli Supreme Court denied the appeal, which was filed by the residents, and ordered the immediate demolition of the buildings, but without setting a date.
The Palestinians then decided to install a protest tent, and remain there, and the police has since been ordering them to remove it and leave the area.
15 june 2019
Several illegal Israeli colonialist settlers invaded and occupied, Saturday, a store owned by the Palestinian Ministry of Waqf and Religious Affairs, near the Old Vegetables Market in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The head of the Hebron Construction Committee, Lawyer Tawfiq Jahshan, told the WAFA Palestinian News Agency that the store, owned by the Waqf Ministry, is rented to Abu Khaled Abu Aisha, and is located behind the Al-Aqtaab Mosque.
He added that the store is also near the illegal Avraham Avino colony, which was installed on private Palestinian lands and property.
After storming the store, the colonists changed its locks, and started altering its appearance.
Representing Abu Aisha, Jahshan stated that he tried to file a complaint with the Israeli Police, but they kept coming up with excuses, and added that he will file complaints with Israeli courts and follow-up on the matter using all available legal options.
The head of the Hebron Construction Committee, Lawyer Tawfiq Jahshan, told the WAFA Palestinian News Agency that the store, owned by the Waqf Ministry, is rented to Abu Khaled Abu Aisha, and is located behind the Al-Aqtaab Mosque.
He added that the store is also near the illegal Avraham Avino colony, which was installed on private Palestinian lands and property.
After storming the store, the colonists changed its locks, and started altering its appearance.
Representing Abu Aisha, Jahshan stated that he tried to file a complaint with the Israeli Police, but they kept coming up with excuses, and added that he will file complaints with Israeli courts and follow-up on the matter using all available legal options.
7 mar 2019
A Palestinian citizen has managed to extract an Israeli court decision confirming his ownership of his land in Beit Jala town, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Local official Hasan Berijiya stated on Wednesday that the landowner, Ramzi Qaisiya, had been fighting a legal battle over the ownership of his land in al-Makhrur area of Beit Jala against an Israeli company for about 10 years.
However, Qaisiya, who owns documents proving his ownership of the property, was able finally to obtain a court verdict asserting that he is the rightful owner of the land, Berijiya added.
According to Berijiya, Qaisiya has suffered a lot from repeated assaults by Israeli soldiers and settlers, and his restaurant, which he built on his own land, was demolished several times at the pretext that the land belonged to an Israeli company.
Local official Hasan Berijiya stated on Wednesday that the landowner, Ramzi Qaisiya, had been fighting a legal battle over the ownership of his land in al-Makhrur area of Beit Jala against an Israeli company for about 10 years.
However, Qaisiya, who owns documents proving his ownership of the property, was able finally to obtain a court verdict asserting that he is the rightful owner of the land, Berijiya added.
According to Berijiya, Qaisiya has suffered a lot from repeated assaults by Israeli soldiers and settlers, and his restaurant, which he built on his own land, was demolished several times at the pretext that the land belonged to an Israeli company.
28 jan 2019
Israeli settlers on Monday seized privately-owned Palestinian lands in Beit Iskaria village in Bethlehem which is surrounded by a number of illegal settlements that form the so-called Gush Etzion bloc.
Mohammad Ibrahim, head of Beit Iskaria's village council, said in press statements that the villagers were shocked to find out that the settlers have seized large plots of land that belong to the Odeh family.
Ibrahim said that the settlers grabbed 40 dunums of land and planted part of it with trees in a step to confirm their control over it.
He affirmed that the landowners have legal documents proving their ownership of the land and are therefore going to appoint a lawyer to take the case to court.
Mohammad Ibrahim, head of Beit Iskaria's village council, said in press statements that the villagers were shocked to find out that the settlers have seized large plots of land that belong to the Odeh family.
Ibrahim said that the settlers grabbed 40 dunums of land and planted part of it with trees in a step to confirm their control over it.
He affirmed that the landowners have legal documents proving their ownership of the land and are therefore going to appoint a lawyer to take the case to court.
12 jan 2019
The execution office of Israel’s enforcement and collection authority has ordered a Palestinian family who owns an apartment building in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, east of Occupied Jerusalem, to evacuate five families living in there and turn over the property to Jewish settlers by January 23.
According to the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, al-Sabbagh family filed a law suit at the Israeli district court in Jerusalem in 2012 against the claim by settler groups that they own the land of the building in Sheikh Jarrah.
Even though al-Sabbagh family provided the court with evidence proving its ownership of the land and that the setter groups’ land registration process done in 1972 was illegal and not correct and therefore their claim of ownership of that plot is null and void, the court ruled in favor of the settlers.
The family, through its lawyers, appealed the ruling to the high court on November 15, 2018, which rejected the appeal and upheld the district court’s verdict.
The family’s lawyers re-appealed the high court’s ruling by asking for a five-judge panel instead of three, and this was rejected as well, which left the eviction of the five families imminent, the Civic Coalition said.
According to the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, al-Sabbagh family filed a law suit at the Israeli district court in Jerusalem in 2012 against the claim by settler groups that they own the land of the building in Sheikh Jarrah.
Even though al-Sabbagh family provided the court with evidence proving its ownership of the land and that the setter groups’ land registration process done in 1972 was illegal and not correct and therefore their claim of ownership of that plot is null and void, the court ruled in favor of the settlers.
The family, through its lawyers, appealed the ruling to the high court on November 15, 2018, which rejected the appeal and upheld the district court’s verdict.
The family’s lawyers re-appealed the high court’s ruling by asking for a five-judge panel instead of three, and this was rejected as well, which left the eviction of the five families imminent, the Civic Coalition said.
8 dec 2018
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced, this week, that it will consider a lawsuit filed by Palestinian officials, over the United States administration’s violation of international law, in moving its embassy to occupied Jerusalem.
A statement from the court, based in the Dutch city of The Hague, said it would first consider whether the case was within its jurisdiction and then consider admitting the case.
Al Ray reported that the statement, issued on Monday evening, said the court had asked both countries for written justification.
The Court was granted Palestine a maximum period of time, until 15 May, 2019, to submit its written justification, and to the United States, until 15 November, of the same year.
On December 6, 2017, US president Donald Trump announced his recognition of Jerusalem as the official capital of Israel, followed by the moving of the Washington embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem.
On September 29, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that a lawsuit had been filed against the United States, before the International Court of Justice of the United Nations, for violating international law and moving its embassy to the occupied city of Jerusalem.
A statement from the court, based in the Dutch city of The Hague, said it would first consider whether the case was within its jurisdiction and then consider admitting the case.
Al Ray reported that the statement, issued on Monday evening, said the court had asked both countries for written justification.
The Court was granted Palestine a maximum period of time, until 15 May, 2019, to submit its written justification, and to the United States, until 15 November, of the same year.
On December 6, 2017, US president Donald Trump announced his recognition of Jerusalem as the official capital of Israel, followed by the moving of the Washington embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem.
On September 29, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that a lawsuit had been filed against the United States, before the International Court of Justice of the United Nations, for violating international law and moving its embassy to the occupied city of Jerusalem.
15 nov 2018
Extremist Israeli settlers burned overnight Thursday a Palestinian car in Nablus and spray-painted graffiti calling for revenge against the Palestinians.
Police officers launched a probe after the locals filed a complaint over the hate crime.
The arson-attack was carried out at around 03:00 a.m.
A graffiti reading “don’t play around with us” was sprayed by the Israeli fanatics on a nearby wall.
Prejudice-motivated attacks by Israeli settlers have been a routine practice in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories in violation of international law.
All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law, particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or forcibly transfer civilian population in territory it occupies.
Police officers launched a probe after the locals filed a complaint over the hate crime.
The arson-attack was carried out at around 03:00 a.m.
A graffiti reading “don’t play around with us” was sprayed by the Israeli fanatics on a nearby wall.
Prejudice-motivated attacks by Israeli settlers have been a routine practice in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across the occupied Palestinian territories in violation of international law.
All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law, particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or forcibly transfer civilian population in territory it occupies.
29 sept 2018
Palestine has filed an official complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the United States’ relocation of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Occupied Jerusalem, saying the US move must be reversed as it violates the international law.
In a statement issued on Friday, the ICJ said Palestine contends the embassy's relocation is in breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
In its application, Palestine argued the treaty dictates embassies must be established on the territory of the receiving state and that the "special status of Jerusalem" means that the US violated its international obligations when it moved its embassy.
According to the statement, Palestine asked the court to declare the move illegal and order the US to withdraw the embassy from Jerusalem.
In this regard, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said the complaint "comes in line with the policy of the State of Palestine, which aims to preserve the character of the holy city of Jerusalem with its unique spiritual, religious and cultural dimensions.”
"We defend our rights and our people without hesitation and reject all forms of political and financial extortion," he was quoted as saying by Palestinian news agency WAFA.
In a statement issued on Friday, the ICJ said Palestine contends the embassy's relocation is in breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
In its application, Palestine argued the treaty dictates embassies must be established on the territory of the receiving state and that the "special status of Jerusalem" means that the US violated its international obligations when it moved its embassy.
According to the statement, Palestine asked the court to declare the move illegal and order the US to withdraw the embassy from Jerusalem.
In this regard, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said the complaint "comes in line with the policy of the State of Palestine, which aims to preserve the character of the holy city of Jerusalem with its unique spiritual, religious and cultural dimensions.”
"We defend our rights and our people without hesitation and reject all forms of political and financial extortion," he was quoted as saying by Palestinian news agency WAFA.
