- 20 nov 2010
IOF artillery targets vicinity of Gaza airport
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened artillery fire at southern Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday targeting the vicinity of the Gaza airport in Rafah district.
Security sources said that the unprecedented, intensified shelling caused violent explosions not before witnessed in the area.
The sources aid that the shelling coincided with unusual movement of IOF armored vehicles, which also opened heavy machinegun fire at Nahda suburb east of Rafah.
Earlier other security sources reported that the IOF warplanes raided the tunnels area south of Rafah on Friday night, firing at least two missiles.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the medical services coordinator, told the PIC reporter that the raid, which targeted one of the tunnels in Rafah, did not cause any casualties.
Abu Salmiya urged citizens to be on the alert for further Israeli raids.
The IOF warplanes earlier on Friday launched a series of air raids on the Strip wounding six civilians.
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29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 20 nov 2010
Air Force bombs Gaza tunnels
IDF retaliates again for phosphorous shells, mortars fired at Negev communities earlier Friday.
The Air Force bombed smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip Friday night, and direct hits were identified, the IDF said in a statement. No injuries were reported.
"The strike was carried out in response to the rockets and mortar shells fired at the western Negev over the past day," the statement said, adding that the army was holding Hamas responsible for the attacks
Palestinian sources reported that the Air Force bombed two targets in the Gaza Strip Friday afternoon, after four phosphorous bombs were launched into Israel along with three mortar shells.
The sources say six people were injured in the strikes including two women and a child. An unoccupied building in Deir al-Balah collapsed upon being hit, and two other strikes took place in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Sources say one of the targets there was an Islamic Jihad training facility.
Three of the shells hit open areas in the Eshkol Regional Council, and the other four - fired an hour later - landed in open areas in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
The Popular Resistance Committee's Salah al-Din Brigades claimed responsibility for the fire, saying it was a response to recent assassinations in Gaza.
The escalation in the south follows the assassination of two senior members of the al-Qaeda affiliated Army of Islam group by the Israel Defense Forces earlier this month.
Abu Mujahed, a PRC spokesman in Gaza, said that "the firing by Palestinian organizations from the Gaza Strip is part of our right to respond to the Israeli crimes and the recent assassinations."
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Israeli jets bomb Rafah tunnels
Israeli warplanes have attacked the tunnels under Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, which has been blockaded by Israel since 2007.
Palestinian officials said Israeli fighter jets destroyed two tunnels connecting the town of Rafah to neighboring Egypt in an airstrike on Friday night.
No casualties were reported in the attack on the tunnels, which were used to bring in much needed goods.
Earlier in the day, Israeli jets struck two cities in the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources told a Press TV correspondent in Gaza.
Four people, including two women, were injured when an Israeli plane targeted a home in the central town of Deir al-Balah.
A separate Israeli airstrike on the southern town of Khan Yunis lightly wounded two people, one of them a child.
No other details on the attack in Khan Yunis have been reported.
In another incident on Friday, Israeli gunfire wounded a 22-year-old Palestinian as he collected gravel near the border in northern Gaza.
About 70 Palestinians have been injured and two killed while gathering building materials at the border since the end of the Gaza war in January 2009.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/151691.html
29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 20 nov 2010
PRC armed wing: Israel preparing for war on Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Popular Resistance Committees' armed wing said Saturday that the recent intensive shelling of the Gaza Strip showed that Israel was preparing for a comprehensive offensive on the Strip.
In a statement, the An-Nasser Brigades spokesman Abu Yousef said the continued escalation in attacks on the coastal enclave was a declaration of war by Israel. Further, he said the attacks targeted civilians.
Six Palestinians, including two women and a child, were injured Friday afternoon when Israel launched three airstrikes on central and southern Gaza. Israel continued to shell southern Gaza overnight.
An Israeli military spokesman said the attacks were in response to projectiles launched from Gaza into southern Israel.
The An-Nasser Brigades claimed responsibility for firing three projectiles at Israeli intelligence headquarters near the Gaza border on Thursday. In a statement, the PRC said the operation was in response to Israel's assassination of two brothers in central Gaza City on Wednesday. The Israeli military said the brothers, Islam and Muhammad Yassin, were planning to attack Israeli citizens in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 20 nov 2010
Settlers accused activists of arson, but video shows otherwise
29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 21 nov 2010
Report: Soldiers beat and humiliate Salfit farmer
SALFIT (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian farmer said he was beaten by Israeli soldiers on Friday morning, after he asked them to open the agricultural gate and allow him access to his farm land in the northern West Bank village Az-Zawiya, west of Salfit.
Mu'taz Ribhi Abu Nab'a, 22, said the incident occurred at 11:30 a.m., as he waited to cross the gate to his land, on the far side of the separation barrier.
A force made up of men and women refused to let him through the gate. Instead, he said, soldiers beat him, strip-searched him and hand-cuffed him before transferring him to a military base.
Abu Nab'a further said that female soldiers humiliated him and took photos with him.
When he asked an Israeli officer why he was being beaten and humiliated, the young farmer said, he was told "Because you deliberately disturbed us and made us go to the gate early in the morning." Abu Nab'a said the officer in charge then accused him of attempting to break down part of the barrier. The farmer said he denied the charge and informed the soldier that he knew there were monitoring cameras which would have documented him.
He also told the soldier he had a permit issued by Israeli authorities giving him permission to access his land.
According to Abu Nab'a, soldiers ultimately freed him in Hebron, more than 60 kilometers south of his home town, but only after he was served with a summons ordering him to go the Israeli intelligence office in Tulkarem on Monday for further interrogation.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she could not look into the report without the Palestinian's ID number.
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29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 21 nov 2010
Palestinian farmer wounded in explosion of IOF ordnance
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- A Palestinian farmer was wounded on Sunday when Israeli army ordnance exploded near him in his farm east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, medical sources reported.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the coordinator of medical services in the Strip, told the PIC that an ambulance crew carried the 30-year-old farmer to hospital in Abasan Al-Kabira.
He added that the farmer was hit with shrapnel in his face
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29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 21 nov 2010
Inhabitants of Egyptian Rafah demand end to IOF shelling of tunnels
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Inhabitants of the Egyptian border city of Rafah have asked their foreign ministry to pressure Israel into desisting from further shelling of tunnels on the borders with Gaza Strip.
The German news agency DPA said that the inhabitants left their homes and gathered in streets and public squares at a late hour on Friday and at dawn Saturday fearing injury with shrapnel resulting from Israeli occupation forces' (IOF) shelling of the tunnels area on the Palestinian side of Rafah.
It quoted individuals as expressing dismay at the IOF repeated raids on the tunnels, adding that the sounds of explosion and flying shrapnel were causing panic in their town.
They recalled that a number of casualties were inflicted in lines of the town's people over the past two years as a result of the smashed windows.
They also asked the Egyptian government to demand compensations for the material losses they sustained during the Israeli war on Gaza especially in their farms.
IOF warplanes launched a series of raids on southern Gaza Strip over the weekend.
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29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 21 nov 2010
Israeli soldiers demoted over crimes
Two Israeli soldiers have received suspended sentences and demotions because they used a Palestinian child as a human shield during the Gaza War.
The soldiers were given suspended sentences of three months and were demoted from the rank of staff sergeant to sergeant, Israeli army radio announced on Sunday.
The soldiers had forced a nine-year-old Palestinian boy to open several bags suspected of containing explosives in the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip.
During the trial, the boy, identified as Majid R, said he feared for his life.
"I thought they would kill me. I became very scared and wet my pants," he was quoted by AFP as saying.
The incident was brought to public attention by the United Nations in a report which slammed Israel for committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
More than 1,400 Palestinians lost their lives during the Gaza war at the turn of 2009.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/151857.html
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 21 nov 2010
Jewish settlers set fire to girls school while expanding Rahalim settlement
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 22 nov 2010
Israeli police shoot Palestinian worker
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) Israeli police on Monday shot a Palestinian worker who was in Israel without permission, officials said.
Police said the worker, who was not identified, was shot after he tried to run over a group of people near Ashkelon.
Police pursued the car and opened fire at the driver injuring him in his foot. He was evacuated to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba.
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29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 22 nov 2010
Israel launches naval military drills
Israeli naval forces have launched three-day military exercises in the naval bases of Eilat and Haifa, according to military officials.
The maneuvers began on Monday and will last until Wednesday, military sources were quoted by Radio Hebrew as saying.
The Israeli naval troops are expected to partake in numerous drills in their respective bases, after sirens and sound of explosions are played through loudspeakers.
The officials, who were not identified by the radio, said that authorities expect the sound of explosions to be heard in nearby residential areas, adding in the event of a real threat local media will broadcast instructions for residents to follow.
Last month, Israeli army and other military forces carried out a large-scale maneuver to practice countering mock coordinated attacks and unconventional warfare.
The exercises focused on tackling multiple acts of border infiltration and attacks by al-Qaeda militants armed with unconventional weapons, including dirty bombs.
The war games come after the Islamic Jihad movement announced last week that Israel may be preparing to launch a new war against Palestinians, citing Tel Aviv's recent military drills and media campaigns.
Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab said Israel is using the media to transmit false information linking resistance groups in the Gaza Strip with al-Qaeda militants in an attempt to rally support for a new attack on the coastal enclave.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/152045.html
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 22 nov 2010
Palestinian Youth Wounded By Army Fire Near Hebron
Palestinian medical sources reported Monday that a Palestinian youth was shot and wounded by Israeli army fire in an area south of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.
The youth was identified as Waleed Abu Zahra, 19. He was wounded by a live round in his foot.
Soldiers claimed that Abu Zahra refused to heed their demands to stop his vehicle, and that he tried to ram the soldiers.
Israeli sources stated that the he Abu Zahra was found on the side of a local road after a passenger who accompanied him, apparently forced him out of the vehicle and fled the area.
The fate of the second person remains unknown, while the wounded resident was moved to a local hospital.
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29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 22 nov 2010
Israeli settlers take over WB springs
Armed settlers bar farmers from land
IOF kidnap seven Palestinians from Ula town in Al-Khalil
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 23 nov 2010
Arms destroyed at Tulkarem checkpoint: security source
Israeli forces stationed at the Jubarah checkpoint south of Tulkarem detonated Tuesday three bags allegedly carrying live grenades, belonging to three young men waiting to pass the military crossing.
An Israeli security source told Ma'an that three young men from Nablus had the weapons in their bags.
"They appeared to think soldiers at the checkpoint did not usually check those passing through," he said, adding that when the men were checked the arms were identified.
Located along Israel's separation wall and east of the Green Line, the military checkpoint is a crossing between the West Bank and Israeli-controlled areas. Palestinian security sources said the three men carrying the bags were detained on site.
According to the sources, the three men were ordered to drop the bags they carried, and were restrained. Israeli forces at the scene then summoned sappers, which blew up the bags on site.
The checkpoint was closed in both directions when the sappers were summoned, officials told Ma'an.
Sources have not revealed the identity of the men detained at the crossing, and said it was unclear what forces suspected was in the bags.
Eyewitnesses said they heard several blasts at noon, and a second set of explosions shortly after, and said they believed Israeli forces had stopped three workers on their way home from construction work in Israel.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=335217
29 oct 2012, 12:03 , Respect -
Maria 23 nov 2010
Israeli forces enter Gaza, uproot trees
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) Israeli military vehicles entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, passing through the border area east of the Jabaliya refugee camp, where they uprooted trees, witnesses said.
Onlookers said seven military vehicles were involved in the destruction.
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