- 27 oct 2011
Medics: Palestinian injured east of Rafah
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- A medical official said a Palestinian man sustained injuries Thursday east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, while Israel's army denied involvement.
Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham Abu Salmiya said a 32-year-old identified only as MA suffered an injury to his left hand after Israeli forces opened fire.
He was taken to Abu Yousef An-Najjar hospital and then to the European hospital.
An army spokeswoman said the military was not aware of the incident.
Earlier, Israeli warplanes launched four airstrikes in central and southern Gaza, witnesses and the army said. No injuries were reported.
Locals told Ma'an that Israeli fighter jets shelled three open areas and a site used by Hamas' armed wing the al-Qassam Brigades in Khan Younis in the south and Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
The Israeli army said its forces targeted "three terror activity sites" in central Gaza and a weapons storage facility in the southern Gaza Strip. "Direct hits were confirmed," the military said in a statement.
The army said the strikes were in response to a grad rocket which landed near the city of Ashdod in southern Israel on Wednesday. A spokeswoman said Wednesday the rocket had caused no injury or damage.
The airstrikes were the first aerial attack on Gaza since Oct. 1, when Israeli fighter jets struck northern Gaza seriously injuring one man and wounding two others.
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Palestinian shepherd wounded in IOF shooting
RAFAH, (PIC)-- A Palestinian shepherd was wounded on Thursday evening when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at him east of Rafah south of the Gaza Strip.
Local and medical sources told the PIC that the 32-year-old shepherd was grazing his sheep when the IOF troops fired at him wounding him in his hand and foot.
They said that the shepherd, Mustafa Ermaylat, was taken to hospital in Rafah where his condition was described as moderate.
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Israeli navy detains two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli navy forces detained two Palestinian fishermen off the coast of central Gaza on Thursday morning, the chief of Palestinian fishermen Nizar Ayesh said.
He told the Quds Press that an Israeli frigate fired at the Palestinian fishing boat before steering it and two fishermen on board to Asdod port.
Ayesh said that Israel was acting without fear of any deterrence and attacking and arresting Palestinian fishermen at will.
The ministry of agriculture in Gaza condemned the incident and held the Israeli occupation authority fully responsible for the lives of both men.
It said that the Israeli navy attacked the fishing boat while at work only one nautical mile off the Gaza coasts.
Israeli warplanes had earlier Thursday raided a container on the Khan Younis beach, south of Gaza Strip, and destroyed it and all fishing equipment inside it.
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Israeli Forces Declare Area near Bethlehem Closed Military Zone
BETHLEHEM, (WAFA) – Israeli forces shut off the entire area of Um Rokba, an area south of the town of al-Khader, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, declaring it a closed military zone, Palestinian security sources said Thursday.
They said Israeli soldiers patrolled all entrances of the area, setting up checkpoints and prevented Palestinians from entering or leaving the area.
A resident told WAFA that the army brought a bulldozer and what appears to be special explosives machine to the area.
The army prevented people from even looking out through their windows, he said.
More than 15 Israeli military vehicles and three ambulances stormed the area of Um Rokba late Wednesday night after a large explosion was heard followed by a heavy gunfire, according to witnesses.
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New Israeli attacks kill 9 in Gaza
Palestinians wheel the wounded into the al-Najar hospital in Rafah following an Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip on October 29, 2011.
Israeli warplanes pound the southern Gaza Strip for a second time within the space of a day, killing at least nine Palestinians, Press TV reports.
Two members of the Palestinian resistance group of Islamic Jihad Movement were among those killed in an Israeli attack on the city of Rafah on Saturday evening.
Initial reports said seven people were killed in the attack. But medical sources in Gaza later said two of those wounded in the airstrike died of the serious wounds they had sustained in the raid.
Earlier in the day, five other members of the movement were killed in another Israeli airstrike in the area.
Later, the group fired two long-range Grad rockets from the Gaza Strip at two Israeli cities in retaliation.
Israeli media reports said at least one person was killed in the rocket attacks.
Over the past months, Tel Aviv has stepped up its strikes against the besieged coastal strip, killing scores of Palestinians and injuring many more.
Israel has launched attacks on Gaza prior to and after its December 2008-January 2009 war on the territory, which left more than 1,400 Palestinians dead.
The airstrikes have been carried out under the pretext of preventing attacks on Israel.
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IDF Provokes New Wave of Violence in Gaza to Coincide With National Social Justice Protest
Anyone notice the coincidence of the IDF deciding to kill Islamic Jihad’s chief rocket maker and three other militants on the same day that the national J14 social justice movement held its first major protest rally in two months?
The Israeli killings led to massive retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza that killed one Israeli and injured several others. One report says 10 were killed on both sides. At least one rocket reached as far as a suburb of Tel Aviv. The fact that these two events occurred on the same day was entirely an accident I’m sure as neither the IDF nor Bibi Netanyahu would be so cynical as to try to suck the wind out of the sails of the government’s chief critics on their day of glory.
The Tel Aviv protest and several others in other cities brought out 25,000 to resume the call for economic justice and helping the poor and disadvantaged. The turnout was a marked decline from earlier events because the leader of the national student union has deserted the ranks and taken his followers with him.
In describing the tit for tat attacks on both Gaza and Israel, the NY Times Isabel Kershner continues spewing the lies of the IDF claiming the Eilat terror attacks originated in Gaza and were authored by the Popular Resistance Committees. Yediot’s Alex Fishman has for weeks exposed the IDF’s lies offered for public consumption and even revealed a secret IDF report which admits the attack originated in Sinai and was perpetrated by militants there with no connections to Gaza or the PRC.
Either Isabel Kershner doesn’t read the Hebrew press and hence isn’t doing her job, or else she’s continuing to spew lies long disproven by the Israeli media. Either way, this further confirms the shoddy journalism emanating from Eytan Bronners NYT Israel bureau.
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BREAKING NEWS Palestinian medical sources: Nine killed after Israeli attacks on Gaza
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Israeli airstrikes kill 9 militants in Gaza, Palestinian rockets kill 1 Israeli, wound 4
By Associated Press, Published: October 29
JERUSALEM — Israeli aircraft struck at Palestinian militants in Gaza on Saturday who responded with a volley of rockets which rained on southern Israeli towns, Israeli and Palestinian officials said. Palestinian officials said seven militants were killed, while on the Israeli side one civilian was killed and four others were wounded.
Exchanges of fire are common between southern Israel and the Gaza strip controlled by the militant Hamas group, but this is the worst one in months.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia said that seven people were killed and 15 wounded in two separate attacks on militant targets.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said one Israeli civilian was killed and four others wounded when Palestinian rockets exploded in residential areas in southern Israel.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed a total of three strikes in Gaza, saying the military hit Palestinian militants from the Islamic Jihad, one of several groups in Gaza which fires rockets into southern Israel. The spokesman said that the first attack specifically targeted a cell responsible for a Wednesday rocket attack that exploded deep inside Israel. That attack had caused no casualties.
The military “will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli civilians,” the spokesman said. He spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with military protocols.
The Israeli military released video footage taken from a military drone Saturday afternoon that shows Palestinians unloading rockets from a truck and preparing them for firing at Israel. The strike took place shortly afterward.
Abu Salmia, the Gaza health official, said five people had been killed and 11 wounded in the first attack. Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Ahmed confirmed that one of its local field commanders, Ahmed Sheikh Khalil, was among the dead. He said Khalil was one of the group’s chief bomb makers. “Today it was a great loss for us in the Islamic Jihad,” he said. “The size of our retaliation will equal our loss,” it said in a text message sent to reporters.
“Our response shall be in the depths of the Zionist entity,” it said in reference to the Israeli heartland.
After the first airstrike, militants in Gaza fired over 20 rockets at southern Israel, Rosenfeld said.
Islamic Jihad took responsibility for firing the rockets in a text message to reporters, and released photos of the rockets being launched from the backs of pickup trucks. The group said this is the first time they are using this system as opposed to firing them from launchers on the ground.
One rocket hit an apartment building in the southern city of Ashkelon and injured a 50 year-old Israeli who later died of his wounds, Rosenfeld said. Another exploded outside an apartment building in nearby Ashdod, injuring one person. Israeli television showed about a dozen cars in flames outside the building.
Another Israeli sustained shrapnel wounds in the nearby town of Gan Yavneh and others in the Ashdod region were treated for shock, the Israeli military spokesman said.
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Gaza death toll reaches 7, one Israeli dies from injuries
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip killed two more fighters from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing on Saturday evening, after earlier airstrikes on the coastal enclave had killed five members from the group.
Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham Abu Salmiya said that two fighters from the al-Quds Brigades were killed in the strike on Rafah, south Gaza.
He identified the victims as 21-year-old Sami Abu Sabt and 25-year-old Suleiman Abu Fatima, both from Rafah. Their bodies were transferred to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in the city, he added.
Israeli media reported that a man had died from his injuries after a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern city of Ashkelon.
More than 20 projectiles and mortar bombs hit different sites in southern Israel on Saturday, wounding two civilians and damaging buildings, Israeli police and the army said.
Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades separately took credit.
Richard Miron, the spokesman for UN special envoy for the peace process Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
An Israeli army statement confirmed a direct hit on a site being used to fire projectiles into Israel.
Remarking on the Rafah deaths, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of a "serious escalation against our people."
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli warplanes had fired on southern Gaza, killing five members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing and injuring 15 others, four of them seriously, medics and security officials said.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces fired two missiles at a military site operated by the al-Quds Brigades northeast of Rafah. The attack killed Ahmad al-Sheikh Khalil, a prominent leader in the brigades.
Shortly thereafter rockets were launched toward Israeli targets, the military said. An army spokeswoman confirmed that three projectiles struck Israeli territory around 5 p.m., lightly injuring two people.
President Mahmoud Abbas' office on Saturday called on Israel to stop its escalation against the Gaza Strip.
Nabil Abu Rdeina, the president’s spokesman, was quoted by the official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa as calling on factions in Gaza “to avoid giving Israel a pretext to wage a new war on Gaza and to tighten the siege.”
Senior Hamas leader Ahmad Bahar on Saturday said that Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip were an attempt to "trick the resistance into a new round of escalation."
The latest round of Israeli violence was a way of compensating for the recent prisoner deal, which Bahar described as a “strategic victory for Palestinian resistance.”
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=433504
Fatah says Israel wants to start 'cycle of violence'
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- The Fatah movement in Gaza strongly condemned an Israeli airstrike which killed five Islamic Jihad fighters in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, a statement said.
The movement described the airstrike as an "assassination crime committed by Israeli occupation forces."
The Israeli government is attempting “to throw the region into a cycle of violence and systematic state terrorism against the Palestinian people," the statement added.
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BREAKING NEWS : MINISTRY OF HEALTH IN GAZA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED THIS EVENING EMERGENCY ALERT IN ALL THE HOSPITALS AND CLINICS
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Breaking: Palestinian fighters launch home-made rockets to defend the civilians as Israel kills 7 in less than 12 hours.
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Israeli raid kills two more Palestinians
RAFAH, (PIC)-- A fresh Israeli raid on southern Gaza Strip on Saturday killed two more Palestinians affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.
Medical sources said that four were wounded in the same raid including one in a serious condition.
Israeli warplanes also launched a raid on Beit Lahia in northern Gaza while Israeli occupation forces opened machinegun fire at the eastern flank of the Strip.
An earlier Israeli air raid on Saturday morning killed five Palestinians, all affiliated with Islamic Jihad, and wounded five others.
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Rafah airstrike kills 2 Islamic Jihad fighters
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip killed two more fighters from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing on Saturday evening, hours after earlier airstrikes had killed five members from the group.
Medical spokesman in Gaza Adham Abu Salmiya said that two fighters from the al-Quds Brigades were killed in the strike on Rafah, south Gaza.
He identified the victims as 21-year old Sami Abu Sabt and 25-year-old Suleiman Abu Fatima, both from Rafah. Their bodies were transferred to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, he added.
Robert Miron, the spokesman for UN special envoy for the peace process Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
An Israeli army statement confirmed a direct hit on a site being used to fire projectiles into Israel. At least 20 projectiles and mortar bombs hit different sites in southern Israel, wounding three civilians, Israeli police said.
Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades separately took credit.
Remarking on the Rafah deaths, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of a "serious escalation against our people."
Earlier on Saturday, Israeli warplanes had fired on southern Gaza, killing five members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing and injuring 15 others, four of them seriously, medics and security officials said.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces fired two missiles at a military site operated by the al-Quds Brigades northeast of Rafah. The attack killed Ahmad al-Sheikh Khalil, a prominent leader in the brigades.
Shortly thereafter rockets were launched toward Israeli targets, the military said. An army spokeswoman confirmed that three projectiles struck Israeli territory around 5 p.m., lightly injuring two people.
President Mahmoud Abbas' office on Saturday called on Israel to stop its escalation against the Gaza Strip.
Nabil Abu Rdeina, the president’s spokesman, was quoted by the official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa as calling on factions in Gaza “to avoid giving Israel a pretext to wage a new war on Gaza and to tighten the siege.”
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Israeli planes attack Gaza again
Israeli warplanes have for the second time on Saturday targeted the southern parts of the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Israeli airstrike kills six Gazans
An Israeli airstrike has killed at least six Palestinians and injured 11 others in the southern city of Rafah in besieged Gaza Strip's, local medics say.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Adham Abu Salmia said the Saturday airstrike targeted a military compound in Rafah, AP reported.
Israel has again begun to step up its air raids on the Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, an Israeli aircraft carried out three bombing attacks on the city of Khan Yunes in Gaza. No causalities were reported in the attack.
On October 1, three Palestinians were injured in an Israeli drone attack on the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed scores of Palestinians and injured many more over the past months.
Israel has been launching airstrikes on Gaza on an almost regular basis since the end of the December 2008-January 2009 war on the Palestinian territories.
The airstrikes have been carried out under the pretext of preventing attacks on Israel.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207275.html
Israel kills 5 Islamic Jihad fighters in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes shelled the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing five members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing and injuring 15 others, four of them seriously, medics and security officials said.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces fired two missiles at a military site operated by the Al-Quds Brigades near Tal al-Sultan, northeast of the border city of Rafah.
Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said five were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically. The victims were transferred to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, he said.
One of the deceased is Ahmad al-Sheikh Khalil, a prominent leader in the al-Quds Brigades, medics and Islamic Jihad officials said.
The other four were identified as Muhammad Ashour, Abdul Karim Shabat, Basem Abol Ata and Muhammad al-Khudari, also members of the Islamist faction's armed wing.
The al-Quds Brigades confirmed in a statement that one of its military sites in Rafah was attacked and a number of fighters were killed and injured.
Brigades spokesman Abu Ahmad said the strike was the most brutal on the resistance since April. A spate of rockets and airstrikes on Gaza killed at least 18 people in April before factions agreed a ceasefire.
Israel "wants to provoke the Palestinian resistance, and our response will target the heart of Israel," Abu Ahmad warned.
Confirming the strike, an Israeli army statement said military aircraft "targeted a terrorist squad in the southern Gaza Strip that was preparing to launch long-range rockets."
"A hit was identified and the launching attempt was thwarted," it said. "The aforementioned squad is responsible for the firing of the Grad rocket towards southern Israel this past Wednesday."
The rocket landed near the Israeli city of Ashdod, causing no injuries or damage, the army said Wednesday. Warplanes launched four airstrikes in central and southern Gaza early Thursday, causing no injuries.
The army said they were targeting "three terror activity sites" in central Gaza and a weapons facility.
Locals told Ma'an Thursday's strikes hit three open areas and a site used by Hamas' armed wing the al-Qassam Brigades in Khan Younis in the south and Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
Later that day, Israeli forces fired on the Rafah area and lightly injured a Palestinian man, a health official said. The injured man was treated at the European Hospital.
Israel's army denied involvement in that incident.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=433382
Five Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
RAFAH, (PIC)-- Five members of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, were killed on Saturday in an Israel raid on their position to the west of Rafah city south of the Gaza Strip.
Sources in the armed wing said that the Israeli raid wounded five others, noting that among the martyrs was a senior commander in the Quds Brigades.
Abu Ahmed, the spokesman for the armed wing, told the PIC that the “crime” would not pass unpunished, adding that the Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at the position with the clear intention to kill all those inside.
The spokesman said in a separate statement that the armed wing has declared a state of alert, promising a strong retaliatory strike.
He pointed out that the commander Ahmed Sheikh Khalil, who was killed in the raid, was targeted on five past occasions by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and in one such attempt his right hand was amputated. He recalled that four of the commander’s brothers were also killed at the hands of the IOF.
For his part, Abu Obaida, the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas, held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for consequences of its crime.
He said that the Palestinian resistance factions were consulting on means of responding to that crime, charging the IOA with trying to spoil the Palestinian people’s joy with the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in the recent exchange deal.
An Israeli man was injured in a series of retaliatory rocket attacks by the Quds Brigades and other armed wings on Saturday evening that targeted Asdod and Yibna cities, occupied since 1948, to the north of the Gaza Strip.
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Despite Declared Ceasefire; Israel Bombards Several Areas In Gaza
Media sources in Gaza reported that the army carried out at least ten airstrikes after a ceasefire, mediated by Egypt, was announced.
The ceasefire was reached following a day of bloody shelling that led to the death of nine Palestinian fighters in Gaza and one Israeli. Dozens of injuries were reported.
Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson the of Higher Committee of the Medical and Emergency Services in Gaza, stated that the Israeli Air Force carried out at least ten strikes in two hours, Sunday at dawn, leading to damages in Gaza District, Al Wista (Central) District, in addition to Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; dozens of residents, especially children, suffered anxiety attacks due to the shelling; damage was reported.
Furthermore, the Palestinian Information Canter reported that, in Khan Younis, the army also bombarded Al Qadisiyya Center that belongs to the Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas, Ahrar Movement Center, and a third area located west of the city.
The Center added that the truce between the resistance and Israel was declared in Egypt shortly after 3 a.m Sunday, but the Israeli army did not stop its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, and carried out additional strikes targeting Khan Younis.
On Sunday at dawn, the army fired missiles at fighters in Al Nafaq Street, in Gaza City, but the fighters managed to escape the shells unharmed.
Later on, the army fired a missile at residents in Ash-Shejaeyya neighborhood east of Gaza city, in addition to shelling Tunis Base that belongs to the Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas in the city, and third area east of Rafah.
The amount of destruction remains unclear due to the extensive presence of Israeli war-jets, and drones flying over different parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip led to the death of nine Palestinian fighters in less than 24 hours; excessive damage was reported and several residents were wounded.
The resistance fired dozens of shells into southern Israel and leading to the death of one Israeli man. while several others suffered anxiety attacks.
Israeli Ynet News reported that a total of 24 shells and rockets were fired into Israeli territories in the south on Saturday. Shells were fired into Sha'ar Ha-Negev Regional Council in the Negev.
Israeli daily, Maariv, reported that several Israelis were mildly injured when three Grad missiles hit a nine-story building in Ashdod.
http://www.imemc.org/article/62395
Netanyahu: No ceasefire; other side will pay
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to the successful IAF attempt to thwart rocket fire east of Rafah and said: "There is no ceasefire" on the southern front.
"The other side will pay a harsher price than what they have paid before until they stop firing," Netanyahu said as he expressed his appreciation for the steadfastness of the residents of the south.
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Truce fails as Gaza border violence continues
(1:01) Truce fails as Gaza border violence continues
Airstrikes and rocket attacks between Israeli and Palestinian fighters killed several people on Saturday.
Following the border violence, Egyptian officials tried to secure a tacit truce between the two sides.
But the attempt failed on Sunday as Israel said that three rockets had been fired at them from Gaza after the ceasefire deadline had passed.
Saturday's exchange began with an Israeli attack in Rafah city, which Israel said was in response to rocket attacks launched from Gaza earlier in the week.
Israeli warplanes target Gaza district
Israeli warplanes have pounded a neighborhood in the northern Gaza Strip, following airstrikes in the coastal sliver's southern city of Rafah, Press TV reports.
The Israeli fighter jets targeted Zeitoun district twice in the east of Gaza City in the early hours of Sunday.
Witnesses said no one was killed or injured in the airstrikes.
The attacks came hours after nine members of Palestine's Islamic Jihad Movement were killed in three separate attacks on the city of Rafah on Saturday. Six others were also injured in the strikes.
The Palestinian resistance movement fired two long-range Grad rockets from the Gaza Strip at two Israeli cities in retaliation, killing at least one person.
The Islamic Jihad movement pledged a strong response to what it called the Israeli aggression.
The Sunday attacks are the latest in a long-held string of Israel's stepped-up military action against the besieged coastal strip, which has been under a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
Scores of Gazans have been killed and many more injured in a new spate of Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian territory over the past few months.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207393.html
Egyptian truce fails to end border violence
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- A truce secured through Egyptian mediation early on Sunday failed to end cross border violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
The truce aimed to put an end to the violence which had killed nine Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian on Saturday.
Three rockets were fired at Israel after the 6 a.m. deadline for the truce, an Israeli official said. Two were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile shield and another slammed into southern Israel causing no casualties or damage.
Israel's air force bombed an Islamic Jihad base in southern Gaza on Saturday afternoon, killing five senior operatives and drawing Palestinian rocket salvoes that killed an Israeli civilian.
Four more fighters from the al-Quds Brigades were killed in separate strikes.
Medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya identified two of them as Sami Abu Sabt, 21, and Suleiman Abu Fatima, 25, both members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing.
The Palestinian civil defense managed to recover the bodies of two Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes late Saturday. They were later identified as Suheil Jundieh and Murdi Hajjaj.
One of some 30 rockets and mortar bombs fired at Israel killed an Israeli man in the city of Ashkelon. Two other people were wounded.
Israel kept schools shut in its southern region on Sunday as a precaution against further rocket fire, while hundreds of thousands of civilians within 40 km of Gaza were urged to stay indoors.
Richard Miron, the spokesman for UN special envoy for the peace process Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said Saturday in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
Islamic Jihad said a commander, Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil, and four comrades who had overseen production of bombs and rockets were killed in Saturday's Israeli strike on the base. Two other fighters were wounded.
Islamic Jihad vowed revenge, a call echoed by smaller groups in the coastal territory.
"There is no chance of speaking about a truce now, following such a big crime against leaders of the group," Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Ahmed said on Saturday.
Islamic Jihad and two more secular factions, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, claimed responsibility for most of Saturday's rocket fire.
Israel demanded international intervention to stop the Palestinian attacks.
Hamas last week repatriated an Israeli soldier it seized in 2006 in exchange for the release of more than 1,000 jailed Palestinians. There were no claims of any Hamas involvement in Saturday's violence, but officials expressed anger
Commenting on the Islamic Jihad deaths, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of a "serious escalation against our people."
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Officials: Egypt secures truce to end violence
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Israel and Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip will end a flare-up of violence early Sunday, Egyptian officials said as the death toll rose to 10.
The truce was secured through Cairo's mediation, informed officials said, after nine Palestinian gunmen and an Israeli civilian were killed in the cross-border violence that was sparked by an Israeli raid.
Israel's air force bombed an Islamic Jihad base in southern Gaza on Saturday afternoon, killing five senior operatives and drawing Palestinian rocket salvoes that killed an Israeli civilian.
Four more fighters from the al-Quds Brigades were killed in separate strikes.
Medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya identified two of them as 21-year-old Sami Abu Sabt and 25-year-old Suleiman Abu Fatima, both members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing.
Their bodies were transferred to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, he added.
The Israeli military said the gunmen had carried out cross-border shellings. An Israeli army statement confirmed a direct hit on a site being used to fire projectiles into Israel.
Israeli media reported that a man had died from his injuries after a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip hit the southern city of Ashkelon. He had been taken to Barzilai hospital, Israel's Haaretz newspaper said.
More than 20 projectiles and mortar bombs hit different sites in southern Israel on Saturday, wounding the man who later died and another civilian, Israeli police and the army said.
Islamic Jihad, the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah-aligned al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades separately took credit for the cross-border projectiles.
Richard Miron, the spokesman for UN special envoy for the peace process Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
Remarking on the Rafah attack, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri accused Israel of a "serious escalation against our people."
The attack killed five members of Islamic Jihad's armed wing and injured 15 others, four of them seriously, medics and security officials said.
Israeli forces fired two missiles at the military site operated by the al-Quds Brigades northeast of Rafah. The attack killed Ahmad al-Sheikh Khalil, a prominent leader in the brigades.
Shortly thereafter rockets were launched toward Israeli targets, the military said. An army spokeswoman confirmed that three projectiles first struck Israeli territory around 5 p.m.
President Mahmoud Abbas' office called on Israel to stop its escalation.
Nabil Abu Rdeina, the president’s spokesman, was quoted by the official Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa as also calling on factions in Gaza “to avoid giving Israel a pretext to wage a new war on Gaza and to tighten the siege.”
Senior Hamas leader Ahmad Bahar on Saturday said that Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip were an attempt to "trick the resistance into a new round of escalation."
The latest round of Israeli violence was a way of compensating for the recent prisoner deal, which Bahar described as a “strategic victory for Palestinian resistance.”
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Islamic Jihad: We accept the truce if Israel respects it
GAZA, (PIC)-- Spokesman for Islamic Jihad Movement Dawoud Shihab asserted that the Palestinian resistance factions reached a truce with the Israeli occupation state after a wave of deadly air raids on the Gaza Strip and rocket counterattacks on Israeli targets.
Shihab told the Palestinian information center (PIC) on Sunday that the truce took place after the Israeli occupation asked Egypt to intervene with the Palestinian factions in Gaza to cease-fire.
The Islamic Jihad refused at first Egypt's truce efforts because it did not trust the Israeli side, but after repeated Egyptian attempts, it accepted to abide by a reciprocal calm, the spokesman noted.
"The Islamic Jihad Movement received phone calls from the Egyptian side until the dawn of today to calm the situation, provided that the Zionist occupation has to be committed to this truce," he emphasized.
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Medics: Israeli airstrike kills 1, critically wounds another
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- A fighter from the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine was killed, and another critically injured, as Israel launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip hours after a ceasefire truce was agreed upon by Gaza militants.
Medical spokesman in the Gaza Strip Adham Abu Salmiya said that one man was killed in the airstrike on Rafah. The victim was identified as Ahmad Jarkhoun.
Another man was critically wounded and rushed to hospital, he added.
The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the DFLP, announced in a statement that Jarkhoun was one of their leaders. They confirmed that he was killed in the Israeli airstrike.
The statement called on resistance factions in Gaza to retaliate for "this cowardly crime."
The Israeli army confirmed the strike, claiming that militants in the southern Gaza Strip were preparing to fire projectiles, a statement said.
The latest strike on the coastal enclave comes as the Islamic Jihad movement confirmed earlier on Sunday that it would abide by truce efforts.
"Islamic Jihad is committed to the truce as long as the occupation commits to it," an official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"This decision comes after Egyptian efforts to convince the resistance factions, especially Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus," he added.
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed nine fighters from Islamic Jihad's armed wing on Saturday, and Gaza militants fired a volley of rockets and mortars into southern Israel, killing one Israeli in Ashkelon.
The most recent flareup in violence is the worst since August, when clashes in and around the Gaza Strip killed 27 Palestinians and an Israeli.
The confrontations erupted when Israel launched airstrikes on the coastal enclave after blaming a militant group for an attack in Israel which killed eight people.
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Netanyahu warns of 'kill or be killed' policy on Gaza
TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that Israel would hit back against rocket fire, while insisting the country wants to avoid escalating hostilities after Israeli airstrikes killed 10 Palestinian militants in some 24 hours.
Israel is "not eager for escalation" but uses two principles in response to Gaza militants "kill or be killed" and "hurt us – on your own head be it," Netanyahu said according to Israeli news site Ynet.
Speaking at a university opening in Safed in northern Israel, the premier vowed Israel will "defend ourselves according to these principles," Ynet reported.
Netanyahu and Israeli President Shimon Peres, speaking at the same ceremony, pinned responsibility for rockets hitting Israel, which killed one Israeli on Saturday, on Gaza-rulers Hamas.
"Hamas claims that it controls Gaza and so the direct responsibility for everything that happens there lies with the group. The writing is on the wall, and they will bear the harsh consequences of their actions," Peres said according to Ynet.
The president called rockets fired from Gaza a "declaration of war," the report added.
Israeli airstrikes killed nine Islamic Jihad militants on Saturday, and a barrage of rockets hit southern Israel, killing a man in the city of Ashkelon. Hours after Islamic Jihad confirmed it would abide by an Egyptian-brokered truce Sunday morning, Israeli war planes struck southern Gaza, killing a leader of the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Richard Miron, the spokesman for UN special envoy for the peace process Robert Serry, said the recent escalations "are very worrying."
Miron said Saturday in a statement received by Ma'an that "it is vital to de-escalate now, without delay. We strongly appeal for calm and an end to the violence and bloodshed."
President Mahmoud Abbas' office called for a halt to violence, as senior Hamas leader Ahmad Bahar warned Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip were an attempt to "trick the resistance into a new round of escalation."
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'Israel must continue targeted killing'
Shaul Mofaz, a member of Israel's Knesset
An Israeli official says the Tel Aviv regime should continue targeted assassination of high-ranking figures within Palestine's Islamic Jihad Movement and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Shaul Mofaz, a member of Israel's Knesset, said on Sunday that Israel must restore its deterrence capabilities against what he described as “rocket attacks from Gaza,” Jerusalem Post reported.
“Israel must bring back its deterrence capabilities that it lost. Doing so is the only way to stop the rocket fire,” Mofaz said.
The official claimed that Israel cannot allow “terror organizations in the Gaza Strip” to take Israelis hostage in southern Palestinian territories “whenever they feel like it.”
Mofaz made the remarks as one Palestinian was killed and another was injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
On Saturday, nine members of the Islamic Jihad movement were killed in three separate attacks on Rafah. Six others were also injured in the strikes.
The Israeli regime has been carrying out airstrikes against Gaza on an almost regular basis since the end of the December 2008-January 2009 war on the Palestinian territories. Scores of Palestinians have been killed and many more have been injured over the past months.
The airstrikes have been carried out under the pretext of preventing attacks on Israel.
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Hamas official calls Israeli leaders 'war criminals'
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Minister of Justice in the Hamas government on Sunday denounced Israeli airstrikes against the coastal enclave and called for Israeli leaders to be tried as "war criminals," a statement said.
Al-Ghoul condemned the killing of Gaza militants, saying "a crime like this will only increase the stubbornness, stability and resistance of the Palestinian people."
He called on Arab and Islamic countries, as well as the international community, to put pressure on Israel to end its violent treatment of the Palestinians.
Al-Ghoul also called on the International Criminal Court to pursue Israeli leaders for their violations of international humanitarian law.
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2 more Palestinians killed in Gaza
The body of Ahmed Jarghun arrives at the morgue of a hospital in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike on October 30, 2011.
Two more Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said the bodies of the two men, identified as Yousef Abu Abdo and Ali Aqqad, were found during the early hours of Monday after a midnight Israeli airstrike, Palestinian WAFA news agency reported.
The discovery was made as another Israeli raid targeted the city of Rafah on Sunday, killing one Palestinian named Ahmed Jarghun, who was a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and injuring another DFLP member.
Israeli military officials claimed that the airstrikes were against what they described as “a rocket squad that attacked Israel from the southern Gaza Strip.”
On Saturday, nine members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement were killed in three separate attacks on Rafah. Six others also sustained injuries in the strikes.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the Israeli regime on Sunday to “exercise maximum restraint,” expressing “deep concern” over the recent violent incident.
The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on an almost regular basis since the end of the December 2008-January 2009 war on the Palestinian territory.
Scores of Palestinians have been killed and many more have been injured over past months.
The airstrikes have been carried out under the pretext of preventing attacks on Israel.
The latest Israeli bombings came as Shaul Mofaz, a member of Israel's Knesset, said on Sunday that the Tel Aviv regime must continue its targeted assassination of high-ranking figures within the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Mofaz added that Israel must “restore its deterrence capabilities” against what he claimed as “rocket attacks from Gaza.”
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Overnight airstrike brings Gaza deaths to 12
Palestinians mourn at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after an Israeli air strike October 31, 2011
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Two militants were killed overnight Sunday as Israeli forces targeted the Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the coastal enclave to 12 since Saturday.
Palestinian medical sources identified the victims as Yousif Rawhi Mahmoud Abu Abdu and Ali Abdullah al-Aqad, both from Khan Younis, south Gaza.
Both victims were transferred to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.
The al-Ansar brigades, a military wing of the al-Ahrar movement, said in a statement that the victims were fighters in the group. They vowed to retaliate for the deaths.
The Israeli army released a statement just after midnight on Sunday, confirming a direct hit on the Gaza Strip, reportedly to target a militant group who had fired projectiles at Israel.
There have been no new reports of violence since the overnight Israeli airstrike, with an Egyptian brokered truce seemingly holding.
A truce secured through Egyptian mediation early on Sunday failed to end cross border violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, as projectiles were fired from Gaza and Israeli launched an airstrike on the strip in the afternoon, killing a DFLP fighter.
The Islamic Jihad movement confirmed earlier on Sunday that it would abide by truce efforts.
"Islamic Jihad is committed to the truce as long as the occupation commits to it," an official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed nine fighters from Islamic Jihad's armed wing on Saturday, and Gaza militants fired a volley of rockets and mortars into southern Israel, killing one Israeli in Ashkelon.
The recent flareup in violence is the worst since August, when clashes in and around the Gaza Strip killed 27 Palestinians and an Israeli.
The confrontations erupted when Israel launched airstrikes on the coastal enclave after blaming a militant group for an attack in Israel which killed eight people.
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Two Palestinians killed in late night raid
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Two more Palestinians were killed at midnight Sunday in a fresh Israeli violation of the Egyptian brokered calm that supposedly went into effect for the third time at 10 pm Sunday.
Medical sources told the PIC reporter that the medical crews could not retrieve the bodies of the two men until dawn Monday, noting that they were killed in a raid on the Fakhari area east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Ansar brigades, the armed wing of the Ahrar movement, said that the two were of its fighters.
The casualties bring the number of Palestinian martyrs since Saturday to 12 mostly from Islamic Jihad operatives.
Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance factions retaliated to the Israeli violations of the ceasefire and fired homemade rockets at areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip with no casualties reported.
An Arab member in the Israeli Knesset, Dr. Jamal Zahalka, said that Israel was trying to restore its “deterrence” but ruled out a big military operation on Gaza for the time being.
He said in a statement to Quds Press on Sunday that Israel had no justification for the attacks on Gaza but rather had its own goals such as maintaining the siege on the coastal enclave and to strike Palestinian factions to sway them away from the path of resistance.
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Lieberman renews call for invading Gaza to topple Hamas
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman has renewed calls for launching a large-scale military operation against the Gaza Strip to end Hamas’s rule there.
He told a meeting for his party Yisrael Beiteinu that his party went into coalition with premier Benjamin Netanyahu on the basis of ending the rule of Hamas in Gaza.
He charged that Hamas was controlling the rules of the game, allowing a lull then allowing rocket firing whenever it sees fit.
Lieberman, who is the foreign minister in the Israeli coalition government, said that Hamas was also arming itself with various types of weapons that could harm Israel and thus military action against it was a must.
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Envoy: Egypt truce halted Israeli incursion into Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Egypt prevented Israel from launching a major military incursion into Gaza and succeeded in halting the ongoing tit-for-tat attacks across the border, the Egyptian ambassador to the Palestinian Authority said Monday.
Yasser Othman told Ma'an that Egyptian efforts would continue until a complete truce is reached in Gaza and Israeli violations stop.
Egypt’s ambassador to Israel has been contacting Israeli officials on a daily basis in order to reach a complete ceasefire, Othman said.
The Egyptian official applauded Palestinian factions for "not being swayed by Israel's provocative acts."
Israeli airstrikes have killed 12 militants in three days, and a volley of rockets from Gaza killed one Israeli on Saturday.
An Egyptian-brokered truce announced early Sunday came unstuck after fresh strikes killed a DFLP militant Sunday afternoon and the PFLP claimed responsibility for rocket fire into Israel.
Late Sunday, Israeli TV channel 10 quoted an Egyptian official saying a new truce had been brokered to begin at 10 p.m. before Israeli airstrikes killed two militants overnight Sunday.
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Israeli MK calls for targeting resistance leaders in Gaza
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Shaul Mofaz has called for liquidating commanders of Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the firing of rockets at Israeli targets from the Strip.
Mofaz, a former war minister, told the Hebrew radio on Sunday that Israel should target leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in addition to the resistance’s infrastructure in Gaza to restore its deterrence.
The MK, for the opposition Kadima party, claimed that this was the only way to guarantee non recurrence of rocket firing at Israeli targets from Gaza.
Palestinian factions fired a number of locally made rockets at Israeli targets near to the Gaza Strip after Israeli warplanes killed five Islamic Jihad fighters on Saturday, which broke a lull that was prevailing in the region. Israel later launched more raids on Saturday and Sunday killing seven other Palestinian fighters.
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Update: Report: Egypt brokers new truce to halt Gaza fighting
TEL AVIV (Ma'an) -- Egyptian officials have secured a truce to halt hostilities between Gaza militants and Israel, Israeli TV said on Sunday.
Israel's channel 10 said the truce would begin at 10 p.m. Sunday.
A high-ranking Egyptian official, who was not named, said Israel would not be able to carry out a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as Egypt will not turn a blind eye to such actions, the TV channel's website said.
Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed 9 Islamic Jihad fighters on Saturday, amid a barrage of rockets from Gaza that killed one Israeli.
A previous truce, also brokered by Egypt, started 6 a.m. Sunday, but was followed by rocket fire and an Israeli airstrike that killed a member of DFLP's armed wing in Rafah.
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Hamas holds Israel fully responsible for its hostile actions against Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas Movement held the Israeli occupation state fully responsible for the consequences of its military aggression against the Gaza Strip, which led to the death of 10 Palestinians and the injury of many others.
In a press release, Hamas said the Israeli government renewed its military actions against Gaza in an attempt to kill the Palestinian people's joy for their prisoners freed from its jails and to cover up its internal crises.
Hamas highlighted the Palestinian people's right to defend themselves by all means available and warned the Israeli government of persisting in its hostile policies against the Palestinians.
In this regard, a spokesman for medical services stated that 10 Palestinian citizens were killed and six other were injured in air raids carried out by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) from Saturday afternoon until Sunday evening on the Gaza Strip.
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EU’s Ashton holds Islamic Jihad Responsible for Violence
BRUSSELS, October 31, 2011 (WAFA) – European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton held the Islamic Jihad responsible for the violence that broke out in the past two days at the Gaza borders with Israel, according to a statement published on Sunday.
“I am very concerned at the renewed exchange of fire in the Gaza Strip and the south of Israel following the firing of rockets by Islamic Jihad from Gaza into Israel,” she said.
“I wholeheartedly condemn the indiscriminate targeting of civilians wherever they are,” she added, calling “on all sides to respect the ceasefire brokered by Egypt.”
An Israeli air strike on Rafah, in southern Gaza, on Saturday killed five members of the Islamic Jihad organization and ended more than two months of calm, when it provoked a barrage of rocket firing from Gaza at towns in southern Israel.
Israel responded with more air strikes, the latest of which was at midnight Sunday, two hours after an Egyptian brokered ceasefire, accepted by the Palestinian factions, was supposed to go into effect.
Medical sources in Gaza said the latest strike killed Yousef Abu Abdo and Ali Aqqad, both in their 20s, whose bodies were found Monday morning in Khan Younis when the civil defense was able to comb the area looking for people killed or wounded in the air strike.
The two were said to be members of al-Ansar Brigades, the military wing of al-Ahrar movement.
The killing of two Khan Younis residents brings the total number of Palestinians killed in the Israeli air raids to 12. The rockets fired from Gaza into Israel killed one Israeli and caused damage to buildings.
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