Day: 30 November 2021

Several Palestinians Wednesday overnight sustained injuries from Israeli military gunfire and dozens others suffocated as Israeli forces stormed Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus city, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli forces escorted a convoy of buses packed with hundreds of fanatic Jewish settlers into the site, located in the Palestinian-controlled area, sparking confrontations with Palestinian residents.

The soldiers opened fire on Palestinians protesting the raid and attempting to block settlers’ access to the site.

Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) Emergency Department, Ahmad Jibril, said that medics provided treatment for three protestors who were hit by rubber-coated steel bullets, including one hit in the chest, and rushed them to hospital.

He added that 33 others were treated at the scene from the effects of tear gas suffocation.

Settlers repeatedly break into Joseph’s Tomb, located in a densely Palestinian populated area in Nablus, provoking chaos and confrontation with local residents.

The site of Joseph’s Tomb is contentious. Palestinians believe the site to be the funerary monument to Sheikh Yousef Dweikat, a local religious figure, while Israeli settlers believe it to belong to the Biblical Patriarch Joseph.

Israel uses the Jewish nationalist name “Judea and Samaria” to refer to the occupied West Bank to reinforce its bogus claims to the territory and to give them a veneer of historical and religious legitimacy.

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency

Israeli forces Monday evening detained a Palestinian merchant at Beit Hanoun crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that the merchant was rounded up after being interrogated as he was attempting to pass the Beit Hanoun crossing, also known as Erez, on his way to the West Bank.

This was the sixth merchant detained from the strip since the beginning of 2021.

Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.

Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.

Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.

Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.

Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency

Palestine today recorded 360 new Covid-19 cases, four fatalities, and 120 recovery cases in the last 24 hours, according to Health Minister Mai Alkaila.

Among the new 360 new cases, 239 cases were recorded in the West Bank, and 121 others in the Gaza Strip.

She added in her daily report on the disease that 120 Covid-19 patients have recovered; 100 recovery cases in the West Bank and 20 others in the Gaza Strip.

She said that four deaths were recorded in the Gaza Strip.

The recovery rate in Palestine has so far reached 98.3 percent, while active cases reached 0.7% percent. The death toll stood at 1 percent of total infections.

Alkaila said 49 corona patients are in intensive care units, including nine on ventilators.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency