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  • Palestinian man shot, killed by Israeli forces in Nablus
    April 13 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/palestinian-man-shot-killed-by-israeli-forces-in-nablus

    Nablus (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian man during a military raid into the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, earlier on Wednesday.

    The Israeli occupation forces raided the towns of Beita, al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, and Urif, south of Nablus, in addition to the eastern area of Nablus, earlier today.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that 34-year-old Mohammad Hasan Assaf was shot by the Israeli forces in the chest during the raid.

    However, soon after he succumbed to his injuries.

    Assaf is an attorney with the Wall and Settlements Resistance Commission.

    Local sources reported that five Palestinians were also shot with Israeli live bullets and another five were shot with rubber bullets, including one in the eye.

    Another resident got bruised after being run over by an Israeli military vehicle while another was burnt by a tear gas canister.

    Eight others suffocated from gas inhalation in the vicinity of Joseph’s Tomb.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Lawyer In Nablus
      Apr 13, 2022
      https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-lawyer-in-nablus

      Israeli soldiers killed, Wednesday morning, a Palestinian lawyer after firing many live rounds at his car in the Industrial Area in Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

      The slain Palestinian, Mohammad Hasan Assaf, 34 , was from Kafr Laqif village in Qalqilia, in the northern part of the West Bank. The soldiers shot him with a live round in the chest.

      Mohammad, a father of three children, the oldest of them is only four years of age, was killed by the soldiers while returning home after driving his sons and nephews to school; he was returning from the Industrial Area in Nablus when the soldiers fired at his car and killed him. (...)

    • Excessive Use of Force: IOF Kill Palestinian Lawyer in Nablus
      13 April 2022 - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
      https://pchrgaza.org/en/excessive-use-of-force-iof-kill-palestinian-lawyer-in-nablus

      On Wednesday morning, 13 April 2022, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian lawyer without any justification while their troops withdrew from Nablus after conducting a wide-scale incursion into the city. During the incursion, IOF attacks resulted in several injuries among Palestinians and killed the lawyer who was in the area dropping off his nephews to their school. (...)

    • An Israeli soldier opened fire from a moving jeep, killing a lawyer taking kids to school
      Gideon Levy, Alex Levac | Apr. 21, 2022 | Haaretz.com
      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-idf-soldier-opened-fire-from-a-moving-jeep-kill

      Attorney Mohammed Assaf would take his son and two nephews to school in Nablus every morning. Last week they encountered clashes by Joseph’s Tomb. When Assaf left his car; a soldier in a speeding jeep opened the door and shot him

      At the entrance to the well-kept family compound, an SUV stands in the carport, wrapped in black like an installation by Christo. The new car might be covered as protection from the sun and dust, or as a sign of mourning. The vehicle under the black fabric is the gray Hyundai Tucson that belonged to attorney Mohammed Assaf. He drove to his death last week in that vehicle, which he was still paying off. It was the car in which, every morning, he took his young son to kindergarten and his two nephews to high school in Nablus. Then he would continue to the offices of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, a Palestinian Authority agency where he worked as a legal adviser.

      Next to the covered car is Assaf’s home, an ornate, stylish stone structure, its facade painted blue. Fruit trees grow in the yard. Adjacent to the blue dwelling is the house of his elderly parents, who have lost their loved one, their only child who attended university, the pride of the family.

      Assaf had been working hard on his master’s thesis at the law faculty of An-Najah National University, in Nablus, for some months. His topic was the rights of Palestinians who own land on the Israeli side of the separation barrier. One of his brothers shows us the chapter headings he had written in hand over several pages, a few days before a soldier opened the door of a speeding jeep on a Nablus street and shot Assaf to death.

      This is a home in a state of shock. In their parents’ living room, Mohammed’s two bereaved brothers occasionally break into silent tears. The three little ones, newly orphaned, borne in the adults’ arms, don’t understand what happened to their father. The mourning parents, Maryam, 62, and Hasan, 70, and the new widow, Sara Knaan, 30, are closeted in their rooms and decline to meet guests.

      All it takes is a split-second of rage, compounded perhaps by a sense of overlordship, a disregard for life and a craving for revenge felt by a hot-tempered soldier in an armored jeep at which youngsters threw stones that endangered no one – and a family is forever shattered. A photograph of their loved one, wearing the black cap and gown of a university graduate, from the diploma-awarding ceremony at An-Najah, hangs on the parents’ living room wall. There are other photos from the ceremony. One shows Rami Hamdallah, at the time the university’s president, and later the Palestinian prime minister, awarding Mohammed his degree 10 years ago. The life that then graced this village son was cut down in its prime last week.

      Kafr Laqif is a special village. Verdant ficus and eucalyptus trees shade the streets and the handsome homes; it all seems green and tranquil. And the rare fact is that hardly anyone from this village has been killed: one person was killed in 1967, one in the first intifada and now the village jurist. Around 1,500 people live here, most of whom work in the many nearby settlements and a few in Israel. The village’s proximity to the separation fence also brings settlers and perhaps other Israelis here for shopping and car repairs. The settlement of Karnei Shomron (“horns of Samaria”) looms across the way, also Ma’aleh Shomron (“heights of Samaria”) and Ginot Shomron (“gardens of Samaria”). No fewer than three road signs in Hebrew and Arabic lead to the village from the main road – another rarity, as road signs to Palestinian villages are almost nonexistent in the West Bank.

      Mohammed Assaf was 34. His brother Firas, 40, receives us grimly. The eldest brother, Fadi, 43, quickly joins us. The deceased left behind three children: five-year-old Hasan, Maryam who is two and a half, and year-old Amin. Every morning around 8 A.M., Mohammed set out for Nablus in his SUV, which is not yet a year old. On the way, he dropped off Hasan at the private, highly regarded Glimmers of Hope kindergarten. Then he went on to the vocational high school attended by his 17-year-old nephews: Yamen, who is Firas’ son, and Hasan, who is Fadi’s son. In the afternoon, he drove them back to the village. Last Wednesday, April 13, they set out as usual, but Mohammed didn’t make it home.

      During the night, young Palestinians set the site of Joseph’s Tomb ablaze. The army arrived in the morning. Joseph’s Tomb is a few hundred meters from his nephews’ high school. When the army invades Nablus, young people take to the streets and pelt the troops with stones and Molotov cocktails. At about 9 A.M., the military convoy made its way out of the city. Around 10, armored vehicles led by an armored bulldozer careened through the streets on the way out of Nablus.

      Shortly after 9, Fadi got a phone call from an acquaintance at the metalworks place where he works, in Ginot Shomron: Your brother was shot and wounded in Nablus. He immediately called his son, who was supposed to be with his uncle, but got no reply. His son was in fact dumbstruck at having seen his uncle shot to death before his eyes minutes earlier. A friend answered the phone instead and confirmed that Mohammed was dead. The other brother, Firas, who works in a textile plant in the Israeli-owned industrial zone of Barkan, received a call from his son, Hasan, who also witnessed Mohammed’s killing.

      Yamen, a tall, strapping 12th grader studying automotive mechanics, stands in a corner of the room, holding his fatherless cousin Maryam, and recounts what happened. They were on the way to school when they suddenly encountered clashes between Palestinians and Israeli troops. Dozens of young people were throwing stones at the military convoy. They blocked the road with burnt tires and stones. Mohammed parked and the three got out of the car. They had already dropped off Hasan at his kindergarten. According to Yamen, his uncle started to film the confrontation with his phone; according to a different account, he joined in the stone throwing. In any event, only 5 to 7 minutes elapsed between the time Mohammed Assaf stepped out of the car and the instant in which he was shot and killed.

      Attorney Assaf had attended dozens of demonstrations as part of his job, but this time he happened upon it, his family stresses. A former Palestinian minister, Walid Assad, who headed the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, paid his condolences while we were there. He also pointed out that his distant relative came across the event completely by chance, and not as part of his work for the PA.

      Video footage shows one of the army jeeps hurtling by, amid a volley of stones. Suddently, as it speeds past, its door opens and the soldier sitting next to the driver opens fire. He fired three rounds, Yamen says. In any case, it’s certainly impossible to take aim when traveling at that speed.

      Haaretz asked the IDF Spokesperson’s Office whether the use of live ammunition during high-speed travel, when there is no mortal danger, meets the criteria of the army’s rules of engagement. The office responded: “A Military Police investigation has been launched into the event. At its conclusion, the findings will be provided to the office of the military advocate general for review.”

      One of the bullets struck Assaf in the heart. He collapsed onto the road, blood spurting from his mouth. His two nephews rushed to him, but there was nothing they could do. The bullet apparently exploded within his body and wreaked devastation. The soldiers continued on their way as though nothing had happened. They didn’t even slow down. A Palestinian ambulance was summoned to the scene. The paramedics tried to resuscitate Assaf, but he was declared dead on arrival at Rafadiya Hospital in the city.

      Just then, Murad Shtewi, one of the leaders of Kafr Kadum’s relentless struggle against the army’s longtime blockage of the access road to the village, was traveling with his driver from Nablus to Ramallah. Shtewi is also the director general of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, where Assaf worked. Hearing the news, he asked the chauffeur to pull over. He couldn’t believe his ears. Never, he says, had he ever imagined that his excellent legal adviser would die so young.

      “They stole his soul too early,” Shtewi says. Only after seeing the video of the attempts to revive Assaf did he grasp that he was truly dead. A report by an Israeli news site stirred outrage here: “Our forces have killed a person in Nablus. The terrorist was critically wounded in disturbances near Joseph’s Tomb and died of his wounds after being evacuated in critical condition.” Their Mohammed, an advocate of nonviolent struggle, was labeled a “terrorist.”

      How are the parents? Fadi bursts into tears; Firas joins in. “They haven’t yet digested this tragedy. May God help them.” They broke the news gradually. Initially, they told them that Mohammed had suffered minor injuries, then that they were serious, until finally they told them the truth. Yamen, the nephew, relates that on the drive that morning, his uncle’s last journey, which lasted 45 minutes, they sat quietly in the car. They rode in silence.

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill A Woman And Young Man, In Hebron And Bethlehem
    Apr 11, 2022 – – IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-woman-and-young-man-in-hebron-and-bethlehem

    On Sunday, Israeli soldiers killed a young Palestinian woman in Hebron and a young man in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Three Palestinians, including two women, were killed by the army, Sunday

    Israeli sources said a Palestinian woman stabbed an officer near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, mildly wounding him, before the soldiers shot and killed her.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry said the woman, identified as Maha Kathem Awad Zaatari, 24, was from the Abu Da’jan area in Hebron city.

    The Israeli occupation army said the woman arrived at the roadblock, where many soldiers and officers are stationed, and stabbed one before she was fatally shot.

    After killing the young woman, the Israeli army closed the Ibrahimi Mosque and declared the area around it a closed military zone.

    The soldiers also invaded her home and ransacked it, in addition to interrogating her family.

    In related news, the army opened fire at a Palestinian car transporting workers at the military roadblock near the al-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron . The soldiers claimed the car failed to stop; the incident did not lead to casualties.

    In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank, the soldiers invaded the al-Khader town, south of the city, and killed a young man.


    Local sources said the soldiers ambushed several Palestinians before killing a former political prisoner, Mohammad Ali Ghneim, 21.
    The Palestinian was shot with a live round in the back before the bullet exited from the chest area.

    He was standing near his home, close to the illegal Annexation Wall, when the soldiers shot him.

    Palestinian medics rushed Mohammad to the al-Yamama hospital in al-Khader town, where he died from his serious wounds.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • ‘Israel’ hands over body of female Palestinian killed by its forces eight months ago
      Quds News Network | December 24, 2022
      https://qudsnen.co/israel-hands-over-body-of-female-palestinian-killed-by-its-forces-eight-mont

      Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli occupation authorities handed over yesterday the body of a slain female Palestinian killed in April by its forces in the old city of Hebron, and her body had been withheld since her killing by the occupation authorities.

      Maha Kazem Za’atari, a 24-year-old resident of the old city of Hebron, was shot and killed in April by Israeli occupation soldiers over allegedly trying to carry out a stabbing operation against heavily-armed soldiers stationed near al-Ibrahimi Mosque.

      Maha’s body had been withheld by the occupation authorities since her killing.

      On Friday afternoon, her body was handed over by the Israeli occupation forces to the Palestinian Red Crescent at the Tarqumia military checkpoint, west of the city, who later handed over the body to her family for a final farewell.

  • Israeli forces kill two Palestinians, including 17-year-old teen, in Jenin March 31, 2022 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/israeli-forces-kill-two-palestinians-including-17-year-old-teen-in-jenin

    Jenin (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces shot and killed two Palestinian youths during a military raid into the northern West Bank city of Jenin, earlier on Thursday.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that Israeli forces killed two Palestinians: Sanad Abu Atiya (17) and Yazeed al-Saadi (23) .

    Local sources said large Israeli occupation forces raided Jenin city and its refugee camp earlier today in a daylight arrest operation.

    The source said the forces entered the city’s refugee camp from several directions.

    Confrontations erupted between the residents and the forces.

    The forces shot live bullets and tear gas canisters at the residents.

    This resulted in injuring 15 people, with three of them in a serious condition and one moderate to critical.

    Abu Atiya and al-Saadi succumbed to their injuries when they arrived at the hospital.

    Both of the two martyrs are from the Jenin refugee camp.

    The Ministry of Health noted the forces shot tear gas canisters near Jenin government hospital.

    The gas penetrated into the emergency room and this caused panic among the patients.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • Les forces israéliennes tirent, tuent un jeune Palestinien dans le camp de réfugiés de Qalandia
    QudsN 15 mars 2022
    https://qudsnen.co/israeli-forces-shoot-killed-palestinian-youth-in-qalandia-refugee-camp

    Jérusalem occupée (QNN) - Les forces d’occupation israéliennes ont abattu un jeune Palestinien lors d’un raid militaire dans le camp de réfugiés de Qalandia, au nord de Jérusalem, plus tôt ce mardi.

    Plus tôt dans la journée, selon des sources locales, une unité des forces spéciales israéliennes a effectué un raid dans le camp de réfugiés de Qalandia.

    Les soldats se sont placés sur les toits des maisons palestiniennes et ont commencé à ouvrir le feu sur les résidents locaux.

    Le ministère palestinien de la Santé a déclaré que les forces d’occupation israéliennes ont tiré sur un Palestinien de 22 ans, identifié comme Alaa Shaham , avec une balle réelle dans la tête.

    Shaham a été transféré au complexe médical palestinien de Ramallah pour recevoir un traitement médical d’urgence, son état étant qualifié de critique.

    Peu de temps après, il a succombé à ses graves blessures.

    Le ministère de la Santé a également déclaré que les soldats de l’occupation ont tiré à balles réelles dans les jambes de six autres personnes, qui ont toutes été transférées à l’hôpital.

    Les soldats ont également arrêté deux autres personnes au cours du même raid.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • The second in 24 hours, Palestinian child shot dead by Israeli forces in Abu Deis
    March 7, 2022 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/34886-2

    Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian child in the Abu Deis town, south-east occupied Jerusalem, last night.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that 16-year-old Yamen Jafal was shot dead, last night, by Israeli forces’ live bullets for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at a forces checkpoint.

    After shooting him, the occupation soldiers prevented Palestinian medics from approaching him and fired tear gas canisters towards the ambulance before confiscating his body.

    Hours later, the Palestinian child was moved to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem and was announced dead.

    Following his killing, confrontation erupted between local youths and the Israeli occupation soldiers who attacked the youths by firing tear gas canisters intensively towards them, injuring several. (...)

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child In Jerusalem
      Mar 7, 2022
      https://imemc.org/article/soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-child-in-jerusalem

      Israeli soldiers killed, on Sunday evening, a Palestinian child in Abu Dis town, east of occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

      Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town, leading to protests before the soldiers fired many live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

      They added that the soldiers shot Yamen Nafez Jaffal, 16, with a live round and prevented Palestinian medics from approaching him, and he subsequently bled to death. The soldiers later took his corpse away. (...)

  • UPDATE| Israeli soldiers assassinate three Palestinian youths in Nablus
    February 8, 2022 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/breaking-israeli-soldiers-shoot-dead-three-palestinian-youths-in-nablus

    Nablus (QNN)- Three Palestinian youths were assassinated on Tuesday afternoon, after being shot dead by Israeli forces’ bullets during a clandestine military operation in Al-Makhfia neighborhood in Nablus, north of the occupied West Bank.

    Local sources and witnesses confirmed that the Israeli Special Forces Unit of Yamam, with over 15 soldiers, shot dead three Palestinian youths during a military operation in the Makhfia neighborhood.

    The witnesses said the three youths were inside a car when the Israeli Special Forces Unit, hidden in a civilian vehicle, showered the car with over 80 bullets, and killed them on the spot, before leaving the scene in civilian vehicles (VW Caddy & VW Shattle) and making sure the three are dead.

    The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the three deaths, calling the Israeli operation “an assassination,” echoing a statement from the Palestinian foreign ministry which described it as a “field execution”.

    The three youths have been identified as Adham Mabrouk, Mohammed Dakheel and Ashraf Mubaslat . (...)

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • New Crime of Extrajudicial Execution … Special Israeli Force Kill Three Palestinians in Nablus
      08 February 2022 – Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
      https://pchrgaza.org/en/new-crime-of-extrajudicial-execution-special-israeli-force-kill-three-pale

      (...) PCHR strongly condemns the Israeli Occupation Forces’ (IOF) return to extrajudicial executions, which is an official and declared policy of Israel that killed hundreds of Palestinian political figures and activists, in grave violation of the principles of the intentional humanitarian law (IHL) that prohibit this kind of murder crime.

      According to PCHR’s investigations, at around 13:25 on Tuesday, 08 February 2022, a special Israeli force sneaked into al-Makhfiyah Street, west of Nablus, via 2 civilian vehicles; one was a yellow bus, and the other was a grey Caddy. The first vehicle intercepted from the front a silver Siat car traveling on the street while the second vehicle intercepted the car from behind. Soldiers in military uniform stepped out of the 2 vehicles and directly opened fire at the 3 persons inside the car; one was the driver, the second was sitting beside him and the third was in the backseat. The shooting was mainly on their heads, killing them immediately. Five minutes later and after making sure the 3 persons died, the special force withdrew from the area. The persons killed were identified as Ashraf Mohammed ‘Abdel Fattah Mbaslat (21), Mohammed Ra’ed Hussein Dakhil (22) and Adham Mabrouki (al-Shishani) (21), who are suspectedly affiliated with al-Aqsa Martyers’ Brigades and had been haunted by IOF for a while. All of them were from Nablus’s Old City.

      IOF admitted commission of the assassination, and the Israeli Broadcast Corporate -Makan stated: “a special force from IDF, Police and Shin Bet assassinated 3 members of a terrorist cell,” which allegedly carried out a series of shooting attacks in recent weeks near the city. (...)

  • UK urges ’Israel’ to cease forced displacement of Palestinian family from its house in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah
    QudsNJanuary 18, 2022 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/uk-urges-israel-to-cease-forced-displacement-of-palestinian-family-from-its-

    Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- The United Kingdom government has urged Israeli occupation authorities to cease forced displacement of Palestinian family from its house in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, saying such practices “only serve to increase tensions on the ground.”

    The British Consul General in Jerusalem, Diane Corner, joined on Monday other representatives of the European Union and like minded countries to bear witness to the ongoing forced displacement of the Salhia family, who live and run a business opposite the British Consulate in East Jerusalem.

    In a tweet, the British Consulate General in Jerusalem said that “Evictions in Occupied Territory are against international humanitarian law in all but the most exceptional circumstances.”

    “The UK urges the Government of Israel to cease such practices which only serve to increase tensions on the ground.” (...)

    #Sheikh_Jarrah

    • À Jérusalem-Est, une famille palestinienne risquant l’expulsion menace de s’immoler
      France 24 – Publié le : 17/01/2022 - 19:25
      https://www.france24.com/fr/moyen-orient/20220117-la-tentative-d-expulsion-d-une-famille-palestinienne-provoque-des

      Les membres d’une famille palestinienne menacée d’expulsion dans le quartier de Cheikh Jarrah, à Jérusalem-Est, se sont retranchés lundi avec un baril d’essence sur le toit de leur maison, menaçant de s’immoler.

      La police israélienne continuait de négocier, lundi 17 janvier au soir, avec les membres d’une famille palestinienne menacée d’éviction dans le quartier sensible de Cheikh Jarrah, à Jérusalem-Est. Ceux-ci sont retranchés avec un baril d’essence sur le toit de leur maison.

      Plus tôt lundi, peu après l’arrivée sur place de policiers pour tenter d’expulser la famille menacée d’éviction depuis 2017, Mohamed Salhiya s’est installé sur son toit avec un baril d’essence, a constaté un journaliste de l’AFP. Il a ensuite été rejoint par des membres de sa famille qui « ont menacé de s’immoler et de mettre le feu à la maison si les forces d’occupation (nom donné par des Palestiniens à Israël, NDLR) en prenaient le contrôle », a déclaré à l’AFP Mona Al Kurdi, une militante palestinienne vivant dans le quartier. « La famille vit dans cette maison depuis des décennies », a-t-elle ajouté. (...)

  • Elderly Palestinian Man Killed After Israeli Soldiers Assaulted Him Near Ramallah
    Jan 12, 2022 – – IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/elderly-palestinian-man-killed-after-israeli-soldiers-assaulted-him-near-rama

    Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, on Wednesday at dawn, that an elderly man was killed after Israeli soldiers detained and repeatedly assaulted him near Ramallah, in the central part of the occupied West Bank.

    The sources said the man has been identified as Omar Abul-Majid As’ad, 80, from Jaljulia village, north of Ramallah.

    The Mayor of Jaljulia, Fuad Motea’, said the soldiers invaded the village and abducted Omar, before constantly assaulting him in an under-construction home, before leaving him on the ground.

    Motea’ also added that the elderly man was detained by the soldiers in the al-Ein area in Jaljulia before he was cuffed, blindfolded, and assaulted by the soldiers.

    He stated that Palestinian medics rushed to the scene, but were unable to resuscitate the man, before moving his corpse to Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.

    His nephew, Mohammad, told Palestine TV that several army vehicles invaded the village after midnight, before forcing him out of a car, cuffed and blindfolded him, and started to drag him on the ground before taking him to the under-construction building.

    He added that after the soldiers repeatedly struck his uncle in the under-construction home, and after realizing that he was dead they just left him on the ground and left the area. (...)

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Les États-Unis demandent à « Israël » des explications sur le meurtre d’un Américain palestinien âgé en Cisjordanie.
      https://qudsnen.co/33786-2

      Washington (QNN)- Les États-Unis ont demandé mercredi à « Israël » des éclaircissements après la mort d’un Américain palestinien de 80 ans, détenu et brutalement battu par les forces d’occupation israéliennes lors d’un raid militaire en Cisjordanie occupée.
      Hier, un Palestinien âgé, identifié comme Omar Abul-Majid As’ad, est mort après avoir été détenu et brutalement battu par les forces d’occupation israéliennes qui lui ont également bandé les yeux et passé les menottes lors d’un raid militaire nocturne dans le village de Jiljilyya, au nord de Ramallah en Cisjordanie occupée.
      L’homme âgé est mort d’une crise cardiaque, comme l’a confirmé le ministère palestinien de la Santé dans un communiqué. (…)

    • A question for the soldiers who abused an 80-year-old Palestinian man
      Gideon Levy | Jan. 24, 2022 | Haaretz.com
      https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-a-question-for-the-soldiers-who-abused-an-80-year-old-palestinian-

      If I could only meet with the soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda battalion who abused 80-year-old Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad to the point of death, I would ask them just one question: What would have happened is As’ad was your grandfather? We don’t need to preach or give more educational seminars, this question is more than enough to upend their world.

      From past experience, they would have responded with aggression, confusion and loss of control. This question is outside the realm of thought in which they were trained. It is impossible to stand in the dark of night at a checkpoint, to abuse an old man and think about your grandfather. They would say: how can you compare them, my grandfather isn’t a terrorist, we didn’t have a choice, those were the orders, what did you want us to do, Israel’s security.

      But these soldiers have to be asked this question time after time. They are haredim who serve in a battalion with this pompous – almost laughable – name, Netzah Yehuda ("Eternity for Judah"), which already has a not-so-short record of abusive acts against Palestinians. It’s no coincidence that the IDF sends a Haredi battalion with a biblical name to face the Palestinian population and oppress it. For them, the abuse is done in the name of God.

      Reading the testimony of the soldiers in the army’s inquiry, a quick and efficient inquiry of the type the IDF never conducts, turns the stomach. But the soldiers’ bad luck is that this time their victim carried an American passport, and the Americans, as opposed to the Israelis, want to know the truth. A sort of very strange trait. That is why the IDF had to investigate, and even quickly – almost an event of science fiction when it concerns IDF investigations about the abuse and killing of Palestinians.

      The victim’s advanced age, 80, was also to the soldiers’ detriment. One of them may have claimed that As’ad looked to him to be 20 years younger than his age, so he thought it was permitted to throw him to the ground on a cold night, gagged, blindfolded and handcuffed, given treatment he wouldn’t give to a stray dog. But even the most coldhearted couldn’t remain apathetic, even if only because of the man’s age.

      It is impossible to remain unmoved in light of the soldiers’ testimonies. It turns out that there are levels of bestialization and brutality, but this case broke a record. In their defense, the abusers claimed that they didn’t notice the signs of distress of the man they had turned into a sack of potatoes, threw to the ground and left there for over an hour, choked and cuffed. But what signs of distress can a bound man whose mouth is sealed shut and whose eyes are covered show? For his ears to shake? For his hair to stand on end? Poor As’ad shouted at them that he was not a terrorist when they stopped him making his way home late at night – because what did they expect? That he prostrate himself on the ground and kiss the soldiers’ feet? And what would their grandfathers have done?

      Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reported that the soldiers said they received an order – it’s not clear from whom, perhaps from the Lord of Armies Himself – to handcuff anyone who arrived at the roadblock and to gag their mouth, so those inside the village wouldn’t know about the fighters’ “operational” activities.

      Defense sources told Haaretz that this was a “bad incident, a serious incident,” seemingly because of the bad name that it could give to the moral army in America – but don’t worry, the Americans will also quickly forget. In any case, the Military Advocate General Corps has already rushed to correct the impression and shirk responsibility for the entire matter: “The circumstances of his death are not related to the actions of the military force,” they ruled. They know, they investigated, it is over and done.

      Everyone played their part: The soldiers abused, the old man died, the Americans protested and the IDF investigated. No one will be put on trial, and certainly no one will be punished as they deserve. After all, As’ad died from a heart attack and everything that came before had absolutely no connection to his death, and was also proper, moral and legal.

      I have only request from the soldiers: In spite of everything, please think – if just for a moment – what would have happened if As’ad had been your grandfather, and that he died this way.

    • ’We will all die. But why like that?’

      Details still emerge weeks after Israeli troops violently arrested an 80-year-old Palestinian. Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad was bound, beaten and tossed to the ground. An autopsy found that the brutality he suffered resulted in a fatal heart attack, but arrests are yet to be made

      Gideon Levy, Alex Levac | Jan. 28, 2022 | 12:56 AM | 7
      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/twilight-zone/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-we-will-all-die-but-why-like-that-1.10572177

      Mamduh Abd A-Rachman, one of the other Palestinians brought to the site where Omar As’ad lost his life. “We’ll all die,” As’ad’s brother says. “But why like that?”Credit: Alex Levac

      It was a few minutes after 3 A.M. Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad was driving from the home of a friend on the western side of his village to his house, on the eastern side. A few hours earlier he had dropped off his wife at home after they’d gone shopping together and had coffee with friends. At around 10 P.M. he went to visit a friend. Since returning from the United States, 11 years ago, As’ad had been spending a lot of time with childhood friends from the village. They sipped coffee, played cards and talked late into the night, each time at someone else’s house. The night of January 12 was no different. At 3 A.M. he drove home.

      On the dark, empty road, he suddenly noticed a few Israel Defense Forces soldiers at the street corner where Ali’s Grocery is located, in the center of town. Jiljilya, located in the Ramallah District and one of the most affluent locales in the West Bank, is replete with palaces. Some of its residents immigrated to the United States years ago, where they prospered and then built themselves mansions back home. A drive around affords quite a spectacle: Houses of marble that look like they’re made of marzipan, each more luxurious than the next, most of them empty, awaiting their owners’ family visits in the summer, or waiting for them to retire.

      Omar and his wife Mahani also wanted to grow old together in their village, after they left it for America in 1970. For the first 11 years they lived in Chicago, then they moved to Milwaukee, where they owned a few supermarkets. Mahani is 78, Omar was 80, and they were married for 58 years. They built their home in Jiljilya 15 years ago – a relatively modest residence compared to most of the other neighboring villas. They lived there alone: Their five daughters, two sons and their grandchildren remained in America. Everyone in the family, including the grandparents, has U.S. citizenship.

      It was very cold, that Wednesday night. The soldiers ordered As’ad to stop. The previous night, too, IDF jeeps had invaded Jiljilya, which is typically one of the quietest locales in the West Bank. Maybe that’s why the fighters from the army’s ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda (“Judah’s Eternity”) Battalion 97 raided it: It’s easy to train, to mete out abuse for no reason, to demonstrate control and power, or just enjoy a break from the routine and the boredom there. This ludicrously named battalion has a rich record of acts of abuse against Palestinians. This time it was the turn of the inhabitants of Jiljilya.

      The forces decided to detain without prior warning anyone who dared drive in the street that night. The soldiers claimed afterward, in testimony they gave to the army, that this was the order they had received – from whom it isn’t clear. According to residents, dozens of troops descended on the village that night; five to seven of them manned a makeshift checkpoint they’d erected in town.

      An eyewitness, Rada Bakri, 63, who lives above the site where the soldiers positioned themselves, was awake and had read in the social networks that the army had invaded again. He peeked out of the window of his second-floor apartment – according to an account he later gave to Iyad Hadad, the Ramallah District field researcher for the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem – and saw a few soldiers leap into the middle of the road and stop As’ad’s car. Shouts quickly erupted between them and the elderly man who wanted only to get home.

      After about five minutes a soldier opened the door of the vehicle and forcibly removed the driver, according to Bakri. The soldiers shackled his hands with black plastic handcuffs, later found at the place where he died, blindfolded him and stuffed pieces of flannelette into his mouth.

      About 120 meters separate the spot where As’ad was initially detained and the place where the soldiers force-marched or dragged him. That occurred along the dirt path that leads to the new mansion of Mohammed As’ad, a relative of Omar’s, who also returned, in his case recently, from the United States and is living in Ramallah until his luxurious two-story home will be ready – very soon now. Soldiers had wandered about near the empty structure the night before; on this night they would haul five Palestinians into its marble-floored courtyard.

      It was very dark, and eyewitness Bakri still can’t say whether As’ad walked on his own or was dragged by force. As’ad was a heavyset man with a plodding walk, his family related early this week when we visited. They found one of his shoes in his car – meaning that if he was walking, it was with one foot exposed to the wet, cold earth. They added that the soldiers had subjected him to a body search: He was left without a coat, wearing only a shirt and sweater; they stripped off his red keffiyeh, which was found later in a corner of the courtyard.

      As’ad would have passed through the stone gate into the courtyard of the imposing new house, with its red-tiled roof and stone pillars in front. There, the soldiers threw him onto the ground, face-down, like one would toss a sack, next to the bags of sand being use in the construction, which are still there. Hadad believes that As’ad died within a short time, perhaps soon after he was hurled to the ground. An 80-year-old man on a frigid night, frightened, humiliated, probably panicked. “Why didn’t they at least allow him to sit, bring him a chair?” mourners asked this week, in the family’s house.

      In the meantime, a van approached the soldiers’ checkpoint at the bottom of the road, carrying two Palestinian greengrocers who were on their way to the wholesale market in the town of Beita. It was about 3:30 A.M. Mamduh Abd A-Rachman, 52, from the nearby village of Arurah, was in the passenger’s seat. This week he accompanied us to the site where As’ad was taken that night – followed by him and his colleague – in order to reconstruct the elderly man’s last moments.

      The soldiers stopped the van and ordered the driver to proceed to the mansion, where the two occupants were told to get out and hand over the keys and their ID cards. They were forced to sit in the courtyard; Abd A-Rachman showed us how he sat on his leg, because the marble was unbearably cold. The two newly snared captives were ordered to sit a few meters apart. They weren’t handcuffed, but a soldier trained his weapon on them. They were told to keep their eyes on the ground. They couldn’t see anything. On the way from the van, Abd A-Rachman said he tried to tell the soldiers that he was ill, but that of course was of no interest to them; they forced his head down and ordered him to shut up.

      A large number of soldiers had meanwhile gathered in the courtyard, which had become a temporary detention facility. A few minutes later, two more Palestinians were brought in, also greengrocers on their way to Beita. They too were made to sit on the ground and keep their eyes down. The detainees were seated a few meters apart, apparently to prevent them from mounting an uprising. One of the soldiers now drove As’ad’s car, which had remained at the checkpoint, to the mansion.

      And thus they sat, on the cold floor – four living detainees with eyes downcast and one who was most likely dead by that time. They were drowsy and freezing; Abd A-Rachman fell asleep. The four didn’t know that someone had been brought there before them. Abd A-Rachman recalled that at one point he felt that he was touching something, but never imagined it was a dead body, thinking it was one of the bags of sand scattered about. A short time later, two soldiers sat down near Abd A-Rachman. Afterward it would emerge that they had come to remove As’ad’s handcuffs: Apparently they realized he was dead and wanted to get out as fast as possible, while eliminating any evidence.

      An autopsy performed this week by three Palestinian physicians, under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, revealed that As’ad, who had pre-existing health problems, died as a result of a heart attack. The examiners noted that he had received blows to the head and arms and that the blindfold he wore was so tight it caused bleeding. They determined that the reason for death was “a sudden cessation of myocardial activity due to psychological tension brought on by the external violence to which he had been exposed.” Another source added that the initial autopsy findings suggested that As’ad was “severely beaten” and suffered from “rough and violent treatment” – as evidenced by numerous bruises.

      The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit issued the usual statement this week: A Military Police investigation is now underway. A spokesperson for Military Defense, which is representing the soldiers, stated: “They [the soldiers] were engaged in operational activity with the aim of preventing terrorism. The Palestinian in question was detained lawfully during the activity in accordance with procedures, in light of his behavior, which endangered the soldiers and the force, and he was released at the conclusion of the activity in sound condition and with no need for medical intervention. The circumstances of his death are not related to the conduct of the military forces.”

      While retreating from the courtyard, the soldiers aimed their rifles at the detainees. Abd A-Rachman says he got up to ensure that they were indeed gone, and then noticed something covered up next to him. He was aghast to discover it was a human body. As’ad’s face was covered with some sort of cloth, perhaps the coat he had been stripped of. Abd A-Rachman remembers that he shouted that there was a body, but the others replied that it was probably a sack of cement. “No, it’s a person!” he screamed.

      A check of the man’s pulse and breathing revealed that he was lifeless. Within a few minutes the village doctor, who lives several dozen meters from the site, arrived and tried to resuscitate As’ad, but in vain. The group then carried him on a stretcher to the physician’s clinic and administered electric shocks, but to no avail. As’ad was dead. It was 4:09 A.M. The soldiers left the ID cards and car keys they had confiscated on the roof of As’ad’s car, it was later discovered.

      In her home in Milwaukee, As’ad’s daughter, Hiba, 32, read on social media that someone from her parents’ village had died. She called the house immediately. Mahani, her mother, awoke in a fright. This week the widow told us tearfully that she was sure her daughter was calling because she had quarreled with her husband. But Hiba asked where her father was. The devastating answer came soon enough. Now Mahani is sitting in her living room in a traditional black dress and weeping. The family has already hired a caregiver for her, as she remains alone in the house.

      Two days before As’ad’s death, his younger brother Amer, a 59-year-old gardener with an American accent who lives in Racine, Wisconsin, had arrived in Jiljilya. He hadn’t seen his brother since As’ad left the United States over a decade beforehand and now he had come to visit. Unlike him, As’ad’s children didn’t manage to get to the funeral; since they don’t have Palestinian ID cards, they had to request Israeli visas, which are extremely hard for Palestinians to get.

      Since their return, Mahani and Omar had been unable to leave the village: Their old ID cards had been confiscated due to their prolonged absence; even if they had somehow traveled abroad with their U.S. passports, they would not have been allowed to return. Shortly before we arrived this week, the new ID cards they had waited for all these years arrived – but Omar was no longer alive. Amer had only managed to see him briefly before he died.

      Mother and brother are sobbing now. “We will all die,” the brother says. “But why like that?”

  • Israeli settler killed, 2 injured in alleged shooting attack near illegal West Bank settlement
    16 sept 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/israeli-settler-killed-2-injured-in-alleged-shooting-attack-near-illegal-wes

    Nablus (QNN)- An Israeli settler was reportedly killed and two others were injured in an alleged shooting attack near the illegal settlement of Homesh, north of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, on Thursday night, Israeli media reported.

    Israeli media claimed an Israeli settler was killed while two others were injured in the alleged shooting attack near the illegal settlement of Homesh.

    The reports claimed that the three settlers were shot while in their car as they left Homesh.

    The two others, the reports said, sustained light injuries from broken glass and were taken to the hospital.

    Following the incident, the Israeli occupation forces shut down the entrances to the city of Nablus, denying entry and exit of Palestinian vehicles and passengers.

    The incident came amid a spike in settler violence against Palestinians and their properties in the occupied Palestinian territories. (...)

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill One Palestinian, Injure Two, In Nablus
    Dec 13, 2021 – – IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-one-palestinian-injure-two-in-nablus

    Israeli soldiers killed, on Sunday at night, a young Palestinian man, and injured two others, after the army invaded Nablus city, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

    Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the Ras al-‘Ein area in Nablus city, leading to protests, before the soldiers fired many live rounds at random, in addition to rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

    Ahmad Jibril, the director of the Nablus office of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said the soldiers killed Jamil Mohammad al-Kayyal, 31, after shooting him with a live round in the head.

    Jibril added that the army jeeps also chased many Palestinians, and rammed two young men, causing moderate wounds, in addition to causing many to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.

    Furthermore, the soldiers also abducted a young man, identified as Amir al-Haj, and took him to an unknown destination.

    After the death of the young man, Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire with the invading soldiers.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • Palestinian Gunman Killed, One Israeli Dead, Police Injured in Jerusalem
    Nov 21, 2021– – IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/palestinian-gunman-killed-one-israeli-dead-police-injured-in-jerusalem

    During an armed confrontation, Sunday morning, one Palestinian gunman was shot and killed by Israeli forces, one Israeli was killed and three more were injured, at the Bab al-Silsila Gate of the sacred Al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Jerusalem Press.

    Israeli forces blocked all movement of Palestinians into the area and initiated a search campaign for a Palestinian young man who fled the scene, after an alleged stabbing attempt.

    The Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) identified the slain gunman as Fadi Abu Shukhedem , 42, from the Shu’fat neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

    Abu Shukhedem, armed with a “Carlo” submachine gun, opened fire at Israeli police officers, at the Bab al-Silsila or Chain Gate, who shot him dead during the armed encounter.

    This act of resistance comes just days after a 16-year-old child, identified as Omar Ibrahim Abu ‘Assab, was shot dead in Jerusalem after allegedly carrying out a stabbing attempt, Israeli authorities have have withheld the teen’s body, a common practice of the occupation.

    In 1948, the state of Israel was founded on the stolen lands of Palestine, and in 1967 Israel occupied the remainder of the West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • Blinken: US to move forward with reopening Jerusalem Consulate that served Palestinians
    October 15, 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=30394

    Washington (QNN)- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday that Washington will be moving forward with its plan of reopening its consulate which served Palestinians in Jerusalem.

    “We’ll be moving forward with the process of opening a consulate as part of deepening those ties with the Palestinians,” Blinken stated at the State Department as speaking to the press after hosting a trilateral meeting with Israeli occupation Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed al-Nahyan.

    #IsraelUSA

  • Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child, Abduct Another, Near Bethlehem
    Oct 15, 2021 – – IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-palestinian-child-abduct-another-near-bethlehem

    Israeli soldiers killed, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian child, and abducted another near Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

    Local sources said the soldiers fired many live rounds at two Palestinian children in the Be’er Owna area in Beit Jala city, killing one.

    The slain Palestinian child has been identified as Amjad Osama Jalal Abu Sultan, 15 , from the Hindaza Mountain area, southeast of Bethlehem.

    They added that the soldiers abducted another child, identified as Mohammad Khalil ‘ Al-Arouj, 14, and took him to an interrogation facility.

    In a short statement, the Israeli army claimed the soldiers opened fire at the Palestinians when they “tried to hurl Molotov cocktails at the Tunnels Road,” connecting the Gush Etzion colony with occupied Jerusalem.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Killed By The Army On October 15; Israel To Release Corpse Of Slain Child
      Nov 16, 2021
      https://imemc.org/article/killed-by-the-army-on-october-15-israel-to-release-corpse-of-slain-child

      The Palestinian Detainees and Ex-Detainees Committee has reported, on Monday evening, that Israel intends to release the corpse of a Palestinian child from Bethlehem, who was killed by Israeli army fire on October 15, 2021.

      The Committee stated that it filed an appeal with an Israeli court to release the corpse of the slain child, and received Monday, a verdict that authorized the release but without setting an actual timeframe.

      It is worth mentioning that the child, identified as Amjad Osama Abu Sultan, 15, was killed by Israeli army fire in the Be’er Owna area, in Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

      The soldiers killed Amjad and injured another child, identified as Mohammad Khalil al-‘Arouj, 14, before taking him to an interrogation facility.

      After killing Amjad and wounding Mohammad, the army issued a statement claiming that the soldiers fired live rounds at Palestinians when they allegedly tried to throw Molotov cocktails at the “Tunnels Road,” connecting Gush Etzion illegal colony with occupied Jerusalem.

    • The premeditated killing of Amjad, a 14-year-old Palestinian
      Amira Hass | Dec. 6, 2021 | Haaretz.com
      https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-premeditated-killing-of-amjad-1.10443238

      I’ve written here before about Amjad Abu Sultan, a 14-year-old boy who lived near Bethlehem. But his short life and the way he was lured to his death deserve more attention

      The soldiers waited in ambush in the dark for Amjad Abu Sultan, a 14-year-old child. Then they shot him dead. It is well known that one of the main sources of intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces is Shin Bet field officers. According to a spokesperson for the security service, Abu Sultan had written the field officer in the Bethlehem area that he planned to throw a firebomb and that he himself had carried out acts for which a friend of his, Adham, had been arrested. In an exchange of text messages found on the boy’s cellphone, the field officer wrote that unlike his friend who had been apprehended, Abu Sultan was a “nobody” and didn’t interest him.

      In short: The field officer provoked the boy and pushed him to do “something bigger.” Why did he provoke him? Why did he not order the army to arrest the boy? After all, the IDF and the Israel Police arrest Palestinians for making far less boastful pronouncements. Why did the soldiers kill the boy instead of arresting him before he could act? Is it only to me and the boy’s family that this sounds like a trap was being set in order to kill him? The Israeli organization Parents Against Child Detention should take note.

      From their hiding places the soldiers would have seen Amjad and another child, M., approaching the outskirts of Beit Jala on the evening of Thursday, October 14. How many soldiers were there? A dozen? Eight? Five? We don’t know. We can assume that they saw the two children descending the wadi between the olive trees, thistles and rocks, and observed them as they walked along the path and then climbed up, toward the wall. Amjad lit the way with the flashlight on his phone, according to M., who was caught, arrested and then released a few days later. The soldiers could have caught Amjad alive as well, before anything happened. This was no military conflict. There was no rioting crowd throwing stones and firebombs, appearing all of a sudden out of nowhere.

      Three bullets pierced Amjad’s back. Their trajectory was from below to above, and thus we understand the topography – a hilly slope. The soldiers were at the bottom of the hill, while the boy was higher up, but still far from the wall abutting the Tunnel Road. The boy, his back to the soldiers, was holding a firebomb. He lit it – and was shot instantly. The bottle fell from his hands. The small fire that was ignited burned itself out.

      Let’s replay the scenario. Well-trained, armed soldiers, skilled in weapons and combat, who outnumber the two children and are older, taller and stronger, killed the child, instead of overpowering him. They killed him and thus violated the international legal criteria that permit law enforcement officials to take a life: absolute necessity and proportionality. This is what’s called illegal execution.

      I have already written twice about Amjad Abu Sultan, but his premeditated killing is worthy of more attention – even if he was holding a firebomb. A boy who began his life in the Gaza Strip under Israeli bombardment, passed the rest of his short life in the Bethlehem area, between security barriers, barbed-wire fences, military guard towers, roads prohibited to Palestinians, and soldiers armed with guns who often enter residential neighborhoods. Yet, nevertheless, he would laugh and joke around, and explore the hilly terrain around the city, on foot and by electric bicycle. And yes, sometimes he would throw stones at a fortified military position in the wall. Once he was wounded by gunfire.

      A planned ambush is exactly what it sounds like: an ambush based on prior information, a great part of which was passed on to the army, we can assume, by the Bethlehem area field officer known as Captain Wissam Abu Ayoub. Like his Shin Bet colleagues, also this “Captain” had an active Facebook page by means of which he would contact his subjects directly, writing greetings and showing an interest in their well-being. In their responses, one should note, the subjects would mostly ridicule and curse him. It was through his Facebook page that so-called Captain Abu Ayoub corresponded with the boy Amjad. It began with comments that Amjad published following one of the Captain’s posts, and continued by means of personal correspondence via the messenger app.

      Pedophiles know that children frequent social media and that they can easily find their prey there. The Shin Bet knows that Palestinian children frequent social media, and the Shin Bet knows that Palestinian children (and older Palestinians as well) post curses there against the occupying state and its representatives, and praise those who they think fight against it and challenge it (for example, military figure Mohammed Deif). Those who are not familiar with the weapons of the military junta, and are not imprisoned between its walls, find it hard to understand, but verbal brawls with Shin Bet agents on Facebook is a way for Palestinian children – who do not understand the helplessness of their parents and the political leadership – to let off steam.

      Captain Abu Ayoub published his mobile phone number 052-4704465 on his Facebook profile. It was from that number, on October 15, that he called Amjad’s father, Osama, and informed him that the army had killed his son and was holding his body (which was returned, frozen, some five weeks later). Why did he not call the boy’s parents earlier, and why did he not warn them and tell them to keep Amjad from going near the wall? Why was it so important for the Shin Bet and the IDF to lure 14-year-old Amjad to his death?

  • After serving two years in jails, Israel releases Palestinian prisoner Khalida Jarrar
    September 26, 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=29738

    Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli occupation authorities on Sunday have released the Palestinian political prisoner Khalida Jarrar from its jails after serving two years.

    Khalida Jarrar has been imprisoned several times since 2015 by the Israeli occupation and spent numerous terms under administrative detention.

    Jarrar was first arrested in 1989 and held for a month without trial.

    For her second detention in 2014, she was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

    She was arrested for a third time in 2017.

    She was released from Israeli jails in February 2019 after spending 20 months in prison, but the Israeli occupation detained her again in October 2019 from her home in Ramallah city, and she was accused of taking a position in the PFLP.

    Jarrar was elected as a member of the Legislative Council in the last Parliamentary elections held in 2006.

    Last July, the occupation authorities refused to release Jarrar to be able to attend the funeral of her daughter, Suha. She was denied the right to bury her daughter whose body was found near Palestine medical complex in Ramallah as she died of a sudden heart attack.

    #Khalida_Jarrar

  • Abbas gives ’Israel’ one year to withdraw from 1967-occupied territories
    September 24, 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=29692

    Ramallah (QNN)- The President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, gave the occupation state one year to end its occupation of 1967-occupied territories, otherwise, the PA will consider withdrawing its recognition of ‘Israel’.

    “We give Israel one year to end its occupation. During this time we are ready to demarcate the border. If Israel doesn’t agree we will consider withdrawing our recognition of Israel on the 1967 lines and going to ICC”, Abbas said in his UN speech.

    Addressing the UN General Assembly via video link from the West Bank, Abbas called on the international community to act to save the two-state solution.

    Abbas said the occupation state was “destroying the prospect of a political settlement based on the two-state solution” through its settlements on West Bank land it occupied in 1967.

    “If the Israeli occupation authorities continue to entrench the reality of one apartheid state as is happening today, our Palestinian people and the entire world will not tolerate such a situation,” Abbas said.

    “Circumstances on the ground will inevitably impose equal and full political rights for all on the land of historical Palestine, within one state. In all cases, Israel has to choose,” he added.

    #ONU

  • Breaking| Israeli army kills young man in Beita protest
    September 24, 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=29683

    Occupied Nablus (QNN)- Muhammad Khabisah (28 years old) has succumbed to wounds in the head that he sustained during the Israeli repression of a peaceful protest in Beita, the Ministry of Health said.

    The red Crescent had said that 38 protesters were wounded in the protest, eight of them were shot, including Khabisahwho had a serious head injury.

    The injuries also included 18 suffocation cases and three falling injuries and burns.

    Locals of Beita carry out weekly protests on Sabih mountain in protest against the construction of a new Israeli illegal outpost in their village.

    #Palestine_assassinée #Beita

    • Une nuit avec les Défenseurs palestiniens de la montagne

      Publié 22 septembre 2021 ·
      https://charleroi-pourlapalestine.be/index.php/2021/09/22/une-nuit-avec-les-defenseurs-palestiniens-de-la-montagne

      Comme des milliers de gens, j’ai suivi leur histoire sur les médias sociaux où la campagne #SaveBeita (préservez Beita) a attiré de plus en plus de monde et a entretenu un soutien massif aux Défenseurs de la montagne à Beita.

      Mohammed el-Kurd, 15 septembre 2021 sur The Nation

      Beita, Palestine — L’horloge indique presque 22 heures. C’est un dimanche soir du mois d’août et les habitants de ce village palestinien du nord de la Cisjordanie occupée se rassemblent au mont Sabih, où un avant-poste de peuplement illégal a été installé au début mai. Ils se préparent pour ce qu’ils appellent les « perturbations nocturnes », un rituel de résistance qui n’a pas cessé un instant, mais qui a évolué sans arrêt depuis une centaine de jours. Son but est de rendre insupportable le séjour des colons sur leurs terres.

      Plus d’une centaine de personnes se sont rassemblées au sommet de la montagne, ce soir. Des enfants évoluent çà et là avec des torches artisanales. Des hommes de près de 80 ans sont assis jambes croisées sur de gros rochers et pointent des rayons laser d’un vert brillant sur l’avant-poste. Quelques jeunes s’entraînent avec leurs catapultes. D’autres brûlent des pneus. D’autres encore scandent des slogans. De temps à autre, on entend une explosion dans le lointain, parfois il s’agit d’une bombe incapacitante israélienne, parfois d’un fût industriel que les défenseurs font sauter pour surprendre les militaires. Un homme se balade à la ronde, proposant du café et de l’eau à la foule. On entend quelques rires, qui retombent lentement au fur et à mesure que les Défenseurs de la montagne arrivent sur les lieux.

      « Nous sommes les enfants de Beita, les Défenseurs de la montagne », dit l’un d’eux, qui doit avoir un peu plus de trente ans et dont le visage est emballé dans un keffieh afin de dissimuler son identité. (...)

    • “Israeli Soldiers Kill A Young Palestinian Man Near Nablus”
      Sep 24, 2021
      https://imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-injure-dozens-of-palestinians-one-seriously-near-nablus

      Palestinian medical sources have confirmed, on Friday evening, that the seriously injured young man, who was shot by Israeli soldiers in Beita town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, has died from his wounds.

      The sources said the young man, identified as Mohammad Ali Khabisa, 28, from Beita town, was shot with a live round in the head, in Sbeih Mountain, and was rushed to the an-Najah Hospital, in Nablus, but succumbed to his very serious injuries.

      The slain young man is a married father of an infant girl, only eights months of age, and is the eighth to be killed in Sbeih Mountain since the protests started 140 days ago after illegal Israeli colonizers installed an outpost on private Palestinian lands.

      It is worth mentioning that, two weeks ago, the soldiers shot the young man with a rubber-coated steel bullet in the head.

      During Friday protests, the soldiers also injured 29 Palestinians, including eight who were shot with rubber-coated steel bullets, 18 who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation, and two who suffered burns.

      Beita has been witnessing constant protests, and repeated Israeli military invasions and violations since the illegal Israeli colonizers occupied the top of Sbeih Mountain and installed an outpost they named “Avitar.”

    • IOF Kill Palestinian Civilian and Wound 2 Others in Beita Village, Nablus
      Date: 25 September 2021
      https://pchrgaza.org/en/iof-kill-palestinian-civilian-and-wound-2-others-in-beita-village-nablus

      Yesterday afternoon, 24 September 2021, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 2 others; one is an elderly man, during their attack on a peaceful protest against settlement expansion in Beita, southeastern Nablus, northern West Bank.

      According to PCHR investigations, IOF directly shot the Palestinian civilian in his head from a distance of only 40 meters while there was no threat to the lives of IOF, eliminating any justification to the murder crime. This crime is yet another stark example of IOF unjustifiable relaxed shooting standards in disregard for Palestinian civilians’ lives.(...)

  • Qatar emir lashes out Israeli ‘violations’ in Jerusalem in UN speech
    22 septembre 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=29599

    Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani lashed out on the occupation state of ‘Israel’ during his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, blaming it for its policies in Jerusalem that led to its latest aggression on the Gaza Strip last May.

    “This year has witnessed numerous Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem and the recurrence of attacks on Islamic and Christian sanctities, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month of Ramadan, and the seizure of Palestinian homes in the context of the Judaization and settlement policies,” the Qatar’s emir said.

    He added this was followed by “a dangerous military escalation in the Gaza Strip which caused hundreds of casualties among unarmed civilians, aggravating the already dire humanitarian situation in the Strip.” (...)

    #ONU

  • BREAKING| Progressive lawmakers successfully remove extra $1 billion in weapons to ’Israel’
    September 21, 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=29564

    Washington (QNN)- Progressive representatives in the US Congress have successfully removed an extra $1 billion in weapons to the Israeli occupation army. A move that has been seen as a notable victory for Palestinian human rights.

    The extra $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome was added by Congressional leadership to a must-pass funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. It was supposed to be in addition to the nearly $4 billion the US government already sends to the Israeli occupation forces every year.

    Since World War II, the United States has given Israel $146 billion in aid, mostly for weapons.

    The United States and Israel have an agreement under which the US government will allocate $38 billion from fiscal 2019 through 2028, including $5 billion for missile defense.

    #IsraelUSA

    • Progressive Democrats succeed in removing $1 billion Iron Dome funding from bill - U.S. News - Haaretz.com
      https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-progressive-democrats-pressure-biden-to-cut-1-billion-iron-dome-fu

      Israel will still very likely receive the promised $1 billion emergency aid it requested earlier this year attached to a different piece of legislation, according to Democratic sources on the Hill
      Ben Samuels, Jonathan Lis | Sep. 21, 2021 | 10:12 PM | 7

      An internal dispute within the ranks of the Democratic Party led on Tuesday to the removal of a provision granting $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from a key funding bill. The removal came after behind-the-scenes pressure from several progressive Democratic lawmakers.

      The development led to sensational headlines about Democrats rejecting U.S. support for the Iron Dome, but in practice, Israel will still very likely receive the promised $1 billion emergency aid it requested earlier this year. That money, according to Democratic sources on Capitol Hill, will now be attached to a different piece of legislation, the 2022 Defense Appropriations bill.

      The decision on Tuesday means more for Democratic politics surrounding Israel than the Iron Dome funding itself. It came about after lawmakers including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and Pramila Jayapal threatened to vote against the funding bill, sources familiar with the matter tell Haaretz.

      If that were to happen, given the razor-thin Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, it would have led to a government shutdown or debt default on September 30.

      The $1 billion in aid, which the Biden administration publicly committed to following May’s Gaza war, will now be attached to the final fiscal year 2022 Defense Appropriations bill.

      The impetus behind the progressive pushback wasn’t the funding itself, but rather its addition as a provision to the spending bill. The U.S. provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid every year, $500 million of which is for the Iron Dome. Progressives are not necessarily arguing against the necessity of that aid, and no lawmaker has publicly come out against it - although some may do that later on.

      Their main argument in their behind-the-scenes effort was the need for a transparent legislative process surrounding such vast additional military aid.

      Rep. Jim McGovern, chair of the House Rules Committee, said following the provision’s removal that Democrats are committed to passing the provision as part of the final defense appropriations bill.

      The result is a political win for the progressive lawmakers – they achieved what they wanted via a discrete process, and the White House and Democratic leadership must explain why they opted to go down this route, rather than attach the new aid to the FY2022 defense bill in the first place.

      Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid spoke to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday night, who told him that the postponement is purely technical, and relates to broader discussions about the debt ceiling in the U.S. budget.

      Hoyer reiterated the commitment of the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, and speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, who pledge that the aid will be sent to Israel shortly.

      Lapid thanked his counterpart for his “commitment to Israel’s security” and spoke of the importance of “rebuilding” the relations between the Democratic Party and Israel “after years of neglect.”

  • Benny Gantz war crimes in Gaza case goes to Dutch appeals court
    September 17, 2021 - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=29406

    Dutch court will hear an appeal on 23 September against a ruling that granted immunity to two former Israeli military commanders in a lawsuit related to war crimes in Gaza.

    One of those commanders is Benny Gantz, who was Israeli forces Chief and currently Israel’s war minister and deputy prime minister and the other is Amir Eshel, then air force chief.

    The Palestinian-Dutch citizen Ismail Ziada has been suing Gantz and Eshel, for the decision to bomb his family’s home during Israel’s 2014 aggrrssion on Gaza Strip.

    The Israeli aggression that time reduced his family’s three-floor building in al-Bureij refugee camp to rubble and killed his 70-year-old mother Muftia, his brothers Jamil, Yousif and Omar, sister-in-law Bayan, and 12-year-old nephew Shaban, as well as a seventh person visiting the family.

    Ziada sued the Israeli generals for more than $600,000 in damages plus court costs.

    During the 51 days of the 2014 aggression on Gaza, Israel attacked residential and other civilian buildings, an independent investigation commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council revealed.
    (...)
    In January 2020, the district court in The Hague denied Ziada access to justice by granting immunity to the Israeli commanders because the alleged crimes were committed while they acted in an official capacity.

    This ruling flew in the face of the Nuremberg principles – established after the trials of Nazi war criminals – that those who commit war crimes or crimes against humanity cannot hide behind their official functions, or the excuse that they were just following orders.

    Indeed, in his appeal, to be heard next week, Ziada will argue that there can be no immunity for such grave crimes.

    Although Ziada’s lawsuit is a civil action filed in the Dutch national courts, the principle that acting in an official capacity does not shield a person from accountability is now well recognized in international law.

    #crimes_de_Guerre #GAZA

  • Who are Gilbou’s six breakers? - Quds News Network
    https://qudsnen.co/?p=28990

    The six prisoners were identified as:

    Mahmoud Arda, 46 years old, from Arraba town in Jenin, imprisoned since 1996, sentenced to a life and 15 years and belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement.

    Mohammad Arda, 39 years old, from Arraba town in Jenin, imprisoned since 2002, sentenced to a life and belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement.

    Yaaqob Qadri, 49 years old, from Beir al-Basha town in Jenin, imprisoned since 2003, sentenced to a life and belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement.

    Ayham Kamanji, 35 years old, from Kufr Dan town in Jenin, imprisoned since 2006, sentenced to a life and belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement.

    Zakaria Zubaidi, 46 years old, from Jenin refugee camp, imprisoned since 2019, was not sentenced, and is a former commander of Fatah’s Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

    Munadel Infeiat, 26 years old, from Yabad town in Jenin and imprisoned since 2019, was not sentenced and belonged to the Islamic Jihad movement.

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    Six Palestinian Detainees Escape From Israeli Prison – – IMEMC News
    https://imemc.org/article/six-palestinian-detainees-escape-from-israeli-prison

    Israeli sources have reported that six Palestinian detainees managed to escape from the Gilboa Israeli high-security prison, in the northern part of the country, after digging a tunnel.

    The sources stated that one of the detainees is Zakariyya Zobeidi, the former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Jenin, in northern West Bank. The other five escaped political prisoners are all members of the Islami Jihad movement.

    Israel alleges that Zobeidi was responsible for an attack on the Likud Party headquarters in Bisan, in the year 2002, leading to the death of six Israelis.

    Israeli also alleges that when he was taken prisoner in the year 2019, he was planning what was described as a serious attack against Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, and for reportedly carrying out two shooting attacks against Israeli buses for colonialist settlers near Beit El and Psagot colonies in the West Bank.

    Israeli sources said the six detainees were all in the same cell, and that their escape was uncovered approximately at 4:00 on Monday at dawn during a headcount.

    The Israeli police, Internal Security, and various other agencies have initiated a search campaign, in addition to a probe into how the detainees were able to escape without being noticed until a few hours later. Gilboa’ prison is well fortified and has extremely high-security measures.

    A massive search campaign was initiated, including in all surrounding Palestinian villages and towns, close to the northern border with the West Bank, and Jordan. (...)