29 july 2014
A Palestinian child, who was seriously injured several days ago when the army fired a missile into a street in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, died on Tuesday at the St. Joseph (French) Hospital in occupied Jerusalem.
The Maan News Agency has reported that Zaher Ahmad Najjar, 6, suffered a serious injury a few days ago, after the army fired fired a missile targeting a motorcycle rider, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The targeted Palestinian was killed, and as several residents gathered in the area, the Israeli Air Force fired a second missile, leading to several casualties, and Najjar suffered a serious injury.
The child was moved to Khan Younis Hospital, before he was moved to the Gaza European Hospital and then to St. Joseph Hospital due to the seriousness of his condition.
He was declared clinically dead, and passed away Tuesday.
His body will be moved back to the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Maan stated.
Head of the St. Joseph Hospital, Jamil Kousa, stated that 21 wounded Palestinians are currently receiving treatment at the hospital, and that the hospital is ready and willing to provide all needed treatment for patients and wounded Palestinians who suffered very serious injuries, such as head injuries, and severe burns.
Kousa stated the hospital urgently needs respiratory machines, and equipment.
Families of a few wounded Palestinians managed to transfer their wounded loved ones to the Al-Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem, Augusta Victoria and St. Joseph hospital in occupied Jerusalem.
In latest report, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said 1191 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, women and elderly, have been killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza since July 9, while more than 7000 Palestinians have been injured.
The Maan News Agency has reported that Zaher Ahmad Najjar, 6, suffered a serious injury a few days ago, after the army fired fired a missile targeting a motorcycle rider, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The targeted Palestinian was killed, and as several residents gathered in the area, the Israeli Air Force fired a second missile, leading to several casualties, and Najjar suffered a serious injury.
The child was moved to Khan Younis Hospital, before he was moved to the Gaza European Hospital and then to St. Joseph Hospital due to the seriousness of his condition.
He was declared clinically dead, and passed away Tuesday.
His body will be moved back to the Gaza Strip Wednesday, Maan stated.
Head of the St. Joseph Hospital, Jamil Kousa, stated that 21 wounded Palestinians are currently receiving treatment at the hospital, and that the hospital is ready and willing to provide all needed treatment for patients and wounded Palestinians who suffered very serious injuries, such as head injuries, and severe burns.
Kousa stated the hospital urgently needs respiratory machines, and equipment.
Families of a few wounded Palestinians managed to transfer their wounded loved ones to the Al-Maqassed Hospital in Jerusalem, Augusta Victoria and St. Joseph hospital in occupied Jerusalem.
In latest report, the Ministry of Health in Gaza said 1191 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, women and elderly, have been killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza since July 9, while more than 7000 Palestinians have been injured.
update: A new airstrike in Rafah around 8:30 pm Tuesday killed two and wounded three. The death toll on Tuesday alone is over 100 killed, and hundreds more injured. Most of these are still waiting to be identified.
The victims were identified as:
Suleiman Mos'ad Barham al-Hishash, 30.
Jamal Ramadan Lafi, 50.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that more than twenty-two Palestinians have been killed, and dozens injured, in recent Israeli air strikes and bombardment, in different parts of the Gaza Strip. Army fires missile into UNRWA car, killing a Palestinian Doctor and his brother.
Update 18:40: A Palestinian doctor and his brother killed after the Israeli army fired a missile into a UNRWA car, in northern Gaza.
The Ministry of Health said the two slain Palestinian have been identified as:
1. Dr. Bashir al-Hajjar, northern Gaza.
2. Samir al-Hajjar, northern Gaza.
Update 17:01: Three Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza, remains moved to the Gaza European Hospital.
3. Mos'ab Ahmad Sweih, 17, Gaza.
4. Nariman Khalil al-Agha, 39, Gaza.
5. Ali Mohammad Abu Ma'rouf, 23, Gaza.
Update 16:36: Mahmoud Hammad, killed after the army bombarded homes east of Khan Younis.
6. Mahmoud Hammad, Khan Younis.
Update: 16:24: Two Palestinians killed by Israeli shells in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
7. Marwan Khalil Jibril, 40, Nusseirat.
8. Mohammad Imad Abu Hamed, 21, Nusseirat.
The sources said two Palestinians were killed by Israeli missiles, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. They have been identified as:
9. Ayman Samir Qeshta, 30, Rafah.
10. Ismael Shahin, 27, Rafah.
A Palestinian journalist and his daughter were also killed after an Israeli was fired into a crowded street in Mesbeh neighborhood, north of Rafah.
Several Palestinians were injured, some seriously. The slain father and his daughter have been identified as:
11. Baha’ ed-Deen al-Gharib, Rafah.
12. Ola Baha’ ed-Deen al-Gharib, Rafah.
A Palestinian child was also killed when an Israeli missile struck her family home in the Salatin neighborhood, in northern Gaza; several family members were injured. She has been identified as:
13. Tahrir Nasr Jaber, 15, Northern Gaza.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza also said two children (brothers) have been killed after an Israeli missile struck their home in Khan Younis. They have been identified as:
14. Mohammad Ata Najjar, 2, Khan Younis.
15. Rafif Ata Najjar, 3, Khan Younis.
In addition, a political leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and six members of his family, have been killed when the army fired a missile into their home, in Khan Younis. The names of his family members were not yet available at the time of this report.
16. Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
17. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
18. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
19. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
20. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
21. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
22. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
Soldiers also fired missiles into dozens of homes, north of Gaza City, Zeitoun neighborhood, Rafah, Beit Lahia and Jabalia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said the remains of more than a 100 Palestinians are yet to be identified, and published. Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least fifty Palestinians Tuesday.
The victims were identified as:
Suleiman Mos'ad Barham al-Hishash, 30.
Jamal Ramadan Lafi, 50.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported that more than twenty-two Palestinians have been killed, and dozens injured, in recent Israeli air strikes and bombardment, in different parts of the Gaza Strip. Army fires missile into UNRWA car, killing a Palestinian Doctor and his brother.
Update 18:40: A Palestinian doctor and his brother killed after the Israeli army fired a missile into a UNRWA car, in northern Gaza.
The Ministry of Health said the two slain Palestinian have been identified as:
1. Dr. Bashir al-Hajjar, northern Gaza.
2. Samir al-Hajjar, northern Gaza.
Update 17:01: Three Palestinians killed by Israeli missiles in Gaza, remains moved to the Gaza European Hospital.
3. Mos'ab Ahmad Sweih, 17, Gaza.
4. Nariman Khalil al-Agha, 39, Gaza.
5. Ali Mohammad Abu Ma'rouf, 23, Gaza.
Update 16:36: Mahmoud Hammad, killed after the army bombarded homes east of Khan Younis.
6. Mahmoud Hammad, Khan Younis.
Update: 16:24: Two Palestinians killed by Israeli shells in the Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
7. Marwan Khalil Jibril, 40, Nusseirat.
8. Mohammad Imad Abu Hamed, 21, Nusseirat.
The sources said two Palestinians were killed by Israeli missiles, east of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. They have been identified as:
9. Ayman Samir Qeshta, 30, Rafah.
10. Ismael Shahin, 27, Rafah.
A Palestinian journalist and his daughter were also killed after an Israeli was fired into a crowded street in Mesbeh neighborhood, north of Rafah.
Several Palestinians were injured, some seriously. The slain father and his daughter have been identified as:
11. Baha’ ed-Deen al-Gharib, Rafah.
12. Ola Baha’ ed-Deen al-Gharib, Rafah.
A Palestinian child was also killed when an Israeli missile struck her family home in the Salatin neighborhood, in northern Gaza; several family members were injured. She has been identified as:
13. Tahrir Nasr Jaber, 15, Northern Gaza.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza also said two children (brothers) have been killed after an Israeli missile struck their home in Khan Younis. They have been identified as:
14. Mohammad Ata Najjar, 2, Khan Younis.
15. Rafif Ata Najjar, 3, Khan Younis.
In addition, a political leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and six members of his family, have been killed when the army fired a missile into their home, in Khan Younis. The names of his family members were not yet available at the time of this report.
16. Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
17. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
18. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
19. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
20. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
21. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
22. Family member of Waddah Abu Amer, Khan Younis.
Soldiers also fired missiles into dozens of homes, north of Gaza City, Zeitoun neighborhood, Rafah, Beit Lahia and Jabalia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said the remains of more than a 100 Palestinians are yet to be identified, and published. Israeli missiles and shells have killed at least fifty Palestinians Tuesday.
Israeli warplanes targeted offices belonging to the al-Aqsa TV station early Tuesday, a Palestinian media group said.
The Palestinian Journalist Bloc said in a statement Israeli forces struck the Hamas-affiliated station's offices in the al-Nasser neighborhood, the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, and the al-Rimal neighborhoods of Gaza City.
Al-Aqsa's broadcast stopped briefly after the strike on the al-Rimal neighborhood, although no injuries were reported.
The Bloc condemned what it called "crimes against journalists and media."
Hamas' station plays a "central role in managing the media battle against the Israeli lies," the Bloc said.
It said al-Aqsa channel was crucial for providing information on the ground in Gaza to several other Arabic media organizations.
The Israeli army confirmed the strikes on al-Aqsa's offices in an emailed statement.
Strikes "targeted the propaganda dissemination capabilities used to broadcast the messages of (Hamas') military wing," the statement said.
"'Al-Aqsa' station broadcast capabilities are used to incite Palestinians against Israel, to transit orders and messages to Hamas operatives and to instruct Gaza residents to ignore IDF (army) warnings regarding upcoming military activity in specific areas."
During Israel's last major offensive on Gaza, Israel targeted two of the station's cameramen in addition to targeting its office.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a car on Nov. 20, 2012, killing Hussam Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Salama and Mahmoud Ali Ahmad al-Koumi.
Days earlier, Israel had struck al-Aqsa's office in the al-Shorouq building in western Gaza City. The building housed offices several other media organizations, and six journalists were injured.
PCHR and other rights organizations condemned the attacks, saying Israel was deliberately targeting journalists.
The Palestinian Journalist Bloc said in a statement Israeli forces struck the Hamas-affiliated station's offices in the al-Nasser neighborhood, the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, and the al-Rimal neighborhoods of Gaza City.
Al-Aqsa's broadcast stopped briefly after the strike on the al-Rimal neighborhood, although no injuries were reported.
The Bloc condemned what it called "crimes against journalists and media."
Hamas' station plays a "central role in managing the media battle against the Israeli lies," the Bloc said.
It said al-Aqsa channel was crucial for providing information on the ground in Gaza to several other Arabic media organizations.
The Israeli army confirmed the strikes on al-Aqsa's offices in an emailed statement.
Strikes "targeted the propaganda dissemination capabilities used to broadcast the messages of (Hamas') military wing," the statement said.
"'Al-Aqsa' station broadcast capabilities are used to incite Palestinians against Israel, to transit orders and messages to Hamas operatives and to instruct Gaza residents to ignore IDF (army) warnings regarding upcoming military activity in specific areas."
During Israel's last major offensive on Gaza, Israel targeted two of the station's cameramen in addition to targeting its office.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a car on Nov. 20, 2012, killing Hussam Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Salama and Mahmoud Ali Ahmad al-Koumi.
Days earlier, Israel had struck al-Aqsa's office in the al-Shorouq building in western Gaza City. The building housed offices several other media organizations, and six journalists were injured.
PCHR and other rights organizations condemned the attacks, saying Israel was deliberately targeting journalists.
Hamas on Tuesday denied that it had accepted a deal for a humanitarian ceasefire for 24 hours, contrary to earlier reports.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that "Yasser Abed Rabbu's statement that Hamas agreed to a ceasefire for 24 hours is not true and has nothing to do with the resistance's stand."
"We will consider a ceasefire when Israel commits to it with international guarantees," Abu Zuhri added.
However, Yasser Abed Rabbo later said in a statement the Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal had agreed to the ceasefire proposal.
The Palestinian leadership had earlier declared they were "prepared" for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire for 24 hours, after Israeli bombardment since midnight had killed more than 100 Palestinians and injured hundreds, as well as knocking out the Gaza Strip's sole power plant.
All major Palestinian political factions declared in a statement on Tuesday afternoon that they were willing to "react positively" towards a UN proposal for 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire during an emergency meeting held on Tuesday in Ramallah, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas.
The statement said that the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad had decided that a united Palestinian delegate would be heading to Cairo to discuss the upcoming move.
"We call upon all Arab and international parties to support this positive stand, and to hold Israel responsible for rejecting this proposal after all factions accepted it," the statement said.
The statement held Israel responsible for "their continuous war crimes that they keep committing every hour in Gaza," adding: "We have already began procedures to hold them responsible internationally for their crimes."
"We call upon our people, despite their pains and wounds, to have more faith that we will keep working day and night until we get rid of those murderers and war criminals."
Israel has killed nearly 1,200 Palestinians in its 22-day assault, and injured more nearly 7,000.
Additionally more than 5,000 homes have been destroyed, while nearly 30,000 have been damaged in the assault, the deadliest since 2009.
Gaza militant groups claim responsibility for renewed rocket fire
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a number of rockets fired into Israel over the course of the day.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said in a statement that they will keep targeting Israeli sites and settlements with missiles and shells, and that they will continue defending Gaza.
The Brigades claimed responsibility for targeting Ashkelon with two grad rockets, as well as an Israeli military vehicle in eastern Khan Younis with five mortar shells.
The Hamas-affiliated al-Qassam Brigades, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for targeting soldiers in eastern area of al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City with three mortar shells.
They also claimed an attack on an armored troop carrier in Kisufim, inside Israel east of Khan Younis, with a cornet rocket, hitting it directly.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that "Yasser Abed Rabbu's statement that Hamas agreed to a ceasefire for 24 hours is not true and has nothing to do with the resistance's stand."
"We will consider a ceasefire when Israel commits to it with international guarantees," Abu Zuhri added.
However, Yasser Abed Rabbo later said in a statement the Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal had agreed to the ceasefire proposal.
The Palestinian leadership had earlier declared they were "prepared" for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire for 24 hours, after Israeli bombardment since midnight had killed more than 100 Palestinians and injured hundreds, as well as knocking out the Gaza Strip's sole power plant.
All major Palestinian political factions declared in a statement on Tuesday afternoon that they were willing to "react positively" towards a UN proposal for 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire during an emergency meeting held on Tuesday in Ramallah, headed by President Mahmoud Abbas.
The statement said that the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad had decided that a united Palestinian delegate would be heading to Cairo to discuss the upcoming move.
"We call upon all Arab and international parties to support this positive stand, and to hold Israel responsible for rejecting this proposal after all factions accepted it," the statement said.
The statement held Israel responsible for "their continuous war crimes that they keep committing every hour in Gaza," adding: "We have already began procedures to hold them responsible internationally for their crimes."
"We call upon our people, despite their pains and wounds, to have more faith that we will keep working day and night until we get rid of those murderers and war criminals."
Israel has killed nearly 1,200 Palestinians in its 22-day assault, and injured more nearly 7,000.
Additionally more than 5,000 homes have been destroyed, while nearly 30,000 have been damaged in the assault, the deadliest since 2009.
Gaza militant groups claim responsibility for renewed rocket fire
Palestinian militant groups in Gaza on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a number of rockets fired into Israel over the course of the day.
Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said in a statement that they will keep targeting Israeli sites and settlements with missiles and shells, and that they will continue defending Gaza.
The Brigades claimed responsibility for targeting Ashkelon with two grad rockets, as well as an Israeli military vehicle in eastern Khan Younis with five mortar shells.
The Hamas-affiliated al-Qassam Brigades, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for targeting soldiers in eastern area of al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City with three mortar shells.
They also claimed an attack on an armored troop carrier in Kisufim, inside Israel east of Khan Younis, with a cornet rocket, hitting it directly.
Mayor of Al-Boreij Killed By Israeli Missile (picture)
The Israeli army continued its illegitimate bombardment of Palestinian homes, and civilian property, and killed five family members of a Palestinian journalist, including two children in Gaza City.
Media sources said the Israeli strikes also targeted government facilities and ministries, media outlets, mosques and even homes of senior political leaders of Hamas, including the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismael Haniyya.
The Israeli army continued its illegitimate bombardment of Palestinian homes, and civilian property, and killed five family members of a Palestinian journalist, including two children in Gaza City.
Media sources said the Israeli strikes also targeted government facilities and ministries, media outlets, mosques and even homes of senior political leaders of Hamas, including the deputy head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Ismael Haniyya.
Ezzat Dheir 23
Medical sources said resident Ezzat Dheir, a 23-year-old journalist, working for a local radio, was killed along with four members of his family, after an Israeli missile striking his home.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
1. Ezzat Dheir, 23, Rafah.
2. Turkeyya Dheir, 80, Rafah.
3. Yasmeen Dheir, 25, Rafah.
4. Mary Dheir, 12, Rafah.
5. Tasneem Dheir, 8, Rafah.
The al-Hurriyya (Freedom) Radio issued a statement denouncing the ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, including journalists and medics, adding that Dheir was its correspondent in Gaza.
Also on Tuesday, head of the al-Borei Local council, Anis Abu Shammala, was killed after an israeli missile was fired into is home.
On Monday, ten children were killed, and more than 30 were injured, when the army fires missiles into a playground north of the Shaty’ refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
The army also fired missiles into clinics of the Shifa Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least five Palestinians.
Another Palestinian was killed, and three were injured, after the army fired a missile into his home in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Three Palestinians, including two brothers, have also been killed by an Israeli missile striking a home, belonging to al-Hashshash family, in Rafah.
Gaza's main power plant was hit by Israeli tank shells on Tuesday, shutting it down completely. The power plant had already been operating at 20% capacity, after having been hit by Israeli airstrikes last week. Most Palestinians depend on the central Gaza power plant to provide electricity.
This will also severely impact the ability of Palestinians to communicate to the outside world via the Internet -- which has been the main source of information getting out of Gaza up until this point. Gaza's main power plant was also heavily bombarded during the Israeli invasion of 2009, which had a serious impact on hospitals' ability to provide care.
At least 40 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli missiles on Tuesday, while dozens have been injured, some seriously.
At least 1100 Palestinians have been, and Israeli missiles have injured more than 6470 and shells since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza on July 8. The majority of the casualties are are children, women and elderly.
Medical sources said resident Ezzat Dheir, a 23-year-old journalist, working for a local radio, was killed along with four members of his family, after an Israeli missile striking his home.
The slain Palestinians have been identified as:
1. Ezzat Dheir, 23, Rafah.
2. Turkeyya Dheir, 80, Rafah.
3. Yasmeen Dheir, 25, Rafah.
4. Mary Dheir, 12, Rafah.
5. Tasneem Dheir, 8, Rafah.
The al-Hurriyya (Freedom) Radio issued a statement denouncing the ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, including journalists and medics, adding that Dheir was its correspondent in Gaza.
Also on Tuesday, head of the al-Borei Local council, Anis Abu Shammala, was killed after an israeli missile was fired into is home.
On Monday, ten children were killed, and more than 30 were injured, when the army fires missiles into a playground north of the Shaty’ refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
The army also fired missiles into clinics of the Shifa Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least five Palestinians.
Another Palestinian was killed, and three were injured, after the army fired a missile into his home in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Three Palestinians, including two brothers, have also been killed by an Israeli missile striking a home, belonging to al-Hashshash family, in Rafah.
Gaza's main power plant was hit by Israeli tank shells on Tuesday, shutting it down completely. The power plant had already been operating at 20% capacity, after having been hit by Israeli airstrikes last week. Most Palestinians depend on the central Gaza power plant to provide electricity.
This will also severely impact the ability of Palestinians to communicate to the outside world via the Internet -- which has been the main source of information getting out of Gaza up until this point. Gaza's main power plant was also heavily bombarded during the Israeli invasion of 2009, which had a serious impact on hospitals' ability to provide care.
At least 40 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli missiles on Tuesday, while dozens have been injured, some seriously.
At least 1100 Palestinians have been, and Israeli missiles have injured more than 6470 and shells since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza on July 8. The majority of the casualties are are children, women and elderly.
Parents grieving the loss of their children at the attack on a UN School on Monday
A member of the Israeli group ‘Breaking the Silence’ has published accounts of Israeli soldiers being authorized by their commanders to carry out revenge attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip “to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiers”.
Eran Efrati reports, “Soldiers in two different units inside Gaza leaked information about the murdering of Palestinians by sniper fire in Shuja’eyya neighborhood as punishment for the death of soldiers in their units. After the shooting on the Israeli armored personnel carriers, which killed seven soldiers of the Golani Brigade, the Israeli army carried out a massacre in Shuja’eyya neighborhood.
“A day after the massacre, many Palestinians came to search for their relatives and their families in the rubble. In one of the videos uploaded to YouTube, a young Palestinian man Salem Shammaly calls the names of his family and looking for them between the ruins when he is suddenly shot at in his chest and falls down. A few seconds after that, there are two additional shots from snipers into his body, killing him instantly.
“Since the video was released, there was no official response from the IDF spokesperson. Today I can report that the official command that was handed down to the soldiers in Shuja'eyya was to capture Palestinian homes as outposts. From these posts, the soldiers drew an imaginary red line, and amongst themselves decided to shoot to death anyone who crosses it. Anyone crossing the line was defined as a threat to their outposts, and was thus deemed a legitimate target. This was the official reasoning inside the units.
“I was told that the unofficial reason was to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiers (something that for years the IDF has not faced during its operations in Gaza and the West Bank), out on the Palestinian refugees in the neighborhood. Under the pretext of the so-called “security threat” soldiers were directed to carry out a pre-planned attack of revenge on Palestinian civilians.”
Richard Silverstein, who works with the publication Tikkun Olam, wrote in response to Efrati’s account, “What Efrati is revealing is an semi-officially sanctioned My Lai-type massacre. The man in green murdered in cold blood in the YouTube video wasn’t killed by a lone gunman operating on his own. His murder was approved as an act of vengeance on all of Gaza. Let’s remember that 120 Palestinians died that night in Shejaia. This was no accident. They weren’t collateral damage. They were the targets.”
The reports of authorized revenge attacks come in the midst of a massive bombing attack by the Israeli airforce Tuesday morning, an admission by the Israeli military that their missile hit a UN school in Beit Hanoun, and another school was hit by an Israeli strike on Monday.
In an article in the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth on July 18th, as the ground invasion began, the paper reported, "The tanks, which serve as the heart of the assault force, received an order to open fire at anything that moved. The area and the targets are due to be seized by the morning hours. From here on, [the army] will start to clear the ground, in what could last for several days, depending on political developments."
A member of the Israeli group ‘Breaking the Silence’ has published accounts of Israeli soldiers being authorized by their commanders to carry out revenge attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip “to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiers”.
Eran Efrati reports, “Soldiers in two different units inside Gaza leaked information about the murdering of Palestinians by sniper fire in Shuja’eyya neighborhood as punishment for the death of soldiers in their units. After the shooting on the Israeli armored personnel carriers, which killed seven soldiers of the Golani Brigade, the Israeli army carried out a massacre in Shuja’eyya neighborhood.
“A day after the massacre, many Palestinians came to search for their relatives and their families in the rubble. In one of the videos uploaded to YouTube, a young Palestinian man Salem Shammaly calls the names of his family and looking for them between the ruins when he is suddenly shot at in his chest and falls down. A few seconds after that, there are two additional shots from snipers into his body, killing him instantly.
“Since the video was released, there was no official response from the IDF spokesperson. Today I can report that the official command that was handed down to the soldiers in Shuja'eyya was to capture Palestinian homes as outposts. From these posts, the soldiers drew an imaginary red line, and amongst themselves decided to shoot to death anyone who crosses it. Anyone crossing the line was defined as a threat to their outposts, and was thus deemed a legitimate target. This was the official reasoning inside the units.
“I was told that the unofficial reason was to enable the soldiers to take out their frustrations and pain at losing their fellow soldiers (something that for years the IDF has not faced during its operations in Gaza and the West Bank), out on the Palestinian refugees in the neighborhood. Under the pretext of the so-called “security threat” soldiers were directed to carry out a pre-planned attack of revenge on Palestinian civilians.”
Richard Silverstein, who works with the publication Tikkun Olam, wrote in response to Efrati’s account, “What Efrati is revealing is an semi-officially sanctioned My Lai-type massacre. The man in green murdered in cold blood in the YouTube video wasn’t killed by a lone gunman operating on his own. His murder was approved as an act of vengeance on all of Gaza. Let’s remember that 120 Palestinians died that night in Shejaia. This was no accident. They weren’t collateral damage. They were the targets.”
The reports of authorized revenge attacks come in the midst of a massive bombing attack by the Israeli airforce Tuesday morning, an admission by the Israeli military that their missile hit a UN school in Beit Hanoun, and another school was hit by an Israeli strike on Monday.
In an article in the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth on July 18th, as the ground invasion began, the paper reported, "The tanks, which serve as the heart of the assault force, received an order to open fire at anything that moved. The area and the targets are due to be seized by the morning hours. From here on, [the army] will start to clear the ground, in what could last for several days, depending on political developments."
Ruins of Haniyeh's House
The house of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was the target of an Israeli missile early this morning. Reports say there was no one inside the house and there were no casualties. Haniyeh’s son confirmed the strike on his Facebook page.
The 51-year-old Haniyeh was Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from March 2006 to July 2007 but was dismissed from office by Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the peak of the Fatah-Hamas conflict. Haniyeh refused to recognize this ruling and has since been exercising prime ministerial powers in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement made after the attack on his house, Haniyeh said, "My house is not more valuable than the houses of other people, destroying stones will not break our determination,"
Israel also targeted Hamas media outlets al-Aqsa TV and al-Aqsa radio. Missiles struck their offices this morning. The building also hosted several other Arab satellite television news channels. Although the radio station ceased broadcasting, the television station continued.
These attacks are just a part of an increased wave of violence since the start of Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan. A Hamas-run health organization reported that ten people, including nine under the age of 12, were killed and dozens more were injured in a blast in a park in the Shati refugee camp near Gaza City. Hamas and Israel are blaming each other for the attack.
“There were heads off bodies, shoulders half torn, hands gone, chests opened,” recalled one survivor of the blast.
As the international community continues to urge both sides to accept a ceasefire, Hamas says that will not relent until Gaza’s border with Egypt is opened and Israel will not accept a ceasefire without the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
Son: Israel shells house of Hamas political leader Haniyeh
Israeli warplanes hit the house of Hamas' top leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, inside the al-Shati refugee camp, his son said Tuesday.
"The Israeli enemy struck our house twice," Abed Salam Haniyeh said in a statement.
The house of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was the target of an Israeli missile early this morning. Reports say there was no one inside the house and there were no casualties. Haniyeh’s son confirmed the strike on his Facebook page.
The 51-year-old Haniyeh was Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority from March 2006 to July 2007 but was dismissed from office by Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the peak of the Fatah-Hamas conflict. Haniyeh refused to recognize this ruling and has since been exercising prime ministerial powers in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement made after the attack on his house, Haniyeh said, "My house is not more valuable than the houses of other people, destroying stones will not break our determination,"
Israel also targeted Hamas media outlets al-Aqsa TV and al-Aqsa radio. Missiles struck their offices this morning. The building also hosted several other Arab satellite television news channels. Although the radio station ceased broadcasting, the television station continued.
These attacks are just a part of an increased wave of violence since the start of Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan. A Hamas-run health organization reported that ten people, including nine under the age of 12, were killed and dozens more were injured in a blast in a park in the Shati refugee camp near Gaza City. Hamas and Israel are blaming each other for the attack.
“There were heads off bodies, shoulders half torn, hands gone, chests opened,” recalled one survivor of the blast.
As the international community continues to urge both sides to accept a ceasefire, Hamas says that will not relent until Gaza’s border with Egypt is opened and Israel will not accept a ceasefire without the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
Son: Israel shells house of Hamas political leader Haniyeh
Israeli warplanes hit the house of Hamas' top leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, inside the al-Shati refugee camp, his son said Tuesday.
"The Israeli enemy struck our house twice," Abed Salam Haniyeh said in a statement.
Tuesday morning shelling of Gaza port
Palestinian sources in Gaza are reporting a large number of Israeli bombs dropped in northern, southern, central, western and eastern Gaza on Tuesday morning, including the Palestinian Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, the Al Quds News Agency, the Port of Gaza, and carpet-bombing of whole neighborhoods, particularly in northern Gaza and in Rafah. Palestinian resistance fighters killed 10 Israeli soldiers.
The attacks began in the early morning hours on Tuesday, when most of Gaza was in darkness because of cuts to electricity. The bombs began to fall on residential areas in northern and southern Gaza, and striking government buildings in Gaza City.
A teenage girl, @Farah_Gazan, tweeted pictures of bombs dropping near her house and wrote “I might die tonight”, reflecting the sentiments of many Palestinians in Gaza who have been living in terror for the past three weeks.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed five people and wounded at least 20. The five killed were identified as Naji Ahmad al-Raqqab, 19, Ramy Khaled al-Raqqab, 35, Mahmoud Osama al-Qosas, Shadi Abd al-Kareem Farwana, Mustafa Abd al-Samiee al-Ubadala.
Also in Khan Younis, in the neighborhood of al-Fakhari, an airstrike killed Yahiya Mohammad Abdullah al-Aqqad, 49.
In Jabalia, in the north, five people were killed, and 50 were injured by Israeli tank shells and air strikes. The people killed include three children - Yusef Emad Qaddoura, Huna Emad Qaddoura, and Mohammad Musa Alwan. Also killed were Mariam Khalil Ruba, age 70, and Hani Abu Khalifa.
This is the same town in which around 200,000 people were ordered via leaflets dropped by planes Monday to leave their homes, but were not told where they should go, other than ‘south’. UN schools that have been turned into makeshift shelters are already full to overflowing, with refugees from the eastern Gaza town of Sheja’eyya and other bombed out areas.
In central Gaza, at least 15 people were wounded in an airstrike on Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Al Jazeera reporter Imtiaz Tyab reported that Israeli airstrikes in western Gaza City hit the Gaza port, causing windows to blow out in the hotel where many foreign journalists are housed.
Palestinian fighters engaged with the Israeli military twice in northern and once southern Gaza between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The Israeli paper Ha’aretz reported “Ten Israeli soldiers have died in the past 24 hours: five in a militant border infiltration, four in mortar shell fire near the border and one during clashes in Gaza's south.”
Palestinian resistance fighters managed to access an Israeli military base in northern Gaza via a tunnel, and killed five Israeli soldiers in a gun battle.
The Tuesday morning aerial and ground assault by Israeli troops is a marked increase from the last several days, in which Palestinian medics were allowed (for an hour at a time) into bombed-out neighborhoods to try to find survivors and to pull bodies from the rubble. Some survivors were found in Khuza’a in eastern Khan Younis, but medics were forced out of the area before they could finish checking the area, because of heavy Israeli shelling.
Death toll in Gaza hits 1,088 as Israel resumes bombardment
At least 26 were killed and 241 injured across the Gaza Strip on Monday night as Israel resumed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip from air, land, and sea.
Talks for a ceasefire, meanwhile, appeared stillborn after Israeli Prime Minister warned in a speech that the campaign could last long, even as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rushed to Cairo to meet with Hamas representatives.
The renewed evening assault brought the total of Palestinians killed Monday to 44, while another 12 bodies were recovered from the rubble by medical teams earlier in the day.
Gaza Ministry of Health Spokesman said over the last 21 days, a total of 1,088 Palestinians have been killed and 6,470 have been injured. Of the dead, 251 have been children and 50 have been elderly, while 1,980 children and 259 elderly have been among the injured.
The figures include 10 people who were killed on Monday following an Israeli air strike on a children's playground in al-Shati refugee camp in the afternoon, where family outings to celebrate the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday ended in horror with eight children among the dead.
Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that children had been wearing clothes given to them as gifts for the Eid and many families had chosen to take advantage of a relative lull in the 21-day assault to head to the park in the seaside neighborhood where the strike occurred.
Although Israel has blamed the deaths on a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket, Gaza police who inspected the rubble and victims' bodies as well as eyewitnesses confirmed the strike was Israeli.
Israel stepped up its bombardment Monday night in response to rocket fire by Palestinians, as well as a mortar fire that killed four soldiers in southern Israel.
The attack brought the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in the conflict to 43. Fewer than 10 percent of Israeli casualties have been civilian, while Gaza-based rights group estimate that Palestinian deaths have been more than 90 percent civilian, including nearly 300 children.
Meanwhile, Israel had told at least 400,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes via text and phone, raising terror among Gazans that all those who stayed would be treated as legitimate targets.
All borders in and out of Gaza remain closed shut, as Israel has maintained its complete blockade of the tiny coastal enclave intact over the course of its 21-day assault.
Abbas mission to Cairo
Following increasingly urgent calls by the UN and the US for an "immediate ceasefire," a senior source in the West Bank said Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was heading to Cairo with Hamas representatives for fresh talks on ending the violence in Gaza.
"Abbas is forming a Palestinian delegation including Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives to meet Egyptian leaders and discuss a halt to Israel's aggression against Gaza," the source told AFP, without saying when the talks would take place.
"The aim is to examine with Egyptian leaders how to meet Palestinian demands and put an end to the aggression," he said.
Earlier US President Barack Obama phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand an "immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire," in a call echoed hours later by the UN Security Council.
Obama's demand for an "immediate, unconditional" ceasefire has strained US-Israeli ties and put Netanyahu in a tight spot with hardliners in his government, commentators say.
It came after the UN Security Council appealed for both sides to accept an "immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire" to permit the urgent delivery of aid, in a non-binding statement which elicited disappointment from the Palestinian envoy.
'Eid of martyrs'
There was little mood for celebration in Gaza City as the three-day festival of Eid al-Fitr that ends the holy fasting month of Ramadan got under way.
Several hundred people arrived for early-morning prayers at the Al-Omari mosque, bowing and solemnly whispering their worship. But instead of going to feast with relatives, most went straight home while others went to pay their respects to the dead.
Among them was Ahed Shamali whose 16-year-old son who was killed by a tank shell several days ago.
"He was just a kid," he said, standing by the grave. "This is the Eid of the martyrs."
The deaths continue
Ministry of Health Spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra provided a continuing toll of the deaths and injuries across the Gaza Strip Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The deaths and injuries are provided here in chronological order, with the most recent as the latest.
Six Palestinians were killed in airstrike on two homes in the central Gaza Strip. He named the victims as Ramzy Hossein al-Far, 68, Salam Muhammad al-Far, 59, Issa Kamel Musa, 62, Abd al-Samad Mahmoud Ahmad Ramadan, 16, Ayman Adnan Musa Shokr, 25, and Azza Abd al-Karim al-Haman al-Falleit, 44.
Fayeza Ahmad al-Futtah, 59, succumbed to wounds she received earlier in the day in Jabaliya.
Ali Hassan Hassan al-Huwwari, 31, died as a result of wounds received on July 21.
Mahmoud Abd al-Jalil Abu Kwik, 31, and fife others were injured in Gaza City.
Five Palestinians were killed and 20 injured in a strike near the Islamic University in Khan Younis. The dead were identified as Muhammad Jumaa Shaat, 30, Muhammad Fadhel al-Agha, Ahmad Nader al-Agha, Marwa Nader al-Agha, Dalia Nader al-Agha.
Five were also killed and 20 injured in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis, which killed Najy Ahmad al-Raqqab, 19, Ramy Khaled al-Raqqab, 35, Mahmoud Osama al-Qosas, Shadi Abd al-Kareem Farwana, Mustafa Abd al-Samiee al-Ubadala.
Five were killed, including three children elderly, and 50 were injured in shelling in Jabaliya. The dead were identified as Maryam Khalil Ruba, 70, Hani Abu Khalifah, a child named Yusef Emad Qaddoura, a child named Huna Emad Qaddoura, and another child named Muhammad Musa Alwan.
18 were injured in strikes across the central and northern Gaza Strip.
15 injured, mostly children, in an Israeli strike on Sheikh Radwan.
Yahiya Mohammad Abdullah al-Aqqad, 49, was killed and three more injured in a strike on al-Fakhari.
Palestinian sources in Gaza are reporting a large number of Israeli bombs dropped in northern, southern, central, western and eastern Gaza on Tuesday morning, including the Palestinian Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya, the Al Quds News Agency, the Port of Gaza, and carpet-bombing of whole neighborhoods, particularly in northern Gaza and in Rafah. Palestinian resistance fighters killed 10 Israeli soldiers.
The attacks began in the early morning hours on Tuesday, when most of Gaza was in darkness because of cuts to electricity. The bombs began to fall on residential areas in northern and southern Gaza, and striking government buildings in Gaza City.
A teenage girl, @Farah_Gazan, tweeted pictures of bombs dropping near her house and wrote “I might die tonight”, reflecting the sentiments of many Palestinians in Gaza who have been living in terror for the past three weeks.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed five people and wounded at least 20. The five killed were identified as Naji Ahmad al-Raqqab, 19, Ramy Khaled al-Raqqab, 35, Mahmoud Osama al-Qosas, Shadi Abd al-Kareem Farwana, Mustafa Abd al-Samiee al-Ubadala.
Also in Khan Younis, in the neighborhood of al-Fakhari, an airstrike killed Yahiya Mohammad Abdullah al-Aqqad, 49.
In Jabalia, in the north, five people were killed, and 50 were injured by Israeli tank shells and air strikes. The people killed include three children - Yusef Emad Qaddoura, Huna Emad Qaddoura, and Mohammad Musa Alwan. Also killed were Mariam Khalil Ruba, age 70, and Hani Abu Khalifa.
This is the same town in which around 200,000 people were ordered via leaflets dropped by planes Monday to leave their homes, but were not told where they should go, other than ‘south’. UN schools that have been turned into makeshift shelters are already full to overflowing, with refugees from the eastern Gaza town of Sheja’eyya and other bombed out areas.
In central Gaza, at least 15 people were wounded in an airstrike on Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Al Jazeera reporter Imtiaz Tyab reported that Israeli airstrikes in western Gaza City hit the Gaza port, causing windows to blow out in the hotel where many foreign journalists are housed.
Palestinian fighters engaged with the Israeli military twice in northern and once southern Gaza between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The Israeli paper Ha’aretz reported “Ten Israeli soldiers have died in the past 24 hours: five in a militant border infiltration, four in mortar shell fire near the border and one during clashes in Gaza's south.”
Palestinian resistance fighters managed to access an Israeli military base in northern Gaza via a tunnel, and killed five Israeli soldiers in a gun battle.
The Tuesday morning aerial and ground assault by Israeli troops is a marked increase from the last several days, in which Palestinian medics were allowed (for an hour at a time) into bombed-out neighborhoods to try to find survivors and to pull bodies from the rubble. Some survivors were found in Khuza’a in eastern Khan Younis, but medics were forced out of the area before they could finish checking the area, because of heavy Israeli shelling.
Death toll in Gaza hits 1,088 as Israel resumes bombardment
At least 26 were killed and 241 injured across the Gaza Strip on Monday night as Israel resumed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip from air, land, and sea.
Talks for a ceasefire, meanwhile, appeared stillborn after Israeli Prime Minister warned in a speech that the campaign could last long, even as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rushed to Cairo to meet with Hamas representatives.
The renewed evening assault brought the total of Palestinians killed Monday to 44, while another 12 bodies were recovered from the rubble by medical teams earlier in the day.
Gaza Ministry of Health Spokesman said over the last 21 days, a total of 1,088 Palestinians have been killed and 6,470 have been injured. Of the dead, 251 have been children and 50 have been elderly, while 1,980 children and 259 elderly have been among the injured.
The figures include 10 people who were killed on Monday following an Israeli air strike on a children's playground in al-Shati refugee camp in the afternoon, where family outings to celebrate the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday ended in horror with eight children among the dead.
Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that children had been wearing clothes given to them as gifts for the Eid and many families had chosen to take advantage of a relative lull in the 21-day assault to head to the park in the seaside neighborhood where the strike occurred.
Although Israel has blamed the deaths on a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket, Gaza police who inspected the rubble and victims' bodies as well as eyewitnesses confirmed the strike was Israeli.
Israel stepped up its bombardment Monday night in response to rocket fire by Palestinians, as well as a mortar fire that killed four soldiers in southern Israel.
The attack brought the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in the conflict to 43. Fewer than 10 percent of Israeli casualties have been civilian, while Gaza-based rights group estimate that Palestinian deaths have been more than 90 percent civilian, including nearly 300 children.
Meanwhile, Israel had told at least 400,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes via text and phone, raising terror among Gazans that all those who stayed would be treated as legitimate targets.
All borders in and out of Gaza remain closed shut, as Israel has maintained its complete blockade of the tiny coastal enclave intact over the course of its 21-day assault.
Abbas mission to Cairo
Following increasingly urgent calls by the UN and the US for an "immediate ceasefire," a senior source in the West Bank said Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was heading to Cairo with Hamas representatives for fresh talks on ending the violence in Gaza.
"Abbas is forming a Palestinian delegation including Hamas and Islamic Jihad representatives to meet Egyptian leaders and discuss a halt to Israel's aggression against Gaza," the source told AFP, without saying when the talks would take place.
"The aim is to examine with Egyptian leaders how to meet Palestinian demands and put an end to the aggression," he said.
Earlier US President Barack Obama phoned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand an "immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire," in a call echoed hours later by the UN Security Council.
Obama's demand for an "immediate, unconditional" ceasefire has strained US-Israeli ties and put Netanyahu in a tight spot with hardliners in his government, commentators say.
It came after the UN Security Council appealed for both sides to accept an "immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire" to permit the urgent delivery of aid, in a non-binding statement which elicited disappointment from the Palestinian envoy.
'Eid of martyrs'
There was little mood for celebration in Gaza City as the three-day festival of Eid al-Fitr that ends the holy fasting month of Ramadan got under way.
Several hundred people arrived for early-morning prayers at the Al-Omari mosque, bowing and solemnly whispering their worship. But instead of going to feast with relatives, most went straight home while others went to pay their respects to the dead.
Among them was Ahed Shamali whose 16-year-old son who was killed by a tank shell several days ago.
"He was just a kid," he said, standing by the grave. "This is the Eid of the martyrs."
The deaths continue
Ministry of Health Spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra provided a continuing toll of the deaths and injuries across the Gaza Strip Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The deaths and injuries are provided here in chronological order, with the most recent as the latest.
Six Palestinians were killed in airstrike on two homes in the central Gaza Strip. He named the victims as Ramzy Hossein al-Far, 68, Salam Muhammad al-Far, 59, Issa Kamel Musa, 62, Abd al-Samad Mahmoud Ahmad Ramadan, 16, Ayman Adnan Musa Shokr, 25, and Azza Abd al-Karim al-Haman al-Falleit, 44.
Fayeza Ahmad al-Futtah, 59, succumbed to wounds she received earlier in the day in Jabaliya.
Ali Hassan Hassan al-Huwwari, 31, died as a result of wounds received on July 21.
Mahmoud Abd al-Jalil Abu Kwik, 31, and fife others were injured in Gaza City.
Five Palestinians were killed and 20 injured in a strike near the Islamic University in Khan Younis. The dead were identified as Muhammad Jumaa Shaat, 30, Muhammad Fadhel al-Agha, Ahmad Nader al-Agha, Marwa Nader al-Agha, Dalia Nader al-Agha.
Five were also killed and 20 injured in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis, which killed Najy Ahmad al-Raqqab, 19, Ramy Khaled al-Raqqab, 35, Mahmoud Osama al-Qosas, Shadi Abd al-Kareem Farwana, Mustafa Abd al-Samiee al-Ubadala.
Five were killed, including three children elderly, and 50 were injured in shelling in Jabaliya. The dead were identified as Maryam Khalil Ruba, 70, Hani Abu Khalifah, a child named Yusef Emad Qaddoura, a child named Huna Emad Qaddoura, and another child named Muhammad Musa Alwan.
18 were injured in strikes across the central and northern Gaza Strip.
15 injured, mostly children, in an Israeli strike on Sheikh Radwan.
Yahiya Mohammad Abdullah al-Aqqad, 49, was killed and three more injured in a strike on al-Fakhari.
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