Arab League condemns Israeli attacks in West Bank
The Arab League Council today condemned the large-scale attacks launched by colonist on several villages and towns in the occupied West Bank, with the protection of Israeli army.
Spokesman for the League’s Secretary-General, Jamal Rushdi, said that the war crimes committed by the occupation on a daily basis in Gaza should not cover up what the West Bank is witnessing.
“The imposition of sanctions by some countries on a number of colonists represents a small, late step that is insufficient to halt such attacks,” he affirmed.
Rushdi called for the Security Council to put an end to this shameful situation as well as to held colonists full accountable for their crimes against Palestinian and their proprieties in the West
Bank.
Since last Friday, Israeli colonist militias, with the protection of Israeli forces, have launched a wave of terror attack against Palestinians and their proprieties.
These attacks have resulted in the killing of civilians, injuries to dozens, and the burning of dozens of homes and vehicles.
The 17-year-old Omar Hamed, who was killed by colonist gunfire in the village of Beitin.
Another terror attack was lunched by the gun-toting colonists on Al-Mughayir village, which resulted in the killing of Jihad Afif Sidqi Abu Alia, 25.
During Friday’s rampage, settlers set fire to more than 40 Palestinian facilities and 50 vehicles in al-Mughayyir, causing nearby agricultural lands to catch fire as well.
Eviction notice
The Israeli occupation authorities notified today three Palestinian families to evict their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of the occupied city of Jerusalem, in occupied East Jerusalem, for the benefit of the colonist militias.
The municipality gave the three families until mid-July to implement the decision. The targeted houses are inhabited by three families consisting of 20 members.
A member of the Sheikh Jarrah Neighborhood Defence Committee, owner of one of the targeted homes, Saleh Diab, said that the Jerusalem Magistrate Court held a hearing regarding the case at the end of last May, during which the court judge was informed that there was a decision from the Israeli Supreme Court to freeze the decision regarding the evacuation of 28 families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.
Diab added that The Nahalat Shimoun Colonial Association exerted pressure on the magistrate court judge, forcing him to look into the case again. He gave the family lawyer and the colonists’ lawyer 4 months to respond to the allegations.
Today, the judge issued the decision to evacuate the three families from their homes in the neighborhood, Diab added.
He added that the three families have been living in the houses for 56 years, and began their struggle in the courts to prove their rights since 2009 after receiving judicial notices.
For years, the Israeli occupation authorities have been trying to displace the residents of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem in various ways. However, they refused to do so, clinging to their homes despite all the strict restrictions imposed on them by the occupation.
More than 500 Palestinians living in 28 houses in the neighbourhood are facing threats of forced expulsion at the hands of settlement associations backed by the Israeli government and its judiciary system.