Tag: Al-Aqsa

Planned Jewish nationalist “flag march” is a festival of hate

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Tamara Nassar, Electronic Intifada, May 29 2022

Thousands of Israeli Jewish nationalists intend on staging a major provocation in occupied East Jerusalem on 29 May, despite warnings from the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.

The Jewish extremists plan to hold their annual “March of the Flags” on what they call Jerusalem Day, an Israeli-invented holiday celebrating its occupation and colonization of the city in 1967.

Planned Jewish nationalist “flag march” is a festival of hate

Fire Reaches Gaza

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

As expected, Israel’s crackdown on Palestinians in Jerusalem and the West Bank have led to a new escalation in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli security forces have been harassing Palestinians in al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and even restricting the movement of worshipers there since the beginning of April. During the same period, at least 19 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where security forces carried out a series of raids.

Fire Reaches Gaza

Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Jenin ambush

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Eyewitnesses tell Middle East Eye that Israeli special forces in a bus blocked a vehicle carrying the men and started firing

Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Jenin ambush

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Saraya al-Quds – the military wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad – held an armed march Saturday night in Khan Yunis (Southern Gaza Strip) following the Israeli killings of three Palestinians in an apparent shootout south of Jenin in the West Bank. The events represent a clear escalation of tensions in the region.

“Islamic Jihad” forces hold armed march following Israeli killing of three Palestinians, News2Share on YouTube.

An Opportunity That Can’t Be Passed: On Blinken’s Historic Meeting With Palestinian Activists

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — In an unprecedented and welcome move, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with four grassroots Palestinian activists in Ramallah yesterday. The four activists were Hadeel Qazzaz from Gaza, Aref Husseini from Jerusalem, Dalal Irikat, the daughter of the late Saeb Iriqat, and Issa Amro from Hebron. I met Issa in Hebron immediately after his meeting with Blinken, and there was a great deal of coverage about the groundbreaking detente.

An Opportunity That Can’t Be Passed: On Blinken’s Historic Meeting With Palestinian Activists