Israel Police announces the closure of three Arab organizations linked to the banned Islamic Movement Northern Branch.
A publication, QPRESS, an educational institute named Qadaraat and Supreme Council in Support of al-Quds and al-Aqsa, an association that campaigns for East Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, also have their bank accounts frozen.
Masked Palestinian protesters wearing pieces of cloth around their bodies gesture during clashes with the Israeli police at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount compound for the thrid consecutive day on June 28, 2016. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
The three are allegedly linked to the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, which was banned in November 2015 on charges of having instigated weeks of Palestinian unrest at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, on the flashpoint Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
“These three organizations carried on the activities of the Northern Branch,” police say in a statement, adding that QPRESS has issued new calls to confront Israeli security forces on the Temple Mount.
— AFP
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