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SvennoJ on 04 December 2024
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Israeli settlers injured 2 soldiers in occupied West Bank: Army

The Israeli army says it carried out “enforcement activities” for illegal construction in the occupied West Bank, which led to the injury of two Israeli soldiers in settlers’ attacks.

The army also said there were violent incidents of settlers setting fire to property in the village of Beit Furik and in the Huwara area. It did not say whether its soldiers intervened. The Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that six people were detained.

Human rights groups and witnesses who spoke to Al Jazeera have repeatedly reported how the Israeli army acts in complicity with settlers, standing by them or joining the attacks. As a result, the level of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is at an all-time high since the start of the war in Gaza.

Throughout the year, Israeli settlers have seized 23.7 square kilometres (9.15 square miles) of Palestinian land, making 2024 the peak year for Israeli land seizures, according to Peace Now, a nonprofit organisation that monitors illegal land confiscation in the occupied territory.


Israel cancels administrative detention order against settler for first time: Report

The Israeli government has reportedly cancelled an order for administrative detention against a violent Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank for the first time, weeks after it announced it would discontinue such detentions for Israelis.

An Israeli settler who was arrested in the West Bank under former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for an unknown offence will now have his jail time cut by at least two months, according to Israel’s Channel 14 broadcaster.

He will be released as early as January after Gallant’s successor, Israel Katz, signed an order, the report said.

The broadcaster said Katz also confirmed that no more administrative detention orders – which entail being held without charge or court appearance – will be issued for Israeli settlers.

Only four such orders were issued against Israelis between 2018 and 2022, with 34 issued in the next two years amid rising Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

Thousands of Palestinians continue to be held under administrative detention in Israeli jails without having access to due process and fair trials.


Two children among 22 Palestinians arrested across occupied West Bank: Prisoners’ groups

At least 22 Palestinians have been arrested across the occupied West Bank since yesterday evening, including two children, a woman and former prisoners, according to the Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs and the Prisoner’s Society.

Most of the arrests took place in the governorates of Qalqilya and Tubas, with the rest happening in Bethlehem, Ramallah, Hebron and Nablus, the groups said.

This brings the total number of arrested to at least 11,900 people since the start of the war on Gaza, the organisations said.

Israeli raids and “field investigations” have picked up pace across all governorates in the occupied territory, during which Israeli soldiers use civilians’ homes as temporary military barracks, according to the Wafa news agency.


Global silence emboldened Israeli settlers to attack near Nablus: Palestine

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned what it called brutal attacks by “terrorist settler militias” on two towns near Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

The violent Israeli settlers set fire to property and vehicles in the towns amid intensifying daily assaults on Palestinians. The settlers have been emboldened to commit these crimes in the occupied territory by the “glaring and unjustifiable failure” of the global community to stop the Israeli killings, the ministry said.


Israel extends closure of Al Jazeera office in occupied West Bank

The Israeli court has approved the government’s decision to extend the closure of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah for 60 more days.

On September 22, Israeli forces stormed the office and banned Al Jazeera for 45 days under a military order. They then confiscated all equipment and documents in the office, prevented employees from using their cars and stopped the channel’s broadcast. The ban has been extended several times since then.


Israeli forces beat elderly man to death in Aqraba, south of Nablus

Israeli forces have severely beaten an elderly man on his own land in the town of Aqraba in the Nablus governorate, according to the mayor of the town, Salah Jaber. The Wafa news agency quoted Jaber as saying that the man died later in the National Hospital in the city of Nablus.

The death was confirmed to Wafa by Ahmed Al-Azar, a paramedic, who was involved in the injured man’s transfer to hospital.