Yesterday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates accused Israel of pursuing a policy of silencing mouths, to cover up its practices in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In a statement, the Ministry condemned the decision of the Israeli War Minister, Naftali Bennett, to deport Israeli leftist activists from the West Bank, and prohibit them from entering it to participate in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The ministry said that Bennett "insists with his decisions that he top the list of Israeli war criminals, and that he restrain the activities of the solidarity men, in direct recognition of the crimes he will commit against the Palestinian people."
She added that the aforementioned decision "is a blatant attack on public freedoms, freedom of expression of opinion, and a new attempt to cover up the violence of the Israeli army, armed settler militias, and terrorist acts against Palestinian citizens."
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned that Israel would restrict the activities of Israeli human and human rights organizations "in order to be able to exclusively limitless violence to Palestinian participants in peaceful marches."
Human rights institutions demanded to follow these developments with the necessary importance, and to complete raising their details to the International Criminal Court, which will consider the issue of committing war crimes in the Palestinian territories.
According to Israeli media, Bennett issued an administrative order to deport Israeli left-wing activists from the West Bank and ban their entry to it, including that of about 30 Israeli activists in the "anarchists against the wall - Apartheid" movement.
For years, the Palestinians have been organizing weekly demonstrations in the West Bank villages, often with the participation of Israeli and international solidarity, to protest against settlement policies and building the Israeli separation wall.
On the other hand, yesterday, the head of the Supreme Islamic Authority and Al-Aqsa Preacher, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, was removed from the mosque by the occupation authorities for a week, on charges of "incitement through gathering speeches and endangering citizens".
Sheikh Ikrima Sabri told the interrogator who informed him of the accusation against him: “I have been engaged since 1973 (47 years ago), and I am committed to the Holy Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet, and I am part of Al-Aqsa and Al-Aqsa, and I will not abandon the mosque, because I am Ibn Al-Aqsa, and the charge against it is false "And whoever incites is the one who allows extremist Jews to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque."
He pointed out that the occupation authorities investigated him, and removed him more than 10 times from Al-Aqsa for various periods.
On the Lebanese front, the Israeli army said that it started building an underground defense system yesterday, along the northern border with Lebanon, to prevent what it called "cross-border tunnels."
"We are deploying a defense system on the ground, at various locations along the border," Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told reporters. According to Conricus, excavations will start in the town of Misgav General to monitor tunnels to deploy the new noise detection technology.
The move comes a year after Israel completed a process to destroy the tunnels, called the "North Shield."
The tunnels, which the Lebanese army accused the "Hezbollah" of digging, stretched across the border with Lebanon.
The Secretary-General of the Lebanese "Hezbollah", Hassan Nasrallah, acknowledged at the time the existence of tunnels in southern Lebanon, but he refused to specify who dug them and when, and mocked Israel, because it discovered the tunnels after "many years."
"The drilling operations are not related to any new intelligence," said the Israeli army spokesman, and all military activities will take place on the Israeli side of the border.
It is expected that work will continue in the town of Misgav in several weeks, to install the sensors along other parts of the border.
"We realize that our activity will be visible, and it will most likely be heard on the Lebanese side of the border," Konricus added.
Israel said it had notified the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, "UNIFIL".
Al-Araqib was demolished for the 173rd time
Yesterday, the Israeli authorities demolished the village of Al-Araqib, stealing the confession in the Negev, and threatening to uproot and displace, for the 173rd time in a row. The Israeli authorities demolished Al-Araqib tents for the 172nd time on January 16th. The authorities continue to demolish Al-Araqib since 2000 in their repeated attempts to push the people of the village to frustration and despair, and displace them from their lands. Negev - together
Israel is building infrastructure to monitor tunnels on the border with Lebanon
A Palestinian warning that Israel would restrict the activities of Israeli human rights organizations.