West Bank

By VT Editor A Palestinian man and his sister cry outside their destroyed home in Gaza City, May 16, 2021. (Photo by AFP) Press TV: Iran’s foreign minister has denounced Israel’s systematic human rights violations and disregard for international law as the regime’s relentless bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip enters its seventh consecutive day. “Innocent men, women and children are being massacred by the deadliest and most sophisticated weapons. Homes are being demolished while their residents are trapped inside. Whatever remains of the infrastructure in Gaza—including power and water supply—is effectively destroyed,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday, addressing an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) that was held virtually. Zarif said th...

By Alan Hart The incidents which have marked the escalation of violence in Israeli occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank and have included the killing of a few Israeli Jews should not be viewed and considered in isolation. They have a context and it can be summarised as follows. Israel’s strategy (not stated but actual) is to make life hell for the occupied, oppressed and humiliated Palestinians in the hope that they will abandon their struggle and surrender on Zionism’s terms or, better still, pack their bags and leave to save Israel’s leaders from having to resort at some point in the future to a final ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The consequence of this Israeli strategy plus the failure of the major powers to do anything to try to cause Israel to end its defianc...

Nazi soldiers invaded, on Sunday at dawn, dozens of Palestinian homes in Silwan town and the Old City, in the occupied capital, Jerusalem in the West Bank, and abducted 21 Palestinians. The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) said the Nazi soldiers conducted violent searches in the invaded homes, before abducting the Palestinians. It added that the Nazi soldiers also summoned many Palestinians for interrogation in several neighborhoods and towns in the occupied city. Silwan also stated that its two lawyers, Mohammad Mahmoud and Firas al-Jabrini, have reported that the Nazi soldiers abducted the following Palestinians: Ziad Salayma.Mohammad Ayman Salayma.Shaher Salayma.Mohammad Qassem Salayma.Jihad Qous.Majdi al-Atrash.Khaled al-Basity.Yazan al-Basity.Rami M...

Nazi soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, four Palestinians in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources in Bethlehem said the Nazi soldiers invaded the al-Khader town, south of the city, searched several homes, and abducted a young man, identified as Yousef Na’im Ghneim, 36. The Nazi soldiers also assaulted several Palestinians while searching and ransacking their homes and interrogated many while inspecting their ID cards. Furthermore, the army installed concrete blocks at the entrance of the al-Waha village, northwest of Bethlehem, and the Aqbat Hasna area, west of the city. In Jerusalem, the Nazi soldiers invaded and searched homes in the Old City, before abducting Khaled Fawzi Basity, Yazan Amjad Basity, and Jihad Qous.

Al Mezan condemns the deliberate targeting of civilians and calls for international intervention 15-05-2021 On the sixth day of Israel’s military offensive against the Gaza Strip, Israel escalated its attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in different densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip. [1] Marked by unwarranted shelling of civilian homes without prior warning at night, Israel’s military offensive indicates a conscious decision to inflict the greatest number of casualties amongst civilians. In the latest such incident, Israel’s air force targeted a house in Al-Shati refugee camp, western Gaza, without prior warning while two families were still inside at 1:30am on 15 May. The airstrike destroyed the house completely and killed seven children and two w...

The Nazi military, along with paramilitary Nazi Jewish colonial settlers, invaded a number of cities in the West Bank on Thursday, abducting a number of Palestinians and wounding 26. At dawn on Thursday, the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr, Nazi forces invaded al-Mughayir village in the Ramallah district, in the central West Bank, and abducted seven Palestinians. In addition, the Nazi troops invaded Abu Shukheidim village in northern Ramallah and kidnaped an ex-detainee called Hamoud Naser, the brother of prisoner Ziyad as-Sous who is serving four life sentences. The army invaded Birzeit town in Ramallah and clashed with local youth. Nazi troops fired live ammunition, injuring one young Palestinian in the leg. In a separate incident, right-wing Nazi colonial se...

Nazi soldiers killed, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, and shot more than 33 others with live fire, in addition to wounding dozens with rubber-coated steel bullets and the gas bombs. Eleven Palestinians have been killed by Nazi army fire, Friday. Medical sources in Tulkarem said the soldiers shot Nizar Nidal Ma’rouf Abu Zeina, 22, with a live round in the chest, causing a very serious injury, before he was rushed to Thabet Thabet hospital, in Tulkarem, where he dies of his wounds despite efforts to save his life. The slain Palestinian is a construction worker from the Shweika area, in Tulkarem city. The Nazi soldiers added that the soldiers also shot 33 Palestinians with live fire, in addition to injuring dozens with rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and conc...