[ 20/12/2010 - 07:53 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Jerusalem District Planning and Construction Committee approved the construction of 130 new housing units between Gilo and Beit Safafa south of occupied Jerusalem.
Head of the national committee against the racist wall and settlement south of the West Bank Hassan Brejeh said that the demolition is part of the Israeli occupation authority's programmed policy in all Palestinian lands aimed at evicting the indigenous people and seizing their land.
In another development, Fanatic Jewish settlers in Nablus installed a huge menorah few kilometers south of the city in line with the IOA systematic Judaization policy.
[ 20/12/2010 - 08:20 PM ]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- President of Jerusalem's Aqsa Academy Najih Bakirat accused Israel of making deliberate changes to the historic city walls of Jerusalem when placing a stone from the alleged temple scene near the Sahira Gate.
Since the occupation in 1967, Israeli authorities have been trying to change the historic wall erected in the era of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Bakirat said.
“It began with planting trees and other plants around the wall, known as the 'wall garden'; then the wall turned into a tourist site.”
Often exploiting the wall, Israel opened for the first time in 400 years some of the openings near the Maghariba Gate. The wall had also been defaced in the Sharaf neighborhood with structures mounted over it.
Israel's violations went on the rise in 2000 when authorities passed a railway through one of the wall's gates, obstructing movement there. Bakirat considered the new move in placing the alleged temple stone on the wall an attempt at transforming the wall from an Arab, Islamic sanctuary into a false Jewish token of heritage before taking full control of it. He called attempts to decorate the wall with Israeli flags and banners forgery and Judaization.
“We will not stand by idly,” Bakirat said, wishing to get across three messages, the first to Israel to refrain from violating Islamic endowments, holy sites, and heritage; the second to UNESCO and other cultural organizations to reject Israel's transformation of hundreds of years of heritage; and the third to Arab and Muslim leaders to realize the assault being made against Jerusalem.
IOF troops destroy five shops in Al-Khalil, storm hospital in Bethlehem
[ 20/12/2010 - 07:51 PM ]
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) demolished five shops in the village of Baka'a east of Al-Khalil district on Monday at the pretext of being built without permit, local sources reported.
Sa'eed Jaber, the owner of the shops, said that he tabled many requests for building permits but the Israeli occupation authorities always turned them down, saying that they were too close to the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba.
The sources said that IOF soldiers cordoned off the entire area and blocked citizens from approaching before tearing down the shops.
The village is routinely targeted by Jewish settlers, who have occupied a number of its houses after expelling their inhabitants, locals said, recalling that the settlers had also uprooted tens of trees and damaged cultivated land lots other than installing a settlement outpost on part of the village land at the beginning of this year.
In a separate incident, IOF soldiers led by a number of officers on Sunday stormed a rehabilitation hospital in Beit Jala town, Bethlehem, and ordered tens of citizens not to enter the building after confiscating the IDs of some of them.
Local sources said that the soldiers broke into the emergency ward and asked the on-duty doctor to bring them records of all patients who received treatment in the ward since Friday night. The soldiers compared the names with a list they had.
The Hebrew radio, meanwhile, said that the IOF soldiers rounded up seven Palestinian in various West Bank areas at dawn Monday after searching their homes.
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