Cole writes: "Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has announced that he wants
to authorize Israeli forces to use live fire against Palestinian
rock-throwing demonstrators. (Most such rock throwers are children and
teenagers)."
Israeli police arrest a Palestinian during September 18 clashes in Shuafat,
an East Jerusalem refugee camp. (photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
Aqsa Crisis: Netanyahu Wants Israeli Forces to Use Live Fire Against Rock
Throwing Demonstrators
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
20 September 15
Thousands of demonstrators came out in Jordan on Friday to protest what
appears to be a new Israeli assertion of authority over Muslim sacred space
in Jerusalem, which includes the third holiest place in the world for
Muslims, the al-Aqsa mosque complex. King Abdullah II of Jordan, who is
formally responsible for the Muslim shrines, has formally protested to
Israel over the Israeli troops taking over al-Aqsa. The protesters included
both members of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanians loyal to the
king; Israel's actions have put the monarchy in a bad light, since Amman has
a peace treaty with Israel. Throughout the West Bank, tensions ran high at
Friday prayers, as Israeli forces prevented Palestinians from entering the
old city and forbade men over 40 years of age to pray at al-Aqsa mosque,
which is described in the Arab press as virtually an Israeli military
garrison.
There has been an increase in Jewish visitors to what they call the temple
mount during the High Holy Days (Tuesday was Rosh ha-Shanah, the New Year),
since it was the site of a long-since destroyed Jewish temple in late
antiquity. Muslim volunteers, "Murabitun," to safeguard the Muslim sacred
space have been expelled by Israeli forces. The al-Aqsa complex is
government by international agreements, the "Status Quo," which Israeli
authorities deny having altered.
As part of this assertiveness and to prevent effective Palestinian protests
against the apparent encroachments, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has
announced that he wants to authorize Israeli forces to use live fire against
Palestinian rock-throwing demonstrators. (Most such rock throwers are
children and teenagers). He and his cabinet also want to give rock throwers
long prison sentences and to demolish their family homes.
Using live fire against unarmed protesters throwing stones is a violation of
the principle of proportionality in international law, to say the least. It
is also a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention on the treatment of
occupied populations by the occupying authorities (Israel has militarily
occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967 and illegally annexed
portions of the West Bank to the Israeli district of Jerusalem).
Since the first Palestinian uprising or Intifada of the late 1980s,
rock-throwing has been a common form of protest in the Palestinian West Bank
against steady Israeli theft of their land and resources. It has been above
all a favored form of protest for children and teenagers, with mothers often
carrying out the task of breaking larger stones into smaller ones for
throwing. Israeli forces and Israeli squatters have killed nearly 2,000
Palestinian children since the year 2000, and that number will skyrocket
under Netanyahu's new procedures.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has also been protesting Israeli troops at
al-Aqsa with demonstrations in at least Cairo and Alexandria, after a period
in which it was quiescent after the overthrow of its president, Mohammed
Morsi. The United Nations Security Council and French President Francois
Hollande have expressed fears that Israeli aggressiveness at al-Aqsa will
further destabilize the Middle East.
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Israeli police arrest a Palestinian during September 18 clashes in Shuafat,
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Aqsa Crisis: Netanyahu Wants Israeli Forces to Use Live Fire Against Rock
Throwing Demonstrators
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
20 September 15
housands of demonstrators came out in Jordan on Friday to protest what
appears to be a new Israeli assertion of authority over Muslim sacred space
in Jerusalem, which includes the third holiest place in the world for
Muslims, the al-Aqsa mosque complex. King Abdullah II of Jordan, who is
formally responsible for the Muslim shrines, has formally protested to
Israel over the Israeli troops taking over al-Aqsa. The protesters included
both members of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and Jordanians loyal to the
king; Israel's actions have put the monarchy in a bad light, since Amman has
a peace treaty with Israel. Throughout the West Bank, tensions ran high at
Friday prayers, as Israeli forces prevented Palestinians from entering the
old city and forbade men over 40 years of age to pray at al-Aqsa mosque,
which is described in the Arab press as virtually an Israeli military
garrison.
There has been an increase in Jewish visitors to what they call the temple
mount during the High Holy Days (Tuesday was Rosh ha-Shanah, the New Year),
since it was the site of a long-since destroyed Jewish temple in late
antiquity. Muslim volunteers, "Murabitun," to safeguard the Muslim sacred
space have been expelled by Israeli forces. The al-Aqsa complex is
government by international agreements, the "Status Quo," which Israeli
authorities deny having altered.
As part of this assertiveness and to prevent effective Palestinian protests
against the apparent encroachments, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has
announced that he wants to authorize Israeli forces to use live fire against
Palestinian rock-throwing demonstrators. (Most such rock throwers are
children and teenagers). He and his cabinet also want to give rock throwers
long prison sentences and to demolish their family homes.
Using live fire against unarmed protesters throwing stones is a violation of
the principle of proportionality in international law, to say the least. It
is also a violation of the 4th Geneva Convention on the treatment of
occupied populations by the occupying authorities (Israel has militarily
occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem since 1967 and illegally annexed
portions of the West Bank to the Israeli district of Jerusalem).
Since the first Palestinian uprising or Intifada of the late 1980s,
rock-throwing has been a common form of protest in the Palestinian West Bank
against steady Israeli theft of their land and resources. It has been above
all a favored form of protest for children and teenagers, with mothers often
carrying out the task of breaking larger stones into smaller ones for
throwing. Israeli forces and Israeli squatters have killed nearly 2,000
Palestinian children since the year 2000, and that number will skyrocket
under Netanyahu's new procedures.
In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has also been protesting Israeli troops at
al-Aqsa with demonstrations in at least Cairo and Alexandria, after a period
in which it was quiescent after the overthrow of its president, Mohammed
Morsi. The United Nations Security Council and French President Francois
Hollande have expressed fears that Israeli aggressiveness at al-Aqsa will
further destabilize the Middle East.
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