19 January 2011By Dr. Saeb Erakat
PLO Negotiations Affair Department Release
Israeli Violations in East Jerusalem JANUARY 2011
Summary of Israeli violations in East Jerusalem for
the period beginning June 1, 2010 and ending December
31, 20101 . 1 This summary is not comprehensive.
Unless otherwise noted, the data was gathered from the
reports developed by the Palestinian Monitoring Group,
which can be found at www.nad-plo.org.
PALESTINIANS KILLED
Samer Sarhan, killed by the Israeli military
guards of an Israeli settlement in the Silwan
neighborhood (September)
Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Sarah, a 14-month-old infant,
died from tear gas inhalation used during a raid of Al
Isawiya village by the Israeli military (September)
Ziyad Mohammed Badawi, killed by the Israeli military
in the Wadi Al Joz neighborhood (June) PALESTINIANS
INJURED
More than 33 Palestinians were injured and beaten by
the Israeli military during raids of the Palestinian
neighborhoods of Silwan, Haram Al Sharif compound, Al
Isawiya, Shufat refugee camp, Ras al Amud, Al Tur
and Thuri (September)
Tawfiq Kheir Al Din Saqr was severely beaten by the
Israeli military in the Qalandiya refugee camp,
leaving him with contusions (October)
Suleiman Abdo Siyam, a ten-year-old child, Nahlah
Gheith, Abdullah Gheith and Mohammed Mahir Abdul Wahed
were injured by the Israeli military during a raid of
the Silwan neighborhood (October)
Ibrahim Isma'il Khalil Dar Isa was severely beaten
by the Israeli military while working (October)
Mohammed Abu Subeih, a 13-year-old, was shot in the
head by the Israeli military during during
confrontations that took place after demolition
notices were distributed to several families in the
Silwan neighborhood (October)
Mohammed Isma'il Shamasneh was shot in the leg by
the Israeli military guarding the Wall near Qatanna
village (November)
Mustafa Mousa Mohammed Al Faqih, a 17-year-old, was
injured by the Israeli military near the Wall in
Qatanna village (November)
Fares Hussein Sa'di was severely beaten by the
Israeli military near Biddu town, Sa'di was admitted
to the hospital with serious contusions (November)
Nash'at Sulaiman was severely beaten by the Israeli
military and subsequently required hospital treatment
(December)
The Israeli military injured six Palestinians when
it fired rubber coated steel bullets and tear gas
bombs at civilians who were allegedly throwing stones
(December) Israeli police fired rubber bullets and
tear gas bombs during a peaceful demonstration against
the plan to demolish homes in the Silwan neighborhood,
six civilians were injured (August) PALESTINIANS
ARRESTED
Muhammad Abu-Tir, a Member of the Palestinian
Legislative Council Member, was arrested by the
Israeli police in front of his house in the village of
Um Tuba (July) Twelve Palestinian civilians were
arrested in the Silwan neighborhood
(June) SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY
Israeli authorities uprooted more than 80 olive
trees in Walajah village for the construction of a
portion of the Wall that would connect it to another
section in Beit Jala (June)
The Israeli District Planning and Building Committee
ratified a plan to build 1,600 housing units in the
Ramat Shlomo Settlement (June)During this reporting
period, construction of the Wall was ongoing in the
Eizariya neighborhood and next to Road 60 and the Gilo
tunnel which connects the Etzion settlements with the
Gilo settlement 2 Preparatory construction began at
the settlement project on the premises of the Shephard
Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood
The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality approved plan TPS
4711 to build 1,000 hotel rooms on 70 dunums of land
on the Western side of the United Nations headquarters
in the Jabal Muqaber neighborhood (July)
The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality approved for
discussion plan TPS 9835 for Jabal Muqaber
neighborhood, which would approve 84 hotel room and
140 housing units (July)
The Jerusalem Municipal planning committee approved
construction of 32 new housing units in Pisgat Ze'ev
settlement (July)3(June) 4 A group of Israeli
settlers, protected by the Israeli police, seized
control of two homes belonging to the Qirresh family
in the old city (August)
The Israeli military leveled land to expand Road #1
in the area between Khan Al Ahmar, Az Za'ayyem
checkpoint and the junction to the French Hill
settlement (September) 2 ttp://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=178572;
news report during Biden's visit also found at
http://www.ynetnews.com/
articles/0,7340,L-3860310,00.html 3
http://www.ynetnews.com/
articles/0,7340,L-3911541,00.html 4 Haaretz newspaper,
http://www.haaretz.com/news/
diplomacy-defense/council-approves-construction
-of-32-new-homes-in-east-jerusalem -1.301535
Prime Minister Netanyahu approved tenders for 150
housing units in Ramot settlement and 80 housing units
in Pisgat Ze'ev settlement (October)
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation decided to
support a proposal to add Jerusalem to Israel's new
map of national priority zones,
The Israeli government approved the building of
1,298 housing units, including 978 housing units in
Har Homa settlement and 320 housing units in Ramon
Alon settlement (November)
A group of Israeli settlers, protected by the
Israeli military, took over a three-story house in the
Jabal Mukabar neighborhood belonging to Al Qara'in
family, and forced its inhabitants to evacuate it.
They based their actions on the pretext that the house
belongs to an extremist Jewish organization, a
decision made by an Israeli court after a three-year
dispute. The Al Qara'in family denies this claim.
(November)
A group of Israeli settlers, protected by the
Israeli military, seized a three-story residential
building in the Jabal Al Tur neighborhood, on the
basis of a decision by the Israeli court, reached
after a five-year dispute, and under the pretext that
the house belongs to Israeli settlers (November)
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building
Committee published detailed plans allowing for more
than 1,000 Israeli settlement housing units: 930
housing units to be built in the Har Homa C area, 48
units in Har Homa B area, 320 units in Ramot and an
additional 625 units in Pisgat Ze'ev5which will enable
Israel to intensify building in all Jerusalem,
including occupied East Jerusalem, sending a clear
message that "the city will not be divided" (October)
6 (November) 5
Haaretz, website October 24, 2010, at: http://www.haaretz.com/
news/national/ministers-back-proposal-to- make-jerusalem-a-national-priority
-zone-1.320931
6 , November 8, 2010, at: http://www.haaretz.com/news/
diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-faces-
embarrassment-in-u-s-over-new-jerusalem-
building-plan-1.323597; , December 1, 2010 at: http://www.haaretz.co.il/
hasite/spages/ 1201611.html
SETTLER VIOLENCE A group of Israeli settlers
severely beat three civilians from the Bethlehem
district who were working in Jerusalem. The workers
sustained contusions and were evacuated to hospital
for treatment (July)
Aala' Ahmad Abu-Nab, a pregnant woman, and several
other civilians were injured and sustained contusions
from severe beatings and tear gas inhalation when the
Israeli military fired rubber coated steel bullets,
stun grenades and tear gas bombs towards them when
they confronted settlers that attacked them in the
Silwan neighborhood (July)
A group of Israeli settlers attempted to raid a
mosque in the Silwan neighborhood while firing
indiscriminately on civilians (August)
A group of Israeli settlers beat Rami Al Shanti, who
was rushed to hospital for treatment (September)
A group of Israeli settlers attacked and damaged a
vehicle belonging to Ahmed Abu Zeid near the junction
to Mikhmas village (September)
Groups of Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli
police, invaded the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in the old
city (September)
A group of Israeli settlers opened fire at
Palestinian civilians in the Silwan neighborhood
(September)
An Israeli settler deliberately ran over Umran
Mansour, an 11-year-old, and Iyad Gheith, a
10-year-old, in the Silwan neighborhood. The children
suffered bone fractures and contusions. (October)
Ra'ef Abdul Karim Abu Ali was injured by Israeli
settlers who stormed his farmland in Mikhmas village,
set fire to a number of olive trees, and assaulted
civilians, who attempted to confront them (October)
DEMOLITIONS
The Israeli military distributed demolition notices
for four homes belonging to Tahani Salah, Isma'il
Salah, Mahmoud Salah and Mohammad Salah in Beit Safafa
(June)
The Israeli military forced Nayed Hamed Kusterio to
demolish an addition to his home in the area of Aqbat
as Saraya in the old city (July)
The Israeli military demolished: The Israeli
military demolished a garage owned by Kamal Shweiky in
the Al Thouri area of Abu Tor and an animal shed
belonging to Sliman Syam in the Abbasiyye area of
Silwan7(June) o Three homes in Al Issawiya village,
belonging to Sabah Abu Rmeileh, Mahmoud Muhammad Naser
and Hisham Khalil Abdallah Al Dari o One home
belonging to Rashed Al Rajabi in the area of Al Aqaba
in Beit Hanina o
The Israeli Jerusalem Municipality approved the
demolition of 22 Palestinian homes located in Al
Bustan neighborhood in Silwan, occupied East
Jerusalem. The plan is to build a national park,
restaurants and hotels to further control the south of
the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Israeli military demolished three commercial
shops in the village of Hizma (August)
The Israeli military leveled dozens of civilian land
in the Al Tur neighborhood in preparation for the
development of a nature reserve (September)
The Israeli military distributed demolition notices
for several homes in the Silwan neighborhood; the
homes were built before the Israeli military occupied
Jerusalem in 1967 (November)
The Israeli military served demolition notices to
five homes in Silwan neighborhood under the pretext of
a lack of building licenses (November) Two homes
belonging to Ahmad Mousa Mashahreh and Amer Al Taweel
in the Al Sal'a area (July) 8(July) 7 Field visit by
the Negotiations Support Unit; reported by DWG/OCHA
and local Israeli and Palestinian media (June 15). 8
http://www.maannews.net/ eng/ViewDetails.aspx?
ID=293646
The Israeli military demolished a barn during a raid
of Al Isawiya village, claiming it had been built
without a license (November)
The Israeli military leveled three agricultural
arboretums, two shops selling stones and marble and a
shop selling furniture in Hizma village (November)
The Israeli military demolished a home belonging to
Aziz Abdulrahman Zablah in the Jabal Al Tur
neighborhood, under the pretext of it not being
licensed (November)
The Israeli military raided Qatanna village and
distributed notices for the demolition of two sheep
pens belonging Mousa Taha and Hussein Shamasneh,
allegedly because they had been built without the
required construction licenses (November)
The Israeli military demolished two Palestinian
homes under construction in Ras Al Amoud and Sur Bahir
(November)
The Israeli military issued military order #10/20
for the confiscation of 50 dunums of Palestinian land
belonging to Beit Iksa town for the purpose of a
railway (November)
The Israeli military forced Osama Al Shobaki to
demolish his house in the Al Thawri neighborhood. Al
Shobaki had appealed the demolition to Israeli courts
three times, to no avail. (December)
The Israeli military forced Mousa Soboh to demolish
his home. The Israeli authorities demolished the home
of Hani Al Aqra' for having built his house without a
license, despite having paid a fine in 2007.
(December)
The Israeli military forced residents to demolish
three apartments in Sur Bahir village (December)
The Israeli military demolished a number of
structures belonging to different residents and
uprooted over 130 olive trees in the neighborhood of
Jabal Al Tur (December)
The Israeli military issued a demolition notice to a
mosque in the neighborhood of Al Suwana (December)
The Israeli military destroyed a number of
agricultural arboretums and a gas station in Hizma
village (December) LAND CONFISCATIONS The Israeli
authorities issued military order # T/219/05 to
confiscate private land in the village of Qatanna, in
order to obtain more land for the construction of the
Wall (August)
MILITARY INCURSIONS
The Israeli military raided several neighborhoods
were raided, including Al Eizariya, Biddu, Ar Ram,
Anata, and the villages of Beit Duqqa, Qalandiya
refugee camp and the area of Samiramis (July)
The Israeli military mounted incursions into the
neighborhoods of Al Eizariya, Biddu, Ar Ram, Abu Dis
and the villages of Hizma and Mikhmas (June)
The Israeli military mounted incursions and raids of
the neighborhoods of Biddu, Ar Ram, Anata, and the
villages of Al Isawiya, Qalandiya and Shu'fat refugee
camps and the area of Samiramis (June)
The Israeli military raided the towns of Biddu
(twice); Abu Dis (twice); Bir Nabala; Anata; Ar Ram,
and the villages of Beit Surik; Beit Duqqu; Kafr
Aqab; Al Isawiya (September)
The Israeli military raided an orphanage in Aqbat
As Saraya area in the Old City, forced pupils out, and
arrested one pupil (September)
The Israeli military broke a private vehicle's
windshield during a raid of the Qalandiya refugee camp
(October) The Israeli military raided Al Isawiya
(June)
DENIAL OF RESIDENCY RIGHTS Israel ordered four
members of the Palestinian Legislative Council from
Jerusalem (Mohammad Abu Tir, Mohammad Totah, Khaled
Abu Arafa, and Ahmed Atoun) to leave the city and
stripped them of their residency rights9 (June) 9
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ ViewDetails.aspx?ID=291721
(June 14, 2010)
MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS
Also during the reporting period, the Israeli
authorities imposed tough restrictions on entry to
East Jerusalem, preventing many Palestinians from
attending Friday prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque.
Further, hundreds of Israeli troops were deployed and
further checkpoints were installed in and around Al
Aqsa Mosque to restrict the entry of Palestinian
worshipers for Friday prayers during the holy month of
Ramadan. (August) During the reporting period, the
Israeli military intensified the restriction of
movement in 11 major checkpoints within the occupied
West Bank, including Qalandiya, Shu'fat, Tayasir,
Einav and Al Tur. Restrictions include limited
crossing hours, including special restrictions during
the Jewish holidays. (June)
CLOSURE OF EAST JERUSALEM
INSTITUTIONS
The Israeli authorities extended a closing order of
the Nidhal Community Development Centre in the Old
City of Jerusalem for a period of another year
(September) CIn July, the Israeli Minister of Internal
Security issued an order to extend the closure of
Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem, which have
been closed since August 9, 2001 (July) HANGES TO THE
STATUS QUO IN EAST
JERUSALEM
The Jerusalem District Planning and Building
Committee at the Interior Ministry announced the
publication in the coming weeks of a new blueprint
program for development in Jerusalem that will include
plans to expand Jewish neighborhoods in East
Jerusalem. Most of the land earmarked for this
expansion is privately owned by Palestinians.10 (June)
10 http://www.haaretz.com/
print-edition/news/planning-committee-
to-release-blueprint-outlining-takeover
-of-east-jerusalem-1.298472
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