[ 12/03/2010 - 03:39 PM ]
Bashed on the head for attempting to attend the Friday prayers at the Aqsa Mosque
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- IOF troops closed on Friday the gates leading to the Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem, allowing through only men over 50 years of age.
Only a few hundred out of around 30,000 worshipers managed to reach the Aqsa Mosque for the Friday noon prayers, this is not taking account of worshipers from the rest of the West Bank who could not enter Jerusalem.
At Bab al-Amoud, a young man was beaten by IOF troops because he argued with them when they stopped him from entering the gate on his way to the Mosque. The beating resulted in head injuries and he was taken to hospital, according to local sources.
Eyewitnesses said that IOF troops confiscated ID cards at the gates of the Aqsa Mosque compound causing worshipers to scuffle with the IOF troops. The scuffles developed into confrontations between the worshipers who were not allowed in and the IOF troops, especially at the gates of Asbat, Hitta and Saherah. The clashes resulted in a number of casualties amongst the worshipers.
Locals also said that a number of worshipers sustained injuries at Hitta gate when IOF troops physically assaulted them with truncheons.
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation police declared that an operations room was setup at the Buraq wall police station under the direct supervision of the commander of the Jerusalem brigade Major-General Aharon Franco.
The Israeli occupation police also used a surveillance balloon as well as helicopters over the old city.
Israeli radio had announced that the Israeli police will only allow those who are over fifty with blue ID cards (Jerusalem residents) to enter the Mosque.
[ 12/03/2010 - 05:53 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Tens of thousands of people participated in demonstrations in the Gaza Strip in support of Islamic holy places coming under Israeli occupation attack in the West Bank.
In Gaza city worshipers took to the streets from various mosques after the Friday prayers and converged on the Palestinian Legislative Council square in the city.
Member of the Hamas political bureau, Dr. Khalil al-Hayya, said that today's rally was unique because all Palestinian factions participated in it including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Struggle Front, Saeka, General Command, Popular Resistance Committees and others.
He stressed that the rally was an expression of unity in support of holy places and said that Palestinian factions have more in common than differences, pointing out that the demonstrators chose to raise the Palestinian flag rather than any factional flags.
"It is not strange to see such unity in support of holy places. We have come out to demonstrate united raising the Palestinian flag to say that there is more to unite us than to divide us and that our holy places, our refugees, our state, our nation everywhere embody the cause, hope, unity and return God willing," said Hayya.
He criticised the return of Fatah to negotiations asking who are they negotiating on behalf when they are isolated from their people and their concerns?
He pointed out the Israelis are using Fatah's return to negotiations as cover for the Judaization of Jerusalem and accelerated settlement expansion in the West Bank.
He called on the Palestinian people to rise up in the face of Israeli attempts to Judaize Islamic holy places.
He called on Fatah to free resistance fighters of all Palestinian factions in the West Bank and called for unity on the option of resistance until liberation.
Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad leader, Muhammad al-Hindi, called for holding to the option of resistance and unity to face Israeli occupation schemes.
[ 12/03/2010 - 09:05 PM ]
CAIRO, (PIC)-- Egyptian police arrested around fifty members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in five districts as they participated in demonstrations in support of the Aqsa Mosque after the Friday prayers.
The Muslim Brotherhood called for demonstrations after the Friday prayers in support of the Aqsa and to protest the Israeli occupation decision to include the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-khalil and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem on the list of Jewish heritage sites.
The demonstrators condemned the Israeli occupation measures and the official Arab silence towards those measures.
The Muslim Brotherhood's lawyer, Salah Abdel-Maqsud, said in a statement published by the Muslim Brotherhood website that a number of those arrested were ex-members of the Egyptian People's Council and that the arrests targeted persons likely to run for election the Shura Council (second chamber of the Egyptian parliament) slated for next May.
[ 12/03/2010 - 09:52 PM ]
AMMAN, (PIC)-- Thousands of Jordanians participated in a huge rally in support of the Aqsa Mosque and other holy places which was organised by the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan.
The rally was held at the border with Palestine near the tomb of the renown companion of Prophet Mushammad (SAWS), Abu Obeida Amer Ben al-Jarrah.
Participants called on Arab and Islamic countries to move fast to save the Aqsa Mosque warning that silence encourages the Israeli occupation to carry out its schemes against the Aqsa Mosque and expand the settlements.
Dr. Hammam Said, the leader of the MB called on the Muslim masses to defend the Aqsa Mosque.
He rejected the return to negotiations with the Israeli occupation because such negotiations only serve to give the occupation cover to continue with its Judaization of Jerusalem and stressed that the language of force alone can give results, restore rights and protect holy places.
He condemned the stand of the US Vice president Joe Biden for being biased against Arab and Islamic rights.
He called on religious scholars to lead the people in the battle of liberating the Aqsa Mosque and called on Islamic and Arab regimes to stand in the face of systematic Zionist Judaization measures.
Sheikh Hamza Mansour, chairman of the Shura council of the Islamic Action Front, called on the Jordanian government to close down the Israeli embassy in Amman and renounce the Wadi Araba Accord.
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