Abbas refuses emergency Arab meeting on Aqsa
[ 06/10/2009 - 04:42 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office as PA chief had expired last January, has rejected the idea of calling for an emergency Arab meeting to discuss the Israeli storming of the Aqsa and the resultant confrontations, well informed Palestinian sources revealed.
Egyptian daily Al-Shuruq on Tuesday quoted the sources as saying that Abbas does not wish to hear Arab criticism over his recent decision to postpone the UN human rights council's voting on the report condemning Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Almost all Palestinian factions and institutions had opposed Abbas's request to defer the voting till March 2010 while the Arab league and Syria expressed regret over such a step.
Thousands of Turks demonstrate against Israeli attempt to storm the Aqsa
[ 06/10/2009 - 09:51 AM ]
ISTANBUL, (PIC)-- Thousands of Turkish people demonstrated on Monday in Istanbul's Taksim square denouncing the Israeli repeated attempts to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
The demonstrators chanted pro Palestinian resistance slogans and hoisted photos of Hamas's martyred leaders and burnt Israeli flags.
Bulunt Yildirim, the head of the Turkish relief society IHH, delivered a statement on behalf of the Turkish civil institutions that organized the rally warning of any attempt to harm the Aqsa Mosque.
He urged the Turkish masses to express solidarity with the Palestinians holding an open-ended vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque to protect it from Israeli settlers' attempts to invade the holy site under the protection of Israeli forces.
Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque are the responsibility of all Muslims, he said, asking the Turkish leadership to adopt an official stance against what is happening in the Aqsa Mosque.
Yildirim said that any attack on the Aqsa should be dealt with as an attack on Turkish lands.
He also asked the organization of Islamic conference (OIC) to immediately act before the Aqsa is demolished at the hands of the Israelis, and called for an emergency OIC meeting to adopt decisions deterring the Israelis from tampering with the first Qibla (direction of prayers) for Muslims and the third holiest shrine in Islam.
[ 06/10/2009 - 04:42 PM ]
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Mahmoud Abbas, whose term in office as PA chief had expired last January, has rejected the idea of calling for an emergency Arab meeting to discuss the Israeli storming of the Aqsa and the resultant confrontations, well informed Palestinian sources revealed.
Egyptian daily Al-Shuruq on Tuesday quoted the sources as saying that Abbas does not wish to hear Arab criticism over his recent decision to postpone the UN human rights council's voting on the report condemning Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Almost all Palestinian factions and institutions had opposed Abbas's request to defer the voting till March 2010 while the Arab league and Syria expressed regret over such a step.
Israeli police threaten to use force to quell Palestinians inside Aqsa Mosque
[ 06/10/2009 - 09:45 AM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian local sources said that the Israeli police at a late hour Monday demanded Palestinian worshipers holdin a vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque over loudspeakers to leave it within 15 minutes or else they would be forced out.
The sources said that a large number of Israeli troops and policemen surrounded the Mosque as a prelude to storming it.
The Palestinian worshipers contacted local radios and told them they prefer martyrdom in defense of the Aqsa Mosque to surrendering to the Israeli police.
In a later development, the Israeli police started to interfere with the communications inside the Mosque to prevent the besieged Palestinians inside from conveying the truth of Israeli attacks to the media.
Earlier in the evening, Israeli troops tried to kidnap one of the Palestinian worshipers who got wounded during clashes with them, but the worshipers succeeded in transferring him into the Mosque, while medical crews are still not allowed to get near the Mosque to evacuate the wounded.
Other clashes reportedly broke out on the same day in Al-Amud gate, Shu’fat refugee camp, the neighborhoods of Attur, Sawanah and Ras Al-Amud as well as Qalandia checkpoint which resulted in the injury of five Palestinians and the kidnapping of two others.
In the morning, Israeli troops closed the Arab neighborhoods near the Aqsa Mosque and prevented Palestinians from going to the Aqsa Mosque to perform their daily prayers.
The Israeli police, for its part, declared they would intensify the presence of troops on Tuesday throughout the occupied city of Jerusalem to enable Jewish settlers to celebrate their week-long holiday of Sukkot.
In a related context, first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar held on Monday the Arab leaders religiously, historically and politically responsible for the Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem.
“Jerusalem is not only for the Palestinians, but for the Arab and Muslim nations, so they have to rise to defend the Aqsa Mosque with their souls and blood until it is liberated,” Bahar emphasized during the special session held on Monday in Gaza city.
[ 06/10/2009 - 09:45 AM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Palestinian local sources said that the Israeli police at a late hour Monday demanded Palestinian worshipers holdin a vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque over loudspeakers to leave it within 15 minutes or else they would be forced out.
The sources said that a large number of Israeli troops and policemen surrounded the Mosque as a prelude to storming it.
The Palestinian worshipers contacted local radios and told them they prefer martyrdom in defense of the Aqsa Mosque to surrendering to the Israeli police.
In a later development, the Israeli police started to interfere with the communications inside the Mosque to prevent the besieged Palestinians inside from conveying the truth of Israeli attacks to the media.
Earlier in the evening, Israeli troops tried to kidnap one of the Palestinian worshipers who got wounded during clashes with them, but the worshipers succeeded in transferring him into the Mosque, while medical crews are still not allowed to get near the Mosque to evacuate the wounded.
Other clashes reportedly broke out on the same day in Al-Amud gate, Shu’fat refugee camp, the neighborhoods of Attur, Sawanah and Ras Al-Amud as well as Qalandia checkpoint which resulted in the injury of five Palestinians and the kidnapping of two others.
In the morning, Israeli troops closed the Arab neighborhoods near the Aqsa Mosque and prevented Palestinians from going to the Aqsa Mosque to perform their daily prayers.
The Israeli police, for its part, declared they would intensify the presence of troops on Tuesday throughout the occupied city of Jerusalem to enable Jewish settlers to celebrate their week-long holiday of Sukkot.
In a related context, first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council Dr. Ahmed Bahar held on Monday the Arab leaders religiously, historically and politically responsible for the Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem.
“Jerusalem is not only for the Palestinians, but for the Arab and Muslim nations, so they have to rise to defend the Aqsa Mosque with their souls and blood until it is liberated,” Bahar emphasized during the special session held on Monday in Gaza city.
Thousands of Turks demonstrate against Israeli attempt to storm the Aqsa
[ 06/10/2009 - 09:51 AM ]
ISTANBUL, (PIC)-- Thousands of Turkish people demonstrated on Monday in Istanbul's Taksim square denouncing the Israeli repeated attempts to storm the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.
The demonstrators chanted pro Palestinian resistance slogans and hoisted photos of Hamas's martyred leaders and burnt Israeli flags.
Bulunt Yildirim, the head of the Turkish relief society IHH, delivered a statement on behalf of the Turkish civil institutions that organized the rally warning of any attempt to harm the Aqsa Mosque.
He urged the Turkish masses to express solidarity with the Palestinians holding an open-ended vigil inside the Aqsa Mosque to protect it from Israeli settlers' attempts to invade the holy site under the protection of Israeli forces.
Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque are the responsibility of all Muslims, he said, asking the Turkish leadership to adopt an official stance against what is happening in the Aqsa Mosque.
Yildirim said that any attack on the Aqsa should be dealt with as an attack on Turkish lands.
He also asked the organization of Islamic conference (OIC) to immediately act before the Aqsa is demolished at the hands of the Israelis, and called for an emergency OIC meeting to adopt decisions deterring the Israelis from tampering with the first Qibla (direction of prayers) for Muslims and the third holiest shrine in Islam.
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