In contravention to a deal on placing surveillance cameras at Al-Aqsa mosque, Israeli forces have reportedly barred Muslim religious authorities from installing the cameras at the holy site, claiming they had acted “prematurely”.
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As residents, they enjoy freedom of movement, the right to work in Israel and access to Israeli social services and health care.
“There is nothing permanent about permanent residency”, said Yudith Oppenheimer, executive director of Ir Amim, an advocacy group that promotes coexistence and equality in the city.
The hilltop compound in Jerusalem’s Old City, revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism.
The Jerusalem District Court upheld a previous court sentence, appealed by both Saleh and the prosecutors who said that in 2007, during a sermon in East Jerusalem, Saleh had evoked anti-Semitic imagery dating back to the Middle Ages.
On Tuesday a 76-year-old Israeli man who was shot in the head and stabbed in the chest in an attack on a Jerusalem bus on October 13 succumbed to his wounds, according to the Hadassah hospital.
The speech came amid new violence between Palestinians and Israelis.
Micah Avni said his father was a beloved educator and author of a book on teaching.
But most important, he said he was concerned about losing his connection to the Old City – site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, an important Palestinian national symbol that has been at the center of the latest unrest.
“Time is now for decisions, Israeli and Palestinian leaders will have to take courageous choices, ” she said.
These incidents bring up the death toll in Hebron governorate since the beginning of October to 61 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during this current wave of violence between the Palestinians and the Israeli forces.
In a special meeting convened by the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on Wednesday, President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas warned that “the status of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, as a result of the continued Israeli occupation and its practises, is the worst and most critical since 1948”. A Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron attempted to stab an Israeli soldier today and was shot dead, the army and police said. The branch’s leader, Raed Salah, has called on his followers to “redeem” the mount, which houses the Al-Aqsa mosque, from purported Israeli aggression. “As we have said many times, Israel has no intention to divide the Temple Mount, and we completely reject any attempt to suggest otherwise”. However, even if Dania Jihad Hussein Ershied had a knife in her possession, eyewitness accounts indicate she was not posing a threat to Israeli forces when she was shot, and her killing is therefore absolutely unjustified. This is a specific, unwritten, de-facto arrangement between Israel and Jordan, in effect since 1967 when Israel began occupying the site, by which, crudely put, Muslims administer the Holy Esplanade while Israel polices it from the outside.
Israel, for its part, has welcomed the proposed installation of cameras – a product of talks with Jordanian officials.
Israel has welcomed the plan, saying the cameras will prove it is doing nothing wrong and expose violent activities by Palestinian protesters. “Israel, as it has repeatedly done, will use it against the Palestinians and not against extremist Jewish settlers or Israeli officials”.
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The prison term will start in November, said Zahi Injaidat, a spokesman for the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel.
