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<h1 class="reader-title">PCHR Weekly Report On Israeli Human
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<p><strong><em>Israeli forces continued with systematic
crimes, in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt),
for the week of 22 – 28 November, 2018.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>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.</em></p>
<p><strong><u>Shooting:</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>In the same context, the Israeli forces during the
reporting wounded 4 civilians, including a child, in
Kafr Qaddoum weekly protest, northeast of Qalqiliyah.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2"><strong>Governorate</strong></td>
<td colspan="6">Injuries</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Total</td>
<td>Children</td>
<td>Women</td>
<td>Journalists</td>
<td>Paramedics</td>
<td>Critical Injuries</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Northern Gaza Strip</strong></td>
<td>42</td>
<td>21</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Gaza City</strong></td>
<td>22</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Central Gaza Strip</strong></td>
<td>19</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Khan Younis</strong></td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Rafah</strong></td>
<td>3</td>
<td>1</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Total</strong></td>
<td>86</td>
<td>31</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>1</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Incursions:</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces continued to create a Jewish
Majority in occupied East Jerusalem:</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Israeli Forces continued their settlement
activities, and the settlers continued their attacks
against Palestinian civilians and their property</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Use of Force against Demonstrations in
Protest against the U.S. President’s Decision to
Recognize Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel:</u></strong></p>
<p>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:</p>
<p><strong><u>Gaza Strip:</u></strong></p>
<p><strong>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:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>The Northern Gaza Strip:</strong> 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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Central Gaza Strip:</strong> 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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><strong>Rafah:</strong> 3 civilians, including a
child, were hit with tear gas canisters.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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<sup>th</sup>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:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li>Sharif Mo’een Fayez al-Buzum (32), a paramedic at
Military Medical Services, was hit with a rubber
bullet to the head</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Reem Mansour Abdul Jawad Shatat (20), a paramedic at
the Youth Volunteer Team, was hit with a rubber bullet
to the head.</li>
<li>Abdullah Farid Mohammed Abu ‘Oudah (27), a paramedic
at the Youth Volunteer Team, was hit with a tear gas
canister to the right shoulder.</li>
<li>Sa’ed ‘Oudah Khamis al-Tarabin (33), a paramedic at
PRCS, was hit with a tear gas canister.</li>
</ol>
<p>The wounded journalists were identified as:</p>
<ol>
<li>Mohammed Hazem Sami al-Masri (20), a photojournalist
at Gaza News Agency, was hit with a rubber bullet to
the face.</li>
<li>Safenaz Baker Mahmoud al-Louh (29), a
photojournalist at Amad News Agency, was hit with a
tear gas canister to the left hand.</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>West Bank:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>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 <em>“Kedumim”</em> 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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Efforts to Create a Jewish majority</strong></p>
<p><strong><u>Arrests and Incursions:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>House Demolitions and Notices:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Seizing Lands in Favor of Settlement
Associations</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Settlers’ attacks against Palestinian
civilians and their property:</u></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><u>Settlement activities and attacks by
settlers against Palestinian civilians and property</u></strong></p>
<p><strong>Israeli forces’ attacks:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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:</li>
</ul>
<p><em>“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.”</em></p>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>“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”</em></p>
<p><strong>Recommendations to the International Community</strong>:</p>
<ol>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>PCHR calls upon the States Parties to the Rome
Statute of the ICC to work hard to hold Israeli war
criminals accountable.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="http://pchrgaza.org/en/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener"><em>Fully detailed document available
at the official website for the Palestinian Centre
for Human Rights (PCHR).</em></a></p>
<p><em><strong>Search IMEMC: <a
href="http://imemc.org/?s=pchr" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">“PCHR”</a></strong></em></p>
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