Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Fatah Official Says Violence May Lead to 3rd Intifada


Al-Manar

"07/10/2009 “Recent violence in the capital and the ongoing tensions surrounding Al-Aqsa mosque could trigger a third intifada,” senior Fatah official Hatem Abdel Kader said in a conversation with the Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
"It's a very sensitive situation," the former Palestinian Authority minister for Jerusalem affairs indicated as he stood outside a home in the city's Wadi Joz neighborhood. Officials from the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, including its leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, were among those who had congregated on the home's roof, in response to the recent Israeli violent actions.

Salah was arrested at that same house in the evening, after police decided that comments he had made in recent days - including calling on Muslims to become "martyrs," if necessary, for the sake of the Aqsa Mosque - constituted “incitement.”The Jerusalem Magistrates Court released him on Tuesday night, just hours after his arrest, but issued an injunction prohibiting him from entering Jerusalem for 30 days......"

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