“A significant portion of recent terrorist attacks have been committed against the background of this incitement and propaganda”, it said.
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“It is an attack not just on the northern Islamic Movement but on our entire community”, he told Middle East Eye. The movements maintain close, secret ties. Salah had rejected the charges.
“Netanyahu is a leader who needs to create enemies”, Zahalka said. The decision to ban the group comes amid rising tensions in recent months between Israelis and Palestinians, primarily in Jerusalem and on the West Bank.
Salah’s calls to protect Al-Aqsa resonate with large segments of the public, even those who are not religious, said Shaul Bartal, an expert on Palestinian affairs at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. He said he and two other party leaders had been summoned to police questioning.
“The decision is an acute attack on elementary rights like freedom of worship, association and expression”, said the statement.
The Islamic Movement in Israel also has a southern branch, which is considered more moderate and which was not affected by the ban.
The Israeli acts, including “wars, destruction, devastation and depriving the Palestinians from their rights for decades are the real terror”, he explained.
The ban sparked outrage among Arab leaders and lawmakers who condemned the move. I will continue to remain at the helm of the movement and I am proud of this. He says the group shares an ideology with the Islamic State and the Islamic militant Hamas. Two Palestinians were killed and three wounded in clashes with Israeli troops early Monday in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Jerusalem area, a Palestinian health official said.
The Israeli government has banned an Islamist party, saying it’s been inciting violence among Israeli Arabs over the past two months.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday approved the construction of 500 more illegal settlement units in Ramat Shlomo settlement, Occupied East Jerusalem.
After the decision, police closed 17 organizations affiliated with the party and searched more than a dozen of their offices, seizing computers, files and funds.
The government immediately launched a media campaign implying that Salah’s movement had colluded with “terrorism” against Israel. He stated he provided to balance the Palestinians with Israeli land equivalent to five.eight % of the West Bank, together with a link to the Gaza Strip – another territory meant to be part of Palestine.
Individually, Salah is set to begin an 11-month jail term after this month in connection with incitement charges from a 2007 sermon.
The Islamic Movement runs its own educational and religious services and has been at the forefront of protests against government policies toward Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians.
The highly sensitive Al-Aqsa compound, the third-holiest site in Islam after the Grand Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, has been the focus of the northern branch’s anger.
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Violence since October 1 has killed 84 people on the Palestinian side, including one Arab Israeli, as well as 12 Israelis. The European Union should ban all settlement products and end its dealings with all parts of the Israeli economy that engage in Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise. “This is exactly what the Islamic Movement [is] doing”.
