The director of the Ibrahimi mosque Moataz abu-Sneineh said the Israeli army shut the doors of the mosque today and tomorrow, preventing Palestinians and Muslim visitors from entry, as Jews celebrate Passover until Thursday.
The Israeli army is only allowing settlers to break in and perform Talmudic prayers, he added.
The mosque will be closed for 10 days and calls for prayers will also be suspended.
The move follows the “Shamgar” agreement, which led to division of the Ibrahimi Mosque after a massacre that took place in 1994. Since then, the mosque is being closed for ten days during the Jewish Passover, worships are being harassed and banned from entry, said abu-Sneineh.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers stormed the Old City of Hebron, stopping shoppers from heading to the market. Nader Al-Tamimi, one of the area’s merchants, said that the settlers’ celebrations of their holidays come at the expense of the Palestinians, as they create “hell for us and an environment that repels passers-by and shop owners”.
“We witness attacks and the destruction of some of the contents of the shops, and many fear reaching the Old City. Their goal is to evacuate the Palestinians and only allow the settlers to roam freely,” he says.
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Deaf Palestinian boy assaulted by Israeli soldiers
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the israhell army are cowards. They beat this boy, saying his hearing aid was an 'eavesdropping device'. This is extremely despicable. Let the world know of this evil no matter what.
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12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and detained by Israeli forces.
"We were collecting vegetables near the razor wire when the Israeli soldiers shot at me five times."
"On the first day I was detained, the soldier hit my head with his baton. To this day my head still hurts! His baton was made of iron!"
He was also beaten up without mercy once he stumbled onto the floor, being told to get up despite the beatings and the injuries he sustained on his leg and stomach.
He was also then "interrogated" by these soldiers, then put under anesthesia, strapped to a bed for two days, and was injected several more times after that. He was forcefully put to sleep day and night.
His words to his mother on their call:
"I wish I was martyred."
"I haven't seen you in 15 days. I miss you."
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The air is heavy with the smell of death. It’s inescapable, in every corner, and worse with every body taken out of the ground.
Every time they dig, they find more corpses, sometimes in places they never expect.
Sometimes they only find parts of a person, or a corpse decomposed beyond recognition.
According to the Gaza government media office, some bodies were found decapitated, or had their skin and organs removed.
Children, elderly women and young men are said to be among the dead.
Rescue workers say they found bodies with their hands tied behind their backs, which the UN human rights office said “indicates serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law”.
Israel denies it buried the Palestinian bodies, claiming instead that it had “respectfully” exhumed the dead searching for Israeli captives.
There are so many tears at Nasser hospital today and so much pain. It’s hard for me to find the words to describe this scene.
The feeling of seeing someone find their relative is indescribable, the way mothers cover their dead sons in a shroud and accompany them to the cemeteries.
Every sight we capture as journalists we do so silently.
We can’t speak, we cry blood as we film. Our hands are shaking so much our cameras lose focus.
But we start over and try again. Moatasim Mortaja is a Palestinian video journalist in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Over recent days, he has been documenting mass graves uncovered in Nasser hospital, where more than 300 bodies have been discovered since Israeli forces withdrew.
On Monday, his video of a woman in grey holding the recently uncovered body of her son spread across social media. This is his descriptions of the scenes at Nasser hospital.
✍️ by: Lubna Masarwa
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The Israeli Holocaust
Scenes of destruction at Al-Shifa Medical Hospital, the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, following the IOF's withdrawal after a two week siege of the hospital west of Gaza City.
The third picture shows the specialized surgery building.
Many buildings were burned or destroyed, and the bodies of hundreds of martyrs were found in and around the hospital
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The IOF lies. It's inherently part of their zionist settler-colonial agenda -literally. They are not to be trusted -everything they say is meant to distort and distract people from what is really going on. This is just another example of this.
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