Hamas warns Israel against crossing red lines in Sheikh Jarrah

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned Israel against crossing “red lines” in the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah or any other area in the occupied al-Quds.

The Palestinian Information Center on Thursday cited senior Hamas official Basem Na’im as saying that the crossing of Hamas’ red lines in Sheikh Jarrah, the al-Aqsa Mosque, or any other area in the occupied al-Quds would have “serious repercussions.”

He said al-Quds was “the essence” of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stressing that what happened there did not concern only its residents but all Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.

The official also stressed that “the leadership of the resistance and the Palestinian people will not stand idly by” in the face of what is happening to the people and their sanctuaries in the occupied al-Quds.

Tensions heightened across the Palestinian territories on Sunday, when Israeli forces and illegal settlers renewed their attacks against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah. The neighborhood has been the scene of frequent crackdowns by Israeli regime forces on the Palestinians protesting against the threatened expulsion of dozens of families from their homes in favor of Israeli settler groups.

The initial tensions that erupted in Sheikh Jarrah last year in part sparked a May 2021 war between the Israeli regime and resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces attack solidarity protests in Sheikh Jarrah

Palestinians staged a mass protest in Sheikh Jarrah on Friday afternoon to express their solidarity with the residents of the neighborhood against the attacks carried out by the Israeli forces and settlers.

The protest was met by force, with Israeli forces hitting the demonstrators with batons.

Local sources said the participants in the protest, who came from different areas in the Israeli-occupied territories such as the city of Umm al-Fahm, insisted on taking part in the rally despite the Israeli crackdown to stress that they were the owners of the same land and would not surrender to the occupier.

Israeli forces put Sheikh Jarrah under near-complete lockdown

Israeli forces place the flashpoint neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah under a near-complete lockdown.

Hamas warns won’t allow Palestinian prisoners to suffer in Israeli jails

Zaher Jabarin, a senior Hamas official, said on Thursday that the resistance would not allow the suffering of the Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails to continue, and would spare no effort to repel the Israeli repression of the detainees.

“We will stand behind our prisoners with all political and legal capabilities at our disposal,” Jabarin said.

Israel’s prison authorities have increased repressive measures since six Palestinians broke out of Israel’s high-security Gilboa prison on September 4 using tools as basic as a spoon. The jailbreak was hailed as a victory by Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoner threaten to set fire to Israeli detention centers in protest at repression

Palestinian inmates threaten to set fire to Israeli jails and detention centers across the occupied territories in protest at repressive measures by Israeli prison authorities.

Israeli jail authorities keep Palestinian prisoners under deplorable conditions lacking proper hygienic standards. Palestinian inmates have also been subjected to systematic torture, harassment, and repression.

There are reportedly more than 7,000 Palestinians held at Israeli jails. Hundreds of the inmates have been apparently incarcerated under the practice of the so-called administrative detention. Some prisoners have been held in "administrative detention" for up to 11 years.

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