Israeli Occupation Forces Storm Palestinian
Cities, Kidnap Civilians, Prevent West Bankers Access to Al-Aqsa Mosque,
Escort Settlers
June 17, 2016
Editor's Note:
The following news stories are just few examples
of the Israeli occupation government's violation of Palestinian human
rights, which cannot continue without the full financial and military
support from the US-EU governments.
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Palestinian Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Qurs,
Jerusalem, June 17, 2016 pic |
Israeli occupation soldiers arrested the Jerusalemite
Palestinian woman Khadija Khweis after banning her from entering
Al-Aqsa Mosque, June 16, 2016 pic |
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Israeli occupation soldiers at a checkpoint in Jerusalem,
restricting Muslim worshippers access to Al-Aqsa Mosque, June
17, 2016 pic |
994 Israelis stormed
Islamic al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, in two weeks, June 16,
2016 pic |
Thousands of Palestinians observe Friday khutba and prayer at
Al-Aqsa Mosque
June 17, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
More than 200,000 Palestinians were able to perform the second Friday
prayer during the holy month of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque amid
unprecedented tight security measures, according to the Islamic waqf
authority in Occupied Jerusalem.
Scores of Palestinians flocked
from the towns and neighborhoods of Jerusalem as well as the 1948
occupied lands to the Old City and the Aqsa Mosque to listen to the
Friday khutba (sermon) and perform the Friday prayer.
About 200
elderly citizens form Gaza and many others from the West Bank were also
allowed to enter Jerusalem today.
However, the Israeli occupation
forces prevented all West Bank men under age 45 from entering the holy
city.
Thousands of Palestinians barred from entering J'lem for
Friday prayer
June 17, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
The Israeli occupation government police in the morning turned the
occupied city of Jerusalem into a military zone and prevented thousands
of Palestinians from entering it for the Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa
Mosque.
Thousands of police and border troops were deployed
throughout east Jerusalem, including the Old City and the area around
the Aqsa Mosque, according to local sources.
The Israeli police
also banned, for the second week, thousands of Palestinians from the
West Bank from entering Jerusalem to pray at the Aqsa Mosque.
Only men over age 45 and women of all ages who hold permits were hardly
allowed to enter the holy city for the Friday prayer.
Verbal
altercations and physical confrontations between Palestinian young men
and Israeli occupation soldiers happened at West Bank checkpoints and
crossings that lead to Jerusalem.
Some citizens reportedly fell
unconscious as a result of their presence in stampedes and their
exposure to scorching heat during their attempts to cross into
Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, scores of young men tried to enter
Jerusalem by climbing over the separation walls, but police patrols
spotted many of them and opened rubber bullets at them.
6 Palestinians kidnapped by IOF in West Bank sweep
June 17, 2016, RAMALLAH, (PIC)--
Six Palestinian citizens were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation
forces (IOF) from West Bank provinces at dawn Friday.
The Israeli
occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of six
allegedly wanted Palestinians.
The campaign targeted Hamas
anti-occupation activists, including ex-prisoners Samer al-Masri, from
al-Khalil, and Hamza Adeeb, from Tulkarem.
The other detainees
were kidnapped from the West Bank provinces of al-Khalil and Salfit.
The IOF stepped up arbitrary abductions of Palestinian protesters
across the West Bank in an attempt to snuff out the flames of
anti-occupation activism.
Jerusalemite woman’s arrest extended
June 17, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
The Israeli Magistrate Court extended on Thursday the arrest of the
Jerusalemite detainee Khadija Khweis.
Israeli police summoned on
Wednesday Khweis for investigation in Maskoubiya investigation center
where she was detained before being brought to court on Thursday.
Khweis was charged of being affiliated to “a banned group”. She was
earlier arrested for four times under the same charge.
Khweis’
16-year-old daughter, two young sons, and mother were also summoned for
investigation on Wednesday afternoon; however, they refused to respond.
Israeli police, in response, arrested Khweis’ daughter and father
from their house before being shortly released.
During the
investigation, Khweis’ daughter informed Israeli authorities that her
grandmother can’t move by herself and her brothers are too young to be
investigated.
Khweis was earlier banned from entering al-Aqsa
Mosque and from traveling abroad for six months.
IOF imposes curfew on Nablus village
June 17, 2016, NABLUS, (PIC)--
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) imposed Thursday evening a curfew
on Hawara village, south of Nablus to the north of the West Bank.
Israeli 0404 website claimed that the curfew was imposed shortly
after a settler’s car was allegedly subjected to a stone-throwing attack
near the town.
The Israeli driver was slightly injured during the
alleged attack, according to the sources.
The town’s mayor Nasser
Hawari affirmed that Israeli forces were deployed in large numbers
throughout the town after closing its entrance.
The PIC reporter
quoted local sources as saying that dozens of residents were stopped and
searched while combing operations were carried out in the main roads of
the town.
IOF soldiers also closed Hawara and Awarta checkpoints,
preventing dozens of Palestinian vehicles from having access to the
town.
Since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, Israeli
forces have taken over seven local houses and have barricaded themselves
on their roofs.
IOF storms towns in Ramallah and Jenin
June 16, 2016, RAMALLAH, (PIC)--
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening stormed
Surda town, north of Ramallah, and the mounts of Jaba town near Jenin.
Local sources said that Israeli troops invaded Surda town and were
deployed in an area around the demolished house of martyr Muhanad al-Halabi,
who carried out a stabbing attack in October last year.
No
arrests have been reported during the IOF campaign in the town.
The Israeli army had demolished the house of martyr Halabi last January
and displaced his family.
Another Israeli military force entered
and combed the eastern mountainous area of Jaba town in Jenin, with no
reported arrests. A helicopter was flying over the area during the
campaign.
In separate incidents, the Hebrew radio said that
Palestinian young men in the evening hurled stones at settlers' cars
near Hizma village, east of Jerusalem.
Violent clashes also broke
out last night between Palestinian young men and Israeli police forces
in Ras al-Amud neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
IOF storms towns in Ramallah and Jenin
June 16, 2016, RAMALLAH, (PIC)--
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening stormed
Surda town, north of Ramallah, and the mounts of Jaba town near Jenin.
Local sources said that Israeli troops invaded Surda town and were
deployed in an area around the demolished house of martyr Muhanad al-Halabi,
who carried out a stabbing attack in October last year.
No
arrests have been reported during the IOF campaign in the town.
The Israeli army had demolished the house of martyr Halabi last January
and displaced his family.
Another Israeli military force entered
and combed the eastern mountainous area of Jaba town in Jenin, with no
reported arrests. A helicopter was flying over the area during the
campaign.
In separate incidents, the Hebrew radio said that
Palestinian young men in the evening hurled stones at settlers' cars
near Hizma village, east of Jerusalem.
Violent clashes also broke
out last night between Palestinian young men and Israeli police forces
in Ras al-Amud neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
Injuries, arrests in IOF assault on Bethlehem refugee
camp
June 16, 2016, BETHLEHEM, (PIC)--
Two Palestinian youngsters sustained bullet injuries and two others
were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday
in an assault on the Aida refugee camp, in northern Bethlehem city.
Reporting from Bethlehem, a PIC journalist said the occupation army
rolled into the Aida refugee camp at the crack of dawn and wreaked havoc
on civilian homes before they kidnapped the two youngsters Muhammad al-Ameer
and Anas Nabhan. Both were dragged to an unidentified destination
shortly afterwards.
Two other youngsters were detained by the IOF
before they were released sometime later.
Violent clashes burst
out following the assault and culminated in heavy spates of live rounds,
rubber bullet fire, and teargas canisters randomly discharged by the IOF
in the process.
A Palestinian youth sustained live bullet
injuries and another sustained rubber bullet wounds. Both casualties
were rushed to the Beit Jala public hospital to be urgently treated for
the critical wounds inflicted in the assault.
Clashes also flared
up in Qalqilya, around which the IOF has imposed a security cordon for
the fourth day running.
The Israeli military forces rummaged into
civilian homes and kidnapped 25-year-old Mueen Muhammad al-Dalou from
his family home in the city.
Earlier, overnight Wednesday, two
Palestinian youngsters had been subjected to exhaustive questioning for
hours by the occupation soldiers.
A report by the Israeli army
claimed responsibility for the abduction of two Palestinians from Silwad
town, in eastern Ramallah, two from al-Khalil’s southern town of Yatta,
two from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, a citizen from Qalqilya, and
another from Jericho.
The IOF further rolled into Duma town, to
the southeast of Nablus, and ravaged newly-built Palestinian homes.
Activist Omar Dawabsheh told the PIC that the IOF soldiers were
carrying maps and raked through Palestinian lands before they searched
water wells and took snapshots of the area.
The occupation
troops further smashed the well locks and cracked down on Palestinian
locals as they protested the assault.
994 Israelis stormed Muslims’ al-Aqsa since early June
June 16, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
994 Israeli settlers and intelligence officers have stormed the holy
al-Aqsa Mosque since early June, a new report revealed Wednesday.
According to statistics by the Quds Press news agency, 307 settlers
stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque on the day of the commemoration of the
occupation of Jerusalem.
The break-ins continued during the holy
Ramadan month. Over the past four days (from June 12 to June 15) 324
Israeli settlers, eight Jewish students, and 15 intelligence officers
stormed the site.
Most of the break-ins have reportedly been
carried out via the Maghareba gate and under heavy police escort.
The report further documented the abduction of six Palestinian
worshipers from and near the al-Aqsa Mosque, three among whom were
identified as members of the al-Aqsa supervision and reconstruction
staff.
The Israeli occupation forces also arrested three other
guards from their homes in the Old City and al-Issawiya shortly after a
guard was hit by an Israeli police jeep.
The occupation police
banned 10 Palestinian worshipers from the al-Aqsa during the same period
for intervals amounting to three months. Among those affected by the
bans were the al-Aqsa guards, two girls, and the head of Supreme
Commission to Support Jerusalem and al-Aqsa, Muhammad Watad.
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