26 nov 2014
The Israeli occupation forces at dawn Wednesday nabbed a number of Palestinian civilians and left others seriously wounded following a wave of assaults on Occupied Jerusalem city.
By-standers at the scene said a Palestinian youngster was rushed to hospital after he sustained critical head injuries and skull fractures in the clashes that broke out with the IOF in al-Tur neighborhood, east of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Local sources said the IOF targeted Palestinian homes and civilians in al-Tur neighborhood with heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
The 55-year-old elderly civilian, Jaser Abu al-Hawa, and his 18-year-old son Ahmad, sustained rubber bullet wounds in their stomachs, backs, and shoulders.
The Israeli occupation soldiers further broke into the family home of Palestinian citizen Ahmad Abu al-Hawa and heavily assaulted his disabled wife, Nadia.
The invading IOF troops kidnapped Nadia’s 20-year-old daughter, Amani, after she rushed to the spot to save her handicapped mother.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) extended for one day the detention of Amani, who has been subjected to heavy beating at the hands of the IOF, under the pretext of obstructing an officer’s mission.
Another spate of bloody confrontations cropped up in Ein al-Luza neighborhood in Silwan, to the south of Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Member of the Wadi Helwa Information Center Amjad al-Abassi said troops of the Israeli occupation special units invaded Ein al-Luza, cordoned off the main entrances to the quarter, and stationed at the rooftops of Palestinian homes, triggering a spate of panic among women and children.
Heavy floods of tear gas and rubber bullets have been randomly discharged by the IOF in the process while a set of flying roadblocks have been abruptly pitched along the streets.
Meanwhile, a gang of seven Israeli extremist settlers attacked the Palestinian young man Islam Mazen Ubeid, 25, at his workplace in Deir Yassin, West of Occupied Jerusalem, in an attempt to kill him.
In another development, the Israeli minister of internal security, Yitzhak Aharonovich, called on Israel’s military and police establishments to advance a bill outlawing the organization of sit-ins by Muslim guards and worshipers stationing at holy al-Aqsa Mosque, a Wednesday issue by Haaretz newspaper read.
Earlier on Tuesday the IOA issued a summons banning at least five Palestinians from entering holy al-Aqsa Mosque for three months.
A PIC news reporter identified the five banned Jerusalemites as 17-year-old minor Abdul Adhim Abu Sbeih, 16-year-old child Muhammad Abu Sneina, and Karem Bassem al-Ramlawi, 19, along with a young Palestinian girl and a woman.
By-standers at the scene said a Palestinian youngster was rushed to hospital after he sustained critical head injuries and skull fractures in the clashes that broke out with the IOF in al-Tur neighborhood, east of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Local sources said the IOF targeted Palestinian homes and civilians in al-Tur neighborhood with heavy barrages of tear gas canisters and rubber bullets.
The 55-year-old elderly civilian, Jaser Abu al-Hawa, and his 18-year-old son Ahmad, sustained rubber bullet wounds in their stomachs, backs, and shoulders.
The Israeli occupation soldiers further broke into the family home of Palestinian citizen Ahmad Abu al-Hawa and heavily assaulted his disabled wife, Nadia.
The invading IOF troops kidnapped Nadia’s 20-year-old daughter, Amani, after she rushed to the spot to save her handicapped mother.
The Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) extended for one day the detention of Amani, who has been subjected to heavy beating at the hands of the IOF, under the pretext of obstructing an officer’s mission.
Another spate of bloody confrontations cropped up in Ein al-Luza neighborhood in Silwan, to the south of Muslims’ holy al-Aqsa Mosque.
Member of the Wadi Helwa Information Center Amjad al-Abassi said troops of the Israeli occupation special units invaded Ein al-Luza, cordoned off the main entrances to the quarter, and stationed at the rooftops of Palestinian homes, triggering a spate of panic among women and children.
Heavy floods of tear gas and rubber bullets have been randomly discharged by the IOF in the process while a set of flying roadblocks have been abruptly pitched along the streets.
Meanwhile, a gang of seven Israeli extremist settlers attacked the Palestinian young man Islam Mazen Ubeid, 25, at his workplace in Deir Yassin, West of Occupied Jerusalem, in an attempt to kill him.
In another development, the Israeli minister of internal security, Yitzhak Aharonovich, called on Israel’s military and police establishments to advance a bill outlawing the organization of sit-ins by Muslim guards and worshipers stationing at holy al-Aqsa Mosque, a Wednesday issue by Haaretz newspaper read.
Earlier on Tuesday the IOA issued a summons banning at least five Palestinians from entering holy al-Aqsa Mosque for three months.
A PIC news reporter identified the five banned Jerusalemites as 17-year-old minor Abdul Adhim Abu Sbeih, 16-year-old child Muhammad Abu Sneina, and Karem Bassem al-Ramlawi, 19, along with a young Palestinian girl and a woman.
West Jerusalem Holyland Tower
Israeli settlers, Tuesday, assaulted a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, causing injuries in neck and back, according to local sources.
25-year-old Islam Mazen Ebeid was in West Jerusalem when six Israeli settlers approached him and severely beat him, his father said.
The young man was transferred to hospital for medical treatment, WAFA stated.
Over 500,000 settlers now reportedly live in various developments across the occupied territories, in contravention of international law.
While retaliatory acts of of violence by Palestinians are highlighted by mainstream press and used as a basis for further incitement, Israeli settlers repeatedly attack Palestinians and their property, unapproached by Israeli forces, who frequently protect them during the acts or simply stand by watching.
Israeli settlers, Tuesday, assaulted a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, causing injuries in neck and back, according to local sources.
25-year-old Islam Mazen Ebeid was in West Jerusalem when six Israeli settlers approached him and severely beat him, his father said.
The young man was transferred to hospital for medical treatment, WAFA stated.
Over 500,000 settlers now reportedly live in various developments across the occupied territories, in contravention of international law.
While retaliatory acts of of violence by Palestinians are highlighted by mainstream press and used as a basis for further incitement, Israeli settlers repeatedly attack Palestinians and their property, unapproached by Israeli forces, who frequently protect them during the acts or simply stand by watching.
Israeli forces raided, this past Monday morning, the headquarters of the Palestinian Football Association in al-Ram, near Jerusalem.
According to Ma'an News Agency, a statement from the PFA said that three Israeli military jeeps raided the headquarters at 9:20 am and apprehended the IDs of several of its employees, prevented them from entering the building, and interrogated them, as well, while also searching the ground floor of the building.
Forces spent 40 minutes searching the building and remained for around 90 minutes, in the vicinity, following.
The statement added that head of the PFA, Susan Shalabi, questioned an officer about the reasoning behind the raid, and informed him that it was an institute related to the Federal International Football Association and should not be raided by an armed group, to which the officer responded that it was not a raid.
Additionally, a number of journalists who were present in the area documented the raid and, before Israeli forces left, they tried to prevent them from taking pictures.
According to Ma'an News Agency, a statement from the PFA said that three Israeli military jeeps raided the headquarters at 9:20 am and apprehended the IDs of several of its employees, prevented them from entering the building, and interrogated them, as well, while also searching the ground floor of the building.
Forces spent 40 minutes searching the building and remained for around 90 minutes, in the vicinity, following.
The statement added that head of the PFA, Susan Shalabi, questioned an officer about the reasoning behind the raid, and informed him that it was an institute related to the Federal International Football Association and should not be raided by an armed group, to which the officer responded that it was not a raid.
Additionally, a number of journalists who were present in the area documented the raid and, before Israeli forces left, they tried to prevent them from taking pictures.
25 nov 2014
The Israeli leftist group Breaking the Silence on Monday unveiled a new confession made by an Israeli soldier showing some of the repressive practices the Palestinians are exposed to at West Bank checkpoints.
The soldier, who worked for an army engineering unit during the first intifada in the West Bank, said that during the intifada, he, like many other soldiers, enjoyed harassing and humiliating peaceful Palestinian civilians and families.
He explained how he had enjoyed maltreating a Palestinian father at a checkpoint when he insulted him in front of his family and forced him to leave his car on a rainy day and remove the tires with no reason.
He added he and his fellow soldiers loved to see him getting wet in the rain and laughed at the man, but that incident made him feel sorry for many years until he eventually decided to make his confession.
Breaking the Silence had published many confessions made by Israeli soldiers about their involvement in criminal activities against Palestinians in the West Bank in order to just have fun.
The soldier, who worked for an army engineering unit during the first intifada in the West Bank, said that during the intifada, he, like many other soldiers, enjoyed harassing and humiliating peaceful Palestinian civilians and families.
He explained how he had enjoyed maltreating a Palestinian father at a checkpoint when he insulted him in front of his family and forced him to leave his car on a rainy day and remove the tires with no reason.
He added he and his fellow soldiers loved to see him getting wet in the rain and laughed at the man, but that incident made him feel sorry for many years until he eventually decided to make his confession.
Breaking the Silence had published many confessions made by Israeli soldiers about their involvement in criminal activities against Palestinians in the West Bank in order to just have fun.
Human rights groups have accused Israel of encouraging a shoot-to-kill policy after a wave of incidents in which police shot dead Palestinians involved in, or accused of, attacking Israelis.
The alleged practice of killing suspects without trying to arrest them has caused concern after a series of deadly Palestinian attacks also resulted in the perpetrators' deaths -- and not always at the scene.
In a rare move, a Jerusalem court on Sunday indicted a border police officer after he shot and killed, unprovoked, a Palestinian teenager during a May demonstration in the occupied West Bank.
For some, the charge of manslaughter in the case was not strong enough, and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch's comments that "a terrorist who strikes civilians should be killed" indicate no further such investigations will take place.
"Aharonovitch's statement and its application on the ground show that the authorities simply want these incidents to end - with the terrorist killed at the scene rather than brought into the justice system," Carolina Landsmann wrote in Haaretz newspaper.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem says that one of the first victims of "extrajudicial executions" was Abd al-Rahman Shaludi, a 21-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem who rammed his car into Israeli pedestrians on Oct. 22, killing a young woman and a baby.
He was shot at the scene by police and died several hours later.
CCTV footage
Earlier this month, police shot dead 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, during an arrest, claiming he attacked them with a knife.
However, CCTV footage showed him banging on the outside of a police van with a small object before turning away, as a police officer got out and shot him in the back.
Last week, two Palestinians stormed a synagogue with meat cleavers and a gun, killing four rabbis at prayer and a policeman who came to help. They were shot dead at the scene by police.
None was brought to trial, and the suspects' families face the likelihood of having their homes razed in a punitive measure abandoned in 2005 after the army said there was no proof it had any deterrent.
Police say the killings of suspects were lawful and in self-defense.
"According to the law ... when the danger is real, immediate, and threatens the life of a police officer or innocent people, he can shoot," spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP.
"It's kill or be killed."
But Amnesty International told AFP it had "strong suspicions" about a policy of "deliberate killings," even though "the authorities have the absolute duty to ensure that their forces comply with the law."
'Excessive force'
Even aside from the latest deadly attacks, the number of shootings of Palestinians by soldiers in the occupied West Bank has risen, Amnesty's Saleh Hijazi said.
"In dealing with the Palestinians, (police and soldiers) use excessive force," he said.
Rights groups say Aharonovitch's remarks have been instrumental in formulating attitudes in the field, particularly those he made to reporters on Nov. 5 at the scene of the second hit-and-run attack in Jerusalem in a fortnight.
"The action of the border police officer who chased the terrorist and quickly killed him is the right and professional action, and that is the way I would like these incidents to end," he said.
Three days later, Hamdan was shot dead in what many saw as the minister's words being put into action.
B'Tselem said it was "extremely disturbed" by Aharonovitch's comments, which it described as "provocative" and encouraging "execution without trial."
Israeli rights group ACRI said in a statement the expectation that "police officers will act as jury, judge, and executioner, is improper and unacceptable."
According to Landsmann, Israel is also keen to avoid another prisoner swap deal in which it would have to free Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis -- as in 2011 when it released more than 1,000 prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier held by Hamas militants for more than five years.
"The best way to avoid releasing prisoners is not to arrest them to begin with," she wrote.
The alleged practice of killing suspects without trying to arrest them has caused concern after a series of deadly Palestinian attacks also resulted in the perpetrators' deaths -- and not always at the scene.
In a rare move, a Jerusalem court on Sunday indicted a border police officer after he shot and killed, unprovoked, a Palestinian teenager during a May demonstration in the occupied West Bank.
For some, the charge of manslaughter in the case was not strong enough, and Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch's comments that "a terrorist who strikes civilians should be killed" indicate no further such investigations will take place.
"Aharonovitch's statement and its application on the ground show that the authorities simply want these incidents to end - with the terrorist killed at the scene rather than brought into the justice system," Carolina Landsmann wrote in Haaretz newspaper.
Israeli rights group B'Tselem says that one of the first victims of "extrajudicial executions" was Abd al-Rahman Shaludi, a 21-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem who rammed his car into Israeli pedestrians on Oct. 22, killing a young woman and a baby.
He was shot at the scene by police and died several hours later.
CCTV footage
Earlier this month, police shot dead 22-year-old Kheir Hamdan, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, during an arrest, claiming he attacked them with a knife.
However, CCTV footage showed him banging on the outside of a police van with a small object before turning away, as a police officer got out and shot him in the back.
Last week, two Palestinians stormed a synagogue with meat cleavers and a gun, killing four rabbis at prayer and a policeman who came to help. They were shot dead at the scene by police.
None was brought to trial, and the suspects' families face the likelihood of having their homes razed in a punitive measure abandoned in 2005 after the army said there was no proof it had any deterrent.
Police say the killings of suspects were lawful and in self-defense.
"According to the law ... when the danger is real, immediate, and threatens the life of a police officer or innocent people, he can shoot," spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP.
"It's kill or be killed."
But Amnesty International told AFP it had "strong suspicions" about a policy of "deliberate killings," even though "the authorities have the absolute duty to ensure that their forces comply with the law."
'Excessive force'
Even aside from the latest deadly attacks, the number of shootings of Palestinians by soldiers in the occupied West Bank has risen, Amnesty's Saleh Hijazi said.
"In dealing with the Palestinians, (police and soldiers) use excessive force," he said.
Rights groups say Aharonovitch's remarks have been instrumental in formulating attitudes in the field, particularly those he made to reporters on Nov. 5 at the scene of the second hit-and-run attack in Jerusalem in a fortnight.
"The action of the border police officer who chased the terrorist and quickly killed him is the right and professional action, and that is the way I would like these incidents to end," he said.
Three days later, Hamdan was shot dead in what many saw as the minister's words being put into action.
B'Tselem said it was "extremely disturbed" by Aharonovitch's comments, which it described as "provocative" and encouraging "execution without trial."
Israeli rights group ACRI said in a statement the expectation that "police officers will act as jury, judge, and executioner, is improper and unacceptable."
According to Landsmann, Israel is also keen to avoid another prisoner swap deal in which it would have to free Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis -- as in 2011 when it released more than 1,000 prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, a soldier held by Hamas militants for more than five years.
"The best way to avoid releasing prisoners is not to arrest them to begin with," she wrote.
Young man attacked by a number of fanatic settlers
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a child suffered several fractures and bruises, after being struck by a speeding settler’s vehicle, west of occupied Jerusalem.
The sources said that Khalil Khamis al-Keswani, 14 years of age, suffered a fracture in his left leg, and various cuts and bruises to different parts of his body.
The child’s father, Khamis al-Keswani, said a settler deliberately attacked his son, and chased him with his car, adding that his child managed to run away from the car after the initial impact.
Khamis complained that it took the police and the Israeli ambulance a while before they actually arrived at the scene, near Deir Yassin, in West Jerusalem.
Also on Monday evening, a number of fanatic settlers attacked a Palestinian identified as Mahmoud Issam Obeid, 19, near the French Hill settlement, as he was walking home in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Obeid said he was heading home after work when some settlers approached him, asking for a light, and when he said he doesn’t have one; the settlers attacked him while carrying knives and batons.
The assailants tried to stab him, and managed to hit him with their batons before he ran away; he was moved to the al-Makassed hospital suffering a fracture in his left leg.
There have been daily attacks carried out by Israeli extremists against the Palestinians, their cars and property, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem this past week.
The attacks included stabbing, beating, using pepper spray, puncturing tires, and writing racist graffiti.
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a child suffered several fractures and bruises, after being struck by a speeding settler’s vehicle, west of occupied Jerusalem.
The sources said that Khalil Khamis al-Keswani, 14 years of age, suffered a fracture in his left leg, and various cuts and bruises to different parts of his body.
The child’s father, Khamis al-Keswani, said a settler deliberately attacked his son, and chased him with his car, adding that his child managed to run away from the car after the initial impact.
Khamis complained that it took the police and the Israeli ambulance a while before they actually arrived at the scene, near Deir Yassin, in West Jerusalem.
Also on Monday evening, a number of fanatic settlers attacked a Palestinian identified as Mahmoud Issam Obeid, 19, near the French Hill settlement, as he was walking home in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Obeid said he was heading home after work when some settlers approached him, asking for a light, and when he said he doesn’t have one; the settlers attacked him while carrying knives and batons.
The assailants tried to stab him, and managed to hit him with their batons before he ran away; he was moved to the al-Makassed hospital suffering a fracture in his left leg.
There have been daily attacks carried out by Israeli extremists against the Palestinians, their cars and property, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem this past week.
The attacks included stabbing, beating, using pepper spray, puncturing tires, and writing racist graffiti.
24 nov 2014
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.
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.
The Israeli Occupation forces (IOF) opened heavy fire Sunday evening at Palestinian citizens near the border fence east of Rafah southern Gaza Strip.
The 17-year-old minor Abdel Razek Qadhi suffered moderate injuries during the gunfire attack and was transferred to the local hospital in the city, Palestinian media sources reported.
The sources pointed out that two other citizens were arrested during the incident.
Earlier Sunday, 32-year-old Mohamed Halaweh was shot and killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia to the north of Gaza Strip in flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement reached on August 26.
The 17-year-old minor Abdel Razek Qadhi suffered moderate injuries during the gunfire attack and was transferred to the local hospital in the city, Palestinian media sources reported.
The sources pointed out that two other citizens were arrested during the incident.
Earlier Sunday, 32-year-old Mohamed Halaweh was shot and killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia to the north of Gaza Strip in flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement reached on August 26.
Jewish settlers at dawn Sunday burned a Palestinian house in Khirbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, after they spray-painted anti-Arab slurs.
Locals told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that a group of settlers tried at four o'clock in the morning to break into the house of Hasan Hamayel who was not with his family at the time.
When his wife and four daughters, who were inside, refused to open the door, the settlers smashed one of the windows and tossed tear gas and incendiary grenades into the house, burning most of its interior before fleeing away.
Then, the neighbors rushed to rescue the residents after they heard the women screaming.
The assailants spray-painted a David star and slurs reading "Death to Arabs"and "Quick response gang" on the external walls of the house.
Khirbet Abu Falah is a Palestinian hamlet located near Shilo settlement whose settlers launch systematic attacks on nearby Palestinian villages.
Shilo settlers had set fire to a Mosque three weeks ago in al-Mughira town, northeast of Ramallah.
In a later incident, scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday afternoon attacked Palestinian cars travelling on the road to Yitzhar junction with hails of stones and empty bottles.
Some Palestinian citizens in the area responded to the attackers and fired fireworks at them.
Locals told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that a group of settlers tried at four o'clock in the morning to break into the house of Hasan Hamayel who was not with his family at the time.
When his wife and four daughters, who were inside, refused to open the door, the settlers smashed one of the windows and tossed tear gas and incendiary grenades into the house, burning most of its interior before fleeing away.
Then, the neighbors rushed to rescue the residents after they heard the women screaming.
The assailants spray-painted a David star and slurs reading "Death to Arabs"and "Quick response gang" on the external walls of the house.
Khirbet Abu Falah is a Palestinian hamlet located near Shilo settlement whose settlers launch systematic attacks on nearby Palestinian villages.
Shilo settlers had set fire to a Mosque three weeks ago in al-Mughira town, northeast of Ramallah.
In a later incident, scores of Jewish settlers on Sunday afternoon attacked Palestinian cars travelling on the road to Yitzhar junction with hails of stones and empty bottles.
Some Palestinian citizens in the area responded to the attackers and fired fireworks at them.