One Palestinian killed by Israeli forces, an alternative plan to dismantle Gaza settlements
Palestinian medical sources in Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said that one Palestinian was killed yesterday as he was hit by a bullet by the Israeli occupation forces.
The source added that Jamal al-Afifi ( 45 year old), from Tel al-Sultan quarters, to the west of the city in southern Gaza, was killed by bullets fired by the soldiers from an "Israeli monitoring tower near Rfeihan Israeli settlement." On the other hand, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said that one Palestinian worker was killed when several Palestinian trampled on him in front of Ereiz crossing between Gaza and Israel.
Officials in the Palestinian authority said that Muhammad al-Sheikh ( 41 year old) died while the occupation soldiers were permitting workers to walk on the crossing. A spokesman for the Israeli army said that Muhammad al-Sheikh had a heart attack.
In occupied Jerusalem, Imam of al-Haram al-Ibraheimi, Sheikh Teiser al-Tamimi, held Israel responsible for the collapse of the road leading to Bab al-Magharebah in the old town of Jerusalem.
In a statement, al-Tamimi said that the reason of the road collapse are the diggings made by the Israeli occupation forces in al-Aqsa mosque area.
Sheikh al-Tamimi called of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Jerusalem committee, the Arab League and UNESCO to convene an urgent meeting in order to discuss the drastic situation.
However, the general Mufti of the holly land and Palestine, Sheikh Ikrama Sabri, called on the Arab and Islamic states to interfere immediately to protect the city of Jerusalem and its holy sites from Judaization and violation of its antiquities.
This urgent call came following partial collapse of a fence on the road of Bawabat al-Magharebah, one of the gates of the Mosque. Sheikh Ikrama Sabri said that the collapse is an indication on a danger threatening the mosque because of the acts of drilling carried out by the Israeli occupation forces.
However, amid objections to dismantle the settlements in Gaza, the Israeli transport minister, Avigidore Liberman, and also chairman of the Right national federation party extended a message to the cabinet ministers to convince them on the need of embarking on an alternative plan in challenging the plan of the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The Israeli radio quoted Liberman as saying that it is ripe time "to propose an alternative opposing Sharon's plan to separate practically all military officials and the security departments, at a time when the Roadmap should be sent to the museum." Liberman extended his message to seven ministers from the extremist wing in the Likud party chaired by the prime minister Ariel Sharon including the minister of finance Benjamin Netanyahu in addition to three ministers from the religious national party and from the national federation.