This Week in Palestine: Tensions Dramatically Escalate


Palestinians in Jenin mourn the victims of the Israeli brutal navy assault. (Photograph: by way of ActiveStills.org)

By Robert Inlakesh

Tensions dramatically escalated this week as Israeli occupation forces murdered Palestinian civilians, together with an unarmed youngster and aged girl, in a ugly manner.

The violations of the established order continued on the al-Aqsa Mosque and have sparked fears of what might come within the close to future and the potential for a brand new conflict with the Gaza Strip.

Israeli violations of the Lebanese border additionally continued to impress the deployment of the Lebanese military to the realm, as demonstrations towards Israeli conflict crimes unfold to neighboring Jordan and Syria. The Palestinian Authority (PA) additionally determined to droop safety coordination with the Israeli occupation forces.

Saturday: Jewish Settler Kills Palestinian Man

On Saturday, 42-year-old Tariq Odeh Youssef Ma’ali was killed after he was reportedly shot by an Israeli settler, at Jabal Al-Raisan (close to Kafr Nima village), positioned northwest of Ramallah. Tariq was accused of attempting to assault settlers who had invaded the realm with a screwdriver, but the provocation of armed settlers with the intention of seizing property was by no means examined. As a substitute, the narrative was spun by Israel {that a} Palestinian who was minding their very own enterprise on their land and was harassed, was a “terrorist” for attempting to assault invading settlers with a screwdriver.

The occupation forces additionally pressured Hussein Qanbar to demolish his personal home within the Ras al-Amoud neighborhood in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem.

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The Worldwide Court docket of Justice confirmed that it had formally obtained a request from the Basic Meeting of the United Nations to precise an advisory opinion on the authorized penalties of the Israeli occupation. The occupation forces additionally stormed the Shuafat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem and fired tear fuel canisters on the residents. The Israeli occupation forces fired reside bullets at youths after they didn’t take away the Palestinian flags and clashes erupted within the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah.

Round 110,000 Israeli Zionist protesters demonstrated towards Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities. Settlers, beneath the safety of the occupation police, stormed the al-Samrin neighborhood within the city of Silwan, positioned south of al-Aqsa Mosque, and threatened the residents of the neighborhood. Israel’s safety minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demanded later that day that the village of Khan al-Ahmar be destroyed and the individuals displaced. Palestinians demonstrated in Bethlehem, Qalqilya, and al-Khalil. The Lions Den group carried out a taking pictures at an Israeli checkpoint close to Nablus.

Sunday: Unlawful Settlers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque

On Sunday, Unlawful Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. For the second time, the occupation forces demolished the home of Ismail Salah, from Al-Khader city, together with two residential rooms, south of Bethlehem. The Occupation Prisons Administration transferred 70 prisoners from Ramon Jail to Gilboa Jail.

The Lebanese military mobilized its forces, after the Israeli occupation forces superior in the direction of the southern border fence, to forestall any breach of the ‘Blue Line’ within the Wadi Hounin space. This exacerbated tensions that had been brought on by Israeli provocations final week when Israeli forces violated the border repeatedly and had been confronted by the Lebanese military.

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A taking pictures assault was carried out towards settler homes within the “Kiryat Arba” settlement in Hebron. Settlers stormed the outskirts of Jureesh village, south of Nablus, beneath the safety of the occupation forces, settlers additionally tried to re-build the “Ur Haim” outpost within the northern West Financial institution, which was evacuated final Friday attributable to orders by the Israeli border police.

The occupation military later confiscated an agricultural tractor within the Ras al-Ahmar space within the northern Jordan Valley and following that resistance fighters opened fireplace towards the unlawful settlement of “Shaked”, constructed on the stolen lands of Western Jenin. The Lions Den introduced they focused Israeli navy forces within the Hawara city space and withdrew safely.

Monday: Mock Raids over Gaza Sea

On Monday, the occupation forces arrested about 15 residents within the morning, throughout the storming of a number of cities and villages within the occupied West Financial institution. The occupation forces carried out demolitions of Palestinian properties between the city of al-Issawiya and the Al-Khan al-Ahmar group in occupied Jerusalem.

Extremist Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa Mosque compound to carry out Jewish rituals and held up the Israeli flag contained in the Mosque’s grounds in an brazenly provocative transfer.

A soldier from the occupation military was wounded within the Nur Shams space in Tulkarm after gunmen opened fireplace on a automotive the soldier was touring in. Israeli militarised automobiles and settlers continued digging and bulldozing the lands of Hamra, which was seized by settlers in Silwan and belongs to the Palestinians beneath worldwide regulation.

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Israeli fighter jets carried out mock raids over the ocean of Gaza, inflicting confusion amongst residents of the besieged coastal enclave. Members of the Lebanese armed forces additionally take away the barbed wire that was put in place by the Israeli navy, in an space that handed the border into Lebanon’s territory. The PA’s Preventative Safety Service kidnapped Mr. Ali Muhammad Khreyoush from the city of Tamoun, in Tubas.

A complete of 8 taking pictures assaults and 27 acts of resistance had been recorded inside a 24-hour interval, carried out by the Palestinian resistance teams and youths who threw Molotov cocktails and stones.

Tuesday: Netanyahu Meets with Jordan King in Amman

On Tuesday, Saleh Abdel-Latif Abu Al-Rub, 68, from the village of Jalboun, died of a coronary heart assault whereas passing via Al-Jalama checkpoint, north of Jenin. Israeli settlers once more stormed al-Aqsa mosque and later within the day Israel’s nationwide safety minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, introduced his intention to enter the compound once more.

For the 212th time, the Israeli occupation forces demolished the village of al-Araqeeb within the occupied Naqab (Negev). An Israeli bulldozer, accompanied by a Merkava tank ran a restricted incursion, from Al-Sarhi Gate, which is positioned to the east of Deir Al-Balah, into the Gaza Strip.

Israel additionally started to accuse Hezbollah of constructing tall watchtowers on the Lebanese facet of the border, along with complaining about Lebanese residents utilizing laser tips to harass settlers. Israel alleges that it is a violation of UN Decision 1701, which was carried out to finish the Lebanon-Israel conflict in 2006 and which Tel Aviv violates on a close to every day foundation. The Lebanese military was once more deployed to the border to cease an Israeli Merkava tank from crossing the ‘blue line’.

Israel once more carried out mock raids over the besieged Gaza Strip, in an try to wage psychological warfare towards the individuals of Gaza. The armed resistance teams in Gaza later carried out rocket assessments towards the ocean so as to develop the capabilities of their munitions.

Israeli occupation police forces arrested 11 Palestinian minors between the ages of 13 and 17, in occupied East Jerusalem. Occupation forces additionally prevented restoration efforts from going down within the outdated metropolis of al-Khalil.

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, made a shock go to to Amman so as to maintain a gathering with the Hashemite ruler of Jordan, King Abdullah II. 21 acts of resistance had been moreover recorded on Tuesday, together with various shootings towards Israeli navy checkpoints. Two Palestinians had been severely injured and transported to a hospital in Jenin, after an Israeli navy jeep intentionally rammed into them, throughout an incursion into the West Financial institution metropolis.

Unlawful Israeli settlers, beneath heavy navy safety, stormed the Awarta space in Nablus so as to provoke Palestinian civilians there and the occupation military declared that each journalists and medical employees are not allowed to enter areas that the navy storms. This announcement by the Israeli military prevents documentation of their crimes and stops medical employees from reaching injured Palestinians, basically leaving them to die or undergo with out medical consideration. Palestinian civilians have had to make use of their very own vehicles so as to transport injured Palestinians to hospitals in Jenin, after Israeli occupation forces opened fireplace on ambulances and prevented them from attending to the injured.

Wednesday: Israeli Navy Storms Shuafat Refugee Camp

On Wednesday, Israeli settlers once more stormed al-Aqsa Mosque. Dozens of Israeli occupation police forces additionally stormed al-Aqsa and posed for images. A minimum of 300 Israeli troops stormed the Shuafat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem, attacked Palestinians who protested towards them and demolished the household dwelling of Udai Tamimi, who carried out two commando operations that killed an Israeli soldier and injured others. Destroying the houses of Palestinians who commit assaults towards their occupiers is an act of collective punishment and is a violation of worldwide regulation.

Through the incursion into Shuafat refugee camp, a teenage Palestinian boy named Zain Aref Salameh was shot by Israeli forces and was initially prevented from receiving medical consideration while Israeli forces searched his physique. The troopers current even assaulted medical employees who had been making an attempt to move the wounded teenager to the hospital.

In a while, an Israeli soldier killed an unarmed Palestinian, 17-year-old Salah Ali, taking pictures the boy within the again as he ran away from a bunch of occupation forces, for this homicide, the soldier accountable was given an honorary award by nationwide safety minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who known as him a “hero” for killing a “terrorist”.

Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Palestinian Minor in Shuafat Refugee Camp

The occupation forces later that morning demolished an agricultural room within the city of Nahalin in Bethlehem. Israeli forces then shot useless a twenty-year-old Palestinian, named Aref Lahlouh, who they accused of attempting to assault Israeli troopers with a knife, video footage appeared to point out the Palestinian man operating towards the troopers after his automotive was stopped.

Palestinians got here to the streets to show in various areas in occupied East Jerusalem, together with in Silwan, al-Issawiya and the Shuafat refugee camp, various Palestinian youths had been shot and injured consequently. After Israeli forces stormed the outskirts of Nablus, armed Palestinian gunmen opened fireplace towards their navy automobiles.

Thursday: Isreali Forces Kill 9 Palestinians in Jenin Navy Raid

On Thursday, Israeli occupation forces stormed the Jenin refugee camp, after a particular forces crew was found to have entered the camp undercover. A firefight between the Jenin Brigades armed group and Israeli particular forces ensued. Earlier than lengthy tens of navy automobiles, carrying border police, common infantry, and particular forces items stormed the refugee camp.

The ways used had been brutal, as Israel prevented ambulances from serving to the injured and even fired tear fuel into an area authorities hospital that was treating Palestinians. Israel murdered a complete of 9 Palestinians in probably the most violent operation that they’ve dedicated within the West Financial institution since a minimum of 2005. A number of had been additionally left wounded and are nonetheless being handled for his or her accidents.

Three of the 9 killed weren’t affiliated with any armed group, one in all which was a 61-year-old girl that was shot twice within the throat and as soon as within the chest. One other Palestinian was shot and left to bleed out on the street, when an Israeli navy jeep was used to run over his head and crush his cranium, while ‘Energa’ anti-tank munitions had been used to focus on a constructing, burning alive to Palestinian fighters that had been a part of the Jenin Brigades.

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The reported aim of the Israeli raid was to arrest a frontrunner of the Burkin subgroup of the Jenin Brigades, named Ziad Sabbagh. Sabbagh is the son of a outstanding commander named Ala’ Sabbagh, who led the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (the unofficial armed wing of Fatah) throughout the Second Intifada and was killed by Israeli forces. Ziad Sabbagh managed to flee the constructing during which two different members of his armed group had been incinerated, however was captured and crushed after attempting to run away.

Later that day, the response within the West Financial institution got here within the type of numerous protests all through the occupied territory, even spreading to occupied East Jerusalem and demonstrations occurred within the Gaza Strip towards the bloodbath. Demonstrations in Acre, Haifa, Nazareth and Umm al-Fahm had been all organized by Palestinian residents of Israel additionally.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) introduced that it was going to droop safety coordination with the Israeli navy and was urged to not accomplish that by a UN delegation that warned of “penalties”. 13-year-old Nayef Al-Aweidat, who was severely injured in Israel’s bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp within the Gaza Strip, final August, died of their wounds.

Israeli occupation forces later killed 22-year-old Youssef Yahya Muhaisen, while he participated in an illustration in entrance of the Beti El settlement that’s positioned within the Ramallah space. The Palestinian armed factions in al-Khalil, Nablus, and Jenin, all opened fireplace towards Israeli navy checkpoints and watchtowers.

Israeli fascist settlers started a march in occupied Jerusalem, chanting “demise to Arabs”, cursing the Prophet of Islam and urging the Netanyahu authorities to kill extra Palestinians. The protest was scheduled to undergo the Arab quarter of occupied Jerusalem’s outdated metropolis, stopping on the Damascus Gate, nonetheless, the trail was modified by the Israeli authorities fearing an escalation inside the town. Nonetheless, Palestinian youths had been attacked by settlers, inflicting fights within the streets.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) motion, then fired two rockets at Asqalan, triggering the fireplace of Israeli air defence missiles, this got here as a response to the bloodbath in Jenin.

Friday: Israel Bombs Gaza

On Friday, within the earlier hours of the morning, Israel launched 15 missiles right into a website positioned within the al-Maghazi refugee camp within the Gaza Strip, inflicting harm to the houses of residents residing close by. Israel claims it hit an underground rocket manufacturing facility, when in actuality it hit a well-known open coaching space for the al-Qassam brigades of Hamas. As Israel was putting, the al-Qassam brigades fired domestically made surface-to-air missiles on the attacking fighter jets. Two separate salvos of rockets had been then fired at Israel, none of which did any harm. Israel proceeded to bombard one other open space close to Beit Lahia.

Giant numbers of Palestinian worshippers confirmed up at al-Aqsa mosque for Friday prayers, roughly numbering at 60,000, organizing a protest towards the bloodbath in Jenin. Protests additionally occurred within the West Financial institution, Gaza and in East Jerusalem all through the day, round 100 Palestinians within the West Financial institution sustained accidents.

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Demonstrations moreover occurred in Haifa, Umm al-Fahm and in southern Damascus, in Syria, in addition to within the Jordanian capital, Amman, in denunciation of the bloodbath dedicated in Jenin. Armed Palestinian resistance factions within the West Financial institution additionally carried out assaults towards Israeli forces within the following areas at evening: Beit Furik (East of Nablus), Ofer navy camp (South of Ramallah), UAV’s had been fired upon in Jenin Refugee Camp, Qabatyah and Jab’a, Dolev Settlement (West of Ramallah), Alon Moreh Settlement (East of Nablus), Huwarrah checkpoint (South of Nablus), in addition they opened fireplace upon a navy Jeep close to Jaba’, (North of occupied Jerusalem).

Thus far this yr, a minimum of 31 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, 14 of which had been martyred this week. 1000’s have been injured and/or arrested, with tens of Palestinians struggling severe gunshot accidents that maintain them in hospital care.

– Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. He focuses on the Center East, specializing in Palestine. He contributed this text to The Palestine Chronicle.



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