- 10 aug 2007
No name
In the West Bank, an armed guard of the Eteret Kehonim religious school in Jerusalem killed a Palestinian attacker after he surrendered on 10 August.
The Palestinian stole a guard’s gun and fired at them before fleeing.
A guard chased him; and the Palestinian threw down the gun and raised his hand in surrender.
The guard shot and killed him.
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Maria 13 aug 2007
Gaza: The Killing Zone - Israel/Palestine
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ntBq5abbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NBzf-NXI1Q - If The world knew what Israel is doing ...! Hitler can't do better
life in Gaza is a constant gauntlet of Israeli sniper fire, military rockets and army bulldozers. No one is safe. In light of the escalating tensions, we're bringing back one our most moving documentaries, a hard-hitting expose of life in the Occupied territories. We speak to the children caught in the crossfire and find out the true cost of Israel's targeted assassinations policy.
A little boy screams in agony. There's shrapnel in his eye, leg, stomach and feet. He was playing in the street outside his house when an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at the car of a Hamas member. Ten minutes later, the helicopter returned and fired two more bombs at the decimated car, spraying the surrounding district with sharp metal darts. Makmoud was just 1 of 47 people injured in the attack. Four others were killed.
The feeling in Gaza is that the West accepts this type of action. It doesn't matter how much so called collateral damage it causes. Whichever side kills last says it is a response to the one before. In the grim calculus of this conflict, around three Palestinians die for every Israeli killed. It's an equation that keeps old hatreds fresh.
Israel's hardline policy may only be aimed at militants but it's the civilians who end up paying the price. 12 year old Huda Darwish was sitting in her classroom when a stray bullet from an Israeli sniper hit her. After three weeks in a coma, she is finally waking up. Her relatives joy quickly vanishes when they realise that the bullet has left her blind. The reality of her shattered life suddenly hits her. I want to die. Why did this happen to me? she asks. Her family have no answers.
We visit Huda's school in Rafah to see how the accident could possibly have happened. The school is run by the United Nations on a big open site not easy to miss. But an Israeli military position is situated just 500 metres away. As we enter her classroom, a shell explodes nearby. The children flee terrified under their desks. One girl is so traumatised she is in a state of shock. Their teacher says that this happens all the time.
Almost every day, Israeli troops leave their base in Rafah to bulldoze Palestinian houses. This is a combat area, explains Colonel Pinky Zoaret. He says he needs to destroy the houses to deny the terrorists cover. But most of the houses belong to ordinary Palestinians. Thousands have lost their homes. And there's no compensation for the dispossessed. I can't sleep, confides resident Doctor Sameer. I smoke about 40 to 50 cigarettes a night. All his life savings are in his house but he knows he could lose it at any time.
Those who try and stop the violence can end up paying with their lives. Rachel Corrie was one of them. She brought the Palestinians plight to the world's attention when she died, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect a building. The IDF maintain that she died because of her own irresponsible and illegal behaviour. But eye witnesses tell a different story. The driver could clearly see she was there, states her friend. But instead of stopping, he continued forward.
Months later, there are more high profile killings in Gaza. British photographer Tom Hurndall was shot trying to rescue a six year old girl who was stuck out in gunfire. Then cameraman James Miller was killed by Israeli fire. James died because we trusted them to behave like a civilised army. We knew they could see that we weren't armed and that we were carrying a white flag. We trusted them not to kill us under those circumstances and they shot James anyway, states his colleague Saira Shah.
Gaza still remains a killing zone.
A report by Sandra Jordan for Channel 4's Dispatches and Unreported World
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talkback The killing zone
1. IsraeliWarrior
die pussies die
Im happy that arabic kids were killed ahauahuahaa assholes Im laughing at u weaks mass more with die more like the rest of u! and hamas watch ur back i come to hunt u all down
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Maria 14 aug 2007
Mohamed Moussa GindiaMusab Abu Jamea 26Mohammed Yousef Abu Musameh 21
IOF killed 6 Palestinians
during an incursion into the town of New Abasan to the east of Khan Yunis. Two victims were civilians, including a 70-year old woman who went out of the house to see her injured son.
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Maria 14 aug 2007
Ahmad Kamal Muhammad al-Qara 18Omar Mohammed Qarra 30
Sabha Suliman Salman al-Qara 69
Sabha resident of 'Abasan al-Jadida (a-Saghira), Khan Yunis district, killed in 'Abasan al-Jadida (a-Saghira), Khan Yunis district. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed when, during an army operation, she heard her son had been wounded and went outside to see how he was.
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Maria 14 aug 2007
Khaled Saleh Saad
Ibrahim 'Abd al-Karim Muhammad a-Shami 39
Ibrahim resident of Bani Suheila, Khan Yunis district, killed in 'Abasan al-Jadida (a-Saghira), Khan Yunis district, from a tank. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed during an army operation while standing on the roof of his house.
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Maria 17 aug 2007
Nuraldeen Ibrahim Yousef Maraye 14
Mahmoud Saleh 'Ashur Darwish 25
Nuraldeen of Kufor Dan, near Jenin, killed by IDF gunfire while throwing stones during an incursion.
A Palestinian resistance activist was killed by IOF during clashes that followed the child’s death.
resident of Kfar Dan, Jenin district, killed in Kfar Dan, Jenin district. Killed during an exchange of gunfire with soldiers.
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Maria 21 apr 2012, 22:35 , Respect -
Maria 18 aug 2007
Nizar Raji 'Abdallah 'Obeid 17
IOF shot dead a Palestinian civilian
and arrested two others when they attempted to cross the border into Israel to search for jobs.
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Maria 21 apr 2012, 22:35 , Respect -
Maria 20 aug 2007
Muhammad Salih Al Qrinawi 21
Ahmed Ali Al Qrinawi 22Abed Rabbo Khalid Abu Hilo 22
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Maria 20 aug 2007
Ismail Mohammed Abu Abda 23
Ali Saeid Barod 29 - Mohammed Atiya Arab 36...
- IOF extra-judicially 4 members of the ‘Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of Hamas) and two members of the Executive Force of the Palestinian Ministry of Interior in al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
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Maria 21 aug 2007
Fadi Mansour Yousef al-Kafarneh 10Abdul-Qader Yousef Abed Ashour 11
of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by an IDF missile while picking fruit on the land of the Agricultural Secondary School near an area from which rockets had been launched.
two Palestinian children were killed,
when IOF fired a missile at them while they were playing near a launcher of home-made rockets.
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Maria 21 aug 2007
'Awadallah Ibrahim Ahmad Shatat 26
Naser 'Ali Qassem Mabruk 38
Naser A Palestinian resistance activist was killed in armed clashes with IOF during their incursion into ‘Ein Beit al-Maa’ refugee camp, west of Nablus.
An IOF aircraft fired a missile at 3 armed Palestinians in al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis. Soon after, an IOF infantry unit moved into the area and opened fire.
Awadallah The three Palestinian were killed.
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Maria 21 aug 2007
Muhammad Ahmad Khalil Abu Salem 22
Shadi Mustafa Ma'sud a-Saqa 23
An IOF aircraft fired a missile at 3 armed Palestinians in al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis. Soon after, an IOF infantry unit moved into the area and opened fire. The three Palestinian were killed.
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Maria 22 aug 2007
Yihya 'Omar 'Abd al-Malek Habib 21
IOF extra-judicially executed a member of the ‘Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades and wounded another one in the east of Gaza City.
Since the beginning of the current Palestinian Intifada, 655 Palestinians, including 221 civilian bystanders, have been extra-judicially executed by IOF.
The victims have included 73 children.
- 23 aug 2007
Ahed Saed Abu Jabal 20Sameh Naser Salem a-Sawafiry 21
IOF killed 2 members of Izzedeen El-Qassam Battalions (the armed wing of Hamas) by a surface-to-surface missile fired near the Palestine Car Market east of Gaza City.
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Maria 24 aug 2007
Hamam Ahmad Abdul-Qader Nasr 15
Mustafa Adnan Said Nasr 17
Hamam of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during an armed clash near the Karni checkpoint.
Mustafa of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during an armed clash near the Karni checkpoint.
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Maria 24 aug 2007
Tareq Ziad Ibrahim Malham 22
IOF killed an activist in Al-Quds Battalions (armed wing of Islamic Jihad) and a child in the town of Saida near Tulkarm.
The child’s mother and brother were injured in the attack.
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Maria 25 aug 2007
Khader Maher Ali Okal 17
of Jabalya, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire during an armed clash near Netiv Ha'asara, Israel.
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Maria 25 aug 2007
Mustafa Mahmoud Mustafa al-'Atiq 21
'Alaa Salah Mahmoud Abu Srur 30
IOF conducted an extra-judicial execution of 2 Islamic Jihad activists, killing both and injuring 3 others, in Jenin. Four civilians were injured in Jerusalem when IOF fired sound charges at a dinner in a house in the city.
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Maria 26 aug 2007
Mahmoud Ibrahim Alqrnawi 11
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Maria 27 aug 2007
Gaza's sick children
(2:40) Gaza's sick children
Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, reports on the sick Palestinian children struggling to get the treatment they need at home, or anywhere else. Bearing the brunt of a choking siege and international sanctions, health care in the enclave is limited to the available, rather than the required, medicine.
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Maria 27 aug 2007
Samir Muhammad Msalam 'Asfur 27
Farid 'Aish Khamis Abu Daher 41
IOF killed a sheep herder in the village of Wadi Gaza in the center of the Gaza Strip as he was herding his sheep near the border.
Samir resident of 'Abasan al-Jadida (a-Saghira), Khan Yunis district, injured on 14.08.2007 in 'Abasan al-Jadida (a-Saghira), Khan Yunis district. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while standing near his house during an army operation in Khan Yunis. 21 apr 2012, 22:36 , Respect -
Maria 29 aug 2007
Mahmoud Musa Hasan abu-Ghazal 8Sara Suleiman Abdallah abu-Ghazal 9Yehya Ramadan Atiya abu-Ghazal 12
of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed, with 2 cousins, by an IDF missile while hearding sheep near the Afana cow farm and the site of abandoned equiptment used to fire Palestinian homemade rockets.
Sarah Abu Ghazal’s school uniform still lay on her mattress, untouched as she had left it before running out after her cousins Mahmoud and Yehya Abu Ghazal on Wednesday, 29 August.
She was to begin the fourth grade on 2 September, but her friend Amani, who has accompanied her to school since the first grade, would walk alone this year. Sarah’s mother had bought her the blue school uniform, blue jeans and the black shoes just the day before she was killed by Israel tank fire. Her mother waited until the last minute to buy Sarah’s school supplies because she was waiting for her husband’s salary which he had not received since June.
Still full of life, Sarah was readying her new clothes for the start of the school year when Yehya called for her to come out and play.
Ten-year-old Mahmoud looked up to Yehya and followed him wherever he went, as he did not have any brothers of his own. On the day he died he had just finished telling his mother not to buy him anything for school until Yehya had acquired his things. He made her promise only to buy the same things that Yehya had. Mahmoud was killed alongside Yehya and now lies buried right beside him.
One of nine children, Yehya was heading to the sixth grade this year after spending most of his summer herding his family’s goats. From a small Bedouin community at the northern border of the Gaza Strip, by Beit Hanoun and the Erez border crossing, Yehya’s family always bore the brunt of Israel’s frequent incursions into and attacks on Gaza. The army rolls in almost every week and usually razes some land, arrests a few men and pulls out again.
Yehya’s father was arrested in September 2006 and has yet to be tried or charged as he sits in an Israeli prison. After Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, the strip was ostensibly free, yet Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza at 3am, raided the family’s house and arrested Yehya’s father and uncle.
According to his mother, Yehya was walking his goats close to their house on that Wednesday afternoon when he lost sight of his herd. He spotted them sniffing around abandoned rocket launchers, so he went to retrieve them. Yehya followed the goats, trailed by Mahmoud and Sarah.
Unseen soldiers in Israeli tanks identified them as “militants” and shot at them. The boys immediately died of their shrapnel wounds. Sarah passed away later that evening, alone in the hospital. Her family did not make it in time to see her because her body was taken to the hospital Beit Lahiya.
The Israeli army stated it had “identified and fired at several rocket launchers aimed at Israel.” According to the Abu Ghazal family, rockets had not been fired from that area for the past nine months and the Israeli army knew this. However, the tanks were close enough for the soldiers manning them to see the children and they could have also relied on their large white reconnaissance balloon that constantly hovers over Beit Hanoun.
Trying to find a driver to go to the children’s funeral in northern Beit Hanoun, on the second of the three days of mourning, was nearly impossible as it was like asking them to drive into crossfire. Beit Hanoun feels different from the rest of Gaza. The streets are empty, there is rubble everywhere, uprooted trees, razed land and there isn’t much of a market.
An area that used to be green agricultural land has been turned into an empty no man’s land where no one dares to go. If there is a place in Gaza that feels like a war zone devastated by years of conflict, it’s Beit Hanoun. The infamous Qassams can be seen and heard as they fly over the Gazan border and into Israel in retaliation to Israeli F-16 and tank shelling.
Also overhead is the reconnaissance balloon that constantly tracks one’s movement. The F-16s fly over the town more frequently than any other place in Gaza; no wonder drivers or anyone else don’t want to go anywhere near Beit Hanoun.
The Bedouin community that the children came from is situated amongst the northern Gaza Strip’s razed citrus groves and demolished buildings. Yehya and Mahmoud’s fathers are brothers so they lived in the same three-bedroom house. The bedrooms are covered with asbestos, the living room is comprised of a sand floor in front of the bedrooms and the kitchen consists of a small stove and a table with a few pots.
They have no electricity and no running water. The fruit of the villagers’ daily labor on their lands used to provide for their subsistence but weekly Israeli invasions have destroyed their lands and therefore their livelihoods. They receive some aid from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, but have to travel to Beit Hanoun or Beit Lahiya for everything else. Their means of transportation are animal-drawn carts.
The mothers of all three children sat next to each other at their funeral while Israeli tanks at the border also sat stationed in the background. Yehya and Mahmoud’s mothers were each holding a picture of their sons, while Sara’s mother was holding a poster with Yehya and Mahmoud’s pictures with their names written below. In between their pictures was an image of a bouquet of red roses, with Sarah’s name underneath.
“Israel just wants to shed our blood,” said Yehya’s mother, choking on her words. “They didn’t do anything wrong … they had no rockets, no tanks … they were just playing,” added Mahmoud’s mother. They were all sitting on the mattress Yehya shared with Mahmoud. Mahmoud would sneak out of his mother’s bedroom at night to go and sleep by Yehya.
“They were meant to go together,” said Yehya’s mother, “Mahmoud would not have lived without Yehya. May God rest their souls together.”
The next day, on the BBC the Israeli military stated that the killing of Yehya, Mahmoud and Sarah was an accident: “at the very last second, it was apparent that they were children, but it was impossible to stop the explosion.”
There was no mention of holding accountable the soldiers who killed them or at the very least any offer of support to the families and the community. They cannot leave their area, or their land, as they have nowhere else to go.
Where’s the justice for 12-year-old Yehya and his childhood, or 10-year-old Mahmoud who wanted nothing more than to have the same things as his friend, or 10-year-old Sarah who never got to wear her new school clothes?
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3 children were killed in Beit Hanoun by an Israel surface-to-surface missile fired near launchers of locally produced rockets.
There were no launching cells in the area at the time, and the children were at a considerable distance from the launching ladders.
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Maria 30 aug 2007
Hamdi Salah al-Banna
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Maria 6 sept 2007
Hamzah Muhammad Muhammad Nasser 20
Mahmoud Sufian Mustafa Salamah 23
Tal'at Muhammad Ayub al-Khatib 24
Mustafa S'ud Zakaria al-Lababidy 23
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Maria 6 sept 2007
Nathir Walid Nathir Mushtaha 18Mohamed Kamel Baraka 24Mahmoud Abed Rahman Al Majaida 35
IOF killed 4 members
of the Palestinian resistance and wounded 10 others in al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis. Members of the Palestinian resistance resisted an incursion by IOF into the village and clashed with IOF troops.
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Maria 6 sept 2007
Muhammad 'Adnan Mustafa al-Hasi 19Mohamed Abdel Fattah Abadleh 30
Ghassan Mustafa S'ud a-Saqa 25
Muhammad Samir al-'Abd Abu Lebdeh 24
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Maria 8 sept 2007
Ramzi Rajab Khaza'a Halas 18
IOF shot dead a Palestinian
who was hunting birds near Karni crossing, east of Gaza City. Additionally, 5 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children and a woman, were wounded when IOF fired a missile at the apartment building where they live.
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Maria 8 sept 2007
Nabil Fadil Abed Al A'al 26