150 Palestinians injured in protests in occupied Jerusalem

[P F Tinmore]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Protests to mark Land Day and express support for Jerusalem took place in occupied Jerusalem and around on Friday after the Friday prayers.

The IOF tried to supress the central demonstration in Jerusalem injuring 23 participants and arrested 45 young men who were not allowed to reach the Aqsa Mosque to attend the Friday prayers. Eighteen of those injured were taken to Jerusalem hospitals, 6 of them to Makased hospital.

Amongst those injured was MP Hatem Abdel-Qader the Jerusalem minister in Salam Fayyad's government.

The IOF troops interrupted the speech of the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, Adnan al-Husaini, and moved in to disperse the protestors outside Bab al-Amoud near the walls of the old city were demonstrators gathered. 11 of the participants were arrested using IOF soldiers disguised as Palestinians who mingled with the crowd.

At the Qalandia roadblock to the north of Jerusalem which West Bank Palestinians are not allowed to cross into Jerusalem, IOF troops dispersed protestors by firing teargas and rubber-coated bullets injuring 120 Palestinians, 23 of them were taken to hospitals in Ramallah. The IOF also arrested 17 participants in the march.

150 Palestinians injured in protests in occupied Jerusalem

 

[JStone]

Hebrew Bible, Chronicles

Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Eminent Historian Sir Martin Gilbert, Author of 10 Books on Jewish and Middle East History and 3 Books on Jerusalem ...

Jerusalem became the capital of the first Jewish kingdom in 1004 BC, over 3000 years ago. With the brief exception of the Crusader period, no other non-Jewish ruling power of Jerusalem made the city a capital but it was consistently a capital for the Jews. Driven into partial exile by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, the Jews returned fifty years later and rebuilt Jerusalem as their capital. It was their capital, too, under the Maccabees. The unity of the city achieved in 1967, then, was more than a quirk of military geography. It was the fulfillment of unbroken historical longings.