Day: 28 November 2023

HEBRON: Israeli occupation forces Tuesday demolished a Palestinian-owned house in the village of Lasifar, Masafer Yatta, south of the Hebron Governorate, in the south of the West Bank.

WAFA correspondent said that the occupation forces demolished a house in the village of Lasifar, southeast of Yatta, inhabited by local resident Mahmoud Khalil Abu Qubaita and his family, with an area of 120 square metres.

Fouad Al-Amour, coordinator of the Protection and Resilience Committees in Masafer Yatta and the South Hebron Mountains, explained that the house was home to approximately ten individuals, noting that its owner has all the legal papers confirming his ownership of it.

He added that the occupation forces and the colonists from the colonies of Lasifar and Khavat Talya aim to force the citizens to leave, to expand the colonization south of Hebron.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency

Four Palestinians were Tuesday injured by live bullets during confrontations with the occupation forces in the Dheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem, while six others, including a woman, were detained in different areas of the governorate.

A security source told WAFA correspondent that an occupation army force stormed the camp and fired live bullets and tear gas and sound bombs, injuring four people by live bullets in the lower extremities. They were taken to Beit Jala Governmental Hospital to receive treatment.

The source added that the occupation soldiers raided a number of Palestinians’ homes in the Dheisheh camp and detained Zainab Al-Sajdi, the mother of the two prisoners, Muhannad and Rani Qawwar, and detained another youth.

In the village of Marah Rabah, south of Bethlehem, the occupation forces detained two after raiding and searching their families’ homes.

The occupation forces also detained two others in the eastern region of Bethlehem Governorate after raiding and searching their parents’ homes.

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Two Palestinian youths were injured before dawn todsy during confrontations that erupted with Israeli occupation forces who raided Deir Ammar refugee camp, west of Ramallah, to punitively demolish a house, according to local sources.

Confrontations broke out following an Israeli military incursion into the town of Deir Ammar and its camp, during which forces attacked residents with live ammunition, shooting and injuring two young men in the foot. They were transferred to hospital for medical treatment.

Sources said that forces surrounded the house of Dawood Abdel-Razeq Darras, 41, who was killed by Israeli forces’ gunfire on August 3rd, and proceeded to blow up the first floor apartment in a building.

Israeli soldiers reportedly raided nearby several houses, forced their inhabitants to leave, and took over the rooftops, turning them into military outposts.

Israel resorts to punitively demolish the family homes of any Palestinians – as a means of deterrence – accused of being involved in attacks against I
sraelis, a policy that Israel does not use against Israeli settlers who were involved in fatal attacks against Palestinians.

Al-Haq human rights group slammed the punitive home demolition of Palestinians suspected of being involved in attacks against Israelis, as a collective punishment and stressed that per humanitarian and human rights laws; it is assessed as a war crime and a crime against humanity.

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group, says: ‘The people who bear the brunt of the [punitive] demolitions are relatives – including women, the elderly, and children – whom Israel does not suspect of involvement in any offense.’

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A Palestinian youth was Tuesday injured by Israeli occupation army bullets during confrontations that broke out following the storming of the town of Deir Abu Mishal, northwest of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that a young man was hit by live bullets in the foot area, and was subsequently transferred to the hospital to receive treatment.

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The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) issued a press release on the impact of the Israeli occupation aggression on the agricultural sector in the Gaza Strip, stating that there is about $2 million direct daily losses in agricultural production in Gaza as a result of the cessation of the agricultural production.

The direct daily losses in agricultural production are estimated at about $1.6 million as a result of stalling production, and the value of losses is exacerbated when taking into account the destruction of agricultural property and assets and the bulldozing of land which will double the value of the total losses, said PCBS.

Several reports issued about the Gaza Strip on the agricultural sector indicated that the total agricultural losses will exceed $180 million in light of the destruction of thousands of trees by the occupation during its recent aggression and the bulldozing of many agricultural areas, it added.

PCBS said the agricultural sector represents one of the most important c
omponents of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Gaza Strip in addition to other productive sectors, through its contribution to the overall economy, in addition to the contribution of this sector in providing employment and alleviating unemployment, as the contribution of the agricultural sector to the GDP in Gaza Strip reached about 11% in 2022.

It indicated the direct Israeli targeting and destruction of agricultural areas in northern Gaza, which constitute one-third of the area planted with field crops, vegetables, and horticulture gardening, adding that the cultivated areas in North Gaza are estimated at about 34,000 dunums, which have been bulldozed and destroyed, in addition to the unsuitability of most of them for agriculture due to the number of explosives dropped on them.

The most impact of the recent Israeli occupation aggression on the agricultural sector in Gaza Strip was the leveling of agricultural areas cultivated with horticultural trees, especially olive trees, where the area of olive
trees constitutes 63% of the total area cultivated with horticultural trees in Gaza Strip, which distributed as follows: 34% in Khan Yunis, 24% in Dier Al-Balah, 17% in North Gaza, 12% in Gaza and 13% in Rafah, it said

It stressed that 44% of the Palestinian households have lost their sources of local agricultural production in the Gaza Strip used for household consumption.

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Israeli occupation forces today seized around 1,500 dunums of land from the villages of Husan, Wadi Fukin, and al-Jab’a, in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem, for the benefit of colonial expansion.

The director of the Bethlehem Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission office, Hassan Brijieh, said the occupation forces seized 1,500 dunums of land from the said villages for the benefit of opening a settler-only road that runs from a locale in Husan Village through the village of Wadi Fukin and al-Jab’a to the village of Surif, northwest of Hebron.

The activist maintained that this road would have disastrous implications; including the theft and destruction of Palestinian-owned land, its negative effects on the Palestinian environment in general, and its clear impact on the western countryside of Bethlehem Governorate.

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A Palestinian youth was shot and seriously injured by Israeli forces’ live bullets in the al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, according to local sources.

Sources told WAFA correspondent that a Palestinian young man was critically injured by live fire in the abdomen following an Israeli military incursion into the said camp.

Forces reportedly prevented medical crews’ access to the injured youth, before eventually allowing him to be taken to hospital for medical treatment.

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The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PCRS) said this evening that the Israeli occupation forces prevented the entry of aid and fuel trucks into the northern Gaza Strip.

PCRS that it attempted to bring in fuel trucks, and 31 humanitarian aid trucks containing food, water, and relief materials into Gaza City and the north, but the occupation forces stationed at the military checkpoint that separates the north of the Gaza Strip from its south, prevented the fuel trucks from entering.

It stressed that bringing in fuel trucks was aimed at enhancing the work of the Red Crescent ambulances operating in the northern Gaza Strip, warning that it has seven ambulances that will stop working due to the lack of fuel.

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Two Palestinians, including a child, were injured by Israeli forces’ live bullets during a large-scale Israeli military incursion into the city of Jenin and its refugee camp, in the northern occupied West Bank, according to WAFA correspondent.

Two people, including a child, were injured by live fire in the hand and foot during confrontations that broke out following the Israeli military incursion into the city.

Forces also fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters toward residents and their homes across several neighborhoods in the city, causing several people to suffocate, which necessitated their transfer to hospital.

Sources said that forces obstructed the work of ambulances during its military incursion into the city of Jenin and its camp and used them as shields.

A large military force, accompanied by a bulldozer, stormed the city from various directions, broke into several homes, deployed their snipers on the rooftops of high buildings, and imposed a curfew on its camp from all directions.

Forces
reportedly positioned its troops in front of the Jenin Governmental Hospital and its vicinity, on the outskirts of the camp, and across several neighborhoods in search of wanted Palestinians, as drones flew low over the area.

Israeli bulldozers also destroyed the infrastructure and resident properties and vehicles.

Director of the Jenin Governmental Hospital, Wisam Baker, said forces searched medical personnel and staff and deployed their soldiers in the hospital yards and in front of the emergency room.

Chief Executive Officer at Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital, Samer Atiyeh, also said Israeli forces cordoned off the hospital from all directions.

In a related development, the director of Al Jaleel Charitable Society for Care and Community Rehabilitation in Jenin, Jamal Abu al-Izz said large military forces stormed the headquarters of the society and destroyed its contents, adding that this is the second such attack by the Israeli army against it.

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glish

Israeli colonists, backed by Israeli forces, attacked tonight the Arab al-Milehat Bedouin community, west of Jericho city, and stole their livestock.

Hasan Mleihat, an activist with the Bedouin community, told WAFA that several colonists raided Palestinian residential dwellings in the Arab al-Milehat Bedouin community, beat up several residents, and stole a number of sheep owned by two residents in the community.

Colonists reportedly attacked and terrorized residents under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA – English