Day: 15 June 2021

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli rabbi and politician Yehuda Glick led today a group of Israeli fanatics who performed a provocative tour of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem.

The provocative comes at a time of mounting tensions resulting from Israel’s plan to hold the notorious ‘flag march’ in the Old City of Jerusalem, scheduled to take place on Tuesday evening.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque is considered the third holiest site in Islam. It is located in East Jerusalem, a part of the internationally recognized Palestinian territories that have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.

Settler incursions into the holy mosque compound coupled with the systematic takeover of Palestinian property in Jerusalem are perceived as part of a plan to transform the multi-cultural city into a “reunified” Jewish city under the exclusive control and sovereignty of the occupying state of Israel.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Seven Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli prisons are currently on open-ended hunger strike against administration detention, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS).

The PPS said in a statement today that the number of prisoners on hunger strike is rising, rejecting the administrative detention policy which the Israeli authorities have recently escalated.

The statement added that seven prisoners are continuing their strike, the oldest of whom is 28-year-old Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, from the town of Dura, south of Hebron, who has been on hunger strike for the 42 days. The Israeli Prison Service (IPS) continue to keep him in the Ramla Prison clinic.

Khader Adnan, 43, from Jenin, also remains on his hunger strike for the 17th day in a row, as the Israeli court in Ofer had postponed the decision to confirm his administrative detention order until June 20, knowing that he is being held in difficult conditions in Al-Jalma Detention Center.

The two prisoners, Youssef Al-Amer, 28 years, and Amr Al-Shami, 18, both from the Jenin refugee camp, continue their hunger strike for the 16th day in a row, rejecting their administrative detention.

59-year-old prisoner Jamal Al-Taweel from Ramallah continues his hunger strike for the 13th day in a row, against to the Israeli authorities’ continued administrative detention of his daughter, journalist Bushra Al-Taweel. The IPS recently transferred him from Ofer prison to the Hasharon prison.

Ayser Al-Amer, 21, and Ibrahim Al-Amer, 19, both from Jenin camp, began a hunger strike in the Gilboa prison in support of other prisoners on strike, including Youssef Al-Amer and Amr Al-Shami.

Last month, the Israeli intelligence issued 200 administrative detention orders, without a charge or trial, which is the highest percentage compared to previous months, as the majority of these orders are against new detainees, noting that a number of prisoners, since the beginning of this year, have individually carried out strikes against the administrative detention policy.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli authorities summoned a number of Fatah leaders and members in Jerusalem to appear before the intelligence for interrogation ahead of the Jerusalem Flag March later today.

Israeli occupation authorities reinforced its police presence and raised its level of alert throughout the occupied city of Jerusalem, especially in the Old City, amid calls by Palestinian national and Islamic factions in the West Bank and the 1948 occupied land, to confront and thwart the so-called Israeli Flag March, which will be carried out today evening by thousands of extremist settlers.

Several international calls have warned against allowing the right-wing march for fear of inflaming the situation.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

SALFIT, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation authorities ordered a number of Palestinian residents to stop the construction works on their homes in the town of Burqin to the west of Salfit city, in the central occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Sources told WAFA Israeli forces handed local residents five notices ordering them to stop the construction works on their under-construction homes.

Israel prevents Palestinians living in Area C, which makes up more than 60 percent of the area of the West Bank and which is under full Israeli military control, from building anything on their land, forcing residents to build without obtaining rarely-granted permits to provide shelters for their families.

Israel’s planning and building policy in the West Bank is aimed at preventing Palestinian development and dispossessing Palestinians of their land, said the Israeli information center for human rights in occupied territories, B’Tselem.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

GAZA, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (WAFA) – A Palestinian succumbed today to wounds he sustained during the latest Israeli onslaught on the strip that lasted for 11 days, said sources.

A Palestinian who was identified as Mo’ayad Hamdan, from Beit Hanoun in the southern Strip, succumbed today to wounds he sustained during the latest Israeli military strikes on the Strip.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

JERUSALEM, Tuesday, June 15, 2021 (WAFA) – Dozens of Palestinians suffocated by tear gas as Israeli forces attacked Palestinians demonstrating in protest of Israel’s flag march planned in occupied Jerusalem later today.

Israeli forces heavily fired stun grenades and tear gas canisters at demonstrators at the entrance to the town of al-Ram, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, causing dozens to suffocate.

Israeli groups plan to march in occupied Jerusalem later today in a flag-waving procession, amid escalating tensions across the occupied Palestinian territories.

Palestinian national and Islamic factions called for a ‘Day of Rage’ protests in Gaza and the occupied West Bank as a response to the provocative flag march.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)