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Will appeal ban. Abdel-Qader
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Senior Fatah figure banned from al-Aqsa for 6 months

Hatem Abdel-Qader, who was arrested during recent east Jerusalem riots, says won't respect ban if it is aimed at 'making it easier for settlers' to take over Temple Mount

Hatem Abdel-Qader, who is in charge of Jerusalem affairs in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, has been banned from visiting the al-Aqsa Mosque area for a period of six months.

 

Abdel-Qader, who was arrested during the recent Arab riots in east Jerusalem, said Monday that he was summoned to the Jerusalem Police headquarters and served an administrative order signed by head of the IDF Home Front Command, Major General Yair Golan, which bans him from visiting the holy Muslim site in the Old City.

 

Speaking to Ynet, the Palestinian official said the order constitutes an Israeli declaration that Jerusalem is "occupied territory."

 

"How else can you explain the fact that Israel Police uses the army to enforce orders and decisions?" he said.

 

Abdel-Qader said he was told by police that he had to weeks to appeal the order. "I plan on appealing, but if it turns out that this injunction is aimed at making it easier for the settlers to take over al-Aqsa, then I will not respect it," he told Ynet.

 

In late October, after being arrested for incitement during Arab riots that erupted amid rumors that a group of Jews had planned on entering the Temple Mount complex, which houses the al-Aqsa Mosque, Abdel-Qader was banned from the Old City for a period of three weeks.

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.23.09, 21:03
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