- 13 nov 2009
Mustafa Muhammad Sabri Wadi, 16,
of Gaza Valley Village, near Gaza City, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his head and foot while traveling on an animal-drawn cart near the Gaza perimeter fence.
Palestinian Youth Killed By Army Fire In Gaza, Three Wounded
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Friday that a Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army fire, and three others were wounded, when the army invaded an area close to Juhr Al Deek, east of Gaza City.
The sources identified the slain youth as Mohammad Wadi, 17, from Al Boreij refugee camp. His body and his three wounded friends were moved to the Al Aqsa Hospital.
Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers invaded the area and opened fire at children who were hunting birds. Troops later kidnapped four children, including two brothers.
The two brothers were identified as Ahmad Khader Sa’doun, 16, and Mohammad, 15. One of them was also wounded and was moved to an Israeli hospital.
The Israeli Radio claimed that the army invaded the area after a group of Palestinians approached the border fence in Nahal Oz area, and that the Palestinians intended to plant an explosive charge.
The army admitted to killing one and kidnapping three others. There was no mention of ‘locating’ the claimed explosive.
The army prevented Palestinian medics from approaching the area in an attempt to evacuate the casualties.
Local sources reported that there were no resistance fighters in the area, and that the persons who were reportedly close to the border were fishermen.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57113
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Maria 13 nov 2009
Sami Shihada Abu Khousa, 47.
Palestinian Killed In Israeli Shelling of Central Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that a Palestinian man was killed when the army shelled an area east of Al Boreij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip.
The sources identified the man as Sami Shihada Abu Khousa, 47.
Eyewitnesses reported that clashes between resistance fighters and Israeli soldiers took place in the area as the army tried to invade it. Soldiers fired artillery shells in several directions.
The Israeli army confirmed the report and claimed that the soldiers fired the shells after being attacked by Palestinian fighters; no soldiers were wounded.
In related news, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility for firing an RPG shell at soldiers invaded an area in northern Gaza.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said she was not aware of the incident.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57368 28 apr 2012, 22:40 , Respect -
Maria 16 nov 2009
Samir al-Nadim 25
Israel delays Surgery okay, Gaza patient dies
Medical opinions, appeals from humanitarian organizations, and official urgent requests – none of this helped Samir al-Nadim, a 25-year-old Palestinian heart patient who could still be alive today if he hadn't slipped between the bureaucratic cracks of the various [Israeli] bodies dealing with the movement of patients from the Gaza Strip to Israel or the West Bank.
The Coordination and Liaison Authority in Gaza and the Shin Bet have passed off responsibility for this incident, claiming that treatment of the issue was irreproachable.
About a month ago, the al-Nadim family turned to Israel with a request to allow Samir to undergo heart surgery in Nablus. The family filed the necessary paperwork with the Palestinian liaison authority and with the Doctors for Human Rights group, because of the urgency of the case. The application was received by the Coordination and Liaison Authority.
[Even though the transfer was from one part of Palestinian territory to another, Israel controls this movement.]
The family was then informed by the authority that Israel does not accept applications submitted by human rights organizations, only those filed by the Palestinian liaison authority. Therefore, the request submitted by Doctors for Human Rights was not taken into consideration in Samir's file, which included a report by an Israeli doctor at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer saying that his case was critical and could not be delayed.
Al-Nadim's family's request was granted 23 days after it was submitted. Al-Nadim was brought to the hospital in Nablus, but died a day later. Dr. Yasser Abu-Tzafia told Ynet that al-Nadim arrived at the hospital in very serious condition, so much so that he was not fit to undergo the operation.
"He suffered from a very high temperature, a severe infection in two of his heart valves, heart failure, and kidney failure," said the Palestinian doctor. According to him, the main reason for the deterioration in al-Nadim's health was the lack of proper medical treatment in the Gaza Strip and the fact that he was transferred to Nablus for treatment after a significant delay.
Doctors for Human Rights: Why boycott?
Samir al-Nadim's brother, Ayyad, said that the Gaza hospital did not have the necessary equipment to take care of his brother. "My brother had three children: two girls aged four and two and a one-year-old baby. Now we need to take care of them. True life is in Allah's hands, but the delay played a big part in my brother's death."
The rights group Doctors for Human Rights are demanding an investigation...
In a letter addressed to the head of Gaza's Coordination and Liaison Authority, Col. Moshe Levi, the organization wrote, "This is a tragic incident that could have been prevented if it weren't for the boycott imposed on human rights' groups."
Doctors for Human Rights is currently treating 29 patients in the Gaza Strip whose transfer to Israel or the West Bank is being delayed by Shin Bet and Coordination and Liaison Authority sluggishness. Among those awaiting treatment are five cancer patients and one cardiac patient who are serious condition. Full story
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Maria 16 nov 2009
Walied Madi, 38
Patient Died In Gaza, Death Toll Due To The Siege Reaches 366
A Palestinian patient died on Tuesday after he was prevented by the Israeli military to leave the Gaza Strip for medical care.
Walied Madi, 38 years old, had Tuberculosis. Palestinian doctors were unable to treat him locally because of the siege.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that with Madi death the number of patients that died because of the Israeli siege have reached 366.
Israel have placed a siege on the Gaza Strip since June 2007, leaving the 1.5milion Palestinians living there lacking food, fuel and medical supplies.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57386 28 apr 2012, 22:41 , Respect -
Maria 24 nov 2009
Ahmed Mohammed Abu GhanimaMohammed Sha'aban An-Nawati
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Maria 3 dec 2009
Yasser Radi, 37
Hamas fighter Reported dead in the Gaza Strip
The ruling Hamas movement in the Gaza announced that one of its fighters were killed on Wednesday morning.
The Al Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas identified the fighter as Yasser Radi, 37 years old.
The brigades said Radi was killed during a mission in central Gaza Strip, the group gave no further details.
Earlier in the day, Israeli troops positioned at the northern border line of the Gaza Strip opened fire at a Palestinian ma and wounded him near Beit Lahia. Troops then entered the area and kidnapped him preventing the ambulance to evacuate him, witnesses reported.
The witnesses added that the man, who was not identified, was collecting metal piece to be resold for recycling.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57275 28 apr 2012, 22:41 , Respect -
Maria 8 dec 2009
Israeli Man Shot Dead By Israeli Border Policemen
Israeli sources reported that an Israeli man was shot dead on Monday when Israeli Border Policemen opened fire at him as he tried to cross the border fence into the Gaza Strip. The incident took place near the Erez border terminal.
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the man, in his thirties, ran towards the crossing after parking his car nearby.
Soldier, using security cameras installed on the border fence, spotted the man and ordered him to stop, the army said.
The soldiers then fired a number of warning shots but when he did not stop, they shot him dead as he, according to the army, started climbing the border fence into Gaza.
The army said that the soldiers feared that the man was carrying explosives in an attempt to smuggle them into the Gaza Strip. They still did not know he was Israeli.
Later on, the army issued a statement claiming that the man was mentally ill and that he died of his wounds at an Israeli hospital.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57316
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Maria 12 dec 2009
Sami Shihda Abu Khousa, 48
Israeli troops positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian houses located almost 700 meters away from the border. As a result, Sami Shihda Abu Khousa, 48, was seriously wounded by several gunshots to the thighs.
He was evacuated to the hospital, but medical efforts to save his life failed and he was pronounced dead two hours later.
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Maria 26 dec 2009
Israeli army murders six Palestinians in cold blood
From Khalid Amayreh
In an ominous sign indicating that a fresh cycle of bloodshed may be in the offing in the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces on Saturday murdered in cold blood three Palestinians in the city of Nablus, shuttering a relative calm lasting for several months.
Three more Palestinians youths were killed Saturday morning in the northern Gaza Strip as they were reportedly walking by a security wall.
The Israeli army said the three were suspected of trying to infiltrate the borders between the Gaza Strip and the Israeli territories occupied in 1948.
In Nablus where security coordination between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli army was often described as exemplary, Israeli forces, backed by armored vehicles, killed three Fatah members, including an officer in the Preventive Security Force (PSF) who had been pardoned by the Shin Beth, Israel’s chief domestic security agency.
The three are Adnan Subh, 33, Raed Abdul Jabbar al-Sarkaji, 38, and Ghassan Abu Sharkh, a brother of Nayef Abu Sharkh, the former head of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Nablus who was killed several years ago.
Eyewitnesses said a large number of Israeli military vehicles stormed the city of Nablus, (pop.150,000) shortly before dawn, placing the town under curfew. The troops then surrounded a residential building in the Ras El-Ein neighborhood where Adnan Subh and his family were living.
A former member of Fatah’s armed wing, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Subh was shot dead as he emerged unarmed after the forces ordered him to surrender.
His brother Nidal Subh described the killing as “execution.”
Similarly, eyewitnesses and relatives reported that the invading forces murdered in cold blood Ra’ed Sarkaji in full view of his wife and children. When his wife sought to shield him, soldiers fired at her feet and legs.
The Governor of Nablus, Jibril Bakri, described the Israeli operation as a “full-fledged crime.” He called on “international institutions” to intervene to end the siege clamped down on the Subh family home.
An Israeli army spokesman said the three people assassinated were members of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who had carried out “terrorist acts” against Israelis and Israeli targets.
The three had reportedly been assured by the PA security authorities that they were no longer “wanted” by the Israeli army and that they could resume their normal life.
The manner in which the operation was carried out shows that the PA security forces, estimated at 70,000 troops, are completely neutralized whenever Palestinian population centers are invaded by the Israeli army.
PA officials repeatedly claimed that the main purpose of national security forces was to protect the interests of the Palestinian people.
However, Israeli operations in the heart of Palestinian towns, where thousands of American-trained PA troops are deployed, cause a lot of embarrassment to the PA leadership, especially the western-backed government headed by Salam Fayyad.
There are indications that disenchanted Fatah activists might try to avenge the latest killings as the PA regime stands completely powerless to stop the murder of Palestinians by the Israeli army.
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Six Palestinians Killed in Nablus, Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Saturday six Palestinians in two separate attacks in the northern West Bank City of Nablus, and in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Three Palestinians were executed in Nablus, and three were shot and killed near the ‘border fence’ in northern Gaza.
Palestinian sources in Nablus reported that three resistance fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, were killed and seven residents were wounded when the Israeli army invaded the city shortly after midnight and surrounded several homes in a number of neighborhoods in the Old City.
The sources added that the soldiers broke into a house that belongs to Abu Sharkh family and assassinated Ghassan Abu Sharkh in front of his wife, children and mother. He sustained several rounds of live ammunition in his chest and legs.
It is worth mentioning that his brother, Nayef Abu Sharkh, was assassinated by the Israeli forces several years ago.
The same method was used to assassinate Raed Abdul-Jabbar Al Sarkaji, 38, also in the Old City as the Israeli forces broke into his home and shot him dead while his pregnant wife was wounded in her legs.
Furthermore, soldiers broke invaded Ras Al Ein neighborhood, in the center of Nablus, and broke into the home of Adnan Sbeih, 33, but he was not there.
Later on, the army torched his home and several hours on the soldiers managed to locate Sbeih at a residential building and shot him dead. At least two Palestinians were wounded in ensuing clashes.
The bodies of the assassinated fighters were moved to Rafidia hospital in the city.
Ghassan Hamdan, head of the Palestinian Medical Relief, said that the slain residents were executed in cold blood and in front of their families.
It is worth mentioning that the three fighters were previously “pardoned” by Israel as part of a deal with Fateh leader, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The Al Aqsa Brigades is the armed wing of Fateh.
The Palestinian security forces, “fully controlling Nablus”, did not attempt to intervene or stop the Israeli invasion, local sources reported.
The invasion into the city lasted for several hours.
The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers did not execute the three fighters, and added that the fighters were shot when they refused to surrender. The army also claimed that the three are responsible for death of a settlers who was killed on Thursday. The settler was identified as Rabbi Meir Hai. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians and wounded another Palestinian near the Erez Terminal, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The three were identified as Mahmoud Al Sharatha, Hani Abu Ghazal, and Basheer Abu Dheil. All three were born in 1989 and are from the Bedouin village, in northern Gaza.
Israeli sources reported that the army spotted the three “crawling near the security fence” close to the Erez terminal, and shot them dead before they managed to infiltrate into Israel.
The three apparently bled to death as the Palestinians are not allowed to approach the border area, an issued that obstructed Palestinians medics from reaching them.
Their bodies were not retrieved until the time of this report, while the fourth managed to return to the Palestinians side.
Local sources reported that the four were trying to infiltrate into Israel seeking work due to the extreme poverty in the Gaza Strip besieged by Israel since mid 2006.
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Al-Aqsa splinter group vows response
Nablus – Ma’an – The same faction that claimed responsibility for shooting an Israeli settler on Thursday vowed on Saturday to retaliate for Israel's assassination of three Palestinians in Nablus the same morning.
"The Imad Mughniya Group," proclaiming affiliation to Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, said late Saturday evening that "retribution for the Israeli massacres in Gaza and Nablus will be equal in size to the crime."
"This massacre exposes the true face of the occupation," the group said in a new statement received by Ma'an. "There is no option but resistance."
Israeli forces stormed the Old City of Nablus in the early hours of Saturday morning, raiding several homes and killing three men affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Three youths were also killed in Gaza overnight.
"By this killing in Nablus and Gaza, the Israeli occupation has thrown open the doors of its own inferno," an Al-Aqsa spokesman calling himself Abu Mahmoud said in a prior statement following the escalation.
Sources said two of the men were "killed in cold blood" by soldiers in their homes in the Old City. The two were identified as Raed Sakarji, 38, and Ghassan Abu Sharkh, whose brother Nayif was a former Al-Aqsa leader in Nablus and killed by the Israeli army years ago.
Nablus Deputy Governor Anan Al-Atira confirmed that Anan Subih, 33, was also killed. She said Subih was a former Al-Aqsa fighter who received full amnesty from Israel after he turned in his weapons, signed a form renouncing violence and spending months in Palestinian police protective custody while Israel okayed the deal.
Sakarji and Abu Sarkh were evacuated to the Rafidia Hospital with several bullet wounds each in the chest. Sakarji’s wife was also taken to hospital to be treated for shrapnel injuries to her legs.
The Al-Aqsa spokesman said Israel's actions would see their soldiers "only face fire and blood as bombers operate in Israel day and night. The Israelis will regret what they did because our retaliation will come very soon."
A second statement from another branch of the group, the "Martyr Tamir Al-Khateib Brigades," said, "Our attitude toward Jihad and resistance will not change, and the Israeli crime will not go unpunished."
A statement from the Israeli military said soldiers "entered Nablus in an attempt to locate and arrest the men suspected of involvement in the murder of Meir Avshalom Hai this past Thursday." A spokeswoman also said the three slain "were responsible."
"The Israel Defense Forces will act firmly against those who aspire to harm citizens of the State of Israel and Israeli security forces, and will not rest until those involved in the murderous act are brought to justice," Israeli Major General Avi Mizrachi said in a statement.
In what was being billed as a response to the Thursday incident, Israeli forces imposed a curfew on the Ras Al-Ain neighborhood before dawn, closed off all the exits from the Old City and laid siege to the home of the Sakarji home.
Ghassan Hamdan, director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Committees in Nablus, told Ma’an that three Palestinian homes were besieged in the raid. He confirmed that Sakarji was shot in the head and chest "before the very eyes of his wife." A second man, Abu Sharkh, was removed from his home and shot outside, Hamdan said.
Sakarji's niece, 20-year-old Hind, said "Israeli forces ransacked Raed Sakarji's home and shot him in front of his pregnant wife and two children. When his wife Tahani, 30, tried to defend him, she was hit in the feet with shrapnel." She also noted that her uncle had been released from Israeli jail in January 2009, and that he was on the waiting list for enrollment in the Palestinian Authority security services.
The home of Anan Subih in Ras El'ein was the third targeted location, where troops reportedly opened fire randomly on the building before entering.
According to the Israeli military, "When he was killed, Annan Tzubach [Subih] was armed with a handgun and hiding two M16 assault rifles, an additional handgun, and ammunition." The same statement, however, said that "During an attempt to arrest him tonight [Saturday], Annan was killed after an exchange of fire with the IDF while he was found in a hiding place along with weapons and ammunition."
Eyewitnesses described to Ma'an the siege launched on Ksheikiyya street in the Ras El'ein neighborhood where Anan Subih lived. Subih was an officer in the PA preventive security services in Nablus.
“Dozens of Israeli soldiers ransacked Anan's home at 3am firing gunshots and grenades, causing a fire to break out in the next door warehouse for plastic chairs. The soldiers [entered the building] demanding Anan, and when we told them he was at work with the security forces the soldiers evacuated all nine families who live in the building. We were gathered at the nearby home of the Al-‘Amoudi family," Anan's brother Nidal told Ma'an.
Jibreel Al-Bakri, governor of Nablus, described what happened in Nablus as a "crime in cold blood." He accused the Israeli government of escalating the violence in Palestine in order to avoid its commitment to the peace process.
A spokesperson from the office of the Palestinian president echoed the statement, saying Israel had decided to drag the Palestinian people to violence in order to avoid international pressure for peace.
Witnesses added that Israeli forces did not allow Palestinian fire fighters to access the area and put out the blaze.
http://maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=249598
crying for his dead son
Israeli forces stormed the Old City of Nablus in the early hours of Saturday morning raiding several homes and killing three men affiliated with Fatah's military wing the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Three youth were also killed in Gaza.
Sources said two of the men were "killed in cold blood" by soldiers in their homes in the Old City. The two were identified as 38-year-old Raed Sakarji, and Ghassan Abu Sharkh whose brother Nayif was a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades in Nablus and was killed by the Israeli army several years ago.
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Maria 26 dec 2009
Raed Sarakji, 38
WITNESS: Wife, brothers give accounts of Israeli assassinations
Home of Raed Sarakji, killed Saturday
Now a widow, Tahani Ja’ara is 32 years old and seven months pregnant. “We were sleeping in our bedroom, not bigger than 6 square meters, when Israeli soldiers began yelling ‘get out…get out’. I thought I was dreaming. When I heard the Israeli soldiers and their police dogs outside the room, that was when I realized it was real.”
Tahani said her husband told soldiers he would get out of the house, so they started shooting through the door and the windows. “He fell between my hands bleeding. I started crying ‘they killed him…they killed him. Then soldiers broke the door and got in. He was already dead, but they continued to riddle his body with bullets to make sure he was killed.”
Three months before his death, Sarakji opened a used tools shop in the old city of Nablus. He had just been released from Israeli prison in January 2009 after spending seven years in jail, he was trying to re-start his life.
According to a statement from the Israeli military, Sarkaji was involved with the manufacturing of explosives and the establishment of an explosives-manufacturing laboratory in Nablus.
Ghassan Abu Sharkh, 39
Ghassan’s 16-year-old brother Diyaa Abu Sharkh saw him shot dead Saturday morning. “Everything happened very quickly… when we opened the door and saw the soldiers, two masked collaborators pointed to my brother Ghassan who was walking down the stairs. Before I knew it he was being shot. I couldn’t really make sense of what was going on at all. Then an Israeli officer asked me whether the dead man was Ghassan, and I said yes. ‘Good, then ask everybody to leave the house,’ the officer said.”
“I was stading close to Ghassan when they killed him. They could have detained him very easily. [But now he has] He passed to join my brother Nayif who was killed by Israeli forces a few years ago [2004].”
Ghassan Abu Sharkh was a car electrician and owned a small workshop. He left behind a wife, three sons, and a daughter.
Anan Subih, 33
Farid Subih is 45, his brother Anan, was killed Saturday morning in the Ras Al-Ain neighborhood of Nablus. “At 3am, dozens of Israeli troops surrounded our four-story building. They blew open the the main gate then started shooting randomly and throwing grenades in all directions. Anan was inside, and he asked everybody to leave the building to avoid being hurt.”
He continued, “We headed to the nearby house of the Al-‘Amoudi family. Then soldiers entered the house with police dogs, and they started throwing more grenades, and a fire erupted in the warehouse full of plastic chairs and sponge material.
“My brother was not armed, but we could see soldiers continue to ransack the house. For three hours, we didn’t know what was going on. After the soldiers left, we found Anan dead…bullets tore all his body and bones. They could have detained him, and he died believing he had been granted amnesty by Israeli forces. He left behind a widow, two sons, and five daughters,” added Farid.
According to the Israeli military, Annan was killed after an exchange of fire and “found in a hiding place along with weapons and ammunition.”
Anan was an activist within Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, he was completely pardoned in an amnesty deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=249765
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Maria 26 dec 2009
Six Palestinians Killed in Nablus, Gaza
Israeli soldiers shot and killed on Saturday six Palestinians in two separate attacks in the northern West Bank City of Nablus, and in Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Three Palestinians were executed in Nablus, and three were shot and killed near the ‘border fence’ in northern Gaza.
Palestinian sources in Nablus reported that three resistance fighters of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, were killed and seven residents were wounded when the Israeli army invaded the city shortly after midnight and surrounded several homes in a number of neighborhoods in the Old City.
The sources added that the soldiers broke into a house that belongs to Abu Sharkh family and assassinated Ghassan Abu Sharkh in front of his wife, children and mother. He sustained several rounds of live ammunition in his chest and legs.
It is worth mentioning that his brother, Nayef Abu Sharkh, was assassinated by the Israeli forces several years ago.
The same method was used to assassinate Raed Abdul-Jabbar Al Sarkaji, 38, also in the Old City as the Israeli forces broke into his home and shot him dead while his pregnant wife was wounded in her legs.
Furthermore, soldiers broke invaded Ras Al Ein neighborhood, in the center of Nablus, and broke into the home of Adnan Sbeih, 33, but he was not there.
Later on, the army torched his home and several hours on the soldiers managed to locate Sbeih at a residential building and shot him dead. At least two Palestinians were wounded in ensuing clashes.
The bodies of the assassinated fighters were moved to Rafidia hospital in the city.
Ghassan Hamdan, head of the Palestinian Medical Relief, said that the slain residents were executed in cold blood and in front of their families.
It is worth mentioning that the three fighters were previously “pardoned” by Israel as part of a deal with Fateh leader, Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The Al Aqsa Brigades is the armed wing of Fateh.
The Palestinian security forces, “fully controlling Nablus”, did not attempt to intervene or stop the Israeli invasion, local sources reported.
The invasion into the city lasted for several hours.
The Israeli army claimed that the soldiers did not execute the three fighters, and added that the fighters were shot when they refused to surrender. The army also claimed that the three are responsible for death of a settlers who was killed on Thursday. The settler was identified as Rabbi Meir Hai. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians and wounded another Palestinian near the Erez Terminal, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The three were identified as Mahmoud Al Sharatha, Hani Abu Ghazal, and Basheer Abu Dheil. All three were born in 1989 and are from the Bedouin village, in northern Gaza.
Israeli sources reported that the army spotted the three “crawling near the security fence” close to the Erez terminal, and shot them dead before they managed to infiltrate into Israel.
The three apparently bled to death as the Palestinians are not allowed to approach the border area, an issued that obstructed Palestinians medics from reaching them. Their bodies were not retrieved until the time of this report, while the fourth managed to return to the Palestinians side.
Local sources reported that the four were trying to infiltrate into Israel seeking work due to the extreme poverty in the Gaza Strip besieged by Israel since mid 2006.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57473 28 apr 2012, 22:42 , Respect -
Maria 26 dec 2009
Mahmoud Al Sharatha 18
Hani Abu Ghazal 20
Basheer Abu Dheil 20
residents of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed near the checkpoint in the area of Erez (Industrial Zone), North Gaza district. Did not participate in hostilities. Killed while trying to sneak into Israel to look for work.
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Maria 26 dec 2009
Ghassan Abu Sharkh, 39
Anan Subih, 33
Nader 'Abd al-Jabar Muhammad a-Sarkaji 40
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Maria 29 dec 2009
Mohamed Jassier, 48
Mohammed: A patient dies in the Gaza Strip; death toll due to the siege reaches 367
A Palestinian patient was reported dead on Tuesday after he was unable to leave the besieged Gaza Strip for medical care.
48 years old Mohamed Jassier had hart condition, he needed life saving medical care out side the Gaza Strip but the Israeli army never gave him the permission to leave, medical sources reported.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip said that with Jassier dearth, the total number of patients who died because of the Israeli siege has reached 367.\
Israeli started its siege of the Gaza Strip in June of 2007 rendering Gaza hospitals unable to provide basic health care for the 1.5 million Palestinians living there.
http://www.imemc.org/article/57498
27 dec 2009
Ahmed Mohammed Qurainawi