Wednesday 18 November 2009

Bahar: Intensifying settlement drive necessitates expediting national unity


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[ 18/11/2009 - 05:41 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC), has urged the Ramallah authority to re-consider its insistence on negotiations in light of the growing Israeli settlement drive in occupied Jerusalem.

Bahar, in a statement on Wednesday, said that the current challenges and dangers against the national cause necessitate opening all options before the Palestinians to resist occupation in a bid to restore legitimate rights away from futile steps such as the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state.

The Palestinian people, especially in Jerusalem that is the target of a malicious judaization process, are fed up with denunciations, he said, adding that the Palestinians in Jerusalem need support to boost their steadfastness in face of the "Zionist offensive that targets wiping them out of the holy city's demographic map".

The intensification of the settlement drive in occupied Jerusalem necessitates immediate restoration of national unity including removing all obstacles impeding the signing of the Egyptian reconciliation proposal.

The first deputy speaker asked Cairo to display flexibility in a bid to complete the Palestinian national reconciliation.

He asked Arab and Islamic forces and institutions to table real support programs on the economic, political and informational level for Jerusalem and its steadfast people in face of the "Zionist schemes".

The Israeli occupation authority has endorsed the construction of 900 new settlement units south of occupied Jerusalem while its bulldozers continue to raze Jerusalemite homes without any regional or international deterrence, Bahar underlined.




Israel approves construction of 900 settlement units in eastern Jerusalem

[ 18/11/2009 - 11:09 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Different Hebrew media sources reported Wednesday that the Israeli government approved the building of 900 settlement units in the eastern part of occupied Jerusalem.

They said that the committee for planning and construction of the Israeli interior ministry sanctioned the building of these units in Gilo settlement.

According to the Israeli Haaretz newspaper, these units are the first phase of a broader and comprehensive plan aimed at expanding the settlement, there are still more than 4,000 settlement units in Gilo pending the final approval.

In another context, a large number of Israeli troops stormed at dawn Wednesday Palestinian homes in the town of Idna and Al-Aroub refugee camp in Al-Khalil in the West Bank, and assaulted a young man at Al-Hawwar checkpoint, north of the city.

Palestinian eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israeli troops invaded Idna and imposed a curfew in the vicinity of the house of a citizen called Tayseer Abu Juhaisha and damaged its furniture, adding that they stayed several hours inside the house before withdrawing.

Other Israeli troops broke into and ransacked the house of a Palestinian citizen from the family of Abu Khairan in Al-Aroub camp for the third consecutive time in less than a week, and detained the family members inside a room.

It was also reported that a 24-year-old young man called Abdelrahman Al-Abd was moderately wounded when he was attacked by Israeli troops at Al-Hawwar checkpoint.

Medical sources said that the young man sustained different bruises in his body and was transferred to Al-Khalil hospital.

In another incident, Israeli settlers threw stones at Palestinian citizens on the Shalala street in the old city in Al-Khalil for the second time in a week without any reported injuries.

For its part, the Hebrew radio alleged that a Palestinian homemade rocket landed Wednesday morning in Sha’ar Hanegev area in western Negev without inflicting casualties.

No Palestinian party claimed responsibility for the attack.


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