Israeli forces fire on Palestinians during confrontations with Israeli settlers

The Israeli military has carried out several raids and arrests in locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, according to Palestinian media, including:

More Palestinian families flee Israeli settler attacks on West Bank Bedouin community

Thirty more Palestinian families from a Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes, following repeated assaults and harassment from Israeli settlers under the protection of Israeli forces, the Wafa news agency is reporting.

As we reported earlier, 20 families from the al-Mleihat Bedouin community, located northwest of Jericho in the east of the occupied West Bank, had previously packed up their possessions and fled their homes, following an escalation in attacks by Israeli settlers in recent weeks. Prior to the forced displacement, the community was home to 85 families, numbering about 500 people.

One woman, Alia al-Mleihat, told Wafa that her family was forced to flee to the Aqbat Jabr refugee camp, south of Jericho, after armed settlers threatened her and other families at gunpoint.

Hassan al-Mleihat, general coordinator of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said the remaining families were also preparing to leave amid the escalating aggression from Israeli settlers, which included beatings, theft and poisoning of livestock, blocking of roads and destruction of tents. The harassment was carried out under the protection of Israeli authorities, he said.

Palestinian community in West Bank ‘entirely depopulated’ by Israeli settlers

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has released the footage below to show how an attack earlier today by Israeli settlers forced an entire community in the occupied West Bank to relocate to other areas.

Israeli settlers have increasingly ramped up their violent attacks, many of which are carried out with support from Israeli troops, amid the war on Gaza.

Prosecutors drop ‘Maccabi Tel Aviv’ assault cases

A decision to drop criminal charges against fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv football club has ignited controversy in the Netherlands.

Dutch prosecutors took the decision after CCTV footage showing violent behaviour by Israeli hooligans towards Muslim women last November was found to have been erased.

Oh like how Dutchbat mysteriously lost the pictures from the Srebrenica massacre.
https://indepthnews.net/how-the-netherlands-expunged-responsibility-for-the-genocide-in-srebrenica/
https://nltimes.nl/2014/12/05/missing-srebrenica-massacre-film-roll-investigation-needed-judge

Mahmoud Khalil says he will use platform to ‘shed light’ on Israeli atrocities

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate student who the Trump administration is seeking to deport for his pro-Palestine activism, has spoken to reporters from his home.

Khalil told the Reuters news agency that he “did not choose to be in this position” and it has “had a great impact on my life”. But he said he will use his new-found profile to raise public awareness.

“I now have some sort of a platform that I will, of course, use to shed light on the atrocities that Israel is committing against Palestinians and how the US government, how Columbia and other US universities are also complicit in these crimes, because this is what actually matters,” he said.

“What’s happening is that there is a genocide now happening in Palestine, being funded by the US and invested in by Columbia,” Khalil added.

Police swarm protesters outside UK’s Royal Court of Justice

Palestine Action, the activist movement that the British government wants to label a “terrorist group”, says its protests will not stop after police swarmed those gathered outside the top court in central London.

The group is set to be banned after a High Court judge refused to temporarily block it being designated as a terror group. This would make supporting Palestine Action punishable by up to 14 years in prison under the government’s plan.

Palestine Action appeals High Court decision

A bid by lawyers representing Palestine Action to appeal against a High Court judge’s refusal to temporarily block an imminent ban on the group has begun at the Court of Appeal.

The Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Lewis and Lord Justice Edis are hearing the challenge against the decision of Justice Chamberlain, who earlier on Friday ruled against granting “interim relief” to block the ban becoming law over the weekend.

Barristers for the UK’s Home Office are opposing the appeal bid, having also defended the bid for the temporary block.

The hearing is being held at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. 

Houthis ‘prepared for any escalation’, call for Arab boycott of Israel

The Houthis in Yemen, who earlier today organised another large pro-Palestine protest, read out a message at the rally to condemn the “silence” from most Arab and Islamic countries about the war on Gaza.

“We condemn the global silence and complicity, and the reliance on deceptive verbal stances that encourage the enemy to persist in its crimes,” the group also said in reference to Israel.

The statement said the Yemeni people will not retreat from their support of Palestinians, and that the threats from Israel, the US and their allies do not intimidate them as they are “prepared for any escalation, regardless of its scale or source”.

“We call on Arabs and Muslims, both peoples and governments, to boycott the goods and products of Israeli and American companies.”

Lebanese resistance will not give up weapons: Hezbollah’s Qassem

Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Naim Qassem has made the following remarks at a gathering in Beirut to mark Ashura, a day of commemoration that takes place annually on the 10th of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar:

‘Tactic of direct action cannot be proscribed’: Palestine Action

The UK-based Palestine Action movement, which will be designated a “terrorist” organisation after midnight local time for acting against Israel’s war on Gaza, says the government “had to impose the most draconian attack on civil liberties to please the pro-Israel lobby”.

“To be clear, they cannot proscribe the TACTIC of direct action for Palestine,” the group said in a statement, also welcoming civil disobedience to resist the proscription.

“This is a moment that the British state will likely come to regret. It’s a signal to all of us who are willing to resist, to make the ban unenforceable.”

Three Palestinians injured after Israeli settlers launch attack on Ramallah town

Three Palestinians were injured while repelling a violent attack by Israeli settlers in the town of Sinjil, located north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Sinjil mayor Moataz Tawafsha was quoted by the Wafa news agency as saying dozens of settlers stormed the area.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society said two people were beaten by the settlers, while a third sustained injuries when the settlers tried to kidnap him. The incident included attacks on several vehicles as well.

Israeli soldiers launch West Bank raids, settlers attack ambulance

Israeli military forces have launched more raids across the occupied West Bank, including one in the village of Tayasir, located east of Nablus, where a home was attacked.

In Kafr Qaddum east of Qalqilya, soldiers deployed in one neighbourhood, but no arrests or injuries were reported. Another raid took place in the town of Beit Fajjar, located south of Bethlehem, Wafa reported.

In Hebron, the towns of ad-Dhahiriya and Dura were stormed by Israeli forces, who fired tear gas and sound grenades at Palestinian shops and homes before withdrawing.

Another attack by violent Israeli settlers was reported in the towns of Beita and Osarin south of Nablus, carried out with protection from soldiers, who fired live bullets and tear gas canisters. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said one of its ambulances was attacked and damaged by the settlers.

Translation: Settlers attack a Red Crescent ambulance while responding to a settler attack on the town of Beita, south of Nablus.

Main events on July 4th

• Hamas said it responded “positively” to a 60-day ceasefire proposal backed by the US, which would see the release of 10 live captives held in Gaza and 18 deceased, in exchange for Israel allowing aid into the enclave and stopping offensive military operations.
• The Israeli military said it has “operational control” more than 65 percent of Gaza as it killed dozens more Palestinians, including more starving aid seekers at sites run by the heavily criticised Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
• The Israeli army also confirmed it was behind the assassination of a man in Beirut on Thursday, describing him as a “terrorist” who smuggled weapons for Iran’s Quds Force.
• The United Kingdom’s Royal Court of Justice rejected Palestine Action’s appeal to postpone government proscription, meaning the activist movement is now designated a “terrorist” group for rejecting Israel’s war on Gaza.
• More raids by Israeli soldiers and violent attacks by settlers were recorded across the occupied West Bank, leading to clashes with Palestinian residents.

The ceasefire proposal Hamas responded to

Hamas reacts to Gaza ceasefire; revolt in BBC; Gary Lineker’s hang in shame remark

Palestinian group Hamas has reacted positively to the ceasefire proposal on Gaza. In other major development, the BbC is facing an unprecedented revolt from staff who accused their employer of pro-Israeli biases. English footballing legend Gary Lineker, meanwhile, has reacted in horror after watching the Gaza documentary that the BBC refused to broadcast despite having first commissioned it. Rifat Jawaid, himself a former BBC editor, says that the spectacular fall from grace of this once iconic organisation is truly mind boggling.

CNN SHOOK At Dem Voters HISTORIC TURN Against Israel

Ryan and Emily discuss polls showing Democrat voters turning on Israel.



Shocking this actually made it to mainstream news, the tide is turning.

‘Obscene and depraved’: New reporting on Palestinians killed while waiting for food

“It has been one of the most obscene and depraved undertakings I have ever seen,” says Chris Hayes on reporting that Israeli soldiers and private American contractors have been firing into crowds of hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat.

Israeli military arrests two Palestinians during West Bank raid, settlers attack ambulance

An Israeli military convoy has stormed the occupied West Bank village of Rummana, west of Jenin, and arrested two Palestinian men, the Wafa news agency reports.

In the Jabal Qamas area south of Nablus, Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli soldiers, have attacked a Palestinian Red Crescent Society ambulance, according to Wafa.

Israeli soldiers and settlers fired bullets and tear gas canisters during clashes with local Palestinian residents. No injuries have been reported.

Israeli forces carry out raids across the occupied West Bank

Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting a number of Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank today. They include a raid on the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the Salfit governorate, with local sources telling Wafa that the Israeli forces ransacked several homes.

The Israeli forces are also reported to have raided Qalqilya, storming the city’s eastern entrance and searching several homes for more than three hours today.

Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that there has been an Israeli drone attack on the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon. Shebaa is located across two steep, rocky mountainsides that straddle Lebanon’s borders with Syria as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.