Peres calls for building fence, bridge in occupied Jerusalem, Awqaf denounces Israeli plans to confiscate vast areas of occupied Jerusalem lands

Peres calls for building fence, bridge in occupied Jerusalem

[ 29/07/2008 - 05:35 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli president Shimon Peres on Tuesday called for building a fence and a bridge inside occupied Jerusalem in a bid to ward off Palestinian resistance attacks.

Peres, who was speaking during a visit to the family of an Israeli policeman who was killed in a shooting incident in occupied Jerusalem two weeks ago, said that the security situation in occupied Jerusalem was worsening.

He said that disengagement should be made and Palestinians should be allowed to live in the city in a bid to avoid exploding conditions.

The president stressed that relations between Arabs and Israelis should be improved through spreading awareness and confidence building measures.

Israeli officials have expressed concern after three attacks were made against Israelis in occupied Jerusalem in July, and called for "deterrent" penal measures against families of the attackers.

Awqaf denounces IOA plans to confiscate vast areas of O. Jerusalem lands

[ 29/07/2008 - 04:58 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Quds committee in the ministry of Awqaf and religious affairs in the PA caretaker government in Gaza has denounced the new Israeli occupation authority's colonialist plan to confiscate 11,000 dunums of occupied Jerusalem lands.

The committee in a press release on Tuesday said that the scheme aimed at linking between the two settlements of Kidar and Ma'aleh Adumim, the biggest in occupied Jerusalem.

The committee also condemned the IOA demolition of the six-story building in Beit Hanina owned by Majed Abu Aisha at the pretext of lack of construction permit.

It noted that an advisor to Israeli premier Ehud Olmert had recently quoted him as telling PA chief Mahmoud Abbas that Israel would continue to build settlement blocs in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The committee appealed to the Arab and Islamic masses to immediately act to confront the Zionist "criminal" practices, warning that the IOA was daily plotting to flatten all Arab homes in the holy city.

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