This week – June 5-11, 2022 – in the Occupied Territories
Acativists protesting the Masafer Yatta transfer were
attacked with stones and wounded by terrorists from the colonist outpost
‘Mitzpe Yair’, in collaboration with the Yehuda (southern West Bank) Brigade
commander and his subordinates; Colonists began consrtruction of a new road on
the lands of En Al Beda - Palestinian demonstrators protesting the land-grab were
assaulted with blows and teargas; The occupation forces have begun mapping,
identifying and photographing the Masafer Yatta Palestinain communities, and do
it late at night on Friday and Saterday; Terrorists from the colonist outposts
of the South Hebron Hills attacked
Palestinian shepherds and farmers all through the week with blows, stones and
metal rods; The Israeli army violently dispersed Palestinians who tried to
protest the construction of a Yeshiva on the lands of Farisiya, in the northern
Palestinian Jordan Valley; At the orders of a criminal colonist, occupation
soldiers harass a Palestinian shepherd from Hamra (northern Palestinian Jordan
Valley), and arrested him twice this week – groundlessly; A terrorist from the
‘dismantled’ outpost ‘Ma’ale Ahuviya’ beat up two activists in Deir Jarayer;
Violent arrests of Palestinian families in the Old City of Jerusalem; Army and
police forces raided East Jerusalem neighborhoods all week to remove Palestine
flags, hurling teargas canisters into homes, causing clashes and arresting
residents; Israel’s Supreme Court rejected the Greek Patriarchy’s appeal to
cancel the fraudulent sale of its
propertys near Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate to ‘Ateret Kohanim’ colonists; Right-wing
thugs attacked the patriarchy’s guard on Mount Zion, vandalized a garden and a
building, and desecrated graves;
South Hebron Hills
This week too, the occupation forces continued preparations for the
transfer of the Palestinian communities from Masafer Yatta, under the
aegis of the Supreme Court ruling:
On Tuesday, June 7, villagers of Taban were issued 13 final demolition
orders that include most of the village structures, in addition to 3 water
cisterns, 4 tents and a central solar system. At the same time, the inspector
threatened to confiscate the vehicle of activists who came to visit the area,
declaring it a closed ‘firing zone’.
On Friday, June 10, activists came to march in protest of the
transfer and tried to remove the barrier blocking the way to Bir Al Eid.
Colonists stoned the bus that drove the demonstrators there, while the army
violently chased away the demonstrators, fired teargas and stun grenades at
them, detained two activists on the ground, and as they were released forced
them to leave in their car via the road below the violent outpost ‘Mitzpe
Yair’. The outpost’s terrorists blocked their way out and hurled stones at
their car at close range, so that one of the windows was smashed and an
activist was wounded. Army and police forces – the local brigade commander
among them – were present, and did nothing to prevent the murderous attack or
arrest the terrorists. Soldiers cursed women-activists.
On Friday evening, army forces arrived in Taban, Majaz and Fakhit
(villages in Masafer Yatta) and were busy mapping, identifying and
photographing inhabitants’ IDs nearly until midnight. The next day, Saturday,
they continued their activities in the villages of Khalat A-Daba, Safai and
Jinba.
Work on a new colonist road on Palestinian land in En Al Beda
began on Monday, June 6, n, and continued on Wednesday. On Friday, Palestinian
inhabitants demonstrated at En Al Beda in protest of the colonist
takeover of their lands. They were attacked by Jewish terrorists, beat up and
pepper-sprayed. A disabled demonstrator was pushed to the ground and wounded.
The army joined the colonists and chased the Palestinians away violently,
firing teargas.
On Sunday, June 5, activists had to intervene once again in order
to get school children and their teachers to the Susya school, after soldiers had
detained them at the new checkpoints near Susya and Carmil.
On Friday, soldiers took over the Sumud Park in Tawane
village, claimed they have orders to close it down, and threatened the
villagers with weapons and arrests.
All week long, the army and police collaborated with the Jewish
terrorists from colonist outposts and colonies in the South Hebron Hills, as
these escalated and exacerbated their vandalizing of Palestinian fields and
attacks against their owners:
Colonists invaded a tended Palestinian
field in Tawamin on Sunday (a complaint was lodged with the police) and on Tuesday evening, when army forces were
summoned there, and did nothing. The same evening, Tuesday, colonists with
their flock invaded tended Palestinian fields officially closed off to Israelis
in Umm Al Arais, and policemen summoned by the landowner stood by and
demonstratively refused to remove the invaders. On Monday, June 6, colonists
and their flocks invaded a tended Palestinian field and olive tree grove in Atariya
and damaged them. An activist accompanying the landowner to the police station in
Kiryat Arba colony to lodge a complaint was threatened by the investigator and
even arrested for a short while.
On Tuesday, June 7, outpost terrorists
attacked a Palestinian shepherd opposite Maon colony and stole a lamb, taking
it to their outpost. The police refused to handle the case, and soldiers who
arrived did nothing. On Thursday, the terrorists once again attacked a shepherd
opposite Maon, this time with a dog. The police and army who arrived did
nothing. That day, Thursday, June 9, a memorial put up by the Palestinian
residents of the area, commemorating Haj Sliman Hadhalin who was run
over by a police vehicle last winter in Umm Al Kheir, was smashed.
On Saturday, June 22, Jewish terrorists attacked a Palestinian on
his way to his tree grove near Simra, beating him up with a metal rod
and a stone. He was wounded in the head and needed medical care.
Activists accompanied Palestinian shepherds and farmers throughout
the South Hebron Hills all week.
To join Ta'ayush in The South Hebron
Hills this Saturday call 055-2770168
Please make an effort to register no later
than Thursday evening. Please bring an ID/passport, a hat, water
and food for the day. It is advised to take into consideration cultural
differences in the choice of clothing.
Palestinian Jordan Valley and the West bank Hill Range
On Sunday, June 5, Jordan Valley activists joined the harvest at Hadidiya
and Samara. Later in the week they accompanied shepherds of the
Palestinian communities in the northern part of the Valley. The occupation
army is committed to to aid the violent colonist harassing his neighbors, the Hamra
shepherds: on Sunday, soldiers arrested a shepherd from the community and
released him two hours later at the checkpoint without any explanation. On
Tuesday, the colonist harassed the shepherd and his flock with a drone, and on
Wednesday the soldiers again detained the shepherd, exerting violence on
activists who accompanied him.
Palestinians and activists who tried to demonstrate on Monday, June
6, against the construction of a ‘Yeshiva’ on ‘Giv’at Sal’it’, near Farisiya,
were blocked by the army. The soldiers violently dispersed the Palestinians
who managed to arrive there, using stun grenades and teargas. A woman soldier sprayed
teargas at an elderly demonstrator’s face. Four people were wounded, among them
the head of the ‘fence committee’ and journalists. The Yeshiva is built
near Farisiya in order to take over the land and chase away the Palestinian
community living there (in the nearby colony of ‘Shadmot Mekhola’ stands the
skeleton of an unfinished structure for a yeshiva). A week ago at night,
colonists have already put up a shed that overlooks the entire area. In
addition, activists documented a new water pump in En Sukut which robs
the spring water from local shepherds grazing on privately-owned Palestinian
property; one of the three pools there has already dried out.
In Deir Jarayer, on the West Bank Hill Range, two
activists were attacked on Wednesday, June 8, while weeding an olive grove by
hand (for fear of the outpost colonists in the area, no Palestinian tractor
driver is willing to go there). The two were beat up by a colonist from ‘Ma’ale
Ahuviya’, the ‘dismantled’ outpost nearby. On Friday, Palestinian shepherds’ flocks
from Rashash (West Bank Hill Range) were harassed by a drone flown by
colonists.
In the Auja area (southern Palestinian Jordan Valley), shepherds
were accompanied by activists unhampered most days this week, except for a few
clashes. On Sunday, the colonists of the new outpost near ‘Mevo’ot Yericho’ drove
away Palestinian shepherds, and the next day, Monday, shepherds from nearby Muraja’at
were harassed. On Friday, Israeli soldiers joined the efforts to chase away
Palestinian shepherds using false and contradictory claims.
To join activity in the Jordan Valley, please contact Arik:
050-5607034
Jerusalem
On Sunday, June 5 (Jewish holiday of
Pentacost), 539 Jews came up to the El Aqsa Mosque compound with a heavy
escort. The forces locked the Muslim men inside the mosque, allowing only women
in the area in front of it. Teargas was fired into the Mosque, from which
stones were thrown. The occupation forces arrested 5 Palestinians, two of them
elderly women. At the Hota Gate in the Old City, soldiers attacked and
arrested an elderly man, woman and their son, and beat up and arrested a young
Palestinian couple.
The same day, in the early morning hours, the
occupation forces invaded the Shu’afat refugee camp. Heavy clashes were
reported, during which a Palestinian, wounded by gunfire, was arrested. The
forces also invaded the Sur Bahr neighborhood and removed Palestine
flags. The same day, colonists threw stones at Palestinian vehicles driving along
the road dividing the East and West parts of the city.
On Monday, June 6, surveying began in
preparation for demolishing a 12-apartment house in Silwan – 32 adults
and 42 children are to become homeless. Inhabitants trying to protest were
attacked by the occupation forces who fired teargas into houses, and a
4-year-old boy needed medical care due to suffocation. The occupation forces
violently arrested a father and son in the Old City – the son was hospitalized.
The same day, Jerusalem policemen were documented violently attacking one of
the heads of the Islamic Movement and Ra’am political party, Sheikh Mohammad
Hasan Salame and his family members at the Hota gate of the Old City.
Additional forces raided Shu’afat and Issawiya again to remove
Palestine flags. The same day, Jewish thugs attacked the guard of the Greek
Patriarchy on Mount Zion, invaded the garden and structure, vandalized them and
desecrated graves.
On Tuesday, occupation forces clashed with
Palestinians in the Qalandiya refugee camp, leaving behind victims of
suffocation by teargas, after having detained for hours at the checkpoint a
6-months baby being driven for critical surgery at Moqassad Hospital. In A-Ram,
the forces raided a mourners’ tent during a chase after a Palestinian and
threatened mourners; they again raided Issawiya neighborhood and violently
detained two minors. Inhabitants of Silwan documented the abuse and arrest of a
Palestinian boy, who was stripped of all his clothes. He was released after
several hours and hospitalized with head wounds and fractures – and summoned
for questioning.
The same day, Tuesday, in Issawiya,
two policemen entering the neighborhood by mistake were attacked, the weapon of
one of them was grabbed and they were pepper-sprayed. The next dawn, heavy
forces raided the neighborhood, blocked all exits, fired at a car, raided homes
and conducted arrests while making heavy use of teargas. One Palestinian was
reported wounded.
On Wednesday, the Israeli Supreme Court
rejected the Greek Patriarchy’s appeal to stop the takeover of their property
near the Jaffa Gate by ‘Ateret Kohanim’ colonists – thus legitimizing the fraud
by which these structures were purchased.
During the week, another 12-year-old minor
was arrested in East Jerusalem, and the boy Abdul Karim Samarin from Silwan
was arrested again. He is a 15-year old who was arrested and beaten up after
his family had been attacked by colonists last week (His father is still
hospitalized).
The army and police serial raids of
Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem in order to remove Palestine flags went
on all week, as well as the ascent of Jews to the mosques of Temple Mount, where
they shout racist curses and threaten to blow up the mosques.
The weekly protest in Sheikh Jarrah takes place every Friday. We will meet at the Sheikh Jarrah Garden, Nablus
Road and Dahlmann St. at 4 p.m
