- 8 dec 2011
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
GAZA, (PIC)-- Two Palestinian operatives were killed in downtown Gaza city on Thursday in an Israeli aerial raid while two citizens were wounded, medical sources said.
The sources told the PIC reporter that the Israeli warplanes fired one missile at the car while in a main street in Gaza city, adding that the bodies were disfigured in the blast.
The reporter pointed out that Israeli warplanes were still hovering over the coastal enclave spreading fears of further air strikes.
Media sources said that one of the martyrs was affiliated with the Hamas armed wing while the other was affiliated with the Fatah armed wing.
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Israeli Air Forces Kill Two Palestinians, Injure Others
Medics wheel a woman, injured after an Israeli air strike, into the Shifa hospital in Gaza City Dec. 8, 2011.
GAZA, (WAFA) – Israeli air forces Thursday targeted a car that belongs to a Palestinian in the city of Gaza, killing two Palestinians and injuring others, according to medical sources.
Sources told WAFA that an Israeli war plane fired a missile at a car near Gaza Municipality Park, killing the two Palestinians who were in the car and injuring others, including students.
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Israeli Artillery Shells Target Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA, (WAFA) – Two Israeli artillery shells targeted on Thursday Gazans from Al-Zaytun, a neighborhood southeast of Gaza city, according to WAFA correspondent.
No injuries were reported.
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IOF soldiers round up citizens, fire gas canisters at mosque
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) rounded up five Palestinians in Al-Khalil and two others in Jenin on Thursday and fired tear gas canisters at a mosque in Doura town in Al-Khalil causing material damage.
Quds Press quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the soldiers fired a number of gas grenades at a group of young men near the mosque on Wednesday evening one of which fell inside burning part of its carpet.
The soldiers at dawn Thursday detained five Palestinians in Al-Khalil, two in the city, and three in Sa’eer village, local sources said, adding that the soldiers served summonses to five brothers in Sa’eer for interrogation at the intelligence headquarters in Etzion settlement.
The sources said that the soldiers forced their way into homes and shops in Sa’eer and wreaked havoc in them before taking away the three youths.
Meanwhile, IOF troops arrested the deputy chairman of the Kufairat village south of Jenin Assaad Eghbariye, 46, before dawn Thursday.
Locals said that the soldiers in ten armored vehicles stormed the village and broke into and ransacked the home of Eghbariye, an ex-prisoner, before taking him away.
They arrested another youth in Jaba’a village also south of Jenin before dawn Thursday after searching his family home and field interrogating him.
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Haneyya gov’t asks Egypt, UN to bridle Israeli aggression
GAZA, (PIC)-- The Palestinian government of Ismail Haneyya has asked Egypt and the UN to intervene and curb the Israeli aggressions on the Gaza Strip the latest was on Thursday when two citizens were killed in an air strike on a civilian car.
Taher Al-Nunu, the government’s spokesman, condemned in a statement on Thursday evening the crime of killing two Hamas and Fatah activists at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces earlier today.
He said that the attack was the fruit of constant Israeli threats and ill-intention.
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Hamas condemns Israel over deadly Gaza strike
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas on Thursday demanded that Israel cease attacks on Gaza, after an airstrike killed two members of armed groups in the center of the enclave.
Israel's leader should be tried for war crimes, the statement said.
A Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, said “the enemy wants to export its internal and external crises to Gaza, and it wants to impose a new formula on the resistance after it won in the prisoner’s deal.”
He said Israel holds "full responsibility for today’s crime," and demanded that the Arab League and the international community intervene to stop attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The strike killed Issam Subhi al-Batsh and Subhi Alaa al-Batsh, members of military wings affiliated with Hamas and Fatah, officials from both armed groups said.
The Israeli army said it targeted al-Batsh and another person, who were "both affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to execute a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers via the western border."
A spokesman for the Gaza government, Taher al-Nunu, also condemned the bombing and expressed concern about a series of threats made by Israel in the lead up to the strike.
Al-Nunu called on Egypt and the UN to intervene as soon as possible.
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Envoy says Egypt mediating to restore Gaza calm
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Egyptian ambassador in Ramallah says Cairo is in continuous communication with Israel and factions in Gaza in order to restore calm following a deadly airstrike and renewed rocket fire.
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Gaza boy succumbs to wounds from Friday airstrike
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 12-year-old boy who was injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City earlier Friday has succumbed to his wounds, Palestinian medical officials said.
Ramadan Bahjat Zaalan had been placed in ICU at Shifa hospital after the airstrike which injured several members of his family. Five family members are still hospitalized.
Zaalan's death raises the death toll to five in the past 48 hours.
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BREAKING 10 dec 2011 28-year-old protester dies of wounds after struck by tear gas Friday
Witnesses: Protester seriously hurt by gas canister
Mustafa Tamimi after
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A tear-gas canister fired by Israeli forces struck and seriously injured a Palestinian demonstrator in the occupied West Bank, protesters in Nabi Saleh said Friday.
The demonstrator, Mustafa Tamimi, suffered a critical head wound, onlookers said.
Reports in the Israeli media said army medics were performing first aid on the injured man in the village, which is near Ramallah. A military spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
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Israel investigates injury at West Bank protest
Mustafa Tamimi before (left)
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel's army has opened an investigation into the serious injury of a Palestinian demonstrator in the occupied West Bank, a military spokeswoman said Friday.
The official told Ma'an the injured man, identified as Mustafa Tamimi, was transferred to an Israeli hospital for treatment. He suffered a serious head injury, according to protesters.
"The incident is currently being investigated," the army official said.
She said forces opened fire amid a "violent and illegal riot" near Nabi Saleh.
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10 dec 2011
British Government Regrets Tragic Death of Palestinian in Nabi Saleh
JERUSALEM, (WAFA) - The British Consul- General in Jerusalem Vincent Fean deplored the death of Mustafa Tamimi, after being fatally wounded in the head by a gas canister during a Friday demonstration in Nabi Saleh village, north of Ramallah, Saturday said a press release by British Consulate-General in Jerusalem.
Fean said, 'On behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, I express our deepest regret at the tragic death of Mustafa Tamimi of Nabi Saleh, killed by a tear gas canister during the weekly demonstration against systematic attempts by settlers from the illegal settlement of Halmiss to expropriate the water spring belonging to the villagers of Nabi Saleh.”
He added, “Our condolences and prayers go to Mustafa’s family. The British Government strongly supports the right to peaceful protest anywhere in the world, including the Occupied Palestinian Territory. We deprecate the disproportionate use of force under any circumstances. We ask that protest demonstrators eschew violence, and that such demonstrations be policed un-provocatively and with a sense of responsibility, on the basis of mutual respect for human dignity, whether in London, or Tel Aviv, or Nabi Saleh, or Bil’in.'
The release said that Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Minister Alistair Burt, with responsibility for the Middle East and North Africa, visited the village of Nabi Saleh in early July, 2011 and met the Tamimi family. He also visited the spring which the settlers seek to expropriate. The purpose of his visit was to reiterate the support of the British Government for the right to peaceful demonstrations.
Mustafa Tamimi, 27, was participating in the peaceful weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah, when he was shot in the face at close range by a tear gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier on Friday. He was transferred to Belinson hospital in Israel after he was critically injured, but doctors were not able to save his life; he died Saturday morning.
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Gaza death toll rises to 4
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Violence has flared between Israel and Gaza, with the Israeli air force killing four Palestinians and armed groups firing rockets far across the border.
The fighting erupted on Thursday when an airstrike on a car killed an operative for Hamas' armed wing and another from a group affiliated with Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Israel accused them both of planning to send gunmen to attack it through Egypt.
Fighters responded to Thursday's airstrike with a barrage of rockets, some of which landed near Beersheba. No one was hurt. Air-raid sirens summoned residents of southern Israel to shelters.
Another Israeli airstrike followed before dawn Friday, hitting a Hamas facility in Gaza City.
The blast flattened a nearby home, killing its owner; the man's 12-year-old son was pronounced dead hours later. The man's wife and five other children were wounded, hospital officials said.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the series of Israeli attacks.
PLO official Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio that Israel was trying to "sabotage" the calm that had prevailed in the region following reconciliation efforts, the PA news agency Wafa reported.
Hamas accused Israel of a "massacre", while Israel both expressed regret for the civilian casualties and alleged that Hamas had stored rockets next to the camp, leading to the explosion.
Israel's chief of staff Benny Gantz, meanwhile, gathered his top army officials to review the security situation following renewed violence in Gaza and the Negev, Israeli media said.
Army, air force and naval commanders attended the meeting, Ynet news reported.
Militants stepped up rocket attacks as night fell.
Three groups said they had fired more than a dozen projectiles across the border. Israel police said at least 10 landed in Israeli territory, causing no casualties.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it fired three "Aqsa missiles" at Ashkelon.
The brigades also said it fired three missiles toward the Shaar Hanegev regional council a day earlier in response to Israel's "aggression" which accelerated over the past 24 hours.
Witnesses in Gaza reported heavy activity of Israeli drones over head.
Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister in Gaza, said he was "pursuing intensive contacts with several Arab and international parties, and we stress the necessity of this aggression being stopped immediately".
Speaking after Friday prayers in Gaza City, Haniyeh told reporters that Israel's latest flare up in aggression was preceded by threats of a new military action by Israeli leaders.
The raids demonstrated Israel's intentions toward the Palestinian people in Gaza, he said. Such violence will fail because of the resolve of Gaza's residents and the resistance's ability to protect the enclave, he said.
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Update: Israeli airstrikes kill 3, hurt 15 Gazans
Israel has conducted a number of aerial attacks against the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least three Palestinians and wounding over a dozen others, Press TV reports.
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes launched several airstrikes which left 15 people including seven children injured.
Two of the wounded children are in critical condition, hospital officials said.
The air raids follow another Israeli attack in Gaza on Wednesday, which left two Palestinians dead.
The Israeli military frequently also uses the assassination drones to launch attacks or to detect targets for Israeli F16 jets and Apache helicopters.
Gaza Strip remains under an Israeli blockade as international calls for the lifting of the siege falls on deaf ears in Tel Aviv.
The blockade even stood throughout the 22-day war Israel waged against Gazans at the turn of 2009. The deadly onslaught claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians and devastated a large portion of the infrastructure in the impoverished enclave.
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Israeli strikes kill 10(?) in Gaza, rockets hit Israel
GAZA: Violence across the Israeli-Gaza border escalated on Friday with Israeli air strikes killing at least three people and Palestinian militants firing rockets deep into southern Israel.
The latest round of fighting erupted on Thursday when an Israeli air strike targeted a car on a crowded Gaza street, killing two militants who Israel said were planning attacks against its civilians and soldiers.
Palestinian gunmen responded with a barrage of rockets fired deep into southern Israel, some landing near the city of Beersheba, causing no injuries.
Early on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said a second Israeli air strike hit a Hamas training camp in Gaza City, sending shrapnel flying into nearby houses, killing one civilian and wounding 13 others, mostly women and children.
A Hamas spokesman said the initial air strike was a crime and accused Israel of ratcheting up violence in the area.
"We hold the government of the Zionist occupation (Israel) fully responsible for this crime and for the new escalation," spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said.
The Israeli military confirmed both air strikes had been carried out. It said the two men killed in the first strike had been planning an attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers along Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
"(They) were affiliated with a terrorist squad that intended to attack Israeli civilians and soldiers via the western border," an army statement said.
Hamas, an Islamist group sworn to Israel's destruction, has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007.
The army statement said one of the militants had been involved in planning a suicide bombing in the southern Israeli resort of Eilat in 2007 in which three Israeli civilians were killed.
Violence between Israel and Gaza militants had abated recently although on Wednesday Israeli troops killed one Palestinian gunman and wounded another in a cross-border raid, witnesses and hospital officials said.
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Palestinian Authority Condemns Israeli Strikes on Gaza
One of the wounded children in Friday's Israeli occupation airstrike
RAMALLAH, December 9, 2011 (WAFA) – The Palestinian Authority condemned on Friday the recent Israeli air strikes against the Gaza Strip, which had so far killed four people and injured 13 others, most of them children and some in critical condition, according to medical sources.
Members of the PLO Executive Committee Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio that Israel wants to sabotage the calm that prevails in the region and Palestinian reconciliation efforts.
He said Israel is not happy with the calm that prevails on the Gaza borders with Israel. He accused the Israeli government of seeking to end the calm through an escalation not only on the Gaza Strip, but also through an increase in settlement construction, closing the Magharbi Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, and burning mosques.
Medical sources in Gaza said an Israeli air strike early Friday on northern Gaza killed a Palestinian man and critically injured his wife and two children when their house collapsed.
It said Bahjat Za’lan, 38, was killed and 13 others were injured in the air strike, including seven children and two women, all from the same family.
An Israel air strike on Thursday killed two Palestinian members of Hamas and Fatah and injured four people, including children, while another air strike on Wednesday killed a member of the Islamic Jihad.
The Thursday strike prompted retaliation from the armed groups in the Gaza Strip, who fired a number of missiles at southern Israeli towns, without causing any damage or injury.
Meanwhile, Egypt held Israel responsible for the renewed violence after a period of calm when it targeted Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Yaser Othman, Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, told Voice of Palestine Friday that the Israeli air strikes have renewed tension in the area.
He said Egypt was exerting efforts to stop the escalation and return calm, stressing that the Palestinian factions are cooperating with the Egyptian efforts.
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Gaza premier in talks to end airstrikes
Medics wheel a woman, injured after an Israeli air strike, into the Shifa hospital in Gaza City Dec. 8, 2011.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that his government was holding intensive talks with regional and international parties to stop Israel's escalation in attacks on the enclave.
Four Palestinians have been killed since Wednesday and at least 20 injured in a series of airstrikes on Gaza City. The Israeli army expressed regret that civilians were hurt in the attacks, which injured at least seven children.
Speaking after Friday prayers in Gaza City, Haniyeh said Israel's latest flare up in aggression was preceded by threats of a new military action by Israeli leaders.
The Gaza premier added that the raids demonstrated Israel's intentions toward the Palestinian people in Gaza. Such violence will fail because of the resolve of Gaza's residents and the resistance's ability to protect the enclave, Haniyeh said.
The chief of Israel's military, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, told parliament in November that a new offensive in Gaza could be "drawing close" because of rockets fired into southern Israel.
Militants in Gaza have responded to Israel's latest round of deadly strikes by firing rockets across the border, causing no injuries.
Cairo is trying to renew a truce to restore calm between its neighbors, Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma'an on Thursday.
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Israeli airstrikes kill 1, hurt 15 Gazans
Israeli warplanes regularly launch air attacks on Gaza.
Israel has conducted a number of aerial attacks against the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding over a dozen others, Press TV reports.
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes launched several airstrikes which left 15 people including seven children injured.
Two of the wounded children are in critical condition, hospital officials said.
The air raids follow another Israeli attack in Gaza on Wednesday, which left two Palestinians dead.
The Israeli military frequently also uses the assassination drones to launch attacks or to detect targets for Israeli F16 jets and Apache helicopters.
Gaza Strip remains under an Israeli blockade as international calls for the lifting of the siege falls on deaf ears in Tel Aviv.
The blockade even stood throughout the 22-day war Israel waged against Gazans at the turn of 2009. The deadly onslaught claimed the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians and devastated a large portion of the infrastructure in the impoverished enclave.
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Israeli airstrike kills 1, injures 13 in Gaza City
A Palestinian girl holds her brother as she looks at a house damaged in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City Dec. 9, 2011.
Violence across the Israeli-Gaza border escalated on Friday with Israeli air strikes killing at least three people and Palestinian militants firing rockets deep into southern Israel.
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes killed a man in the central Gaza Strip early Friday morning, and injured 13 members of his family, medical officials said.
A Ma’an correspondent said Israeli war planes struck a site used by Hamas armed wing Al-Qassam brigades northwest of Gaza City, which caused severe damage to the house of the al-Zaalan family.
Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham Abu Salmiya said the raid killed Bahjat al-Zaalan, 38, and injured 13 from his family, including 7 children.
Two of Bahjat’s children are seriously injured, and a 57-year-old man was moderately injured, he said.
In the southern Gaza Strip, an Israeli war plane fired a missile at al-Muharrarat district of Rafah, with no injuries reported.
An Israeli army statement said planes "targeted two terror activity sites."
Later, a military spokeswoman said "additional explosions were caused by rockets near the targeted site, and the (army) regrets that non combatants were harmed during the course of this incident," but said it holds Hamas accountable for operating in a residential area.
Thirteen members of Bahjat's family were injured when the airstrike struck their house, medics said.
Five projectiles fired from Gaza struck Israel on Thursday in the aftermath of a deadly airstrike on central Gaza, an Israeli military official said.
The armed wing of Fatah said it fired a missile toward the Negev amid Israeli shelling in central Gaza, after the airstrike killed a member of the group and one other person the same day.
Two more were injured in the explosion, which witnesses said hit a parked car near Omar al-Mukhtar street in Gaza City.
Israel's military said the two killed were affiliated to a group planning an attack on the country through Egypt, but Gaza's government called the strike a "crime" and called for international protection for Gaza's people.
Seven children were injured in the airstrike, and two sustained severe injuries.
"The enemy wants to export its internal and external crises to Gaza, and it wants to impose a new formula on the resistance after it won in the prisoner’s deal," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said.
The Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma’an late Thursday that Egypt was trying to stop Israeli attacks in order to renew a truce between the sides, which he said had been "reversed by Israel" by the deadly airstrike.
Egypt often brokers between the Israel and Gaza amid cross border violence, which killed four and injured 15 in the blockaded strip during November.
Friday morning's violence was the third day of deadly airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, and killed the fourth Gaza resident in the first week of December.
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Israel kills 1, injures several in Gaza
Israel carries out three airstrikes against the central Gaza Strip, but there have not yet been any immediate reports on possible human or material losses.
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PA condemns Israeli escalation in Gaza violence
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority on Friday condemned a series of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that had left four people dead by late Friday, state media in Ramallah said.
PLO official Saeb Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio that Israel was trying to "sabotage" the calm that had prevailed in the region following reconciliation efforts, Wafa reported.
He accused the Israeli government of seeking to end the calm not only in Gaza, but through an increase in settlement construction as well as controversial work in Jerusalem and attacks on holy places.
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Israel Holds Hamas Responsible For Latest Escalation
One of the wounded children in Friday's Israeli occupation airstrike
The Israeli Army and the Defense Ministry held the Hamas movement in Gaza responsible for the death of a Palestinian father, on Friday, and the injury of 17 residents, including seven children of the same family, when the army bombarded an area believed to be a training center of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
A spokesperson of the Israeli army claimed that explosions took place after the army carried out an air strike in Gaza City, adding that side explosions took place following the strike and attributed the explosions to the claim that Hamas and other armed groups stored weapons and explosives near the targeted area”.
The spokesperson added that “he is sorry that innocent civilians were killed, and injured, in the Air Strikes”, and stressed that “Hamas is fully responsible for this outcome due to its terrorist activities”.
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee of the Medical and Emergency Services in Gaza, reported Friday that resident Bahjat Az-Za’lan, 38, from Gaza City, was killed while twelve residents, most of them members of his family- including his wife and a number of their children- were injured. Two of his wounded children are in serious condition. The injured include seven children, two women and two elderly.
Abu Salmiyya described the attack as a “Massacre targeting the civilians.” Also, medics provided treatment to five more residents who were injured by shrapnel.
Meanwhile, the Hamas-run Ministry of Interior in Gaza issued a statement on Friday holding Israel responsible for targeting a civilian car in central Gaza on Thursday afternoon leading to the death of Sobhi Ala’ Al Batsh, 21, and Isam Al Batsh, while several bystanders were injured, some seriously. The two are members of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement.
The Ministry called on the International Community and human rights groups to intervene and stop the Israeli military escalation on Gaza.
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Egypt holds Israeli responsible for escalation in Gaza
RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- The Egyptian ambassador to the PA, Yaser Othman, held Israel responsible for the military escaltion in the Gaza Strip and called on it to stop its aggression the Strip. He pointed out that the assassinations carried out by Israel on Thursday broke the state of calm and created tension.
Othman, who was speaking on Radio Palestine on Friday, revealed that Cairo was talking to all parties to restore calm to the Gaza Strip expressing hope that these efforts are successful. He added that he is cautiously optimistic because no one can guarantee Israeli reactions and behaviour.
The Egyptian Ambassador added that Palestinian factions are dealing responsibly with the situation and show understanding towards Egyptian efforts and despite the fact that these factions are in reacting in self-defence, they realise the Israeli attempts to drag them into a cycle of violence.
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Israeli warplanes blast Qassam position
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes blasted a position for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, west of Rafah, to the south of the Gaza Strip, at dawn Saturday.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16s fired a missile at the position in Tel Al-Sultan causing material damage and a powerful sound that resounded in the entire southern area of the Strip.
They said that no casualties were reported in the raid.
Four citizens including a father and his son were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza since noon Thursday while 20 others were injured. Resistance faction retaliated to the Israeli attacks with 16 locally made rockets.
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Israeli war planes fire on south Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes fired on an open area west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt on Saturday morning.
No injuries have been reported.
The Israeli army said it confirmed a "direct hit" on a "terror-affiliated site."
Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel after the strike, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.
Violence flared between Gaza and Israel after Israeli airstrikes killed an Islamic Jihad fighter on Wednesday, and two affiliates of Fatah and Hamas' armed wings on Thursday.
A further airstrike on Gaza City on Friday morning hit a site of Hamas' armed group, and flattened a nearby house killing the owner; the man's 12-year-old son was pronounced dead hours later. The man's wife and five other children were wounded, medics said.
Militants responded with a barrage of rockets that struck southern Israel on Thursday and Friday, without causing injuries.
Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister in Gaza, said Friday he was "pursuing intensive contacts with several Arab and international parties, and we stress the necessity of this aggression being stopped immediately".
Cairo is trying to renew a truce to restore calm between its neighbors, Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma'an on Thursday.
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Israeli missile hits poultry farm in north Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- An Israeli missile hit a poultry and livestock farm in Beit Hanoun on Saturday, a Ma'an correspondent said.
The farm in northern Gaza belonged to Ramadan Abu Ghazaleh. A number of animals were killed and extensive material damage was caused to the structure.
Violence has flared between Gaza and Israel after Israeli airstrikes killed an Islamic Jihad fighter on Wednesday, and two affiliates of Fatah and Hamas' armed wings on Thursday.
A further airstrike on Gaza City on Friday morning hit a site of Hamas' armed group, and flattened a nearby house killing the owner; the man's 12-year-old son was pronounced dead hours later.
The man's wife and five other children were wounded, medics said.
Militants responded with a barrage of rockets that struck southern Israel on Thursday and Friday, without causing injuries.
Cairo is trying to renew a truce to restore calm between its neighbors, Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Yasser Othman told Ma'an on Thursday.
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Israeli Shelling on Gaza Kills Chicken
GAZA, (WAFA) – Israeli artillery Saturday targeted a poultry farm in Beit Lahiya, a town north of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of numerous chickens, according to reports.
Part of the farm was destroyed in the shelling, but no human casualties were reported.
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Israeli Soldiers Batter Palestinian near Jenin
JENIN, (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers Saturday severely battered a Palestinian man in Barta'a, a village behind the Apartheid Wall southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, according to a family member.
Baha’ Qabha told WAFA that Israeli forces attacked his brother Haitham, 35, when he tried to cross a gate in the fence at the village’s entrance. He was reported to have suffered a fracture in his back and was transferred to hospital for treatment.
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A man and his baby girl wounded in Israeli air strike
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man and his baby girl have sustained medium to serious wounds in an Israeli air strike on a house in Zaitun suburb east of Gaza city on Sunday, medical sources said.
The PIC reporter said that Israeli warplanes fired three missiles at the house of Emad Akel, one of the commanders of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas, in Zaitun suburb at dawn Sunday.
He quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the shelling destroyed the house and started fire in it but noted that no casualties were suffered inside since the house was deserted.
Four Palestinians, a man and his son, a youth and his uncle, were killed in Israeli raids since Thursday on the Strip while more than 20 others were injured.
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Israeli Airstrike Injures Father, Daughter in Gaza
GAZA, (WAFA) – A Palestinian child was severely wounded and her father was injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza city at dawn Sunday, according to a WAFA correspondent.
Israeli warplanes targeted a house with three missiles, destroying parts of the house and setting it on fire, as well as damaging neighboring houses.
The father was reported to be in moderate condition.
Israeli artillery also shelled an agricultural area in Johr al-Deek, southeast of Gaza city. No injuries were reported.
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Report: “19 Children Killed, 200 Injured, By Israeli Shells In 2011”
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Higher Committee for Medical and Emergency Services In Gaza, reported that, in 2011, Israeli soldiers killed 19 children, and injured more than 200, in Air strikes and bombardment targeting the Gaza Strip since the beginning of this year.
Abu Salmiyya added that the youngest of the slain children were identified as
1- Malak Shaath, 2, and
2- Islam Qreiqe’, 3,
adding that most of the slain children faced horrific deaths as Israeli military shells mutilated their bodies.
He further stated that more than one-third of the wounded Palestinians in 2011 are children, adding that Yousef Bahjat Az-Za’lan, 10, is still in the intensive care unit after a shell fired by the Israeli army on Thursday killed his father,
1- Bahjat, 42, and his brother
2- Ramadan, 12 years old;
at least 17 residents were wounded in the shelling, seven of them were children.
Abu Salmiyya accused the Israeli Army of deliberately targeting the civilians during the illegal and random bombardment of civilian areas in the Gaza Strip, especially during late night hours and at dawn.
He added that the repeated offensives against the Gaza Strip are impacting the psychological conditions of the children in Gaza, and called on different international humanitarian groups to ensure the protection of the Palestinian children and civilians in the coastal region in particular, and in Palestine in general.
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Child, 12, Dies Of Wounds Suffered During Israeli Shelling On Gaza
Palestinian Killed, Seventeen Injured As Army Bombarded Gaza
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Turkey slams Israeli attack on Gaza as "uneven"
ISTANBUL, (PIC)-- Turkey condemned the Israeli military attack on the besieged Gaza Strip which led to the killing of four Palestinians including one child as "disproportionate."
"We strongly denounce the uneven and indiscriminate Israeli attack on civilian populated areas in the Gaza Strip," a statement issued Saturday by the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs read.
In addition to deploring Israel for breaking the cease-fire reached last month, the ministry said Israel's move would only escalate conflict in the region once again and benefit no party.
A Palestinian child died Friday evening of serious wounds he sustained in an Israeli air raid waged on the same day at dawn on his house killing his father immediately and wounding 11 others of his families.
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Maria 11 dec 2011
Palestinian Civilian and his Two Children Wounded in Israeli Attack on al-Zaytoon Neighborhood in Gaza City
At dawn Sunday, 11 December 2011, two Palestinian children and their father were wounded as a result of an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, one of a series of recent Israeli attacks against densely populated civilian areas.
According to investigations conducted by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), at approximately 02:40, an Israeli warplane launched four missiles on a vacant house belonging to a leader of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Imad 'Aqel, 42. The two-storey house is located behind 'Ein Jalout School in al-Zaytoon neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. The four missiles directly hit the roof of the house, damaging it.
A neighboring 250-square-meter, two-storey house belonging to Mohammed Mahmoud Badwan, 57, in which 17 individuals live, was heavily damaged. Because of the shrapnel scattered in the house,
Ashraf Mohammed Mahmoud Badwan, 35, received shrapnel wounds to the face, and two of his children were also wounded in the incident:
Sondos, 10, who was seriously wounded by shrapnel to the head, and
Mohammed, 8, who was wounded by shrapnel to the right leg.
The two children were wounded while they were asleep on the asbestos contaminated second floor.
It should be noted that this crime is the second within the last three days to cause civilian casualties, including children, due to targeting densely populated civilian areas in the Gaza Strip.
Last Friday, a child and his father were killed in al-Nasser neighborhood in Gaza City as a result of a similar bombardment. (See PCHR's press release issued on 09 December 2011).
PCHR strongly condemns these latest crimes, and:
1. Holds IOF responsible for the deterioration of the situation, and strongly condemns IOF's disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians;
2. Believes that it is time, in response to Israel's ongoing challenge for the Conventions, to convene a conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Convention to take prompt action to protect Palestinian civilians and their property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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