Posted By simmons on October 31, 2014
Israel cancels plan to purchase US V-22 Ospreys Israel is reportedly going to back out of its decision to buy six American V-22 Osprey military aircraft amid escalating tensions between Tel Aviv and Washington. Israeli media report that...
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Posted By richards on October 31, 2014
Jerusalem Tensions over Jerusalems most hotly contested holy site flared Thursday after a prominent rightist campaigner for Jewish prayer there was shot in an apparent assassination attempt, and police tracked down and killed an Arab they said was the attacker.
American-born Yehuda Glick, 48, who led efforts to allow Jews to pray on the plaza known to Israelis as the Temple Mount, the site of Al-Aqsa mosque, was reported in serious but stable condition after he was shot multiple times Wednesday night as he left a gathering of activists. The shooter sped away on a motorcycle.
Early Thursday, a police counterterrorism unit shot and killed Moataz Hijazi, 32, in the mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Abu Tor, which straddles the old border between east and west Jerusalem.
Hijazi worked in a restaurant in the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in west Jerusalem, where Glick had attended the meeting. Moria Halamish, who was with Glick as he left the meeting, told Israel Radio that the shooter approached him outside the center, addressed him by name and said in Arabic-accented Hebrew, Im sorry I have to do this, but you really hurt me, before opening fire.
Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said that Hijazi, a former prisoner who had served more than a decade in Israeli jails, fired on officers who had surrounded his house hours after the shooting. Relatives and neighbors accused the police of an execution-style killing, showing reporters multiple bullet holes on a rooftop where the suspects body was found.
The spike of violence raised fears of a broader eruption of unrest triggered by mounting tensions surrounding the compound in Jerusalems Old City. It is revered by Jews as the site of the first and second Jewish temples and by Muslims as their third holiest shrine, the place toward which the Prophet Muhammad prayed before God instructed him to turn toward Mecca.
There have been increased clashes at the compound between Muslim youths and police in recent weeks, triggered by alarm over increased visits by right-wing Jewish activists intent on pressing the Israeli authorities to allow Jews to pray at the site.
Under arrangements established after Israel captured the area in the 1967 Six-Day War, the Al-Aqsa mosque plaza is reserved solely for Muslim worship, though Israelis and foreigners are allowed to visit.
In response to the attack on Glick, Israeli authorities banned all entry to the compound for the first time in 14 years, triggering a sharp protest from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who called the Muslim and Christian sacred sites in Jerusalem a red line.
Israeli officials said later that Al-Aqsa would be opened for prayers on Friday, but men under 50 would be barred to prevent further unrest.
Posted By admin on October 31, 2014
Malala Donates $50K To Rebuild Gaza Schools Much of the news is depressing and cynical,but this is not. Malala Yousafzai just won a ton of money for her human rights advocacy, and she #39;s giving it all away to help children in Gaza rebuild..
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Posted By richards on October 31, 2014
Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man in Jerusalem earlyThursday, alleging that he had attempted to assassinate a controversial right-wing Israeli activist the previous evening. The shooting threatens to further fan conflict that has been simmering in the city over the past month.
The activist, American-born rabbi Yehuda Glick, was delivering a press conference advocating for greater Jewish access to the Temple Mount plaza in Jerusalems Old City when he was shot at close range by a gunman on a motorcycle. The Old City is a holy site for both Jews and Muslims.
Several hours later, police announced they had killed Muatnaz Hejazi, the accused attacker, after he violently resisted arrest at his East Jerusalem home, Haaretz reports. The incident occurred amid regular clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Arab neighborhoods in recent weeks. The government has struggled to clamp down on violence that has been festering in the city since the lead-up to the Gaza War this summer, reports the Wall Street Journal. And it comes just a week after a Palestinian driver rammed his car into a Jerusalem light rail platform, killing two people and sparking rioting in Palestinian neighborhoods across the city.
The attack on Mr. Glick, who remains in serious but stable condition at a Jerusalem Hospital, was greeted by immediate condemnation from Israeli officials. "The assassination attempt of Yehuda Glick is another serious step in the Palestinian incitement against Jews and against the state of Israel," Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said in a statementThursday, The Associated Press reports."When Abu Mazen (Abbas) spreads lies and venom about the rights of Jews to worship in their land the result is terror, as we saw yesterday." As Reuters reports, however, Glicks controversial campaign to allow Jews to pray at Temple Mount known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary is among the major factors contributing to growing conflict over the past month. Jews have increasingly staked a claim to the site over the last year, as The Christian Science Monitor has reported.
A major focus of Palestinian anger in the past few weeks has been Jewish settlers moving into largely Arab neighborhoods. They've also been outraged over the increasing number of visits by religious Jews, including some politicians, accompanied by Israeli police to the sacred Old City site.
While the site is administered by Jordanian religious authorities, Israeli police secure it. Non-Muslims are allowed to visit under close monitoring but are not allowed to pray, a prohibition at the heart of the tensions, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Just before he was shotWednesday, Glick had been participating in a press conference at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center with two far-right members of the ruling Likud Party who support legislation increasing Jewish access to the site, the Financial Times reports. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he opposes the bill. But it enjoys the support of several members of his government, including conservative economy minister Naftali Bennett, the Times reports. Mr. Hejazi, the alleged Palestinian gunmen, had spent a decade in Israeli prisons before being released in 2012, Haaretz reports. In the hours after his killing, his East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tor became a scene of shock and anger. As Reuters observed:
Hejazi's father and brother were arrested and taken for questioning. Israeli police fired sound bombs to keep back angry residents, who shouted abuse as they watched the drama unfold from surrounding balconies. One Abu Tor resident, an elderly man with a walking stick who declined to be named, described Hejazi as a troublemaker and said "he should have been shot 10 years ago". Others said he was a good son from a respectable family. "They are good people, he does nothing wrong," said Niveen, a young woman who declined to give her family name.
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# RAW Israel strike destroys Gaza police HQ in overnight airstrikes YouTube An Israeli airstrike on the home of Gaza #39;s police chief killed 18 people and injured 45 others on Saturday, according to Gaza #39;s Health Ministry. It was the deadliest day since Operation Protective...
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Posted By simmons on October 31, 2014
Israel closes Al-Aqsa mosque citing security, says it will reopen Friday Israel shut down the Al-Aqsa mosque on Thursday, Islam #39;s third holiest site.
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Posted By simmons on October 30, 2014
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