8 April 2009

Occupied Jerusalem, (PIC)-- The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage revealed Monday that the Zionist state stole historical blocks of stone from the Aqsa Mosque and put one of them in front of the Knesset (parliament) building in occupied Jerusalem.

The Aqsa foundation explained that the Israeli occupation authority stole a number of stone blocks that were put three meters away from the southern wall of the holy Mosque, adding that it managed to sneak behind the fence that the IOA established around the site and found some blocks stripped off their places.

It added that the IOA had pitched a black tent in the site and prevented anyone from approaching or taking photographs in order to gradually and secretly commit its crime.

The foundation pointed out that one of the blocks was taken to an unknown destination and another was taken to the Knesset building, adding that the Zionists could have changed the features of the blocks.

The foundation was able to take photographs of one of the stolen blocks that was placed outside the Knesset building.

For his part, Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy head of the Islamic Movement in the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, stated that Israel is a master at all kinds of robbery and forgery, where it steals and loots the Palestinian land, and tries to forge the Palestinian history.

Sheikh Khatib added that the Zionists try to cover up the sun with a sieve through stealing Islamic and Arab antiquities and then claiming they are from the alleged remains of their temple, asserting that all excavations and diggings around and under the Aqsa Mosque carried out by the Zionists did not lead them to any sign showing that there had been a temple in the place of the Aqsa Mosque.

In another development, a delegation from the Jerusalemite popular committee visited on Monday the area of Umayyad palaces in the southeastern wall of occupied Jerusalem to witness the violations committed by Israeli official sides and settlers, the latest of which was the transfer of a large stone block from its place in the wall to an unknown location.

The delegation deplored the blatant serial forgery of Islamic antiquities and the brainwashing of tourists through alleging that many antiquities date back to the first and second temples.

Ihab Al-Jallad, a member of the Jerusalemite committee, told the PIC reporter that a group of Zionist settlers kept coming to the southern wall of Jerusalem and slipping rolls into chinks in the wall while Jewish societies make documentary movies in the wall area to forge historical facts.

PMRS and PHR reveal Israeli human rights violations in Gaza war

Meanwhile, the Palestinian medical relief society and physicians for human rights held Monday a news conference in the headquarters of the EU parliament in Brussels to reveal the results of investigations conducted by an international independent committee into human rights violations and war crimes committed by Israel during its war on Gaza.

Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian lawmaker and the secretary-general of the national initiative, in addition to multinational medical delegations from South Africa, Germany, Denmark and Netherlands participated in the conference.

The investigations showed 80 war crimes and violations committed by IOF troops during the Israeli war on Gaza such as assaults on and wanton killing of civilians, delaying and preventing evacuation of the wounded, attacks on emergency medical teams while on duty, and the use of internationally-banned weapons.

The medical relief society and physicians for human rights will hold a second news conference Tuesday to reveal some of the Israeli violations committed in Gaza.

In another related context, the international coalition to combat impunity intends to submit new documents to the international criminal court on war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza.

Head of the coalition May Al-Khansa said Monday in a statement to Islam Online that the documents include UN reports, Israeli officials' statements and soldiers' confessions.

For this purpose, a delegation of European lawyers headed by Khansa decided to travel Tuesday to The Hague in Netherlands, the seat of the international court.

The delegation will meet a number of the court's officials to discuss the developments in the complaint submitted earlier by the coalition about human rights violations, crimes against humanity, genocidal crimes, and the blockade on Gaza.

The coalition head pointed out that the new documents also prove that Israel still commits human rights violations and crimes against humanity in Gaza, adding that the coalition intends to complain about the siege on Gaza as one of the Israeli war crimes.

The coalition accuses 100 Israeli, US and British political and military figures of participating in the war crimes in Gaza.