Israeli Occupation Government Continue Demolition of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank, Despite UN, Right Groups Objections, January 28, 2012

Israeli Occupation Government Continue Demolition of Palestinian Homes in the West Bank, Despite UN, Right Groups Objections

January 28, 2012

OCHA: Israel demolished 17 Palestinian homes in the past week

[ 28/01/2012 - 04:04 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government razed 17 Palestinian homes in the West Bank over the past week, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian land said on Saturday.

The report pointed out that Israel demolished eight homes in Enata village in occupied Jerusalem and displaced 52 individuals including 29 children, noting that one of the demolished buildings was being used as a social center and was knocked down for the fifth time.

The other razed structures were shops owned by eight Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley, the report said, adding that demolition notices were also served in the past week to 16 houses in occupied Jerusalem, Al-Khalil, and Nablus.

It further underlined that 12 Palestinians were injured in the Israeli occupation forces’ quelling of peaceful anti settlement and anti separation wall rallies in the West Bank in the same period.

An IOF soldier shot at and wounded a Palestinian youth at the pretext that he tried to assault him while a 17-year-old minor was hurt when Jewish settlers attacked him while at work near Karmi Tzur settlement in Al-Khalil, the report said.

Israeli soldiers attack peaceful marches in W. Bank villages

[ 28/01/2012 - 04:22 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

Dozens of Palestinians were reportedly wounded on Friday afternoon during Israeli military attacks on peaceful marches organized weekly in different West Bank villages to protest the expansion of settlements and the segregation wall at the expense of Palestinian lands. In Masarah village near Bethlehem city, Israeli soldiers attacked foreign activists and Palestinians after they marched towards the Palestinian lands behind the segregation wall. Two of the peaceful protestors sustained injuries after they were severely beaten by soldiers, a spokesman for Masarah popular committee reported.

In addition to the slogans chanted and banners carried against settlement activities, the protestors in Masarah dedicated their weekly march to condemn Israel's detention of Palestinian lawmakers.

Al-Khalil city also saw a massive rally organized after the Friday prayers to peacefully protest Israel's annexation of Palestinian lands in Tel Rumeida village.

The Israeli occupation forces also suppressed the weekly march that took place in Kafr Qaddum village.

Despite the soldiers' attacks, and the rainy and cold weather conditions, the Kafr Qaddum villagers along with foreign activists kept marching and chanting slogans calling for escalating the popular resistance until the liberation of all Palestine.

In another march organized in Bil'in village near Ramallah city, the occupation forces also used tear gas grenades, rubber bullets, and waste water against the protestors causing many injuries among them.

One Palestinian photographer was deliberately shot in his two legs with rubber bullets and many Palestinian and foreign protestors suffocated and puked as a result of the large amount of tear gas and waster water used against Bil'in march.

Inhabitants of hamlet go on hunger strike to protest IOA demolition of their home

[ 28/01/2012 - 05:28 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)--

Inhabitants of Khirbat Al-Tawil hamlet south of Nablus city have gone on hunger strike for a single day on Saturday to protest Israeli occupation authority’s (IOA) practices against them.

Quds Press quoted Hamza Dairiye, member of the popular committee to defend the hamlet land, as saying that the hunger strike, the first of its kind, was in protest against the IOA plan to raze all 17 houses of Khirbat Al-Tawil in addition to a mosque and an electricity network.

He said that the IOA decided to demolish the entire hamlet within a week at the pretext it was built on military land in “C” area in the West Bank, which is under full control of the IOA.

The activist said that Khirbat Al-Tawil and nearby areas are the most fertile lands overlooking the Jordan Valley with 30000 dunums cultivated with wheat, legumes, and vegetables while 10000 others dunums are left for cattle grazing.

IOA blocks travel of 40 Palestinians in one week

[ 28/01/2012 - 05:26 PM ]

Ramallah, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) blocked the travel of 40 Palestinians from the West Bank to Jordan over the past week, Palestinian sources said.

They said that the IOA told 40 Palestinians at the Karame crossing that they were banned from travel for alleged “security reasons”.

The IOA controls the crossing between the West Bank and Jordan and bars travel of Palestinian citizens at trivial security pretexts.

Israel planning to raze 30 Palestinian houses in the Negev

[ 28/01/2012 - 03:52 PM ]

NEGEV, (PIC)--

The Israeli army is planning to build barracks for its intelligence in the Negev on the land of the unrecognized Palestinian village Mukaimen, the Arab center for alternative planning in 1948 occupied Palestine said.

It said in a press release that more than 30 Palestinian houses and buildings would be razed in the village to make way for the army camps, adding that the Israeli army plans to lay its hand on 5070 dunums of land, 3000 for building the barracks and the remaining area would be subjected to construction limitations.

The center pointed out that the inhabitants would be expelled from the entire area at the pretext they were illegally inhabiting it while in fact they were there before the creation of Israel.

Senior UN official demands Israel to end its displacement of Palestinians

[ 28/01/2012 - 09:17 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

UN humanitarian coordinator for occupied Palestine Maxwell Gaylard on Friday called on Israel to put an immediate end to its systematic demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

"Israel, as the occupying power, has a fundamental responsibility to protect the Palestinian civilian population under its control and to ensure their dignity and well-being," Gaylard said in a statement.

"The wholesale destruction of their homes and livelihoods is not consistent with that responsibility or humanitarian ideals,” he said

Gaylard visited Anata village on the outskirts of occupied Jerusalem yesterday where he saw the ruins of seven Palestinian homes demolished earlier in the week and met with representatives of the displaced families.

Bulldozers and troops had arrived in the middle of the night of 23 January, he was told, and that 52 people, including 29 children, had been forced out of their homes, which were then destroyed.

The visit by Gaylard came on the same day that the UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (OCHA) released a new report showing that about 1,100 Palestinians, over half of them children, were displaced due to home demolitions in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation forces in 2011, over 80 percent more than in the previous year.

The report, entitled “Demolitions and Forced Displacement in the Occupied West Bank,” added that an additional 4,200 people were affected by the demolition of structures related to their livelihoods.

Gaylard noted that these figures represent a dramatic increase compared with previous years, and that tens of thousands of Palestinians remain under threat of dispossession, demolition and displacement.

"The current policy and practice of demolitions cause extensive human suffering and should end," he stated. "Palestinians urgently require ready access to a fair and non-discriminatory planning and zoning system that meets their needs for growth and development."

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