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- Tayseer Khaled: USA is not Qualified to Sponsor Palestinian – Israeli Negotiations
- Fatah calls for 'day of rage' amid Israeli restrictions at Al-Aqsa
- Palestinians pray outside Al-Aqsa Mosque in protest of new metal detectors
- Unidentified assailants target mosques in hometown of slain Israeli officer
- Israeli security arrests Gaza-based UN official en route to Jerusalem
- Palestinian Al-Aqsa employee banned from holy site for 4 months
- Committee: 19 Palestinians suffering of medical neglect in 2 Israeli prisons
- France urges for continuing Israel-Palestine peace talks
- Abbas arrives in China, to meet counterpart on Tuesday
- Arab League Council holds Israel responsible for recent measures in Al-Aqsa
| Tayseer Khaled: USA is not Qualified to Sponsor Palestinian – Israeli Negotiations Posted: 18 Jul 2017 03:38 AM PDT Tayseer Khaled , PLO Executive Committee member , Head of the Palestinian Expatriate Affairs Department tackled what the political and media means circulated regarding the US President Trump's political initiative to settle the Palestinian – Israeli conflict based on initiating negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis over the upcoming 2 years, through which a 5 separate committees are negotiated each of which, deals merely with an issue of the final status ones, without presenting a detailed initiative by him. Leaving the 2 sides to negotiate until they reach a reasonable agreement and then to be announced. For his part, Khaled asstressed that the US administration is not qualified to sponsor such negotiations because of its blind bias to the Israeli Government colonial policy. He added that the US administration refuses to talk about a political settlement leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian State, and it colludes with the Israeli government through giving it the green-light to continue its settlement activities throughout the west bank including occupied East Jerusalem, as well as practicing the worst ways of extortion and pressure on the Palestinians trying to compel them forget their history and struggle to achieve their just national rights, through not fulfilling its commitments towards the families of the wounded, martyrs and prisoners, in full conformity with the Israeli position, seeking to convince the Palestinians with a new return to the negotiating table without pre-conditions (i.e. the Israeli conditions) for two years without specifying the objective of these negotiations or their political and legal authorities, in 5 tracks of the final status issues i.e. the borders, Jerusalem, security, settlements and water, and then merely declare the progress made by each of the 5 committees, without tackling the Palestinian refugees issue. The US is fully aware that an approach of this kind has no function other than finding partial and transitional solutions that Israel seeks to impose on the Palestinians. Moreover, Khaled called to stop betting on the American sponsorship of the Palestinian – Israeli negotiations and requested an international sponsorship of such negotiations in order to place appropriate mechanisms to implement them, and to ensure Israeli withdrawal from all the occupied Palestinian territories occupied in the June 1967, and to reach a comprehensive and balance settlement away from partial and transitional solutions, and to confess of the Palestinian people rights to have sovereignty on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It also guarantees the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes that they compulsory left, and to self-determination and the right of all the peoples and States of the region to live in security and stability of which, is Palestine and East Jerusalem being the political, administrative and spiritual capital of Palestine and its people. |
| Fatah calls for 'day of rage' amid Israeli restrictions at Al-Aqsa Posted: 17 Jul 2017 05:14 PM PDT The Fatah Movement called on Monday for a "day of rage" against increased Israeli security measures in occupied East Jerusalem following a deadly attack on Friday, as Palestinians denounced Israeli forces' use of violence against them in recent days in the holy city. After the attack that left three assailants and two police officers — all Palestinian citizens of Israel — dead in and around Al-Aqsa, Israeli forces shut down the compound for two days, only to reopen it on Sunday with heightened security restrictions. Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi said that Israeli forces assaulted a number of Palestinian worshipers, including women and children, after they performed noon prayers outside the Al-Aqsa compound. Barghouthi told Ma'an that he and a number of Jerusalemites had performed prayers at the Lions' Gate leading to Al-Aqsa to express their rejection of heightened Israeli security procedures around the compound — including the installation of metal detectors at the compound's entrances. He added that Israeli suppression would not break Jerusalemites' will, and called on all Palestinians to stand with them in support. Barghouthi also called on Muslim and Arab states to boycott Israel in order to pressure it to cease its aggression against Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a statement that Israeli forces removed worshipers at Lions' Gate following the prayer for allegedly blocking the street. On Monday evening, Rosenfeld added that Israeli forces had removed residents from the streets adjacent to East Jerusalem's Old City for similar reasons. "Stones and objects were thrown at police, who dealt with the incident," Rosenfeld added. Locals said Israeli soldiers detained a young man, identified as Muhammad Mikhemir, near the Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City on Monday. In the village of al-Ram north of Jerusalem, residents also said that Israeli soldiers detained Zuheir Daana after beating him. Meanwhile, Fatah, the leading party of the Palestinian Authority, declared Wednesday a "day of rage" across the occupied Palestinian territory, adding that Friday prayers would be conducted in public squares in Palestinian cities to denounce Israeli "terrorist procedures" in East Jerusalem. The moves were decided on during a meeting between Fatah Revolutionary Council secretary Adnan Ghaith, Fatah central committee member Jamal Muheisin, and all Fatah representatives for the northern occupied West Bank. Muheisin stressed the necessity to support Jerusalemite Palestinians facing "fierce and organized attack" by Israeli forces, and called for a return to the status quo at Al-Aqsa. He added that Israel was attempting to divide the Al-Aqsa compound between Jews and Muslims — a fear echoed by Palestine representative to the Arab League Jamal al-Shubaki. Al-Shubaki told official Palestinian news agency Wafa on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking to change the status quo in Jerusalem and divide Al-Aqsa into Jewish and Muslim sections — as happened in Hebron following the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque massacre. Following Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has maintained a compromise with the Islamic trust that controls the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to not allow non-Muslim prayers in the area. However, non-Muslims are permitted to visit the site during designated times.Palestinians have long feared that Israel has been attempting to shake up the status quo at the holy site, in the shape of routine Jewish incursions on the site and right-wing Israeli calls to demolish the mosque and replace it with a third Jewish temple. (Ma'an) |
| Palestinians pray outside Al-Aqsa Mosque in protest of new metal detectors Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:40 AM PDT Palestinians performed prayers outside of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound Monday to show their opposition to new metal detectors installed by Israeli authorities at the mosque's entrances, which came in response to a deadly shooting attack at the holy site on Friday. Meanwhile, Jewish Israelis were again allowed to enter the compound freely without the presence of Al-Aqsa security guards. Dozens of Muslim worshipers, all Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem, refused to pass through the metal detectors and gathered for dawn and afternoon prayers outside of the Lions' Gate entrance to the compound, which was opened Sunday after the compound had been under a rare closure since the attack. Several Palestinians, both men and women, described the metal detectors as violation of their right to freedom of worship and their right to enter the mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, freely. Israeli forces had installed a total of nine metal detectors at the Lions' Gate (Bab al-Asbat), the Chain Gate (Bab al-Silsila), and the Council Gate (Bab al-Majlis). Officials from the Waqf, the Islamic endowment that runs Al-Aqsa, expressed its rejection of the new security measures on Sunday, saying at the time that Israeli authorities had contacted a group of the Waqf guards and ordered them not go to the mosque. Waqf leaders released a statement Monday, cosigned by the chairman of the Waqf council, the head of the higher Islamic committee, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and Palestine, and the acting supreme judge, urging the Palestinian people "in Jerusalem and Palestine" to "travel to Al-Aqsa Mosque to worship," and join the boycott of the metal detectors. "If metal detectors continue to be imposed as the only way to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque, we urge our people to continue to perform prayers in front of the gates or in the streets and alleys of Jerusalem." The Arab League called on Israel to stopped all its new security procedures in Jerusalem, following an emergency meeting to discuss the recent developments regarding Al-Aqsa. Palestine representative to the Arab League Jamal al-Shubaki told official Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israel was launching a "fierce war" against the Palestinian people, adding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was seeking to change the status quo in Jerusalem and divide Al-Aqsa into Jewish and Muslim sections — as happened in Hebron following the 1994. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri wrote in a statement that the dozens of worshipers who performed midday prayer in the street near the Lions' Gate were told to move to one side of the road to "avoid blocking the road and endangering their lives." The worshipers obeyed the instructions, except for one minor who was "suspected of hurling a bottle at (Israeli) forces and was detained for questioning," al-Samri said. Meanwhile, Israeli authorities reopened the compound to Jewish visitors Monday morning for the first time since the attack. Israeli news daily Haaretz reported that the Jewish Israelis were free to roam the compound, as there were no Waqf guards at the site. Haaretz quoted a statement from the Joint Committee of Temple Organizations, a lobbying group that seeks to secure Jewish prayer rights at the compound, as celebrating the fact that it for "the first time since the Six Day War Jews are able to go freely to the site, without being hassled by the Waqf," Haaretz wrote. The right-wing movement reportedly said it applauded Israeli police for "amending the historic wrong" on the Temple Mount — the Israeli term for the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound — and praised Israeli police commander Yoram Halevy for his "determination and courage." Meanwhile, the Hamas movement applauded Al-Aqsa's security guards and worshipers for refusing to pass through the metal detectors, "which are meant to tighten the grip on Al-Aqsa," the movement wrote in a statement Monday. "These unprecedented measures will not be successful. They will fail to provide security for the Zionists and fail to strip our people of their right to Al-Aqsa Mosque and the right to pray freely inside it," the Palestinian political faction said. Hamas said it called upon the Palestinian people to "confront the Zionist occupation forces and to break the chains around Al-Aqsa Mosque," and urged Arab and Muslim nations to support Jerusalemites. The Islamic Jihad movement released a statement on Sunday evening, threatening to make the "Israeli occupation pay a toll" for its aggression and procedures at Al-Aqsa Mosque. "The Palestinian people will not abandon their sacred duty to protect Al-Aqsa and defend their dignity and the dignity of the Jerusalemite people and the Murabitun, in Jerusalem and in Al-Aqsa Mosque." The movement said that Israel had "taken advantage of the inadvertence of Arabs and Muslims, and their reluctance to carry out a real action to stop the occupation's daily violations of the sacredness of Al-Aqsa Mosque" by enforcing the new "aggressive" security measures. Palestinian officials held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the Israeli measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, affirming that the status quo at the compound should remain as it was before the deadly shooting, expressing opposition to the Israeli decision to install the metal detectors. Following Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967, Israel has maintained a compromise with the Islamic trust that controls the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to not allow non-Muslim prayers in the area. However, non-Muslims are permitted to visit the site during designated times. Palestinians have long feared that Israel has been attempting to shake up the status quo at the holy site, in the shape of routine Jewish incursions on the site and right-wing Israeli calls to demolish the mosque and replace it with a third Jewish temple. (Ma'an) |
| Unidentified assailants target mosques in hometown of slain Israeli officer Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:37 AM PDT Unidentified assailants targeted two mosques on Monday in the hometown of an Israeli police officer who was killed last week in occupied East Jerusalem, marking the second incident of its kind targeting mosques in the village since the deadly shooting attack. Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in a statement that a stun grenade was hurled inside a mosque in the village of Maghar in northern Israel in the middle of the night, causing no injuries. Later in the the night, at around 3:30 a.m., gunshots were fired at another mosque in the eastern part of Maghar, breaking a window but causing no injuries. Al-Samri added that Israeli police were investigating the attacks, and that security forces were deployed in the area to "protect public property and prevent negative developments." Unknown assailants had thrown another stun grenade into an Maghar mosque on Saturday, a day after three Palestinian citizens of Israel from Umm al-Fahm were shot dead while carrying out a shooting attack in East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in which two Israeli border police officers were killed. The three slain Palestinian assailants — Muhammad Ahmad Muhammad Jabarin, 29; Muhammad Hamid Abd al-Latif Jabarin, 19; and Muhammad Ahmad Mufdal Jabarin, 19 — all lived within two blocks of each other in Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel. The officers — Hail Stawi, 30, and Kamil Shakib Shinan, 22 — were both Druze citizens of Israel from the villages of Maghar and Horfish respectively. While residents of Maghar told Israeli news outlet Ynet on Saturday that Muslim and Druze coexisted peacefully in the Palestinian-majority village, some appeared concerned that the deadly Al-Aqsa shooting could spark tensions. Unlike Muslim and Christian Palestinian citizens of Israel, Druze and Circassians with Israeli citizenship are subject to mandatory military service in the Israeli forces, one of a number of distinctions made by the Israeli government between indigenous residents of Israel that have been denounced as "divide and conquer" tactics. (Ma'an) |
| Israeli security arrests Gaza-based UN official en route to Jerusalem Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:35 AM PDT Israeli forces have detained a United Nations official based in the besieged Gaza Strip, with neither the UN nor Israeli authorities commenting publicly on the case five days after the arrest. According to local NGO the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Hamdan Muhammad Hassan Timraz, the assistant regional director for UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in the Gaza Strip, was detained on July 12 at Israel's Erez crossing, the only crossing Palestinians in Gaza can use to travel to Israel or the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory. Timraz, 61, had obtained a permit to travel to Jerusalem to meet with the general manager of UNDSS' Jerusalem office, according to Al-Mezan's statement, which highlighted that Timraz regularly traveled outside of Gaza for work. Timraz's wife Niemeh Salih Timraz, 54, told the NGO that the family lost contact with him after he arrived at Erez crossing. It wasn't until Thursday that Israeli security services telephoned Timraz's 24-year-old son Abd al-Hadi and notified him that his father was under arrest. A spokesperson for Israel's security service, the Shin Bet, could not immediately be reached for comment, however, an Israeli security source confirmed the arrest to an Israeli journalist, who said the news was under gag order in Israel. Ma'an has reached out to UNDSS for comment, which has not commented publicly on the case. The arrest came after Israel has accused a number of NGO workers based in the Gaza Strip of being affiliated to or aiding Hamas, Gaza's de facto leading party, in the past year, including employees of UNRWA, UNDP, World Vision, and Save the Children. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also notably called for UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, to be dismantled. Al-Mezan said of Timraz's arrest that "such Israeli practices are aimed at blocking the work of the international organizations in the Gaza Strip," and pointed out that eight employees working in these organizations have been arrested since the beginning of 2014. The rights group added that "hundreds of employees are denied the permits required to enter or exit Gaza to be able to follow up their organizations' work, not to mention the Israeli incitement campaigns they are exposed to." Gaza's two million residents marked their tenth year under Israeli blockade last month. Five years after the United Nations warned that Gaza could become unlivable by 2020, a new UN report determined that the situation there maybe have already reached that stage. In addition to ongoing energy and health crises, more than half of Gaza's two million residents suffer from food insecurity. (Ma'an) |
| Palestinian Al-Aqsa employee banned from holy site for 4 months Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:30 AM PDT Israeli authorities reportedly informed an employee of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Sunday that he was banned from accessing the holy site in occupied East Jerusalem for four months. Jad al-Ghoul, a Jerusalemite resident who works at the Al-Aqsa firefighting and rescue department, had been detained on Saturday for several hours at the Mazmoriya checkpoint south of Jerusalem for several hours. Al-Ghoul was released after being handed a summons to head to the office of Israeli intelligence forces, where he was officially informed of the ban — on the grounds that his presence at the Al-Aqsa compound would pose a "threat to public security." The Palestinian had recently been banned from entering Jerusalem for four days during the Maccabiah Games — often referred to as the "Jewish Olympics" — claiming that he would "incite against the event." Al-Ghoul's ban comes as Israel has increased restrictions around the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the wake of a deadly shooting attack on Friday, in which three assailants and two police officers — all Palestinian citizens of Israel — were killed. The Al-Aqsa compound was closed off for two days following the shooting, only to be reopened on Sunday with metal detectors, a move which has been denounced by Palestinian worshipers and officials alike. (Ma'an) |
| Committee: 19 Palestinians suffering of medical neglect in 2 Israeli prisons Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:27 AM PDT The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs accused the Israel Prison Service (IPS) on Sunday of "deliberately neglecting sick Palestinian prisoners" held in the Ashkelon and Ramla detention centers. Committee lawyer Karim Ajweh said that the healths of 19 Palestinians currently being treated in the Ramla and Ashkelon prison hospitals were "getting worse due to negligence by the Israel Prison Service." Ajweh notably mentioned the case of Muhammad Abrash, who underwent a partial foot amputation, and whom a doctor had notified would need further amputation. Meanwhile, fellow prisoner Mansour Mawqada, who Ajweh said was physically disabled, was also suffering from nervous system, intestinal, and dental problems. In Ashkelon prison, Ajweh said Moussa Sawfan had been diagnosed with a lung tumor while participating in a mass prisoner hunger strike earlier this year, prompting doctors to remove one third of his lung. Ramzi Abrash, who is also detained in Ashkelon, has been suffering from heart and eyesight problems for years "without receiving any medical treatment," Ajweh said, causing his health to worsen day by day. The medical neglect of Palestinian prisoners was a central issue during the recent hunger strike, which also included demands for an end to the denial of family visits, the right to pursue higher education, appropriate medical care and treatment, and an end to solitary confinement and administrative detention — imprisonment without charge or trial — among other demands for basic rights. However, while the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners' Affairs announced that 80 percent of the hunger strikers' demands were met, IPS has repeatedly stated that it did not engage in negotiations with the prisoners. According to prisoners' rights group Addameer, 6,300 Palestinians were held in Israeli prisons as of June, most of whom are being held inside the Israeli territory in contravention of international law. Addameer has reported that 40 percent of the male Palestinian population has been detained by Israeli authorities at some point in their lives. (Ma'an) |
| France urges for continuing Israel-Palestine peace talks Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:22 AM PDT French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a resumption of long-stalled peace talks between Israel and Palestine based on a two-state solution, Macron said on a press meeting with Israel's PM Netanyahu on sunday, according to Al-Jazeera. Netanyahu is currently in France to commemorate the victims of a mass arrest of Jews in Nazi-occupied France in 1942. Macron further added that France was ready to apply diplomatic levers towards renewed negotiations, but gave no specifics. He did not indicate any eagerness for France to spearhead such negotiations after a fruitless French diplomatic effort early this year. He warned that continued Israeli settlement construction could threaten such negotiations and eventual peace prospects. At his side, Netanyahu said: "We share the same desire for a peaceful Middle East." But he did not elaborate on eventual peace talks, adds Al-Jazeera. Macron condemned an attack last week that killed two Israeli police officers at a Jerusalem shrine revered by Jews and Muslims. His office said Macron was concerned about Israel's security but also worried that Netanyahu was backing away from commitment to a two-state solution. The two leaders also discussed fighting in Syria and elsewhere, and improving economic cooperation. Pro-Palestinian and other activists protested during Netanyahu's visit, criticising Israeli settlement policy and the blockade of Gaza. PNN |
| Abbas arrives in China, to meet counterpart on Tuesday Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:19 AM PDT BEIJING – President Mahmoud Abbas arrived on Monday in the Chinese capital Beijing on a four-day state visit, during which he is expected to meet with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and other officials. Abbas is scheduled to meet Xi Jinping on Tuesday following official state ceremonies at Tiananmen Square, outside the gate to the Great Hall of the People. The two leaders are expected to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East and the Palestinian issue, including Israeli violations against the Palestinian people. The two sides are also expected to sign a number of agreements and memoranda of understanding on boosting mutual cooperation in various fields. Abbas is also scheduled to deliver a speech at the China National Institute of Administration on Wednesday evening. He will also lay a wreath at the monument of the Chinese people's heroes and then meet with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. (WAFA) |
| Arab League Council holds Israel responsible for recent measures in Al-Aqsa Posted: 17 Jul 2017 11:17 AM PDT CAIRO – The Arab League Council Monday held Israel responsible for closing al–Aqsa Mosque and preventing Muslim worshippers from holding their prayers at the holy site. In a statement issued at the emergency meeting held at the level of permanent representatives in Cairo, the council condemned the recent Israeli measures and violations in Jerusalem and the holy mosque. The council also slammed Israel for its attempts to change the historical reality in the mosque and the installation of electronic gates; which the council considered as a dangerous unprecedented move that did not occur for almost half a century, specifically since the burning of al-Aqsa mosque in 1969. The council said these measures will lead to very serious escalations and grave consequences in igniting a religious war in the region. The council held the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the violations and practices committed against al-Aqsa mosque and its holdings and historical documents, rejecting any change in the status quo in occupied Jerusalem and al-Aqsa mosque. The Arab League Council stressed the need to stop and cancel all Israeli measures and to restore the status quo, including the removal of electronic gates and respect of the freedom of worship and the right of the Palestinian people to exercise their religious rituals. The council called upon the international community and its organizations to shoulder their responsibilities towards this unprecedented Israeli aggression, to promptly intervene and enforce its resolutions on the protection of Islamic and Christian holy sites. It warned that Israel's persistence in committing such grave violations as well as its disregard for the will and decisions of the international community endanger achieving a just and comprehensive peace in the region based on a two-state solution. Israeli forces reopened the holy compound on Sunday for Muslim prayers after a two-day closure; the mosque was closed on Friday morning following a shooting attack that left three Palestinians and two Israeli policemen dead. However, Jerusalem's top Islamic religious figures on Monday called upon Palestinians seeking to reach al-Aqsa Mosque not to go through the metal detectors installed by Israeli police and to pray outside the compound instead. (WAFA) |
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