19 aug 2011
Thousands participate in funeral of leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees
Tens of thousands of people on Friday participated in the funerals, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, of the leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.
Participants performed the funeral prayers after the Friday prayers. The funeral then proceeded with the six victims Kamal Nairab, Secretary General of PRC, Imad Hammad, head of manufacture department of PRC, Khaled Sha’ath and his son Malek (2 years) and the two leaders Khaled al-Masri, Imad Naser.
Representatives of Palestinian factions participated in the funeral, in which participants called on the Palestinian resistance to retaliate to occupation crimes.
Spokesman for the PRC said that the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the PRC, promised “an unprecedented retaliation.”
Meanwhile, in the city of Gaza thousands participated in the funeral of 13-year-old Mahmoud Abu Samra who was killed Friday morning in an Israeli occupation airstrike.
Thousands participate in funeral of leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees
Tens of thousands of people on Friday participated in the funerals, in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, of the leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Thursday.
Participants performed the funeral prayers after the Friday prayers. The funeral then proceeded with the six victims Kamal Nairab, Secretary General of PRC, Imad Hammad, head of manufacture department of PRC, Khaled Sha’ath and his son Malek (2 years) and the two leaders Khaled al-Masri, Imad Naser.
Representatives of Palestinian factions participated in the funeral, in which participants called on the Palestinian resistance to retaliate to occupation crimes.
Spokesman for the PRC said that the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the PRC, promised “an unprecedented retaliation.”
Meanwhile, in the city of Gaza thousands participated in the funeral of 13-year-old Mahmoud Abu Samra who was killed Friday morning in an Israeli occupation airstrike.
New Israeli Strike Kills Gaza Militant on Motorbike
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Israeli airplanes fired a missile at a motorcycle in northern Gaza
Strip around sunset, killing a militant, the third Palestinian killed
Friday, witnesses and medical sources said.
The 25-year old Gaza militant, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), was immediately killed when driving the motorbike, said Adham Abu Selmia, an emergency spokesman. Six others were killed Thursday in another round of airstrike at a house in the southern city of Rafah, including a military leader and three of his assistants. The PRC has claimed responsibility for firing dozens of mortar shells, locally-produced missiles and Russian-made Grad rockets into Israel since Thursday afternoon in retaliation for the killing of the PRC leader in Rafah. Israel mounted its attacks in Gaza shortly after accusing Palestinian activists of taking part in deadly shootings and blasts in the Red Sea resort of Eilat in southern Israel. Eight Israelis were killed in the attacks. Earlier on Friday, a Palestinian was killed in an Israeli raid in the Gaza Strip. Another Palestinian was wounded when several artillery shells landed in eastern Gaza City. The dead and the wounded were taken to a hospital. Doctors said the dead was 22-year-old Mohammed Enaya, and that the wounded received moderate injuries. Gaza's Hamas rulers denied any involvement in Eilat attacks, and said that the attackers have not reached the area through Sinai, which borders Gaza and Eilat. |
Ahmed Bahar, deputy speaker of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council, called on the international community, mainly Egypt and Turkey, to intervene and press Israel to stop its operations in Gaza.
Anwar Hassan Saleem
'Emad Fareed Abu 'Aabda, 23
Mohammed Fayez Mahmoud Enaya 22
Munther Bassem Hamdan Quraiqe', 32
Mo'taz Bassem Quraiqe', 29
Qassam fighter succumbs to wounds he sustained earlier
Ashraf Azzam, 30
A Qassam fighter succumbed to serious wounds he sustained a few days ago in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Zaitoun neighbourhood in east Gaza city.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of Ashraf Azzam (30 years) as a result of the serious wounds he sustained when Israeli aircraft targeted, last Tusday, a group of resistance fighters to the east of Zaitoun neighbourhood seriously wounding three of them. One of them, Mousa Shtewi, died hours after the attack. The third fighter lies seriously wounded in hospital.
Report: IDF kills PRC commander
Samad Abdul-Mati 25
Palestinian sources report senior commander of Popular Resistance Committees' military wing hit by missile while on motorcycle, IDF says targeting terror cells in Strip after 15 rockets hit Israel throughout Friday.
Palestinian sources in Gaza reported Friday that IDF aircraft fired a missile at a senior commander of the Popular Resistance Committees' military wing as he was riding his motorcycle in northern Gaza.
Samad Abdul-Mati was evacuated to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
The IDF confirmed that the Air Force carried out strikes against three terror cells throughout Gaza, identifying direct hits in each case.
Earlier Palestinian sources reported a 22-year old gunman dead in a strike that targeted a terror cell in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitun. They said another gunman was injured in the same strike.
Later, sources reported an additional strike in an area near a cement factory, northeast of Gaza City. Two people were critically injured, reports said. Some unconfirmed reports say one of the injured is a 12-year old girl.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Friday while visiting wounded soldiers in Soroka Hospital that Israel would retaliate with force to Thursday's terror attacks. "This was just an initial response," he told soldiers of overnight Gaza strikes.
"We have a policy of exacting a heavy price from those who harm us and this policy is being implemented on the ground."
Since Friday morning 15 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza, hitting Be'er Tuvia, Eshkol, and Sdot Negev regional councils, as well as Ashdod. No injuries or damage were reported.
15 Palestinians killed and 40 wounded in 24 hours
The number of victims in the Gaza Strip in the latest Israeli occupation aggression rose to 15 martyrs and 40 wounded over the past 24 hours, the latest of whom were three victims killed while riding a motorcycle in the centre of Gaza City.
Palestinian sources said that Israeli aircraft fired at least one rocket at a motorcycle travelling on Road 30 in the centre of Gaza City ridden by more than one person including a child resulting in the death of three Palestinians.
Adham Abu Selmeyyah, spokesman of the emergency services in Gaza, said that three Palestinians including a two-year-old child died and a number of wounded people, including a woman were brought to hospital.
The victims were Dr. Monther Qureqe and his brother Mu’taz who is a commander affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad and his two-year-old son who were riding a motorcycle to hospital to seek treatment for the child.
Abu Selemeyyah said that Anwar Salim and Imad Abu Abdeh after an occupation aircraft targeted the motorcycle they were riding at the southern entrance to the Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Both of them are affiliated with the Quds Brigades.
PIC correspondent said that occupation aircraft Friday evening fired one rocket towards a group of residents in Abasan al-Jadida to the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
Occupation aircraft also targeted a motorcycle in the Sheikh Zayed neighbourhood in the northern Gaza Strip killing Samed Abed, who is affiliated with the Salahuddin Brigades.
Earlier the PIC correspondent reported that occupation aircraft targeted a group of people at a stone cutting factory near the Wafa hospital to the east of Gaza City wounding two people one of theme a 15-year-old child.
Muhammad Enaya (22 years) was killed and another was wounded in a separate airstrike targeting a group of people in east Gaza City.
Two others, including a pregnant woman, were wounded in a separate airstrike.
This is in addition to the victims of the airstrikes that took place on Thursday evening.
Medics: 2 killed near Bureij refugee camp
Two Palestinians were killed late Friday in new Israeli raids near Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a medical official said, bringing the day's death toll in Gaza to four.
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Israel launches new airstrike on Gaza
Israeli fighter jets have carried out yet another airstrike on the impoverished Gaza Strip following numerous air raids throughout the day.
The airstrike targeted the Zaitun neighborhood in the eastern portion of Gaza City, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.
No details have been reported, however, on possible casualties and damages in the attack.
Since Thursday, Israel has launched several airstrikes on the impoverished Gaza Strip as well as along the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
The airstrikes have so far killed at least 11 Palestinians and three Egyptians.
In addition, Egyptian state-owned Nile Television reported that two of its citizens had been killed by Israeli gunfire late Friday morning.
Israeli fighter jets had earlier in the day fired numerous rockets into Gaza City.
According to hospital officials in the city, a 13-year old boy was killed, and 17 of his relatives were injured.
The airstrike began on Thursday when several rockets had hit the southern parts of Gaza, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a nine-year old boy.
Moreover, three Egyptian border guards lost their lives on Thursday as an Israeli Apache gunship fired a rocket near the Rafah border-crossing.
Tel Aviv claims it has launched the attacks in response to assaults that targeted two buses and a military vehicle near the Red Sea resort of Eilat in southern Israel, which left at least eight Israelis dead and dozens of others injured.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has accused resistance groups in the impoverished coastal sliver of organizing the attacks and vowed a “full force” response against the Palestinians in the Tel Aviv-besieged territory.
However, the democratically elected government of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, in Gaza strongly dismissed the allegations and warned against any act of aggression against the enclave.
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Several killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Israel has carried out series of air strikes in Gaza Strip, killing at least eight people, including a senior Hamas leader.
Scores of others including children and women were also wounded in the Israeli raids.
Atef Abu Samra who lost his 13 year son in the overnight Israeli air raid had this to say.
The Israeli raids came following Thursday's attacks, in which at least eight Israelis were killed by gunmen who opened fire on a bus near Eilat.
The Hamas government denied responsibility for the attacks, saying that Israel's accusations and air strikes against the Palestinians in Gaza are mainly meant to export its internal crisis.
SB: Dr. Salama Marouf-Hamas Deputy Minister Of Information
Many here fear that another war is looming in Gaza similar to Israel's devastating assault in early 2009 that killed more than 1400 Gazans mainly civilians.
Observers say Israel's previous attempts have failed to launch a major attack on Gaza in order to hamper the Palestinian Authority's statehood bid at the UN next month. Yet Thursday's attacks in Eilat were a precious opportunity for Israel to implement its plans.
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Renewed Israeli Strikes on Gaza Leave a child Dead and 17 injured, Death Toll Reaches Seven
One child was reported dead, on Friday at dawn, and 10 other civilians were injured as Israeli jetfighters targeted Gaza City. Local sources identified the child as 13-year-old Mohamed Abu Samra. The latest attack brings the death toll in Gaza since Thursday to seven.
Local sources announced that Israeli jetfighters fired a missile at a house in al-Sodaniyah area in Gaza City, the attack left one child dead and 17 other injured. Medics reported that among those injured were women and children.
On Thursday evening Israeli jetfighters attacked a house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah killing six Palestinians among them Abu Awad al Nierab, General Secretary of the Popular Resistance Committees based in Gaza.
Israel attacks comes shortly after gunmen implemented set of attack at the southern Israeli borders with Egypt near the coastal town of Eilat killing eight soldiers and injuring 30 others.
No Palestinian groups have claimed responsibility for the attack but the Israeli army blamed the Popular Resistance Committees based in Gaza.
Islam Qraqe’a 1
On 19 August 2011, one-year-old Islam was killed with his father and uncle when the motorbike they were travelling on was targeted by Israeli forces.
One-year-old Islam lived in the ash-Shujaeya neighbourhood of Gaza City with his extended family, including his two uncles, Muhannad and Monzer. Islam’s father was ‘an active member in Islamic Jihad’s military wing and that made him a target,’ Muhannad explains. ‘On 18 August 2011 we started to hear a lot of bombing and explosions all around us. We also heard on the news about huge bombing attacks by Israeli jets and that the so called truce with the Palestinian organisations had collapsed.’ These airstrikes were in retaliation for a number of attacks on 18 August along the Israeli-Egyptian border, in which eight Israelis died.
Muhannad describes what happened the next day. ‘At around 9:00 pm on Friday, 19 August 2011, Monzer and I were on the ground floor talking, when we suddenly heard children in the street screaming: “Islam has been injured.” We both rushed out of the house to see the children carrying Islam, whose head was bleeding. “What happened?” I asked and they said he had fallen while running and hit his head hit on a stone.’ His uncle Monzer, who was a doctor, examined his wound and decided Islam needed to go to hospital for stitches. Islam’s father fetched his motorbike, and Monzer got on holding Islam in his arms as the three set off. Muhannad returned inside to watch the news. ‘At around 10:00 pm,’ he recalls, ‘I heard an explosion in our area and turned on the radio to hear what had happened. [...] Five minutes later I heard that three people, including a child and a doctor named Monzer Qraqe’a had been killed in the explosion.’
Muhannad rushed out of the house and caught a taxi to the hospital. On arrival, he was taken to the morgue to identify his two brothers and Islam. ‘They were blown to pieces and had extensive burns. Half of the left side of Islam’s face was burned and in pieces. His insides were hanging out of his stomach. His left shoulder was about to fall apart,’ Muhannad recalls. ‘This was the destiny of my two brothers and my nephew,’ he concludes. Islam would have celebrated his second birthday on 9 September.
According to the UN, following the attacks along the Israeli-Egyptian border ‘the Israeli Air Force carried out approximately 30 air strikes on the Gaza Strip’ between 19 August and 21 August 2011. Amnesty International reports that in the retaliatory air strikes ‘at least 20 Palestinians had been injured by 2 pm local time on Friday [19 August]. The ambulance and emergency services in Gaza reported that the majority of those injured were women and children.’
DCI-Palestine has documented the death of three children as a result of the air strikes in Gaza, two of whom were under two years old. The third child (13) was injured on 21 August, and died eight days later, as a result of his injuries.
Report: Drone attack kills 3 in Gaza City
An Israeli drone attack on a civilian car in Gaza City killed three Palestinians including a five-year-old boy, Al-Jazeera reported. Three people including a woman were reportedly injured.
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Special source: Seven Egyptian officers killed by Israeli airstrike near Rafah
A special source informed PIC correspondent in Cairo that the number of Egyptian army officers killed by an Israeli airstrike near Rafah has risen to seven, in addition to a number of wounded.
The source that asked not to be identified said that amongst the officers killed are two Brigadiers, which prompted a prominent military official to head a special force to Sinai.
PIC correspondent also said that the revolution youth were preparing for demonstrations on Friday outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo to protest the killing of the Egyptian officers.
A leader of the revolution youth said that a march will head from Tahrir Square after Friday prayers to the Israeli embassy to protest the killing of Egyptian officers and soldiers.
Official Egyptian sources said earlier that three Egyptian soldiers were killed on Thursday evening when and Israeli aircraft fired a rocket near the Egyptian Palestinian borders close to Rafah.
Egyptians want Israeli envoy expelled
Hundreds of Egyptians have gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo to protest against the killing of four military personnel in Israeli border attacks.
Protesters urged the authorities on Friday to expel the Israeli ambassador and sever ties with Tel Aviv in response to the killings.
They also condemned Israel's ongoing military attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israel has launched massive airstrikes in Gaza and the border area with Egypt since Thursday after eight Israelis were killed in an attack on an Israeli bus near Eilat, south of Israel near the Egyptian border.
According to Israeli officials, two other vehicles were also hit nearby - one by a rocket and one by an explosive device.
The Israeli airstrikes have so far killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza and four in Egypt.
There are conflicting reports about how the four military personnel, including an army officer, died, but some reports suggest that they were killed after an Israeli Apache gunship fired a rocket near the Rafah border-crossing.
Reports say Egypt's army chief General Sami Anan has left the capital for Sinai to probe the killings.
Israeli and Egyptian forces have been sweeping the area looking for gunmen behind the recent deadly attacks on Israeli soldiers. The Israeli military claimed they had pursued the assailants and killed seven of them.
Tel Aviv has accused resistance groups affiliated with Hamas of organizing the attacks and has vowed a ''full force'' response against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas, however, has strongly dismissed the allegations, saying the group's fighters had nothing to do with the assault and has warned against any act of aggression against the enclave.
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Anwar Hassan Saleem
'Emad Fareed Abu 'Aabda, 23
Mohammed Fayez Mahmoud Enaya 22
Munther Bassem Hamdan Quraiqe', 32
Mo'taz Bassem Quraiqe', 29
Qassam fighter succumbs to wounds he sustained earlier
Ashraf Azzam, 30
A Qassam fighter succumbed to serious wounds he sustained a few days ago in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Zaitoun neighbourhood in east Gaza city.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of Ashraf Azzam (30 years) as a result of the serious wounds he sustained when Israeli aircraft targeted, last Tusday, a group of resistance fighters to the east of Zaitoun neighbourhood seriously wounding three of them. One of them, Mousa Shtewi, died hours after the attack. The third fighter lies seriously wounded in hospital.
Report: IDF kills PRC commander
Samad Abdul-Mati 25
Palestinian sources report senior commander of Popular Resistance Committees' military wing hit by missile while on motorcycle, IDF says targeting terror cells in Strip after 15 rockets hit Israel throughout Friday.
Palestinian sources in Gaza reported Friday that IDF aircraft fired a missile at a senior commander of the Popular Resistance Committees' military wing as he was riding his motorcycle in northern Gaza.
Samad Abdul-Mati was evacuated to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
The IDF confirmed that the Air Force carried out strikes against three terror cells throughout Gaza, identifying direct hits in each case.
Earlier Palestinian sources reported a 22-year old gunman dead in a strike that targeted a terror cell in the Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitun. They said another gunman was injured in the same strike.
Later, sources reported an additional strike in an area near a cement factory, northeast of Gaza City. Two people were critically injured, reports said. Some unconfirmed reports say one of the injured is a 12-year old girl.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Friday while visiting wounded soldiers in Soroka Hospital that Israel would retaliate with force to Thursday's terror attacks. "This was just an initial response," he told soldiers of overnight Gaza strikes.
"We have a policy of exacting a heavy price from those who harm us and this policy is being implemented on the ground."
Since Friday morning 15 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza, hitting Be'er Tuvia, Eshkol, and Sdot Negev regional councils, as well as Ashdod. No injuries or damage were reported.
15 Palestinians killed and 40 wounded in 24 hours
The number of victims in the Gaza Strip in the latest Israeli occupation aggression rose to 15 martyrs and 40 wounded over the past 24 hours, the latest of whom were three victims killed while riding a motorcycle in the centre of Gaza City.
Palestinian sources said that Israeli aircraft fired at least one rocket at a motorcycle travelling on Road 30 in the centre of Gaza City ridden by more than one person including a child resulting in the death of three Palestinians.
Adham Abu Selmeyyah, spokesman of the emergency services in Gaza, said that three Palestinians including a two-year-old child died and a number of wounded people, including a woman were brought to hospital.
The victims were Dr. Monther Qureqe and his brother Mu’taz who is a commander affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad and his two-year-old son who were riding a motorcycle to hospital to seek treatment for the child.
Abu Selemeyyah said that Anwar Salim and Imad Abu Abdeh after an occupation aircraft targeted the motorcycle they were riding at the southern entrance to the Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Both of them are affiliated with the Quds Brigades.
PIC correspondent said that occupation aircraft Friday evening fired one rocket towards a group of residents in Abasan al-Jadida to the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, but no casualties were reported.
Occupation aircraft also targeted a motorcycle in the Sheikh Zayed neighbourhood in the northern Gaza Strip killing Samed Abed, who is affiliated with the Salahuddin Brigades.
Earlier the PIC correspondent reported that occupation aircraft targeted a group of people at a stone cutting factory near the Wafa hospital to the east of Gaza City wounding two people one of theme a 15-year-old child.
Muhammad Enaya (22 years) was killed and another was wounded in a separate airstrike targeting a group of people in east Gaza City.
Two others, including a pregnant woman, were wounded in a separate airstrike.
This is in addition to the victims of the airstrikes that took place on Thursday evening.
Medics: 2 killed near Bureij refugee camp
Two Palestinians were killed late Friday in new Israeli raids near Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a medical official said, bringing the day's death toll in Gaza to four.
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Israel launches new airstrike on Gaza
Israeli fighter jets have carried out yet another airstrike on the impoverished Gaza Strip following numerous air raids throughout the day.
The airstrike targeted the Zaitun neighborhood in the eastern portion of Gaza City, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.
No details have been reported, however, on possible casualties and damages in the attack.
Since Thursday, Israel has launched several airstrikes on the impoverished Gaza Strip as well as along the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
The airstrikes have so far killed at least 11 Palestinians and three Egyptians.
In addition, Egyptian state-owned Nile Television reported that two of its citizens had been killed by Israeli gunfire late Friday morning.
Israeli fighter jets had earlier in the day fired numerous rockets into Gaza City.
According to hospital officials in the city, a 13-year old boy was killed, and 17 of his relatives were injured.
The airstrike began on Thursday when several rockets had hit the southern parts of Gaza, killing at least seven Palestinians, including a nine-year old boy.
Moreover, three Egyptian border guards lost their lives on Thursday as an Israeli Apache gunship fired a rocket near the Rafah border-crossing.
Tel Aviv claims it has launched the attacks in response to assaults that targeted two buses and a military vehicle near the Red Sea resort of Eilat in southern Israel, which left at least eight Israelis dead and dozens of others injured.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has accused resistance groups in the impoverished coastal sliver of organizing the attacks and vowed a “full force” response against the Palestinians in the Tel Aviv-besieged territory.
However, the democratically elected government of the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, in Gaza strongly dismissed the allegations and warned against any act of aggression against the enclave.
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Several killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Israel has carried out series of air strikes in Gaza Strip, killing at least eight people, including a senior Hamas leader.
Scores of others including children and women were also wounded in the Israeli raids.
Atef Abu Samra who lost his 13 year son in the overnight Israeli air raid had this to say.
The Israeli raids came following Thursday's attacks, in which at least eight Israelis were killed by gunmen who opened fire on a bus near Eilat.
The Hamas government denied responsibility for the attacks, saying that Israel's accusations and air strikes against the Palestinians in Gaza are mainly meant to export its internal crisis.
SB: Dr. Salama Marouf-Hamas Deputy Minister Of Information
Many here fear that another war is looming in Gaza similar to Israel's devastating assault in early 2009 that killed more than 1400 Gazans mainly civilians.
Observers say Israel's previous attempts have failed to launch a major attack on Gaza in order to hamper the Palestinian Authority's statehood bid at the UN next month. Yet Thursday's attacks in Eilat were a precious opportunity for Israel to implement its plans.
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Renewed Israeli Strikes on Gaza Leave a child Dead and 17 injured, Death Toll Reaches Seven
One child was reported dead, on Friday at dawn, and 10 other civilians were injured as Israeli jetfighters targeted Gaza City. Local sources identified the child as 13-year-old Mohamed Abu Samra. The latest attack brings the death toll in Gaza since Thursday to seven.
Local sources announced that Israeli jetfighters fired a missile at a house in al-Sodaniyah area in Gaza City, the attack left one child dead and 17 other injured. Medics reported that among those injured were women and children.
On Thursday evening Israeli jetfighters attacked a house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah killing six Palestinians among them Abu Awad al Nierab, General Secretary of the Popular Resistance Committees based in Gaza.
Israel attacks comes shortly after gunmen implemented set of attack at the southern Israeli borders with Egypt near the coastal town of Eilat killing eight soldiers and injuring 30 others.
No Palestinian groups have claimed responsibility for the attack but the Israeli army blamed the Popular Resistance Committees based in Gaza.
Islam Qraqe’a 1
On 19 August 2011, one-year-old Islam was killed with his father and uncle when the motorbike they were travelling on was targeted by Israeli forces.
One-year-old Islam lived in the ash-Shujaeya neighbourhood of Gaza City with his extended family, including his two uncles, Muhannad and Monzer. Islam’s father was ‘an active member in Islamic Jihad’s military wing and that made him a target,’ Muhannad explains. ‘On 18 August 2011 we started to hear a lot of bombing and explosions all around us. We also heard on the news about huge bombing attacks by Israeli jets and that the so called truce with the Palestinian organisations had collapsed.’ These airstrikes were in retaliation for a number of attacks on 18 August along the Israeli-Egyptian border, in which eight Israelis died.
Muhannad describes what happened the next day. ‘At around 9:00 pm on Friday, 19 August 2011, Monzer and I were on the ground floor talking, when we suddenly heard children in the street screaming: “Islam has been injured.” We both rushed out of the house to see the children carrying Islam, whose head was bleeding. “What happened?” I asked and they said he had fallen while running and hit his head hit on a stone.’ His uncle Monzer, who was a doctor, examined his wound and decided Islam needed to go to hospital for stitches. Islam’s father fetched his motorbike, and Monzer got on holding Islam in his arms as the three set off. Muhannad returned inside to watch the news. ‘At around 10:00 pm,’ he recalls, ‘I heard an explosion in our area and turned on the radio to hear what had happened. [...] Five minutes later I heard that three people, including a child and a doctor named Monzer Qraqe’a had been killed in the explosion.’
Muhannad rushed out of the house and caught a taxi to the hospital. On arrival, he was taken to the morgue to identify his two brothers and Islam. ‘They were blown to pieces and had extensive burns. Half of the left side of Islam’s face was burned and in pieces. His insides were hanging out of his stomach. His left shoulder was about to fall apart,’ Muhannad recalls. ‘This was the destiny of my two brothers and my nephew,’ he concludes. Islam would have celebrated his second birthday on 9 September.
According to the UN, following the attacks along the Israeli-Egyptian border ‘the Israeli Air Force carried out approximately 30 air strikes on the Gaza Strip’ between 19 August and 21 August 2011. Amnesty International reports that in the retaliatory air strikes ‘at least 20 Palestinians had been injured by 2 pm local time on Friday [19 August]. The ambulance and emergency services in Gaza reported that the majority of those injured were women and children.’
DCI-Palestine has documented the death of three children as a result of the air strikes in Gaza, two of whom were under two years old. The third child (13) was injured on 21 August, and died eight days later, as a result of his injuries.
Report: Drone attack kills 3 in Gaza City
An Israeli drone attack on a civilian car in Gaza City killed three Palestinians including a five-year-old boy, Al-Jazeera reported. Three people including a woman were reportedly injured.
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Special source: Seven Egyptian officers killed by Israeli airstrike near Rafah
A special source informed PIC correspondent in Cairo that the number of Egyptian army officers killed by an Israeli airstrike near Rafah has risen to seven, in addition to a number of wounded.
The source that asked not to be identified said that amongst the officers killed are two Brigadiers, which prompted a prominent military official to head a special force to Sinai.
PIC correspondent also said that the revolution youth were preparing for demonstrations on Friday outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo to protest the killing of the Egyptian officers.
A leader of the revolution youth said that a march will head from Tahrir Square after Friday prayers to the Israeli embassy to protest the killing of Egyptian officers and soldiers.
Official Egyptian sources said earlier that three Egyptian soldiers were killed on Thursday evening when and Israeli aircraft fired a rocket near the Egyptian Palestinian borders close to Rafah.
Egyptians want Israeli envoy expelled
Hundreds of Egyptians have gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in Cairo to protest against the killing of four military personnel in Israeli border attacks.
Protesters urged the authorities on Friday to expel the Israeli ambassador and sever ties with Tel Aviv in response to the killings.
They also condemned Israel's ongoing military attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israel has launched massive airstrikes in Gaza and the border area with Egypt since Thursday after eight Israelis were killed in an attack on an Israeli bus near Eilat, south of Israel near the Egyptian border.
According to Israeli officials, two other vehicles were also hit nearby - one by a rocket and one by an explosive device.
The Israeli airstrikes have so far killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza and four in Egypt.
There are conflicting reports about how the four military personnel, including an army officer, died, but some reports suggest that they were killed after an Israeli Apache gunship fired a rocket near the Rafah border-crossing.
Reports say Egypt's army chief General Sami Anan has left the capital for Sinai to probe the killings.
Israeli and Egyptian forces have been sweeping the area looking for gunmen behind the recent deadly attacks on Israeli soldiers. The Israeli military claimed they had pursued the assailants and killed seven of them.
Tel Aviv has accused resistance groups affiliated with Hamas of organizing the attacks and has vowed a ''full force'' response against the Palestinians in Gaza.
Hamas, however, has strongly dismissed the allegations, saying the group's fighters had nothing to do with the assault and has warned against any act of aggression against the enclave.
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18 aug 2011
Malek Khaled Hamad Sha'at, 1
Malek Khaled Hamad Sha'at, 1
Name: Malek Shath
Date of Incident: 18 August 2011
Age: 1
Location: Rafah, the Gaza Strip
Nature of Incident: Killed in an Israeli air strike
On 18 August 2011, one-year-old Malek was killed in an Israeli air strike as he sat with his father in the garden of their house in Rafah.
Malek lived with his extended family in Rafah, near the Egyptian border. According to his uncle, Malek's father was a member of the Palestinian Resistance Committees. On 18 August 2011, Malek’s father was sitting with his friends in the garden of their house waiting for Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during Ramadan. Inside, Malek’s grandmother, Aziza, was cleaning and preparing the food for her family. ‘At around 5:00 pm, I heard my grandson, Malek, crying.’ Aziza explains he was crying for his father. ‘He kept crying: “Daddy, daddy” I laughed and said: “Go to your daddy.” He went out to his father in the garden, and I went back to cleaning and preparing food.’
Less than five minutes later there was a huge explosion which shook the house. ‘I wasn’t very scared because I am used to this whenever planes bomb the tunnels along the border, about 500 metres to the south.’ Smelling gas, Aziza suspected that their gas container had been hit by shrapnel and went out to the balcony to call for help from her neighbours. ‘I looked down to the garden and saw something that left me speechless: Dismembered body parts all over the garden. It was so horrifying I couldn’t speak.’
She ran down to the garden. ‘I stood in the middle of the garden and looked around in complete shock. I was surrounded by body parts scattered everywhere. I can’t even begin to describe what I saw.’ Then, Aziza noticed her son, Malek’s father. ‘His body was covered in shrapnel, but he was still breathing. He had Malek in his arms. Part of Malek’s head was blown off. His brain was hanging out of his skull and lying on his father’s chest. His insides were also hanging out of his stomach. There was a lot of blood and I couldn’t tell whether it was Malek’s or his father’s.’
She carried Malek out of the garden and placed him at the entrance to the house. ‘At that moment, his mother came out. She picked him up and started screaming.’ Aziza ran back to her son, ‘I placed his head on my chest.’ Whispering a prayer in his ear she asked him to repeat it before he died. ‘He actually repeated it,’ she recalls. ‘Then, his body became all loose.’ As the ambulances arrived, Aziza sat and watched in shock. ‘I just kept looking at the dead bodies. I wasn’t aware of what was going on around me.
I just kept looking at my son, Khaled and his son Malek. Then, ambulances took their bodies away.’
Aziza states that she has been badly affected by the incident. ‘I can’t say anything else except I’ve had difficulty sleeping since the incident. I can’t forget what I saw. I can’t forget the sight of my son and grandson killed in front of me like that.’ Malek would have celebrated his second birthday on 18 September.
According to the UN, ‘the Israeli Air Force carried out approximately 30 air strikes on the Gaza Strip’ between 19 August and 21 August 2011. These were in retaliation for a number of attacks on 18 August along the Israeli-Egyptian border, in which eight Israelis died. Amnesty International reports that in the retaliatory air strikes ‘at least 20 Palestinians had been injured by 2 pm local time on Friday [19 August]. The ambulance and emergency services in Gaza reported that the majority of those injured were women and children.’
DCI-Palestine has documented the death of three children as a result of the air strikes in Gaza, two of whom, Islam and Malek, were under two years old. The third child, Haitham (13) was injured on 21 August, and died eight days later, as a result of his injuries.
Name: Malek Shath
Date of Incident: 18 August 2011
Age: 1
Location: Rafah, the Gaza Strip
Nature of Incident: Killed in an Israeli air strike
On 18 August 2011, one-year-old Malek was killed in an Israeli air strike as he sat with his father in the garden of their house in Rafah.
Malek lived with his extended family in Rafah, near the Egyptian border. According to his uncle, Malek's father was a member of the Palestinian Resistance Committees. On 18 August 2011, Malek’s father was sitting with his friends in the garden of their house waiting for Iftar, the evening meal that breaks the fast during Ramadan. Inside, Malek’s grandmother, Aziza, was cleaning and preparing the food for her family. ‘At around 5:00 pm, I heard my grandson, Malek, crying.’ Aziza explains he was crying for his father. ‘He kept crying: “Daddy, daddy” I laughed and said: “Go to your daddy.” He went out to his father in the garden, and I went back to cleaning and preparing food.’
Less than five minutes later there was a huge explosion which shook the house. ‘I wasn’t very scared because I am used to this whenever planes bomb the tunnels along the border, about 500 metres to the south.’ Smelling gas, Aziza suspected that their gas container had been hit by shrapnel and went out to the balcony to call for help from her neighbours. ‘I looked down to the garden and saw something that left me speechless: Dismembered body parts all over the garden. It was so horrifying I couldn’t speak.’
She ran down to the garden. ‘I stood in the middle of the garden and looked around in complete shock. I was surrounded by body parts scattered everywhere. I can’t even begin to describe what I saw.’ Then, Aziza noticed her son, Malek’s father. ‘His body was covered in shrapnel, but he was still breathing. He had Malek in his arms. Part of Malek’s head was blown off. His brain was hanging out of his skull and lying on his father’s chest. His insides were also hanging out of his stomach. There was a lot of blood and I couldn’t tell whether it was Malek’s or his father’s.’
She carried Malek out of the garden and placed him at the entrance to the house. ‘At that moment, his mother came out. She picked him up and started screaming.’ Aziza ran back to her son, ‘I placed his head on my chest.’ Whispering a prayer in his ear she asked him to repeat it before he died. ‘He actually repeated it,’ she recalls. ‘Then, his body became all loose.’ As the ambulances arrived, Aziza sat and watched in shock. ‘I just kept looking at the dead bodies. I wasn’t aware of what was going on around me.
I just kept looking at my son, Khaled and his son Malek. Then, ambulances took their bodies away.’
Aziza states that she has been badly affected by the incident. ‘I can’t say anything else except I’ve had difficulty sleeping since the incident. I can’t forget what I saw. I can’t forget the sight of my son and grandson killed in front of me like that.’ Malek would have celebrated his second birthday on 18 September.
According to the UN, ‘the Israeli Air Force carried out approximately 30 air strikes on the Gaza Strip’ between 19 August and 21 August 2011. These were in retaliation for a number of attacks on 18 August along the Israeli-Egyptian border, in which eight Israelis died. Amnesty International reports that in the retaliatory air strikes ‘at least 20 Palestinians had been injured by 2 pm local time on Friday [19 August]. The ambulance and emergency services in Gaza reported that the majority of those injured were women and children.’
DCI-Palestine has documented the death of three children as a result of the air strikes in Gaza, two of whom, Islam and Malek, were under two years old. The third child, Haitham (13) was injured on 21 August, and died eight days later, as a result of his injuries.
Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli missile raid on a house for a leader of the resistance fighters in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Thursday, Palestinian sources said.
They said that the Israeli warplanes fired the missile at a house in Shaut suburb in Rafah killing the secretary general of the popular resistance committees Abu Awad Al-Nairab and two other commanders along with three of his family members.
Israeli war minister Ehud Barak had threatened to strike Gaza in retaliation to the attack near Eilat earlier Thursday that killed seven Israelis and wounded more than 20 others, five of whom in serious condition.
Barak claimed that the attackers came from Gaza while no one had announced responsibility for the attack so far.
Kamal 'Awadh Mohammed al-Nairab (Abu 'Awadh), 43, PRC Secretary General
'Emad al-Din Na'im Sayed Nasser, 46, a member of Nasser Saladin Brigades
'Emad 'Abdul Karim 'Abdul Khaliq Hammad, 40, the leader of Nasser Saladin Brigades
Khaled Hamad Sha'at, 32, the leader of manufacturing unit of Nasser Saladin Brigades
Malek Khaled Hamad Sha'at, 1
Khaled Ibrahim Salman al-Masri, 26, a member of Nasser Saladin Brigades
They said that the Israeli warplanes fired the missile at a house in Shaut suburb in Rafah killing the secretary general of the popular resistance committees Abu Awad Al-Nairab and two other commanders along with three of his family members.
Israeli war minister Ehud Barak had threatened to strike Gaza in retaliation to the attack near Eilat earlier Thursday that killed seven Israelis and wounded more than 20 others, five of whom in serious condition.
Barak claimed that the attackers came from Gaza while no one had announced responsibility for the attack so far.
Kamal 'Awadh Mohammed al-Nairab (Abu 'Awadh), 43, PRC Secretary General
'Emad al-Din Na'im Sayed Nasser, 46, a member of Nasser Saladin Brigades
'Emad 'Abdul Karim 'Abdul Khaliq Hammad, 40, the leader of Nasser Saladin Brigades
Khaled Hamad Sha'at, 32, the leader of manufacturing unit of Nasser Saladin Brigades
Malek Khaled Hamad Sha'at, 1
Khaled Ibrahim Salman al-Masri, 26, a member of Nasser Saladin Brigades
17 aug 2011
Gaza man shot dead in Israel’s latest aggression
Mahmoud Mohammed Safadi 26
A Palestinian man was shot dead Tuesday night in Israel’s latest aggression on the Gaza Strip.
So far a total of two have died and four have been injured in an Israeli onslaught that began Tuesday morning.
Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a Palestinian man in East Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. He died after being hit with ten bullets that riddled his upper body, an emergency unit spokesman said.
Locals said the man has yet to be identified.
Israeli forces say they opened fire at and hit a Palestinian who got close to the security fence in the Kosovim region in East Deir al-Balah.
Since Tuesday morning, a fighter from the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, was killed and four citizens were injured, among them a six-year-old child in six raids that took place in separate locations across the Strip.
A Palestinian man was shot dead Tuesday night in Israel’s latest aggression on the Gaza Strip.
So far a total of two have died and four have been injured in an Israeli onslaught that began Tuesday morning.
Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a Palestinian man in East Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. He died after being hit with ten bullets that riddled his upper body, an emergency unit spokesman said.
Locals said the man has yet to be identified.
Israeli forces say they opened fire at and hit a Palestinian who got close to the security fence in the Kosovim region in East Deir al-Balah.
Since Tuesday morning, a fighter from the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, was killed and four citizens were injured, among them a six-year-old child in six raids that took place in separate locations across the Strip.
Israeli patrol car deliberately runs over Jerusalemite, kills him
Ameen Taleb Dabash 30
Jerusalemite man was killed on Tuesday night after an Israeli border police patrol car ran him over south of the Aqsa Mosque, eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter.
They said that Amin Dabash, 30, was wearing his uniform and heading to work when the patrol vehicle rammed into him along the road between Um Toba town and Jabal Abu Ghunaim.
The witnesses said that Dabash, from Soor Baher in occupied Jerusalem, was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead one hour after his arrival.
Israeli soldiers and settlers usually drive at very high speed near Palestinian neighborhoods especially in occupied Jerusalem and often deliberately run over Palestinian pedestrians.
A young martyr in Sur Baher
On wednesday 17 of August the resident Ameen Taleb Dabash 30 y.o From the Village of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem was martyred immediately after being Passed over by the police of guard borders near Abu Ghunaim Mountain Settlement while he was on his way to work.
According to eye witnesses who were very close to the crime site, that Muhammad was walking on the pavement of the road passing Em Touba village and Heading to his work to a close area of the settlement HARHOMAH when suddenly, a huge Military jeep came in a hilarious speed pushed the martyr for more than 150 meters , at that time , the jeep tried to flee but the people who were in the crime site yield and shouted on it.
The martyr Uncle reported that the accident was on purpose according to the witnesses for he was walking on the road pavement and the jeep came fast and killed him thinking that he was one of the West Bank labors, His Uncle also pointed that they might receive his body this evening. So far his family stated that Ameen’s face was badly damaged and the only way that identified his personality was his I.D Card.
Sour Baher Mosques announced and Considered Ameen as a martyr who died leaving a two years old son called Muhammad.Ahmad Attoun a parliament member in the Palestinian Legislative council strongly condemned the Israeli forces disregards for the lives of the Palestinian people and denounced the excuses and justifications that the Israel government practice to kill us.
http://silwanic.net/?p=19266
Jerusalemite man was killed on Tuesday night after an Israeli border police patrol car ran him over south of the Aqsa Mosque, eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter.
They said that Amin Dabash, 30, was wearing his uniform and heading to work when the patrol vehicle rammed into him along the road between Um Toba town and Jabal Abu Ghunaim.
The witnesses said that Dabash, from Soor Baher in occupied Jerusalem, was taken to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in critical condition and was pronounced dead one hour after his arrival.
Israeli soldiers and settlers usually drive at very high speed near Palestinian neighborhoods especially in occupied Jerusalem and often deliberately run over Palestinian pedestrians.
A young martyr in Sur Baher
On wednesday 17 of August the resident Ameen Taleb Dabash 30 y.o From the Village of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem was martyred immediately after being Passed over by the police of guard borders near Abu Ghunaim Mountain Settlement while he was on his way to work.
According to eye witnesses who were very close to the crime site, that Muhammad was walking on the pavement of the road passing Em Touba village and Heading to his work to a close area of the settlement HARHOMAH when suddenly, a huge Military jeep came in a hilarious speed pushed the martyr for more than 150 meters , at that time , the jeep tried to flee but the people who were in the crime site yield and shouted on it.
The martyr Uncle reported that the accident was on purpose according to the witnesses for he was walking on the road pavement and the jeep came fast and killed him thinking that he was one of the West Bank labors, His Uncle also pointed that they might receive his body this evening. So far his family stated that Ameen’s face was badly damaged and the only way that identified his personality was his I.D Card.
Sour Baher Mosques announced and Considered Ameen as a martyr who died leaving a two years old son called Muhammad.Ahmad Attoun a parliament member in the Palestinian Legislative council strongly condemned the Israeli forces disregards for the lives of the Palestinian people and denounced the excuses and justifications that the Israel government practice to kill us.
http://silwanic.net/?p=19266
16 aug 2011
Sa’d Abdul Rahim Mahmoud al-Majdalwai, 17
In a New Crime, Israeli Occupation Forces Kills Disabled Child in Central Gaza Ref: 83/2011
On Tuesday evening, 16 August 2011, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian child from al-Nussairat refugee camp, who was 400 meters from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The victim’s family told a PCHR field worker that their child had a mental disability. The victim was in an area that had not been explicitly declared as prohibited.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 18:00 on Tuesday, 16 August 2011, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border northeast of Deir al-Balah opened fire at a Palestinian, who was nearly 400 meters from the border. As a result, he was wounded by 10 bullets in his head and chest. He was left wounded without being offered any first aid. After coordination was made with IOF, at approximately 19:20, medical crews were able to retrieve the body, which was then transferred to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. After four hours later, the child was identified as Sa’d Abdul Rahim Mahmoud al-Majdalwai, 17, from al-Nussairat refugee camp. He was hit by 10 live bullets mostly to the head. In his testimony to PCHR, the victim’s father said that his son had been suffering from a mental disability and a speech impairment.
The Israeli radio reported that IOF observed a person approaching the security fence, and shot him. This version of events confirms that IOF could have arrested or used less than lethal force against him, especially as he was wearing civilian clothes and there was nothing to indicate that he was a non-civilian.
It should be noted that on Tuesday morning, the Gaza Strip witnessed several shooting and shelling attacks on civilian areas and military training sites. As a result of this shelling and shooting, a Palestinian resistance man was killed and two others were seriously wounded in Gaza City. A child and another person were wounded in Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
PCHR condemns and expresses concerned over this crime, and:
1. Asserts that these crimes are part of a series of war crimes committed by IOF in the oPt, which reflect total disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians.
2. Calls upon the international community to take immediate action in order to put an end to such crimes. PCHR further renews its demand for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligation under Article 1, which stipulates “the High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances,” as well as their obligations under Article 146 which requires that the Contracting Parties prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and under Protocol I Additional to Geneva Conventions.
In a New Crime, Israeli Occupation Forces Kills Disabled Child in Central Gaza Ref: 83/2011
On Tuesday evening, 16 August 2011, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian child from al-Nussairat refugee camp, who was 400 meters from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. The victim’s family told a PCHR field worker that their child had a mental disability. The victim was in an area that had not been explicitly declared as prohibited.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 18:00 on Tuesday, 16 August 2011, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border northeast of Deir al-Balah opened fire at a Palestinian, who was nearly 400 meters from the border. As a result, he was wounded by 10 bullets in his head and chest. He was left wounded without being offered any first aid. After coordination was made with IOF, at approximately 19:20, medical crews were able to retrieve the body, which was then transferred to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. After four hours later, the child was identified as Sa’d Abdul Rahim Mahmoud al-Majdalwai, 17, from al-Nussairat refugee camp. He was hit by 10 live bullets mostly to the head. In his testimony to PCHR, the victim’s father said that his son had been suffering from a mental disability and a speech impairment.
The Israeli radio reported that IOF observed a person approaching the security fence, and shot him. This version of events confirms that IOF could have arrested or used less than lethal force against him, especially as he was wearing civilian clothes and there was nothing to indicate that he was a non-civilian.
It should be noted that on Tuesday morning, the Gaza Strip witnessed several shooting and shelling attacks on civilian areas and military training sites. As a result of this shelling and shooting, a Palestinian resistance man was killed and two others were seriously wounded in Gaza City. A child and another person were wounded in Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip.
PCHR condemns and expresses concerned over this crime, and:
1. Asserts that these crimes are part of a series of war crimes committed by IOF in the oPt, which reflect total disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians.
2. Calls upon the international community to take immediate action in order to put an end to such crimes. PCHR further renews its demand for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligation under Article 1, which stipulates “the High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances,” as well as their obligations under Article 146 which requires that the Contracting Parties prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and under Protocol I Additional to Geneva Conventions.
Mousa Younis Mousa Eshtaiwi, 30
Israeli warplanes have launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip that killed one Palestinian and critically injured two others.
The attack targeted the eastern section of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The airstrike came a day after an Israeli Navy vessel opened fire on the northern coast of the besieged territory, wounding a Gazan fisherman.
The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip, saying the actions are being conducted for defensive purposes. However, disproportionate force is always used, in violation of international law, and civilians are often killed or injured.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, a situation which has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194130.html
Medics: 1 killed, 7 injured as Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza
One man was killed and seven others injured as Israeli warplanes struck targets in the central and southern Gaza Strip early Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources and the Israeli army said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run emergency services in the Gaza Strip, said the strikes had killed one Palestinian and wounded seven.
Several people were injured as Israeli forces fired at a group of people in the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources said.
All of the victims were evacuated to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Mousa Shteiwi, 29, later died from his injuries.
Three other Palestinians, including a 6-year-old child, also sustained injuries as an Israeli airstrike hit the border area near Rafah, southern Gaza, medics said.
"The outcome of the Israeli aggression during the past 24 hours is now one martyr and seven injured," Abu Selmiya said.
Israeli forces launched air raids in several areas of the coastal enclave after midnight with operations continuing until the early morning Ramadan meal, just before daybreak. Palestinian sources said they counted five air strikes across Gaza.
The Israeli army confirmed that airstrikes had hit the coastal enclave.
"Overnight, IAF aircraft targeted four targets in the Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed," a statement said.
"These sites were targeted in response to the firing of a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the city of Be'er Sheva."
The projectile that hit near Beersheba did not cause any damage or injuries, the military said. Israeli public radio said a second projectile had been fired at Beersheba, but it was not immediately clear where it landed.
Israeli warplanes also targeted a Hamas military base in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, with no reported injuries.
The IDF said that it had thwarted an attempt by militants to fire projectiles at Israel.
A military base reportedly used by Hamas' military wing, Al Qassam Brigades, was also targeted in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Since last month there has been an increase in the number of incidents along the Gaza-Israel border.
The incidents have interrupted several months of calm following a flare-up in April, when an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus killing a teenager.
Israel responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19 Palestinians.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=413468
Israeli warplanes have launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip that killed one Palestinian and critically injured two others.
The attack targeted the eastern section of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The airstrike came a day after an Israeli Navy vessel opened fire on the northern coast of the besieged territory, wounding a Gazan fisherman.
The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip, saying the actions are being conducted for defensive purposes. However, disproportionate force is always used, in violation of international law, and civilians are often killed or injured.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, a situation which has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194130.html
Medics: 1 killed, 7 injured as Israeli airstrikes hit Gaza
One man was killed and seven others injured as Israeli warplanes struck targets in the central and southern Gaza Strip early Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources and the Israeli army said.
Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for the Hamas-run emergency services in the Gaza Strip, said the strikes had killed one Palestinian and wounded seven.
Several people were injured as Israeli forces fired at a group of people in the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources said.
All of the victims were evacuated to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Mousa Shteiwi, 29, later died from his injuries.
Three other Palestinians, including a 6-year-old child, also sustained injuries as an Israeli airstrike hit the border area near Rafah, southern Gaza, medics said.
"The outcome of the Israeli aggression during the past 24 hours is now one martyr and seven injured," Abu Selmiya said.
Israeli forces launched air raids in several areas of the coastal enclave after midnight with operations continuing until the early morning Ramadan meal, just before daybreak. Palestinian sources said they counted five air strikes across Gaza.
The Israeli army confirmed that airstrikes had hit the coastal enclave.
"Overnight, IAF aircraft targeted four targets in the Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed," a statement said.
"These sites were targeted in response to the firing of a rocket from the Gaza Strip at the city of Be'er Sheva."
The projectile that hit near Beersheba did not cause any damage or injuries, the military said. Israeli public radio said a second projectile had been fired at Beersheba, but it was not immediately clear where it landed.
Israeli warplanes also targeted a Hamas military base in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, with no reported injuries.
The IDF said that it had thwarted an attempt by militants to fire projectiles at Israel.
A military base reportedly used by Hamas' military wing, Al Qassam Brigades, was also targeted in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
Since last month there has been an increase in the number of incidents along the Gaza-Israel border.
The incidents have interrupted several months of calm following a flare-up in April, when an anti-tank missile hit an Israeli school bus killing a teenager.
Israel responded to that attack with a series of air strikes that killed at least 19 Palestinians.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=413468
9 aug 2011
Anhar Sandouk 13
Israeli forces delayed an ambulance treating victims of a car crash in which a 13-year-old girl died, witnesses told Ma'an.
Anhar Sandouk 13 died at the scene of an accident near Zatara checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, medics said.
Four others, including Anhar's parents, were injured in the crash.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces held the Palestinian ambulance at Zatara checkpoint for 30 minutes.
The girl's body was eventually taken to the Rafedia Hospital west of Nablus.
An Israeli military spokesman said he would look into the incident.
The family, from Tulkarem, was traveling to an Iftar celebration, the traditional evening meal to break the daytime fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=411718
Israeli forces delayed an ambulance treating victims of a car crash in which a 13-year-old girl died, witnesses told Ma'an.
Anhar Sandouk 13 died at the scene of an accident near Zatara checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, medics said.
Four others, including Anhar's parents, were injured in the crash.
Witnesses told Ma'an that Israeli forces held the Palestinian ambulance at Zatara checkpoint for 30 minutes.
The girl's body was eventually taken to the Rafedia Hospital west of Nablus.
An Israeli military spokesman said he would look into the incident.
The family, from Tulkarem, was traveling to an Iftar celebration, the traditional evening meal to break the daytime fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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