- 20 mei 2007
Ibrahim Al Hayya, 23Bakri Al Hayya, 26Abdul-Hamid Al Hayya, 50
21 apr 2012, 11:40 , Respect -
Nimir Ismail Al Hayya, 60
Emad Ashour 35
Israeli warplanes kill three Palestinians in Gaza, shell parts of Khan Younis
Israeli warplanes attacked a car in Gaza city, killing three Palestinians and opened heavy fire on Palestinian-owned houses in eastern Khan Younis city.
Palestinian medical sources identified Mohiye Alserhi,23, Emad Ashour, 35 and Jamal Manna’,52, as dead after their bodies arrived completely burnt at the Alshifa hospital in Gaza.
In the meantime, the Israeli warplanes also hit three metal workshops early on Sunday morning in the Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza and near the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
In the Khan Younis city, south of Gaza, the Israeli planes shelled several Palestinian security posts, witnesses said.
Since last Thursday, the Israeli army has been keeping up attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing so far about 15 Palestinians including children and women and wounding scores others.
During a meeting of his cabinet Sunday morning, Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, confirmed Israel would step up military attacks on the Gaza Strip, as long as the Palestinian homemade shells fire continue.
As of Sunday morning, at least five homemade shells were reported to have been landed inside Israeli borders.
Israeli defense minister, Amir Perets, said his army has declared a high state of alert in a seven-kilometer depth in areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
Israel says its recent attacks are intended at defending self, in response to Palestinian homemade shells fire onto nearby Israeli towns.
Human rights groups called the Israeli actions in Gaza ‘war crimes’, urging the Israeli government to stop these actions immediately.
In April, a six-month-old ceasefire between the Palestinians and Israel was endangered after Israeli army killed 9 Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Palestinian resistance groups fired a barrage of homemade shells in retaliation, prompting Israeli army beef up around Gaza.
21 apr 2012, 11:41 , Respect -
Sameh Farawna, 27
Jamal Manna’ 52
21 apr 2012, 11:43 , Respect -
Hamada Mahmoud Jamal Al-Fayyoumi 15 XX
Hamada Ahmad Al Fayyoumi 20
One reisdent killed, at least five injured in an Israeli air strike in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Sunday night that one resident was killed and at least five others were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a brick factory east of Gaza City.
Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that resident Hamada Ahmad Al Fayyoumi, 20, was killed after the army shelled a brick factory belonging to resident Jamal Karim, adding that the body of Al Fayyoumi was severely mutilated in the attack.
The factory, located at Al Sanaqoue Junction, was totally destroyed by the shelling, injuring at least five people.
The injured residents were transferred to the Dar Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. One currently lies in a critical condition.
Palestinian security sources reported that the Israeli army carried out seven air strikes in Gaza and Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday night and the early hours of Monday morning.
In less than 12 hours, the attacks left at least nine residents dead and dozens more wounded.
The shelling targeted a number of districts in Gaza City, including the Al Nusserital refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Beit Lahia, and several other areas.
An Israeli tank shell kills one Palestinian and injures five others in northern Gaza
21 apr 2012, 11:48 , Respect -
Majed Albatsh
Aziz AlhelouIbrahim Salman Maniya
21 apr 2012, 11:48 , Respect -
Mohammad Abu Ne’maMunir Muhammad Mustafa 28
Mahmoud Awad
Israeli air strike on northern Gaza kills four Palestinians
An Israeli air strike on northern Gaza has hit a car, killing four Palestinians believed to be members of the Islamic Jihad.
Medical sources in Gaza identified the dead as Majed Albatsh, Aziz Alhelou, Mohammad Abu Ne’ma, and Mahmoud Awad.’
Footage screened on TV stations showed shattered bodies on the street, a scene that has become common in Gaza of late.
Of today’s attack, witnesses stated that a white-colored Subaru car was driving on the Salah Eldin road in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahya, when an Israeli warplane fired missiles on it.
The attack forms part of Israel’s non-stop barrage against targets in the Gaza Strip, a policy informed by the administration’s decision to resume targeted killings against members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Israel claims its operations in Gaza are in response to missile attacks against Israeli towns and settlements adjacent to the Strip.
Yesterday, in an attempt on the life of the senior Hamas official Khalil Alhayya, Israeli warplanes attacked a family gathering hall in Gaza city, killing seven members of the Alhayya family and one other person. The targeted individual was not at home at the time.
Israel later alleged that the air strike targeted a group of militants and not the house itself.
Since last Thursday, approximately 35 Palestinian men, women and children have been killed and more than 90 others wounded in a series of air strikes in different parts of Gaza region.
Human rights groups have denounced the attacks, branding them illegal under international law and calling on the Israeli government to halt the operations with immediate effect.
21 apr 2012, 11:49 , Respect -
Samah Loulahi
Ahmad Loulahi
More civilian deaths in Gaza
In an isolated barely field, located just few hundred meters away from the Israel-Gaza border line in eastern Rafah city, a heap of barely lies in the middle of the field. The field is now abandoned -- why? Not because there are no farmers in the area, but rather because the Loulahi family, who had been harvesting barely, were hit by Israeli missiles.
the Loulahi family
Samah, the daughter, was killed, and Ahmad, the son, killed as well. The father Sulieman was wounded, while A'isha, 19, is being treated at the nearby European Hospital after sustaining shrapnel wounds to her leg.
With her pale and yellow face, while surrounded by relatives and friends, the simple Rafah farmer spoke out with a sadness and bitterness which she would have never felt unless the Israeli missiles hadn't killed her "soul."
Despite her pain, A'isha spoke out: "It was 6:30 pm. We were harvesting the barely near the Sufa crossing, the sun was setting, while myself, my father and my brothers and sisters were all bending down in our field.
"My father asked us to leave our brother Mohammad in the car. We left the field, then the Zannana [unmanned drone plane] fired a missile that hit us directly," Aisha says.
"My father rushed to us and called for the ambulance, then another missile was fired. I kept dragging my body until I arrived at our house and asked help from the neighbors, then a third missile was hit. By then, I heard people saying, 'the car was went off' and I learned that my sister Samah and my brother Ahmad were killed, while my father was injured," A'isha recalls.
"There were no gunmen near us, it's our field, we come here everyday to harvest the barely. Why did they hit us? What is our fault?" A'isha wonders, while sighing bitterly at the loss of her family.
A'isha's family is not to the first and, unfortunately, probably not the last civilian causality as a result of the current Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. Just upon writing this piece, an Israeli tank fire killed three Palestinian shepherds while they were tending to their livestock in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun.
On Thursday, Israeli air forces involving F-16 jetfighters, Apache helicopters and unmanned drones as well as artillery fire, have been hitting several targets across the Gaza Strip, under what Israel termed to be a response to the Palestinian homemade shells being fired by Palestinian resistance groups into nearby Israeli towns.
The attacks have so far killed 36 Palestinians and wounded scores of others, including bystanders, and caused severe damages to civilian infrastructure.
The Palestinian Authority's information minister condemned the Israeli raids on Gaza, calling them "war crimes" and stated that Israel should talk peace instead of stepping up aggressive actions against the Palestinians.
"War crime" is a description that was not only wielded by the Palestinian Authority, but also by the Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem, which sent an urgent letter to the Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz urging him to stop what the group called "a form of collective punishment."
The group considered these attacks as an act of revenge that would not stop the homemade Qassam shells being fired at Israeli targets.
Indeed, it appears the offensive won't prevent the firing of homemade shells, or at least that's what was insisted by Abu Adnan, member of the political leadership of the Popular Resistance Committees in the Gaza Strip.
Abu Adnan believes that the Palestinian resistance is determined to keep up resisting the occupation until it wins the battle the way the Lebanese resistance did in southern Lebanon last summer.
"Israeli politics seems to be locked down in extreme darkness as Israel has so far rejected all peace offers including the Palestinian prisoner swap deal, the Palestinian willingness for direct peace talks with Israel and most recently, the Arab states' peace initiative," says Abu Adnan.
"Israel also has yielded no effort to further strangulate the Palestinian people, by blocking movement, closing border crossings, attacking the West Bank and shunning all peace proposals. Amid such Israeli arrogance, what do you expect from the Palestinian people? To keep their hands cuffed?" Abu Adnan wonders aloud.
Chief of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, speaking at the Amman World Economic Forum on Saturday, blamed Israel for the deteriorated situation in the Gaza Strip, saying that Israel's policy of starving the Palestinian people, leading to an unemployment rate of 70 percent, has largely contributed to the current conditions.
Moussa rejected the latest offer by Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert to open direct talks between Israel and 22 Arab states, saying that Israel should first halt settlement activity in the West Bank and resume direct talks with the Palestinians and consider the Arab peace proposal, which he believes opens up a genuine chance for a lasting peace.
The Israeli government rejected in late March an Arab peace proposal that calls for full Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands Israel occupied in 1967 and Israeli recognition of the Palestinian people's right to return, in exchange for normal Arab-Israeli ties.
Coincidently, in recent days, the Israeli army had killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, endangering a six-month old ceasefire with the Palestinians, which halted the firing of homemade shells and put an end to last summer's deadly Israeli offensive on Gaza that killed more than 450 Palestinian men, women and children and destroyed much infrastructure.
In 2002, the year in which the Arabs first launched their peace initiative, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attacked the West Bank completely within his military offensive "Defensive Shield," intended to stamp out the Palestinian resistance.
Sharon then said "the initiative is not worthy of the ink on its paper." It seems that his successor Ehud Olmert has also adopted the same stance, by further striking the Palestinians with last year's "Summer Rains" offensive and now, apparently, with new rains this spring.
But wait, one more civilian causality has just fallen in northern Gaza. A 15-year-old this time, but who knows who is next?
21 apr 2012, 11:50 , Respect -
Mohammed Ahmed Mansour 21
Weekly report: 32 Palestinians were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip.
17 of the victims are civilians, including 7 children.
102 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 20 children, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
97 of these Palestinians, including 18 children and 10 women, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
IOF have shelled various areas in the Gaza Strip.
IOF launched 46 missiles at civilian and paramilitary targets.
10 civilian facilities and one house were destroyed.
IOF conducted 45 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank and wide scale incursions into the northern Gaza Strip.
21 apr 2012, 12:44 , Respect -
no name
Medical sources: Palestinian citizen has died from wounds sustained from Israeli shelling in Gaza
21 apr 2012, 17:20 , Respect -
Sa'id Nadi Saleh al-'Attar 28
Farmer, no name
Israeli army kills a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza
Israeli army killed Thursday morning a Palestinian farmer in northern Gaza, confirmed medics.
Officials at the Kamal Edwan hospital in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, said that a gunshot has been fired at a Palestinian farmer by Israeli army boats, just 400 meters away from the security fence that separates Gaza from Israel.
Today’s incident is a part of ongoing Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, in which the Israeli army has killed 36 Palestinians including seven children, wounded more than 120 others and caused great damage to many properties.
On yesterday night, the Israeli warplanes struck a money exchange shop, a storehouse and a car.
The air strike on the car injured three bystanders, while the car’s passengers managed to escape.
Israel claims that its attacks on Gaza are meant to stop firing by Palestinian resistance groups, involving Hamas, of homemade shells into nearby Israeli towns, a pretext that Israel has been using to intervene militarily in the coastal region since 2002.
Israel has recently rebuffed a Palestinian Authority’s truce offer, aimed at restoring a six-month-old ceasefire. Palestinian factions told PA’s President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel should include the West Bank in any ceasefire before they stop rocket fire.
Sa'id resident of Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district, killed in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza district. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. A fisherman. Killed on his way home. 21 apr 2012, 17:20 , Respect -
Ra’ed Ghattas “Abu Al Waleed Adnan Sbeita
Two Hamas resistance fighters killed in an Israeli air strike in eastern Gaza
Two Hamas resistance fighters of the Alqassam brigades, have been reportedly killed and nine others, mainly bystanders, wounded in a new Israeli strike on eastern Gaza, medical sources said.
Witnesses said that an Israeli warplane fired a missile on a Volkswagens car, while traveling in eastern Gaza.
The two were identified as Ra’ed Ghattas “Abu Al Waleed”, and Adnan Sbeita, both are members of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hams. At least four other residents were injured in the attack.
Earlier in the day, another Israeli air strike pounded an outpost belonging to the interior ministry’s executive force to the south of Gaza city, wounding three Palestinians ate least, witnesses and medics said.
The Israeli aerial offensive on Gaza has started last week, targeting positions of the executive force, in what Israel says ‘a response to homemade shells’, Palestinian resistance groups have fired over the past week
Other targets such as shops and stores have been hit during these attacks, the latest were food stores and money exchange shops. The executive force has been formed by former Palestinian interior minister of Hamas, Said Siyam.
The force has never claimed responsibility for any attacks against Israel. Palestinian factions had offered a cease of the homemade shells, provided that Israel stops its attacks on Gaza and the West Bank, so that a ceasefire can be reached between the two sides.
One week of Israeli strikes on Gaza has yet claimed the lives of more than 40 Palestinians including 7 children and wounded more than 130 others. Homemade shells have caused the death of one Israeli woman and wounded about 17 others, mostly slight injuries in nearby Israeli towns.
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Mohammad Aldiry Adel Sifi Musleh 37
A series of Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill five people, injure 25 others
Frequent Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed on Saturday five Palestinians and injured 25 others, medics reported.
Local sources confirmed that five Palestinians, of whom are Mohammad Aldiry and Ali Alnashar, members of the interior ministry’s executive force, have been killed and 25 others wounded.
Saturday’s death toll was the latest out of an Israeli air strike on an outpost of the executive force in the Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza city, the sources added.
Israeli jetfighters began today sporadic air strikes on Gaza, at least two of which hit the executive force’s post as well as another target in the densely-populated refugee camp of Alshati in western Gaza city.
Two other raids struck posts of the executive force in the southern Gaza Strip cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.
Israeli aerial offensive on Gaza has been non-stopping since the last week, killing about 45 Palestinians including seven children and the remaining were members of the executive force and the Al-qassam brigades of Hamas.
On yesterday night, the Israeli warplanes fired missiles near the house of Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, after Israel had threatened to assassinate him.
PM Haniya considered the Israeli strikes as an indication of Israel’s ‘immoral drive and failure of its internal politics’, referring to the current Israeli standoff in light of Winogord report on Israel’s ‘handling of last summer war on Lebanon’.
Haniya said in a press release that underway Israeli attacks will eventually fail due to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.
The former Palestinian interior minister, Said Siyam of Hamas, established the executive force, which according to Mecca pact between Hamas and Fatah, was to be integrated into official Palestinian Authority’s security apparatuses.
Israel says its attacks on Gaza are meant to respond to the homemade shells, being fired by Palestinian resistance groups, involving Hamas, on nearby Israeli towns.
More than 150 homemade shells, fired over the past week, killed one Israeli woman and injured about 17 others, mostly slightly.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has been holding a series of meetings with the resistance factions over the past couple of days, in an attempt to restore last November’s ceasefire with Israel. The factions insist that a ceasefire should include the West Bank as well.
21 apr 2012, 18:11 , Respect -
Mamduh Muhammad Yusef Shqeirat 21
Mahmoud Naji Muhammad Halaseh 24
residents of East Jerusalem, killed near the checkpoint in the area of a-Sheikh Sa'ed, al-Quds district. Killed after firing at Border Police officers and security guards gurding the separation barrier.
21 apr 2012, 18:11 , Respect -
Shauqi 'Adel Ramadan Qalajah 19Saher Said DalloulAli Mohamed Nashar
21 apr 2012, 18:11 , Respect -
Omar Mohammad Abul-Halim 24Mohamed Ahmed Mansour Muammar 20
Imad Shabana 37
Five residents injured in separate Israeli air strikes in Gaza, one resident died of earlier wounds
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Saturday at night that five residents were injured in two separate Israeli air strikes that targeted the Jabalia refugee camp, and Gaza city. One resident died of wounds sustained two weeks ago.
The sources stated that the army shelled a target in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip moderately injuring two residents.
Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported that the two residents were injured after the Israeli air force shelled a building close to the police station in the center of the heavily populated refugee camp.
Moreover, three residents were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, in Gaza City.
The army carried a further air strike that targeted a security post close to Abu Yousef Al Najjar hospital, in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported.
In a separate incident, one resident identified as Imad Shabana, 37, died of wounds sustained on Thursday May 17.
Shabana was seriously injured when the Israeli air force fired missiles at a Palestinian vehicle in Al Jala’ neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported on Saturday evening that 47 residents were killed, and 176 were injured since the Israeli army stepped up its military escalation against the Gaza Strip since May 17. 31 of the injured residents are in serious conditions.
543 residents, including 192 children, suffered nervous breakdowns due to the continuous Israeli military attacks. - 29 mei 2007
Mohammad Hisham Mer’ey 18
Muhammad Ahmad Mansur M'amer 20
Security officer killed and seven injured by Israeli under-cover forces in Ramallah
Under-cover of the Israeli army assassinated on Tuesday evening lieutenant Omar Mohammad Abul-Halim, 24, after infiltrating into a local restaurant in Ramallah, in the northern part of the West Bank.
Eyewitnesses reported that Abdul-Halim, nicknamed as the Tiger, was in Al Nasera (Nazareth) restaurant in the center of Ramallah when the under-cover forces broke into it and opened fire at him killing him and injuring seven other residents.
Palestinian security sources reported that the forces kidnapped several residents and took them to unknown destinations.
The injured residents were identified as Moayyad Ahmad Suleiman, Kheir Jamal Ziad, Ahmad Jamal Jouda, Usama Khalil Mash-hour, Khalid Abu Hilwa, Mowaffaq Hamdan, and Mohannad Ayish; all of them suffered moderate wounds.
In a separate attack, Israeli forces invaded Ramallah and surrounded Sheikh Zayid Hospital and Ramallah Governmental Hospital, stopped and searched several residents.
The recent escalation came only one day after the army kidnapped Khalil Abu Shaweesh, member of Force 17 (Presidential Guards).
'Omar Muhammad Mustafa 'Abd al-halim (Abu Zafer)
Under-cover forces assassinate a fighter in Jenin
Under-cover forces of the Israeli army assassinated on Tuesday evening a resistance fighter, member of a newly formed armed wing of Fateh movement, in Kafer Dan village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Mohammad Hisham Mer’ey, is the leader of the Abu Ammar Brigades, one of the armed wings of Fateh. The Brigades was only formed two days ago, the formation announcement came in a press release that was issued by the brigades in Al Yamoun village, near Jenin.
Local sources reported that dozens of gunman of the Al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, fighters of Abu Ammar Brigades, and the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad marched in the streets and vowed retaliation.
Abu Ammar is the name that was used to refer to the late president, Yasser Arafat.
http://www.imemc.org/article/48670
Muhammad Hashem Saleh Mar'i 21 apr 2012, 18:15 , Respect -
Maria 29 mei 2007
'Omar Muhammad Mustafa 'Abd al-halim (Abu Zafer) 23Abdul Karim Juma Shaat 18
The Victim Must Be Silenced
Jewish residents of the southern Israeli town of Sderot light fires in the streets to protest what they see as an insufficiently lethal response by the Israeli government to the problem of Palestinian bottle rockets being lobbed over the Gaza wall towards their city.
Ironically, the people that Sderot residents are so eager to see killed are precisely the people who used to live in Sderot.
Sderot was formerly the Palestinian village of Najd, a small Palestinian city present at least since the 1500s. Najd was completely ethnically cleansed by Jews in a single day on May 13, 1948, two days before the declaration of the state of Israel and before the outbreak of the 1948 "War." After being looted by Jews, Najd's 82 buildings were bulldozed and dynamited and its surviving population forcibly relocated 14 kilometers west into the tiny, 2-mile-wide racial prison camp called the Gaza Strip. Zionist colonists, who had been living peacefully alonside the Palestinian residents of Najd and had previously bought 500 dunums of land in the city, helped themselves to the remaining 13,000 dunums from their former neighbors. This stolen and ethnically cleansed land sits underneath Sderot, founded in 1951, and the Or ha-Ner Kibbutz, established in 1958.
Sderot is 8 miles away from the massive prison wall that has imprisoned Gaza's 1.5 million residents since the early 1990s. As such it is the closest thing to a target for homemade Palestinian "rockets" - improvised bottle rockets with no guidance systems and very little destructive capacity which are launched blindly over the wall. The vast majority of them land in the desert and of the handful that actually strike anything, only a very few have caused casualties or serious property damage.
Israel, on the other hand, has been bombing Gaza from the air on a more-or-less continuous basis since the removal of 8,000 illegal settlers in the summer of 2005. Thousands have been killed by the Israeli bombings – the vast majority of them civilians, including huge numbers of children. 50 Gazans have been killed in the last two weeks alone, and hundreds - mostly civilians - have been hospitalized. On the Israeli side, two Israelis have been killed by Palestinian “rocket fire” in the last six months. Even though Israelis stand a greater chance of drowning in the bathtub than dieing from a Palestinian rocket attack, an immense national hysteria has been created about those brown people behind the wall. For most Israelis, this racial anxiety justifies the murder of thousands more civilians in Gaza and the ongoing Israeli campaign to further starve Gaza’s 1.5 million imprisoned inmates of food, water, electricity, medicine and any kind of government or economy. Thanks to Israel's systematic campaign to de-develop Palestine and eradicate its civil infrastructure, more than 80% of Gazan families now live in a state of extreme poverty and eat only one meal a day. In Gaza, this represents an increase of family poverty of more than 25% in the last year alone.
Western headlines wheeze endlessly about Palestinian “rocket attacks”, declaring on a daily basis that Israel needs to use yet more and more indiscriminate military force against the Gazan population. These same headlines never seem to mention that half of the Gazan population are children under the age of 14, or that 20% of those children already suffer some degree of permanent physical and mental retardation because of Israel's satanic strategy of imposing famine.
Despite the patent criminality of Israel's conduct, Israel is permitted in the media to present itself as guided by a boundless humanitarian compassion and restraint, as if its campaign of mass destruction were really targeting “militants” rather than 1.5 million of the poorest, most defenseless people on earth. As Israeli assassins roam the Occupied territories, freely abducting and murdering government officials and leaders of the military resistance, the headlines of the day speak for themselves:
Israel vows to keep hitting militants
Israel keeps up pressure
Do what it takes to halt rocket fire, orders Olmert
Israel may escalate as rockets fall
Israel Faces Dilemma On Hamas Rockets
Israel grants army approval to widen ground operations
Israel sees no quick fix to Hamas rockets
Olmert promises 'no limit' in fighting militants
Israel vows to widen fight against militants
Israeli PM Olmert announces new attack on Hamas
Israel continues crackdown
“Hamas rockets fall as Israel considers escalation,” blathers Reuters, conveniently failing to note that Israeli rockets are also “falling," with astronomically more lethal effect.
Hamas repeated today its offer of a full truce, reiterating that it will stop lobbing rockets over the prison wall into the desert if Israel stops bombing crowded Gazan cities.
Israel's response was typical of all past Israeli responses to peace overtures: “I have no intention of making any agreement” with the democratically elected government of Palestine, Israel’s Prime Minster announced. “We will strike them and continue to strike them… I have no intention of stopping.” He explained that Israeli attacks - bombings, home destructions, abductions and death squad operations - would continue “without a time-table”, and “for the long-term."
ORIGINAL PHOTO: David Furst, May 29, 2007, Sderot, Israel
TEXT AND IMAGE ALTERATION: /anomalous
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Maria 30 mei 2007
Mahmoud Fatayer 18
Wajdi Al Amoodi 18
Two Palestinians killed in Nablus, several residents injured
Palestinian medical sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported on Wednesday at night that two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured, some seriously, in an assassination attempt carried by the Israeli army.
Mahdi Abu Ghazala, one of the leaders of the Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fateh, said that the attack targeted Sufian Qandeel, one of the leaders of the brigades, but he survived the attack.
One of the residents who were killed in the attack was identified as Mahmoud Fatayer while the second casualty remained unknown until the time of this report since his body was severely mutilated.
Several bystanders were injured, some seriously, medical sources in Nablus reported
The attack was carried out by detonating a wired jeep which was supposed to be used by Qandeel. Abu Ghazala stated that the jeep was send by Israel through a collaborator but the brigades suspected that it is wired and informed Qandeel
The explosion caused considerable damage to surrounding houses and stores and caused electricity blackout in the area.
The Israeli security claimed that it has no relation with the blast, and a military spokesperson stated that he knew of no Israeli operations in the area.
In a separate incident, Israeli forces invaded Beit Eeba town, south of Nablus, and fired rounds of live ammunition at several houses.
31 mei 2007
Hamas: the assassination in Nablus clouds Abbas-Olmert meeting
A car bomb, allegedly planted by the Israeli military, killed two teenage boys and left scores injured on Wednesday night in the old city of Nablus in the West Bank, said local medical officials.
Hamas, the majority party in the Palestinian National Authority, criticized the assassination that came days before a possible meeting between Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, said Hamas in a statement.
Al Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, reported that the Israeli attack failed to assassinate its target Sufian Qandeel, one of the organization’s brigade leaders.
A Hamas spokesperson said that Israel continuously carries out military operations – invasions, assassinations, and abductions – in the occupied territories, and lies to the international community about it.
"The assassination of the identified Mahmoud Fatayer,18, and Wajdi Al Amoodi,18, is a message directed to Olmert-Abbas meeting that supposed to be held in the coming days," said the Hamas spokesperson. Israeli attacks are likely to continue despite such meetings, he said.
Hamas is outraged at the violent act and calls on the international community to condemn Israel for the killings of children and the abuses of human rights in Palestine, the spokesperson said. Hamas appealed to all groups in support of the Palestinian cause for solidarity and unity, said the organization’s statement.
30 mei 2007
Weekly report 19 Palestinians, including 3 civilians, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
2 of the victims were extra-judicially executed by IOF in the West Bank.
12 of the victims were killed by IOF air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
67 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
54 of these Palestinians were wounded by IOF gunfire in the Gaza Strip.
IOF have shelled various areas in the Gaza Strip.
IOF launched 46 missiles at civilian and paramilitary targets.
5 civilian facilities, one house and a number of paramilitary sites were destroyed.
Dozens of houses and civilian facilities were damaged.
IOF conducted 56 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and one into Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip.
21 apr 2012, 18:23 , Respect -
Maria 30 mei 2007
Mohamed Hamoudah 23 Omer Rihan 25
Israeli drone kills two Palestinian resistance fighters in northern Gaza strip
Two Palestinian resistance fighters from the Hamas linked Qassam brigades were announced dead after an Israeli drone fired several missiles at a group of resistance fighters east of Jabalyia, a town in the northern Gaza strip, early on Wednesday morning.
Palestinian medical sources identified the two dead as Mohamed Hamoudah, 23, and Omer Rihan, 25. Doctors said that the two bodies were severely burned and mutilated. Seven civilians were also injured in the attack
Sources in Gaza report that Israeli fighter jets and drones have been flying intensively over the Gaza strip, while Palestinian resistance groups continue to fire home made shells at nearby Israeli towns and cities.
For the first time in two weeks, the Israeli army carried out an early morning ground attack on the southern end of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians, said to Hamas members, wounding a 32-year-old woman and two other men.
Israeli warplanes have stepped up air strikes on the Gaza Strip since May17, mainly targeting Hamas’s operatives and positions. So far these attacks have left about 52 Palestinians dead, including eight children. Approximately 200 others have been injured.
Report: 18 Palestinians killed and 80 others injured during the week
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Maria 1 juni 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nYgioaKRu4
Zaher Jaber Muhammad al-Majdalawi 14
Ahmad Sabri Abu-Zbaida 14
Two 14-year olds killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Israeli and Palestinian sources have confirmed the killing of two children near the former Israeli settlement of Dugit, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The two were identified as Ahmad Abu Zubeida and Zaher Al-Majdalawi, both aged 14.
The children were scavenging building materials and scrap metal from the site when they were fired upon by Israeli forces stationed at the nearby border with Israel, eyewitnesses reported.
Palestinians often scavenge materials from the former sites of Israeli settlements, evacuated two years ago as part of the ‘disengagement plan’ from Gaza, and completely demolished by Israeli forces at that time. The ruins are generally near Israeli military bases, and are thus dangerous for Palestinians to enter.
Due to the desperate economic situation in the Gaza Strip, which has been under full closure since the democratic election of the Hamas party in January 2006, Palestinians living in Gaza are willing to take risks in order to survive.
The children killed today were likely gathering scrap metal to sell for food for their families.
Israeli commanders have previously made public their ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy for areas near the border fences and abandoned Israeli settlements. In one such pronouncement, an Israeli general stated, “Anything that moves in these areas, even if it’s a three-year old, must be killed.”
2 children bleeding to death
IOF positioned on a wooden land in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, opened fire at 4 Palestinian children, who were playing with kites near the beach. Three children were wounded, whereas the fourth one was able to escape. Two of the children were left in the area bleeding to death.
21 apr 2012, 18:49 , Respect -
Maria 1 juni 2007
Hamza Amin Fawzan al-Masri 16
of Beit Lahya, Gaza, physically disabled, died of chest and abdominal wounds sustained May 20 from IDF shelling while in his home.
Palestinian boy dies from wounds sustained in Israeli attack
Medical sources have reported the death of Hamza Al Masri, 16, after succumbing to wounds sustained in an Israeli attack.
Al Masri suffered extensive wounds last month when Israeli military forces fired at his family house in Beit Lahia near Gaza, causing injuries to many family members.
His brother Shadi currently lies in an intensive care unit after sustaining extensive wounds in the same attack.
Last week, Israeli forces shelled several areas in Gaza, causing heavy damage. In an attack on the Al Atatra area, west of Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, one resident was hospitalized.
The number of deaths caused by Israeli attacks since the 17th of last month has risen to 50, with 82 injured. Of the number injured, 28 remain in a serious condition.
21 apr 2012, 18:59 , Respect -
Maria 1 juni 2007
Fadi 'Abd al-Qader Salman Abu Mustafa 22
IOF extra-judicially executed a member
of the Islamic Jihad in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. An IOF aircraft fired 2 missiles at him when he was riding a bicycle in the north of Khan Yunis.
21 apr 2012, 18:59 , Respect -
Maria 2 juni 2007
Ahmed Awni AbadlehFadi Abu Mustafa 25
Rami Samir Nayef Shana'ah 25
Senior member of Al Quds Brigades killed in Israeli air strike
Fadi Abu Mustafa, a prominent figure in the Al Quds Brigades, was killed in Khan Younis on Friday evening when he was targeted by an Israeli air strike.
Considered to be one of the most active members of the Al Quds Brigades, Mustafa, 25, was travelling on a motorcycle in Khan Younis when he was hit by the air strike.
Eyewitnesses reported that he died instantly.
Hours after the attack, a Qassam rocket landed between two houses in the Israeli town of Sderot, located adjacent to the Gaza Strip, causing damage to property but injuring no one.
Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
IOF undercover unit killed a Palestinian civilian
and wounded a militant in Nablus. The unit opened fire at the militant when he was in a shop of meat.
resident of Nablus, killed in Nablus. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while serving customers in his butchery
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 3 juni 2007
Muhammad Amin 'Abd a-Rahman Frahat (Farahteh) 21
IOF killed a Palestinian militant
in Jenin during an exchange of fire.
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 4 juni 2007
Rami Shanay’ah
‘Ala Shanay’ah
Two Palestinians killed in separate West Bank incursions
In Jenin, Israeli forces shot and killed a senior member of the Al Aqsa Brigades during an armed clash. The man was identified as Muhammad Farahati, who according to local sources was the leader of a group comprising of both members of the Al Aqsa and Al Quds Brigades.
In a separate attack on Nablus, Israeli forces killed one and injured three others in an incursion into the city.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army opened fire on a group of passing gunmen, hitting brothers Rami and ‘Ala Shanay’ah. Rami later died from his injuries.
Earlier on Saturday, many houses in Nablus were left without electricity and running water when Israeli forces blew up concrete barriers blocking entry to the Old City area of Nablus.
Both Jenin and Nablus are frequent targets for Israeli raids and attacks.
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 6 juni 2007
Bilal AshirbasiKamal Khalid Saad
IOF warplane fired 2 missiles at a number of members of the Palestinian resistance in Jabalya town in the northern Gaza Strip, killing one of them and wounding another one.
Weekly report 7 Palestinians, including 2 children and an old man, were killed by IOF in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
A child died from a previous wound in the Gaza Strip.
One of the victims was extra-judicially executed by IOF in the West Bank.
The old man was shot dead inside his house.
22 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 7 children and a woman, were wounded by IOF gunfire in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
IOF conducted 35 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and 7 into the Gaza Strip.
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 6 juni 2007
Yihya Ishaq Karamah al-J'abri 72
The Al-Jabari Execution In Hebron, Israeli troops shoot Hebron family
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_CRzdlA5To
Here is a video of the event, made by a Hebronite journalist and published in Al-Jazeerah. The pool of blood at the start of this article is a frame from this video.
Officially, the Israelis say their soldiers opened fire only after a group of men assaulted them and tried to grab their weapons. Those who were there say that's a lie.
The images are as shocking as the story itself. But for those who have lived under these conditions for forty years.....incidents like this no longer come as a surprise.
No Need for an IDF Press Release
Blood Pool in the Al-Jaabari home south of Hebron
The State of Israel is a State without morals. Israel is a State of occupiers and executioners. The Israeli army (IDF) transformed Israel into a State of terrorists, criminals, drug runners, perverts and psychopaths. The mental rehabilitation organizations in Israel are full of IDF soldiers who seek treatment. The invented image of Israel as the moral State created by the subdued nation who came from Europe has changed.
The Israeli use of their historical past does not prevent the Europeans from expressing freely their points of view about Israel. The new European generation believes that Israel is a State of occupation which threats the stability of other countries. On Nov.2, 2003, The Guardian of London wrote that, in a survey conducted for the European Commission, 60 percent of Europeans regard Israel as a threat to the world stability. The result of this survey caused a huge reaction in Israel, which in response (as always) hurled accusations about “an increase in Anti-Semitism” in Europe. Finally, the Europeans consistently regard the US, the strongest ally of the Israeli State, as the biggest threat to world stability, according to an article in the Financial Times of July 1, 2007.
The barbaric activities of IDF soldiers in the Palestinians cities changed the international public opinion, not only in Europe itself, but all over the world. The mask of pseudo-morality which the Jewish State wears, has failed. The IDF spokesperson, the Israeli military censorship, and the Zionist lobby around the world do not have enough power to control the international media and the Internet. The world has changed. The new communication technology provides the people with all the information they need: no need for IDF press releases, no need for IDF military Press office at Beit Agoron, no need to bribe foreign journalists and offer them hotels and connection facilities in the West of Jerusalem to mislead the world public. Today, the people can read, see and reach the truth without the interference and the disturbance of the IDF and their bribed journalists.
All journalists who have ever worked in the middle of the conflict in the cities in the West Bank and Gaza know what kind of barbaric activities the IDF soldier commit in these Palestinian cities, and what kind of lies the IDF spokesperson routinely spreads in their press releases. The press releases of the IDF spokesperson are always ready in his office: they are ready-made templates where they just needs to change some words, the date, and the latest IDF crime is justified ! All the journalists know what I mean, even the journalists who write the version of the IDF spokesperson know how much he (or she) lies, and that I am telling the truth.
The IDF is always shown in their press releases as “merciful”, “sympathetic” … as soldiers who are the “poor and defenseless victims of Palestinian terrorists”. The IDF soldiers shoot and kill children, old men and women … in their houses, and the IDF spokesperson says that the IDF soldiers “were in danger because the terrorists attacked them”. It is always like that, the lies are always the same.
The question is: what is the IDF were doing in the house of the terrorists? Why do they kill unarmed women, old men and children instead of the family? With the phrase “normal activities”, the IDF describes when their soldiers break into Palestinian homes, at midnight, at 3AM or at any other time they want, to arrest somebody or to do a sadistic “search”, destroying the house in question and shooting some members of the family in front of the children, the father, the mother, the brother … or anybody else they face, it does not matter.
The Al-Jabari Execution In Hebron
Colonel Yehuda Fuchs is seen here “inaugurating” a building stolen by the settlers from the family of Fayez al-Jaabari of Hebron with help of falsified documents. Like everything the IDF does, what he does is to support theft, lies and murder.
Let us look at the “innocent, normal” activities of Brigade Colonel Yehuda Fuchs’ troops in the early morning of Wednesday, June 6, 2007. In the house of Yehya Al-Jabari from Hebron. Colonel Fuchs sent his paratroopers to the house of Yehya Al-Jabari who lived in the B’er Haram Al-Ram area of Hebron. Fuchs sent his troops to arrest a boy of age 17 (“a terrorist and wanted person” in IDF diction), the son of the family. At 3AM, over 50 Israeli soldiers with trained dogs invaded the house of Yehya, a Palestinian citizen aged 80 years. They knocked at the door, Mr. Yehya Al-Jabari opened the door, the IDF troops shoot him to death at the door and broke into the house, and then began shooting at his family from one room to another. Five unarmed civilian were injured during this (“innocent activity” in IDF diction). His wife Fatima, (unarmed) of age 65, was shot in the head and in numerous parts of her body, her skull was broken, she is in critical condition until this moment.
Kamil, of age 24, and his brother Radi, age 36, (both unarmed), the sons of Yehya, were shot inside the house too. The women and the small children were dragged by the IDF soldiers into a room. The children vomited and urinated in their cloths because of the trauma caused by the “innocent activities” of the IDF soldiers, and because of the the pools of blood in the house. The soldiers did not leave the house until the survivors of the massacre signed a paper stating that they would turn in their 17-year old son themselves.
There was no need for a press release by the IDF, as everybody knows that they are liars. Also, there is no need for press releases about future crimes committed by the IDF. Everybody knows what the IDF is, and what the press speaker of the IDF is: liars trying to cover up crimes against humanity.
IOF killed an old man and wounded his wife, who was pronounced medically dead, and two of his sons inside their house in Hebron. IOF claimed that they went to the house to arrest one of the victim’s sons.
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 8 juni 2007
Hijazi Muhammad Abdul-Aziz Rzaiqat 17
of Taffouh, near Hebron, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest, abdomen, left shoulder and right thigh while hunting birds with a gun.
On Friday evening, IOF opened fire at 3 Palestinian civilians who were hunting birds.
As a result, one of the children was killed and another one was wounded.
An IOF spokesman claimed that IOF soldiers "spotted a number of Palestinians who were carrying guns and fired at them."
He added that "Palestinians who carry guns are considered to be posing a threat, and they can be targeted in accordance with the rules in effect."
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 9 juni 2007
Muhammad Khalil Jabril al-J'abri 23Ahmed Fouad Suleiman Abu Harb
Muhammad resident of Gaza city, killed at the Kissufim Checkpoint, Khan Yunis district.
21 apr 2012, 19:00 , Respect -
Maria 11 juni 2007
Ismael Ahmed WadiMohamed Ibrahim MahdzMazen Saadi Ajour 37