Israeli Occupation Forces Kidnap 13 Palestinians, Including 4 Children, Violence of Illegal Israeli Settler on the Rise

Israeli occupation forces kidnap four Palestinian children

Date: 10 / 06 / 2009 Time: 12:17
Jerusalem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped four Palestinian children during a raid the West Bank village of Hizma, northeast of Jerusalem early on Wednesday morning.

Witnesses in the village said Israeli occupation soldiers stormed numerous houses, detaining Dawood Mohammad Najeeb, 12, Abdullah Hassan Najeeb, Shararah Hassan Mahmood Najeeb, 11, and Mahmoud Kareem Najeeb, 12.

Earlier the Israeli occupation army said it detained nine Palestinians in raids in the West Bank.

Israeli forces kidnap nine Palestinians overnight

Date: 10 / 06 / 2009 Time: 09:33
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

The Israeli occupation forces kidnapped nine Palestinians in overnight raids in the West Bank.

The kidnapped Palestinians were taken for “interrogation,” according to Israel. They are being held in unknown locations.

Palestinian injured near Hebron area settlement

Date: 10 / 06 / 2009 Time: 12:44
Hebron – Ma’an –

A Palestinian man arrived at the main gate to Israeli settlement of Karma south of Hebron on Wednesday with wounds in his neck seemingly resulting from an attack with stones, Israeli sources said.

According to the same sources, paramedics gave the man first aid and they prepare to transfer him to hospital in Hebron.

The identity of the injured man and how he was injured remained unknown. Israeli media previously reported that a Palestinian was shot near the same settlement, but the report later turned out to be false.

Settlers install tents near a Palestinian village in Nablus

Wednesday June 10, 2009 05:04 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agecnies

Local sources in Khirbit Yanoun, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, stated that a group of extremist illegal Israeli settlers installed tents neat the village and attacked a number of residents.

The sources added that five Israeli vehicles arrived near the village carrying the settlers and their equipment, and that the settlers immediately installed the tens and set the "parameter" of their new outpost.

The settlers then transformed a piece of land into a military training zone, placed targets and started firing at them.

The Israeli army did not attempt to intervene.

Settler violence on the rise

Wednesday June 10, 2009 13:09 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agecnies

The Israeli Yesh Din human rights group stated that the illegal Israeli Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank are escalating their attacks against the Palestinians, and significantly increased their attempts to uproot and damage Palestinian farmlands.

File - Olive trees burnt by settlers, image uruknet.info

The group stated that “the settlers are trying to achieve political goals by committing acts of terror against the Palestinians and their lands”.

It said that the famers in Palestine are the ones who are paying the price for the government’s attempts to evacuate some illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank.

The group added the recent weeks witnessed a significant increase of attacks and attempts to uproot trees, and that such attacked escalating due to the lack of action by the army against the assailants.

Yesh Din sent a letter to Israeli Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, the Central Command Chief of the Israeli Army, Gadi Shamni, and the Chief of the Israeli Police in the West Bank, Hagai Dotan, informing them that the settlers sawed and uprooted more than 300 trees, mostly olive trees, in the West Bank since the end of April until the end of May.

The group demanded the Israeli officials to prevent these attacks, and to prevent the acts of vengeance that the settlers carry out after the evacuation of illegal outposts.

Yesh Din attorney, Michael Sfard, stated that his group repeatedly warned the Israeli police and army that the settlers and extremist Jewish groups are carrying “systematic, organized and large-scale terrorist attacks against Palestinian civilians”.

Meanwhile, the Council of Settlement in the West Bank said that the Yesh Din Organization is an “extremist leftist group” that believes that Palestinians and does not even verify their stories with the settlers”.

The Council described the activists of Yesh Din as “snitches acting to disgrace the Jews of the land of Israel”, and claimed that the group “fuels anti-Semitism”.

The Israeli Municipality demolishes two Palestinian-owned homes in Jerusalem's old city

Tuesday June 09, 2009 16:54 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

The Israeli municipality of Jerusalem demolished on Tuesday two Palestinian-owned homes located inside the walls of the old city.

On Tuesday midday Israeli troops arrived and forced Mohamed Goshah to demolishe his own house.

The family told media that soldiers attacked them and kidnapped one family member and another young man who was at the location. The family added that the soldiers told Mohamed that he has to demolish his home now or a 25,000 USD fine would be imposed.

Earlier in the day the Israeli military demolished the house of another Palestinian near the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The house owner Khalil Al Hartoni, said that military police came to his home forced his family out, then arrested his brother before demolishing his home. He added that his home was first demolished fourth months ago.

Hateem abed Al Kader, the Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem affairs stated that the Israeli Jerusalem municipality is planning to demolish 800 Palestinian owned homes in east Jerusalem.

The municipality says the two homes were built without the needed building permission. Since Israel occupied the city of Jerusalem in 1967, the authorities have rarely given Palestinian residents permission to build homes. The Israeli government has continued to build Jewish settlements in and around East-Jerusalem, an act which violates International law.

Cases are known of houses that existed before Israel first came to the area in 1967 or in some cases even before Israel ever existed and are still threatened with demolition for not having a building permit.

To lower the costs of the demolition operations it is normal practice to order Palestinians to demolish their own houses or to let the residents pay for the costs by imposing fines.

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