- 23 febr 2011
Palestinian hit by gunfire sent to IDF jail despite injury
Settlers attack villages, IOF detain West Bankers
Shin Bet investigators sexually assault minor
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Islamic Jihad fighter killed in Gaza
GAZA CITY (AFP) -- An Israeli tank opened fire on Wednesday, killing a Palestinian fighter and wounding another 10 people in clashes with militants east of Gaza City, Palestinian sources said.
"Eleven Palestinians were injured by tank shell in an area east of Gaza City. Two of them are in critical condition," Adham Abu Selmiya of the Hamas-run rescue services told Agence France-Presse.
They were taken for treatment to the city`s Shifa hospital.
Three of the injured were operatives from the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, the group said.
One of them, Adel Jeniyeh, later died of his injuries, the group said.
It said its fighters were wounded while "firing two mortar shells toward Israeli tanks which were operating inside the (Gaza) border".
The Israeli army said troops opened fire after coming under attack.
"This morning an Israel army force was engaged in a regular patrol along the Gaza border when an explosive device was detonated near the force and a mortar shell fired at it," a military spokeswoman said.
"The force spotted several terrorists and opened fire on them, identifying a hit," she said, adding that militants had placed 12 bombs along the border fence in the past two months.
After the latest incident, the Al-Quds Brigades said it fired three mortars into Israel, targeting Kibbutz Nahal Oz, east of Gaza City. The military confirmed mortars had fallen in the region, without causing casualties.
Israel public radio said one of the mortars hit a football field.
Another two rockets fired from Gaza after nightfall hit around the Israeli town of Beersheva, but also caused no injuries, reported Israeli army radio.
In a separate incident, another two Palestinians were moderately wounded by Israeli gunfire as they collected gravel north of the town of Beit Lahiya near the border, he said.
And on Wednesday night in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, a 10-year-old child was killed and two other people were wounded in an explosion apparently set off by accident and which also badly damaged a home, witnesses said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=362860
the night isn`t over yet. F16s are everywhere
Israeli F16s r still roaming Gaza`s sky on low altitudes! It seems like we r up 4 a hot night here in Gaza!
israeli F16 are back in the skies again. Allah Hafiz
ISRAELI APACHIS AND F16S IN THE AIR RIGHT NOW FIRING 3 MISSLES. HUGE HUGE EXPLOSIONS. NO REPORTED CASUALTIES ATM
Confirmed: Shefa hospital in Gaza reported 2 injuries resulted 4m Israel`s night air-raid on Gaza which happened alittle over an hour ago!
Gaza missile hits Beersheba, draws Israeli retaliation (Roundup)
Tel Aviv - A Russian-style Grad rocket struck the southern Israeli desert city of Beersheba Wednesday evening, witnesses reported.
The missile hit the yard of a house, whose family was not hurt because they were hiding in the building's safe-room. A siren wailing through the city had warned them. A second missile fell in the nearby town of Netivot.
A military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said it was the first time a missile fell in the city of some 200,0000 residents since the Gaza war of the winter of 2008-09.
Palestinian militants from Gaza fired at Beersheba for the first time during the three-week Gaza war, launched by Israel in a bid to curb then near-daily rocket and mortar fire from the strip that paralysed life in its southern towns and villages.
Since the Israeli offensive, sporadic rocket and mortar attacks have continued, but mostly at smaller communities in the immediate vicinity of Gaza. A small number have landed near the southern coastal city of Ashkelon.
Late Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike wounded two militants in eastern Gaza, medical sources and witnesses said.
The two were part of a group of militants trying to fire homemade rockets from an area east of Gaza city toward southern Israel.
The witnesses said that an Israeli jet fired one missile at the group, who are members of al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad's armed wing.
Medical sources at Shiffa Hospital in Gaza City said that the two Palestinians suffered moderate shrapnel wounds.
Some 1,400 Palestinians, many of them civilians, were killed in relentless Israeli shelling from the air, ground and sea of Hamas targets in densely populated Gaza during the offensive from December 27, 2008, to January 18, 2009.
Since then, Israel and the Islamist movement running Gaza have largely respected an informal truce, but in recent weeks, violence has been on the rise.
Earlier Wednesday, 11 people were wounded when an Israeli tank fired a shell at another group of Islamic Jihad militants at Gaza's border with Israel. One Islamic Jihad activist later died of his wounds from the shelling.
In another incident Wednesday, a house near the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis exploded, killing an 11-year-old girl and wounding four members of the same family, hospital officials said. Locals said the explosion was apparently caused by the accidental detonation of a bomb being made or handled by a militant.
Two workers collecting gravel Wednesday morning near the border between northern Gaza and Israel were wounded by gunfire from Israeli soldiers, Gaza emergency services chief Adham Abu Selmeya said.
Shooting incidents in a 300-metre-wide no-go zone along the border imposed by Israel have been occurring frequently, with soldiers opening fire at anyone approaching the border fence.
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29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Israeli drone raid wounds 6 Palestinians
An Israeli unmanned plane has reportedly launched a missile attack on the southern Gaza Strip, inflicting injuries on six Palestinians.
The Thursday drone strike hit a vehicle that was travelling in the southern city of Rafah along the coastal sliver's border with Egypt, Xinhua reported.
It followed several aerial assaults across the besieged enclave, which was reported to have caused no casualties.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israel's F-16 warplanes and Apache helicopters carried out multiple airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.
In June 2007, Israel and Egypt placed the territory under siege and imposed an unprecedented blockade on nearly all movement and supplies in and out of the coastal strip.
Poverty, unemployment, lack of medicine and medical equipment are the main issues in the Gaza Strip, while most Palestinian children are physically stunted from malnutrition.
The United Nations has repeatedly warned of a humanitarian crisis for Gaza's 1.5 million residents.
Even human rights groups have criticized the international community for its silence on the siege on Gaza and the 22-day Israeli war in December 2008 that shattered the stagnant economy of the territory.
The offensives killed more than 1,400 Gazans and inflicted a damage of above $1.6 billion on the territory's economy.
With poverty rate at almost 70 percent and unemployment hovering around 50 percent, many Gazans live on handouts from relatives and local aid agencies as they spend most of their dwindling monthly income on food.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/166885.html
Don't test Israel, Netanyahu warns Gaza fighters
By Gavin Rabinowitz
JERUSALEM (AFP) -- Israel on Thursday warned militants in the Gaza Strip not to "test" his state, as fighter jets pounded targets across the coastal enclave after a Palestinian rocket attack.
Slamming into a house, it was the first rocket to strike Israel's city of Beersheva since the devastating 2008-2009 Gaza war, significantly raising tensions along the enclave's border.
"I don't suggest anyone test the determination of the state of Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
"We are determined to defend our citizens and will not accept anyone bombing our people and our civilians."
Netanyahu's firm warning came after 24 hours of violence along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
Early Thursday, Israeli jets raided sites across the coastal strip.
Netanyahu said he had ordered the military "to respond with force and they did that immediately on a wide scale."
The military said it targeted several Hamas camps throughout Gaza and a "terrorist squad in the northern Gaza Strip, in the same location where rockets were fired towards the Israeli city of Beersheva."
Later, war planes bombed several other sites across the coastal strip, which the military called "hubs of terror."
On Thursday night, the army said warplanes hit "terrorist targets" in southern and "direct hits were confirmed."
Local rescues services said two people had been wounded in a strike on Rafah, on the Egyptian border.
That would make five Israeli strikes reported by the Palestinians, including three in Gaza City and one in the southern town of Khan Younis.
There were no reports of casualties in Beersheva, where television footage showed a crater gouged out of a street next to a badly damaged home.
Visiting the city later, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the attack on Beersheva was an attempt to "extend" what he called a "permanent conflict" underway on the Gaza border.
Residents of the town said they escaped harm after warning sirens sent them running for the bomb shelters before the rocket struck.
Emergency services raised the alert level in southern Israel and braced for further attacks.
Beersheva, known as the capital of the Negev Desert, is home to about 200,000 people and is 40 kilometres from the Gaza Strip.
The city's deputy major Heftsi Zohar called on the Israeli government and military to "do whatever it takes" to prevent the city from being attacked.
The rocket was fired after clashes along the Gaza border on Wednesday, in which one Islamic Jihad militant was killed and 10 people wounded.
The group said its members were hit as they fired two mortar shells at Israeli tanks operating inside the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said an explosive device detonated near a regular patrol along the Gaza border and a mortar shell fired.
"The force spotted several terrorists and opened fire on them, identifying a hit," a spokeswoman said, accusing militants of placing 12 bombs along the border fence in the past two months.
The Ezzedine al-Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement, said it participated in attacks against the military, and Israel said it held Hamas "solely responsible" for the flare-up of violence.
Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan rejected the accusation, blaming Israel for "this escalation and the targeting of our people."
Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom described the attack on Beersheva as "a very grave act carried out by the agents of Iran, Hamas."
Israel carried out a massive 22-day offensive in Gaza from December 2008 to January 2009 to stop rocket fire from the coastal enclave.
The offensive killed 1,400 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=363176
Palestinians injured in Gaza airstrike
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An Israeli airstrike targeted southern Gaza late Thursday, moderately injuring two Palestinians in an attack on a vehicle in the city of Rafah.
The injured were taken by ambulance to the Abu Najjar hospital, said Adham Abu Salmiya, a spokesman for the Gaza medical services.
At least one of the victims was still in the vehicle, which was on fire after sustaining four direct strikes, witnesses said. Residents of Khan Younis confirmed hearing four distinct explosions around the time of the attack.
Witnesses said the vehicle belonged to the government in Gaza.
Israel's army said the attack targeted "terror operatives" in southern Gaza.
"Direct hits were confirmed," the army said in an emailed statement. "The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians or IDF soldiers, and will continue to respond harshly to terror."
The statement did not elaborate on the military's suspicions.
Reports in the Israeli press that one of the Palestinians died could not be confirmed.
Renewed violence erupted a day earlier when a Palestinian was killed and 10 other people wounded after an Israeli tank opened fire in clashes with Palestinian operatives east of Gaza City.
Three of them were from the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, and one of them later died, the group said.
Israeli fire killed the Palestinian and Gaza-based operatives fired the first rocket into Israel's Beersheva since a 2009 offensive. There were reports of damage but no injuries.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=363138
IDF confirms Gaza strike on terrorist cell launching rockets at Israel
The IDF confirmed that an Air Force aircraft bombed cell members who were launching Grad rockets at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians reported that three Islamic Jihad members were injured during the strike.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4033239,00.html
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Child Killed, Three Residents Wounded, In An Explosion In Khan Younis
Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child was killed, and three residents were wounded, in an explosion that took place in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The sources stated that a 10-year-old girl was killed in a blast that rocked a home in Al Amal neighborhood in Khan Younis. Three other residents were injured and were moved to Nasser Hospital in the city.
The child was identified as Wafa’ Ali Nashasy, 10.
One of the three wounded Palestinians is an elderly man; he suffered mild injuries, medical sources reported.
On Wednesday morning, the Israeli army killed a fighter of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad during clashes that took place with Palestinian fighters east of Gaza city as the Israeli army was invading the area.
On Wednesday at night, the Israeli Air Force bombarded several areas in the Gaza Strip wounding at least sixteen Palestinians, one seriously.
The attacks targeted an agricultural area in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and a number of areas in Gaza city.
One of the bombarded areas is believed to be used as a training center for the Al Quds brigades; two residents suffered mild-to-moderate injuries.
Israeli sources reported Wednesday that for the first time since the war on Gaza two years ago, a grad missile reportedly fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Beer Sheva causing damage to a number of houses and vehicles and leading to anxiety attacks among ten Israelis, including four children.
The army said that a retaliation strike was carried out in Gaza leading to a direct hit on a target and inflicting injuries on three Palestinians.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60705
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Israeli warplanes blast Gaza targets
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes blasted a number of targets in the Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday only hours after artillery shelling that killed a citizen and wounded 16 others.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16 warplanes fired at least one missile at a greenhouse north of Khan Younis, destroying it altogether but with no casualties reported.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) later shelled Abu Jarad area south of Gaza city with no casualties reported.
An earlier IOF shelling targeted a group of fighters affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, wounding two of them.
Adel Jundiya, 25, was killed in an IOF shelling on Wednesday morning east of Gaza city while 16 others were injured including one seriously.
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Israeli strikes hit Gaza overnight
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on multiple locations in the Gaza Strip overnight, injuring two near Gaza City in the first round of bombings shortly after 11 p.m.
Injuries were reported in the first strike, which hit the Az-Zaytoun neighborhood east of Gaza city, while the Abu Jarad neighborhood to the south was pummeled with four strikes.
Local officials called the series of strikes an "escalation," saying that Israeli forces have operated with increased aggression since a Wednesday morning attack on a patrol which entered Gaza territory in the area where the second strike hit.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said fighters had attacked a group of Israeli tanks and bulldozers apparently preparing to tear-up lands in the border area, and were met with artillery fire which killed one brigadesman and injured ten others, including three children.
Also overnight, the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said fighters launched three mortar shells toward the Nahal Oz military base military overnight, and another two toward Israeli infrastructure east of Az-Zaytoun.
In a statement, the Israeli military said the strikes were in "response to rocket fire ... several hubs of terror [were bombed] during an extensive operation in the Gaza Strip. Hits were confirmed."
According to the statement, "These terror sites were targeted in response to yesterday's firing of rockets at the city of Be'er Sheva and other Western Negev communities."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=362887
BREAKING-GAZA THE ISRAELI F16S HIT ONE TARGET. THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION (3e attack)
First missile launched by Israeli f16 continuous night raid on Gaza; it was deep so I think its in the south!
BREAKING-GAZA A HUUUUUGE EXPLOSION IN GAZA CITY
Hell! I knew it! They`re not going to allow us to sleep. 2 rockets in 2 minutes.. More to come!
Two more huge explosions were heard in Gaza few seconds ago. F16 aircrafts are still flying over Gaza !
F16 aircrafts has just targeted a place in East of Bureij camp
Gaza: Two more huge explosions were heard in Gaza few seconds ago. F16 aircrafts are still flying over.
Ok I wanna b optimistic & say the raiding ended 4 2nite but who knows! its 3 35 am here in Gaza!
Gaza TV News
F 16`s are attacking Gaza once more. Huge explosions have rocked the besieged strip in the past 20 minutes.
Will update as more news unfolds.
1/2 of Gaza are children. They are bombing Gaza & it`s past 3am.. bastards
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 24 febr 2011
Child, minor among 13 detained overnight
Israeli court extends isolation of prisoner Assayed
Evangelist Church Bishop Face Deportation Out of Jerusalem
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 25 febr 2011
Four Wounded In An Israeli Air Strike Targeting Rafah
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday evening after the Israeli Air Force fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle driving in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The strike took place in Al Salaam neighborhood in Rahah; several missiles were fired at the vehicle wounding the four bystanders and causing damage to nearby homes and property.
The four residents were moderately wounded and were moved to Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah.
The persons who were in the targeted vehicles managed to escape the scene unharmed, local sources reported.
Earlier on Thursday, the al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported that one of its fighters died of wounds suffered during clashes with Israeli forces invading Gaza City on Wednesday morning.
The army bombarded several areas in the Gaza Strip on Thursday leading to excessive to homes and property. Several residents were also wounded in the attacks.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60709
Islamic Jihad fighter buried in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Palestinians on Thursday mourned Adel Jundiyah, a member of the Islamic Jihad movement, who died of wounds sustained in Israeli artillery shelling of eastern Gaza on Wednesday.
The procession went from Ash-Shifa hospital to the family home before burial.
The Al-Quds Brigades announced the death of Jundiyah due to wounds he sustained when a group of Islamic Jihad fighters were targeted by Israeli soldiers east of Gaza City.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=363115
Escalation with Gaza will likely be contained within a few days
Israeli military assessment is that the missile fire on Be'er Sheva does not reflect a new Palestinian policy; the three weeks following the rioting in Egypt have been the calmest along the border during the past two years.
The extraordinary tension along the border with the Gaza Strip, which included the unusual launching of a Grad-type Katyusha at Be'er Sheva on Wednesday, appears now to have been a minor incident and not some sort of strategic turning point.
Israel responded to the shooting with a series of air strikes against Hamas and Islamic Jihad sites yesterday, however signals coming out of the Strip last night seemed to indicate Hamas' unwillingness to engage the Israel Defense Forces. As such, despite the dramatic turn of events in Egypt, it appears that the chances are good that the new escalation will be contained within a few days.
The violence began on Wednesday morning with the detonation of a mine near an IDF force that crossed several hundred meters inside the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City. The IDF responded with tank fire, killing an Islamic Jihad militant. In the evening another Islamic Jihad militant died of his injuries and his colleagues retaliated, launching two Grads at Be'er Sheva.
Intelligence suggests that the IDF was not alone in being caught off guard by the rockets. Hamas and even the leadership of Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip were apparently not aware of the militants' intentions.
This was private revenge, an emotional response to the death of their commander. The fact that Islamic Jihad now holds, not only on the strategic level, many Katyusha type rockets capable of striking targets 40 kilometers from the Strip, made the attack possible.
Israel, for its part, carried out a relatively large number of attacks on three separate occasions during a single day in an effort to stress the message that any attack on communities, and certainly on a city like Be'er Sheva, constitutes a red line.
Since the rocket launch, Hamas took a number of steps to contain the situation. Immediately after news of the rocket attack reached them, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh called on the leaders of all Palestinian factions to show restraint and avoid escalation.
The Israeli military assessment is that the missile fire on Be'er Sheva does not reflect a new Palestinian policy. The three weeks following the rioting in Egypt have been the calmest along the border during the past two years.
Hamas is eager to let time take its toll in Egypt, where Islamist leaders are making inroads and may result in the permanent opening of the Rafah crossing.
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Jews, Palestinians honor Cave of Patriarchs massacre victims
Some 300 members of Breaking the Silence and Palestinians are rallying in Hebron to mark the victims of the 1994 Cave of Patriarchs massacre. Twenty-nine Muslim worshippers were shot to death by Kiryat Arba resident Baruch Goldstein.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4034031,00.html
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 25 febr 2011
Five demonstrators injured in al-Khalil
Clashes at Hebron protest
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 26 febr 2011
Israeli warplanes strike Gaza at midnight
Gaza-Israeli warplanes have launched several airsrikes on the Gaza Strip on Thursday midnight February 26th, the Israeli airstrikes caused of massive damage in properties and infrastructure where number of injuries reported.
Palestinian sources reported that Israeli jets have launched several airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, but no casualties have been reported.
The Israeli attacks targeted number of public civilian properties including mosques and tourist resorts, Palestinian sources said that the Israeli warplanes have targeted an empty land at the Central of Gaza Strip and targted Khanyounis city south of Gaza Strip
At the same context, on February 24th, 2011, the Isareli strikes have targeted Abdul Aziz Al Rantisi mosque east of Al Zeitoon neighborhood with three missiles at least where massive destruction reported.
Free lands also were reported to be targeted by the Israeli raids.
Israel's F-16 warplanes, Apache helicopters and drones took part in the raids what led to number of injuries and massive devastation.
The day before, the Israeli occupation forces have invaded the east of Gaza Strip under heavy gunfire at the Palestinian homes and farms in the targeted area.
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Israel warplanes strike Gaza; no injuries
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) Israeli warplanes struck several targets in the southern and central Gaza Strip early Saturday.
No injuries were reported.
A Ma'an correspondent in the southern Gaza Strip said several missiles hit an Islamic Jihad military base in Khan Younis.
Warplanes also fired at an open area in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmeya said there were no reports of injury.
The Israeli military said its aircraft "targeted a number of terror hubs ... in response to recent rocket fire into Israel."
Islamic Jihad has refused to observe a calm in attacks against Israel agreed by Gaza's Hamas rulers and other groups.
The air raids came after tensions rose along the Israel-Gaza border this week following clashes and a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba that hit a house but caused no casualties.
It was the first rocket to strike the city since the devastating offensive Israel waged against Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 and prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the territory's militants not to "test" Israel.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=363430
Israeli Air Force Carries Out A Series Of Air-Strikes Targeting Gaza
The Israeli Air Force conducted on Saturday at dawn a series of Air Strikes targeting a number of areas in the Gaza Strip leading to excessive damage; no injuries were reported until the time of this report.
Local sources reported that Israeli F16 Fighter-Jets bombarded a land near the Al Boreij Refugee camp leading to damages; no injuries.
Later on, Israeli F16's fired four missiles into an area believed to be used as a training zone for the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad. The targeted area is located west of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; damage was reported, no injuries.
The Israeli Air Force also fired missiles into an empty area in Al Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza; damage was reported, no injuries.
The Israeli army claimed that all bombarded areas are used as training grounds by fighters of the Islamic Jihad and the Hamas movement.
Israeli Ynet News reported that explosions were heard in Netivot and the surrounding areas after the "Color Red" alert system was sounded approximately at 10:30 PM on Friday.
The Ynet added that a Qassam homemade shell, fired from Gaza, landed in an area close to Sdot Negev Regional Council causing no damages or injuries. Another shell fired from Gaza did not make it into any Israeli territory and landed in Gaza.
http://www.imemc.org/article/60722
Israeli warplanes blast targets in Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli warplanes launched a series of air raids on different targets in the Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday, local sources said, adding that no casualties were reported.
The sources told the PIC reporter that Israeli F-16s bombed a deserted land area west of Breij refugee camp, in central Gaza, causing a big hole.
Israeli warplanes later launched another sortie targeting a training ground for the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement southwest of Khan Younis, south of Gaza Strip, causing huge explosions but no casualties, locals said, noting that four missiles were fired at the area.
PIC reporters in the Strip said that Israeli warplanes were covering the skies of Gaza, spreading fears among its population of more air strikes.
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Jess_Gaza Israeli aircrafts have just targeted a place in Gaza Strip, beside Salah El Dien Street
Jess_Gaza Israeli aircrafts have targeted an empty space beside Salah El Dien Street in East of Nuseirat in Gaza . No injuries reported till now
Jess_Gaza It's 3:55 am in Gaza now . F16s are still flying over Gaza at low altitudes
Jess_Gaza Nothing else happened till now, but F16s are still flying over Gaza God be with the people of Gaza tonight
Jess_Gaza Three other raids on Khanyouniss, didn't know if there are injuries yet . We'll post that as soon as possible
Jess_Gaza It's 4:34 am in Gaza now . Israeli warplanes are still flying heavily in the sky over Gaza right now, we expect something
Jess_Gaza No injuries reported till now
Jess_Gaza No explosions were heard for a half an hour . But Israeli wareplanes are still flying heavily over Gaza at low altitudes
29 oct 2012, 12:36 , Respect -
Maria 26 febr 2011
Fresh airstrike targets Gaza home
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- Israeli F16 fighter jets launched the sixth air strike of the day on Gaza on Saturday afternoon, witnesses said.
The most recent strike hit Ahmad Abu Shareb's home, east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Abu Shareb told Ma'an the Israeli army told him to evacuate his home prior to the shelling. No injuries were reported.
Earlier Saturday afternoon, warplanes struck three targets in the southern Gaza Strip leaving at least two Palestinians injured.
The first hit an open space between Rafah and Khan Younis, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said two people were injured, but the extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.
Two more airstrikes came minutes after the first targeting two security sites belonging to the Hamas-run government in Rafah, which is near the Egyptian border.
A family of four, including an 18-month-old girl, were lightly wounded, after their vehicle was hit by shrapnel as they were driving by one of the targets, Abu Salmiya told AFP.
A third air strike hit an Islamic Jihad facility west of Khan Younis, witnesses said.
The raids came after pre-dawn strikes against two other training camps of the hardline Islamic Jihad group.
Several missiles hit an Islamic Jihad military base in Khan Younis. Islamic Jihad has refused to observe a calm in attacks against Israel agreed by Gaza's Hamas rulers and other groups.
The military said that during the weekend its planes shelled "several terror activity sites in the Gaza Strip as a response to the baragging of rocket fire at the Israeli home front."
In a statement, the army said the pre-dawn raids "targeted a number of sites in the central Gaza Strip," and the afternoon strikes "targeted a terror tunnel and two terror activity sites in the southern Gaza Strip."
The air raids came after tensions rose along the Israel-Gaza border this week following clashes and a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba that hit a house but caused no casualties.
It was the first rocket to strike the city since the devastating offensive Israel waged against Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 and prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the territory's militants.
That conflict killed 1,400 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers.
Commenting on recent rocket attacks, Israeli security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said, "We cannot ignore the firing of rockets on the residents of Israel. We must stop these attacks.
"There is an attempt to give it some sort of legitimization of attack - response. The response should be much more painful. The firing of Grad rockets on Beersheba or other cities crosses the red line," he noted.
"State and the IDF must respond with a heavy hand. I will also demand this from the government. No country in the world would have allowed Grad rockets to fall on its residents," Aharonovitch noted.
Also on Saturday, a Palestinian man was shot and wounded in the leg as he collected gravel near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.
Palestinians in Gaza frequently forage through the rubble along the territory's border with Israel, seeking construction materials which are otherwise in short supply because of an Israeli-imposed blockade.
A military spokesman said a group of suspicious people were seen approaching the border. When they failed to heed warning shots, "soldiers fired toward their legs and identified hitting one of them."
Israel imposes a 300-meter buffer zone along the length of the border as a "no-go" area where anyone who comes too close is liable to be shot at by soldiers manning watchtowers.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=363562
29 oct 2012, 12:37 , Respect -
Maria 26 febr 2011
Palestinians report 4 injuries in IAF strike
According to reports, Air Force planes attacked Islamic Jihad, Hamas posts in Gaza Strip.
Palestinians in Gaza reported on Saturday that the Air Force attacked several targets in the Strip. Four people were reportedly lightly injured in the attacks, including an infant girl.
The IDF has yet to comment on the attack.
According to the report, the first strike occurred around 14:00 pm when an IAF plane bombed an Islamic Jihad post west of Khan Younis. Palestinian sources claimed the post was bombarded early on Saturday morning as well.
Reuters news agency reported that a seven-month-old girl was wounded in the Saturday attack.
Early Saturday morning, IAF attacked two Islamic Jihad and Hamas targets in Khan Younis and Nuseirat refugee camp at the center of the Gaza Strip.
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit stated that an accurate hit was identified in both strikes.
The "Color Red" alert system sounded just after 10:30 pm in Netivot and the surrounding area. A number of explosions were heard shortly thereafter.
In addition to the Qassam rocket that landed in an open area within the limits of the Sdot Negev Regional Council, terrorists apparently fired another rocket which landed in Palestinian territory.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4034300,00.html
Israel launches more raids on southern Gaza, wounds civilians
RAFAH, (PIC)-- A number of Palestinian citizens including a year and a half old toddler were wounded in Israeli air raids afternoon Saturday on a number of targets in southern Gaza Strip, local sources reported.
They said that the Israeli aerial raids caused big damage to a water well near to a training site for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
Another raid soon followed on another training ground for the Hamas armed wing east of Rafah.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, said that the series of Israeli air strikes slightly wounded four citizens including the one and a half year child Saja Abu Sharkh.
He added that a fifth citizen, a worker, was wounded when Israeli occupation forces fired at him while collecting gravel north of Beit Lahia town in northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli warplanes had earlier Saturday launched two raids on a training camp for the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, west of Khan Younis, south of the Strip, and a deserted land lot in Nusseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
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Airstrikes injure 2 in southern Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma`an) -- Israeli F16 fighter jets launched two fresh airstrikes on targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday afternoon leaving two Palestinians injured.
The first targeted an open space between Rafah and Khan Younis, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said two people were injured, but the extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.
Two more airstrikes came minutes after the first targeted two security sites belonging to the Hamas-run government in Rafah, which is near the Egyptian border.
Separately, Israeli forces shot and injured a man in the north while he was collecting gravel for construction.
The air raids came after tensions rose along the Israel-Gaza border this week following clashes and a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba that hit a house but caused no casualties.
It was the first rocket to strike the city since the devastating offensive Israel waged against Gaza in December 2008-January 2009 and prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the territory's militants.
Commenting on recent rocket attacks, Israeli security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said, "We cannot ignore the firing of rockets on the residents of Israel. We must stop these attacks.
"There is an attempt to give it some sort of legitimization of attack - response. The response should be much more painful. The firing of Grad rockets on Beersheba or other cities crosses the red line," he noted.
"State and the IDF must respond with a heavy hand. I will also demand this from the government. No country in the world would have allowed Grad rockets to fall on its residents," Aharonovitch noted.
The latest attack marked the second series of airstrikes in 24 hours, after warplanes struck several targets in the southern and central Gaza Strip early Saturday. No injuries were reported.
Several missiles hit an Islamic Jihad military base in Khan Younis, and Israeli warplanes also fired at an open area in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Islamic Jihad has refused to observe a calm in attacks against Israel agreed by Gaza's Hamas rulers and other groups.
Abu Salmeya, the medical official, said there were no reports of injuries.
The Israeli military said its aircraft "targeted a number of terror hubs ... in response to recent rocket fire."
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Israel threatens force against Fatah leader's guards
RAMALLAH (Ma`an) Israeli has warned the Palestinian Authority that its soldiers would target a top member of Fatah and his guards should he be allowed to join rallies against the separation wall, a Palestinian official said.
The liaison office, according to the source, explained that it had obtained information that Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi's guards participate in rallies near the separation wall with guns hidden under their clothes.
Soldiers will open fire at Tirawi's guards if they see them at demonstrations, the liaison office was said to have warned. Tirawi, a former chief of Palestinian intelligence, is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies.
Approached by Ma'an, Tirawi declined to address the controversy saying only that he would continue to join popular demonstrations against "Israel's apartheid wall."
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Israeli forces raid Palestinian leaders' prison cells
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Report: Shehadeh killing legitimate; civilian deaths due to intel failure
In report submitted to PM, inquiry commission says 2002 attack in Gaza on top Hamas figure who posed certain, immediate and significant threat to Israels population was imperative; difficult collateral consequences of strike, in which uninvolved civilians were killed, became clear in hindsight. MK Tibi: Assassins should be prosecuted.
A report submitted to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday determined that the targeted killing of senior Hamas figure Salah Shehadeh on July 22, 2002 was imperative as he posed a certain, immediate and significant threat to Israeli citizens.
The Special Investigatory Commission concluded that Shehadeh`s terrorist activity categorized him "a civilian taking a direct part in hostilities at that time" and that his classification by the Shin Bet as a target was professional, based on concrete information and in accordance with the principles of Israeli and international law.
Therefore, the committee said, the strike against Shehadeh, "which was intended to terminate his deadly activity, was a legitimate targeted killing".
The commission further concluded that the difficult collateral consequences of the strike against Shehadeh, in which 13 uninvolved civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and many others injured, became clear in hindsight to most of the senior officials involved in the planning and implementation of the operation.
The officials, according to the committee, stated that had they foreseen in real-time the scope and gravity of the collateral damage which actually resulted, the operation would not have been carried out.
"The said consequence was unintended, undesired and unforeseen. It did not stem from disregard or indifference to human lives," the committee determined.
During the operation, a one-ton bomb was dropped on the house in which Shehadeh was staying, killing him, Hamas figure Zahar Natzer, Shehadeh`s wife Layla and his 15-year-old daughter Iman, who were with him in the house.
nconsistent intelligence. Scene of 2002 strike in Gaza
Following the operation, a petition was filed with the High Court of Justice requesting that it order the military advocate general and the attorney general to open a criminal investigation against the air force commander, the chief of general staff, the minister of defense and the prime minister of Israel, in order to determine whether criminal offenses had been committed in the course of the planning and implementation of the operation.
In January 2008 then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appointed a committee comprising three members: Former Military Advocate General Brig. Gen. (res.) Tzvi Inbar (committee chairman), Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Eitan and Yitzhak Dar.
Following the passing of Atty. Inbar on August 31, 2009 Netanyahu appointed retired Supreme Court Justice Tova Strasberg-Cohen as commission chairperson.
The committee determined that the targeted killing against Shehadeh was imperative because of the increase and escalation in terrorist attacks since 2000, in a manner which led to a situation of actual war, classified as an "armed conflict". These attacks were carried out mainly by the Hamas movement, to which Shehadeh belonged as one of its senior leaders and head of its Operational Branch. Shehadeh was the driving force behind the Hamas, its ideology and its operations, and was directly involved in the planning and execution of deadly terror attacks, the report said.
"This situation necessitated effective, immediate and pinpointed measures to eliminate or at least minimize the attacks. One of the means chosen for this purpose was targeted killings against the leading planners and perpetrators of terrorist attacks," according to the report.
"Other alternatives that were considered were not implemented, either because the chances of success were uncertain or because Shehadeh switched houses during the planning stages or because there was too great a risk to Israeli forces or to uninvolved civilians resulting from, inter alia, the difficulties involved in a ground operation in a densely-populated area."
Principle of proportionality
War crime. Site of targeted killing in Gaza
The committee also concluded that all those involved in the operation showed "awareness and sensitivity" throughout the entire operation with regards to the risk to uninvolved civilians and the "duty to avoid or minimize it to the extent possible, in line with the principle of proportionality.
"In addition, the operation was aborted twice because of the presence of a minor, Shehadeh`s daughter, in the house at the time the strike was planned to have taken place. Notwithstanding all this, a gap arose between what was expected and what actually occurred. The central reason for this gap was incomplete, unfocused and inconsistent intelligence information with regard to the presence of civilians in the structures adjacent to the Shehadeh house (the garage and huts), where most of the civilians died," the report stated.
According to the committee, this gap stemmed from "incorrect assessments and mistaken judgment based on an intelligence failure in the collection and transfer of information to the various echelons involved in the points of contact between the different agencies involved, and from a lack of sufficient understanding regarding the uncertainty that was created as a result of this unfocused, inconsistent and incomplete intelligence information which was before the decision-makers.
"The appropriate balance between the overall considerations of the decision-makers was disrupted, in a way that led to disproportionate harm to uninvolved civilians."
The committee stated that the rules of Israeli and international law "unequivocally remove any suspicion that a criminal offense was committed by any of those involved in the operation, adding that it does not recommend that personal measures be taken against any of those involved in the operation.
Shortly after the operation, the committee said, investigations were conducted by the various branches of the security forces, after which "lessons were learned and internalized by the security forces and incorporated both in writing and orally in training, lectures and regulations. Changes were also introduced accordingly in the mechanisms dealing with targeted killing operations.
According to the committee, the political echelon "also incorporated lessons learned from the operation and its consequences. Today, the procedure for transferring intelligence information to the political echelon is more organized, and decisions by the security services are more carefully scrutinized. There is awareness regarding initiation of meetings with the heads of the security services and the need to request clarifications as appropriate to ensure that the most independent and well-informed decision is made as necessitated by domestic and foreign policy considerations, particularly with regard to possible harm to uninvolved civilians as a result of targeted killings."
The committee recommended that security forces "incorporate and internalize, on an ongoing basis, the principles and norms of Israeli and international law and the ethical and moral foundations on which they are predicated, particularly in all that relates to harm to uninvolved civilians resulting from a targeted killing against a legitimate target.
In addition, the report stated that the "principle of proportionality must be carefully adhered to. A derivative of this principle is that a strike should not be carried out, even if the target is in and of itself legitimate, if the expected harm to uninvolved civilians is excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage to be derived from the strike, and this in each case according to its circumstances. In this context, maximum caution must be exercised in the selection of the method of striking the target and the type of weapon to be used in the operation.
Assassination succeeded
"The required balance was not properly achieved in the targeted killing against Shehadeh. Decisions were made on the basis of flawed, incomplete and inconsistent information which led to misunderstandings, erroneous assessments and mistaken judgment, which resulted in an unforeseen, undesired and unintended outcome," according to the report.
Knesset Member Avi Dichter (Kadima) who had served as Shin Bet chief at the time addressed the conclusions and noted that "it is important to state and admit: The assassination succeeded but the operation failed."
Dichter added that "Shehadeh`s daughter was the reason why we didn`t approve the attack so long as she was with him. That, more than anything else proves how much consideration and attention was given to avoiding harming the innocent."
Meanwhile, MK Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta`al) also addressed the issue, stating "those responsible for the assassination carried out a war crime and should be prosecuted for killing innocent women and children. The planners and implementers new in advance the price the civilian population would pay.
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Israeli prison guards storm isolation cells