Occupation authorities issue new demolition orders in occupied Jerusalem

[ 26/05/2009 - 10:18 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Zionist occupation municipality of Jerusalem handed on Tuesday new demolition orders to Palestinian owners of homes that were built without a permit.

Local sources in Jerusalem said that 17 such orders have been issued to Palestinian residents in the neighbourhoods of Al-Shqareyya, Beit Hanina, Shu'afat, 'Eisawiya and Jabal al-Mukabber, adding that lawyers are working to get court orders to stop or freeze the demolition orders.

The sources added that lawyers succeeded in some previous cases to get a freeze on the demolition orders provided the owners start the process of getting building permits.

These demolition orders are part of the Israeli occupation authorities' policy of Judaizing Jerusalem through making it extremely difficult for Palestinians to get building permits to force them to move out of the city and demolishing the homes of those who take the risk and build without permits.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap four Al-Aqsa Brigades men in Nablus

Date: 27 / 05 / 2009  Time:  09:35
Nablus – Ma’an Exclusive –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped evening four Palestinians affiliated to the Fat'h armed wing, Al-Aqsa Brigades, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday evening.

Ma’an learned from Palestinian security sources that the activists were travelling in a blue Hyundai on Wadi Al-Badan road before they were overtaken by an Israeli patrol which surrounded the car and detained them.

The source named the men as Muhammad Al-Mansi, Nasouh Abu Sa’ada, Salah Rimawi, and Tariq Idris.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 11 Palestinians overnight

Date: 27 / 05 / 2009  Time:  13:21
Hebron – Ma’an –

The Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 11 Palestinians during overnight raids in the West Bank, bringing the total to 22 in the last three days.

Among those detained on Wednesday morning were two Palestinians from the southern West Bank towns of Tarqumiya and Al-Shuyoukh. Israeli forces ransacked several homes in both towns.

According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society in Hebron, Firas Abu Haltam from Tarqumiya, and Muhammad Ababda from Al-Shuyoukh were kidnapped from their homes.

Separately, Israeli forces raided several houses in the southern West Bank town of Sa’ir east of Hebron. No detentions were reported there.

Israeli forces also kidnapped four Palestinian fighters affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, while they were driving a car in the city of Nablus.

Hamas fighter killed in northern Gaza

Date: 27 / 05 / 2009  Time:  12:33
Gaza – Ma’an –

Hamas’ armed wing said that one of its fighters was killed on a “Jihad mission” in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.

According to an Al-Qassam Brigades communiqué, 25-year-old Muhammad Abdul Karim Al-Madhoun was killed. The statement did not specify the circumstances of the death or the details of the mission.

Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of Ambulance and Emergency services in the Gaza Health Ministry, a dead body arrived at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. The body was recovered when a tunnel collapsed in the northern Gaza Strip.

Sources at the hospital also said that a second body had arrived from the same incident.

The Hamas military statement said that Al-Madhoun was killed "during his duty in a special task.

"He had a bright history full of exploits in his Jihad against the Zionist occupation," the statement said.

Israeli navy kidnaps Palestinian fishermen off Gaza shore

Tuesday May 26, 2009 16:25 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Israeli terrorist naval forces kidnapped on Tuesday morning two Palestinian fishermen off the Rafah shores, southern Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that the two men where stopped by navy boats then were kidnapped an taken to unknown locations. Meanwhile Israeli navy opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats as they were ready to leave Rafah see port on Tuesday at dawn, damage was reported but no injuries.