Day: 28 August 2022

قال المتحدث باسم حركة المقاومة الإسلامية “حماس” فوزي برهوم، إنّ “استمرار سلطات الاحتلال في احتجاز جثامين الشهداء جريمة تكشف ساديته”.

وأكد برهوم في بيان تلقته “قدس برس”، اليوم الأحد، أنَّ “استمرار الاحتلال الصهيوني في احتجاز جثامين الشهداء جريمة نكراء تضاف إلى سلسلة جرائمه البشعة بحقّ شعبنا الفلسطيني، التي تكشف الوجه الحقيقي لإرهابه، وتفضح مدى ساديته في النيل من أبناء شعبنا وأسراه وشهدائه”.

وشدد على أنَّ “هذا الاحتجاز يعد انتهاكاً واستهتاراً بكل الأعراف والمواثيق الدولية، وهذه السياسة الإسرائيلية ما هي إلا محاولة يائسة، لن تفلح في ثني جماهير شعبنا عن مواصلة طريق الصمود والنضال، حتى دحره عن أرضنا ومقدساتنا مهما كان الثمن”.

ودعا أبناء الشعب الفلسطيني وقواه الحيّة إلى مواصلة وتصعيد حراكهم وفعالياتهم، للمطالبة باسترداد جثامين الشهداء الأبرار.

وطالب كل المؤسسات الحقوقية والإنسانية إلى التحرّك الجاد للضغط على الاحتلال وإجباره على الاستجابة لهذا الحق الطبيعي والمشروع لشعبنا وعوائله، في تكريم شهدائه الذين سيظلون منارة للتضحية والمقاومة.

وقرر مجلس الوزراء الإسرائيلي المصغر (الكابينت) في 13 تشرين الأول/أكتوبر 2015 العودة إلى احتجاز جثامين الشهداء، بعد الإفراج عن العشرات منها بقرارات قضائية.

وأطلقت عائلات فلسطينية استشهد أبناؤها، حملة وطنية شعبية، لمطالبة الاحتلال بتسليم جثامين أبنائهم، قبل نحو شهرين.

Source: Quds Press International News Agency

أضرب عشرات الآلاف من الفلسطينيين العاملين في الداخل الفلسطيني المحتل عام 48، اليوم الأحد، لمدة يوم واحد، احتجاجًا على قرار دفع رواتبهم في مصارف تابعة للسلطة الفلسطينية.

ورفع العمال شعارات تطالب السلطة الفلسطينية والاحتلال بالتراجع عن هذا القرار، مهددين بتصعيد خطواتهم الاحتجاجية، فيما امتنع عدد كبير منهم عن مواصلة أعمالهم.

وقال العمال إن “استياءهم ينبع من أزمة ثقة في القطاع المصرفي والسلطة الفلسطينية بشكل عام”، ويرون في قرار تحويل رواتبهم عبر المصارف الفلسطينية، مقدمة لاقتطاع أجزاء منها، على غرار ما يحدث مع رواتب موظفي السلطة الفلسطينية، والذين يتقاضون 80 في المئة من رواتبهم منذ عدة شهور، بزعم أن الحكومة تعاني من أزمة مالية.

واتخذت حكومة السلطة الفلسطينية قبل عدة أسابيع، قرارا بتحويل إجباري لأجور جميع عمال الداخل المحتل إلى المصارف العاملة في مناطق حكمها الذاتي، في خطوة لاقت ردود فعل احتجاجية بين العمال.

ويغادر حوالي 200 ألف عامل فلسطيني كل يوم من الضفة الغربية، للعمل في الأراضي المحتلة عام 48، ويكسبون في المتوسط أكثر من ضعف دخل أولئك العاملين في مناطق السلطة الفلسطينية.

Source: Quds Press International News Agency

Weather today in Palestine is extremely hot as a heatwave continues to affect the country for the third day, with temperature rising to about 7°C above the seasonal average, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department (PMD).

Winds are easterly to northwesterly, light to moderate, and sea waves are low.

Temperature in the capital, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem is expected to reach a high of 37°C and a low of 23°C, and in Ramallah and Hebron a high of 36°C and a low of 22°C are expected. In Jericho, the Dead Sea, and the Jordan Valley temperature is expected to reach a high of 45°C and a low of 29°C, while it is expected to reach a high of 34°C and a low of 25°C in Gaza and the coastal areas.

No change in temperature is expected on Monday, remaining above the seasonal average by 7°C.

No change in temperature or weather condition is expected for Tuesday, yet temperature is likely to slightly drop on Wednesday but generally remains above the seasonal average by 6°C.

PMD warned people against being directly exposed to the sun for long period, especially from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and against setting fire to dry grassy areas.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

Three Palestinian young men were injured by live Israeli bullets last night, including one seriously, during confrontations that followed an Israeli army attack on AL-Jabriat neighbourhood in the city of Jenin, north of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian security and medical sources said.

They told WAFA that an 18-year-old teenager was seriously injured by a live bullet in his chest, and that his condition was described as critical, while another two Palestinians, aged 20 and 27 years old, were both injured in the abdomen, and were said to be of moderate condition.

The three were rushed to nearby Ibn Sina Hospital for medical treatment.

Meantime, confrontations erupted between Palestinian youth and Israeli occupation forces during an Israeli army raid on Nazareth Street and Haifa Street in the city. No casulaties were reported.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

Palestinian Arabic-language dailies focused today on remarks made by Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, who said that the President has instructed Palestine’s ambassadors around the world to launch a campaign to expose the crimes committed against the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida quoted Abu Rudenieh as saying that President Mahmoud Abbas is following with great interest and concern the unprecedented crackdown by the Israeli occupation authorities on the Palestinian freedom fighters in the Israeli prisons.

Al-Quds and Al-Ayyam said vigils were held across Palestine yesterday on the occasion of the National Day for Retrieval of the Bodies of Palestinian Martyrs. The organizers demanded the Israeli occupation authorities to hand over the bodies of slain Palestinians whose bodies are withheld by the Israeli occupation.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called yesterday for the immediate handover by Israeli occupation authorities of the bodies of scores of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces over the past years.

Al-Quds said the Israeli occupation army ordered today the demolition of two rooms annexed to a home in the village of al-Walaja, in the occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem.

Al-Ayyam and Al-Quds said nearly a million and 385 thousand students across Palestine are due to begin the new school year tomorrow, Sunday.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are expected to dissolve their representative bodies that coordinate with jail authorities today in protest of the Israeli repressive measures against them.

Al-Ayyam said that according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli occupation forces have demolished or confiscated 564 Palestinian-owned buildings since the beginning of the year.

Al-Hayat al-Jadida said Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh remains on hunger strike for the 168th day in protest of his detention without charge or trial by Israeli occupation authorities.

Al-Ayyam and Al-Quds said Israeli police yesterday removed a mural for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

A Palestinian resistance fighter who is serving two life terms in Israeli prisons has completed 33 years behind bars, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).

Raed Mohammad Saadi, 53, from Silat al-Harithiya town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was arrested on August 28, 1989, and was sentenced to two life terms plus 20 years for his resistance activity against the Israeli occupation.

Saadi was first arrested for six months in 1984 for raising flags of Palestine in his hometown. He was later wanted by the Israeli army for several years before he was captured in 1989 in his town.

During his life in prison, he lost his grandmother in 1999, his grandfather in 2001, his uncle in 2008, his elder brother, Imad, in 2010, and finally his mother, Umm Imad, in 2014. His father also lost his vision three years ago.

Saadi is one of more than 4,500 Palestinians serving time in Israel for their resistance and political activity against the occupation.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

Palestinian freedom fighters incarcerated in Israeli prisons dissolved today their representative bodies in all the prisons in protest of the Israeli repressive measures against them.

The Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS) told WAFA that dissolving the representative bodies means that the Israel Prisoner Service will have to deal with prisoners as individuals, and not through the bodies representing them.

Tensions have been high in the prisons over the past few days after the IPS decided to double the isolation time of prisoners, take away electrical devices from several sections in the prisons, and summoned additional forces in several prisons.

It is worthy to note that the prisoners refused last Wednesday to leave their cells for security checks and returned the meals as a protest step approved by the prisoners’ Higher Emergency Committee after the IPS reneged on the agreements and understandings that were reached with the representatives of the prisoners last March related to issues and details of their living conditions.

The prisoners also decided on that Mondays and Wednesdays are days to implement the initial protest steps that will end early next September with an open hunger strike in all the prisons.

The PPS said the decision to go on hunger strike will depend on the position of the IPS, whether or not it continues with its actions against the prisoners.

There are around 4550 Palestinian freedom fighters in Israeli jails, including 31 women and 175 minors, including a girl, and more than 700 administrative detainees.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

For the first time ever, a group of hardcore Israeli settlers escorted by police today broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem through the Lions Gate on the eastern side of the complex, which is solely used by Muslims.

Over the past years, Israeli occupation authorities have only allowed settler groups to break into the holy site through the Moroccan Gate, on the western side of the mosque complex, but this was the first time that Israeli police allowed settlers to use the Lions Gate, a step that Sheikh Omar Kiswani, the director of the mosque, described as a serious step that violates the status quo at the holy site and the agreements signed between Israel and Jordan concerning the affairs of the mosque.

Kiswani said the Israeli police claimed that they only asked a group of settlers who had entered the holy site through the Moroccan Gate to leave through the Lions Gate, but he said soon after the police allowed another group, although a smaller one, to enter the holy site through the Lions Gate.

Since 2003, the Israeli occupation authorities have allowed settlers into the compound almost on a daily basis, with the exclusion of Friday, the Muslim day of rest and worship.

The development comes on the 53rd anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Mosque arson, when Denis Michael Rohan, an Australian tourist, set the main building inside the mosque and its pulpit on fire.

The Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department in charge of the holy site has repeatedly described the settlers’ presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque as provocative, saying that Palestinian worshippers and guards at Al-Aqsa feel uncomfortable with the presence of Israeli police and settlers touring the Islamic holy site.

Israel captured East Jerusalem, where Al-Aqsa Mosque is located, during the Six-Day War in 1967 in a move never recognized by the international community.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh, 40, remains on hunger strike today for 169 days in protest of his detention without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities.

Two other detainees, Ahmad Musa, 44, and his brother, Addal, 34, have also been on hunger strike for 21 days in protest of their detention without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation authorities.

According to his wife and lawyer, Awawdeh is in a terribly difficult health condition after 169 days of hunger strike. He has also lost half of his weight, and is speaking with extreme difficulty.

Awawdeh, 40, from the town of Idna in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, broke a 111-day fast last month after being reassured by Israeli prison authorities that his administrative detention would not be renewed, but he resumed the hunger strike a week later after the occupation authorities reneged on their promise not to end his unfair detention order.

Three weeks ago, the Israeli military court of Ofer allowed his lawyer and a physician to visit him for the first time in order to prepare a medical report about his health condition and submit it before the court next Sunday to look into his release.

The father of four has been in jail since 27 December 2021, and has been placed in administrative detention, without charge or trial, ever since.

Israel’s widely condemned policy of administrative detention allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals usually ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

Currently, Israel is holding over 680 Palestinians in administrative detention, deemed illegal by international law, most of them former prisoners who spent years in prison for their resistance of the Israeli occupation.

Amnesty International, has described Israel’s administrative detention policy as a “cruel, unjust practice which helps maintain Israel’s system of apartheid against Palestinians.”

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

The ministry of foreign affairs and expatriates today condemned the Israeli settlers’ storming of al-Aqsa mosque through the Lions’ Gate, one of the gates leading to al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, for the first time since 1967.

The ministry slammed this unprecedented step as a blatant violation of the mosque’s status quo aimed at perpetuating the temporal division of the al-Aqsa Mosque on the way to dividing it spatially.

The ministry held the Israeli government directly and fully responsible for the consequences and ramifications of its aggression against Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, particularly al-Aqsa mosque.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)

Israeli occupation forces today ordered the removal of a power grid in the town of Sebastia to the northwest of Nablus, according to a local official.

Mayor of Sebastia, Mohammad Azem, told WAFA that Israeli forces ordered the municipality to remove a 1200-meter-long power grid built near the archeological site of Sebastia under the pretext of being built in area C, which falls under full Israeli control.

Israel refuses to allow Palestinian development of any kind in Area C, which makes up over 60 percent of the total area of the occupied West Bank, and often demolishes what Palestinians build, often with assistance from international parties, such as the EU, despite the Israeli ban.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA)