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By: Madeeha Araj
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In a clear violation of all laws and human rights principles, including the right to education and access to educational institutions, many Palestinian schools in the countryside and Bedouin communities are attacked by Israeli soldiers and settlers against the Oref and Luban Sharqeia’s schools south of Nablus, 7 students were injured during the attack. There were also shooting attacks by settlers and the Israeli occupation forces in the yard of (challenge) i.e. Al-Tahadi 5 Elementary School in the village of Beit Ta’mir, east of Bethlehem, and the Tahadi 10 School in the Ibzik area in the occupied Northern Valleys. A number of caravans used as classrooms were destroyed. The Israeli occupation forces handed down notices to demolish the Dabba Elementary school in Mafasser Yatta, south of Hebron, and to expel its teachers and students, hindered their access to school on Ramallah’s main Nablus street.
Within the context, the racist “Rajavim Institutiuon” filed a case in an Israeli court to demolish the school “Tahadi 5” in the area of Beit Ta’mir, east of Bethlehem, which has been subjected to demolition since it was demolished on the first day of the scholastic year of 2016-2017. This racist institution is responsible for monitoring Palestinian homes in Area C, and it is always directing the Israeli Civil Administration to demolish houses and stop construction there.
At the same time, the Israeli occupation government escalated the open war against the Palestinian people. The Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee approved the construction of 640 new settlement units in the “Ramat Shlomo” settlement on Palestinian land in Shu’fat. It located between “Ramat Shlomo” and “Beit Hanina” in Jerusalem. Some of these lands were expropriated from the Palestinians under the pretext of using them as public areas. The construction of those new settlement units will lead to the encirclement of the Palestinian neighborhoods adjacent to the settlement and their isolation from any natural demographic expansion or growth. The administrative committee of the settlement of Ramat Shlomo said that the decision to establish 1,500 settlement units includes two entrances to the south and east of the settlement, in addition to expanding the northern road with St. 443, and the tendering of 640 settlement units,
The so-called Appeals Committee of the Israeli Planning Council in Jerusalem rejected projects submitted by Palestinian Human Rights organizations aimed at stopping excavations and digging tunnels in Silwan, while approving settlement projects that penetrate Palestinian neighborhoods. During a closed discussion and without prior announcement, the committee responded to the Silwan “alternative project “, As an alternative structural plan for the municipality of the occupation after an objection by the “Alad” settlement association, which oversees the so-called “King’s Garden”, and rejected the request to reveal the level of excavations under the town of Silwan – Wadi Hilweh and Al-Ain area, and considered that as out of its jurisdiction. The committee also approved the linking of the settlement of Ramat Shlomo with bypass road 443 Modi’in – Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, on Route 21, which runs through the village of Shu’fat and isolates it from the thousands of dunums between St. 21 and 443 on the Jerusalem – Tel Aviv road .
In the Ramallah Governorate, the Israeli occupation forces seized 155 dunums of land in the western village of Laban to expand the settlement of Beit Aryeh, and open settlement roads to connect the settlements northwest of Ramallah into the settlement of Ariel in the West Bank Occupied West Bank. After distributing a decision to seize 2 dunum from Khallet al-Shamiya, 141 dunums from the village of Al-Asfoura and 12 dunums from Masodiya area, with the aim of constructing the aforementioned bypass road to the settlement of Beit Aryeh.
In the Jordan Valley, the Israeli occupation forces seized 356 dunums of land near the village of Makhoul in the northern Jordan Valley, where one of the shepherds found the notification during his livestock in the area, pointing out that the occupation placed the notification days ago at an electric columns feeding the army camps. The lands are located in four numbered basins 223, 224, 221 and 226. The Israeli occupation forces have also put a number of notices at the olive farms that stated the uprooting trees withn 45 days. The lands belong to citizens Izat Ahmed Rashaida 40 Tree, Amer Hamil 45 trees, Hassan Mahmoud Humil 25 trees, Omar and Mah’d Saleh Sawafta 150 trees. The trees are between 2-20 years old.
As part of the occupation policy aimed at providing personal security to the religious settler groups, who have been recently roaming the Old City, especially the roads leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Moreover, the Israeli authorities have begun to expand the monitoring network around Al-Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding areas. The agreement includes the planting of more than 500 smart monitoring cameras in a project called the “Kikra 2000”. While the Israeli police allowed Knesset members to increase the number of storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police in Jerusalem, Major General Yoram Halevy, have quoted as saying: “If the situation continues the same in Al-Aqsa, restrictions on visits by members of the Knesset will be removed”.
In an attempt to legitimize the daily incursions of settlers by the Israeli government’s into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, PM Netanyahu allowed Israeli right-wing members to break into the Aqsa once a month instead of one per 3 months. Thus Netanyahu allowed MK Shuli Maallem Raafaili of the far-right Jewish party to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which the Israeli-Yemeni parties call it the Temple Mount. This decision reflects the adoption of the recommendation of the Jerusalem District Commander, Yoram Halevy, to allow Knesset members to visit the area without any restrictions. For his part, Shuli Maalem, a member of the Israeli Knesset led a provocative incursion into the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and toured it. It is said that a similar storm led by the extremist rabbi, MK, Yehuda Glick of the blessed mosque and carried out tours throughout the mosque.
The National Burea said that “the continued violation of the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque requires the intervention of the international community to pressure the occupation authorities to stop such acts and to abide by the provisions of international humanitarian law.”
A list of Israeli Occupation and Settlers’ Assaults over the Last Week, Documented by the National Bureau:
Jerusalem:
- Breaking into the Shu’fat Refugee Camp in the center of occupied Jerusalem and launched a campaign of fines for shopkeepers worth 475 shekels per shop due to the placing of signs bearing the names of shops.
- Distributing orders to demolish homes in the village of Issawiya, northeast of the city, including old houses.
- The alleged “Temple organizations” call for the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Ramallah:
- Confiscating hundreds of donums from the land of the village of Budrus in Ramallah, for “security purposes”. The residents of the village were given a week to object to the decision in the Israeli courts after informing them about the confiscation plans.
Hebron:
- Breaking into two houses in the Old City of Hebron and closed their entrances from inside.
- Storming the historic market of Qazazin, closing its iron gate, assaulting and chanting “Death to the Arabs”.
- Attacking olive pickers in the Tel Rumeida area and tried to prevent them from harvesting olive trees in the land surrounding the settlement of Ramat Yishai.
- Demolishing two residential units in the area of Birin in the town of Yatta, south of Hebron, under the pretext of building without a permit.
Bethlehem:
- Threatening to demolish the school of challenge 5 within fifteen days in accordance with the decision of Ofer military court in the village of Jib al-Dhib.
- Storming the ancient Khirbet area in the town of Tekoa, they performed Talmudic rituals and imposed a security cordon on the area.
- Deploying soldiers in the Walaja village, and photographed the land there.
Nablus:
- Attacking a bulldozer driver and a member of the village council of Qaryut, while working on an agricultural road in the area of Battisha west of the town.
- Breaking into the archaeological site of Shaheleh Castle located in the town of Al-Naqoura and Ejnasia, during the restoration work carried out there in partnership with the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Salfeet:
- Raiding the town of Zawiya west of Salfit and handed over four notices to stop construction, including a house under construction under the pretext of building without a permit.
Jordan valley:
- Bulldozing and uprooting trees in the Fasayil town to the north of Jericho. Expelling Palestinian farmers from their farms and notifying to stop constructing in 10 Palestinian agricultural facilities in the northern Jordan Valley.
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