Palestinians “struggling for survival” in Jerusalem Submitted by Rania Khalek on Sun, 11/02/2014 - 12:15 141031-jerusalem.jpg Israeli occupation forces blocked Palestinian worshipers from accessing al-Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jeruslem Friday. (Muammar Awad / APA images) “The message the Israelis are sending is that Jerusalem Palestinians are unwanted here and they are doing everything to reassert their control and squash any form of dissent and resistance to Israeli policies of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem,” Twitter user @BDS4Justice, orZalameh, told The Electronic Intifada from his home in the eastern occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat on 29 October. A few hours after our conversation Israel intensified its crackdown in eastern occupied Jerusalem following an assassination attempt on prominent rightwing extremist Yehuda Glick, a Temple Mount agitator who seeks to replace the al-Aqsa mosque with a Jewish Third Temple, a goal Zalamehsays is “mainstream” in the Israeli government. “[Temple Mount settlers] have enjoyed official support by the Israeli army and they enter Aqsa on a daily basis in large numbers as an act of provocation,” explained Zalameh, adding that the media has largely ignored months of peaceful Palestinian protests against Israeli restrictions and encroachment on Al-Aqsa.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 13:21:12 +0000
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