- 21 mrt 2007
Mohammad Ibrahim Salayma 17
Fadi Abu Kushek 23
Youth killed by military fire near Ramallah
The Palestinian Maan News Agency reported on Wednesday night that one Palestinian youth was shot and killed, and another civilian was injured by Israeli army gunfire in Aboud village, near Ramallah city in the northern part of the West Bank.
The Palestine News Network (PNN) reported that the youthe was identified as Mohammad Ibrahim Salayma, 17.
Soldiers abducted the body of Salayma but later handed it over to a Palestinian ambulance. His body was moved to the Ramallah Governmental Hospital.
Also, soldiers shot and injured resident Hatim Dar Salah, and kidnapped him, PNN reported.
An Israeli military source claimed that “soldiers shot two armed Palestinians” near Ramallah, and that the condition of the two remained unknown.
No soldiers were injured, army sources added.
Also, the army claimed that soldiers shot and injured one resident of Dir Abu Mashal village, north of Ramallah after clamming that he hurled a Molotov cocktail at a their jeep.
One Palestinian killed, as army invades Nablus
On Wednesday morning the Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and the nearby Askar refugee camp, killing one civilian and abducting at least 5 others.
On Wednesday at dawn more that 40 armored Israeli army vehicles stormed the Askar refugee camp east of Nablus. During the invasion Israeli troops opened heavy fire at the residents' homes; clashes erupted between the invading force and local resistance fighters. Fadi Abu Kushek, 23, was shot and killed during these clashes, local sources in Nablus reported.
In the meantime, Israeli troops searched and ransacked homes in the refugee camp and in the city of Nablus. In Nablus troops attacked several houses in the downtown area and abducted five civilians, before leaving the city. Eyewitnesses identified the five abducted as Taha Alowi, Hadi Su'od, Shadi Al Dibek, Bashar Al Zaghlol, and Azam Yasseen. All were taken to unknown detention camps.
21 apr 2012, 09:40 , Respect -
Maria 25 mrt 2007
Jenin child tells the story of how soldiers killed his father in 2002
“My father was not a fighter. He was not armed. The [Israeli] soldiers took him from our house and tortured him without any mercy, they killed him and gave us his body, my brothers and I are orphans now. Where is the international conscience, where is the United Nations that puts the victim and the attacker on the same scale? My father was a peaceful man supporting his six children.”
With these words, Mustafa Husny Fayid, 13, started talking about the tragedy that beset his family when the Israeli army carried out the Jenin refugee camp massacre in 2002, during an invasion that Israel calls “Operation Defensive Shield”.
Five years after the massacre, the child was finally able to talk about what happened when he was seven. He expressed his anger that “the world is still unable to stop the Israeli atrocities”.
“The world is talking about justice, peace and human rights but when it comes to us, and to what Israel is doing to us, they change their concepts and principles. We are refugees dreaming of a stable life, a country and a humble home”, Mustafa stated, “Where is the world justice, were is the international law, how come the committee set up to investigate the massacre in our camp was never allowed to be formed? They should come here and see how we are living, and the destruction inflicted on us and on our future. The occupation is the cause of all our problems, but nobody wants to see the truth, they want us to be silent”.
The misery of the child and his family started when the Israeli army invaded the camp in April 2002. “When the army invaded the camp, soldiers started occupying homes and started ambushing the fighters, then they started shelling all the houses after totally surrounding the camp”, Mustafa said, “Everything became dangerous, danger was all around us. We were hiding in one room for a whole week, while planes and tanks were firing shells and missiles at the whole camp. We lived in fear and my younger brothers never stopped crying the whole time. My father asked us not to be afraid, and he read us verses of the holy Quran”.
At that, Mustafa stopped talking for a while. His eyes were filled with tears as he looked at his fathers’ picture hanging on the wall. Finally he continued, “Several days after the invasion began, we knew that the soldiers had the whole camp surrounded, and that the invasion was getting more violent and fierce. Then the shelling intensified and the soldiers shelled the mosque near our house”.
The next morning, the army started advancing into the camp, and the soldiers started knocking on the doors ordering all men to leave the houses and surrender themselves to them.
“We heard violent knocking on our door, and we became so scared. My father opened the door and saw more than 30 military jeeps outside on the street. The soldiers then broke into our house and started searching it, they stepped with their dirty feet on the bread, and started breaking the dishes, smashing the windows and then they started hitting my father violently before taking him to the yard, we heard him screaming from the pain, before they took him away”.
According to other eyewitness accounts, Mustafa’s father was used as a human shield by the soldiers, who forced him to knock on the doors of neighboring houses before they broke into them and abducted the inhabitants.
“Later on, the soldiers returned. They had my father and my uncle, and locked them in a small room in our house. The soldiers saw drawings that my kid brothers had painted on the wall in our house, maps of Palestine and other drawings, and the soldiers were angry and said that those drawings are maps for the fighters to escape and started hitting my father on his head”, Mustafa added.
“They were violently hitting my father on his head, and were screaming and shouting at him, he started bleeding and they took him out in spite of his injuries and pain”.
Eyewitnesses told Mustafa that they saw the soldiers torturing his father as they were taking him to an armored vehicle, then they transferred him to a location where the soldiers gathered with their vehicles. According to local accounts, Israeli troops took dozens of residents to the temporary camp where Mustafa saw them taking his father.
There, the soldiers tortured and interrogated the men. At one point, according to eyewitnesses, Mustafa’s father pleaded to be taken to a hospital, but the soldiers refused to provide him with any medical treatment.
Later on, soldiers took the man to an unknown destination; some residents said that they saw him at a Civil Administration Office which belongs to the Israeli army. The residents said that they heard him screaming, and then he stopped.
“He wasn’t breathing, and the people told me when that happened they started shouting at the soldiers, he is dead, the man is dead”, Mustafa said, “Then the soldiers gave him first aid and took him to a hospital, after that we never knew where he was”.
“We were told by the army that my father was at Al Foula Israeli hospital, but when we phoned the hospital, they told us that he was not there, we contacted the Red Crescent and the Red Cross and they told us that the soldiers took my father to Ofer prison. We searched for him for three months”.
“The Prisoners Society, the Red Crescent and several organizations helped in the effort to locate my father. They were informed by the army that my father was taken prisoner, but when medical institutions and the lawyer of the prisoners’ society contacted the army officers, they said that his name was not among the list of detainees”.
Different stories regarding the destiny of Mustafa’s dad increased the worries of his family, and three months later, after extensive efforts by the family and several institutions, the army admitted that the father was dead.
“We lived through tough times, as the army was waging its cruel war against the camp, against us, we were unable to hide our fears, our tears, my little brothers and I were crying day and night”. Mustafa stated.
But when the news finally arrived about the whereabouts of the father, it was shocking to know the truth, that he was a dead body at Abu Kbeer Israeli morgue. When the army handed the body of the father to his family, their grief was even greater, it was in a closed coffin.
Nobody was allowed to see him because his body was severely mutilated and deformed. And now, five years after his father was killed, Mustafa is speaking.
“I insist that those responsible for his death should be prosecuted, I appeal to the international organizations to adopt the case of my father and file charges against the Israeli army, I want to know how did he die in their prisons, he left the house on his feat, and return to us a dead body, they took him away from us, forever”.
(53:56) Jenin Jenin
21 apr 2012, 09:41 , Respect -
Maria 26 mrt 2007
shepherd, no name
One Palestinian shepherd found dead near a settlement in northern West Bank
A Palestinian shepherd found dead near an Israeli settlement located near the city of Nablus in northern West Bank on Monday morning.
21 apr 2012, 09:45 , Respect -
Maria 27 mrt 2007
Mohannad Mreish 24
Ala’ Ziad Al Ghaleeth 26
Two fighters killed in an Israeli invasion of Nablus
Palestinian medical sources in the northern West Bank city of Nablus reported on Tuesday at dawn that two fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, were shot and killed by Israeli military fire during an invasion of the city.
The sources identified the two fighters as Ala’ Ziad Al Ghaleeth, 26, and Mohannad Mreish, 24. The two were killed during a gun battle with the invading soldiers in the Old City of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses reported that the two bled for several hours as medical crews could not reach them due to the heavy clashes in the area, and the extensive military presence.
The clashes took place as dozens of armored military jeeps invaded Nablus and the Old City and exchanged fire with resistance fighters.
The army did not report any injuries among the soldiers, and claimed that troops identified fighters who were involved in firing at the army and placing explosives in front of military patrol, and fired at them, according to the army.
The brigades announced the death of its two fighters over loudspeakers.
In a separate incident, the army took prisoner seven residents in several parts of the West Bank overnight.
21 apr 2012, 09:46 , Respect -
Maria 28 mrt 2007
Muhammad Elias Mahmoud Aweideh 15
of Um al-Sharayet, near Jerusalem, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration near Israel's annexation wall.
30 mrt 2007
Mohammad Oweidah
Palestinian child dies after Israeli troops shot him on Wednesday near Ramallah
Palestinian medical sources at the Al Maqassid Hospital in Jerusalem, reported on Thursday night that a Palestinian child died of wounds sustained on Wednesday when Israeli soldiers shot him as he approached the illegal Wall near Ramallah.
The child was identified as Mohammad Oweidah, from Um Al Sharayit neighborhood, in Ramallah.
Oweidah was shot as he and some of his friends approached the Israeli Illlegal Wall near Qalandia, in Ramallah in the northern part of the West Bank. No other casualties were reported.
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that Oweidah was hit by several rounds of live ammunition and was moved to the Al Maqassid hospital where he died in the intensive care unit.
21 apr 2012, 09:48 , Respect -
Maria 28 mrt 2007
Iyad Abu Hatab 22
Israeli army invades Jenin and kills a Palestinian fighter
A massive Israeli force invaded the northern West Bank city of Jenin and Jenin refugee camp, and killed one Palestinian resistance fighter on Wednesday at dawn.
At least 40 Israeli army vehicles and several bulldozers invaded Jenin and Jenin refugee camp from multiple directions. In the refugee camp a group of local resistance fighters from the Aqsa brigades of Fatah and Al Qudes brigades of Islamic Jihad, clashed with the invading Israeli troops.
Iyad Abu Hatab, 22, a resistance fighter of Al Aqsa brigades was killed during these clashes. Medical sources in the refugee camp stated that Abu Hatab sustained wounds in his chest. The sources added that Israeli soldiers did not allow medical teams to assist the man and left him to bleed for several hours, which led to his death.
Later the army allowed a local ambulance to take the man to Jenin Hospital in the city. In the meantime another Israeli force invaded Barta'a village west of Jenin city; soldiers searched and ransacked several houses then an army bulldozer demolished a car wash, a greenhouse and an animal shed. When local residents and owners of the facilities tried to remove their belongings from the areas being demolished, the Israeli soldiers attacked them with batons and sound bombs. No injures were reported, eyewitnesses said.
21 apr 2012, 09:49 , Respect -
Maria 29 mrt 2007
Ahmad Ibrahim Suleiman Asous 16
of Muthalath al-Shuhada, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest while throwing stones at an army jeep during an incursion.
21 apr 2012, 09:49 , Respect -
Maria 29 mrt 2007
Said Saber Ahmad Abu-Warda 16Ahmad Al Assassah 16
Said: of Jabalya, Gaza, died of wounds sustained March 28 from an IDF missile during a targeted assassination.
Army kills one Palestinian child as its forces invades a village near Jenin
Israeli forces invaded the village of Mothalath south of the city of Jenin in the northern part of the West Bank and killed one child on Thursday morning.
A massive Israeli force invaded the village and attacked and searched scores of houses. Israeli soldiers opened fire randomly at residents' houses and civilians standing on the street.
Medical sources reported that Ahmad Al Assassah, 16, was hit with a live round in the head and died instantly. The sources added another two were injured. They were known as Ahmad Mahmod, 17, and Shauki Assassah, 20.
Soldiers forced families out of their homes during the house to house search campaign the army conducted in the village. Israeli forces left the village after some time, but before leaving they abducted Ahmad Hussien, 26, and took him to an unknown detention camp.
The area of Jenin city Jenin refugee camp and a nearby village was targeted on Wednesday; one Palestinian resistance fighter from Al Aqsa brigades of Fatah was killed during clashes between local resistance fighters and invading Israeli troops in Jenin refugee camp.
With Assassah's death, the number of the Palestinians killed by the Israeli army in the West Bank since the beginning of this week have risen to three.
21 apr 2012, 09:49 , Respect -
Maria 29 mrt 2007
Ahmad Abu Warda 20
Palestinian dies of wounds sustained on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip
A Palestinian man died on Thursday morning of wounds he sustained on Wednesday when a car he was in was targeted by an Israeli army helicopter in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that Ahmad Abu Warda, 20, died of wounds he sustained along with another two people, when their car was hit by a missile fired from an Apache helicopter. The car was traveling on a road in Al Sudaniah in the northern part of the Gaza strip on Wednesday afternoon.
The other two people still lie in critical conditions in Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Palestinian sources stated that the three are members of Al Qudes Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad.
Israeli media sources reported Israeli army claims that the three were "on their way to fire home made shells at Israeli targets". No shells were found in or near the car, eyewitnesses reported.
21 apr 2012, 09:49 , Respect -
Maria 21 apr 2012, 09:52 , Respect -
Maria 30 mrt 2007
Israel Might Launch an Offensive on Gaza, Israeli Army Chief Says
21 apr 2012, 09:54 , Respect -
Maria 4 apr 2007
Ramez Awad al-Zaanin 24
Israeli Army Kills a Palestinian Resident of Northern Gaza
An undercover Israeli army unit shot and killed Wednesday a Palestinian civilian and abducted another in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
Palestinian medical sources said that Ramez Alz’aneen was killed, three other people were wounded and a fifth was abducted when an Israeli army special undercover unit incurred into Beit Hanoun under a barrage of heavy gun fire.
Witnesses told IMEMC that those hit by the Israeli army were local Palestinian farmers, who were laboring on their farmland. Witnesses said that the Israeli army vehicles have been stationed on the border with Israel in northern Gaza. Such a development comes amidst Israeli army warnings of a possible large-scale attack on the Gaza Strip, under the pretext of cracking down on Palestinian resistance groups that continue to fire homemade rockets at nearby Israeli towns.
In the meantime, dozens of Palestinian journalists and intellectuals in Gaza blocked Wednesday a session of the Palestinian legislative council in Gaza’s building of the PLC, to protest at the Palestinian government’s inaction to secure the release of Alan Jhonston, the veteran BBC correspondent, kidnapped in Gaza three weeks ago.
Unknown gunmen in Gaza abducted Jhonston on March 12th, while he was driving in Gaza city. The captivity of Jhonston is the longest captivity endured by a foreign abductee in Gaza, as nobody has claimed responsibility and no information has been released so far.
Palestinian killed in the northern Gaza strip
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian civilian was killed when an Israeli army tank fired a group of residents east of Beit Hannoun town and in the northern part of the Gaza strip.
Local sources reported that the Israeli tank invaded the eastern side of Beit Hannoun town then opened fire at a group of residents leading to the killing of Ramzi Al Za'anin, 24, another three civilians were injured the sources added.
21 apr 2012, 09:54 , Respect -
Maria 5 apr 2007
Tahrir Abueljidyan17
Israeli Army Shells Northern Gaza, while Girl Dies of old Wounds
The Israeli army shelled late last night the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, as a Palestinian girl died of wounds she sustained by Israeli gunfire three years ago.
Palestinian media sources said that the Israeli tanks stationed along the Gaza-Israel border fired several shells at unpopulated areas in Beit Hanoun. No causalities were reported.
Israeli army gunfire killed yesterday a Palestinian resistance fighter and wounded two others.
In the meantime, Palestinain medical sources announced Thursday the death of a 17 year old Palestinian girl named Tahrir Abueljidyan, who sustained critical wounds three years ago when she was shot be Israeli troops in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Abueljidyan was shot in the head during a large-scale Israeli invasion of the northern parts of the Gaza Strip in 2004.
Recently, the Israeli army has reinforced military presence along the Israel-Gaza border line after Israeli security officials have warned of a possible massive attack on the Gaza Strip, under the pretext of cracking down on Palestinian resistance factions.
Tahrir Hisham Abul-Jedian 17
of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, died of head wounds sustained Oct. 4, 2004 from IDF gunfire while inside her home during an incursion.
21 apr 2012, 09:55 , Respect -
Maria 5 apr 2007
Aziz Hamed Almatour, 29
Israeli Army Gunfire Kills a Palestinian Civilian and Wounds others in Jericho
Palestinian media sources reported that a Palestinian civilian was shot dead and several others were wounded Thursday by Israeli army gunfire in the West Bank city of Jericho.
The sources said that Israeli soldiers stationed at a military outpost in an area overlooking the city opened fire at a number of local Palestinians, killing one and wounding two others.
Palestinian medics identified the fatality as Aziz Hamed Almatour, 29, while no information was available about the other wounded people.
Al Almatour is from Sa'ir village, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
Palestinian security sources confirmed that the Israeli army took the victim’s dead body to an unknown destination.
The Israeli army maintains military control over large parts of the West Bank and continues construction of a notorious "separation barrier"- Illegal Wall- around various West Bank cities, towns, villages and refugee camps.
Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the Israeli-Arab war in June, 1967.
21 apr 2012, 09:57 , Respect -
Maria 6 apr 2007
Khalid Ali Al Shawwaf, 22
Palestinian fighter died of wounds suffered six months ago
Palestinian medical sources in al Wafa' hospital, in Gaza city, reported on Friday evening that one fighter died of wounds sustained during an Israeli military invasion to Khazza'a town, in Khan Younis, six months ago.
The fighter, Khalid Ali Al Shawwaf, 22, was injured six in September 6, 2006, as he and other resistance fighters exchanged fired with the invading Israeli forces in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Al Shawwaf is a member of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement.
He was unconscious the whole period due to his sever wounds, and was placed at the intensive care unit until he he announced dead of Friday