Layan Bsharat and Rania Abushamala<\/p>\n
06 September 2026\u2022Update: 06 September 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli occupiers assaulted on Saturday journalists and Palestinian children at a playground in southern Hebron in the occupied West Bank, and the army declared the site a closed military zone.<\/p>\n
Activist Ahmed al-Hathaleen told Anadolu that occupiers, along with the Israeli army and police, attacked children and journalists, including foreigners, while they were at the community\u2019s playground in Khirbet Umm al-Khair, Masafer Yatta.<\/p>\n
The occupiers arrived at the playground and assaulted the children before soldiers and police declared the site a \u201cclosed military zone\u201d and expelled the children, journalists, residents and activists, he said.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces remain stationed inside the playground and continue to prevent children from entering, according to al-Hathaleen.<\/p>\n
He said the outdoor area is the only recreational space available to children in the community. Although it has existed for years, it was recently renovated and equipped.<\/p>\n
The site, where activist Odeh al-Hathaleen was killed a year ago, has repeatedly been attacked by Israeli occupiers and forces, he added.<\/p>\n
Al-Hathaleen said Israel\u2019s Civil Administration issued a demolition order for the ground in January claiming that it was built in Area C under the Oslo Accords.<\/p>\n
The land, however, belongs to a family from the community that possesses documents proving its ownership, he said.<\/p>\n
Under the 1995 Oslo II Accord, the West Bank was divided into Areas A, B and C. Area A was placed under full Palestinian control, Area B under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control, and Area C under full Israeli control.<\/p>\n
Area C constitutes around 60% of the territory, and the division was intended to be temporary, pending a final settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Layan Bsharat and Rania Abushamala 06 September 2026\u2022Update: 06 September 2026 Israeli occupiers assaulted on Saturday journalists and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-607204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}