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500 Palestinian workers detained in October
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Maria 31 oct 2010
Palestinian worker injured in IOF shooting
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian worker collecting gravel east of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday was injured when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at him.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for medical services, told the PIC that the 46-year-old man was hit with a bullet in his foot.
He added that the man, who was hospitalized, was in moderate condition.
IOF troops fire at workers in the northern Gaza areas on daily basis.
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Maria 31 oct 2010
Report: Leftover Israeli explosives cause Tubas blast
TUBAS (Ma'an) -- An abandoned building in Tubas was destroyed Saturday in a blast caused by explosives left behind by Israeli forces, Palestinian Authority civil defense department said.
A car belonging to PA security forces was damaged in the explosion, and the glass of two homes in the area shattered, a statement said. No injuries were reported.
The report said the building had been used by Israeli military intelligence in 2002.
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Maria 31 oct 2010
Gaza's rubble collectors
(2:22) Gaza's rubble collectors
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Maria 31 oct 2010
Center: Silwan resident suffers blindness after clashes
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Maria 1 nov 2010
Witnesses: Israeli tanks operating in central Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Several Israeli military vehicles crossed the Gaza border on Monday into the central Gaza Strip, witnesses told Ma'an.
Witnesses said Israeli tanks and bulldozers entered hundreds of meters into the village of Wadi Al-Salqa, south of Gaza City, roaming the area and bulldozing land.
The Israeli army regularly conducts similar operations in the area.
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Maria 1 nov 2010
IOF soldiers conduct field interrogation of Hamas leaders in Yabad
JENIN, (PIC)-- A senior intelligence officer accompanied the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) that stormed two houses of Hamas figures in Yabad village, Jenin district, and conducted field interrogation with both.
Hamas sources in the village told the PIC reporter that the soldiers encircled the home of Sheikh Ezzeddin Amarne, 48, and questioned him inside his house for two hours.
Amarne, who is blind, had been imprisoned for several years in Israeli occupation jails.
The sources noted that the same force also broke into the house of Sheikh Adnan Hamarshe, 46, and interrogated him. Hamarshe was the oldest serving administrative detainee before his release.
The sources noted that the officers convoyed threat messages to both, telling them to convey them to Hamas leadership, which both refused saying they were not the parties concerned with such issues.
The threats included directing harsh blows to Hamas in the event it organized resistance attacks.
IOF officers had interrogated a number of Hamas leaders in Jenin recently including former minister Wasfi Qabaha and Khaled Al-Haj among others.
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Maria 1 nov 2010
Israeli Troops Invade Houses in Hebron
Security sources reported that the Israeli military invaded, on Monday morning, several houses in Hebron.
Israeli soldiers broke into the houses of Basam Ayyoub, 25 years old, and Baha Basal,18, in the region of Abu Aktela, in the center of Hebron, and handed them an order to appear at the nearest police station for questioning.
Also, Israeli troops broke into the house of Ismael abu Rabe, in al-Fawar refugee camp, southwest of Hebron, and searched it's contents.
Furthermore, Israeli soldiers invaded the towns of al-Samou, Halhoul, Ethna, al-Dahiriya, Doura, Nouba, al-Shoyoukh; installed checkpoints; conducted inspections of Palestinian's vehicles and checked the identities of passengers.
In related news, undercover Israeli army personnel, along with Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday evening, a student from Hebron university and lead him to undisclosed destination.
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Maria 1 nov 2010
New Scandals in Child Prisoner Torture: Soldiers Urinate on 13-Year-Old Boys
Christian Science Monitor: Israel arrested 100 children from Silwan in October
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Maria 2 nov 2010
IDF intelligence chief: Israel's next war will see heavy casualties
In farewell meeting at the Knesset, Gen. Amos Yadlin says next conflict will hit Israel far harder than recent wars in Lebanon and Gaza - and hints for first the time at Israeli involvement in a 2007 strike on a nuclear plant in Syria.
In a final meeting at the Knesset, outgoing Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin warned on Tuesday that Israel's next war would be fought on several fronts - causing far heavier damage and casualties than other recent conflicts.
Israel was currently enjoying a period of relative quiet, Yadlin said. But its enemies were rearming and now posed the greatest threat to the country since the 1970s. A new war would be far deadlier than Israel's last two, relatively short, conficts in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008-9.
Speaking at the final meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting,a head of his imminent departure after for years as commander of army intelligence.
Syria, particularly, posed a greated military obstacle to Israel than at any time in the past three decades, Yadlin said, having amassed advanced Russian-built antiaircraft missiles that seriously limited the operational freedom of the Israel Air Force.
While Syria had failed to acquire Russian S-300 missiles, seen by Israel as the greatest potential threat to its aircraft, Damascus had improved its defense systems enough to push the military balance with Israel "back to the 1970s", Yadlin said.
In 1973, Israel came close to defeat by a suprise Syrian attack before eventually emerging victorious in the Yom Kippur War.
Yadlin also hinted at Israel's involvement in attacking a Syrian nuclear facility in September 2007. That strike has been widely attributed to Israel, but the government has never officially taken responsibility for the operation.
The veteran soldier, who turns 60 next year, told the committee that during his position as MI chief he had contended with two enemy nuclear programs - apparently a reference to Iran and Syria.
"I've seen three defense ministers, two chiefs of staff and two prime ministers come and go, I've been through two wars and I've contended with two nuclear programs of enemy states," Yadlin said, summing up the last years of his career.
"I headed a group of thousands of people working 24 hours a day to collect information that the enemy was not volunteering, information that had to be extracted from difficult places," he added.
Yadlin also warned of a growing threat from the Iranian nuclear program, saying Iran now had enough highly enriched uranium to build a bomb.
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Maria 2 nov 2010
Israeli Soldiers Shot a Citizen in Gaza Strip
On Tuesday afternoon, a Palestinian citizen was shot by Israeli soldiers in the east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, while he was collecting plastic from a garbage dump.
Medical sources reported to the Palestine News Agency, WAFA, that the citizen was wounded in the shoulder after being shot by Israeli troops stationed at the military sites, east of the camp, and was transferred to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, to receive treatment, where his injuries were described as mild.
Furthermore, the region has witnessed tension on Tuesday morning after the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine fired five mortar shells at the Israeli positions.
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Maria 2 nov 2010
Israeli troops enforce closure on northern village
Beit Ummar residents remain military targets
Detainee still in jail months after serving term
New reports of abuse in Israeli prisons
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Maria 3 nov 2010
'Israel to launch cluster war'
Israeli soldiers
A future round of Israeli warfare would entail its forces attacking geographically-separate areas and is intended to be of massive scale and lethality, a senior Israeli military official says.
The head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate, Amos Yadlin, said on Tuesday, "The next round won't be focused on one theater but rather, will incorporate two or three," Israeli website Ynetnews reported.
"One cannot predict the future according to what happened during Operation Cast Lead or the Second Lebanon War," he said, referring to Tel Aviv's offensives on the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009 and southern Lebanon in 2006.
The bombardments respectively left more than 1,400 Palestinians and about 1,200 Lebanese dead, most of them civilians.
"It will be much bigger, much wider in scope, and with many more casualties," added the former Israeli Air Force general.
Israel claimed existence in 1948, during full-scale military operations against the Arab world. In 1967, it went on to occupy and later annex more Palestinian territories in defiance of the international community's refusal to recognize the act.
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, fought off the Israeli troops in the Gaza War, launched under the pretext of responding to rocket attacks on Israel by the fighters. The home-made projectiles seldom leave any casualties or considerable damage to property.
The Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, defeated the forces in the 33-Day War and Tel Aviv was compelled to withdraw without having achieved any of its objectives.
Hezbollah has vowed to respond with determination to any potential Israel-launched warfare. The movement has publicly announced that it has the capability to hit targets deep into Israel and to strike Israeli Navy vessels even before they reach the Lebanese waters.
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Maria 3 nov 2010
IDF general: Naalin shooting an operational accident
Commander of IDF colleges Major-General Gershon Hacohen testifies as character witness for former battalion commander Omri Borberg convicted of attempted threats in 2008 shooting incident involving bound Palestinian protestor.
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The defense team of Lieutenant-Colonel Omri Borberg and Staff-Sergeant (res.) Leonardo Corea, who were involved in the shooting of a bound Palestinian protestor two years ago, tried to convince judges to mitigate their sentence on Wednesday.
The prosecution is pushing for Borberg's demotion, a former commander of Battalion 71 in the Armored Corps, which will in effect end his military career.
Three months ago the special military court on the Kirya base convicted Borberg of attempted threats and his soldier Staff Sgt. Corea, of illegal use of a weapon. Both of them were also convicted of inappropriate behavior.
Two high ranking IDF officers reported to the special military court in order to testify as the ex-battalion commander's character witnesses on Wednesday. Major-General Gershon Hacohen, commander of IDF colleges and former commander of the 36th Division testified in favor of Borberg.
"He's the finest of men, a man whose judgment can be trusted," he said. "The incident he was involved in is not a moral failure but an operational accident. The fact that his tenure as battalion commander has been suspended is punishment enough."
Ground Forces Command Major-General Sami Turjeman is also slated to testify in favor of Borberg whom he knows well.
Facing 3 years in prison
What started as a routine protest of a few dozen Palestinians and left-wing activists in the West Bank village of Naalin on July 7, 2008 turned into one of the IDF's most significant command and legal matters in recent years. Staff Sgt. Corea fired rubber bullets from close range at anti-fence protestor Ashraf Ibrahim Abu Rahma as he was blindfolded and bound and hit close to his shoe.
The maximum punishment Corea and Borberg face is three years in prison.
The judges ruled that Abu Rahma did not pose a threat and that the Borberg's actions were unlawful. It was further stated that the incident had caused significant damage to the reputation of the IDF, its commanders and soldiers.
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Israeli Army Calls 2008 Ni'lin Shooting "Operational Accident"
Bethlehem PNN - The Israeli news house YNetNews.com reported today that Israeli Major-General Gershon Hacohen called the 2008 shooting of a bound Palestinian protestor an operational accident.
The shooter, former battalion commander Omri Borberg, was found guilty in an Israeli court of shooting Ashraf Ibrahim Abu Rahma at extremely close range with a rubber bullet on June 7, 2008. The incident happened after a wall protest in the West Bank village of Ni'lin. He and Staff-Sergeant Leonardo Corea face a maximum of three years in prison and a demotion.
Major-General Hacohen testified on Borberg's behalf, He's the finest of men, a man whose judgment can be trusted. The accident he was involved in is not a moral failure but an operational accident.
Hacohen's testimony and that of other high-ranking army personnel is intended to lighten Borberg's sentence. After he and Corea were found guilty, the presiding judges said Abu Rahma, the prisoner, did not pose any threat to the soldiers, whose actions damaged the reputation of the Israeli army.
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Maria 3 nov 2010
One Killed, Four Injured by Israeli Missile Strike in Gaza City
Moments after Wednesday airstrike in Gaza
Gaza PNN A Palestinian civilian was killed and four others were injured during an Israeli airstrike targeting Gaza City on Wednesday afternoon.
Interior Ministry sources in the Gaza Strip confirmed that an Israeli missile struck a car near the Interior Ministry passport control office in Gaza City.
Sources told PNN that the strike killed Muhammad Jamal al-Namnam, 27, from the al-Shati refugee camp. His body was taken to Ashfa Hospital in Gaza City. The names of the injured passersby were not released, but the injuries were said to be light.
In a first response the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza called the operation an assassination intended to cause confusion among Palestinians and derail reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. Talks between the two factions will commence in the coming week in Damascus.
Khaled al-Batash, a prominent Islamic Jihad leader, explained in a press statement that Israel did not want peace but instead ignited the region with a storm of violence.
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Israeli officials kill Palestinian commander said to be planning terror attack
JERUSALEM -- Israeli officials said Wednesday their forces killed a senior Palestinian commander from an al-Qaida-affiliated Islamist group in Gaza Strip as he was planning a terrorist attack against Israeli and American targets in the Sinai Peninsula.
The militant, identified as Mohammed Jamal Al-Namnam, 25, was a leader of Army of Islam, a fringe group in Gaza Strip that has claimed responsibility for recent rocket attacks against Israel and taking part in the 2006 kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
"He was a ticking bomb," said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovitz, a military spokeswoman. She declined to provide details of the Sinai attack Namnam was suspected of plotting.
Namnam was killed in car explosion Wednesday outside the police headquarters of Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that controls Gaza Strip. Two other militants were injured.
Witnesses gave conflicting reports about whether the explosion was caused by a bomb inside the car or from an Israeli airstrike. Military officials would not comment on how the strike was carried out.
"The sound and fireball were massive," said taxi driver Mohammed Barbari, who said he was driving behind the car when it exploded. He said he escaped harm only because he stopped 100 yards away to pick up passengers.
The explosion flipped the car upside down and left a large crater in the road, witnesses said.
Though Hamas officials criticized the strike as the latest Israeli assassination, their organization has had its own problems with Army of Islam, which is one of several smaller extremist groups in Gaza Strip that have accused Hamas of growing too soft and abandoning its roots as a resistance movement.
As recently as last week, Hamas leaders warned the fringe groups to suspend their rocket attacks against southern Israel. Last year, Hamas soldiers clashed with another extremist group in an armed battle that killed about two dozen militants.
Officials from Army of Islam declined to comment Wednesday.
(Special correspondent Rushdi abu Alouf in Gaza Strip contributed to this report.)
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Hamas warns officials: Israel may booby-trap new cars http://bit.ly/b7gX1a eyewitnesses say explosion occurred inside vehicle
The Israeli army had earlier denied any involvement and now Israeli army has claimed responsibility. Was Hamas right?
IDF, Shin Bet confirm involvement in Gaza car blast.
Hamas says Army of Islam commander killed in airstrike near police headquarters, but eyewitnesses say explosion occurred inside vehicle.
IDF strike: The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed on Wednesday that they were responsible for the Gaza operation in which Army of Islam commander Muhammad Jamal al-Namnam was killed.
Earlier on Wednesday, a car exploded near a Hamas police station in Gaza City. The al-Arabiya network reported that one person was killed in the blast and another three were injured.
The man killed in the explosion was a senior field commander in the Army of Islam, one of the organizations affiliated with al-Qaeda in the Strip.
According to a source in one of the Gaza organizations, the man was killed in a new Hyundai car which recently arrived in the Strip from Israel as part of the easing of the blockade.
Israel has allowed dozens of vehicles to enter Gaza.
The source told Ynet that the Hamas interior ministry had recently called on Palestinian buying the new cars to have them checked thoroughly, "for fear that Israel has planted listening devices or even booby-trapped them."
Palestinian sources said the explosion rocked the Ansar area, where many of the security headquarters are located, sending up a plume of thick black smoke. Emergency teams and Hamas security forces rushed to the scene.
Eyewitnesses said the car was travelling on the road parallel to the police headquarters when the explosion occurred. Despite the claims of an airstrike, other residents said the explosion occurred inside the vehicle.
Adham Abu Selmia, a spokesman for the Strip's medical services, told Hamas journal al-Risala that the man killed in the incident was Muhammad Jamal al-Namnam, 27, a resident of the al-Shati refugee camo.
The man was said to be a senior commander in the extreme Army of Islam organization, whose members have clashed with Hamas forces. He was previously involved in terror attacks on Israeli targets, and recently conspired with Hamas members to carry out terror attacks through Sinai, against American and Israeli targets.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3979074,00.html
Israel admits to assassination in Gaza
Palestinians carry the coffin of Mohammed al-Nimim during his funeral in Gaza City November 3, 2010.
The Israeli army has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Gaza Strip, which has left one Palestinian dead and four others injured.
Resuming its targeted killings in the Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement on Wednesday that Israeli forces targeted and killed Mohammed Jamal al-Nimnim, a senior member of the Army of Islam, in a joint operation with the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service.
Mohammed Jamal, 27, was killed after his car exploded outside the headquarters of the Hamas security forces in Gaza City.
Some reports suggest that his car exploded after missiles fired from an Israeli drone hit his car. Other reports, however, say that al-Nimnim was killed by a car bomb.
Israeli officials claim they ordered al-Nimnim's assassination because they had allegedly received reports that Nimnim was planning a number of attacks against American and Israeli targets in the Sinai Peninsula.
The Israeli army had earlier denied any involvement in the attack.
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1 killed in Gaza City blast
Update: GAZA CITY (MA'AN) -- A Palestinian was killed and several others injured in an explosion targeting a car in Gaza City before noon Tuesday.
Civil defense officials said an Israeli drone targeted the car, which was near the Palestinian Authority passport office in western Gaza City.
An Israeli military spokeswoman declined to comment.
Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya said the casualties were transported to the city's Ash-Shifa hospital. The man who died was identified as Muhamad Jamal Nimnim, 27, from the Shati refugee camp. The other passenger in the car was injured, along with at least three bystanders.
Witnesses said the car, which contained two passengers, was engulfed in flames.
Following the scene of the explosion, the car lay upside down, a skeleton of blackened, twisted metal.
A security source who declined to be identified also said the explosion was the result of a missile fired by an Israeli drone.
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GAZA CITY (MA'AN) -- A Palestinian was killed and another injured in an explosion in Gaza City.
The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. The explosion, which apparently targeted a car, took place in the western area of Gaza City, near the Palestinian Authority passport office.
Gaza medical service spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya reported the
casualties, who were not immediately identified.
Reached by phone, an Israeli military spokeswoman had no immediate comment on the matter.
Update: Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyya said the casualties were transported to the city's Ash-Shifa hospital. The man who died was identified as Muhamad Jamal Nimnim, 27, from the Shati refugee camp. The other passenger in the car was injured, along with at least three bystanders.
Witnesses said the car, which contained two passengers, was engulfed in flames.
Following the scene of the explosion, the car lay upside down, a skeleton of blackened, twisted metal.
A security source who declined to be identified also said the explosion was the result of a missile fired by an Israeli drone.
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