- 27 nov 2010
A Thanksgiving Message From Gaza
Desert Peace As you Americans sit down with your family on this Thanksgiving Day, think of the Gazans that have nothing to thank you for. Think of the over 1500 citizens of Gaza that were murdered with weapons made in your country. Think of the additional 3 Billion dollars that will be spent on warplanes bound to Israel soon to continue the process of genocide.
As you look at the glowing faces of your beautiful children think of the over 5 hundred children in Gaza whose lives were snuffed out because you didn't care enough to tell your government to Stop Supporting Genocide
As you enjoy your good health think of the people of Gaza who are denied the basic humanitarian needs including medical supplies, thanks to a siege and blockade that your government has supported from day 1.
The following video will help you think about those things mentioned above..... pass your laptop around the dinner table today and share it with your guests.... it's a must see for all Americans.
(7:04) America: The Silence of a Nation. 1 x viewed
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29 oct 2012, 12:05 , Respect -
Maria 27 nov 2010
PA: Female prisoner of Israel beaten in custody
Israelis occupying Arab homes in al-Quds
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 28 nov 2010
Four new casualties in northern Gaza in IOF shooting
GAZA, (PIC)-- Four Palestinian workers were wounded when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at them in northern Gaza during their work in collecting gravel, medical sources reported.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the medical services coordinators, told the PIC on Sunday that the four were all hit in their feet and were hospitalized.
He urged the human rights groups and international organizations to immediately intervene to bridle the Israeli aggressive policies against Palestinian citizens.
He recalled that the IOF troops injured seven Palestinians in the past 24 hours including two children and a fisherman.
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4 injured from IDF fire in Gaza
Sources in Strip say Palestinians shot while collecting gravel near Erez crossing. Meanwhile, security forces searching for rocket said to have hit open area in Shaar Hanegev Regional Council.
The security forces on Sunday looked into a report about a rocket fired from Gaza at the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council. The Color Red rocket alert system was not activated and there were no explosion sounds. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Meanwhile, sources in the Strip reported that four Palestinians were lightly injured from Israel Defense Forces fire while collecting gravel near the Erez crossing. The army has ordered Palestinians to stay away from the border fence, and those approaching it are at risk of being shot.
According to the Palestinians, the IDF has closed the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip to the transfer of humanitarian aid, a day after a 12-year-old boy was injured from Israeli fire while collecting gravel in the Beit Lahiya area. He was rushed to a hospital in moderate condition.
The IDF said Saturday that a number of Palestinians were spotted approaching the border fence in the northern Strip. When they ignored the soldiers' orders to stop and warning gunshots fired in the air, the force fired at the lower parts of their bodies.
About 10 days ago, the IDF bombed targets in Gaza after a Grad rocket and seven mortar shells, some containing phosphorus, were fired into Israel. A military official said the army "views the Hamas terror organization as solely responsible for what is happening in the Gaza Strip and for maintaining the calm."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3990711,00.html
Workers shot on Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured four Palestinian workers who were collecting stone aggregates Sunday near the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli authorities closed the terminal to all traffic except medical cases.
Medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said four people were treated at Kamal Udwan hospital for injuries to their lower bodies.
An Israeli military spokesman said soldiers confirmed firing at Palestinians who approached the border. He said forces first fired warning shots. When they refused to turn back, he said, forces fired at their lower bodies.
Many workers from the blockaded enclave try to earn a living by collecting small stones from the ground to sell them to be used for concrete. Many of them work near the Erez crossing.
A Palestinian boy was shot and injured a day earlier after soldiers opened fire on a group of men collecting stone aggregates in the same area along the border. Medics said his injuries were moderate.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=336617
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 29 nov 2010
Israeli navy fires at Palestinian fishermen in Khan Younis
GAZA, (KUNA) -- Israeli Navy ships opened fire on Monday at Palestinian fishing boats off Khan Younis city, south of Gaza.
Palestinian security sources told KUNA that Israeli naval ships used artillery weapons and targeted dozens of Palestinian fishing boats in Khan Younis coast.
The targeted fire did not injure any fishermen, however the sources said large number of boats were damaged.
The fishermen were forced to rush to the shorelines due to Israeli heavy firing, the sources added.
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29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 29 nov 2010
IOF troops raid northern Gaza, round up more West Bankers
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 30 nov 2010
Limited Israeli incursion in northern Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinian activists in Gaza canceled a weekly demonstration near the Green Line when Israeli tanks and military bulldozers entered the area.
Witnesses said five tanks and two bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip north of the town of Beit Hanoun. No gunfire was reported.
The reported incursion occurred in the area where the Beit Hanoun Local Initiative planed a demonstration against Israeli occupation.
On Monday activists said Israeli forces opened fire on a peaceful march in in the same area. The demonstration was dispersed, but no injuries were reported from the shooting.
The northern Gaza border and the nearly 300-1,000 meter wide "no-go-zone" imposed by Israeli forces which actively patrol the area has been an area of violence in recent days, with 12 workers collecting stone aggregates in the area shot by Israeli forces in the preceding 48 hours.
Earlier Tuesday, 5 workers were shot and evacuated to hospital.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=337399
National, Islamic forces warn of IOF war on Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- National and Islamic forces in the Gaza Strip have warned the international community of a possible Israeli war on the Strip under various justifications and pretexts.
The forces in a statement on Monday said that they would continue meeting to boost national steadfastness and preserve citizens' rights.
Meanwhile, a preparatory committee for an international conference on reconstruction of Gaza announced that hundreds of invitations were extended to local and international institutions along with academic figures to attend the gathering.
Yasser Al-Shanti, the head of the committee, said that many replied affirming their participation from Belgium, Britain, USA, New Zealand, Sweden, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia.
For his part, Dr. Nabil Sawalha, the head of the scientific committee in the meeting, said that the committee was still receiving research papers related to the main idea of the conference.
He noted that Arabic language is the language to be used in the conference's deliberations and papers.
http://bit.ly/g527Bf 29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 30 nov 2010
Carts evacuate 5 wounded workers at Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Five Palestinian workers were shot and taken to hospital on Tuesday, after Israeli forces opened fire on the group in what the injured said appeared to be a rapid succession of sniper attacks.
The men said they were collecting stone aggregates in the northern Gaza Strip near the evacuated Israeli settlement of Eli Sinai north of Beit Lahiya when the incident occurred.
Medics said ambulances could not reach the area, so the men were first evacuated by donkey cart until they were safely out of Israel's unilaterally imposed "no-go-zone" which officials say is kept clear because it is an area where attacks are launched against Israel. The lands in the zone constitute some 20 percent of arable farm lands in the Strip.
The men were transferred to Red Crescent ambulances when they were clear of the firing area, and admitted to the Kamal Udwan Hospital in Jabaliya.
With the latest round of injuries, the number of workers shot by Israeli forces rose to 12 in the previous 48 hours.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers first fired warning shots toward the group, then fired toward their lower bodies. She added that protocol dictates that the warning shots be fired with a sufficient interval for individuals in the no-go zone to leave the area. Soldiers confirmed three direct hits, she said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=337326
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 30 nov 2010
Settlers torch olive trees south of Nablus
Fanatic Jewish groups planning to give lessons in Aqsa
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 1 dec 2010
'Israeli troops open fire on Lebanon'
Israeli troops have opened fire on Lebanon from two border posts across the Lebanese southern border, a Lebanese security source says.
The machinegun fire came from Israeli positions near Shebaa Farms on the border between Lebanon, Syria and the occupied Palestinian land on Wednesday, dpa reported.
According to the source, the Wednesday shooting came from Israeli troops stationed in al-Sammaqa and Rwaisat al-Alam positions. No casualties have been reported.
UN sources said that they were checking the latest shooting on Lebanon by Israeli troops.
Earlier in the day, the Lebanese army reported another violation of the Lebanese airspace by an Israeli reconnaissance plane at 7:20 a.m. After flying over the areas of south Lebanon, it returned at 11:05 a.m., a Press TV correspondent reported.
Aslo on Tuesday, the Israeli aircraft crossed into the Lebanese airspace at 11:10 a.m. local time (08:10 GMT) and conducted several unwarranted flights above southern Lebanon as well as the capital Beirut. The jets left the Lebanese airspace at 12:45 p.m. local time (09:45 GMT), according to a statement released by the Lebanese military.
On the same day, an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft was also observed patrolling the skies above several areas in southern Lebanon, including the village of al-Naqoura, located 91 km (57 miles) south of Beirut.
The over-flights are in clear breach of a UN Security Council resolution that ended Israel's 33-day war against Lebanon in 2006.
Lebanon's government, the Hezbollah resistance movement, and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly cited Israel's air surveillance flights over Lebanon as a clear violation of UN Resolution 1701 and the country's sovereignty.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which brokered a ceasefire in the war of aggression Israel launched against Lebanon in 2006, calls on Israel to respect Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153515.html
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 1 dec 2010
Reports: Settlers Bulldoze 60 Dunums near Hebron; Gaza Worker Injured by Gunfire
Israeli occupation forces arrest MP Nayef Rajoub
Israeli forces enter homes in northern West Bank
Six Arrested During Israeli Military Raids in the West Bank
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 2 dec 2010
2 killed on Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Two armed Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces as they tried to infiltrate an Israeli kibbutz east of the Gaza Strip, military radio reported on Thursday.
The report came hours after Palestinian sources said Israeli tanks stationed east of Gaza City let off a small barrage of artillery fire toward the cemetery shortly after 3 a.m., a move that was followed by a limited incursion into the area.
An Israeli military spokesman said he could not immediately comment on the report.
According to sources in Gaza, a total of 15 artillery shells were launched, landing on farmland near the cemetery with no injuries reported.
Shortly after the barrage, the sources said, seven Israeli military jeeps entered the area for what was described as a sweep, then withdrew at 6 a.m.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=338105
29 oct 2012, 12:06 , Respect -
Maria 2 dec 2010
IOF shelling targets Palestinian fishing boats, border areas
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Israeli navy and ground forces shelled Palestinian fishing boats and border areas in the Gaza Strip at dawn Thursday causing material damage but no casualties, local sources reported.
Sources in the marine police told the PIC reporter that Israeli navy gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the southern city of Rafah forcing fishermen to abandon them.
The navy vessels routinely target Palestinian fishing boats to deter them from fishing in deep waters; more often than not fishermen were wounded or detained other than suffering material damage inflicted on their boats.
Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces stationed north of the Strip fired tank shells at border areas east of Jabalia town north of Gaza.
Local sources said that the tanks fired 17 shells in less than a minute spreading fear in the nearby residential quarters, adding that they all fell in cultivated land lots.
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29 oct 2012, 12:07 , Respect -
Maria 2 dec 2010
Official: Settlers set fire to West Bank land
Israeli police round up 600 Palestinian workers
Houses raided, detentions in Al-Isawiya, Beit Hanina
Jewish settlers desecrate Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalemite worshipers face them
29 oct 2012, 12:07 , Respect -
Maria 3 dec 2010
Update 2 Islamic Jihad men killed on Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Two members of the armed wing of Islamic Jihad were killed by Israeli shelling and aerial bombing east of Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the group, also announced that the two were members of the organization. The deceased were identified as Mahmoud An-Najjr and Jalal Abed Al-Karim, both from Jabaliya.
A spokesman for the organization told Ma'an two were "planting explosive charges in the eastern area in case Israel carried out any attack."
The Israeli military also said the bodies of two members of Islamic Jihad were found in the area. In a statement the military said on the bodies of the two were "light weapons, uniforms and an explosive device."
Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Salmiya said the two bodies were later recovered by medics and taken to Kamal Udwan hospital in northern Gaza.
On Thursday evening Al-Quds Brigades also claimed it launched mortar shells at Israeli vehicles operating near the Eastern Cemetery, in the same area where the two operatives were killed.
Earlier, Palestinian sources said Israeli tanks stationed along the eastern border let off an barrage of artillery fire toward the cemetery shortly after 3 a.m., a move that was followed by a limited incursion into the area.
According to sources in Gaza, a total of 15 artillery shells were launched, landing on farmland near the cemetery. Palestinian medics have not reported injuries.
Shortly after the barrage, the sources said, seven Israeli military vehicles entered the area for what was described as a sweep, then withdrew at 6 a.m.
The Israeli army said soldiers "identified a number of armed Palestinians near the security fence in the Northern Gaza Strip. An IAF aircraft, accompanied by an IDF ground force using tank shells, fired towards the militants, identifying a hit."
A spokesman for the army later clarified that the men were within the Gaza border "approaching the border fence from within the 300 meter buffer zone."
AFP contributed to this report
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=338105