The Israeli authorities on Wednesday closed the offices of several institutions operating in occupied East Jerusalem for six months for allegedly carrying out activities related to the Palestinian Authority, according to representatives of those institutions, amid widespread Palestinian condemnation and warnings of the serious repercussions of this racist step and the continuation Continuous targeting of Jerusalem.
The closure decisions included the office of the Cedar TV Production Company, based in the northern city of Nazareth, the Palestine TV offices, based in Ramallah, the Palestinian Directorate of Education and the Rasasi Mosque in the Old City.
Israeli forces detained the director of the Education Directorate´s office, Samir Jibril, and the director of the rice company in Jerusalem, Ayman Abu Ramoz, and turned them for investigation, according to lawyer Mohammed Mahmoud.
The Israeli occupation authorities handed over summonses for investigation to the director general of Al-Arz Company Nizar Younis and the correspondent of Palestine TV in Jerusalem Christine Renawi.
The closure orders, signed by Minister of Internal Security Gilad Ardan, said the closure was caused by the establishment of "activities of the Palestinian Authority or on its behalf or under its auspices within the State of Israel without a permit" in accordance with the law.
The resolutions prohibit "every human being, perpetrator or worker in the activity (...) from continuing to carry out this activity (...) elsewhere in the State of Israel."
The official supervisor of the official media in the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Assaf, condemned the decision.
"Israel is disturbed by the role of the media in Jerusalem," Assaf said. "It does not want anyone to expose their crimes in occupied Jerusalem and the capital of the state of Palestine."
According to Assaf, "the recent decisions of the US administration encourage Israel to commit more violations and hold them responsible."
On the other hand, the Israeli authorities confiscated a computer and files for the Arab Health Center located near the wall of the old city in the occupied city and subjected its director to investigation.
"About 40 members of the Israeli special forces, the Israeli police and the so-called" border guards "and Israeli intelligence broke into the center and began searching it, and confiscated a computer, documents and files, PCHR Director Ahmed Sorour told AFP.
According to Sorour, who was taken to the Muskobiyya Investigation Center, he was questioned for four hours and questions centered on "whether the center has anything to do with the Palestinian Authority."
Sorour stressed that "the center is private and registered as a non-profit company and is not associated with any party, whatever."
In a statement, Israeli Internal Security Minister Gilad Ardan stressed the ban on any Palestinian Authority activities in the city.
"We will continue to thwart any attempt by the Palestinian Authority to violate our sovereignty over our capital," Ardan said.
Ashrawi condemns the closure of institutions in Jerusalem and the preparation of the annexation of the Jordan Valley
The PLO on Wednesday condemned the closure of the Palestinian institutions in occupied Jerusalem, and the ratification of a draft law to impose sovereignty on the Jordan Valley in the West Bank.
Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the organization´s executive committee, said in a press statement that these steps "come in the context of absolute American support for the extreme government of Benjamin Netanyahu, a continuation of the escalating aggression against Jerusalem and its institutions in order to hide the reality of what is happening on the ground and liquidate the Palestinian presence and its national institutions."
`` Israeli occupation violations continue in the holy city, including ethnic cleansing, forced displacement and racial discrimination against Jerusalemites by continuing the policy of settlement expansion, land confiscation, house demolitions, withdrawal of identities, field executions, Judaization of education and deliberate neglect of poor educational conditions. ´´
She added that the occupation is launching a "serious attack on the Islamic and Christian holy sites in clear violation of the agreements signed and the resolutions of international legitimacy."
Ashrawi also condemned Netanyahu´s endorsement of a bill that would apply Israel´s sovereignty to the Jordan Valley, a third of the West Bank.
She stressed that "this dangerous action comes after the green light and the active encouragement given by the US administration to the Israeli right to continue to plunder the territory of the State of Palestine."
"Foreign" condemns
For its part, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants condemned the ferocious attack launched by the Israeli occupation authorities against the occupied city of Jerusalem, and the closure of Palestinian institutions, considering in a statement, on Wednesday, that racist Israeli aims to obscure the truth, and cover up the crimes of the occupation, and to fight the Palestinian national narrative, and political messages Committed to international law and international legitimacy and its resolutions calling for the peaceful resolution of the conflict, in accordance with international peace references and the principle of a two-state solution.
She said that she considers the occupation´s actions and objectives, its consequences and its consequences against the neighborhoods and towns of occupied East Jerusalem, a serious series of aggression aimed at bringing down the inhabitants of Jerusalem and imposing the conditions of occupation on them with a biased American cover for his settlement policies aimed at annexing the occupied West Bank. Israeli law on them.
"Popularity" warns of the serious repercussions of the continued targeting of Jerusalem
For its part, the Popular Front said on Wednesday that the occupation intelligence closure of Palestinian institutions and the mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem by a decision of the so-called "Minister of Internal Security" comes in the context of "desperate Zionist attempts to Judaize the city and obliterate the city and its features and attack on its national and cultural heritage."
The PFLP stressed in a statement that the occupation is racing against time and exploiting the current political circumstances, especially the recent American decisions regarding the settlement legislation in order to implement its Judaization schemes, and trying to impose a new reality, during which the Palestinian presence and religious, historical and heritage monuments are hit through the policy of continuous aggression on places. Holy and Palestinian institutions, and on the holy man.
The Front warned of the serious repercussions of the continued targeting of the occupied city of Jerusalem, which always carries the motives of an explosion of the whole situation, as stated in the statement.
The Front considered the continuation of the official Arab silence regarding the ongoing occupation crimes in occupied Jerusalem as a cover for the crime, calling on the popular masses in the Arab and Islamic worlds to reject this reality and rebel against it.
