15 sept 2015
A member of al-Qassam Brigades field forces was injured by Israeli gunfire on Tuesday east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the Israeli forces opened fire at a patrol of Al-Qassam field forces who replied by shooting at the source of Israeli fire. This resulted in limited clashes, the sources added.
The sources revealed that one of al-Qassam brigades field members was injured by the Israeli bullets while tension is still running high at the location.
Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian near Gaza border
Israeli forces shot and injured a member of Hamas' military wing in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian sources said. They said that the Palestinian, a member of al-Qassam Brigades, was injured when Israeli forces targeted a jeep belonging to the military wing east of Khan Younis.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said that Israeli troops were on "routine security patrol" when they "heard gunshots in close proximity."
She said that the soldiers "responded with warning shots."She did not confirm that anyone was hit, but said that the incident was still under review.
On Monday, the Israeli army said it had arrested five Palestinians after they crossed the border fence and entered Israeli territory. Through the day, the Israeli authorities closed the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings with the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
The day before, witnesses said that Israeli forces exchanged gunfire with Palestinians near the border, although they said that the Palestinians only opened fire after they were shot at. Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on Palestinians near the border since the ceasefire agreement signed Aug. 26, 2014 that ended a devastating 50-day Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip.
In July alone, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights counted 27 incidents of shootings, incursions into the territory, and arrests.This included 18 shootings on land and at sea that left nine Palestinians injured, PCHR reported.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the Israeli forces opened fire at a patrol of Al-Qassam field forces who replied by shooting at the source of Israeli fire. This resulted in limited clashes, the sources added.
The sources revealed that one of al-Qassam brigades field members was injured by the Israeli bullets while tension is still running high at the location.
Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian near Gaza border
Israeli forces shot and injured a member of Hamas' military wing in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian sources said. They said that the Palestinian, a member of al-Qassam Brigades, was injured when Israeli forces targeted a jeep belonging to the military wing east of Khan Younis.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said that Israeli troops were on "routine security patrol" when they "heard gunshots in close proximity."
She said that the soldiers "responded with warning shots."She did not confirm that anyone was hit, but said that the incident was still under review.
On Monday, the Israeli army said it had arrested five Palestinians after they crossed the border fence and entered Israeli territory. Through the day, the Israeli authorities closed the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings with the Gaza Strip for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
The day before, witnesses said that Israeli forces exchanged gunfire with Palestinians near the border, although they said that the Palestinians only opened fire after they were shot at. Israeli forces have repeatedly opened fire on Palestinians near the border since the ceasefire agreement signed Aug. 26, 2014 that ended a devastating 50-day Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip.
In July alone, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights counted 27 incidents of shootings, incursions into the territory, and arrests.This included 18 shootings on land and at sea that left nine Palestinians injured, PCHR reported.
14 sept 2015
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened Monday morning busts of machine gun fire at Palestinian farmers and houses in the northern Gaza Strip. No casualties have been reported.
Quds Press quoted a witness as saying Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at military points as well as in their Jeeps, northeast Beit Hanoun town, fired volleys of shots at Palestinian houses and farmers in the town with no injuries reported.
The heavy shooting coincided with unusual military moves and intensive drone overflights along the border line of Gaza.
The attack is another episode in the series of Israeli daily violations of the Cairo-brokered truce accord signed in the wake of last summer’s offensive on the besieged coastal enclave, which killed over 2,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Quds Press quoted a witness as saying Israeli occupation soldiers stationed at military points as well as in their Jeeps, northeast Beit Hanoun town, fired volleys of shots at Palestinian houses and farmers in the town with no injuries reported.
The heavy shooting coincided with unusual military moves and intensive drone overflights along the border line of Gaza.
The attack is another episode in the series of Israeli daily violations of the Cairo-brokered truce accord signed in the wake of last summer’s offensive on the besieged coastal enclave, which killed over 2,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
13 sept 2015
A group Palestinian armed resistance fighters exchanged fire, Sunday, with Israeli soldiers invading the eastern area of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The military vehicles advanced approximately 40 meters near the Shuhada Graveyard, and fired rounds of live ammunition targeting fighters on a monitoring post, close to the border.
The fighters exchanged fire with the invading soldiers for more than fifteen minutes, before the army withdrew; no casualties reported.
Israel claimed a number of Palestinians crossed the border fence, but the claim was never verified; the fighters said the claim aims at justifying the ongoing Israeli invasions and violations.
On Thursday, September, Israeli navy ships opened fire on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, close to the shore in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza city.
Resistance patrol clashes with IOF in eastern Gaza
A group of Palestinian resistance fighters engaged in an exchange of fire with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near the Gaza borders on Sunday morning.
Media and field sources told the PIC reporter that the clashes started after members of the so-called “Field Control” units were chasing two men while trying to infiltrate the borders into the Israeli side to the east of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
They added that the resistance elements fired shots in the air to deter the two men but they kept running until they crossed the borders and IOF soldiers deployed in the area fired at the resistance fighters and summoned reinforcements.
No casualties were reported among the resistance fighters.
The IOF announced on Saturday that 14 people were arrested after crossing the borders into 1948 occupied Palestine.
Resistance units were trying to check the rising phenomenon fearing some of those citizens might be recruited as agents for the IOF.
The calm agreement signed in Cairo in August 2014 stipulated an end to all Israeli violations in Gaza including shooting at civilians and resistance fighters.
The military vehicles advanced approximately 40 meters near the Shuhada Graveyard, and fired rounds of live ammunition targeting fighters on a monitoring post, close to the border.
The fighters exchanged fire with the invading soldiers for more than fifteen minutes, before the army withdrew; no casualties reported.
Israel claimed a number of Palestinians crossed the border fence, but the claim was never verified; the fighters said the claim aims at justifying the ongoing Israeli invasions and violations.
On Thursday, September, Israeli navy ships opened fire on a number of Palestinian fishing boats, close to the shore in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza city.
Resistance patrol clashes with IOF in eastern Gaza
A group of Palestinian resistance fighters engaged in an exchange of fire with Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near the Gaza borders on Sunday morning.
Media and field sources told the PIC reporter that the clashes started after members of the so-called “Field Control” units were chasing two men while trying to infiltrate the borders into the Israeli side to the east of Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
They added that the resistance elements fired shots in the air to deter the two men but they kept running until they crossed the borders and IOF soldiers deployed in the area fired at the resistance fighters and summoned reinforcements.
No casualties were reported among the resistance fighters.
The IOF announced on Saturday that 14 people were arrested after crossing the borders into 1948 occupied Palestine.
Resistance units were trying to check the rising phenomenon fearing some of those citizens might be recruited as agents for the IOF.
The calm agreement signed in Cairo in August 2014 stipulated an end to all Israeli violations in Gaza including shooting at civilians and resistance fighters.
12 sept 2015
The Israeli navy on Friday evening attacked Palestinian fishermen off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip, with no reported casualties.
Local sources told Quds Press that Israeli gunboats opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the northern waters of Gaza and within the permitted fishing zone.
They added that the intensity of the gunfire forced the fishermen to return to shore without completing their work.
The Israeli occupation army has carried out dozens of gunfire attacks against Palestinian civilians in border areas and off the coast of Gaza since it accepted the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement with the resistance on August 26, 2014.
Local sources told Quds Press that Israeli gunboats opened machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats in the northern waters of Gaza and within the permitted fishing zone.
They added that the intensity of the gunfire forced the fishermen to return to shore without completing their work.
The Israeli occupation army has carried out dozens of gunfire attacks against Palestinian civilians in border areas and off the coast of Gaza since it accepted the Egyptian-brokered truce agreement with the resistance on August 26, 2014.
10 sept 2015
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PHRC) said in a new report that three Palestinian fishermen were injured while ten others were arrested while sailing in Gaza sea over the past two months.
The monitoring report said that Israeli forces continued their violations against Palestinian fishermen while sailing in the fishing area allowed for Palestinian fishermen.
13 shootings were documented against Palestinian fishermen during the reported period, resulted in the injury of three of them.
Ten fishermen were arrested, while five fishing boats were confiscated, according to the report.
The report pointed out that Israeli Navy violated in more than incident the ceasefire agreement reached between the Palestinian resistance and Israeli authorities under Egyptian mediation which allows the fishing area up to six nautical miles offshore.
All the reported Israeli violations were carried out in the allowed fishing zone, the report affirmed.
According to the center, preventing Palestinians from accessing their lands and fishing areas violates numerous provisions of international human rights law, including the right to work, the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health.
The monitoring report said that Israeli forces continued their violations against Palestinian fishermen while sailing in the fishing area allowed for Palestinian fishermen.
13 shootings were documented against Palestinian fishermen during the reported period, resulted in the injury of three of them.
Ten fishermen were arrested, while five fishing boats were confiscated, according to the report.
The report pointed out that Israeli Navy violated in more than incident the ceasefire agreement reached between the Palestinian resistance and Israeli authorities under Egyptian mediation which allows the fishing area up to six nautical miles offshore.
All the reported Israeli violations were carried out in the allowed fishing zone, the report affirmed.
According to the center, preventing Palestinians from accessing their lands and fishing areas violates numerous provisions of international human rights law, including the right to work, the right to an adequate standard of living, and the right to the highest attainable standard of health.
Several Palestinians fishing boats have been attacked, on Thursday morning, by Israeli navy fire close to the shore in the Sudaniyya Sea, northwest of Gaza City.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that the boats were only four nautical miles away from the shore, and that the fishers had to sail back fearing additional Israeli violence and escalation.
The navy frequently attacked Gaza fishers and their boats in the coastal region, preventing them from gaining some income to support their families.
Such attacks have led to dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to significant property damage, while many fishers have been kidnapped before their boats were towed to Israeli shores.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) has reported that the boats were only four nautical miles away from the shore, and that the fishers had to sail back fearing additional Israeli violence and escalation.
The navy frequently attacked Gaza fishers and their boats in the coastal region, preventing them from gaining some income to support their families.
Such attacks have led to dozens of casualties, including fatalities, in addition to significant property damage, while many fishers have been kidnapped before their boats were towed to Israeli shores.
9 sept 2015
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, on Wednesday at dawn, that a young man was hospitalized at the Shifa Medical Center, west of Gaza City, after an Israeli unexploded ordnance detonated near him, causing life-threatening wounds.
The sources said the young man suffered wounds to most parts of his body, and is currently at the Intensive Care Room, in a very serious condition.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and injured, by Israeli unexploded ordnances, in different parts of the Gaza Strip, especially after Israel’s massive aggression and onslaught on the coastal region in the summer of 2014.
Many unexploded objects are still buried under rubble of bombarded homes and structures in the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday morning, August 16 2015, a Palestinian woman from Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, died from wounds she sustained more than a week earlier, when an unexploded ordnance, from last summer's military assault on the region by Israel, went off while a family was clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the Shabora neighborhood of Rafah.
Over 7,000 unexploded ordnance were left throughout the Gaza Strip following last summer's war between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups, according to officials of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Palestinian territories (OCHA).
The sources said the young man suffered wounds to most parts of his body, and is currently at the Intensive Care Room, in a very serious condition.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed and injured, by Israeli unexploded ordnances, in different parts of the Gaza Strip, especially after Israel’s massive aggression and onslaught on the coastal region in the summer of 2014.
Many unexploded objects are still buried under rubble of bombarded homes and structures in the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday morning, August 16 2015, a Palestinian woman from Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, died from wounds she sustained more than a week earlier, when an unexploded ordnance, from last summer's military assault on the region by Israel, went off while a family was clearing rubble from a destroyed house in the Shabora neighborhood of Rafah.
Over 7,000 unexploded ordnance were left throughout the Gaza Strip following last summer's war between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups, according to officials of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Palestinian territories (OCHA).
8 sept 2015
About five Israeli military machines,Tuesday night, entered the town of Khuza’a near Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, to raze agricultural lands.
Security sources said, according to the PNN, that farmers fled their lands in fear the moment they saw the machinery coming, but no injuries were reported.
Sources added that the machinery entered about 50 meters into the center of the Strip, amidst gunfire noises.
The machinery had not withdrawn, at the time of this report, and leveling continues.
Security sources said, according to the PNN, that farmers fled their lands in fear the moment they saw the machinery coming, but no injuries were reported.
Sources added that the machinery entered about 50 meters into the center of the Strip, amidst gunfire noises.
The machinery had not withdrawn, at the time of this report, and leveling continues.
4 sept 2015
By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
The Gaza Strip, ravaged by devastating wars of aggression by Israel, could become uninhabitable for residents within just five years, a United Nations development agency warned this week.
"The social, health and security-related ramifications of the high population density and overcrowding are among the factors that may render Gaza un-livable by 2020, said the report.
Gaza, a tiny enclave of just 362 square kilometers (about 225 square miles) squeezed between the apartheid state of Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to some 1.8 million Palestinians, counts one of the highest population densities in the world.
The manifestly hermetic blockade imposed on the coastal enclave for close to two decades effectively "ravaged the already debilitated infrastructure of Gaza, shattered its productive base, left no time for meaningful reconstruction or economic recovery and impoverished the Palestinian population in Gaza," the report said.
The report added that "Short of ending the blockade, donor aid... will not reverse the ongoing de-development and impoverishment in Gaza."
Israel's responsibility
There is no doubt that Israel bears most of the blame for this gigantic disaster facing the Gaza Strip. Israel has been in tight control of Gaza since 1967. Even today, nine years after its symbolic withdrawal from the coastal enclave, Israel continues to control Gaza border-crossings, territorial waters, skies. Even poor Gaza fishermen who venture a few kilometers into the sea are often shot at and injured or killed by Israeli navy patrols.
Since 2009, Israel carried out three major wars of aggression on the already impoverished Gaza Strip, killing and maiming tens of thousands of people, mostly innocent civilians.
The three wars also destroyed or seriously damaged as many as a hundred thousand homes and displaced more than 750,000 civilians. The UN and other international bodies described Israeli military operations in Gaza as war crimes or crimes against humanity.
According to the UN report, as many as 247 factories and 300 commercial centers were fully or partially destroyed, and Gaza's only power station sustained severe damage.
The overall situation had already been tragic even before the war.
Power supply covered only 40 percent of demand in the Strip. With regard to water supplies, the report pointed out that that up to 95 percent of water from coastal aquifers - Gazans main source of freshwater - was considered unsafe to drink.
Unemployment in Gaza meanwhile reached 44 percent - the highest level on record - hitting young women especially hard, leaving more than eight out of 10 women out of work. Predictably, the phenomenally high unemployment seriously affected people's ability to secure food.
The report pointed out that a full 72 percent of all households in Gaza are struggling with food insecurity. The number of Palestinian refugees who rely entirely on food distribution from UN agency has skyrocketed from 72,000 in 2000 to 868,000 by last May.
The catastrophic situation in Gaza is made even worse by the Egyptian blockade of the Strip whereby the Rafah border terminal, Gaza's only conduit to the outside world is nearly permanently shut off, ostensibly to punish and torment Gazans for supporting Hamas.
Indeed, many Palestinians have come to believe that the "evil trio" of Israel, the Sissi Junta and the Ramallah regime, are coordinating their respective measures against Gaza for the express purpose of creating an implosion throughout the coastal enclave.
Each of the three parties hopes to achieve a specific goal. The PLO would get rid of an implacable political opponent while the Sissi regime would vent its failure to eradicate an increasingly bloody insurrection against the anti-Islamist coup. As to the Israeli goal, it is to eradicate the last remaining obstacle impeding the liquidation of the Palestinian cause under the false rubric of a peace process which virtually has no substance.
It is also widely believed that the PLO regime in Ramallah is conniving or openly collaborating with Egypt’s military junta to keep up the pressure on Gaza for the purpose of forcing Gazans to rise up against Hamas, the PLO's main political rival.
The dire situation in the Gaza Strip is getting even direr by the snail-slow pace of reconstruction, mainly due to the Israeli policy of restricting the entry of building materials to the Strip.
This means that hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians will remain homeless and without shelters, with all the humanitarian and security ramifications entailed.
Another refugee crisis looming?
There is no doubt that the world could soon face another huge wave of refugees from the Middle East, specifically from the Gaza Strip, if the international community, especially Europe and the US, didn't take immediate proactive measures to stop the menacingly deteriorating living conditions in the coastal Strip.
Israel, whether we like it or not, is the number-1 villain because it is still the occupying power in the Gaza Strip according to international law. The key to the rehabilitation of Gaza is decidedly in Israel's hands. Hence, it is imperative that the international community exert a meaningful pressure, not just words, on Israel now in order to make the Israeli government responsive to the urgent needs of some 2 million Gazans who have chosen life over death and are opting to cling to their ancestral homeland rather than embark on a precarious journey to the shores of Europe
Yes, the people of Gaza, like the rest of Palestinians, don't want to leave their homeland. They are not even looking for a better life in Germany or other European countries.
However, the enduring harsh blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, which is making Gaza increasingly uninhabitable, might very well produce inevitable tragic consequences which could be similar or worse than the phantasmagoric refugee crisis being played out on our TV screens every evening.
The world has a few years to avert the next tragedy. So, to the chief powers of the world, I say "Don't say we didn't know."
Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist and political commentator living in Dura in the West Bank.
The Gaza Strip, ravaged by devastating wars of aggression by Israel, could become uninhabitable for residents within just five years, a United Nations development agency warned this week.
"The social, health and security-related ramifications of the high population density and overcrowding are among the factors that may render Gaza un-livable by 2020, said the report.
Gaza, a tiny enclave of just 362 square kilometers (about 225 square miles) squeezed between the apartheid state of Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea that is home to some 1.8 million Palestinians, counts one of the highest population densities in the world.
The manifestly hermetic blockade imposed on the coastal enclave for close to two decades effectively "ravaged the already debilitated infrastructure of Gaza, shattered its productive base, left no time for meaningful reconstruction or economic recovery and impoverished the Palestinian population in Gaza," the report said.
The report added that "Short of ending the blockade, donor aid... will not reverse the ongoing de-development and impoverishment in Gaza."
Israel's responsibility
There is no doubt that Israel bears most of the blame for this gigantic disaster facing the Gaza Strip. Israel has been in tight control of Gaza since 1967. Even today, nine years after its symbolic withdrawal from the coastal enclave, Israel continues to control Gaza border-crossings, territorial waters, skies. Even poor Gaza fishermen who venture a few kilometers into the sea are often shot at and injured or killed by Israeli navy patrols.
Since 2009, Israel carried out three major wars of aggression on the already impoverished Gaza Strip, killing and maiming tens of thousands of people, mostly innocent civilians.
The three wars also destroyed or seriously damaged as many as a hundred thousand homes and displaced more than 750,000 civilians. The UN and other international bodies described Israeli military operations in Gaza as war crimes or crimes against humanity.
According to the UN report, as many as 247 factories and 300 commercial centers were fully or partially destroyed, and Gaza's only power station sustained severe damage.
The overall situation had already been tragic even before the war.
Power supply covered only 40 percent of demand in the Strip. With regard to water supplies, the report pointed out that that up to 95 percent of water from coastal aquifers - Gazans main source of freshwater - was considered unsafe to drink.
Unemployment in Gaza meanwhile reached 44 percent - the highest level on record - hitting young women especially hard, leaving more than eight out of 10 women out of work. Predictably, the phenomenally high unemployment seriously affected people's ability to secure food.
The report pointed out that a full 72 percent of all households in Gaza are struggling with food insecurity. The number of Palestinian refugees who rely entirely on food distribution from UN agency has skyrocketed from 72,000 in 2000 to 868,000 by last May.
The catastrophic situation in Gaza is made even worse by the Egyptian blockade of the Strip whereby the Rafah border terminal, Gaza's only conduit to the outside world is nearly permanently shut off, ostensibly to punish and torment Gazans for supporting Hamas.
Indeed, many Palestinians have come to believe that the "evil trio" of Israel, the Sissi Junta and the Ramallah regime, are coordinating their respective measures against Gaza for the express purpose of creating an implosion throughout the coastal enclave.
Each of the three parties hopes to achieve a specific goal. The PLO would get rid of an implacable political opponent while the Sissi regime would vent its failure to eradicate an increasingly bloody insurrection against the anti-Islamist coup. As to the Israeli goal, it is to eradicate the last remaining obstacle impeding the liquidation of the Palestinian cause under the false rubric of a peace process which virtually has no substance.
It is also widely believed that the PLO regime in Ramallah is conniving or openly collaborating with Egypt’s military junta to keep up the pressure on Gaza for the purpose of forcing Gazans to rise up against Hamas, the PLO's main political rival.
The dire situation in the Gaza Strip is getting even direr by the snail-slow pace of reconstruction, mainly due to the Israeli policy of restricting the entry of building materials to the Strip.
This means that hundreds of thousands of Gaza civilians will remain homeless and without shelters, with all the humanitarian and security ramifications entailed.
Another refugee crisis looming?
There is no doubt that the world could soon face another huge wave of refugees from the Middle East, specifically from the Gaza Strip, if the international community, especially Europe and the US, didn't take immediate proactive measures to stop the menacingly deteriorating living conditions in the coastal Strip.
Israel, whether we like it or not, is the number-1 villain because it is still the occupying power in the Gaza Strip according to international law. The key to the rehabilitation of Gaza is decidedly in Israel's hands. Hence, it is imperative that the international community exert a meaningful pressure, not just words, on Israel now in order to make the Israeli government responsive to the urgent needs of some 2 million Gazans who have chosen life over death and are opting to cling to their ancestral homeland rather than embark on a precarious journey to the shores of Europe
Yes, the people of Gaza, like the rest of Palestinians, don't want to leave their homeland. They are not even looking for a better life in Germany or other European countries.
However, the enduring harsh blockade imposed on Gaza by Israel and Egypt, which is making Gaza increasingly uninhabitable, might very well produce inevitable tragic consequences which could be similar or worse than the phantasmagoric refugee crisis being played out on our TV screens every evening.
The world has a few years to avert the next tragedy. So, to the chief powers of the world, I say "Don't say we didn't know."
Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist and political commentator living in Dura in the West Bank.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot and injured a Palestinian child overnight near the shores of the Beit Lahia town in northern Gaza Strip.
Medics said that Bilal Abu Amr, 12, suffered moderate injuries when Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian homes near Beit Lahia.
He was immediately taken to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment, the sources added.
The attack is a new violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance signed in August 2014 under Egyptian mediation.
Israeli Soldiers Shoot, Injure Child in Gaza
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian child near the shores of the Beit Lahiya village in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said.
Medics told Ma'an News Agency that Bilal Abu Amro, aged 11, was shot in the thigh while he was with his father, a fisherman.
He was taken to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an they were unaware of the incident.
. Palestinian fishermen making a living off of the shores of the besieged Gaza Strip face daily risks, including routine harassment from Israeli naval forces, confiscation of boats and materials, detention, and potentially death.
At least three Palestinian fishermen have been shot dead by Israeli forces since September. Israeli forces often allege that fishermen deviate from the designated fishing zone and pose a security threat.
The exact limits of the zone set by Israeli authorities are often ambiguous, and authorities have not abided by the fishing zone agreed upon in last summer's ceasefire agreement, rights groups say.
The attacks come despite Israeli promises at the end of last summer's ceasefire to ease restrictions on Palestinian access to both the sea and the border region near the "security buffer zone".
On July 31, Mohammad Hamid al-Masri, 17, was shot by Israeli forces and died instantly north of Beit Lahiya near the border fence.
Medics said that Bilal Abu Amr, 12, suffered moderate injuries when Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian homes near Beit Lahia.
He was immediately taken to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment, the sources added.
The attack is a new violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israeli forces and Palestinian resistance signed in August 2014 under Egyptian mediation.
Israeli Soldiers Shoot, Injure Child in Gaza
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian child near the shores of the Beit Lahiya village in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said.
Medics told Ma'an News Agency that Bilal Abu Amro, aged 11, was shot in the thigh while he was with his father, a fisherman.
He was taken to Kamal Adwan hospital for treatment.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma'an they were unaware of the incident.
. Palestinian fishermen making a living off of the shores of the besieged Gaza Strip face daily risks, including routine harassment from Israeli naval forces, confiscation of boats and materials, detention, and potentially death.
At least three Palestinian fishermen have been shot dead by Israeli forces since September. Israeli forces often allege that fishermen deviate from the designated fishing zone and pose a security threat.
The exact limits of the zone set by Israeli authorities are often ambiguous, and authorities have not abided by the fishing zone agreed upon in last summer's ceasefire agreement, rights groups say.
The attacks come despite Israeli promises at the end of last summer's ceasefire to ease restrictions on Palestinian access to both the sea and the border region near the "security buffer zone".
On July 31, Mohammad Hamid al-Masri, 17, was shot by Israeli forces and died instantly north of Beit Lahiya near the border fence.
3 sept 2015
Local sources revealed that the Palestinian young man, who was arrested on Wednesday after being injured for trying to sneak into the Israeli Zikkim military base near Gaza, suffers mental disorders.
The sources told the PIC reporter on Thursday that the 24-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Tanira, from Khan Younis, is suffering from mental disorders. He was visiting his aunt in Sheikh Radwan district when he lost his way and headed towards the Israeli military security fence northwest of Beit Lahia, the sources added.
They said that the Israeli forces shot the mentally unstable man when he approached the security fence before arresting him. Later on, the forces informed his family that he was shot in his foot and held at Barzilai Hospital.
The sources told the PIC reporter on Thursday that the 24-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Tanira, from Khan Younis, is suffering from mental disorders. He was visiting his aunt in Sheikh Radwan district when he lost his way and headed towards the Israeli military security fence northwest of Beit Lahia, the sources added.
They said that the Israeli forces shot the mentally unstable man when he approached the security fence before arresting him. Later on, the forces informed his family that he was shot in his foot and held at Barzilai Hospital.
The Israeli occupation army claimed that Israeli homes in Netiv Ha’asara settlement, south of the 1948 occupied lands, came under gunfire on Wednesday evening from the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army radio said that bullets fired from Gaza hit walls and windows of three houses in the settlement, which forced the residents to take precautions and stay away from windows.
Consequently, military and security forces arrived at the scene and embarked on investigating the incident.
Initial military reports indicated that the gunshots were probably fired during a drill conducted by Hamas in a training post to the north of the Strip, describing them as "stray sniper bullets."
The Israeli army radio said that bullets fired from Gaza hit walls and windows of three houses in the settlement, which forced the residents to take precautions and stay away from windows.
Consequently, military and security forces arrived at the scene and embarked on investigating the incident.
Initial military reports indicated that the gunshots were probably fired during a drill conducted by Hamas in a training post to the north of the Strip, describing them as "stray sniper bullets."
The Israeli Air Force fired, on Thursday at dawn, two missiles into a site for the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli attack led to excessive property damage; no injuries were reported until the time of this report.
The Israeli army earlier claimed a Palestinian bullet, allegedly fired by a sharpshooter, hit the outside of a home in Netiv HaAsara colony, under the jurisdiction of the "Hof Ashkelon Regional Council of Settlements."
The Israeli attack led to excessive property damage; no injuries were reported until the time of this report.
The Israeli army earlier claimed a Palestinian bullet, allegedly fired by a sharpshooter, hit the outside of a home in Netiv HaAsara colony, under the jurisdiction of the "Hof Ashkelon Regional Council of Settlements."
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