[ 19/03/2010 - 09:20 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Jewish extremists distributed a picture in Tel-Aviv depicting the holy city without the Dome of the Rock, according the Yedioth Ahronoth on Friday.

The group removed the Dome of the Rock from the picture and replaced it with an image of the planned "third temple".

The picture was printed on the cover of the Haggadah of Pesach (Jewish prayers read on Passover).

The same picture was distributed at schools and kindergartens in Yaffa.

Hurva Synagogue Built on Palestinian Land Owned by Al-Bashiti Family, Beitawi Says It's Beginning of Israel's End 

Bashiti family: We own the land on which Hurva synagogue was built

[ 19/03/2010 - 08:49 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Palestinian Bashiti family, one of the prominent families in the occupied city of Jerusalem, have asserted Thursday that the land on which the Hurva synagogue was built belongs to them and that they have the title-deeds to prove their claim.

Dr. Subhi Al-Bashiti informed the PIC correspondent in Jerusalem that the family was in a continuous struggle with the successive Israeli occupation governments to retrieve their land after the Zionists confiscated it after the 1967 war.

He added that he has the authentic title-deeds endorsed by the Ottoman and the Jordanian authorities, adding that the Israeli occupation government tried to convince the family to sell the land or to exchange it with another land but the family refused, thus leading to the Israeli confiscation of the land by force under a military order on 18 April 1968, file number 1443, page 1238 for public use.

He added that his family purchased the land in 1880 and declared it as an Islamic endowment, pointing out that he protested the Israeli renovation of the synagogue on his own land but the Israeli authorities ignored the protest.

He explained that his grandfather Shaikh Hasan Al-Bashiti bought the land in 1880 after the 18th century synagogue was gutted by fire and the small Jewish community living in Jerusalem at the time could not rebuild it, so they put it up for sale.

Furthermore, Bashiti revealed that his family contacted King Hussein of Jordan and King Al-Hassan II of Morocco to help the family in this issue but, he added, both governments failed in stopping the Israeli plans in building the synagogue on his family’s land.

Bashiti stressed that his family won’t relax their struggle to retrieve the land, urging the Palestinian authority and international and Arab popular organizations to politically and financially help them in this course.

Moreover, Bashiti underscored that none of the Palestinian families in Jerusalem accepted the Israeli offer to sell their land despite the tremendous pressure exerted by the IOA on this families.

According to Israeli sources, the construction of the Hurva synagogue was the introduction for the construction of the alleged third temple on the ruins of the Aqsa Mosque.

The inauguration of the synagogue on Tuesday sparked widespread protest in the Palestinian street in occupied Jerusalem and in Gaza Strip, however, Palestinians in the West Bank were banned by Abbas’s forces to carryout any demonstration to protest the Israeli practices in Jerusalem. 

Beitawi Says Hurva Synagogue Beginning of the End of Israel

[ 20/03/2010 - 09:02 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Member of Parliament, Shaikh Hamed Al-Beitawi, the head of the Palestine Islamic Scholars League, on Friday said that the Israeli occupation government attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque never stopped ever since the occupation of eastern Jerusalem back in 1967.

Beitawi, however, opined that the Israeli construction and inauguration of the Hurva (Ruin) synagogue, near Al-Aqsa Mosque was signaling the start of the final downfall of Israel.

He charged a number of Arab regimes with conspiring with Israel but said that the Arab and Islamic masses would not remain silent in face of such violations of Islamic holy sanctities.

Another Jerusalemite MP, Ahmed Atton, said in a press statement on Friday that the uprising in occupied Jerusalem in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque and other Islamic holy shrines is the real response to all those conspiring against Jerusalem and Islamic shrines.

The lawmaker denounced the PA in Ramallah for quelling marches that hit the streets in solidarity with Al-Aqsa, and lashed out at the official Arab and Islamic silence towards the Israeli sacrilegious acts.