Israeli court asks evicted families to prove they lived in their own homes

[ 06/08/2009 - 11:41 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

An Israeli court asked the families of Hanun and Ghawi, who were evicted from their homes by the Israeli occupation government, to prove that they lived in their own homes and that they were forcibly evacuated from them.

Sources close to the two families said on Thursday that members of the two families asked neighbors to testify before the court that they lived in their homes and that the Israeli occupation policemen forced them out to the street.

The incident was watched on TV by millions of people all over the world and published in the newspapers but the court still wanted a proof!

Meanwhile, both families refused to leave the pavement where they live after their eviction and refused tents offered by the Red Cross.

They said they preferred to remain under the sun heat than turn into refugees anew and added that they would only leave the pavement back to their homes.

IOG delivers demolition orders to 13 Jerusalemite families

[ 06/08/2009 - 09:30 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government (IOG) has distributed demolition orders to 13 Jerusalemite families in five suburbs in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday, Palestinian sources in the city reported.

They said that the IOG-controlled municipality of the holy city claimed in the notifications that the 13 houses were built without permits.

The sources pointed out that the campaign did not stop and that each day more homes are informed of similar destruction notices.

Issam Juwaihan, member of the Jerusalemite committee of the international Quds institution, told Quds Press news agency that the campaign covered all suburbs in the occupied city with special concentration on Aisawiye, Sha'fat and Beit Safafa.

He said that the IOA was totally indifferent about local and international calls to stop its racial cleansing policy in the city against the Palestinian inhabitants.

Threats to the citizens' and their property and holy shrines are very serious, which necessitate a real Arab, Islamic, and international intervention to curb such growing practices, Juwaihan concluded.

Meanwhile, in Salfit, citizens reported that armed Jewish settlers, escorted by army troops, were every now and then touring a tourist attraction west of Salfit apparently in preparation for expropriating it.

They noted that IOA bulldozers had leveled the land near the site and built factories, expecting that more such bulldozing would take place.

Hamas: World community involved in judaization of Jerusalem

[ 06/08/2009 - 11:52 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

Hamas on Thursday issued a statement in the West Bank charging the world community with collusion in the Israeli occupation authority's (IOA) judaization of occupied Jerusalem.

The statement said that the IOA confiscation of land, seizure of houses, expulsion of inhabitants, digging tunnels under the Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of Jerusalem with the absolute silence on the part of the world indicate that those practices were made with the consent of the world community.

Hamas asked the Arab and Islamic countries, peoples, institutions and strugglers to act on all levels to protect the Aqsa Mosque and occupied Jerusalem in the face of IOA rabid judaization campaigns.

Popular committee for J’lem discusses ways of confronting Zionist threats

 06/08/2009 - 09:39 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The popular committee for the support of Jerusalem said on Thursday that many important points were reached during the continued emergency meetings it held recently to discuss ways of confronting the Zionist schemes and threats in occupied Jerusalem.

In a press release, the committee stated that the Israeli ferocious Judaization attack on Jerusalem is the dream of every Jew as it was declared by Zionist official Nir Barakat after his victory in the municipal elections in the holy city.

The committee deplored Israel for alleging that its presence in Jerusalem is a religious duty in blatant contravention of all international resolutions and historical texts that confirmed the absence of Jewish presence in the holy city.

“Whatever they claim and no matter how much excavations and diggings they carry out, even if they turn the earth upside down, they will never find for themselves history in here,” the committee underlined.

The committee condemned the Arab and international silence towards the serious Israeli violations committed against the holy city and its people and urged them to urgently intervene to save the city and holy places from the Judaization policy.