Israel demolishes home of 13 Palestinians in West Bank’s Masafer Yatta: Report
Israeli troops backed by bulldozers and armoured personnel carriers demolished a two-storey home in the village of al-Zweidin in Masafer Yatta, a small, rugged region in the southern occupied West Bank, according to activist Osama Makhamreh quoted by the Wafa news agency.
The report said 13 people lived in the house.
Masafer Yatta has been repeatedly subject to Israeli settler violence and home demolitions as the Israeli military wants to turn the area into a training zone. The plight of its residents was the subject of a film that won best documentary at the Oscars.
Doctor, journalist among 22 arrested by Israeli forces in West Bank: Media Office
Israeli forces have rounded up six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank’s Jenin city, including doctor Shaima Abu Ghali and journalist Ali al-Samoudi, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA). Al-Samoudi was injured in the same attack when the Israeli army killed Al Jazeera’s correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin in May 2022.
Elsewhere in the Palestinian territory, four people were arrested yesterday in the town of Beit Fajjar in Bethlehem governorate, four others in the Hebron governorate, two in the city of Nablus, four in the governorate of Salfit, one in the city of el-Bireh and one in the city of Qalqilya.
Number of Palestinian journalists in Israeli jails rises to 49: Monitor
With the latest arrest, the total number of reporters currently in Israeli jails has reached 49, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said, adding that Israeli forces have arrested at least 177 reporters since the start of the war in Gaza.
Israeli “authorities continue to escalate their targeting of Palestinian journalists through systematic arrests, in addition to daily targeting of journalists while they are performing their work”, it said in a statement. “Journalists are subjected to all the systematic crimes faced by prisoners, including starvation, medical crimes, torture, and numerous forms of abuse.”
As of today, there are 19 journalists under administrative detention, a practice used only by Israel, which allows its authorities to detain someone without charge or trial, it added.
Palestinians cancel Nakba march in Israel amid police crackdown
Organisers of a march in Israel to commemorate the Nakba – the term Palestinians use to refer to the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians by Zionist paramilitaries during the creation of the Israeli state – say they have cancelled the annual event due to restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities.
Mohammed Barakeh, a former lawmaker and head of the High Follow Up Committee for Arab Citizens, said police banned the waving of Palestinian flags and capped the number of participants at 700 when thousands of people had taken part in recent years.
He said people would instead gather in former Palestinian villages that were depopulated by Zionist forces in 1948, the ruins of which remain scattered across Israel.
Far-right activists storm synagogue in Ra’anana to protest Israeli-Palestinian event
Dozens of far-right Israeli activists attacked a synagogue in the city of Ra’anana, north of Tel Aviv, which was screening a joint Israeli-Palestinian ceremony marking Israel’s Memorial Day.
Police intervened to evacuate viewers barricaded inside the building after far-right activists broke into the synagogue, threw stones and set off fireworks.
The event, which has run for 20 years and was organised by Combatants for Peace and the Parents Circle-Families Forum, took place on Tuesday night in Jaffa.
