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Illegal Israeli Settlers Escorted by Soldiers Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque,

in Provocation and Defiance to Muslims Around the World

May 31, 2015  

 

Muslim women worshippers protest the presence of Israeli occupation soldiers and illegal Israeli extremist settlers at Al-Aqsa Mosque Haram Compound in Jerusalem, May 31, 2015.	Israeli occupation soldiers, settlers harass Palestinian children, attack family in Occupied East Jerusalem, May 31, 2015.

 

Israeli settlers vandalize Muslims’ al-Aqsa Mosque

May 31, 2015, OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Hordes of Israeli extremist settlers on Sunday morning vandalized the plazas of Muslims’ Holy al-Aqsa Mosque via the Maghareba Gate.

Local sources said over 17 Israeli fanatic settlers broke into holy al-Aqsa Mosque and defiled its courtyards. Armed police guards reportedly escorted the desecrators.

The peaceful Muslim sit-inners voiced their firm rebuff of the sacrilegious break-in, chanting Allahu Akbar (which means "God is Greater" and More Mighty), all the way through.

The Israeli occupation soldiers stationed around the Mosque have, meanwhile, come down heavily on the Muslim women, seizing their personal IDs at the main entries to the Mosque in an attempt to pave the way for their abduction under the pretext of obstructing police work.

In a separate incident, at dawn Sunday, the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped two Palestinian youngsters identified as Adel Bazlamit and Mahdi al-Abbassi after having broken into their family homes in Silwan’s neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, in Occupied Jerusalem.

Illegal Israeli extremist settlers storm al-Aqsa Mosque

Illegal extremist Jewish Israeli settlers stormed Sunday morning the plazas of the Aqsa Mosque from the Israeli-controlled Maghareba gate. 

Media sources revealed that more than 17 Jewish settlers broke into the Islamic holy site and toured its courtyards under tight security measures by Israeli cops. 

The Muslim worshipers confronted the settlers by chanting Allahu Akbar (which means "God is Greater" and More Mighty), the sources pointed out. 

The Israeli occupation soldiers as usual held the identity cards of the Jerusalemite women at the various gates of the Mosque. 

The Israeli occupation soldiers give the Jerusalemite women as well as Muslim worshipers special colored cards at the Mosque’s entrances in order to facilitate arresting them later on charges of disruption of the work of policemen and chanting. 

In a similar context, the Israeli occupation forces earlier at dawn rounded up two young men after storming their houses in Ras al-Amoud neighborhood in Silwan town in Occupied Jerusalem. 

Jenin: IOF abduct child, attack others

A number of Palestinian civilians choked on tear gas while a youngster was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in the clashes that rocked Jenin’s town of Yabad at dawn Sunday.

Eye-witnesses said clashes flared up in Yabad town, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, after the Israeli occupation forces attacked a group of unarmed Palestinian protestors with heavy spates of bullet fire and tear gas canisters.

The Palestinian young protestors responded to the attack by hurling stones at the Israeli occupation troops.

Eye-witnesses said a number of Palestinian civilians sustained breathing difficulties due to heavy gas inhalation while others were aggressively beaten by the Israeli soldiers stationed across the area.

The Israeli assault culminated in the abduction of the 14-year-old Palestinian minor Yussef Burhan Turkman.

A makeshift military checkpoint was swiftly pitched up by the IOF shortly afterwards, the same sources added.

Israeli occupation soldiers, settlers harass Palestinian children, attack family in Occupied East Jerusalem

 A horde of illegal Israeli fanatic settlers, escorted by Israeli occupation soldiers, on Saturday evening attacked and injured a Palestinian family living in Jerusalem’s Old city after the latter protested the abuse of their children.

Family member Ahmad Jaber said in a press statement clashes burst out after Israeli border police, who have seized the second floor of the family’s multi-story apartment in al-Sa’diya neighborhood, harassed a group of Palestinian children. 

The heavily-armed Israeli soldiers attacked the Jaber family and the other natives of al-Sa’diya quarter with randomly-shot barrages of rubber bullets and pepper gas.

The family members had also been heavily beaten by the Israeli officers and vandals as they voiced their protest over the abuse of their children.

45-year-old Tawfiq Jaber and his elderly mother, reportedly in her 60’s of age, along with his wife and two sons, sustained injuries and bruises in the assault.  

 

Illegal Israeli Settlers Set Palestinian Home on Fire

Around 12 PM Saturday night the 30th/31st of May, Imad Abu Shamsiyeh woke up to the sound of stones being thrown at his home, in Tel Rumeida, Al Khalil (Hebron). This is not at all out of the ordinary for the Abu Shamsiyeh family – they are often harassed, sometimes daily, and attacked by illegal Israeli settlers.

Imad Abu Shamsiyeh outside his home

31st May 2015 | International Solidarity Movement | Al Khalil Team

As he went out of his house to see what was going on, Imad discovered that part of his house had been set on fire by Settlers. He saw the six young Israeli settlers escaping from his roof, as he went back into his house to get his wife and kids out of the burning building. The settlers – all appearing to be in their early twenties – accessed the roof of Imad’s house and poured gasoline down one side. They then proceeded to set the whole area ablaze including a sofa situated in the terrace.

Accompanied by neighbors Imad put out the fire. Afterwards, he approached Israeli soldiers who had been positioned nearby his house when the incident occurred and asked what they had witnessed. The soldiers answered by accusing him of starting the fire.

The day after, (31st May), Imad went to the police station to report what had happened. Despite the fact that this was far from the first time the family had been violently attacked by Israeli settlers, the police discarded the report as a minor issue, and did not follow up on the case.

As mentioned previously, the Abu Shamsiyeh family have been victims of multiple incidents of settler violence. Only two months ago settlers poisoned the water tank on top of the house. This water tank is the source of all of the family’s water supply. As a result of frequent settler violence, including stone throwing, the family has put a fence up over the top of their terrace to protect themselves.

Imad Abu Shamsiyeh is a volunteer in the B’Tselem campaign for documenting the violation and harassment carried out by soldiers and settlers in the West Bank. Several hours before the house burning, he reported a knife attack by settlers against Palestinians youths in Tel Rumeida.

More stories at ISM official.

Burnt out scraps of Shamsiye’s sofa

The fence over the Abu Shamsiye family’s terrace

 

 

 

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