24 oct 2018
Israeli warplanes on Wednesday bombed a Palestinian resistance site east of Rafah city in the southern area of the Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporter said that the warplanes fired two missiles at a resistance site east of Rafah with no injuries reported.
The Israeli occupation army has recently carried out dozens of attacks on Palestinian sites near the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in response to fire balloons launched from the enclave toward neighboring Israeli settlements.
The Israeli airstrike came in conjunction with meetings held in Gaza between Palestinian factions and an Egyptian Intelligence delegation to discuss the ceasefire agreement with Israel and the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza.
The PIC reporter said that the warplanes fired two missiles at a resistance site east of Rafah with no injuries reported.
The Israeli occupation army has recently carried out dozens of attacks on Palestinian sites near the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in response to fire balloons launched from the enclave toward neighboring Israeli settlements.
The Israeli airstrike came in conjunction with meetings held in Gaza between Palestinian factions and an Egyptian Intelligence delegation to discuss the ceasefire agreement with Israel and the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza.
23 oct 2018
Montaser Mohammed Ismail al-Baz 17
A Palestinian teenager has died after succumbing to wounds he sustained during at an anti-occupation protest near the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories.
Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a n a statement that 17-year-old Montaser Mohammed Ismail al-Baz succumbed to his Israeli-inflicted gunshot wounds at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday evening.
He had been shot and injured in the head during a “The Great March of Return” demonstration east of Deir al-Balah city, located over 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) south of Gaza City.
Palestinian sources said Israeli snipers were targeting the Palestinian protesters, shooting five of them in the foot and abdomen.
The sources added that a series of explosions were also heard in the area.
The development came only a day after Israeli forces attacked hundreds of peaceful Palestinian protesters, who were taking part in a march in the Gaza Strip northern town of Beit Lahiya to protest the 12-year-long Israeli-imposed blockade on the coastal enclave. Dozens of people were struck with live bullets.
Nearly 210 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30. Over 22,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
The resolution, which had been put forward on behalf of Arab and Muslim countries, garnered a strong majority of 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions.
The resolution called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days “on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation,” including “recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism.”
It also called for “immediate steps towards ending the closure and the restrictions imposed by Israel on movement and access into and out of the Gaza Strip.”
A Palestinian teenager has died after succumbing to wounds he sustained during at an anti-occupation protest near the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories.
Spokesman for the Gaza Ministry of Health, Ashraf al-Qidra, said in a n a statement that 17-year-old Montaser Mohammed Ismail al-Baz succumbed to his Israeli-inflicted gunshot wounds at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday evening.
He had been shot and injured in the head during a “The Great March of Return” demonstration east of Deir al-Balah city, located over 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) south of Gaza City.
Palestinian sources said Israeli snipers were targeting the Palestinian protesters, shooting five of them in the foot and abdomen.
The sources added that a series of explosions were also heard in the area.
The development came only a day after Israeli forces attacked hundreds of peaceful Palestinian protesters, who were taking part in a march in the Gaza Strip northern town of Beit Lahiya to protest the 12-year-long Israeli-imposed blockade on the coastal enclave. Dozens of people were struck with live bullets.
Nearly 210 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces ever since anti-occupation protest rallies began in the Gaza Strip on March 30. Over 22,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries.
The Gaza clashes reached their peak on May 14, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe), which coincided this year with the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
The resolution, which had been put forward on behalf of Arab and Muslim countries, garnered a strong majority of 120 votes in the 193-member assembly, with 8 votes against and 45 abstentions.
The resolution called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to make proposals within 60 days “on ways and means for ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of the Palestinian civilian population under Israeli occupation,” including “recommendations regarding an international protection mechanism.”
It also called for “immediate steps towards ending the closure and the restrictions imposed by Israel on movement and access into and out of the Gaza Strip.”
At least seven Palestinians were injured on Tuesday evening when the Israeli occupation forces opened fire at peaceful protesters marching near the border fence east of Deir al-Balah city, in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporter said that the Israeli snipers stationed behind the border fence heavily opened fire at the protesters injuring seven of them.
The injured were transferred to al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment. One of them sustained a serious injury, according to medical sources.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been protesting on a daily basis since 30 March along the border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
The border protests, also known as the Great March of Return, are aimed at raising awareness of the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israeli to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza for over a decade now.
Army Attacks Gaza Demonstrators, Six Shot and Injured
At least six Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, including one seriously, as Israeli forces opened fire towards dozens of Palestinians who rallied near the borders with Israel to the east of Deir al-Balah area, in the central Gaza Strip, said WAFA sources. video
Israeli soldiers stationed along Gaza’s borders opened live fire towards demonstrators as they allegedly approached the barbed-wire fence between Gaza and Israel, shooting and injuring at least six people; one abdominal injury was deemed critical. video
The PIC reporter said that the Israeli snipers stationed behind the border fence heavily opened fire at the protesters injuring seven of them.
The injured were transferred to al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment. One of them sustained a serious injury, according to medical sources.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been protesting on a daily basis since 30 March along the border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
The border protests, also known as the Great March of Return, are aimed at raising awareness of the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israeli to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza for over a decade now.
Army Attacks Gaza Demonstrators, Six Shot and Injured
At least six Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, including one seriously, as Israeli forces opened fire towards dozens of Palestinians who rallied near the borders with Israel to the east of Deir al-Balah area, in the central Gaza Strip, said WAFA sources. video
Israeli soldiers stationed along Gaza’s borders opened live fire towards demonstrators as they allegedly approached the barbed-wire fence between Gaza and Israel, shooting and injuring at least six people; one abdominal injury was deemed critical. video
The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights issued a statement strongly condemning the ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinian fishermen, and the illegal confiscation of their boats, and called for the release of four fishermen, who were taken prisoner by the navy, on Tuesday, in two separate attacks.
Al-Mezan said its field investigations have revealed that, at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, Israeli navy ships opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats, nearly two nautical in Gaza territorial waters in the al-Waha sea in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the coastal region, before surrounding a small boat with two fishermen onboard, and abducted them.
The two fishermen have been identified as Awad Nafeth Sultan, 21, from Beit Lahia, and Ahmad Emad Siyam, 20, from the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city. They were taken to an unknown destination, and their boat was confiscated.
Al-Mezan added that, approximately at one in the afternoon of the same day, the navy fired many live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, less than four nautical miles from the shore, in Sheikh Ejleen Beach, southwest of Gaza city, and surrounded them, before abducting two fishermen, and confiscated their boat.
The two fishermen have been identified as Mahmoud Mohammad Miqdad, 35, and Hasan Soheil Miqdad, 26, from the Shati’ refugee camp.
Field research and documentation by the al-Mezan Center revealed that the Israeli navy carried 270 violations against Palestinian fishermen and their boats, since the beginning of this year, and that the navy fired live rounds at the boats 267 times, killing one fisherman, in addition to wounding sixteen others, and abducting 59, in addition to confiscating 18 boats.
It is worth mentioning that the slain fisherman, identified as Ismael Saleh Abu Ryala, 18, was killed when the Israeli navy opened fire on his fishing boat while he was fishing near the shore of Gaza.
It added that Israel continues to ban the entry of equipment and tools needed for fishing, as part of its ongoing and deadly siege on Gaza.
Al-Mezan called for the release of all abducted fishermen, and their boats, and demanded the international community to act on lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza, and ending the seriously escalating violations of international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and all related United Nations and human rights treaties.
It said that Israel continues to abduct, humiliate and harm the fishermen, in addition to the destruction of their boats and equipment, as part of its illegal siege on Gaza, and its deliberate violation against the civilian population.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
Following the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2014, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian armed groups was brokered by the Egyptian government, which allowed fishermen to sail up to 6 nautical miles, but Israel continued to violate the agreement.
Under the Oslo Accord, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1994, Israel is supposed to allow the Palestinian to fish and sail within 20 nautical miles.
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Navy Opens Fire, Detains 2 Gazan Fishermen
Oct 23, 2018 @ 19:46
Israeli naval forces detained two Palestinian fishermen on Tuesday, off the coast of the besieged northern Gaza Strip.
Head of the Fishermen Union in Gaza, Nizar Ayyash, told Ma’an News Agency that two Palestinian fishermen were detained by Israeli naval forces off the coast of the al-Waha area, in northern Gaza.
Ayyash identified the two fishermen as Awad al-Sultan and Ahmad Siyam.
The fishermen were transferred to an unknown location.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
No injuries were reported.
The Israeli army regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the unilaterally declared buffer zone.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently concluded that Israel’s Gaza closure and “harassment of fishermen” have been “destroying Gaza’s fishing sector,” with 95% of fishermen living below the poverty line.
Last Wednesday, Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman closed the border crossings of both Erez and Karem Abu Salem.
Al-Mezan said its field investigations have revealed that, at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, Israeli navy ships opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats, nearly two nautical in Gaza territorial waters in the al-Waha sea in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the coastal region, before surrounding a small boat with two fishermen onboard, and abducted them.
The two fishermen have been identified as Awad Nafeth Sultan, 21, from Beit Lahia, and Ahmad Emad Siyam, 20, from the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city. They were taken to an unknown destination, and their boat was confiscated.
Al-Mezan added that, approximately at one in the afternoon of the same day, the navy fired many live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, less than four nautical miles from the shore, in Sheikh Ejleen Beach, southwest of Gaza city, and surrounded them, before abducting two fishermen, and confiscated their boat.
The two fishermen have been identified as Mahmoud Mohammad Miqdad, 35, and Hasan Soheil Miqdad, 26, from the Shati’ refugee camp.
Field research and documentation by the al-Mezan Center revealed that the Israeli navy carried 270 violations against Palestinian fishermen and their boats, since the beginning of this year, and that the navy fired live rounds at the boats 267 times, killing one fisherman, in addition to wounding sixteen others, and abducting 59, in addition to confiscating 18 boats.
It is worth mentioning that the slain fisherman, identified as Ismael Saleh Abu Ryala, 18, was killed when the Israeli navy opened fire on his fishing boat while he was fishing near the shore of Gaza.
It added that Israel continues to ban the entry of equipment and tools needed for fishing, as part of its ongoing and deadly siege on Gaza.
Al-Mezan called for the release of all abducted fishermen, and their boats, and demanded the international community to act on lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza, and ending the seriously escalating violations of international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and all related United Nations and human rights treaties.
It said that Israel continues to abduct, humiliate and harm the fishermen, in addition to the destruction of their boats and equipment, as part of its illegal siege on Gaza, and its deliberate violation against the civilian population.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
Following the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2014, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian armed groups was brokered by the Egyptian government, which allowed fishermen to sail up to 6 nautical miles, but Israel continued to violate the agreement.
Under the Oslo Accord, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1994, Israel is supposed to allow the Palestinian to fish and sail within 20 nautical miles.
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Navy Opens Fire, Detains 2 Gazan Fishermen
Oct 23, 2018 @ 19:46
Israeli naval forces detained two Palestinian fishermen on Tuesday, off the coast of the besieged northern Gaza Strip.
Head of the Fishermen Union in Gaza, Nizar Ayyash, told Ma’an News Agency that two Palestinian fishermen were detained by Israeli naval forces off the coast of the al-Waha area, in northern Gaza.
Ayyash identified the two fishermen as Awad al-Sultan and Ahmad Siyam.
The fishermen were transferred to an unknown location.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
No injuries were reported.
The Israeli army regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the unilaterally declared buffer zone.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently concluded that Israel’s Gaza closure and “harassment of fishermen” have been “destroying Gaza’s fishing sector,” with 95% of fishermen living below the poverty line.
Last Wednesday, Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman closed the border crossings of both Erez and Karem Abu Salem.
22 oct 2018
At least ten Palestinians were injured on Monday evening after Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) suppressed hundreds of Palestinian protesters in the naval march in Beit Lahiya in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Medical sources confirmed to PIC reporter that 10 Palestinians were shot by Israeli ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas inhalation.
Earlier Monday, hundreds of peaceful protesters had gathered in the area while dozens others participated in a boat protest setting off from the Gaza seaport against the 12-year-long siege on Gaza.
The demonstration came after the National Committee for Breaking the Siege had called upon Palestinians to take part in the 13th naval protest.
Medical sources confirmed to PIC reporter that 10 Palestinians were shot by Israeli ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas inhalation.
Earlier Monday, hundreds of peaceful protesters had gathered in the area while dozens others participated in a boat protest setting off from the Gaza seaport against the 12-year-long siege on Gaza.
The demonstration came after the National Committee for Breaking the Siege had called upon Palestinians to take part in the 13th naval protest.
Israel’s war Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beytenu) threatened to wage a bloody war against Gaza at the start of a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
“Wars are only conducted when there is no choice, and now there is no choice,” the minister claimed on Monday. “Anything less than the toughest response won’t help anymore. We have exhausted the other options.”
Lieberman alleged that Hamas was behind recent violence from the blockaded Gaza Strip and pays large sums to protesters.
“There is no popular uprising,” Lieberman said. “There is violence organized by Hamas. Fifteen thousand people don’t come by foot to the border at their own will. They come by bus and are paid.”
“I don’t believe in reaching an arrangement with Hamas,” he said. “It hasn’t worked, doesn’t work and won’t work in the future.”
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud) also accused Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas of inflaming tensions in the Gaza Strip by preventing supplies and funding from reaching the people there.
“It is intolerable, unacceptable and unreasonable that Abbas closes the faucet for Gaza and Israel has to pay the price,” Dichter said.
“Wars are only conducted when there is no choice, and now there is no choice,” the minister claimed on Monday. “Anything less than the toughest response won’t help anymore. We have exhausted the other options.”
Lieberman alleged that Hamas was behind recent violence from the blockaded Gaza Strip and pays large sums to protesters.
“There is no popular uprising,” Lieberman said. “There is violence organized by Hamas. Fifteen thousand people don’t come by foot to the border at their own will. They come by bus and are paid.”
“I don’t believe in reaching an arrangement with Hamas,” he said. “It hasn’t worked, doesn’t work and won’t work in the future.”
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud) also accused Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas of inflaming tensions in the Gaza Strip by preventing supplies and funding from reaching the people there.
“It is intolerable, unacceptable and unreasonable that Abbas closes the faucet for Gaza and Israel has to pay the price,” Dichter said.
21 oct 2018
At least four youths were injured on Sunday evening when the Israeli occupation forces opened fire at the Palestinians taking part in the Great March of Return's night protests at the border east of Gaza.
The PIC reporter said that four Palestinian youths were injured by live ammunition and teargas canisters east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.
According to the PIC reporters in the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinian youths marched late on Sunday along the borderline east of Gaza, burned car tires, launched fireworks and fire balloons over the fence, and sang national songs.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been protesting in the Great March of Return on a daily basis since 30 March. The border demonstrations are mainly aimed at shedding light on the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israel to lift the decade-long blockade.
Since the protests started 217 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and over 22,000 injured.
The PIC reporter said that four Palestinian youths were injured by live ammunition and teargas canisters east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.
According to the PIC reporters in the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinian youths marched late on Sunday along the borderline east of Gaza, burned car tires, launched fireworks and fire balloons over the fence, and sang national songs.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been protesting in the Great March of Return on a daily basis since 30 March. The border demonstrations are mainly aimed at shedding light on the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israel to lift the decade-long blockade.
Since the protests started 217 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and over 22,000 injured.
20 oct 2018
The Israeli occupation army announced that it launched an airstrike on Saturday on a group of Palestinian citizens in the southern area of the Gaza Strip.
The army said in a statement that an Israeli warplane attacked Palestinian youths flying fire balloons toward Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian sources said that the airstrike targeted a small vehicle east of Khan Younis city with no injuries reported.
Palestinian youths in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Great March of Return have launched dozens of fire kites and balloons over the border fence, burning thousands of dunums of settler lands and causing heavy losses.
The army said in a statement that an Israeli warplane attacked Palestinian youths flying fire balloons toward Israeli settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian sources said that the airstrike targeted a small vehicle east of Khan Younis city with no injuries reported.
Palestinian youths in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Great March of Return have launched dozens of fire kites and balloons over the border fence, burning thousands of dunums of settler lands and causing heavy losses.
The Israeli navy on Saturday morning arrested two Palestinian fishermen off northern Gaza shore.
Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Syndicate in Gaza Nizar Ayyash said in a press statement that the Israeli navy arrested two fishermen sailing off Beit Lahia and seized their boats.
Ayyash said that Israeli gunboats attacked a Palestinian fishing boat in the early morning hours, arrested the two brothers on board Karim and Mohammed Abu Hassan, and confiscated their boat.
He affirmed that the Abu Hassan brothers were fishing within the three-nautical-mile zone allowed by the Israeli authorities.
According to al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, the Israeli naval forces have committed 232 violations against Gaza fishermen since the beginning of 2018, including 39 arrests.
Head of the Palestinian Fishermen Syndicate in Gaza Nizar Ayyash said in a press statement that the Israeli navy arrested two fishermen sailing off Beit Lahia and seized their boats.
Ayyash said that Israeli gunboats attacked a Palestinian fishing boat in the early morning hours, arrested the two brothers on board Karim and Mohammed Abu Hassan, and confiscated their boat.
He affirmed that the Abu Hassan brothers were fishing within the three-nautical-mile zone allowed by the Israeli authorities.
According to al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, the Israeli naval forces have committed 232 violations against Gaza fishermen since the beginning of 2018, including 39 arrests.
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