Illegal Israeli Settlers

Erect New Settlement,

Assault Palestinian Farmers,

Pour Sewerage into the West Bank,

Plan to Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque 

AFEH: Jewish fanatic groups planning to storm the Aqsa

[ 17/12/2009 - 10:35 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage (AFEH) has said that Jewish fanatic groups were planning to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday on the occasion of the Jewish feast of Hanukkah.

The AFEH said in a statement on Wednesday that the Jewish groups had planned for the storming weeks ago, pointing to the advertisements in streets and provocative speeches.

It said that the Jewish fanatics plan to break into the holy site in organized groups, warning of the consequences of the step and the continued desecrations of the blessed Mosque.

The Foundation asked the Palestinians to frequent the Mosque and to protect it in face of such desecration.

Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers erect new settlement, assault farmers

[ 17/12/2009 - 10:41 AM ]

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)--

Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers laid down the foundation stone of a new illegal random settlement in the West Bank despite the government's decision to freeze settlement construction for ten months.

The AFP said that around 50 settlers old and young started to build a house on a hill near Bethlehem south of the West Bank on Wednesday.

One of the organizers of the event said that the step was in retaliation to the government's settlement freeze.

Meanwhile, local sources south of Nablus said that settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Qaryut village on Wednesday and prevented them from tending to their cultivated lands, and added that Israeli occupation troops escorted those settlers.

They added that the settlers beat up a number of farmers and wounded one of them, noting that the village was the target of a series of similar attacks over the past three months during which tens of villagers were hurt.

B'Tselem: Settlers pour their sewerage water into the West Bank

[ 17/12/2009 - 10:48 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

The Israeli information center for human rights in the occupied territories, B'Tselem, said in a report on Wednesday that the illegal Israeli settlements discharge their sewage water into West Bank valleys and villages.

The report said that the settlements produce around 17.5 million cubic meters of sewage water per annum, adding that they represent the refuse of 80 settlements out of a total of 112 in the West Bank.

Meanwhile, settlers south of Nablus started expanding their settlement at the expense of Bruin village lands under the very eyes of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) that did nothing to stop them despite the Israeli government's decision to halt construction in settlements for ten months.

Local sources in Al-Khalil said that IOF troops on Thursday detained a Palestinian youth in Edhna village after storming his home.

The IOF soldiers late on Wednesday rounded up two Palestinian boys (16 and 17 years old) in Jenin's Rummane village for walking near the separation wall.