Al-Quds Weekly News
12 August 2015, Issue no 74
Expert: Israel planning a multi-story building at Western Wall
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JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- The Israeli authorities are planning to build a multi-story building inside the Western Wall plaza in the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian academic told Ma’an on Wednesday. Dr. Jamal Amr, a professor of urban planning at Birzeit University and Jerusalem Foundation member, said that the six-story building would celebrate the heritage of the Jewish Temples, and would comprise a museum, prayer halls, and offices for right-wing Jewish organizations. The organizations are funding the project together with the Israeli government, Amr said, although his claims could not be verified.
rusalem,” Amr said, many of which he claimed date to the Abbasid and Umayyad eras, from roughly 660 to 1260 CE. The complex will also be connected to the series of underground tunnels which run beneath the Old City and to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
In the past, excavations inside the tunnels have damaged Islamic antiquities and Amr said that the blueprints for even collapsed, threatening Palestinian the building were prepared in buildings above. secret and revealed only after Amr warned that the new project would those leading the project began further “efface” Arab and Islamic features the application process for the inside the Old City. needed license. The Western Wall is the last remnant of The building is expected to cost the Second Temple, which was destroyed $13 million, at a size of 1,400 by the Romans in 70 AD. square meters and a height of 23 meters high, with two of the six It borders the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which is the third holiest site in Islam, and floors underground, he said. has historically been a flash point in the The complex will include a Palestinian-Israeli conflict. museum “housing antiquities Maa 12-8-2015 and belongings stolen from JeIssue No 74 // 12 August , 2015
New Israeli settlement plan revealed in Jerusalem Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian park in WB Jordan: incursions into al-Aqsa offensive to Islamic holy places Israeli Police Demolishes Building in Jerusalem Israeli police ban 5 Palestinians from entering Aqsa compound Mother of Ali Dawabsha›s Health Deteriorating, Possible Brain Death Israeli Police Deny Access to Al Aqsa for Women and Children Israeli forces assault Palestinian, detain 2 at Aqsa WWW.ALQUDSMALAYSIA.ORG
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New Israeli settlement plan revealed in Jerusalem IMEMC, Jerusalem –Palestinian researcher revealed new Israeli Jewish settlement plan on occupied Palestinian city of Jerusalem, IMEMC reported on Wednesday. Researcher in settlement affairs Ahmad Sob Laban has reported that the Israeli settlement organisation ‘Ateret Cohanim,’ based in the Muslim Quarter in occupied Jerusalem, has presented a settlement plan to the Jerusalem City Council. The plan, Sob Laban said, is part of preparation to build a new illegal Israeli Jewish settlement near Bet Yonatan Settlement in Last year, Ateret Cohanim managed to seize two Palestinian the town of Silwan in the occupied East residential buildings, each consisted of ten apartments, and an Jerusalem. area of land in Batn Al-Hawa. Sob Laban said the new plan aims to conThis measure came after the Israel occupation authorities restruct three outposts, each consists of four moved the owners –Abu-Nab Family, and Palestinian renters floors, in addition to expanding the road of the apartments, allegedly because “the land it was built on between Bet Yonatan and the new outpost, used to contain a synagogue, and was inhabited by Jews, bewhich would also be built on illegallyfore 1948.” seized Palestinian property adjacent to Bet Sob Laban said Ateret Cohanim enjoys the full support of the Yonatan. settler-led government of Benjamin Netanyahu, and various He added that Silwan, especially Batn Alwealthy Zionist organisations and individuals, especially in Hawa neighbourhood, is facing serious the United States. threats from Ateret Cohanim, the organisation responsible for the construction of He also stated that various members of Abu-Nab family have 71 illegal outposts in the Old City, in both been evicted, and now danger looms for two remaining family the Muslim and Christian Quarters, since members –Abu Jawad and Abdullah abu-Nab. 1967. He added that Ateret Cohanim is still trying to evict dozens of Batn Al-Hawa became a target for illegal Israeli Jewish settlement in 2004, when Bet Yonatan was illegally established in a building consisting of six floors through false sale documents.
families by taking control of more than 100 properties inhabited by nearly 1,300 Palestinians, and that nine families have already received eviction notices.
Israeli settlement activities in occupied Jerusalem, and the rest of occupied Palestine, come in direct violation of international At the same time, Ateret Cohanim estab- law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which the Israeli lished another outpost, known as Beit Al- occupation is a signatory. Asal, in the heart of the neighbourhood. daysofpalestine 12-12-2015 2 |
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian park in WB
West Bank –Israeli Jewish settlers used on Tuesday at dawn molotov cocktails, attempting to set fire to a public park in northern West Bank village of Qaryut. Local Palestinian sources told said that a number of settlers arrived in three vehicles at 2 am and threw several molotov cocktails at the park before fleeing the scene. Palestinian youths spotted them and tried to chase them, but they sped away. They immediately extinguished the fire. No casualties were reported. Residents of the nearby village of Beita said that settlers tried to carry out a separate attack there, but locals noticed them and managed to undermine the attack. Settler violence has come under international scrutiny in recent days following a deadly attack on the village of Duma on July 31 that killed an 18-month-old Palestinian toddler and his father. The crime sparked international outrage, although many Palestinians have pointed out that settler attacks are common and often go unpunished by the Israeli authorities. Israeli settlers have carried out at least 126 attacks on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank since the start of this year, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians against Israeli settler attacks result in a conviction, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din reported. Days ofpalestine 12-8-2015
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Jordan: incursions into al-Aqsa offensive to Islamic holy places
The Jordanian Government charged the Israeli government of full responsibility for any offensive practices against the Aqsa Mosque. The spokesman of the Jordanian Government and Minister of Media Affairs Mohammad al-Moumni said any attempt to storm the Aqsa Mosque or entering it by Israelis including excavation works are illegal and aggressive actions against Islamic holy places and Muslims’ feelings in general. He stressed that Jordan is exerting every possible effort to maintain and protect Islamic holy sites, referring to the Jordanian patronage over the holy sites and to the agreement signed by King Abdulla the Second and the Palestinian President in this regard. He underlined that the Jordanian commitment in this regard is declared and is not subject to understandings with any party when it comes to discretion of Islamic holy places. He said the guards of the Aqsa Mosque are doing their duties in confronting the Israelis’ incursions into the Mosque and that the Jordanian government is working on increasing their numbers and qualifying them to be able to implement their noble tasks. Al Qassam website (Agencies) 13/8/2015
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Israeli Police Demolishes Building in Jerusalem
Israeli police Tuesday demolished a three-storey commercial building in the Atarot Industrial Zone, to the north of Jerusalem, according to local sources. Witnesses told WAFA that an Israeli police force accompanied by heavy machinery broke into the area at about 5am, and demolished the building, which is owned by the Abu-Diab family, under the pretext of construction without permission. The building is located in Area C, under complete Israeli jurisdiction. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), between December 30, 2014 and January 12, 2015, the Israeli authorities demolished 27 Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank and five in East Jerusalem, in addition to two self demolition incidents, due to lack of Israeli-issued building permits. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) affirmed that the Israeli authorities do not only demolish Palestinian homes, but also hinder the issuance of any building licenses for Palestinians in Jerusalem and its boundaries. Israel frequently utilizes the lack of construction permits as a pretext for demolishing Palestinian houses. Although Palestinians in East Jerusalem are living in a part of the internationally recognized Palestinian Territory that has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967, they are denied citizenship and classified only as ‘residents’ whose permits can be revoked if they move away from the city. They are also discriminated against in all aspects of life including housing, employment and services, and remain unable to access services in the West Bank due to the construction of Israel’s separation wall. WAFA 12/8/2015
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Israeli police ban 5 Palestinians from entering Aqsa compound
Israeli police on Monday banned five Palestinians from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for up to 90 days. Abdul Rahman Saleh Bukirat, 45, said that police notified him that he is banned from entering the holy site for three months on charges of “incitement” after shouting ‘Allah Akbar,’ or ‘God is Great, in the compound. Abdul-Kareem Haddad, Obada Najeeb, Muhammad Najeeb, and Mahmoud Najeeb were also all banned from the holy site for 20 days, a prisoners’ committee in Jerusalem told Ma’an. Amjad Abu Asab, a spokesperson for the group, said that the four men were assaulted by Israeli forces during their detention at the al-Qishla police station. Source Ma’an News Agency 12/8/2015
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Mother of Ali Dawabsha›s Health Deteriorating, Possible Brain Death
(Press TV/Al Ray) Riham Dawabsha who was herself injured, and also lost her husband as a result of the attack, was put on a respirator at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, also known as Tel HaShomer Hospital, in the occupied Palestinian territories on Monday, Arabic-language Akhbaar 24 news website reported on Tuesday. The decision to put her on a respirator came after her general health condition deteriorated, and some of her organs stopped functioning, according to the report. Some doctors and medical officials have also suggested that she might be brain dead. Her 32-year-old husband, Sa’ad Dawabsha, died at a medical center early Saturday. He had been left with second-degree burns over more than 80 percent of his body following the late July firebombing, which killed his son. On July 31, a large fire broke out after extremist Israeli settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into two Palestinian houses – including that of the Dawabsha – in the town of Douma, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Nablus. The incident sparked outrage from Palestinians, including political and resistance groups. United-Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon censured the arson attack as a “terrorist act,” calling for the perpetrators to be promptly brought to justice. “Continued failures to effectively address impunity for repeated acts of [Israeli] settler violence have led to another horrific incident involving the death of an innocent life. This must end,” Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement. Israeli settlers have in recent years carried out various attacks, including arson attacks, on Palestinian property in the West Bank and al-Quds (Jerusalem). memo 12/8/2015 Issue No 74 // 12 August , 2015
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Israeli Police Deny Access to Al Aqsa for Women and Children
WAFA correspondence said that a scufe broke out when the police denied a crowd of women and children access to the Mosque. The worshipers, women and children, chanted religious slogans against the police to show their anger. Police arrested a woman and a minor during the clash. Last month, dozens of worshipers were injured during clashes with Israeli police private units, after they broke into the holy site and severely assaulted worshipers. The clashes saw Israeli police private units throw rubber-coated metal bullets at the defenseless worshipers, which caused tens of suffocation cases by teargas inhalation. In the midst of these attacks on July 29, the Israeli minister of agriculture, Uri Ariel from the Jewish Home right-wing party has provocatively broke into Al-Aqsa Mosque, heavily guarded, in coordination with the ministry of interior. The site has witnessed recurrent clashes in recent years between Muslim worshipers and Israeli police, most frequently due to provocative visits by Jewish extremists who believe the mosque should be destroyed and replaced with a Jewish temple. Source Ma’an News Agency 12-8-2015
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Israeli forces assault Palestinian, detain 2 at Aqsa
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli forces assaulted a Palestinian man, before detaining him and one other, at the entrance to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday, witnesses told Ma’an.
More than 25 Israeli extremists were reported to have toured the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under Israeli police security. An Israeli police spokesperson could not be reached for comment.
Tensions have risen sharply at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent days, with near-daily clashes as right-wing Israeli special forces reportedly arrived Jewish organizations call on their members to tour the site. at the Chain Gate after an Israeli extremist pushed a Palestinian worshiper. The third holiest site in Islam, the mosque compound is also venerated as Judaism’s most holy place as it sits where Jews Witnesses said that the Israeli troops believe the First and Second Temples once stood. then pushed the Palestinian back, before one of them choked him with his hands, Following Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Iscausing the man to lose consciousness. rael has maintained an agreement with the Islamic trust that controls the Al-Aqsa compound not to allow non-Muslim Witnesses said that that Israeli forces prayer in the area. did not give the Palestinian first aid and did not allow those around to help him. Jewish prayer is allowed at the neighboring Western Wall, which is the last remnant of the Second Temple. The man was reportedly carried to the However, Israeli forces regularly escort Jewish visitors to Chain Gate police station. Al-Aqsa, leading to anger among Muslim worshipers. Israeli police also detained a Palestinian Source Ma’an News Agency 12-8-2015 youth identified as Tamer Shalaata, witnesses said. Issue No 74 // 12 August , 2015
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