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Nazi soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, four Palestinians, including two children, from their homes in Qalqilia and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Sixteen Palestinians have been abducted by the sodliers across the West Bank at dawn. Local sources in Qalqilia, in northern West Bank, said several army jeeps invaded Azzoun town, east of the city, searched several homes, and abducted two Palestinians, identified as Karim Omran and Mo’men Shello. In Bethlehem governorate, south of the Nazi occupied Palestinian capital, Jerusalem, in the West Bank, the soldiers abducted two children, identified as Yazan Amer Sabah, 16, and Ibrahim Salim Sabah, 15, from their homes in Teqoa’ town, southeast of Bethlehem city.Video Player 00:0000:29 In Hebron, in southern West Ban...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, four Palestinians from several parts of the Hebron governorate, in southern West Bank. Media sources said several army vehicles invaded the Abu Kteila area, in Hebron city, before the Nazi soldiers stormed and searched homes, and abducted a young man, identified as Suheib Mohammad al-Qawasmi.Video Player 00:0000:25 Nazi Soldiers Abducting Suheib Mohammad al-Qawasmi They added that the Nazi soldiers also invaded Karisa village, west of Doura town, south of Hebron, searched homes, before abducting Mohyeddin Sharawna and Hazem Hussein Sharawna. In addition, the Nazi soldiers invaded Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron, searched homes, and abducted Montaser Yousef Abu Ayyash, 30. Also at dawn, the Nazi soldiers abducted eight Pa...

Nazo soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, eight Palestinians and assaulted one causing various wounds, in the Jenin governorate, in northern West Bank. Media sources said several Nazi army vehicles invaded Bir al-Basha village, southwest of Jenin, before storming and ransacking the homes of the brothers and relatives of detainee Yacoub Qadri, who was one of six detainees who managed to escape from the heavily fortified Galboa’ Israeli prison before they captured a week later. The sources added that the Nazi soldiers abducted Laith Hamza Ghawadra, and Mohammad Ghawadra, the brother of detainee Yacoub Ghawadra, after storming and ransacking their homes, causing serious property damage. The Nazi soldiers also invaded the home of Ali Ghawadra, 63, the brother of Yacoub, and v...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, a former political prisoner from Marka village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, and confiscated a bulldozer near Hebron, in southern West Bank Local sources said the Nazi soldiers invaded Marka village before storming and violently searching a shop, near the Arraba-Jenin junction. They added that the Nazi soldiers abducted a former political prisoner, identified as Ala’ Yousef Abu Jalboush, 20, and took him to an unknown destination. In related news, the Nazi soldiers invaded the as-Samoa’ town, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and confiscated a Palestinian bulldozer, owned by Hasan Hussein al-Mahareeq, during work in the Simia area of the western part of the town. Also Tuesday, Nazi forces demolishe...

What I would’ve told the Knesset about settler violence — if they’d let me A settler in front of Ma'on settlement speaking with Israeli soldiers, South Hebron Hills, September 22, 2012. (Yotam Ronen/Activestills) I was the only Palestinian invited to address Israeli settler violence at a Knesset committee. But right-wing parliament members sabotaged the conversation. By Ali Awad I was supposed to speak to Knesset members about the widespread phenomenon of settler violence on Tuesday. A group of Israeli anti-occupation organizations — our partners in the struggle to achieve our rights and defend our dignity on our own land — invited me to address the Foreign and Defense Affairs Committee. But I couldn’t. Israeli politicians intentionally derailed the session in an instan...

Israel's labeling of six Palestinian NGOs as 'terrorists' aims to suppress those exposing and challenging apartheid. International actors must intervene. By +972 Magazine October 24, 2021A member of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), a civilian observer mission in Hebron, seen in the West Bank city on January 28, 2019. That year, the Israeli government refused to renew TIPH's mandate, effectively removed the force from the city. (Catherine Curran-Groome) +972 Magazine stands firmly in solidarity with the six Palestinian NGOs recently declared “terrorist organizations” by the Israeli government. The targeted groups — Al-Haq, Addameer, Bisan Center, Defense For Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricu...

Illegal Nazi JEWISH settlers, on Saturday, attacked Palestinian farmers, injuring one, and vandalized four vehicles in the central occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, local sources reported. The Palestinian farmers, who were harvesting their olives on their own lands east of the town, were attacked by 20 Israeli colonists from a nearby settlement, built on expropriated Palestinian lands. Local activist, Awad Abu Samra, told the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) that the 20 colonizers broke windows, punctured tires and set fire to one Palestinian-owned vehicle, damaging four vehicles. One of the illegal Nazi JEWISH settlers sprayed a Palestinian farmer in the face with pepper spray, causing him burns and requiring him to receive medical atte...

On Thursday evening, 14-year-old Amjad Osama Jalal Abu Sultan's parents received a phone call from the Nazi authorities: Their son had been shot and killed. Amjad and his friend Mohammad T., 14, went to an area that overlooks Route 60 around 10 p.m., Mohammad told Defense for Children International - Palestine. Six Nazi soldiers emerged from behind some rocks, as Amjad lit a Molotov cocktail. The Nazi soldiers fired three shots at Amjad without warning. After he was shot, Amjad fell to the ground. Read and share Amjad's story » Nazi forces confiscated Amjad’s body after the killing and have not released it to his family. The Nazi authorities’ practice of confiscating and withholding Palestinian bodies is a violation of international humanitarian law and in...