“Today Palestinian sport defeated the Israeli occupier”, said Abdel-Salem Haniyeh, of the Palestinian Higher Council of Sport.
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The ICRC said Friday that Mohammed Allaan is in dire condition, calling on Israeli authorities to allow his family a visit.
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are increasingly resorting to hunger strikes to protest both their indefinite detentions with no charges (administrative detention) and the denial of their right to a legal trial.
Israeli officials told Reuters the four players denied permits had failed to turn up for special questioning on Thursday before the start of the weekend and accused Jibril Rajoub, the chairman of the Palestinian FA, of “cheap provocation”. They have repeatedly attacked Palestinian property and worship places. His 18-month-old son, Ali Dawabsheh was killed in the blaze, while his other son, 4, and his wife were seriously injured. A Palestinian team from the Gaza Strip hosted West Bank opposition for the first time in 15 years on Thursday after Israel gave the visitors permission to cross its territory for the clash between the two lands’ respective cup holders.
A “price tag” attack is a term used by radical Israeli settlers to denote reprisal against Palestinians in response to moves by the Israeli government to evacuate illegal West Bank outposts, according to officials. The settlements are considered illegal under worldwide law, though Israel disputes this.
This is because the settlers constitute a militant and vocal faction whose social interests are intimately bound up with Israeli rule of the captured territories and the perpetuation of the country’s military machine.
The attack on the Dawabsheh home, coupled with an ultra-Orthodox Jew’s fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old girl at a gay pride parade the previous day, sparked outrage in Israel and several large-scale anti-violence demonstrations. Such forces serve as a useful means of intimidating the Palestinians and whipping up right-wing nationalism as a means of deflecting Israel’s huge internal tensions.
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According to the IDF, Palestinian groups have fired over 11,000 rockets at Israel since 2005, with over 5 million Israeli civilians living under threat of rocket fire.
