- 30 aug 2006
Hussam Jaradat 35
Hussam Jaradat , Saraya Al Quds Leader Survives Assassination Attempt: Dies in Jordanian Hospital
21 apr 2012, 01:27 , Respect -
Maria 30 aug 2006
Husam Abu Rokba, 24
Muhannad Hamed Muhammad Jendiyeh 21
Four residents killed and eight injured in Al Shujaeyya east of Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported on Wednesday morning that four civilians were killed and eight injured by heavy machine gun fire from Israeli tanks in AL Shujaeyya area, east of the Gaza strip.
Dr. Muawiya Hasanen, the Director of Emergency and Ambulance Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that the four were identified as Rami Al Gharabli, Ziad Al Gharabli, Ra'ed Sabitah, and Mohannad Jundieh.
Medics enormous difficulties in reaching the area and evacuating the injured and the killed residents due to the continuous Israeli shelling.
Dr. Hasanen added that eight residents were injured, due to the intense and violent shelling which targeted residents' houses, and ambulances and medics could not get to the injured people.
Israeli tanks and war plans are still heavily shelling the area, according to local sources. The death toll, including the four killed in the Gaza strip since Saturday, reached 17 residents, 13 of them civilians.
Earlier on Wednesday at dawn, one resident was shot and killed by Israeli military fire near the evacuated settlement of Doughit, near Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The resident was identified as Husam Abu Rokba, 24. Relatives of Abu Rokba stated that he was mentally challenged.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21172
Palestinian resident killed in Beit Lahia
21 apr 2012, 01:27 , Respect -
Maria 30 aug 2006
Yasser Jamal Talab al-Gharabli 23
Rami Jamil Talab al-Gharabli 29
Ziad Al Gharabli
Raed Ziad Saleh 19
Ra'ed Sabitah
21 apr 2012, 01:27 , Respect -
Maria 30 aug 2006
Hamdi Salah Al BannaSamir Abu Salman 21
224 killed, 888 injured in Israel's Summer Rains offesnive
The Palestinian Ministry of Health issued a report on Wednesday on the Israeli Summer Rains military offensive that started late June 2006, and revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 224 reisdents, including 62 children, and injured 888 reisdents.
The report showed that 132 males, and 25 females were killed in addition to five reisdents who died at the Rafah Border Crossing after they were stranded there for several weeks due to the israeli complete closure and seige imposed on the Gaza Strip.
32 residents were killed by rounds of live ammunition, 86 died by missiless, 99 died after they were hit by shells fragmentations, and five died at the Rafah Border Crossing. Bodies of 74 residents were severly mutilated.
Over the past three days, 25 reisdents were killed, including 16 who were killed in Al Shujaeyya neighborhoud in Gaza City.
Since Israel started its offensive in the Gaza Strip on June 26, 888 resisdents, including 312 children, were injured; 77 residents had parts of their bodies amputated. 684 reisdents were injured by shells and missiles fired by teh israeli troops.
...Read more 21 apr 2012, 01:27 , Respect -
Maria 31 aug 2006
Fadi 'Abd al-Hafiz 'Abd a-Latif Qafishah 28
Ahmad Al Banna, 32
Army assassinates resistance leader in Nablus
Ahmad died in the hospital when he was shot by army tanks operating in Al-Shuja'yia.
Fadi 'Abd al-Hafiz 'Abd a-Latif Qafishah 21 apr 2012, 01:27 , Respect -
Maria 31 aug 2006
Israeli Army withdraws from Al-Shuja'iya leaving 20 residents dead
The Israeli army withdrew from Shujai'ya neighborhood in Gaza city on Wednesday at night after a five-day invasion which left 20 Palestinians dead and scores wounded in addition to serious damage to buildings and property.
On Wednesday ten Palestinians were killed, including a 6-year-old boy. Medical sources reported that Husam Al Sersawi, 6 died of wounds he sustained on Monday.
Meanwhile, Ahmad Al Banna, 32 died in the hospital when he was shot by army tanks operating in Al-Shuja'yia.
Local sources reported that late Wednesday, Eyad Al Sarsek and Nidal Al Dahdoh, both 14, were killed when Israeli tanks fired at residents houses in the area.
Four civilians were killed and eight were injured on Wednesday morning by heavy machine gun fire from Israeli tanks in the area.
Dr. Muawiya Hasanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that the four were identified as Rami Al Gharabli, Ziad Al Gharabli, Ra'ed Sabitah, and Mohannad Jundieh.
Earlier on Wednesday at dawn, Husam Abu Rokba, 24 was shot dead by Israeli troops near the evacuated settlement of Dugit, near Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Relatives of Abu Rokba stated that he was mentally challenged.
On Thursday morning, several Palestinian resistance groups fired nine homemade shells at the Israeli southern towns of Sderot and Al Majdal. Israeli sources said several Israelis were injured by fragments.
The Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, the Al Quds brigades the armed wing of Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa brigades the armed wing of Fatah said in three separate press releases they fired homemade shells into two southern Israeli towns in response to the Israeli army attacks on civilians in Al Shujai'ya area.
Also on Thursday a group of Palestinian resistance fighters affiliated with Islamic Jihad said they managed to target an army bulldozer with 30 Kgm homemade bomb while bulldozing residents' houses and lands in Al Shujai'ya area, no injuries were reported.
Israeli army sources claimed that twoops found two tunnels which the fighters are planning to use to carry on attacks against Israel. Army sources said they found two tunnels with 30 depth and 150 length.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21186 21 apr 2012, 01:28 , Respect -
Maria 1 sept 2006
Ammar Fathi Abu Lehia
21 apr 2012, 01:28 , Respect -
Maria 2 sept 2006
Hanan Muhammad Isma'il Abu 'Odeh 15
Mohammad Abu Odeh 54
Ismail Abu Odeh 27
'Iz a-Din 'Abd al-Khaleq Mahmoud al-Astal 22
Hanen: resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, killed in Beit Hanun, North Gaza district. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed when she left her house with her sister to check on their father and brother, who had been injured, during an army incursion into the Amal neighborhood to arrest a wanted person.
Three Palestinians, including a father and his son, killed in the Gaza Strip
Palestinian medical and security sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday morning that three Palestinians, including a 54 year-old father and his 27 year-old son were killed in Beit Hanoun and Al Qarara, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. A husband, his wife and their four children were injured in a separate attack.
The sources stated that under-cover Israeli military units invaded an area in Al Amal neighborhood east of Beit Hanoun and opened fire at a group of residents who gathered there and killed Mohammad Abu Odeh, 54, and his son Ismail Abu Odeh, 27.
Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that two members of the same family were injured.
Eyewitnesses reported that several military vehicles, including two bulldozers, invaded the area and bulldozed the house of Yousef Abu Al Feeta, one of the members of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
Soldiers exchanged fire with dozens of resistance fighters in the area while troops opened fire at dozens of surrounding houses, damage was reported.
Moreover, a Husband, his wife and their four children were injured after an Israeli plane fired a missile at a Palestinian house in the area.
A medical source at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Hanoun identified the injured family members as, Eyad Taha Al Kafarna, 27, his wife Elham, 21, and their children Deena, 5, Nahed, 4, Ahmad, 3, and Mohammad 2. The house also burnt due to the shelling.
In a separate attack, one resident was shot and killed by Israeli military fire in Al Qarara area, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The body of the resident was transferred to Al Aqsa Hospial in Dir Al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that the Palestinian District Coordination Office was informed by the Israeli army that soldiers killed two residents in the area. After arriving in the area, medics found one body.
Army claimed that the resident was shot and killed as he approached the Kissufim border crossing in the Central Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21209
21 apr 2012, 01:28 , Respect -
Maria 2 sept 2006
Genocide in Gaza
A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun.
This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred.
An average of eight Palestinian die daily in the Israeli attacks on the Strip. Many of them are children. Hundreds are maimed, wounded and paralyzed.
The Israeli leadership is at a loss about what to do with the Gaza Strip. They have vague ideas about the West Bank. The current government assumes that the West Bank, unlike the Strip, is an open space, at least on its eastern side.
Hence if Israel, under the 'convergence' program of the government, annexes the parts it covets – half of the West Bank – and cleanses from that area its native population, the other half would naturally lean towards Jordan, at least for a while, and would not concern Israel.
This is a fallacy, but nonetheless it won the enthusiastic vote of most of the Jews in the country. Such an arrangement cannot work in the Gaza enclave – Egypt, unlike Jordan, has succeeded in persuading the Israelis, already in 1948, that the Gaza Strip for them is a liability and will never form part of Egypt.
So a million and half Palestinians are stuck inside Israel – although geographically the Strip is located on the margins of the state, psychologically it lies in its midst.
The inhuman living conditions in the most dense area in the world, and one of the poorest human spaces in the northern hemisphere, disables the ability of the people who live there to reconcile with the imprisonment that Israel has imposed on them since 1967.
They were relatively better off in the time period when movement to the West Bank and into Israel for work was allowed, but these better times are gone. A more difficult reality has been in place ever since 1987.
Some access to the outside world was allowed as long as there were Jewish settlers in the Strip, but once they were removed the Strip was hermetically sealed. Ironically, most Israelis, according to recent polls, look at Gaza as an independent Palestinian state that Israel has graciously allowed to emerge.
The leadership, and particularly the army, see it as a prison with the most dangerous community of inmates, which has to be eliminated one way or another.
The conventional Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing was employed successfully in 1948 against half of what was then Palestine’s population, and is currently being employed against hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank who Israel considers to be no longer useful in their current location.
They can slowly transfer Palestinians out of the West Bank, and particular out of the Greater Jerusalem area, but they cannot do this in the Gaza Strip - once it had been sealed off as a maximum-security prison camp.
As with the ethnic cleansing operations, the genocidal policy is not formulated in a vacuum. Ever since 1948, the Israeli army and government needed a pretext to commence such policies. The takeover of Palestine in 1948 produced the inevitable local resistance that in turn allowed the implementation of an ethnic cleansing policy, pre-planned already in the 1930s.
Twenty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank produced eventually some sort of Palestinian resistance. This belated anti-occupation struggle unleashed a new cleansing policy that is implemented today in the West Bank.
The Gaza imprisonment in the summer of 2005, which was paraded as an Israeli generous withdrawal, produced the Hamas and Islamic Jihad missile attacks and one abduction case. Even before the abduction of Giald Shalit, the Israeli army had been indiscriminately bombing the Strip.
Ever since the abduction, the massive killing increased and became systematic. A daily business of slaying Palestinians, many of them children, is now reported in the internal pages of the local press, quite often in microscopic fonts.
The chief culprits are the Israeli pilots who have a field day now that one of them is the General Chief of Staff. In the 1982 Lebanon war, the Israeli airforce issued orders to its pilots to abort missions if they spotted innocent civilians within 500 square meters of their target.
Not that these orders were kept, but the pretense for internal moral fortitude was there. It is called in the Israeli airforce, the ‘Lebanon Procedure’ [Nohal Levanon]. When the pilots asked a year ago if the ‘Lebanon procedure’ is in place for Gaza, the answer was no.
The same answer was given to the pilots in the second Lebanon war. This means that it doesn't matter if there are innocent civilians anywhere near a target, the bomb should still be dropped.
The Lebanon war provided a fog for a while, covering over the war crimes in the Gaza Strip. But the policies rage on even after the conclusion of the cease-fire up in the north. It seems that the frustrated and defeated Israeli army is even more determined to enlarge the killing fields in the Gaza Strip. There are no politicians who are able or willing to stop the generals.
A daily killing of up to 10 civilians is going to leave a few thousand dead each year. This is of course different from committing genocide against a million people in a single campaign – the only inhibition Israel is willing to undertake in the name of the memory of the Holocaust.
But if you double the killings you raise the number to horrific proportions, and maybe more importantly, force a mass eviction out of the Strip – either in the name of human aid, international intervention or the people’s own desire to escape the inferno.
But if Palestinian steadfastness is going to be the response (and there no reason to doubt that this will be the Gazan people's reaction) then the massive killing will continue and increase.
Much depends on the international reaction. When Israel was absolved from any responsibility or accountably for the ethnic cleansing in 1948, it turned this policy into a legitimate tool for its national security agenda. If the present escalation and adaptation of genocidal policies were to be tolerated by the world, the policy would expand and be used in even more drastic ways.
Nothing apart from pressure in the form of sanctions, boycotts and divestment will stop the murdering of innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip. There is nothing we here in Israel can do against it. Some brave pilots refused to partake in the operations, two journalists (out of the 150 in their newspaper alone...not naming any names....) do not cease to write about it. But people, this is it.
In the name of the holocaust memory let us hope the world will not allow the genocide in Gaza to continue.
Ilan Pappe is senior lecturer in the University of Haifa Department of political Science and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa. His books include among others The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (London and New York 1992), The Israel/Palestine Question (London and New York 1999), A History of Modern Palestine (Cambridge 2003), The Modern Middle East (London and New York 2005) and forthcoming, Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006)
http://www.imemc.org/article/21248 21 apr 2012, 01:28 , Respect -
Maria 5 sept 2006
Report: `“86, including 16 children killed, 270 taken prisoners in August`
21 apr 2012, 01:29 , Respect -
Maria 6 sept 2006
Ismael Majed Hamdan abu-Ruk, 15
Jalal Qdeih, 16
Ismael of Khuzah, near Khan Younis, Gaza, killed by IDF sniper fire to his chest while on his roof during an incursion.
Jalal was shot and killed in Khaza'a town, near Khan Younis. Three residents were injured.
21 apr 2012, 01:29 , Respect -
Maria 6 sept 2006
Mohammad Abu RowaidaAli Khamis Al Nashar 20Ahmad Ashour 30
21 apr 2012, 01:29 , Respect -
Maria 6 sept 2006
'A'ed Abdul-Qader Al Basheety 33Ahmad Al Arqan 34
Resident killed, three injured in Khan Younis
Four killed in two separate air strikes in the Gaza Strip
21 apr 2012, 01:29 , Respect -
Maria 6 sept 2006
Ahmed Harb
Khaled 'Ali Muhammad a-Shawaf 23
Two residents killed in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, 7 on Wednesday
Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in two separate attacks, one of the casualties is a 16-year old boy. A total of seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip in less than 24hours.
A medical source in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that Majed Jalal Qdeih, 16, was shot and killed in Khaza'a town, near Khan Younis. Three residents were injured.
An Israeli army source claimed that Qdeih was attempting to plant an explosive charge when troops fired at him.
Eyewitnesses reported that Qdeih was killed by soldiers who topped a house in the area; seven residents were injured, one seriously.
Moreover, an Israeli military source reported that the Israeli Air Froce fired a missile at a resistance fighter in southern Khan Younis killing one civilian and injuring at least four other.
Army said that the civilian was standing near a fighter who came close to the “security fence” separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. He remained unidentified until the time of this report.
Earlier on Wednesday, one resident was killed in Khaza'a town, and three others were injured after the army invaded it, medical sources reported.
The resident was identified as Mohammad Abu Reeda, 24. The three injured residents are members of the same family and not fighters.
Four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday at night in two separate Israeli air strikes in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The four were identified as Ahmad Ashour, 30, 'A'ed Abdul-Qader Al Basheety, 33, Ali Khamis Al Nashar, 20, and Ahmad Al Arqan, 34.
21 apr 2012, 01:29 , Respect -
Maria 6 sept 2006
Mojahid Akram Al Sabe', 24
Mohammad Abu Reeda, 24Mahmoud Abed Rahman Al Majaida 35
Leader of the AL Quds Brigades assassinated in Jenin
Two residents killed in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, 7 on Wednesday