- 14 sept 2010
Hazim Adel Abu Al Dab’at, 22
Palestinian Killed by Israeli Police in Tel Aviv
On Tuesday morning, 14 September 2010, a Palestinian civilian from East Jerusalem was shot dead by the Israeli police in Tel Aviv. According to the Israeli television channel 2, an Israeli police officer fired at a handcuffed Palestinian in Tel Aviv.
The Israeli police claimed that they received a notice from Eitoran Company that a vehicle belonging to the company was stole. The police later received information that 3 cars were stolen in Chomsky Street in Tel Aviv.
Consequently, the police set an ambush in the area, and at approximately 06:30, they arrested 4 suspects.
During this operation, sounds of shooting were heard, and one of the detainees, who was handcuffed, fell down. He was wounded in the upper part of the body, and he died soon. The police officer who fired at the victim claimed that a bullet was unleashed by mistake from his pistol. Later, the victim was identified as Hazem 'Aadel Abu al-Dab'at, 22, from al-Thawri neighborhood in East Jerusalem. He used to work in a barbershop in Jerusalem.
The victim's family denied the Israeli claim, and confirmed that the victim was shot dead from a zero range. PCHR has not been able to verify the two narratives as the only witnesses are the detainees who were with the victim as they are still detained.
In his testimony to PCHR, the victim's father, 'Aadel Hafez Abu al-Dab'at, stated:
"At approximately 14:30 on Tuesday, 14 September 2010, I received a phone call from the Israeli police in Tel Aviv demanding me to go to Tel Aviv police station.
When I asked them about the reasons for this, they told me that when I go there I will know. I told them that I would send my lawyer, but they refused and demanded me to come in person. I sent my lawyer to the police station, but they did not cooperate with him. I then sent my brother, and again they did not cooperate with him. The lawyer and my brother waited until 20:00, when they were allowed to identify the corpse. They knew that it was Hazem's.
He was hit by a bullet to the chest. They told me that they also noticed 3 bruise on his forehead.
The lawyer told me that the police claim that Hazem is a member of an organization that is specialized in stealing cars, and that he was shot by mistake when he allegedly attacked a police officer.
In fact, my son traveled with another two young men for recreation. They took with them food and an oven. The police arrests them and fired at my son when he was handcuffed."
15 sept 2010
Family of Jerusalem martyr belies police story
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The family of Hazem Hafez, 22, who was killed by the Israeli occupation police on Tuesday, belied the police story on his death.
The family said that Hazem, who used to work in a barbershop in the Old City of Jerusalem, was shot dead by police after he was stopped for search along with three other Jerusalemite youths.
They added that the young men argued with the policemen that led one of them to open fire at Hazem at close range killing him on the spot, which refutes police claims that the bullet was fired by mistake at the youth.
The police force claimed on Tuesday that the young man was shot at while trying to rob a car in Tel Aviv.
18 sept 2010
JCSER: “Bound Palestinian Shot To Death By Israeli Policemen”
The Documentation and Research Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported Saturday that the Palestinian resident from Jerusalem who was shot by an Israeli soldiers in Tel Aviv on September 14 was bound before he was killed.
The center said that
Hazim Adel Abu Al Dab’at, 22,
from Al Thoury neighborhood in East Jerusalem was shot to death after being forced to the ground while cuffed.
The report contradicts the statement of the Israeli police in which the policemen claimed that they stopped a group of young Palestinians from Jerusalem, and that while a policeman was cleaning his gun a bullet was accidentally fired hitting Abu Al Dab’at in the chest causing instant death.
But the JCSER reported that according to testimonies collected from his family and friends, Abu Al Dab’at was on a trip with his friends and that they were stopped by the police near Tel Aviv.
His friends said that one of the policemen examined the papers of the car that belongs to the father of Amjad Shahin, one of the friends of Al Dab’at; a policeman then started insulting Abu Al Dab’at and his fiends an issue that pushed them to argue with him.
The policeman then cuffed Abu Al Dab’at, forced him to the ground, face down, and shot him; his fiends testified.
Following the shooting Abu Al Dab’at to death, the police asked the family to head to Abu Kabeer forensic center. After receiving the body, the family saw concussions and bruises and his head and face.
http://bit.ly/cMYLh0
Bahar: Assassination of Shelbaya fruit of Abbas-Netanyahu talks
GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has charged that the Israeli assassination of Qassam commander Iyad Shelbaya was a fruit of the direct talks between de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
He said in a statement on Saturday evening that the crime was a natural result of the "malicious" security coordination between Abbas's authority and the Israeli occupation authority.
Bahar noted in this regard that Abbas's security had facilitated the entry of Israeli occupation forces into Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem to commit the crime.
He hailed the Palestinian masses that took part in Shelbaya's funeral, which, he said, proved the Palestinian people's backing to resistance.
http://bit.ly/8XXQhm
24 apr 2012
Israeli policeman sentenced to 8 months for killing Palestinian in cold-blood
Hazim Adel Abu Al Dab’at, 22
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced a policeman to eight months in jail for killing a Palestinian Jerusalemite youth while handcuffed.
The policeman agreed with prosecution on confessing to the crime and that it was accidental in return for an eight-month imprisonment term.
The indictment list said that the policeman fired at the youth after arresting him on 14 September 2010. It claimed that the shot was accidently fired while an eyewitness testified that the policeman insulted the youth before shooting him.
Hazem Abul Dabaat was killed after detaining him along with his two friends Amjad Shahin and Mohammed Shuweiki in one of the Tel Aviv streets.
Both Shahin and Shuweiki said that the Israeli police stopped their car and asked for their IDs before an altercation took place and the policeman fired at their friend while handcuffed and sitting on the ground.
Abul Dabaat family charged that the sentence was racist, adding that it was a cold-blooded murder.
http://fwd4.me/0zAa
28 apr 2012, 22:55 , Respect -
Maria 14 sept 2010
'Israeli soldiers kill with impunity'
A rights group says Israeli soldiers are seldom punished for killing Palestinians due to the prosecution process and the army's indifference in probing such cases.
A report by Israel's B'Tselem indicates that 95 out of a total of 148 cases, in which 288 Palestinians were killed between 2006 and 2009, are still pending, the Jerusalem Post said on Monday.
The report, called "Void of Responsibility," which is to be released Tuesday, says only 22 of the cases resulted in the opening of a probe by the military police investigation unit.
Another 41 of the cases were dismissed, while the military has yet to issue a decision on the remaining 84. No criminal charges have been brought in any of the cases, AFP quoted B'Tselem as saying.
"Investigations are not opened even where there is a grave suspicion that the law has been broken," the human rights watchdog stated.
"Also, analysis of the files shows that the authorities' interpretation of the events is based solely on the results of an operational inquiry and the statements of the soldiers," it added.
The group further charged the Israeli army with disregard for the eyewitness testimony of other persons and other evidence that contradicts the soldiers' position.
According to B'Tselem, during the period in question, Israeli troops killed 1,510 Palestinians, including 617 civilians.
The figures do not include the mortalities from Israel's December 2008-January 2009 war in the Gaza Strip, which took the lives of more than 1,400 Palestinians.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/142442.html
Report: Palestinian civilians deaths go unpunished
No ramifications?
B'Tselem says military JAG consistently refrains from investigating cases where Palestinian civilians are killed by IDF soldiers; says JAG takes soldiers' at their word, ignores other evidence.
The Israel Defense Forces policy of refraining from thoroughly investigating the wrongful deaths of Palestinian civilians absolved soldiers from such action even when criminal charges should be brought against them, B'Tselem said.
The conclusion is at the core of a new report by the human rights group, released Tuesday, which says that soldiers who kill Palestinian civilians are rarely prosecuted, even when circumstances clearly indicate foul play.
B'Tselem based its report on the Judge Advocate General's actions over the past four years, saying there is a clear pattern of avoidance from launching full scale Military Police investigations in such cases.
A Ramallah market after an IDF operation
The reports lists 148 cases detailing 288 Palestinian civilian deaths, between 2006 and 2009 excluding Operation Cast Lead which it asked the military to investigate.
B'Tselem claims that during the period in question, the IDF killed 1,510 Palestinians, 617 of them non-combatants; but according to the group, out of its 148 requests only 22 less then 15% - were investigated, 29 cases were closed, 16 cases are pending decision on prosecution, and the rest are still pending decision on further review.
Of he 22 cases investigates, two cases were closed, three are still investigated, four are pending completion, and 13 are pending decision on prosecution.
B'Tselem claims that JAG decided to closed cases even when there was basis to assume foul play, adding that its analysis indicated that the Military Prosecution prefers to base its decision in IDF inquests and soldiers testimonies, while disregarding eye witness reports and other evidence, which contradict the soldiers' accounts.
'Armed conflict' ruling obsolete
The military's policy of not investigating such cases, states the report, is based on an adjudication made during the days of the
al-Aqsa Intifada, rendering the territories an "armed conflict" area, and on the misinterpretation of International Law, which supposedly allows the IDF to refrain from such investigations.
B'Tselem warned that such police gives soldiers de facto immunity, and in applying it, the Israeli military fails to do its duty to spare no effort in minimizing civilian casualties. Moreover, the report claims this police "allows soldiers to violate the law and encourages them to act in a trigger-happy manner, while blatantly disregarding human lives."
The report recommends the legal definition of "armed conflict" be rescinded, saying it has brought on a significant decline in Military Police probes in wrongful death cases.
It further recommends the IDF adhere to Attorney General's Office guidelines as to the timely investigation and prosecution of cases, saying that "while a 2005 High Court ruling states a timeline for such investigations, it did not state a timeline for their processing and prosecution and therefore they are sometimes delayed for months, or even years, which hinders the effectiveness of actions taken."
B'Tselem slams the state's stance, which says it must investigate only cases where soldiers clearly meant to hurt civilians, saying the claim is devoid any legal basis be it in the Israeli law or International Law: "The military's duty does not start and end with barring deliberate harm to civilians, which is a war crime.
"It must also ensure that soldiers and officers follow both military orders and the letter of the law, which bar not only shooting with the intent to kill, but also a slew of acts, including negligent homicide and lesser offenses."
In October 2003, B'Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel appealed to the High Court against the JAG prosecution policy.
In its response, the State told the court that "the fact that a civilian is hurts in conflict does not prove a crime has been committed or that the soldiers exhibited criminal intent."
The case is still pending ruling, despite the fact that the last hearing took place in May 2006.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3953759,00.html
Report: Palestinian civilians deaths go unpunished
No ramifications?
IDF says responded to claims made by B'Tselem in court
The IDF Spokesperson's Unit responded to claims made in a B'Tselem that the army does not try soldiers who have killed civilians. "Most of the issues and claims are included in a petition filed by the organization to the High Court of Justice," a statement on behalf of the unit said.
"The State has responded to these claims in a comprehensive manner and it is only appropriate that the group await a ruling on the matter," it added. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit stressed that it has already informed B'Tselem of examinations it is holding of some of the claims made in the report.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3953792,00.html 28 apr 2012, 22:55 , Respect -
Maria 15 sept 2010
UN REPORT: Israel Deliberately Targeted Civilians, Homes, Schools & Hospitals!
(8:31) UN REPORT: Israel Deliberately Targeted Civilians, Homes, Schools & Hospitals! pt.1
28 apr 2012, 22:55 , Respect -
Maria 16 sept 2010
At least 6,348 Palestinians and 1,072 Israelis have been killed since September 29, 2000.
American news reports repeatedly describe Israeli military attacks against the Palestinian population as "retaliation." However, when one looks into the chronology of death in this conflict, the reality turns out to be quite different.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/...
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/ 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 15 sept 2010
Wajdi Jihad al-Qadhi, 23
One Palestinian Killed, Two Wounded in Rafah
The Israeli Air Force fired a number of missiles at the “Tunnels Area” in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, killing one resident and wounding two others.
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported that the slain resident was identified as Wajdi Jihad Al Qadi, 23, and added that his body was severely mutilated.
The sources stated that two other Palestinians were wounded and were moved to Abu Yousef Al Najjar hospital in Rafah.
Furthermore, Palestinian security sources in Gaza reported that Egyptian security personnel along the border with Rafah, and Palestinian residents living near the border in Rafah have left their posts and homes after receiving info that the Israeli army intends to bombard tunnels in the area.
The sources added that the Egyptian Security Forces also demanded Palestinian National Security personnel to leave their posts.
Israel claims that Palestinian fighters in Gaza fired shells the contained phosphor; the shells were allegedly fired at areas in the Eshkol Regional Council in the Western Negev.
The Hamas movement denied the Israeli claim and said that it comes to “justify a new Israeli offensive on Gaza”.
Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, stated that the Israeli claims are meant to incite the International Community against, Gaza and to justify Israel’s use of phosphorous shells during its three-week war on the coastal region that started in late December 2008.
Abu Zuhri said that “while the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas started direct talks with the occupation, Israel is seeking a new aggression on the Gaza Strip”.
He added that the Palestinians will remain steadfast and will retaliate against any Israeli aggressions, he also held the International Community responsible for any upcoming Israeli aggression.
According to documentation by the Palestinian Center For Human Rights in Gaza, 1,419 Palestinian were killed during the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip. This number includes 1,167 non-combatants (82.2%) and 252 resistance activists (17.8%). The non-combatants include civilians and civil police officers who were not involved in hostilities.
The PCHR report indicated that 918 civilians were killed (64.7% of the total number of victims). The civilian victims include 318 children (22.4 % of the total number of victims and 34.7% of the number of civilian victims) and 111 women (7.8% of the total number of victims and 12.1% of the number of civilian victims).
It added that 429 women and children were killed (30.2% of the total number of victims and 46.7% of the total number of civilian victims).
At least 5300 Palestinians were wounded during the war; 1,600 of them were children (30%) and 830 women (15.6%).
According to PCHR’s data, 318 children aged under 18 were killed; 22.4% of the total number of all victims and 34.6% of the total number of civilian victims. This figure includes 215 boys (67.6%) and 103 girls (32.4%). Additionally, 1,600 children were wounded, constituting 30% of the total number of the wounded.
“Children were killed in different contexts, often while inside homes or while playing outside. In some instances they were targeted directly, in others they were killed when the Israeli Army bombarded mosques, public facilities or residential complexes, or extra-judicially-executed Palestinian activists”, the PCHR reported.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59419
Wajdi Jihad al-Qadhi, 23
from Yibna refugee camp in Rafah, was killed. Israeli war planes fired two missiles at a tunnel in al-Brazil neighborhood in Rafah, at the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip. The tunnel was destroyed.
Another two workers in an adjacent tunnel were also wounded:
1. Ziad Saleh al-Shawaf, 27, from Khan Yunis, wounded by shrapnel throughout the body; and
2. Ibrahim Yousef al-Braim, 29, from Khan Yunis, wounded by shrapnel throughout the body.
28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 16 sept 2010
Court Says Criminal Probe Into Fatal Shooting Of Two Palestinians “Unnecessary”
Last month, representing the families of the victims, Israeli attorney, Michael Sfrad, of the Israeli Human Rights group Yesh Din filed a petition to the Israeli High Court of Justice and demanded the court to open a criminal investigation into the shooting.
On Wednesday, the state told the High Court that Chief Military Prosecutor, Avihai Mandelblit had already ordered a military investigation that would start by the beginning of October.
The two farmers were identified as Mohammad Faisal Qawariq, 19, and Salah Mohammad Kamel Qawariq, 19.
The deadly shooting of the two Palestinians took place this past March when Israeli soldiers stopped two farmers who were walking near Itamar settlement.
The army claimed that soldiers asked the two farmers to present their identity cards but they said that they were not carrying them; the two farmers said they were on their way to their farmlands.
The soldiers claimed that the two farmers acted in a suspicious way and that they and that their responses were not clear.
The commander of the unit said that he shot the two to death when one of them attempted to attack one of the soldiers with a pitchfork.
The commander was removed from his position and, reportedly, will not be allowed to serve as a military commander in the future.
Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, stated that the incident could have had a different outcome, and that the deadly results could have be avoided.
Local farmers reported that the soldiers separated the two farmers from each other, and forced them on the ground without cuffing them.
The farmers added that the two were not carrying anything when they were forced to sit on the ground, and that they were both shot while sitting and not while standing, an issue that negates the army claims that the two attempted to attack the soldiers.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59420 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 17 sept 2010
Eyad Asad Shelbaya, 37
IOF murders QB leader in W. Bank in cold blood
TULKAREM,- IOF troops have executed Palestinian fighter
Eyad Asad Shelbaya, 37
Friday morning after storming his home in the refugee camp of Nur Shams in Tulkarem city, northwest of the West Bank.
Sources in the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, mourned the martyr and confirmed to the PIC correspondent in the city that Shelbaya was shot at close range. Local sources in the refugee camp said that the martyr was killed while sleeping in his house.
PIC correspondent in the city added that nearly 15 members and local leaders from Hamas Movement were also rounded up at the hands of the invading IOF troops in the operation where they used tanks, infantry, and the special forces amidst intensive shooting of live bullets and sound bombs at homes of the Palestinians.
Hamas condemned the assassination of Shelbaya and accused the Fatah-dominated PA security forces in the West Bank of extending assistance to the IOF troops in carrying out the assassination, explaining that Shelbaya was under intensive surveillance from the PA intelligence.
The PIC correspondent quoted one of Hamas leaders in the city, who preferred not to be identified, as saying "We hold the Fatah security apparatuses fully responsible for participating in the killing of Shelabaya who was under concentrated surveillance from those apparatuses, and he was detained in Pa jails till just a couple of days ago".
He also vowed that Hamas won't let the crime pass unpunished, but confirmed that place and time of Hamas's retaliation to the crime will be specified by the leaders in the field only.
A state of extreme anger and disgruntlement is prevailing in the city as Palestinian citizens poured their anger on the Fatah forces that connived with the IOF troops and allowed them to enter the refugee camp and kill Shelbaya in cold blood.
Over the past three years, many Palestinian fighters, mostly from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad, were assassinated or arrested by the IOF troops in full coordination with the Fatah militia in the West Bank.
http://bit.ly/c8j6I7
Fayyad: Tulkarem killing endangers peace
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad strongly denounced Israel's assassination of a Tulkarem man from the Nur Shams refugee camp on Friday.
The assassination was a "dangerous escalation that weakened the credibility of the already fragile political process," Fayyad said in a statement.
On Friday morning, 38-year-old Iyad As'ad Shelbaya was killed by three gunshot wounds to the neck and chest. Witnesses said forces detonated the door to his home, entered and shot him, while Israeli military officials said the man ran toward Israeli soldiers who shot at him because they felt threatened.
Fayyad said by entering Palestinian areas - the Nur Shams refugee camp is located in Area A under the Oslo Accords - Israel had again "turned back on what is required, the top of which is a total and comprehensive halt to settlement building, military invasions in Palestinian areas."
The PA prime minister said Israel's actions would place the "international efforts being made to proceed with the political process at real risks."
He demanded that the "international community intervene," and "practice its active responsibilities by enforcing the law, and making Israel stop all of the violations of in-place agreements."
Assassinating a Palestinian inside the West Bank was a step against the establishment of a Palestinian state, and the people's demand for self-determination, Fayyad said.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=315625
Hamas vows vengeance over Shilbayeh killing
Hamas military spokesman in Gaza, Abu Obeida, confirmed Iyad abu Shilbayeh, who was killed by IDF forces overnight killed was a member of the group's armed wing: "The blood of our martyr will be a curse that will follow the occupation and the traitors," he said.
The word traitors referred to Hamas' rivals in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, which has ruled only the West Bank since losing control of the other Palestinian territory, the Gaza Strip, to Hamas militants in 2007.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3955627,00.html
IDF kills Hamas West Bank military strongman amid rising tensions
Incident comes as Shin Bet issues warning according to which the Islamist organization issued 'an organizational directive' to foil recently restarted peace talks.
The Israel Defense Forces killed a Hamas military commander in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported on Friday, in the latest of recent violent clashes between Israel and the Islamist organization.
Hamas has declared its objection to the recent relaunch of direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas does not represent the Palestinian people and is not authorized to negotiate on its behalf.
Speaking to the cabinet earlier this week, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said that Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and which is believed to have operatives working in the PA-ruled West Bank, has issued "an organizational directive to foil the talks."
According to the IDF, an Israeli army unit had been conducting a raid for wanted Palestiniains in a village east of Tul Karm, when one of the wanted men, named by Israel Radio as Hamas West Bank strongman Iyad Shilbayeh, began "running suspiciously toward the [IDF] force, refusing to heed the soldiers' request to stop."
"The unit, feeling threatened, opened fire, killing the suspected," the IDF Spokesman's office said, adding that "the incident was being investigated."
In an escalation of tensions on Wednesday, militants fired two phosphorous mortar shells into Israel from the Hamas-ruled Strip. A total of nine mortar shells were fired on Wednesday, all falling in fields in the Eshkol Regional Council, causing no casualties or damage.
Israel responded by sending jets to bomb a smuggling tunnel in the Philadelphi Route. Palestinian sources said one person was killed and two injured in the attack.
http://bit.ly/cb0g2j
Israeli soldiers kill Hamas member
Israeli troops have assassinated a member of Hamas resistance movement in the occupied West Bank, medical officials say.
Reports said that Iyad Shalabiya was shot dead while he was asleep.
The Israeli military claimed that the Palestinian was a Hamas military commander, Haaretz reported on Friday.
The incident took place in a village east of Tulkarm, the Israeli army said.
At least 10 Hamas members were also arrested during the midnight operation.
Friday's death followed an earlier attack by Israeli warplanes, which killed at least one Palestinian and wounded three others in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
The constant Israeli incursions into occupied Palestinian territories come as the Palestinian Authority and Israel ended the latest round of direct talks without progress on Wednesday.
http://www.presstv.com/section/3510202.html
Iyad Ass'ad Ahmad Shalbaia 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 17 sept 2010
28th Anniversary of Sabra and Shatila Massacre
(3:18) 28th Anniversary of Sabra and Shatila Massacre 3 x viewed
The Massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Camps:
A number of events led to the decision of an extremist terrorist group of the Lebanese kata’ib forces and forces belonging to the Zionist Army to carry out massacres against the Palestinians. From the beginning of the Zionist invasion of Lebanon, the Zionists and their agents were working toward being able to extirpate the Palestinian presence in Lebanon. This may be seen from a number of massacres of which the world heard only little, carried out by Israeli forces and militias under their command in the Palestinian camps in south Lebanon (al-Rushaidiya, ‘Ayn al-Hilu, al-Miya Miya, and others).32
This massacre was thus the outcome of a long mathematical calculation. It was carried out by groups ofLebanese forces under the leadership of Ilyas Haqiba, head of the kata’ib intelligence apparatus and with the approval of the Zionist Minister of Defense, Ariel Sharon and the Commander of the Northern District, General Amir Dawri. High-level Israeli officers had been planning for some time to enable the Lebanese forces to go into the Palestinian camps once West Beirut had been surrounded. 33
Two days before the massacre began – on the evening of September 14 – planning and coordination meetings were held between terrorist Sharon and his companion, Eitan. Plans were laid to have the kata’ib forces storm the camps, and at dawn, September 15, Israel stormed West Beirut and cordoned off the camps. A high-level meeting was held on Thursday morning, September 16, 1982 in which Israel was represented by General Amir Dawri, Supreme Commander of the Northern Forces.
The job of carrying out the operation was assigned to Eli Haqiba, a major security official in the Lebanese forces. The meeting was also attended by Fadi Afram, Commander of the Lebanese Forces.34
The process of storming the camps began before sunset on Thursday, September 16,and continued for approximately 36 hours.
The Israeli Army surrounded the camps, providing the murderers with all the support, aid and facilities necessary for them to carry out their appalling crime. They supplied them with bulldozers and with the necessary pictures and maps. In addition, they set off incandescent bombs in the air in order to turn night into day so that none of the Palestinians would be able to escape death’s grip. And those who did flee – women, children and the elderly – were brought back inside the camps by Israeli soldiers to face their destiny.36 At noon on Friday, the second day of the terrorist massacre, and with the approval of the Israeli Army, the kata’ib forces began receiving more ammunition, while the forces which had been in the camps were replaced by other, “fresh” forces.37
On Saturday morning, September 18, 1982, the massacre had reached its peak, and thousands of Sabra and Shatila camp residents had been annihilated.
Information about the massacre began to leak out after a number of children and women fled to the Gaza Hospital in the Shatila camp, where they told doctors what was happening. News of the massacre also began to reach some foreign journalists on Friday morning, September 17.
One of the journalists who went into the camps after the massacre reports what he saw, saying, “The corpses of the Palestinians had been thrown among the rubble that remained of the Shatila camp. It was impossible to know exactly how many victims there were, but there had to be more than 1,000 dead. Some of the men who had been executed had been lined up in front of a wall, and bulldozers had beenused in an attempt to bury the bodies and cover up the aftermath of the massacre.
But the hands and feet of the victims protruded from the debris.”
Hasan Salama (57 years old), whose 80-year-old brother was killed in the massacre, says, “They came from the mountains in thirty huge trucks. At first they started killing people with knives so that they wouldn’t make any noise. Then on Friday there were snipers in the Shatila camp killing anybody who crossed the street. On Friday afternoon, armed men began going into the houses and firing on men, women and children. Then they started blowing up the houses and turning them into piles of
rubble.”40
Author Amnoun Kabliyouk [p. 10] writes in his book about the tragedy of a young Palestinian girl who, like the rest of the children in the camp, faced this horrific massacre. Thirteen years old, she was the only survivor out of her entire family (her father, her mother, her grandfather and all her brothers and sisters were killed). She related to a Lebanese officer, saying, “We stayed in the shelter until really late on Thursday night, but then I decided to leave with my girl friend because we couldn’t breathe anymore. Then all of a sudden we saw people raising white flags and handkerchiefs and coming toward the kata’ib saying, ‘We’re for peace and harmony.’
And they killed them right then and there.
The women were screaming, moaning and begging [for mercy]. As for me, I ran back to our house and got into the bathtub. I saw them leading our neighbors away and shooting them. I tried to stand up at the window to look outside, but one of the kata’ib fighters saw me and shot at me. So I went back to the bathtub and stayed there for five hours. When I came out, they grabbed me and threw me down with everybody else. One of them asked me if I was Palestinian, and I said yes. My nine-month-old nephew was beside me, and he was crying and screaming so much that one of the men got angry, so he shot him. I burst into tears and told him that this baby had been all the family I had left. That made him all the more angry, and he took the baby and tore him in two.”41
The massacre continued until noon on Saturday, September 18, leaving between 3,000 and 3,500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians dead, most of them women, children and elderly people.42
Hamas: Israeli occupation crimes not subject to statutes of limitations
Damascus,- Hamas said on Friday that the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people in occupied Palestine and in refugee camps in the diaspora are not subject to a statute of limitations, adding that the time for justice will come sooner or later.
In a statement it issued Friday to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the massacre of Sabra and Shatilla where thousands of helpless Palestinian refugees living in the two neighboring camps were mercilessly slaughtered by Lebanese Christian Phalangist militiamen were allowed to enter the two Palestinian refugee camps, in an area under Israeli occupation troops control in 1982 during the Israeli military invasion of Lebanon.
"Indeed the massacre of Sabra and Shatilla will remain a curse chasing the criminal Zionists and those who support them; however, the Palestinian people will and determination proved to be hard and difficult to be broken or subjected to the will of the enemy they are now more convinced in the justice of the Palestinian cause and more determined to prosecute all those who participated in the carnage because crimes against humanity aren't subject to statutes of limitations," Hamas underlined in the statement.
"We will not forget the Palestinian martyrs' blood shed in Sabra and Shatilla, and we will keep chasing the perpetrators till they are brought to justice and till justice is also given to families of the victims", the Movement underlined.
In this regard, Hamas urged the Lebanese government and all concerned Palestinian, Arab, and international human rights groups not to relax their efforts in filing criminal cases against all those responsible for the massacre, underlining that massacres will not force the Palestinian people to abandon their choice of resistance, which they believe as the only option that could retrieve all usurped Palestinian rights and establish an independent Palestinian state.
The Movement also highlighted that the carnage proved that the Israeli occupation authority isn't searching for peace and that it only deceives the international community by marketing itself as peace monger.
"The Israeli occupation is a criminal enemy that doesn't believe in peace, and that they built their Zionist entity on blood of Palestinian children and martyrs, and thus, the alleged peace process was only a means to waste the Palestinian legal rights and to foil the Palestinian dream of having their independent state", Hamas underscored.
http://bit.ly/aEkrFN 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 18 sept 2010
Hazim Adel Abu Al Dab’at, 22
JCSER: “Bound Palestinian Shot To Death By Israeli Policemen”
The Documentation and Research Unit at the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights (JCSER) reported Saturday that the Palestinian resident from Jerusalem who was shot by an Israeli soldiers in Tel Aviv on September 14 was bound before he was killed.
The center said that
Hazim Adel Abu Al Dab’at, 22,
from Al Thoury neighborhood in East Jerusalem was shot to death after being forced to the ground while cuffed.
The report contradicts the statement of the Israeli police in which the policemen claimed that they stopped a group of young Palestinians from Jerusalem, and that while a policeman was cleaning his gun a bullet was accidentally fired hitting Abu Al Dab’at in the chest causing instant death.
But the JCSER reported that according to testimonies collected from his family and friends, Abu Al Dab’at was on a trip with his friends and that they were stopped by the police near Tel Aviv.
His friends said that one of the policemen examined the papers of the car that belongs to the father of Amjad Shahin, one of the friends of Al Dab’at; a policeman then started insulting Abu Al Dab’at and his fiends an issue that pushed them to argue with him.
The policeman then cuffed Abu Al Dab’at, forced him to the ground, face down, and shot him; his fiends testified.
Following the shooting Abu Al Dab’at to death, the police asked the family to head to Abu Kabeer forensic center. After receiving the body, the family saw concussions and bruises and his head and face.
http://bit.ly/cMYLh0
Bahar: Assassination of Shelbaya fruit of Abbas-Netanyahu talks
GAZA, (PIC)-- Dr. Ahmed Bahar, the first deputy speaker of the Palestinian legislative council, has charged that the Israeli assassination of Qassam commander Iyad Shelbaya was a fruit of the direct talks between de facto Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.
He said in a statement on Saturday evening that the crime was a natural result of the "malicious" security coordination between Abbas's authority and the Israeli occupation authority.
Bahar noted in this regard that Abbas's security had facilitated the entry of Israeli occupation forces into Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem to commit the crime.
He hailed the Palestinian masses that took part in Shelbaya's funeral, which, he said, proved the Palestinian people's backing to resistance.
http://bit.ly/8XXQhm
24 apr 2012
24 apr 2012
Israeli policeman sentenced to 8 months for killing Palestinian in cold-blood
Hazim Adel Abu Al Dab’at, 22
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced a policeman to eight months in jail for killing a Palestinian Jerusalemite youth while handcuffed.
The policeman agreed with prosecution on confessing to the crime and that it was accidental in return for an eight-month imprisonment term.
The indictment list said that the policeman fired at the youth after arresting him on 14 September 2010. It claimed that the shot was accidently fired while an eyewitness testified that the policeman insulted the youth before shooting him.
Hazem Abul Dabaat was killed after detaining him along with his two friends Amjad Shahin and Mohammed Shuweiki in one of the Tel Aviv streets.
Both Shahin and Shuweiki said that the Israeli police stopped their car and asked for their IDs before an altercation took place and the policeman fired at their friend while handcuffed and sitting on the ground.
Abul Dabaat family charged that the sentence was racist, adding that it was a cold-blooded murder.
http://fwd4.me/0zAa 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 21 sept 2010
Ibrahim 'Abdallah Suliman Abu Sa'id 91
resident of Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, injured on 12.09.2010 next to Beit Hanun, North Gaza district, by a bomb fired from a tank, and died on 21.09.2010.
Killed, together with his grandson and his grandson's friend, by mortar fire while they were working their land and grazing their flock, east of Beit Hanun.
22 sept 2010
Samer Sarhan 32
Palestinian killed in Silwan shooting attack
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- An unidentified Palestinian in his thirties was killed and three others were injured on Wednesday morning after Israeli security guarding settlers in the flashpoint neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem opened fire at their car.
The security guards opened fire at the car at 5 a.m. as they drove through the Wad Hilwa area of Silwan, witnesses told the Wad Hilwa Information Center.
The witnesses identified one of the injured as Samer Sarhan, who is in critical condition following the shooting. Sarhan was transferred the Hadassah Hospital for treatment, the witnesses said.
Center director Mahmoud Qara'een said the body of the Palestinian killed in the incident was left for two hours before Israeli Border Guards transferred the corpse to an unknown location.
Israeli police and border guards heavily deployed in Silwan following the shooting, preventing residents from approaching the site of the incident.
A spokesman for Israel's National Police did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=316860
Riots erupt after Silwan man shot to death
Jewish security guard opens fire at Palestinian after being pelted with stones in east Jerusalem village; 35-year-old Israeli moderately hurt after being stabbed in back during funeral procession; others injured from stones. Police storm Temple Mount as dozens of worshippers barricade themselves in al-Aqsa Mosque.
A Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood was shot dead by a Jewish security guard in the early hours of Friday morning. Two other Palestinians were reportedly injured in the incident, one of them seriously.
During the funeral procession for the victim, a 35-year-old Israeli was stabbed in the back near the Augusta Victoria Hospital. He was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in moderate condition.
Police forces stormed the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City after stones were hurled at police officers.
Dozens of worshippers barricaded themselves inside the al-Aqsa Mosque as police forces encircled the mosque. Eight people were arrested on suspicion of rioting – five on the Temple Mount and the rest near the Old City.
The guard who shot the Palestinian was arrested and taken in for questioning. He was later released from custody under limiting conditions after posting bail.
According to reports, the security guard was pelted with stones, and, fearing for his life, he pulled out his personal handgun and opened fire, killing 32-year-old Samar Sarchan, who had a criminal record..
A screwdriver and knife were found on the victim's body.
According to the Wadi Hilwa Information Center in Silwan, the Jewish security guard reenacted the shooting "in three different places, which verifies that he had chased after the Palestinian before killing him."
Israel Police confirmed that the guard had reenacted the incident.
Following the incident, local youngsters began rioting in the streets. Police responded by firing stun grenades and tear gas.
One police officer was lightly injured from a stone that was thrown at him by locals.
"There are a lot of people here, also many police officers; people are angry because of the killings," a Silwan resident said. "This is the first time a security guard kills someone, and it will not pass quietly. The injured man has a large family."
A left-wing activist who was at the site told Ynet, "The entire neighborhood is outside. There are hundreds of people here. Young Arabs are throwing stones and police officers are firing tear gas and rubber bullets."
Eyewitnesses said dozens of hooded Arab youngsters burned tires and threw Molotov cocktails at security forces. Some of them were throwing stones and firecrackers at the homes of local Jews.
Palestinians reported that some residents were hurt after breathing tear gas.
Later, Palestinians continued to riot during the funeral procession for Sarchan.
During the march, which reached the Muslim cemetery located near the Temple Mount, Palestinians threw stones at passing cars and police. Some officers and passersby were injured.
Some 1,000 people participated in the procession, during which a police vehicle was torched near the Old City's Dung Gate. There were no reports of injury in that incident.
Stones were also thrown at two Israeli vehicles near the Augusta Victoria Hospital. Three Israelis were lightly injured and were rescued by police and Border Guard officers. Rioters overturned the abandoned vehicles.
An eyewitness told Ynet, "We were near Dung Gate when the funeral procession left Silwan. Suddenly we saw hundreds of Arabs running towards us, some of them masked. They threw stones at a group of 20 soldiers who had barricaded themselves in one of the Jewish homes. The soldiers couldn't react or leave the house. Then they headed towards Dung Gate.
"They hurled stones at four buses, a Border Guard vehicle and private vehicles. A number of people were wounded. Border Guard officers eventually drove the stone-throwers back to Silwan," he said.
'Security guards can't deal with riots'
Ofer Rosenman, the owner of the company employing the security guard, criticized the police, claiming that the guards lacked the tools required to deal with disturbances.
Rosenman recounted the incident which took place in the neighborhood. 'Between 4-4:30 am, a car used for transporting security guards into the City of David was making its way to a gas station in Silwan. At some point, the guy ran into an improvised stone barrier. He tried to drive back but was stopped by another barrier which included stones and large rocks.
"At this stage, dozens of Palestinians approached his car. The guard feared for his life and was afraid of being kidnapped. At first he fired in the air, and after the rioters moved towards him, he shot a single bullet and hit one of them.
"A shift leader and another security guard arrived in the area and tried to resuscitate the young Palestinian who was hurt, but were unsuccessful." Cold arms were found on the body.
Rosenman criticized the police, who he said were "showing helplessness and failing to be present in sensitive areas. The guards asked for permission to use crowd dispersal means, but were turned down, so the only weapon left is a pistol. The guys are attacked constantly. The security guards' job is to safeguard the residents' lives and property. They should not have to deal with disturbances."
Silwan is home to about 70 Jewish families who live amid 50,000 Palestinians. Already tense relations have worsened since the city government announced an economic development plan early this year that would demolish dozens of Palestinian homes.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, an Israeli advocacy group, recently wrote in a report that Israeli security firms act like a private police force for Silwan's Jewish residents. It said the firms often receive government funding and frequently use threats and violence against Arab residents, while police are reluctant to intervene.
http://fwd4.me/0iN8
East Jerusalem: Witnessing the truth
(9:12) East Jerusalem: Witnessing the truth 2 x viewed
Silwan funeral procession for Samer Sarhan
(0:51) Silwan funeral procession for Samer Sarhan, 22.09.2010 2 x viewed
28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 23 sept 2010
Israeli Arabs prepare for month to commemorate October 2000 riots
Police killed 13 Israeli Arabs in October of 2000, during riots that broke out during the second intifada.
Demonstrators commemorated on Thursday the Israeli Arab riots of October 2000, during which 13 Arab youth were killed by Israeli police.
Israeli Arabs were rioting in solidarity with the Palestinian Intifada which had just begun in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. During the riots, which lasted some ten days, 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip were shot and killed by police and security forces during violent demonstrations at the entrance to Umm al-Fahm.
The events of October 2000 have become a contentious issue for Israeli Arabs, many of whom say Israel has failed to properly investigate the circumstances of the riot and take action against the police officers who killed the youths.
Israeli Arabs have expressed anger over the issue by holding demonstrations and strikes during the month of October in the years since the incident.
Demonstrators gathered on Thursday in small groups in Nazareth and Haifa and at 12 major intersections across Israel. They waved Palestinian flags and held pictures of those killed in the riots.
The official event which will begin the commemorations is scheduled to take place on October 1, in the Israeli Arab town of Kfar Kanna. A general strike in the Arab sector is scheduled to begin then as well.
In the next few days, the parents of those killed will present a special report which slams former Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, who decided not to indict the police officers involved in the deaths.
Families of the 13 killed still stand firm on their demand that a new investigation into the incident be opened and the police who killed the rioters be brought to justice.
http://bit.ly/9g8B8e 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 24 sept 2010
Muhammad Mansur 'Omar Baker 19
Israeli forces kill Palestinian man
A Palestinian has been shot dead by Israeli forces near the occupied city of al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The shooting took place in al-Issawiya, a village located just north of East al-Quds (Jerusalem), a Press TV correspondent reported.
Israel occupied East al-Quds along with the West Bank during the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it, in violation of international law and despite the opposition of the international community, which has never recognized the illegal move.
The Palestinians say that East al-Quds (Jerusalem) should be the capital of their future independent state.
In another development, a 31-year-old man sustained injuries after Israeli forces fired live ammunition at protesters at a weekly anti-apartheid wall rally in the West Bank village of Bil'in.
Ashraf al-Khatib was shot in the leg with a .22 caliber bullet.
Demonstrators were able to carry him to a car and he was taken to a hospital, where medics said the bullet had smashed the bone in his leg.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/143831.html
Hamas reports fisherman killed by IDF fire off Gaza coast
IDF confirms naval vessels fired on fishing boat approaching limits of allowed fishing area after it failed to heed warning shots.
IDF naval vessels fired on a Palestinian boat off the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, killing a fisherman, Hamas officials said according to a Reuters report.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that a fishing boat approaching the limits of the allowed fishing area was shot at by IDF forces.
"We fired warning shots to turn them back, and when they did not respond, we fired at the boat," the spokeswoman said. "We are checking the claim that there was a casualty."
Adham Abu Selmeya, a Hamas media official said that a 20-year-old fisherman Mohamed Mansour Baker, arrived dead at Kamal Odwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the Xinhua news agency.
"Baker was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers, and died on his way to hospital," said Abu Selmeya.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=189122&R=R3
Mohamed Mansour Baker
Fisherman Killed By Israeli Navy Fire
Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian fisherman was shot and killed by Israeli Navy fired on Friday morning off the shores of the Al Shaty’ refugee camp west of Gaza City.
The fisherman was identified as Mohammad Mansour Baker, 20. The fetal shot took his life before he was moved to Kamal Adwan Hospital.
Israeli soldiers repeatedly target Palestinian fishermen in an attempt to force them away and prevent them from fishing; dozens of casualties were reported over the past several years.
http://www.imemc.org/article/59476 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 24 sept 2010
Mohammed Mahmoun Abu Sara, 14 months
Toddler killed by tear gas in East Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- A 14-month-old baby died on Friday evening after he was suffocated by tear gas fired by Israeli forces in the Al-Isawiya neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
Medics said Muhammed Abu Sneneh suffocated after Israeli forces fired tear gas at residents and their houses in Al-Isawiya during clashes on Friday night.
Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said he had not received any reports of injuries, and that police are using minimum force to respond to incidences in Al-Isawiya, Silwan and Ras Al-Amoud.
Clashes in the occupied city have been ongoing since Wednesday, when a settler security guard shot dead two Palestinians in Silwan.
The wife of 28-year-old Samer Sarhan, one of the Palestinians killed on Wednesday, was transferred to hospital on Friday night after inhaling tear gas, medics said. On Thursday, locals reported that Israeli forces fired tear-gas at Sarhan's home in Silwan, sparking further clashes.
At Sarhan's funeral on Wednesday, attended by over 1,000 mourners, violent clashes occurred and Israeli border guards fired tear gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the funeral procession.
Officials estimated that 3,000 Israeli police and border guards were deployed across East Jerusalem on Friday, as the city remained on a state of alert.
Checkpoints were installed at the entrances to several neighborhoods, sparking clashes as residents fought with Israeli forces in several areas, including Al-Isawiya and the Shu'fat refugee camp, where restrictions prevented any movement in and out of the area.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=317702
Baby dies of tear gas inhalation on third day of unrest in E. Jerusalem (+972 contributors)
Three days after an Israeli security guard shot and killed a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, riots have broken out again and a 14 month-old baby has died of tear gas inhalation.
At approximately 10:30pm Friday, Israel time, Joseph Dana tweeted that a 14-month old baby had died of tear gas inhalation in the village of Issawiyeh, in East Jerusalem. He posted the following tweets in rapid succession:
10:40 Molotov cocktails and live fire in Silwan [East Jerusalem] right now.
10:45 The reports on the child are 100 percent true according to sources on the ground
11:15 Entire city [sic] of Silwan is filled with tear gas. All the children are being moved to basement. No one can breathe.
11:20: The police told the family of the baby killed to keep the story quiet and I am publishing it at their request
11:40 Palestinian just shot in Silwan with a rubber bullet. Major fighting in Silwan.
11:42 People are [pleading] with the soldiers to stop firing gas because the children have no place to escape in Silwan.
The streets of Silwan are unusually, narrow, steep and crowded. Houses are built without a gap between the buildings, there are no sidewalks, the municipality rarely collects the garbage, streets are poorly lit if at all - and there are steep flights of stairs connecting parallel roads. There are no green or open spaces.
Shortly before 11:30pm, the first Hebrew news report on the events unfolding in Silwan was published on Walla!, a news and information site owned by Schocken Group (owner of Haaretz). The following is +972's translation; click here to read the Hebrew original.
Report: Palestinian infant dies from tear gas inhalation
By Nir Yahav, correspondent for Palestinian affairs
Palestinian sources reported this evening (Friday) that an 18 month-old Palestinian child from the village of Issawiyeh in East Jerusalem, died of his wounds after inhaling tear gas during confrontations that broke out yesterday between Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and Israeli security forces. According to the report, the boy, Ahmed Abu Sarah, inhaled large amounts of tear gas that was fired by Israeli police officers at Palestinians.
Sources also reported that police are this evening again using tear gas against Palestinians in the area. In addition, it has been reported that the wife of Samar Sarhan, the Palestinian resident of Silwan who was killed two days ago by shots fired by an Israeli security guard, arrived at the hospital after inhaling tear gas that was fired by Israeli security forces.
According to the police, a number of residents of the village hurled rocks at Israeli border police near the gas station. The border police responded with crowd dispersal methods. There were no injured and no damage was caused.
The riots in the area broke out after an Israeli security guard shot and killed Samar Sarhan, a resident of Silwan. Two other men were wounded in during violent confrontations that broke out in the area between residents, Jewish settlers and security forces.
http://bit.ly/cPT6hV
Muhammad Mamun abu-Sara
Muhammed Abu Sneneh
26 sept 2010
Following The Killing of Jerusalem Infant, Clashes Renew Leading To Dozens Of Injuries
After an infant from Al Esawiyya in East Jerusalem died due to teargas inhalation on Friday, clashes were reported Saturday evening between dozens of residents and Israeli soldiers leading to dozens of injuries among the residents.
The clashes took place in several Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem while more Israeli soldiers and policemen were deployed in the area.
The army attempted to invade Al Esawiyya town but dozens of youths took off to the streets and hurled stones and empty bottles at them. The army fired gas bombs, rubber-coated bullets and rounds of live ammunition leading to several injuries.
Clashes were also reported in Silwan town, south of the Al Aqsa Mosque, and in the neighborhoods of Al Tour, Ras Al Amoud, Al Suwwana, and in Shu’fat refugee camp.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army claimed that more than three hours after ongoing clashes, a number of Palestinians fired rounds of live into the air while marching in the funeral of the slain child. If confirmed, this would be the first time Palestinians use a weapon during clashes in Jerusalem.
The infant who died due to teargas inhalation Friday evening was identified as Mohammad Abu Sneina, 1; he initially suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling gas fired by the army, but all efforts to save his life failed.
http://bit.ly/d2TtQM
IOA closes Ibrahimi Mosque for two days
AL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) decided to close down the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al-Khalil for two days before Muslim worshippers to celebrate Jewish holidays.
The director of Al-Khalil Waqf, Zeid Al-Jabari, said in a press release that the IOA informed the Waqf department of its intention to close down the mosque on Sunday and Monday.
The IOA closes down the holy site before Muslims on each Jewish holiday in accordance with recommendations by the Shamgar Commission that was formed by the IOA in the wake of the massacre in the Ibrahimi Mosque in which an armed Jewish settler killed 29 Palestinians while praying.
http://bit.ly/9YOTQE 28 apr 2012, 22:56 , Respect -
Maria 28 apr 2012, 22:57 , Respect -
Maria 25 sept 2010
Mohammed Salem al-'Amarin 21
from al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City, died of wounds he had sustained by IOF in the central Gaza Strip on 14 September 2010.
According to PCHR's documentation, at approximately 14:00 on 14 September 2010, IOF moved nearly 300 meters into Gaza Valley village in the central Gaza Strip. They leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed.
At approximately 17:00, IOF fired 4 artillery shells at an area located 600 meters away from the stormed area.
As a result, a member of the Palestinian resistance, al-'Amarin, was seriously wounded. He first received medical treatment in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but was transferred to Egypt later as he was in a serious condition.
At approximately 05:00, medical sources at Nasser Institute Hospital in Egypt declared that Mohammed Salem al-'Amarin died of his wounds he had sustained by IOF in the central Gaza Strip on 14 September 2010.
Hamas: Militant dies in Egyptian hospital
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Hamas' military wing the Al-Qassam Brigades said Saturday that a fighter wounded a week and a half earlier died of wounds sustained by Israeli forces.
The statement said that Mahmoud Amarin, 22, was injured east of Gaza City on 15 September in circumstances that were not made clear.
Amarin, from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, was reportedly transferred to an Egyptian hospital for treatment of critical injuries.
The brigades did not claim military activity at the time, though airstrikes hit targets in the northern Gaza Strip in the late hours of the 15th, destroying what Palestinian sources said was an agricultural tools site, and what Israeli military officials claimed was a Hamas weapons storehouse.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=317741
Mahmoud Al-Amarin 22
Gazan youth dies of serious wounds
GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian youth in his twenties on Saturday succumbed to serious wounds suffered in shelling by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on 14th September, medical sources.
They identified the young man as Mahmoud Al-Amarin who was transferred to Egypt for treatment but died of his serious injuries today.
Amarin, from Zaitun suburb of Gaza city, was wounded in the IOF artillery shelling at Juhr Al-Deek area southeast of Gaza city.
http://bit.ly/aQx4lO