[News] Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory for the week of 22 – 28 Nov
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PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory (22 – 28 November 2018)
November 30,2018
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*/Israeli forces continued with systematic crimes, in the occupied
Palestinian territory (oPt), for the week of 22 – 28 November, 2018./*
/Israeli forces killed a Palestinian civilian and wounded 4 others,
including a child, in the West Bank. Israeli forces continued to use
excessive force against unarmed civilians and peaceful protestors in the
Gaza Strip. 86 civilians, including 31 children, 7 women, 3 journalists,
and 5 paramedics were wounded; the injury of one of them was reported
serious./
*_Shooting:_*
In the West Bank, on 27 November 2018, the Israeli forces killed Ramzi
Abu Yabes (32) from al-Duheishah refugee camp, south of Bethlehem, after
shooting his vehicle he was traveling in the northern Hebron. The
Israeli forces claimed that Ramzi ran over Israeli soldiers who were
stationed near the main road and 3 of them were wounded. Meanwhile,
Ramzi’s family confirmed that their son suffers weakness in eyesight.
Moreover, there was no local eyewitness in the area to conform or refute
the Israeli claims, but PCHR’s previous investigations into similar
killings proved that they were normal car accidents and not deliberate.
Further, the residents of the West Bank have become worried that they
would get shot for trivial reasons.
In the same context, the Israeli forces during the reporting wounded 4
civilians, including a child, in Kafr Qaddoum weekly protest, northeast
of Qalqiliyah.
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli forces continued to use lethal force
against the participants in the peaceful protests organized along the
Gaza Strip borders. During the reporting period, the Israeli forces
wounded 86 civilians, including 31 children, 7 women, 3 journalists and
5 paramedics. The injury of one of those was reported serious.
*Governorate* Injuries
Total Children Women Journalists Paramedics Critical Injuries
*Northern Gaza Strip* 42 21 4 3 5 1
*Gaza City* 22 0 0 0 0 0
*Central Gaza Strip* 19 9 3 0 0 0
*Khan Younis* 0 0 0 0 0 0
*Rafah* 3 1 0 0 0 0
*Total* 86 31 7 3 5 1
As part of targeting the Palestinian fishermen in the sea, the Israeli
forces continued to escalate their attacks against the Palestinian
fishermen, indicating the on-going Israeli policy to target their
livelihoods. During the reporting period, PCHR documented 8 incidents
against fishermen, including 5 off al-Wahah resort, northwest of Beit
Lahia; and 3 off al-Soudaniyah area, west of Jabalia, in the northern
Gaza Strip. As a result, 3 Palestinian fishermen were arrested in the
northern Gaza Strip and their boat was confiscated.
As part of targeting the border areas on 23 November 2018, Israeli
forces stationed along the border fence between the Gaza Strip and
Israel, east of ‘Abasan al-Kabirah village, east of Khan Younis, opened
fire at the agricultural lands near the fence.
On 24 November 2018, Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence
between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Deir al-Balah, opened fire at
the shepherds and bird hunters.
On 25 November 2018, Israeli soldiers stationed along the border fence
between the Gaza Strip and Israel opened fire at a border control point
belonging to the Palestinian armed groups, east of al-Maghazi. However,
no casualties were reported.
*_Incursions:_*
During the reporting period, Israeli forces conducted at least 117
military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and 3
similar ones into Jerusalem and its suburbs. During those incursions,
Israeli forces arrested at least 67 Palestinians, including 9 children
and a woman, in the West Bank. Moreover, 42 others, including
Jerusalem’s Governor and a number of political and community activists,
were arrested in Jerusalem and its suburbs.
*_Israeli Forces continued to create a Jewish Majority in occupied East
Jerusalem:_*
As part of the Israeli house demolitions and notices, on 28 November
2018, the Israeli forces levelled demolished a hopuse belonging to
Mahran al-Mughrabi in al-Mughrabhi neighbourhood in al-Mukaber Mount
village, south of East Jerusalem, under the pretext of building without
a license. The house is a 200-square-meter roof where the
abovmenetioned wife and 2 children had lived for one year and a half.
al-Mughrabi said that the house was destroyed on the house contents, but
neither he nor the family could takem the contents out. They demolished
a 50-square-meter commercial facility (an office) belonging to Majed Abu
‘Eishah in Sho’afat neighbourhood, north of East occupied Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, in al-Tour neighbourhood, the bulldozers demolished a fence
surrounding a plot of land belonging to Khader al-Sa’idi.
As part of taking over property belonging to Palestinian civilians for
the interest of settlement associations, on Wednesday afternoon, 21
November 2018, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected the petition filed by
the residents of Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in Silwan village, south of
the occupied East Jerusalem, and allowed “Ateret Cohanim” settlement
association to continue its procedures relevant to expelling 700
Palestinians and forcing them to pay hundred thousands of shekels,
claiming to compensate settlers for the costs of the legal proceedings
and house rents for all the years. It should be noted that the
residents of Batn al-Hawa neighborhood had submitted a petition against
the decision of the Administrator General (Custodian of Absentee
Property) to hand a plot of land in the abovementioned neighborhood that
had been owned by Jews until 1948, but which is today home to 700
Palestinians, over to three members of Ateret Cohanim. The latter
association, which is very active in creating a Jewish Majority in
occupied Jerusalem, filed a request to expel the Palestinian families
with the help of the Israeli Justice Ministry’s administrator general to
take over the area and buildings established there, claiming they belong
to Jews, and to hand 70 Palestinian families judicial notices in this
regard.
As part of imposing further restrictions on the Palestinian
associations” work in the occupied city, the Israeli authorities
prevented the Minister of Jerusalem’s affairs in the Palestinian
government, ‘Adnan al-Husseini (71) from traveling abroad for 3 months
and imposed on him a bail of 10,000 NIS.
In the same context, the Israeli forces arrested the governor of
Jerusalem, ‘Adnan Ghaith (46), from his house in the Central
neighborhood in Silwan village, and extended his detention until
Thursday, 29 November 2018, under the pretext of interrogating with
him. It should be noted that the Israeli forces have prosecuted Ghaith
since the first day of appointing him as the Governor of Jerusalem
either by arresting or summoning him. Moreover, this is the third time
within 40 days ‘Adnan has been arrested.
As part of the settlers’ attacks against the Palestinian civilians and
their property, On Friday dawn, 23 November 2018, settlers from “Price
Tag” groups slashed tires of 3 vehicles and wrote racist slogans and
Star of David on the vehicles and walls of houses in al-Burj area in
Beit Eksa village, northwest of East occupied Jerusalem.
*_Israeli Forces continued their settlement activities, and the settlers
continued their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property_*
As part of the Israeli house demolitions and demolition notices, on 22
November 2018, Israeli forces demolished a carwash in al-Nabi Younis
area, north of Hebron. The carwash was established on the roadside and
was built of tin plates and iron on an area of 50 square meters
belonging to Mohammed Hasan Mor’eb.
On 26 November 2018, Israeli forces demolished an uninhabited house in
al-Murihah village, west of Ya’bud village, southwest of Jenin. The
50-square-meter house was ready for habitation and belonged to Bahaa’
Hamadouni.
On 27 November 2018, the Israeli forces demolished an agricultural room
built of bricks and tin plates on an area of 40 square meters in Kherbet
Souba, south of Ethna village, west of Hebron, belonging to Nabil
al-Hilah (58).
As part of the Israeli settlers’ attacks against the Palestinians
civilians and their property, during the reporting period, PCHR’s
fieldworkers in the West Bank documented 5 incidents carried out by
settlers. As a result of those attacks, 30 olive trees were uprooted
and tires of 30 vehicles were punctured.
*_Use of Force against Demonstrations in Protest against the U.S.
President’s Decision to Recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel:_*
Israeli forces continued its excessive use of lethal force against
peaceful demonstration organized by Palestinian civilians in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip, and it was named as “The Great March of Return and
Breaking Siege.” The demonstration was in protest against the U.S.
President Donald Trump’s declaration to move the U.S. Embassy to it.
According to PCHR fieldworkers’ observations, the border area witnessed
large participation by Palestinian civilians as the Israeli forces
continued to use upon highest military and political echelons excessive
force against the peaceful demonstrators, though the demonstration were
fully peaceful. The demonstration was as follows during the reporting
period:
*_Gaza Strip:_*
*In the Thirty-fourth week of the March of Return and Breaking Siege
activities, Israeli forces wounded 86 civilians, including 31 children,
7 women, 3 journalists and 56 paramedics. Doctors classified a
civilians’ injury as serious. The incidents were as follows:*
* *The Northern Gaza Strip:* 8 civilians, including 4 children and a
journalist, were wounded. Seven of them were hit tear gas canisters
and one was hit with a rubber bullet. Doctors classified a
civilian’s injury as serious. The wounded journalist identified as
Ismail Khalil Ismail Hamadah (31), a photojournalist at Palestine
Today TV Channel from Sheikh Redwan neighborhood in Gaza City, was
hit with a tear gas canister to the head.
* *Central Gaza Strip:* 18 civilians, including 8 children and 3
women, were wounded. Fourteen of them were hit with live bullets and
their shrapnel, 3 were hit with tear gas canisters and one was hit
with a rubber bullet.
* *Rafah:* 3 civilians, including a child, were hit with tear gas
canisters.
* At approximately 14:15 on Monday, 26 November 2018, Israeli gunboats
stationed offshore, and Israeli forces stationed along the border
fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, opened fire and fired sound
bombs at dozens of Palestinian civilians who were at the Return camp
along the border coastal, adjacent to adjacent to “Zikim” military
base , northwest of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. It should
be noted that this is the 16^th time for Palestinian boats to sail
for Breaking the Siege. As a result, 34 civilians, including 17
children, a woman, 5 paramedics and 2 journalists, were wounded.
Four of them were hit with live bullets and their shrapnel, 15 were
hit with rubber bullets and 15 were hit with tear gas canisters. The
5 paramedics were identified as:
1. Sharif Mo’een Fayez al-Buzum (32), a paramedic at Military Medical
Services, was hit with a rubber bullet to the head
2. Amirah Khalil Abdullah al-Safadi (21), a paramedic at the Youth
Volunteer Team, was hit with 2 rubber bullets, one to the left thigh
and the other to the left hand.
3. Reem Mansour Abdul Jawad Shatat (20), a paramedic at the Youth
Volunteer Team, was hit with a rubber bullet to the head.
4. Abdullah Farid Mohammed Abu ‘Oudah (27), a paramedic at the Youth
Volunteer Team, was hit with a tear gas canister to the right shoulder.
5. Sa’ed ‘Oudah Khamis al-Tarabin (33), a paramedic at PRCS, was hit
with a tear gas canister.
The wounded journalists were identified as:
1. Mohammed Hazem Sami al-Masri (20), a photojournalist at Gaza News
Agency, was hit with a rubber bullet to the face.
2. Safenaz Baker Mahmoud al-Louh (29), a photojournalist at Amad News
Agency, was hit with a tear gas canister to the left hand.
* At approximately 16:30, on the same Monday, Israeli soldiers
stationed along the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel,
east of al-Buraij in the central Gaza Strip, opened fire at a
17-year-old child from al-Buraij when he attempted to approach the
border fence. As a result, he was hit with a live bullet to the
lower limbs.
*_West Bank:_*
* At approximately 13:30 on Friday afternoon, 23 November 2018, a
group of Palestinian civilians moved from the center of Kufor Qadoum
village, northeast of Qalqiliyah, into the eastern entrance to the
village, which has been closed for 15 years in favor of the entrance
to /“Kedumim”/ settlement established on the village lands. The
protestors chanted national slogans demanding end of occupation and
condemning the Israeli forces’ crimes against Palestinian protestors
along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip within “The Great March
of Return and Breaking the Siege” activities. The protestors threw
stones at Israeli forces stationed behind sand barriers. The Israeli
forces fired rubber bullets, sound bombs and tear gas canisters at
them. As a result, 4 civilians were hit with rubber bullets,
including Mohammed Hekmat Eshtiwi (7), who was hit with a rubber
bullet to the waist.
*Efforts to Create a Jewish majority*
*_Arrests and Incursions:_*
* At approximately 18:00, on Thursday 22 November 2018, Israeli forces
raided the Palestinian directorate of education and Dar al-Aytam
Islamic school in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City and confiscated
computers and control cameras. Sawsan al-Safadi, head of Public and
International Relations at the Ministry of Education in Jerusalem,
said that Israeli forces raided the office and the school and
searched in the school’s files. They also confiscated a computer
belonging to the school’s director and the control cameras.
* On Thursday’s evening, Israeli forces prevented ‘Adnan Ghaleb
al-Husayni (71) , the Palestinian mayor of Jerusalem, from traveling
abroad for 3 months. They also forced him to pay 10 thousand NIS as
a bail after calling him for investigation. Israeli intelligence
service have called al-Husayni for investigation in the previous day
in al-Maskobya Detention Facility, west of Jerusalem, and
confiscated his passport. It was scheduled that al-Husayni will
deliver a speech on behalf of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud
Abbas, during the conference in which the Lebanese president, Michel
Aoun, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio
Gutteres, will attend.
* At approximately 01:00, on Sunday 25 November 2018, Israeli forces
moved into Jabal al-Mukkaber neighborhood, south of occupied East
Jerusalem. They raided and searched a house belonging to Khaled
Ibrahim ‘Owysat and confiscated his two sons’, Ahmed (19) and
Mohammed (18), mobile phones.
* At approximately 02:00, Israeli forces moved into al-Hara al-Wosta
in Silwan village, south of occupied East Jerusalem. They raided and
searched a house belonging to the mayor of Jerusalem , ‘Adnan ‘Adel
Ghaith (46). They also arrested Ghaith and took him to al-Maskobya
detention center, west of Jerusalem, for investigation. After some
hours of arrest, they extended his arrest until Thursday 29 November
2018 under the pretext of completing the investigation. It should be
noted that the Israeli forces have been pursuing Ghaith either by
arresting him or calling him for investigation since he became a
mayor. On 20 October 2018, they arrested him in an ambush after
intercepting his car in Beit Hanina neighborhood, north of
Jerusalem. He was released after two days of arrest on condition of
staying away from his home in Silwan village for 7 days, which made
him stay in Wadi al-Joz neighborhood. During the 7 days, the Israeli
forces raided his house arrest many times to make sure that he stays
there. On 1 November 2018, Ghaith was arrested from al-Silwan club
in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood during his participation in an
interactive meeting called by Jerusalem institutions. On 8 November
2018, Ghaith was called to al-Maskobya Police Station and handed him
a decision preventing him from entering the West Bank for 6 months
by order of “central region commander “. on 11 November 2018, Ghaith
was called one more time to al-Maskobya Police Station and was
informed about a decision that prevents him from communicating with
some Palestinian people regarding selling Jerusalemite properties to
settlers. On 19 November 2018, He was subjected to the last
procedure before his arrest, in which “the commander of the interior
and the military commander” issued a decision prevents Ghaith from
communicating with 7 Palestinian people for 6 months. Those
Palestinian people are : Jihad Mohammed Mahmoud Faqeeh, ‘Adnan
Ghaleb Mo’ath al-Husayni, Majed ‘Ali Mohammed Faraj, Shady Sa’d
Mator, ‘Adel Hassan Mohammed abu Znaid, ‘Awad Sadiq Sarhan Salayma,
and Mo’tasem Kamal Mohammed Taym.
* At approximately 17:00, on Sunday 25 November 2018, Israeli forces
repressed a protest in Salah al-Deen street, in the center of
occupied East Jerusalem. The protest was organized by youth groups
protesting against arresting the Israeli forces for ‘Adnan ‘Adel
Ghaith and chasing him continuously since he became the mayor of
Jerusalem. The protesters carried slogans saying that ” targeting
the governor of Jerusalem, ‘Adnan Ghaith, is a war crime … there is
no legitimacy to the occupation in our capital Jerusalem”. They also
raised Palestinian flags in the area, chanted slogans supporting
Jerusalem, and asked for releasing the mayor and stop chasing him.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers besieged the protesters and photographed
them, attacked some of them, and suddenly threw sound bombs to
enforce the protesters to leave the area. They also arrested Jawad
syam, Director of Wadi Hilweh Information Center, and confiscated
the Palestinian flags. It should be noted that the Israeli forces
released Syam after detaining him for many hours accusing him for
organizing a protest in Salah al-Deen street. His release was on
condition of deporting him from Salah al-Deen street, Sultan
Sulaiman and Bab al-‘Amoud , preventing him from participation in
any protest in the city for 2 weeks, and signing a personal
guarantee and a third party guarantee worth 3000 NIS.
* On Monday early morning, 26 November 2018, Israeli forces moved into
many neighborhoods and towns in the occupied East Jerusalem and
surrounded their entrances and streets along with intensive flies of
Israeli warplanes. They carried out a wide-scale arrest campaign
against 36 civilians from Fateh movement in Jerusalem after raiding
and searching their houses asserting their association with the
Palestinian Security Services. (PCHR keeps the names of these
detainees). On the above mentioned day afternoon, The Israeli
Magistrate’s Court extended the detention of the detainees until
Thursday, 29 November 2018, to continue investigation on suspicion
of working in the security services of the Palestinian Authority,
“which constitutes a threat to Israeli security” according to
Israeli authorities.
* At approximately 16:00, on Tuesday 27 November 2018, Israeli forces
arrested Mahmoud Ahmed al-‘Abassi (40), from ‘Ein al-Lawza
neighborhood in Silwan village, south of the occupied East
Jerusalem’s Old City, during his presence in Bab al-‘Amoud area.
Israeli soldiers took him to al-Maskobya Detention Facility for
investigation.
* At approximately 18:00, on the same day mentioned above, Israeli
forces prevented a protest in Salah al-Deen Street, in the center of
occupied East Jerusalem, which was organized against the arrest of
Jerusalem’s mayor and some of Fateh Movement cadors in the city.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli forces forcibly prevented a
protest in Salah al-Deen Street after the protesters chanted slogans
against the policy of arrest in the city. The Israeli forces chased
the protesters in the streets and checked their ID cards. They also
arrested Mohammed abu al-Hams (50), a member of Follow-Up Committee
in al-‘Issawya village, Yassir Darwish (37), secretary of Fateh
Movment in Jerusalem, and activist ‘Ahed al-Rashq and referred them
to investigation in Salah al-Deen street’s police station. The
Israeli forces released the activists after some hours of their
arrest on condition of deporting them from Salah al-Deen Street, Bab
al-‘Amoud and al-Sultan Sulaiman street for two weeks.
*_House Demolitions and Notices:_*
* At approximately 07:00, on Wednesday 28 November 2018, Israeli
Municipality’s bulldozers demolished a house belonging to Mahran
al-Mughrabi in al Mughrabi neighborhood in Jabal al-Mukaber village,
south of occupied East Jerusalem, under the pretext of
non-licensing. Al-Mughrabi said that Israeli forces accompanied with
bulldozers and Israeli Municipality staff raided and demolished his
houses, which occurs in al-Mughrabi neighborhood near al-Sal’a area
intersection in al-Mukaber neighborhood. He added that his house is
a 200-square-meter rove in which he has been living with his wife
and 2 daughters for a year and a half. He also mentioned that he had
submitted papers to the Israeli Municipality for licensing but the
Municipality claimed that they prevent construction in this area,
knowing that the rove is an additional floor for the original
building. The demolition took place without allowing them to empty
the house contents and plantings, making the furniture unusable and
causing damage to the downstairs. It should be noted that the
demolition was in a densely-populated area which contains primary
and secondly schools, which lead to prevent students from going to
schools due to closing the vicinity of the house, which occurs in
the middle of a main street. The neighborhood’s residents said that
many students were unable to go to schools and buses were unable to
reach the houses to transfer the students. So, many students took
bypass roads to reach schools.
* In a related context, Israeli Municipality’s bulldozers moved into
Shu’fat neighborhood, north of the occupied East Jerusalem’s Old
City, on early hours of the day mentioned above. They demolished a
50-square-meter commercial facility belonging to Majed abu ‘Eisha
under the pretext of non-licensing. In al-Tour neighborhood, Israeli
bulldozers destroyed a fence surrounds a land belonging to Khader
‘Owda al-s’aidy for the same reason.
*Seizing Lands in Favor of Settlement Associations*
On Wednesday afternoon, 21 November 2018, the Israeli Supreme Court
rejected the petition filed by the residents of Batn al-Hawa
neighborhood in Silwan village, south of the occupied East Jerusalem,
and allowed “Ateret Cohanim” settlement association to continue its
procedures relevant to expelling 700 Palestinians and forcing them to
pay hundred thousands of shekels, claiming to compensate settlers for
the costs of the legal proceedings and house rents for all the years.
It should be noted that the residents of Batn al-Hawa neighborhood had
submitted a petition against the decision of the Administrator General
(Custodian of Absentee Property) to hand a plot of land in the
abovementioned neighborhood that had been owned by Jews until 1948, but
which is today home to 700 Palestinians,over to three members of Ateret
Cohanim. The latter association, which is very active in creating a
Jewish Majority in occupied Jerusalem, filed a request to expel the
Palestinian families with the help of the Israeli Justice Ministry’s
administrator general to take over the area and buildings established
there, claiming they belong to Jews, and to hand 70 Palestinian families
judicial notices in this regard.
On Wednesday afternoon, The Supreme Court’s Judges (Daphne Barak-Erez
and Barron Valron) rejected a petition filed by 104 Palestinian
civilians from Batn al-Hawa neighborhood against the 2009 decision by
the General Custodian of Absentee Property to “free the land on which
they have lived for decades.” After Judge Erez first rejected the
request by the settlers to dismiss the petition, she later detailed a
series of flaws in the administrator general’s conduct of transferring
the land to Ateret Cohanim without even bothering to inform the
residents who had lived there for decades. The judge emphasized that
the general administrator never investigated whether the land’s legal
classification under the laws of the Ottoman Empire and even allowed the
land to be turned over. Only in the final stages of the legal process
did the State start looking into this complex question that is still
with no definitive answer to it. Yet despite all these problems, she
decided that the High Court is the wrong place to investigate these
factual arguments, and that the problems didn’t stem from the way the
administrator acted, but rather “lie in the statutory arrangement.”
Therefore, she rejected the petition. As a result, the dozens of suits
Ateret Cohanim has filed to evict 70 Palestinian families will be
resumed in the coming weeks.
The Israeli media has referred to a number of decisions issued recently
by the Israeli Supreme Court in which they indicate, “there is a radical
change in its policies,” under the auspices of the Israeli Justice
Minister, “Ayelet Shaked”, which was described by the media as “Lady of
the Coup in the Supreme Court, particularly when it comes to
Palestinians’ rights”. Among these latest decisions was the rejection of
the Supreme Court’s Judges of an appeal filed by Palestinians from
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood against their expulsion from their homes. It
should be noted that on Monday, 19 November 2018, the Israeli Knesset
approved in the second and third readings the construction of
residential units and houses in the national and public parks, which
means the expansion of settlement of “Ir David” settlement in Silwan
village that is considered one of the areas most targeted by the Israeli
settlers and Government.
*_Settlers’ attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property:_*
* On Friday, 23 November 2018, Israeli settlers from “Price Tag”
Groups punctured the tires of 3 vehicles and wrote racist slogans
and Star of David on the vehicles and walls of houses in al-Burj
area in Beit Eksa village, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem. The
residents of the village said that the settlers punctured a number
of vehicles and wrote racist slogans threatening to kill the
Palestinians and attempting to burn the Mosque in al-Burj area in
the village, which was taken over by the Israelis and where they
built “Ramout” settlement. It should be mentioned that “Beit Eksa”
village is isolated behind the annexation wall, and Israel does not
allow anyone to enter except for the village residents who undergo
tightened search measures.
*_Settlement activities and attacks by settlers against Palestinian
civilians and property_*
*Israeli forces’ attacks:*
* At approximately 11:00 on Monday, 22 November 2018, Israeli forces
backed by 2 military vehciles and accompanied with a vehicles
belonging to the construction and organization department in the
Civil Administration and a JCB Excavator moved into al-Nabi Younis
area in northern Hebron. They stationed at the intersection of the
road connected with Bypass Road 60. The soldiers deployed in the
area while the excavator destroyed a carwash established on the
roadside that is built of tin plates and construction steel on an
area of 50 square meters and belonging to Mohammed Hasan Mor’eb.
The demolition came under the pretext of unlicensed building in Area C.
* At approximately 07:30 on Monday, 26 November 2018, Israeli forces
accompanied with a vehicle and a bulldozer belonging to the
construction and organization department in the Civil Administration
moved into al-Murihah village, west of Ya’bud village, southwest of
Jenin. The bulldozer started demolishing a house belonging to Bahaa’
Amin Hasan Mousa Hamadouni that was built on an area of 130 square
meters. The house is ready for inhabitation and the demolition came
under the pretext of unlicensed building in Area C.
* At approximately 09:00 on Tuesday, 27 November 2018, Israeli forces
backed by a military vehicle and accompanied with a vehicle
belonging to the construction and organization department in the
Civil Administration moved into Sousi village, south of Yata, south
of Hebron. The Civil Administration officer handed the heirs of
‘Abdel Muhsen Mohammed Nawaj’ah a demolition notice relevant to 2
tents of 30 square meters under the pretext of unlicensed building.
* At approximately 13:00, Israeli forces backed by a military vehciles
and accompanied with a vehicle belonging to the construction and
organization department in the Civil Administration moved into
al-Dirat village, east of Yata, south of Hebron. The Civil
Administration officer handed Fawar Mohammed Rab’ie (40) a notice to
stop the construction works in his house of 160 square meters under
the pretext of unlicensed building.
* At approximately 15:00, Israeli forces backed by 2 military vehicles
and accompanied with a vehicle belonging to the construction and
organization department in the Civil Administration and a JCB
Excavator moved into Kherbet Souba, south of Ethna village, west of
Hebron. The soldiers deployed in the area while the excavator
started demolishing an agricultural room built of bricks and tin
plates on an area of 40 square meters. The construction costs were
provided by ACTED organization. This room and a 2-dunum land in the
vicinity of it belong to Nabil Mohammed Mahmoud al-Heilah (58). The
demolition came under the pretext of unlicensed construction in area C.
* At approximately 02:00 on Friday, 23 November 2018, a group of
settlers from “Yitsihar” settlement attacked the southern
neighborhood of ‘Asirah al-Qabaliyah village, south of Nablus. The
settlers attacked the Palestinian vehciles parked in front of the
owners’ houses and their yards as well as on the streets. They also
wrote racist slogans against Arabs and Muslims on the houses’ walls
and cars in addition to puncturing with sharp tools the tires of 16
cars before leaving the village. PCHR keeps the names of the owners
of those cars damaged.
* Around the same time, a group of settlers attacked the eastern
neighborhood of Howarah village, south of Nablus. They attacked the
Palestinian vehicles parked in front of the owners’ houses and their
yards as well as on the streets. They also wrote racist slogans
against Arabs and Muslims on the houses’ walls and cars in addition
to puncturing with sharp tools the tires of 6 cars and 3 trucks
belonging to al-Hawari Contracting Company before leaving the
village. PCHR keeps the names of the affected owners.
* At approximately 15:00 on Saturday, 24 November 2018, a group of
settlers from “‘Aadi ‘Aad” settlement destroyed and cut 35 olive
trees in lands in al-Seder area in Termes’aya village, northeast of
Ramallah. ‘Abdullah Ratib Na’san (45) said to a PCHR’s fieldworker that:
/“I was in our land in Qalsoun area, which is 500 meters away from
al-Seder area, north of the village and is 3 kilometers away from “‘Aadi
‘Aad” settlement, to plant and cultivate the land along with my
cousins. At approximately 15:00, we saw a group of settlers; around 15,
approaching the barbed-wire fence surrounding the trees in al-Seder area
and destroyed it so they could enter the land. They started cutting the
olive trees and breaking their branches randomly and left the area.
After that, 2 settlers came to cut and damage other trees in the same
way and left quickly towards the abovementioned settlement. The number
of those trees cut down was 35 olive trees planted 5 years ago and
belonging to ‘Abdullah Hasan Abu ‘Awwad and Hasan Kheir Abu ‘Alia.”/
* At approximately 02:55 on Sunday, 25 November 2018, Israeli settlers
from”‘Aadi ‘Aad” settlement attacked 4 vehciles in al-Naqqar area,
north of al-Mugheir village, northeast of Ramallah. They wrote
hostile slogans on the vehicles and punctured their tires. Those
vehciels belong to AMhmoud Saleh Soliman Abu ‘Alya (37); Akram Kamal
Na’asan (45); ‘Amer Hussein Abu ‘Aalia (38); and Mojahed ‘Eid
Na’asan (38). The latter civilian said to a PCHR’s fieldworker
after watching a video captured by the surveillance cameras in his
house that shows what 2 settlers did to his vehicle.
/“At approximately 02:55, 2 settlers dressed in civilian clothes
punctured the tires of my vehicle and removed the tires, writing racist
slogans on the vehicle and the houses’ walls. That happed two hours
after the Israeli forces’ incursion into the village and patrolling in
al-Naqqar neighborhood, where I live. The vehicle was parked in front of
my house with an Israeli registration plate as I use it to work inside
and outside the village”/
*Recommendations to the International Community*:
1. PCHR calls upon the international community to respect the Security
Council’s Resolution No. 2334 and to ensure that Israel respects it
as well, in particular point 5 which obliges Israel not to deal with
settlements as if they were part of Israel.
2. PCHR calls upon the ICC to continue to investigate the Israeli
crimes committed in the oPt, particularly the settlement crimes and
grave violations in the Gaza Strip.
3. PCHR Calls upon the European Union (EU) and all international bodies
to boycott settlements and ban working and investing in them in
application of their obligations according to international human
rights law and international humanitarian law considering
settlements as a war crime.
4. PCHR calls upon the international community to use all available
means to allow the Palestinian people to enjoy their right to
self-determination through the establishment of the Palestinian
State, which was recognized by the UN General Assembly with a vast
majority, using all international legal mechanisms, including
sanctions to end the occupation of the State of Palestine.
5. PCHR calls upon the international community and United Nations to
take all necessary measures to stop Israeli policies aimed at
creating a Jewish demographic majority in Jerusalem and at voiding
Palestine from its original inhabitants through deportations and
house demolitions as a collective punishment, which violates
international humanitarian law, amounting to a crime against humanity.
6. PCHR calls upon the States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC to
work hard to hold Israeli war criminals accountable.
7. PCHR calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva
Conventions to fulfill their obligations under article (1) of the
Convention to ensure respect for the Conventions under all
circumstances, and under articles (146) and (147) to search for and
prosecute those responsible for committing grave breaches of the
Geneva Conventions to ensure justice and remedy for Palestinian
victims, especially in light of the almost complete denial of
justice for them before the Israeli judiciary.
8. PCHR calls for a prompt intervention to compel the Israeli
authorities to lift the closure that obstructs the freedom of
movement of goods and 1.8 million civilians that experience
unprecedented economic, social, political and cultural hardships due
to collective punishment policies and retaliatory action against
civilians.
9. PCHR calls upon the European Union to apply human rights standards
embedded in the EU-Israel Association Agreement and to respect its
obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights when
dealing with Israel.
10. PCHR calls upon the parties to international human rights
instruments, especially the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to pressurize Israel to comply
with its provisions in the oPt and to compel it to incorporate the
human rights situation in the oPt in its reports submitted to the
relevant committees.
11. PCHR calls upon the EU and international human rights bodies to
pressurize the Israeli forces to stop their attacks against
Palestinian fishermen and farmers, mainly in the border area.
/Fully detailed document available at the official website for the
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)./ <http://pchrgaza.org/en/>
/*Search IMEMC: “PCHR” <http://imemc.org/?s=pchr>*/
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