Thursday, March 18

Yesterday Jerusalem was Under the Fire of Death Squads


Kawther Salam

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Today Wednesday, the Palestinian newspapers, especially the
PA newspaper Al-Hayat Jadidah and Al-Quds in Jerusalem, came
out with miserly and censored news about a day of bloody
clashes between the Palestinians and Israeli occupation
forces in occupied Jerusalem, which was otherwise described
as "the hardest clashes between Palestinians and Israeli
occupation forces in the years after the outbreak of the
Aqsa Intifada". The Palestinian Authority, under the orders
of the corrupt minister of Salam Fayyad, issued censorship
instructions to the media, telling them to not concentrate on the
news about the daily confrontations between the Israeli occupation
and the local Palestinians in East Jerusalem, citing as a pretext
that allegedly the Hamas "illegal" government had issued a call
to take part in the confrontation and demos.



Israeli soldiers and the so-called borderpolice chasing women
in the streets.
The PA quisling regime also instructed its military and
police to prevent Palestinian protests and solidarity with
the citizens of Jerusalem in all the cities, villages and towns of
the West Bank under nominal PA control. Many PA checkpoints
were set up everywhere in order to prevent protesters from
approaching the areas under Israeli control and expressing their anger.



Hatem Abd al-Qader, a leader of Fatah from Jerusalem and member of Palestinian legislative council, sharply criticized the "caretaker government" headed by Salam Fayyad. He said: "the PA government prevents the protests and denies the Palestinians access to the sites in the West Bank which are
under Israeli control in a manner which is not consistent
with the seriousness of conditions in the
West Bank and Jerusalem".
Abed al-Qadir denounced the PA saying: "We must allow
Palestinians to express their anger about what Israel is doing in
Jerusalem, and to let them solidarize with the Jerusalemites who
stand against the repressive measures of the Israeli occupation,
the judaization of Jerusalem and the desecration of its holy sites
with their bare chests". He added: "The conditions which
created by the Palestinian government does not allow
them freedom of expression and protest, and if the tension
and escalation continues, the situation is going to explode in
the West Bank".



An Israeli police officer chases a Palestinian (L) in
the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ras
al-Amud. Pic.Credit: REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

In response to the statement of Hatem Abed al-Qadir, the
PA police spokesman Adnan al-Domiri, an employee under
the command of American General Keith Dayton and the
EU COPPS, said: "the battle between the Israelis and
the Palestinians is in Jerusalem, and not in other sites in
the West Bank where we are. If anybody wants to
confront the Israeli occupation he should go to Jerusalem,
but not here in areas under the rule of the PA".

This dangerous statement made by Al-Domiri
testifies to a conspiracy against the Palestinians and their
holy land and national institutions which is being perpetrated
by the weak and corrupt body of the Palestinian Authority (PA)
and its so-called "leaders", who are working under the cover
of the American military policy, the Europeans intelligence
services and police, and the Israelis, in order to maintain
Israel’s security at all costs and so keep receiving the
financial "aid" which feeds their bank accounts and
increases their own investment opportunities.
In spite of everything which the PA has tried in order to
conceal the truth about the serious confrontations and
crimes in East Jerusalem, and to whitewash the seriousness
of the situation in the Holy city of Jerusalem and the West
Bank, the situation has deteriorated seriously and
directly after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority,
the news from Jerusalem have spread widely so that the PA
is now unable to hide them despite the totalitarian control
which they have imposed on their newspaper, for example
Al-Hayat al-Jadida, which is only read by PA elements and
translated by the Israeli military administration.




In Jerusalem, all the shops were closed today, and a
commercial has strike has spread everywhere in the city.
Huge confrontations and clashes have broken out
between hundreds of Palestinian protesters and the Israeli
police and the border police in Jerusalem and many of the
surrounding districts, towns, villages and areas. According
to Palestinian sources in Jerusalem, over 100 Palestinians
were injured, among them 49 by rubber bullets, of these seven
were in the eyes. A foreign journalist, "Daniel", was injured in
his leg, and eight Israeli police were stoned by the demonstrators.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli soldiers opened fire on the
leg of a boy of age 17 after his arrest, they then beat and left
him bleeding in the street until an ambulance was able to
transfer him to a hospital for treatment.




The medical sources from Jerusalem, Red Crescent, reported that
49 Arabs were injured around the Old City and in east
Jerusalem on Tuesday noon, including 14 people who were
injured by rubber bullets, 16 who suffered from teargas inhalation,
and the rest who were being beaten. 31 demonstrators were
arrested. It has become known that Israeli soldiers and
Special Forces are infiltrating the demonstrators disguised
with beards and wearing attires of religious Muslims. Many
people have been shot, beaten and detained by these infiltrators.


In the al-Suwaneh and al-Tur neighborhoods in Jerusalem,
a group of Palestinian demonstrators managed to reach the
jewish squatter colony of "Beit Orot", where they removed all
the Israeli flags and smashed the surveillance cameras.


An undercover Israeli police death squad officer points a
weapon toward Palestinian protestors. Pic. Credit: REUTERS/Baz Ratner.
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