- 23 nov 2010
Settlers seize Palestinian building in Silwan area, displace Qara'ein family
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
IOF troops wound Palestinian worker, round up three civilians in WB
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian young man was moderately wounded when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing north of the Gaza Strip fired at him while collecting gravel on Wednesday morning.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the media coordinator of medical services in the Strip, told the PIC that the youth, in his twenties, was hit in his foot, and that he was hospitalized.
He pointed out that the casualty is the tenth this month, describing the incident as indicative of clear escalation against Palestinian workers.
In the West Bank, IOF troops rounded up three Palestinians at dawn Wednesday in the districts of Jericho and Al-Khalil, Israeli TV ten channel reported.
http://bit.ly/eE9BvV
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
Sources: Israel tried to kill man in Gaza
Scene of targeted killing
Palestinians in Gaza say IDF tried to bomb man on motorcycle, but no injuries were reported.
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday that the IDF had attempted to kill a man riding a motorcycle east of Gaza City. No injuries were reported in the strike, and the identity of the man is unknown.
Organizations in Gaza have raised their level of alert after a number of Air Force strikes that took place this weekend in response to rocket fire towards the Negev.
Hamas operatives evacuated many of the group's bases and headquarters in Gaza, fearing additional bombings.
Air Force crafts bombed smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip over the weekend, hitting an Islamic Jihad training facility and other targets near Khan Younis.
The IDF released a statement saying the strikes were a response to the artillery fire towards Israel, which included four mortar shells containing phosphorous.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3989525,00.html
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
Residents say Israeli, Palestinian forces trade fire in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces exchanged gunfire with Palestinian guerillas east of Gaza City on Wednesday evening, local sources reported.
Fighters riding a motorcycle opened fire on an Israeli forces, who returned fire, the sources said. The incident took place in along the border in the Zaytoun neighborhood, they added.
No casualties were reported.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said officials were looking into the report.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335740
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
Report: IDF bombs targets east of Gaza City, no injuries
Palestinian witnesses in the Gaza Strip reported that Israeli aircraft tried to kill a motorcycle rider as he was traveling east of Gaza City. No injuries were reported in the strike, and the identity of the man is unknown
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3989476,00.html
Watch: US students depict abuse at checkpoints
(7:24) ASU SJP Students Protest IDF Soldier (OFFICIAL)
ASU SJP Students Protest IDF Soldier (OFFICIAL)
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- University students in New York City got to experience the unusual commute that many Palestinians face on their way to colleges and schools in the occupied Palestinian territories.
A group of students, faculty, staff, and others constructed a mock Israeli checkpoint on campus at Columbia University.
Three students dressed as soldiers lined up dozens of students throughout the afternoon, blindfolded them, and forced them to sit on their knees as a symbolic gesture to portray the hardships faced by Palestinian students. Those playing the Palestinians had tape over their mouths "to reflect how Israel silences Palestinian voices by withholding their right to education," Columbia's Students for Justice in Palestine said.
Pro-Israel students held a counter-demonstration wearing shirts that offered their explanations for the hundreds of checkpoints sprinkled throughout the occupied Palestinian territories. One of the shirts read: Checkpoints aren’t ideal but for now they are necessary.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335415
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
Car bomb kills 23 in northern Yemen
As many as 23 Houthi fighters and supporters have lost their lives and 30 others sustained injuries when a car bomb targeted a religious procession in northern Yemen.
The Wednesday attack took place in Al-Jawf province.
It came only one day after an army soldier was killed and two others were injured when a roadside bomb targeted their military vehicle south of the country.
The Yemeni government launched Operation Scorched Earth on August 11, 2007 to uproot the Shia Houthi fighters, whom Sana'a accuses of seeking a return to the Zaydi imamate overthrown in a 1962 coup.
The northern Houthi fighters have on occasions complained about widespread religious discrimination against them by Sunni fundamentalists who hold sway because of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's cordial relations with staunchly Wahabi Saudi Arabia.
Saada and neighboring Amran province, the strongholds of the Shia Houthi fighters, were frequently pounded by fighter jets and helicopter gunships.
The conflict zones in northern Yemen remained cut off from the rest of the country and the locals were grappling with a pressing shortage of food and other basic supplies.
The United Nations puts the number of displaced people at around 150,000 civilians.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152295.html
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2010
Report: 2nd East Jerusalem home taken over by settlers
Settlers Attempting to Take Home in Mount of Olives Area
Israeli settlers win ownership of East Jerusalem home after lengthy battle
Grenade tossed at Palestinian prisoners in Hadarim jail
PA: Attack on prison targeted prominent leaders
IOF soldiers storm house of MP, arrest his son
Israel holds entire family in detention (16 members)
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 25 nov 2010
IOF troops advance in northern Gaza amid intensive shelling
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning amidst intensive firing, eyewitnesses reported.
They said that IOF soldiers mounting ten armored vehicles and tanks suddenly advanced in the northern Beit Hanun town.
The forces targeted Palestinian workers who collect gravel in the area but no casualties were reported.
http://bit.ly/fUczPp 29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 25 nov 2010
Gaza Photo Exhibition Attacked by the Jewish Defense League in Paris
Members of "The Jewish Defense League" attacked earlier this week a photo exhibition of the German photojournalist Kai Wiedenhöfer "depicting the massacres in the Gaza strip during the Israeli Operation Cast Lead" offensive. The exhibit is being held at the the Modern Art Museum of Paris.
The employees of the museum explained that a group of people equipped with masks and motorbike helmets tried to reach the gallery to sabotage the exhibition, when museum security blocked their access.
However, the extremists also attempted to vandalize many works displayed alongside the Museum, including paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Marc Chagall, witnesses reported.
After the attempted attack, the group disrupted the visitors' entrance, chanting slogans against museum, and affixed stickers that read: "Anti-Zionism=Anti-Semitism policy", "Down anti-Semitism from which it comes" and "Palestinianism asset is the anti-Jewish activism."
Since the photo exposition was opened at the beginning of November, many French Jews groups, such as CRIF (Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions) have been asking for its closure, putting pressure on Museum officials, and the city Council, an issue that pushed exhibition organizers to consider closing it before the official closing date in December 5.
Several French human rights associations have been mobilized asking the authorities not to cave under pressure, and demanded extra security measures to avoid another attack.
Wiedenhöfer, who has been retracting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1989, has brought 85 realistic and raw photographs to the exhibition, focusing on two major themes;destruction inflicting on Gaza and Palestinians wounded during the Israeli offensive on Gaza in the winter of 2008 - 2009 that was dubbed by Israel as "Operation Cast Lead".
http://www.imemc.org/article/60009
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 25 nov 2010
Military, militant activity reported on Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Witnesses reported a series of military activities on the northern Gaza border early on Thursday morning, including the launch of artillery fire which was said to have landed in an open field in the district.
Armored bulldozers, helicopters and fighter jets were seen operating in the former Nisanit settlement on the northernmost sector of Gaza, starting at 6:30 a.m.
Witnesses said bulldozers were digging up lands, helicopters patrolling the skies and fighter jets letting off sonic blasts that some initially took for airstrikes.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she would investigate the reports, meanwhile the English-language online site affiliated with the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said Gaza factions fired mortar shells from the northern Strip, but that the shells failed to launch properly and landed on the Palestinian side of the border.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335837
Hamas asks UN, Arab League to stop Israeli attack
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Hamas-led government in Gaza is appealing through diplomatic channels to demand that the international community prevent a new Israeli attack on the Palestinian enclave.
Yousef Rizqa, a political advisor to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, said: "The government had sent many letters to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, chief of the Arab League Amr Moussa, and chief of Egyptian intelligence Omar Suleiman, in which the government mentioned the latest assassinations that were carried out by Israel against the Palestinians."
In the past three weeks, Israel assassinated two members of Gaza's tiny Army of Islam faction, which it alleges is connected with Al-Qaeda and planned attacks on Israelis in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Rizqa said in an interview that in the letter the government denied that any Al-Qaeda groups were operating in the Gaza Strip. He said this allegation could be used as a false pretext for an Israeli offensive on Gaza.
Israel killed some 1,400 Palestinians in a three-week attack on Gaza in 2008 and 2009. Thirteen Israelis also died in the offensive, which Israel said it launched to stop the firing of rockets from Gaza.
Rizqa said Israel is attempting to mislead the public in attempt to justify the recent assassinations and possibly lay the groundwork for future attacks.
"The government is cautious and is taking these threats seriously," the official also said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=336048 29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 25 nov 2010
Israeli warplanes attack Gaza Strip
Israeli warplanes have reportedly attacked northern parts of the Gaza Strip, which has been under Tel Aviv's crippling blockade since 2007.
Israeli troops also staged a ground incursion in the coastal enclave with tanks and bulldozers, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.
Last week, Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes against the tunnels under Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian officials said Israeli fighter jets destroyed two tunnels connecting the town of Rafah to neighboring Egypt in an airstrike.
The Israeli military carries out regular bloody attacks on the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv also retains its occupation of the Palestinian territories surrounding Gaza and has been keeping the coastal enclave under an all-out land, naval and aerial blockade for more than three years.
The Israeli aircraft frequently overfly Gaza, bombing tunnels under the strip's border with Egypt which serve as the territory's only way of bringing in food, medicine and other direly-needed requirements.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152587.html
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 25 nov 2010
Medics: Shepherd injured by settler beating
Settlers move into yet another apartment in East Jerusalem
Settlers to teach school kids about 'evils' of moratorium
Activists detained in night raid on Beit Ummar
Sheep droppings sparks rift between settlers and Bedouin
Extremists Attack Jordan Embassy Employees In Tel Aviv
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 26 nov 2010
Jewish settlers open random fire at Qalaqalia village
IOF procrastinates in evacuating properties confiscated by settlers in al-Khalil
4 Palestinians, including two prominent activists, Arrested from their Homes in Night Raid on Beit Ummar
29 oct 2012, 12:04 , Respect -
Maria 27 nov 2010
'US, Israel behind Yemen bombing'
Yemen's Houthi group has accused the intelligence services of the US and Israel of planning a car bomb that killed 23 Houthi fighters and injured 30 others.
The bomb explosion targeted a religious procession on Wednesday in Yemen's northern Al-Jawf province.
According to documents obtained by Houthi group, "the intelligence services of the US and the Zionist regime are behind the Wednesday attack," said Houthi group's spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam.
Regarding to another car bomb in northern Yemen that left at least two Shia mourners dead, he said; "The car was laden with shells made by the US."
On Friday, the bomb targeted a convoy of mourners, who were travelling from Dahyan to Saada province to attend the funeral of Badreddin al-Hawthi, the father of the Shia group's leader, who died on Thursday.
"Killing the Muslims and disintegration of communities and countries are in favor of the US and the Zionist regime," Abdulsalam said.
On Tuesday, a Yemeni army soldier also was killed and two others were injured when a roadside bomb targeted their military vehicle south of the country.
The Yemeni government launched Operation Scorched Earth on August 11, 2007 to uproot the Shia Houthi fighters, whom Sana'a accuses of seeking a return to the Zaydi imamate overthrown in a 1962 coup.
The northern Houthi fighters have on occasions complained about widespread religious discrimination against them by Sunni fundamentalists who hold sway because of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's cordial relations with staunchly Wahabi Saudi Arabia.
Saada and neighboring Amran province, the strongholds of the Shia Houthi fighters, were frequently pounded by fighter jets and helicopter gunships.
The conflict zones in northern Yemen remained cut off from the rest of the country and the locals were grappling with a pressing shortage of food and other basic supplies.
The United Nations puts the number of displaced people at around 150,000 civilians.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152795.html
Bomb kills Shia mourners in N Yemen
A bombing in northern Yemen has killed at least two Shia mourners heading to the funeral of the father of the leader of the Houthis and injured eight others -- some in critical condition.
On Friday, a bomb targeted a convoy of mourners, who were travelling from Dahyan to Saada province to attend the funeral of Badreddin al-Hawthi, the father of the Shia group's leader, who died on Thursday.
However, other reports have put the death toll at over 40.
It was the second bombing attack targeting Shias in northern Yemen this week.
On Wednesday, a bomb attack on a religious procession in Al-Jawf province killed as many as 23 Houthi fighters and supporters and injured 30 others.
It came only one day after an army soldier was killed and two others were injured when a roadside bomb targeted their military vehicle in the south of the country.
The conflict between Sana'a and Houthi fighters in northern Yemen began in 2004.
The Yemeni government then launched Operation Scorched Earth on August 11, 2009 to uproot the Shia Houthi fighters, whom Sana'a accuses of seeking a return to the Zaydi imamate overthrown in a 1962 coup.
Saudi forces began fighting against Yemeni Shia resistance fighters, known as Houthis, and bombing their positions on November 4, 2009 after accusing the fighters of killing Saudi border guards.
The Houthis accuse the Yemeni government of violating their civil rights and marginalizing them politically, economically, and religiously.
Houthi fighters say that Saudi forces strike Yemeni villages and indiscriminately target civilians. They also say that the Saudis are using toxic materials, including white phosphorus, in the attacks on northern Yemen.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004, up to 175,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Sa'ada and take refuge at overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/152771.html
29 oct 2012, 12:05 , Respect -
Maria 27 nov 2010
Israeli forces fire on Gaza fisherman
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian fisherman on the shore of the northern Gaza Strip was shot in the foot on Saturday, medics said, the second casualty of the day by Israeli fire.
Spokesperson of Gaza's medical services Adham Abu Silmiyya said a 19-year-old man was injured in his left foot and was evacuated to Kamal Udwan Hospital in Jabalia.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said soldiers identified the man in an area known as a "no go zone," and after firing in the air, "had to fire toward his lower body."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=336428