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Israeli Occupation Forces Storm Palestinian Cities, Kidnap Civilians, Prevent West Bankers Access to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Escort Settlers

June 17, 2016 

Editor's Note:

The following news stories are just few examples of the Israeli occupation government's violation of Palestinian human rights, which cannot continue without the full financial and military support from the US-EU governments.

 

Palestinian Muslim worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Qurs, Jerusalem, June 17, 2016 pic Israeli occupation soldiers arrested the Jerusalemite Palestinian woman Khadija Khweis after banning her from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, June 16, 2016 pic
Israeli occupation soldiers at a checkpoint in Jerusalem, restricting Muslim worshippers access to Al-Aqsa Mosque, June 17, 2016 pic 994 Israelis stormed Islamic al-Aqsa Mosque, in Jerusalem, in two weeks, June 16, 2016 pic

 

Thousands of Palestinians observe Friday khutba and prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque

June 17, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

More than 200,000 Palestinians were able to perform the second Friday prayer during the holy month of Ramadan at Al-Aqsa Mosque amid unprecedented tight security measures, according to the Islamic waqf authority in Occupied Jerusalem.

Scores of Palestinians flocked from the towns and neighborhoods of Jerusalem as well as the 1948 occupied lands to the Old City and the Aqsa Mosque to listen to the Friday khutba (sermon) and perform the Friday prayer.

About 200 elderly citizens form Gaza and many others from the West Bank were also allowed to enter Jerusalem today.

However, the Israeli occupation forces prevented all West Bank men under age 45 from entering the holy city.

Thousands of Palestinians barred from entering J'lem for Friday prayer

June 17, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government police in the morning turned the occupied city of Jerusalem into a military zone and prevented thousands of Palestinians from entering it for the Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Thousands of police and border troops were deployed throughout east Jerusalem, including the Old City and the area around the Aqsa Mosque, according to local sources.  

The Israeli police also banned, for the second week, thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank from entering Jerusalem to pray at the Aqsa Mosque.

Only men over age 45 and women of all ages who hold permits were hardly allowed to enter the holy city for the Friday prayer.

Verbal altercations and physical confrontations between Palestinian young men and Israeli occupation soldiers happened at West Bank checkpoints and crossings that lead to Jerusalem.

Some citizens reportedly fell unconscious as a result of their presence in stampedes and their exposure to scorching heat during their attempts to cross into Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, scores of young men tried to enter Jerusalem by climbing over the separation walls, but police patrols spotted many of them and opened rubber bullets at them.  

6 Palestinians kidnapped by IOF in West Bank sweep

June 17, 2016, RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

Six Palestinian citizens were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from West Bank provinces at dawn Friday.

The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the abduction of six allegedly wanted Palestinians.

The campaign targeted Hamas anti-occupation activists, including ex-prisoners Samer al-Masri, from al-Khalil, and Hamza Adeeb, from Tulkarem.

The other detainees were kidnapped from the West Bank provinces of al-Khalil and Salfit.

The IOF stepped up arbitrary abductions of Palestinian protesters across the West Bank in an attempt to snuff out the flames of anti-occupation activism.

Jerusalemite woman’s arrest extended

June 17, 2016, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

The Israeli Magistrate Court extended on Thursday the arrest of the Jerusalemite detainee Khadija Khweis.

Israeli police summoned on Wednesday Khweis for investigation in Maskoubiya investigation center where she was detained before being brought to court on Thursday.

Khweis was charged of being affiliated to “a banned group”.  She was earlier arrested for four times under the same charge. 

Khweis’ 16-year-old daughter, two young sons, and mother were also summoned for investigation on Wednesday afternoon; however, they refused to respond.

Israeli police, in response, arrested Khweis’ daughter and father from their house before being shortly released.

During the investigation, Khweis’ daughter informed Israeli authorities that her grandmother can’t move by herself and her brothers are too young to be investigated.

Khweis was earlier banned from entering al-Aqsa Mosque and from traveling abroad for six months.

IOF imposes curfew on Nablus village

June 17, 2016, NABLUS, (PIC)--

The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) imposed Thursday evening a curfew on Hawara village, south of Nablus to the north of the West Bank.

Israeli 0404 website claimed that the curfew was imposed shortly after a settler’s car was allegedly subjected to a stone-throwing attack near the town.

The Israeli driver was slightly injured during the alleged attack, according to the sources.

The town’s mayor Nasser Hawari affirmed that Israeli forces were deployed in large numbers throughout the town after closing its entrance.

The PIC reporter quoted local sources as saying that dozens of residents were stopped and searched while combing operations were carried out in the main roads of the town.

IOF soldiers also closed Hawara and Awarta checkpoints, preventing dozens of Palestinian vehicles from having access to the town.

Since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, Israeli forces have taken over seven local houses and have barricaded themselves on their roofs.

IOF storms towns in Ramallah and Jenin

 June 16, 2016, RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening stormed Surda town, north of Ramallah, and the mounts of Jaba town near Jenin.

Local sources said that Israeli troops invaded Surda town and were deployed in an area around the demolished house of martyr Muhanad al-Halabi, who carried out a stabbing attack in October last year.

No arrests have been reported during the IOF campaign in the town.

The Israeli army had demolished the house of martyr Halabi last January and displaced his family.

Another Israeli military force entered and combed the eastern mountainous area of Jaba town in Jenin, with no reported arrests. A helicopter was flying over the area during the campaign.

In separate incidents, the Hebrew radio said that Palestinian young men in the evening hurled stones at settlers' cars near Hizma village, east of Jerusalem.

Violent clashes also broke out last night between Palestinian young men and Israeli police forces in Ras al-Amud neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

IOF storms towns in Ramallah and Jenin

June 16, 2016,  RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Wednesday evening stormed Surda town, north of Ramallah, and the mounts of Jaba town near Jenin.

Local sources said that Israeli troops invaded Surda town and were deployed in an area around the demolished house of martyr Muhanad al-Halabi, who carried out a stabbing attack in October last year.

No arrests have been reported during the IOF campaign in the town.

The Israeli army had demolished the house of martyr Halabi last January and displaced his family.

Another Israeli military force entered and combed the eastern mountainous area of Jaba town in Jenin, with no reported arrests. A helicopter was flying over the area during the campaign.

In separate incidents, the Hebrew radio said that Palestinian young men in the evening hurled stones at settlers' cars near Hizma village, east of Jerusalem.

Violent clashes also broke out last night between Palestinian young men and Israeli police forces in Ras al-Amud neighborhood in east Jerusalem.

 

 Injuries, arrests in IOF assault on Bethlehem refugee camp

June 16, 2016, BETHLEHEM, (PIC)--

Two Palestinian youngsters sustained bullet injuries and two others were kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Thursday in an assault on the Aida refugee camp, in northern Bethlehem city.

Reporting from Bethlehem, a PIC journalist said the occupation army rolled into the Aida refugee camp at the crack of dawn and wreaked havoc on civilian homes before they kidnapped the two youngsters Muhammad al-Ameer and Anas Nabhan. Both were dragged to an unidentified destination shortly afterwards.

Two other youngsters were detained by the IOF before they were released sometime later.

Violent clashes burst out following the assault and culminated in heavy spates of live rounds, rubber bullet fire, and teargas canisters randomly discharged by the IOF in the process.

A Palestinian youth sustained live bullet injuries and another sustained rubber bullet wounds. Both casualties were rushed to the Beit Jala public hospital to be urgently treated for the critical wounds inflicted in the assault.

Clashes also flared up in Qalqilya, around which the IOF has imposed a security cordon for the fourth day running.

The Israeli military forces rummaged into civilian homes and kidnapped 25-year-old Mueen Muhammad al-Dalou from his family home in the city.

Earlier, overnight Wednesday, two Palestinian youngsters had been subjected to exhaustive questioning for hours by the occupation soldiers.

A report by the Israeli army claimed responsibility for the abduction of two Palestinians from Silwad town, in eastern Ramallah, two from al-Khalil’s southern town of Yatta, two from Bethlehem’s Aida refugee camp, a citizen from Qalqilya, and another from Jericho.

The IOF further rolled into Duma town, to the southeast of Nablus, and ravaged newly-built Palestinian homes.  

Activist Omar Dawabsheh told the PIC that the IOF soldiers were carrying maps and raked through Palestinian lands before they searched water wells and took snapshots of the area. 

The occupation troops further smashed the well locks and cracked down on Palestinian locals as they protested the assault.

994 Israelis stormed Muslims’ al-Aqsa since early June

June 16, 2016,  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

994 Israeli settlers and intelligence officers have stormed the holy al-Aqsa Mosque since early June, a new report revealed Wednesday.

According to statistics by the Quds Press news agency, 307 settlers stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque on the day of the commemoration of the occupation of Jerusalem.

The break-ins continued during the holy Ramadan month. Over the past four days (from June 12 to June 15) 324 Israeli settlers, eight Jewish students, and 15 intelligence officers stormed the site.

Most of the break-ins have reportedly been carried out via the Maghareba gate and under heavy police escort.

The report further documented the abduction of six Palestinian worshipers from and near the al-Aqsa Mosque, three among whom were identified as members of the al-Aqsa supervision and reconstruction staff. 

The Israeli occupation forces also arrested three other guards from their homes in the Old City and al-Issawiya shortly after a guard was hit by an Israeli police jeep.

The occupation police banned 10 Palestinian worshipers from the al-Aqsa during the same period for intervals amounting to three months. Among those affected by the bans were the al-Aqsa guards, two girls, and the head of Supreme Commission to Support Jerusalem and al-Aqsa, Muhammad Watad.

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