- 30 mrt 2011
Prisoner Salhiya facing slow death in jail
Awarta police officer detained in night raid
Several detained by Israeli forces overnight
Israel delays Gaza prisoners release
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Maria 31 mrt 2011
Olmert says Gaza war inevitable
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that an all-out war against the Gaza Strip is inevitable.
"If there's one thing I regret -- it's that we didn't finish the job back then -- we cannot avoid the need to complete the job," Olmert said on Wednesday, referring to the Gaza war while he was in office.
"Israel cannot accept the presence of a terror entity in Gaza, which threatens the citizens of Israel, without taking action. Not random action, but controlled, precise and organized action with enough force to bring a change to the reality in Gaza," Olmert was quoted as saying by Ynetnews.
Israeli forces have carried out large numbers of ground and air attacks on Gaza since the end of Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009.
More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air offensive in the impoverished coastal enclave. The offensive also inflicted USD 1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
Israel laid an economic siege on the Gaza Strip in June 2007, after Hamas took control of the enclave.
The blockade has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the Gaza Strip.
Some 1.5 million people are being denied their basic rights, including freedom of movement, and the right to appropriate living conditions, work, health and education.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172432.html
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Maria 31 mrt 2011
IOF troops re-detain MP Mohammed Badr
'Police beat and spat on us'
Israel approves lawyer visit ban on Palestinian prisoners
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Three Fighters Assassinated In Gaza
By Saed Bannoura
The Israeli Air Force assassinated, after midnight on Friday night, three fighters of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, north of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that the Air Force fired a missile at a vehicle driving near Al Matahin Road, in Khan Younis, killing the three fighters and seriously wounding two residents.
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee of Emergency Services In Gaza, said that the bodies of the three fighters were severely mutilated due to the blast.
They were later on identified as Ali Lubbad, his brother Abdullah Lubbad, and Mohammad Al Dayya, the Palestinian Information Center reported.
Israeli online daily, Maariv, reported that the assassination was a joint operation between the Israeli Security Agency (Shabak) and the Israeli Army.
Speaking from Gaza, Fouzi Barhoum, Hamas spokesperson, told Al Jazeera TV that Hamas had stopped the firing of homemade shells from Gaza to evade Israeli attacks, but still the army continue to target Hamas.
We meet all resistance groups in Gaza and agreed to stop the firing of homemade shells to not give Israel the reason to attacks but we said that will respond if they attack first. Barhoum told Al Jazeera.
Israeli attacks targeting Gaza escalated two weeks ago shortly after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he will be visiting the Hamas controlled Gaza to end the division and reach national unity.
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Brigades: Gaza ceasefire over after Israeli airstrike kills 3
Isma'il Labad escorting the late Hamas leader Dr Abdul-Aziz Rantisi. Labad was killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern Gaza Strip overnight Friday.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) --The National Resistance Brigades announced Saturday morning that the ceasefire was over in the Gaza Strip, following an overnight Israeli airstrike which killed three leaders of Hamas' armed wing.
The brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said they would retaliate to the killings and that Israel "would have to bear the repercussions of this crime," in a statement.
Witnesses said Israeli drones fired a missile at a white Toyota traveling on Salah Ad-Din road between Khan Younis and Deir Al-Baleh in the southern Gaza Strip at around midnight.
The deceased were identified as:
Isma'il Labad, 31,
and his brother Abdullah, 24,
from Ash-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and
Muhammad Ad-Dayah, 31,
from the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the air force and army carried out a joint operation targeting Hamas fighters. She said the men were planning to carry out kidnapping attacks in Israel and in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Jewish holiday of Passover which begins on April 18.
The National Resistance Brigades urged Palestinian factions in Gaza to reconsider the recently announced ceasefire and to respond to Israel's ongoing attacks on the coastal enclave.
Less than an hour later, the military wing affiliated to the Popular Resistance Committees released a statement announcing the group's disengagement from the ceasefire agreement.
The An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades said Palestinians' blood came at a high price, and warned Israel to prepare "for the consequences and for Palestinian rage."
Hamas' armed wing the Al-Qassam Brigades mourned the loss of the fighters and reaffirmed the group's "commitment and determination to continue the resistance against the belligerent occupation forces," in a statement.
On March 26, Palestinian factions in Gaza agreed to commit to a truce if Israel stopped attacking the coastal enclave. The decision was made during a two-hour meeting in Gaza City, initiated by Hamas. It followed a bloody week of airstrikes and shelling in which Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, including civilians and children, and injured dozens more.
The truce meeting was attended by representatives of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and several other parties, all of which had claimed projectile fire in recent weeks.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=374638
Medics: 3 killed in Israeli air strike on southern Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli war planes struck the southern Gaza Strip overnight Friday killing three Palestinians and seriously injuring a fourth, medics said.
Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said the deceased were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Khan Younis, adding that their bodies were charred from the intensity of the strike.
The three were identified as Isma'il Labad, 31, and his brother Abdullah, 24, from Ash-Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and Muhammad Ad-Dayah, 31, from the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
A fourth man was seriously wounded in the attack and taken to the same hospital, Abu Salmiya said.
Witnesses said Israeli drones fired a missile at a white Toyota traveling on Salah Ad-Din road between Khan Younis and Deir Al-Baleh. They said the car was totally destroyed, and that the explosion shook the city of Khan Younis.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the Israeli air force and army carried out a joint operation in the Khan Younis area targeting Hamas fighters. Forces confirmed a hit, she said.
The spokeswoman said the group was planning to carry out kidnapping attacks in Israel and in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Jewish holiday of Passover in late April.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed one militant and injured a second in an airstrike shortly after the dawn prayer near Rafah in southern Gaza.
Two Palestinian fighters were killed on Sunday when Israeli war planes struck Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=374617
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Palestinian youth attacked while planting olive trees
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- A group of Palestinian youth said they were attacked by Israeli soldiers while planting olive trees on Wednesday.
Around 30 young men and women from a group "Ihna Gheir" (We are different) planted around 100 olive trees in A'bud village north west of Ramallah to commemorate Land Day.
One of the participants told Ma'an that Israeli military jeeps raided the area and threatened the group. The soldiers were followed by a group of settlers, who uprooted the trees, and two Palestinians were injured in ensuing clashes.
The Palestinian youth said they moved to another area to continue planting the trees.
An Israeli military spokesman said he would look into the report.
Land Day commemorates mass protests against Israel's confiscation of Palestinian land in 1976. Israeli forces brutally quashed the demonstrations, killing six Palestinians and injuring over 100.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=374539
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Israeli forces erect more army checkpoints in Nablus
NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday erected several military checkpoints on the road to Wadi Qana south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, denying local farmers access to their fields in the area.
Meanwhile, 13 busloads of Israeli settlers from the nearby Alfe Menashe and Qarne Shomron settlements were escorted to the Wadi Qana valley by heavy police and military forces.
The mayor of Deir Istiya, Nathmi Salman, said he was denied access to Wadi Qana at gun point and was told the area was a "closed military zone."
He said that Palestinian farmers had gathered in a building near Wadi Qana and an Israeli military jeep was stationed there preventing them from leaving.
An Israeli military spokesman said he was not aware of any unusual activity in the area.
Wadi Qana provides the main source of income for many Palestinian farmers, but they have been denied access to their fields by Israeli forces several times before. Meanwhile, extremist settlers frequently attack shepherds and uproot fields in the area.
In 2010, Israeli forces demolished an agricultural project funded by the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Finance in Wadi Qana.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=374646
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Israeli Pirates Harassing Fishermen in Gaza - April 3, 2011 - Ken O'Keefe
(2:51) Israeli Pirates Harassing Fishermen in Gaza - April 3, 2011 - Ken O'Keefe
Almost totally unreported in the West, by the so-called mainstream media that is, is the constant harassment and sometimes murder and piracy carried out by the Israeli's in Gaza's territorial waters. On a regular basis fishermen have their livelihoods destroyed by the marauding Israeli pirates. There is no justification for this, it is simply part of the ongoing policies of state sponsored terrorism and collective punishment that is part and parcel of the Apartheid Israeli state.
Thanks again to the US taxpayer for their collective ignorance and inaction, due to you and the apathy of the world as a whole this brand of injustice is allowed to continue.
Hundreds mourn for 3 Palestinians
Hundreds of Palestinians have attended the funeral procession of three people killed by Israeli fighter jets in an overnight airstrike.
The three lost their lives while driving in a car from the town of Khan Yunis to the Deir al Balah refugee camp early Saturday.
Medical sources say a fourth Palestinian has been injured in the incident.
The Israeli strike in southern Gaza created fears of an escalation into an all-out confrontation.
Hamas has identified the victims as members of its Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades.
The Brigades described the airstrike as a "serious escalation" and warned that Israel "will bear all the consequences."
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum described the airstrike as "a crime and a systematic continuation of murder, criminality and state terrorism."
On Tuesday, multiple attacks left at least 10 people dead, including 4 children in Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172797.html
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Maria 4 apr 2011
Army Invades Bil'in
Under the pretext of searching for international peace activists, Israeli soldiers and policemen invaded on Monday at dawn Bil'in village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, broke into and searched several homes.
The Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, in Bil'in, reported that soldiers invaded the village approximately at 1:30 after midnight and broke into the homes of Ali Burnat and Khamis Fathi Abu Rahma.
Troops violently broke into the homes under the pretext of searching for international peace activists who participate in nonviolent protests against the Annexation Wall and settlements in the village.
The Committee said that soldiers prevented local reporters from performing their duty, and that the offensive against the village last for more than an hour.
Bil'in village plays an essential and a leading role in creative nonviolent resistance against the Wall and settlements.
Its activities started in 2004 and managed to garner a large international attention attracting hundreds of international and Israeli peace activists.
Israeli troops use excessive force against the popular nonviolent resistance in the village, and in several other West Bank villages and towns, inflicting hundreds of injuries and several deaths.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60993
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Barak reiterates threats to attack Gaza
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli war minister Ehud Barak has opined that a new confrontation with Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip was daily approaching.
Barak claimed in a statement on Sunday that Israel was interested in maintaining calm on the Gaza borders, and held Hamas responsible for whatever happens in the Strip.
If Hamas forced us to attack we will do that, he added.
Barak, meanwhile, said that his army would deploy another Iron Dome anti missile battery south of Palestine occupied in 1948, saying that it would provide protection for 200,000 Israelis.
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Israeli troops shoot two Gazans dead
Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip near the Erez border crossing, witnesses say.
The troops targeted the Palestinians while they were collecting gravel in the area, a Press TV correspondent quoted witnesses as saying.
Medics also said that The ambulance service was being prevented from reaching them.
The Israeli army also confirmed that its forces opened fire at someone in the northern Gaza Strip."
Israeli troops often fire on Palestinians in the area along the Gaza border and locals risk injury or death along the border.
Early Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians and injured one in the south of the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, Israeli fighter jets fired several rockets at two Palestinians as they were riding a motorcycle on the road from Khan Younis to Rafah, killing one person and injuring another.
Israeli forces have carried out large numbers of ground and air attacks on Gaza since the end of "Operation Cast Lead" against the enclave.
More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air assault in the impoverished coastal sliver during the winter of 2008-2009. The attack inflicted $1.6 billion damage to the Gazan economy.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173169.html
AmoonaE BREAKING GAZA: Israeli shelling in an area North of Biet Lahia (North) where workers were collecting gravel. ONE dead, several injuries.
GAZA - NOW: Shelling happened this morning, medics just managed to reach casualties & tell local radio of 2 martyrs so far.
UPDATE: 1st martyr is Mohammad Ziad Shalha (21), killed by Israeli shelling northeast Beit Lahiya while collecting gravels
Gazan gravel worker killed by Israeli gunfire
West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)- One palestinian was killed and another wounded by Israeli gunfire during their work in Beit lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
According to SAFA News Agency, Israeli tanks stationed at the northern borders opened massive fire at Palestinian workers who were collecting gravels in that area killing one and injuring another.
Adham Abu Silmya, medical emergency spokesman, said that medical teams and ambulances evacuated the two victims to Kamal Udwan hospital.
Israeli military forces target every moving object got near the buffer zone preventing citizens access to their work and lands.
Hundreds of Gazans attempt to collect gravels from destroyed houses to be used in their buildings since Israel still controls the quantities of construction materials into the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Gaza man killed by Israeli artillery fire near northern border
Gaza man killed by Israeli artillery fire near northern border; Israel says man was 'approaching fence'
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=375735
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Israeli shelling destroys phone, internet lines in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli artillery fire that killed one man and injured two others in Gaza on Tuesday also cut the main fiber optic lines providing telephone and internet access to the northern Gaza Strip, government officials said.
The Gaza Telecommunications Ministry was in the process of transferring cables to the area so repairs could be made and service restored, said ministry official Jalal Ismael.
Phone and internet access was cut off in the northern Strip from just after 10 a.m.
Jalal said repairs should be completed by the early evening.
On March 19, Israeli shelling destroyed power lines providing electricity to the Gaza Strip. Electricity Company spokesman Jamal Ad-Dardasawi said the shells struck main lines cutting off the power supply to areas east of Gaza City and in northern Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=375815