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Odeh family home in Silwan demolished

Mohammed el-Kurd What does it mean to live in occcupied Palestine?

Getting ready for demolitions in Silwan The Israeli occupation forces storm Silwan village with a bulldozer to carry out demolition operations. T The staff of the occupation municipality emptying the home of Odeh family to demolish it, in silwan village.

Masafer Yatta We hear about Israeli oppression and settlement expansion in Masafer Yatta on the news, but what do you know about the Palestinian residents of this embattled area?

Gaza bombed last night for the 6th time after the Ceasefire

"I have no confidence regarding the investigation until I see with my own eyes the Israeli soldier in court" says father Eye On Palestine (@eye.on.palestine) • Instagram photos and videos

Q: If I already have wudhu, will I be rewarded for making another wudhu? A: If one is in the state of wudhu and he wishes to make another wudhu, it will be permissible and rewarding for him provided that after making the first wudhu, he had carried out some ibaadat which is such that wudhu is a precondition for its validity e.g. he performed salaah, made sajdah tilaawat, etc. If he did not carry out any ibaadat which is such that wudhu is a precondition for its validity, it will not be permissible for him to make a second wudhu. Making a second wudhu at this time will not earn him reward. Rather, it will only be a wastage of water. And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best. إن الوضوء عبادة غير مقصودة لذاتها فإذا لم يؤد به عمل مما هو المقصود من شرعيته كالصلاة وسجدة التلاوة ومس المصحف ينبغي أن لا يشرع تكراره قربة؛ لكونه غير مقصود لذاته فيكون إسرافا محضا (رد المحتار 1/119) قال الحلبي في شرح المنية: أطبقوا على أن الوضوء عبادة غير مقصودة لذاتها فإذا لم يؤد به عمل مما هو المقصود من شرعيته كالصلاة وسجدة التلاوة ومس المصحف ينبغي أن لا يشرع تكراره قربة لكونه غير مقصود لذاته فيكون إسرافا محضا اهـ فليتأمل (منحة الخالق 1/24) Answered by: Mufti Zakaria Makada Checked & Approved: Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

Palestinian Children being DetainedTwo Palestinian children aged not more than 10 to 11 years were detained by the Isra-eeli occupation forces in Damascuss Gate in #Jerusalem and taken to the police station , the journalist asked the Isra-eeli officer: " Is it legal to detain tow 10 years old children? He answered: I didn't detained them, but other officer did. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: ". Two Palestinian children aged not more than 10 to 11 years were detained by the Israeli occupation forces in Damascuss Gate in…" Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || The Israeli occupation forces detained 2 Palestinian children from Damascus Gate in the occupied city of Jerusalem. لحظة…"

Another day, another demolition Isra-heli bulldozers demolish 3 residential buildings in Sa'ir town, to the east of Hebron The Isra-heli occupation forces demolish 3 residential buildings in Sa'ir town.

Concentration Camps of Palstinians The rogue settler colonial state of Israel was built on the bloodshed of indigenous Palestinians and by the enslavement of indigenous Palestinians.

Isr--il putting pressure to accept "settlement"

The colonial court’s insistence on not making a decision regarding our appeal today (yesterday 2 August 2021) highlights their awareness of the international media pressure. They even explicitly “advised” us to have less press next hearing. The three Supreme Court “justices” are placing massive pressure on us to reach a "settlement” with the settler organization, avoiding a substantive ruling regarding our rights in the land. This cowardice is to evade potentially detrimental international ramifications. So we know what to do. Mohammed el-Kurd (one of the families of Sheikh Jarrah)

Q: Is there any sort of marriage (nikaah) that can take place purely and only for satisfying one's natural urges and desires? In other words, the man and woman only meet for this purpose and other than this, they both do not wish to shoulder any of the responsibilities of nikaah. A: The institution of nikaah has been objectively effected in Shari'ah in order to produce its desired results. Apart from nikaah serving as a halaal avenue for one to fulfil his desires, the main purpose and object of nikaah is for each spouse to assist the other in leading a life of chastity and piety. Each spouse needs to act responsiblily and fulfil those duties that has been assigned to him/her from the side of Allah Ta'ala. Each spouse's main concern at the time of entering into the nikaah should be to earn the pleasure of Allah Ta'ala through upholding the laws of Shari'ah and leading a life in total conformity to the Sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam). Such a nikaah will become the means of pious progeny coming into the world and Islam spreading to the four corners of the globe. Entering into nikaah solely to satisfy one's desires and not wishing to shoulder any other responsibility and duty of the nikaah is not the way of Islam. And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best. Muftionline.co.za

The Israeli Supreme Court suggests to recognise the four Palestinian families in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah as "protected tenants" of their own homes in lieu of acknowledging the settlers' ownership of their homes. This unfair suggestion was totally rejected by the families. These Palestinian families have been living in Sheikh Jarrah since 1956. They were expelled from their original homes by Zionist militias during the creation of Israel in 1948. Case postponed

From behind closed doors of the isra--eli court Behind these doors, the Israeli occupation is bargaining with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on their homes, submitting a "proposal" to resolve the issue: The "current" generation of residents remains in their homes as protected renters, while Israeli settlers are to be recognized as owners.. The residents have rejected this unjust resolution.

Decision time Today, The illgel Israeli supreme court is due to make a decision on whether to evict the four Palestinian families from the neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah or not.

Remember this guy...? Yaakov Fauci the illegal settler from New York who lives in part of the Al-Kurd family home in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood? Fauci became notorious for publicly admitting his crime when he stated, “If I don’t steal it, someone else is gonna” New York justice advocates expose colonizer Fauci outside his home, demand end to government support for settlement funders Read here....

Mohammed El-Kurd The world has looked away, but in Sheikh Jarrah the effort to dispossess us has not slowed down A few months ago, the world’s attention was on Sheikh Jarrah, my neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem. For decades, Israeli settlers, backed by their state, have been trying to displace us from our homes and colonise our neighbourhood. The UN called these forcible expulsions a war crime. I call this theft – because it is. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bf3acc44d271f66c08bb394f5dc84b79ef6cc501/0_198_2867_1721/master/2867.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=99c949bd8f9dafa5b3d528da6c8511b5 Palestinians protest for fifth day in West Bank after death of activist Read more In May, our efforts to resist this takeover received a surge of solidarity from Palestinians across Jerusalem and further afield, in what became known as the Unity Uprising. Palestinians were subjected to Israeli violence across the eastern part of Jerusalem – not only in Sheikh Jarrah, but outside the Damascus gate (itself a focus of protests), and in and around the al-Aqsa mosque – which escalated into attacks on besieged Gaza. Palestinians mobilised and resisted, and around the world people demonstrated in support of the Palestinian right to liberation and decolonisation. But after the ceasefire, the world’s attention has moved away. The reality for Palestinians, however, has not changed. Sheikh Jarrah, the effort to dispossess us has not slowed down. Our neighbourhood has been under a blockade for three months, maintained by Israeli forces, with continuing restrictions intended to suffocate the lives of the hundreds of Palestinians who live here. And yet, meanwhile, armed Jewish settlers, who have already occupied some of our homes, roam freely on the streets. On any given night, a dozen gun-wielding fanatics patrol my street with arrogant impunity. They are protected – even supported – by the troops blockading our community. For those of us living in Sheikh Jarrah, the evidence of this partnership between settlers and the state is abundant and overwhelming. Consider the events of two days last month. On 21 June, Israeli police came into the neighbourhood after a settler pepper-sprayed four schoolgirls on the street. But when they arrived, the officers ignored the girls and arrested two Palestinian boys. Of course, they did not arrest the settler – but they did threaten to arrest my brother for filming the detention of the two boys. Later the same day, dozens of armed settlers gathered in a home that was seized in 2009 from the Ghawi family, sparking a night of violence that once again saw militarised police joining in attacks on Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah. At one end of Othman Bin Affan street, Israeli occupation forces beat Palestinians with batons; at the other end, settlers threw rocks and chased protesting teenagers with pepper spray. Journalists who arrived on the scene were also targeted. Some young Palestinians attempted to disrupt this repression, launching fireworks at settlers. Before the end of the night, a number of Palestinian homes – including ours – were invaded by Israeli forces. The next morning, as I collected about 10 stun grenade fragments from the street, my neighbour stopped me to show me dozens more spent munitions. His children had displayed them on their outdoor table, like a collection of macabre souvenirs. The same day, a member of the Israeli Knesset, Bezalel Smotrich, barged into my family’s house, along with Tzahi Mamo, the director of Nahalat Shimon International – a private company, registered in the US, that is working to seize our neighbourhood and cleanse it of Palestinians. Nahalat Shimon International files lawsuits relying on racist Israeli legislation, fabricated documents and settler judges to expel Palestinians from their homes and hand over the properties to settlers. When lawmakers show up on my doorstep to call for me to be stripped of my home, what Palestinians have been saying for decades is confirmed: the settlers and the state mirror one another. I am tired of reporting the same brutality every day, of thinking of new ways to describe the obvious. The situation in Sheikh Jarrah is not hard to understand: it is a perfect illustration of settler colonialism, a microcosm of the reality for Palestinians across 73 years of Zionist rule. This vocabulary is not theoretical. It is evident in the attempts to throw us out of our homes so that settlers can occupy them – with the backing of the regime, whose forces and policies provide violent support for the transfer of one population to install another. I do not care whom this terminology offends. Colonial is the correct way of referring to a state whose forces collude in the violence of settlers; whose government works with settler organisations; whose judicial system uses expansionist laws to claim our homes; whose nation-state law enshrines “Jewish settlement” as a “national value … to encourage and promote”. The appetite for Palestinian lands – without Palestinians – has not abated for over seven decades. I know because I live it. On 2 August, the Israeli supreme court, whose jurisdiction over the eastern part of Jerusalem defies international law, is set to decide whether it will allow the appeal of my family and three others – a last legal obstacle before we can be expelled. There have been postponements before. Palestinians are accustomed to this kind of stalling; it tests our stamina. But we are as stubborn as anyone else faced with the prospect of losing their home – their life, their memories – to those using force, intimidation and biased laws. In the face of this cruelty, and despite teargas and skunk water, we are resisting. We cannot allow them to steal our homes once more, and we refuse to continue living in refugee camps while colonisers live in our houses. We cannot let them throw more of us on to the streets. We are tired of being turned into a refugee population, neighbourhood after neighbourhood, one home at a time. I have no faith in the Israeli judicial system; it is a part of the settler-colonial state, built by settlers for settlers. Nor do I expect any of the international governments who have been deeply complicit in Israel’s colonial enterprise to intervene on our behalf. But I do have faith in those people around the world who protest and pressure their governments to end what is essentially unconditional support for Israeli policies. Impunity and war crimes will not be stopped by statements of condemnation and raised eyebrows. We Palestinians have repeatedly articulated what kind of transformative political measures must be taken – such as civil society boycotts and state-level sanctions. The problem is not ignorance, it is inaction. Mohammed El-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet from Jerusalem The Guardian

Dawn raid on DCIPalestine Early this morning(yesterday 29 July 2021) , Israeli forces raided our main office in Al-Bireh, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. They confiscated computers, laptops, and files concerning Palestinian child detainee clients in the Israeli military courts. We were not informed for the reason of the raid. Video surveillance footage from inside the DCIP office shows Israeli forces entering the premises at 5:15 a.m. The Israeli soldiers move through the DCIP office gathering computers, laptops, and files, and then cut the closed-circuit television camera feed at 5:27 a.m. Israeli paramilitary border police forces raided DCIP’s headquarters located in Al-Bireh’s Sateh Marhaba neighborhood, located just south of Ramallah around 5:15 a.m. on July 29. More than a dozen Israeli soldiers forced open the office’s locked front door and confiscated six desktop computers, two laptops, hard drives, and client files related to Palestinian child detainees represented by DCIP’s lawyers in Israel’s military courts. No documents were left in the office to give any indication of the reason for the raid, and they did not leave behind any receipt of materials seized. “This latest act by Israeli authorities pushes forward an ongoing campaign to silence and eliminate Palestinian civil society and human rights organizations like DCIP,” said Khaled Quzmar, general director at DCIP. “Israeli authorities must immediately end efforts aimed at delegitimizing and criminalizing Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations, and the international community must hold Israeli authorities accountable.” Israeli, Palestinian, and international human rights and humanitarian organizations face an increasingly difficult operating environment and shrinking civic space in Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Recent attempts to delegitimize humanitarian and human rights organizations operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in particular, have been on the rise in recent years, negatively impacting their ability to deliver assistance and advocate on behalf of Palestinian human rights. Who are the DCIP? We are an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization dedicated to defending human rights of kids in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. www.instagram.com/dcipalestine/

Yesterday 12-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Alaami shot Isra--eli soldiers opened fire directly at the Palestinian child Mohammed Muyyad Allami, 12, while he was with his father in the family’s car at the entry to Beit Immar in northern Hebron. www.instagram.com/p/CR5yGovh5GS/ At another place it says they were on the way home from a grocery shoppin trip. There are pictures of bread in a bag and vegetables with blood on them and blood on the car seat - Allah ta'ala have mercy!

Palestinian youth confront the Israeli occupa.tion forces that raided Ramallah City, pre dawn today. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || Palestinian youth confront the Israeli occupa.tion forces that raided Ramallah City, pre dawn today. مواجهات مع قوات…"

Raid a Palestinian NGO The Israeli occupation forces raided Bisan Center for Research Development, a Palestinian NGO, in Ramallah City, last night. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || The Israeli occupation forces raided Bisan Center for Research Development, a Palestinian NGO, in Ramallah City, last…"

Store under construction demolished by Occupation authorities The Israeli occupation authorities demolish the foundations of underconstruction stores, in Jaljoulia village, in the 1948-occupied Palestinian territories, this morning. Eye On Palestine on Instagram: "🇵🇸#Palestine || The Israeli occupation authorities demolish the foundations of underconstruction stores, in Jaljoulia village, in the…"