Israeli forces hinder the education process in Bethlehem; student injured
This morning, Thursday, Israeli occupation forces blocked the educational process at Tekoa’ Secondary School, east of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Sources said there were clashes between the students and Israeli occupation soldiers, in which one of the students was injured.
The board of Tekoa’ Secondary School reported that dozens of soldiers had been deployed near the school and blocked the educational process for fear they would storm the school.
Local sources indicated that rubber bullets injured a student in the foot during clashes that broke out after storming the perimeter of the school, and clashes erupted. In contrast, several others suffocated with poison gas.
It is noteworthy that last night, Wednesday, the Israeli occupation forces closed the entrances to Tekoa’ with iron gates, laid siege to the 15,000 inhabitants and prevented vehicles from entering and leaving the city.
Israeli troops harass Palestinian schoolchildren in Bethlehem, injuring one
A Palestinian schoolchild was injured in the early hours of Bethlehem on Thursday by rubber-coated metal bullets fired by Israeli forces.
Local sources said a large number of Israeli occupation forces had been deployed since early morning in the perimeter of Tekoa’ high school, east of Bethlehem, and began harassing the students, causing a state of fear among them.
The troops then fired rubber-coated metal bullets and sound bombs directly at the students, injuring one.
Judaization plan aimed at historic mosque in Haifa
The committee in charge of donations in Haifa has been confronted for many years with the colonial plans of the Israeli occupation to control the Palestinian presence, especially the archaeological and religious sites.
The commission revealed the intention of private companies to implement a dangerous plan approved in 1985 that threatens the historic White Mosque in Haifa.
They said the companies will construct a building on their land and adjacent to it, which consists of 27 floors for housing, hotels, commerce and offices, in addition to constructing 258 residential units with the title “Museum Architecture”.
It is noteworthy that the land on which the mosque is built is endowment land, and the plan states that the land around the mosque will be handed over to the state and the project will be built on it.
Israeli troops restrict Jerusalemites under the guise of vacation
Israeli occupation forces restrained the Jerusalemites and closed several roads in Jerusalem on the pretext of the Jewish holidays.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli occupation forces erected concrete and iron barriers at the intersection of the road leading to Street No. 1, closing the area of the Beit Hanina Bridge, preventing the movement of people to and from Jerusalem and completely restricting their direction.
Israeli PM calls Palestinian state a ‘terrible mistake’
The Israeli occupation prime minister said on Tuesday that he sees no reason for him to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas because he is against a Palestinian state.
Despite some high-level contacts between Israel’s new government and the PA, Bennett, speaking to Kan public broadcaster as part of a series of interviews he gave to Israeli news outlets, cited the PA’s prosecution of war crimes charges. against Israel at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and continued payment of monthly allowances to political prisoners.
“I see no logic in meeting someone who indicts IDF soldiers in The Hague and accuses them of war crimes, while paying salaries to terrorists,” Bennett told Kan public broadcaster. “I don’t see the logic in meeting him.”
Two of the detained detainees report torture, one hospitalized
Lawyers for two of the Palestinian detainees who escaped from Israeli prison on Sept. 6 have confirmed that the refugees were tortured by Israeli forces, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
For the first time since their arrest on September 11, lawyers were allowed to hear two of the detainees.
Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) lawyer Raslan Mahajna, met with political prisoner Mahmoud al-‘Arda, one of six Palestinians who escaped from Israeli prison, who briefed him on the harsh details of the interrogation and the systematic denial of basic human needs.
Israel army chief: Attacking Jenin could become an inevitable choice
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi warned yesterday that raiding the West Bank city of Jenin could become an inevitable choice, Israeli TV Channel 12 reported.
Al Maydan News Agency reported that Israeli TV channel quoted Kochavi as saying that the Israeli military would raid the city to “cleanse” the city of armed Palestinian factions.
Kochavi expected that one of the Palestinian fugitives would have reached and entered Jenin, and could get help from there.
He said the investigation with Zakaria Al Zubeidi, who was recaptured, revealed that the escapees were planning to go to Jenin.
Minors make up 67% of detainees in an Israeli detention center
Two-thirds of Palestinian detainees at an Israeli detention facility in the illegal settlement bloc of Etzion, south of the city of Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank, are minors, the Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs Commission said today.
It said there were 24 Palestinian minors in the Etzion detention facility, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of detainees there. The majority were subjected to various forms of torture, both physical and psychological, during their detention and interrogation.
It added that they were beaten, thrown to the ground and trampled, and beaten with rifle butts all over their bodies, insulted and held for hours in an army facility with their hands cuffed and without food before being sent to prison.
39 Palestinian detainees are currently being held at the Etzion facility, the commission said.
(Sources: Days of Palestine, Quds News Network, IMEMC, MEMO)
Henny A.J. Kreeft
Independent Citizen Journalism
© Khamakar News Agency / 16.09.2021
