Sunday, June 12, 2011

Israel prevents Al-Quds Mufti from traveling to Jordan

Israel prevents Al-Quds Mufti from traveling to Jordan
2011/06/12


The Israeli Authorities prevented Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, the Imam of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Grand Mufti of Al-Quds and the Holy Land, from traveling to Jordan to participate in a conference in support of Al-Aqsa mosque in Jordan.

The conference, Sheikh Sabri was invited to attend, was organised by the Al-Quds Cultural Forum, and the Jordanian Engineers Union.

The Mufti intended to highlight the situation in Al-Quds and its holy sites amidst the ongoing Israeli violations, in addition to highlighting the dire situation of the Palestinians in the occupied city suffering violations by the occupation and the illegal settlement movement.

Conference organisers said that the conference aims at shedding the light on Israel's escalating violations that target the Arab and Islamic history and culture of the holy city, and to come up with ideas to preserve the historic city and its culture in order to solidify the existence of its native Arab and Palestinian population.

Zionist regime provided no 'justification' for denying the Mufti his right to travel and forced him back.

Ex Hamas minister of captives affairs abducted


Ex Hamas minister of captives affairs abducted
2011/06/11


IOF troops kidnapped Friday at dawn former Palestinian minister of captives' affairs, Wasfi Qabaha from his home the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

Um Usama, the Qabaha’s wife, told PIC that a number of IOF patrols surrounded the building in which they live in the west of Jenin City and raided their apartment, adding that one of the officers told her husband that there was an order for his arrest and took him away.

She added that her 50-year old husband was arrested by the occupation more than ten times and spent about 12 years in occupation jails in aggregate. The last time he was detained for three years under the so called administrative detention, without charge or trial, from which he was released in April last year.

She also said that the arrest of her husband was arbitrary and targets the Palestinian reconciliation and said that her husband suffers from several medical conditions which he developed as a result of prolonged periods of detention in occupation jails in very harsh conditions.

The IOF has launched a campaign of arrests against Hamas leaders, MPs and academics after Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation agreement in Cairo.

Haniyya: No negotiations with enemy, no concessions on national rights

Haniyya: No negotiations with enemy, no concessions on national rights
2011/06/11


Palestinian Prime Minister of the Hamas government, Ismail Haniyya, stated on Friday that his movement is united and strong, and that the only language of negotiations with the occupation understands is the language of resistance.

Speaking to worshippers during the Friday noon prayers at the Al Omary Mosque in Gaza, Haniyya stated that Hamas is united and strong, and denied any internal conflicts among its leaders.

He stated that his government and the Hamas movement are committed to unity, to the Palestinian national interests, and that there will be no negotiations with the occupation.

Haniyya further called on the Palestinian factions and the Palestinian people to protect the national unity agreement and to remain united, and that there will be no concessions on the legitimate Palestinian rights.

“Hamas will not abandon the national rights of the Palestinian people
, the Hamas leader said, “thousands were killed and injured to protect our rights, thousands were imprisoned to safeguard our national rights”.

talian Olympic Football Team visits Beit-lahm

Italian Olympic Football Team visits Beit-lahm
2011/06/12


During their visit to Palestine, the Italian Olympic football team expressed their feelings on solidarity with the Palestinian children who were playing in the entrance of Aida refugee camp during their visit to Beit-lahm.

The Italian team, in Palestine to meet the Palestinian Olympic football team in celebration of the opening of a new stadium in Dura city in the southern West Bank, visited Bethlehem yesterday and played a football match with several children from Aida refugee camp.

Mario Biconsatti, the deputy of the Italian international Olympic committee told PNN that makes him happy to see Italian players playing with Palestinian children from the refugee camps. He said that football is a way to show solidarity and to help make peace for Palestinian children.

He said their visit to Palestine is a solidarity visit to show that football can unite people. He added that he has visited Palestine before and he thinks that every time he comes he sees more improvement in Palestinian football.

The team visited Aida refugee camp and played for ten minutes with the teenagesrs and children. The players expressed their happiness while they were playing with these children, who showed their interest in football.

The game ended 0-0 and the Italian team couldn't beat the children of Aida camp. After the game the people in Aida camp celebrated the Italian team, saying it is important to receive such international teams. They gave them the Palestinian keffiyeh and said they hoped that they would come back again and spend more time in the camp, in order to train them how to play football better.

Italian player, Vlatarzinno, told PNN that he's happy to be in Palestine and learn about the Palestinian situation, hoping that their visit will encourage the Palestinian children to play more football. He also said he hopes that they will have better playing grounds, instead of playing in the street. He said that he noticed how the children have not lost hope. He says he sees that by seeing them loving playing football.

Amjd Abu Aker, 15, who was one of the players to play the Italian team expressed his happiness at playing with the Italian team, saying that he will never forget the team and the game, even if it was just for a few minutes. He said he feels that this game will help him in his future to be a professional player.

Before starting the match the team visited the camp and heard explanations from Munther Amira telling them the situation of the camp in all aspects: political, economic and social, saying that the Palestinian refugees have been suffering from 1948 until today.

He added that the wall makes the situation more difficult. He said he hopes that the international community will end the Palestinian suffering by helping to establish a Palestinian state.

He also hoped that the Italian Olympic team will send a message to the Italian people, telling them about the real situation in Palestine in order to pressure their government to work for peace by pressuring the Israeli government to implement UN resolutions and the international vision of establishing the Palestinian state.

The Italian team will face the Palestinian Olympic team on Sunday at 3 p.m. in Dura, near Hebron.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Israeli prison guards arrest Palestinian girl [ 06/06/2011 - 09:44 AM ]



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[ 06/06/2011 - 09:44 AM ]

NEGEV, (PIC)-- Israeli guards at the Negev desert prison arrested a 13-year-old Palestinian girl while visiting her detained father from Salfit, a report by the Palestinian ministry of prisoners in Gaza said on Monday.

It said in a statement that Samah Muslim was detained during the visit, adding that the guards suddenly stopped the visit after claiming that she was trying to smuggle certain things to her father.

The ministry said, however, that the girl had nothing in her possession and that the prison administration fabricated the problem in order to disrupt the visit.

It noted that the girl was taken away from her mother screaming and was questioned by the police who were called by the prison administration. It said that the Beer Sheba court extended her detention for 24 hours.

Jewish settlers burn 250 Palestinian trees in Nablus village

[ 06/06/2011 - 06:28 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers started a huge fire in Palestinian farmland in Deir Al-Hatab village east of Nablus on Monday burning 250 olive and almond trees, local sources reported.

They said that Palestinian fire brigades managed to contain and extinguish the fire before it spread to nearby groves.

The firefighters said that the fire destroyed 200 olive trees and 50 almond trees, but hundreds others were protected and saved.

Jewish settlers deliberately target Palestinian plantations at this time of the year when the temperature is high so as to facilitate spread of the blaze.

Settlers torch mosque in Al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah


[ 07/06/2011 - 01:58 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers torched a mosque in Al-Mughayyir village near Ramallah on Monday, causing serious damage to the entire structure.

Settlers from nearby settlement outpost Alei Ayin crept into the village which lies 12 miles northeast of Ramallah at 3am and set fire to car tires and threw them into the mosque, said village council head Majdi al-Naasan.

Although worshipers attempted to contain the fire, damage to the mosque was serious. Settlers daubed the walls of the mosque with racist graffiti written in Hebrew.

Palestinians who live near the mosque said they saw at midnight dozens Israeli occupation soldiers around the mosque, Naasan said, confirming that the incident took place under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.

Alei Ayin was dismantled by the Israeli police by force because it was erected illegally. The attack has been confirmed as a ”price tag” attack, where Israeli settlers retaliate against Palestinians when Israel dismantles settlement outposts.

The Gaza religious affairs ministry has condemned the crime, considering it a ”flagrant violation against the sanctity of houses of worship provided by international laws, conventions, and norms”.

Since the incident, more and more Palestinians have criticized the Palestinian Authority which rules the West Bank, accusing security services of not fulfilling the ”duty of protecting the mosques”.

One Palestinian man Mohammed Abdurrahman condemned the West Bank security services for the inability to protect the mosques at a time when the services have effectively persecuted Palestinian resistance fighters in the West Bank.

Israel committed genocide: Sleiman

Israel committed genocide: Sleiman
Tue Jun 7, 2011 2:39AM
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman
On Monday, the office of Lebanese President Michel Sleiman issued a statement condemning “the genocide conducted by the Israel occupation forces in the Golan (Heights) that led to the killing of 23 unarmed martyrs," Xinhua reported.

The fatalities, which included a woman and a child, occurred on Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire on protesters inside Syria as they were approaching the Syrian highlands.

The demonstrators were marching on the anniversary of the June 5, 1967 Naksa Day or Day of the Setback, when Tel Aviv occupied Syria's Golan Heights region as well as the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East al-Quds (Jerusalem).

The Israeli aggression also wounded 350 people.

Sleiman's office also asserted that Israeli aggression will never coerce the Palestinian people and Arab states to stop calling for the observation of the full rights of the Palestinians, including the right to return to territories in their homeland that were occupied during the Six-Day War of 1967.

2008 estimates put the number of Palestinian refugees at over 4.6 million.

Gaza government declares mourning day for Naksa Day victims

[ 06/06/2011 - 05:11 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Flags have been lowered half mast in the Gaza Strip as the government has declared an official day of mourning for those killed by Israeli soldiers during peaceful Naksa Day protests in occupied Golan Heights on Sunday.

In a statement on Monday, the government declared that the victims, who included Palestinian refugees and Syrians, would share the same rights as all Palestinians.

Syria pronounced 24 dead and some 350 more injured in the Golan Heights after IOF soldiers fired at crowds to break up hundreds of Naksa Day protesters who neared the border.

Hamas has denounced the killings saying: ”We in Hamas strongly denounce the IOF's firing at tens of Palestinians and Arabs who mobilized with their bare chests in memory of the Naksa (1967 defeat), challenging the Israeli war machine with their faith, declaring their fortitude, steadfastness, and resistance until the land is liberated and their dreams of return are achieved.”

The party said that the popular movement towards Palestinian borders from Syria, the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon supporting the right of return marks a new stage in the conflict with Israel.

Hamas leader Dr. Salah al-Bardawil in a statement that followed the tragic conclusion paid tribute to those who offered their lives for the cause, saying that their blood has miraculously done what Arab armies were unable to do with their weapons.

“We are at a new history recorded on the Arab arena,” Bardawil said, “imposed by the new equation that the people are able to do something even without a weapon. Their weapon is faith and the right they have to their land and the ability and courage to offer blood without fearing the bullets of the Israeli occupier.”