- 10 sept 2011
IOF troops bombard Gaza suburb, fishing boats
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired a number of artillery shells at agricultural land in Shujaia suburb east of Gaza city at an early hour on Friday, local sources said.
They added that no casualties were reported, adding that IOF gunboats also fired at Palestinian fishing boats off the Gaza coast with no injuries reported.
IOF military had shelled Qarara area east of Khan Younis late on Thursday night while warplanes launched mock raids all over the Strip.
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Israeli artillery bomb Gaza, forces kidnap five Palestinians from strip
GAZA, Sept 10 (KUNA) -- Israeli artillery shelled the eastern outskirts of Abasan village in southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, eyewitnesses said.
They said, in remarks to KUNA, that the artillery fired two shells at an empty land in Abasan, located in the northeast of Khan Yunus.
The shells fell meters away from a civilian car but no one was hurt, they said.
Meanwhile, an Israel forces carried out an incursion in the town of Al-Qarrara, southern Gaza, kidnapped five Palestinians and took them back to Israel, Palestinian sources said.
They said around 30 soldiers, backed by Apache helicopters, penetrated hundreds of meters to the east of Al-Qarrara and kidnapped five Palestinian boys with ages between 14 and 17 years.
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IDF denies attacking terrorist cell in Gaza Strip
Sources in the IDF denied reports in the Gaza Strip that Israeli forces attacked a terrorist cell east of Khan Yunis.
According to Palestinian reports, the IDF attacked minutes after the cell launched mortar shells toward an army post near the security fence.
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Medics: Israeli forces shell car in southern Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday fired an artillery shell at a civilian car in southern Gaza causing no injuries, medics said.
Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said the car was shelled east of Khan Younis.
Locals reported hearing a huge explosion near the border in the area.
An Israeli military spokesman said he was not immediately aware of any shelling in the area but said he would look into it.
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PA police dismantle Israeli ordnance near Nablus
NABLUS (Ma’an) – Palestinian police on Saturday dismantled ordnance left by Israeli soldiers in a village south of Nablus, officials said.
Authorities responded to a call after a man discovered an ambiguous object in the Qabalan village, police said. The object was dismantled without causing any injuries, the officials said.
Police reminded residents never to approach such objects, which could be dangerous.
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IOF soldiers open fire at Palestinian houses in central Gaza
GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed to the east of the Gaza Strip opened machine gunfire at Palestinian homes in Juhr Al-Dik in central Gaza on Monday morning with no casualties reported, eyewitnesses said.
They said that the soldiers suddenly opened fire for ten minutes at the citizens' homes and nearby land lots.
The machinegun fire damaged one of the houses that is 320 meters away from the border fence, the witnesses noted, adding that the house was riddled with bullets.
A number of inhabitants and farmers evacuated the targeted areas fearing for their lives.
Meanwhile, in the West Bank IOF soldiers stormed a village to the east of Bethlehem and handed a summons to one of its inhabitants after searching his home.
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IOF forces shell several areas across Gaza Strip
Al Qassam website- Gaza- Israeli occupation forces (IOF)shelled on Monday at dawn 9/12 the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, this shelling comes in the context of the aggressive Israeli escalation for several days.
Al Qassam correspondent northern Gaza Strip reported that Israeli occupation tanks stationed at the nearby military base fired several artillery shells fell in the agricultural lands north of Beit Lahiya town , where several loud explosions heard causing of a state of panic without reported injuries.
Israeli occupation forces conduct daily attacks and limited incursions near eastern and northern border of Gaza Strip.
A security official warned from new Israeli military escalation against Gaza Strip aims at thwarting the visit of Turkey's Prime Minister, "Tayyip Erdogan".
He added, Israeli intelligence services in the Israeli entity is considering a adequate steps to prevent the arrival of "Erdogan to the strip".
In addition, Israeli occupation forces stationed at east Gaza Strip opend its heavy gunfire towards the Palestinian homes and farms in the Juhr Al Deik village central Gaza Strip.
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IOF troops shell northern Gaza Strip
BEIT LAHIA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired tank shells at an area north of Beit Lahia to the north of Gaza Strip at dawn Monday in a new military escalation causing damage to cultivated land lots but no casualties.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF tanks fired a number of shells at the open agricultural area, adding that the sound of explosion spread panic among the inhabitants.
A Palestinian security source had warned of Israeli military escalation against Gaza to foil any possible visit for Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the coastal enclave in the few coming days.
He said that Israeli intelligence apparatuses were busy studying means of blocking Erdogan's visit to Gaza.
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Palestinian shot by armed settlers
One Palestinian has been wounded in a clash with Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as Palestinians prepare to seek International Criminal Court intervention over the issue of illegal settlements.
One Palestinian and an Israeli settler were wounded on Friday in clashes in the village of Kusra in the northern West Bank, AFP reported.
Palestinian officials said the incident took place when around a dozen settlers tried to enter Kusra but were stopped by residents who feared they were about to be attacked. One settler drew a pistol and shot a Palestinian in the leg.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said the clash took place in a disputed area outside Kusra between residents and people from the nearby settlement of Esh Hakodesh. She said the wounded Israeli had been stabbed and confirmed a Palestinian resident had also been shot.
The clash comes at a time when Israeli settlers are enraged by the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations, and fear that Palestinian may resort to the International Criminal Court to put an end to the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Israel has mobilized three battalions of reservists -- some 1,500 personnel - and reinforced units already deployed in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli army has also reported upped its presence around the settlements in the West Bank.
On September 9, extremist Israelis attacked the Palestinian town of Birzeit near the West Bank city of Ramallah and sprayed graffiti on the walls of a mosque and a university.
Palestinian security officials that "Death to the Arabs" and slogans insulting the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) were painted in Hebrew.
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2 wounded in clash between settlers and Palestinians
Palestinian man reportedly suffered serious injuries after he was shot by settler; another settler was lightly wounded during altercation; army sources: one of volatile scenarios that could lead to deterioration.
A week before the Palestinians submit their statehood bid at the United Nations Security Council, tensions on the ground are beginning to rise: In a clash that erupted between Palestinians and settlers in the West Bank Friday morning, a Palestinian man reportedly suffered serious injuries after he was shot by a settler.
Another settler was lightly wounded during the altercation, which took place between the village of Kusra and the Eish Kadosh outpost, after he was stabbed.
Palestinian sources claim that a group of settlers headed towards the village seeking to confront or attack villagers.
A group of Palestinians, who belong to a security team that was established in the village to defend against settler attacks, stopped a number of them during which the violence broke out.
The Palestinians said that the injured man was evacuated to a hospital in Nablus.
Military sources admitted that the Friday morning clash was one of the dangerous scenarios the defense establishment was preparing for ahead of the Palestinian statehood move at the UN. “We are at the start of a highly volatile period in which any such incident could become a slippery slope leading to a deteriorating situation,” they said.
"Mohammad is a pig" spray-painted on Kusra village mosque
The village of Kusra was the target of one of the settlers’ price tag operations in retaliation for the razing of a number of structures in the outpost of Migron.
"After the mosque was vandalized, we decided to put together a group of 15-20 residents who will patrol at night and alert (the authorities) if settlers infiltrate the village in order to damage homes or public buildings," Mayor Hani Ismail told Ynet.
Meanwhile, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition were discovered in an abandoned Palestinian car near the Shvei Ami outpost in Samaria. Police sappers arrived at the scene as IDF units began investigating the incident.
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Settlers assault Palestinian child after kidnapping him south of Jenin
JENIN, (PIC)-- A gang of young Jewish settlers attacked on Thursday night a young Palestinian boy in a village to south of Jenin. They then took him to the dismantled Haumash settlement and assaulted him before releasing him late at night.
Locals said that a group of settlers ambushed Khalil Hamamrah, 16 years, at the fringes of the village, they kidnapped and assaulted him before the IOF transferred him to the PA’s liaison office.
The boy said that the assailants were settlers in their teens and they want to rebuild the settlement which was evacuated in 2005 by the Israeli occupation authorities, adding that they threatened him and beat him.
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IDF boosts W. Bank presence ahead of UN bid
GOC Central Command increases troops in West Bank, places senior commanders at helm in bid to prevent escalation, casualties if violence erupts as result of Palestinian UN bid.
The IDF Central Command is raising its alertness level in the West Bank ahead of next week's expected Palestinian bid for statehood recognition in the UN. Reserve troops from three regiments were mobilized in the last week alone in a bid to reinforce troops deployed in the West Bank.
The mobilization of the troops, who are well versed in the West Bank operations, was planned in advance as part of the IDF's preparations for the September UN bid.
Within the framework of these preparations the IDF has additional troops stationed on standby, and additional reserves were also being prepared for the possibility that the IDF would be forced to mobilize them in a state of emergency.
As reported in Yedioth Ahronoth, the reserve units from Central Command will be joined by an additional reserve regiment from Southern Command in order to allow additional forces to be sent to the Israel Egypt border due to recent terror threats.
The forces being deployed in the West Bank have been given a large supply of crowd dispersal equipment but no such means were transferred to the Palestinian Authority.
Right wing escalation
GOC Central Command Avi Mizrahi's directives are that senior commanders be placed at the forefront of every incident and that they exercise the proper discretion and restraint in order to avoid casualties and prevent the situation from escalating. Estimations are that any fatalities that result from the Palestinian protests would ignite not only the Gaza Strip but the entire region.
In recent weeks the IDF has witnessed an escalation in violence from right wing extremists. The "price tag" retaliations, which are no longer limited to Palestinian villages, as seen in the recent attack on an IDF base. The IDF fears that such attacks in the current delicate situation could cause an escalation in what is already a tense region.
Meanwhile, the IDF has completed its training of the settlement civilian response units in order to take into account the possibility that mass Palestinian demonstrations would march on West Bank settlements. Designated units have been placed in problematic areas.
The IDF said that their preparations are not just for September but for any events that could occur during the events that could come as a result of the UN bid.
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Israel storms Nablus village after settler assault
NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers assaulted a Nablus village Friday morning, leading to clashes with Israeli forces injuring 11 Palestinians.
After the settlers were removed by Israeli police, Israeli forces raided Qusra village injuring six villagers with rubber bullets, a Ma'an correspondent said.
Forces surrounded a house sheltering European press agency cameraman Alaa Bedarneh was filming the earlier settler attack, the correspondent reported.
Three children inside the house suffered tear gas inhalation during the military raid, and Bedarneh was injured in the hand, he said.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the journalist's agency had requested the army remove him from the village, and he was taken to safety.
Around 20 people were hurling rocks at forces, and the border police were operating in the village, she said, without giving further details.
Settler attack
PA official monitoring settlement activity Ghassan Doughlas told Ma'an that earlier in the day around ten settlers from neighboring settlement Migdalim came into Qusra village south of Nablus.
Fathallah Abu Rida, 25, was injured when settlers shot him in the leg, Doughlas said.
Village guard units established in recent weeks held the settlers at the scene for 30 minutes, before Israeli police arrived and removed settlers from the village, he added.
Israel police say settler wounded in knifing
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an a settler was injured after an argument broke out between two settlers and a 50-year-old Palestinian in an open area near Qusra.
"The Palestinian pulled out a knife and the settler reacted by shooting the Palestinian in the leg," he said.
The injured settler and Palestinian were taken to hospitals, he added, saying police who arrived on the scene had opened an investigation into the incident.
Settler assaults increasing in West Bank
Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib warned on Thursday that a serious increase in settler violence towards West Bank Palestinians threatened escalation of the situation ahead of the Palestinians' bid for membership of the UN.
News reports said two weeks ago that Israeli forces were arming settlers with tear-gas canisters, stun grenades and even trained dogs to counter potential attacks by the Palestinians.
On Sept. 5 settlers broke into Qusra village mosque, smashing windows, burning tires inside the building, and spray-painting walls with offensive slogans.
Village council head Hani Ismail told Ma’an on Tuesday that young men volunteered to guard the entrances to the village after the attacks, and had blocked further groups of armed settlers from entering the village.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=420705
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Israel continues plighting Gaza fishermen
(2:24) Israel continues plighting Gaza fishermen - Press TV News
Israel's Navy continues patrolling the Gaza Strip's coastline around the clock to enforce Tel Aviv's all-out blockade on the coastal sliver and a related 3-mile (4.82-kilometer) fishing limit, Press TV has reported.
The strict surveillance, which includes recurrent use of violence, has left hundreds of Gazan fishermen jobless, Press TV's correspondent Yousef al-Helou reported from the enclave.
Recently, the Navy abducted eight fishermen, before subjecting them to interrogation and confiscating their boats.
"It was 6:30 in the morning, when an Israeli gunboat approached us and asked us to take off our clothing,” said a fisherman.
“And then handcuffed us, blindfolded us, and took us to the Ashdod port (in Israel's Southern District) for interrogation,” he added.
Israel has subjected Gaza to an all-out land, naval, and aerial blockade for almost three years. The restrictions have deprived 1.5 million Palestinians there of food, fuel, and other necessities.
Israel says that the siege is a so-called precaution against arms reaching Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups. The fishermen, however, dismissed the allegation, saying that Israel's attacks against them took place in the wider context of its systematic decimation of Gaza's economy.
A female in the trade said, "I was at sea at night, when a gunboat appeared out of nowhere. First they fired in the air and then started firing heavy weaponry at my little boat. Thank God I escaped any serious injury."
The head of the fishing syndicate in Gaza said that, since the year 2000, seven fishermen had been killed, scores injured, and hundreds abducted for interrogation, including many, who are still imprisoned in Israeli jails.
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- 2 sept 2011
IOF fires flare bombs in Jenin raids
Israeli occupation forces fired flare bombs and deployed in the plains and open areas in a massive raid operation in the West Bank city of Jenin and its environs
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'UN Go Home' - Israel planning for worst, calling for war
(2:38) 'UN Go Home' - Israel planning for worst, calling for war
In September, Palestine will be expecting a UN vote to recognize it as a fully-fledged state. But Israel fears the decision may result in uprisings, and has reportedly started arming settlers and training them to face angry Palestinians. But as Paula Slier reports, by preparing for bloodshed, Israelis might actually be calling for it.
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Palestinian worker injured by Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem
West Bank, (Pal Telegraph)-A Palestinian worker was injured on Saturday after being brutally attacked by a number of Israeli soldiers near Hawasan village in the west of Bethlehem.
The man identified as Samer Diriye, 39, a resident of the village of Akraba in Nablus, was brought to Beit Jala hospital in Bethlehem to receive medication due to bruises and wounds sustained his body .
Medical sources described his health condition as moderate stating that similar incidents happen daily as Israeli soldiers continue to humiliate Palestinian citizens in the occupied territories.
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Israeli jets kill one, injure 3 in Gaza
A policeman speaks with a wounded boy at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on September 6, 2011.
Israeli warplanes have attacked a civilian locality of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, killing one person and injuring three members of a family.
Israel launched the airstrike on the impoverished coastal enclave on Tuesday evening despite a ceasefire in place between Hamas and Israel, AFP reported.
The airstrike, in the eastern part of Khan Younis, killed a Palestinian young man.
Gaza emergency services spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya said three civilians, a father and his two sons, were also wounded in the attack.
According to eyewitnesses, Israeli troops on Tuesday afternoon trespassed 100 to 200 meters into the east of Khan Younis, located in southern Gaza.
A wounded Palestinian father (back) and his son receive medical care on Sept 6, 2011 at a hospital in Khan Yunis.
Palestinians say that the Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis indicates Tel Aviv's evasion of the ceasefire agreement, which Hamas and Israel restored on August 22 after a spate of violence.
Hamas has often criticized Tel Aviv for violating the January 2009 ceasefire agreement, which ended the 22-day Israeli war on the people of Gaza.
Since the end of the war in 2009, a large number of Palestinians have been killed and injured because of numerous Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip. The airstrikes have also destroyed many schools, hospitals, mosques, and the infrastructure of Gaza.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/197809.html
Airstrike kills PRC fighter in south Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- An Israeli airstrike late Tuesday killed a member of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees and injured three others east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, medics said.
Gaza medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said aircraft fired a missile toward a group of people killing a Palestinian and injuring two children and an elderly man. They were taken to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.
The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said in a statement that Khaled Samhud, 23, the leader of the artillery unit in the brigades, died during Israeli airstrikes targeting members of the group.
The PRC armed wing added that its forces targeted a group of Israeli soldiers near the Kissufim border area and claimed responsibility for firing a rocket toward Israeli military vehicles.
Witnesses said Israeli forces opened fire as aircraft flew above eastern Khan Younis.
An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=418135
Israel kills gunman in Gaza incursion - Palestinians
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman and wounded two civilians during an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, militants and medical sources said.
The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), an armed faction largely independent of Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers, said its men battled Israeli troops who crossed the border near Khan Younis and that one militant died in an air strike.
Hospital officials said two Palestinian civilians, a father and son, suffered shrapnel wounds in the incident.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
Israel blamed the PRC for a cross-border raid last month in which eight Israelis died.
The PRC, which lost its top leaders in a retaliatory Israeli air strike, denied involvement, and Gaza saw a surge of fighting.
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Israel airstrike kills one Gazan, hurts 2
One Palestinian has been killed and two others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources say.
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Israeli warplanes bomb Gaza Strip
Israeli warplanes have bombed central Gaza Strip, despite a ceasefire agreement between Tel Aviv and the democratically-elected Hamas government in the blockaded territory.
There has been no immediate report of casualties from Gaza following the overnight attack, AFP reported on Tuesday.
On August 22, a ceasefire was agreed to by Hamas and Tel Aviv, but it has not stopped the Israeli regime from launching further deadly airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, leading to more Palestinian casualties.
Israel has increased its attacks on the Palestinian territory in recent months, killing and wounding scores of individuals in the impoverished Gaza.
Hamas has criticized Tel Aviv for violating the January 2009 treaty, which ended the 22-day Israeli war against Gaza.
Hamas also says that it has decided to raise the issue of repeated Israeli violations at the UN, as it gives rise to the "threat of further aggression against the Palestinians."
Since the end of the Gaza war in 2009, a large number of Palestinians have been killed or wounded in Israeli air attacks on the besieged coastal strip. Many Palestinian structures have also been destroyed in the raids.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/197681.html
Israeli warplanes target central Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Israeli warplanes raided an open area west of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip overnight Monday, a Ma'an correspondent said.
The Israeli army said in a statement that "in response to rocket fire from Gaza at Israel last night, IAF aircraft targeted a weapons manufacturing site in the central Gaza Strip overnight."
A hit was confirmed, the statement added.
Israeli radio said that projectiles had been fired at the Shaar HaNegev regional council in southern Israel.
The shelling in Gaza caused a fire to break out which fire fighters managed to extinguish. No injuries have been reported.
Earlier on Monday evening Israeli jets dropped flare bombs in the area, a Ma'an correspondent said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=417938
Davutoglu expects massive Arab intifada against Israel
ANKARA, (PIC)-- Turkish foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu warned the Israeli occupation state of a massive Arab uprising against it sooner or later if it persisted in its criminal policies.
Davutoglu made his remarks in a closed meeting of the European foreign ministers which was held last Saturday in Poland, according to Turkish news reports on Monday.
"Because of its intransigence and its arrogant policies, Israel closed the door of hope for peace in the region, so it is more likely that the Arab nations, who are rising in revolt for freedom and democracy, would stand up massively and strongly against Israel, Turkish news agencies quoted the foreign minister as saying.
Davutoglu noted that Israel's deadly attack on Freedom Flotilla aid convoy in late May last year was not something personal between Ankara and Tel Aviv, but something related to the latter and its respect of the international community, and the global rights and ethics.
The Turkish minister also warned the European union that the coming Arab intifada against Israel might expand and turn into an anti-Europe wave if it continued to cover up for Israel's actions.
"The European union should avoid dealing with the issue of the Arab spring with the mindset of colonizers and crusaders or through the use of coercion, but it should evaluate this matter according to the values of freedom and democracy, and the Arab yearning for them," the minister added.
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Islamic Jihad fighter killed in Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A member of Islamic Jihad's military wing was killed late Wednesday in an explosion west of Deir Al-Balah, medics said, in what militants described as an airstrike but Israel's army denied.
Al-Quds Brigades spokesman Abu Ahmad said an airstrike on a car west of Deir Al-Balah killed Remah Fayez Al-Husseni, 28, a member of the group from Shati refugee camp.
Abu Ahmad, the Al-Quds spokesman, said Israel was trying to "incite the resistance" to respond.
But Israeli military officials denied any involvement in the militant's death.
"We had no operations in the Gaza Strip tonight," said Lt.-Col. Avital Leibovich, an army spokeswoman. "This is not the first time we have seen an internal 'work incident' there," she added.
An airstrike is "not the kind of thing you can hide," Leibovich said.
Medics said Al-Husseni's body arrived at Al-Aqsa martyrs hospital after the blast.
Earlier, the military said a rocket exploded in an open area near a kibbutz in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council in the western Negev. There were no reports of injury or damage.
On Tuesday, a member of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees died and three others were injured in an Israeli airstrike near Khan Younis, medics said.
The An-Nasser Salah Ad-Din Brigades said in a statement that Khaled Samhud, 23, the leader of the artillery unit in the brigades, died after an attack targeting members of the group.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=418423
Israel: No attack on Gaza
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- An Israeli army spokeswoman denied late Wednesday any involvement in what Islamic Jihad's military wing said was an airstrike targeting a member of the Al-Quds Brigades.
Earlier, an Al-Quds Brigades official said an airstrike killed one person near Deir Al-Balah.
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New Israeli Raids East Jabaliya
Jabaliya- Hazar Khalilieh (Trans.) - PNN: Israel continues its attacks on Gaza strip. Israeli bombardment attacks were regenerated on Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza on Thursday morning. The attacks targeted a group of civilians, causing several deaths and injuries.
Locals said Israeli attacks are leaving no chance for a ceasefire.
The air raids happened less than an hour after the assassination of Al-Quds Brigades military wing of Islamic Jihad movement member, Rumah Al-Hassani, in an air raid that targeted central Gaza strip.
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Israeli Air Force Strikes Gaza
The Israeli Air Force fired on Wednesday at night a missile targeting a group of fighters east of Jabalia, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; damage was reported, no injuries.
Local sources reported that the fighters were close to a launching pad used for firing homemade shells into the Negev, and that the launching pad was destroyed in the blast.
On Wednesday evening, Israeli sources reported that one shell was fired from Gaza into the Negev; no damages or injuries were reported.
The firing of the shell came after the Israeli Air Force assassinated a fighter of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, in Dir Al Balah, in central Gaza.
The fighter was driving his car when it was targeted with a missile; he was identified as Ramah Al Hosni. He was identified as Rammah Fayiz Al-Housni, 28, from the Ash-Shaty' refugee camp,
On Tuesday evening, the army bombarded Al Qarara town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, four residents were injured. The slain fighter was identified as Khaled Abu Samhoud, 22.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61971
Update: Witnesses: Overnight raid on Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Israeli warplanes struck a site east of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip overnight Wednesday without any injuries reported, witnesses told Ma'an.
Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli surveillance plane fired a missile towards a group of militants east of Jabalia refugee camp.
The group were located by a rocket launch site which was damaged in the raid, witnesses added.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said there were no reports of any air strikes overnight.
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Soldiers, Settlers Attack Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday morning the city of Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, and demolished three wells while army bulldozers uprooted farmlands in the Nablus district. Armed Israeli settler also wrote graffiti on a local mosque.
Ghassan Douglas, in charge of the settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the West Bank, stated that the army is conducting several invasions in the West Bank, especially in Nablus.
He told the Quds Net online daily that this campaign is taking place while the settlers attacked several villages and towns near Nablus, and wrote racist graffiti on the walls of a mosque in Yitma village.
Also, soldiers demolished three wells in An-Nassariyya area in Nablus, and bulldozed dozens of Dunams of farmlands.
The settlers also torched two Palestinian cars that were parked at the main entrance of Qablan town, near Nablus, and uprooted dozens of trees in Huwwara town.
On September 5, a group of extremist Israeli settlers broke into a mosque in Qasra village, near Nablus, and torched it after destroying its property and writing anti-Arab slogans on its walls.
Earlier in June this year, settlers of the Alei Ayin illegal outpost torched a mosque in Al-Mughayyir village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after burning tires and throwing them in the mosque causing serious damages.
Last year, the settlers burnt several copies of the Quran while desecrating two mosques near Bethlehem and Nablus.
http://www.imemc.org/article/61976
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Israeli Army Threatens Journalists Covering EU Visit to al-Walajeh
by Monjed Jadou
Israeli soldiers threatened to assault an al-Arabiyacameraman in the southern West Bank village of al-Walajeh on Friday as hecovered a visit by 11 EU dignitaries.
The Israeli army did not act on the threats, however, andallowed journalists into a dredging site near the Cremisan Monastery inal-Walajeh, where Israel plans to erect the wall. The EU delegation, invited byOxfam International, was accompanied by PA spokesman Ghassan al-Khatib,al-Walajeh mayor Saleh Khalifeh, and Shireen Araj and Mahmoud Zawahiri, membersof the local popular committees.
preliminary speech to the dignitaries that ifthe wall were to be built at all, it would have to be along the 1967 boundariesand that the actions of the Israeli army in al-Walajeh, which falls on thePalestinian side of those lines, constitutes a land grab. She asked thedelegation to pressure the Israelis to stop dredging and building the wall.
An Oxfam representative told PNN that Oxfam has beenorganizing European field visits to al-Walajeh and other Palestinian villagesendangered by the wall for the past few years.
Mohammed al-Atrash, a 65-year-old Palestinian fromal-Walajeh, told PNN that Israelis dredged up 40 dunums of olive trees in orderto build the wall (a dunum is about a quarter of an acre), and that he hopedthe EU visit and others like it would persuade Israel to stop.
The delegation also visited the Badawi olive tree inal-Walajeh, which is considered to be the oldest in Palestine at 5,000 years old.
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