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Palestinian Infant Dies After Israeli Apartheid Regime Denied her Access to Hospital, Scores Injured and Abducted by Israeli Occupation Soldiers

March 29, 2022 

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government abuse, mistreatment, and violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources:

http://english.wafa.ps/, https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

Palestinian infant, Fatma Jalal al-Masri, 19 months, died after she was denied access to a hospital outside Gaza by the Israeli occupation government, on March 25, 2022	Israeli occupation soldiers abducted two Palestinian young men, Ahmad Marazeeq and Sa’ad Natsha, near the al-’Isawiya, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, on March 28, 2022

A Palestinian elderly man who was wounded in the head by rocks thrown at him by illegal Israeli settlers outside of Nablus, March 28, 2022	Israeli occupation navy vessel harassing Palestinian fishermen off Gaza shore, file, March 24, 2022

Israeli Occupation Soldiers

IMEMC, April 4, 2021

Israeli occupation soldiers

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Al Mezan holds Israel responsible for the death of 19-month-old patient in Gaza denied care for five months

 MAR 29, 2022

Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: At around 10:30 am on Friday, 25 March 2022, medical sources at the Gaza European Hospital announced the death of Fatma Jalal al-Masri, 19 months, after she was denied access to a hospital outside Gaza by the Israeli occupation apartheid regime at the Erez crossing.

Fatma was subjected to Israel’s arbitrary and discriminatory permit system, which delays access to hospitals outside the Strip and denies care in around 30 percent of urgent cases. The continued movement restrictions by Israeli authorities on Palestinian patients in the Gaza Strip systematically violate inhabitants’ right to health by aggravating health conditions and placing numerous barriers to health access.

According to Al Mezan, Fatma’s legal representative, she was diagnosed with a ventricular septal defect in 2021. Despite having obtained a medical referral from the Palestinian Ministry of Health and confirming three hospital appointments at Al-Makassed Hospital in Jerusalem, Israeli authorities denied Fatma the requisite exit permit to travel to Jerusalem for the appointments, the last of which was on 5 March 2022.

The young patient’s health deteriorated over the course of several months of denied care and she died three weeks after her last missed appointment.

Al Mezan deeply regrets Fatma’s death and strongly condemns Israel’s ongoing closure of the Gaza Strip and its associated restrictions on the movement of Palestinians, which includes denying patients access to the hospitals in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Israel, and abroad.

Al Mezan’s documentation shows that since 2011, 71 Palestinians—including 25 women and nine children—have died following Israel’s denial of requests for exit permits and delays. Notably, Israel’s targeted, discriminatory permit system is one of the practices and policies at the core of its apartheid regime against the Palestinian people as a whole.

This case is yet another example of Israel’s continuing violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and its obligations as an occupying power, notably to respect and ensure freedom of movement in occupied territory and to guarantee the right to health of the occupied population.

These obligations bear greater weight when involving children and as provided in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Israel has an obligation to ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child. Delaying access to necessary medical care for a toddler for more than five months is unwarranted and grave.

Al Mezan emphasizes that Israel is fully responsible for Fatma’s death as the occupying power and relevant duty bearer in these circumstances.

The State’s persistent breaches of its international law obligations require the intervention of the international community and accountability of perpetrators.

Al Mezan calls on the international community—in particular, the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions—to uphold their moral and legal obligations vis-à-vis the protected Palestinian people and to ensure Israel complies with its obligations under international law, ends the closure and blockade on the Gaza Strip, and stops its ongoing restrictions of Palestinian patients’ access to medical care outside the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Occupation Navy Attacks Palestinian Farmers In Gaza

 MAR 28, 2022

On Monday morning, the Israeli occupation army attacked Palestinian farmers and their lands with live fire and gas bombs, east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources said the soldiers stationed on military towers across the fence east of Beit Hanoun fired many live rounds and gas bombs at the farmers.

They added that the attack did not lead to casualties but forced the Palestinians to leave their lands in fear of further escalation.

The attacks are part of frequent Israeli violations against the Palestinians, especially the fishermen, farmers, shepherds, and workers in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, and resulted in dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to severe property damage and the confiscation of many boats after abducting the fishermen.

In March of last year, 2021, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said Israeli mines were responsible for an explosion that led to the death of three fishermen.

Israeli Occupation Navy Attacks Palestinian Fishermen In Gaza

 MAR 27, 2022

On Sunday, Israeli occupation navy ships attacked several Palestinian fishing boats near the shore of Rafah in the southern part of the coastal region.

Media sources said the navy ships fired sporadic rounds of live ammunition at the fishing boats and used water cannons to force them to leave.

The attack did not lead to casualties but caused damage and forced the fishing boats to leave in fear of further violations.

The attacks are part of frequent Israeli violations against the Palestinians, especially the fishermen, farmers, shepherds, and workers in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, and resulted in dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to severe property damage and the confiscation of many boats after abducting the fishermen.

In March of last year, 2021, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said Israeli mines were responsible for an explosion that led to the death of three fishermen.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Shoot Three Palestinians, Abduct Three, In Bethlehem

 MAR 24, 2022

On Thursday dawn, Israeli occupation soldiers invaded the Deheishe refugee camp, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, shot three young Palestinian men, and abducted three others.

Eyewitnesses said dozens of soldiers invaded the refugee camp before storming and violently searching many homes.

They added that the soldiers abducted Mohammad Ramadan, 33, Yazan Mousa Manna’, 24, and Omar Yousef Manna’, 23, from their homes.

The invasion led to protests in various parts of the refugee camp before the soldiers fired many live rounds, gas bombs, and rubber-coated steel bullets.

The soldiers shot three young men with live rounds in the abdomen and legs, medical sources at Beit Jala governmental hospital said.

Israeli Occupation Navy Attacks Fishing Boats In Northern Gaza

 MAR 24, 2022

On Wednesday night, Israeli occupation navy ships fired many live rounds, concussion grenades, and flares at Palestinian fishing boats near the shore of Gaza city, forcing them to leave.

Media sources said the navy fired a barrage of live fire at the boats and many flares while the Palestinians were fishing in Palestinian waters not far from the shore, northwest of Gaza city.

They added that the navy also fired concussion grenades and ordered the fishermen to leave in addition to threatening to abduct them and confiscate their boats.

The attacks are part of frequent Israeli violations against the Palestinians, especially the fishermen, farmers, shepherds, and workers in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, and resulted in dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to severe property damage and the confiscation of many boats after abducting the fishermen.

In March of last year, 2021, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said Israeli mines were responsible for an explosion that led to the death of three fishermen.

Israeli Occupation Army Shoots Three Palestinians, Including A Child, Abducts One, In Ramallah

 MAR 24, 2022

On Wednesday afternoon, several Israeli occupation army jeeps invaded Beit Liqya village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, leading to protests before the soldiers shot three Palestinians, including a child, and abducted a young man.

The soldiers invaded the village before storming and ransacking an auto parts store and abducted its owner Ayed Anwar Mafarja.

The soldiers fired many rubber-coated steel bullets, gas bombs, and concussion grenades at the Palestinians and surrounding property.

They added that the soldiers shot three Palestinians with the rubber-coated steel bullets, including a child who was shot in his eye.

On Wednesday evening, the soldiers abducted four three Palestinians, including a teenage boy, in Jerusalem and Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.

Inflicting Injuries: Illegal Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Cars Near Nablus

 MAR 28, 2022

Updated: On Sunday evening, illegal Israeli Settlers attacked many Palestinian cars on several intersections near Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, causing damage and several injuries.

Medical sources in Nablus said the attacks caused several injuries among the Palestinians, including an elderly man who was wounded in the head.

They added that the elderly man was rushed to Rafidia hospital, in Nablus.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said the colonizers attacked many cars, causing damage.

He said the attacks took place on intersections near the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya town, the main Nablus-Qalqilia Road, and the road near Beit Forik military roadblock, the Jenin-Nablus Road along with several surrounding junctions.

Daghlas added that the colonizers also gathered on the junction near Shilo illegal colony, south of Nablus, amidst extensive military deployment.

The colonizers also hurled stones at Palestinian cars near the Ennab Israeli military roadblock, east of Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.

Illegal sraeli Settlers Burn Four Palestinian Cars Near Nablus

 MAR 28, 2022

Illegal Israeli Settlers burnt, Monday dawn, four Palestinian cars in Jaloud village, south of Nablus, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel’s illegal colonialist activities in the northern West Bank, said the colonizers came from the illegal Adei Ad colony, built on stolen Palestinian lands.

He added that the colonizers infiltrated the eastern area of the village, close to the colony, and completely burnt the four cars.

The colonizers attacked other parked cars and tried to set them ablaze, but the locals noticed them and chased them away.

Illegal Israeli Settlers Hurl Stones At Palestinian Cars In Tulkarem

 MAR 28, 2022

On Sunday evening, illegal Israeli Settlers hurled stones at Palestinian cars near the Ennab Israeli military roadblock, east of Tulkarem, in northern West Bank.

Bilal Zeidan, a Palestinian from Deir al-Ghosoun town, north of Tulkarem, said that he was waiting for his son near the roadblock when he received a phone call from the latter telling him that the colonizers attacked the cab he was in, along with several other cars.

After the colonizers attacked the cars and caused damage, Bilal said the soldiers detained his son and several other Palestinians after confiscating their ID cards.

The soldiers did not arrest or detain any of the illegal colonizers hurling stones and attacking Palestinian vehicles.

Israeli Occupation Army Abducts Four Palestinians In Ramallah and Jenin

 MAR 27, 2022

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, on Sunday dawn, four Palestinians in Ramallah and Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said several army vehicles invaded Beit Rima town, northwest of Ramallah, before breaking into homes and searching them.

They added that the soldiers abducted Akram Monir Harb, 21, and Ahmad Mosharraf Dar Yahia, 23, from their homes and took them to an unknown location.

The soldiers caused excessive property damage during the violent search of Akram’s home.

In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted invaded Jalboun village, east of the city, searched homes, and abducted Mustafa Taiseer Abu ar-Rob.

The soldiers also abducted a former political prisoner, Tareq Adnan Masad, from his home in Faqqu’a town, east of Jenin.

In related news, the soldiers invaded the al-Mas’udiyya archeological area, in Burqa village, northwest of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank city, before storming a defunct railway station that existed before Israel occupied the West Bank.

Local activist Thiab Hijazi said the soldiers had maps while invading the area.

Hijazi added that the defunct station was constructed during the ottoman area and was used from traveling from Palestine to Hijaz in Saudi Arabia.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct A Palestinian In Southern Gaza

 MAR 29, 2022

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted Monday at night, a young Palestinian man on land near the fence east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and fired many live rounds and flares.

Eyewitnesses said the young man was walking near the fence when the soldiers fired several live rounds and abducted him before moving him to an unknown destination.

The soldiers also fired many rounds of live ammunition and flares east of al-Fukhari town east of Khan Younis.

The Israeli army frequently abducts Palestinians, including farmers and workers, on lands near the fence and takes them to nearby military bases.

On Monday morning, the Israeli occupation army attacked Palestinian farmers and their lands with live fire and gas bombs east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The attacks are part of frequent Israeli violations against the Palestinians, especially the fishermen, farmers, shepherds, and workers in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, and resulted in dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to severe property damage and the confiscation of many boats after abducting the fishermen.

In March of last year, 2021, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said Israeli mines were responsible for an explosion that led to the death of three fishermen.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Assault Young Man Before Abducting Him In Jerusalem

 MAR 28, 2022

On Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers assaulted a young Palestinian man in Bab al-Amoud area in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem and abducted him.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers stopped the young man in Bab al-Amoud and started pushing and assaulting him while examining his ID card.

They added that the young man, Ahmad Nidal Rajabi, from Silwan town in Jerusalem, was abducted and taken to an interrogation facility.

The soldiers also stopped and interrogated many Palestinians in the area and prevented several young men from reaching the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding areas.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Tubas And Bethlehem

 MAR 29, 2022

On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted three young Palestinian men, including two former political prisoners, from their homes in Tubas and Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

The Tubas office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in the northeastern West Bank said the soldiers invaded homes in Tubas city and abducted Yazan Monjid Masilamani, 23.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also invaded homes in Tammoun town, south of the city, and abducted former political prisoner Mansour Mustafa Bani Odah, 33.

In Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem, the soldiers invaded the Jabal al-Mawaleh area, searched a few homes, and abducted a former political prisoner, Abdullah Jawareesh.

Furthermore, the soldiers abducted five young Palestinian men from their homes in several parts of the Nablus governorate in the occupied West Bank.

The soldiers also abducted three Palestinians from the Hebron governorate in the southern part of the West Bank.

In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted two young Palestinian men from Qabatia town, south of the city.

Israeli Occupation Army Abducts Five Palestinians In Nablus

 MAR 29, 2022

On Tuesday at dawn, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted five young Palestinian men from their homes in several parts of the Nablus governorate in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Several army jeeps invaded the al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village, south of Nablus before the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes and abducted Hamza Suleiman Daraghma, 21, and Yazan Majed Daraghma, 21.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also invaded Beita town, southeast of Nablus, searched homes before abducting Khaled Shadi Dweikat and former political prisoner Ammar Ahmad Daoud.

In Orif village, south of Nablus, the soldiers abducted Qoteiba Samir Awni after storming his home and ransacking it.

In addition, the soldiers abducted two young Palestinian men from Qabatia town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The soldiers also abducted three Palestinians from the Hebron governorate in the southern part of the West Bank.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Hebron

 MAR 29, 2022

On Tuesday dawn, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted three Palestinians from the Hebron governorate in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Media sources said the soldiers stormed and searched several homes in Hebron city before abducting two Palestinians, Najeh Mahdi Ja’bari and Ala’ Assem Ja’bari.

They added that the soldiers abducted Amro Maher Obeid, 32, from Hebron, after stopping him at the Container military roadblock southeast of occupied Jerusalem.

The Israeli occupation soldiers also installed roadblocks on Hebron’s northern roads and the entrances of Beit Kahil, Sa’ir, and Halhoul before stopping and searching dozens of cars and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.

In Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted two young Palestinian men from Qabatia town, south of the city.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Jenin

 MAR 29, 2022

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, Tuesday dawn, two young Palestinian men from Qabatia town, south of Jenin, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The Jenin office of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said the soldiers stormed and ransacked several homes before abducting Amer Hisham Zakarna and Mohsin Abu Aabed.

Many Palestinian youngsters protested the invasion and hurled stones at the soldiers who fired several live rounds, gas bombs, and concussion grenades.

Also, dozens of soldiers were deployed around Bir al-Basha village and on the main Jenin-Nablus Road before installing roadblocks.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Five Palestinians, Detain Child, In Jerusalem

 MAR 29, 2022

On Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers abducted five Palestinians, detained one child before assaulting him, and a bulldozer driver in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.

The Israeli occupation soldiers abducted two young men, Ahmad Marazeeq and Sa’ad Natsha, near the al-’Isawiya town northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers assaulted the two young men, causing wounds, before abducting them.

After assaulting him, the soldiers abducted Ahmad Nidal Rajabi from the Bab al-Amoud area in Jerusalem. The young man is from Silwan town in Jerusalem.

In the Old City, the soldiers a child, Odai Ala Haddan, for interrogation, after briefly detaining him.

Furthermore, the army abducted two young men, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, after stopping them near the Sahera Gate, and invaded the at-Tour town east of the old city before chasing a young man who managed to escape.

In Ramallah, in the central West Bank, the soldiers invaded Ras Karkar village, northwest of the city, before assaulting and briefly detaining a child, Ragheb Samhan, 10, causing several injuries.

The soldiers also invaded Rojeeb village, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and detained a bulldozer driver for a few hours.

In related news, Israeli colonizers attacked many Palestinian cars near an Israeli military roadblock at the northern entrance of the al-Biereh city in the central West Bank, causing damage.

Israeli Occupation occupation Soldiers Abduct Four Palestinians In Jerusalem

 MAR 28, 2022

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, Sunday evening, four Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, in the West Bank.

Local sources said the soldiers abducted two young men, Mousa Khalaf and Abdul-Rahman Sa’id after the army stormed the al-Batra’ (Petra) Hotel in Omar Bin al-Khattab Square, near Hebron Gate.

The abduction occurred after a group of illegal Israeli colonizers broke into the Hotel to occupy it before the soldiers surrounded it before storming the property and attacking several Palestinians.

After the initial incident, the soldiers abducted a Palestinian lawyer, Midhat Deeba, in the Hotel and took him to an interrogation facility.

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem owns the Hotel and rents it out to Palestinians from the local Qirrish family.

In related news, the soldiers abducted a young man, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, near Bab as-Sahera.

It is worth mentioning that the colonizers, supported by their government, have been trying to occupy Omar Bin al-Khattab Square and its surroundings to establish a colonialist outpost.

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Israel’s 55-year occupation of Palestinian Territory is apartheid – UN human rights expert

 MAR 27, 2022

GENEVA (25 March 2022) –

 A UN expert called today on the international community to accept and adopt the findings in his current report, echoing recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations, that apartheid is being practiced by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.

“Living in the same geographic space, but separated by walls, checkpoints, roads and an entrenched military presence, are more than three million Palestinians, who are without rights, living under an oppressive rule of institutional discrimination and without a path to a genuine Palestinian state that the world has long promised is their right.

“Another two million Palestinians live in Gaza, described regularly as an ‘open-air prison’, without adequate access to power, water or health, with a collapsing economy and with no ability to freely travel to the rest of Palestine or the outside world.”

The Special Rapporteur said that a political regime which so intentionally and clearly prioritizes fundamental political, legal, and social rights to one group over another within the same geographic unit on the basis of one’s racial-national-ethnic identity satisfies the international legal definition of apartheid.

“Apartheid is not, sadly, a phenomenon confined to the history books on southern Africa,” he said in his report to the Human Rights Council. “The 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court came into law after the collapse of the old South Africa. It is a forward-looking legal instrument which prohibits apartheid as a crime against humanity today and into the future, wherever it may exist.”

Lynk said that Israel’s military rule in the occupied Palestinian territory has been deliberately built with the intention of enduring facts on the ground – primarily through settlements and barricades – to demographically engineer a permanent, and illegal, Israeli sovereign claim over occupied territory while confining Palestinians in smaller and more confined reserves of disconnected land.

This has been accomplished in part through a long-standing series of inhuman(e) acts by the Israeli military towards the Palestinians that have been integral to the occupation, he said. He pointed to arbitrary and extra-judicial killings, torture, the denial of fundamental rights, an abysmal rate of child deaths, collective punishment, an abusive military court system, periods of intensive Israeli military violence in Gaza, and home demolitions.

Lynk said a number of recent reports and opinions issued by respected Palestinian, Israeli, and international human rights organizations have come to the same conclusion on the practice of apartheid by Israel. He added that leading international personalities – including former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor, and former Israeli Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair – have also all called this apartheid.

The Special Rapporteur said the international community bears much responsibility for this present state of affairs. “For more than 40 years, the UN Security Council and General Assembly have stated in hundreds of resolutions that Israel’s annexation of occupied territory is unlawful, its construction of hundreds of Jewish settlements are illegal, and its denial of Palestinian self-determination breaches international law,” he said.

“The Council and the Assembly have repeatedly criticized Israel for defying their resolutions. They have threatened consequences. But no accountability has ever followed. If the international community had truly acted on its resolutions 40 or 30 years ago, we would not be talking about apartheid today.”

To end the practice of apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territory, the Special Rapporteur called on the international community to assemble an imaginative and vigorous menu of accountability measures to bring the Israeli occupation and its apartheid practices in the occupied Palestinian territory to a complete end.

Mr. S. Michael Lynk is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967

The Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts and Working Groups are part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council’s independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures’ experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent from any government or organization and serve in their individual capacity. 

UN Human Rights, Country Page – Israel and occupied Palestinian territory

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Israel Apartheid Regime Demolishes Village in Negev for 199th Time

 MAR 24, 2022

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday demolished the Palestinian Bedouin village of al-Araqib for the 199th time. The residents of the village have been forced to rebuild their lives from the rubble of their destroyed homes, but they say that they are steadfast and resolute in their determination to remain on their ancestral land — despite Israel’s continuous attempts to displace them.

The Bedouin village is a makeshift community of homes made mainly of scrap materials and tin. The extremely impoverished residents of al-Araqib have had to scrape together a living, and have faced 199 demolitions of their homes by Israeli authorities who claim they are ‘unrecognized’.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces raided Al-Araqib and removed all tents and destroyed the tin shelters. This is the second time in 2022 that the village has been destroyed – and the 199th time since 2010.

In 2021, the Bedouin village was destroyed 14 times by Israeli armed forces.

Despite the repeated demolitions, the residents of Al-Araqib are determined to remain, and each time the community is destroyed, they rebuild their tents and small homes.

There are 22 Palestinian families living in the village. Al-Araqib is one of 35 “unrecognized” Palestinian Bedouin villages in the area. Israeli bulldozers constantly target it for demolition. The residents point out they own the land and have owned it since the Ottoman period in the late 1800s, decades before Israel’s creation in occupied Palestine.

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Bedouin Man Kills Four Israelis in Negev; Attacker Shot and Killed

 MAR 23, 2022

On Tuesday night, a man identified as Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Kian, 34, was shot and killed by a bystander after he killed four Israelis in Beer Al-Saba' (Beersheba), in southern Israel.

According to Israeli media, al-Kian was driving a car, and ran over Rabbi Moshe Kravitsky, who was riding a bicycle.

He then allegedly drove to a gas station, where he exited the vehicle and stabbed Laura Yitzhak.

Following that stabbing, he drove to a nearby shopping center, exited the car, and stabbed Yehezkel and Yahbas. A bus driver then shot and killed al-Kian.

The four Israelis killed were buried on Wednesday, following Jewish tradition to bury the body soon after death.

They were identified as Doris Yahbas, 49, Laura Yitzhak, 43, Menach Yehezkel Menuchin, 67, and Moshe Kravitsky, 50.

Just days before this attack, Journalist Israel Harel wrote a piece in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz praising the Israeli government’s decision to further displace the Bedouin population in the Negev.

Harel wrote, “In the first stage, 20,000 apartments will be built, as well as an industrial zone for advanced technology. In addition to finding a solution to the dire housing shortage among the ultra-Orthodox community, the city, in the specific site on which it will be constructed, will assist, in this initiative’s secondary objective, to halt, even if only in part, the process through which the Negev is being taken over by the Bedouin community, a process which in recent years has taken on alarming proportions.”

Israeli Hadash party condemned the attack and said, “the way of violence is not the way of the Arab public in general and the Negev in particular and is not part of the just struggle of the Negev Arabs against the dispossession and oppression,” the Jerusalem Post said.

“We already hear the instigators intend to use the tragedy to ignite a racist fire and lead to violence against Arab citizens. They must not be allowed to exploit the murder of innocent people to lead to more violence,” added the party.

It is worth mentioning that Abu al-Kiyan, a Bedouin man from Hura town, was previously imprisoned by Israel, and a security source told Haaretz the assailant was a known ISIS supporter.

Several Palestinian Authority officials denounced the attack in letters to Israeli counterparts.

The Israeli police and Internal Security arrested two members of Mohammad’s family under the suspicion that they “knew about the attack, but failed to stop it, however, the allegations could not be substantiated.

According to the Negev News Arab website, the Abu al-Kian family strongly denounce the attack and said Mohammad does not represent the family and its beliefs and sent its condolences to the victims and their families.

The Arabs48 news website has reported that “The High Arab Steering Committee in the Negev” also denounced the attack and said it does not represent the Arab residents of the Negev.

It added that the attack also tries to paint the Arabs in the Negev as guilty and racist, and said: “despite the long history of racism, discrimination and incitement against us, and despite what we have recently been facing, including attacks by Israeli militias targeting our very own existence, we continue to believe in the civil struggle within the law until achieving out full and equal rights for everybody in the Negev.”

The Committee expressed its condolences to the families, wished a full recovery to the wounded, and warned of the increasing incitement by Israeli fanatics against the Bedouins in the Negev.

“We all need to act responsibly, and we warn that incitement is just going to bring more suffering against the Arabs in general, and the Bedouins in particular,” the Committee said, “There are some in Israel, especially the extreme rightwing, who are using this tragedy for political gains and are inciting against us and our existence.

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Two Israeli Border Officers Killed in Attack in Southern Israel

 MAR 28, 2022

In the town of Hadera on Sunday evening, two Bedouin men from the unrecognized village of Umm al-Fahm shot and killed two Israeli border officers and wounded four Israeli civilians. The two men were then shot

The two Israeli border officers who were killed were identified as Yazan Fallah, 19, an Arab-Druze soldier from Kisra-Sumei in Galilee, and Shirel Aboukaret, 19, from Netanya.

According to Israeli sources, the so-called “Islamic State’ movement known as ISIS or Da’esh, claimed responsibility for the attack, which was the second in the past several days in southern Israel.

Israeli sources reported that the two shooters were shot and killed by two undercover officers from the Counterterrorism Unit of the Israeli Border Police who were eating at a cafe nearby.

Four Israelis were injured in the shooting and were hospitalized. They were a 45-year-old man, a woman in her twenties, and two men in their twenties.

Soon after the shooting, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett came to the site of the attack to pay respects.

The Palestinian-Israeli head of the Ra’am party, Mansour Abbas, told reporters, “This disgusting crime was ISIS-inspired and does not reflect the Israeli-Arab population, which seeks to live in respect and in accordance with the law, a life that honors the living and coexistence between Arabs and Jews.”

Immediately following the attack, Israeli forces locked down the village of Umm al-Fahm and arrested several relatives of the men who carried out the attack. The troops also deployed a helicopter in the area around Hadera to search for any “suspicious persons”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sent his condolences to the families of those killed and injured in the attack.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also condemned the attack. He called it a “senseless act of violence and murder”.

Um al-Fahim Mayor Dr. Samir Mahameed, told the Al-Arab News agency that what happened was a serious incident, adding that one of the two attackers is known to the Israeli security devices and was previously convicted in court for his membership with ISIS.

“We do not and will not support such ideology and attacks,” Mahameed said, “We call on the police to perform its duty and apprehend those who carry such a fanatic ideology.”

“When a group like ISIS claims responsibility for any attack, we need to know that all of us are targets,” Mahameed added, “ISIS never hesitated and will not hesitate to kill Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike; this group needs to be obliterated.”

It is worth mentioning that one of the attackers has a brother who is an officer with the Sharon Israeli Police department.

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