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"You can`t go home, you are not allowed to enter Israel" - "but my home is not in Israel!" - "Nevertheless, you not allowed"

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This week – December 6-12, 2020 – in the Occupied Territories

Annexation de-facto: Israeli soldiers detained Palestinian inhabitants of
South Hebron Hills communities, who were on their way home from the town of
Yatta, at a checkpoint on the road, proclaiming they were “blacklisted
against entering Israel”; Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian at
Qalandiya Checkpoint; At Farisiya, a settler set his dog against a
Palestinian flock, several sheep were wounded – Israeli army and police
arrived at the scene with the settlement’s security official, and chased
away – the Palestinian shepherd and his flock; a protest demonstration was
held in the Salfit district against demolition of a center for people with
special needs, and the founding of a new settler outpost; another week of
settlers and Israeli soldiers’ demolitions, confiscations and incursions
into Palestinians’ grazing grounds, olive groves and fields.

Palestinians who live in the South Hebron Hills are detained at an Israeli
army checkpoint between Yatta and Susya (Area C) with the pretext that they
are “blacklisted against entering Israel”, December 8, 2020
South Hebron Hills

On Tuesday, December 8, the Israeli army put up a checkpoint/barrier on the
road connecting the town of Yatta (Area A) with Susya and other Palestinian
communities inside Area C, and the soldiers at the barrier prevented
Palestinians from returning to their homes, under the pretext that they were
‘blacklisted against entering Israel’.

A resident of Palestinian Susya and teachers on their way to give classes in
the Palestinian communities were detained at the barrier for hours, and only
a lawyer’s intervention finally enabled them to get through.

The next day, Wednesday, once again a resident of Palestinian Susya was
detained on his way home from Yatta for 2 hours, under the same pretext. The
soldiers claimed they “received orders from higher echelons”.

Apparently, the Israeli army has begun to implement a de-facto annexation of
Area C to the State of Israel.

On Monday and Tuesday this week, settlers of the new outpost at Umm Zaitouna
entered sown fields belonging to Palestinians, crossed them, and went to
graze in areas that usually the grazing ground for Palestinian flocks.

Palestinian shepherds on site preferred to leave along with their flocks.
A group of settlers reached Bir Al Eid on Wednesday (December 9). Claiming
they were searching for sheep they had lost. The frightened Palestinian
villagers summoned Palestinian activists, and when these arrived, the
settlers left.

On Tuesday, this week, Israeli occupation forces demolished a sheep pen at
Simiya and confiscated a water tank at Rafat, opposite the illegal settler
outpost of ‘Asa’el’. The same day, the Civil Administration toured the
Dakaika area, and photographed a water pipe that serves the local residents.

On Thursday, December 10, a concrete mixer was confiscated near Ma’in.

On Saturday, a Palestinian landowner who arrived at his fields in Umm Al
Arais close to the outpost ‘Mitzphe Ya’ir’ discovered that 30 of the olive
trees he had planted there were uprooted, and dozens of other trees were
vandalized and eaten by a flock belonging to the settler s of the outpost.

This happened after last week a settler of the same outpost promised to
uproot the trees planted by the same landowner.

On Friday, December 11, Susya villagers plowed their fields near the Jewish
settlement. Settlers tried to prevent the work, but the army enabled it.

On Saturday settlers from the outpost of ‘Havat Ma’on’ summoned the Israeli
army in order to prevent a Palestinian from digging holes for the planting
of trees in his own lands at Rakiz. Army and Civil Administration personnel
who arrived obeyed the illegal orders of the outpost settlers and ordered
the farmer to cease his work without any legal grounds. Activists arriving
there accompanied him to continue working. Activists also helped remove
demolition rubble at Khalat A-Dhabba on Saturday.

To join Ta`ayush in The South Hebron Hills this Saturday call 055-2770168
Please make an effort to register no later than Thursday evening, so we can
organize the transportation and the activity properly. Please bring an
ID/passport, a hat, water and food for the day.

It is advised to take into consideration cultural differences in the choice
of clothing.

Palestinian Jordan Valley and West Bank Hill Range

On Wednesday, December 9, at Farisiya in the northern Palestinian Jordan
Valley, a settler set his dog at a Palestinian shepherd’s flock and caused
the wounding of two sheep. Activists summoned to the site realized that the
nearby settlement’s security official as well as army and police forces had
already arrived.

These notified the shepherd that the ground had been transferred to the
holding of the security official, refused to handle the attack on the flock
and the wounding of the sheep, and chased him away.

At Auja in the southern Palestinian Jordan Valley, Israeli occupation forces
demolished 7 structures on Tuesday, December 8.

On Friday, December 11, Israeli soldiers chased away shepherds and flocks
grazing on Palestinian Waqf-owned lands in the area, although the activists
accompanying the flocks explained to the soldiers that this removal had no
legal authority. Two days earlier, on Wednesday, activists accompanied the
shepherds in the same area, and everything proceeded unhampered.

In the Tayibe-Junction area on the West Bank Hill Range, activists
accompanied Palestinian farmers who were plowing their lands on Friday,
close to a settler outpost that has been founded there this past year. The
plowing went unhampered but after it was over, settlers from the outpost
arrived at the Palestinians’ homes and threatened them.

To join activity in the Jordan Valley, please contact Arik: 050-5607034

On Monday, Israeli occupation forces at Qalandiya Checkpoint shot a
Palestinian and wounded him, claiming he wouldn’t obey their orders to stop.

Earlier this week, several dozens olive saplings were uprooted in the
village of Brukeen (Salfit district), not far from lands belonging to A-Dik
village, where dozens of adult olive trees were vandalized last week.
Between the two groves lies the outpost that has been legalized as the
settlement of ‘Brukhin’.

At the beginning of the week, 4 olive trees were also vandalized belonging
to Hares, close to settlement ‘Revava’. An entire olive grove was destroyed
at the same place – 200 trees – in May. Israeli soldiers arrived at this
land this week, and warned the owners they must not be there, and if they
dare return, they will be fined for thousands of shekels.

On Friday activists took part in a protest demonstration north-west of
Salfit. Such demonstrations have been held there for some weeks now, first
following the demolition of a center for people with special needs by the
Israeli army, and now because of the erection of a new settler outpost west
of Salfit, south of the Ariel industrial zone. The demonstrators who marched
towards the outpost were blocked by military force.

For joining activity in the Salfit area, please contact Aviv –
avivsky@gmail.com

This week, Israeli occupation forces demolished 3 structures at Al Maniya
south of Bethlehem, and another at Ras Al Tin on the West Bank Hill Range.

The weekly protest in Sheikh Jarrah takes place every Friday. The residents
of Sheikh Jarrah are protesting their violent evictions from their homes,
the taking over of the neighborhood by the settlers, and the Judaization of
East Jerusalem. They call upon each and every person who supports their
struggle to join them

We will meet at the Sheikh Jarrah Garden, Nablus Road and Dahlmann St. at at
3 p.

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