The military bars Palestinian journalist from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9953&Itemid=56

On Tuesday the Israeli military banned Palestinian Journalist Farid Saleh from Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s old city for 15 days. The army forced Saleh to sign a ban order with a bail of 3,000 NIS (800 USD) if he violates the order. Saleh who works for the children’s TV channel, Touyor al-Janna, along with two cameramen working with him were filming a charity event for children that was taking place at al-Aqsa Mosque.

[LAST WEEK IOF SOLDIER HURLED A GRENADE AT THE COURT OF THE MOSQUE ,THEN SETTLERS TRIED TO STORM MOSQUE,AND NOW...

Settlers attack Palestinians in Hebron's Old City http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9955&Itemid=64 

 Israeli settlers attacked on Tuesday Palestinians inside the Old city of Hebron, southern West Bank and injured one man. Witnesses told local media that Firas al-Khateb was attacked by settlers with gas spray and rocks near the illegal settlement of Tal Romida in Hebron old city. Doctors at Hebron hospital said that al-Khateb was slightly injured and suffered effects of gas inhalation due to the settlers attack.

Weekly Palestinian popular demonstrations met with harsh Israeli violence http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/news/3551-weekly-palestinian-popular-demonstrations-met-with-harsh-israeli-violence-

16 demonstrators were injured this past weekend in demonstrations against Israel’s occupation ...The weekly demonstration in Bil‘in commemorated the second anniversary of the killing of Bassem Abu Rahmah from a tear gas canister during a village demonstration. Demonstrators carried photos of Bassem and his sister Jawaher, who was killed from tear gas inhalation during a village demonstration, and of Marwan Barghouti.

The demonstration opened with the national anthem and a call for a united national front against Israel’s occupation. When demonstrators reached the Wall, soldier shot tear gas, stun grenades, rubber coated steel bullets, live bullets and 022 bullets at them, in addition to skunk water. Demonstrators succeeded in pulling down part of the Wall and placing a Palestinian flag on an army jeep.

Israeli occupation forces arrest Palestinian writer Ahmad Qatamesh http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/topics/news/3549-israeli-occupation-forces-arrest-palestinian-writer-ahmad-qatamesh

 In the early hours of dawn on Thursday, 21 April 2011, a large force of Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers raided the home of the prominent Palestinian writer and academic Dr. Ahmad Qatamesh 1 in Al-Bireh and arrested him. An hour earlier, Qatamesh’s wife, 22-year-old daughter and two other female relatives, including a 14-year-old child, were taken hostage by Israeli troops in another apartment to compel him to surrender himself. He was led to “Ofer” detention center in Beitunia.