11 dec 2019
(Photo courtesy of Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)
Israeli occupation authorities, Tuesday, notified a Palestinian school in the town of Samou, to the south of Hebron, to stop working, claiming that it has been constructed in an area which threatens archaeological sites.
Palestinian Ministry of Education said, in a statement, that Israeli occupation authorities notified for the cessation of work in the Simaya elementary school, affiliated with the Directorate of Education, to the south of Hebron, located in Al-Samou area.
The Ministry noted that the Israeli step is a part of a campaign against the school and dozens of other schools, under fake pretexts.
The step threatens Palestinian students’ right to education, a right which is guaranteed by all international laws, charters and customs.
Al Ray further reports that the move coincided with the International Day for Human Rights, revealing Israel’s oppressive agenda and its continued violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, especially the right of students to education.
The school serves more than 40 students in the targeted areas that are subject to Israeli aggression.
In related news, Palestinian students on a field trip, today, at the Sebastia archaeological site, in the north of the West Bank, were harassed by Israeli soldiers, who detained them at the site, according to Sebastia’s mayor, Mohammad Azem.
Azem told WAFA that soldiers broke into the site, to the north of Nablus city, while the students were on a field trip, and detained the students inside it.
He said that soldiers harassed the students and provoked confrontations in the area.
Israel has been trying to take over the site, as it encourages settlers to visit it while preventing Palestinians from caring for it, even though it is located in the heart of the occupied West Bank.
The present town of Sebastia, including the archaeological remains, the historical town, and the cultural landscape, is one of Palestine’s major tourist attractions.
A series of restorative activities was carried out in the historic core, including renovation of the mosque, the shrine of Nabi Yahyia, the Cathedral of John the Baptist, the Roman mausoleum, the olive press, Kayed Palace, and the traditional buildings, along with a walking trail.
Israeli occupation authorities, Tuesday, notified a Palestinian school in the town of Samou, to the south of Hebron, to stop working, claiming that it has been constructed in an area which threatens archaeological sites.
Palestinian Ministry of Education said, in a statement, that Israeli occupation authorities notified for the cessation of work in the Simaya elementary school, affiliated with the Directorate of Education, to the south of Hebron, located in Al-Samou area.
The Ministry noted that the Israeli step is a part of a campaign against the school and dozens of other schools, under fake pretexts.
The step threatens Palestinian students’ right to education, a right which is guaranteed by all international laws, charters and customs.
Al Ray further reports that the move coincided with the International Day for Human Rights, revealing Israel’s oppressive agenda and its continued violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, especially the right of students to education.
The school serves more than 40 students in the targeted areas that are subject to Israeli aggression.
In related news, Palestinian students on a field trip, today, at the Sebastia archaeological site, in the north of the West Bank, were harassed by Israeli soldiers, who detained them at the site, according to Sebastia’s mayor, Mohammad Azem.
Azem told WAFA that soldiers broke into the site, to the north of Nablus city, while the students were on a field trip, and detained the students inside it.
He said that soldiers harassed the students and provoked confrontations in the area.
Israel has been trying to take over the site, as it encourages settlers to visit it while preventing Palestinians from caring for it, even though it is located in the heart of the occupied West Bank.
The present town of Sebastia, including the archaeological remains, the historical town, and the cultural landscape, is one of Palestine’s major tourist attractions.
A series of restorative activities was carried out in the historic core, including renovation of the mosque, the shrine of Nabi Yahyia, the Cathedral of John the Baptist, the Roman mausoleum, the olive press, Kayed Palace, and the traditional buildings, along with a walking trail.
Dozens of extremist Jewish settlers on Wednesday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque under tight police protection.
According to the Islamic Awqaf Authority, 108 settlers escorted by police forces entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards in morning hours.
Among the settlers were female soldiers, intelligence officers, tour guides and students.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Israeli police close al-Maghariba Gate, which is used by Jews to enter the Mosque, at 10:30 am after the settlers complete their morning tours at the holy site. Later in the afternoon, the same gate is reopened for evening tours by settlers.
During the presence of settlers inside the Mosque compound, entry restrictions are imposed on Muslim worshipers at the entrances leading to the Mosque and their IDs are seized until they leave the holy place.
According to the Islamic Awqaf Authority, 108 settlers escorted by police forces entered the Mosque through al-Maghariba Gate and toured its courtyards in morning hours.
Among the settlers were female soldiers, intelligence officers, tour guides and students.
The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers and police forces in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.
The Israeli police close al-Maghariba Gate, which is used by Jews to enter the Mosque, at 10:30 am after the settlers complete their morning tours at the holy site. Later in the afternoon, the same gate is reopened for evening tours by settlers.
During the presence of settlers inside the Mosque compound, entry restrictions are imposed on Muslim worshipers at the entrances leading to the Mosque and their IDs are seized until they leave the holy place.
10 dec 2019
Israeli police forces on Tuesday arrested one of al-Aqsa Mosque's guards and allowed dozens of Israeli settlers to desecrate the site.
Eyewitnesses said that the extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick led scores of Jewish settlers into al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police guard. video
The settlers carried out provocative tours inside al-Aqsa compound before leaving it through al-Silsila Gate.
Meanwhile, Israeli police forces arrested Fadi Elyyan, one pf al-Aqsa Mosque's guards, and transferred him to a nearby detention and interrogation center. video
Elyyan was detained for arguing with Israeli officers in protest at an arbitrary Israeli measure to move al-Aqsa Mosque guards' room to another place.
Eyewitnesses said that the extremist rabbi Yehuda Glick led scores of Jewish settlers into al-Aqsa Mosque under heavy police guard. video
The settlers carried out provocative tours inside al-Aqsa compound before leaving it through al-Silsila Gate.
Meanwhile, Israeli police forces arrested Fadi Elyyan, one pf al-Aqsa Mosque's guards, and transferred him to a nearby detention and interrogation center. video
Elyyan was detained for arguing with Israeli officers in protest at an arbitrary Israeli measure to move al-Aqsa Mosque guards' room to another place.
Israeli forces attack Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque on 11 August 2019
Israel has practised its organised terrorism against the city of Jerusalem, and raised the level of crimes and attacks, to impose a new reality that could be the prelude to pushing Jerusalemites to forcibly leave the Holy City. These repeated attacks on the citizens, their land, their property, their livelihoods, their sanctities and their resilience, have not stopped for a moment.
The policy of collective punishment adopted by Israel and its systematic campaigns of abuse, affect people, trees and stones. It also carries out dozens of arrests on a daily basis in Jerusalem, as well as the night raids that spare no women or children, the continuous expulsion of all activists and those stationed in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israel has also demolished buildings under the pretext of a lack of permits, has seized the homes of Jerusalemites and suppressed all activities in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Every time Jerusalemites are beaten, assaulted and relentlessly repressed, the occupation does not refrain from using sticks, poisonous gas bombs, rubber bullets or sound bombs. They boast about their crimes, while directly shooting the youth in Jerusalem to eradicate them. They kill female activists in cold blood under false security pretexts, to terrorise Jerusalemites and spread fear in their hearts.
This barbarism and retaliatory policies of the occupation also affects schools, and hinders students from accessing them. These students have been terrorised and intimidated in a manner that violates all international treaties and covenants, which guarantee the right to education and safe access for children to their educational institutions.
The barriers, the restrictions on freedom of movement and the controlling of who enters Al-Aqsa Mosque, clearly demonstrates that the occupation is continuing its racist and expansionist plan, aiming to impose temporal and spatial division as a fait accompli.
The occupation justifies itself under the pretext of “terrorism” to close cultural, social and educational institutions in Jerusalem. The matter has even reached the level of prohibiting any institutions affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA), from operating in Jerusalem.
Therefore, the people only see the occupation authorities and they do not see the presence of any other parties carrying out their work. Occupation is occupation. When will we wake up and realise that the occupation does not differentiate between us Palestinians? The matter requires us to have a united and single national position, and to rally our efforts in confronting the occupation.
Moreover, Muslims and Christians are being targeted with guns pointing at their chests at every moment. The occupation wants to eradicate our positions, suppress our ideas, destroy all factors of steadfastness and empty the city of its national and political status. From the expulsion of Jerusalemite parliamentarians, to the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah and the banning of the president of the Palestinian National Christian Coalition, Dimitri Diliani, from entering the Old City of Jerusalem.
This Zionist criminality did not come from nowhere and was not sudden, it is a reflection of the laxity of the official Palestinian positions represented in the PA’s actions, and its failure to play a responsible and effective role in what is happening in Jerusalem. It is true that there are condemning positions and local movements here and there, but they do not fulfil the purpose required nationally.
Meanwhile, the PA has maintained meetings and contact with the occupation, supressed popular movements, prevented the resistance from voicing its opinions and restricted its activity in the West Bank, although this would discipline the occupation and allow it to regain its sanity after having lost it.
The matter was also not unrelated to the Arab and Islamic position, which has remained in the formal framework, from conferences, workshops, seminars, meetings and statements – none of which were put into effect. The Arab options are also sufficient to stop the current deterioration and to prevent Israel from continuing its crimes, accompanied by American arrogance and Trump administration’s bias in favour of the occupation.
The American administration’s most recent actions motivated the occupation, by moving its embassy to Jerusalem, and recognising Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel.
President Trump has even expressed his pride in his historic position when he recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in his speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), considering it to be one his best accomplishments during his term. This comes despite the warnings that he received from various presidents and kings, fearing the reactions sweeping across the Arab and Islamic world.
These successive events in the city of Jerusalem, and inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, are one of the most important factors causing tension in the Palestinian territories, and are pushing towards redirecting the compass of confrontation. The explosion may occur from the heart of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the situation is unbearable and Jerusalem is loved by millions, and without it, blood will be shed and lives will be sacrificed. The enemy must not be deceived by the current calm.
The enemy must reconsider its calculations well, as the spark of confrontation and the hurricane of a popular and armed intifada will sweep all areas. Al-Qassam Brigades summed this up in a tweet that threatened the occupation and vowed to make the enemy pay. This spark indicates that the situation has reached a new stage of escalation, the price of which the enemy cannot bear, and will beg the mediators to appease the situation.
Israel has practised its organised terrorism against the city of Jerusalem, and raised the level of crimes and attacks, to impose a new reality that could be the prelude to pushing Jerusalemites to forcibly leave the Holy City. These repeated attacks on the citizens, their land, their property, their livelihoods, their sanctities and their resilience, have not stopped for a moment.
The policy of collective punishment adopted by Israel and its systematic campaigns of abuse, affect people, trees and stones. It also carries out dozens of arrests on a daily basis in Jerusalem, as well as the night raids that spare no women or children, the continuous expulsion of all activists and those stationed in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Israel has also demolished buildings under the pretext of a lack of permits, has seized the homes of Jerusalemites and suppressed all activities in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Every time Jerusalemites are beaten, assaulted and relentlessly repressed, the occupation does not refrain from using sticks, poisonous gas bombs, rubber bullets or sound bombs. They boast about their crimes, while directly shooting the youth in Jerusalem to eradicate them. They kill female activists in cold blood under false security pretexts, to terrorise Jerusalemites and spread fear in their hearts.
This barbarism and retaliatory policies of the occupation also affects schools, and hinders students from accessing them. These students have been terrorised and intimidated in a manner that violates all international treaties and covenants, which guarantee the right to education and safe access for children to their educational institutions.
The barriers, the restrictions on freedom of movement and the controlling of who enters Al-Aqsa Mosque, clearly demonstrates that the occupation is continuing its racist and expansionist plan, aiming to impose temporal and spatial division as a fait accompli.
The occupation justifies itself under the pretext of “terrorism” to close cultural, social and educational institutions in Jerusalem. The matter has even reached the level of prohibiting any institutions affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA), from operating in Jerusalem.
Therefore, the people only see the occupation authorities and they do not see the presence of any other parties carrying out their work. Occupation is occupation. When will we wake up and realise that the occupation does not differentiate between us Palestinians? The matter requires us to have a united and single national position, and to rally our efforts in confronting the occupation.
Moreover, Muslims and Christians are being targeted with guns pointing at their chests at every moment. The occupation wants to eradicate our positions, suppress our ideas, destroy all factors of steadfastness and empty the city of its national and political status. From the expulsion of Jerusalemite parliamentarians, to the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah and the banning of the president of the Palestinian National Christian Coalition, Dimitri Diliani, from entering the Old City of Jerusalem.
This Zionist criminality did not come from nowhere and was not sudden, it is a reflection of the laxity of the official Palestinian positions represented in the PA’s actions, and its failure to play a responsible and effective role in what is happening in Jerusalem. It is true that there are condemning positions and local movements here and there, but they do not fulfil the purpose required nationally.
Meanwhile, the PA has maintained meetings and contact with the occupation, supressed popular movements, prevented the resistance from voicing its opinions and restricted its activity in the West Bank, although this would discipline the occupation and allow it to regain its sanity after having lost it.
The matter was also not unrelated to the Arab and Islamic position, which has remained in the formal framework, from conferences, workshops, seminars, meetings and statements – none of which were put into effect. The Arab options are also sufficient to stop the current deterioration and to prevent Israel from continuing its crimes, accompanied by American arrogance and Trump administration’s bias in favour of the occupation.
The American administration’s most recent actions motivated the occupation, by moving its embassy to Jerusalem, and recognising Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel.
President Trump has even expressed his pride in his historic position when he recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in his speech before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), considering it to be one his best accomplishments during his term. This comes despite the warnings that he received from various presidents and kings, fearing the reactions sweeping across the Arab and Islamic world.
These successive events in the city of Jerusalem, and inside Al-Aqsa Mosque, are one of the most important factors causing tension in the Palestinian territories, and are pushing towards redirecting the compass of confrontation. The explosion may occur from the heart of Al-Aqsa Mosque, as the situation is unbearable and Jerusalem is loved by millions, and without it, blood will be shed and lives will be sacrificed. The enemy must not be deceived by the current calm.
The enemy must reconsider its calculations well, as the spark of confrontation and the hurricane of a popular and armed intifada will sweep all areas. Al-Qassam Brigades summed this up in a tweet that threatened the occupation and vowed to make the enemy pay. This spark indicates that the situation has reached a new stage of escalation, the price of which the enemy cannot bear, and will beg the mediators to appease the situation.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intensified their military measures and obstructed the movement of Palestinian citizens near the Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil city on Monday.
According to local sources, the IOF spread through the area around the Ibrahimi Mosque and at the checkpoints leading to it and obstructed the access of Muslim worshipers to the Mosque for prayers.
Director of the Ibrahimi Mosque Hafdi Abu Asnaineh said that Israeli soldiers at the entrances leading to the holy site prevented Muslim worshipers from entering it before searching them.
However, hundreds of Palestinians flocked to the Mosque and performed prayers to confront Israel’s attempts to Judaize the Islamic holy site, Abu Asnaineh added.
According to local sources, the IOF spread through the area around the Ibrahimi Mosque and at the checkpoints leading to it and obstructed the access of Muslim worshipers to the Mosque for prayers.
Director of the Ibrahimi Mosque Hafdi Abu Asnaineh said that Israeli soldiers at the entrances leading to the holy site prevented Muslim worshipers from entering it before searching them.
However, hundreds of Palestinians flocked to the Mosque and performed prayers to confront Israel’s attempts to Judaize the Islamic holy site, Abu Asnaineh added.
9 dec 2019
39 Israeli settlers, on Monday morning, stormed the Islamic court yards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, guarded by Israeli occupation police.
Local media sources reported that police opened the Moroccan Gate in front of 36 settlers, who broke into the mosque in four groups.
Police escorted the settlers while they toured the court yards, until they left the Islamic site via Selselah Gate.
Israeli settlers performed Talmudic rituals at Arrahma Gate, in the eastern part of Al-Aqsa.
Al Ray sources noted that Israeli intelligence forces broke into the mosque on Monday, as well.
Police followed restrictive procedures on Jerusalemites’ access, holding identity cards at external gates, while dozens of women and men have been denied access to the mosque for some time.
Local media sources reported that police opened the Moroccan Gate in front of 36 settlers, who broke into the mosque in four groups.
Police escorted the settlers while they toured the court yards, until they left the Islamic site via Selselah Gate.
Israeli settlers performed Talmudic rituals at Arrahma Gate, in the eastern part of Al-Aqsa.
Al Ray sources noted that Israeli intelligence forces broke into the mosque on Monday, as well.
Police followed restrictive procedures on Jerusalemites’ access, holding identity cards at external gates, while dozens of women and men have been denied access to the mosque for some time.
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