Head of Islamic movement in Israel, Raed Salah, injured in Israeli terrorist attack

Date: 23 / 08 / 2007 Time: 12:11

(Ma'an Images) Jerusalem - Ma'an –

The head of the Islamic movement in Israel, Shaikh Raed Salah, was injured on Wednesday evening when Israeli soldiers attacked him as he attended a dinner at the home of the Jerusalem Mufti.

In a statement Salah said "We were having meal on the roof of Jerusalem Mufti, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein's house when the Israeli soldiers attacked us using sonic bombs. I was hit in the elbow. I have been treated in the Al-Maqasid Hospital in East Jerusalem but I am well now."

Sheikh Salah, speaking on the Arab satellite channel, Al-Jazeera, said that he had asked the Israeli soldiers why they were attacking him. He said the soldiers claimed that it was not a dinner party but a meeting which was banned on security grounds.

The attack on Sheikh Salah and his companions was condemned by Palestinian factions and officials including the deposed government in the Gaza Strip.

A statement issued by the deposed government said that the attack on Sheikh Salah was an introduction to "more crimes against the Palestinian people and its leaders in the lands of 1948 ".

Israeli police claim the meeting was a gathering of Hamas and an Israeli Islamic group in East Jerusalem.

In a statement the Israeli police said around 30 people, including Hamas members, were taking part in the meeting.

"A stun grenade was thrown after the participants refused to disperse." the statement said.

Khatib: Assault on Sheikh Salah premeditated

[ 23/08/2007 - 12:48 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, deputy leader of the Islamic movement in the 1948 occupied Palestinian lands, has disclosed that the attack on Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the movement, on Wednesday night was premeditated.

Khatib in a press statement to the pal-media website on Thursday said that a videotape showed one of the Israeli officers, who was among the unit members that attacked Sheikh Salah, while giving orders to one of his soldiers to target Sheikh Salah by name.

He described the deliberate attack on Sheikh Salah as a "serious escalation", but affirmed that it would only boost Sheikh Salah and the Islamic movement's insistence on their stand in defense of the Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem.

Sheikh Salah was hospitalized after IOF soldiers fired a big number of stun grenades at the roof of a building in Wadi Al-Joz in occupied Jerusalem while the Sheikh and other notables were attending a charitable dinner.

For its part, Islamic Jihad Movement denounced the assault on Sheikh Salah, describing it as a fresh crime to be added to Israel's terrorist record against the Sheikh, who exerts great efforts to defend the Aqsa Mosque.

Sheikh Nafez Azzam, one of the Jihad leaders in the Gaza Strip, said in a press statement, that the "sinful crime" fell at a time of absolute Arab and Islamic silence towards Zionist aggressions on the Aqsa Mosque.

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