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Israeli Occupation Soldiers and Illegal Jewish Settlers Kidnap, Beat Palestinians, Set Fields on Fire, Annex More Land

May 29, 2012

Jewish settlers beat up Jerusalemite child

[ 29/05/2012 - 10:54 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

A group of Jewish settlers assaulted a Jerusalemite child when he was passing near a settlement outpost to the entrance of Wadi Hilwe suburb in occupied Jerusalem.

The Wadi Hilwe information center said that the settlers severely beat up the child on Monday night.

It said that inhabitants of the suburb rushed to rescue the child after they heard his screams, adding that fistfights ensued between the inhabitants and the settlers.

IOF attack worshipers inside Mosque in Beit Ummar

[ 29/05/2012 - 11:02 AM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked at dawn the grand Mosque of Beit Ummar north of Al-Khalil city with smoke and tear gas grenades as many Palestinian worshipers were inside.

Many worshipers were inside the Mosque for dawn prayers when the IOF showered them with a barrage of smoke and tear gas grenades causing them to suffocate and leave the Mosque for fresh air.

At the same time, the Israeli troops also fired smoke and tear gas grenades at nearby houses and clashed with Palestinian citizens.

Five Palestinians including two children were kidnapped during the IOF raid on Beit Ummar village.

The IOF also detained four Palestinian children in the old city of Al-Khalil and intensified their presence in different areas of the city.

They erected several barriers in the towns of Addaheriya and Rammaddin, and the areas of Bab Azzawiya and Joret Bajlas inside the city and embarked on checking the citizens' IDs and searching vehicles.

IOF tanks advance in southern Gaza

[ 29/05/2012 - 10:52 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) mounting armored vehicles and tanks advanced near Qarara village to the east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday morning.

Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers in 13 armored vehicles and tanks opened intensive shooting and fired four smoke bombs during their advance.

They said that the soldiers bulldozed areas east of Qarara.

IOF kidnap 10 Palestinians in W. Bank raids

[ 29/05/2012 - 10:51 AM ]

JENIN, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Tuesday kidnapped 10 Palestinians in the occupied territories of Jerusalem, Jenin, Qalqiliya and Bethlehem.

The Hebrew radio affirmed that the citizens were rounded during raids on different West Bank areas.

In this regard, a reporter for the Palestinian information center (PIC) said the IOF violently raided homes in Arqa village west of Jenin and kidnapped three Palestinians.

Another citizen was also kidnapped from Seris village south of Jenin. Other villages of Jenin were raided by the IOF at dawn.

In a separate incident on Monday, the IOF kidnapped a young man called Mansour Shiyoukhi from his workplace in Silwan district of occupied Jerusalem.

An Israeli court also extended the detention of three other young men from Silwan until next Sunday and ordered their transfer to Maskubiya prison for interrogation.

Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers set Palestinian farmland on fire

[ 29/05/2012 - 11:03 AM ]

TULKAREM, (PIC)--

Palestinian locals in Qufin village, north of Tulkarem, have charged illegal Israeli Jewish settlers with setting dozens of cultivated dunums on fire in the village.

The Palestinian civil defense brigades in Tulkarem said in a press release on Tuesday that firefighters rushed to the site of the fire not far from Homesh settlement where the blaze was destroying hundreds of dunums of olive and forest trees.

The director of the brigades in Tulkarem appealed to the Red Cross and the liaison office to bridle the settlers’ attacks that occur under the very eyes of the Israeli occupation forces.

Jerusalemites protest the planting of fake Jewish graves around Al-Aqsa

[ 28/05/2012 - 09:57 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Hundreds of Jerusalemites organized a sit-in at Wadi Rababa neighborhood in Silwan to protest the planting of fake Jewish graves south of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

The occupation has planted during the last week fake graves around Al-Aqsa in order to take control of unused lands as a prelude to implement the so called Talmudic gardens plan.

The protesters demanded the removal of these fake graves and called for public and diplomatic moves to expose the Israeli occupation practices.

The protesters explained that occupation's bulldozers have removed the Islamic graves in Mamanullah cemetery in Jerusalem then planting fake Jewish graves in Wadi Rababa as a prelude to take over more than 36 dunums of strategic Palestinian lands there in the southern old city and Al-Aqsa mosque.

Protesters expressed anger at the deliberate falsification of the Arab-Islamic and Christian history of the city of Jerusalem, noting that Jerusalem municipality and the so called department of environment became tools to implement the extremist settler organization Elad's goals.

Deputy Head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied lands Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib said that occupation authorities seek to steal the land's history and the geography through convincing the world that this land particularly Jerusalem contains Jewish graves for hundreds of years.

The occupation took by force the Palestinian lands in 1948 and 1967, and it is trying now to legitimize its presence through planting these fake graves to show that it is the land of Jews, Khatib told Quds Press on Monday.

This land is a Palestinian Arab Muslim land which cannot accept under any circumstances this falsification, he added.

The Deputy of the Islamic movement pointed out to "the need to face this project through disclosing these crimes and this occupation project which depends on armed force in order to prove its presence, he added that what has been disclosed is enough to prove that these graves are fake and unreal.

He said that fighting the occupation through law and media is not enough because the main problem is its presence. The Islamic nation has to combine its efforts to end this occupation, because if it continues, it will continue its aggression on the history, Geography and people.