West Bank

Nazi soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a chicken farm in Ein Jweiza neighborhood, in the al-Walaja village, northwest of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Khader al-A’raj, the head of al-Walaja Village Council, said the farm is owned by a local man identified as Shadi Mousa Abed Sheikh. He added that, a week ago, the army issued a demolition order under the pretext of being built without a permit from the Nazi Civil Administration Office, and demolished it today without allowing sufficient time for an appeal. Al-A’raj stated that the Palestinian had 300 chickens in the demolished farm, and added that most of the chickens died under the rubble as the soldiers did not allow him to take them out of the structure before tearing it down. It is worth mention...

CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Graffiti art by Banksy on the dividing wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories. The common evangelical Christian cry to “support Israel no matter what” has zero basis in Scripture – in fact, that is the opposite of what the Bible says.  by Benjamin L. Corey, reposted from Patheos, February 27, 2017 When reporting or lamenting over the gross human rights violations and genocide by the modern state of Israel against the Palestinian people, many Christians immediately freak the heck out. In fact, I am often told that I am “not a Christian” because I dare criticize the state of Israel’s behavior, as if blind support of a modern nation state were an obligation of being a True Christian™. [Editor’s note: a growing nu...

Sports apartheid: Israel’s Olympic team did not include a single Palestinian citizen of 'Israel' Palestinian citizens of Israel are 20 percent of the population. But not a single one was on Israel's 90-member Olympic team. BY JAMES NORTH FLAG BEARERS HANNA MINENKO AND YAKOV TOUMARKIN OF TEAM ISRAEL DURING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE TOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES, JULY 23, 2021 (PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES/MATTHIAS HANGST) This report in the respected Israeli daily Haaretz is astonishing. It turns out that Israel’s 90-member delegation to the Tokyo Olympics did not include a single Palestinian citizen of Israel — even though they constitute one-fifth of the country’s population within the 1967 borders.  Let’s pause for a moment, and let this sink i...

The ongoing protests in the West Bank village of Beita are for land rights, water rights and basic human rights. BY RAMZY BAROUD PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS CLASH WITH ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES DURING THE ATTEMPT TO EVACUATE THE SIT-IN PROTESTERS ON MOUNTAIN ALARMAH, IN THE WEST BANK VILLAGE OF BEITA NEAR NABLUS ON FEBRUARY 28, 2020. (PHOTO: SHADI JARAR’AH/APA IMAGES) 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 settle...

Nazi forces shot, and killed an unarmed Palestinian man, and injured several more in the northern West Bank village of Beita, south of Nablus, during a demonstration in rejection of the continued expropriation of Palestinian land. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that Nazi soldiers shot Emad Ali Dwaikat, 37, a father of five children, the youngest being only two months old, with a live round in his chest, causing life threatening wounds. The critically injured man was rushed to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, where he was pronounced dead by medical staff. Nazi army also targeted a photo-journalist covering the demonstration, shooting him in the knee with a rubber-coated steel round, he was treated by medics on the scene. Sources confirmed that at least 20 protestor...

Nazi soldiers injured, Friday, dozens of Palestinians during the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia. Morad Eshteiwi, the media spokesperson of the Popular Committee and Fateh Movement in Kufur Qaddoum, said the Palestinians started the procession after conducting noon prayers. He added that several Nazi army jeeps invaded Kufur Qaddoum, and started firing gas bombs, concussion grenades, and rubber-coated steel bullets at the Palestinians and many surrounding homes. The attack causing dozens of residents, including those in their homes, to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation. Nazi soldiers also ambushed several Palestinians and tried to abduct them. The Palestinians have been holding weekly processions for the l...

A group of fanatic Nazi JEWISH colonizers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, cut and uprooted dozens of Palestinian olive trees, Friday, in the al-Jab’a village, southwest of Bethlehem, south of Nazi occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. The mayor of al-Jab’a, Diab Masha’la, stated that the Nazi JEWISH colonizers infiltrated into Palestinian olive orchards, before cutting and uprooted dozens of olive trees that were planted by the Palestinians more than sixty years ago. The olive orchards, in Saqfan ad-Dabe’, in the southeastern area of the village, are owned by a local farmer, identified as Rifat al-Tous, and his family. It is worth mentioning that the orchards are isolated behind the Nazi illegal Annexation Wall, and family is only allowed to enter them twice a year;...

Nazi soldiers demolished, Friday, two residential tents, one shed, and a barn in the Ka’abna Bedouin community in the al-Mo’arrajat area east of Ramallah, in central West Bank, in addition to confiscating agricultural equipment and tools used by the farmers and Shepherds. Local sources said several army jeeps and trucks invaded the Bedouin community after surrounding it. They added that the Nazi soldiers then dismantled and demolished two residential tents, one residential shed, and a barn, before confiscating the materials along with agricultural tools. The demolished and confiscated properties are owned by the family of Mohammad Suleiman Ka’abna, in addition to Ahed Ali Jaradat and Jamal Mohammad Jaradat. In related news, the soldiers invaded Jeet village, east of the no...

Nazi forces, on Thursday, demolished the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib for the 191st time, Quds News Network reported. The army destroyed the tents and makeshift tin shelters built by residents, rendering those families without shelter, in an attempt to force them to abandon their land. Located in the Negev desert, in southern Israel, the village, unrecognized by the state, has been demolished eight times in 2021 alone, the residents continually rebuild their shelters on the same land. The Bedouin residents, have lived on the land since the Ottoman period, decades prior to the creation of the state of Nazi entity. It is worth mentioning that the village was first demolished in July, 2010, and the last time the Nazi regime demolished the village was on June 7th, 2021. App...