What comes next?!!
The story began many years ago, series of attacks, restriction and injustice.
But what I'm going to concentrate on the most recent news that spread among the local and international news as well, showing an upcoming continuous unfair and horrible restrictions on behalf of the people of Palestine.
October 2009:
Worshippers restricted
'There were Palestinian worshippers who turned up for morning prayers. They were told by the police forces that anyone under the age of 50 would not be allowed through," Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from Jerusalem, said.
On the contrary, there are [at present] about 7,000 Jewish worshippers attending a prayer, a blessing at the Wailing [Western] Wall, which is just at the foot of Al Haram al-Sharif (Al Aqsa Mosque)
"This is one of three times during the year in which Jewish worshippers are told to go to Jerusalem and pray while Palestinians are forbidden from the same right.."
Justifying the restrictions on the entry to the Mosque, Micky Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said: "These measures were taken to avert new incidents on the compound and the Old City and to prevent stones being thrown at the Jewish faithful who come to pray at the Western Wall."
21 February 2010:
Palestine: Outrage at Israeli Announcement about Ibrahimi Mosque.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently announced his government’s intention to designate Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem and the Ibrahimi Mosque/Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, both in the occupied West Bank, as Jewish heritage sites. The statement has led to outrage amongst Palestinians; the Ibrahimi Mosque/Cave of the Patriarchs is considered to be the burial place of Abraham, his wife Sarah and others, and is a site with special importance for both Jews and Muslims. It is also the place where a massacre of Muslim worshippers took place in 1994.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd3puvVEsSc
Thursday 11 March 2010:
Israel plans for more settlements in East Jerusalem as talks collapse.
Israeli authorities are considering plans for at least another 8,000 settlements in East Jerusalem; it emerges today, despite the latest collapse in proposed peace talks with the Palestinians.
And the story is still working daily. Every day comes up with a surprise for the Palestinian citizen, putting the spot on a critical question for every mankind to think seriously about:
"What comes next?!!!!".
By: Somaia Mohamed Badry
References:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
http://www.guardian.co.uk
http://globalvoicesonline.org