- 22 aug 2011
Al-Khalil: 55 Palestinians injured in clashes with IOF
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Some 55 Palestinians were left injured Monday morning after violent clashes with Israeli occupation forces across Al-Khalil governorate in the West Bank.
More than 55 Palestinians were hit by rubber bullets or suffered from the effects of breathing tear gas or were battered after IOF troops raided several homes and after clashes broke out in various parts of Al-Khalil city, Palestinian medical sources said.
Locals said IOF troops set off a blast inside the home a Hamas activist Mahmoud al-Qawasimi, who has been held in Israeli prisons for the past seven years, causing major damage.
Scores of military vehicles raided the Wadi Abu Katila district in northwest Al-Khalil, where the Qawasimi residence sits. They detained and questioned on the ground dozens of locals, also raiding other homes.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers responded with ammunition and tear gas as youths hurled stones and empty bottles at Israeli soldiers during sporadic clashes which broke out in the city’s Bab al-Zawya.
Similar clashes erupted in the city’s Tariq ibn Ziyad junction, driving the IOF troops to call for large reinforcements to the area. A hunt for demonstrators was launched without report of arrest.
The clashes come a day after the IOF carried out one of the largest arrest raids in Al-Khalil since 2003.
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Egypt: 'Escalating Sinai Tensions'
(22:33) Egypt: 'Escalating Sinai Tensions' [News Analysis 20-Aug-11 PressTV]
Bruce Katz from Montreal, Abayomi Azikiwe from Detroit and Adel Lotfy from London:
Egypt has lodged a formal protest with Israel demanding an explanation about the killing of several Egyptian soldiers in an Israeli border raid. What is the Sinai conflict really about? Who are the gunmen who attacked Israel dressed in Egyptian military uniforms? Are we seeing the whole picture? This is another edition of News Analysis.
Egyptians continue protests outside Israeli embassy
(1:47) Egyptians continue protests outside Israeli embassy - PressTV 110821
Thousands of Egyptians continued to protest outside the Israeli Embassy demanding that the Egyptian ambassador be recalled from Tel Aviv and a review of the Camp David accord that Israel has repeatedly broke in similar events over the past years.
The Egyptian Prime Minister who held an emergency meeting in response to the protest that took place outside the Israeli embassy and continued into the next day and said that Egypt demanded a formal apology from the Israeli government.
The statement also mentioned that Egypt will withdrew its ambassador from Tel Aviv which has not happened since 2000 at the time of the Palestinian intifada.
Protesters outside the embassy in Cairo carried Egyptian and Palestinian flags and said that they do not accept the weak apology made by the Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Ehud Barak.
And in extraordinary sign of protest an Egyptian citizen managed to climb the building of Israeli embassy and replace its flag with an Egyptian flag.
An Israeli raid over the Egyptian border had left 5 Egyptians dead.
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London Al-Quds March Denounces Israel
(2:54) London Al-Quds March Denounces Israel
This year's al-Quds march came amid the deadly bombardment of Gaza by Israel, prompting thousands to march through central London to express their solidarity with the Palestinians.
Muslims and non- Muslims, Sunnis and Shias, snd indeed many more, United in condemning Israel for occupying Palestinian land and for killing Palestinian people.
Thousands of demonstrators have marched through central London to call for justice for the Palestinian people. This year in particular those Arab regimes who collaborate with the Zionists have been roundly condemned.
Eventually the marchers congregated in Trafalgar Square in the heart of London, where speakers told the crowd that the Arab spring had given new hope to those seeking a free Palestine.
They said pro-Israeli dictators in Arab countries, such as Husni Mubarak of Egypt, had been toppled and would be replaced by anti-Israeli leaders in tune with the wishes of their people.
As in previous years the al-Quds marchers were harassed by small groups of right-wing activists. Members of the English Defence League, who're accused of being racist and Islamophobic, Zionists and extreme secular Iranians.
They all accused the marchers of supporting so-called Islamist terrorism, but their numbers were tiny and the police penned them in.
Meanwhile, speakers at this year's al-Quds march urged everyone to keep up the pressure on Israel politically and economically. They praised the Islamic resistance in Palestine and said Israelis wouldn't rest in peace until there was justice for the Palestinians. And they pledged to continue to rally every year until Palestine is free.
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'Palestinians agree on truce with Israel'
Palestinian resistance movements based in the Gaza Strip reach an 'informal' agreement to strike a ceasefire deal with Israel after Tel Aviv escalated its attacks against the enclave.
The unofficial accord was brokered by the Egyptian authorities on Sunday, AFP reported.
"We have reached an informal agreement to establish a ceasefire from tonight on condition that Israel halts its attacks," said an official with the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas on condition of anonymity.
The development followed Thursday attacks by the Israeli military, which killed at least 16 Palestinians and injured more than 45 others across Gaza.
The regional grouping of the Arab League has condemned the attacks and called for United Nations intervention to stop Israeli aggression.
Keeping up their crackdown on the Palestinians, Israeli military forces also arrested at least 120 Palestinians, including Hamas members, in the city of al-Khalil [Hebron] in the south of the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank earlier in the day.
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Casualties mount in Gaza-Israel violence
(1:32) Casualties mount in Gaza-Israel violence (21-Aug-11)(GLOBAL FOCUS series - Israel)
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Israeli forces storm Aqsa, close main OJ gate
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli police forces closed Bab Al-Amud gate, one of the most famous of occupied Jerusalem’s Old City, to coincide with closing the Aqsa Mosque on those inside after midnight Sunday.
The occupation police said the measure was taken after an officer was stabbed during the massive night march staged in the holy city starting from Bab Al-Amud protesting the Israeli aggression on Gaza and chanting anti-occupation slogans.
The Israeli policemen arrested a number of young protestors and assaulted Palestinian medical teams and ambulance crews.
Additional forces were sent to the area that broke into and searched homes in Bab Al-Amud.
Aqsa guards said that policemen barged into the mosque’s plazas amidst provocation to 1500 worshipers remaining inside the holy site.
The occupation forces had blocked worshipers from heading to the Asr (afternoon) prayers in the Aqsa Mosque on Sunday and beat up those protesting the step.
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Israeli attacks on Gaza continue despite truce talks
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israel continued to attack several areas across the Gaza Strip on Sunday despite talks of the sides nearing a truce.
At noon Sunday, seven Palestinians including a child sustained varied levels of injury after Israeli war planes stuck at a police-owned site in northwestern Gaza, medical officials have said.
Our correspondent said the bombing destroyed the site entirely also causing damage to a nearby factory.
Also bombed was a training site of al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, without report of injury.
Locals informed our correspondent of a separate bombing near a school northwest of Beit Lahya in northern Gaza Strip where a civilian’s car was hit. No injuries were reported.
Another Israeli aircraft fired a single missile at resistance fighters in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip. But they managed to escape without injury.
Meanwhile, informed Palestinians sources say an initial agreement for a calm in the Gaza Strip was reached at 9pm Sunday night after efforts by Egypt.
The same sources said that the Palestinian factions agree to keep the calm but also agree on the right to respond to further Israeli attacks.
15 Palestinians have died and more than 50 others have been injured in Israeli attacks since Thursday evening.
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Israeli army 'systematically harassing' iconic Jenin theater
JENIN (Ma'an) -- The Israeli army surrounded the Freedom Theater in Jenin early Monday, beating members of staff and raiding the home of a security guard, a statement from the iconic theater said.
"As I literally entered my home I got a call from neighbors of the theater saying the army had surrounded the theater,” Jason Gough, acting general manager at the Freedom Theater, said.
He returned to the theater where he found Israeli soldiers, who instructed him to turn back. After a second attempt to get closer to the theater, soldiers forced Gough to strip at gunpoint before detaining him, he said.
"They said that they'll beat me up if I even say a word or move."
The Israeli army also raided the home of Mohammed Naghnaghiye, a security guard at the theater, ransacking the house before beating and detaining him, a Freedom Theater statement said.
The army also fired live ammunition in an attempt to disperse a young crowd who had gathered around the home, the statement added.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said three people were detained in Jenin on Monday morning but could not specify if they were from the Freedom Theater.
The incident comes amid a military court hearing on Sunday for three members of the Freedom Theater who were arrested in connection with the murder of former director Juliano Mer Khamis.
The court found that all three had no connection to the murder and must be released within a week.
"This behavior is mounting to systematical harassment of The Freedom Theater by The Israeli army, it is scandalous," Jonathan Stanczak, co-founder of theater said.
"This proves that the Israeli army and security apparatus is either lost in their investigation or that they have the actual intention of damaging the theater.
"It also seems that after the murder of Juliano Mer Khamis The Freedom Theater is no longer exempted from the kind of oppression the Palestinian society is subjected to in general," he added.
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Arab League urges UN to act on Israeli Gaza attacks
(1:23) Arab League urges UN to act on Israeli Gaza attacks
Preparations for the statehood bid-Remember Palestine
(24:31) Preparations for the statehood bid-Remember Palestine-08-20-2011
As the UN general assembly's discussion about statehood on September 21st draws closer, we look at the latest developments.
In this edition, we talk to an International Humanitarian Lawyer based in Switzerland about the events in the last two weeks, which have included comments from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming the bid for statehood will interfere with the peace process. Also from Beirut we have a report about Palestinian refugees living there
Medical official: International community must protect Palestinians
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- A Palestinian medical official called on the international community Sunday to protect Palestinians from the Israeli military assault which has targeted the Gaza Strip over the last three days.
Emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said in a statement that Gaza had suffered enough from the siege alone.
The death toll in Gaza is 14 dead and over forty people injured, he added.
Abu Salmiya said that the extent of the injuries on the victims raised questions about the type of weaponry being employed by Israeli forces.
He called on the international community and the EU to take immediate action on the basis of international law.
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OIC demands immediate end to Israeli aggression on Gaza
RIYADH, (PIC)-- Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has urged the world community to immediately intervene to halt the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
He strongly condemned in a statement on Sunday the “ferocious attacks” launched by the Israeli occupation forces on the besieged Strip.
Ihsanoglu said that the “cruel crime” that left women and children wounded among other civilians was “unjustified escalation” that would lead to more tension and instability in the region other than being in violation of the international law.
The OIC top official asked the international community to punish Israel for its crimes and to demand an end to the siege on the coastal enclave.
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Israel strikes in Gaza despite cease-fire
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike in central Gaza city Tuesday morning a day after Israel and the government in Gaza agreed to a cease-fire.
In the attack, a single missile was fired at vacant land near a gas station in the city’s Daraj district.
Although no injuries were reported, the impact smashed windows of nearby homes, and a state of fear prevailed among locals preparing for the next day’s fast.
It was the first rocket Israel launched after a truce was declared Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Deputy Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council Ahmed Bahar called on Palestinian factions to maintain national consensus, preserve the calm, and not to allow Israel drag the Palestinians into an escalation.
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Netanyahu: Escalation of Violence Must be Avoided
Jerusalem – PNN – The Israeli Cabinet voted to take steps to reduce the possibility of an escalation in violence this week, reported Haaretz.
The cabinet voted on Monday to abide by the truce that Hamas had declared at the weekend; the meeting involved many defence and security experts and resulted in the decision to try and reduce the chances of more violence.
Both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Defense Minister Ehud Barack offered strongly as to why Israel should reduce its attacks on the Gaza Strip. They focussed primarily on the ideas that continuing to barrage Gaza with air strikes would result in international isolation; the Iron Dome rocket system – currently used to intercept rockets fired towards Israel – has limited capabilities and cannot offer a complete form of defence; and that any all-out war with Gaza could also result in worsening diplomatic ties with Egypt.
Some MKs have been urging the Israeli government to respond more harshly to the rockets that have been fired into Southern Israel from the Gaza Strip.
Quoted in Israeli daily Haaretz, one of Netanyahu’s aides stated: "There's a sensitive situation in the Middle East, which is one big boiling pot; there's the international arena; there's the Palestinian move in the United Nations in September, we have to pick our way carefully.”
Talking about the Iron Dome system the aide said "If we had even one more battery, we could defend another medium-sized city. That's precisely why we need to prepare instead of rushing into war."
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OCHA: Israeli air strikes killed 14 Palestinians, caused major damages
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) - occupied Palestinian territories documented in a report released Sunday that Israel carried out some 30 air strikes that claimed the lives of 14 Palestinians, injured 41 others, and caused significant damage in its latest escalation against the Gaza Strip beginning 18 August.
The report says that damage has been reported to residential structures, at least four governmental buildings, and seven local NGOs, eight stores and supermarkets, a mosque, a school and a fuel station.
Infrastructure was also damaged. A main sewage pump station slated to start operating in the coming months was almost completely destroyed, the document says. The station would have served the residents of Nusairat and Al-Bureij refugee camps, with a combined population of over 130,000.
The stream of strikes also forced international NGOs to temporarily halt operations in the Strip, and 20 members of the NGOs’ staff has departed since the escalation began on 18 August.
Separately, on Monday, the government in Gaza reached an agreement for a cease-fire with Israel.
Shaul Mofaz chairman of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Israeli Knesset confirmed that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu requested a cease-fire with Palestinian factions, denying claims by the PM’s office that Israel had made no contacts with Hamas whether directly or indirectly through Egypt.
In an interview with Israeli Radio, Mofaz said that Israel stood powerless last week against what he called a terrorist attack that drove Netanyahu to request the cease fire.
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Nunu: Palestinian factions abide by calm as long as IOF abides by it
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian government in Gaza announced that a calm agreement was reached between the Palestinian factions and the Israeli occupation authority.
Taher Al-Nunu, the government’s spokesman, told a press conference on Monday that the factions pledged to abide by the calm as long as the IOA abided by it.
He appreciated the factions’ commitment out of keenness on the Palestinian higher interests.
Nunu praised the UN special envoy’s role in reaching that agreement, and lauded the Arab League Secretary General Dr. Nabil Al-Arabi for following up with concern developments of the IOA aggression and condemning it.
Nunu appreciated the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for denouncing the Israeli attacks, and all other parties who adopted a similar position.
He also mentioned in particular the Egyptian efforts in this regard and intelligence minister Murad Muwafi’s direct involvement in efforts to halt the aggression.
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How protests against Israel (and Flagman) saved lives in Gaza
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff
Israel appears to have backed away from an even more massive assault on Gaza – for now – largely because of protests in Egypt and the broader sense that Israel “lacks legitimacy” to carry out more aggression despite assured diplomatic cover from the United States. This is an enormous victory for people power, and as a result lives have undoubtedly been saved.
In recent days Palestinians in Gaza, hearing the sounds of Israeli warplanes, explosions and drones all around them at all hours, worried that Israel was preparing to launch a massive assault on Gaza similar to “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008 which killed more than 1,400 people, injured thousands and laid waste to civilian infrastructure.
Israel’s unprovoked attack on Gaza following Eilat operation
Beginning on 18 August, Israel launched an unprovoked series of air raids and extrajudicial executions in Gaza, as reprisals for the Eilat attack earlier that day in which unknown assailants killed 8 Israelis including two soldiers, according to official Israeli accounts.
Despite its initial accusations, Israel has provided absolutely no evidence that the Eilat attack had anything to do with Gaza. Nonetheless, Israel went on a killing spree which took 14 lives in Gaza, including a 2-year old child, a 13-year-old boy, a doctor and several members of resistance factions.
Prior even to the Eilat operation, Israel had continued its wanton-killing-as-usual in Gaza, with the execution-style murder of Sa’d al-Majdalawi, a mentally disabled teenager, who was shot ten times in the head by Israeli occupation forces on 16 August.
Yet despite the horrifying toll, Israel has backed away from an even bigger assault as it agreed on a truce with Palestinian factions who had been firing rockets back at Israel in response to the Israeli air raids on Gaza.
One Israeli civilian was killed in the city of Bir al-Saba (“Beersheva”) as a result of a Palestinian retaliatory strike.
So far the truce appears to be holding.
Israel “lacks legitimacy”
Israel’s cabinet “voted yesterday to refrain from any action that could lead to an escalation in the south and to cooperate indirectly with the truce Hamas declared on Sunday,” Haaretz reports today.
The newspaper adds:
What emerged most clearly from Netanyahu’s and Barak’s statements to the cabinet was that Israel lacks the international legitimacy needed for a large-scale operation in Gaza. The diplomatic crisis with Egypt further constrains Israel’s freedom of action.
“The prime minister thinks it would be wrong to race into a total war in Gaza right now,” one of Netanyahu’s advisors said. “We are preparing to respond if the fire continues, but Israel will not be dragged into places it doesn’t want to be.”
Several Netanyahu aides detailed the constraints on Israeli military action, most of which are diplomatic.
“There’s a sensitive situation in the Middle East, which is one big boiling pot; there’s the international arena; there’s the Palestinian move in the Untied Nations in September,” when the Palestinians hope to obtain UN recognition as a state, one advisor enumerated. “We have to pick our way carefully.”
The newspaper acknowledged that military deterrence – the inability of Israel to defend effectively against retaliatory rocket fire from Palestinian resistance factions – played a lesser but nonetheless significant part in halting the escalation.
People power stopped the Israeli attack
What is clear is that the “diplomatic” constraints on Israel are not driven by world governments which remain largely silent and complicit in face of ongoing Israeli crimes.
Rather it is governments being forced to respond to people power – especially in Egypt, where tens of thousands of people rallied outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo, in protest at Israel’s killing of five Egyptian military personnel during the Eilat operation, and Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
The protest produced a new popular hero, Ahmad al-Shehat – the so-called # Flagman – who scaled the 22-story building in which the embassy is located and replaced the Israeli flag with Egypt’s.
My own assessment during the events was that despite its belligerent rhetoric, killing spree and threats – including a gruesome one by war minister Ehud Barak to decapitate people – Israel would not go much further, as I explained in several tweets on 20 August:
@avinunu
Ali Abunimah Israel wants to “retaliate” for misery it brought on itself by its unprovoked attack on Gaza, but I don’t think it wants major escalation
Israel’s prime concern now is to preserve treaty with Egypt & keep Egyptian military junta onside. Major attack on Gaza will make that hard
Arab Regime support/Camp David Treaty gave Israel free hand in past. Today, “the street” is a real factor restraining Israel.
Some tweeps say 20,000 people outside Israel embassy in Cairo now. How many will be there if Israel invades Gaza?
Right now – thanks to collaboration of Abbas PA – West Bank is quiet. What if it rises up? Many uncertainties for Israel
Israel is caught between needing to show its own people dead Arab bodies and the reality that it is strategically more constrained than ever
Israel is terrified of nonviolent people power
As the Haaretz report demonstrates, Israel’s war leaders reached much the same conclusions that Israel is tightly constrained. And while the protests in Egypt were the most immediate factor, we can infer that the broader region context does not favor Israel’s usual wild behavior.
Since the mass Nakba day protests by Palestinian refugees at the Israeli-controlled frontiers with Lebanon and Syria, Israel has been terrified of similar mass nonviolent protests breaking out within the West Bank.
In June, top Israeli military officials warned that the army could not stop mass protests of even a few thousand people. As Haaretz reported:
“A non-violent protest of 4,000 people or more, even if they only march to a checkpoint or a settlement, and especially if the Palestinian police does not deter them, will be unstoppable,” one IDF officer claims. “Such a great number of determined people cannot be stopped by tear gas and rubber bullets.”
Another high ranking IDF official serving in the territories claimed that “if we are to face protests similar to those in Egypt or Tunisia, we will not be able to do a thing.”
So not only actual protests, but even the mere threat of mass, nonviolent, popular protest can constrain Israeli occupiers.
And no doubt, the broader international solidarity campaign, including the flotillas to Gaza, efforts to bring Israeli war criminals to justice through universal jurisdiction, and the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign are forcing Israeli leaders to internalize that their actions “lack legitimacy” and carry consequences.
Despite a solid wall of official international complicity, for Israel, killing Arabs is no longer as cost-free as it used to be. This is thanks to popular action.
But we can never be complacent: the message for all engaged in popular solidarity work and protest for Palestinian rights is: onward! Not only do these actions bring justice and equality closer, in the short term they can even save lives.
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Medics: 2 killed in overnight airstrikes on Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Two Palestinians were killed and more than 25 injured as multiple airstrikes targeted Gaza overnight Wednesday.
Hisham Adnan Abu Harb was killed and three others remain accounted for as an airstrike hit a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Another Palestinian, Salama Al-Masri, was killed and 20 more injured as Israeli planes fired at a gym in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma'an.
Among the injured were seven children and four women, he added.
The latest airstrikes come amid renewed cross border violence as hostilities flared following a series of shooting attacks in southern Israel last Thursday.
A fragile truce among Gaza militants was announced Sunday evening following four days of border violence.
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 15 Palestinians since Thursday, 12 of whom have been identified as militants, and more than 50 people have been wounded.
During this time Palestinians fired more than 100 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and cities in the south, killing one man and injuring more than 20, one critically.
Israeli warplanes struck Gaza late Wednesday killing one Palestinian and injuring another amid reports that six rockets had been fired into southern Israel.
The airstrike targeted a group of people in the Ash-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, a Ma'an correspondent reported.
One man died and another was injured, medical officials said.
The Israeli army confirmed the airstrike.
"IAF aircraft targeted the terrorist squad that fired rockets at the Eshkol Regional council from the northern Gaza Strip a short while ago. A hit was confirmed," a statement said.
The man killed was identified as Atieh Maqat, a member of the military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds brigades.
Six projectiles were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with no injuries reported, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.
The projectiles landed near Hof Askelon, Ofakim, Pithat Shalom and Eshkol in the south of Israel.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing 5 Grad rockets towards Ashkelon and Eshkol on Wednesday to avenge the murder of one of their members in an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday morning, a statement said.
The strike in the Tal As-Sultan area of southern Gaza killed Ismail Al-Asmar, a field commander in the Al-Quds Brigades, and injured one other person, said Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmiya.
Palestinian medics later reported finding the body of Ismail Amoum, 65, in the same area. They said his body was blown to pieces, suggesting he may have been caught in the strikes.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the PFLP, also claimed responsibility for firing a rocket towards Ofakim on Wednesday, a statement said.
The Hamas government accused Israel of violating the unwritten ceasefire agreement with its latest air strikes and called for UN intervention.
"Such aggressive behavior confirms that Israel has no true intention of maintaining the truce and insists on escalating the situation," Hamas said.
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3 injuries -1 is critical- due 2 an israeli air strike on Rafah tunnels area Gaza
GazaTVNews Gaza TV News
Death toll in Gaza today rises to 4 following an airstrike in Rafah which has killed a man in a tunnel.
LSal92 Leila BREAKING: Huge explosion reported in North Gaza, ambulances rushing to scene.
Solarah Samah Saleh OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The HUGEST EXPLOSION IN YEARS!!!! VERY NEAR!!
WalaaGh Walaa Al Ghussein OMG just heard something in the air , it's like a rocket and it didn't fall down , i thought it was coming to my window
Jess_Gaza Jasmine Kh my nephews are crying their hearts out! plz God have mercy upon us
Solarah Samah Saleh breaking Gaza everyone in my family been woken up by the HUGE explosion in NorthGaza israel now we're following the news
RichardDufek Richard Dufek Update last explosion in Gaza targeted a sports club close to Shadi Habboub mosque
@WalaaGh Ahhh stay safe everyone!!!
Omar_Gaza Omar Gaza Updates: more Israeli air strikes on Jabaliya and injuries r reported!
Solarah Samah Saleh Now we're making calls to make sure uncle and his family are safe in Gaza Uncle says probably no injuries
Ammoun_ Iman GAZA: A huge explosion rocked northern Gaza just now, ambulances rushing to sports club close to Shadi Habboub mosque.
imNadZ Nader In Rafah bombing, so far 6 causalities are evacuated. 2 are seriously injured... F16s hovering low altitude
Sameh_Habeeb Palestine Telegraph Breaking News: Israeli air force raid on a sport club in Beit Lahia town, northern Gaza. A number of people are wounded.
RichardDufek Richard Dufek Unconfirmed news about a martyr in the last attack on the Al-Salam Sports club few minutes ago.
BREAKING NEWS: Another explosion in eastern Khanyounis close to Al Karama towers. no casualties reported
OMG!!!Adham Abu Silmeya from the Ambulance committee saying on the radio there are tens of injuries & One martyr at least!
Update: 10 injured & one martyr as Israeli explosion rocked North Gaza minutes ago.
NOW the resistance group firing a rocket in response!
UPDATE: 7 Gazans killed 15 others injured in the name of ISRAEL till now! !
SoulFya Soul Fya Imad Jamal Abu Harab, 27,tunnel worker, killed in Rafah bombing. Other workers missing. Causalities evacuated & on way to hospital
imNadZ: BREAKING: another explosion in eastern khanyounis close to Al Karama towers. no casualties reported”
freegazaorg Free Gaza Movement Mohammed Omer BREAKING--Undercover Israeli units are attacking Al Ghoul area, north of Gaza
imNadZ Nader BREAKING: medics report 25 injuries and 1 killed as a result of an airstrike in a house in Beit Lahya
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza, 1 killed, another injured
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes struck Gaza late Wednesday killing one Palestinian and injuring another, medical officials said, amid reports that six rockets had been fired into southern Israel.
An Israeli airstrike targeted a group of people in the Ash-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, a Ma'an correspondent said.
One man died and one was injured, medics said.
Six projectiles were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with no injuries reported, the Israeli army said.
The projectiles landed near Hof Askelon, Ofakim, Pithat Shalom and Eshkol in the south of Israel.
Al Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing a grad rocket towards Ashkelon on Wednesday, a statement said, to avenge the murder of their leader Ismail Al-Asmar in an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday morning.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades claimed responsibility for firing a rocket towards Ofakim, a statement said.
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UPDATE: Reports that 1 Palestinian killed & 3 injured after an Israeli air strike on Gaza city.
One Israel tank missile hit east of Gaza city, tension in Gaza now.
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Breaking News: Israeli air force killed 1 |Palestinian in Gaza, 6 are wounded despite ceasefire.
GazaTVNews Gaza TV News Mohamad Attiah Moqat, aged 20, was killed by an Israeli missile fired at a group of civilians in Nafaq Street in Gaza City in the past hour. He is the 3rd Palestinian to be killed today by Israel.
Israel bolsters Egypt border fearing new attacks
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israel's army chief Benny Gantz has ordered increased measures along the border with Egypt due to intelligence about new attacks being planned, reports said.
Armed groups are planning attacks similar to the ones last Thursday in which eight Israelis were killed, according to a report Wednesday in Israel's Haaretz newspaper.
The new defensive measures include putting in place additional means of electronic and visual intelligence gathering as well bolstering navy capabilities in the south, according to the report.
Israel launched a series of airstrikes in the aftermath of Thursday's attack, killing 15 Palestinians and injuring more than 50. Among those killed was Popular Resistance Committees chief Kamal Al-Nayrab.
During this time Palestinians fired more than 100 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and cities in the south, killing one man and injuring more than 20, one critically.
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Reports of a HUGE explosion heard in Gaza City and another in Khanyounis
The explosion heard few minutes ago in Gaza city hit a target in Nafaq St. causing injures. No reports of deaths.. yet?!
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3 injures from the drone airstrike in Nafaq st.
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One Israel tank missile hit east of Gaza city, tension in Gaza now
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza, 2 injuries reported
AZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes struck Gaza late Wednesday injuring two Palestinians, medical officials said amid reports that six rockets had been fired into southern Israel.
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Another Quds Fighter Assassinated In Gaza
Atiyya Maqat
The Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, reported on Wednesday at night that one of its fighters was assassinated when the Israeli Air Force bombarded Al Nafaq Street, in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in central Gaza. A Quds fighter was assassinated on Wednesday at dawn.
The fighter was identified as Atiyya Maqat, one of the Brigades fighters in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
In retaliation to the assassination, the Brigades said that it fired five shells into Bir Shiva, Ofakim, Asqalan, and into the Eshkol Regional Council; Israel reported no injuries.
On Wednesday at dawn, the Israeli army assassinated Ismail Al Asmar of the Al Quds Brigades, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Brigades issued a press release claiming responsibility for firing several missiles and shells into southern Israeli in retaliation to the assassination.
Furthermore, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed responsibility of firing a grad missile into Bir Shiva, and two into Nitivot settlement.
It is worth mentioning that since the ceasefire was declared on Sunday, Israel assassinated three fighters, while four Palestinians were injured in several Israeli attacks targeting Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61882
Az-Zahhar: Eilat attack 'used as pretext to attack Gaza'
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The series of shooting attacks in southern Israel on Thursday were part of an "ambiguous operation" used as a pretext to attack the Gaza Strip, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Az-Zahhar said Wednesday.
Israel said militants from Gaza were responsible for the attacks near Eilat which killed eight Israelis.
Israeli warplanes responded immediately, attacking targets in southern Gaza which killed six people, including a two-year-old toddler and five militants from the Popular Resistance Committees -- the group it said was behind the violence.
For four days, Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip killing a total of 14 Palestinians and wounding dozens more, as militants in Gaza responded by firing over 100 rockets across the border which killed one Israeli.
Israeli forces killed five attackers in Eilat, officials said, but did not reveal their identities, which Az-Zahhar noted was unusual.
"So far we don't who they are and where they came from. Israel has not published their photos, or photos of the slain Israelis as they usually do with such operations.
"Further, no Palestinian factions have claimed responsibility for the attack," the Hamas official added.
"The aggression was conducted for the sake of aggression and there was no justification. Then they targeted an outstanding leader of the Popular Resistance in Rafah Abu Awad An-Nayrab and five others and resistance factions found themselves obliged to retaliate."
After four days of cross-border violence, Hamas spokesman Taher An-Nunu said Monday that factions in Gaza had committed to a truce with Israel.
On Sunday night, the Hamas-run security forces were "instructed to stop the shooting" against Israel, with police checking cars in the border area, and checkpoints set up at the entrance to every town in Gaza.
Az-Zahhar said Hamas' duty was "to coordinate with other factions, organize resistance activities, and protect the Gaza Strip from being occupied again."
He said all factions agreed to the ceasefire while retaining the right to respond to Israeli attacks.
"Hamas is not a police officer who protects Israeli interests," he said, explaining that Hamas sought a truce based on deterring Israel rather than cooperating with it or yielding to its demands.
Az-Zahhar denied claims that some factions were actually fronts for Hamas under different names.
"What illusionary groups have Hamas made up?" he asked.
"All the factions operating in Gaza are real and have their supporters and their military wings. They were called by Egypt to attend national occasions such as the reconciliation agreement, so can we claim that Egypt is dealing with made up factions?"
"Israel started its aggression on Islamic Jihad’s activists brutally killing members of the Qureiqi family. The Islamic Jihad’s military wing responded. Is the Islamic Jihad made up by Hamas, or it is a real faction?"
Regarding Egypt's role in mediating the latest ceasefire with Israel, Az-Zahhar said Arab countries had been contacted as soon as tensions began to escalate.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415799
IOF raises alert in vicinity of the Gaza Strip
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces command raised state of alert along the borders of the Gaza Strip and its environs on Wednesday after Israeli warplanes killed a commander of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement, earlier today.
The IOF targeted two other Palestinian resistance fighters in central Gaza at dawn Wednesday but they survived the attack with injuries.
Hebrew media sources said that Israeli security leaders ordered cancellation of a number of activities in Beer Sheba and Asdod, and closed southern beaches in anticipation of retaliatory strikes.
The IOF command asked all residents of localities near to the Gaza border to remain near shelters.
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Maria 24 aug 2011
Medics: 1 dead in strike on south Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli aircraft opened fire on the southern Gaza Strip late Tuesday killing a member of Islamic Jihad's military wing, medical and security officials said.
The strike in the Tal As-Sultan area killed Ismail Al-Asmar, a field commander in the Al-Quds Brigades, and injured one other person, said Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmiya.
Both were taken to Abu Yousef An-Najjar Hospital, medics said.
Israel's army confirmed in a statement that it targeted al-Asmar, who "was involved in smuggling weapons and sought the execution of terrorist activity in Sinai. A direct hit was confirmed."
The Islamic Jihad field commander "operated with terror elements in the Gaza strip which have recently made several attempts to execute terror attacks in Sinai, on the Israel-Egypt border," the army said.
The strike came as an Egyptian-brokered halt to Palestinian rocket fire appeared to be holding, with the Israeli military saying that calm had prevailed along the border overnight.
Although four rockets were fired into southern Israel in the following hours of the agreement, Israel did not respond, with the press assessing it was unlikely to harm the truce.
"There has been nothing today, compared to 11 yesterday," an Israeli military spokesman said Tuesday, referring to the number of rockets and mortar rounds fired a day earlier.
"So far the truce has largely held," Haaretz newspaper said, referring to a "temporary" ceasefire that was announced late Sunday by a senior official in Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007.
The truce was announced Sunday evening following four days of violence sparked by a series of shooting ambushes near Eilat in southern Israel on Thursday in which eight Israelis died.
Israeli airstrikes have killed 15 Palestinians, 12 of whom have been identified as militants, and more than 50 people were wounded since Thursday. Among those killed was PRC chief Kamal al-Nayrab.
During this time Palestinians fired more than 100 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and cities in the south, killing one man and injuring more than 20, one criticall.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415699
Two Palestinians wounded in Israeli raid
GAZA, (PIC)-- Two Palestinians were injured at an early hour on Wednesday when Israeli warplanes targeted a motorbike they were riding in central Gaza, medical sources said.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the medical services, told the PIC reporter that one of them sustained moderate injuries while the other suffered only minor wounds.
An earlier Israeli air strike killed a commander with Islamic Jihad’s armed wing and injured two of his comrades at dawn today.
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Maria 25 aug 2011
2 Islamic Jihad fighters killed in airstrike
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An Israeli airstrike killed two members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing in the Gaza Strip late Thursday, witnesses and security sources told Ma'an.
Salim Al-Arabid and Alaa Hamdan died after the airstrike in northern Gaza, Islamic Jihad's military wing said in a statement.
An Israeli military spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the reports but said five rockets struck the western Negev Thursday night and 12 rockets in the past 24 hours.
Seven others have been killed and at least 30 injured in airstrikes during the same period.
The latest airstrikes come amid renewed cross border violence as hostilities flared following a series of shooting attacks in southern Israel last Thursday.
A fragile truce among Gaza militants was announced Sunday evening, but it came unstuck Tuesday after Israel killed an Islamic Jihad commander.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416138
Israel kills 11 Palestinians in 24 hrs
The death of a Palestinian during the latest round of Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip has raised to 11 the total number of the fatalities caused by Tel Aviv in the besieged enclave over the past 24 hours.
On Thursday, Israeli airstrikes against the coastal sliver claimed the life of a Gaza resident, a Press TV correspondent reported, without specifying the site of the death.
The precise locations, where several of the fatalities were caused, were yet to be known.
Reports, however, noted that two Palestinians were killed during Israeli military aircraft's attacks against different areas across Gaza, including the Toffah and al-Zeytoon neighborhoods located respectively in the east and southeast of the Gaza City in the north of the impoverished sliver.
On Wednesday, Israel launched a series of pre-dawn attacks across the Gaza Strip that continued into the early hours of Thursday, killing six people and wounding 30 others.
Tel Aviv has intensified its attacks against the territory over the past few days. The escalation followed last Thursday's deaths of eight people near Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat.
The offensives have left at least 22 Palestinians dead and scores more injured.
Israeli officials have blamed the Gaza-based resistance groups for the Eilat deaths and vowed a 'full force' response targeting Gaza.
Hamas has said that it had nothing to do with the assault and has warned against any act of aggression against the sliver.
The recent Israeli assaults come amid the increasing possibility of another large-scale Israeli invasion against the besieged enclave.
In December 2008, Israel waged a 22-day war against the blockaded sliver, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and leaving thousands of others injured.
Three weeks of unrelenting aerial, land, and sea strikes also destroyed thousands of civilian and government buildings, devastating a major part of Gaza's infrastructure.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195772.html
Bahr: Israel's wants a truce without stopping to kill Gaza people
GAZA, (PIC)-- First deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) Ahmed Bahr said that Israel's military escalation is aimed at imposing what he called the formula of a unilateral "truce with continued killing" in the Gaza Strip.
In a press release on Thursday, Bahr stated that the Israeli occupation state wants the Palestinian people to keep their arms folded and stay idly watching it shedding their blood.
He stressed that the Palestinian people rejects such dysfunctional equation and the truce must be mutual and unconditional in order to survive and last.
The occupation government wants to tailor the truce to its own desire, so that it can give itself the right to violate it at will, the lawmaker said.
"The truce proposed by the occupation is aimed to impose the terms of surrender and submission on the Palestinian people and their resistance, and this cannot be accepted in any way," he added.
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Maria 25 aug 2011
Medics: 3 killed in overnight airstrikes on Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Three Palestinians were killed and more than 25 injured as multiple Israeli airstrikes targeted Gaza overnight Wednesday.
Hisham Adnan Abu Harb was killed and three others remain accounted for as an airstrike hit a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Another Palestinian, Salama Al-Masri, was killed and 20 more injured as Israeli planes fired at a gym in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, Emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma'an.
Ala' Adnan Al-Jakhbir, 22, died Thursday morning from wounds sustained in the strike in Beit Lahiya, medics said.
Among the injured were seven children and four women, Abu Salmiya added.
"The sites were targeted in response to the firing of rockets from Gaza at Israel yesterday evening," an Israeli army statement said. Over 10 projectiles hit southern Israel Wednesday night, injuring an infant, the statement added.
The latest airstrikes come amid renewed cross border violence as hostilities flared following a series of shooting attacks in southern Israel last Thursday.
A fragile truce among Gaza militants was announced Sunday evening following four days of border violence.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 15 Palestinians following last Thursday's attacks, 12 of whom have been identified as militants, and more than 50 people have been wounded.
During this time Palestinians have fired more than 150 rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and cities in the south, killing one man and injuring more than 20, one critically.
Israeli warplanes had struck Gaza late Wednesday killing one Palestinian and injuring another amid reports of projectiles fired into southern Israel.
The airstrike targeted a group of people in the Ash-Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City, a Ma'an correspondent reported.
One man died and another was injured, Gaza medical officials said.
The Israeli army said that it had targeted a "terrorist squad" firing projectiles at the Eshkol regional council, south Israel.
The man killed was identified as Atieh Maqat, a member of the military wing of Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds brigades.
Six projectiles were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with no injuries reported, an Israeli army spokeswoman said.
The projectiles landed near Hof Askelon, Ofakim, Pithat Shalom and Eshkol in the south of Israel.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing 5 Grad rockets towards Ashkelon and Eshkol on Wednesday to avenge the murder of one of their members in an Israeli airstrike late Tuesday morning, a statement said.
The strike in the Tal As-Sultan area of southern Gaza killed Ismail Al-Asmar, a field commander in the Al-Quds Brigades, and injured one other person, said Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmiya.
Palestinian medics later reported finding the body of Ismail Amoum, 65, in the same area. They said his body was blown to pieces, suggesting he may have been caught in the strikes.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the PFLP, also claimed responsibility for firing a rocket towards Ofakim on Wednesday, a statement said.
The Hamas government accused Israel of violating the unwritten ceasefire agreement with its airstrikes late Wednesday and called for UN intervention.
"Such aggressive behavior confirms that Israel has no true intention of maintaining the truce and insists on escalating the situation," Hamas said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415898
Three Killed, 25 Injured, In A Number Of Air Strikes Targeting Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that three residents were killed, and more than 25 were injured, as the Israeli Air Force bombarded several areas, including a sports center, on Wednesday at night and on Thursday at dawn; a total of five residents were killed, and dozens were wounded in less than 24 hours. 18 residents, including children, were killed since in one week.
The sources stated that resident Hisham Adnan Abu Harb, and another unidentified resident, were killed when the army bombarded a tunnel in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; three residents went missing.
Also, resident Salama Al Masry was killed, while 20 residents, including 7 children and 4 women, were injured when the army bombarded a sports center in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; some of the wounded are in critical conditions.
The sports center was crowded as a sports event was being held when the army bombarded it; medical teams are searching among the rubble to trying to locate and save additional potential casualties.
On Wednesday at night, the Israeli Air Force assassinated a fighter of the Al Quds Brigades, of the Islamic Jihad, in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in central Gaza. The fighter was identified as Atiyya Maqat.
On Wednesday evening, medics located the remains of a 65-year-old resident, under the rubble of a shelled building east of the Al Boreij refugee camp, in central Gaza. Medical sources reported that the body of Ismail Amom, 65, was severely mutilated.
Meanwhile, the Al Quds Brigades claimed responsibility for firing five Grad missiles into Asqalan (Ashkelon) and Eshkol. The Brigades said the shelling come in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli escalation and the assassinated of its fighters.
Israel sources reported that two Grad missiles were fired on Wednesday evening into southern Asqalan and near Ofakim; Israel claimed the shells landed in open areas.
Several shells were also fired at areas in the Eshkol Regional Council in the Negev. No injuries were reported while residents of Shear Hanegev and Eshkol were asked to head to the shelters.
On Sunday, and after Palestinian factions declared truce, Israel killed three Palestinians in Gaza and wounded four others.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that a total of eighteen Palestinians, including children, were killed and dozens were injured, in ongoing Israeli attacks since last Thursday.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61883 (Israeli version http://fwd4.me/09rn )
Three Gazans killed in Israeli strikes
At least two people have been killed and 20 more wounded in a new Israeli strike on the northern Gaza Strip while another Gazan died of injuries from an earlier attack.
The incident occurred when Israeli warplanes bombarded the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya in the early hours of Thursday local time, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Palestinian medical sources said there were seven children and seven women among those injured in the attack.
Earlier, Israeli forces launched a separate airstrike on the Palestinian tunnels in the southern city of Rafah, near the Egyptian border.
Reports said the attack left four people critically wounded and that seven others had went missing after the strike.
Meanwhile, a Gazan wounded in an earlier attack succumbed to his injures, to take to six the number of Palestinians killed in Israel's airstrikes in the last 24 hours.
On Wednesday, a 20-year old man was killed hours after an Israeli missile targeted a top member of the Islamic Jihad Movement while he was in his car in Rafah.
Israel stepped up its latest airstrikes on the Gaza Strip last Thursday, shortly after eight people were killed near Israel's Red Sea resort town of Eilat.
Israeli officials blamed the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) for Thursday's attack and vowed a “full force” response targeting Gaza.
But the PRC, which is not affiliated with the Hamas government in Gaza, denied involvement in the multiple attacks.
Hamas has said that it had nothing to do with the assault and has warned against any act of aggression against the Palestinian enclave.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195616.html
Twitter
JalalAK_jojo Jalal sources are saying 2 martyrs in Gaza now! Some are receiving confirmed news of 7 martyrs in latest airstrikes!! Depressing!
This tweet brought me to tears RT @Omar_Gaza: Salamah Al Masry, 17, is 1 of the martyrs, 20 injuries including 7 children and 4 women Gaza!
Gazanism Ebaa Rezeq FUCK: 2 killed and 20 injured (7 kids & 4 women) in an Israeli air strike over Beit Lahia-Northern Gaza.
avinunu Ali Abunimah Another child reported killed tonight by Israel's senseless terrorism in Gaza.
WillOuda Wael I'm hearing ambulances rushing from north to Al-shefa hospital probably with the injured from BietLahia attack. Gaza
LSal92 local news agency reporting 3 are missing and they belong to the same family as the martyr (Abo Harb)
imNadZ Nader Abu Ali Mustafa brigades launch 1 GRAD missile towards kriat.
LSal92 Leila Al Aqsa martyrs brigades state that they have launched 2 rockets towards Sderot
BoycottAhava Stolen Beauty
by Michael_McC123 Gaza bombed tonight. In addition to those killed & wounded, tens of thousands are terrorized by the noise of jets & missiles.
WalaaGh Walaa Al Ghussein RT @Gazanism Rumors about an Israeli soldier being kidnapped in Northern
JalalAK_jojo Jalal Maan just updated and is reporting 2 killed, @AJEnglish reporting 4 killed, and reality reporting 7 killed in Gaza!
Mogaza Mohammed Omer New body just arrived to Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza torn apart and charred
imNadZ Nader BREAKING: israeli apaches are all over northern district in Gaza
Gazanism Ebaa Rezeq Palestinian state tv talking about an Israeli soldier kidnapped-Northern Gaza. Israel admits losing contact with a soldier
Solarah Samah Saleh BREAKING Blood Bank of Shifa Hospital calling citizens to donate blood! Please RT!
GazaYBO Palestine TV says that an israeli soldier is arrested by the resistance but we're waiting for official reports to confirm this news
Solarah Samah Saleh
PLKZ be responsible! No Israeli media outlet has mentioned loss of connex with any of their soldiers in Gaza! Do not spread rumors
WillOuda Wael The sport club that was targeted in BietLahia... named by Ynet as "The Islamic Jihad club " !! is there any more shit than this?
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Maria 25 aug 2011
Israel uses mini-drone for assassination
The Ghost is an Israeli-made light unmanned drone that looks like a miniature version of the Chinook helicopter.
Israel has designed a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to help Israeli intelligence services identify and target leaders of Palestinian resistance movements.
The newly unveiled spying UAV, dubbed Ghost, is an almost silent drone that weighs 9 pounds (nearly 4 kilograms), UPI reported.
The twin-rotor vertical take-off drone is designed for special clandestine operations in urban areas and has a range of around 2.5 miles (four kilometers), a flight endurance of 6 hours and speed of around 37 miles (59.5 kilometer) an hour.
The device can be carried in backpacks, along with spare batteries and a computer, by two soldiers who control it from a laptop computer.
The mini-helicopter, 4.76 feet in length and with a rotor span of 2.46 feet, is said to be capable of flying into buildings through windows to provide real-time intelligence for special forces or company-size infantry units.
It can also provide ground forces with a unique horizontal, eyelevel visibility and which means a comprehensive view of their targets and operational environment that lookdown UAVs cannot offer.
First displayed in March, the Ghost is to be soon marketed in the United States, where it was first unveiled.
The UAV can track targets for assassination by war drones, helicopter gunships or F-16 strike jets using precision-guided munitions, a tactic frequently used against Palestinian leaders.
Last October, Israel unveiled a larger craft named the Panther with a takeoff weight of about 138 pounds (62.6 kilograms) and a wingspan of 25 feet, which is capable of staying airborne for 6 hours.
The electrically powered UAV is designed to be carried in a backpack by a single soldier.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195603.html
Gaza strike leaves 3 injured, 7 missing
More than 20 people have been killed and scores more injured in Israel's continued airstrikes on the Gaza Strip upped since mid-August.
Israeli warplanes have once again pounded the Gaza Strip, leaving three people critically injured and seven others missing in the southern city of Rafah.
The attack is the latest in the string of Israeli airstrikes against the blockaded Palestinian territory since Tel Aviv stepped up its attacks last week.
A Press TV correspondent reported that the new air raid targeted a tunnel in Rafah, which borders Egypt.
Earlier in the day, an Israeli missile strike killed a top military leader of the Islamic Jihad Movement in his car in Rafah.
Israel has upped its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since August 18, shortly after eight Israelis were killed near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat in a series of attacks Tel Aviv blamed on the Gaza-based Popular Resistance Committee (PRC).
Israel claimed the attackers had infiltrated from the Gaza Strip, and vowed a "full force" response against Gazans.
The PRC, which is not affiliated with the Hamas government in Gaza, denied involvement in the incident.
Hamas has also said that it had nothing to do with the multiple attacks and has warned against any act of aggression against the Palestinian enclave.
Israeli strikes in the past few days have killed at least 20 Palestinians and injured scores of others.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195613.html
One killed, 10 injured in northern Gaza
Israeli warplanes have again targeted the Gaza Strip, killing at least one Palestinian in the north of the costal sliver and leaving 10 others injured.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195612.html
BREAKING NEWS 3 Gazans wounded, at least 7 others missing in Israeli airstrike
Three Palestinians have been wounded and seven others have gone missing following a new series of Israeli airstrikes against the beleaguered Gaza Strip.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195608.html