Raed Salah, head of the organisation, and two other officials were summoned to a police station in the northern city of Haifa for questioning.
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“Any entity or person belonging to this organization henceforth, as well as any person who gives it service, or who acts on its behalf, will be committing a criminal offense and is subject to imprisonment”.
The ministry further said that more than 25 people also got burns as a result of gas bombs and stun grenades fired by Israeli troopers.
Netanyahu added the Islamic movement dispatched paid operatives to rally crowds at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem motivated “to subvert the state in order to establish an Islamic caliphate in its place”.
Salah’s deputy, Kamal Khatib, said the party condemned the Paris attacks and charged Israel with exploiting the timing to “punish the Islamic Movement” over its position on Jerusalem. “This is a legitimate political movement…This decision is another step in the persecution of the Arab population, deepening tension between the country’s Arab citizens, and lessening citizens ‘ confidence in legal political organizing”.
That he would blame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on settlements, elevate Abbas to statesman and suggest Israel has the power to transform Abbas into a partner is not surprising, for it reflects the conventional wisdom about the conflict that has infected administrations long before this one.
The movement also helped form groups of male and female activists, known as “Morabitoun” – loosely translated as defenders of Islamic lands – who spend hours each weekday at the shrine trying to disrupt visits by Jews.
A week after the Mourabitat’s ban, on the first day of Rosh Hashanah and for three days thereafter, Israeli forces violently raided the mosque and restricted Muslim access to the site as Israeli Jews toured the compound. According to the regulations, such goods should be labeled as “made in settlements”, or even “product from Palestine” for goods produced in the West Bank.
Due to unfolding regional events, the shifting geopolitical dynamics within the Arab states, the changing nature of the bilateral relations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the strong Western desire to bring an end to the conflict, the conditions are ripe to reach a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace.
Numerous Palestinians killed were alleged attackers, while others were shot dead during clashes with Israeli forces. Al Jazeera reports the Palestinian Authority released a statement condemning the latest Israeli settlement expansion, calling it a “flagrant violation of worldwide law” aimed at preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
IDF soldiers arrested three Palestinian women who allegedly tried to enter a West Bank military encampment armed with knives, the army announced on Thursday.
Outlawing the Northern Islamic Movement by the Israeli cabinet is a purely cynical yet risky political decision serving Netanyahu government extremely right-wing agenda and has nothing to do with proclaimed security considerations.
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Salah was sentenced earlier this year to 11 months in prison for incitement to violence and racism over an inflammatory sermon he delivered in 2007 in Jerusalem.
