West Bank

Nazi JEWISH colonialist settlers, illegally squatting on Palestinian lands, installed a fence around a water spring in the Northern Plains of the Nazi occupied West Bank, before preventing the shepherds from using it. Aref Daraghma, a human rights activist, said the Nazi JEWISH colonists installed a fence to isolate the Ein al-Hilwa water spring and prevented the shepherds from entering the area. The spring is used by dozens of Palestinian shepherds and their herd, but the colonists have been trying to prevent them from reaching it because they just want it for themselves. It is worth mentioning that the area witnesses repeated assaults and violations by the Nazi JEWISH colonists who attack the Palestinians and their sheep, in addition to denying them access to the needed wat...

Illegal Nazi JEWISH settlers embarked today on rebuilding a colonial settlement outpost that was evacuated two months ago near the town of Yatta, in the Hebron province in the south of the Nazi occupied West Bank, according to local sources. Rateb Jabour, the coordinator of the Anti-Settlement Commission in Hebron, told WAFA that a group of the Nazi JEWISH settlers broke into the site of the abandoned settlement outpost and embarked on installing residential facilities and caravans there. Two months ago, Palestinian anti-colonization protesters removed the outpost and pressed the colonial Nazi JEWISH settlers who had settled there to leave the site. There are over 700,000 colonial Nazi JEWISH settlers living in Jewish-only settlements across the West Bank in violation of int...

Yousef Nawaf Mhareb, 17, was killed by Nazi occupation forces. (Photo: via Social Media) A Palestinian teen Monday morning succumbed to the wounds he sustained from Nazi gunfire two months ago, according to medical sources. The Health Ministry said that Yousef Nawaf Mhareb, 17, a resident of Abwein village, north of the Nazi occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, died of the wounds after staying for 74 days in the intensive care unit at the Palestine Medical Complex in the city. Embassy of the State of Palestine - The Caribbean@caribbean_pal#IsraeliCrimes This morning, Palestine had yet another martyr, teen Yousef Nawaf Mhareb, 17, left this world early after he was targeted by Israeli military fire, after which he sustained severe injuries causing damage to his spinal cord...

Neuroscientists say memories endure when there is a strong emotion attached to it. After witnessing 264 savage hours of the carpet-bombing of Gaza, it seems impossible to break free from this brain-structured prison. BY DIMA GHANIM RIAD ISHKONTANA, 42, AND HIS DAUGHTER SUZY, 7, VISIT THE GRAVES OF THEIR FAMILY ON THE SECOND DAY OF EID AL-ADHA IN GAZA CITY ON JULY 21, 2021. SUZY’S MOTHER, HER TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS — AGES 2 TO 9 — WERE KILLED IN A MAY 16 ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE DENSELY PACKED AL-WAHDA STREET IN GAZA CITY DURING THE RECENT CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND HAMAS. (PHOTO: ASHRAF AMRA/APA IMAGES) Editor’s Note: The article is part of our series Gaza Diaries which shares firsthand accounts of Palestinians who lived through the 11-day Israeli attac...

Two Palestinian teens killed by Israel, bringing 2021 youth death toll to 77 The killings of Muhammad Munir al-Tamimi and Yousef Nawaf Mhareb brought the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank since January 2021 to 11. BY YUMNA PATEL MOHAMMAD MUNIR MOHAMMAD TAMIMI, 17 (LEFT) ANDYOUSEF NAWAF MHAREB, 17 (RIGHT) WERE BOTH KILLED BY ISRAELI FORCES THIS WEEK. (PHOTO: SOCIAL MEDIA) Two Palestinian teenagers were killed by Israeli gunfire in the span of just a few days in the occupied West Bank, bringing the death toll of Palestinian youth killed by Israel in 2021 to 77. On Monday, 17-year-old Yousef Nawaf Mhareb, a resident of the Ramallah-area village of Abwein, succumbed to wounds he had sustained two months prior, when he was shot in the nec...

Israeli soldiers make sexual threats to Palestinian women in videos from occupation BY PHILIP WEISS SCREENSHOT OF B’TSELEM VIDEO OF ISRAELI SOLDIER TAUNTING PALESTINIANS WITH HIS MIDDLE FINGERS IN OCCUPIED HEBRON, MAY 13, 2021. In January, the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem charged Israel with maintaining an “apartheid… regime of “Jewish supremacy” from the river to the sea. Now the organization has released two videos from the occupied territories that document this reality in chilling ways– as they show Israeli occupiers, some in uniform, abusing Palestinians in sexually degrading terms during the recent Gaza war. Published July 12, the videos capture the racist, homophobic, and misogynist abuse of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers. Both ...