المكتب الوطني للدفاع عن الارض ومقاومة الاستيطان منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية
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By: Madeeha Araj,
The National Bureau condemned the assassination of youth, Mo’ataz Hosein Hilal Bani-Shamsia, 23, and the injury of Journalist, Majdi Shtaia by an armed extremist settler in the Hawara town, Nablus. The Bureau considered the crime as one of the series crimes encouraged by the Israeli occupation government. It also held the Israeli PM Office full and direct responsibility on the consequences of the crime, and called on all human right organizations to document such crimes in order to file them to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to reckon and trial the killer.
In a scene in which blatant racism was seen, settlers distributed sweets to bypasses cars south of Nablus, cheering the killing a Palestinian youth during a march to support the prisoners near the Howara town, which remind us of the burning of Dawabsha family in the Doma village by the end of 2015. At the same time Israeli ministers, including Naftali Bennett, expressed their support for that.
In continuation of the Israeli occupation policy based on looting and colonization, the Israeli occupation authorities have begun effective moves to build scores of new settlement units on Palestinian land near the Ramallah city. The Benjamin Regional Council for Settlement has submitted bids for the construction of 209 housing units in the Kochav Ya’akov settlement in the West Bank. The new project, which the Israeli Civil Administration is currently promoting, is being planned in the 1980s, and is part of a larger plan to build 1,200 settlement units will be implemented in a month. Moreover, the project could expand to include 2099 settlement units.
Extremist settlers from the Maskiot settlement began to set up a new outpost on Khirbet Al-Suweida land near the Jordan Valley, others began to put real signs on the ground in an attempt to establish another outpost on the lands of Khallet Hamad. They set up several tents, a sheep and livestock facilities. Hebrew sources disclosed that the Minister of Agriculture, Uri Ariel, has transferred NIS 110,000,000 to religious and settlement groups in the occupied West Bank although the purpose of those funds were to finance towns within the Green Line.
The so-called “Temple Associations” and several settlement associations have issued calls to intensify the incursions of the Old city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and to escalate their provocative marches and celebrations in the so-called “Unification Day” under the protection of the Israeli occupation. Besides, 800 members of the ruling Likud party signed a petition calling for Israeli sovereignty over settlements of the occupied West Bank.
During her participation in the Can International Festival, in which Israel broadcast a film “Spirits of Ismail, the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports, Miri Regev appeared wearing a dress depicting the Old City of Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Minister justified the dress as “an expression of Israeli control over Jerusalem on the 50th anniversary of its occupation. Regev urged the Jews and settlers to storm the holy sites in large numbers in the “unification day of Jerusalem,” demanding that the settlers have to accompany their children to break into the Aqsa Mosque, and urged them to complete their control of Jerusalem through constructing the temple mount.
Over the Last Week, the Following Israeli Occupation Army and Right-wing Settlers’ Violations were documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
- Handing over a decision to stop construction work in the Divan of the town under the pretext of being constructed without a license.
- Informing the demolition of 4 residential buildings under construction in Al-Muntar Street in Kafr Aqeb district under the pretext.
- Closing a building with iron in the area.
- Launching slogans in the sky of the occupied city of Jerusalem bearing the number 50 in reference to the 50th anniversary of the completion of the occupation of the city and the commemoration of its unification.
RAMALLAH:
- Approving the construction of 209 settlement units in the Kokhav Ya’akov settlement near the occupied city of Jerusalem.
- Wounding Ibrahim Rasim Hamed, 19, from the Silwad town while trying to close a settlers road with some other youths to support the Palestinian prisoners.
Nablus:
- Killing youth, Mo’taz Hilal Bani Shamsa, 23, from Beita.
- Wounding AP photographer, Majdi Moh’d Ashtiyeh with 2 live bullets in the Salim village.
- Attacking, Yosiff Abu Bakr with stones on the Nablus – Qalqiliya road.
- Attacking vehicles on the public road adjacent to Yitzhar settlement, causing several damages.
- Setting up fire to a tractor, and writing racist slogans and drawing David Stars on the walls of the Burin village.
Hebron:
- Erecting a new military tower at the entrance of the Wadi Al-Shajna village near Dura.
- Bulldozing a land at the main entrance of the village belonging to the Abu-Sheikha and Abu Arqoub families to monitor the road used by settlers.
- Confiscating a land for military purposes.
- Wounding, Ghasan Al-Muhtasib, 35, after being beaten by a settler.
- Ddemolishing the interior walls of the house of the citizen, Rizk Rajoub, at Muslim neighbourhood to the south of Hebron.
JENIN:
- Demolishing 2 baracks and 8 facilities in the Ya’bed town, belonging to the citizens, Mah’d Jaber Abu Bakr and Majdi Ahmad Amarneh, inflicting losses to the owners estimated at NIS 10,000, subjecting them to sanctions if they try to rebuild them.
Jordan Valley :
- Destroying a water hole in the Bardala village under the pretext of non-licensed. Worth mentioning here that the Israeli occupation has destroyed several holes a month ago, under the same pretext.
- Erecting tents and residential facilities in Khirbet Al-Swaida.
- Invading the Khirbet Ibizig, and uprooting more than 60 olive seedlings belonging to Ahmed Khalil Mbaslat, and seizing fences and columns placed around the seedlings.
