Nieuwsberichten en foto's uit de schurkenstaat die geen onderdeel uitmaken van de Israël Goed Nieuws Show in onze "kwaliteitspers". Via Mondoweiss:The Palestinian president says Israel is 'still putting obstacles' in the path of peace talks, singles out West Bank settlement building.
Bethlehem – PNN - Israeli settlers with the protection and support of soldiers destroyed olive groves in a farm in Jub al-Theeb, east of Bethlehem, on Wednesday morning. Image After being stopped by a group of international solidarity workers, one settler took revenge on Thursday morning by attacking a herd of sheep. Mubarak Zowahera, of Jub al-Theeb, told PNN this morning that the group of settlers came to cut down his olive trees near the Israeli settlement of Zibar. A group of international solidarity activists came later to survey the damage to his fields. Then early Thursday morning, one settler attacked a herd of sheep in Zowahera’s olive grove, which had been “cut down and vandalized” the day before. This action is believed to be in response to the solidarity activists stopping the settlers’ assault. Zowahera told PNN he was working to expose the occupation policies by taking pictures of what happened and presenting them to the Israeli human rights group B’tselem.
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that Jewish settlers in the northern part of the occupied West Bank are avoiding attempts by the Israeli army to stop them from harvesting and destroying Palestinian orchards, by sneaking under the cover of darkness into the lands and harvesting them before the Israeli army arrives.
The Israeli municipal council in occupied Jerusalem approved a plan to build a new Jewish park in place of 22 Palestinian homes to be demolished in Al-Bustan neighborhood.
RAMALLAH: Israeli authorities on Wednesday decided to confiscate a large area of agricultural lands near the West Bank city of Nablus, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian Authority official monitoring settlers’ activity in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli occupation authorities issued a military order to confiscate some 1,000 dunams (100 hectares) belonging to Palestinian farmers from the village of Jaloud, to the southeast of Nablus. Daghlas added that the order was signed by the commander of Israeli Army in West Bank.
JERUSALEM — Jerusalem's mayor on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to approve a major rezoning plan for Arab east Jerusalem, a move that could fuel tensions in the flashpoint Holy City. Nir Barkat said the project would legalise thousands of buildings in annexed east Jerusalem that Arab residents built without Israeli municipal permission. "Barkat called on the prime minister and his government to adopt the municipality's new re-zoning plans for Jerusalem's eastern neighbourhoods and reiterated his demand to halt demolition orders throughout areas under re-zoning," Barkat's office said in a statement. However, at the heart of the plan is a new an archaeological park in a crumbling Arab neighbourhood just outside the walls of the Old City which has drawn widespread condemnation from Palestinians and the international community.
Foto's:
Palestinian farmers from the village of Hawara extinguish fire at their olives tree grove that was allegedly set ablaze by Jewish settlers from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar in the northern West Bank on October 7, 2010.
Palestinian villagers try to put out fires after fields were set ablaze in the village of Asira al-Qiblyia in the northern West Bank on June 2, 2010
Israeli soldiers (R) and Israeli settlers (L) watch from a hilltop as Palestinians villagers (unseen) try to put out fires after fields were set ablaze in the village of Asira al-Qiblyia in the northern West Bank on June 2, 2010.
Israeli border police officers stand guard during the visit of Israeli Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitz, not seen, to the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. On Tuesday Aharonovitz and several other Israeli government officials toured Beit Yonatan, a house built by Jewish settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
Israeli settlers hurl rocks at Palestinians, not seen, on the outskirts of Burin village, near the Jewish West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus, Monday, July 26, 2010. Israeli settlers entered a Palestinian village, set fire to a field, tried to tear down an unfinished house and attacked villagers on Monday, village residents said, after Israeli authorities demolished unauthorized settler structures.
Israeli Settlers celebrate the Wine Grape harvest with the help of American Christian Evangelicals.The settlement overlooks Nablus, home of 220,000 Palestinians and the Jewish Holy Site of Josephs Tomb. Har Bracha, Palestinian Territory.15/09/2010
An Israeli soldier stands guard as members of a special Israeli military unit called the 'mustaribeen' (arabists) hold down Palestinian stone throwers lobbing rocks at Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the Jewish settlement and the settlers of Karmi Tsour near the Palestinian village of Beit Omar village, close to the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Hebron on October 9, 2010.
Israeli soldiers look on after spraying tear gas into the faces of female protestors during a demonstration by Palestinians, Israeli and foreigner activists against the Jewish settlement and the settlers of Karmi Tsour near the Palestinian village of Beit Omar village, close to the Israeli occupied West Bank town of Hebron on October 9, 2010.
Israeli settlers walk along al-Shuhada street, past two of dozens of shuttered Palestinian owned shops daubed with the Jewish Star of David, on September 28, 2010, in the West Bank town of Hebron, after Palestinians were forced years ago to move out of the old quarter by the Israeli army to allow for the Jewish settlers to move securely in the area. A few hundred hardline Jewish settlers live under heavy Israeli military protection in the heart of the town of 160,000 mostly Muslim Palestinians.
An Israeli soldier stands by as Jewish settlers remove the contents of a Palestinian home in Jerusalem's Old City on October 10, 2010. The Palestinian Qarsh family who has lived there for the past 70 years was ordered to leave their home by the Israeli courts following a long legal battle between them and the Jewish settlers who say they bought the building from its owners, another Palestinian family who emigrated to the United States decades ago.
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