Day: 10 August 2021

The Israeli occupation authorities today demolished a Palestinian building in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to witnesses.

They said that Israeli police stormed Bir Ayoub area in the neighborhood and cordoned a building off, preventing anyone from approaching it.

The owners of the two-story building were identified as Remah Odeh, and his brother, Ali, whose families comprise 12 members.

Police officers ordered the two families to empty all of the contents of the houses before a bulldozer tore down them, reducing them to rubble.

Dozens of homes are under threat of demolition in Silwan under the pretext of construction without a permit, but its Palestinian residents believe Israel wants to remove them from Silwan in order to turn it into a biblical park as part of the so-called City of David.

Using the pretext of illegal construction, Israel demolishes houses on a regular basis to restrict Palestinian expansion in occupied Jerusalem.

At the same time, the municipality and government build tens of thousands of housing units in illegal settlements in East Jerusalem for Jews with a goal to offset the demographic balance in favor of the Jewish settlers in the occupied city.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency

Israeli occupation authorities today handed over to the Palestinian side the body of a slain Palestinian man two weeks after he was shot dead by the occupation forces.

The body of Shadi Omar Shurafa, 41, from Beita village, south of Nablus, was released by the Israeli occupation military and handed over to the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC) near the military checkpoint of Huwwara, south of Nablus.

Ahmad Jibril, head of the PRC in Nablus, told WAFA that the staff took the Shurafa’s body to the Rafidia governmental hospital before turning it over to his family to burial.

Shurafa was killed after being shot by Israeli forces near the entrance of the village of Beita, south of Nablus on July 27 while he was attempting to divert water to his village from the water network. The army has withheld his body since then.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency

Israeli occupation forces today detained at least nine Palestinians from various parts of the occupied territories, including an activist from Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, according to local and security sources.

In Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli police raided the home of Murad Atyeh, 26, one of the activists in the neighborhood against Israeli plans to displace many families and take over their homes for the benefit of Israeli settlers, and detained him.

Israeli forces also rounded up four Palestinians, including two brothers, and ransacked several houses in Deir al-Ghusun town, northeast of the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm.

During the ensuing confrontations, the soldiers opened fire towards local youths who attempted to block their passage, wounding and detaining one.

In the southern West Bank, Israeli forces raided Husan village, west of Bethlehem, where they detained another.

Elsewhere in the southern West Bank, the soldiers conducted a raid into Dura town, south of Hebron, where they arrested two former prisoners.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency

Weather today in Palestine is hot in most districts and extremely hot in the Jordan Valley in daytime with no significant change in temperature, which remains 3°C above the seasonal average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD).

Weather tonight is moderate in the mountains and relatively hot in other districts. Winds are southwesterly to northwesterly, light to moderate with occasional gusts. Sea waves are low to medium.

Temperature in the capital, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem is expected to reach a high of 32°C and a low of 22°C and in Ramallah and Hebron a high of 31°C and a low of 21°C. In Jericho, the Dead Sea, and the Jordan Valley temperature is expected to reach a high of 42°C and a low of 28°C while it is expected to reach a high of 32°C and a low of 25°C in Gaza and the coastal areas.

The same weather conditions are expected for Wednesday and Thursday, but a slight rise in temperature is expected for Friday to approach 4°C above the seasonal average, said the PMD, which warned people against being exposed to the sunlight for long period, especially from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and setting fire to dry areas with dry grass.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency

Israeli occupation forces last night opened fire at a Palestinian woman near the village of Huwwara, to the south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, injuring her in the leg and detaining her, according to Palestinian security sources.

They told WAFA that the soldiers shot the woman, who was not immediately identified, as she was near the main square that leads to the Nablus-Qalqilya road and the illegal settlement of Yitzhar.

Israel claimed the woman was shot after attempting a stabbing attack, which could not be independently verified.

The woman’s condition was not immediately known.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency