27 mar 2016
Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, secretary-general of the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem, has warned that Israel's plan to build a complex called "Kedem – City of David," will be the most dangerous Judaization project threatening Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque.
In a statement to Quds Press, Sheikh Tamimi said that Israel's approval of this project is part of its schemes aimed at Judaizing the entirety of Jerusalem and obliterating its Arab and Islamic landmarks, pointing out that Israel started to prepare for the building of Kedem complex years ago.
He expressed his belief that the absence of any Arab or Islamic role in carrying out projects in Jerusalem encouraged Israel to launch its project Kedem. The Israeli national council for planning and building recently approved a plan, which had been submitted by the settler group Elad, to build a complex called "the Kedem project- City of David- Old City of Jerusalem" at the main entrances of Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan district near the Aqsa Mosque.
Elad's Kedem center will become the largest Jewish tourist center in the holy city, marketing its religious and nationalist ideology to hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. The project will include Elad's offices, stores, a museum named the "shrine of the bible," a stop for cable cars and parking lots.
In a statement to Quds Press, Sheikh Tamimi said that Israel's approval of this project is part of its schemes aimed at Judaizing the entirety of Jerusalem and obliterating its Arab and Islamic landmarks, pointing out that Israel started to prepare for the building of Kedem complex years ago.
He expressed his belief that the absence of any Arab or Islamic role in carrying out projects in Jerusalem encouraged Israel to launch its project Kedem. The Israeli national council for planning and building recently approved a plan, which had been submitted by the settler group Elad, to build a complex called "the Kedem project- City of David- Old City of Jerusalem" at the main entrances of Wadi Hilweh neighborhood in Silwan district near the Aqsa Mosque.
Elad's Kedem center will become the largest Jewish tourist center in the holy city, marketing its religious and nationalist ideology to hundreds of thousands of visitors per year. The project will include Elad's offices, stores, a museum named the "shrine of the bible," a stop for cable cars and parking lots.
26 mar 2016
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Israeli settlers on Friday gathered outside the home of a human rights worker in Hebron to hurl abuse at him, a day after he captured on camera an Israeli soldier's killing of a wounded Palestinian that has sparked international outcry.
Emad Abu Shamsiya, a staff member with Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, told Ma’an after settlers threatened him: “I now fear for my life and the life of my family. I’m afraid they might attack my house and do me harm.” He added that he fears the possibility of suffering the same fate as the Dawabsha family, who wasere killed in an arson attack committed by settlers last year in the village of Duma in the occupied West Bank. |
Palestinian residents of Hebron Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif and Ramzi Aziz al-Qasrawi, both 21 years old, were shot down Thursday after allegedly stabbing and moderately wounding an Israeli soldier near a military checkpoint in Hebron’s Old City.
Shamsiya recorded rare video footage of an Israeli soldier shooting al-Sharif in the head at point-blank range in plain view of the medical team after he had already been shot at least once and left motionless on the ground.
The incident has brought a barrage of condemnations from the Israeli leadership and led Israel's army to detain the soldier responsible and launch an investigation.
The release of the graphic video has called attention to what rights groups, international leaders, and Palestinian officials call a policy of "extrajudicial executions" by Israel against Palestinians, since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel last October.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said Friday he strongly condemned the apparent "extrajudicial execution" of al-Sharif.
"This was a gruesome, immoral, and unjust act that can only fuel more violence and escalate an already volatile situation," Mladenov said.
Tel Rumeida -- where Shamsiya’s house is located and the site of the Thursday’s incident -- has long been a flashpoint for tensions between Palestinians and Israeli settlers and military, and is location to an illegal Israeli settlement.
Mistreatment of Palestinians in the Hebron area has been common since the city was divided in the 1990s after a US-born settler, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 Palestinians inside the Ibrahimi Mosque.
The majority of the city was placed under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, while the Old City and surrounding areas were placed under Israeli military control in a sector known as H2.
The area is home to 30,000 Palestinians and around 800 Israeli settlers who live under the protection of Israeli forces. Hebron residents frequently report attacks and harassment by the settlers carried out in the presence of the forces.
Shamsiya recorded rare video footage of an Israeli soldier shooting al-Sharif in the head at point-blank range in plain view of the medical team after he had already been shot at least once and left motionless on the ground.
The incident has brought a barrage of condemnations from the Israeli leadership and led Israel's army to detain the soldier responsible and launch an investigation.
The release of the graphic video has called attention to what rights groups, international leaders, and Palestinian officials call a policy of "extrajudicial executions" by Israel against Palestinians, since a wave of unrest swept the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel last October.
UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said Friday he strongly condemned the apparent "extrajudicial execution" of al-Sharif.
"This was a gruesome, immoral, and unjust act that can only fuel more violence and escalate an already volatile situation," Mladenov said.
Tel Rumeida -- where Shamsiya’s house is located and the site of the Thursday’s incident -- has long been a flashpoint for tensions between Palestinians and Israeli settlers and military, and is location to an illegal Israeli settlement.
Mistreatment of Palestinians in the Hebron area has been common since the city was divided in the 1990s after a US-born settler, Baruch Goldstein, massacred 29 Palestinians inside the Ibrahimi Mosque.
The majority of the city was placed under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, while the Old City and surrounding areas were placed under Israeli military control in a sector known as H2.
The area is home to 30,000 Palestinians and around 800 Israeli settlers who live under the protection of Israeli forces. Hebron residents frequently report attacks and harassment by the settlers carried out in the presence of the forces.
24 mar 2016
Israeli military restrictions on Palestinian worshipers’ movement did not succeed to prevent their entry into al-Aqsa Mosque.
Jerusalem Media Center said that large numbers of Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem and within the Green Line managed on Thursday morning to enter the compound despite the Israeli forces’ tight restrictions in the surrounding areas.
Palestinian worshipers’ identity cards were confiscated at the entrances to the Mosque, the center pointed out.
The Israeli restrictions came to allow settlers’ break-ins into the holy shrine during the Jewish holiday of Purim, he explained.
Nearly 37 settlers stormed the compound early this morning via al-Magharibeh gate under Israeli forces’ protection, which led to a state of tension among the worshipers.
Extremist right-wing Israeli groups have earlier called for storming al-Aqsa Mosque during Purim wearing masks traditionally worn during the holiday. Israeli police declared that a security cordon will be imposed on the West Bank during Purim holiday starting from Thursday till Saturday.
Jerusalem Media Center said that large numbers of Palestinians from occupied Jerusalem and within the Green Line managed on Thursday morning to enter the compound despite the Israeli forces’ tight restrictions in the surrounding areas.
Palestinian worshipers’ identity cards were confiscated at the entrances to the Mosque, the center pointed out.
The Israeli restrictions came to allow settlers’ break-ins into the holy shrine during the Jewish holiday of Purim, he explained.
Nearly 37 settlers stormed the compound early this morning via al-Magharibeh gate under Israeli forces’ protection, which led to a state of tension among the worshipers.
Extremist right-wing Israeli groups have earlier called for storming al-Aqsa Mosque during Purim wearing masks traditionally worn during the holiday. Israeli police declared that a security cordon will be imposed on the West Bank during Purim holiday starting from Thursday till Saturday.
A group of Jewish settlers escorted by Israeli soldiers stormed at dawn Thursday Kifl Haris town, north of Salfit city, and performed rituals at Islamic sites.
Local sources said that scores of extremist settlers entered the town aboard cars under military protection and performed Talmudic rituals at Islamic historical shrines.
Consequently, local young men clashed with the invading troops and threw them with stones and empty bottles.
Local sources said that scores of extremist settlers entered the town aboard cars under military protection and performed Talmudic rituals at Islamic historical shrines.
Consequently, local young men clashed with the invading troops and threw them with stones and empty bottles.
23 mar 2016
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The Israeli “Regional Planning and Construction Council” approved, on Wednesday, the so-called “Kedem – City of David” colonialist project that would be undertaken at the main entrances of the Wadi Hilweh Palestinian neighborhood, in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center, in Silwan (Silwanic), said the approval came during a brief meeting held on Tuesday. It added that Palestinians from Wadi Hilweh attended the session, but had to withdraw after being constantly interrupted whenever they testified about the devastating outcome of such a project occurring on their lands. The residents also complained that they were denied the right to Arabic interpretation during the council meeting. Lawyer Sami Ersheid said that the Regional Council denied, Tuesday, all |
appeals filed against the Kedem project, and canceled the 2014 decision of the “Appeals Committee” of the “Higher Planning Council,” to completely void the project.
Ersheid added that the decision of the Appeals Council was very brief, barely two pages, in which it voided the 140-page decision of the appeals committee, issued in June of 2014, and never provided any justification for the legal, planning and construction reasons that pushed it for approval in the first place.
“The hearing at the Regional Council meeting demanding discussing all appeals against the project in just four hours, this is not enough because each section of the project needs at least 15 minutes”, Ersheid said, “Such deliberations in the previous session lasted for two days, each day for eight hours.”
He added that Wadi Hilweh residents, Ir Amim and Emek Shaveh organizations, along with several Israeli academics, have all filed appeals against the 2014 decision of the Regional Committee approving the project in 2014, and that the entire colonialist project was voided by the Appeals Committee in 2015.
“The decision of the Regional Committee is merely political,” he stated, “it is not legal, it was pushed by pressures from the higher political leadership; the Regional Council was just talking about the touristic importance of this project, and completely ignoring the harm and suffering that would be inflicted on the Palestinians in Silwan. We will file appeals and demand voiding the Regional Council’s decision; we will demand approving the decision of the Appeals Committee.”
He also stated that Israel wants to build a six-story building on 12.000 square/meters, for the use of the Israeli archeology department, in addition to a conference hall, educations rooms, parking lots for tourists and settlements, commercial stores, and offices run by the Elad colonialist organization, largely funded by millionaires from the United States.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center and Committee issues a joint statement denouncing the approval of the colonialist project, originally submitted by Elad, and said that this approval just goes to serve the illegitimate plans in replacing the indigenous Palestinians with colonialist settlers, and colonialist projects.
They said that the approval of this project, originally voided nine months ago, “came in a racist session, that was merely for show,” and denied the residents the right to present their case, or to present the devastating outcome of this colonialist project.
They added that its approval will be the gateway for the addition of many more colonialist projects on Palestinian lands in Silwan, and demanded the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to immediately intervene, especially since this project aims at destroying Arab and Palestinian heritage and archeology, and demanded the International Community to act in helping the residents to counter this illegal project.
The “Kedem” project aims at the illegal annexation of large areas of lands in Wadi Hilweh -- lands that, until Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967 -- were used for agriculture, before Israel illegally confiscated them, demolished a room owned by the Abda family, and turned the grounds into a parking lot.
In 2003, the Elad colonialist organization managed to gain control over the lands, and started planning before actually digging in al-Magharba Square, in addition to destroying Ottoman, Byzantine and Roman sites, and left just a few of them as an “archeological proof of the second temple.”
Ersheid added that the decision of the Appeals Council was very brief, barely two pages, in which it voided the 140-page decision of the appeals committee, issued in June of 2014, and never provided any justification for the legal, planning and construction reasons that pushed it for approval in the first place.
“The hearing at the Regional Council meeting demanding discussing all appeals against the project in just four hours, this is not enough because each section of the project needs at least 15 minutes”, Ersheid said, “Such deliberations in the previous session lasted for two days, each day for eight hours.”
He added that Wadi Hilweh residents, Ir Amim and Emek Shaveh organizations, along with several Israeli academics, have all filed appeals against the 2014 decision of the Regional Committee approving the project in 2014, and that the entire colonialist project was voided by the Appeals Committee in 2015.
“The decision of the Regional Committee is merely political,” he stated, “it is not legal, it was pushed by pressures from the higher political leadership; the Regional Council was just talking about the touristic importance of this project, and completely ignoring the harm and suffering that would be inflicted on the Palestinians in Silwan. We will file appeals and demand voiding the Regional Council’s decision; we will demand approving the decision of the Appeals Committee.”
He also stated that Israel wants to build a six-story building on 12.000 square/meters, for the use of the Israeli archeology department, in addition to a conference hall, educations rooms, parking lots for tourists and settlements, commercial stores, and offices run by the Elad colonialist organization, largely funded by millionaires from the United States.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center and Committee issues a joint statement denouncing the approval of the colonialist project, originally submitted by Elad, and said that this approval just goes to serve the illegitimate plans in replacing the indigenous Palestinians with colonialist settlers, and colonialist projects.
They said that the approval of this project, originally voided nine months ago, “came in a racist session, that was merely for show,” and denied the residents the right to present their case, or to present the devastating outcome of this colonialist project.
They added that its approval will be the gateway for the addition of many more colonialist projects on Palestinian lands in Silwan, and demanded the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to immediately intervene, especially since this project aims at destroying Arab and Palestinian heritage and archeology, and demanded the International Community to act in helping the residents to counter this illegal project.
The “Kedem” project aims at the illegal annexation of large areas of lands in Wadi Hilweh -- lands that, until Israel annexed East Jerusalem in 1967 -- were used for agriculture, before Israel illegally confiscated them, demolished a room owned by the Abda family, and turned the grounds into a parking lot.
In 2003, the Elad colonialist organization managed to gain control over the lands, and started planning before actually digging in al-Magharba Square, in addition to destroying Ottoman, Byzantine and Roman sites, and left just a few of them as an “archeological proof of the second temple.”
Hundreds of Israelis, including large numbers of settlers, converged on religious sites across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday morning ahead of the Jewish holiday of Purim, in visits Palestinians condemned as "provocative."
In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli settlers as well as other right-wing Israelis held celebrations in the Old City's Ibrahimi Mosque.
Locals told Ma'an that during the celebrations, which began late Tuesday, the settlers "provocatively" used the mosque's loudspeakers "to sing racist songs that call for the expulsion of 'Arabs' from Hebron."
The settlers were under the heavy protection of Israeli forces, who closed off the premises, preventing Palestinians from entering the mosque, and restricted access to the surrounding area.
Some Israeli media sites reported that as many 7,000 Israelis celebrated at the holy site, known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
The site has long been a flashpoint, and was split into a synagogue and a mosque following a 1994 attack by an Israeli settler who opened fire on Muslim worshipers, killing 29 and injuring more than 100 Palestinians.
Separately on Wednesday, clashes broke out as hundreds of Israelis, including settlers, visited Joseph's Tomb near Balata refugee camp east of Nablus under military escort, Palestinian security sources said.
As many as 500 Israelis arrived in 10 buses at the holy site at dawn, the sources told Ma'an.
Large numbers of Israeli forces accompanied the Israelis to the site, and clashes quickly erupted, with local youths from Balata hurling stones at Israeli military jeeps, and soldiers firing tear gas canisters in return.
A number of protesters reportedly suffered excessive tear gas inhalation, although no other injuries were reported.
An Israeli army spokesperson had no immediate information on the reports.
Joseph's Tomb -- revered by Jews, Muslims, Christians and Samaritans -- is the site of regular visits by Israelis, who are escorted by Israeli military forces to the area, often leading to clashes with local Palestinians.
Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, Joseph's Tomb was to remain under Israeli control, but the Palestinian Authority took over the site after the Israeli army withdrew during the Second Intifada.
As part of security cooperation with the PA, the Israeli army allows Jewish worshipers to make monthly pilgrimages to the site.
The Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the Biblical account of the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an ancient Persian vizier, begins Wednesday evening and ends late Thursday.
Israeli forces have put in place stringent restrictions on Palestinians' movement ahead of the holiday.
In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli settlers as well as other right-wing Israelis held celebrations in the Old City's Ibrahimi Mosque.
Locals told Ma'an that during the celebrations, which began late Tuesday, the settlers "provocatively" used the mosque's loudspeakers "to sing racist songs that call for the expulsion of 'Arabs' from Hebron."
The settlers were under the heavy protection of Israeli forces, who closed off the premises, preventing Palestinians from entering the mosque, and restricted access to the surrounding area.
Some Israeli media sites reported that as many 7,000 Israelis celebrated at the holy site, known to Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
The site has long been a flashpoint, and was split into a synagogue and a mosque following a 1994 attack by an Israeli settler who opened fire on Muslim worshipers, killing 29 and injuring more than 100 Palestinians.
Separately on Wednesday, clashes broke out as hundreds of Israelis, including settlers, visited Joseph's Tomb near Balata refugee camp east of Nablus under military escort, Palestinian security sources said.
As many as 500 Israelis arrived in 10 buses at the holy site at dawn, the sources told Ma'an.
Large numbers of Israeli forces accompanied the Israelis to the site, and clashes quickly erupted, with local youths from Balata hurling stones at Israeli military jeeps, and soldiers firing tear gas canisters in return.
A number of protesters reportedly suffered excessive tear gas inhalation, although no other injuries were reported.
An Israeli army spokesperson had no immediate information on the reports.
Joseph's Tomb -- revered by Jews, Muslims, Christians and Samaritans -- is the site of regular visits by Israelis, who are escorted by Israeli military forces to the area, often leading to clashes with local Palestinians.
Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, Joseph's Tomb was to remain under Israeli control, but the Palestinian Authority took over the site after the Israeli army withdrew during the Second Intifada.
As part of security cooperation with the PA, the Israeli army allows Jewish worshipers to make monthly pilgrimages to the site.
The Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the Biblical account of the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, an ancient Persian vizier, begins Wednesday evening and ends late Thursday.
Israeli forces have put in place stringent restrictions on Palestinians' movement ahead of the holiday.
22 mar 2016
Two Palestinian citizens from Burin town north of Nablus suffered different injuries and bruises on Tuesday after being attacked by a group of settlers.
Local activist Ghassan Daghlas said that a number of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian citizen Ayman Sufan, inflicting different injuries on him.
The settlers had then attacked a group of Palestinian shepherds in the area, injuring one of them. The incidents of settler violence are recently carried out almost on a daily basis against Palestinian civilians and their property with impunity.
Local activist Ghassan Daghlas said that a number of Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian citizen Ayman Sufan, inflicting different injuries on him.
The settlers had then attacked a group of Palestinian shepherds in the area, injuring one of them. The incidents of settler violence are recently carried out almost on a daily basis against Palestinian civilians and their property with impunity.
Israeli fanatic settlers and intelligence officers stormed on early Tuesday morning the holy al-Aqsa Mosque, sparking tension across Occupied Jerusalem.
According to local sources, hordes of Israeli extremist settlers and intelligence officers defiled the plazas of the holy Mosque.
The peaceful Muslim sit-inners kept chanting Allah is the Greatest in protest at the sacrilegious break-in. Israeli police troops and special forces escorted the Israeli fanatics all the way through the incursion.
Israeli break-ins at al-Aqsa place of worship —the third holiest site in Islam— have fanned the flames of the ongoing anti-occupation intifada, which started in early October.
According to local sources, hordes of Israeli extremist settlers and intelligence officers defiled the plazas of the holy Mosque.
The peaceful Muslim sit-inners kept chanting Allah is the Greatest in protest at the sacrilegious break-in. Israeli police troops and special forces escorted the Israeli fanatics all the way through the incursion.
Israeli break-ins at al-Aqsa place of worship —the third holiest site in Islam— have fanned the flames of the ongoing anti-occupation intifada, which started in early October.
A statistical report issued by Quds Press revealed that over 700 Jewish settlers stormed the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque since the beginning of March.
Quds Press pointed out that Israeli police provide settlers, who break into the Aqsa’s courtyards, with protection during their repeated incursions into the Muslims’ holy site and allow them to conduct Talmudic rituals at the Mosque.
On the other hand, Israeli police bar 50 Palestinian women and 5 men from accessing the Aqsa Mosque and performing prayers in it.
Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs of Jordan Hayel Daoud declared on Saturday that the ministry will set up 55 surveillance cameras at the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque in order to document and expose Israeli violations.
Meanwhile, groups of Israeli settlers called for massive incursions into the Aqsa Mosque next Wednesday and Thursday to mark the Jewish Purim festival.
Quds Press pointed out that Israeli police provide settlers, who break into the Aqsa’s courtyards, with protection during their repeated incursions into the Muslims’ holy site and allow them to conduct Talmudic rituals at the Mosque.
On the other hand, Israeli police bar 50 Palestinian women and 5 men from accessing the Aqsa Mosque and performing prayers in it.
Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs of Jordan Hayel Daoud declared on Saturday that the ministry will set up 55 surveillance cameras at the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque in order to document and expose Israeli violations.
Meanwhile, groups of Israeli settlers called for massive incursions into the Aqsa Mosque next Wednesday and Thursday to mark the Jewish Purim festival.
21 mar 2016
The Jewish agency was able recently to bring to Israel 19 Yemenite Jews in a covert rescue mission carried out in cooperation with the US department of state.
According to different Israeli news reports, the US department of state helped the Jewish immigrants travel from Yemen to another country before they were flown to Israel.
Israel's channel 2 said that some of the Yemenite Jews brought with them ancient manuscripts, including a copy of the Torah book written 800 years ago.
Nearly 50,000 Jews were brought over from Yemen in 1949 and 1950 in a secret operation known as Operation Magic Carpet.
According to different Israeli news reports, the US department of state helped the Jewish immigrants travel from Yemen to another country before they were flown to Israel.
Israel's channel 2 said that some of the Yemenite Jews brought with them ancient manuscripts, including a copy of the Torah book written 800 years ago.
Nearly 50,000 Jews were brought over from Yemen in 1949 and 1950 in a secret operation known as Operation Magic Carpet.
Robert Piper, United Nations Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance in the occupied Palestinian territories, on Sunday denounced the arson attack on the home of the key witness in a notorious triple-murder crime in Duma.
“I strongly condemn today’s arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists on the home of Palestinian Ibrahim Dawabsheh in the occupied West Bank village of Duma,” he said.
In his statement, Piper maintained that Dawabsheh was the sole witness to the lethal July 2015 arson attack, which killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents, Saad and Riham.
“This violent act could easily have resulted in a more tragic outcome, as did the heinous terrorist attack last July on the home of Mr. Dawabsheh’s relatives in the same village,” he said, urging the Israeli occupation authority to launch an immediate probe into the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Israeli suspects on Sunday overnight burned down the home of Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the key-witness to the notorious Duma arson attack. 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.
“I strongly condemn today’s arson attack by suspected Jewish extremists on the home of Palestinian Ibrahim Dawabsheh in the occupied West Bank village of Duma,” he said.
In his statement, Piper maintained that Dawabsheh was the sole witness to the lethal July 2015 arson attack, which killed 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh and his parents, Saad and Riham.
“This violent act could easily have resulted in a more tragic outcome, as did the heinous terrorist attack last July on the home of Mr. Dawabsheh’s relatives in the same village,” he said, urging the Israeli occupation authority to launch an immediate probe into the crime and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Israeli suspects on Sunday overnight burned down the home of Ibrahim Dawabsheh, the key-witness to the notorious Duma arson attack. 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.
Israeli extremist settlers headed by fanatic rabbi Yehuda Glick stormed on early Monday morning Muslims’ the holy al-Aqsa Mosque, in Occupied Jerusalem, under a tight security shield.
Eyewitnesses said Glick and a horde of extremist settlers broke into the Mosque at 7.30 a.m. via the Maghareba Gate and defiled its plazas.
Israeli occupation police and rapid intervention troops escorted the Israeli fanatics all the way through the assault. The Israeli occupation troops cracked down on the peaceful Muslim worshipers who kept chanting “Allah is the Greatest” in protest at the break-in.
Israeli sacrilegious break-ins at al-Aqsa —the third holiest site in Islam— have fanned the flames of the ongoing anti-occupation intifada, which started in early October.
Eyewitnesses said Glick and a horde of extremist settlers broke into the Mosque at 7.30 a.m. via the Maghareba Gate and defiled its plazas.
Israeli occupation police and rapid intervention troops escorted the Israeli fanatics all the way through the assault. The Israeli occupation troops cracked down on the peaceful Muslim worshipers who kept chanting “Allah is the Greatest” in protest at the break-in.
Israeli sacrilegious break-ins at al-Aqsa —the third holiest site in Islam— have fanned the flames of the ongoing anti-occupation intifada, which started in early October.
