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From PressTV
Israeli settlers once again storm al-Aqsa Mosque
Israeli settlers, backed by the Tel Aviv regime’s security forces, have once again stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
According to reports on Wednesday, there were confrontations between the Israelis and Palestinians at the site of the holy mosque as the Israeli settlers and troops attacked the Muslim worshipers for the fourth consecutive day.
The brutal assault against Palestinians at the site of the mosque started on Sunday following the deployment of Israeli soldiers to the area for the Jewish Rosh Hashanah New Year holiday.
On Tuesday, at least 20 Palestinians were injured and several others arrested after Israeli soldiers fired stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian worshipers inside the mosque.
The Israeli troops also attacked al-Qibla Mosque in al-Quds, burned its gate and broke its windows.
From Russia Today
‘West crying for refugees with one eye, aiming gun with the other’ – Assad (FULL INTERVIEW)
From PressTV
Netanyahu to visit Russia for talks on Syrian crisis
May our shared Abrahamic roots deepen respect & bring peace & mutual understanding. L’Shanah Tovah.#RoshHashanah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Russia next week to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the ongoing conflict in Syria, his office says.
Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday that the Israeli premier will raise the issue of Russia’s arms deliveries to Syria in his upcoming talks with Putin.
On Tuesday, Putin said his country will continue to supply the Syrian government with military assistance.
Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also stressed that Moscow will push ahead with sending military equipment to the Syrian government as well as the humanitarian assistance Damascus needs for its people.
“There were military supplies, they are ongoing and they will continue. They are inevitably accompanied by Russian specialists, who help to adjust the equipment, to train Syrian personnel how to use these weaponry,” Lavrov said.
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From PressTV
Israeli PM Netanyahu visits al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has visited al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds amid clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians at the holy site for the fourth consecutive day.
The report comes as there were confrontations between the Israelis and Palestinians at the site of the holy mosque on Wednesday as the Israeli settlers and troops attacked Muslim worshipers for the fourth consecutive day.
Netanyahu’s visit is expected to ignite more violence as at least six Palestinians were abducted before the visit. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited the al-Aqsa Mosque compound on September 28, 2000 which led to the Second Intifada (popular uprising), also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada.
The brutal assault against Palestinians at the site of the mosque started on Sunday following the deployment of Israeli soldiers to the area for the Jewish Rosh Hashanah New Year holiday.
Israel has applied sweeping restrictions on entry into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound since August 26.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel plans to broaden the mandate of its forces following clashes between them and Palestinian protesters in and around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied West Bank.
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From PressTV
Israel says to use more force against Palestinians
Israel says it has decided to broaden the mandate of its forces following alarming clashes between them and Palestinian protesters in and around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Duds.
“It has been decided to toughen the measures in many areas,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday at an emergency meeting, also attended by the regime’s minister of military affairs Moshe Yaalon,
“A modification of the rules of engagement will be examined as well as the establishment of a minimum penalty for those who throw stones,” he added.
The Israeli premier also noted that there would be “significant fines” for stone-throwing minors, as well as for their parents.
Palestinians and Israeli security forces clashed in the mosque’s compound and the surrounding occupied Old City of al-Quds (East Jerusalem) on Tuesday for a third consecutive day, raising fears of spiraling violence and prompting international calls for calm.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iranian president tweets English Rosh Hashanah greeting
(JTA) — Iran’s president tweeted a Rosh Hashanah greeting to the Jewish people.
The greeting from Hassan Rouhani was sent from his official Twitter account on Sunday before the start of the holiday.
“May our shared Abrahamic roots deepen respect & bring peace & mutual understanding. L’Shanah Tovah.#RoshHashanah,” the tweet said. A Reuters photo included with the message shows Jews praying in 2006 at a synagogue in Tehran.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Russia lists JDC-funded cultural group among ‘foreign agents’
(JTA) — Russia’s Justice Ministry placed a Jewish cultural association with ties to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee on its list of nongovernmental organizations defined as “foreign agents.”
The Hesed-Tshuva group, which is based in the city of Ryazan located 120 miles south of Moscow, was placed on the list on Sept. 11, according to a report Tuesday by the news website hro.org.
The list was set up in accordance with a law which Russia’s parliament adopted in 2012, that requires nongovernmental organizations to register as “foreign agents” with the Ministry of Justice if they engage in “political activity” and receive foreign funding.
According to Human Rights Watch, the definition of “political activity” under the law is “so broad and vague that it can extend to all aspects of advocacy and human rights work.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel to use ‘all necessary measures’ to fight rock throwers
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will “use all necessary measures to fight against those who throw stones, firebombs, pipe bombs and fireworks in order to attack civilians and police,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu held a meeting Tuesday night to discuss the security situation in and around Jerusalem, in particular a wave of attacks by Palestinians on Jewish targets using stones, firebombs, pipe bombs and fireworks.
The meeting was held after three days of violence on the Temple Mount, and the death of an Israeli civilian, Alexander Levlovitch, 64, who lost control of his car after being pelted with rocks near the Palestinian neighborhood of Sur Baher in eastern Jerusalem on Sunday night on the way home from a Rosh Hashanah eve dinner. The car then hit a pole and landed in a ditch. Levlovitch died of his injuries and two passengers were lightly wounded in the crash.
Netanyahu on Wednesday visited the site where Levlovitch was killed. “Here, in the heart of Jerusalem, at a traffic island on a main road, a thug and criminal stands here, on a traffic island, takes a stone and throws again and again at the windshields of cars of Jerusalem residents until he manages to cause death – it did not kill, it murdered. This stone is one too many. We are declaring war on those who throw stones and bottles, and rioters,” he said.
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From PressTV
Israel re-arrests Palestinian hunger striker Allan
The Israeli regime has reinstated the administrative detention of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allan who has recently been on a two-month hunger strike.
“Mohammed Allan, whose condition has improved, was arrested this morning by police at the hospital in Ashkelon,” Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said in a Wednesday statement. The 31-year-old lawyer has been taken to the Ramla prison hospital.
His re-arrest comes as Allan’s two-month strike nearly killed him and led to a rise in tensions in the occupied West Bank.
On August 19, Israel’s High Court suspended Allan’s detention without trial, which was to run until early November, as he received medical treatment following his strike, that twice left him in a coma.
The Palestinian prisoner, who is a member of the Islamic Jihad movement, had previously said he would resume his hunger strike if his administrative detention was reinstated.
From Ynet News
IsraAid fighting to help refugees in Europe
Volunteers welcomed the new year by saving a group of drowning refugees of the Greek coast, but the action was just part of larger effort to help the masses of desperate travelers.
At an hour when most families in Israel were sitting down for their holiday dinners, three volunteers were welcoming the new year by saving a group of refugees after their boat sank near the Greek coast.
On Sunday night, 200 meters away from the coast of the island of Lesbos, an engine exploded on an rubber boat carrying 50 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The boat began to sink. Women, children and babies fell into the water, many of them did not know how to swim.
IsraAid volunteers in action (Photo: IsraAid)
From The Times of Israel
Trump talks military buildup, but no foreign policy details
In campaign stop aboard WWII battleship, Republican presidential hopeful keeps focus on illegal immigration
September 16, 2015, 6:24 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Republican presidential contender Donald Trump said Tuesday that veterans should get subsidized private health care if they face unacceptable waits in the current system, because “we have illegal immigrants that are treated better by far than our veterans.”
Trump addressed veterans aboard a World War II battleship in Los Angeles harbor in a speech that sought to project a foreign policy stance as muscular as the old warship’s triple 16-inch guns behind him.
He called for a military buildup so broad that no foe would challenge the US, as well as a new health care deal for veterans. In doing so, he again swiped at people who are in the country illegally, a refrain that has powered his campaign since the start. Trump gave no details on how he would pay for an expansion in the armed forces — or veterans’ health care — leaving his foreign policy agenda still mostly a blank slate.
He spoke aboard the retired ship USS Iowa, which bears the name of the leadoff caucus state of the 2016 campaign.
