- 7 apr 2007
Foud Ma’rouf 22
Iyad Abu Taha 24
A Palestinian Resident of Rafah Dies of Wounds Sustained by Israeli Gunfire
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, south of Gaza Strip, announced Saturday the death of a local resident due to wounds he sustained three years ago during an Israeli army invasion into the city.
The victim, identified as Iyad Abu Taha,24, was critically shot and wounded by the Israeli army gunfire three years ago and since then he has been admitted to several local and overseas hospitals for treatment.
The Rafah city, to the south of Gaza Strip, has been frequently exposed to many Israeli attacks over the past seven years, given its proximity to Gaza-Egypt border line.
In one of its large-scale attacks on Rafah, the Israeli army invaded two years ago the Tal-Alsultan neighborhood, west of the city, killing at least 65 Palestinian men, women and children and destroying the neighborhood’s infrastructure including electricity and water networks.
Israeli Troops Kill a Resistance Fighter and Injure another in Northern Gaza
Palestinian medida sources said that the Israeli army shot to death a Palestinian resistance fighter and injured another in northern Gaza Strip, just close to the Jabalya refugee camp.
The sources added that Foud Ma’rouf, 22, was killed another resident was injured after the Israeli warplanes fired at least four missiles on a group of Palestinians in the area.
The killed is said to be a member of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Coincidently, scores of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, under a barrage of heavy gunfire, incurred on Saturday dawn into the vicinity of the Alshuhada cemetery, to the east of Jabalya refugee camp.
Witnesses said that the Israeli tanks have been stationed at the street leading to the cemetery and began shooting at nearby Palestinian-owned houses in Jabalya, Beit Lahya and the Alshija’iya neighborhood of Gaza city.
Last Wednesday, the Israeli soldiers infiltrated the Beit Hanoun city, north of Gaza, killing a Palestinian fighter and wounded two others.
Recent Israeli incursions into parts of the Gaza Strip come after Israeli defense minister, Amir Perets, ordered recently small-scale attacks on Gaza, under the pretext of cracking down on Palestinian resistance groups.
Escalation on the ground comes despite a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, reached last November, yet this ceasefire did not include the West Bank, where the Israeli army carries out attacks almost on daily basis.
Last summer Israel killed approximately 500 Palestinian men, women and children, wounded 4,000 others and took prisoners some one thousand under a code-named ‘Summer Rains’ offensive, meant to encounter resistance groups.
12 Palestinians Killed by the Israeli Army in March, a PLO Report Says
The department of national and international relations at the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) issued a special report on Saturday, documenting the Israeli army attacks on the Palestinian people during March 2007.
According to the PLO’s body, the Israeli army killed 12 Palestinian residents, of whom two children killed by Israeli armed settlers, and wounded 70 others involving 13 children.
The Israeli army also took prisoners 268 Palestinians, destroyed 7 Palestinian-owned houses and expropriated about 50 acres of Palestinian-owned lands for the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements and the construction of the notorious separation barrier in the West Bank.
The PLO’s report states that the Palestinian death toll since September2000 until March 2007, has mounted to 4,710, of whom 901 children, 296 women, 360 security personnel, 493 killed during extra-judicial assassinations, 147 died due to delay at checkpoints, 67 lynched by armed Israeli settlers, 10 journalists, 220 athletics, 6 foreign solidarity members and 36 medics.
Away from figures, the PLO’s report believes that the Israeli refusal to the Arab peace initiative re-endorsed late in March by the Arab states summit in Riyadh, would further fuel the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict.
The Arab peace proposal, drafted by the Saudi Arabia in 2002, calls for full Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories, Israel took over during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, in return for normal ties between 23 Arab states and the Hebrew state.
In 1993, the Palestine Liberation Organization, representative of the Palestinian people for decades, signed in Washington the Oslo peace accords with Israel, in a bid to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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Maria 9 apr 2007
Remember Deir Yassin
Monday commemorates the massacre in Deir Yassin Village, one of numerous conducted during the ethnic cleansing campaign enforced in order to establish the state of Israel. Thirty-three massacres are officially registered, but hundreds were reported. The Deir Yassin Remembered campaign quotes the Zionists at the time as using the term “systematic cleansing.”
They wrote, “Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun, headed by Menachem Begin, and the Stern Gang, attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, which authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all, over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of [Jerusalem's] Old City. They were found there by Miss Hind Husseini and taken behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi [House of Arab Children] orphanage.
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Maria 17 apr 2007
Ashraf Hanaysha 24
Israeli forces execute Palestinian after arresting him in Jenin
On Tuesday afternoon, 17 April 2007, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) extra-judicially executed a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (an armed wing of Fatah movement) near Jenin town in the northern West Bank. IOF shot him dead after having arrested him.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 12:30 on Tuesday, an IOF undercover unit moved arrived at al-Shuhada intersection on Jenin-Nablus road, traveling in a civilian vehicle with a Palestinian registration plate. The vehicle stopped near a stone treatment compound belonging to Fayez ‘Alawna. Two IOF soldiers got out of the vehicle and intercepted a Palestinian car that was traveling in the area. The driver got out of the car with his hands up. The two soldiers moved towards him, and one of them kicked him to the abdomen. The driver fell on his back. The two soldiers then carried him and then left him hitting a tree at the roadside. When he fell onto the ground, one of the IOF soldiers moved towards him and shot him dead to the head and the abdomen from a zero range. The victim was later identified as
Ashraf Mahmoud ‘Aaref Hanaisha, 24,
from Qabatya village near Jenin. IOF claim that he was wanted.
PCHR strongly condemns this hideous crime, and:
1) Reiterates its condemnation for extra-judicial executions committed by IOF, and stresses that they serve to increase tension in the region and threaten the lives of Palestinian civilians.
2) Calls upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 to fulfill their obligations under the Convention and ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
19 apr 2007
Report: “Jenin fighter was unarmed, killed after he was captured”
Eyewitness reports on the assassination of Ashraf Hanaisha, from Qabatia town, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, confirmed that he was executed after the under-cover forces of the Israeli army identified him.
The attack took place on Tuesday April 17, when Israeli under-cover forces driving a Palestinian licensed vehicle ambushed Hanaisha as he was driving on the main road between Qabatia and Jenin.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestine News Network that the under-cover soldiers opened fire at Hanaisha after identifying him, and doctors at a Jenin hospital stated that he was hit by more than ten rounds of live ammunition in his chest and head.
The under-cover forces were driving in front of the vehicle of Hanaisha, and suddenly sped up and made a fast U-turn at Al Shuhada junction, then drove towards the vehicle Hanaisha was driving and stopped in the middle of the street.
Isam Nazzal, a local taxi driver, said that he saw three armed, unmasked men stepping out of the vehicle while the rest remained inside and opened fire at Hanaisha's vehicle. Nazzal stated that Hanaisha tried to avoid them and drove his vehicle to the side before completely stopping.
“He tried to escape from the car, but the undercover soldiers managed to seize him, I saw them leading him to their vehicle where they forced him to keep his hands in the air”, Nazzal stated. “They also forced the passengers who were with Hanaisha out of the vehicle and forced them on the ground, and then they opened fire at Hanaisha and killed him. But that was not enough for them, they also carried his body and threw it away before they went back to their car and sped off”.
Red Crescent medics, who arrived at the scene, and physicians at the Jenin governmental hospital, confirmed that Hanaisha was repeatedly shot in his head, chest and several other parts of his body”.
Also, Nazzal said that the under-cover soldiers were able to capture Hanaisha alive, but it was clear that their intensions were otherwise.
Several Palestinian human rights groups expressed concern that this assassination is the beginning of a new wave of assassinations.
Fateh movement issued a press release demanding international organizations to investigate the crime, and stated that this attack clearly indicates that Israel is reactivating its assassination policy.
The movement stated that this was a “cold blooded murder” and held Israel responsible for further deterioration in the situation.
The Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad and several armed resistance groups slammed the attack and vowed retaliation.
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Maria 17 apr 2007
Mohamed Hanaisha 35
Israeli army kills one Palestinian civilian in Qabatyia village near Jenin
An undercover Israeli army force invaded the village of Qabatyia near the northern West Bank city of Jenin and killed one civilian on Tuesday midday. Local sources stated that a group of undercover Israeli troops opened fire at Mohamed Hanaisha, 35, and killed him.
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Maria 19 apr 2007
Samir Dari
Israeli Central Court acquits border policeman who killed a Jerusalem Palestinian
The Jerusalem District Court acquitted Shmuel Yehezkel, an Israeli border policeman, from charges of manslaughter today. Yehezkel was accused of killing Samir Dari, a Palestinian resident of Al Isawiyya neighborhood in east Jerusalem in November 2005.
Dari was killed when the policeman shot him in the back at close range. The Israeli police stated that Dari was shot as the police were chasing a car thief in the French Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The indictment, filed in January 2006, indicated that Yehezkel fired at Dari at close range.
Yehezkel claimed that the shooting was in self defense and stated in the trial the he and other policemen “were attacked by a crowd at the entrance of the village”, Israeli Ynetnews reported. The police also claimed that the crowd attempted to grab a detainee who was in their vehicle.
Also, Yehezkel claimed that after he and other policemen fired several warning shots into the air, a vehicle hit him, throwing him into the street. Dari, according to the police report, was in that vehicle.
The officer further claimed that two passengers got out of the vehicle in order to grab Dari who attempted to get into the car.
“I was convinced that they would try to run me over, I was also sure that I and other policemen were in direct danger”, the policeman said.
“I warned him that I will shoot if he didn’t stop”, Yehezkel added, “He didn’t stop”.
But eyewitnesses reported that the statements of the police are false and that Dari was shot in the back.
Moreover, an investigator who questioned the policemen after the incident stated that there was no justification for firing at Dari since he posed no danger to the policemen.
The forensic report also revealed that Dari was shot in his back, apparently as he was stepping out of the car. This contradicts the police report which stated that Dari was in the car when he was shot and that he tried to ram his car into the policemen.
The judge wrote in his ruling that the policeman made a terrible mistake and killed Dari for nothing, but added that “his criminal responsibility is negligible”, Ynetnews reported.
He further wrote that the situation was complicated and included a mix of justification, necessity and self-defense. “There is a reasonable doubt, therefore I acquitted him”.
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Maria 21 apr 2007
Bushara Naji Wahsh Barjis 17
Kamal AnnanMohamed 'Abed 23
Bushara: resident of Jenin R.C., killed in Jenin R.C.. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while standing next to the window of her house by gunfire, without warning, of soldiers who were searching for her wanted brother.
Israeli airstrike kills a Palestinian, injures two others in northern Gaza
Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a civilian car in northern Gaza, killing at least one passer-by identified as Kamal Annan, and injuring two otrhers- believed to be Islamic Jihad members.
The Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for a series of homemade shells fired at nearby Israeli towns in the past several weeks. Witnesses said that the Israeli shelling took place on the Salah Eldin main road in the northern Gaza Strip She’sha’a area, just close to the so-called the 'civil administration' building.
Medical sources confirmed that the body of victim Annan arrived at the Alawda hospital torn apart due to critical wounds. A number of homemade rockets were then reportedly fired at the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. Israeli media sources reported that six Israeli residents of Sderot were wounded as a result.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian national security forces’ media office reported that a number of Israeli armored vehicles backed-up by helicopters incurred into the Abu Safiya area, in the northeast of the Gaza Strip.
Saturday's air strike on northern Gaza is a part of a series Israeli actions in Gaza in the past few weeks, as the Israeli army has reinforced their presence on the Gaza-Israel border line, under the pretext of cracking down on the Palestinian resistance groups’ rocket fire.
Israeli attacks on Gaza have been in violation of a ceasefire agreement agreed between Palestinians and Israel in November 2006, after the Israeli army committed a massacre of 19 civilians in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun.
Palestinian resistance groups have since then claimed that the Palestinian people have the right to defend itself against the continued Israeli army attacks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The ceasefire deal has not included the West Bank, where the Israeli army continues attacks almost on a daily basis.
As of today, the Israeli army has shot dead a Palestinian police man in the West Bank city of Jenin. Israeli keeps up a strict military control over the West Bank and tightly controls Gaza’s crossing points, airspace and sea.
Army invades Kufer Daan near Jenin kills one civilians and abducts several others
The Israeli army invaded the village of Kufer Daan village west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin, killed one civilian and abducted ten residents, on Saturday morning.
Palestinian sources identified the man as Mohamed 'Abed, 23.
Resident s of the village reported that ‘Abed, who worked as a Palestinian policeman was hit by three rounds of live ammunition in his head as he was standing on his rooftop. His body was moved to the Jenin governmental hospital.
A massive Israeli force invaded the village of Kufer Daan, soldiers took over some homes and turned them to militaryposts. Resistance fighter exchanged fire with the invading forces, eyewitnesses reported
Soldiers also searched and ransacked scores of residents' homes and abducted fifteen civilians and took them to unknown ddestinations.
Five of the kidnapped residents were identified as Sami Nimir, 27, Ramzi Nimir, 25, Ibraheem Nimir, Mohamed Nimir and his brother Ahmad.
Witnesses added that during the search campaign to residents' homes, Israeli soldiers detonated sound bombs inside the searched homes causing damage to the families belongings.
On Friday evening, twenty residents were injured after the army invaded Beit Forik village, near Nablus. Soldiers also demolished one house after claiming that resistance fighters where hiding in it, and the fighters opened fire at the invading forces.
Mahammad Tala Abid
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Abbas Ghalib Al Damj 21
Ahmad Mohammad Al Aiasa 21Mahmoud Afif Sarhan Jalil 24
Israeli troops assassinate three resistance fighters in Jenin
Undercover forces of the Israeli army assassinated on Saturday evening three fighters of the Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, and the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad. The troops ambushed them near a school located between Jenin and its refugee camp, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.
The three fighters were identified as Abbas Ghalib Al Damj, 21, from Jenin refugee camp, Ahmad Mohammad Al Aiasa, 21, from Sanour village, and Mahmoud Afif Sarhan Jalil, 24, from Jenin refugee camp. Jalil is one of the leaders of the Al Quds Brigades, while Al Damj and Al Aiasa are members of the Al Aqsa brigades.
Falasteen Turkman, an eyewitness, reported that the undercover forces ambushed the three fighters as they were driving near Al Zahra’ school, and opened fire at them.
Another eyewitness, identified as Mahdi Al Sheebany, said that the under-cover forces could have easily captured the three fighters alive, but chose to assassinate them.
He added that four under-cover soldiers jumped out of a vehicle they were driving and opened automatic fire at the fighters’ vehicle.
Turkman added that the shooting lasted for several minutes, and that when the forces noticed that Mahmoud was still moving they dragged him out of the vehicle and shot him dead before evacuating from the area.
The under-cover forces withdrew after the army, supported by fifteen armored vehicles, invaded the area and fired rounds of live ammunition.
Medical sources in Jenin reported that the three fighters were shot by several rounds of live ammunition especially in the head and upper body parts.
Hundreds of residents took to the streets and marched in protest to the assassination, while fighters of the Al Quds and the Al Aqsa brigades fired round of live ammunition into the air and called to revenge.
Zakariyya Zobeidy, leader of the Al Aqsa Brigades in the West Bank, stated that this assassination clearly represents the Israeli intentions of military escalation, and added that the brigades will not agree to any talks of truce or ceasefire.
He demanded the Palestinian leaders to stop all contacts with Israel.
Abu Mojahed, media spokesperson of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, stated that the brigades and all fighters will continue their fight against the Israeli occupation and massacres.
The three fighters will be buried on Sunday and thousands of residents are expected to participate in the funeral.
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Kareem Zahran 14Boshra Naji al Wash 17
One child killed by Israeli army gunfire during
On Sunday morning one Palestinian child was shot and killed by Israeli army fire during an invasion of the village of Dier Abu Mish'al, located west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah .
A massive Israeli force invaded the village on Sunday at dawn. Troops then searched and ransacked scores of residents' homes. During the search campaign local youth hurled stones at the invading soldiers who opened fire randomly at the them and nearby houses, killing one boy.
Medical sources stated that Kareem Zahran, 14, sustained critical wounds during the clashes. Soldiers detained the boy until he died from severe bleeding. After two hours the Israeli forces handed the boy's body to a Palestinian ambulance which took him to a hospital in Ramallah city.
On the way to the hospital the army also detained the ambulance car from one hour, the medical team reported. On Sunday afternoon hundreds of Palestinians along side with Zahran's family members took to the streets in Ramallah city during the boy's funeral which ended with the burial of the child in the city cemmetry, local sources reported.
With Zahran's death, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army gunfire in the past 24 hours in the West Bank, mounts to 8. In Jenin city, in the northern part of the West Bank, a 17-year old girl named Boshra Naji was shot and killed on Saturday evening, by Israeli military fire during an invasion of Jenin refugee camp.
The invasion is the third in less than 24 hours. On Saturday evening, soldiers assassinated three Palestinian resistance fighters during an invasion of Kafer Dan town, west of Jenin. Also in Jenin, one resident was killed on Saturday at dawn after the army invaded Kafer Dan village, west of the city. Two other fighters were assassinated on Saturday night after midnight in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Abdul-Karim Karim Khaled Zahran, 14,
of Deir abu-Mashal, near Ramallah, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest while grazing animals.
Young girl killed in Jenin refugee camp, eight Palestinians killed by Israeli troops in 24 hours
Palestinian medical sources in Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Saturday evening that a 17-year old girl was shot and killed by Israeli military fire during an invasion of Jenin refugee camp. The invasion is the third in less than 24 hours. A total of eight Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army in 24 hours.
The sources identified the girl as Boshra Naji al Wash; she was hit by a round of live ammunition in the head causing instant death. At the time, Boshra was reportedly on the roof of her home revising for her final school examinations
She was at home in the Jenin refugee camp when the army randomly fired at dozens of houses. . The invasion was carried out by thirty armored vehicles and jeeps, and was concentrated in Jenin refugee camp and the western section of Jenin city close to the camp.
Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of fighters exchanged fire with the invading forces. Several residents suffered after inhaling gas fired by the army, and several houses were hit by live rounds; damage was reported.
On Saturday evening, soldiers assassinated three fighters of the Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh and the Al Quds brigades the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad during an invasion of Kafer Dan town, west of Jenin.
Also in Jenin, one resident was killed on Saturday at dawn after the army invaded Kafer Dan village, west of the city. The resident was identified as Mohammad Abed, 22; he was hit by several rounds of live ammunition as he was standing on the rooftop of his house.
Two other fighters were assassinated on Saturday night after midnight in the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The two were identified as Amin Abu Lubbada and Fadel Nour. They were killed after the army invaded Al Qasaba neighborhood and exchanged fire with resistance fighters.
Also on Saturday, one resident was killed and two others were injured after the Israeli air force fired missiles at a vehicle they were driving in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The resident was identified as Kamal Anan, 37.
The army claims that the fighters fired homemade shells at the Israeli Negev town of Sderot. Israeli sources reported that three homemade shells were fired at Sderot after the army assassinated three fighters in Jenin.
Two Israelis were reportedly injured and damage was reported to some houses.
Several armed groups said that these assassinations and attacks put an end to the fragile truce, and vowed fierce retaliation.
Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyya, slammed the military escalation and said that these “crimes show the brutality of the occupation and the clear Israeli intentions of escalation in the area". The Palestinian legislative council also slammed the attacks and the assassinations.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson of the Al Quds Briagdes stated that fighters of the brigades along with fighters of the Al Aqsa brigades carried out several attacks against military targets near Jenin.
He added that these attacks come in retaliation “to the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people."
http://www.imemc.org/article/47939
Israeli forces kill eight, including child, in weekend attacks
Funeral Bushra Bargheesh 17
In the past 24 hours, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have escalated attacks in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). They have killed eight Palestinians, including a child. Four of the victims were extra-judicially executed.
PCHR strongly condemns this latest escalation and the reactivation of the policy of extra-judicial executions, which increases tension in the region and threatens the life of Palestinian civilians.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR:
At approximately 05:00 on Saturday, 21 April 2007, IOF moved into Kufor Dan village, west of Jenin. They besieged and opened fire at a house belonging to the family of
Mahmoud Nasfat Naddaf, 20, in the west of the village.
They also raided a number of neighboring houses and transformed them into military sites, from which they fired at whatever moved in the area. In the meantime,
Mohammed Sa’id Talal ‘Aabed, 23, stepped up to the roof of his house to check what was going on.
Immediately, an IOF soldier positioned in a neighboring house belonging to Mohammed Saleh ‘Aabed shot him dead with two gunshots to the jaw and the chest.
The victim was a member of the Palestinian police, but he was not on duty and was wearing civilian clothes.
At approximately 17:00 on the same day, an IOF undercover unit moved into Jenin, traveling in two civilian vehicles with Palestinian registration plates.
The two vehicles stopped near a female secondary school in Abu Duhair Mount area, which overlooks Jenin refugee camp. IOF soldiers then intercepted and opened fire at a Palestinian civilian car that was traveling in the area.
Three Palestinians who were traveling in the car were instantly killed:
1) Mohammed Ghaleb al-Dumaj, 22, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (an armed wing of Fatah movement);
2) Ahmed Mohammed al-‘Eissa, 24, also member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades; and
3) Mahmoud ‘Abdul Latif Ghlail, 23, a member of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad).
At approximately 20:35 also on Saturday, an IOF aircraft fired a missile at a civilian car (a red Fiat 127) belonging to
Kamal Kazem Mohammed ‘Anan, 43, from Gaza City, which stopped at Sha’sha’a intersection to the east of Jabalya town.
The missile directly hit the car burning it. ‘Anan was seriously wounded by shrapnel throughout the body, as he was standing near it. He was evacuated to the hospital, but he died half an hour later.
The reasons of the attack are not apparent. It is not clear whether IOF launched this attack in the context of the policy of extra-judicial executions.
According to information available to PCHR, ‘Anan was not involved into any resistance activities.
He used to work at the Municipality of Gaza and he was on duty when the attack took place.
Nearly half an hour prior to this attack, an IOF aircraft fired a missile at a civilian vehicle, in which a number of members of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad) were traveling, after they had launched home-made rockets at Israeli towns. The missile went astray.
At approximately 22:00 on the same day, IOF moved into Jenin town and refugee camp. They besieged and opened fire at a house belonging to Naji Wahesh Bargheesh near Dr. Khalil Suleiman Hospital.
Bargheesh’s daughter, 17-year-old Bushra,
was killed by a gunshot to the head, when she was in her bedroom. IOF continued to besiege and fire at the house to arrest the victim’s brother,
-- 22-year-old ‘Abdul Rahman.
They then called through megaphones on residents of the house to get out and they did. However, IOF resumed firing at the house.
At approximately 23:30, IOF withdrew from the area, without finding the targeted person.
At approximately 00:15 on Sunday, 22 April 2007, an IOF undercover unit moved into Nablus, traveling in a civilian vehicle with a Palestinian registration plate. The vehicle stopped neat a house belonging to Nabeel al-Zorba in the old town.
Soon after, IOF military jeeps arrived at the area to support the undercover unit. IOF soldiers broke into two neighboring houses belonging to the families of Abu al-Hayat and al-Shilla.
They then ordered residents of the al-Zorba’s house to get out. Al-Zurba, his wife and their two children immediately got out. Soon after, IOF fired 8 shells at the house and many gunshots at the house.
Two members of the Palestinian resistance exchanged fire with IOF. The exchange of fire continued until 04:45, and as a result of it, the two resistance activists were killed. They were identified as:
1) Ameen Mahmoud Libbada, 20, hit by a gunshot to the neck; and
2) Fadel Mohammed Nour, 25, hit by 3 gunshots to the neck.
PCHR strongly condemns this latest escalation by IOF, and:
1) Reiterates its condemnation for extra-judicial executions and the excessive use of force by IOF against Palestinian civilians, and emphasizes that such practices serve to increase tension in the region and threaten the lives of Palestinian civilians.
2) Calls upon the international community to immediately intervene to stop such crimes, and reiterates its call for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under the Convention and ensure protection for Palestinian civilians in the OPT.
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Two fighters assassinated in Nablus
On Saturday night after midnight Israeli soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and assassinated two fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh.
The two fighters were identified as Amin Lubbada, 21, and Fadel Nour, 22. They were shot and killed during armed clashes with the invading Israeli forces.
Palestinian sources reported that soldiers surrounded the house of Tha’er Al Zorba, in Kroum Ashour area, and exchanged fire with resistance fighters hiding there.
Soldiers fired several shells at the house, completely burning and destroying it before kidnapping Ashour and taking him to an unknown destination.
Also, Israeli soldiers broke into the houses of Fawzi Younis and Kamal Ashour and searched them; damage was reported.
The bodies of the two fighters were moved to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, and hundreds of residents took to the streets and chanted slogans against the occupation.
The Al Aqsa Brigades slammed the assassination and vowed retaliation. Mahdi Abu Ghazala, leader of the Al Aqsa brigades in Nablus, said that the brigades will not be committed to any truce since Israel did not cease its attacks and assassinations.
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Hasan Mohammed Siyam
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Omer Abu Shari'a, 26
Palestinian resistance fighter dies of wounds sustained last year
Palestinian sources reported late on Wednesday night that a Palestinian fighter died of wounds he sustained in November 2006.
Omer Abu Shari'a, 26, was critically injured when an Israeli war plane shelled his car. Abu Shari'a is said to have been and activist of the Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fatah.
Earlier on Wednesday night several Israeli military vehicles invaded Soufa area, south-east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
One Palestinian was shot and injured in an Israeli attack in Jablalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Soldiers advanced for a distance of 200 meters into the area and started bulldozing and uprooting Palestinian agricultural lands. The invasion was carried out by three tanks and several vehicles.
In a separate attack, one resident was shot and injured by Israel military fire as the army operated in Jablia town. Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that Salah Zeida Asaliyya, 18, was shot by a live round in his shoulder. He was shot when soldiers based near Abu Safiyya area, opened fire at several houses in the area.
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Maria 28 apr 2007
Abdel Halim Saqr Al Fayoumi
Four Palestinian resistance fighters killed in Gaza, three by Israeli gunfire
Four Palestinian resistance fighters were killed Saturday in two separate incidents, three by Israeli army gunfire, Palestinian medics in Gaza said.
The Israeli army, stationed on Gaza Israel-Gaza border line, killed early this morning three Palestinians, Palestinian security sources said.
The sources added that they have been informed to send medics to the area, to transfer dead bodies of three Palestinians.
A statement faxed to reporters by the Hamas-linked Ezzildin Alqssam brigades, read that three of its fighters were killed by Israeli fire, while they were in a 'Jihad mission'.
Abu Obeida, spokesman of the brigades said “the Israeli army's crime against these fighters indicates that Israel is not interested in the current state of calm".
Faqzi Barhoum, Hamas's spokesman called on the Palestinian resistance groups to consider a deliberate response to the Israeli crimes, saying that his movement will not take a negative position toward such crimes".
Hamas did not give a clear-cut stand over the weekend with regard to reportedly Egyptian mediation for a state of calm between Israel and the resistance groups, on which Israel would have to refrain from attacking Gaza in return for halt of homemade rockets.
Media reports said the Palestinian groups had agreed to renew the half-year-old ceasefire if Israel stops attacking the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Spokesmen of the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza, Dawood Shehab told IMEMC earlier that his group did not pledge to the Egyptians to stop resistance unless Israel refrains from attacking the Palestinian territories.
In a separate incident, a fourth Palestinian fighter was killed, when an explosive device went off in Gaza. The fighter’s cousin was moderately injured.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees claimed early this morning responsibility for launching some homemade shells at nearby Israeli areas. No injuries were reported.
Latest developments on the ground would threaten an already fragile ceasefire, following a barrage of homemade shells, the Hamas-linked Alqassam brigades fired on Israeli targets last week after Israel killed 9 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
A statement by Al-Qassam brigades declared the ceasefire ‘dead’ and vowed to resume attacks on Israeli targets, while Israel later announced it would carry out limited attack on Gaza.