20 mar 2016
A group of Israeli settlers attacked on Sunday a Palestinian vehicle in the Jordan Valley, causing it severe material damage.
Local sources affirmed that Israeli settlers from Ma'ale Efraim illegal settlement threw stones at a Palestinian car belonging to Nassim Abu Alya, from Ramallah, and smashed its windows.
This attack is the latest in a string of attacks on Palestinians and their property, including mosques, homes, vehicles, and agricultural land throughout the occupied West Bank.
As the occupying force, Israel must protect the Palestinians in the West Bank. However, the Israeli authorities neglect to fulfill this responsibility and do not do enough to prevent Israeli settlers from attacking Palestinians and their properties.
The undeclared policy of the Israeli authorities in response to these attacks is lenient and conciliatory. Perpetrators are rarely tried, and many cases are not investigated at all or are closed with no operative conclusions.
Local sources affirmed that Israeli settlers from Ma'ale Efraim illegal settlement threw stones at a Palestinian car belonging to Nassim Abu Alya, from Ramallah, and smashed its windows.
This attack is the latest in a string of attacks on Palestinians and their property, including mosques, homes, vehicles, and agricultural land throughout the occupied West Bank.
As the occupying force, Israel must protect the Palestinians in the West Bank. However, the Israeli authorities neglect to fulfill this responsibility and do not do enough to prevent Israeli settlers from attacking Palestinians and their properties.
The undeclared policy of the Israeli authorities in response to these attacks is lenient and conciliatory. Perpetrators are rarely tried, and many cases are not investigated at all or are closed with no operative conclusions.
The Israeli police on Sunday issued a gag order against reporting news on the latest arson attack on a Palestinian house belonging to Ibrahim al-Dawabsheh in Duma village, south of Nablus city.
An Israeli court approved a request filed by the police asking to ban the Israeli media from reporting details about the arson attack that happened at dawn Sunday in Duma village until 20 April.
Today's torched house is located near the site of a previous arson attack that killed last year three Palestinians. Immediate suspicion fell on Jewish extremists.
Ibrahim Dawabsheh is a relative of last year's victims and a key witness to the attack that killed them and is currently testifying before an Israeli court in the trial of two Jewish extremists.
In July last year, Jewish settlers infiltrated overnight into Duma village and hurled firebombs into a home, killing 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh. His mother, Riham, and father, Saad, died later of their wounds.
Ali's four-year-old brother Ahmad suffered serious injuries but survived. In a related incident, violent clashes broke out today morning between local young men and Israeli soldiers in Duma village.
Several residents and students suffered suffocation when the soldiers showered homes and a school with tear gas grenades.
Local sources reported that the Israeli police detained Dawabsheh, the owner of the house which sustained fire damage today, as well as his father and a number of his relatives and neighbors, and interrogated them about the incident.
An Israeli court approved a request filed by the police asking to ban the Israeli media from reporting details about the arson attack that happened at dawn Sunday in Duma village until 20 April.
Today's torched house is located near the site of a previous arson attack that killed last year three Palestinians. Immediate suspicion fell on Jewish extremists.
Ibrahim Dawabsheh is a relative of last year's victims and a key witness to the attack that killed them and is currently testifying before an Israeli court in the trial of two Jewish extremists.
In July last year, Jewish settlers infiltrated overnight into Duma village and hurled firebombs into a home, killing 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh. His mother, Riham, and father, Saad, died later of their wounds.
Ali's four-year-old brother Ahmad suffered serious injuries but survived. In a related incident, violent clashes broke out today morning between local young men and Israeli soldiers in Duma village.
Several residents and students suffered suffocation when the soldiers showered homes and a school with tear gas grenades.
Local sources reported that the Israeli police detained Dawabsheh, the owner of the house which sustained fire damage today, as well as his father and a number of his relatives and neighbors, and interrogated them about the incident.
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Unidentified assailants on Saturday night set fire to a house in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank, targeting the only witness of an arson attack that killed a Palestinian family last year.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that unidentified attackers threw Molotov cocktails at the house of Ibrahim Dawabsha at 2 a.m. and broke a window while he and his family were sleeping. Daghlas added that Ibrahim Dawabsha was the only witness of the deadly arson attack carried out by extremist Israeli settlers on the home of Saad and Riham Dawabsha in the northern West Bank village on July 30 last year. Ahmad Dawabsha, now 5 years old, was the only survivor of the attack, |
which killed both his parents, Saad and Riham, as well as his 18-month-old brother, Ali.
Security sources said Ibrahim Dawabsha’s home was only ten meters away from the house which was burned down last year.
The sources added that Ibrahim Dawabsha and his wife were transferred to the Rafidiya hospital in Nablus for medical treatment after they suffered from smoke inhalation.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said that Israeli troops and police arrived the scene and started investigating the attack, adding that "the motives behind the attack are not clear yet."
However, Daghlas said there are enough indications that the assailants were Israeli settlers. "The way they attacked, the type of fire bombs and the timing of the attack all indicate that it was Israeli settlers," he said
Locals in Duma told Ma’an clashes broke out on Sunday morning between hundreds of school children and Israeli forces in the village. At least 15 girls suffered from tear gas inhalation fired by Israeli troops, whereas an Israeli soldier was injured by a stone to the face and evacuated in an ambulance.
The attack that left young Ahmad's entire family dead in 2015 brought international outcry against Israel's failure to hold Israeli settlers and Jewish extremists accountable for attacks on Palestinians, in effect being complicit in such attacks.
Several Israelis were arrested in late 2015 over the deadly arson attack on Ahmad’s family. In January, two Israelis, one of them a minor, were charged with three counts of murder and being an accessory to murder.
Israeli leadership at the time condemned the Dawabsha attack as "terrorism," and pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem slammed the reaction by Israeli officials as "empty rhetoric."
"Official condemnations of this attack are empty rhetoric as long as politicians continue their policy of avoiding enforcement of the law on Israelis who harm Palestinians, and do not deal with the public climate and the incitement which serve as backdrop to these acts," the group said at the time.
Israeli terrorists burn home of only witness to Duma arson attack
Israeli suspects on Sunday overnight burned down the home Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the key-witness to the notorious Duma arson attack.
A PIC correspondent said unidentified Israeli suspects threw two fast-flammable burning bottles into Ibrahim’s home after breaking the windows while Ibrahim and his wife were asleep, in an attempt to burn them alive.
Ibrahim and his wife were rushed to the Rafidia hospital for treatment, after they choked on the gases emanating from the burning bottles. Ibrahim is a key witness to the Duma arson attack that took place on 31 July 2015, and killed 18-month-old baby Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Reham.
The only survivor of the arson attack is five-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh, who is still being treated for the burns sustained all over his body. Journalist Hayat Dawabsheh quoted Ibrahim’s wife as stating that just a few days earlier the Israeli occupation intelligence notified them of an imminent danger. She added that the family has detected strange voices and movements around the family home over the past three days.
Ghassan Daghlas, responsible for the settlement files in the northern occupied West Bank, said the arson attack on Ibrahim’s home was carried out in the same way in which the Dawabsheh family members were burned alive. A PIC expert in Israeli affairs said the arson attack aims at spreading terror and forcing Ibrahim to rescind his testimonies in the Dawabsheh crime.
The attack comes at the same time as a hearing was held for the main Israeli suspect in the Dawabsheh arson attack, Amiram Ben-Uliel.
Security sources said Ibrahim Dawabsha’s home was only ten meters away from the house which was burned down last year.
The sources added that Ibrahim Dawabsha and his wife were transferred to the Rafidiya hospital in Nablus for medical treatment after they suffered from smoke inhalation.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said that Israeli troops and police arrived the scene and started investigating the attack, adding that "the motives behind the attack are not clear yet."
However, Daghlas said there are enough indications that the assailants were Israeli settlers. "The way they attacked, the type of fire bombs and the timing of the attack all indicate that it was Israeli settlers," he said
Locals in Duma told Ma’an clashes broke out on Sunday morning between hundreds of school children and Israeli forces in the village. At least 15 girls suffered from tear gas inhalation fired by Israeli troops, whereas an Israeli soldier was injured by a stone to the face and evacuated in an ambulance.
The attack that left young Ahmad's entire family dead in 2015 brought international outcry against Israel's failure to hold Israeli settlers and Jewish extremists accountable for attacks on Palestinians, in effect being complicit in such attacks.
Several Israelis were arrested in late 2015 over the deadly arson attack on Ahmad’s family. In January, two Israelis, one of them a minor, were charged with three counts of murder and being an accessory to murder.
Israeli leadership at the time condemned the Dawabsha attack as "terrorism," and pledged to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem slammed the reaction by Israeli officials as "empty rhetoric."
"Official condemnations of this attack are empty rhetoric as long as politicians continue their policy of avoiding enforcement of the law on Israelis who harm Palestinians, and do not deal with the public climate and the incitement which serve as backdrop to these acts," the group said at the time.
Israeli terrorists burn home of only witness to Duma arson attack
Israeli suspects on Sunday overnight burned down the home Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the key-witness to the notorious Duma arson attack.
A PIC correspondent said unidentified Israeli suspects threw two fast-flammable burning bottles into Ibrahim’s home after breaking the windows while Ibrahim and his wife were asleep, in an attempt to burn them alive.
Ibrahim and his wife were rushed to the Rafidia hospital for treatment, after they choked on the gases emanating from the burning bottles. Ibrahim is a key witness to the Duma arson attack that took place on 31 July 2015, and killed 18-month-old baby Ali Dawabsheh and his parents Saad and Reham.
The only survivor of the arson attack is five-year-old Ahmad Dawabsheh, who is still being treated for the burns sustained all over his body. Journalist Hayat Dawabsheh quoted Ibrahim’s wife as stating that just a few days earlier the Israeli occupation intelligence notified them of an imminent danger. She added that the family has detected strange voices and movements around the family home over the past three days.
Ghassan Daghlas, responsible for the settlement files in the northern occupied West Bank, said the arson attack on Ibrahim’s home was carried out in the same way in which the Dawabsheh family members were burned alive. A PIC expert in Israeli affairs said the arson attack aims at spreading terror and forcing Ibrahim to rescind his testimonies in the Dawabsheh crime.
The attack comes at the same time as a hearing was held for the main Israeli suspect in the Dawabsheh arson attack, Amiram Ben-Uliel.
19 mar 2016
Entrance to Liberty Bell Park
Earlier this month, five teenagers violently attacked an Arab employee of the Jerusalem Municipality in a park, yelling 'Death to Arabs' while they beat him, the attackers were indicted on Thursday.
Five Jewish men were on Thursday indicted at the Jerusalem District Court for racially motivated aggravated assault and battery.
Ahmed Badar, 40, from Silwan was violently attacked by five Jewish youths in Jerusalem's Liberty Bell Park because of his ethnicity on March 9. Four of the accused are 17 years old, and one, Netanel Goldenberg, is 19.
According to the indictment, the five assailants were returning from partying in the city center, when they passed two janitors and identified one of them as Arab. They yelled, "Death to Arabs" and continued to yell racial insults and curses as they physically attacked, throwing punches and kicking him.
"I work for the Jerusalem Municipality in the city-improvement branch," Badar said. "A friend and I had started work when, suddenly, five teenagers came into the Liberty Bell Bark.
"They yelled, 'Death to Arabs! Death to Arabs!' and came up to us and taunted my friend, 'You're an Arab bastard.' He told them that he was Jewish, and then they said to me, 'You're an Arab bastard,' and they started to curse the Prophet Mohammed."
According to the indictment, they beat and kicked Badar for several minutes, even after he fell to the ground.
Badar's friend called for the police and an ambulance, and they transferred the victim to the hospital. "I hate Jewish racism just like I hate Arab racism," said Badar. "The feeling was completely unpleasant. It's really messed up my life." He added that he has worked alongside Jews his entire life: "I've been weddings and bar mitzvahs. I have a good, strong connection with the Jewish people."
According to Badar, his attackers "must be punished. If they're not punished, it will cause greater damage. A week has passed, but this scene keeps playing over and over (in my head) all night and day. I didn't believe that such a thing could ever happen to me. Nobody would believe that such a thing could happen." Badar recounted on Thursday that it was difficult for him to move his limbs because of the attack.
Moti Rafaeli, the lawyer representing Goldenberg, claimed that his client was indeed present at the scene, but he did not participate in the attack.
Earlier this month, five teenagers violently attacked an Arab employee of the Jerusalem Municipality in a park, yelling 'Death to Arabs' while they beat him, the attackers were indicted on Thursday.
Five Jewish men were on Thursday indicted at the Jerusalem District Court for racially motivated aggravated assault and battery.
Ahmed Badar, 40, from Silwan was violently attacked by five Jewish youths in Jerusalem's Liberty Bell Park because of his ethnicity on March 9. Four of the accused are 17 years old, and one, Netanel Goldenberg, is 19.
According to the indictment, the five assailants were returning from partying in the city center, when they passed two janitors and identified one of them as Arab. They yelled, "Death to Arabs" and continued to yell racial insults and curses as they physically attacked, throwing punches and kicking him.
"I work for the Jerusalem Municipality in the city-improvement branch," Badar said. "A friend and I had started work when, suddenly, five teenagers came into the Liberty Bell Bark.
"They yelled, 'Death to Arabs! Death to Arabs!' and came up to us and taunted my friend, 'You're an Arab bastard.' He told them that he was Jewish, and then they said to me, 'You're an Arab bastard,' and they started to curse the Prophet Mohammed."
According to the indictment, they beat and kicked Badar for several minutes, even after he fell to the ground.
Badar's friend called for the police and an ambulance, and they transferred the victim to the hospital. "I hate Jewish racism just like I hate Arab racism," said Badar. "The feeling was completely unpleasant. It's really messed up my life." He added that he has worked alongside Jews his entire life: "I've been weddings and bar mitzvahs. I have a good, strong connection with the Jewish people."
According to Badar, his attackers "must be punished. If they're not punished, it will cause greater damage. A week has passed, but this scene keeps playing over and over (in my head) all night and day. I didn't believe that such a thing could ever happen to me. Nobody would believe that such a thing could happen." Badar recounted on Thursday that it was difficult for him to move his limbs because of the attack.
Moti Rafaeli, the lawyer representing Goldenberg, claimed that his client was indeed present at the scene, but he did not participate in the attack.
18 mar 2016
Mahmud Ahmad Abu Fanunah 21
A Palestinian man was shot dead after allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction, shortly after two Palestinians were detained on suspicions of planning an attack in the illegal Shaare Benjamin settlement.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that an "assailant armed with a knife exited his vehicle and charged at soldiers" at the Gush Etzion junction southwest of Bethlehem, with soldiers opening fire, killing the man and "foiling" the alleged attack.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces opened fire on and killed a Palestinian man in his 20s while he was driving near the junction.
One witness said the Palestinian had been driving alongside an Israeli settler who stopped his car at the junction in order to speak to soldiers there and pointed to the Palestinian's car.
The witness said the Palestinian also stopped his car and had just stepped out -- "not holding anything in his hands" -- when Israeli forces opened fire, killing him on the spot.
No Israeli injuries were reported.
The Palestinian was identified as Mahmud Ahmad Abu Fanunah, 21, from the Hebron district.
Shortly afterward, Israeli police said they detained two Palestinian minors near the entrance of the industrial zone of the illegal settlement of Shaare Binyamin northeast of Jerusalem for allegedly carrying knives.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said Israeli troops spotted two youths exiting a car with Palestinian plates in the area.
The youths raised the suspicions of the forces, who searched them and found two knives in their possession, al-Samri said, adding that "initial investigations" indicated they had been planning to carry out a stabbing attack.
The Palestinian youths were taken into custody, and Israeli forces were searching for the individual who drove them to Shaare Binyamin, al-Samri said.
The locations where both Friday's incidents took place have been the site of a number of deaths since a surge of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory last October.
The Gush Etzion junction -- the entrance point to the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc -- has seen numerous deadly encounters that have left over 10 Palestinians and three Israelis dead.
Last month, two 14-year-old Palestinians were shot dead after carrying out an attack in a Rami Levi supermarket located in Shaare Benyamin industrial zone that killed one Israeli.
A Palestinian man was shot dead after allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction, shortly after two Palestinians were detained on suspicions of planning an attack in the illegal Shaare Benjamin settlement.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an that an "assailant armed with a knife exited his vehicle and charged at soldiers" at the Gush Etzion junction southwest of Bethlehem, with soldiers opening fire, killing the man and "foiling" the alleged attack.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces opened fire on and killed a Palestinian man in his 20s while he was driving near the junction.
One witness said the Palestinian had been driving alongside an Israeli settler who stopped his car at the junction in order to speak to soldiers there and pointed to the Palestinian's car.
The witness said the Palestinian also stopped his car and had just stepped out -- "not holding anything in his hands" -- when Israeli forces opened fire, killing him on the spot.
No Israeli injuries were reported.
The Palestinian was identified as Mahmud Ahmad Abu Fanunah, 21, from the Hebron district.
Shortly afterward, Israeli police said they detained two Palestinian minors near the entrance of the industrial zone of the illegal settlement of Shaare Binyamin northeast of Jerusalem for allegedly carrying knives.
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said Israeli troops spotted two youths exiting a car with Palestinian plates in the area.
The youths raised the suspicions of the forces, who searched them and found two knives in their possession, al-Samri said, adding that "initial investigations" indicated they had been planning to carry out a stabbing attack.
The Palestinian youths were taken into custody, and Israeli forces were searching for the individual who drove them to Shaare Binyamin, al-Samri said.
The locations where both Friday's incidents took place have been the site of a number of deaths since a surge of violence in the occupied Palestinian territory last October.
The Gush Etzion junction -- the entrance point to the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc -- has seen numerous deadly encounters that have left over 10 Palestinians and three Israelis dead.
Last month, two 14-year-old Palestinians were shot dead after carrying out an attack in a Rami Levi supermarket located in Shaare Benyamin industrial zone that killed one Israeli.
Moshe Orbach smiles in court on February 18, 2016
Moshe Orbach sentenced to two years for publishing instructions for attacks and calling for creation of extremist cells to fight the government.
An Israeli judge has jailed for two years the Jewish extremist author of an instruction manual for acts of violence against Palestinians, in a case linked to a deadly firebombing, judicial authorities said.
Prosecutors said the digital document entitled "Kingdom of Evil" contained among other things instructions for arson attacks on houses, a transcript released by the Israel Courts Administration said.
"It is in its entirety incitement to criminal activity and clear directions for the commission of violence against the property and persons of the Arab community," said the judgment, seen by AFP on Friday.
Moshe Orbach, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was arrested in July and charged with sedition, possession of material inciting violence and of racist material. He was convicted on all counts in February.
The prosecution linked the "Kingdom of Evil" document with the July arson attack on a house in the West Bank village of Duma that killed 18-month-old Palestinian Ali Saad Dawabsheh and his parents.
Two Israelis have been charged with the firebombing.
"The murder in Duma, carried out days after charges were filed, was carried out in a way similar to that described in the document," the court transcript quoted the prosecution as saying, without accusing Orbach of direct involvement.
The Duma killings prompted a police crackdown on other Jewish extremists, some of whom are suspected of a string of nationalist hate crimes targeting Palestinians, Christians and even Israeli soldiers.
The prosecution says Orbach's manifesto, reportedly found on a USB drive in his car, called for the establishment of hermetically-sealed extremist groups which would be hard for Israeli security services to infiltrate.
"It is a document for conspiracy which calls for setting up small terror cells insulated from one another," the court document said. "It is an open call for revolt against the government, acts of murder and violence."
Moshe Orbach sentenced to two years for publishing instructions for attacks and calling for creation of extremist cells to fight the government.
An Israeli judge has jailed for two years the Jewish extremist author of an instruction manual for acts of violence against Palestinians, in a case linked to a deadly firebombing, judicial authorities said.
Prosecutors said the digital document entitled "Kingdom of Evil" contained among other things instructions for arson attacks on houses, a transcript released by the Israel Courts Administration said.
"It is in its entirety incitement to criminal activity and clear directions for the commission of violence against the property and persons of the Arab community," said the judgment, seen by AFP on Friday.
Moshe Orbach, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, was arrested in July and charged with sedition, possession of material inciting violence and of racist material. He was convicted on all counts in February.
The prosecution linked the "Kingdom of Evil" document with the July arson attack on a house in the West Bank village of Duma that killed 18-month-old Palestinian Ali Saad Dawabsheh and his parents.
Two Israelis have been charged with the firebombing.
"The murder in Duma, carried out days after charges were filed, was carried out in a way similar to that described in the document," the court transcript quoted the prosecution as saying, without accusing Orbach of direct involvement.
The Duma killings prompted a police crackdown on other Jewish extremists, some of whom are suspected of a string of nationalist hate crimes targeting Palestinians, Christians and even Israeli soldiers.
The prosecution says Orbach's manifesto, reportedly found on a USB drive in his car, called for the establishment of hermetically-sealed extremist groups which would be hard for Israeli security services to infiltrate.
"It is a document for conspiracy which calls for setting up small terror cells insulated from one another," the court document said. "It is an open call for revolt against the government, acts of murder and violence."
Israel on Thursday announced its intent to appoint a settler in the position of an ambassador to Brazil, moments before it said the post was already served by a so-called Danny Dayan.
Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the ministry had re-advertised the ambassador's position.
But shortly after, the ministry said the advertisement was an "unfortunate bureaucratic mistake" and that "Danny Dayan is still Israel's appointed ambassador".
Danny Dayan was nominated by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s ambassador to Brazil last August.
But Brazil has not sent back its consent, despite the tireless efforts made by Israeli diplomats. Dayan is the former head of an illegal settlement council in the occupied West Bank.
He is notorious for his incitement to the misappropriation of Palestinian lands in favor of illegal settlement expansion. Brazilian diplomacy adopts a pro-Palestine position and considers Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories illegitimate.
Israel’s foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said the ministry had re-advertised the ambassador's position.
But shortly after, the ministry said the advertisement was an "unfortunate bureaucratic mistake" and that "Danny Dayan is still Israel's appointed ambassador".
Danny Dayan was nominated by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s ambassador to Brazil last August.
But Brazil has not sent back its consent, despite the tireless efforts made by Israeli diplomats. Dayan is the former head of an illegal settlement council in the occupied West Bank.
He is notorious for his incitement to the misappropriation of Palestinian lands in favor of illegal settlement expansion. Brazilian diplomacy adopts a pro-Palestine position and considers Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories illegitimate.
16 mar 2016
An Israeli settler escorted by a soldier stormed on Tuesday evening a room at the Afula hospital, where the Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qeiq is being treated, and insulted him.
Al-Qeiq’s Facebook page quoted his wife, journalist Fayhaa Shalash, as stating that an Israeli soldier and a settler crept into his room at the Afula hospital before they insulted him and yelled such racist threats as “you must die.”
Palestinians present near the room and police guards forced the soldier and the settler out of the hospital.
Muhammad al-Qeiq is currently being treated for the health complications inflicted by a three-month hunger strike in protest at his administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial. He suspended his hunger strike after Israeli prison authorities promised to release him in May.
Al-Qeiq’s Facebook page quoted his wife, journalist Fayhaa Shalash, as stating that an Israeli soldier and a settler crept into his room at the Afula hospital before they insulted him and yelled such racist threats as “you must die.”
Palestinians present near the room and police guards forced the soldier and the settler out of the hospital.
Muhammad al-Qeiq is currently being treated for the health complications inflicted by a three-month hunger strike in protest at his administrative detention, with neither charge nor trial. He suspended his hunger strike after Israeli prison authorities promised to release him in May.
14 mar 2016
rabbi Yitzhak Joseph
A chief Jewish rabbi said that all knife-wielding attackers should be killed, condemning a call by the head of the Israeli army to not use excessive firepower in preventing a wave of Palestinian attacks.
He called on the Jews not to be afraid of the courts, the chief of staff or security officials if they say something else, stressing that it is a religious duty to kill Palestinians carrying knives.
He made his remarks at the Yazadim synagogue in Occupied Jerusalem on Saturday. He was responding to chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot who urged last month soldiers to remain calm during attacks and not to use unnecessary force.
"When there is a 13-year-old girl holding scissors or a knife and there is some distance between her and the soldiers, I do not want to see a soldier open fire and empty his magazine at a girl like that," Eisenkot said. "Rather he should use the force necessary to fulfill the objective."
A chief Jewish rabbi said that all knife-wielding attackers should be killed, condemning a call by the head of the Israeli army to not use excessive firepower in preventing a wave of Palestinian attacks.
He called on the Jews not to be afraid of the courts, the chief of staff or security officials if they say something else, stressing that it is a religious duty to kill Palestinians carrying knives.
He made his remarks at the Yazadim synagogue in Occupied Jerusalem on Saturday. He was responding to chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot who urged last month soldiers to remain calm during attacks and not to use unnecessary force.
"When there is a 13-year-old girl holding scissors or a knife and there is some distance between her and the soldiers, I do not want to see a soldier open fire and empty his magazine at a girl like that," Eisenkot said. "Rather he should use the force necessary to fulfill the objective."
13 mar 2016
Scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque's courtyards under security protection.
Local sources said that settlers escorted by special police forces entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba gate in groups and toured its courtyards, which provoked angry verbal reactions from Muslim worshipers there.
Some settlers tried to perform rituals at the Islamic holy site, but Muslims confronted them by loudly shouting religious slogans.
Meanwhile, several Palestinian women, whose names are on police blacklists, rallied outside the Mosque's gates and recited verses from the holy Qur'an after they were prevented from entering the Islamic holy shrine.
Local sources said that settlers escorted by special police forces entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba gate in groups and toured its courtyards, which provoked angry verbal reactions from Muslim worshipers there.
Some settlers tried to perform rituals at the Islamic holy site, but Muslims confronted them by loudly shouting religious slogans.
Meanwhile, several Palestinian women, whose names are on police blacklists, rallied outside the Mosque's gates and recited verses from the holy Qur'an after they were prevented from entering the Islamic holy shrine.
Israeli extremist settlers, escorted by army troops, attacked overnight Sunday Palestinian family homes in the southern occupied West Bank province of al-Khalil.
A PIC journalist said the settlers hurled empty bottles and stones at civilian homes in the presence of the Israeli occupation army.
Palestinian protesters responded by throwing stones near the Israeli illegal settlement of Kiryat Arbaa.
Heavily-armed occupation soldiers chased down the Palestinian protesters at the same time as they provided the Israeli assailants with a tight security shield.
Meanwhile, an Israeli court had ruled for acquitting one of the Israeli extremist settlers accused of involvement in the notorious arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabsheh family, which burned 18-month-old Ali to death and took away the lives of his parents Saad and Riham shortly afterwards.
In a related development, Israeli fanatics sprayed on Saturday evening racist graffiti reading “death to Muslims” on the Teddy Stadium walls, in Occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli occupation police claimed they arrested six Israeli fanatics, in their 16’s, who were suspected of spraying the graffiti.
A PIC journalist said the settlers hurled empty bottles and stones at civilian homes in the presence of the Israeli occupation army.
Palestinian protesters responded by throwing stones near the Israeli illegal settlement of Kiryat Arbaa.
Heavily-armed occupation soldiers chased down the Palestinian protesters at the same time as they provided the Israeli assailants with a tight security shield.
Meanwhile, an Israeli court had ruled for acquitting one of the Israeli extremist settlers accused of involvement in the notorious arson attack on the Palestinian Dawabsheh family, which burned 18-month-old Ali to death and took away the lives of his parents Saad and Riham shortly afterwards.
In a related development, Israeli fanatics sprayed on Saturday evening racist graffiti reading “death to Muslims” on the Teddy Stadium walls, in Occupied Jerusalem. The Israeli occupation police claimed they arrested six Israeli fanatics, in their 16’s, who were suspected of spraying the graffiti.
Israeli settlers seized 100 dunums of Palestinian lands in al-Awja town, in Jericho, the Palestinian Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs reported Saturday.
Minister of Endowment and Religious Affairs, Sheikh Youssef Id’is, said the targeted land lots are Palestinian Awqaf (endowment property) leased to agricultural investors and that hundreds of palms have been grown in the area.
He said the misappropriation of the lands makes part of an Israeli scheme to destabilize Palestinian economy and displace Palestinian natives from their own lands in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
“The land just makes part and parcel of who we, Palestinians, are. We are nationally, ethically and historically responsible for protecting our land,” said Id’is.
He called on Arabs and Muslims everywhere across the globe to speak up for Palestinians’ land rights and boost their resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation.
Minister of Endowment and Religious Affairs, Sheikh Youssef Id’is, said the targeted land lots are Palestinian Awqaf (endowment property) leased to agricultural investors and that hundreds of palms have been grown in the area.
He said the misappropriation of the lands makes part of an Israeli scheme to destabilize Palestinian economy and displace Palestinian natives from their own lands in favor of illegal settlement expansion.
“The land just makes part and parcel of who we, Palestinians, are. We are nationally, ethically and historically responsible for protecting our land,” said Id’is.
He called on Arabs and Muslims everywhere across the globe to speak up for Palestinians’ land rights and boost their resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation.
