- 13 nov 2010
Fire on Gaza borders continues, worker injured
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Saturday morning shooting incident by Israeli forces patrolling the Gaza border brought up to 67 the number of men collecting construction aggregates injured by Israeli fire, medical officials said.
Shortly before 9 a.m., an unidentified 22-year-old man collecting cement particles near the Erez border crossing was told by Israeli forces patrolling the unilaterally-declared "no-go zone" to leave the area.
Workers, who are paid by the weight of the aggregates they collect, head to the boarder areas particularly in the north where former settlements - demolished during the military pull-out of 2005 - provide ample resources.
When the man failed to leave the area, a military spokeswoman said, shots were fired into the air, and then toward his lower body.
Medics who retrieved the man said he sustained a gunshot wound to the foot. Medical Services Spokesman Adham Abu Silmiyya said he was evacuated to the Kamal Udwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
The military spokeswoman said soldiers identified a hit.
Since 2009, when Israeli forces increased the unmarked area of the no-go zone to up to one kilometer in some areas, Abu Silmiyya said two have been killed and 67 injured.
Following the December-January 2008/9 war Israel waged on Gaza, which killed more than 1,400 Gaza residents, the UN estimated that 6,000 homes destroyed. Israel's blockade has barred reconstruction materials such as iron re-bar, aggregates and cement, after June 2010 and a slight easing of the siege, construction materials were only permitted in for UN and other international aid agencies.
Gaza entrepreneurs developed methods to recycle cement and process particles into new concrete blocks. Other companies collect and sort aggregates, then sell them to families whose homes were destroyed during the war.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=333463
IOF soldiers shoot worker, raid southern Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian worker was wounded at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday morning while collecting gravel east of Jabalia refugee camp, to the north of the Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the media coordinator of medical services, told the PIC that a 22-year-old youth was hit with a bullet in his right foot. He described his injury as moderate.
Meanwhile, IOF troops raided Qarara town east of Khan Younis city, south of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
PIC reporter said that the soldiers mounting a number of armored vehicles opened intensive fire at citizens' homes.
He added that the soldiers were escorting two huge bulldozers that advanced 100 meters on citizens' land in the area and bulldozed large tracts of them.
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29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 13 nov 2010
J'lem rights group: Israeli planners have begun isolating Issawiya from city
29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 14 nov 2010
IOF soldiers wound boy in Gaza, detain girl in Al-Khalil
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at and wounded a 13-year-old Palestinian boy east of Gaza on Sunday while collecting gravel, medical sources reported.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the media coordinator of the medical services, told the PIC that the boy was hit with a bullet in his foot, describing his injury as moderate.
IOF shooting wounded 67 workers collecting gravel in Gaza Strip border areas since early 2009.
Meanwhile, IOF troops detained a 15-year-old Palestinian girl while on her way to the Ibrahimi Mosque for prayers in Al-Khalil city on Sunday.
Local sources said that Hadeel Abu Turki was taken to an unknown location and for yet unknown reasons.
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Maria 14 nov 2010
IOF tanks fire shell, machineguns at Palestinian houses
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed at the borders of Gaza Strip fired a shell at a deserted area in Juhr Al-Deek northeast of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Sunday.
Security sources said that the IOF tanks fired the shell then opened heavy machinegun fire at citizens' homes east of the refugee camp.
They said that no casualties were reported but women and children were frightened at the sound of the explosions.
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Maria 14 nov 2010
Jewish settlers burn olive trees in Nablus
Israel starts building 1,650 settler units
Tensions rise in Ramon prison after guard insults Allah
29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 15 nov 2010
Israeli artillery, navy randomly shell east and west of foggy Gaza
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Palestinian security sources said that Israel's artillery east of the Gaza Strip and its navy in the west started at dawn Monday to randomly open heavy fire towards both directions without any reported injuries.
The sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the Israeli artillery and navy opened fire because of their fear of any progress of resistance fighters that might happen in the thick fog that covered the atmosphere of Gaza this morning.
For his part, spokesman for the military medical services Adham Abu Silmya that the random firing of artillery shells did not result in any casualties, expressing his belief that the shelling were because of Israeli fears of the fog that clouded Gaza in the early morning hours.
In another incident, a senior intelligence official claimed that Hamas Movement has rockets that can hit targets in Tel Aviv, according to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Sunday.
The official also held Egypt responsible for that, accusing it of not doing enough to prevent smuggling through tunnels in its borders with Gaza, but he said there is active intelligence cooperation between Israel and Cairo.
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29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 15 nov 2010
Gaza: Israeli Tanks and Gunboats Open Fire at Residents Homes
Gaza PNN Palestinian sources reported that Israeli tanks opened fire on Monday at Palestinian homes near the Easter border of the Gaza Strip.
At the same time Israeli navy boats opened fire at residents homes west of the Gaza Strip on Monday at dawn.
In both incidents no injuries were reported but residents9 homes sustained damage, local sources reported on Monday.
Palestinian homes and farm lands near the Israeli-Gaza borders are attacked frequently; the military claims its trying to stop the infiltration of Palestinian fighters via the borders.
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29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 15 nov 2010
Israeli troops raid and loot house, commercial property of businessman Dudu
Hebron: Israeli Forces Raid Homes and Mosque, Arrest Three
Israel Advocate Pepper Sprays US Peace Activists
16 nov 2010
Beit Ummar: Residents say settlers behind torched fruit grove
Settlers destroy trees near Hebron
29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 17 nov 2010
IAF kills 2 terror operatives in Gaza strike
Forces carry out aerial strike on vehicle of senior terrorist, Islam Yassin, who planned to kidnap Israeli nationals in Sinai Peninsula; Yassin's brother, Muhammad, also killed; 4 lightly injured.
The Air Force and the Israel Security Agency [Shin Bet] said they jointly attacked a senior member of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Army of Islam in Gaza on Wednesday in an aerial strike on his vehicle as it drove in the Gaza Strip.
The targeted man, named as senior terrorist Islam Yassin, aged 35, of Jabaliya in Gaza, planned to kidnap Israeli nationals who are vacationing in the Sinai Peninsula, the IDF Spokesman Unit said in a statement.
Yassin's brother, Muhammad, was also killed in the strike, and four people were lightly injured, Palestinian source in Gaza said.
On November 11, the Counter-Terrorism Bureau released an urgent warning calling on all Israelis in Sinai to return to Israel immediately, due to intelligence of a kidnap plot.
The attack represents the second bombing in Gaza within a month in which a member the global jihadi organization was targeted in order to thwart an impending plot to target Israelis in Sinai.
On November 3, Muhammad Jamal Faras Nemnam was killed when his car exploded in Gaza. The IDF said Nemnan, also a member of the Army of Islam, was assassinated "due to his involvement in this [the Sinai kidnap plot] attack." But the assassination did not succeed in ending the Army of Islam's plot, the IDF said, prompting Wednesday's air strike.
Yassin had also "acted as the right-hand man and aide" to the head Army of Islam, Memtaz Dormush, the IDF added.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=195733
IDF kills senior Gaza militant planning to abduct Israelis in Sinai
Defense establishment confirms that the Shin Bet and IDF targeted Islam Yassin, who was considered 'right hand man' of Army of Islam commander Mumtaz Durmish.
A senior member of a Palestinian militant group planning to abduct Israelis in the Sinai Peninsula was killed on Wednesday when the Israel Air Force attacked his car in central Gaza City.
Israel's defense establishment confirmed that the attack was a coordinated Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces operation targeting Islam Yassin, considered the "right hand man" of the Army of Islam's commander Mumtaz Durmish. Yassin's brother, Mohammed, was also killed in the attack.
The organization is a radical Islamic group with a mission of global Jihad linked to Al-Qaida. The Army of Islam was involved in the abduction of Gilad Shalit in 2006, although the group is no longer holding the Israeli soldier.
An Israeli air-to-ground missile in Gaza City two weeks ago killed another senior member of the group, Mohammad Namnam, who was also considered a close associate of Durmush.
http://bit.ly/c2jG7m
1 killed in Gaza car blast, Palestinians blame IAF strike
IDF yet to comment; Hamas medical official says no word on cause of explosion; 4 injured in blast; radio stations claim Israeli air strike responsible.
GAZA CITY A car explosion has killed one person and wounded four others in the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials said Wednesday.
Hamas medical official Adham Abu Salmia said there was no word on the cause of the blast or the identities of the victims.
But radio stations affiliated with both Hamas and the Islamic Jihad militant groups claimed there was an Israeli air strike.
The IDF had not commented on the incident.
At the beginning of Novemeber Israel resumed its targeted assassinations in the Gaza Strip with the killing of a senior al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist by a car bomb in Gaza City.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed that together with the Israel Air Force, it had carried out an operation to kill 27-year-old Mohammed Namnam, a top operative with the Army of Islam, a radical Palestinian terror group affiliated with al-Qaida and involved in the 2006 abduction of Gilad Schalit.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=195728
Airstrike targets central Gaza City
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli aircraft targeted Gaza's most populous city Tuesday, killing a Palestinian man and severely injuring another.
Witnesses said a drone strike targeted a white Subaru just off central Gaza City's Al-Wehda street, leaving a hole in the ground.
The car was ripped in half, the back blown 10 meters from the front with other pieces littering the street. Power lines were damaged in the blast. Black stains from smoke and fire could be seen on an adjacent building.
Medical officials at Ash-Shifa Hospital identified the deceased as Islam Yassin. The upper half of his body was covered in burns, they said. The other person injured in the blast was not immediately identified.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment, a military spokeswoman told Ma'an.
The attack came two weeks to the day after a drone strike killed a member of Jaish Al-Islam (Army of Islam), a radical Islamist group affiliated with the Salafist movement in the coastal enclave.
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334011
Palestinian killed in car blast
Another assassination in Gaza? Palestinian killed after his vehicle explodes in Strip Wednesday afternoon; sources in Gaza say IDF aircraft fired at least one missile at car. At least three people wounded in strike.
At least one Palestinian was killed after his Volkswagen Golf vehicle exploded in central Gaza City Wednesday afternoon, Palestinian sources in the Strip reported.
According to the sources, an Israel aircraft fired at least one missile at the vehicle. Eyewitnesses at the site reported seeing a scorched body inside the vehicle.
At least three people were reportedly wounded in the incident; one of them is said to be in critical condition.
The identity of the casualties was not immediately clear, but sources in Gaza told Ynet that the man killed in the explosion was apparently member of Army of Islam.
The group is affiliated with al-Qaeda and one of its senior figures was assassinated about two weeks ago in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet security service.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3986173,00.html
More assassinations
A Palestinian police officer stands in front of the car destroyed in Wednesday's airtstrike. (Photo: Jared Malsin)
Just before sundown today I went for a short run along the Gaza shoreline. Passing families relaxing on the beach, I was reflecting on what a remarkably calm holiday Gaza was enjoying this Eid Al-Adha.
I had thought too soon. When I returned to my apartment there was a missed call on my phone from minutes earlier. Emad, the director of Ma'an's Gaza office, was calling to inform me that there was a deadly Israeli airstrike in Gaza City's downtown.
Still sweating, I pulled on my jeans and grabbed a taxi to the scene of the strike, just off Al-Wehda street, not more than 500 meters from the Ma'an office. A missile fired from an Israeli drone had ripped a white Subaru in half. The front doors were butterflied out on either side of the car. The front seats, the upholstery burned off. In addition to bits of metal, rubber, and plastic lying everywhere in the street, there were flowers, as if someone's bouquet had also been blown apart.
Standing there in the dark, the police shooing teenage boys from the scene, I was realized it was shocking that no passersby were injured in the strike. The street was packed with people, families with children, cars and motorcycles. The strike occurred at sundown on a holiday, one of the busiest evenings of the year in Gaza.
The Israeli military announced later that it assassinated the two men because at least one of them was a member of the Army of Islam faction, which the military claimed, based on secret evidence, was planning to attack Israelis in the Sinai Peninsula.
I am going to report on the political-security side of this issue later. For now I want to flag a few things:
1. This strike was the second Israeli extrajudicial assassination in Gaza in as many weeks, marking the resumption of what Israel calls targeted killings.
2. Whatever Israel claims these men were planning to do in the future, at the moment they were killed, they were not engaged in combat. They were in a calm situation, in their own country, driving in a car in a civilian area.
3. These attacks have a terrorizing effect. When bombs or missiles explode on busy streets, killing people, it terrorizes the population, no matter who is doing the bombing, and who are the victims. Of course Israel has been carrying out these attacks in the occupied territories for years, but when you get a look at the bombing up close, you get a sense of the sense of the fragility, the insecurity of daily life here.
by Jared Malsin
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29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 17 nov 2010
Settler Set Fires in Saffa Village, Three Palestinians Arrested
Israeli forces detained a young man Wednesday after raiding his house south of Nablus under heavy fire.
IOF detained three Palestinians for putting off a fire started by Jewish settlers in olive and almond trees.
29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 18 nov 2010
Two brothers killed in Israeli air attack on their car in Gaza city
GAZA, (PIC)-- Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that two Palestinian civilian brothers were killed during an aerial attack on their car in central Gaza city on Wednesday evening, the second day of Eid Al-Adha vacation.
The sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the body of Mohamed Yassin was charred when arrived at the hospital and his brother Islam was in a very critical condition and died there. Both brothers are from Jabaliya refugee camp.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli drones fired one missile at least at the brothers' car as it was passing near Al-Shabiya juncture in central Gaza.
A spokesman for the Israeli admitted that the Israeli air force carried out a raid on a car in Gaza city.
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Exchange of fire reported on Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility Thursday for firing three mortar shells towards an Israeli intelligence headquarters along the Gaza border.
The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said in a statement it launched three shells at the facility behind the Kerem Shalom military base east of Rafah along the border between Israel and Gaza in the south.
A military spokeswoman said the shells landed in the Eshkol Regional Council.
The operation came in response to the assassination of two members of the radical Army of Islam group, the PRC statement said. An Israeli drone targeted a car carrying the brothers, Islam and Muhammad Yassin, a day earlier. Israel claimed they were plotting to attack Israeli citizens in Egypt's Sinai.
The strike came just two weeks after another Israeli assassination killed Muhammad Nimnim, who was also said to be a senior member in the Army of Islam.
Since the end of Israel's winter war on Gaza, the territory's Hamas government has restrained armed groups from breaking a ceasefire with Israel.
Meanwhile Thursday, Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man in northern Gaza, officials said.
Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya said a man identified only by the initials "AH," 24 was shot in the leg near the town of Beit Lahiya. Abu Salmiyya described the man's injuries as moderate.
The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said one of its fighters was injured in the area while firing a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli army vehicle along the border.
Earlier, two mortar shells fired from Gaza landed in Israeli territory, causing no injuries, the country's army said, a day after an Israeli airstrike killed two brothers in the Palestinian enclave.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334135
Israeli fire injures Palestinian in northern Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian man in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, officials said.
Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya said a man identified only by the initials "AH," 24" was shot in the leg near the town of Beit Lahiya. He described the injuries as moderate.
The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said one of its fighters was injured in the area while firing a rocket-propelled grenade at an Israeli army vehicle along the border.
Earlier, two mortar shells fired from Gaza landed in Israeli territory, causing no injuries, the country's army said, a day after an Israeli airstrike killed two brothers in the Palestinian enclave.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the shells landed in the Eshkol Regional Council, adjacent to Gaza.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility from Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.
At sundown on Wednesday an Israeli drone fired a missile at a car in Gaza City's bustling downtown, killing Muhammad and Islam Yassin, the latter believed to be a member of the salafist Army of Islam.
The Israeli military claimed the two were was plotting to attack Israeli citizens in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
The strike came just two weeks after another Israeli assassination killed Muhammad Nimnim, who was also said to be a senior member in the Army of Islam.
Since the end of Israel's winter war on Gaza, the territory's Hamas government has restrained armed groups from breaking a ceasefire with Israel.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334112
29 oct 2012, 12:00 , Respect -
Maria 18 nov 2010
Army Kidnaps 13 Activists Accompanying Palestinians Near Hebron
Settlers tour, perform rites in W. Bank mountains and hills
29 oct 2012, 12:01 , Respect -
Maria 19 nov 2010
Six injured in Israel attack on Gaza
At least six Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli warplanes attacked two cities in the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say.
Four people, including two women, were injured after an Israeli plane targeted a home in the central town of Deir al-Balah, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.
Two others were injured in an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Khan Yunis.
Israeli warplanes also attacked Gaza City earlier in the day .There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The Israeli military confirmed the attacks, saying the airstrikes were carried out after mortars were fired into southern Israel from the besieged Palestinian territory, which caused no damage.
Palestinian fighters, however, say that the mortar attacks were in response to Israel's targeted assassinations across Gaza.
On Wednesday, two senior members of the Army of Islam --Mohammed Yassin and his brother Islam -- were killed in an Israeli air raid in Gaza City. Three others were also wounded in the attack.
Earlier in the month, the Israeli military, in a joint operation with Israel's internal security service Shin Bet, targeted and killed Mohammed Jamal al-Nimnim, another senior member of the Army of Islam.
Israeli officials claim they ordered his assassination as they had received reports that Nimnim was planning a number of attacks against American and Israeli targets in the Sinai Peninsula.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/151657.html
IAF strikes targets in Gaza in response to rocket fire
Follows 11 rockets fired at western Negev, Ashkelon area in less than 24 hours; 4 mortar shells fired contained white phosphorous; Salah-al-Din Brigades claim mortar fire response to IDF assassination of terrorists.
Following multiple rockets and mortar shells being fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Friday, the IDF confirmed that IAF jets successfully struck three terror-related targets in Gaza in response.
The IDF also reported that the four mortar shells that landed in the Ashkelon Regional Council area earlier on Friday contained white phosphorous.
The Salah al-Din Brigade claimed responsibility for the four mortar shells, which they said came in response to the IDF assassination of two members of the Army of Islam, an al-Qaida affiliated group, earlier this week.
In addition to the four mortar shells containing white phosphorous fired into Israel on Friday, three additional mortar shells were fired towards the western Negev.
All the the shells exploded in open land.
No injuries were reported and no damage was caused.
Earlier on Friday a Grad rocket was shot from Gaza towards Israel.
The Grad rocket was the first since July, and the first to land near Ofakim since Operation Cast Lead. The rocket exploded in an open area, injuring three cows and damaging a building.
In addition, two Kassam rockets landed in the Merhavim Regional Council of the western Negev. No injuries and damage were reported.
Another rocket was shot on Friday morning. It landed in Palestinian territory.
Kassam rockets have been shot from Gaza towards the western Negev almost daily since 2001. The IDF Spokesperson's unit reported that over 180 rockets have landed in Israel since the beginning of the year.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=196015
Gaza: Israeli Airstrikes Leave Five Civilians Injured; Troops Shoot A Worker Near the Borders
Gaza PNN Five Palestinian civilians were injured on Friday afternoon when Israeli jetfighters attacked a house in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah.
Palestinian medical sources said that the five were moved to nearby hospitals with moderate to critical wounds.
Another two airstrikes targeted areas in Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, and al-Buraje refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. No injuries were reported.
Earlier in the day a Palestinian worker was injured while he was working near the Erez corssing at the northern Gaza-Israeli border.
According to medical sources the man was hit with two live rounds in his legs; doctors described his wounds as moderate.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9172
Air Strikes Continue To Hit Gaza
Ma'an News Agency's Jared Malsin, has reported, via his Twitter feed that further Israeli air strike have hit Gaza.
Malsin states that he has been informed that the attacks took place in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, and al-Jazeera's Sherine Tadros has reported that four people have been reported injured thus far.
No information on the condition of those injured is known at this time.
The official Israeli Military spokesperson blog has stated that the Israeli Air Force attacked three sites and confirmed direct hits.
The Spokesperson states that the airstrikes come in response to the ongoing exchanges between armed Palestinian factions in Gaza and the Israeli military, claiming that Israel has recieved a total of ten mortars and one Grad rocket fired into its territories over the past few days.
The recent end to calm in the coastal enclave has resulted in two separate incidents of extra-judicial assassination by the Israeli Air Force. On November 3, Mohammed al-Namnam was killed by rocket fire, reported to be from an Israeli helicopter over Gaza, and on November 17, two brothers, Mohammed and Islam Yassif, were killed by a rocket fired from an unmanned Israeli drone.
All three men have been accused of belonging to the Gaza based group, Jaysh al-Isl%u0101m (Army of Islam), who the Israeli Security Service, Shin Bet, claim are preparing attacks against Israeli citizens in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt.
Mortar Fire, and one Grad rocket, has come in response, with one such attack claimed by the National Resistance brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP).
In related news, a 30 second video released by the Ansar al-Sunna Supporters group, spoken in Hebrew, with the video's narrator vowing revenge for the assassination of the Army of Islam members.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59958
3 airstrikes launched on Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Six Gaza residents were injured Friday in when Israeli forces launched three air strikes on the coastal enclave, medics said.
The Israeli military confirmed the strikes in a statement, and said the attacks targeted "terror sites" in the Strip, adding that "direct hits were identified."
The strikes targeted sites in the southern and central Gaza Strip. Four were injured in a strike on Deir Al-Balah, where shelling targeted a two-storey home. The injured were transferred to hospital, Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya said.
Two attacks targeted Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Two were injured in one strike on the southern area, and no injuries were reported from the second, which hit a farmers' field.
The army said the strikes were in response to projectiles launched from the Strip into southern Israel. A military spokesman said two strikes hit central Gaza and targeted "terror tunnels." He could not specify the target of the third strike, which he said hit southern Gaza.
According to the military, ten mortar shells and one grad rocket were fired since Thursday, causing damage. No injuries were reported.
On Wednesday, an Israeli air strike killed an alleged senior Palestinian militant in Gaza City and his brother who was riding in the car with him.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334189
Fighters Fire RPG Shell At Israeli Military Vehicle Near Gaza Border
Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that a resident was wounded by Israeli military fire near Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip after a resistance group fired an RPG shell at an army jeep in northern Gaza.
Adham Abu Salmiyya, coordinator of the Medical Services in Gaza, reported that a 24-year old resident was wounded in his foot, and that his injury was described as moderate.
Meanwhile, the National Resistance brigades, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that one of it fighters was wounded by army fire.
It said that the fighters fired a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) shell at an army vehicle driving north of the former Doughit settlement in northern Gaza.
The Brigades added that the vehicle was directly hit by the shell, and that the army responded by firing several shells and rounds of live ammunition wounding one fighter.
It stated that this attack comes in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli violations and attacks, and the assassination of two brothers this past Wednesday.
On Wednesday evening that two brothers, members of the Army of Islam, were killed were the Israeli Air Force targeted their vehicle in Al Wihda Street, in the center of Gaza City. The two were identified as Mohammad Yassin and his brother Islam.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59948
Israeli fighter jets attack Gaza
Israeli warplanes have once again attacked the southern part of the Gaza Strip, which is under the Israeli siege since 2007, local police say.
A loud explosion was heard in Gaza City early on Friday, Maan news agency reported.
A policeman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that he saw a missile coming from the north explode in the sky overhead.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
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/151596.html
Police: Israeli airstrike in Gaza City
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes bombed the shoreline south of Gaza City early Friday, local police said.
A loud explosion was heard in Gaza just after 1 a.m.
A policeman stationed near Gaza's port said he saw a missile coming from the north explode in the sky overhead.
An Israeli spokesman said he was "not familiar" with any military activity in Gaza.
There were no immediate reports of casualties.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334142
29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 19 nov 2010
Son of Settler leader found guilty of severely beating and dragging Palestinian child behind tractor
29 oct 2012, 12:02 , Respect -
Maria 20 nov 2010
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue overnight
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) A second Israeli attack targeted the southern Gaza Strip overnight, with military officials confirming airstrikes on a smuggling tunnel and local sources saying air and artillery strikes also targeted the Gaza airport early Saturday morning.
Witnesses said shells hit the Yasser Arafat airport - destroyed during the Second Intifada in 2000 - and artillery strikes followed, causing further damage to the bombed-out structure. Officials in the south said the strikes were preceded by two hits to smuggling tunnels in the Yebna and Nahda areas of Rafah.
An Israeli military spokesman said the Israeli airforce targeted two tunnel sites in southern Gaza, as part of what has been an ongoing assault said to be a response to projectile fire from militant groups in the area. He said forces identified a direct hit, though no injuries were reported by Gaza medical officials.
The spokesman said strikes did not target the Arafat airfield, but noted flares were used in foggy conditions. He said he was not aware of any artillery strikes on the area.
Following the strikes, the militant wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's General Command unit said their fighters fired for mortar shells toward the Israeli military base at Kissufim, east of Khan Younis. The brigades said in a statement that the attack came in retaliation for the assassinationof two brothers in Gaza on Wednesday.
On Friday afternoon, six Gaza residents were injured in three air strikes on the coastal enclave, medics said.
The Israeli military confirmed the strikes in a statement, and said the attacks targeted "terror sites" in the Strip, adding that "direct hits were identified."
The strikes targeted sites in the southern and central Gaza Strip. Four were injured in a strike on Deir Al-Balah, where shelling targeted a two-storey home. The injured, who included two women, were transferred to hospital, Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya said.
Two attacks targeted Khan Younis in southern Gaza. One strike on the southern area injured a man and a child, who were transferred to the Nasser Hospital, Abu Salmiyya said.
No injuries were reported from the third strike, which hit a farmers' field.
The army said the strikes were in response to projectiles launched from the Strip into southern Israel. A military spokesman said two strikes hit central Gaza and targeted "terror tunnels." He could not specify the target of the third strike, which he said hit southern Gaza.
According to the military, ten mortar shells and one grad rocket were fired since Thursday, causing damage. No injuries were reported.
A long-range rocket fired on Friday from Gaza into Israel exploded near the Negev desert town of Ofakim without causing any casualties, the army said. A military spokesman said the rocket was "the first of its kind for several months."
Grad-type rockets have a range of up to 40 kilometers, about twice the distance of the homemade Qassam rockets usually used by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
The attack came hours after local police said Israeli warplanes bombed the shoreline south of Gaza City, where a loud explosion was heard in Gaza just after 1 a.m.
On Thursday, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for firing three mortar shells towards an Israeli intelligence headquarters along the Gaza border.
The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said in a statement it launched three shells at the facility behind the Kerem Shalom military base east of Rafah along the border between Israel and Gaza in the south.
A military spokeswoman said the shells landed in the Eshkol Regional Council.
The operation came in response to the assassination of two brothers who were members of the radical Army of Islam group, the PRC statement said. An Israeli drone targeted a car carrying the brothers, Islam and Muhammad Yassin, on Wednesday. Israel claimed they were plotting to attack Israeli citizens in Egypt's Sinai.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=334244