- 15 jan 2008
Rami Talal Farhat, 32
Taleb Al Mughani, 21 Mahmoud Atta Abu Laban 19
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Ali Ayman FayedAahed Saadallah Ashour 27
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Musab al-Salim18Mohamed Magdy Haggai
Muhamad Abu Laban Badwan Auda
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As'ad Eissa Radwan Tafesh, 66
Sa'id Mustafa al-Sammouni, 50.Khamees Abu Sawawen 28
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Marwan Sameer Ouda, 22
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Saleem A. Al MadallalMahmoud Sabri 20
Army ends its offensive in eastern Gaza leaving 17 dead and 45 injured
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weekly report 26 Palestinians were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and 1 Palestinian was killed in the West Bank.
8 of the victims were civilians, including 2 brothers, a child and an elderly man.
17 of the victims were killed during an Israeli incursion into the east of Gaza City.
7 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF.
51 Palestinians, including 3 elderly men, a woman and 2 brothers, were wounded by the IOF gunfire.
IOF conducted 22 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 3 into the Gaza Strip.
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Mohammad Ahmad el-Safadi 28
Wa'al Abd el-Kareem Ahel 31
Two dead, number of injured in new Israeli strike on car in central Gaza City
Two Palestinians were killed and a number of others were injured in a second Israeli airstrike on a car in central Gaza City on Wednesday evening, bringing the total number of those killed in two Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday to five.
Israeli planes launched a missile at the Subaru as it was being driven along Salah Ad-Din Street in the city.
The director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry, Muawiya Hassanain, named those killed as Mohammed As-Safadi and Wael Ahl, both members of the An-Nasser Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. He described the condition of some of the wounded as moderately serious.
Earlier on Wednesday, three Palestinians, including a fourteen-year-old boy, were killed and five others injured, two of them seriously, when Israeli forces targeted a car in central Gaza City on Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's reporter that an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a white car, destroying it completely.
Ma'an's reporter said the three victims are members of the same family. Palestinian medical sources named the victims as thirty-six-year-old 'Aamir Al-Yaziji, his twenty-four-year-old brother Muhammad and 'Aamir's fourteen-year-old son Amir.
Dr Hassanain said that two of the five people injured are in a serious condition.
The airstrike was a failed assassination attempt on the Brigades' missile command unit, according to the military spokesman of the An-Nasser Brigades.
He said that the missile command unit was targeted by Israeli aircraft, while they were undertaking a jihad mission in the Gaza Strip but that "almighty God's protection prevents them from being killed," when the Israeli missile hit the wrong target.
He threatened that the brigades would respond to the attack, calling on all brigades and resistance groups to attack Israeli forces in all Palestinian areas.
The latest attacks takes the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip to 24 in the past two days.
IOF extra-judicially executed 2 Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip 23 apr 2012, 13:38 , Respect -
Walid Anis Yusef 'Obeidi 45
Senior Islamic Jihad leader killed by Israeli forces near Jenin
Israeli forces killed a senior Al-Quds Brigades leader on Wednesday in clashes near the West Bank city of Jenin.
Walid Al-'Ubaidy, 40
was killed and four of his fellow combatants were seized, after two of them were injured in the clashes in the northern West Bank town of Qabatia south of Jenin.
Ma'an's reporter said that more than 60 Israeli military vehicles, bulldozers and helicopters raided the town and and besiged Al-'Ubaidy and a group nof fighters in a house in the Damun mountain area. Fierce clashes erupted for a few hours before he was killed and the others were arrested.
The owner of the house, Mahmoud Kameel, said that Israeli forces surrounded the house and called used a loudspeaker to call on 'Ubaidy to surrender. But he refused and fired at the Israeli troops from inside the house, before going outside and engaging them in hand to hand combat.
Kameel named the two activists who were wounded as Muhammad Kameel and Ibrahim Abu Ar-Rub, both in their twenties. He said they were hit in the legs before they were arrested.
Al-'Ubaidy is the top leader of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, in the West Bank. The Israelis have been pursuing him for seven years, accusing him of being responsible for several bombing operations inside Israel.
The military wing of the Islamic Jihad, Al-Quds Brigades threatened a strong response to 'Ubaidy's assassination.
Immediately after Al-'Ubaydi's death, fierce clashes erupted between Al-Quds Brigades fighters and Israeli troops. No casualties were reported.
In July 2006, Israeli forces arrested Al-'Ubaidy's wife, Abeer Mansour, in an attempt to exert pressure on him to surrender.
In August 2006, he was moderately wounded when an Israeli helicopter launched two missiles at a house where he was stationed along with the general commander of the Al-Quds Brigades Husam Jaradat in Jenin. Both survived but Jaradat was later assassinated.
The Israeli authorities accuse Al-'Ubaidy of being behind the bombing in Neve Shan in Tel Aviv on 17 November 2006, which left 11 Israelis dead and dozens injured. They also accuse him of sending another Palestinian to blow himself up in an Israeli city on 21 March 2006, but Israeli intelligence were able to prevent the attack.
In the same regard, Israeli forces apprehended 25 Palestinians on Tuesday night, claiming that they were "wanted."
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Amir Al-Yaziji, 14
Muhammad Al-Yaziji, 24
'Aamir Al-Yaziji, 36
3 Palestinian civilians (a man, his child and his brother) were killed when an IOF aircraft fired a missile at their car.
Amir Muhammad Hashem Muhammad al-Yazji, 15
Amer Al Yazigi
Amer Mohamed
3 Palestinian civilians killed by Israeli missile strike
Amir killed, along with his older brother and uncle, by an IDF missile which struck their car on al-Nafaq Street in the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City
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Bloody Tuesday makes peace a far-fetched dream
By Walid M. Awad
The centrality of the Palestinian question to world peace, seems to make it imperative for political pundits almost everywhere to dive in and give their opinion. Unfortunately, most of the opinions and comments regarding the possibility of arriving at a peaceful solution to the Palestinian Israel conflict in 2008 are pessimistic. One of the reasons behind the pessimism, no doubt, is the long bloody history of the conflict, and the failure so far of all previously made initiative to solve it.
Tuesday was one of those heavy days that illustrates why the peace process is not moving forward. On this day, Israel launched a devastating attack on Gaza, which left at least 19 Palestinians dead and more than fifty injured. The population of Gaza, already under a crippling siege, is also subject to the continuous fear of Israeli tanks and airplanes mercilessly bombarding their towns and villages. The severity of the Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza reverberates through the spine of every Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim all over the world. Also on this day, Tuesday, Israel began constructing a new Jewish settlement in Arab East Jerusalem in the neighborhood of Ras El-Amoud in Silwan. Earlier this month, tenders to construct more Jewish settlements and approval plans for others were announced by the Israeli government.
These are two examples of Israel's aggressive and criminal behavior in the occupied Palestinian territory. They clearly show Israel's disrespect for human dignity, its continuing violations of Palestinian rights, its snub and rejection of United Nations resolutions, and its abuse of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The collective Israeli lot is deliberately and obscurely confusing, with contradictory political statements coming from each and every direction of Israel's political spectrum. Ministers in the Olmert government issue statements opposed to the declared policies of their prime minister. For example, Israel's Housing Minister does not obey the orders / directives of his boss, and so-called junior staff at the Housing Ministry issue settlement construction tenders for "Har Homa" without referring to their respective minister. Ministers in the ruling Kadima party with leadership ambitions to succeed or replace Olmert, are not deterred from stating positions contrary to those of the prime minister if they feel their chances for assuming leadership will improve.
The Israeli military, which historically had a free hand on issues concerning Israel's security, and in particular safeguarding and protecting Jewish settlers and settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory, in addition to its role in quashing Palestinian resistance peaceful or otherwise, is totally a different kettle of fish, and cannot be surpassed.
Not even one checkpoint of the more than 573 Israeli checkpoints choking the Palestinian territory economically, socially, and in every other sense of the word can be moved without the consent of the Israeli military. The Israeli political echelon appears to have a very limited say on this matter. Israel's prime minister, who keeps making statements, the last of which was on how disgraceful the so-called outpost settlements are, did not honor his word given to the Americans, promising them to dismantle these outposts.
The religious parties, particularly the Shas party, who is a member of the coalition government, keeps threatening to bolt the government if Jerusalem is placed on the negotiating table. The almost all Russian "Israeli Beitinu" party with Avigdor Lieberman (ex night club bouncer-promoted to General Manager of the Prime Minister's office under Netanyahu) at its head, fares no better, and is anticipated to leave Olmert's government soon.
For their part, the right wing Israeli media over the last few months never stopped attacking Ehud Olmert for listening to President Bush and agreeing to talk with President Mahmoud Abbas. Even President Bush was not spared harsh criticism for what they term his change of policy on "Jihadist terrorism."
Is it any wonder therefore that a majority of people in our region and around the world are not optimistic about a successful conclusion for the current Palestinian Israeli peace talks. Under the circumstances, one question remains: Can a so-called lame duck president at the White House deliver peace and realize his two state vision? The answer is, if the American President has the will and determination, he can do it. The impediment to peace-making is the Israeli occupation, the settlements and the 8 meter high concrete apartheid wall Israel is building in the occupied Palestinian territory. Violence and resistance are a byproduct.
End the occupation, remove settlers from the Palestinians' midst, dismantle the wall, and delineate borders, then peace will be achieved.
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Gazan family to sue Israel over man's death from denial of medical treatment ( Mustafa Al-Jamal 53) 23 apr 2012, 13:38 , Respect -
Mansour Saleh El-Rahel 17
Mohammad Saleh El-Rahel 22
Mariam Mohammad Ahmad El-Rahel 52
Fresh Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya in Northern Gaza strip leaves three killed from the same family
3 dead in new Israeli airstrike on car in Beit Lahiya
Three people were killed, including a woman and her son and several others were injured in a fresh Israeli raid, targeting a civilian car in Beit Lahiyah, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Thursday.
Muawiya Hassanein, director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry told Ma'an that three dead bodies were taken to the Kamal Udwan Hospital, along with four people who are seriously injured.
Medical sources told Ma'an that the car was carrying members of the Islamic Jihad movement, killing two of them. The blast also hit a horse-drawn carriage, traveling behind the car, killing a woman named Maryam Rahil and seriously injuring her ten-year-old son, Mansour.
The latest Israeli strike came just hours after Israeli helicopters assassinated a leader fromthe military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, and his wife by shelling his car as he was traveling near Sheikh Zayid City in the northern Gaza Strip.
The latest killings bring the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 28 in the past three days.
The offensive came as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared Israel was "at war" with Palestinian resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip, who bombard Israeli towns bordering the coastal area with projectiles.
"A war is going on in the south, every day, every night. We cannot and will not tolerate this increasing fire at Israeli citizens ... so we will continue to operate, with wisdom and daring, with the maximum precision that will enable us to hit those who want to attack us," Olmert said in a speech.
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Mahmoud Jamal Qurum 22Shadi Fayez Akotaivan
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Ra'd Abu Al-Ful 43
Amina Abu Al-Ful, 40
Popular Resistance Committees leader, wife killed as Israeli helicopters target car in northern Gaza Strip
Israeli helicopters assassinated a leader in the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, and his wife by shelling his car as he was traveling near Sheikh Zayid City in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon.
Palestinian medics and sources within the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades named the victims as forty-three-year-old Ra'd Abu Al-Ful and his forty-year-old wife Amina Abu Al-Ful.
Muawiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that the bodies of the victims were torn to pieces. They were taken to Kamal Udwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses said several other people were injured in the raid.
Today's killings bring the total number of people killed in the Gaza Strip to 25 in the past two days. On Tuesday Israeli tank fire killed Husam Zahhar, the son of one of Hamas' senior leaders, Mahmoud Zahhar, a former Palestinian Foreign Minister.
A Palestinian and his wife killed in a new Israeli air strike on Gaza - 17 jan 2008
Fatheya Yusef El-Hassoumi 35
Ziad Khader Jamil Abu Taqeyyah 21
A Palestinian died from a previous IOF injury.
Islamic Jihad calls for ending negotiation with Israel, resisting the ongoing Israeli assaults
Arab Israeli MP: Israel is conducting a vicious war on Gaza, and Lieberman is racist.
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Maria 17 jan 2008
Mohammad aL-Safadi
Wael Ahel
3 dead in new Israeli airstrike on car in Beit Lahiya
A fresh Israeli air strike on central Gaza leaves two Palestinians dead
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Maria 18 jan 2008
Mahmoud Ahmed Al Banna 20Ashraf Al Ashei
Funerals of 7 victims of Israeli airstrikes held in Gaza
One Palestinian killed, two injured in an Israeli air strike on Gaza
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Maria 18 jan 2008
Mahmoud Ramadan, 17
Ismail Radwan, 22
Two dead, two injured in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip
Two Palestinians were killed and two others injured on Friday morning in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip.
Muawiyya Hassanain, director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Ministry of Health identified on of the dead as
twenty-two-year-old Ismail Radwan.
Seventeen-year-old Mahmoud Ramadan
was seriously wounded in the attack and died later in hospital, according to Hassanain.
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Maria 18 jan 2008
Haniya Abd Al-Jawad, 52
Israeli aircraft bomb interior ministry of de facto government in Gaza; one woman dead, 46 injured
A woman was killed and 46 people were injured, three of them seriously, in an Israeli airstrike on the interior ministry of the de facto government in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Al-Hawa, on Friday afternoon.
The building was completely destroyed and a missile hit a wedding party in front of the ministry, resulting in the injury of dozens of people, including women and children.
According to Muawiya Hassanein, the director of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry, fifty-two-year-old Haniya Abd Al-Jawad was killed. 32 of the injured were taken to Ash-Shifaa' Hospital in Gaza City, three of them in a critical condition. 14 others were taken to Al-Quds Hospital.
The de facto government's interior ministry has been targeted twice in the past several months by the Israeli airforce.
Meanwhile Israeli warplanes also bombed the marine headquarters of the security services, west of Dir Al-Balah. No one is reported injured.
During a meeting between Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Army Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi at the Israeli army headquarters in Gaza, it was decided to wait until the spring before launching a large-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli daily newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday.
However, the newspaper added that Barak issued instructions during the meeting to increase assassination operations. "We must continue to increase assassination operations," he was quoted as saying.
It has been the bloodiest week in recent months in the Gaza Strip, with 36 people killed and scores injured in Israeli military operations in the past four days.
IOF launched an air strike against a governmental building in Gaza City. The building was destroyed. A woman in a nearby wedding party was killed by the blast, and 46 civilians, including 19 children and 3 women were injured.
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Maria 23 apr 2012, 13:43 , Respect -
Maria 18 jan 2008
Muhammad Al-Barsh 27
Two dead, two injured in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza Strip
One woman killed and forty injured in an Israeli air strike on Gaza city
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Maria 18 jan 2008
Ahmad Muhammad Ibrahim Sanaqrah 25
Al-Aqsa Brigades leader killed in clashes with Israeli forces;
A leader from the military wing of Fatah, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, was killed during several hours of clashes with Israeli Special Forces in the Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus on Friday.
Israeli Special Forces stormed Balata refugee camp east of Nablus at dawn, and surrounded a house where four brigades members were holed up. Armed clashes ensued and Al-Aqsa leader Ahmed Sanakra was killed. His three fellow combatants, Yousef Hanoun, Mohamed Hweta and Mahmoud Shtawi, were arrested.
The Israeli military had made several attempts to assassinate twenty-five-year-old Ahmed Sanakra in recent years.
Medical sources reported that three-year-old Yazan Qar'an was also shot and wounded during the large scale invasion, carried out by more than 50 military vehicles that surrounded the camp from all its sides.
The Israeli forces raided several houses and imposed a curfew in the camp before withdrawing, leaving Sanakra dead, and several Palestinian citizens injured.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denied the report published in the Jerusalem-based daily newspaper Al-Quds on Friday that he threatened to resign and end negotiations with Israel in protest at the continued Israeli aggression. He told Ma'an the report was "simply untrue."
The Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee commented that it is evident from the escalation of Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip that the Israeli government intensd to expand the circle of violence against the Palestinian people.
IOF killed a Palestinian
and wounded 2 others, including a child, in Balata refugee camp, east of Nablus.
Israeli military kills a senior leader of al Aqsa brigades in Nablus
Funerals of 7 victims of Israeli airstrikes held in Gaza
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Maria 19 jan 2008
Shadi Iqteefan 21 (Shadi Qteifan)
Ashraf Al- Aushe
Shadi died of wounds he sustained two days ago east of Gaza City
Two Hamas fighters killed in Gaza
Two Palestinian activists affiliated to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades were killed and three others injured in an Israeli air raid on a group of fighters who attempted to stop the infiltration of an Israeli force into Izbat Abed Rabbo in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday morning.
Muawiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry named the victims as Eyhab Al-Banna and Ali Jum'a. He added that three wounded were taken to hospital.
In the same regard, another Al-Qassam activist twenty-one-year-old Shadi Qteifan has died of wounds he sustained two days ago east of Gaza City.
Hassanain said that the Israeli forces fired at ambulances as they tried to evacuate injured people, preventing ambulance crews from reaching the injured.
Separately, a group of Palestinian activists survived an assassination attempt on Saturday morning, as Israeli warplanes targeted a car in the area of Sanafur east of Gaza City, completely destroying the car.
Early on Saturday, more than 40 Israeli military tanks entered Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip from the east, destroying Palestinian homes.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes have launched intermittent airstrikes on open areas in different parts of the Gaza Strip.
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Maria 19 jan 2008
US State Department: Israeli military operations constitute legal self-defence
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Maria 19 jan 2008
Mahmoud Al-Banna
Eyhab Al-Banna 30Ali Gomaa Ahmed Gomaa 25 (Ali Jum'a)
Israeli jet fighters attack northern Gaza killing two, death toll stands at 37 this week
Ali Jom'a and Ihab Al Bana, both in their 20's 23 apr 2012, 13:44 , Respect -
Maria 20 jan 2008
Mahmoud Nahid Hussein, 15
of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, died of cancer after Israel denied him permission to leave the Gaza Strip for medical treatment.
Cancer patient becomes 72nd victim of Israeli siege in Gaza
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Maria 20 jan 2008
Ibrahim Saleh Hassan al-Ghuti 23
IOF killed a Palestinian
during an incursion into Thinnaba suburb, east of Tulkarm, and wounded a civilian in al-Shyoukh village, northeast of Hebron.