West Bank

Challenge to Israel’s Supporters: Tell Me What’s Untrue in Amnesty’s Report on Israel IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG   Israeli settlers and soldiers gather at the recently established wildcat outpost of Eviatar near the West Bank city of Nablus, July 2021. Israel and its partisans want to ignore the new Amnesty Int’l report on Israeli apartheid, claiming it’s “antisemitic.” Gideon Levy insists, “What is written in the report does not stem from antisemitism, but will help strengthen it. Israel is the greatest motivator of antisemitic urges in the world today.” by Gideon Levy, reposted from Ha’aretz, February 3, 2022 As the curses and screeches subside – Amnesty are antisemites, the report is full of lies, the methodology is absurd – one must ask: What, precisely, is incorrect ...

Illegal Nazi JEWISH colonists vandalized, on Tuesday night, several Palestinian-owned vehicles in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA). Correspondent for WAFA stated that overnight Tuesday Nazi JEWISH settlers smashed the windshields of a number of vehicles belonging to Palestinians in the neighbourhood. For several days, Nazi police have imposed a siege on the neighbourhood to protect the far-right extremist Nazi Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir’s office which he set up in a clear act of incitement. The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood has seen demolitions and forcible transfers in the last several months, including the Salem family who recently received a final eviction order from the Nazi occup...

Nazi soldiers injured many Palestinians and abducted two in Bethlehem and Beit Fajjar in the Nazi occupied West Bank. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers invaded the northern area of Bethlehem city, leading to protests before the army fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades. The sources added that Palestinian medics provided the needed treatment to many Palestinians who suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. In addition, the soldiers invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, stormed and ransacked a few homes, and abducted Odai Mohammad Thawabta, 19, and Ammar Younis Thawabta, 18. Earlier Wednesday, the Nazi soldiers abducted 15 Palestinian civilians from different areas of the Nazi occupied West Bank, including a 65-year-old man.

Commenting on the fast-moving serious developments in the Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Nazi occupied East Jerusalem, Amnesty International (AI) today warned Israel that forcible transfer of Palestinians under its occupation is a war crime. “For three days, Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah have been holding demonstrations in response to the imminent threat of forced eviction for the Salem family, which is slated for next month,” said AI in a tweet, adding that Nazi security forces have used “unlawful force” to disperse Palestinians demonstrating against the forcible transfer of the Salem family. It called on the Nazi authorities “to immediately halt forced evictions in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and end the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians from East Je...

Nazi soldiers invaded the town of Jabal al-Mokabber, southeast of the Nazi occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and handed a demolition order of a Palestinian home. The WAFA News Agency said the Nazi soldiers handed Ehab al-Hosseini an order for the demolition of his home. It added that the order states that the family needs to destroy its property within 21 days or be forced to pay excessive fines and fees in addition to the demolition costs if the city carries the demolition out using its workers and equipment. The Palestinian said he built his property on his land in 2017 and has been trying to prevent its demolition. He added that he already received two fines of 45.000 Shekels each and paid them off. Yet, the city continues to deny him a construc...

Nazi forces detained, 15 Palestinian civilians from different areas of the occupied West Bank, including a 65 year old man, according to local sources. Security sources told the Palestinian News & Information Agency (WAFA) that the Nazi soldiers detained two Palestinians, including a 65-year-old man, from the village of at-Tuwani, southwest of Hebron in the southern West Bank. North of Hebron, northwest of Hebron, Nazi soldiers detained one young man after storming and searching his family home. In the Nazi occupied Jerusalem, Israeli police detained one Palestinian identified as Muhammad Musa Mustafa, from the al-‘Isawiya neighborhood. In the Nablus Governorate, in the northern West Bank, the army detained three Palestinian young men, one from al-Lubban ash-...

On Wednesday morning, Nazi soldiers invaded Atouf village, southeast of Tubas in the northeastern West Bank, and handed demolition orders of two irrigation pools, a residential Room, and a storage room. Abdullah Bisharat, the head of Atouf and ar-Ras al-Ahmar village council, stated that the Nazi soldiers handed an order to Nathir Bisharat, informing him that the army had decided to demolish his two 500 and 1000 cubic meters irrigation pools. The Nazi soldiers also handed a demolition order targeting a four hundred square meters residential room and a 120 square meters agricultural storage room. It is worth mentioning that Atouf is among the many villages and Bedouin dwellings in the area that are subject to constant Nazi regime violations, including demolitions, illegal conf...

Controversial bill advances 44-5, after MKs from both sides of the aisle leave the plenum rather than vote; stricter version also approved By TOI STAFF People hold a protest against the 'Citizenship Law' outside the Knesset on June 29, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) With help from the opposition, the controversial so-called Citizenship Law passed its first reading in the Knesset plenum on Monday, despite objections from the coalition’s Meretz and Ra’am parties. Along with the bill sponsored by Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, which passed 44-5, MKs also approved a more strict version of the bill sponsored by MK Simcha Rothman of the opposition Religious Zionism party. The two versions will now move on to further debates in the Knesset’s committees where they will lik...

Amnesty Germany’s discomfort with publicizing the new report on Israeli apartheid highlights the sorry state of human rights discourse in the country. A copy of Amnesty International's new report accusing Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, launched in Jerusalem on February 1, 2022. (Oren Ziv) By Michael Sappir  On Tuesday, Amnesty International’s German section participated, albeit with reservations, in the launch of the organization’s new report accusing Israel of committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians. Just one day later, the announcement regarding the report had been deleted from its website, meaning all that remains in German is a separate overview on the Austrian section’s website. While the German sec...