7 mar 2016
Surveillance cameras at Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque should be controlled by no other party than the endowment authorities, Jerusalem’s Endowment Council said Monday.
The Endowment Council expressed in a statement its firm condemnation of the ongoing Israeli aggressions on and attempts to hold sway over the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
“Israelis have no sovereignty over the surveillance kit at al-Aqsa,” the statement read. “Every single inch of the Mosque is for Muslims only.” It added that the Endowment department is the only party in charge of reconstruction works at the Mosque.
The council called on the Islamic Endowment department to work on opening the al-Rahma Gate, which is part and parcel of the al-Aqsa place of worship. The statement called on the concerned parties to rally around al-Aqsa and combine forces to face up to Israel’s schemes to wipe out the Islamic identity of the holy occupied city of Jerusalem.
Jordanian Minister of Religious Affairs, Hayel Dawood, also slammed the reports propagated by Israeli media outlets on an agreement between Jordan and the Israeli occupation that sets up the date for the installation of surveillance cameras at al-Aqsa.
“Israel has nothing to do with the affair. It is neither concerned with setting up dates nor with other details as regards Jordan’s sovereignty over Islamic places of worship and the al-Aqsa Mosque,” said Dawood.
“We are committed to dates that we, and nobody else, have set up. No one but Jordan shall keep sovereignty over the Mosque,” the Jordanian minister added. The Israeli occupation authorities and Jordan have agreed on erecting surveillance cameras at the al-Aqsa compound before the Passover, next month, Israel Hayom website claimed on Sunday.
The Endowment Council expressed in a statement its firm condemnation of the ongoing Israeli aggressions on and attempts to hold sway over the holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
“Israelis have no sovereignty over the surveillance kit at al-Aqsa,” the statement read. “Every single inch of the Mosque is for Muslims only.” It added that the Endowment department is the only party in charge of reconstruction works at the Mosque.
The council called on the Islamic Endowment department to work on opening the al-Rahma Gate, which is part and parcel of the al-Aqsa place of worship. The statement called on the concerned parties to rally around al-Aqsa and combine forces to face up to Israel’s schemes to wipe out the Islamic identity of the holy occupied city of Jerusalem.
Jordanian Minister of Religious Affairs, Hayel Dawood, also slammed the reports propagated by Israeli media outlets on an agreement between Jordan and the Israeli occupation that sets up the date for the installation of surveillance cameras at al-Aqsa.
“Israel has nothing to do with the affair. It is neither concerned with setting up dates nor with other details as regards Jordan’s sovereignty over Islamic places of worship and the al-Aqsa Mosque,” said Dawood.
“We are committed to dates that we, and nobody else, have set up. No one but Jordan shall keep sovereignty over the Mosque,” the Jordanian minister added. The Israeli occupation authorities and Jordan have agreed on erecting surveillance cameras at the al-Aqsa compound before the Passover, next month, Israel Hayom website claimed on Sunday.
Head of Hamas's political bureau Khaled Mishaal said that his Movement would continue its efforts to restore the national unity and its struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian land.
Mishaal made his remarks in the mourning tent of Dr. Hasan al-Turabi after he arrived on Sunday evening at the head of a delegation in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to offer condolences over his death.
The Hamas official hailed Dr. Turabi as "a political and intellectual icon" and recalled his efforts in support for the Palestinian people and their national cause, and his attempts to bridge the rift in the Palestinian arena.
During the visit, the delegation offered its condolences to vice president of Sudan Hassabu Abdul-Rahman, secretary-general of the People's Congress Party Ibrahim al-Sanusi as well as officials from the party and the government. The delegation also paid a visit to the house of Dr. Turabi to extend sympathy to his family.
Mishaal made his remarks in the mourning tent of Dr. Hasan al-Turabi after he arrived on Sunday evening at the head of a delegation in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to offer condolences over his death.
The Hamas official hailed Dr. Turabi as "a political and intellectual icon" and recalled his efforts in support for the Palestinian people and their national cause, and his attempts to bridge the rift in the Palestinian arena.
During the visit, the delegation offered its condolences to vice president of Sudan Hassabu Abdul-Rahman, secretary-general of the People's Congress Party Ibrahim al-Sanusi as well as officials from the party and the government. The delegation also paid a visit to the house of Dr. Turabi to extend sympathy to his family.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, has said that US Vice President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Israel is an expression of great relations between the two countries.
“This visit is an expression of the great relations between Israel and our ally, the United States,” Netanyahu said.
He then confirmed, according to the PNN, that the relationship is great and will not collapse as some “have already envisioned a collapse to these relations.”
“Our relationship (with the US) is great in all areas, even in the face of the challenges we face together in our region, which I will of course discuss with the Vice President during his visit,” he said.
Biden departed from Washington on Saturday, March 5, for his five-day visit to the region that will focus on the situation in Iran and Syria, as well as U.S. economic and energy interests. On March 8, he is expected to meet with Netanyahu and, later on, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Netanyahu’s statement came even though a senior White House official told reporters, Friday, that Biden would not make any major recommendations on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, but would focus on increasing cooperation on a number of issues, including the fight against the Islamic State and the Syrian conflict.
The White House said Biden’s itinerary included stops in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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“This visit is an expression of the great relations between Israel and our ally, the United States,” Netanyahu said.
He then confirmed, according to the PNN, that the relationship is great and will not collapse as some “have already envisioned a collapse to these relations.”
“Our relationship (with the US) is great in all areas, even in the face of the challenges we face together in our region, which I will of course discuss with the Vice President during his visit,” he said.
Biden departed from Washington on Saturday, March 5, for his five-day visit to the region that will focus on the situation in Iran and Syria, as well as U.S. economic and energy interests. On March 8, he is expected to meet with Netanyahu and, later on, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Netanyahu’s statement came even though a senior White House official told reporters, Friday, that Biden would not make any major recommendations on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, but would focus on increasing cooperation on a number of issues, including the fight against the Islamic State and the Syrian conflict.
The White House said Biden’s itinerary included stops in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
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Secretary General of the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf Abdul Munem al-Hiyari denied any agreement with Israeli occupation on the date of installing cameras at the Aqsa Mosque next month.
He affirmed, however, that the technical study is in its final stages. Israel Today newspaper said on Sunday that Jordan and Israel have agreed on installing surveillance cameras at the Aqsa Mosque before the oncoming Passover Jewish holiday next April.
The agreement between Jordan and Israel for installing the cameras under the patronage of the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was signed on October 25, 2015 but it has not been implemented.
Jordan says that it has the sovereignty over the cameras control room with no Israeli intervention, while the Israeli occupation authorities demand to put cameras inside the mosques of the Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock which is rejected by Jordan.
He affirmed, however, that the technical study is in its final stages. Israel Today newspaper said on Sunday that Jordan and Israel have agreed on installing surveillance cameras at the Aqsa Mosque before the oncoming Passover Jewish holiday next April.
The agreement between Jordan and Israel for installing the cameras under the patronage of the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was signed on October 25, 2015 but it has not been implemented.
Jordan says that it has the sovereignty over the cameras control room with no Israeli intervention, while the Israeli occupation authorities demand to put cameras inside the mosques of the Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock which is rejected by Jordan.
Israeli media: Jordan and Israel agree on installing cameras at compound
Israeli police, on Sunday, violently suppressed a rally organized by Palestinian women who have been banned, by Israeli authorities, from entering annexed East Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, for various periods of time, under 'security pretexts’.
WAFA correspondence reported that Israeli police quelled the rally using stun grenades against female protesters, however, no injuries were reported.
Dozens of Palestinian women have been protesting for months against being denied entry to al-Aqsa Mosque; A sit in was first organized in the neighborhood of Bab al-Majles al-Islami, located in the very heart of Jerusalem's Old City, and was later moved to the nearby Bab al-Amoud area.
Forces further detained one of the protesters, identified as Hanadi al-Halawani, a Quran teacher who is also barred from entering the mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The Palestinian Territory, Gaza, and Israel, have been engulfed with a wave of violence since early October 2015, fueled by Israel’s unilateral enforcement of a temporal division on the mosque between Muslims and Jews.
Since then, over 180 Palestinian, including 43 children and nine women, have been killed by Israeli forces since the outbreak of violence across the Palestinian territories, in early October of 2015, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israeli police secure the entry of Israeli settlers into the mosque’s compound on an a daily basis, provoking tension with Muslim worshippers, who often respond by chanting religious slogans to protest their entry.
In related news, Al Ray reports that Israeli occupation authorities, with Jordan, have agreed on erecting surveillance cameras at the al-Aqsa compound before the Passover, next month, Israel Hayom website reported on Sunday.
Israeli radio quoted Israel Hayom as saying that the number of Jews who visited the holy site during the Passover has increased, noting that it is a common interest for Israeli and Palestinians.
In 2003, the Israeli government unilaterally decided -- despite the objections of the Islamic Endowments Department -- to allow non-Muslim visitors into the complex.
Since then, under increasingly right-wing Israeli governments, extremist Jewish settlers have been allowed into the site in ever greater numbers -- usually protected by Israeli security forces -- while Palestinian access to the site has become increasingly restricted.
Christians outside of the Levant remain divided on the issue, as biblical end times prophecy states: "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." ~Revelation 21:22
However, settler attacks on Christian holy sites have been progressive, in recent years, and are now on the increase, as well.
Jordanian and Israeli authorities were in dispute over erecting the surveillance cameras on the holy site. They were not agreed on the party who would control the system and on the technicality of by which way it will release the photos.
The main point of dispute was over controlling the camera system. Israel asked to be under its supervision, and to have the right to ban the photos it wished to hide.
Both Jordan and Palestine called for not giving Israeli authorities the right to manage the live broadcasting.
However, Israeli authorities asked to erect the cameras all over the holly compound under the pretext that their places help to discover where Palestinians hide weapons and stones. Jordan and Palestine strongly opposed it.
Israeli police, on Sunday, violently suppressed a rally organized by Palestinian women who have been banned, by Israeli authorities, from entering annexed East Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, for various periods of time, under 'security pretexts’.
WAFA correspondence reported that Israeli police quelled the rally using stun grenades against female protesters, however, no injuries were reported.
Dozens of Palestinian women have been protesting for months against being denied entry to al-Aqsa Mosque; A sit in was first organized in the neighborhood of Bab al-Majles al-Islami, located in the very heart of Jerusalem's Old City, and was later moved to the nearby Bab al-Amoud area.
Forces further detained one of the protesters, identified as Hanadi al-Halawani, a Quran teacher who is also barred from entering the mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The Palestinian Territory, Gaza, and Israel, have been engulfed with a wave of violence since early October 2015, fueled by Israel’s unilateral enforcement of a temporal division on the mosque between Muslims and Jews.
Since then, over 180 Palestinian, including 43 children and nine women, have been killed by Israeli forces since the outbreak of violence across the Palestinian territories, in early October of 2015, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israeli police secure the entry of Israeli settlers into the mosque’s compound on an a daily basis, provoking tension with Muslim worshippers, who often respond by chanting religious slogans to protest their entry.
In related news, Al Ray reports that Israeli occupation authorities, with Jordan, have agreed on erecting surveillance cameras at the al-Aqsa compound before the Passover, next month, Israel Hayom website reported on Sunday.
Israeli radio quoted Israel Hayom as saying that the number of Jews who visited the holy site during the Passover has increased, noting that it is a common interest for Israeli and Palestinians.
In 2003, the Israeli government unilaterally decided -- despite the objections of the Islamic Endowments Department -- to allow non-Muslim visitors into the complex.
Since then, under increasingly right-wing Israeli governments, extremist Jewish settlers have been allowed into the site in ever greater numbers -- usually protected by Israeli security forces -- while Palestinian access to the site has become increasingly restricted.
Christians outside of the Levant remain divided on the issue, as biblical end times prophecy states: "I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple." ~Revelation 21:22
However, settler attacks on Christian holy sites have been progressive, in recent years, and are now on the increase, as well.
Jordanian and Israeli authorities were in dispute over erecting the surveillance cameras on the holy site. They were not agreed on the party who would control the system and on the technicality of by which way it will release the photos.
The main point of dispute was over controlling the camera system. Israel asked to be under its supervision, and to have the right to ban the photos it wished to hide.
Both Jordan and Palestine called for not giving Israeli authorities the right to manage the live broadcasting.
However, Israeli authorities asked to erect the cameras all over the holly compound under the pretext that their places help to discover where Palestinians hide weapons and stones. Jordan and Palestine strongly opposed it.
Since the beginning of January 2016, a total of 23 Palestinian journalists on duty were targeted by Israeli armed forces and police, with 12 of the attacks occurring during the month of February alone.
WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency prepared a monthly report in which violations against journalists were documented, and indicated that the Israeli army continues to target Palestinian journalists, putting their lives at risk and hindering their work.
The report explained that journalists were being targeted with live metal rounds, teargas canisters, physical assault and arrests. Their ability to work freely and freedom of speech were also compromised.
In January alone, 11 journalists were targeted, while another 12 registered being attacked by Israeli forces during the month of February. Eight journalists sustained injuries due to being hit with rubber-coated steel bullets, while four others were either arrested, detained, had their press passes confiscated, or shot at without being hit.
On February 3, the Israeli police interrogated host of the show “Good morning Jerusalem” journalist Nader Bebars for around four hours under the pretext the content of his show is inciting against Israelis. Israeli police demanded him not to tackle politics in his show.
The same day, Israeli police physically assaulted Palestine Today correspondent Ahmad Jaradat. in the city of Jerusalem, and prevented him from covering a Jerusalem attack and its aftermath, despite presenting his press pass.
On February 4, Israeli soldiers physically assaulted photojournalist Ishaq Kasbe, also as he was covering the aftermath of an attack in Jerusalem.
After soldiers took Palestine Today journalist Mujahed Saadi from his Jenin home, the Israeli court ruled to hold Saadi in detention at Jalama prison.
Meanwhile, Israeli Supreme Court ruled to suspend the administrative detention of Palestinian hunger striking detainee Mohammad al-Qeeq, who has been detained since November 2015, and went on a hunger strike for 94 days.
On February 5, Israeli forces targeted the Turkish Anadolu News Agency reporter, Hisham Abu Shakra, with a live round in his leg, while he covered clashes that erupted between unarmed Palestinians and Israeli forces at the northern entrance of the city of Bethlehem.
On February 12, Israeli soldiers attacked WAFA photojournalist Ayman Nubani and 24fm photojournalist Muhammad Turabi, during a non-violent protest in Kafr Qaddoum, near Qalqilia.
European Pressphoto Agency photojournalist Alaa Badarneh sustained a broken hand while covering clashes in the same village, in of February 20. On February 26, video journalist for Jordanian Roya TV, Mohammad Shoshe, was hit with a sound bomb which burned and bruised his legs, while covering a protest near al-Ibrahimi Mosque, in the city of Hebron.
The same day, Kuwaiti journalist Nayed Shaher suffocated from inhaling teargas during the Bilin weekly protest against settlements and the apartheid wall. On February 27, photojournalist Mohammad Jaradat was assaulted while covering a protest to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in Hebron.
WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency prepared a monthly report in which violations against journalists were documented, and indicated that the Israeli army continues to target Palestinian journalists, putting their lives at risk and hindering their work.
The report explained that journalists were being targeted with live metal rounds, teargas canisters, physical assault and arrests. Their ability to work freely and freedom of speech were also compromised.
In January alone, 11 journalists were targeted, while another 12 registered being attacked by Israeli forces during the month of February. Eight journalists sustained injuries due to being hit with rubber-coated steel bullets, while four others were either arrested, detained, had their press passes confiscated, or shot at without being hit.
On February 3, the Israeli police interrogated host of the show “Good morning Jerusalem” journalist Nader Bebars for around four hours under the pretext the content of his show is inciting against Israelis. Israeli police demanded him not to tackle politics in his show.
The same day, Israeli police physically assaulted Palestine Today correspondent Ahmad Jaradat. in the city of Jerusalem, and prevented him from covering a Jerusalem attack and its aftermath, despite presenting his press pass.
On February 4, Israeli soldiers physically assaulted photojournalist Ishaq Kasbe, also as he was covering the aftermath of an attack in Jerusalem.
After soldiers took Palestine Today journalist Mujahed Saadi from his Jenin home, the Israeli court ruled to hold Saadi in detention at Jalama prison.
Meanwhile, Israeli Supreme Court ruled to suspend the administrative detention of Palestinian hunger striking detainee Mohammad al-Qeeq, who has been detained since November 2015, and went on a hunger strike for 94 days.
On February 5, Israeli forces targeted the Turkish Anadolu News Agency reporter, Hisham Abu Shakra, with a live round in his leg, while he covered clashes that erupted between unarmed Palestinians and Israeli forces at the northern entrance of the city of Bethlehem.
On February 12, Israeli soldiers attacked WAFA photojournalist Ayman Nubani and 24fm photojournalist Muhammad Turabi, during a non-violent protest in Kafr Qaddoum, near Qalqilia.
European Pressphoto Agency photojournalist Alaa Badarneh sustained a broken hand while covering clashes in the same village, in of February 20. On February 26, video journalist for Jordanian Roya TV, Mohammad Shoshe, was hit with a sound bomb which burned and bruised his legs, while covering a protest near al-Ibrahimi Mosque, in the city of Hebron.
The same day, Kuwaiti journalist Nayed Shaher suffocated from inhaling teargas during the Bilin weekly protest against settlements and the apartheid wall. On February 27, photojournalist Mohammad Jaradat was assaulted while covering a protest to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre in Hebron.
6 mar 2016
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have been storming Iraq Burin village every night over the past few days under the pretext of searching for the perpetrators of the stabbing attack carried out in Har Brakha nearby settlement, which resulted in the death of two soldiers.
Iraq Burin is a small quiet village located on a towering rocky hill southwest of Nablus. Har Brakha settlement is located to the east of Iraq Burin.
A part of the settlement is set up on an area of 250 dunums of land which was of Iraq Burin lands. The occupation army leaders believed that the perpetrators of the stabbing attack sought refuge to Iraq Burin village because the settlement and the attack site are near to the village.
“We will storm your village and your homes every night, until we get to the perpetrators of the stabbing attack, even if it lasted a whole year", an Israeli officer said threatening the chairman of the village council of Iraq Burin, Fathi Faqih.
Faqih told a PIC reporter that the IOF continues to carry out raids into the town houses every night. He estimated the homes that were stormed and searched to be about 95% of the homes in the village. The raids are accompanied with interrogations of house owners on whether any of them had information that might lead the IOF to the perpetrators. The house owners are also warned of providing assistance or covering-up the perpetrators.
Under Siege
Immediately after the stabbing attack on Wednesday night, Iraq Burin was turned into a target for the occupation army, which imposed a tight siege on the village and closed the only entrance to the town with sand barriers, and set up a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town, preventing the entry and the exit in or out of it, and thus turned the village into what looks like a big prison.
The young men of the village removed on Friday morning the sand barriers from the entrance to the town, and reopened the road, challenging the occupation. Faqih said that the occupation officer told him on storming his house, that they have information that the perpetrators had entered into the village after the attack, and did not leave yet.
On the front line
Iraq Burin's area is 5775 acres and is inhabited by 1,000 people, the majority of its population works in agriculture, and the village is famous for the cultivation of olives, figs and grapes. Despite the abundance of agricultural land, 42% of the village land is located within the area (C), which is under full Israeli control according to the Oslo agreements.
The occupation authority prohibits the farmers from cultivating and reclaiming these lands without permission, this caused the lands to become wastelands not suitable except for grazing. In the past few years, the village has witnessed weekly clashes during marches organized by inhabitants of the village with the participation of foreign solidarity activists, towards Har Brakha settlement.
These marches often result in injuries among the participants with bullets and tear gas fired by the Israeli occupation forces. Faqih said that the settlers attack farmers if they get to the land near the settlement, and often call the Israeli army, which arrives in large numbers from Hawara and fires tear gas canisters on the citizens forcing them to leave their land.
Iraq Burin is one of relatively small villages of the governorate of Nablus, but the village has had a long history in confronting the Israeli occupation and settlers. Since the beginning of al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, five of the village's inhabitants were killed by the IOF, among whom were the two members of Qassam Brigades: Mamoun Ibrahim Qadous and Annan Jabr Qadous, who were killed during an armed clash in 2002.
Iraq Burin is a small quiet village located on a towering rocky hill southwest of Nablus. Har Brakha settlement is located to the east of Iraq Burin.
A part of the settlement is set up on an area of 250 dunums of land which was of Iraq Burin lands. The occupation army leaders believed that the perpetrators of the stabbing attack sought refuge to Iraq Burin village because the settlement and the attack site are near to the village.
“We will storm your village and your homes every night, until we get to the perpetrators of the stabbing attack, even if it lasted a whole year", an Israeli officer said threatening the chairman of the village council of Iraq Burin, Fathi Faqih.
Faqih told a PIC reporter that the IOF continues to carry out raids into the town houses every night. He estimated the homes that were stormed and searched to be about 95% of the homes in the village. The raids are accompanied with interrogations of house owners on whether any of them had information that might lead the IOF to the perpetrators. The house owners are also warned of providing assistance or covering-up the perpetrators.
Under Siege
Immediately after the stabbing attack on Wednesday night, Iraq Burin was turned into a target for the occupation army, which imposed a tight siege on the village and closed the only entrance to the town with sand barriers, and set up a military checkpoint at the entrance to the town, preventing the entry and the exit in or out of it, and thus turned the village into what looks like a big prison.
The young men of the village removed on Friday morning the sand barriers from the entrance to the town, and reopened the road, challenging the occupation. Faqih said that the occupation officer told him on storming his house, that they have information that the perpetrators had entered into the village after the attack, and did not leave yet.
On the front line
Iraq Burin's area is 5775 acres and is inhabited by 1,000 people, the majority of its population works in agriculture, and the village is famous for the cultivation of olives, figs and grapes. Despite the abundance of agricultural land, 42% of the village land is located within the area (C), which is under full Israeli control according to the Oslo agreements.
The occupation authority prohibits the farmers from cultivating and reclaiming these lands without permission, this caused the lands to become wastelands not suitable except for grazing. In the past few years, the village has witnessed weekly clashes during marches organized by inhabitants of the village with the participation of foreign solidarity activists, towards Har Brakha settlement.
These marches often result in injuries among the participants with bullets and tear gas fired by the Israeli occupation forces. Faqih said that the settlers attack farmers if they get to the land near the settlement, and often call the Israeli army, which arrives in large numbers from Hawara and fires tear gas canisters on the citizens forcing them to leave their land.
Iraq Burin is one of relatively small villages of the governorate of Nablus, but the village has had a long history in confronting the Israeli occupation and settlers. Since the beginning of al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, five of the village's inhabitants were killed by the IOF, among whom were the two members of Qassam Brigades: Mamoun Ibrahim Qadous and Annan Jabr Qadous, who were killed during an armed clash in 2002.
The governmental media office in Gaza affirmed prohibiting Israeli press from working in Gaza in accordance with a resolution issued by the cabinet.
Head of the office Salama Marouf denied, in a statement on Saturday, allowing the reporter of Israeli channel two to enter Gaza for conducting a feature report.
The Israeli journalist entered the Gaza Strip via Beit Hanoun crossing by a Portuguese passport and he showed a press card for the Spanish TV.
He conducted interviews with Palestinian citizens and academics based on that, which was a manipulation by the Israeli reporter, Marouf elaborated.
Head of the office Salama Marouf denied, in a statement on Saturday, allowing the reporter of Israeli channel two to enter Gaza for conducting a feature report.
The Israeli journalist entered the Gaza Strip via Beit Hanoun crossing by a Portuguese passport and he showed a press card for the Spanish TV.
He conducted interviews with Palestinian citizens and academics based on that, which was a manipulation by the Israeli reporter, Marouf elaborated.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday evening pitched a military checkpoint in southern Jenin, at the same time as they cordoned off Palestinian neighborhoods in Occupied Jerusalem.
A PIC journalist quoted local sources as stating that the IOF set up a military checkpoint at the Jarba crossroads, in southern Jenin, where Palestinian vehicles and civilians were provocatively inspected.
Meanwhile, IOF troops were deployed across Palestinian neighborhoods in Occupied Jerusalem, most notably in al-Issawiya and Silwan, to the east.
Special Israeli forces, border policemen, and mounted police units were stationed across Bab al-Amoud area, where Palestinian youths were searched and questioned.
The IOF also cracked down on Palestinian civilians at the entrances to al-Issawiya village and arrested the youngster Wadi Dari.
According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, the occupation troops rolled into Silwan and pitched makeshift roadblocks across its residential neighborhoods. The IOF further ordered Palestinian shopkeepers in al-Issawiya to shut down their stores without prior notifications.
A PIC journalist quoted local sources as stating that the IOF set up a military checkpoint at the Jarba crossroads, in southern Jenin, where Palestinian vehicles and civilians were provocatively inspected.
Meanwhile, IOF troops were deployed across Palestinian neighborhoods in Occupied Jerusalem, most notably in al-Issawiya and Silwan, to the east.
Special Israeli forces, border policemen, and mounted police units were stationed across Bab al-Amoud area, where Palestinian youths were searched and questioned.
The IOF also cracked down on Palestinian civilians at the entrances to al-Issawiya village and arrested the youngster Wadi Dari.
According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, the occupation troops rolled into Silwan and pitched makeshift roadblocks across its residential neighborhoods. The IOF further ordered Palestinian shopkeepers in al-Issawiya to shut down their stores without prior notifications.
5 mar 2016
in support of Israel. Instead of describing the establishment of Israel as European colonization of a country, and the ethnic cleansing of a nation, they focused on the “plight of Jews” in Europe.
The best-selling novel in America since “Gone with the Wind,” is Leon Uris’ 1958 blockbuster, “Exodus”. It was a story of two lovers, an American nurse and an Israeli ‘freedom fighter’ obsessed with rescuing European Jews who had survived the Holocaust. The novel was written by a Jewish American Zionist with a serious intent to reshape public opinion through Zionist propaganda about the birth of Israel. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, described the novel: “As a literary work, it isn’t much. But, as a piece of propaganda, it is the greatest thing ever written about Israel.” It became a major motion picture; more than seven million copies of the book were sold in the US; it was translated into scores of languages read by millions in numerous other countries; and, for many months, it reached New York Times best seller list. The book was secretly translated by Jewish dissidents from the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of copies were distributed, and, according to Zionist activist Leah Pliner, “the Samizdat version of Exodus became a source of inspiration among Russian Jews.”
“Exodus” was presented as a story of “heroism, sacrifice and redemption” that framed the story of Israel’s birth as a just and necessary accomplishment. The story of Israel resonates with the religious belief of devout Christians who constitute the Torah as part of their Christian scripture. In their minds, the distinction between Zionism and Judaism is rarely recognized. Supporters of Israel never cared to learn that Israel was born of the convictions of two men, Britain’s foreign minister Arthur J. Balfour, during World War I, and US President Harry S. Truman, when Nazi Germany surrendered in World War II. Balfour issued the Belfour Declaration in 1917, pledging the British government to foster “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” After the World War II, Truman deemed the plight of Jews in Europe a matter of the “highest humanitarian importance”, and pressured the British to implement the declaration and not limit European Jews' immigration to Palestine.
Historians Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh wrote, in their 2009 book, A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, that Truman had interest in Palestine due to his deep religious belief since his childhood: “He had read the Bible a dozen times before he was fifteen.” Even if he was not influenced by his religious belief, Truman was a politician, no different from today’s US politicians, and there were even more activist Jews in the US than in Great Britain. The racially motivated stereotypes of the Arab and Muslim worlds were invented by Western colonialists and, propagated by their media, served as implicit support for the Zionists' colonial ambitions in Palestine. And, at the same time, there were no impartial historians like Benny Morris and Ilan Pappѐ, or Arab intellectuals in the mould of Edward Said or Salman Abu- Sitta or Ramzy Baroud to tell the real story about colonizing Palestine.
As more archival material became available, the crimes and the expulsion of Palestinians, as a matter of historical fact, have been confirmed. An estimated 750,000 Palestinians had fled Palestine or been expelled from their homes by the Jewish military, and tens of massacres were committed. More than ninety percent of the inhabitants of Haifa, Tibrias, Beit She’an, Jafa, and Acre cities had vanished. “531 villages had been destroyed, 11 urban neighborhoods had been emptied of their inhabitants” and thousands of civilians were massacred, according to Ilan Pappѐ's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine". Roughly 15 percent of Palestinians remained behind and became Israeli citizens, and all lost their property to expropriation. UN General Assembly Resolution 194 conferred the refugees’ right of return, but Ben-Gurion and all successive Israeli governments never had any intention of implementing it or, even, accepting the return of one single refugee to her/his home in Israel.
Israeli political leaders, the Zionist and the non-Zionist, the secular and the religious, the left-wing liberals and the right-wing conservatives all have one thing in common: They all have been indoctrinated with the notion that because a person is Jewish, a “special people with inherited noble blood!,” they are entitled to take Palestinian land. If there is difference, it is in how far each is willing to go to steal the land and abuse the natives. Some rabbis wrote that “it is no sin to kill the Palestinians.”
Even the so-called liberal political Israeli leaders, like Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, committed some of the worst acts of atrocities against civilian Palestinians, in the process of creating the State of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin, the future prime minister of Israel, the so called “most liberal’ Israeli politician and the recipient of the 1994 Nobel Peace prize, led the military unit that ethincally cleansed two prosperous and peaceful towns of their civilian Palestinians, inflicting great suffering upon the evicted men, women and children.
Rabin described his role in the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramle, when he was the commander of the Harel Brigade. He wrote in his memoir: “While the fighting was still in progress, we had to grapple with a problem: the fate of the civilian population of Lod and Ramle, numbering some 50,000. [Yigal] Allon and I held a consultation. I agreed that it was essential to drive the inhabitants out. We took them on foot toward Bet Horon road. The population of Lod did not leave willingly. There was no way of avoiding force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the fifteen miles to the point where they met up with the [Arab] Legion.”
The 1967 war that demolished pan-Arabism left Israel in full control of historical Palestine, including the West Bank and Gaza, and changed the image of the conflict, in the West, from one pitting the Arab world against tiny Israel to one pitting mighty Israel with its formidable military strength against the pitiful Palestinians. The Israel that used to accuse its enemies of denying the Jews a state, is now denying that same right to another people, the Palestinians.
A UN investigatory commission chaired by the Jewish jurist, Richard Goldstone, accused Israel of “crimes against humanity” during the three-week war on Gaza in 2009. Editor's note: See video. (WARNING -- Content is extremely graphic in nature.)And, many human rights organizations and activists accused Israel of crimes against the Palestinians in the 2012 and 2014 wars on the people of Gaza, and for occupying, colonizing and enforcing an apartheid regime in the West Bank. Things came full circle after more than seventy years of establishing the permanent international court and “crimes against humanity” category in 1945, for the Nuremberg trials of thirteen surviving Nazi defendants, for the mass murder of Jews and others. Leaders of Israel who like to describe their state as “the Jewish State” stood accused of “crimes against humanity” during their war against the Palestinian refugees. The Israeli State that was widely admired by the West, for its resolution to “never again” allow Jews to be targeted, is now being denounced for targeting the Palestinians.
Many international bodies, including some in Europe and the US, joined the denunciation of Israel. They joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which calls for the economic and cultural isolation of Israel until it complies with international law on Palestinian rights. British teacher unions have called for the academic boycott of Israel; the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Pension and Health Benefits announced its decision to divest from five Israeli banks it said failed to meet its 2015 investment criteria based on human rights; Norwegian supermarkets boycotted Israeli goods that are produced in West Bank settlements; and, former US President, Jimmy Carter has published a book accusing Israel of practicing apartheid.
Seventy years after 1947-48 “Nakba”, the Palestinians have won a moral victory. Crimes against them are finally called “crimes” !
The best-selling novel in America since “Gone with the Wind,” is Leon Uris’ 1958 blockbuster, “Exodus”. It was a story of two lovers, an American nurse and an Israeli ‘freedom fighter’ obsessed with rescuing European Jews who had survived the Holocaust. The novel was written by a Jewish American Zionist with a serious intent to reshape public opinion through Zionist propaganda about the birth of Israel. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, described the novel: “As a literary work, it isn’t much. But, as a piece of propaganda, it is the greatest thing ever written about Israel.” It became a major motion picture; more than seven million copies of the book were sold in the US; it was translated into scores of languages read by millions in numerous other countries; and, for many months, it reached New York Times best seller list. The book was secretly translated by Jewish dissidents from the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of copies were distributed, and, according to Zionist activist Leah Pliner, “the Samizdat version of Exodus became a source of inspiration among Russian Jews.”
“Exodus” was presented as a story of “heroism, sacrifice and redemption” that framed the story of Israel’s birth as a just and necessary accomplishment. The story of Israel resonates with the religious belief of devout Christians who constitute the Torah as part of their Christian scripture. In their minds, the distinction between Zionism and Judaism is rarely recognized. Supporters of Israel never cared to learn that Israel was born of the convictions of two men, Britain’s foreign minister Arthur J. Balfour, during World War I, and US President Harry S. Truman, when Nazi Germany surrendered in World War II. Balfour issued the Belfour Declaration in 1917, pledging the British government to foster “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” After the World War II, Truman deemed the plight of Jews in Europe a matter of the “highest humanitarian importance”, and pressured the British to implement the declaration and not limit European Jews' immigration to Palestine.
Historians Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh wrote, in their 2009 book, A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel, that Truman had interest in Palestine due to his deep religious belief since his childhood: “He had read the Bible a dozen times before he was fifteen.” Even if he was not influenced by his religious belief, Truman was a politician, no different from today’s US politicians, and there were even more activist Jews in the US than in Great Britain. The racially motivated stereotypes of the Arab and Muslim worlds were invented by Western colonialists and, propagated by their media, served as implicit support for the Zionists' colonial ambitions in Palestine. And, at the same time, there were no impartial historians like Benny Morris and Ilan Pappѐ, or Arab intellectuals in the mould of Edward Said or Salman Abu- Sitta or Ramzy Baroud to tell the real story about colonizing Palestine.
As more archival material became available, the crimes and the expulsion of Palestinians, as a matter of historical fact, have been confirmed. An estimated 750,000 Palestinians had fled Palestine or been expelled from their homes by the Jewish military, and tens of massacres were committed. More than ninety percent of the inhabitants of Haifa, Tibrias, Beit She’an, Jafa, and Acre cities had vanished. “531 villages had been destroyed, 11 urban neighborhoods had been emptied of their inhabitants” and thousands of civilians were massacred, according to Ilan Pappѐ's "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine". Roughly 15 percent of Palestinians remained behind and became Israeli citizens, and all lost their property to expropriation. UN General Assembly Resolution 194 conferred the refugees’ right of return, but Ben-Gurion and all successive Israeli governments never had any intention of implementing it or, even, accepting the return of one single refugee to her/his home in Israel.
Israeli political leaders, the Zionist and the non-Zionist, the secular and the religious, the left-wing liberals and the right-wing conservatives all have one thing in common: They all have been indoctrinated with the notion that because a person is Jewish, a “special people with inherited noble blood!,” they are entitled to take Palestinian land. If there is difference, it is in how far each is willing to go to steal the land and abuse the natives. Some rabbis wrote that “it is no sin to kill the Palestinians.”
Even the so-called liberal political Israeli leaders, like Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, committed some of the worst acts of atrocities against civilian Palestinians, in the process of creating the State of Israel. Yitzhak Rabin, the future prime minister of Israel, the so called “most liberal’ Israeli politician and the recipient of the 1994 Nobel Peace prize, led the military unit that ethincally cleansed two prosperous and peaceful towns of their civilian Palestinians, inflicting great suffering upon the evicted men, women and children.
Rabin described his role in the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramle, when he was the commander of the Harel Brigade. He wrote in his memoir: “While the fighting was still in progress, we had to grapple with a problem: the fate of the civilian population of Lod and Ramle, numbering some 50,000. [Yigal] Allon and I held a consultation. I agreed that it was essential to drive the inhabitants out. We took them on foot toward Bet Horon road. The population of Lod did not leave willingly. There was no way of avoiding force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the fifteen miles to the point where they met up with the [Arab] Legion.”
The 1967 war that demolished pan-Arabism left Israel in full control of historical Palestine, including the West Bank and Gaza, and changed the image of the conflict, in the West, from one pitting the Arab world against tiny Israel to one pitting mighty Israel with its formidable military strength against the pitiful Palestinians. The Israel that used to accuse its enemies of denying the Jews a state, is now denying that same right to another people, the Palestinians.
A UN investigatory commission chaired by the Jewish jurist, Richard Goldstone, accused Israel of “crimes against humanity” during the three-week war on Gaza in 2009. Editor's note: See video. (WARNING -- Content is extremely graphic in nature.)And, many human rights organizations and activists accused Israel of crimes against the Palestinians in the 2012 and 2014 wars on the people of Gaza, and for occupying, colonizing and enforcing an apartheid regime in the West Bank. Things came full circle after more than seventy years of establishing the permanent international court and “crimes against humanity” category in 1945, for the Nuremberg trials of thirteen surviving Nazi defendants, for the mass murder of Jews and others. Leaders of Israel who like to describe their state as “the Jewish State” stood accused of “crimes against humanity” during their war against the Palestinian refugees. The Israeli State that was widely admired by the West, for its resolution to “never again” allow Jews to be targeted, is now being denounced for targeting the Palestinians.
Many international bodies, including some in Europe and the US, joined the denunciation of Israel. They joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which calls for the economic and cultural isolation of Israel until it complies with international law on Palestinian rights. British teacher unions have called for the academic boycott of Israel; the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Pension and Health Benefits announced its decision to divest from five Israeli banks it said failed to meet its 2015 investment criteria based on human rights; Norwegian supermarkets boycotted Israeli goods that are produced in West Bank settlements; and, former US President, Jimmy Carter has published a book accusing Israel of practicing apartheid.
Seventy years after 1947-48 “Nakba”, the Palestinians have won a moral victory. Crimes against them are finally called “crimes” !
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Husan late Friday mourned the death of a 34-year-old mother of four who was shot dead earlier in the day after allegedly ramming her car into an Israeli soldier at the Gush Etzion junction.
Locals told Ma’an that the Israeli authorities returned the body of Amani Husni Sabatin shortly after she was killed. Her body was then taken to Beit Jala Hospital for autopsy.
A funeral procession followed from the hospital to Sabatin’s hometown of Husan west of Bethlehem, where relatives bid her a final farewell. She was then buried in the village cemetery following funeral prayers.
A number of relatives were unable to attend Sabatin's funeral due to Israeli restrictions on movement in the area, as entrances into Husan were sealed following the alleged car attack.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that entrances were reopened Saturday morning, with security checks carried out on those moving in and out of the village.
Sabatin was one of over 180 Palestinians to be killed since a wave of unrest spread across the occupied Palestinian territory in October, the majority of whom were shot while carrying out or attempting to carry out attacks on Israeli military targets.
Around 30 Israelis have been killed during the same time period.
The circumstances of a number of Palestinian deaths have been disputed, with Palestinian and international leadership condemning Israel for carrying out “extrajudicial executions” in several cases.
While the Israeli army said at the time of Sabatin’s death that she hit an Israeli soldier with her car, the head of Husan's village council, Hasan Hamamreh, rejected the army's allegations that she had attempted to carry out an attack, saying her death was an "obvious execution."
Sabatin was married and the mother of four children, the eldest of whom is a 14-year-old daughter. Her husband works in Israel.
Locals told Ma’an that the Israeli authorities returned the body of Amani Husni Sabatin shortly after she was killed. Her body was then taken to Beit Jala Hospital for autopsy.
A funeral procession followed from the hospital to Sabatin’s hometown of Husan west of Bethlehem, where relatives bid her a final farewell. She was then buried in the village cemetery following funeral prayers.
A number of relatives were unable to attend Sabatin's funeral due to Israeli restrictions on movement in the area, as entrances into Husan were sealed following the alleged car attack.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that entrances were reopened Saturday morning, with security checks carried out on those moving in and out of the village.
Sabatin was one of over 180 Palestinians to be killed since a wave of unrest spread across the occupied Palestinian territory in October, the majority of whom were shot while carrying out or attempting to carry out attacks on Israeli military targets.
Around 30 Israelis have been killed during the same time period.
The circumstances of a number of Palestinian deaths have been disputed, with Palestinian and international leadership condemning Israel for carrying out “extrajudicial executions” in several cases.
While the Israeli army said at the time of Sabatin’s death that she hit an Israeli soldier with her car, the head of Husan's village council, Hasan Hamamreh, rejected the army's allegations that she had attempted to carry out an attack, saying her death was an "obvious execution."
Sabatin was married and the mother of four children, the eldest of whom is a 14-year-old daughter. Her husband works in Israel.
Sheikh Ra'ed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948 occupied lands, said that many Jewish rabbis in Israel confer religious legitimacy on their government's racist policies and crimes against the Palestinian people.
Sheikh Salah made his remarks during a Friday khutba (sermon) in the protest tent, which was set up in Umm al-Fahm city to protest the Israeli government's decision considering the Islamic Movement an illegal group.
The Islamic Movement chief stated that "the Zionist project, since its onset, has sought to build the alleged temple in place of the Aqsa Mosque," expressing his belief that the Israeli occupation and its plans would be doomed to failure sooner or later.
He accused the Israeli government of relying on the religious opinions of several Jewish rabbis to carry out its plots, including the views of rabbis Yitzchak Ginsburgh and Shmuel Eliyahu, who legitimize killing and robbing Arabs, and burning their Mosques and Churches.
Sheikh Salah stressed the need to stand firm in the face of Israel's racist policies and violations through showing more resilience and frequenting the Aqsa Mosque.
Sheikh Salah made his remarks during a Friday khutba (sermon) in the protest tent, which was set up in Umm al-Fahm city to protest the Israeli government's decision considering the Islamic Movement an illegal group.
The Islamic Movement chief stated that "the Zionist project, since its onset, has sought to build the alleged temple in place of the Aqsa Mosque," expressing his belief that the Israeli occupation and its plans would be doomed to failure sooner or later.
He accused the Israeli government of relying on the religious opinions of several Jewish rabbis to carry out its plots, including the views of rabbis Yitzchak Ginsburgh and Shmuel Eliyahu, who legitimize killing and robbing Arabs, and burning their Mosques and Churches.
Sheikh Salah stressed the need to stand firm in the face of Israel's racist policies and violations through showing more resilience and frequenting the Aqsa Mosque.