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The 88 MPs are to convene in Arafat's battered Ramallah headquarters and vote on a confidence motion on the new cabinet
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OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, October 28 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Israel
decided to ban 13 Palestinian deputies from attending a parliamentary
session Monday, October 28, in Ramallah where Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat is to name his new cabinet, as Israeli occupation forces
destroyed the homes of four Palestinian resistance activists in Jenin.
The
88 MPs are to convene in Arafat's battered Ramallah headquarters and
vote on a confidence motion on the new cabinet.
"For
reasons of security, 13 Palestinian deputies will not be authorized to
attend the parliamentary session in Ramallah on Monday," an Israeli
government spokesman, Ofir Khakham, told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
But
he did not identify those refused authorization, and did not elaborate
on those reasons of security.
The
announcement comes a day after Palestinian deputy speaker Ibrahim
Abul-Naja said Israel had promised to allow all Palestinian deputies to
attend Monday's session.
Israel
banned 14 Gaza deputies from attending a previous session last month,
but the Palestinian parliament still met Monday, September 9, in
Ramallah, despite the Israeli attempt to foil the session by denying the
14 Gaza-based members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)
passes to travel to the West Bank.
The
14 banned Gaza members included late MP Wajeeh Yajee and another
resigned MP.
The
Gaza deputies instead participated by video link-up.
Meanwhile,
early Monday in the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces continued their
policy of "collective punishment" by destroying the homes in
Jenin and the city's refugee camps of four Palestinian activists,
accused of involvement in retaliatory attacks against Israel, a
Palestinian security source and Israeli radio said.
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One of the 4 flattened houses belonged to the family of teenage resistance activist Mohammed Hassanein
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The
soldiers dynamited and bulldozed the house of Alis Afouri, a local
leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed branch of the Islamic
resistance Jihad movement, and the home of Abdel-Karim Awes, an official
of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed branch of the Palestinian
President’s mainline resistance Fatah movement.
The
third house to be razed was that of teenage Mohammed Hassanein, the
member of the Al-Quds Brigades and one of two activists who used a car
bomb to destroy an Israeli bus October 21, killing 14 Israelis, mostly
soldiers.
Israel
public radio said that the house of Hassanein's companion, Ashraf
al-Asmar, 17, was also torn down by the Israeli army.
The
Israeli army’s destruction of Palestinian activists’ family homes
has been widely condemned by human rights organizations have who have
hit out at the policy as "collective punishment."
More
than 50 houses have been razed since the start of August, 2002.
