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Palestinian
Students Warn Israel Not To Allow Jews Into Al-Aqsa
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A Palestinian boy bangs at an Israeli armored personnel vehicle with a
stick
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NABLUS,
West Bank, May 26 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Around 5,000
Palestinian students demonstrated in this West Bank town on Monday,
May 26, vowing to keep Jews out of Al Aqsa mosque compound, which is
the third holiest site in Islam.
At
the demonstration, which was organised at Nablus' Al-Najar university
by Hamas resistance movement, students warned the Israeli government
not to allow Jews to enter the mosque compound, Agence France-Presse
(AFP) reported.
"We
are ready to prevent the Jews from entering Al Aqsa. We are all ready
to be martyrs in order to defend it," the students shouted.
At
the demonstration, they blew up a four-metre long wooden replica of a
bus, and a model of a Land Rover.
Speaking
to the crowds, Ahmed Haj Ali, one of the local political leaders of
Hamas, slammed the Mideast roadmap for peace which was grudgingly
approved by Israel on Sunday, May 25.
"The
roadmap is a trick. The only map that will lead us to victory is jihad
(holy war)," he said,
The
march comes 10 days after an Israeli minister promised
Jews would soon be allowed to pray at occupied Jerusalem's mosque compound
even without the agreement of its Muslim guardians.
Meanwhile,
an 11-year-old Palestinian boy was also killed Monday by shots fired
by Israeli soldiers in a village near the West Bank city of Ramallah,
AFP quoted Palestinian security sources as saying.
Military
Post Under Attack
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Relatives of Bassem al-Taqruri recover belongings from the rubble of the demolished family house
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Meanwhile,
the armed wing of Fatah, Al-Aqsa brigades attacked Monday a post for
the Israeli army near a complex of the Gaza Strip Jewish settlements
of Ghoush Katief.
“A
number of Mujahdeen (fighters) succeeded storming the Jewish
settlements and penetrated all Israeli checkpoints and hurled hand
grenades,” a statement released by the brigades said.
The
statement said the Palestinian resistance would go non-stop, asserting
that the resistance operations “are the response to the U.S.-Zionist
‘road map.”
Israel
Radio said that an Israeli military came under grenade attack earlier
in the day, adding that one Israeli soldier was injured.
Houses
Dynamited
Meanwhile,
the Israeli army on Monday dynamited the West Bank homes of two
Palestinian bombers who blew themselves up in occupied Jerusalem a
week ago, security sources on both sides said.
Israeli
troops demolished the houses in Hebron of Bassem al-Taqruri, who
killed seven other people when he blew
himself up on a bus on May 18, and Mujahid al-Jaabari, who detonated the
explosives he was wearing moments later in the same east Jerusalem
neighbourhood, killing only himself.
Ten
people lived in Taqruri's flat, which was in a four-storey building
that was damaged by the blast. The 12 people who lived in Jaabari's
two-storey house were made homeless.
The
two bombings were claimed by the armed wing of the Hamas group, the
Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades.
The
Israeli army has demolished more than 200 houses belonging to
Palestinian activists and their relatives since last summer as part of
a policy aimed at deterring future attackers but condemned by rights
groups as collective punishment.
Israel
Shot Dead Unarmed Palestinian
A
Palestinian who infiltrated southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on
Monday has been shot dead by soldiers, Israeli military sources said.
A
second Palestinian with him was captured, they said.
The
pair, neither of whom were armed, used a ladder to climb over a fence
separating the Gaza Strip from Israel.
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