West Bank

Built in the 16th century, at the western entrance to Jerusalem lies Lifta, the well-preserved remains of a Palestinian village. Archeological and architectural remains attest to a continuity of thousands of years of settlement in Lifta. During the Ottoman period, the village of Lifta was a major agricultural hinterland of Jerusalem and had an array of olive presses and flour mills. Many Jerusalem neighborhoods, both Jewish and Arab, were built on lands purchased from the village at the end of the 19th century. In 1948, following the formation of the state of Israel, the village inhabitants fled to East Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank. In the 1950’s, Jewish families, new immigrants from Yemen and Kurdistan, were resettled in the village. These families were evacuat...

PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for July 29 – August 4, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of force, assault, abuse and attacks on civilians, turning the West Bank into isolated blocks of land. Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian properties and land continued. Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip enters its 15th year under closure, exacerbating the humanitarian hardships across the territory. Army shooti...

Israeli troops shoot Palestinian dead in occupied West Bank IFAMERICANSKNEW Imad Dweikat. Photo on right is from AFP (https://iakn.us/Dweikat) (Twitter) Imad Dweikat had been shot with ‘a live bullet to the chest’ in Beita, the health ministry says. He’s the 8th Palestinian killed by the IDF in a little over a month.  Reposted from AlJazeera Israeli troops have shot dead a Palestinian and injured others during a protest against illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry and medics have said. Imad Ali Mohammad Dweikat, 38 [also reported at 37], was shot by “a live bullet to the chest” in the town of Beita and was pronounced dead at the hospital in nearby Nablus, the ministry said in a statement on Fr...

https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2021/8/3/sheikh_jarrah_evictions_israeli_supreme_court BY: Nermeen Shaikh The Israeli Supreme Court this week offered Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah a compromise in their ongoing fight to block Jewish settlers from forcibly expelling them from their own homes. The high court proposed that Palestinian families could stay in their homes for now if they begin paying rent to the Jewish settler group that claims ownership over the properties — a deal the families rejected, insisting they are the legal owners. The planned evictions in East Jerusalem helped spark the last war in Gaza in May and have galvanized international support for Palestinians facing dispossession from settler groups and the state. The United Nations has described t...

The Nazi army handed, on Tuesday evening, the body of a slain young Palestinian man to his family, a month after killing him and holding his corpse. Ahmad Jibril, the head of the Emergency Department at the Nablus branch of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), in northern West Bank, said PRCS medics were handed the corpse of Mohammad Farid Ali Hasan, 20, at the Huwwara Nazi military base, south of Nablus, and moved it to Rafidia Hospital in the city. It is worth mentioning that Mohammad was killed by the Nazi army on July 3rd, 2021, and more than 25 Palestinians were injured in the southern area of Qusra village, south of Nablus. Mohammad was shot with a live round in the chest while standing on the rooftop of his home and died from his serious wounds before the s...

Nazi soldiers seriously injured, Monday, a young Palestinian man near the Annexation Wall, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Media sources said the Nazi soldiers opened fire at the Palestinian while he was walking near the Annexation Wall, near Taybeh village, west of Jenin, inflicting life-threatening wounds. They added that the injured Palestinian in from Umm al-Fahem town in the Haifa District. After shooting the young man, who holds Nazi citizenship, the soldiers took him to an IZionist hospital. It is worth mentioning that Umm al-Fahem is only twenty kilometers northwest of Jenin.

IF AMERICANS KNEW A (hopefully) teachable moment for a journalist whom we count on to report facts, not “alternative facts.” A respected columnist, misinformed about history and current events in Israel, has unfortunately shared with her readers several inaccuracies about Israel and the people of Palestine. Her misunderstandings are not uncommon. Below are some corrections. by Kathryn Shihadah Dear Ms. Star Parker, You are an articulate columnist, author, and political activist, and you give a voice to conservative Black Americans. When you take on the liberal agenda, you often use compelling arguments. But your take on the Ben & Jerry’s boycott of Israeli settlements, I’m sorry to say, is inaccurate. Your readers and fans deserve to know the truth –...