- 28 apr 2007
Mahmoud Jlaiel - Abbas Damaj 22
21 apr 2012, 10:39 , Respect -
Maria 30 apr 2007
Israeli Army Chief of Staff threatens to invade Gaza
Israeli PM says Israel might launch a military attack on Gaza
21 apr 2012, 10:39 , Respect -
Maria 2 mei 2007
Mas'od Suboh
Army killes a Palestinian civilian and kidnaps his brother in northern Gaza strip
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army shot and killed Palestinian civilian and kidnapped his brother in the northern part of the Gaza strip on Wednesday midday.
Dr. Mo'awiah Hassanin, the head of the emergency department in the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza stated that Mas'od Suboh, a Beit Lahia resident, northern Gaza strip was shot with multiple live rounds in the head by the Israeli troops stationed near the Israeli evacuated settlement of Aili Sanayi in northern Gaza strip, his brother was kidnapped by those forces, Dr. Hassanin added.
Aili Sanayi was evacuated during the 2005 unilateral Israeli disengagement plan. Palestinian medical teems managed to retrieve the man's body and transported it to Kamal Andawn hospital in Beit Lahia town.
Earlier this week Israeli army officials hinted that the Israeli army would carry out an attack on the Gaza Strip to ‘crack down on the Palestinian homemade shells’, being fired on nearby Israeli targets.
Last November, both Israelis and Palestinians agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza, yet Israeli army has recently killed 10 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Later on, Palestinian resistance groups announced the ceasefire ‘dead’.
Palestinian officials have raised great concerns from the devastating effects caused by a possible Israeli military operation on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza strip.
21 apr 2012, 10:44 , Respect -
Maria 21 apr 2012, 10:46 , Respect -
Maria 4 mei 2007
Ahmad Izzat Zyoud
Mahdi Abu Al Kheir Tahaina
Khalid Saleh Ashour
Israeli troops assassinate three fighters in Jenin
Under-cover forces of the Israeli army assassinated on Friday evening three resistance fighters in Silat Alharithiya town, west of Jenin, in the northern part of the West Bank.
The three fighters were identified as Ahmad Izzat Zyoud, Mahdi Abu Al Kheir Tahaina, both from Silat Alharithiya, and Khalid Saleh Ashour, from Kafer Dan village, near Jenin.
Eyewitnesses reported that an under-cover unit of the Israeli army infiltrated into Al Izba area, west of Silt Alharithiya using two Palestinian vehicles and ambushed the fighters.
As the three fighters drove into the area, they noticed the two vehicles parking there, and exchanged fire with them as more forces rushed to the scene, but the under-cover forces were all over the place and managed to assassinate the three fighters.
The witnesses added that soldiers barred Red Crescent ambulances, and reporters, from reaching the area after totally sealing it off.
Troops immediately evacuated from the area after carrying the assassination, local sources reported.
The bodies of the three fighters were moved to Khalil Suleiman governmental hospital in Jenin. Medical sources at the hospital reported that the three were hit by multiple live rounds in their upper body parts.
Following the assassination, hundreds of residents marched in the streets and chanted slogans against the Israeli occupation.
Fighters of the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, rushed to the streets and fired rounds of live ammunition into the air, and vowed retaliation.
The brigades issued a press release vowing retaliation and further attacks against the Israeli army.
Muhammad Al Hindi, one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement in Jenin, said that this assassination requires an immediate retaliation from all fighters, especially Islamic Jihad fighters.
Meanwhile, Nabil Abu Rodeina, media spokesperson of President, Mahmoud Abbas, slammed the assassination, and said that this attack is considered a serious escalation that will lead the area into further deterioration.
http://www.imemc.org/article/48172
5 mei 2007
President Abbas condemns Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Jenin
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned on Friday the Israeli army killing of three Palestinian resistance fighters in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Spokesman of Palestinian president, Nabil Abu Rodaina, said “ this is a dangerous escalation that will fuel more deterioration in a time the Palestinian leadership is seeking an extension of a state of calm with Israel”.
The victims, who are identified as Islamic Jihad group members (Holy War), were reportedly killed during an Israeli ambush of the car they were driving. An eyewitness from the Silat Alharithiya village near Jenin, told IMEMC that an Israeli undercover unit intercepted a Palestinian car, while driving along them Silat Alharithiya-Jenin road.
The eyewitness said that masked Israeli soldiers forced three Palestinians out of the car then shot them to death directly, while an Israeli army force, made up of jeeps, cordoned off the area, where the shooting was taking place. He further explained that the soldiers held the wounded for half an hour before they handed them out to Palestinian medics.
Witnesses said that the fighters traded gun fire with the Israeli soldiers, while the Israeli army prevented ambulances from aiding the wounded, leading to their death.
The Islamic Jihad group vowed to response to today’s killing. Islamic Jihad and other Palestinian resistance groups including the governing Hamas demanded that Israel should stop attacking the West Bank if it wanted to guarantee halt of homemade rocket fire from Gaza into nearby Israeli territories.
Also, Palestinian Minister of Information Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi slammed the attack and said that this assasination proved that Israel does not want a partner for peace, and called on the international community to intervene.
He added that israel is attempting to cover the scandals of its president and miisters by escilating its agression.
Barghouthi called on the international community to provide the Palestinian people with the needed protection.
A six-month-old ceasefire has been recently threatened after Israel killed two weeks ago 8 Palestinians in the West Bank and a ninth in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza responded by a barrage of homemade shells fire into nearby Israeli targets
21 apr 2012, 10:47 , Respect -
Maria 5 mei 2007
Mahmoud Ramadan Bayed 24
A Palestinian resident killed by Israeli gun fire in northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources said that Israeli army killed early on this morning a Palestinian resident and wounded critically another in northern Gaza Strip.
The sources said the casualties were not identified.
Israeli warplanes hovered yesterday night over different parts of the Gaza Strip, amidst Israeli threats to carry out a ground offensive on Gaza, after a six-month-old ceasefire has been threatened recently.
Last week, Israeli soldiers, manning the Israel-Gaza border line, killed a 35-year-old Palestinian civilian and wounded another.
21 apr 2012, 10:47 , Respect -
Maria 21 apr 2012, 10:48 , Respect -
Maria 6 mei 2007
Children of Conflict - Gaza
(10:36) Children of Conflict - Gaza - Part 1
(13:13) Children of Conflict - Gaza - Part 2
Children of Conflict talks to the grandchildren of the oldest female Palestinian suicide bomber, Rana who wants to become a journalist to tell of Palestinian suffering and Tahal who wants to be the first female Palestinian president.
21 apr 2012, 10:48 , Respect -
Maria 8 mei 2007
Israeli TV: “US and EU object to Israel’s plan for an offensive in the Gaza Strip”
The Israeli TV reported on Tuesday evening that the United States and the European Union objected to an Israeli plan to carry out a large-scaled military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
The TV report stated that Israel did not receive an American and European approval to this offensive.
Various Israeli leaders has been vowing to carry an offensive in the Gaza Strip in order, according to the leaders, to stop the firing of homemade shells into Israeli areas adjacent to the Strip.
Meanwhile, Palestinian chief negotiator, Dr. Sa’eb Erekat, held a meeting on Tuesday evening with leaders of five Palestinian factions, and discussed the Israeli threats to invade the Gaza Strip.
Several Israeli military leaders stated recently that they are awaiting orders from the political leadership to carry a large-scaled offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Maan news Agency reported.
The agency added that the army presented recently five proposals which included expanding the attacks, especially near the border fence with the Gaza Strip, and to fire at certain areas without invading certain cities and refugee camps.
So far, the Israeli leadership did not issue any direct order to invade the Gaza Strip, especially amidst the hash criticisms over the conducts of the Israeli government, and its leadership, during last summer’s war on Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Ministers, Ehud Olmert, who is also facing calls to resign during his failure in leading the Lebanon war, is slated to hold a meeting with his political-security council in order to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip and the recent Israeli intelligence reports which claimed that the power of resistance groups in Gaza ins increasing.
21 apr 2012, 10:49 , Respect -
Maria 10 mei 2007
Unborn baby
Army kills a Palestinian unborn baby in Nablus
A massive Israeli army force invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus and nearby refugee camps. During the invasion army opened fire randomly at residents' homes and killed an unborn baby after shooting and injuring the mother on Thursday morning.
Maha Al Katoumi, 29, a pregnant Palestinian women, was in her house during the Israeli army attack on Al Ein refugee camp near Nablus.
During the invasion local resistance fighters clashed with the invading troops and Israeli soldiers opened fire randomly at resident's homes, one of their rounds hit Al Katoumi in her abdomen, killing her 7 months fetus.
AL Katoumi family stated that Maha was in her room when she was injured. The family called a Palestinian ambulance and as soon as the ambulance arrived at the house, soldiers surrounding it stopped the ambulance and did not allow the medical teems to get inside the Al Katoumi home, leaving Maha to bleed for more than one hour.
Medical sources reported that Maha was injured in her abdomen and as soon as she arrived to Rafida hospital in Nablus she was admitted to the surgery room, doctors delivered the baby and found him shot in the head by the round that hit the mother.
Eyewitnesses reported that army conducted a wide scale house to house search in several parts of Nablus city and kidnapped at least three Palestinian civilians. Witnesses added clashes have erupted between the invading troops and local resistance fighter in several parts of Nablus on Thursday midday.
Pregnant women shot in Nablus by the army miscarries, the infant was shot in the head
21 apr 2012, 11:02 , Respect -
Maria 10 mei 2007
No name
Was shot and left him bleeding they prevented ambulances from reaching him.
21 apr 2012, 11:02 , Respect -
Maria 13 mei 2007
Taiseer Abdul-Karim
18 mei 2007
Baraka: “Killing of the Palestinian driver wasn’t just an incident”
Arab member of Israeli Knesset, Mohammad Baraka, head of the parliamentarian bloc of the Democratic Front in Israel, stated on Thursday that the killing of the Palestinian driver by a settler on the West Bank is not the first, and that such incident are part of a bigger phenomenon in Israel.
The driver, Taiseer Abdul-Karim, was shot on May 13, at point blank by a settler who guards an Israeli settlement near the West Bank city of Salfit.
The statements of Baraka came as he spoke in front of the Knesset’s General Committee.
He added that there are central figures in the Israeli government and the Knesset who keep inciting against the Arabs and the Palestinians which increases hatred among the people and does not help in developing the means of coexistence.
“It seems that the settler, a new immigrant from France wanted to show the maximum level of racism in order to be absorbed in Israel”, Baraka added, “It seems he needed to kill an Arab to be accepted in the country”.
He slammed that Israel claims that the assailant was mentally ill and stated this Israel repeatedly used such claims to justify racist attacks.
He stated that Israel claimed that Baroch Goldstein, who opened fire at Muslim worshipers in the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron in 1994, was mentally ill although he was a physician.
Goldstein killed 29 Palestinians and injured dozens of residents before the crowd managed to overcome his bullets and killed him.
Baraka added that Israel also did not seek justice when Eden Natan Zada, stepped on board of Bus heading to Shfa-Amr Arab town in Israel in August 4 2005, and opened fire at the passengers killing two Christian and two Muslim Arab residents, and injuring at least twenty-two other residents before the passengers managed to overcome his bullets and killed him.
Baraka added that the Israeli officials always try to portray such attacks as isolated incidents, and slammed the Israeli policy of not dealing with the root of these attacks especially since they stem from hatred directed against the Arabs and the Palestinians.
21 apr 2012, 11:04 , Respect -
Maria 14 mei 2007
Jewish Man from Tel Aviv confesses to slaughtering an Arab taxi driver
Israeli media sources reported on Monday at night that a Jewish immigrant from France, living in Tel Aviv, confessed to the Israeli police that he murdered a 35-year old Arab Taxi driver by slitting his throat in an apartment in Tel Aviv.
The body of the Palestinian taxi driver also bore signs of sever attack and torture. It was found in an apartment of Yona Hanavi Street in Tel Aviv, Israeli online daily Haaretz reported.
Haaretz added that initial police investigation revealed that the driver was invited to the apartment of the 25-year old Israeli who also carries French citizenship.
Haaretz also stated that the police were first alerted to the incident when traffic officers noticed two Israelis loitering in the center of Allenby Street on Monday approximately at 16:00.
The two , the suspect and his brother, were detained by the police for routine questioning, but then, the 25-year old man told the police that he killed an Arab taxi driver in his apartment, and led the police to the crime scene, Haaretz reported.
The killer stated that he killed the Arab man over his Arab nationality.
Also, Haaretz reported that neighbors said that the suspect had recently became religious and started to attend a local synagogue”.
He led the police to the apartment, and the police found the body of the Arab man. The police estimate that the murder took place several hours before the body was found.
According to Haaretz, the brother of the suspect apparently arrived to the apartment shortly after the murder took place, and that he “was not directly involved”.
Police Brig. Gen. Hagai Dotan, head of the investigation unit at the Yarkon District Police, said that it is clear that the victim, a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, did not know the suspect, and that he believes that the murder carried national motives.
The police also said that after the suspect and his brother were taken for questioning, it became clear that the murder was intentional and planned in advanced, especially after the murderer told the police the he “decided to kill an Arab”.
21 apr 2012, 11:09 , Respect -
Maria 14 mei 2007
Sulaiman Abdul Rahim Al-Ashi 25, journalistMohammad Matar Abdo 25, media worker
Journalist, media worker killed in Gaza City
Relatives of Palestinian journalist Suleiman al-Ashi, who was killed by gunmen on Sunday, cry during his funeral in Gaza
The Committee to Protect Journalist is outraged by the killings of a journalist and a media worker, who were shot on Sunday in Gaza City.
Gunmen wearing presidential guard uniforms stopped a taxi carrying
Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi, 25, an economics editor for the Hamas-affiliated daily Palestine, and
Mohammad Matar Abdo, 25, a manager responsible for distribution and civic relations, Editor-in-Chief Mustafa al-Sawaf told CPJ today.
The taxi was stopped at 2:30 p.m. in a high-security area southwest of Gaza City that is controlled by Fatah, al-Sawaf and other journalists told CPJ.
News accounts vary on the ensuing events; al-Sawaf said the two men were beaten before being shot on a public street. Al-Ashi died at the scene, while Abdo was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where he died at 3 a.m. today, al-Sawaf and CPJ sources said. Al-Sawaf said his description was based on interviews with eyewitnesses and an account that Abdo provided his brother before he died.
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate and the Palestinian Journalists’ Bloc both denounced the killings. Mohamed Edwan, a spokesman for President Mahmoud Abbas, said Fatah had nothing to do with the killings and that presidential guards are instructed to shoot only in self-defense. He said Fatah condemns the killings and urges that the perpetrators be punished.
“We condemn the murders of Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi and Mohammad Matar Abdo and offer condolences to their families,” CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said. “President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority must ensure a swift, thorough, and fair investigation into this heinous crime.”
Al-Ashi and Abdo were scheduled to meet with economic and tourism organizations in Gaza that afternoon, al-Sawaf told CPJ. The fledgling Palestine newspaper was launched early this May.
The murders come amid clashes in the coastal strip over the previous 24 hours. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that at least six people died and another 52 were wounded in fighting between rival Fatah and Hamas militias.
Rivalry between the Hamas-led government elected in January and the Fatah movement has put pressure on Palestinian journalists to align themselves with particular groups. Journalists have endured harassment, threats, and beatings by Palestinian security forces and various factions in retaliation for their coverage of Palestinian politics.
Amnesty condemns Israeli strikes
Israeli troops killed more than 650 Palestinians, including 120 children, last year, a threefold increase on 2005, the human rights group Amnesty International said yesterday.
Israel was criticised for air and artillery strikes on Gaza, continuing to build the West Bank barrier and restricting the movement of Palestinians with checkpoints. "Israeli soldiers and settlers committed serious human rights abuses, including unlawful killings, against Palestinians, mostly with impunity," the annual report said.
Amnesty also criticised the United States for its policy of "extraordinary rendition" and treatment of detainees, particularly at Guantánamo Bay. "The US administration's double-speak has been breathtakingly shameless," Irene Khan, the secretary general, wrote.
The "dark underbelly of globalisation" - discrimination and exploitation of migrant workers and a growing economic divide - was a concern, particularly in Africa and China. The report also criticised Russia's "authoritarian drift", the crackdown on online dissent in Belarus, China, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia and ineffective government in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://fwd4.me/0wZD 21 apr 2012, 11:09 , Respect -
Maria 16 mei 2007
Hani Mohammed Qalaja
Najeh Abu SakherLutfi Lutfi Barhoum
Israeli warplanes bombard a buildling in Rafah, killing seven
Israeli warplanes bombarded Wednesday a building, belonging to the executive force of Hamas, formed by the former interior minister, Saed Siyam of Hamas, killing seven executive force members and wounding 30 others.
Local medical sources confirmed that three people were killed and 30 others wounded some critically in a deadly Israeli attack on a building in Rafah city.
The sources identified at least one of the killed as Najeh Abu Sakher, as the remaining two remain unknown. Four others were prounuonced dead shortly after, bringing the death toll to Seven.
Witnesses said that the building, close to Palestinian Authority's forces compound, has been completely destroyed due to the shelling Israeli shelling.
Hundreds of locals headed for the Abu Yousef Alnajjar hospital, as some of them donated blood, witnesses added.
Crowds of Rafah chanted slogans against underway Hamas-Fatah infghting in Gaza, calling upn the rival parties to halt their bloody shootouts.
The Israeli army attack on Rafah had further complicated an already deteriorated situation, as a barrage of homemade shells have been fired on nearby Israeli town since yesterday evening.
This attack comes amidst fierce street gun battles between the rival Hamas and Fatah since Friday in Gaza, where at least 30 Palestinians have been killed and more than 60 others injured.
Witnesses said that masked gunmen drag people out of the cars and check their identities, while some of those checked are taken hostages.
Witnesses added that streets are vacated of passersby as shops, institutions and stores are closed, while the population is locked down in their houses for fear of being attacked or harmed.
In addition, masked gunmen broke into residential buildings and began searching apartments, forcing tens of families to seek safe heavens in downstairs.
Current infighting in Gaza is the deadliest since the two factions agreed to a national unity government in March, in a bid to lift the internationally- imposed siege as well as months of clashes that have claimed the lives of at least 150 people.
Despite repeated ceasefire agreements, the latest was late on Tuesday night, both parties' gunmen are spread widely in streets, while shootouts are audible in different parts of the 450,000-populated city.
In the meantime, Palestinian deputy-PM of Fatah, Azzam Al-Ahmad, called on President Mahmoud Abbas to declare a state of emergency in order to contain the increasing violence.
Some Fatah MPs voiced the same position, while the chief of Rafah police department resigned due to the uncontrollable situation.
The Palestinian monetary authority ordered closure of local banks for the same reason.
The deteriorated security situation across the Gaza Strip has doubled the populations’ hardship amidst a crippling economic embargo; the international Quartet has imposed on a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority since last March.
The Quartet (United States, United Nations, European Union, Russia) has demanded the Hamas-Fatah coalition government to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept past signed agreements with Israel before it wins recognition.
http://www.imemc.org/article/48404 - 16 mei 2007
Rami aL-Zaqzouq - Abdul Fattah Abdullah Abu Samaan
- Ahmed al-Dairi
21 apr 2012, 11:11 , Respect -
Maria 16 mei 2007
Mohammed Ahmed Ad-Dalu - Essam Mohamed Joujo
An Israeli air strike kills a Hamas fighter in northern Gaza
An Israeli air strike killed on Wednesday a Palestinian resistance fighter of Hamas and wounded three others moderately.
Hospital sources said that Rami aL-Zaqzouq, arrived dead at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza.
A Hamas source, speaking in a condition of anonymity, said that an Israeli unmanned drone fired a missile on an outpost for the Palestinian national security forces that was seized earlier by the Hamas men.
This attack is the second on Wednesday after the Israeli warplanes bombarded a headquarters of a Hamas-linked executive force in Rafah city, killing three members and wounding about 20 others.
In the meantime, Hamas announced a unilateral ceasefire to stop the ongoing infighting with Fatah over the past three days.
Khalil Alhaiya, an MP of Hamas, told Aljazeera Arab satellite channel that the ceasefire will come to effect by 17:00 GMT tonight and will include withdrawal of gunmen from the streets.
At least 37 people have been killed and about 100 injured due to the infighting, considered the deadliest in two months after the rival parties agreed to a national unity government in March.
The incidents were sparked after a Fatah gunman was killed on Friday by unknown militants. Hamas and Fatah traded accusations over the breakout of violence.
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Maria 17 mei 2007
Al Jazeera Gaza air strikes footage
(2:16) Al Jazeera Gaza air strikes footage - 17 May 07 1 x viewed
Al Jazeera English airs exclusive footage of a series of deadly Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, one of which struck as Gaza correspondent Nour Odeh was live on air.
21 apr 2012, 11:16 , Respect -
Maria 17 mei 2007
Muhammad Suleiman Selmi al-Lulahi 14
of Rafah, Gaza, killed, with his older brother, by an IDF missile at a garbage treatment plant near the Sofa checkpoint.
21 apr 2012, 11:16 , Respect -
Maria 17 mei 2007
Abdullah Al Ghifari
Tal'at Haniya
Four Palestinians killed in Gaza in a series of Israeli Air Strikes
Seperate Israeli attacks on Gaza on Thursday calimed the lives of 4 Palestinians and wounded about 40 others.
Palestinian media sources and medics said that Israeli warplanes fired on Thursday missiles on a Hamas oupost near the Falastin playground in Gaza city, wounding about 30 Palestinians.
Palestinian media sources and medics said that Israeli warplanes fired on Thursday missiles on a Hamas oupost near the Falastin playground in Gaza city, killing one Palestinians and injuring 30 others.
Rescue teams and ambulances rushed to the completely three-story building, as pillars of smoke were seen arising heavily in the sky.
The targeted building belongs to the Hamas-formed executive force, the former interior minister, Said Siyam of Hamas, has established.
Sources at the aL-Shifa hospital in Gaza confirmed one death and injury of approximately 30 people, including four critically.
Islam Shahwan, spokesman for the Executive Force, affirmed that four members of the force were wounded, and that the compound has been evacuated earlier.
Witnesses said that nearby buildings and houses werer damaged due to the heavy strike.
Meanwhile, an Israeli aircraft targeted a car, while driving at the Aljala' street in Gaza city, killing two Hamas's military wing members and wounding six others, believed to be bystanders.
Also, an Israeli air strike hit a car in the aL-Saftawi street in northern Gaza, killing one Hamas member, identified as Tal'at Haniya, Palestinian media sources reported.
A nother attack hit a caravan in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza city. No details were reported.
In the meantime, at least one militant from the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) was wounded when an Israeli missile targeted a group of resistance fighters who attempted to fire a homemade shell on Israel from northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli air crafts shelled yesterday two Hamas posts in Rafah, killing four Hamas members and wounding about 20 others.
Israel threatened Thursday it would step up attacks on the Gaza Strip, as more homemade shells have been fired on nearby Israeli towns over the past couple of days.
Furthermore, a group of the Islamic Jihad fighters escaped an Israeli air attack in northern Gaza, unconfrimed reports said.
In a related development, witnesses in northern Gaza said that a column of Israeli tanks has advanced some hundred meters into the Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza.
Palestinian information minister, Mustafa Barghouti, described the Israeli strikes today as a 'crime'.
21 apr 2012, 11:16 , Respect -
Maria 17 mei 2007
Abdelkader Hassan Abu ZeidEmad Mohammed Shabana 21 apr 2012, 11:22 , Respect -
Maria 18 mei 2007
Ziad Takatka 16
Israeli army kills a Palestinian child near Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported on Friday that a Palestinian child died in Beit Jala public hospital, located in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, after being shot by Israeli soldiers late on Thursday night.
A group of Israeli soldiers attacked homes in the village of Beit Fajar, located to the south of Bethlehem city. During the attack, soldiers randomly opened fire on a group of children playing in front of their homes, critically injuring Ziad Takatka, 16. The boy was moved to Bethlehem public hospital, but later died from his wounds.
Also early on Friday, an Israeli force invaded the village of Obadiyah, east of Bethlehem city. Soldiers searched a number of homes and kidnapped two Palestinian civilians in the incursion.
21 apr 2012, 11:22 , Respect -
Maria 18 mei 2007
Mohammad Saleh JohaWaleed Hahem Al Hajeen
Four Palestinians killed, several injured, in an Israeli air strike in Rafah
Palestinian medical sources reported on Thursday at night that the Israeli air force fired missiles at civilian areas east of Gaza City killing four residents and injuring eight others,
The sources stated that the bodies of the killed residents were severely mutilated after the army fired at least four missiles.
Three of the four killed residents were identified later on as Mohammad Saleh Joha, Ahmad Saleh Siyam and Ahmad Roshdy Siyam.
Also on Thursday night after midnight, soldiers shelled several areas in Al Shujaeyya neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
One of the shelled areas is located behind Dar Al Wafa’ rehabilitation hospital, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. No injuries were reported until the time of this report but heavy damage was reported in the area.
Also on Thursday night after midnight, soldiers fired shells at several houses in Al Atatra area west of Beit Lahia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; at least one resident was hospitalized.
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Maria 18 mei 2007
Jamal Omar MunirAhmad Saleh SiyamAhmad Roshdy Siyam
21 apr 2012, 11:28 , Respect -
Maria 18 mei 2007
Abdel Qader Abu-ZeidAtef Ahmed Habib
21 apr 2012, 11:28 , Respect -
Maria 19 mei 2007
Maher Hamad Abed Abu-Hashish 15
Muhammad Abdul-Fattah Ahmad Abu-Moti 16
of Beit Lahya, Gaza, 2 brothers killed by an IDF missile while shepherding livestock in the al-Zaytoun area southwest of Beit Hanoun.
21 apr 2012, 11:28 , Respect -
Maria 19 mei 2007
Hatem Mahdi Muhammad Hamid 17
of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while walking in the refugee camp cemetery.
21 apr 2012, 11:29 , Respect -
Maria 19 mei 2007
Muhyi Edeen As-Serhi
One civilian killed many more injured due Israeli shelling in northern Gaza strip
Palestinian medical sources reported that at least on Palestinian was killed and many more injured on Saturday midday due to an Israeli shelling to several locations in Beit Hannon town in northern Gaza strip.
Dr. Mo'awiah Abu Hassanin, the director of the emergency department in the ministry of health in Gaza stated that the body of the dead was severely mutilated and burned and so far the medical teems in Kamal Adwan hospital are unable to identify the body, moreover the doctor said that so far at least ten were modernity to critically wounded in the shelling of Beit Hannon.
The shelling which started in the morning and continued tell the time of this reports has targeted several neighborhoods in the town.
Dr. Hassanin added that the Palestinian rescue and medical teems are still evacuating the injured wi0th great difficulty due to the continued shelling.
21 apr 2012, 11:32 , Respect -
Maria 20 mei 2007
Adi Al Masry 4
21 apr 2012, 11:33 , Respect -
Maria 20 mei 2007
Mohammad Khalid Al Hayya 16
Jihad Abdul-Hamid Al Hayya 17
Ismael Khaled Ismael al-Haya 17
Israeli shells kill 10 residents, including family members, in the Gaza Strip
Israeli air forces struck Sunday evening a Palestinian house that belongs to a Hamas affiliated legislator, in the Gaza city, killing ten people, media sources and medics said.
Israeli missiles landed on the family house of Khalil Alhaiya in the Alzaytoun neighborhood in Gaza city, killing ten people, security sources and witnesses said.
The sources added that among those killed were members of the Al Hayya family including his brothers, while Alhaiya himself was not present at the time of the attack.
Eight of the residents who were killed in the Israeli air strike were identified as Sameh Farawna, 27, Nimir Ismail Al Hayya, 60, Bakri Al Hayya, 26, Jihad Abdul-Hamid Al Hayya, 17, Abdul-Hamid Al Hayya, 50, Ibrahim Al Hayya, 23, Ala’ A; Hayya, 22 and Mohammad Khalid Al Hayya 16.
Dr. Moa'wiya Abu Hasanain, chief of emergency depatment at the Palestinian health ministry, confirmed that 12 others have been injured, a number of whom are in critical conditions.
Al Hayya is one of the political leaders of the governing Hamas movement and member of the Palestinian parliament. In his initial response to the attack, Khalil Al Hayya confirmed ten people were killed and that the Israeli assassination attempts ‘would not prevent resistance and his group from keeping up’.
The Hamas leader’s wife, who escaped the strike, expected that nephews of her husband were among the dead. Palestinian information minister and spokesman of the Palestinian government, condemned the Israeli assassination attempt strongly.
Israeli cabinet decided Sunday it would take a series of actions against Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group (holy war), including targeted-killing of these groups' leaders, creating a buffer zone in northern Gaza and upgrading anti-rockets technology.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Minister of information. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi slammed the Israeli attacks that targeted Al Hayya family and considered it a serious Israeli military escalation that constitutes a war crime.
Al Barghouthi appealed the international community to stop the Israeli military aggression against the Palestinian people.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Minister of information. Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi slammed the Israeli attacks that targeted Al Hayya family and considered it a serious Israeli military escalation that constitutes a war crime.
Al Barghouthi appealed the international community to stop the Israeli military aggression against the Palestinian people.
In a seperate attack, a 4-year old child was killed and three other children were injured in an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The child was identified as Adi Al Masry.
The child was killed after the army shelled the house of Amin Al Masry, one of the Hamas leaders.
The Palestinian govenrment and the legislative council slammed the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, while the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, vowed fierce retaliation.
Israeli hardliner minister of ‘strategic threats’, Avigdor Liberman, had warned his government today of dissolving the current Israeli coalition unless Israel breaks up Hamas.
Zaiv Boim, an Israeli minister and head of the Israel Baitona party, demanded the government to target Hamas’s leaders including Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya himself. This military escalation on the ground has followed a barrage of homemade shells fire, Palestinian resistance factions, topped by Hamas, have launched at nearby Israeli targets since yesterday night.
On Sunday, Hamas’s spokesman, Sami Abu Zuhri, played down the Israeli threats earlier in the morning, saying his group would keep up homemade shells fire into Israel. “We don’t mind the Israeli threats for Israel has never stopped attacks on the Palestinian people”, Abu Zuhri told reporters in Gaza.
Earlier on Sunday morning, another Israeli air strike hit a car in Gaza city, killing three Palestinians, Israel claimed they were members of Hamas. Sunday’s killings brought to 30 the Palestinian death toll since the Israeli army has begun air strikes against Hamas targets and other spots in the Gaza Strip last Thursday.
Several home-made shells have recently landed on the Israeli nearby town of Sderot, wounding a number of residents and causing some damages to properties. No deaths at Sderot have been reported. In April, the Israeli army killed 9 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, threatening an already fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians, reached last November.
Muhammad Khaled Ismael al-Haya 16
of Gaza City, Gaza, killed, with his brother, cousin, and 4 older family members, by an IDF missile during a targeted assasination attempt.
Ismael Khaled Ismael al-Haya 17
of Gaza City, Gaza, killed, with his brother, cousin, and 4 older family members, by an IDF missile during a targeted assasination attempt.
Jihad Abdul-Majid Ismael al-Haya 17
of Gaza City, Gaza, killed, with his father, cousins, and 3 older family members, by an IDF missile while in their home during a targeted assasination attempt.
22 mei 2007
Gaza buries eight residents, including seven family members killed in Israeli strikes
Hundreds of Palestinian residents, including the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, and Ahmad Bahar, head of the Legislative Council, participated on Monday in the funeral and burial ceremonies of eight Palestinians, including seven members of one family, killed in Israeli shelling of a residential area east of Gaza City on Sunday evening..
The residents chanted slogans demanding revenge for this crime and other Israeli military crimes carried out against the Palestinian people, calling on the resistance to retaliate without delay.
Several ministers also attended the funeral and burial ceremonies.
The residents marched from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to the Al Omari Mosque were they prayed on the bodies before burying them.
Khalil Al Hayya, the Palestinian Legislator from the Hamas movement who was targeted by the strike, stated that the Palestinian people will continue their resistance and will maintain their national unity.
He added that Israel wished to punish him for his positive role in achieving a ceasefire between Fatah and Hamas gunmen.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Haniyya stated that the population must remain steadfast, show themselves to be stronger than the shells and remain persistent in their resistance of the occupation and their desire to achieve independence and liberation, adding that Palestinain must reject any solution that will eliminate their just cause or compromise their deserved rights.
Also on Monday, hundreds of residents participated in the funeral of four other residents, members of the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, who were assassinated by the army in Gaza.
The brigades and several leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement vowed retaliation, stating that, “these crimes will not pass unpunished”.
The brigades also vowed to continue firing homemade shells into Israeli areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, noting that Israeli military offensive will not prevent the resistance activities.