Tag Archive for Intifada

| December 3, 2017
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Hamas threatens ‘intifada’ should Trump recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital

Hamas threatens terror & mass murder of Jews if President Trump goes through with plans to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State.

By AFP, Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Hamas called Saturday for a new “intifada” if Washington recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel or moves its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“We warn against such a move and call on the Palestinian people to revive the intifada if these unjust decisions on Jerusalem are adopted,” Hamas said in a statement.

Yahya Sinwar (L) the new Hamas leader in Gaza and Hamas chief, Ismaïl Haniyeh (R) – Photo: AFP/Archives

Any decision to move its embassy there would be “a flagrant attack on the city by the American administration” and give Israel “a cover for continuing its crime of Judaizing the city and emptying it of Palestinians,” it said. Continue Reading »

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| October 25, 2014
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Hamas Official Proclaims ‘Silent Intifada’ in Jerusalem

 

Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar condemns PA forces that ‘suppress intifada against Israel,’ calling for more Jerusalem violence as ‘the solution to Israeli aggression.’

By Tova Dvorin

 

Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar, declared the constant cycle of violence in Jerusalem an “intifada” on Saturday night, making rumors of a so-called “silent intifada” official despite declarations from the Israeli security establishment that statements to that effect are exaggerated.

“Escalating the resistance in the city is the solution to Israeli aggression,” Zahar told Hamas news agency Al-Risala.

Zahar also slammed the Hamas-Palestinian Authority (PA) “unity government”‘s security coordination with Israel.

“The security coordination is a problem in that is suppresses the intifada against Israeli aggression,” he stated. Continue Reading »

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| June 11, 2014
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Poll: Palestinians prefer charging Israel at ICC than starting 3rd intifada

 

Palestinian Center for Policy & Research also shows the majority of Palestinians believe unity gov’t does not close door on peace talks.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

 

More Palestinians want to bring Israel before the International Criminal Court than fight them in the streets in an armed third intifada, according to new poll conducted by Khalil Shikaki of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Research.

The Hague, International Criminal Court. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The Hague, International Criminal Court. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

Palestinian continue to support a two-state solution and do not believe that the newly unified Fatah-Hamas government is an obstacle to renewed negotiations, according to Shikaki’s data which he presented on Tuesday afternoon to the 2014 Herzliya Conference. Continue Reading »

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| December 9, 2013
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Hamas: We Will Never Agree to Accords or Solutions That Cedes a Single Grain of Soil

Hamas celebrates 26 year anniversary of 1st Intifada, swearing it will never settle for less than a ‘Palestine from the sea to the river.’

By Dalit Halevy

 

The Secretary of the Hamas government in Gaza, Abd el-Salam Siam, said Sunday in a press release marking 26 years since the outbreak of the First Intifada that the Gaza government supports all forms of the struggle against “Israeli occupation,” including popular struggle, struggle through peaceful methods and armed struggle.

Siam said that the Palestinian people can develop new tactics in the struggle, and called on the Palestinian people to learn from the experience of the ‘rock intifada’ and unite its ranks. Continue Reading »

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| November 6, 2013
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Russians said absolutely not – Swiss say Arafat poisoned with polonium

Swiss team claims they found levels of polonium at least 18 times higher than normal.

Suha Arafat: This is proof of ‘political assassination’.

Israel dismisses report, says even Swiss admit findings ‘not conclusive.

By Reuters

 

 

A Swiss forensic team has found that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium.

Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat

A team of experts, including from Lausanne University Hospital’s Institute of Radiation Physics, opened Arafat’s grave in the West Bank city of Ramallah last November, and took samples from his body to seek evidence of alleged poisoning.

According to Qatar-based Al-Jazeera, the Swiss team discovered levels of polonium at least 18 times higher than normal in Arafat’s ribs, pelvis and in the soil that absorbed his remains. Continue Reading »

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| September 27, 2013
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Islamic Jihad & Hamas call for 3rd intifada against Jews

Calls for violence against Jewish citizens were issued as protest against visiting Jews to the Temple Mount, their most Holy Site.

Hamas leadership says it has not abandoned its option of sending suicide bombers.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

 

On the eve of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN General Assembly, a number of Palestinian groups called for launching a third intifada against Israel.

Hamas's Kassam Brigades [file].

Hamas’s Kassam Brigades [file]. – Photo: REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

The calls were issued in protest against visits by Jewish groups to the Temple Mount.The groups called on Palestinians to take to the streets following Friday prayers to express their “solidarity with the Aksa Mosque in the face of Israeli aggression.”Hamas’s

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| August 7, 2013
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Irish EU Parliamentarian Calls for Arab Violence Against Israel

 

Irish EU representative faces criticism after suggesting that PA Arabs should resort to violence by starting a 3rd “Intifada” against Israel.

By Maayana Miskin

 

 

An Irish politician has caused outrage by urging Arabs to “rise up” against Israel in another “Intifada.”

European Union parliamentarian Paul Murphy said he does not believe that Israel is serious about the newly renewed diplomatic talks with the PA, and that what the PA needs is “a mass struggle from below.”

“There are many positive examples from the first intifada of mass protests, strikes and marches and checkpoints that I think would be ideal tactics to redevelop now,” he explained in an interview with Russia Today. Continue Reading »

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| August 6, 2013
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July: 38 Israelis wounded in acts of Palestinian terrorism

 

 

It may not be called an ‘intifada’, but Israelis  are wounded from stabbings, rock-throwing & other acts of terrorism on a daily basis.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The Israeli army an internal security agency Shin Bet have published their monthly security review for July, and it would appear that Palestinian Arab terrorism is again on the rise.

 

Stone-throwing Palistanians

In just one month, no fewer than 38 Israeli Jews were injured in acts of Palestinian terrorism.

Among the victims is a small child who suffered a head injury when Arab stone throwers operating in Jerusalem’s Old City attacked a Jewish family. Continue Reading »

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| January 6, 2013
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Has the 3rd intifada already begun?

A Senior IDF officer, the Ezion sector commander makes grim prediction about Palestinian protests in the West Bank, but adds the IDF is always prepared to battle terror.

Itamar Fleishman

 

The defense establishment has been careful not to overstate the significance of the recent – growing – wave of unrest sweeping the West Bank, but according to IDF Ezion Sector Commander Colonel Yaniv Alaluf, the third intifada has already begun.

Colonel Yaniv Alaluf – Photo: Effi Sharir

“We’re no longer on the verge of a third intifada – it’s already here. We anticipate many more (clashes) from now on,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| December 27, 2012
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NOT as BBC reported! Suha Arafat Admits 2000 Intifada of Terror was Premeditated

Arafat’s widow Suha admits in TV interview that her husband decided long before Sharon’s visit to Temple Mount that he would launch war of terror, another Intifada against Israel.

By Rachel Hirshfeld

 

Yasser Arafat’s widow, Suha, admitted that the late leader of the “Palestinian” people had decided long before former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s contentious visit to the Temple Mount that he would launch a war of terror, a.k.a. “Intifada”, against the Jewish state.

According to BBC News Thursday, 19 July, 2001: “It was Mr Sharon’s controversial visit to one part of the disputed compound last year, which lit the fuse of the Palestinian uprising.”

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| June 29, 2012
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Fatah to Israel: Do What We Want, or Face Intifada

If Israel does not agree to terms laid out by the PA, Fatah recommends a new intifada to for Israel to give the PA what it wants

By David Lev 

 

If Israel does not surrender all the lands liberated in the Six Day War of 1967, set up an Arab state with Jerusalem as its capital, and make significant concessions in accepting as citizens descendants of Arabs who fled Israel in 1948, a third intifada should, and must, be conducted. The call for a new “uprising of the people” against Israel was part of a the summation statement issued at the end of the two day Palestinian Revolutionary Council (PRC) general meeting held this week. Continue Reading »

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| April 1, 2012
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Decade after siege: Church of Nativity deportees speak out

It was one of al-Aqsa intifada’s most memorable events, with terrorists taking 200 civilians hostage. Ten years later, Palestinian deportees speak of regret, hopes of going home while for others, armed struggle still only available option

Yassin al-Harimi claims that he is a new man. A decade after he walked out of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, when the world’s eyes were all trained on it, the oldest of the Palestinians who were deported by Israel, a man who waited for the IDF‘s troops among dozens of Palestinians armed to the teeth with explosives, no longer believes that violence is the right path. Continue Reading »

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