Residents of the villages of Kusra and Asira al-Qibliya, in the occupied West Bank district of Nablus, fended off an attack by dozens of violent Israeli settlers on Saturday, February 13, who targeted the outskirts of the two villages, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. Ghassan Daghlas, an official in charge of monitoring settler attacks…
Haroun Abu Aram, 24, was shot Friday, January 1, from point-blank range by an Israeli occupation soldier and sustained severe critical injuries making him a quadriplegic, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The shooting took place in the hamlet of al-Tuwanah which is part of the Masafer Yatta region in the southern occupied West Bank.…
The Knesset passed on Wednesday, December 16, a preliminary draft of a bill that would provide government funding to Jewish West Bank settlement outposts in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) that were established without government permission. The so-called “Outposts Law,” initiated by settler and far-right lawmaker MK Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina), passed by a vote of…
Hadash MKs and 80 Jewish and Arab activists, most of them members of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), together with Rabbis for Human Rights, took part last Friday, October 30, in the olive harvest in the village of Burin in the occupied West Bank. The volunteers assisted Palestinian farmers gather the harvest from their trees.…
A Palestinian dentist, Dr. Nidal Mohammad Jabareen, 54, died of a heart attack on Friday, September 18, when Israeli occupation forces began firing concussion grenades at Palestinian civilians near the Barta’a checkpoint, southwest of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. An eyewitness said that the dentist was walking…
Israeli settlers felled some 40 olive trees on Monday, April 27, in the town of As-Sawiya, approximately 10km due south of the West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, confirmed that a group of settlers from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Rechelim chopped down some 40…
As the coronavirus crisis with its and imposed isolation shutdowns continues, during the past week alone settlers have attacked Palestinians and their property in the Occupied West Bank on several occasions. Overnight Monday-Tuesday, April 13-14, a group of masked Israeli settlers in the southern West Bank pepper-sprayed and hurled stones at three Palestinian men and…
Amidst the increasing Coronavirus crisis and the imposed isolation shutdowns, during the last week alone settlers have attacked Palestinians and their property in the Occupied West Bank on numerous occasions. On Saturday, March 28, for the second consecutive day, settlers attacked the village of Al-Tuwani, south of the city of Hebron in the West Bank, according…
A video uploaded to Facebook on Friday, February 21, shows an Israeli army bulldozer driving at a high speed and pushing large boulders towards Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum. Two Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces attacked dozens of protesters taking part in the weekly anti-settlements protest in the…
Settlers desecrated and torched a mosque on Friday, January 24, in the village of Beit Safafa, southwest of Jerusalem. A group of Jewish settlers clandestinely entered the village before dawn, sprayed racist slogans on the walls of the Al-Badriya Mosque and then set fire to the building, partially damaging it. The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Affairs…