Arab League Decries Israeli Intention to Halt TIPH

FILE Photo: The Megiddo Prison in northern Israel, July 2018. Amir Cohen/REUTERS
FILE Photo: The Megiddo Prison in northern Israel, July 2018. Amir Cohen/REUTERS
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Arab League Decries Israeli Intention to Halt TIPH

FILE Photo: The Megiddo Prison in northern Israel, July 2018. Amir Cohen/REUTERS
FILE Photo: The Megiddo Prison in northern Israel, July 2018. Amir Cohen/REUTERS

The Arab League denounced what has been circulating in the Israeli media about an intention to halt the mission of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), following previous rejections to increase staff.

This discloses the occupation's implicit intention to continue its crimes against Palestinians and stop the work of observers concerned in monitoring violations and aggressions Palestinians are going through, in addition to the systematic suppression practiced against more than 6,500 inmates in Israeli prisons.

For instance, Palestinian inmates in Ofer prison has been subjected to unannounced raids, smashing of possessions, naked searches, verbal abuse, and the use of tear gas and rubber bullets. All this reflects Israeli insistence on violating the principles of international law and the resolutions on international legitimacy, particularly the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

The Arab League's Assistant Secretary-General for Palestine and the Occupied Arab Territories, Saeed Abu Ali, stated Wednesday that the occupation’s approach to halt the mission of the TIPH challenges the international law and will.

He stressed that Israel's clear quest to Judaize the old city in Hebron and lay hands over more surrounding Palestinian territories aimed to instill the racist policies and violations of the occupation.



One Killed in Israel's Beersheba after Suspected Shooting

An Israeli soldier uses a weapon amid clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank. Reuters file photo
An Israeli soldier uses a weapon amid clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank. Reuters file photo
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One Killed in Israel's Beersheba after Suspected Shooting

An Israeli soldier uses a weapon amid clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank. Reuters file photo
An Israeli soldier uses a weapon amid clashes with Palestinians in the West Bank. Reuters file photo

A woman was killed in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Sunday, Israeli media outlets reported after police said that several people had been injured in a suspected shooting there, Reuters reported.

The ambulance service earlier said a seriously injured woman was being treated at the scene while eight other people injured in the attack, including one in a moderate to serious condition, were receiving treatment in a nearby hospital.

The attacker had been killed, the ambulance service said.