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On 17 September 1948, UN mediator Count Bernadotte was murdered in Jerusalem by a Zionist militant organization Lehi. Bernadotte, a leading Swedish diplomat was appointed by the UN Security Council as a mediator to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Count Bernadotte’s presence in Palestine followed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and the subsequent unilateral Israeli Declaration of Independence.
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The head of the Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, Minister Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, stated that Israeli forces and colonists carried out a total of 1,659 attacks during May, continuing the systematic terrorism practiced by the occupying power against the Palestinian people, their land, and their property.
In the Commission’s monthly report issued on Saturday, Sha’ban said that the occupation army carried out 1,108 attacks, while colonists carried out 551.
He affirmed that the attacks were concentrated primarily in the Hebron and Ramallah governorates, with 319 attacks each, followed by Nablus with 301 attacks and Bethlehem with 212.
Sha’ban highlighted that the attacks included direct physical violence, uprooting trees, burning fields, preventing farmers from accessing their lands, confiscating property, and demolishing homes and agricultural structures.
He pointed out that these practices coincide with the closure of large areas of Palestinian land under the pretext of security, while providing protection and support to colonists to enable them to expand within those areas. WAFA
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A 7-month-old Palestinian infant was killed Friday and his parents wounded when the Israeli army shot at the family’s car in the Tel Rumeida area in the southern occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
It said the Israeli army killed Sam Abu Haikal and that his father, Fahd Abdul Aziz Abu Haikal, a lecturer at Bethlehem University, lived with his wife and son in Bethlehem.
The shooting took place while Abu Haikal was on his way to his mother’s house in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in central Hebron.
Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition, wounding the father in his hand. His wife was also wounded by the same bullet, which pierced the jaw of their infant son. All three were taken to the hospital.
The occupied West Bank has witnessed escalating Israeli military raids, arrests and settlement expansion since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023 according to Anadolu.
