- 9 dec 2010
Israeli warplanes attack Gaza
Israeli warplanes have carried out four airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, targeting a power company and a police station in central Gaza.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties, a Press TV correspondent reported from Gaza on Thursday.
He said that three attacks were conducted on a power station and a police station in central Gaza Strip and one on the outskirts of Gaza City Thursday midnight.
Earlier on Wednesday, an Israeli tank shell attack wounded at least three Palestinians near the Karni crossing in east of the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
Israel forces have repeatedly pounded Gaza after Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas -- the democratically-elected ruler of Gaza -- took control of the coastal sliver in 2007.
The region is under the Israeli blockade and 1.5 million impoverished people of Gaza are in dire need of basic humanitarian supplies.
At the turn of 2009, Israel attacked the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicting a damage of above $1.6 billion on the enclave's economy.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/154617.html
Army Airstrikes Several Areas in Gaza
On Thursday at dawn, the Israeli Air Force carried out several air strikes targeting a number of areas in the Gaza Strip; damage was reported, no injuries.
The first target was a location believed to be used as a training facility that reportedly belongs to the al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. The target is located north of al-Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Local sources reported that some of the missiles that were fired by the army did not explode, and that explosive experts are trying to defuse them.
The second attack targeted an area close to the Police Station in the same village, extensive damage was reported.
The army also bombarded Tunis School, east of al-Zeitoun neighborhood, in Gaza City. The Palestinian Ministry of Education asked the students to remain home due to the shelling.
Furthermore, the Israeli Army confirmed targeting a blacksmith workshop reportedly manufacturing combat materials in central Gaza.
On Wednesday at night, a security guard, working at a Negev Israeli town, was moderately wounded after resistance fighters fired several mortars into the area.
The attack came shortly after a homemade shell, fired from Gaza, hit a home in Sha'ar Hanegev, in the Negev.
The Salah ad-Din Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for the attack, and stated that its fighters fired 10 mortars at Israeli forces invading Gaza from an area close to the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) Crossing, in southern Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60126
Israeli air strike aftermath on Gaza Strip - no comment
(1:53) Israeli air strike aftermath on Gaza Strip - no comment
Central Gaza and Eastern Gaza City Targeted by Retaliatory Israeli Airstrikes
Gaza City PNN - Early Thursday morning, Israeli airstrikes on targets in the central Gaza Strip and the eastern part of Gaza City caused extensive damage to an electricity generator and destroyed one home. No injuries were reported.
The airstrikes were reportedly in response to mortars fired from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night, which injured one Israeli man in a kibbutz.
Eyewitnesses said the house of Yaoud Lal Abid in the village of al-Mugharaqa in Central Gaza was destroyed completely. It was empty at the time of the attack.
The airstrike at the electricity generator led to widespread power outages. The area has seen similar problems over the last four years.
Local sources also reported ground-to-ground missile fire from the Israeli side of the border resulting in no injuries.
Israeli planes were still making flyovers of the Gaza Strip at press time.
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29 oct 2012, 12:08 , Respect -
Maria 9 dec 2010
Israeli forces injure two Palestinians
Palestinian workers in Gaza (file photo)
Israeli forces have shot and wounded at least two Palestinian workers in northern part of the Gaza Strip, according to witnesses.
The workers were shot by Israeli soldiers while they were collecting gravel, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.
Nearly 100 Palestinians, including many youngsters, have been shot by Israeli soldiers near the Gaza buffer zone since March.
Earlier on Thursday, Israeli warplanes carried out four airstrikes on the coastal enclave, targeting a power company and a police station in central Gaza.
Israeli forces have repeatedly pounded Gaza after Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas -- the democratically-elected ruler of Gaza -- took control of the coastal sliver in 2007.
The region is under the Israeli blockade and 1.5 million impoverished people of Gaza are in dire need of basic humanitarian supplies.
At the turn of 2009, Israel attacked the Gaza Strip, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians and inflicting a damage of above $1.6 billion on the enclave's economy.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/154636.html 29 oct 2012, 12:08 , Respect -
Maria 9 dec 2010
Ministry: Prison guards deny medical treatment to detainee
IOF kidnapped the nine young men at dawn during raids on homes in Bethlehem city, Dora town south of Al-Khalil city and villages south and west of Ramallah city.
29 oct 2012, 12:08 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
Two Children Killed In Gaza, Several Palestinians Wounded In israeli Attacks
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip that the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning arrived at two after a wounded resident died of his wounds.
The two were killed after an explosive left by the Israeli army detonated near them. The sources added that Mo'men Hallas, 16, dies of his wounds at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza city, shortly after suffering serious injuries.
The first child, Montaser al-Batteekhy, 16, was immediately killed when the explosive went off.
Several Palestinians were wounded in a number of Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning.
Updated From;
Child Killed As Explosive Left By The Army Detonates Near Him
Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:50:34
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday morning that a Palestinian child was killed in al-Shujaeyya, east of Gaza City, and another resident was seriously injured, when an explosive, left by the army during an earlier invasion, detonated near them east of Gaza City, the Arabs48 News reported.
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza in Gaza, reported that the body of Montaser al-Batteekhy, 16, was moved to Dar al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Abu Salmiyya added that the wounded resident was moved to the Intensive Care Unit due to the seriousness of his condition.
Also on Friday, three Palestinians were wounded by army fire in northern and southern Gaza.
Two of them were wounded while collecting wood north of Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, a 16-year-old child, from Khuza'a in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, was shot and wounded while working in his family's land near the border.
Israeli troops frequently attack farmers and laborers who work in Palestinian lands located near the border fence.
Soldiers do not allow the Palestinians to approach the border fence under claims of preventing infiltrations into Israel or into nearby military camps.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60134
Medics: 2 teens killed by old Israeli shell
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Two Palestinian teenagers was killed when an artillery shell left behind by Israeli forces exploded in Gaza Friday morning, medics said.
Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said 16-year-old Victor Batniji was dead when he arrived at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. Moumin Helles, also 16, died shortly after arriving at the hospital, after being wounded in the same incident in the Shujaiyya area.
An Israeli military spokesman said the army was aware of an explosion in the area but "nothing IDF [Israel Defense Forces] related."
Three people were also injured by Israeli fire in the "buffer zone" along the border with Israel.
Abu Salmiya said two men in their 20s arrived at Kamal Udwan hospital in Beit Lahiya after being shot in the legs by Israeli forces after venturing into the northern "buffer zone" near the Israeli border to collect firewood.
In another shooting, local sources said a 16-year-old boy was also shot in the leg by Israeli soldiers while working on his family's farm in the village of Khuza'a, near Khan Younis. He was taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, according to Abu Salmiya.
The Israeli spokesman confirmed that soldiers shot three people, two in Beit Lahiya, in the north, and one near Khan Younis in the south. In both cases, he said, soldiers spotted Palestinians approaching the border, then fired warning shots before shooting at their lower bodies.
Earlier Israeli warships fired on Israeli fishing boats off the coast of Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis, according to sources in Gaza. No one was reported injured.
Separately, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, Al-Quds Brigades, said it fired several mortars at Israeli special forces near the Kissufim military installation.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=340722 29 oct 2012, 12:08 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
Israeli troops injure two Palestinians
Israeli forces have shot and wounded at least two Palestinians while they were collecting gravel in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians were reportedly collecting gravel for their construction work when they came under fire on Thursday.
In a similar incident same day, two other Palestinian workers were shot by Israeli soldiers while collecting gravel, a necessity in short supply for construction works in the besieged coastal sliver.
Nearly one hundred Palestinians have been shot at by Israeli soldiers since March while collecting construction material near the Gaza border.
Israel's air and ground troops have repeatedly attacked the Gaza Strip after Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas -- the democratically-elected ruler of Gaza -- took control of the coastal sliver in 2007.
The territory has been under Israel's all-out siege since June 2007.
The region, under the Israeli blockade is populated by 1.5 million impoverished Gazans who are in dire need of basic humanitarian supplies in one of the most densely populated areas of the world.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/154804.html
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
Israel to ruin electric infrastructure
A Palestinian home destroyed by Israeli soldiers
Israel has ordered destruction of electricity infrastructure in two Palestinian villages in the West Bank, but the villagers say that they will not allow such a move to be carried out.
Palestinians say they will challenge Israeli orders for demolition for electric transformers and power lines in the villages, south of al-Khalil (Hebron).
The head of the village council of Rifaya and al-Deirat, near Yatta, in southern West Bank, has been issued orders Thursday by the Israeli authorities for the demolition of a transformer and power lines that supply electricity to 800 people in the two remote villages, Maan reported.
The local Popular Committee chairman, Azmi Ash-Sheiyukhi, said that the residents of al-Deirat had themselves paid for the transformer.
He also said residents have planned to mount a legal challenge to the demolition orders, which he called "illegitimate and illegal."
Israeli harassments of residents in the southern West Bank villages near Yatta date back to as early as 1981. Large areas of Palestinian land have since been confiscated. Currently five illegal Jewish settlements exist in that area.
Israeli occupiers have repeatedly demolished Palestinians' homes and have expropriated their livestock and fodder. The livestock has even been shot by Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Palestinians have several times filed cases in Israeli courts, which rarely decide in favor of property owners whose lands are confiscated by Israeli authorities for building settlements. Many such cases remain pending in the courts without any outcome.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/154785.html
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
Israel: Next Gaza war will be extensive
Israeli army chief Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi
Israeli army chief Lieutenant-General Gabi Ashkenazi has proclaimed that the next 'big' Israel onslaught on the Gaza Strip will determine the victor, reports say.
"The next round (of fighting) will be extensive and it should end in such a way where there is no doubt as to which side triumphed," Ynetnews quoted Ashkenazi as telling Israeli troops based near the coastal sliver on Wednesday.
He also underpinned the Israeli military's preparedness for wider action against the impoverished strip.
Ashkenazi made the remarks on the heels of Israeli airstrikes on several places across Gaza.
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes near the city of Khan Younis in the south, bombarding a chicken farm on Wednesday.
The warplanes also attacked the city of Rafah, also in the south, targeting the tunnels beneath Gaza's border with Egypt.
Israeli media confirmed the air raids on the blockaded coastal strip but reported no casualties.
The last time Israel launched an all-out war on Gaza was at the turn of 2009. The offensive claimed the lives of over 1,400 Palestinians -- most of them women and children.
The coastal enclave has been under the Israeli siege since June 2007 after Hamas took control of the region following a democratic election.
The illegal Israeli-imposed blockade has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the enclave.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/154787.html
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
Israeli police attack South African delegation: Cosatu
Cosatu general-secretary Zwelinzima
A South African delegation to Palestine was attacked by Israeli police on Friday, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said.
"Members of a South African tripartite Alliance delegation currently visiting Palestine have been attacked with tear gas and 'sound bombs' and shoved around by Israeli police in Ramallah," said Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven.
The delegation is led by Ribbon Mosholi, ANC international relations manager, and includes Cosatu deputy international secretary, Zanele Matebula, he said in a statement.
"Other than the effects of tear gas, painful ears and small bruises, we are fine," Matebula said as stated in Craven's statement.
He said this was just a small taste of the brutality that "rained down" on the people of Palestine on a daily basis.
"It strengthens our determination to campaign for an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory and for the people of Palestine to live in an independent, sovereign state."
http://bit.ly/dIn3fN
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
IOF troops use highly destructive bombs against civilians in Gaza Strip
school damaged by explosion
gaza, (PIC)-- Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses in the Gaza Strip said Thursday that the bomb dropped by an Israeli F-16 warplane on the eastern part of Gaza city was of high destructive power that the IOF use for the first time.
Quds Press quoted local residents as confirming that the new bomb left big damage on wide area in the city, adding that the bomb was preceded by strong sound that lasted for 30 seconds before the bomb exploded with sound heard allover Gaza city.
Tens of schools and homes were damaged although they are located far from the targeted area, the eyewitnesses said, adding that shrapnel from the bomb spread over a wide area reaching Tunis secondary school that is located 500 meters away from the place where the bomb was dropped.
Local residents also reported that their homes were badly damaged although their homes lie hundreds of meters away from the centre of the explosion.
http://bit.ly/fxaOHu
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 10 dec 2010
Lawyer: Settlers planning to seize Jerusalem home
Former minister detained at checkpoint
Israeli Forces Kidnap 5 Palestinians Near Hebron, 2 in Jenin (incl 4 children)
Israeli occupation releases prisoner four months after end of his sentence
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 11 dec 2010
Israeli tank fire kills two Gazans
Two Palestinians have been killed by an Israeli tank shell fired into the Gaza Strip, as the relentless onslaught on civilians of the territory continues unabated.
Earlier, Israeli troops shot and wounded three Palestinians, one of them a teenager, in the impoverished Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians were reportedly collecting gravel to use in construction work when they came under fire.
Nine Palestinians have been killed and 71 have been injured by Israeli soldiers while collecting construction material near the Gaza border in the year 2010.
In the crippling siege imposed by Israel for over three years, Gazans are barred from importing building materials they need for the reconstruction of their homes, offices, and infrastructure devastated during Israel's war against the coastal enclave.
The December 2008-January 2009 war claimed the lives of over 1,400 Palestinians -- most of them women and children.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/155072.html
IDF soldier injured, 2 terrorists killed in Gaza
IDF tank fire kills two Palestinians approaching security fence; soldier seriously wounded when shots fired at army force combing area inside Strip. Earlier, Qassam rocket fired from Gaza towards Negev; no injuries or damage reported.
An IDF soldier sustained serious wounds and two Palestinian terrorists were killed during an incident near the Gaza border late Saturday evening.
The incident began shortly after 9 pm, when soldiers manning an IDF observation spotted to suspicious figures approaching the security fence, apparently on their hands and knees. IDF tanks opened fire and killed the terrorists.
Later, as soldiers were preparing to comb an area inside Palestinian territory, terrorists fired a number of rounds at them, apparently with assault rifles. One soldier was moderately wounded in the incident. He was airlifted to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
Earlier Saturday, a Qassam rocket was fired from the Strip towards the western Negev region. There were no reports of injury or damage. The "Color Red" alert system, which warns residents of incoming rockets, was activated.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3997547,00.html
(9:41) Synagogue of satan - Operation Intifada Worldwide
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 12 dec 2010
Two Palestinian operatives killed by IOF fire
GAZA, (PIC)-- Two Palestinians were killed at a late hour on Saturday night following violent confrontations with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said.
They told the PIC that IOF soldiers stationed east of the camp opened intensive fire at Palestinian houses in the area.
They said that apparently clashes broke out between resistance fighters and those soldiers.
Hebrew media reported that the IOF troops spotted two Palestinians approaching the security fence and killed them, adding that a soldier was injured in the exchange of fire.
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29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 12 dec 2010
Palestinian worker injured in IOF gunfire
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian worker was shot and wounded by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, medical sources reported.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the coordinator of medical services, said that the IOF troops fired at a group of workers collecting gravel west of Beit Lahia town, north of Gaza, wounding one of them.
He said that the 34-year-old worker was hit with a bullet in his left thigh and that he was hospitalized in moderate condition.
IOF solders systematically target those workers and killed two of them over the past two years and wounded tens others.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/DailyNews.aspx
29 oct 2012, 12:09 , Respect -
Maria 12 dec 2010
IDF probe shows soldier injured by friendly fire
Paratrooper wounded as his force prevented a group of Palestinian terrorists from infiltrating Israel along Gaza border.
Israel will continue to respond harshly to Palestinian attacks from the Gaza Strip, defense officials said on Sunday, as an IDF probe concluded that a soldier wounded on Saturday was shot by fellow Israeli soldiers.
On Sunday, OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Tal Russo approved the initial findings from the incident which occurred late Saturday night and during which a soldier from the Paratrooper's Brigade sustained moderate wounds as his force prevented a group of Palestinian terrorists from infiltrating into Israel.
IDF sources said that the friendly-fire incident took place when the soldier's force opened fire at the group of terrorists, killing two of them. Another IDF unit, which was patrolling the area, opened fire at the Paratrooper's force injuring the soldier.
On Sunday, representatives from the Southern Command presented the findings of the probe to the family of the wounded soldier, whose condition improved throughout the day.
The incident on Saturday night came after a week of escalating rocket fire from Gaza, which defense officials said was being carried out by radical al Qaida-affliated organizations but not by Hamas.
If Hamas wanted, it could stop the other groups but they are not directly involved in the terror attacks, one military source said.
Alongside the rocket attacks, the IDF has marked over 100 attacks against troops along the Gaza border in 2010, mostly shooting attacks, attempted infiltrations or the planting of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
Friendly-fire incidents have turned into one of the main causes of IDF casualties in IDF operations inside the Gaza Strip and along its border. Out of the 10 soldiers, for example, who were killed during Operation Cast Lead two years ago, four were killed in friendly-fire incidents.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=199121