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Al-Jazeera Journalists Back in Cairo Court International12 FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014 Israel arrests settlers after attacks on security forces JERUSALEM: Israeli police said yesterday On Sunday, the tyres of a vehicle Also on Thursday, the army said it Samaria regional council, which covers they arrested five people suspected of belonging to a military commander visit- would not allow a march to the site of an northern West Bank settlements including demolishing a military base in an extremist ing Yitzhar were slashed, and on Monday evacuated settlement go ahead as Yitzhar, told AFP. settlement in the West Bank, the latest night, stone-throwing by settlers injured planned next week. “Following an assess- “It is inconceivable that the Samaria attack against security forces by hardliners. six border guards as soldiers helped to ment of the IDF’s (Israel Defence Forces) council and the entire settler populace has The suspects, all males aged 16-29, demolish a wildcat settlement outpost ability to allocate the required forces nec- to pay a price over the deeds of a few out- were arrested for involvement in Tuesday’s nearby. essary to provide security, the decision was laws, who should be arrested by police.” vandalism in the northern West Bank set- The incident prompted Defence made not to approve the march to The northern West Bank settlement of tlement of Yitzhar, police spokesman Minister Moshe Yaalon to warn that any Homesh,” a statement from the military Homesh was built on land confiscated Micky Rosenfeld told AFP. further violence against security personnel said. But settlers accused the army of pun- from Palestinians in 1978, and evacuated Another three suspects were in cus- would be dealt with severely, and Prime ishing Yitzhar residents for the actions of a of settlers in 2005. The Israeli military said tody, two for the same attack and a third Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also urged a few wayward individuals. “The army told in September the land was due to be minor for throwing stones at soldiers “strong response to these... acts of hooli- us it was cancelling Homesh following the returned to its Palestinian owners in the patrolling the settlement, Rosenfeld said. ganism”. Yitzhar incidents,” a spokeswoman for the village of Burka. —AFP Ex-employees say Sara Netanyahu was abusive JERUSALEM: A former maintenance man at Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence has filed a lawsuit alleging abusive conduct by the prime minister’s wife, Sara, another in a series of complaints faced by Israel’s first lady. Aides to the Netanyahu family issued a statement deny- ing Guy Eliahu’s allegations, calling his lawsuit “a continua- tion of an organised and orchestrated campaign to recruit embittered former employees” to sue the Israeli leader and damage him politically. A copy of the lawsuit provided yesterday to Reuters by Eliahu’s attorneys, said Sara Netanyahu had chided him with the remark “you’re not elegant” and once summoned him back to the residence after midnight to complain that he had not said “goodnight” to the family and demand he heat up some soup. Eliahu, the court papers said, was forced to CAIRO: Mukhlis el-Salhy (R) the lawyer of one of three Al-Jazeera journalists on trial on charges for misrepre- work “inhuman hours and endure extreme mood changes senting Egypt’s political crisis in their broadcasts, speaks to the press outside the police institute near and inappropriate behaviour” by Sara Netanyahu. Cairo’s Turah prison prior to their trial yesterday. —AFP Eliahu is seeking 500,000 shekels ($144,000) in damages in the lawsuit, which also focuses on what he alleged was failure to keep a pledge to grant him civil service status which would Al-Jazeera journalists have afforded him better pension rights and other work con- ditions. Sara Netanyahu has long been dogged by what family spokesmen have decried as an undeserved reputation for imperiousness. Although she appears at many official func- back in Cairo court tions at her husband’s side, she speaks little in public and has made no comment on the new allegations. In 2010, a house- keeper accused Sara Netanyahu of abusive behaviour Journalist laughs from inside his caged dock toward her in a lawsuit, which was settled out of court. Another former housekeeping staff member filed a lawsuit last month saying he had been subjected to scoldings by the CAIRO: A Canadian-Egyptian Al-Jazeera The court was also shown seemingly crackdown on Morsi supporters which, first lady, whom he alleged had once called him at 3 a.m. to journalist on trial in Egypt pleaded for his random pictures found in the possession according to Amnesty, has seen more tell him off for buying milk packaged in a plastic bag rather release yesterday, as the prosecution in of Australian defendant Peter Greste, than 1,400 people killed and thousands than in a carton. —Reuters the unprecedented trial of reporters sub- including one of his elderly parents. jailed. mitted footage and pictures as evidence. Greste, a Peabody Award winning The court on March 31 rejected a bail Three detained journalists with the journalist who previously worked with the plea by the defendants. Amnesty Qatar-based broadcaster and 17 others BBC, laughed from inside his caged dock. International has said the three journalists people are on trial for alleged links to the “Today, and all the other hearings, prove were “prisoners of conscience” and called blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood move- that the case completely fell apart,” for their immediate and unconditional ment. They have been in detention for Greste told AFP from the dock. release. more than 100 days, despite an interna- Fahmy, a Canadian-Egyptian who “What the Egyptian authorities are tional outcry and amid fears of a crack- served as Cairo bureau chief for Al-Jazeera doing is vindicative persecution of jour- down on the media following the army’s English, pleaded for an end to his impris- nalists for merely doing their jobs,” it said overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist president onment. Wednesday. In the trial, 16 Egyptian Mohamed Morsi in July. “I’ve been in jail for four months,” he defendants have been charged with The court yesterday studied prosecu- yelled out. “What am I paying the price belonging to a “terrorist organisation”. tion charges that the defendants had mis- for? There is no strong evidence against Four foreigners are accused of “collab- represented Egypt’s political crisis in their us. These are all Sky News videos. What orating with the Egyptians by providing broadcasts. Footage was aired from the am I doing in prison,” he told the judge, them with money, equipment, informa- British channel Sky News’s Arabic affiliate, who adjourned the trial to April 22. tion... and airing false news aimed at apparently found on a computer in the informing the outside world that the home of Jazeera producer and defendant ‘Vindictive persecution’ country was witnessing a civil war.” JERUSALEM: Israelis react as mounted police dis- Baher Mohamed. The latest hearing was the fifth in a The family of another Al-Jazeera jour- perse Ultra-Orthodox Jews during a demonstration It included a Sky News Arabia report case which has prompted mounting nalist, Abdullah Elshamy, called on against compulsory military service in Jerusalem yes- on tourism in Egypt, with a horse munch- international calls for the release of the Tuesday for his immediate release, saying terday. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the ing on fodder in a stable in one scene. journalists. his health has deteriorated during his ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of Mea Sharim Mohamed’s brother Assem, who worked Eight defendants, in white prison-issue eight months in detention. stopped traffic and threw stones and bottles at with Sky News Arabia and was attending uniforms, were in court on Thursday, Elshamy was arrested on August 14 police. The demonstration came a month after Israeli the trial in the gallery, told an AFP journal- while the others are abroad or have evad- when police dispersed Rabaa al-Adaweya, ist the footage came from his own laptop, ed arrest. a massive Islamist protest camp in Cairo, MPs voted through a law which will compel ultra- taken by police from his and Mohamed’s The authorities have been incensed by killing hundreds in clashes. He has not yet Orthodox Jews to either serve in the military or per- house. Qatar-based Al-Jazeera’s coverage of their appeared in court. —AFP form civilian service. —AFP.
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