JERUSALEM: Al-Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage issued an urgent appeal to the Palestinian people and the Islamic Nation to save occupied Jerusalem before it is entirely judaized and Al-Aqsa Mosque before it is destroyed, warning that there will be more dangerous Zionist attacks on the holy city and Mosque during this year.In a new report, the foundation underlined that during 2008, Israel escalated its policy of fait accompli in Jerusalem and raced against time to carry out different judaization schemes against Islamic holy places, antiquities, history and civilization other than Palestinian inhabitants of the city.The report outlined that the Zionist break-ins at Al-Aqsa Mosque escalated significantly in the second half of 2008, where groups composed of hundreds of men, women and children in addition to Israeli politicians under heavy police guard desecrated the Mosque dozens of times.It added that the IOA also committed a violation of another kind against the Mosque last year, where it allowed foreign tourists half naked to take a tour inside the Mosque and banned any activities in support of Al-Aqsa Mosque.The report elaborated that Israeli extremist groups along with officials built a synagogue on an Islamically-endowed (Waqf) real estate called Hammam Al-Ain near Al-Aqsa Mosque in the heart of Muslim neighborhood and there are still ongoing Israeli excavations under this Waqf.It added that the IOA almost finished the building of a huge tall synagogue called Ha Hurba on the land of the Omari mosque in the heart of the old city of Jerusalem. The dome of this big synagogue, the report says, is aimed to create a Jewish landmark covering the historical Islamic places especially the Dome of the Rock. According to the report, illegal Israeli settlers seized dozens of houses in Jerusalem through piracy and fraud despite the attempts made by Jerusalemites to encounter this scheme, while the IOA demolished 71 Jerusalemite houses and buildings, issued 219 evacuation warnings and closed many Islamic institutions.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in
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