11 july 2014
Palestinian medical sources have reported that five family members have been killed, and fifteen more Palestinians injured, when Israeli missiles struck homes in Yebna refugee camp and the Nahda neighborhood, east of the Rafah district, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The sources said the army fired several missiles and artillery shells into their homes, killing five and wounding 15, while eleven of the wounded are in very serious condition.
Eyewitnesses said Israel 16 war jets also fired missiles into the three-story residential building belonging to the Ghannam family.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Wisam Abdul-Razeq Ghannam, 23, his brother Mahmoud, 26, Kifah Shihada Ghannam, 20, Ghalia Thieb Ghannam, 7, and Mohammad Monir ‘Ashour, 25.
Medics and rescue teams believe more Palestinians could be buried under the rubble of the shells building as it was leveled by the Israeli missiles, while several other nearby buildings have also been hit.
The sources said the army fired several missiles and artillery shells into their homes, killing five and wounding 15, while eleven of the wounded are in very serious condition.
Eyewitnesses said Israel 16 war jets also fired missiles into the three-story residential building belonging to the Ghannam family.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as Wisam Abdul-Razeq Ghannam, 23, his brother Mahmoud, 26, Kifah Shihada Ghannam, 20, Ghalia Thieb Ghannam, 7, and Mohammad Monir ‘Ashour, 25.
Medics and rescue teams believe more Palestinians could be buried under the rubble of the shells building as it was leveled by the Israeli missiles, while several other nearby buildings have also been hit.
Child dies in Israeli raid targeting Jabaliya house
A child died Friday in an Israeli air raid targeting a house in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip, medics said.
The child was identified as 4-year-old Saher Abu Namous, 4
A child died Friday in an Israeli air raid targeting a house in Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip, medics said.
The child was identified as 4-year-old Saher Abu Namous, 4
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Relatives and friends carry the body of 10-year-old Noor al-Najdi during her funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on July 11, 2014
The current wave of strikes by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians is a manifestation of false-flag terrorism, an analyst writes for Press TV.
“Few accept Israel’s barbarity as defensive or justified. More and more see kidnappings, school shootings and car bombings and think ‘false-flag’ terrorism,” Gordon Duff wrote in a column for the Press TV website.
He added that there is “evidence” of the Israeli police and intelligence service having staged the killing of three Israeli teens in order to justify the attacks on Gaza.
“False-flag terrorism means Israel; they are one in the same,” the analyst wrote, describing Israel’s foray into the Gaza Strip as “a necessary deception.”
Duff said the Israeli regime has been enjoying the support of the US government in continuing its savagery against the Palestinians.
“America pays their bills, fights their wars and covers up their crimes…. Israel is defended by one or more US Navy AEGIS ships stationed in the Mediterranean,” the analyst wrote.
Nearly 110 Palestinians have so far been killed since Israel began pounding targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Palestinian sources say one third of the casualties are women and children.
The Israeli regime has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military frequently launches indiscriminate attacks against Palestinians residing in Gaza, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
In November 2012, Israel launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the offensive.
The current wave of strikes by the Israeli regime against the Palestinians is a manifestation of false-flag terrorism, an analyst writes for Press TV.
“Few accept Israel’s barbarity as defensive or justified. More and more see kidnappings, school shootings and car bombings and think ‘false-flag’ terrorism,” Gordon Duff wrote in a column for the Press TV website.
He added that there is “evidence” of the Israeli police and intelligence service having staged the killing of three Israeli teens in order to justify the attacks on Gaza.
“False-flag terrorism means Israel; they are one in the same,” the analyst wrote, describing Israel’s foray into the Gaza Strip as “a necessary deception.”
Duff said the Israeli regime has been enjoying the support of the US government in continuing its savagery against the Palestinians.
“America pays their bills, fights their wars and covers up their crimes…. Israel is defended by one or more US Navy AEGIS ships stationed in the Mediterranean,” the analyst wrote.
Nearly 110 Palestinians have so far been killed since Israel began pounding targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Palestinian sources say one third of the casualties are women and children.
The Israeli regime has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military frequently launches indiscriminate attacks against Palestinians residing in Gaza, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
In November 2012, Israel launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the offensive.
Unable to score significant hits against Palestinian resistance fighters, the Israeli army and air force continue to target mainly residential homes and apartment buildings all over the Gaza Strip, using American supplied F-16s and helicopter gunship.
The latest toll of the ongoing blitzkrieg is believed to have reached well over 90 people, the vast majority of whom children, women and senior citizens.
Around a thousand other civilians were injured, some critically. An Israeli military spokesman has admitted that Israel is killing Palestinian children knowingly, saying the goal of the killing is to make Hamas supporters suffer. Israel routinely carries out war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians and other peoples of the Middle East, paying little or no attention to the rule of international law or international humanitarian law.
Human rights operators have long called for prosecuting Israeli political and military leaders as war criminals for committing crimes against humanity in Palestine.
Israel exploits the strong Jewish domination of the American government and Congress to escape any meaningful censure by the international community.
The latest toll of the ongoing blitzkrieg is believed to have reached well over 90 people, the vast majority of whom children, women and senior citizens.
Around a thousand other civilians were injured, some critically. An Israeli military spokesman has admitted that Israel is killing Palestinian children knowingly, saying the goal of the killing is to make Hamas supporters suffer. Israel routinely carries out war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians and other peoples of the Middle East, paying little or no attention to the rule of international law or international humanitarian law.
Human rights operators have long called for prosecuting Israeli political and military leaders as war criminals for committing crimes against humanity in Palestine.
Israel exploits the strong Jewish domination of the American government and Congress to escape any meaningful censure by the international community.
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The death toll from a relentless Israeli offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip has increased to at least 107.
Medical sources reported several casualties from an Israeli missile attack on a house in southern Gaza on Friday while Israeli warplanes pounded Deir al-Balah, leaving a number of people dead in the central city.
Earlier, three Palestinians, including a child, were killed in the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in the coastal enclave.
Israeli warplanes and drones have reportedly pounded more than 600 targets across the blockaded sliver since Tuesday, with Palestinian sources saying one third of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Osama Hamdan, the head of the international relations committee of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, told Press TV on Thursday that the movement is ready to hit back at Israeli forces should Tel Aviv launch a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.
“Israelis are trying to heat up the situation in order to start a ground operation, which will not be an easy issue for the Israelis and also for the resistance. But we are ready to face that,” he underlined. Palestinian resistance movements in the Gaza Strip have already been responding to Israel’s aggression by targeting towns and cities deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories.
Medical sources reported several casualties from an Israeli missile attack on a house in southern Gaza on Friday while Israeli warplanes pounded Deir al-Balah, leaving a number of people dead in the central city.
Earlier, three Palestinians, including a child, were killed in the northern towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in the coastal enclave.
Israeli warplanes and drones have reportedly pounded more than 600 targets across the blockaded sliver since Tuesday, with Palestinian sources saying one third of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Osama Hamdan, the head of the international relations committee of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, told Press TV on Thursday that the movement is ready to hit back at Israeli forces should Tel Aviv launch a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.
“Israelis are trying to heat up the situation in order to start a ground operation, which will not be an easy issue for the Israelis and also for the resistance. But we are ready to face that,” he underlined. Palestinian resistance movements in the Gaza Strip have already been responding to Israel’s aggression by targeting towns and cities deep inside the occupied Palestinian territories.
Gaza healthcare on verge of collapse
The World Health Organization (WHO) says health services are on the verge of collapse in the besieged Gaza Strip amid escalating Israeli attacks.
The UN health agency said on Thursday that Gaza has faced severe shortages in medicines and fuel for hospital generators.
“The recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip raises concern about the ability of the government and the Ministry of Health of the occupied Palestinian territory to cope with the increased burden of medical emergencies on the health system, given the high levels of shortages of medicines, medical disposables and hospital fuel supplies, and rising healthcare debt,” WHO said in a statement. Around 100 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Israeli offensive against the coastal enclave which started on Tuesday. According to Palestinian sources, one third of the casualties are women and children.
“A hospital, three clinics and a water desalinization center in a refugee camp have also been damaged. More airstrikes and missile attacks are likely,” WHO said of the Israeli attacks.
The Health Ministry in Gaza has only 10 days of fuel reserves for hospitals during frequent power cuts while state health workers have not received their salaries in recent months.
Elective surgeries have been stopped in hospitals in the past week as they are only carrying out life-saving ones, WHO added.
The organization called on donors for USD40 million for essential healthcare supplies through year-end and a further USD20 million toward the debt owed to East al-Quds (Jerusalem) hospitals which receive cancer patients from Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Dr. Ala Alwan, WHO regional director, said that the situation was similar in 2008–2009 and in 2012 in the Gaza Strip, when stocks were low and medicines were urgently required.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says health services are on the verge of collapse in the besieged Gaza Strip amid escalating Israeli attacks.
The UN health agency said on Thursday that Gaza has faced severe shortages in medicines and fuel for hospital generators.
“The recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip raises concern about the ability of the government and the Ministry of Health of the occupied Palestinian territory to cope with the increased burden of medical emergencies on the health system, given the high levels of shortages of medicines, medical disposables and hospital fuel supplies, and rising healthcare debt,” WHO said in a statement. Around 100 Palestinians have been killed in the ongoing Israeli offensive against the coastal enclave which started on Tuesday. According to Palestinian sources, one third of the casualties are women and children.
“A hospital, three clinics and a water desalinization center in a refugee camp have also been damaged. More airstrikes and missile attacks are likely,” WHO said of the Israeli attacks.
The Health Ministry in Gaza has only 10 days of fuel reserves for hospitals during frequent power cuts while state health workers have not received their salaries in recent months.
Elective surgeries have been stopped in hospitals in the past week as they are only carrying out life-saving ones, WHO added.
The organization called on donors for USD40 million for essential healthcare supplies through year-end and a further USD20 million toward the debt owed to East al-Quds (Jerusalem) hospitals which receive cancer patients from Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Dr. Ala Alwan, WHO regional director, said that the situation was similar in 2008–2009 and in 2012 in the Gaza Strip, when stocks were low and medicines were urgently required.
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Protesters have taken to the streets in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, to express their solidarity with Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip, who are currently being targeted by Israeli airstrikes, Press TV reports.
The demonstrators slammed the ongoing Israeli offensive against the coastal enclave, which has left scores of people dead, including women and children. Chanting anti-Israeli slogans and holding banners, the Yemeni demonstrators also condemned Arab and Western leaders for their silence over the Israeli onslaught. “We came out to show our support for the Palestinian people against |
Israel, which is carrying out massacres on a daily basis on the people of Gaza. We also want to condemn the Arab world leaders for their silence and inaction,” a protester told Press TV.
The demonstrators also called on the international community to hold the Tel Aviv regime accountable for its crimes.
Nearly 110 Palestinians have so far been killed since Israel began pounding targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Palestinian sources say one third of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military frequently launches indiscriminate attacks against the Palestinians residing in Gaza, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
In November 2012, Israel launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the Israeli offensive.
The demonstrators also called on the international community to hold the Tel Aviv regime accountable for its crimes.
Nearly 110 Palestinians have so far been killed since Israel began pounding targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Palestinian sources say one third of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military frequently launches indiscriminate attacks against the Palestinians residing in Gaza, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
In November 2012, Israel launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the Israeli offensive.
British Prime Minister David Cameron
British Prime Minister David Cameron has fully supported the Israeli regime’s brutal military offensive against the defenseless Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, Cameron reassured the Israeli regime of Britain’s support for the ongoing Israeli bombing campaign against the besieged Gaza.
Nearly 110 Palestinians have so far been killed since Israel began pounding targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Palestinian sources say one third of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military frequently launches indiscriminate attacks against the Palestinians residing in Gaza, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
In November 2012, Israel launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the Israeli offensive.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has fully supported the Israeli regime’s brutal military offensive against the defenseless Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, Cameron reassured the Israeli regime of Britain’s support for the ongoing Israeli bombing campaign against the besieged Gaza.
Nearly 110 Palestinians have so far been killed since Israel began pounding targets in the Gaza Strip earlier this week. Palestinian sources say one third of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has also mobilized 20,000 soldiers for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military frequently launches indiscriminate attacks against the Palestinians residing in Gaza, which has remained literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade since 2007.
In November 2012, Israel launched an eight-day war on Gaza. Over 160 Palestinians were killed and some 1,200 others were wounded in the Israeli offensive.
In an interview with Israeli army Radio, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said "There is nobody who wants a ground operation and we want Hamas to stop launching missiles and rockets. But in that case Israel has full American backing."
Three Gaza rockets were shot down over the Tel Aviv area Friday as Hamas militants claimed they had fired M75 missiles at Ben Gurion airport. All three were shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, an army statement said.
"Three rockets were launched at central Tel Aviv. All three were intercepted over the Tel Aviv metropolitan area," it said.
The rocket fire was claimed by Hamas militants in Gaza who said they had launched "four M75 missiles at Ben Gurion airport" just outside Tel Aviv.
A spokesman for Israel's Airport Authority told AFP Ben Gurion airport was closed down for "nine minutes" but then resumed operations as normal.
Witnesses in Tel Aviv said four or five explosions were heard shortly after sirens wailed across the area, sending people fleeing for cover.
Police reported finding "shrapnel in open areas" in Tel Aviv, but no injuries.
Earlier Friday, a rocket fired from Gaza hit a petrol station in the southern city Ashdod, causing a fire and wounding three people, one of them seriously, the emergency services said.
"Three rockets were launched at central Tel Aviv. All three were intercepted over the Tel Aviv metropolitan area," it said.
The rocket fire was claimed by Hamas militants in Gaza who said they had launched "four M75 missiles at Ben Gurion airport" just outside Tel Aviv.
A spokesman for Israel's Airport Authority told AFP Ben Gurion airport was closed down for "nine minutes" but then resumed operations as normal.
Witnesses in Tel Aviv said four or five explosions were heard shortly after sirens wailed across the area, sending people fleeing for cover.
Police reported finding "shrapnel in open areas" in Tel Aviv, but no injuries.
Earlier Friday, a rocket fired from Gaza hit a petrol station in the southern city Ashdod, causing a fire and wounding three people, one of them seriously, the emergency services said.
You find the photo's/video's disturbing? Remember, this is what Palestinian children see almost every day
Video: Father try to wake up his killed son ----- Do not watch this video if you want to sleep at night.. +25
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