4 june 2012
Injured Palestinian fighter succumbs to serious wounds
Suraqa Qudaih, who was seriously injured in an Israeli air raid last Friday, succumbed to his serious wounds at midnight Sunday, medical sources said.
They told the PIC reporter that Qudaih, 18, was a member of the Salahdduin Brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance committees.
The Israeli raid critically wounded three fighters affiliated with the Brigades in southern Gaza Strip area of Abassan.
Nasser Qudaih, 30, was killed in the same raid while the third was still in hospital in a very serious condition.
Radwan stressed on the right of the resistance to defend itself
Dr. Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, confirmed that the recent Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip demonstrates the enemy's aggression against Gaza.
Radwan told PIC in an exclusive statement on Sunday that he holds the Zionist occupation fully responsible for the recent escalation, stressing on the resistance's right to defend itself against this new escalation.
He also said that the occupation is trying to incite against the Gaza Strip, by issuing statements claiming that the resistance has sophisticated weapons to justify attacking it, in addition to targeting resistance fighters in an attempt to thwart Palestinian reconciliation and the ongoing efforts to achieve it.
The IOF had carried out airstrikes at dawn Sunday, targeting scattered areas in Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat and Beit Lahia.
According to sources and eyewitnesses, the IOF warplanes launched a missile at a chicken farm in the region of Um al-Nasser, west of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, and targeted with two other missiles agricultural lands and a wood depot to the south of Deir al Balah.
Furthermore, IOF warplanes fired two missiles on agricultural lands near the Central Police Station targeting the vicinity of Al-Feki family's house in Nuseirat camp, and injuring seven citizens, including 4 children whose wounds were described as moderate.
Other attacks
IOF raids towns in Jenin area
Settlers post ‘evacuation notices in Hebron area’
They told the PIC reporter that Qudaih, 18, was a member of the Salahdduin Brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance committees.
The Israeli raid critically wounded three fighters affiliated with the Brigades in southern Gaza Strip area of Abassan.
Nasser Qudaih, 30, was killed in the same raid while the third was still in hospital in a very serious condition.
Radwan stressed on the right of the resistance to defend itself
Dr. Ismail Radwan, a Hamas leader, confirmed that the recent Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip demonstrates the enemy's aggression against Gaza.
Radwan told PIC in an exclusive statement on Sunday that he holds the Zionist occupation fully responsible for the recent escalation, stressing on the resistance's right to defend itself against this new escalation.
He also said that the occupation is trying to incite against the Gaza Strip, by issuing statements claiming that the resistance has sophisticated weapons to justify attacking it, in addition to targeting resistance fighters in an attempt to thwart Palestinian reconciliation and the ongoing efforts to achieve it.
The IOF had carried out airstrikes at dawn Sunday, targeting scattered areas in Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat and Beit Lahia.
According to sources and eyewitnesses, the IOF warplanes launched a missile at a chicken farm in the region of Um al-Nasser, west of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, and targeted with two other missiles agricultural lands and a wood depot to the south of Deir al Balah.
Furthermore, IOF warplanes fired two missiles on agricultural lands near the Central Police Station targeting the vicinity of Al-Feki family's house in Nuseirat camp, and injuring seven citizens, including 4 children whose wounds were described as moderate.
Other attacks
IOF raids towns in Jenin area
Settlers post ‘evacuation notices in Hebron area’
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Israeli warplanes attacked the Gaza strip and carried out two air strikes in the early hours of Monday.
According to medical sources, at least one person was wounded in the first air strike on a factory in Zaytoun neighborhood south of Gaza. The factory which was totally destroyed had been attacked three times in the past few years. This attack came a day after a number of Palestinians including about four children were injured when a home was hit in Nusirat in central Gaza strip. Other places such as agricultural fields, poultry farm and wood warehouse were also targeted. In recent days, Israel has escalated its air strikes, targeting different places |
across the Gaza strip. It has said these attacks are in response to some projectiles fired from Gaza.
Human rights organizations have called for the protection of the people and their properties.
Gaza has been cut off from the outside world by land, air and sea blockade since 2007 and subject to countless Israeli air raids and ground incursions.
Human rights activists say Israel is using disproportionate force causing casualties among civilians and severe damage to properties, as people here struggle to make ends meet under years of land and sea blockade.
Human rights organizations have called for the protection of the people and their properties.
Gaza has been cut off from the outside world by land, air and sea blockade since 2007 and subject to countless Israeli air raids and ground incursions.
Human rights activists say Israel is using disproportionate force causing casualties among civilians and severe damage to properties, as people here struggle to make ends meet under years of land and sea blockade.
A Palestinian man was wounded at dawn Monday when Israeli warplanes blasted a dairy factory in Zaitun suburb in Gaza city.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the Daloul Dairy factory caught fire in the raid and sustained severe damage.
They recalled that the factory was the target of previous Israeli bombings, adding that a man was injured in today’s raid.
Another Israeli raid targeted an empty land lot near Jabal Al-Rayes to the north of the Gaza Strip.
A series of Israeli aerial raids on the coastal enclave since dawn Friday killed three citizens and wounded nine others including a five-month-old infant and three other children.
One Palestinian injured in overnight Israeli raids on Gaza
Video The Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza overnight Monday, injuring one Palestinian, after a rocket was fired at southern Israel, the army and Palestinian medical sources said.
“Overnight, IAF (Israel Air Force) aircraft targeted a weapons manufacturing facility and a terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were identified,” it said.
“The targeting of these sites was in response to the rocket fire on communities in southern Israel.”
Palestinian medics said one person had been injured in a raid on northern Gaza City, but it was not clear how serious his injuries were.
The raid took place just hours after a rocket landed in the Eshkol region of Israel which flanks the southern stretch of the Gaza border. It did not cause any injuries or damage.
A day earlier, Israeli air strikes across Gaza injured seven people after a flare-up along the border on Friday in which an Israeli soldier and two Palestinian fighters were killed.
Since the start of the year, Palestinian armed groups have fired over 270 rockets at southern Israel, the army statement said.
Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, maintains a tacit truce with Israel, but other Palestinian groups in the territory occasionally fire rockets across the border.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the Daloul Dairy factory caught fire in the raid and sustained severe damage.
They recalled that the factory was the target of previous Israeli bombings, adding that a man was injured in today’s raid.
Another Israeli raid targeted an empty land lot near Jabal Al-Rayes to the north of the Gaza Strip.
A series of Israeli aerial raids on the coastal enclave since dawn Friday killed three citizens and wounded nine others including a five-month-old infant and three other children.
One Palestinian injured in overnight Israeli raids on Gaza
Video The Israeli military carried out air strikes on Gaza overnight Monday, injuring one Palestinian, after a rocket was fired at southern Israel, the army and Palestinian medical sources said.
“Overnight, IAF (Israel Air Force) aircraft targeted a weapons manufacturing facility and a terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip. Direct hits were identified,” it said.
“The targeting of these sites was in response to the rocket fire on communities in southern Israel.”
Palestinian medics said one person had been injured in a raid on northern Gaza City, but it was not clear how serious his injuries were.
The raid took place just hours after a rocket landed in the Eshkol region of Israel which flanks the southern stretch of the Gaza border. It did not cause any injuries or damage.
A day earlier, Israeli air strikes across Gaza injured seven people after a flare-up along the border on Friday in which an Israeli soldier and two Palestinian fighters were killed.
Since the start of the year, Palestinian armed groups have fired over 270 rockets at southern Israel, the army statement said.
Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, maintains a tacit truce with Israel, but other Palestinian groups in the territory occasionally fire rockets across the border.
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The Dalloul dairy factory was destroyed in an overnight airstrike, causing losses of $300,000, the owner said
The owner of a dairy factory in the Gaza Strip, which was flattened by an Israeli airstrike before dawn Monday, called for an international committee to prove his business does not store weapons. The Dalloul dairy factory, in the al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, was destroyed in the third day of airstrikes on the coastal enclave, leaving one person moderately injured. Israel's army said it had "targeted a weapon manufacturing facility and a terror tunnel in the northern Gaza Strip," in response to rocket fire on communities in southern Israel. |
Factory owner Abu Haroun Dalloul told Ma'an the bombing was the fourth time his factory has been targeted in recent years. The facility was previously destroyed in Israel's war on Gaza in January 2009.
He called on Arab and Islamic nations, as well as the European Union, to form a committee to prove his factory does not store weapons.
The business sustained an estimated loss of $300,000 after Sunday's strike, Dalloul said, noting he had just purchased a new processor at a cost of $80,000.
"We call on the whole world to protect us. My factory makes food and yogurt. Why is it being bombed like this?" he said.
"If it stored or manufactured weapons, it would not have been placed in a residential neighborhood, where most of the houses nearby belong to my relatives," he continued.
One neighbor, Um Basem al-Shanshiri, said Sunday's bombing caused panic and terror amongst the sleeping children in the area.
"All our neighbors' houses were destroyed in the Israeli bombings, we are living in the street now," she told Ma'an.
Three days of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have injured 13 Palestinians, with two men later dying of their wounds.
Gaza-based rights group Al-Mezan said nine houses were partially damaged, and one house was destroyed in the bombings. A poultry and cattle farm, a water well, a carpentry shop, and a storeroom were also damaged, it said.
The attacks started after a Palestinian gunman shot dead an Israeli soldier on the Gaza border on Friday. The Palestinian was also killed in the clash.
He called on Arab and Islamic nations, as well as the European Union, to form a committee to prove his factory does not store weapons.
The business sustained an estimated loss of $300,000 after Sunday's strike, Dalloul said, noting he had just purchased a new processor at a cost of $80,000.
"We call on the whole world to protect us. My factory makes food and yogurt. Why is it being bombed like this?" he said.
"If it stored or manufactured weapons, it would not have been placed in a residential neighborhood, where most of the houses nearby belong to my relatives," he continued.
One neighbor, Um Basem al-Shanshiri, said Sunday's bombing caused panic and terror amongst the sleeping children in the area.
"All our neighbors' houses were destroyed in the Israeli bombings, we are living in the street now," she told Ma'an.
Three days of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip have injured 13 Palestinians, with two men later dying of their wounds.
Gaza-based rights group Al-Mezan said nine houses were partially damaged, and one house was destroyed in the bombings. A poultry and cattle farm, a water well, a carpentry shop, and a storeroom were also damaged, it said.
The attacks started after a Palestinian gunman shot dead an Israeli soldier on the Gaza border on Friday. The Palestinian was also killed in the clash.
Gaza fishermen: Twelve were shot at in May by navy, says NGO
The Israeli navy harasses Gazan fishermen even within 3-mile limit from shore.
"Take off your clothes," ordered the soldier over his megaphone. The old man and his son removed their clothing. "Get into the water," the soldier continued shouting into the megaphone. The son, 18, entered the water from the fishing skiff and swam over to the Israeli navy gunboat.
Just 45 minutes earlier, when the fishermen were stopped at a distance of 50 meters from the gunboat, the first order had been, "Turn off your engine." They turned it off. "You and the boy come forward," the youthful voice ordered them. The man and his son advanced to the boat's prow. Mohammed Baker, 62, a fisherman since he was 17, said with concern in his voice: "Captain, we are not a danger [to you]."
The young soldier with the megaphone answered: "Shut up."
But the old man, easily the age of the soldier's grandfather, continued: "We fish here every day. We have not passed the line." He was referring to the line from the Gaza shoreline set by the Israeli military for Palestinian fishermen, beyond which they are forbidden to fish.
The soldier repeated into his megaphone: "Shut up. Stop talking."
The old man and his son stood at the prow for a half-hour. Only when another gunboat approached and stopped were they ordered to strip. The son swam over and climbed onto the gunboat. They soldiers threw a buoy attached to a rope to the father. He climbed down from his boat, his only source of income, as he told me on Sunday by telephone in a voice on the verge of tears.
Holding on to the buoy, he was pulled onto the gunboat. It was 9 o'clock in the morning, May 5. And the day had actually started out well; in an hour-and-a-half of fishing, they had caught two-and-a-half kilos of fish.
This strip-and-swim procedure is carried out several times a month: summer and winter, day and night, hot and cold, old and young, it makes no difference. More often, the gunboats shoot at the fishing skiffs. Al-Mezan, the Gazan human rights organization, has recorded 12 instances in May of the Israeli navy firing live ammunition at fishing boats that set out from the Gazan ports. The navy detained nine fishermen (all of whom were released within 12 hours ) and confiscated four fishing boats and their equipment (which are returned, usually in damaged condition, after about a year ).
Busy month for Navy
On May 30, four fishermen were detained; on May 27, a little before midnight, our forces fired on a fishing boat in the vicinity of Rafah. Our soldiers told the two fishermen, aged 59 and 65, to undress, jump into the water and climb onto the gunboat. The older one was allowed to return to the boat. The second was detained and released the next afternoon. On May 22, our forces fired on a fishing boat near Dir al-Balah. There were no injuries to our soldiers. The enemy hurried to the shore without food or money for his family.
The Oslo Accords permit Gazan fishermen to sail up to 20 nautical miles from shore. In practice, the furthest they were allowed to fish was 12 miles. This was shortened to six miles after 2000, and since the Operation Cast Lead military onslaught conducted by Israel against Gaza during winter 2008/2009, the permissible limit is only three nautical miles.
Yellow buoys mark the line. Some people take the risk and cross it because pickings are slim within the limit, and sewage often reaches this area, raising the chances of pollution. According to the testimony of many fishermen who have acquired GPS navigation systems for the sake of accuracy, the Israeli navy often fires on their boats even when they have not crossed the line.
Compared to earlier months, the attacks grew in May, Al-Mezan reports. The organization surmises that there are two reasons for the escalation of such attacks: to reduce the three-mile limit further, and to supply the Shin Bet security services with people who can be interrogated and pressured for some kind of information.
High blood pressure
And so, after the strip-and-swim procedure, the handcuffed and blindfolded detainees are brought to the pier in Ashdod, according to the testimonies collected by Al-Mezan. They are dressed in disposable pants and shirts, and photographed, but not until their blood pressure and temperature are taken. "High, high," an examiner reprimanded Baker and referred to his blood pressure. "It's because of you," the 62-year-old man said. He and his son were held, handcuffed and blindfolded, for six hours. Afterwards they were taken to what was apparently a Shin Bet facility at the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza. There, for the sake of security, our Israeli boys checked them with metal detectors and placed them in a room with a computer and a man in civilian clothing.
One of those interrogated reconstructed the investigation for Al- Mezan: "I told the interrogator that we did not go beyond 2.5 miles, which showed on the GPS, and the officer who detained us had fired without any warning." The man in civilian clothes answered, "I'm not familiar with the entire sea, and I'm here so that you can help me." The man in the disposable clothes said: "I can't help you. I am a fisherman who understands only the language of fishing, and I need someone to help me get back my fishing boat and personal belongings."
The interrogator asked about the Gaza policemen at the port, and the interrogated answered, "I don't know about anything except for my boat." The Israeli said, "You trespassed. Let your government help you." The Palestinian explained to him that the Oslo Accords say the permitted fishing range is 20 nautical miles. The Israeli had had enough. "Your government should help you. Yalla, get out of here."
In response, the army spokesman says that security regulations limit sailing because terror organizations make use of the sea, and in order to enforce the regulations, "the navy takes various steps to remove boats that sail beyond permissible limits, including orders to return to shore, and even detainment as needed. According to the rules of engagement, live ammunition is used only as a last resort, and in a considered and cautious manner."
Official: Settlers torch agricultural field near Hebron
A group of settlers set fire to wheat fields on Monday in the Hebron town of Yatta, a local official said.
Ratib al-Jubrour, the coordinator of a local committee against settlements and the wall, said Israeli soldiers looked on as the settlers torched the field belonging to Khalid Mousa Najjar.
Najjar was shot by settlers in 2002, al-Jubrour added.
On Sunday morning, Palestinians from nearby village Susiya found seven piles of harvested grain had been torched in a field near an Israeli settlement.
Settlers also destroyed dozens of olive trees in Yatta on Sunday, al-Jubrour said.
In the West Bank, over 90 percent of villages which have experienced multiple attacks by settlers are under Israeli security control, The Palestine Center says, meaning local Palestinians only have the official protection of an army which they claim ignores settler violence.
Settlers destroy olive trees in southern West Bank
Settlers destroyed dozens of olive trees in the Hebron town of Yatta on Sunday, a local official said.
Ratib al-Jubrour, the coordinator of a local committee against settlements and the wall, said settlers from Maon damaged trees belonging to the al-Jabarin family.
The attack is part of "ongoing criminal acts settlers practice against Palestinian citizens," he added.
Israeli forces reportedly arrived at the scene and asked the family to file an official complaint.
The land owners told Ma'an that there would be no point, as a complaint would be "mere ink on paper."
Meanwhile, Palestinians from nearby village Susiya on Sunday morning found seven piles of harvested grain had been torched in a field near an Israeli settlement, an Italian peace group said.
Operation Dove said the crops, on land belonging to Jamil Awad and harvested on Saturday evening, are a main source of income for the community.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is systematic in the West Bank.
Over 90 percent of villages which have experienced multiple attacks by settlers are under Israeli security control, The Palestine Center says, meaning local Palestinians only have the official protection of an army which they claim ignores settler violence.
The Israeli navy harasses Gazan fishermen even within 3-mile limit from shore.
"Take off your clothes," ordered the soldier over his megaphone. The old man and his son removed their clothing. "Get into the water," the soldier continued shouting into the megaphone. The son, 18, entered the water from the fishing skiff and swam over to the Israeli navy gunboat.
Just 45 minutes earlier, when the fishermen were stopped at a distance of 50 meters from the gunboat, the first order had been, "Turn off your engine." They turned it off. "You and the boy come forward," the youthful voice ordered them. The man and his son advanced to the boat's prow. Mohammed Baker, 62, a fisherman since he was 17, said with concern in his voice: "Captain, we are not a danger [to you]."
The young soldier with the megaphone answered: "Shut up."
But the old man, easily the age of the soldier's grandfather, continued: "We fish here every day. We have not passed the line." He was referring to the line from the Gaza shoreline set by the Israeli military for Palestinian fishermen, beyond which they are forbidden to fish.
The soldier repeated into his megaphone: "Shut up. Stop talking."
The old man and his son stood at the prow for a half-hour. Only when another gunboat approached and stopped were they ordered to strip. The son swam over and climbed onto the gunboat. They soldiers threw a buoy attached to a rope to the father. He climbed down from his boat, his only source of income, as he told me on Sunday by telephone in a voice on the verge of tears.
Holding on to the buoy, he was pulled onto the gunboat. It was 9 o'clock in the morning, May 5. And the day had actually started out well; in an hour-and-a-half of fishing, they had caught two-and-a-half kilos of fish.
This strip-and-swim procedure is carried out several times a month: summer and winter, day and night, hot and cold, old and young, it makes no difference. More often, the gunboats shoot at the fishing skiffs. Al-Mezan, the Gazan human rights organization, has recorded 12 instances in May of the Israeli navy firing live ammunition at fishing boats that set out from the Gazan ports. The navy detained nine fishermen (all of whom were released within 12 hours ) and confiscated four fishing boats and their equipment (which are returned, usually in damaged condition, after about a year ).
Busy month for Navy
On May 30, four fishermen were detained; on May 27, a little before midnight, our forces fired on a fishing boat in the vicinity of Rafah. Our soldiers told the two fishermen, aged 59 and 65, to undress, jump into the water and climb onto the gunboat. The older one was allowed to return to the boat. The second was detained and released the next afternoon. On May 22, our forces fired on a fishing boat near Dir al-Balah. There were no injuries to our soldiers. The enemy hurried to the shore without food or money for his family.
The Oslo Accords permit Gazan fishermen to sail up to 20 nautical miles from shore. In practice, the furthest they were allowed to fish was 12 miles. This was shortened to six miles after 2000, and since the Operation Cast Lead military onslaught conducted by Israel against Gaza during winter 2008/2009, the permissible limit is only three nautical miles.
Yellow buoys mark the line. Some people take the risk and cross it because pickings are slim within the limit, and sewage often reaches this area, raising the chances of pollution. According to the testimony of many fishermen who have acquired GPS navigation systems for the sake of accuracy, the Israeli navy often fires on their boats even when they have not crossed the line.
Compared to earlier months, the attacks grew in May, Al-Mezan reports. The organization surmises that there are two reasons for the escalation of such attacks: to reduce the three-mile limit further, and to supply the Shin Bet security services with people who can be interrogated and pressured for some kind of information.
High blood pressure
And so, after the strip-and-swim procedure, the handcuffed and blindfolded detainees are brought to the pier in Ashdod, according to the testimonies collected by Al-Mezan. They are dressed in disposable pants and shirts, and photographed, but not until their blood pressure and temperature are taken. "High, high," an examiner reprimanded Baker and referred to his blood pressure. "It's because of you," the 62-year-old man said. He and his son were held, handcuffed and blindfolded, for six hours. Afterwards they were taken to what was apparently a Shin Bet facility at the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza. There, for the sake of security, our Israeli boys checked them with metal detectors and placed them in a room with a computer and a man in civilian clothing.
One of those interrogated reconstructed the investigation for Al- Mezan: "I told the interrogator that we did not go beyond 2.5 miles, which showed on the GPS, and the officer who detained us had fired without any warning." The man in civilian clothes answered, "I'm not familiar with the entire sea, and I'm here so that you can help me." The man in the disposable clothes said: "I can't help you. I am a fisherman who understands only the language of fishing, and I need someone to help me get back my fishing boat and personal belongings."
The interrogator asked about the Gaza policemen at the port, and the interrogated answered, "I don't know about anything except for my boat." The Israeli said, "You trespassed. Let your government help you." The Palestinian explained to him that the Oslo Accords say the permitted fishing range is 20 nautical miles. The Israeli had had enough. "Your government should help you. Yalla, get out of here."
In response, the army spokesman says that security regulations limit sailing because terror organizations make use of the sea, and in order to enforce the regulations, "the navy takes various steps to remove boats that sail beyond permissible limits, including orders to return to shore, and even detainment as needed. According to the rules of engagement, live ammunition is used only as a last resort, and in a considered and cautious manner."
Official: Settlers torch agricultural field near Hebron
A group of settlers set fire to wheat fields on Monday in the Hebron town of Yatta, a local official said.
Ratib al-Jubrour, the coordinator of a local committee against settlements and the wall, said Israeli soldiers looked on as the settlers torched the field belonging to Khalid Mousa Najjar.
Najjar was shot by settlers in 2002, al-Jubrour added.
On Sunday morning, Palestinians from nearby village Susiya found seven piles of harvested grain had been torched in a field near an Israeli settlement.
Settlers also destroyed dozens of olive trees in Yatta on Sunday, al-Jubrour said.
In the West Bank, over 90 percent of villages which have experienced multiple attacks by settlers are under Israeli security control, The Palestine Center says, meaning local Palestinians only have the official protection of an army which they claim ignores settler violence.
Settlers destroy olive trees in southern West Bank
Settlers destroyed dozens of olive trees in the Hebron town of Yatta on Sunday, a local official said.
Ratib al-Jubrour, the coordinator of a local committee against settlements and the wall, said settlers from Maon damaged trees belonging to the al-Jabarin family.
The attack is part of "ongoing criminal acts settlers practice against Palestinian citizens," he added.
Israeli forces reportedly arrived at the scene and asked the family to file an official complaint.
The land owners told Ma'an that there would be no point, as a complaint would be "mere ink on paper."
Meanwhile, Palestinians from nearby village Susiya on Sunday morning found seven piles of harvested grain had been torched in a field near an Israeli settlement, an Italian peace group said.
Operation Dove said the crops, on land belonging to Jamil Awad and harvested on Saturday evening, are a main source of income for the community.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is systematic in the West Bank.
Over 90 percent of villages which have experienced multiple attacks by settlers are under Israeli security control, The Palestine Center says, meaning local Palestinians only have the official protection of an army which they claim ignores settler violence.
3 june 2012
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Six Palestinians, including three children and an infant, Sunday were injured in a series of Israeli air strikes targeting several locations in the Gaza Strip at dawn, according to local sources. They said Israeli warplanes targeted a group of Palestinians in al-Nuseirat, a refugee camp south of Gaza city, but the missile hit a nearby house, injuring six family members including three children and an infant.
The injured were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Early airstrikes targeted a poultry farm, agricultural land and empty lots across the Gaza Strip, while Gaza residents reported on fake airstrikes, spreading panic and terrorizing citizens.
Two Palestinians were killed in a rocket attack fired from an Israeli drone on Friday shortly after a Palestinian fighter had penetrated the highly secured borders between Gaza and Israel and killed an Israeli soldier before he was shot and killed.
Series of Israeli raids injure seven in Gaza including 5-month-old infant
A series of Israeli aerial raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip at dawn Sunday inflicted seven casualties in one building in Nuseirat refugee camp, medical sources said.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for emergency and ambulance services, told the PIC that an Israeli F-16 warplane fired a missile into a building in the camp wounding seven people including four children, one of them a five-month-old infant.
He said that the casualties were in moderate condition in hospital.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that vast destruction was inflicted on a number of nearby buildings in the same area.
Other sources in northern Gaza said that Israeli F-16s fired two missiles at a poultry farm and a cultivated land lot north of Beit Lahia town causing material damage.
The Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a deserted area in between Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza and a wood warehouse to the south of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza with no casualties reported.
The injured were transferred to hospital for treatment.
Early airstrikes targeted a poultry farm, agricultural land and empty lots across the Gaza Strip, while Gaza residents reported on fake airstrikes, spreading panic and terrorizing citizens.
Two Palestinians were killed in a rocket attack fired from an Israeli drone on Friday shortly after a Palestinian fighter had penetrated the highly secured borders between Gaza and Israel and killed an Israeli soldier before he was shot and killed.
Series of Israeli raids injure seven in Gaza including 5-month-old infant
A series of Israeli aerial raids on various areas of the Gaza Strip at dawn Sunday inflicted seven casualties in one building in Nuseirat refugee camp, medical sources said.
Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for emergency and ambulance services, told the PIC that an Israeli F-16 warplane fired a missile into a building in the camp wounding seven people including four children, one of them a five-month-old infant.
He said that the casualties were in moderate condition in hospital.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that vast destruction was inflicted on a number of nearby buildings in the same area.
Other sources in northern Gaza said that Israeli F-16s fired two missiles at a poultry farm and a cultivated land lot north of Beit Lahia town causing material damage.
The Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a deserted area in between Khan Younis and Rafah in southern Gaza and a wood warehouse to the south of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza with no casualties reported.
In the early morning hours of Sunday 3 June 2012, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated their aggression on the Gaza Strip, launching six aerial attacks and an artillery strike on Khan Younis.
Over the last two days the IOF has launched a series of aerial attacks throughout the Gaza Strip, as a result of which two persons were killed and 12 injured, including seven children and a woman. Nine houses were partially damaged, and one house was destroyed; a poultry and cattle farm, a water well, a carpentry shop, and a storeroom were also damaged.
In the morning hours of Friday 1 June 2012, the IOF announced that it had killed Ahmed Ahmed Abu Naser, 19, as he tried to sneak across the separation fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The IOF transferred the body to Gaza via Erez crossing, and then launched a series of attacks on civilian objects and in disregard of civilians’ lives.
Al Mezan’s field workers monitored and documented these attacks, which took place chronologically as follows, starting with the most recent incident:
At approximately 2:00 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, Israeli aircraft fired about four missiles at the house of Ibrahim Khalil Mohammed Al Feqi, 23, which is located in camp no. 2 in south An-Nuseirat. As a result, the 70-square meter house was severely damaged. Al Feqi, who was supposed to get married in two weeks, sustained shrapnel wounds in the right leg. Four adjacent houses were damaged, and four residents of a house belonging to a widow, Samiya Jadallah Jebril, 45, were injured. Al Mezan has identified them as:
· Feras Mohammed Jebril, 8, who sustained shrapnel wounds to the head;
· His brother Wesam, 6, injured in the right hand;
· His brother Mohammed, 5, injured in the right heel; and
· His brother Hussein, 17, injured in the left shoulder.
A house belonging to Mohammed Khalil Al Feqi, 27, was also damaged in the attack, and his daughter Deema, 4 months old, sustained shrapnel wounds to the head. Another house belonging to Saleh Mohammed Al Feqi was damaged as well, and his son Tareq, 20, sustained shrapnel wounds to the head. A doctor from the neighborhood gave field treatment to a woman and to two children, Leen Mohammed Al Feqi, 2, who sustained bruises, and Ahmed Rami Al Feqi, 3, who was injured in the left leg.
At approximately 1:35 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a room on a plot of agricultural land, destroying both the room and an under-construction house belonging to Mesbah Khader Sedam, 43. 20 olive trees and citrus were damaged. People especially women and children were terrified.
At approximately 1:30 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft attacked an agricultural room in Wadi As-Salqa village, southeast of Deir Al Balah. The room was destroyed; no casualties or injuries were reported.
At approximately 1:20 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft attacked a carpentry shop and a 200-square meter tin-roofed store in the Al Masha’la area southeast of Deir Al Balah. As a result, the carpentry shop and the roof of the store were destroyed. Adjacent houses were damaged in the attack.
At approximately 1:10 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a poultry and cattle farm and a water well located about 1,500 meters southwest of the Bedouin village which lies northwest of Beit Lahiya in North Gaza district. As a result, the farm; the well—which supplies water to 50 dunams of agricultural land—and the building housing it; a room made of sheet metal, about 470 square meters in area; a storage room of ten square meters; and an electric generator, were completely destroyed; and 29 sheep and 4,300 chicks were killed. No casualties or injuries were reported. According to Al Mezan’s field investigations, the farm belongs to Faraj Hussein Abu Rabee’, 42, and is located in an agricultural area. The attack was massive and sudden, and terrified women and children in the area.
At approximately 11:20 am on Friday 1 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft opened fire at a motorcycle in the Qdeeh family neighborhood, east of Abasan in eastern Khan Younis district. As a result, Fawzi Fares Qdeeh, 30, was killed. Another three persons were injured in the attack; two of them were referred to the Gaza European Hospital.
At approximately 7:30 am on Friday 1 June 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened fire with machine guns and a number of artillery shells on agricultural lands east of Abasan village, to the east of Khan Younis. The fields, which were planted with wheat and barley, were damaged by fire as a result. Civil Defense fire engines subsequently arrived and put out the fire.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns the continuous Israeli attacks on Gaza, which have resulted in the killing and injury of civilians and destruction of residential houses and properties. Al Mezan reiterates its previous call on the international community to promptly intervene to end Israel’s violations of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention and international human rights law.
Al Mezan emphasizes the importance of ending the grant of immunity which has characterized the international community’s attitude towards gross Israeli violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Over the last two days the IOF has launched a series of aerial attacks throughout the Gaza Strip, as a result of which two persons were killed and 12 injured, including seven children and a woman. Nine houses were partially damaged, and one house was destroyed; a poultry and cattle farm, a water well, a carpentry shop, and a storeroom were also damaged.
In the morning hours of Friday 1 June 2012, the IOF announced that it had killed Ahmed Ahmed Abu Naser, 19, as he tried to sneak across the separation fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The IOF transferred the body to Gaza via Erez crossing, and then launched a series of attacks on civilian objects and in disregard of civilians’ lives.
Al Mezan’s field workers monitored and documented these attacks, which took place chronologically as follows, starting with the most recent incident:
At approximately 2:00 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, Israeli aircraft fired about four missiles at the house of Ibrahim Khalil Mohammed Al Feqi, 23, which is located in camp no. 2 in south An-Nuseirat. As a result, the 70-square meter house was severely damaged. Al Feqi, who was supposed to get married in two weeks, sustained shrapnel wounds in the right leg. Four adjacent houses were damaged, and four residents of a house belonging to a widow, Samiya Jadallah Jebril, 45, were injured. Al Mezan has identified them as:
· Feras Mohammed Jebril, 8, who sustained shrapnel wounds to the head;
· His brother Wesam, 6, injured in the right hand;
· His brother Mohammed, 5, injured in the right heel; and
· His brother Hussein, 17, injured in the left shoulder.
A house belonging to Mohammed Khalil Al Feqi, 27, was also damaged in the attack, and his daughter Deema, 4 months old, sustained shrapnel wounds to the head. Another house belonging to Saleh Mohammed Al Feqi was damaged as well, and his son Tareq, 20, sustained shrapnel wounds to the head. A doctor from the neighborhood gave field treatment to a woman and to two children, Leen Mohammed Al Feqi, 2, who sustained bruises, and Ahmed Rami Al Feqi, 3, who was injured in the left leg.
At approximately 1:35 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a room on a plot of agricultural land, destroying both the room and an under-construction house belonging to Mesbah Khader Sedam, 43. 20 olive trees and citrus were damaged. People especially women and children were terrified.
At approximately 1:30 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft attacked an agricultural room in Wadi As-Salqa village, southeast of Deir Al Balah. The room was destroyed; no casualties or injuries were reported.
At approximately 1:20 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft attacked a carpentry shop and a 200-square meter tin-roofed store in the Al Masha’la area southeast of Deir Al Balah. As a result, the carpentry shop and the roof of the store were destroyed. Adjacent houses were damaged in the attack.
At approximately 1:10 am on Sunday 3 June 2012, Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a poultry and cattle farm and a water well located about 1,500 meters southwest of the Bedouin village which lies northwest of Beit Lahiya in North Gaza district. As a result, the farm; the well—which supplies water to 50 dunams of agricultural land—and the building housing it; a room made of sheet metal, about 470 square meters in area; a storage room of ten square meters; and an electric generator, were completely destroyed; and 29 sheep and 4,300 chicks were killed. No casualties or injuries were reported. According to Al Mezan’s field investigations, the farm belongs to Faraj Hussein Abu Rabee’, 42, and is located in an agricultural area. The attack was massive and sudden, and terrified women and children in the area.
At approximately 11:20 am on Friday 1 June 2012, an Israeli aircraft opened fire at a motorcycle in the Qdeeh family neighborhood, east of Abasan in eastern Khan Younis district. As a result, Fawzi Fares Qdeeh, 30, was killed. Another three persons were injured in the attack; two of them were referred to the Gaza European Hospital.
At approximately 7:30 am on Friday 1 June 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened fire with machine guns and a number of artillery shells on agricultural lands east of Abasan village, to the east of Khan Younis. The fields, which were planted with wheat and barley, were damaged by fire as a result. Civil Defense fire engines subsequently arrived and put out the fire.
The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns the continuous Israeli attacks on Gaza, which have resulted in the killing and injury of civilians and destruction of residential houses and properties. Al Mezan reiterates its previous call on the international community to promptly intervene to end Israel’s violations of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention and international human rights law.
Al Mezan emphasizes the importance of ending the grant of immunity which has characterized the international community’s attitude towards gross Israeli violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the occupied Palestinian territory.
A Palestinian young man From Samu village, south of Al-Khalil, was hospitalized on Sunday after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked him.
Local sources said that Raed Humaidat was rushed to Yatta government hospital after the IOF soldiers severely beat him.
In another incident, the IOF served a demolition notice to a Palestinian living near Kiryat Arba settlement, claiming that his house was built without permit.
Local sources said that Raed Humaidat was rushed to Yatta government hospital after the IOF soldiers severely beat him.
In another incident, the IOF served a demolition notice to a Palestinian living near Kiryat Arba settlement, claiming that his house was built without permit.
2 june 2012
Israeli gunboats fire at Palestinian fishing boats
Israeli navy gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Sudaniya, to the north west of Gaza city, on Friday.
Palestinian fishermen syndicate sources told the PIC reporter that the gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at the boats forcing fishermen on board to abandon them. They said that no casualties were suffered.
The Israeli navy arrested four fishermen from one family while fishing off the coasts of Gaza on Wednesday.
Hamas holds Israel responsible for its military escalation on Gaza borders
The Hamas Movement held the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) responsible for the military escalation that took place south of Gaza borders on Friday leading to the killing of one Palestinian resistance fighter and one Israeli soldier.
In a press statement to Quds Press, senior Hamas official and lawmaker Mushir Al-Masri stressed that the Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves against any Israeli military incursions and attacks.
Masri said Israel's threats would never scare the Palestinians in Gaza who have the right to defend and repel Israel's incursions and military operations inside their territory.
"The truce is still effective and it is part of a national consensus, so any confrontation with the occupation would be certainly in the framework of a national agreement on the basis of considering the higher national interest of our people," the Hamas official affirmed.
For its part, the resistance committees blessed the Palestinian counterattack against an Israeli military post east of Khan Younis city on Friday.
The resistance committees warned Israel of the consequences of committing any follies against Gaza, and stressed that the resistance would not be watching the Israeli violations in Gaza and would respond strongly.
Palestinian fishermen syndicate sources told the PIC reporter that the gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at the boats forcing fishermen on board to abandon them. They said that no casualties were suffered.
The Israeli navy arrested four fishermen from one family while fishing off the coasts of Gaza on Wednesday.
Hamas holds Israel responsible for its military escalation on Gaza borders
The Hamas Movement held the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) responsible for the military escalation that took place south of Gaza borders on Friday leading to the killing of one Palestinian resistance fighter and one Israeli soldier.
In a press statement to Quds Press, senior Hamas official and lawmaker Mushir Al-Masri stressed that the Palestinian people have the right to defend themselves against any Israeli military incursions and attacks.
Masri said Israel's threats would never scare the Palestinians in Gaza who have the right to defend and repel Israel's incursions and military operations inside their territory.
"The truce is still effective and it is part of a national consensus, so any confrontation with the occupation would be certainly in the framework of a national agreement on the basis of considering the higher national interest of our people," the Hamas official affirmed.
For its part, the resistance committees blessed the Palestinian counterattack against an Israeli military post east of Khan Younis city on Friday.
The resistance committees warned Israel of the consequences of committing any follies against Gaza, and stressed that the resistance would not be watching the Israeli violations in Gaza and would respond strongly.
IOF soldiers attack farmers, injure one
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked a group of farmers in Taku village, south east of Bethlehem, on Friday, local sources said.
The Taku municipality chairman Tayseer Abu Mufareh told Quds Press that the farmers were tending to their land when the soldiers converged on them.
He said that one of the farmers, Yasser Jibril, suffered various injuries as a result of the unwarranted attack.
The Taku municipality chairman Tayseer Abu Mufareh told Quds Press that the farmers were tending to their land when the soldiers converged on them.
He said that one of the farmers, Yasser Jibril, suffered various injuries as a result of the unwarranted attack.
IOF soldiers attack funeral of martyr in Al-Khalil
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) attacked the funeral procession of the remains of a martyr in Beit Uwa village, west of Al-Khalil, on Friday, local sources said.
They said that the attack occurred after the mourners laid to rest the remains of Jihad Suweiti, whose body was delivered to his relatives on Thursday after years of dumping him in the Israeli cemetery of numbers.
The sources noted that the soldiers fired teargas canisters at the participants, adding that many of them were treated for breathing difficulty.
They said that the attack occurred after the mourners laid to rest the remains of Jihad Suweiti, whose body was delivered to his relatives on Thursday after years of dumping him in the Israeli cemetery of numbers.
The sources noted that the soldiers fired teargas canisters at the participants, adding that many of them were treated for breathing difficulty.
1 june 2012
Israeli airstrikes wounded four Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday, hours after an Israeli soldier and Palestinian militant were killed in an exchange of fire along the border. Witnesses said Israeli aircraft bombed an auto rickshaw [motorbike] east of Khan Younis. Medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said four people were wounded, and two were in a critical condition.
Earlier, a Palestinian gunman breached the southern Gaza border and opened fire on Israeli soldiers, who returned fire, the Israeli army said. A soldier, identified by the army as 21-year-old Netanel Moshiashvili, and the Palestinian were killed. A Gaza radio station close to Islamic Jihad named the man killed as 22-year-old Ahmad Abu Naser. It said the group's armed wing had claimed responsibility for the attack. But a spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, Abu Ahmad, denied any involvement in the attack.
The body of Abu Naser was transferred to Gaza on Friday by Israeli authorities, a Ma‘an correspondent said. Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip told Ma‘an that the attack appeared to have been aimed at luring Israeli forces into the area in an attempt to capture a soldier.
Earlier, a Palestinian gunman breached the southern Gaza border and opened fire on Israeli soldiers, who returned fire, the Israeli army said. A soldier, identified by the army as 21-year-old Netanel Moshiashvili, and the Palestinian were killed. A Gaza radio station close to Islamic Jihad named the man killed as 22-year-old Ahmad Abu Naser. It said the group's armed wing had claimed responsibility for the attack. But a spokesman for the Al-Quds Brigades, Abu Ahmad, denied any involvement in the attack.
The body of Abu Naser was transferred to Gaza on Friday by Israeli authorities, a Ma‘an correspondent said. Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip told Ma‘an that the attack appeared to have been aimed at luring Israeli forces into the area in an attempt to capture a soldier.
Israeli naval vessels have again attacked Gaza fishermen going about their lawful business at sea; no causalities have been reported in the latest incident. A statement from the Palestinian Fishermen's Union said that some of its members were targeted by the Israeli navy at dawn on Friday.
The attack caused them to stop fishing and return to port.
Friday's attack follows a similar assault on Wednesday, when four fishermen were kidnapped by the Israeli navy. Their whereabouts is as yet unknown.
According to Nizar Ayesh, the union head, such "continuous and organised" targeting of Palestinian fishermen is aimed to disrupt the whole Palestinian economy. "The Israelis only allow Palestinian fishermen to have a three-nautical-miles fishing limit," he said, "but that is much smaller than what is necessary." There is an internationally agreed 12 miles of territorial waters around all of the world's coastlines.
Mr Ayesh said that the Israeli navy arrested 9 fishermen in May. He described the arrests as "a measure by which the Israelis hope to stop our people fishing in order to undermine the Palestinian economy."
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights condemned the Israeli policy towards Gaza's fishermen, agreeing that the measures target the Palestinian economy. "Fishing boats are always being confiscated and fishermen are obliged to swim naked to the beach," said a spokesman for Al Mezan, who also confirmed that such action breaches international law. "As collective punishment, this kind of treatment is banned."
Other human rights activists also condemned the Israeli measures against the Gaza Strip which are designed to undermine the little that has been done internationally to help the shattered Palestinian economy.
Sa'ed Abu-Zeyada, a spokesman for the Union of Agriculture Workers' Committee in Gaza, said: "Offensive Israeli measures at sea, as part of the Gaza blockade, have forced hundreds of fishermen to lose their livelihood." Large projects funded by Oxfam have been put in place to help the fishermen, he added, but they have now been wasted. Abu-Zeyada's organisation is Oxfam's partner in the Gaza Strip.
Economist Maher al-Tabba', confirmed that Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have a harmful effect on the Palestinian economy, "which has been shrinking for years". Indeed, according to Nawwaf abu-Shammala, the head of the economic committee of the Arab League, a serious increase in poverty has been recorded as a result of Israeli actions against the people of Gaza. "Recent statistics put the poverty figures at 18 per cent in the West Bank and 38 per cent in the Gaza Strip, during 2009 and 2010." He added that the rate has increased even further since 2010.
An Arab league report on poverty in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, based mainly on World Food Programme and the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation statistics and studies, found that more than 50 per cent of Palestinian families suffered food insecurity in 2011.
The report also mentioned that there are "more than 500 Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank which hinder transportation of goods", adding that the Israeli Separation Wall is "a big threat to the Palestinian economy".
The attack caused them to stop fishing and return to port.
Friday's attack follows a similar assault on Wednesday, when four fishermen were kidnapped by the Israeli navy. Their whereabouts is as yet unknown.
According to Nizar Ayesh, the union head, such "continuous and organised" targeting of Palestinian fishermen is aimed to disrupt the whole Palestinian economy. "The Israelis only allow Palestinian fishermen to have a three-nautical-miles fishing limit," he said, "but that is much smaller than what is necessary." There is an internationally agreed 12 miles of territorial waters around all of the world's coastlines.
Mr Ayesh said that the Israeli navy arrested 9 fishermen in May. He described the arrests as "a measure by which the Israelis hope to stop our people fishing in order to undermine the Palestinian economy."
Al Mezan Centre for Human Rights condemned the Israeli policy towards Gaza's fishermen, agreeing that the measures target the Palestinian economy. "Fishing boats are always being confiscated and fishermen are obliged to swim naked to the beach," said a spokesman for Al Mezan, who also confirmed that such action breaches international law. "As collective punishment, this kind of treatment is banned."
Other human rights activists also condemned the Israeli measures against the Gaza Strip which are designed to undermine the little that has been done internationally to help the shattered Palestinian economy.
Sa'ed Abu-Zeyada, a spokesman for the Union of Agriculture Workers' Committee in Gaza, said: "Offensive Israeli measures at sea, as part of the Gaza blockade, have forced hundreds of fishermen to lose their livelihood." Large projects funded by Oxfam have been put in place to help the fishermen, he added, but they have now been wasted. Abu-Zeyada's organisation is Oxfam's partner in the Gaza Strip.
Economist Maher al-Tabba', confirmed that Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have a harmful effect on the Palestinian economy, "which has been shrinking for years". Indeed, according to Nawwaf abu-Shammala, the head of the economic committee of the Arab League, a serious increase in poverty has been recorded as a result of Israeli actions against the people of Gaza. "Recent statistics put the poverty figures at 18 per cent in the West Bank and 38 per cent in the Gaza Strip, during 2009 and 2010." He added that the rate has increased even further since 2010.
An Arab league report on poverty in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, based mainly on World Food Programme and the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation statistics and studies, found that more than 50 per cent of Palestinian families suffered food insecurity in 2011.
The report also mentioned that there are "more than 500 Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank which hinder transportation of goods", adding that the Israeli Separation Wall is "a big threat to the Palestinian economy".
Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that a Palestinian farmer was injured when Israeli soldiers attacked several farmers, and fired concussion grenades at them, while working in their lands in "Roman area", east of Tiqoua in Bethlehem district.
Head of the Tiqoua’ Village Council, Taiseer Abu Mfarreh, told the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA), that soldiers accompanied by employees of the so-called Civil Coordination Office, attacked the villagers and forced them out of their lands.
WAFA added that the soldiers also threatened the residents, ordering them not to return to their lands under the claim that the area is a "closed military zone".
The Roman area in Tiqoua’ has been repeatedly targeted by soldiers and settlers, with a sharp increase of attacks carried out by fundamentalist settlers over the last few days.
A source in Tekoa' settlement told the IMEMC that the incident might have taken place "after Palestinians hurled stones" at settlers vehicles, and that the attack is unlikely to be related to "price tag attacks", according the source
Previous attacks carried out by the settlers in different parts of Palestine targeted mosques, including burning and defacing mosques, attacking villages, uprooting, cutting an burning Palestinian orchards.
The settlers also defaced property of Israel's Peace Now movement, including defacing cars of peace now activists.
Earlier in February this year, the settlers carried out a “price tag” attack targeting a Christian Monastery in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross Monastery.
Extremist settlers use the “Price Tag” slogan to refer to “retaliatory” attacks that they usually carry out against the Palestinians whenever Israel removes an illegal settlement outpost in the occupied territories.
Extremist settlers sprayed graffiti on several occasions stating "Death to Arabs", "Death to Muslims", and "Death to Christians", in addition to slurs against the Muslim prophet.
The fundamentalist settlers, mainly youth groups, are also believed to be involved in numerous Price Tag attacks that have escalated in the last two years and including the burning of several mosques in the West Bank.
Head of the Tiqoua’ Village Council, Taiseer Abu Mfarreh, told the Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA), that soldiers accompanied by employees of the so-called Civil Coordination Office, attacked the villagers and forced them out of their lands.
WAFA added that the soldiers also threatened the residents, ordering them not to return to their lands under the claim that the area is a "closed military zone".
The Roman area in Tiqoua’ has been repeatedly targeted by soldiers and settlers, with a sharp increase of attacks carried out by fundamentalist settlers over the last few days.
A source in Tekoa' settlement told the IMEMC that the incident might have taken place "after Palestinians hurled stones" at settlers vehicles, and that the attack is unlikely to be related to "price tag attacks", according the source
Previous attacks carried out by the settlers in different parts of Palestine targeted mosques, including burning and defacing mosques, attacking villages, uprooting, cutting an burning Palestinian orchards.
The settlers also defaced property of Israel's Peace Now movement, including defacing cars of peace now activists.
Earlier in February this year, the settlers carried out a “price tag” attack targeting a Christian Monastery in Jerusalem’s Valley of the Cross Monastery.
Extremist settlers use the “Price Tag” slogan to refer to “retaliatory” attacks that they usually carry out against the Palestinians whenever Israel removes an illegal settlement outpost in the occupied territories.
Extremist settlers sprayed graffiti on several occasions stating "Death to Arabs", "Death to Muslims", and "Death to Christians", in addition to slurs against the Muslim prophet.
The fundamentalist settlers, mainly youth groups, are also believed to be involved in numerous Price Tag attacks that have escalated in the last two years and including the burning of several mosques in the West Bank.
Two Palestinians killed, two others injured in Gaza
Naji Qudaih, 34 (picture)
Two Palestinian young men were killed Friday, one in a clash with IOF troops to the east of Khan Younis, the other died of serious wounds he sustained in an Israeli occupation airstrike that targeted a motorcycle in Abasan to the east of Khan Younis. Two others were also wounded in the airstrike.
Ahmad Abu al-Naser crossed the border fence east of Khan Younis near the Kissufim military post and clashed with occupation soldiers killing one of them according to occupation sources. He was killed in the clash. No resistance faction declared responsibility for the attack.
The Israeli occupation responded by attacking a motorbike in Abasan to the east of Khan Younis wounding three people who were taken to the Naser Hospital and European Hospital in Khan Younis. The condition of two of the wounded was described as critical.
Naji Qudaih, 34 years, who was critically wounded in the airstrike, succumbed to his wounds on Friday evening.
Two Palestinian young men were killed Friday, one in a clash with IOF troops to the east of Khan Younis, the other died of serious wounds he sustained in an Israeli occupation airstrike that targeted a motorcycle in Abasan to the east of Khan Younis. Two others were also wounded in the airstrike.
Ahmad Abu al-Naser crossed the border fence east of Khan Younis near the Kissufim military post and clashed with occupation soldiers killing one of them according to occupation sources. He was killed in the clash. No resistance faction declared responsibility for the attack.
The Israeli occupation responded by attacking a motorbike in Abasan to the east of Khan Younis wounding three people who were taken to the Naser Hospital and European Hospital in Khan Younis. The condition of two of the wounded was described as critical.
Naji Qudaih, 34 years, who was critically wounded in the airstrike, succumbed to his wounds on Friday evening.
A 43-year-old man from Hebron died on Friday morning after suffering a gunshot wound to the chest, medics said.
Red Crescent official Nasser Kabbajeh identified the shooting victim as Omar Abu Al Jeraich from the town of Kharas in the southern West Bank.
Doctors at Al Ahli Hospital in Hebron said the man was already dead when he arrived at the hospital.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear early Friday.
Red Crescent official Nasser Kabbajeh identified the shooting victim as Omar Abu Al Jeraich from the town of Kharas in the southern West Bank.
Doctors at Al Ahli Hospital in Hebron said the man was already dead when he arrived at the hospital.
The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear early Friday.
An Israeli soldier and Palestinian gunman were killed in an exchange of fire in the southern Gaza strip on Friday morning, the Israeli army said.
Israel's Ynet news reported that a clash took place around 4 a.m. after a gunman crossed the border into Israel under cover of heavy fog. It said the army's Golani force opened fire after attempting to arrest the gunman.
The Israeli army said in a statement the Palestinian was "infiltrating Israel from the southern Gaza Strip (and) opened fire at IDF soldiers, who responded with fire," which killed a Golani soldier and the Palestinian.
Local witnesses heard shooting near Abassan, a border village in southern Gaza that is also close to the Egyptian frontier. They said Israeli forces set off smoke bombs to obscure the view as helicopters landed at the scene.
Israel's Ynet news reported that a clash took place around 4 a.m. after a gunman crossed the border into Israel under cover of heavy fog. It said the army's Golani force opened fire after attempting to arrest the gunman.
The Israeli army said in a statement the Palestinian was "infiltrating Israel from the southern Gaza Strip (and) opened fire at IDF soldiers, who responded with fire," which killed a Golani soldier and the Palestinian.
Local witnesses heard shooting near Abassan, a border village in southern Gaza that is also close to the Egyptian frontier. They said Israeli forces set off smoke bombs to obscure the view as helicopters landed at the scene.
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