West Bank

Israel to Build 1,956 More Housing Units in West Bank Settlements CPI  The Bennet government has approved the convening of the Higher Planning Council of the Civil Administration for authorizing thousands of new housing units for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, as well as the construction of hundreds of housing units for Palestinians. The Higher Planning Council will convene Tuesday, August 17, to discuss plans for five Palestinian villages involving the building of a total of 863 new housing units, according to an announcement by Israel’s Military Spokesman. The following day, Wednesday, August 18, the council will reconvene to discuss plans for constructing a total of 1,956 new units in 21 settlements. A woman places a Palestinian flag on the barbed wir...

Israel’s ongoing “Water War” against Palestinians CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG  Israel has conducted a war for control over Palestinian water resources ever since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967. Israel controls water resources from the river to the sea, illegally pilfering water from Palestinian aquifers and selling it back at exorbitant prices to Palestinians. Israel’s “water war” is just a facet of its ongoing settler-colonial project to make life unbearable for Palestinians, and ultimately replace them with Israeli Jews. by Ramzy Baroud, reposted from Palestine Chronicle, August 11, 2021 There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. ...

Nazi soldiers demolished, on Wednesday morning, a barn in Qaffin town, north of Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. Khaled Ajjouli, a resident of Qaffin, stated that several Nazi military jeeps and a bulldozer invaded the town before demolishing a barn and a water reservoir, owned by Nidal Abdul-Rahim Ajjouli, 40. He added that the soldiers abducted Nidal, who was sleeping in his barn to guard his livestock and assaulted his cousin Rashwan Nasreddin Ajjouli who tried to help him in removing the livestock out of the barn before the Nazi soldiers demolished it. The destruction was carried out without a warning, especially since the Palestinian never received a demolition order. Khaled added that the attack is not the first, as the soldiers demolished, n...

Nazi soldiers invaded and ransacked, on Wednesday at dawn, many Palestinian homes in Hebron and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, and abducted a young man. Media sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, said many army jeeps invaded Beit Ummar town, north of the city, before breaking into and ransacking many homes in ‘Aseeda and Khlalet al-Ein areas. They added that the soldiers smashed the doors of many homes before breaking into them, and violently searched them causing extensive property damage. During the invasions, the soldiers abducted Moath Sa’id Awad, 21, and summoned a former political prisoner, identified as Mahdi Mirshed Za’aqeeq, for interrogation in Etzion military base and security center, north of Hebron. In addition, several military veh...

By Latifeh Abdellatif , Huthifa Fayyad for Middle East Eye Since the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Silwan has been the target of ongoing illegal Israeli settlement activity. Qutaiba Odeh is one of thousands of Palestinians in the ancient town fighting home demolitions and evictions to remain in their homes. Transcribed by IMEMC Qutaiba Odeh: “We live in a silent war. It’s a war you don’t hear or see, but as Palestinians in Jerusalem, we live it around the clock. There is not a house in Silwan today that does not have a story or a hardship. Either they have someone in prison, someone wounded or martyred, a child or a young man detained, a house threatened with demolition by the [Israeli] municipality or facing eviction by [Israeli] sett...

Dozens of Nazi soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, a Printshop in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, confiscated its machines and equipment, in addition to ordering it shut until February of 2022. Eyewitnesses said dozens of Nazi soldiers invaded the Ein Sarah area, in Hebron, before breaking into the Palestinian Advertisement Company, owned by Emad ath-Theeba, and confiscated more than 19 press machines, in addition to various official documents. They added that the Nazi soldiers weld the company’s front iron doors shut and placed an order shutting it down until February of next year, 2022. The invasion led to protests before the Nazi soldiers fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades; there have been no immediate reports of injuries. ...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Tuesday evening, a young Palestinian man in Jabal Sbeih (Sbeih Mountain) in Beita town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Eyewitnesses said the Nazi soldiers ambushed the Palestinian before assaulting him and took him to the nearby Huwwara military base. They added that the Nazi soldiers also chased several other Palestinians, and closed areas surrounding the mountain to prevent the Palestinians from reaching it. On Friday, August 13th, the Nazi soldiers injured  39 Palestinians in the Sbeih Mountain area, during a procession against the illegal Nazi JEWISH colonialist outpost and the ongoing takeover of their lands. The Palestinians have been holding ongoing processions against the Nazi army attempts to illegally annex their mounta...

(Al-Haq) In the early hours of the morning on 16 August 2021, a special undercover force of the Nazi Forces raided the northern West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. During the raid, four Palestinian civilians were killed, Saleh Amar, 19, and Raed Abu Saif, 21, from the Jenin city and Nour El-Din Abdel Ilah Jarrar, 19, and Amjad Iyad Husseinieh, 20, from Jenin refugee camp. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, they were shot with live ammunition in the upper chest. The army also retained and is still holding the bodies of Nour El-Din Abdel Ilah Jarrar and Amjad Iyad Husseinieh. Additionally, the army detained Mohammad Abu Zaina after raiding his home in the Jenin refugee camp. Since January 2021, Nazi soldiers have killed 10 Palestinians in Jenin, including six who...

By Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians which is rarely highlighted or even known. It is a water war, which has been in the making for decades. On July 26 and 27, two separate but intrinsically linked events took place in the Ein al-Hilweh area in the occupied Jordan Valley, and near the town of Beita, south of Nablus. In the first incident, Jewish settlers from the illegal settlement of Maskiyot began construction in the Ein al-Hilweh Spring, which has been a source of freshwater for villages and hundreds of Palestinian families in that area. The seizure of the spring has been developing for months, all under the watchful eye of the Israeli occupation army. Now, the Ein al-Hilweh Spri...