- 8 nov 2010
Jewish Extremists Try to Kill Chilean Tourist, Mistaken for Palestinian
Jerusalem PNN - Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth published a report on Monday about the attempted murder of a Chilean tourist in Jerusalem by eight Jewish extremists who mistook him for an Arab.
Jose Dominus Nolido, 43, came to Israel to celebrate the wedding of his son's Jewish friend and visit holy sites. As he returned to his hotel, Nolido said he was accosted by youths.
I decided to return to my room and I went through Independence Park, Nolido explained. Suddenly a youth attacked me. I thought he was a soldier, since he had on Israeli army pants. I tried to flee, but I ran into seven others. I fell on the ground and couldn't get away from the blows. Then I lost consciousness. I was convinced they wanted to kill me because I looked like an Arab.
Nolido was taken to a Jerusalem hospital, bleeding from the head and eyes. Doctors said they feared loss of vision in his right eye.
They said I looked like an Arab, he said. I didn't think that would cost me my life.
Israeli police said that the assault had a nationalist character and that the Jewish attackers took him for an Arab or Palestinian. Five of the suspects were settlers from ultra-Orthodox areas of Jerusalem.
I don't think I'll come back to Israel, said Nolido. He explained that he knew the Israeli-Palestinian conflict well, but never thought he would be attacked because of his appearance.
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Maria 9 nov 2010
Two Palestinian workers wounded in IOF shelling
GAZA, (PIC)-- Two Palestinian workers were wounded on Tuesday when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired an artillery shell at a group of workers collecting gravel south of Gaza Strip.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the coordinator of medical services in the Strip, said that an IOF tank fired a shell at the workers near the Soufa crossing to the east of Rafah, south of the Strip, wounding two of them.
He added that one of them was a 17-year-old and the other a 25-year-old youth, noting that their injuries were slight to moderate.
IOF troops routinely target gravel collectors killing two and injuring dozens over the past couple of years.
Many unemployed Palestinian workers head to border areas to collect gravel from destroyed buildings to sell them in the market to meet the need for construction material that was banned from entry into the Strip by the IOF.
http://bit.ly/9FuEKA
Ashkenazi: In a future war we'll need to evacuate civilians
IDF Chief of General Staff says IDF is already working on target banks for future conflicts with Hamas, Hizbullah.
Israel will have to evacuate civilian populations during a future conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip or Hizbullah in Lebanon, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said on Tuesday.
In the future, we will not meet the enemy on the traditional battlefield, Ashkenazi said. Hamas chooses to fight within an urban setting. It could have alternatively chosen to fight in the open areas.
Speaking at the International Conference on Fire and Combined Arms in an Urban Terrain, Ashkenazi said that in a future conflict the IDF will use ground forces and standoff firepower in conjunction.
It would be elegant if we could stop rocket and missile fire with just standoff firepower, he said. But it is not possible and we will need to combine our capabilities and also to maneuver on the ground.
As a result, Ashkenazi said that the IDF was already working now on creating target banks for future conflicts with Hizbullah and Hamas so that the forces will not enter a conflict and need to begin to look for the enemy which hides among civilians.
During the Yom Kippur War all we had to do was pick up a pair of binoculars and look for the divisions, he said. Nowadays, there are not divisions and therefore we will need to make an effort to turn the enemy from asymmetric to symmetric.
In a recent Jerusalem Post report Ashkenazi said that the IDF was looking into procuring new accurate rockets to increase the ground forces capability to independently destroy targets with great precision and without needing to rely on air support.
In a future conflict we will need new weapons systems that are large enough to destroy targets but are small enough to minimize collateral damage, he said.
The IDF's Planning Division is currently conducting a review of a procurement plan for new rockets which needs to be approved by the General Staff and if so will be inserted into the IDF's next multi-year plan, set to go into effect in 2011.
One system under consideration is Accular, developed by Israel Military Industries (IMI), a 160 mm. autonomous surface-to-surface missile guided by a GPS system that puts it within 10 meters of a target. The rocket, designed to destroy artillery batteries and infantry command posts, was successfully tested several months ago in the South.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=19458
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Maria 9 nov 2010
IOF troops advance in central Gaza, detain 4 citizens in WB
GAZA, (PIC)-- A number of Israeli armored vehicles advanced in central Gaza east of the Maghazi refugee camp on Tuesday morning, Palestinian security sources told the PIC reporter.
They said that seven military vehicles, including tanks, armed personnel carriers, and bulldozers advanced amidst intensive firing at citizens' homes.
The sources noted that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) escorted the bulldozers while damaging Palestinian cultivated land lots east of the refugee camp.
Meanwhile, four Palestinian civilians were apprehended in the West Bank on Tuesday during IOF raids.
Hebrew media reported that two of the detainees were arrested for throwing firebombs at IOF soldiers.
Local sources said that two citizens were detained in Nablus and one in each of Al-Khalil and Jericho.
9 nov 2010
Confrontations in East Jerusalem between Israeli forces and hundreds of Palestinian school children, Four Injured, Five Arrested
IOA rounded up 33 children in Silwan last month, most of the children were in the age category of 10 to 14 years old, noting that they were always subjected to harsh interrogation including beating and name calling
Settlers Open New Settlers Only Road in Hebron
29 oct 2012, 11:58 , Respect -
Maria 10 nov 2010
Israeli troops shoot Palestinian worker
An Israeli soldier shoots at Palestinians near Qalandiya checkpoint, just north of al-Quds (Jerusalem) in the West Bank.
Israeli military soldiers have shot and injured a young Palestinian man as he was collecting scrap construction materials north of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
"A 28-year-old man was lightly injured close to Erez crossing in northern Gaza and transferred to Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment," Ma'an news agency quoted Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya as saying on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a military spokeswoman for the Israeli regime said, "During this morning's incident, soldiers fired warning shots in the air a number of times in an attempt to drive the suspects away from the fence.
"When the suspects failed to consent, the forces fired toward the suspects' lower bodies, and identified hitting one of the suspects."
She also claimed that the area adjacent to the security fence is a combat zone and that the Israeli military Forces do not allow anyone to be present in the vicinity.
Palestinians are targeted nearly every day by Tel Aviv soldiers patrolling near Erez crossing. A total of 66 people have been injured collecting scrap supplies in the area since 2009.
The Israeli regime allows only a trickle of construction materials into the Gaza Strip for projects overseen by international aid agencies.
Tel Aviv has continued to close all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for more than 3 years. The illegal Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has been steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the coastal enclave.
Some 1.5 million Palestinians are being denied their basic rights, including freedom of movement, and their rights to appropriate living conditions, work, health and education. Poverty and unemployment rates stand at approximately 80% and 60%, respectively, in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/150414.html
Worker shot by Israeli force in northern Gaza
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian man was injured by Israeli fire on Wednesday while he collected scrap construction materials in northern Gaza near the Erez crossing.
Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said a 28-year-old identified only by his initials YG was lightly injured and transferred to the Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment.
Abu Salmiya said 66 people have been injured collecting scrap supplies in the area since 2009.
An Israeli military spokeswoman responded: "The area adjacent to the security fence is a combat zone used by terrorist organizations to execute attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers and to plan kidnapping attacks. For this reason, the IDF will not allow anyone to be present in it."
She added: "During this morning's incident, soldiers fired warning shots in the air a number of times in an attempt to drive the suspects away from the fence. When the suspects failed to consent, the forces fired toward the supects' lower bodies, and identified hitting one of the suspects."
Workers are targeted nearly every day by Israeli soldiers patrolling the buffer zone, an area of Palestinian territory along Gaza's northern and eastern borders.
As Israel bans concrete and crushed stone for construction, young men often go to evacuated settlements to collect gravel from buildings that Israeli forces demolished before the unilateral withdrawal in 2005.
A 19-year-old worker died of asphyxiation Sunday after he fell in a ditch and was buried under rubble as he collected stone aggregates in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Another teenager was injured Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire at a group of workers collecting rubble near an evacuated Israeli settlement in northern Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=332543 29 oct 2012, 11:58 , Respect -
Maria 10 nov 2010
New incursion by Israeli troops into Gaza
Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its forces advancing hundreds of meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Younis, Press TV reported on Wednesday.
Also, Israeli forces allegedly attacked a group of Gazans with live fire while they were collecting gravel nearby. One of them suffered injuries and was taken to a local hospital to receive medical treatment.
The attack followed flights Israeli fighter jets carried out over Gaza last night.
For over 3 years, Israel has kept closed all border crossings to the Gaza Strip. Since June 2007, the illegal blockade on Gaza has been steadily tightened making a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the coastal strip.
The 1.5 million population is being deprived of basic rights including adequate living conditions, work, health and education, and freedom of movement. Poverty and unemployment rates approximately account for 80% and 60% respectively in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59875
29 oct 2012, 11:58 , Respect -
Maria 10 nov 2010
Report: IDF helicopter fires at houses in Rafah area
Palestinian sources in Gaza reported that an IDF helicopter opened fire at houses in the Rafah area. According to the report, there were no injuries or damage.
Israeli forces encroach into Gaza Strip
Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver.
Israeli forces advanced hundreds of meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Younis, a Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported on Wednesday.
They also opened fire on a group of Gazans who were collecting gravel nearby. One of the Gazans sustained injuries in the attack and was taken to a local hospital to receive medical treatment.
The incident came hard on the heels of flights Israeli fighter jets conducted over Gaza last night.
Israel has continued to close all border crossings to the Gaza Strip for more than 3 years. The illegal Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has been steadily tightened since June 2007, has had a disastrous impact on the humanitarian and economic situation in the coastal enclave.
Some 1.5 million people are being denied their basic rights, including freedom of movement, and their rights to appropriate living conditions, work, health and education. Poverty and unemployment rates stand at approximately 80% and 60% respectively in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/150359.htm
Behind an Israeli Strike in Gaza, Help from Egypt
The scene of a blast in which senior Palestinian commander from an Al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist group in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Jamal Namnam, 25, was killed.
The Nov. 3 assassination of Mohammad Namnam looked pretty much exactly like the fiery deaths of a lot of other Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip over the years. He was making his way in broad daylight through the tattered streets of Gaza City when his sedan turned into a fireball. The missile arrived from an Israeli helicopter hovering so far away that onlookers at first thought the explosion was a car bomb.
The death was not routine, however. Israel has refrained for months from assassination by missile, just as Hamas, the fundamentalist militant group that rules the Gaza Strip, has held back from launching homemade rockets into Israel. And the dead man was a senior operative not of Hamas but of another, more extreme militia called the Army of Islam. Namnam, a senior commander of the group some analysts describe as linked to al-Qaeda, was tracked and killed after Israeli security operatives learned that he was preparing a terror attack on U.S. forces stationed in the Sinai Desert not far from coastal Palestinian enclave ruled by Hamas.
(What's behind Gaza's siege mentality?) http://bit.ly/ctlaXi
But the most striking element of the operation was the source of the tip: Egyptian intelligence gleaned news of the plot from Army of Islam operatives captured earlier in the Sinai. Egyptian security forces work to interdict arms and explosives on smuggling routes that run across the vast expanse from Sudan to Gaza. But sharing the intelligence on Namnam with their Israeli counterparts marked a level of Egyptian cooperation not seen by the Jewish state in years. "Egypt is helping much more," a security source in the region tells TIME.
(See Gaza's police force, between Hamas and a hard place.) http://bit.ly/cD0u4V
This being the Middle East, the explanation involves a blend of shared interests and revenge. Sources familiar with the operation credited the change in Egypt's posture to President Hosni Mubarak's anger at another enemy of Israel, Hizballah, the Shi'a militia based in Lebanon. Last year Egyptian state media announced that 49 Hizballah agents were arrested in Sinai for plotting against Egypt. "They bought apartments near the Suez, speedboats, cars," says the security source. "They built a very big infrastructure around not only Gaza smuggling but also targeting Sinai tourism." Mubarak, incensed, issued a public warning to Hizballah, Hamas and their main state sponsors, Syria and Iran. "We will uncover their plot," the president proclaimed. "Beware of Egypt's wrath."
Egypt and Israel have maintained diplomatic relations since signing a peace treaty in 1979. That treaty returned to Egypt the Sinai peninsula that Israel had captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. It also put in place the multinational force charged with monitoring the desert from a string of outposts and two bases. The Army of Islam plot was aimed at the northern base, called El Gorah, about a dozen miles west of Gaza, apparently hoping to kill Americans. U.S. forces account for almost 700 of the approximately 1,600 military personnel assigned to the Multnational Force and Observers (MFO). Normand St. Pierre, head of the MFO office in Cairo, says Israel and Egypt share responsibility for the forces' security. "The relationship between the countries is really up to them, and I think they know things work better when they cooperate," St. Pierre told TIME, adding that he knew of no specific threat to El Gorah.
(See how ruling Gaza is an awkward balancing act for Hamas.) http://bit.ly/d15iDT
Israeli sources offered no specifics either, though in announcing the strike on Namnam an Israeli Defense Forces spokesman described him as a "ticking bomb." The dead man was 27, lived in the Shati refugee camp, and was an aide to Mumtaz Dughmush, the leader of a Gaza clan and commander of the Army of Islam. On the spectrum of militant Islam, the group is described as closer to al-Qaeda than to Hamas, which has both embraced and punished the rival. In 2006, Hamas and the Army of Islam cooperated on the capture of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier still held in Gaza. But after Hamas took power of the coastal strip in 2007 it launched an attack against the group, and news reports said Namnam was recently called on the carpet by Hamas for firing rockets into Israel. Hamas suspended rocket attacks after Israel's devastating December 2008 military incursion, which killed more than 700 of its fighters, and a similar number of civilians.
(Comment on this story.)
Israeli officials claimed that Hamas was again cooperating with the Army of Islam in the alleged plot against U.S. forces in the Sinai, but offered no evidence to support the allegation.
See photos of Hamas recruitment day. http://bit.ly/bzBQo0
See pictures of 60 years of Israel. http://bit.ly/c5uv2z
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2030671,00.html 29 oct 2012, 11:58 , Respect -
Maria 10 nov 2010
IOF soldiers detain MP Ramahi
IOF soldiers detain eldest son of MP Halaika
Israeli police interfere in repairs at Aqsa Mosque, detain three of its guards
Israeli Military Enters Bi'lin in Pre-Dawn Raid
Arrests Campaign in Silwan and New Excavation in Hilweh Valley in East Jerusalem
Jerusalem confrontations resume
29 oct 2012, 11:58 , Respect -
Maria 11 nov 2010
Israel army raids Jenin-area town
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Shooting and firing tear gas, Israeli soldiers raided the town of Jaba, near Jenin in the northern West Bank on Thursday evening, residents said.
Residents of the town barricaded streets in the village and threw stones at the invading soldiers, residents also said. The reason for the incursion was unclear.
Soldiers also surrounded one house in the town, also for unknown reasons.
No injuries were reported.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=333186
29 oct 2012, 11:58 , Respect -
Maria 11 nov 2010
Israeli military helicopters, tanks shell Palestinian house in southern Gaza
(1:50) Israeli aircraft bomb South Gaza - PressTV 101111
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- Israeli army choppers and tanks shelled a Palestinian house in Abasan Al-Jadida east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday, local sources reported.
They said that the choppers fired three missiles and opened heavy machinegun fire at the house at a time the tanks, stationed on the border strip, fired a number of shells at it.
The sources said that casualties were suffered but Adham Abu Salmiya, the coordinator of medical services, denied in a statement to the PIC the presence of any casualties.
He said, however, that the situation was dangerous and no medical crews could reach the house because of the continued Israeli targeting of it.
http://bit.ly/a8nfXZ
Update: Bombs target Israeli army on Gaza border
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Two armed groups in the Gaza Strip launched separate attacks targeting Israeli forces who entered the enclave Wednesday morning, while soldiers shot and injured a Palestinian worker.
The armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement said its operatives planted a landmine which exploded under a military bulldozer that crossed into the southern Gaza town of Al-Qaraqa, east of Khan Younis, using the Kissufim gate.
Operatives affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's military wing, meanwhile, said their forces fired several mortar shells toward Israeli tanks near the Sreij gate north of Khan Younis.
The PFLP's Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades said the operation was "a natural response to Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people." Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades said the bombing affirmed its "right of resistance to any Israeli aggression."
Witnesses reported Israeli helicopter fire opened toward the demolished Yasser Arafat International Airport in what they said appeared to be a move to disperse workers collecting aggregates.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was unaware of helicopter activity in the region, but confirmed that two explosive devices were detonated targeting soldiers "who were performing routine activity in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today." A third explosive was detonated it in a controlled manner, she said.
There were no reports of injury or damage on either side, the official added.
"The incident is another in a chain of events proving that the area adjacent to the security fence is used by terror organizations to plant explosives and plan terror attacks against IDF soldiers often under the guise of apparently innocent farmwork," she said.
In northern Gaza, meanwhile, a Palestinian man was injured by Israeli fire while collecting scrap construction materials near the Erez crossing. Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said a 28-year-old identified only by his initials YG was lightly injured and transferred to the Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment.
The military spokeswoman responded: "The area adjacent to the security fence is a combat zone used by terrorist organizations to execute attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers and to plan kidnapping attacks. For this reason, the IDF will not allow anyone to be present in it."
She added: "During this morning's incident, soldiers fired warning shots in the air a number of times in an attempt to drive the suspects away from the fence. When the suspects failed to consent, the forces fired toward the suspects' lower bodies, and identified hitting one of the suspects."
Workers have been targeted nearly every day by Israeli soldiers patrolling the buffer zone, an area of Palestinian territory along Gaza's northern and eastern borders.
As Israel bans concrete and crushed stone for construction, young men often go to evacuated settlements to collect gravel from buildings that Israeli forces demolished before the unilateral withdrawal of settlers and internal occupation forces in 2005.
A 19-year-old worker died of asphyxiation Sunday after he fell in a ditch and was buried under rubble as he collected stone aggregates in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Another teenager was injured Sunday when Israeli forces opened fire at a group of workers collecting rubble near an evacuated Israeli settlement in northern Gaza.
Abu Salmiya, the medical spokesman, said 66 people have been injured collecting scrap supplies in the area since 2009.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=332685
IAF strikes building containing terrorists in Khan Younis
Strike comes after explosive devices were detonated near the Gaza border; no IDF soldiers injured, Palestinians report injuries.
The IDF confirmed Thursday that Israeli Air Force helicopters in cooperation with Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) struck a building containing terrorists near Khan Younis.
The operatives planted explosives earlier Thursday, and planned to fire at IDF soldiers. They returned fire after the IAF hit.
No IDF soldiers were injured. Palestinians reported a number of injuries as a result of the strike.
The IDF spokesperson said "The IDF holds the Hamas terrorist organization solely responsible for maintaining the calm in the Gaza Strip and for any terrorist activity emanating from it. The IDF will continue to respond harshly to any attempt to use terror against the State of Israel."
Two explosive devices were detonated near an IDF force that was on routine patrol on Wednesday. A third explosive device was found on the scene and detonated in a controlled manner.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=194918
IDF confirms strike on terrorists in Khan Younis
The IDF confirmed Thursday that the Israeli Air Force helicopters struck a building containing armed men near Khan Younis, Israel Radio reported.
The men were attempting to shoot at IDF soldiers.
The IDF spokesperson said "The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israeli citizens or IDF soldiers, and will continue to act against anyone who uses terror against the State of Israel. The IDF sees the terror organization Hamas responsible for what happens in Gaza."
No IDF soldiers were injured. Palestinians reported a number of injuries as a result of the strike.
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=194897
IDF, gunmen exchange fire in Gaza
Palestinian sources report of incident east of Khan Younis; missiles said to be fired at deserted building.
Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported Thursday of exchanges of fire between gunmen and Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the al-Farahin area, east of Khan Younis.
The sources reported that the forces fired several missiles from planes and tank shells at a deserted building in Kahn Younis. Sources from another area in the Gaza town reported seeing IDF tanks moving towards the Palestinian territory.
Earlier, unknown assailants opened fire at a community in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, near the border fence. There were no reports of injuries, but an office and windshield sustained damage. Sappers were dispatched to the area, and security forces are checking whether the shots were fired from Gaza.
Two explosive devices exploded Wednesday next to soldiers patrolling the border fence area, near Kissufim. There were no reports of injuries. Another explosive device found in the area was not activated.
On Tuesday, a mortar shell was fired towards the western Negev. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3983200,00.html
Attack on Khan Younis
Khan Younis - Agency Quds Net News
Wounded a number of Palestinian citizens -Thursday afternoon, in an Israeli strike targeted a house in an area of Abasan east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.
Our correspondent says, that the aircraft of the F16 bombed the missile and at least one house near the eastern border of the city of Khan Younis, which led to destroy it completely, and then resumed Israeli helicopter gunships bombed the same house again and opened fire on citizens who Tjmhora near the target region.
He added that ambulances and civil defense crews were unable to get to where the target because of the intensity of fire and shells, adding that the missile fell on the length of the border from the east of the city of Khan Younis.
There were reports that the targeted house was holed up inside a number of resistance fighters.
http://bit.ly/bVf7Sl
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Maria 11 nov 2010
Israeli police fire at, arrest Jordanian
NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Israeli police arrested a Jordanian citizen in Wadi Ara, north of Palestine occupied in 1948, on Wednesday after a few hours chase, a police report said.
It added that the police patrols chased the man on suspicion of involvement in a road accident.
Eyewitnesses said that the policemen fired at the Jordanian citizen's car tires in Baka Al-Gharbiya town.
The police did not identify the Jordanian or reasons for his presence in Israel, but only mentioned that he would appear in court so that his detention would be extended.
http://bit.ly/czBD20
29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 11 nov 2010
Army Invades Bil'in
Israeli soldiers invaded on Wednesday at night the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, and searched the home of a local organizer of nonviolent protest against the Annexation Wall. The invasion is the second on Wednesday.
The Friends of Foredoom and Justice in Bil'in (FFJ) reported that the invasion was carried out around 8 pm, while the first invasion to the village was carried out around 3 am Wednesday.
Soldiers broke into the home of Ashraf Al Khatib of the local Popular Committee Against the Wall and barged into his place before searching and ransacking it. The army also broke into Al Khatib's neighbor's home and searched it causing damages.
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Later in the night, soldiers invaded the village once again and broke into the house of Al Khatib, once again, but he was not there. Army then left the village without conducting any arrests.
The FFJ said that soldiers invaded Bil'in at least four times in the last three days, and added that the army is seeking to kidnap Al Khatib. http://www.bilin-ffj.org/
Al Khatib even received a phone call form an officer of the Israeli Intelligence (Shin Bet) who demanded him to head to the Ofer Military Prison for interrogation.
The officer made it clear to Al Khatib that unless he shows up for interrogation, the army will keep invading the village and breaking into his home.
Bil'in is one of the leading Palestinian villages in nonviolent and creative resistance against the Annexation Wall and settlements.
It became a target for repeated Israeli invasion and attacks and the army is trying to keep international and Israeli peace activists out of the village by declaring it a closed military zone.
Soldiers repeatedly resort to the use of excessive force against the local, Israeli and international protesters leading to several casualties.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59881
Report: Egypt 'tipped' Israel on terrorist
Time magazine says information provided by Cairo led Jewish state to assassinate Army of Islam commander who planned to target US forces in Sinai.
WASHINGTON Egypt helped Israel assassinate Muhammad Jamal al-Namnam, a senior member of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Army of Islam organization, Time magazine reported Thursday.
The terrorist, who carried out attacks against Israel in the past and planned to target Israelis and Americans in Sinai, was killed last week after his car exploded in Gaza City.
According to Time, the missile which hit the car arrived from an Israeli helicopter, and the death was not routine. Israel has refrained for months from targeted killings from the air as long as Hamas has held back from firing rockets into Israel.
Namnam was tracked and killed, Time said, after Israeli security officials learned that he was preparing a terror attack on US forces stationed in the Sinai Desert.
According to Time, the information on Namnam's plans was received from Cairo after Egyptian intelligence learned of the plot from Army of Islam operatives captured in Sinai earlier during a routine operation to interdict arms and explosives on smuggling routes that run across the vast expanse from Sudan to Gaza.
The multinational force operating near the Gaza Strip is comprised of 1,600 soldiers 700 of them American. According to Time, the Army of Islam plot was aimed at a base located about a dozen miles west of Gaza.
Sharing the intelligence on Namnam with their Israeli counterparts marks a level of Egyptian cooperation not seen by the Jewish state in years, Time said. "Egypt is helping much more," a security source in the region told the magazine.
The change in the Egyptian approach is related to the uncovering of a Hezbollah terror cell in Sinai. "They bought apartments near the Suez, speedboats, cars," a security source told Time. "They built a very big infrastructure around not only Gaza smuggling but also targeting Sinai tourism."
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak feared that this infrastructure may be used in the future to bring down his regime.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3982996,00.html 29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 11 nov 2010
Israeli settler injures 3 Palestinians
Jewish settlers release waste water on farmlands in Bethlehem
woman and two children, age 10 and 11, were pelted with stones on their way to school in the Tuqu village
Israeli policemen humiliate Sheikh Salah during his trial
29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 12 nov 2010
Homes Raided and Checkpoints Set Up at Hebron Entrances
Hebron PNN- Israeli forces raided several homes in Hebron on Friday and set up military checkpoints at entrances to the city.
A source told Wafa that troops entered the districts of Ithna, west of Hebron, to inspect the home of resident Abdul Adheem Fayyad al-Qisi. Inside Hebron, they raided the house of one Arafat Abdul Hakim al-Rajibi, while raids without incarcerations took place in the township of al-Dhahireen.
The checkpoints regulating entrance into Hebron were set up at Halhoul Bridge, north of the city, the main street of Ithna district, and the main street leading into al-Dhahireen. The reason for the checkpoints was not immediately available.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9135&Itemid=64
Israeli Army Segregates the Village of Nabi Saleh to Prevent Commemorative Folk Festival
After the Fatah movement called the Palestinian people in Ramallah for a folk festival to commemorate late president Yasser Arafat, as a new step in escalating the popular resistance, the Israeli army imposed intensive blockade upon the village of an-Nabi Saleh, northwest Ramallah.
Israeli army personnel also erected military barriers to separate the villages of Beit Ramba and Kufr Aein, northwest Ramallah, and tightened measures and obstructed the passage of the vehicles through the Israeli checkpoint, Attara.
Muhammad Tamemi, an official in the media office in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlement Construction, stated that Israeli army personnel imposed a blockade upon the village and obstructed the passage of the vehicles preventing international peace activists and journalist from entering the village.
He pointed out that these measures had been carried out after the Israeli army broke into the village at dawn ,threatening the villagers to harsh measures if the festival went ahead.
He added that Israeli army personnel closed all the entrances of the village and intensified the presence of the soldiers there in order to prevent the residents of the nearby villages from participating in the festival which is decided to be held at Midday.
The Popular committee Against the Wall and Settlement Construction has called the Palestinians to go by foot to participate in the festival and face all the Israeli measures.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59899 29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 12 nov 2010
Palestinian detainees say skin rash rampant in Israeli prison
29 oct 2012, 11:59 , Respect -
Maria 13 nov 2010
Militant group says mortar fired at invading force
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said fighters launched mortars toward a force of four invading Israeli tanks along the Gaza border east of Khan Younis.
A statement from the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades said the tanks were ripping up farmland with their tread east of the Al-Farahin neighborhood on Saturday, and said fighters responded by firing a number of mortars.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was not aware of any military activity in the area at the time.
The statement from the fighters said the brigades would continue to "resist the Israeli occupation and retaliate against their criminal acts."
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=333522