Barghouthi: IOG embarking on biggest ever racial cleansing in Jerusalem

[ 27/04/2009 - 11:10 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

MP Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, the secretary general of the national initiative party, on Monday condemned the Israeli occupation government (IOG) Zionist schemes and the policy of demolishing Palestinian homes in occupied Jerusalem.

Barghouthi, in a statement distributed to the media, said that Israel was carrying out the biggest ever racial cleansing campaign in occupied Jerusalem, describing it as the most serious ever since the city was occupied in 1967.

He charged that the Israeli policy of demolishing homes was one of the methods pursued to evacuate the city of its indigenous inhabitants.

The MP warned that occupied Jerusalem was in real danger in the reign of the new Israeli far-right government.

He proposed Palestinian moves on all levels to check the Israeli judaization of the holy city and to impose sanctions on Israel to force it to halt its settlement drive.

Efforts should be focused on exposing the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, which is pushing the region into confrontation with its denial of the Palestinian people's rights, Barghouthi underlined.

He urged all Palestinian parties to bypass marginal issues and to concentrate on the main question mainly confronting the Israeli occupation authority's' plots to liquidate the Palestinian national project. He called for the immediate restoration of national unity to confront the dangers of the current stage.

IOG delivers 30 new demolition orders to Jerusalemites

[ 27/04/2009 - 10:37 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government (IOG) municipality of occupied Jerusalem on Sunday sent teams of its so-called construction observation to deliver demolition notifications to 30 Palestinian families.

Local sources said that some of those homes were built 20 years ago and their owners paid fines, noting that the notified homes were located in Beit Hanina, Sha'fat, Aisawiya and Jabal Mukabir neighborhoods.

The sources pointed out that the new demolition orders raise the number of Palestinian homes threatened with destruction since start of this year to 1,052 inhabited by around 5,000 people.

They said that 60% of those houses were ordered to be flattened by the occupation municipality's local affairs court while 40% had received judicial rulings to the effect over the past years.

The local sources charged that the Israeli occupation authority was exercising "racist cleansing" against the Palestinian inhabitants of the holy city.