The Palestinian News Scene 23/7/2017

Issued by the Palestinian Information Office in Europe in cooperation with the Information center

Translation and proofing By Tara khatib
Fateh Region Australia

• The Ministry of Health announced yesterday the martyrdom of the young manYoussef Abbas Kashur (23 years) from injuries sustained in the town of Al-Eizariya east of occupied Jerusalem.(Wafa,Maan,PalestineTV, agencies)
• Yesterday evening the 17-year-old Uday Aziz Nawaja has martyrdom by a landmine explosion in Tubas (Wafa,Palestine TV)
• Early of this Morning The Israeli occupation forces installed iron bridges over the door of the Asbat, with surveillance cameras without removing the electronic gates. (Maan, agencies)
• The Israeli occupation announced that the Israeli police will start from today The method of inspection using the electronic stick to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque which may pave the way to remove the electronic gates. (Sky News,the seventh day)
• Palestinian sources confirmed yesterday that the President Mahmoud Abbas informed an unnamed US official that there is no point in any American efforts at this stage for peace before Israel stops all its actions in Jerusalem and removes the electronic gates around Al Aqsa Mosque. (24 UAE)
• Sources in the Jordanian Foreign Ministry revealed that Amman has begun contacts with the Arab countries and the Arab League to arrange a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in order to take a unified Arab stance towards the Israeli attacks.(24 UAE)
• Sweden, France and Egypt called yesterday for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, and the Swedish political coordinator Carl Scowo said the meeting would aim to “open an urgent debate on how to support calls to reduce the escalation in Jerusalem.” The Security Council will meet on Next Monday to discuss the escalation in Jerusalem diplomats said (Fance Press Agency,,Wafa)
• The Middle East Quartet, which includes the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, called on all parties involved in the situation in occupied East Jerusalem to restraint to the max instant and they have asked Israel to return the situation in Jerusalem to what it was.(futuretnetwork)
• The German Foreign Ministry condemned the “violence in the occupied West Bank” asking Israel and the Palestinian leadership to not cut off the contacts between them In a statement belong to them they have asked all parties to contribute to calm tensions and to miss the opportunity for those who advocate escalation.(Bulletin)
• The Algerian foreign ministry called on the international community to take the step to protect the Palestinian people and their sanctities from the criminal acts committed by the Israeli occupation against them.(Bulletin, Agencies)
• In a press statement issued yesterday, the Iraqi Council of Representatives condemned the Israeli attacks on the Aqsa Mosque and worshipers and prevented them from reaching it except through the gates under their control (the seventh day)
• The Tunisian General Union of Labor (ZGU), Zaghouan branch strongly condemned the occupation measures of fascist character in occupied Jerusalem, citing the dangers of these measures, which comes within the strategy of Judaizing the city of Jerusalem as part of a time plan to seize Al Aqsa for destruction.(Waffa)
• Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Gawish Oghlo pointed out that Israel has been practicing State terrorism in the Al-Aqsa Mosque for years stressing out that the countries of the Islamic world must reconsider the status of the maximum.(Bulletin)
• “Israel believes that its plans in Jerusalem will proceed calmly, forgetting the legendary Jerusalem steadfastness it faces with every effort,” said Fatah deputy leader and member of its central committee Mahmud Allul.(Palestine TV)
• What the Israeli occupation is doing in occupied Jerusalem threatens to be on the threshold of a religious war Al – Aloul said as he mentioned also that. We warned the whole world against the religious war, because no one can control the results and the spread.(Palestine TV)
• Abbas Zaki, a central Fatah member, said that “the Palestinian people have left unity in the face of the Israeli occupation, a victory for Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. There is no condemnation of the minimum Arab and Islamic states for violations.”(World Channel)
• Nabil Amr, the leader of Fatah movement, said that the Palestinian National Authority does not have the means of great pressure they must change the existing equations on the ground, and stressed that the Authority can complain about the occupation of the United Nations through the Arabs and the PLO.(Al Arabiya)
• Nabil Amr said, “The relationship between the PLO and Hamas lacks even the political basis, and the absence of a political basis makes a strong contradiction between the two sides, making it impossible to make a long-term consensus.”(Al Arabiya)
• Fatah external relations commissioner Nabil shaath said that “security coordination and political and economic coordination is completely halted for the first time to send a message to the Israelis, to Arab brothers and to the entire world that the subject of Jerusalem is more important than any other subject.” (BBC Channel)
• The national and Islamic forces at the end of their meeting in Gaza City yesterday described the President’s decision to freeze contacts with the occupation as a “step in the right direction” and called on the forces to develop this step in implementation of the relevant Central Council resolutions.(Sama,24UAE)
• The deputy Dr.Mustafa Barghouthi says that the issue of the electric gates is a political issue and not a security issue as claimed by the occupation, and we affirm that the road to security and safety comes through ending the occupation and ending the racist regime imposed on us.” (Al-Arabiya)
• A number of citizens were injured during an Israeli attack on worshipers in the Al-Asbat Gate in Jerusalem yesterday, including journalists, beating them with batons and spraying them with wastewater.(Wafaa)
• Yair Lapid, head of the opposition party Yeshaytid (Future), said it was deceptive to claim that metal detectors had any purpose other than to make people safer. In his view.(24 UAE)
• “We put the electronic doors to prevent the operations that are being brought against us, and we are examining other options and solutions to ensure security in the holy place,” said Yuva Mordechai.(BBC)
• Yoav Mordechai said: “Today we are looking for other options and solutions to bring security and peace, and we demand that our Arab neighbors help us to find ways to prevent another terrorist operation.” (Al-Jazeera)