Awkaf: Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem American backed, IOFs arrest Jerusalemite for refusing to hand over his home to an Israeli society

IOFs arrest Jerusalemite for refusing to hand over his home to Israeli society

[ 09/08/2008 - 02:39 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian Jerusalemite for refusing to deliver keys of his home to an Israeli society or to an Israeli court.

Maher Hanoun is one of many Palestinians who would be asked to evacuate their homes to deliver them to an Israeli society despite having documents proving their ownership of those houses.

Lawyer of the Palestinian families said that the documents provided by the Israeli society to prove their right to those houses were "forged".

Meanwhile, a monthly report published by the public coalition for the defense of Palestinian rights in Jerusalem in cooperation with the lands research center and Al-Quds center for democracy and human rights said that the IOA committed "serious violations" in the holy city in the past month of July.

The report said that among the prominent violations were the announcement of a new colonialist scheme in a number of suburbs in eastern Jerusalem, blasting a building that used to house 60 people in Beit Hanina and demolishing 15 houses in various suburbs.

The report called on the IOA to halt such practices, and appealed to signatories of the fourth Geneva Convention to assume their legal and ethical responsibilities and to live up to commitments including obliging Israel to respect the Convention.

Awkaf: Israeli violations in occupied Jerusalem American backed

[ 09/08/2008 - 07:24 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Quds committee in the PA caretaker government's ministry of Awkaf and religious affairs has charged that the Israeli systematic settlement policy in occupied Jerusalem was American backed.

The committee in a statement on Friday said that the occupied municipality in Jerusalem announced a new housing project last march, and noted that the occupation government endorsed the construction of 400 of those housing units in Neve Yaacov settlement suburb in occupied eastern Jerusalem.

It warned of the dangers threatening the identity and the Islamic and Christian landmarks of Jerusalem, and described the settlement plan as a "grave danger on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque".

The committee said that the housing plan falls in line with the Israeli systematic settlement policy that aims at eliminating all Palestinian landmarks in the holy city.

The Israeli occupation authority's racist measures are fully backed by the USA with the aim of imposing an Israeli demographic majority on the occupied city, the committee said.

It appealed to the Arab and Islamic masses along with international legal organizations to immediately act to save the holy city and the Aqsa Mosque and to protect the holy shrines. It warned that Israel would not be content with those "criminal measures".

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