25 feb 2016
Prime minister says courts misinterpret Geneva Conventions, demolitions of terrorists' houses are effective, and David Cameron 'forgot a few basic facts'.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday lamented his inability to deport the families of terrorists, arguing that courts were misinterpreting the Geneva Conventions’ provisions regarding population transfers.
“There is one thing we have not managed to do,” Netanyahu said at a Likud meeting in Ofakim. “We have not managed to bring about deportation of terrorists’ families. We cannot do this because the courts define this as a war crime. That is how it is defined in the Geneva Conventions, etc.
“I think the intention there regarded relocation of entire populations,” continued the prime minister. “They interpret it as relocating one person or other. I am certain this was not the intent of those who legislated the conventions. But that’s how they interpret it in the world and, unfortunately, that’s how they interpret it here. This I cannot manage to do.”
The prime minister also discussed measures to deter terrorists. “The most important thing is demolition of houses,” he said. “We are demolishing houses, and we are discovering that this has a decent effect. I saw that it wasn’t moving and was taking time. There is too great a time gap, and therefore every Sunday after the government meeting, every Sunday without exceptions, for three weeks now, I summon all the relevant elements to me – the Justice Ministry, the IDF, the Shin Bet, and ask for a report about what happened.
“The second thing,” said the prime minister, “is that we are going into the villages and neighborhoods that we once would not enter. We are working actively. We are closing towns and placing restrictions n movement, as well as revoking work permits.”
Netanyahu also referred to occasional rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. “Take note, even if a rocket is fired mistakenly, a response always comes,” he said. “Did you notice? We once said that ‘trickles’ were all right. There are no trickles. There is an immediate response.”
Netanyahu also took the opportunity to criticize UK Prime Minister David Cameron for saying that “the situation in East Jerusalem is genuinely shocking”.
“My friend David Cameron, who is without a doubt a friend of Israel, apparently forgot a few basic facts about Jerusalem: Only Israeli sovereignty prevents ISIS and Hamas from burning the holy sites,” said Netanyahu.
“Only Israeli sovereignty ensures that Arab residents in the city get roads, clinics, employment opportunities, and other means for normal life that their brothers throughout the Middle East do not enjoy,” he added. “Only Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem maintains the rule of law for everyone, something that does not exist in Iran, or Yemen, or Syria, or Libya, or wide swathes of the Arab world, particularly the Palestinian Authority and Gaza. Only Israeli sovereignty guarantees all this and it’s important that our friends in Europe remember this simple fact.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday lamented his inability to deport the families of terrorists, arguing that courts were misinterpreting the Geneva Conventions’ provisions regarding population transfers.
“There is one thing we have not managed to do,” Netanyahu said at a Likud meeting in Ofakim. “We have not managed to bring about deportation of terrorists’ families. We cannot do this because the courts define this as a war crime. That is how it is defined in the Geneva Conventions, etc.
“I think the intention there regarded relocation of entire populations,” continued the prime minister. “They interpret it as relocating one person or other. I am certain this was not the intent of those who legislated the conventions. But that’s how they interpret it in the world and, unfortunately, that’s how they interpret it here. This I cannot manage to do.”
The prime minister also discussed measures to deter terrorists. “The most important thing is demolition of houses,” he said. “We are demolishing houses, and we are discovering that this has a decent effect. I saw that it wasn’t moving and was taking time. There is too great a time gap, and therefore every Sunday after the government meeting, every Sunday without exceptions, for three weeks now, I summon all the relevant elements to me – the Justice Ministry, the IDF, the Shin Bet, and ask for a report about what happened.
“The second thing,” said the prime minister, “is that we are going into the villages and neighborhoods that we once would not enter. We are working actively. We are closing towns and placing restrictions n movement, as well as revoking work permits.”
Netanyahu also referred to occasional rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. “Take note, even if a rocket is fired mistakenly, a response always comes,” he said. “Did you notice? We once said that ‘trickles’ were all right. There are no trickles. There is an immediate response.”
Netanyahu also took the opportunity to criticize UK Prime Minister David Cameron for saying that “the situation in East Jerusalem is genuinely shocking”.
“My friend David Cameron, who is without a doubt a friend of Israel, apparently forgot a few basic facts about Jerusalem: Only Israeli sovereignty prevents ISIS and Hamas from burning the holy sites,” said Netanyahu.
“Only Israeli sovereignty ensures that Arab residents in the city get roads, clinics, employment opportunities, and other means for normal life that their brothers throughout the Middle East do not enjoy,” he added. “Only Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem maintains the rule of law for everyone, something that does not exist in Iran, or Yemen, or Syria, or Libya, or wide swathes of the Arab world, particularly the Palestinian Authority and Gaza. Only Israeli sovereignty guarantees all this and it’s important that our friends in Europe remember this simple fact.”
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The Hebrew archeologist website Emek Shaveh has released a documentary film unveiling Israel's Judaization of the historical Islamic sites in Occupied Jerusalem.
The film shows the exposure of historical Islamic sites in the Old City of Jerusalem and the vicinity of the Aqsa Mosque as well as Palestinian neighborhoods to systematic Judaization under Israeli political cover during the last ten years. This Judaization campaign is led by the Israeli nature and parks authority and noted Jewish groups like Elad association and the temple mount heritage fund, according to Emek Shaveh. Each one of these parties plays a certain role in Judaizing the Palestinian |
historical sites, where the heritage fund works on expanding al-Buraq wall plaza and the underground tunnels beneath the Aqsa Mosque and its surrounding.
The heritage fund receives direct financial support from the office of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, the video report said. The activities of the nature and parks authority, however, focus on encircling the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem by public gardens and green areas.
Elad association, for its part, presents and supports projects for settlers in Silwan district and Bab al-Amud area in east Jerusalem.
The heritage fund receives direct financial support from the office of Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu, the video report said. The activities of the nature and parks authority, however, focus on encircling the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem by public gardens and green areas.
Elad association, for its part, presents and supports projects for settlers in Silwan district and Bab al-Amud area in east Jerusalem.
The Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Fathali announced, in a press conference held in Beirut on Wednesday, offering financial aid to the families of Palestinian martyrs and owners of demolished homes during Jerusalem Intifada.
The website of al-Manar TV satellite channel quoted Fathali as saying that his country will allocate seven thousand dollars to each martyr's family and thirty thousand dollars to each of the families whose homes were demolished by Israeli forces during the uprising.
The ambassador affirmed his country's backing to the Palestinian people's struggle toward liberation and independence. He also called for the unity of the Muslim and Arab nation as regards the Palestinian Question.
The website of al-Manar TV satellite channel quoted Fathali as saying that his country will allocate seven thousand dollars to each martyr's family and thirty thousand dollars to each of the families whose homes were demolished by Israeli forces during the uprising.
The ambassador affirmed his country's backing to the Palestinian people's struggle toward liberation and independence. He also called for the unity of the Muslim and Arab nation as regards the Palestinian Question.
The independent deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council MP Hassan Khraisheh said that all bets on ending the Jerusalem Intifada have failed as it has entered its sixth month.
He pointed out, in an exclusive statement to the PIC on Wednesday, that the continuation of the uprising is attributed to the creativity of its tools.
He considered it as a big achievement and an advanced move of the Palestinian people. He opined that the Jerusalem Intifada has organized cells and enjoyed support of the masses. The intifada has become a popularly supported body that collect money to reconstruct Palestinians homes razed by Israeli forces, the MP pointed out.
He called for constituting a field leadership for the uprising with the participation of all Palestinian factions in an effective way.
He pointed out, in an exclusive statement to the PIC on Wednesday, that the continuation of the uprising is attributed to the creativity of its tools.
He considered it as a big achievement and an advanced move of the Palestinian people. He opined that the Jerusalem Intifada has organized cells and enjoyed support of the masses. The intifada has become a popularly supported body that collect money to reconstruct Palestinians homes razed by Israeli forces, the MP pointed out.
He called for constituting a field leadership for the uprising with the participation of all Palestinian factions in an effective way.
Head of the Supreme Islamic Committee (SIC) in Occupied Jerusalem, Ekrema Sabri, said Wednesday that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) had stepped up aggressions on Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque and the Islamic places of worship.
“The Israeli occupation continues to violate the sanctity of Muslims’ al-Aqsa in its ongoing campaign against Islamic holy sites,” said Sabri.
Israeli groups campaigning for illegal settlement turned the sacred Umayyad Palaces into podiums for an Israeli festival and installed kit in the area.
On Tuesday evening Israeli settler groups also filmed a movie at the site despite objections from the Jerusalem Endowment Department. The IOA has further stolen a set of archaeological stones from the Umayyad Palaces claiming they are of Jewish origin.
Sabri further slammed the IOA and settlers for violating the sanctity of sacred places of worship, particularly the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
“The Israeli occupation continues to violate the sanctity of Muslims’ al-Aqsa in its ongoing campaign against Islamic holy sites,” said Sabri.
Israeli groups campaigning for illegal settlement turned the sacred Umayyad Palaces into podiums for an Israeli festival and installed kit in the area.
On Tuesday evening Israeli settler groups also filmed a movie at the site despite objections from the Jerusalem Endowment Department. The IOA has further stolen a set of archaeological stones from the Umayyad Palaces claiming they are of Jewish origin.
Sabri further slammed the IOA and settlers for violating the sanctity of sacred places of worship, particularly the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
24 feb 2016
Hundreds of Palestinian mourners carried on Tuesday the bodies of Mansour al-Shawamrah, 20, and Omar Amr, 20, during their joint funeral in al-Qubeiba village, in northern Occupied Jerusalem.
Both Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli occupation police on February 14 after they carried out an anti-occupation attack in Bab al-Amoud area, in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli occupation soldiers cracked down on the Palestinian mourners during the funeral procession, sparking violent clashes. Several mourners were left wounded after the occupation troops discharged heavy spates of rubber bullets and teargas canisters.
The Israeli occupation authorities have been withholding the bodies of 10 slain Palestinians from Occupied Jerusalem. Another funeral was held in Bethlehem city for the slain anti-occupation youth Khaled Taqatqa, 22.
Thousands marched in the funeral procession, carrying Taqatqa’s body from the Beit Jala public hospital to his family home in Beit Fajjar, where his parents, friends, and relatives bid him last farewell. Taqatqa was killed on Friday in clashes with the Israeli occupation soldiers near Beit Fajjar’s western entrance.
Both Palestinians were shot and killed by the Israeli occupation police on February 14 after they carried out an anti-occupation attack in Bab al-Amoud area, in Occupied Jerusalem.
The Israeli occupation soldiers cracked down on the Palestinian mourners during the funeral procession, sparking violent clashes. Several mourners were left wounded after the occupation troops discharged heavy spates of rubber bullets and teargas canisters.
The Israeli occupation authorities have been withholding the bodies of 10 slain Palestinians from Occupied Jerusalem. Another funeral was held in Bethlehem city for the slain anti-occupation youth Khaled Taqatqa, 22.
Thousands marched in the funeral procession, carrying Taqatqa’s body from the Beit Jala public hospital to his family home in Beit Fajjar, where his parents, friends, and relatives bid him last farewell. Taqatqa was killed on Friday in clashes with the Israeli occupation soldiers near Beit Fajjar’s western entrance.
23 feb 2016
Israeli film-director Udi Aloni, 56, who won the top audience at Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, has labelled the Israeli government “fascist” and urged Germany to cease its military support to Israel.
At a Q&A session about his award-winning film Junction 48 hours before being presented with the Panorama Audience Award for best fiction film, Mr Aloni said Germany should stop supporting the “fascist regime of Israel”:
“Merkel does not mention the occupation and sells submarines to Netanyahu to continue such things.”
The 56-year-old also called Israel a “democracy of white people” and added that “in contrast to the [Israeli] prime minister who spreads hatred, my movie spreads love and co-existence.”
By the end of the session, he mentioned the Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammed al-Qiq as an example “non-Jews’ lack of rights in Israel”, saying that Qiq was dying in administrative detention without being accused of committing a crime.
In a response to Aloni’s comments, according to the Israeli Media, the Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev said that Israel should not fund films that slander it, refering to the financial support that Aloni’s film received from Israel’s Culture Ministry.
“Aloni’s statements were a clear proof that artists who subvert the state, defame it and hurt its legitimacy should not be funded by the tax payer. A sane country should not assist slanderers and denouncers who malign it, immediately after drinking from its coffers,” Regev stated.
The Israeli film director later clarified to Channel 10 that his comments “were directed against the Israeli government and not against the country, which I love. In contrast to the prime minister who spreads hatred, my movie spreads love and co-existence.”
Last year, more than 3,000 artists, including some of the country’s most prominent actors and directors, signed a petition against Ms Regev’s policies.
“Junction 48” – whose is a Arabic-language film that features mostly Palestinian actors – tells the story of a Palestinian rap star and his girlfriend who live near Tel Aviv in the mixed Jewish-Palestinian city of Lod, known until recently as one of the main drug-running centers of the Middle East.Actress Samar Qupty said it should be easy for Palestinians to identify with the movie, even though it depicts people living lives that are radically different from strict Muslim traditions.
Her character, for example, allows a picture of her face to be used on a poster advertising a hip-hop concert, prompting members of her family to say they plan to injure her if she performs.
“It’s still a revolutionary movie because it doesn’t talk about the way we Palestinians are usually represented in the world,” Qupty said.
“We are representing ourselves by the new generation without trying to prove anything to anyone, with our ‘goods’ and ‘bads’,” she told Reuters in an interview. “We are trying to present what is the real new generation trying to do without making the reality looking any better or any worse.”
At a Q&A session about his award-winning film Junction 48 hours before being presented with the Panorama Audience Award for best fiction film, Mr Aloni said Germany should stop supporting the “fascist regime of Israel”:
“Merkel does not mention the occupation and sells submarines to Netanyahu to continue such things.”
The 56-year-old also called Israel a “democracy of white people” and added that “in contrast to the [Israeli] prime minister who spreads hatred, my movie spreads love and co-existence.”
By the end of the session, he mentioned the Palestinian hunger-striker Mohammed al-Qiq as an example “non-Jews’ lack of rights in Israel”, saying that Qiq was dying in administrative detention without being accused of committing a crime.
In a response to Aloni’s comments, according to the Israeli Media, the Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev said that Israel should not fund films that slander it, refering to the financial support that Aloni’s film received from Israel’s Culture Ministry.
“Aloni’s statements were a clear proof that artists who subvert the state, defame it and hurt its legitimacy should not be funded by the tax payer. A sane country should not assist slanderers and denouncers who malign it, immediately after drinking from its coffers,” Regev stated.
The Israeli film director later clarified to Channel 10 that his comments “were directed against the Israeli government and not against the country, which I love. In contrast to the prime minister who spreads hatred, my movie spreads love and co-existence.”
Last year, more than 3,000 artists, including some of the country’s most prominent actors and directors, signed a petition against Ms Regev’s policies.
“Junction 48” – whose is a Arabic-language film that features mostly Palestinian actors – tells the story of a Palestinian rap star and his girlfriend who live near Tel Aviv in the mixed Jewish-Palestinian city of Lod, known until recently as one of the main drug-running centers of the Middle East.Actress Samar Qupty said it should be easy for Palestinians to identify with the movie, even though it depicts people living lives that are radically different from strict Muslim traditions.
Her character, for example, allows a picture of her face to be used on a poster advertising a hip-hop concert, prompting members of her family to say they plan to injure her if she performs.
“It’s still a revolutionary movie because it doesn’t talk about the way we Palestinians are usually represented in the world,” Qupty said.
“We are representing ourselves by the new generation without trying to prove anything to anyone, with our ‘goods’ and ‘bads’,” she told Reuters in an interview. “We are trying to present what is the real new generation trying to do without making the reality looking any better or any worse.”
Palestinian society 'wishes for death and seeks destruction,' Ya'alon tells gathering of families of fallen soldiers.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday that there was no room for comparing Israeli mourning to Palestinian mourning, since Palestinian society "wishes for death and seeds destruction."
"Mourning in a society that seeks life, a society that educates its sons to live, to be human, to act like humans, to strive for peace, that's our society," the defense minister, who was addressing a gathering organized by Yad Lebanim, the national organization for families of fallen soldiers, said.
"Facing us is a society that seeks death, like we see around us, their joy when the son becomes a martyr, a society that respects nothing," he said.
Ya'alon's comments alluded to the recent furor caused by Army Radio host Razi Barkai. Two weeks ago, in an interview with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan over the demand by parents of East Jerusalem terrorists to receive the bodies of their children for burial, Barkai angered the parents of Israel Defense Forces soldiers who were killed in 2014's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose bodies have not been returned to their families.
Barzai had wondered if there were a difference between the feelings of Palestinian and Israeli parents whose children’s bodies are being held by the other side: by the Israeli government or, in the case of the soldiers, Hamas.
The Goldin and Shaul families complained bitterly over the comparison; Barkai apologized but refused to take back what he said.
"We're sending our soldiers to fight to protect our civilians, and we don't hide behind our civilians to fight against someone else," Ya'alon said. "A society that chooses life doesn't seek wars, but strives for peace and sees war as a necessity and that's what we're doing."
"That's why there's no comparison between mourning on our side and mourning on their side," Ya'alon concluded.
The defense minister's comments echoed a speech given by Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, who addressed the same forum the day before. “It is impossible not to feel the difference between the bereavement that accompanies and greets us in your gaze, and that which we have met intensively in recent years in the eyes of some of our neighbors,” he said.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday that there was no room for comparing Israeli mourning to Palestinian mourning, since Palestinian society "wishes for death and seeds destruction."
"Mourning in a society that seeks life, a society that educates its sons to live, to be human, to act like humans, to strive for peace, that's our society," the defense minister, who was addressing a gathering organized by Yad Lebanim, the national organization for families of fallen soldiers, said.
"Facing us is a society that seeks death, like we see around us, their joy when the son becomes a martyr, a society that respects nothing," he said.
Ya'alon's comments alluded to the recent furor caused by Army Radio host Razi Barkai. Two weeks ago, in an interview with Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan over the demand by parents of East Jerusalem terrorists to receive the bodies of their children for burial, Barkai angered the parents of Israel Defense Forces soldiers who were killed in 2014's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose bodies have not been returned to their families.
Barzai had wondered if there were a difference between the feelings of Palestinian and Israeli parents whose children’s bodies are being held by the other side: by the Israeli government or, in the case of the soldiers, Hamas.
The Goldin and Shaul families complained bitterly over the comparison; Barkai apologized but refused to take back what he said.
"We're sending our soldiers to fight to protect our civilians, and we don't hide behind our civilians to fight against someone else," Ya'alon said. "A society that chooses life doesn't seek wars, but strives for peace and sees war as a necessity and that's what we're doing."
"That's why there's no comparison between mourning on our side and mourning on their side," Ya'alon concluded.
The defense minister's comments echoed a speech given by Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, who addressed the same forum the day before. “It is impossible not to feel the difference between the bereavement that accompanies and greets us in your gaze, and that which we have met intensively in recent years in the eyes of some of our neighbors,” he said.
A two-day workshop was organized by the Palestinian-European Communication Forum (EuroPal Forum) on February 21-21 in Malmo to discuss ways to develop the mechanisms of pro-Palestine activism across the European continent and establish a Palestinian congress.
The workshop, organized in the Swedish metropolitan city of Malmo, was attended by representatives of the Palestinian diaspora overseas.
The event culminated in the announcement of a series of moves to establish a pro-Palestine institution aimed at propping up communication with stakeholders across the European Continent. Chairman of the forum Zaher Birawi said the move aims at boosting pro-Palestine politics and lobbies across Europe.
He added that the new pro-Palestine congress will set the stage for cultural events and will speak up for Palestinians’ rights.
The workshop, organized in the Swedish metropolitan city of Malmo, was attended by representatives of the Palestinian diaspora overseas.
The event culminated in the announcement of a series of moves to establish a pro-Palestine institution aimed at propping up communication with stakeholders across the European Continent. Chairman of the forum Zaher Birawi said the move aims at boosting pro-Palestine politics and lobbies across Europe.
He added that the new pro-Palestine congress will set the stage for cultural events and will speak up for Palestinians’ rights.
Head of the Jerusalem anti-Judaization committee, Nasser Hadami, said Israeli aggressions on al-Aqsa make part of a long-term strategic scheme to build the alleged temple mount on its ruins.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the PIC, al-Hadami said: “There is no Israeli official who has not, in a way or another, called for ruining al-Aqsa.”
The expert attributed the outbreak of the ongoing Jerusalem Intifada to Israel’s attempts to impose a new fait accompli on al-Aqsa and to divide it, both spatially and temporally, between Muslims and Israelis.
He further spoke out against the frequent sacrilegious break-ins by Israeli fanatics at the al-Aqsa as part of the same Judaization scheme. “The Israeli occupation is racing against time and striving to seize the right moment to impose a new fait accompli on the ground and Judaize the holy al-Aqsa, particularly with the advent of Jewish holidays,” al-Hadami added.
He called on Muslims to intensify presence and vigils at al-Aqsa so as to face up to Israel’s Judaization schemes against Muslims’ third holiest site.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the PIC, al-Hadami said: “There is no Israeli official who has not, in a way or another, called for ruining al-Aqsa.”
The expert attributed the outbreak of the ongoing Jerusalem Intifada to Israel’s attempts to impose a new fait accompli on al-Aqsa and to divide it, both spatially and temporally, between Muslims and Israelis.
He further spoke out against the frequent sacrilegious break-ins by Israeli fanatics at the al-Aqsa as part of the same Judaization scheme. “The Israeli occupation is racing against time and striving to seize the right moment to impose a new fait accompli on the ground and Judaize the holy al-Aqsa, particularly with the advent of Jewish holidays,” al-Hadami added.
He called on Muslims to intensify presence and vigils at al-Aqsa so as to face up to Israel’s Judaization schemes against Muslims’ third holiest site.
The media committee for the support of Jerusalem Intifada called Tuesday on Palestinian, Arab, and international media outlets to support the ongoing Jerusalem Intifada and its national aims and achievements.
The committee stressed the important role of social media networks in supporting the popular uprising as it enters its 150th day next week.
The Jerusalem Intifada was triggered in defense of al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem, the committee said. “The Palestinian people have presented a humanitarian example in defense of their lands and national identity in face of Israeli terrorism.”
The Palestinian people have sacrificed hundreds of victims and casualties including women and children after Israeli forces imposed a collective punishment on Palestinian cities and towns , according to the statement. The committee concluded by supporting resistance option in face of Israeli daily terrorism.
The committee stressed the important role of social media networks in supporting the popular uprising as it enters its 150th day next week.
The Jerusalem Intifada was triggered in defense of al-Aqsa Mosque and Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem, the committee said. “The Palestinian people have presented a humanitarian example in defense of their lands and national identity in face of Israeli terrorism.”
The Palestinian people have sacrificed hundreds of victims and casualties including women and children after Israeli forces imposed a collective punishment on Palestinian cities and towns , according to the statement. The committee concluded by supporting resistance option in face of Israeli daily terrorism.
The national assembly for the families of Palestinian martyrs slammed the statements made by the Israeli minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, in which he accused the families of pushing their sons to carry out anti-occupation attacks for the sake of gaining monthly payments.
The Israeli Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said that the families of martyrs know that if their children get killed, they will have financial aid from the Palestinian Authority, according to Haaretz Israeli newspaper.
In a statement on Monday, the families said the statements affirm the moral and humanitarian decline that Israeli leaders demonstrate.
The families perceived the minister's statements as shameful and aimed at mobilizing hatred against Palestinians. Israeli forces have killed 184 Palestinians including 50 children since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada last October.
The Israeli Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said that the families of martyrs know that if their children get killed, they will have financial aid from the Palestinian Authority, according to Haaretz Israeli newspaper.
In a statement on Monday, the families said the statements affirm the moral and humanitarian decline that Israeli leaders demonstrate.
The families perceived the minister's statements as shameful and aimed at mobilizing hatred against Palestinians. Israeli forces have killed 184 Palestinians including 50 children since the outbreak of Jerusalem Intifada last October.
22 feb 2016
Transporation Minister Yisrael Katz and PM Benjamin Netanyahu during rally in November
The Israeli Transportation minister, Yisrael Katz, on Sunday has called on Israeli authorities to displace the families of “Palestinian attackers” to Gaza or Syria.
According to the leading Hebrew newspaper Ynet, Katz said that this move of displacing the Palestinian families will deter the Palestinian minors from carrying any attempts to attack Israelis, since demolitions were not enough to stop them.
To his part, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support to Katz, however said that the Judiciary system would not allow it, because it is considered as collective punishment, which is illegal in the international law.
However, Netanyahu promised Katz to run a discussion on the issue in the Cabinet.
And in another similar stand, the right-wing extremist minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, said on Sunday during the cabinet meeting that Palestinian parents “do not prevent their sons from “stabbing Israelis” since they “get financial compensation from the Palestinian Authority” when their child is killed.
According to Haaretz, these statements have shocked the ministers who were attending the meeting, making them “twist in their chairs.”
Back in November, Bennett had said that “[Israelis] should have killed more [Arabs],” in response to the Arab MK, Hanin Zoabi’s condemnations of Israel boasting about killing innocent civilians.
At that time, Bennett immediately accused Zoabi of lying, then said that “anyone who lifts a hand against Israel must die.”
The Israeli rhetoric against Palestinians has been lately growing on an alarming rate, starting with the complete denial of civil rights for Palestinians, then the denial of a Palestinian nation, to the denial of Israeli occupation; a rhetoric which has escalated illegal Israeli demolitions and settlement expansion on Palestinian land.
Katz statements come as a result of a violence that sparked last October, following numerous Israeli violations of this kind against Palestinians.
Since then, some 180 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed.
The Israeli Transportation minister, Yisrael Katz, on Sunday has called on Israeli authorities to displace the families of “Palestinian attackers” to Gaza or Syria.
According to the leading Hebrew newspaper Ynet, Katz said that this move of displacing the Palestinian families will deter the Palestinian minors from carrying any attempts to attack Israelis, since demolitions were not enough to stop them.
To his part, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support to Katz, however said that the Judiciary system would not allow it, because it is considered as collective punishment, which is illegal in the international law.
However, Netanyahu promised Katz to run a discussion on the issue in the Cabinet.
And in another similar stand, the right-wing extremist minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, said on Sunday during the cabinet meeting that Palestinian parents “do not prevent their sons from “stabbing Israelis” since they “get financial compensation from the Palestinian Authority” when their child is killed.
According to Haaretz, these statements have shocked the ministers who were attending the meeting, making them “twist in their chairs.”
Back in November, Bennett had said that “[Israelis] should have killed more [Arabs],” in response to the Arab MK, Hanin Zoabi’s condemnations of Israel boasting about killing innocent civilians.
At that time, Bennett immediately accused Zoabi of lying, then said that “anyone who lifts a hand against Israel must die.”
The Israeli rhetoric against Palestinians has been lately growing on an alarming rate, starting with the complete denial of civil rights for Palestinians, then the denial of a Palestinian nation, to the denial of Israeli occupation; a rhetoric which has escalated illegal Israeli demolitions and settlement expansion on Palestinian land.
Katz statements come as a result of a violence that sparked last October, following numerous Israeli violations of this kind against Palestinians.
Since then, some 180 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed.
The Israeli education minister Naftali Bennett, of the hard-right Jewish Home party, called for murdering the Palestinian anti-occupation activists and demolishing their family homes in order to quell resistance across the Occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli Yedioth Ahronot newspaper quoted Bennett as stating: "We have to bury Palestinian anti-occupation fighters in secret cemeteries and knock down all the homes in their native villages."
"Let's roll into every single home and rake through every single corner. The anti-occupation fighter must bear in mind that all of those around him are under threat," he added.
184 Palestinians, including 41 children and seven girls, were killed by the Israeli occupation army following anti-occupation attacks launched across the Occupied Palestinian territories in response to the recent tide of Israeli terrorism and aggression on Muslims' the holy al-Aqsa Mosque and the peaceful Muslim worshipers.
The Israeli Yedioth Ahronot newspaper quoted Bennett as stating: "We have to bury Palestinian anti-occupation fighters in secret cemeteries and knock down all the homes in their native villages."
"Let's roll into every single home and rake through every single corner. The anti-occupation fighter must bear in mind that all of those around him are under threat," he added.
184 Palestinians, including 41 children and seven girls, were killed by the Israeli occupation army following anti-occupation attacks launched across the Occupied Palestinian territories in response to the recent tide of Israeli terrorism and aggression on Muslims' the holy al-Aqsa Mosque and the peaceful Muslim worshipers.
Palestinians marching in the funeral procession of an anti-occupation youth called for escalating the ongoing Jerusalem Uprising in response to Israeli terrorism.
Carrying the body of 17-year-old Kusay Abu al-Rub on their shoulders, the mourners vowed to sacrifice their souls and bodies until the liberation of occupied Palestine sees the day. Kusay Abu al-Rub was shot dead by the occupation troops at noontime on Sunday as he attempted to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing near the Beita crossroads in Nablus.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation reneged on its promise to hand the bodies of the two slain Palestinians Omar Amr and Mansur Shawamra, both aged 20, to the Red Crescent crews at a military checkpoint in northwestern Occupied Jerusalem.
Both Amr and Shawamra were killed by the Israeli forces following an anti-occupation shooting attack near Jerusalem's Bab al-Amoud area on February 14. The Israeli occupation authorities have been withholding the bodies of 13 Palestinians killed while allegedly carrying out or planning stabbing attacks.
Carrying the body of 17-year-old Kusay Abu al-Rub on their shoulders, the mourners vowed to sacrifice their souls and bodies until the liberation of occupied Palestine sees the day. Kusay Abu al-Rub was shot dead by the occupation troops at noontime on Sunday as he attempted to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing near the Beita crossroads in Nablus.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation reneged on its promise to hand the bodies of the two slain Palestinians Omar Amr and Mansur Shawamra, both aged 20, to the Red Crescent crews at a military checkpoint in northwestern Occupied Jerusalem.
Both Amr and Shawamra were killed by the Israeli forces following an anti-occupation shooting attack near Jerusalem's Bab al-Amoud area on February 14. The Israeli occupation authorities have been withholding the bodies of 13 Palestinians killed while allegedly carrying out or planning stabbing attacks.
Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) cut the services of national and health insurances of over 50 Jerusalemite sit-inners including children and elderly people.
The Jerusalemite woman Aydah al-Masri, one of the blacklisted sit-inners by Israeli forces and barred from entering the Aqsa Mosque, told the PIC reporter that Israeli authorities cancelled her and her husband’s national and health insurances despite that her husband is a diabetes patient.
“They justified that by claiming that we do not reside in Jerusalem and asked us for official documents that prove paying of taxes and bills dating back to very long years,” Masri said.
Another blacklisted Jerusalemite woman, Dalal al-Hashlamoun, told the PIC that Israeli forces stopped her national and health insurance despite paying all of the taxes and bills. She added that the Israeli authorities ordered her lawyer to pay a retroactive payment estimated at 79 thousand shekels for the insurance until the present day.
“The Israeli insurance company has been procrastinating for two months regardless of submitting all needed documents”, she pointed out.
The cut of insurance services affected the Jerusalemite families badly as there are elderly people with the need of regular medical follow up for chronic diseases in addition to the need of others to undergo unaffordable surgeries, the families underlined.
The Jerusalemite woman Aydah al-Masri, one of the blacklisted sit-inners by Israeli forces and barred from entering the Aqsa Mosque, told the PIC reporter that Israeli authorities cancelled her and her husband’s national and health insurances despite that her husband is a diabetes patient.
“They justified that by claiming that we do not reside in Jerusalem and asked us for official documents that prove paying of taxes and bills dating back to very long years,” Masri said.
Another blacklisted Jerusalemite woman, Dalal al-Hashlamoun, told the PIC that Israeli forces stopped her national and health insurance despite paying all of the taxes and bills. She added that the Israeli authorities ordered her lawyer to pay a retroactive payment estimated at 79 thousand shekels for the insurance until the present day.
“The Israeli insurance company has been procrastinating for two months regardless of submitting all needed documents”, she pointed out.
The cut of insurance services affected the Jerusalemite families badly as there are elderly people with the need of regular medical follow up for chronic diseases in addition to the need of others to undergo unaffordable surgeries, the families underlined.