25 nov 2014
An Israeli court on Monday rejected a request filed by the defense lawyer for the early release of Palestinian prisoner Mutasem Raddad, who suffers from bowel cancer.
The Palestinian commission of detainees' and ex-detainees' affairs said that the court judge told prisoner Raddad that he would never give him a release verdict even if he neared death.
The medical condition of prisoner Raddad is considered the most serious in Israeli jails. He has been suffering since 2009 from bowel cancer causing him ongoing rectal bleeding and other resultant health problems.
Prisoner Raddad is serving a 20-year prison term in Hadarim jail.
The Palestinian commission of detainees' and ex-detainees' affairs said that the court judge told prisoner Raddad that he would never give him a release verdict even if he neared death.
The medical condition of prisoner Raddad is considered the most serious in Israeli jails. He has been suffering since 2009 from bowel cancer causing him ongoing rectal bleeding and other resultant health problems.
Prisoner Raddad is serving a 20-year prison term in Hadarim jail.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and occupied East Jerusalem, and moved them to a number of interrogation centers.
Israeli military sources said the soldiers have kidnapped a “Hamas member” in Beit Leqia town, and another Palestinian in Deir Abu Mashal town, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The sources said the army kidnapped another “Hamas member," in ‘Anata town, north of occupied East Jerusalem.
In addition, soldiers kidnapped Islam ‘Azzam an-Natsha, 20, after invading his home in ‘Anata town, in Jerusalem, and Siyam Mahmoud from the al-‘Eesawiyya town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem. A third Palestinian, who remained unidentified until the time of this repot, has also been kidnapped in the al-‘Eesawiyya.
In addition, soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian in Ethna town, west of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, and another Palestinian in Jericho city.
The army said all kidnapped Palestinians have been moved to a number of security centers for interrogation.
Also in Ethna, soldiers broke into and searched several homes, and interrogated dozens of residents while inspecting their ID cards.
The soldiers also closed the Iron Gate installed at the entrance of the al-Fawwar refugee camp, in Hebron, after alleging a settlement bus was attacked by a Molotov cocktail. The gate was closed at eight at night, Monday, and opened around 5 at dawn Tuesday.
Late on Monday at night, and on Tuesday at dawn, soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped ten Palestinians, including children and the secretary of Fateh movement.
Israeli military sources said the soldiers have kidnapped a “Hamas member” in Beit Leqia town, and another Palestinian in Deir Abu Mashal town, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The sources said the army kidnapped another “Hamas member," in ‘Anata town, north of occupied East Jerusalem.
In addition, soldiers kidnapped Islam ‘Azzam an-Natsha, 20, after invading his home in ‘Anata town, in Jerusalem, and Siyam Mahmoud from the al-‘Eesawiyya town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem. A third Palestinian, who remained unidentified until the time of this repot, has also been kidnapped in the al-‘Eesawiyya.
In addition, soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian in Ethna town, west of Hebron in the southern part of the West Bank, and another Palestinian in Jericho city.
The army said all kidnapped Palestinians have been moved to a number of security centers for interrogation.
Also in Ethna, soldiers broke into and searched several homes, and interrogated dozens of residents while inspecting their ID cards.
The soldiers also closed the Iron Gate installed at the entrance of the al-Fawwar refugee camp, in Hebron, after alleging a settlement bus was attacked by a Molotov cocktail. The gate was closed at eight at night, Monday, and opened around 5 at dawn Tuesday.
Late on Monday at night, and on Tuesday at dawn, soldiers invaded various neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped ten Palestinians, including children and the secretary of Fateh movement.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday at dawn, the secretary of the Fateh movement of President Mahmoud Abbas, in occupied East Jerusalem, from his home in Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The soldiers also kidnapped his brother.
Local sources said the soldiers broke into the home of Fateh official ‘Adnan Gheith, and his brother, Sadeq, violently searched their properties, and kidnapped them. The soldiers also confiscated Adnan’s mobile phone.
In addition, the soldiers broke into, searched and ransacked several homes in different neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, and its Old City, and handed two women and a young man military orders for interrogation.
Local sources said dozens of soldiers invaded Aqabat as-Saraya area, in the Old City, and handed a woman, from al-Hashlamoun family, a warrant for interrogation at the Al-Qeshla Police station, in the Hebron Gate area.
Soldiers also handed former political prisoner, Suad Shiokhy, 26, from Silwan town, a similar warrant for interrogation at the al-Maskobiyya, west of Jerusalem.
She has four imprisoned brothers; three of them had multiple court hearings, including on Monday, and her fourth brother was taken prisoner a while ago.
Also on Tuesday at dawn, soldiers invaded a home in the al-‘Ezariyya town, southeast of Jerusalem, and handed resident Mousa Jaber, an interrogation order for his 16-year-old son, Ragheb.
The son was ordered to head to an interrogation center in Maale Adumin settlement.
Local sources said the soldiers broke into the home of Fateh official ‘Adnan Gheith, and his brother, Sadeq, violently searched their properties, and kidnapped them. The soldiers also confiscated Adnan’s mobile phone.
In addition, the soldiers broke into, searched and ransacked several homes in different neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, and its Old City, and handed two women and a young man military orders for interrogation.
Local sources said dozens of soldiers invaded Aqabat as-Saraya area, in the Old City, and handed a woman, from al-Hashlamoun family, a warrant for interrogation at the Al-Qeshla Police station, in the Hebron Gate area.
Soldiers also handed former political prisoner, Suad Shiokhy, 26, from Silwan town, a similar warrant for interrogation at the al-Maskobiyya, west of Jerusalem.
She has four imprisoned brothers; three of them had multiple court hearings, including on Monday, and her fourth brother was taken prisoner a while ago.
Also on Tuesday at dawn, soldiers invaded a home in the al-‘Ezariyya town, southeast of Jerusalem, and handed resident Mousa Jaber, an interrogation order for his 16-year-old son, Ragheb.
The son was ordered to head to an interrogation center in Maale Adumin settlement.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Tuesday morning, a Palestinian at the entrance of the al-‘Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
Local sources said the soldiers stopped resident Dia’ Kamel Abu Hash-Hash, at the main entrance of the camp, and interrogated him before cuffing and blindfolding him, and to him to an unknown destination.
In related news, soldiers stationed at the Container Roadblock, blocking the northern entrance of the Shuhada Street in Hebron city, stopped dozens of students, teachers and many residents, and only allowed the teachers, students and residents with special needs to cross, while the rest were forced back.
Soldiers also invaded several neighborhoods in Hebron city, and installed a roadblock at the entrance of Sa’ir town, before stopping dozens of cars and searched them while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers.
Local sources said the soldiers stopped resident Dia’ Kamel Abu Hash-Hash, at the main entrance of the camp, and interrogated him before cuffing and blindfolding him, and to him to an unknown destination.
In related news, soldiers stationed at the Container Roadblock, blocking the northern entrance of the Shuhada Street in Hebron city, stopped dozens of students, teachers and many residents, and only allowed the teachers, students and residents with special needs to cross, while the rest were forced back.
Soldiers also invaded several neighborhoods in Hebron city, and installed a roadblock at the entrance of Sa’ir town, before stopping dozens of cars and searched them while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Monday at night, a Palestinian father and his son after breaking into their home, in Jabal al-Mokabber, in occupied East Jerusalem, and searching it. Six more Palestinians, including five children, kidnapped in the Old City.
The soldiers alleged they found weapons and ammunition in the home, and arrested the father, 50 years of age, and his son, 20.
Israeli media sources said the police, and Border Guard Units, searched the property, and located a Kalashnikov rifle, a Carl Gustav rifle, a pistol, and magazine.
The father and his son have been moved to an Israeli security facility for interrogation.
On Monday evening, soldiers claimed a settler was stabbed near the Hebron Gate area of occupied East Jerusalem, and suffered a moderate injury.
The army then conducted military searches in the streets and alleys of the Old City, and nearby areas, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including five children.
The kidnapped have been identified as Husam al-‘Alami, who was kidnapped while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Tribes Gate, and five children identified as Rashid ar-Resheq, Badawi Abu ‘Asab, 16, Fadi Salayma, 17, Nasser Shaweesh, 16, and ‘Abboud al-Haddad.
Al-Haddad was released after two hours of interrogation, while the rest remained under interrogation.
The soldiers alleged they found weapons and ammunition in the home, and arrested the father, 50 years of age, and his son, 20.
Israeli media sources said the police, and Border Guard Units, searched the property, and located a Kalashnikov rifle, a Carl Gustav rifle, a pistol, and magazine.
The father and his son have been moved to an Israeli security facility for interrogation.
On Monday evening, soldiers claimed a settler was stabbed near the Hebron Gate area of occupied East Jerusalem, and suffered a moderate injury.
The army then conducted military searches in the streets and alleys of the Old City, and nearby areas, and kidnapped six Palestinians, including five children.
The kidnapped have been identified as Husam al-‘Alami, who was kidnapped while leaving the Al-Aqsa Mosque through the Tribes Gate, and five children identified as Rashid ar-Resheq, Badawi Abu ‘Asab, 16, Fadi Salayma, 17, Nasser Shaweesh, 16, and ‘Abboud al-Haddad.
Al-Haddad was released after two hours of interrogation, while the rest remained under interrogation.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested two Palestinian brothers while on their way to their home in Jenin refugee camp after crossing from Jordan into the West Bank on Monday evening.
Local sources said that Mahmoud Quraini and his brother Ahmed were detained at al-Hamra checkpoint along the road to Jenin less than an hour after their arrival from Jordan.
The sources pointed out that the IOF soldiers did not arrest the brothers at the Karame crossing as is the usual practice but rather at a military barrier.
Many Palestinians are detained during travel procedures or on their return from trips abroad while many others are blocked from travel due to alleged security reasons.
Local sources said that Mahmoud Quraini and his brother Ahmed were detained at al-Hamra checkpoint along the road to Jenin less than an hour after their arrival from Jordan.
The sources pointed out that the IOF soldiers did not arrest the brothers at the Karame crossing as is the usual practice but rather at a military barrier.
Many Palestinians are detained during travel procedures or on their return from trips abroad while many others are blocked from travel due to alleged security reasons.
24 nov 2014
Israeli forces detained a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in the Silwan neighborhood on Monday evening, a local information center said.
Majdi Abbasi of the Wadi Hilweh information center told Ma'an that Israeli forces in the Ein al-Luza area of the neighborhood detained 10-year-old Rashid Abu Sarah, took off his shirt, blindfolded him, and took him away in a military jeep.
Israeli forces also fired stun grenades in the neighborhood, Abbasi said.
He did not have further information about the boy's arrest.
An Israeli police spokesman told Ma'an he was not familiar with the incident.
Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted around 7,000 children between 12 and 17, mostly boys, according to a 2013 report by the UN Children's Fund.
The rate of child arrests is equivalent to "an average of two children each day," the UNICEF report says.
Majdi Abbasi of the Wadi Hilweh information center told Ma'an that Israeli forces in the Ein al-Luza area of the neighborhood detained 10-year-old Rashid Abu Sarah, took off his shirt, blindfolded him, and took him away in a military jeep.
Israeli forces also fired stun grenades in the neighborhood, Abbasi said.
He did not have further information about the boy's arrest.
An Israeli police spokesman told Ma'an he was not familiar with the incident.
Over the past decade, Israeli forces have arrested, interrogated and prosecuted around 7,000 children between 12 and 17, mostly boys, according to a 2013 report by the UN Children's Fund.
The rate of child arrests is equivalent to "an average of two children each day," the UNICEF report says.
A number of Palestinian prisoners suffered different injuries Monday after being severally beaten and attacked by Israeli jailers in Raymond prison, head of Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs in Ramallah, Issa Qaraqe, said.
Qaraqe said that clashes broke out Monday morning between Palestinian prisoners and Israeli Special Forces in section one in Raymond prison.
The clashes erupted when members of the Nahshon forces, the special repression unit in Israeli Prison Services (IPS), brutally stormed section one, which led to a number of injuries among the prisoners.
A state of tension has been prevailing since Sunday in the prison as IPS imposed a set of restrictions on the prisoners’ families.
More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held in Raymond prison distributed on six sections.
Qaraqe said that clashes broke out Monday morning between Palestinian prisoners and Israeli Special Forces in section one in Raymond prison.
The clashes erupted when members of the Nahshon forces, the special repression unit in Israeli Prison Services (IPS), brutally stormed section one, which led to a number of injuries among the prisoners.
A state of tension has been prevailing since Sunday in the prison as IPS imposed a set of restrictions on the prisoners’ families.
More than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently held in Raymond prison distributed on six sections.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) arrested at dawn Monday three
Palestinian civilians in Beit Awwa village to the south west of
al-Khalil city.
The PIC reporter quoted local sources as confirming that IOF soldiers stormed in large numbers Beit Awwa town and broke into a number of homes before arresting three youths.
The detainees were transferred handcuffed to an unknown place, while a military checkpoint was erected at the entrance to the town, the sources added.
Large-scale raids and arrest campaigns have been ongoing in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem on daily basis as tensions are still running high due to the Israeli forces and settlers’ violations and crimes against Palestinians and their holy shrines.
The PIC reporter quoted local sources as confirming that IOF soldiers stormed in large numbers Beit Awwa town and broke into a number of homes before arresting three youths.
The detainees were transferred handcuffed to an unknown place, while a military checkpoint was erected at the entrance to the town, the sources added.
Large-scale raids and arrest campaigns have been ongoing in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem on daily basis as tensions are still running high due to the Israeli forces and settlers’ violations and crimes against Palestinians and their holy shrines.
A number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been subjected to systematic torture and human rights violations in Israeli investigation centers, the Palestinian human rights network in charge of prisoners’ affairs Anin al-Qaid revealed.
The network pointed out that four detainees, from Bethlehem, were tortured and beaten during their investigation in Maskoubia detention center in occupied Jerusalem.
The four mentioned detainees face alleged charges of planning to assassinate the Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
The human rights network stressed the need for the formation of an international investigation committee to deal with such issues and charges and to investigate the Israeli interrogators' use of torture.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) confirmed that the four detainees are indicted with the attempt to assassinate Israel’s Foreign Minister. The suspects are expected to be brought to court on November 24, he added.
Israeli charges against the four detainees contain obvious and intentional exaggerations, the PPS lawyer said.
Israeli media exaggeration of foiling Lieberman’s assassination attempt aims to show up Shin Bet’s successes and to impose the highest possible sentence against the detainees, according to the network’s statement.
The PPS lawyer pointed out that the detainees were subjected since their arrest in August during the Israeli aggression on Gaza to a severe torture in Maskoubia investigation center.
“The detainees suffer several bruises and injuries all over their bodies, in addition to frequent bleeding due to the unbearable torture they were subjected to over the past two months.”
The lawyer clarified that the detainees face serious charges based on general exchange of ideas and thoughts between four citizens developed by Israeli Intelligence Services to be a military cell plots to assassinate Israeli ministers.
In an earlier statement, Israel’s war minister Moshe Ya’alon praised the efforts of the Shin Bet, saying “this is the fourth time since May that we have managed to foil attempts by Hamas cells who are attempting to spearhead terrorist activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
For his part, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri refused to confirm or deny the report, saying the Movement had no information on the matter. He noted: “The leaders of the occupation, who are responsible for the killing of women and children and the desecration of holy sites, are legitimate targets.”
The network pointed out that four detainees, from Bethlehem, were tortured and beaten during their investigation in Maskoubia detention center in occupied Jerusalem.
The four mentioned detainees face alleged charges of planning to assassinate the Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
The human rights network stressed the need for the formation of an international investigation committee to deal with such issues and charges and to investigate the Israeli interrogators' use of torture.
For its part, the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) confirmed that the four detainees are indicted with the attempt to assassinate Israel’s Foreign Minister. The suspects are expected to be brought to court on November 24, he added.
Israeli charges against the four detainees contain obvious and intentional exaggerations, the PPS lawyer said.
Israeli media exaggeration of foiling Lieberman’s assassination attempt aims to show up Shin Bet’s successes and to impose the highest possible sentence against the detainees, according to the network’s statement.
The PPS lawyer pointed out that the detainees were subjected since their arrest in August during the Israeli aggression on Gaza to a severe torture in Maskoubia investigation center.
“The detainees suffer several bruises and injuries all over their bodies, in addition to frequent bleeding due to the unbearable torture they were subjected to over the past two months.”
The lawyer clarified that the detainees face serious charges based on general exchange of ideas and thoughts between four citizens developed by Israeli Intelligence Services to be a military cell plots to assassinate Israeli ministers.
In an earlier statement, Israel’s war minister Moshe Ya’alon praised the efforts of the Shin Bet, saying “this is the fourth time since May that we have managed to foil attempts by Hamas cells who are attempting to spearhead terrorist activities in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
For his part, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri refused to confirm or deny the report, saying the Movement had no information on the matter. He noted: “The leaders of the occupation, who are responsible for the killing of women and children and the desecration of holy sites, are legitimate targets.”
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday nabbed a number of Palestinian civilians in Occupied Jerusalem and heavily assaulted others.
A PIC correspondent quoted by-standers at the scene as reporting that the IOF nabbed four Palestinian young men after having stormed their family homes in Isawiya and Jabal al-Mukabir in Occupied Jerusalem.
Two more youths were abducted by the IOF from Jerusalem’s town of Silwan, south of holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
In a related development, the IOF rounded up 21-year-old Palestinian young lady Shourouk Ayman Abu Rateb, a resident of Um Tuba village and a mother of a two-year-old kid, and kept interrogating her for long hours allegedly for attempting to stab an Israeli occupation soldier at a military checkpoint pitched near the main entrance to the Shuaf’at refugee camp.
Sources based at the camp further reported the subjection of the Palestinian teenager Omar Fahmi al-Zughir, 18, to heavy beating at the hands of the Israeli light rail guards.
Omar’s father said the bunch of Israeli vandals dragged his son to a nearby bush before they stripped him of his clothes, and searched him in such a remarkably offending manner in the presence of a squad of the Israeli occupation police and border cops.
Earlier, overnight on Saturday, a gang of fanatic Israeli settlers heavily assaulted a Palestinian civilian from Beit Hanina, north of Occupied Jerusalem, before they hurriedly walked out of the area.
The Jerusalemite civilian was rushed to a hospital to receive urgent treatment for the wounds he sustained in the assault.
Meanwhile, Raed Abu Bashir, lawyer of the family of Palestinian martyrs Udai and Ghassan Abu Jamal, spoke out against the mounting house demolitions launched by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) in Jerusalem’s Jabal al-Makbar.
“Such arbitrary demolitions make part of pre-planned policy of collective punishment pursued by the IOA against Jerusalemites,” he charged.
“Over 760 families in Jabal al-Mukabir are subjected to heavy fines; 280 homes are threatened with demolition and 28% of land tracts are only licensed for construction,” he further charged.
He warned of Israel’s attempts to isolate Occupied Jerusalem from its geo-political milieu and crack down on Palestinian civilians via abduction campaigns and random shooting.
He held Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and the IOF responsible for the death of Udai and Ghassan Abu Jamal, calling for legal action against such Israeli crimes and returning the bodies of the two Palestinian men.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the Magistrate’s Court turned down the appeals of lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud to return the bodies under the pretext of underway investigation procedures.
For his part, Jerusalem’s Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Hussein urged the IOA to immediately release the youths’ bodies so as to enable the family to carry out the burial rituals as stipulated by the Islamic faith.
“No human being should ever be punished for crimes committed by another person. These families have the right to live in dignity,” he said. “Such Israeli procedures are just intolerable and will only simmer even further the tension rocking Occupied Jerusalem.”
“We are facing a real war waged by the racist Israeli occupation government to grab hold over Jerusalem and enforce a spatio-temporal division on Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque,” journalist and political analyst Rasem Ubeidat said.
“Such felonies amount to war crimes. House demolitions are war crimes that do stand in sharp contrast with the Fourth Geneva Convention,” he added.
He further spoke out against Israel’s violation of Muslims’ religious freedom via its frequent sacrilegious assaults and state vandalism on Islamic holy sites and the peaceful Muslim congregation across the Occupied Palestinian territories.
Udai and Ghassan passed away following a retaliation-attack on a Jewish synagogue in Occupied Jerusalem, an attack dubbed by historiographers as a natural retort and expected scenario to Israel’s terrorism on Palestinian civilians and Muslims’ sanctuaries.
IOF kidnaps 17 Palestinians in J'lem, W. Bank
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday kidnapped 17 Palestinians during raids in different areas of occupied Jerusalem, Bethlehem, al-Khalil and Nablus.
In al-Khalil, local sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the IOF kidnapped at dawn today ex-detainee Basem Abdul-Baset from his home.
The IOF also stormed Beit Awwa town and raided several homes before detaining three young men from the same family.
10 other Palestinians, including children, were taken prisoners at dawn during raids on homes in east Jerusalem and its neighborhoods, including Issawiya, Silwan, Jabal Mukkaber and Shuafat, according to the Palestinian prisoner society.
In Bethlehem, the IOF kidnapped two young men from their homes in Husan town. The detainees were identified as Tharwat Hamamera and Ibrahim Hamamera.
Another young man called Adel Dweikat was detained during an IOF arrest campaign in Nablus city, according to local sources.
A PIC correspondent quoted by-standers at the scene as reporting that the IOF nabbed four Palestinian young men after having stormed their family homes in Isawiya and Jabal al-Mukabir in Occupied Jerusalem.
Two more youths were abducted by the IOF from Jerusalem’s town of Silwan, south of holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
In a related development, the IOF rounded up 21-year-old Palestinian young lady Shourouk Ayman Abu Rateb, a resident of Um Tuba village and a mother of a two-year-old kid, and kept interrogating her for long hours allegedly for attempting to stab an Israeli occupation soldier at a military checkpoint pitched near the main entrance to the Shuaf’at refugee camp.
Sources based at the camp further reported the subjection of the Palestinian teenager Omar Fahmi al-Zughir, 18, to heavy beating at the hands of the Israeli light rail guards.
Omar’s father said the bunch of Israeli vandals dragged his son to a nearby bush before they stripped him of his clothes, and searched him in such a remarkably offending manner in the presence of a squad of the Israeli occupation police and border cops.
Earlier, overnight on Saturday, a gang of fanatic Israeli settlers heavily assaulted a Palestinian civilian from Beit Hanina, north of Occupied Jerusalem, before they hurriedly walked out of the area.
The Jerusalemite civilian was rushed to a hospital to receive urgent treatment for the wounds he sustained in the assault.
Meanwhile, Raed Abu Bashir, lawyer of the family of Palestinian martyrs Udai and Ghassan Abu Jamal, spoke out against the mounting house demolitions launched by the Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) in Jerusalem’s Jabal al-Makbar.
“Such arbitrary demolitions make part of pre-planned policy of collective punishment pursued by the IOA against Jerusalemites,” he charged.
“Over 760 families in Jabal al-Mukabir are subjected to heavy fines; 280 homes are threatened with demolition and 28% of land tracts are only licensed for construction,” he further charged.
He warned of Israel’s attempts to isolate Occupied Jerusalem from its geo-political milieu and crack down on Palestinian civilians via abduction campaigns and random shooting.
He held Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and the IOF responsible for the death of Udai and Ghassan Abu Jamal, calling for legal action against such Israeli crimes and returning the bodies of the two Palestinian men.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the Magistrate’s Court turned down the appeals of lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud to return the bodies under the pretext of underway investigation procedures.
For his part, Jerusalem’s Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Hussein urged the IOA to immediately release the youths’ bodies so as to enable the family to carry out the burial rituals as stipulated by the Islamic faith.
“No human being should ever be punished for crimes committed by another person. These families have the right to live in dignity,” he said. “Such Israeli procedures are just intolerable and will only simmer even further the tension rocking Occupied Jerusalem.”
“We are facing a real war waged by the racist Israeli occupation government to grab hold over Jerusalem and enforce a spatio-temporal division on Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque,” journalist and political analyst Rasem Ubeidat said.
“Such felonies amount to war crimes. House demolitions are war crimes that do stand in sharp contrast with the Fourth Geneva Convention,” he added.
He further spoke out against Israel’s violation of Muslims’ religious freedom via its frequent sacrilegious assaults and state vandalism on Islamic holy sites and the peaceful Muslim congregation across the Occupied Palestinian territories.
Udai and Ghassan passed away following a retaliation-attack on a Jewish synagogue in Occupied Jerusalem, an attack dubbed by historiographers as a natural retort and expected scenario to Israel’s terrorism on Palestinian civilians and Muslims’ sanctuaries.
IOF kidnaps 17 Palestinians in J'lem, W. Bank
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday kidnapped 17 Palestinians during raids in different areas of occupied Jerusalem, Bethlehem, al-Khalil and Nablus.
In al-Khalil, local sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the IOF kidnapped at dawn today ex-detainee Basem Abdul-Baset from his home.
The IOF also stormed Beit Awwa town and raided several homes before detaining three young men from the same family.
10 other Palestinians, including children, were taken prisoners at dawn during raids on homes in east Jerusalem and its neighborhoods, including Issawiya, Silwan, Jabal Mukkaber and Shuafat, according to the Palestinian prisoner society.
In Bethlehem, the IOF kidnapped two young men from their homes in Husan town. The detainees were identified as Tharwat Hamamera and Ibrahim Hamamera.
Another young man called Adel Dweikat was detained during an IOF arrest campaign in Nablus city, according to local sources.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) violently broke into home of member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Ahmad al-Haj in Nablus at dawn Monday. His grandson was nabbed during the raid.
The MP al-Haj’s daughter confirmed to a PIC reporter that IOF soldiers stormed and searched her apartment and her father’s apartment before arresting her son.
The 27-year-old Adel Dweikat, who served 38 months in Israeli jails in two separate arrests, was nabbed during the raid.
IOF soldiers failed more than once to arrest the MP Ahmed al-Haj, 75. They broke into his home seven times since June.
Israeli forces have launched since June a large-scale arrest campaign throughout the West Bank targeting Palestinian MPs and national figures following the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli soldiers in al-Khalil.
The MP al-Haj’s daughter confirmed to a PIC reporter that IOF soldiers stormed and searched her apartment and her father’s apartment before arresting her son.
The 27-year-old Adel Dweikat, who served 38 months in Israeli jails in two separate arrests, was nabbed during the raid.
IOF soldiers failed more than once to arrest the MP Ahmed al-Haj, 75. They broke into his home seven times since June.
Israeli forces have launched since June a large-scale arrest campaign throughout the West Bank targeting Palestinian MPs and national figures following the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli soldiers in al-Khalil.
Israeli fanatics march in Jerusalem chanting “death to Arabs"
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, a young Palestinian woman at a military roadblock, near the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem.
The kidnapped woman has been as Shorouq Ayman Rateb Abu Teir, 21, years of age.
The Israeli army claimed the woman was kidnapped “after attempting to stab a soldier with a sharp object,” but did not provide any further information about the allegation.
On Sunday at night, dozens of Israeli extremists marched in various roads and alleys of the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, carrying Israeli flags, and posters of the “temple” while chanting racist slogans such as “death to Arabs," and slogans calling for expelling the Palestinians.
The fanatics were demanding the Israeli army and police to open all gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque to that they can continue to invade it.
During the provocative procession, the police closed various roads and alleys to allow them to march, while keeping the Palestinians from entering the area, and in many cases, preventing them from leaving their homes.
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday evening, a young Palestinian woman at a military roadblock, near the Shu’fat refugee camp, in occupied East Jerusalem.
The kidnapped woman has been as Shorouq Ayman Rateb Abu Teir, 21, years of age.
The Israeli army claimed the woman was kidnapped “after attempting to stab a soldier with a sharp object,” but did not provide any further information about the allegation.
On Sunday at night, dozens of Israeli extremists marched in various roads and alleys of the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, carrying Israeli flags, and posters of the “temple” while chanting racist slogans such as “death to Arabs," and slogans calling for expelling the Palestinians.
The fanatics were demanding the Israeli army and police to open all gates leading to the Al-Aqsa Mosque to that they can continue to invade it.
During the provocative procession, the police closed various roads and alleys to allow them to march, while keeping the Palestinians from entering the area, and in many cases, preventing them from leaving their homes.
