Sunday, July 10, 2022

In the West Bank, Israeli settlers assaulted 1 Palestinian man near al-Mughayyir, who was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries. (WAFA 7/10; PCHR 7/21; UNOCHA 7/22)

Adalah published documents showing that the plot of land that the U.S. is planning to build its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem is confiscated Palestinian-owned property. The plot of land in the Allenby Complex was leased by 5 Palestinian landowning families to the British Mandate authorities before 1948 and confiscated by Israel using the Absentees’ Property Law after the Nakba. The U.S. state department and the Israel Land Authority submitted plans to build the new embassy on the land in February 2021. (Adalah, Adalah, HA, WAFA 7/10; JP, MEE 7/11)

Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid spoke to Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, promising that he will launch an investigation into Haaretz reporting that Israel has covered up the existence of a mass grave near Jerusalem of Egyptian soldiers who were killed in the 1967 war. (HA 7/8; HA, REU 7/10; AJ, TOI 7/11; HA 7/12)