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 Israeli Occupaiton Soldiers, Illegal Settlers Storm & Desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque, Abuse Detainees

 

AFEH: IOF soldiers, settlers storm Aqsa mosque

[ 28/03/2012 - 10:17 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Dozens of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and illegal Jewish Israeli settlers stormed and desecrated the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque at an early hour Wednesday and offered rituals and toured its yards.

The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage (AFEH) said in an urgent statement that the soldiers in their uniform accompanied settlers in breaking into the holy compound through the Maghareba gate.

It said that the settlers offered rituals as the soldiers were deploying in its various corners amid rising tension, adding that worshippers were stationed in the mosque.

The foundation said that the settlers and the escorting soldiers stormed the holy site in three groups, estimating their total number at 100.

It said that the step fell in line with escalation in storming the Aqsa mosque over the past few days especially by Israeli intelligence agents.

AFEH urged the Arab and Islamic countries, rulers and ruled, to assume their duties in protecting the third holiest shrine in Islam.

Israeli Border Patrol Kill Two Men Along Egyptian Border

Wednesday March 28, 2012 00:19 by IMEMC Staff

Shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu toured the route of a border fence under construction between Israel and Egypt, on Tuesday, Israeli Border Patrol Agents shot and killed two men whilst attempting to cross illegally.

A third man escaped across the border into Egypt, with Israeli troops firing at his back as he ran. The identities of the two men who were killed in the incident are as yet unknown, but Israeli officials claim that one is a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship, and the other is Egyptian.

According to the Israeli border patrol spokesperson, the three men were allegedly engaged in illegal cross-border smuggling, and did not obey a command to stop by the Israeli border patrol. This led the border guards to open fire on the three men, killing two of them.

Apparently the men who were killed were on the Egyptian side of the border when they were shot, as the Egyptian authorities took possession of the two bodies.

This is the second such incident this month, after Israeli border officers shot at four men on the border two weeks ago, killing one and injuring three.

The killing comes in advance of massive border marches being planned for Palestinian Land Day on March 30th, when Palestinians on both sides of the border plan to march to the border fence and call for a return to their land inside what is now Israel.

Last year’s Land Day marches ended in deadly attacks by military forces in Lebanon and Syria, and were considered part of the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings of 2011.

Israeli court sentences Jerusalemite for alleged affiliation with Hamas

[ 28/03/2012 - 09:54 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli central court in Jerusalem sentenced Mohammed Duweyat, from Sour Baher in occupied Jerusalem, on Tuesday to seven and a half years in jail for alleged affiliation with Hamas.

Hebrew media said that the man, who was also sentenced to ten months suspended sentence, was found “guilty” of affiliation with an outlawed organization (Hamas), possession of weapons, and for planning violent acts.

The Israeli court said that Duweyat prepared an explosive device and was planning to throw it near the tunnels crossing in southern Jerusalem but reversed his plan and threw it near Gilo suburb where a garbage collector picked it up and it exploded in his hand amputating one of his fingers. The court said that Duweyat should pay the worker 54000 dollars in compensation.

IOA carries detained elderly man to hospital

[ 28/03/2012 - 09:29 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) rushed 65-year-old detainee Hussein Abu Hadid to a Jerusalem hospital after his health deteriorated on the same day of his arrest on Tuesday.

A lawyer for the Palestinian prisoner’s society said Abu Hadid was carried to Hadassah hospital, recalling that he was taken unconscious from his house in Al-Khalil at dawn Tuesday.

The lawyer, who arranged for a visit to Abu Hadid in hospital, said that she was denied entry, adding that an Israeli official told her that Abu Hadid was hospitalized in bad health condition.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the home of Abu Hadid in Abu Snene suburb in Al-Khalil and searched it before taking away the old man, who suffers a number of illnesses and who has undergone an open heart surgery. Abu Hadid lives with a pacemaker.

Gov't slams assassination attempt of prisoner Sayed in Gilboa jail

[ 28/03/2012 - 09:26 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Palestinian government in Gaza strongly denounced the attempt by Israeli jailers to physically liquidate prisoner Abbas Al-Sayed in Gilboa prison.

"The government strongly condemns the attempt to assassinate Abbas Al-Sayed and holds the Zionist occupation fully responsible for his life and safety," spokesman for the government Taher Al-Nunu stated on Tuesday.

The wife of prisoner Sayed said her husband was physically assaulted in an attempt to kill him in an Israeli jail.

The lawyers who visited Sayed told the wife that her husband was brutally beaten all over his body, especially in his chest and head, by Israeli jailers and was left in a cell writhing in pain.

For its part, Hamas Movement also held the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for the safety of prisoner Sayed and described what happened to him as a crime.

Its spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri appealed to human rights organizations to assume their duties and protect the Palestinian prisoners against Israel's violations.

Zionist court refused to release Hana' al-Shalabi

[ 27/03/2012 - 09:56 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

 An Israeli military court on Sunday rejected the appeal made by Hana' Al-Shalabi against her administrative detention, but her lawyer on Monday lodged an appeal on her behalf at the Supreme Court.

Shalabi has been on hunger strike for 41 consecutive days to protest her administrative detention without charge or trial.

According to Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, lawyer Jawad Boulus visited Shalabi who is lying in Meir hospital because of deterioration in her health as a result of the hunger strike to inform her of the decision of the military court and the appeal he made on her behalf to the Israeli Supreme Court. He also put her in the picture with regard to communications between the defence and the prosecution stressing that the defence will reject any suggestion that will not lead to her release.