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Israel Apartheid Regime Resumes Construction of Apartheid Wall Despite International Court Ruling, Ghassan Kanafani Remembered
August 28, 2015
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Israeli apartheid resumes construction of apartheid wall despite International Court ruling, August 28, 2015. |
Ghassan Kanafani revered Palestinian national icon, who was
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| Members of the society of the Aqsa Mosque, Murabetoun and Murabitat, at the Aqsa Mosque compound, file, August 28, 2015 pic | Ahmad Sa'ad Darawshe, the 4-year-old Palestinian child who was victim of Israeli arson attack targeting his family home, August 2015 pic |
Israel resumes construction of apartheid wall despite court ruling
August 28, 2015, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
The Israeli nature authority objected to the decision of the war
ministry to resume construction of the separation barrier near Beit Jala,
south of Occupied Jerusalem, after the Supreme Court had invalidated the
building of the barrier in that region and ordered the government to
reconsider it, Haaretz reported Thursday.
A few days ago the
Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) uprooted olive trees along the
wall's route.
On Wednesday the IOA carried out large-scale
excavations in the area.
The Palestinians along with adjacent
Christian monasteries and Israelis residing in the illegal settlement of
Gush Etzion have objected to the construction of the separation wall
saying it rather affects the environment and is unnecessary for Israel’s
security.
The IOA resumed construction of the wall after years of
deliberations with the Supreme Court that culminated in recommendations
to reconsider the planned route of the separation barrier in the area.
The war ministry, however, resumed its work on the wall without
altering its route, promising to leave a 200-meter gap in the wall near
the local monasteries.
Ghassan Kanafani revered national icon
August 28, 2015, GAZA, (PIC)--
Hamas has denied rumors on having removed the name of Ghassan
Kanafani from one of Gaza’s schools, saying Kanafani is, and will
forever remain, a key Palestinian icon.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu
Zuhri said in a press statement Thursday that Hamas has held contacts
with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The Ministry
assured Hamas that the school still bears the same name, he added.
Abu Zuhri said Hamas will never allow any party to show any sign of
disrespect towards Palestinian national icons.
For his part,
undersecretary of the Ministry of Education in Gaza, Ziad Thabet, denied
rumors that the tag of a school bearing Ghassan Kanafani’s name in Rafah
city, to the south of Gaza, might have been changed to the name of
Marmara.
He said a new school for girls bearing the name Marmara
and adjacent to Ghassan Kanafani’s was inaugurated last year and will
start classes with the launch of the new academic year.
He added
that the Marmara school is independent of the Ghassan Kanafani school
and has a different teaching staff.
According to the official,
the ministry can never change the tags of schools and institutions
bearing the names of such revolutionary and outspoken national figures
as Ghassan Kanafani.
4-year-old victim of Israeli arson attack: What was I burned for?
August 28, 2015, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
“What was I burned for? Where is my family” were the very first words
mumbled by four-year-old victim of an Israeli arson attack, Ahmad Saa’d
Dawabsheh, after his health status has seen a slight improvement.
Ahmad’s brother, an 18-month toddler, was burned to death after
Israeli vandals set fire to their family home in Duma. His father
succumbed to his wounds few days later in the Soroka hospital in
Beersheba.
“What was I burned for? Why am I held in this bed?”
Ahmad asked his grandfather.
“Ahmad keeps asking me to contact
his father to take him back home from the hospital,” Ahmad’s grandfather
said.
“I want to go back home. Where is my young brother? Where
is my mother?” his grandfather quoted him as wondering with tears in his
eyes.
Both Ahmad and his mother underwent a skin grafting
surgery. Medics said their health status is still critical despite the
slight improvements in Ahmad’s health.
The grandfather called for
urgently arresting the Israeli vandals who perpetrated the arson attack
and prosecuting them without further delay.
Hamas: Ki-moon partner in Israel’s crimes
August 28, 2015, GAZA, (PIC)--
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the investigation broadcast
by al-Jazeera on Israel’s violations of the truce accord in Rafah is
another proof that Israel committed war crimes against Palestinians
during last summer’s offensive on Gaza.
Abu Zuhri slammed, in
statements posted on his Facebook page, UN’s Ban Ki-moon for having
adopted the counterfeit Israeli version legitimizing the murder of over
170 civilians in Rafah.
Abu Zuhri called on UN’s Ki-moon to step
down immediately and apologize to the Palestinian people for his
involvement in Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians.
A
screened probe aired on al-Jazeera TV Channel on Thursday said Israel
discovered the loss of the soldier Hadar Goldin two hours after an
ambush was carried out by al-Qassam Brigades, proving that the Israeli
army is responsible for breaching the truce.
According to al-Qassam’s
version the clashes took place 25 minutes before the truce was put into
effect.
The video report said the Israeli occupation army mistook
the body of the resistance fighter Walid Tawfiq Mas’oud for that of the
Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin during clashes that flared up prior to the
violent bombardment of Rafah city.
Arab League slams Israel's attempts to ban Aqsa Mosque society
August 28, 2015, CAIRO, (PIC)--
The Arab League on Thursday strongly denounced the Israeli
government's attempts to classify the society of the Aqsa Mosque "Murabetoun
and Murabitat" as an illegal group and ban its activities.
The
society of Murabetoun and Murabitat is a group of Palestinian Muslim men
and women who stay in rotation inside the Aqsa Mosque to defend it
against possible violations and desecration attempts by Jewish settlers
and the Israeli authorities.
The general secretariat of the Arab
League (Occupied Palestine Section) stated in a press release that the
Israeli government's recent step against the society happened after
minister of internal security Gilad Erdan had called on the war minister
to classify the society of Murabetoun and Murabitat as illegal and ban
its presence inside the Aqsa Mosque.
The Arab League described
Erdan's call for banning the presence of the Muslim group inside the
Mosque as "state terrorism" against the Palestinians who defend their
holy sites.
It stressed that the Palestinians have the right
under the international law to peacefully defend their holy places and
confront Israel's Judaization plans.
The Arab League also
condemned the Shin Bet and the attorney general of Israel for declaring
their support for the desecration of the Aqsa Mosque by extremist Jewish
groups and approving their calls for performing Talmudic rituals inside
it.
It appealed to the international community and the UN to
curb such Israeli racist and provocative practices against the
Palestinians and their holy sites in order to avoid triggering a
religious war in that sensitive region.
Israeli police bar two Aqsa school girls from entering Mosque
August 28, 2015, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
The Israeli occupation police on Thursday banned the entry of two
school girls to the Aqsa Mosque for several days and summoned a female
photojournalist for interrogation.
Local sources reported that
the Israeli police in Occupied Jerusalem ordered the students, Bara and
Israa Gazzari, not to enter the Aqsa Mosque to attend their daily
religious classes, which start from eight o'clock in the morning to two
o'clock in the afternoon.
According to the police order, the
entry ban against the students will be effective for only 15 days.
The two students condemned the decision as "unjust and racist",
pointing out that the police accused them of assaulting one of their
officers and throwing a water balloon at him.
The same sources
added that the police in the holy city also detained photojournalist
Zaina Qatmira, who works for Qudsna media center, during her presence at
al-Silsila Gate of the Aqsa Mosque.
Qatmira was released later on
condition of her return next Sunday to the police station in Qishleh
area for interrogation.
Israel keeps silent over Hadar Goldin file
August 28, 2015, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--
The Israeli Occupation Authorities (IOA) refused to comment on al-Qassam
Brigades’ recent statements regarding the capture of the Israeli soldier
Hadar Goldin in Gaza last year.
Spokesman for Israeli army
refused to comment on the investigation broadcast by al-Jazeera TV
Channel last night, during which Hamas’ armed wing denied the Israeli
allegations saying that Hadar Goldin was killed during clashes with al-Qassam
fighters.
A screened probe aired on al-Jazeera TV Channel on
Thursday said Israel discovered the loss of the soldier Hadar Goldin two
hours after an ambush was carried out by al-Qassam Brigades, proving
that the Israeli army is responsible for breaching the truce.
According to al-Qassam, the clashes took place 25 minutes before the
truce was put into effect.
The video report said the Israeli
occupation army mistook the body of the resistance fighter Walid Tawfiq
Masoud for that of the Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin during clashes that
flared up prior to the violent bombardment of Rafah city.
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