Al-Quds Weekly News
16 January 2015, Issue no 50
Al-Aqsa Foundation: 14952 settlers and members of the occupation stormed Al-Aqsa in 2014, including ministers and deputies
In This Issue Occupation prepares a plan to tighten control over Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Ninety buses from «Al Bayariq» to Al-Aqsa Mosque on the anniversary of the Prophet›s birthday Occupation demolished 112 facili-
“Al-Aqsa Foundation for Waqf and Heritage” statistically reported that about 14952 settlers and occupation components stormed and desecrated Al-Aqsa Mosque during 2014, including: 12569 settlers, 1102 intelligence members, 1084 soldiers, a female soldier in military uniform under the “guidance military and exploration” program, and 197 elements and other characters, including ministers, deputy ministers and members of the “Knesset”; ie, an average of 1246 stormers a month, on the general level. “Al-Aqsa Foundation also mentioned that “among the characters that stormed Al-Aqsa in the year 2014 were “Uri Ariel,” Minister of settlements and housing, “Moshe Feiglin,” the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, “Yitzhak Ohronovic,” Secretary of Homeland Security, “Tzipi Hotobla,” Deputy Transport Minister, leader of the “Likud”party, Ze’ev Elkin, Deputy of the Foreign Minister and Chairman of the State Security Committee in the “Israeli” MK, member of the” Knesset “of the Jewish Home” Shuli Muallm “, and “Rabbi Yehuda Glick,” the activist in the Likud, and “the occupation mayor of Jerusalem” Nir Barkat. “ Palestinains of 48 Website, 1/1/2015 Issue No 50 // 16th January , 2015
ties in Jerusalem during 2014 Jerusalem in 2014: 15 martyrs, 4600 injured and detained, 150 exiled, and 214 facilities demolished Jerusalem: Palestinian proportion higher than the number of Jews that has become lower French Jews immigrate to the Jewish state doubled in 2014 WWW.ALQUDSMALAYSIA.ORG
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Occupation prepares a plan to tighten control over Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa The Hebrew newspaper, “Haaretz”, unveiled on Thursday (1/1), a comprehensive plan presented recently by the Israeli police to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to ensure tighteniging Israeli control over the occupied city of Jerusalem in general, and Al-Aqsa Mosque in particular. The newspaper said that 1156 additional police officers are needed to be recruited so to implement this plan. It also mentioned including the establishment of two new police stations, along with the deployment of joint security units of the “rapid intervention” and “secret police” forces. The newspaper added that preliminary estimates indicate that this plan would cost a budget estimated at 600-700 million shekels (154-180 million dollars), which would cost to recruit new members to the police about the amount of 150 million shekels ($ 38 million). According to “Haaretz”, the plan includes the division of East Jerusalem into three areas, where in every area a police station works and be responsible for police affairs. The plan also includes promoting held devices in Al-Aqsa Mosque through the monument magnetic gates at the gates of Al-Aqsa.
The newspaper said that because the submission date of the elections was moved forward, it was not possible to implement the three stages at once and so decided to start the first phase at a cost of about 100 million shekels ($ 25 million), so that the implementation of the plan occur in three phases; the first phase to be implemented immediately, the second phase will be held after 6 months, and the third after a year from now. Palestinains of 48 Website, 1/1/2015
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Ninety buses from «Al Bayariq» to Al-Aqsa Mosque on the anniversary of the Prophet›s birthday Al Bayariq Foundation for rhe reviving Al-Aqsa Mosque announed running 90 buses to the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Saturday (3/1), corresponding to the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohammad. The buses ran off from various Arab towns in the occupied territories in 48, where Al Aqsa yards were filled and crammed with worshipers who went to the revival of the holy mosque. Jerusalem also marketed witnessing PPC traffic-intensive because of the large numbers that flowed into the holy city, which contributed greatly to the recovery of the economic situation deteriorating because of the occupation authorities policies. In a related context and within the activities aimed to reviving Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al Bayariq Foundation in cooperation with “Hira” Centre launched 7 buses carrying students from the center in Nazareth Branch to Al-Aqsa Mosque, in order to renew the pledge of allegiance to the Mosque and to strengthen the relationship between them, especially in the current circumstances experienced by Al Aqsa because of the occupation and the set- and identified the features, corners, and chapels inside and listened to the tlers’ violations. In Al-Aqsa explanation of the specialists mentors. Mosque, students toured the Palestinians of 48 Website, 4/1/2015 postponement of the mosque
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Occupation demolished 112 facilities in Jerusalem during 2014 Figures compiled by the “Al Maqdisi” Foundation, on Wednesday (31/12), indicated that the Israeli authorities demolished 112 residential and nonresidential facilities in East Jerusalem during the year 2014. Demolition operations resulted in the displacement of 341 people. The demolished structures are distributed as 65 housing units, and 47 facilities used for purposes other than housing such as barracks, shops, walls, tents, and stores, while other 20 people were forced to demolish their homes by their own hands under the threat of imprisonment and financial heavy fines. The demolitions centred in the area of Al Tour; where 15 demolition actions were implemented, in the area of Beit Hanina; where 14 demolition actions were implemented, in the area of Silwan; where 8 demolition operations were done, in addition to Ras El Amood, Issawiya, old town, and Shuafat. Al Quds Al Maqdeseya Newspaper 31/12/2014
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Jerusalem in 2014: 15 martyrs, 4600 injured and detained, 150 exiled, and 214 facilities demolished Monitoring report of the Islamic Christian Commission in support of Jerusalem and the holy places reported an unprecedented escalation of attacks during 2014 of the Israeli occupation and settlers in the city of Jerusalem and its holy sites. The report, which was introduced by the Commission on Monday (5/1) showed at the headquarters of the National People’s Congress of Jerusalem, Ramallah, referes that the 15 martyrs have been shot by Israeli soldiers and attacked by settlers, while about 2,500 Jerusalemites were injured, other 2100 were arrested, including about 700 children and 54 women, and 150 citizens were exiled from the city, in addition to the fact that the Israeli occupation forces demolished the municipality and about 214 facilities as homes and shops and barn cattles. On the other hand, the monitoring report referred to the actual building of about 850 housing units out of thousands of units, the Israeli government approved for construction in the holy city and its surroundings, including a huge settlement neighborhood in East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. For the first time since the occupation of the city in 1967, the Israeli occupation forces closed Al-Aqsa Mosque Issue No 50 // 16th January , 2015
in front of the congregations, and it was in Al Qadr night in the month of Ramadan, the last; the mosque was raided by 13750 settlers and 2070soldiers through 2014. The Minister of Awqaf, Joseph Adeis, said that what happened in Jerusalem in 2014 of the unprecedented escalation is only the process of obliterating the Arab identity of the city and Judaizing its urban, religious, cultural and economic sides. Adeis added that at the time in which the Israeli government is pumping huge sums to invest in Jerusalem, the Arab and Muslim support for the city and its citizens is almost negligible. The Minister of Awqaf requested Arab and Islamic media to allocate an open media day ‘to expose the practices and violations of the occupation in the occupied Jerusalem. On his part, the Secretary General of the Islamic-Christian Commission, Hanna Issa, said that Israeli practices in Jerusalem do not differentiate between Muslims and Christians, pointing out that these measures pushed the majority of Christians to immigration, where the number of Christians currently in the city is just five thousand people, down from 27 thousand before two decades. WAFA Palestinain News Agency, 5/1/2015
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Jerusalem: Palestinian proportion higher than the number of Jews that has become lower
The Weekly Hebrew “Kol Ha ‘ir” said, on Friday (2/1), that according to the data of “Jerusalem Institute for Israeli Research,” which is based on data from the Office, “the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics,” there has been in recent years a decline in the proportion of the Jewish population in Jerusalem, compared to the population of Palestinians, as was the proportion of Jews in Jerusalem in 1967, about 74%, and their percentage in 2012 reached 63%. During the year 2012, about 19,200 people moved from the city of Jerusalem and entered it 10,500 people; that’s the balance of migration was negative. The number of Jews in Jerusalem in 2012 increased by 0.9% (about 4,700 people), while the number of Palestinians increased by 2.6% (about 7,650 people). The birth rate among Jewish women was 4.3 children, especially due to the high birth rate among the orthodox and Aharidiat; the Arab Women fertilization rate was 3.6 children. It is clear from the data that there is an increase in the number of ultraOrthodox in Jerusalem, while was there percentage in the years 20052007 about 21% of the total population and became 31% in the years from 2010 to 2012, while the proportion of the laity in the past declined from 2010 to 2012 to 19%. Al Quds Al Maqgeseya Newspaper, 3/1/2015
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French Jews immigrate to the Jewish state doubled in 2014
The “Jewish Agency” announced, on Thursday (1/1), that more than 7 thousand French Jews immigrated to the Jewish state in 2014; more than the double number of the last year of those who immigrated and numbered 3,293 people. The agency said it was the first time that the French Jews constitute the largest proportion of immigrants to the Jewish state. The proportion of those coming from the United States has reached (3870) immigrants and the ones coming from Russia (4,830 immigrants). Figures show that a total of 26,500 Jews immigrated to the Jewish state in 2014, an increase of 32% in size compared to 2013. Al Quds Al Maqdeseya Newspaper, 1/1/2015
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