Palestinian official arrested in East Jerusalem for role in nonviolent resistance to save homes.Jerusalem / Maisa Abu Ghazaleh for PNN PNN Probabilistic Neural NetworkPNN Police National Network (UK) PNN Profesor No Numerario PNN Planet2025 News Network (internet news service) PNN Prediction-Based Nearest Neighbor PNN Plmn Network Name -- The Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in the Palestinian Authority Palestinian Authority (PA) or Palestinian National Authority, interim self-government body responsible for areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip under Palestinian control. was arrested this morning. Hatem Abdel Kader was held for investigation at the Israeli police station next to the post office on East Jerusalem's Salah Addin Street.For eight hours the Palestinian official was questioned in an ongoing campaign of harassment of Jerusalem citizens which includes closing art exhibits, banning cultural events, destroying homes and confiscating identification.The Minister of Israeli Internal Security said on Sunday evening that Abdel Kader is banned from nearing East Jerusalem's Sheikh sheikh or shaykh Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is generally assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders. Jarrah jar·rah n. An Australian tree (Eucalyptus marginata) widely grown for its hard red-brown wood. [Nyungar (Aboriginal language of southwest Australia) jarily. neighborhood from which Palestinians are being evicted. A solidarity tent became the home of the elderly Umm Kamal Al Kurd last year and international attention has been drawn to the plight of citizens who are losing everything. Sheikh Jarrah is one of numerous Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem East Jerusalem refers to the part of Jerusalem captured by Jordan in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and subsequently by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. It includes Jerusalem's Old City and some of the holiest sites of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as the Temple Mount, Western that the Israeli administration is overtaking for settlements in a move that even has the US calling for an end.Israeli settlers and police had attempted to storm the home of Darwish Hijazi that the nonviolent Palestinian resistance was protecting. Among citizens, officials and media present was Abdel Kader.The defense for the Palestinian official views the case as part of ongoing efforts to silence Kader and his colleagues while the overtaking of Jerusalem continues. Copyright Palestine News Network The Palestine News Network is an Arabic language media network run by Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza). It cooperates with the International Middle East Media Center which translates many of its reports into English for international, non-Arabic , 2003 - 2009 Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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