20 jan 2011
Salem Mohammad Sammoudi 24
Update: Pal medical team still NOT allowed approaching Israeli checkpoint near Jenin, where soldiers shot Pal dead an hour ago.
Palestinian shot at Israeli checkpoint near Jenin is identified as 24-year-old Salem Mohammed Samoudi from Yamoun village.
Salem Samoudi, 24, shot at an Israeli checkpoint 2day is cousin of Khaldun Samoudi, who was shot at AlHamra checkpoint on 8Jan.
Palestinian shot dead at Jenin checkpoint
The Ya'bad Mevo Dotan checkpoint was closed and eyewitnesses said the body of a Palestinian man remained lying in the car passage terminal Thursday after the Israeli military reported an exchange of gunfire saw a man shot.
The checkpoint, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, was apparently the site of a gunfire exchange, with Israeli military officials saying a man approached checkpoint soldiers and opened fire.
A statement on the military spokesperson's Twitter account said soldiers "responded and killed the terrorist."
On Saturday, Israeli troops stationed at Hamra checkpoint east of Nablus shot and killed a Palestinian man who onlookers identified as 25-year-old Khaldoun Sammoudi, of Al-Yamun village near Jenin.
Palestinian Red Crescent medics said forces initially declared the area a closed military zone and ordered ambulances to stay 300 meters away.
An Israeli military spokesman said a man approached the checkpoint in a taxi, then got out of the vehicle and ran towards forces holding a suspicious object and shouting "Allahu Akbar." He did not heed orders to stop and forces followed operational procedures and shot him, the army official said.
At the same checkpoint on 1 January, soldiers shot and killed a 21-year-old Palestinian identified as Ahmad Maslamani, who a military spokeswoman said approached soldiers in an unauthorized lane carrying a glass bottle and did not heed orders to stop.
Witnesses said the victim approached the checkpoint carrying a coca-cola can, a female soldier shouted at him and two male soldiers immediately opened fire. Medics said Maslamani's body was riddled with bullets.
Media reports later revealed doubt over the issue of proper protocol. Israel's Ynet news site said an initial inquiry revealed several issues with the incident, with two soldiers who were not in harm's way firing on Dharaghma, a shot hitting him in the leg, debilitating him, and then further shots to his upper body which he sustained after soldiers saw he was unarmed.
According to the report, the soldier said that he felt his life was in danger when he decided to fire his weapon, while two other soldiers said they were firing to help their friend.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=352695
IDF kills terrorist who fired at soldiers near Jenin
Terrorist armed with Kalashnikov rifle fires at fortified IDF post guarded by Nahal Haredi troops near Mevo Dotan. Soldiers step our of post, fire back. No soldier hurt.
A terrorist opened fire at an IDF post near Mevo Dotan in the West Bank on Thursday. A Kfir Brigade force fired back and killed the terrorist. No soldier was hurt.
A preliminary inquiry indicates that a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov rifle approached the IDF post and started firing. The soldiers left their fortified positions and fired back, killing the terrorist as a result. It is currently estimated that the terrorist was not aware that the post was fortified.
The IDF nevertheless considers the event as an attempted terrorist attack and said the soldiers acted in a professional manner.
Military sources noted this was an unusual incident. "Recently, there have been several cases in which Palestinians approached checkpoints in an attempt to carry out attacks against IDF soldiers. However, in this case for the first time in a long time - the Palestinian was armed and had fired his weapon."
Mevo Dotan's security officer Motti Emor described the incident: "This event should turn on a red light, it should worry us as well as the army."
This is the second incident this month where a terrorist targets soldiers. Some two weeks ago a Palestinian terrorist was shot to death in the Bekaot checkpoint in the West Bank. He was carrying two pipe bombs ready to be detonated as well as a knife.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4016539,00.html
Update: Pal medical team still NOT allowed approaching Israeli checkpoint near Jenin, where soldiers shot Pal dead an hour ago.
Palestinian shot at Israeli checkpoint near Jenin is identified as 24-year-old Salem Mohammed Samoudi from Yamoun village.
Salem Samoudi, 24, shot at an Israeli checkpoint 2day is cousin of Khaldun Samoudi, who was shot at AlHamra checkpoint on 8Jan.
Palestinian shot dead at Jenin checkpoint
The Ya'bad Mevo Dotan checkpoint was closed and eyewitnesses said the body of a Palestinian man remained lying in the car passage terminal Thursday after the Israeli military reported an exchange of gunfire saw a man shot.
The checkpoint, southwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank, was apparently the site of a gunfire exchange, with Israeli military officials saying a man approached checkpoint soldiers and opened fire.
A statement on the military spokesperson's Twitter account said soldiers "responded and killed the terrorist."
On Saturday, Israeli troops stationed at Hamra checkpoint east of Nablus shot and killed a Palestinian man who onlookers identified as 25-year-old Khaldoun Sammoudi, of Al-Yamun village near Jenin.
Palestinian Red Crescent medics said forces initially declared the area a closed military zone and ordered ambulances to stay 300 meters away.
An Israeli military spokesman said a man approached the checkpoint in a taxi, then got out of the vehicle and ran towards forces holding a suspicious object and shouting "Allahu Akbar." He did not heed orders to stop and forces followed operational procedures and shot him, the army official said.
At the same checkpoint on 1 January, soldiers shot and killed a 21-year-old Palestinian identified as Ahmad Maslamani, who a military spokeswoman said approached soldiers in an unauthorized lane carrying a glass bottle and did not heed orders to stop.
Witnesses said the victim approached the checkpoint carrying a coca-cola can, a female soldier shouted at him and two male soldiers immediately opened fire. Medics said Maslamani's body was riddled with bullets.
Media reports later revealed doubt over the issue of proper protocol. Israel's Ynet news site said an initial inquiry revealed several issues with the incident, with two soldiers who were not in harm's way firing on Dharaghma, a shot hitting him in the leg, debilitating him, and then further shots to his upper body which he sustained after soldiers saw he was unarmed.
According to the report, the soldier said that he felt his life was in danger when he decided to fire his weapon, while two other soldiers said they were firing to help their friend.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=352695
IDF kills terrorist who fired at soldiers near Jenin
Terrorist armed with Kalashnikov rifle fires at fortified IDF post guarded by Nahal Haredi troops near Mevo Dotan. Soldiers step our of post, fire back. No soldier hurt.
A terrorist opened fire at an IDF post near Mevo Dotan in the West Bank on Thursday. A Kfir Brigade force fired back and killed the terrorist. No soldier was hurt.
A preliminary inquiry indicates that a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov rifle approached the IDF post and started firing. The soldiers left their fortified positions and fired back, killing the terrorist as a result. It is currently estimated that the terrorist was not aware that the post was fortified.
The IDF nevertheless considers the event as an attempted terrorist attack and said the soldiers acted in a professional manner.
Military sources noted this was an unusual incident. "Recently, there have been several cases in which Palestinians approached checkpoints in an attempt to carry out attacks against IDF soldiers. However, in this case for the first time in a long time - the Palestinian was armed and had fired his weapon."
Mevo Dotan's security officer Motti Emor described the incident: "This event should turn on a red light, it should worry us as well as the army."
This is the second incident this month where a terrorist targets soldiers. Some two weeks ago a Palestinian terrorist was shot to death in the Bekaot checkpoint in the West Bank. He was carrying two pipe bombs ready to be detonated as well as a knife.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4016539,00.html
Yihya Masharka, 18
Jenin PNN A Palestinian teenager was gunned down on Thursday morning by Israeli troops manning a checkpoint close to the village of Ya'bud, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Yihya Masharka, 18, was killed when soldiers shot him from the military checkpoint located at the entrance of Mevo-Dotan settlement, which is built on lands taken from the villagers of Ya'bud.
Witnesses said that soldiers left Masharka bleeding and did not allow Palestinian ambulance crews to reach him.
Israeli media sources reported that Masharka opened fire on the soldiers manning the checkpoint; troops opened fire back and killed him. The army is investigating the circumstances of the killing, Israeli sources added.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9435
IOF soldiers kill Palestinian near Jenin
Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian man near Mevo-Dotan roadblock at Arrabe crossing south of Jenin city at noon Thursday after claiming that he tried to shoot at them.
IOF sources alleged that the soldiers killed the man in retaliation to this shooting attempt. The troops are blocking ambulance teams from evacuating his body.
The IOF command announced the area a closed military zone.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army acquitted an Israeli soldier who Killed Omar Al-Qawasmi, 65, in his sleep in Al-Khalil two weeks ago and discharged another who joined in the shooting of the old man.
The military investigation alleged that the first soldier reacted according to the orders while the second had unjustifiably joined in the shooting.
The media sources that published the report did not mention the fact that the soldiers did not alert Qawasmi, who was sleeping, before shooting him.
http://bit.ly/ij8Dpp
Commander of soldiers who shot terrorist: They ordered him to stop
Lieutenant-Colonel Amichai Segal, the commander of Nahal Haredi's Netzah Yehuda Battalion, whose soldiers killed the Palestinian man who opened fire at them near Jenin, said the soldiers ordered him to stop and shot in the air.
"The terrorist started screaming 'Allahu Akbar' and opened fire at them, so the soldiers decided to return fire and killed him. I think they acted very well," Segal told Ynet.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4016590,00.html
Israeli forces shot Palestinian dead
Israeli military forces have shot dead a Palestinian near the West Bank city of Jenin, the military says.
The Israeli military claims that the man opened fire at an Israeli guard post and soldiers shot him dead, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
No Israeli soldier was hurt in the incident.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/161047.html
Jenin PNN A Palestinian teenager was gunned down on Thursday morning by Israeli troops manning a checkpoint close to the village of Ya'bud, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Yihya Masharka, 18, was killed when soldiers shot him from the military checkpoint located at the entrance of Mevo-Dotan settlement, which is built on lands taken from the villagers of Ya'bud.
Witnesses said that soldiers left Masharka bleeding and did not allow Palestinian ambulance crews to reach him.
Israeli media sources reported that Masharka opened fire on the soldiers manning the checkpoint; troops opened fire back and killed him. The army is investigating the circumstances of the killing, Israeli sources added.
http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9435
IOF soldiers kill Palestinian near Jenin
Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian man near Mevo-Dotan roadblock at Arrabe crossing south of Jenin city at noon Thursday after claiming that he tried to shoot at them.
IOF sources alleged that the soldiers killed the man in retaliation to this shooting attempt. The troops are blocking ambulance teams from evacuating his body.
The IOF command announced the area a closed military zone.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army acquitted an Israeli soldier who Killed Omar Al-Qawasmi, 65, in his sleep in Al-Khalil two weeks ago and discharged another who joined in the shooting of the old man.
The military investigation alleged that the first soldier reacted according to the orders while the second had unjustifiably joined in the shooting.
The media sources that published the report did not mention the fact that the soldiers did not alert Qawasmi, who was sleeping, before shooting him.
http://bit.ly/ij8Dpp
Commander of soldiers who shot terrorist: They ordered him to stop
Lieutenant-Colonel Amichai Segal, the commander of Nahal Haredi's Netzah Yehuda Battalion, whose soldiers killed the Palestinian man who opened fire at them near Jenin, said the soldiers ordered him to stop and shot in the air.
"The terrorist started screaming 'Allahu Akbar' and opened fire at them, so the soldiers decided to return fire and killed him. I think they acted very well," Segal told Ynet.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4016590,00.html
Israeli forces shot Palestinian dead
Israeli military forces have shot dead a Palestinian near the West Bank city of Jenin, the military says.
The Israeli military claims that the man opened fire at an Israeli guard post and soldiers shot him dead, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
No Israeli soldier was hurt in the incident.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/161047.html
19 jan 2011
A Video Exposes the Israeli Soldiers Torturing and Stealing the Organs of a Christian Palestinian
A Video Exposes the Israeli Soldiers Torturing and Stealing the Organs of a Christian Palestinian
Khader Tarzi (Tarazi)
By Iqbal Tamimi
The Popular Movement for the support of Palestinian prisoners and their rights showed a video recording in the Gaza Strip yesterday January 18th. The video revealed the details of how the Israeli authorities stolen the organs of a Christian Palestinian martyr who was killed after being detained and tortured 20 years ago.
The film was aired during a media conference yesterday, the video showed the brutality of the Israeli occupation and the procedures of torturing the Christian Palestinian young man ‘Khader Tarzi’, who was killed 1988 after he was detained and tortured, and his organs were stolen by the Israeli forces.
The video tape exposed the Israeli authority’s savagery, when the Israeli forces of the The Givati Brigade crucified the Palestinian young prisoner Khader Tarzi who lived at Al-Zaytoon neighbourhood in Gaza on the front of one of their army vehicles on February 8, 1988 and brutally killed him.
The Video and the witnesses confirm that Tarzi was chased, and brutally beaten up by the soldiers who used batons and kicked him by their feet until he was covered with bruises near one of the homes at Al-Zaytoon neighbourhood in his city of Gaza, Where the soldiers handcuffed him and firmly held him on the forefront of one of their military jeeps, while he was critically injured.
The coordinator of the Popular Movement Nashaat Wahidi confirmed during the press conference that the Institute of Graduate Studies, Chaired by Faisal Al-Husseini filmed the martyr Tarzi and that he was dissected by the Israeli forces and that there is a deep cut line in his body from the bottom of his chin to the bottom of his abdominal area, and also there are deep cuts in his hands and feet in addition to the fact that there are cotton, covering both of his bleeding eyes . Fuad, Khader’s brother said: ‘ when they brought my brother’s body home, the body of Khader was dissected all over, I saw for myself that the corneas of his eyes were taken from his eye sockets during the anatomy’.
Fouad Tarazi, ‘Khader’s brother’ said that his brother Khader was in the Zaytoon neighbourhood while it was besieged by the forces of the Israeli occupation with some young people.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces pursued them and his brother had to find refuge in one of the houses in the area and hide under a bed fearing being arrested.
Fouad said that the witnesses who were at the crime scene, confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces arrested his brother and took him to Ansar- 2 prison, and when the Israeli soldiers passed near the Tarzi orchard next to Al-Nasr cinema, the soldiers removed the chains from his brother and dragged him out and beaten him badly for the second time, then re-crucified him in the same way as they have done before at the fore front of their vehicle.
Fouad said that the witness accounts revealed that as the soldiers beaten up his brother severely several times he was calling for mercy and crying for Christ peace be upon him to save him.
In the prison the prisoners were asking for some water to offer Khader and demanding medical treatment for him, but the doctor refused to offer him any treatment claiming that he was almost dead any way.
And, after the prisoners kept screaming and pressuring the prison wardens, Tarzi was transferred to, “Soroka” hospital, but he was denied treatment there and was transferred to “Ashkelon” hospital in Magdala, but he died on the way.
It was found later that Tarzi’s body have been transferred to the Abu Kabir morgue, that issued a report explaining that the cause of death is due to severe beatings, as well as fractures in the skull and spine as well as there were bruises throughout his body.
The Christian community, represented by the Patriarchate intervened to bring the body home to perform the prayers inside the family house as is the customs and traditions of Christians in Palestine, but the occupation forces targeted the funeral procession by throwing tear gas bombs on the congregation, who started chanting with “national unity of Muslims and Christians”. These calls infuriated the army who launched more tear gas canisters.
‘When the procession approached the monastery of the Latin Church, the army bombed the church in order to disperse the people and to stop us performing the prayers for my brother. The bombs are still there bearing witnesses to their crimes against Christian holy places’, Khader’s brother ‘ Fuad’ said.
The Popular Movement in Gaza demanded of the International community to expose the crimes of Israel and to act immediately to stop the Israeli terrorism against the defenceless detainees, the wounded, and stop the theft of organs of killed Palestinian martyrs.
The Palestinian martyr Khader Elias Tarazi was born in Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza on 8/8/1968 at Al_Rimal area, South of Gaza. His family are Palestinian Christian refugees who were forced out of their city “Jaffa” 1948. He was arrested on 8/2/1988 and died on the next day 9/2/1988.
The Givati Brigade responsible for torturing Tarzi was formed in December 1947. It participated in Operation Hametz, Operation Barak , Operation Pleshet, Operation Nachshon , the Battle of Nitzanim, Operation An-Far, Operation Yoav, Battles of Latrun, Operation Hot Winter, and Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
When the state of Israel was established, Givati consisted of 5 battalions; A sixth battalion (the 57th) was founded on May 30, 1948 from the Irgun terrorist group that has massacred many Palestinians to force the rest of Palestinian farmers to flee from their lands and properties thus the ones who remained alive became refugees.
During Al-Aqsa Intifada the Givati Brigade carried out thousands of operations in the Gaza Strip and was awarded a medal of honor for its ‘service’ in the Gaza Strip.
In the second half of 2004 while the brigade was stationed in the southern Gaza Strip. One of its Commanders killed Iman al-Hams, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, in Rafah. The Captain who killed Iman was acquitted of all charges by a military court.
Iqbal Tamimi is an exiled Palestinian journalist, living in the UK. She has worked in news TV production, broadcasting and print journalism for almost 17 years, besides publishing many studies about drama and its political significance, and she is the founder and moderator of the Palestinian Mothers’ network for human rights .
http://freedetainees.org/8402
By Iqbal Tamimi
The Popular Movement for the support of Palestinian prisoners and their rights showed a video recording in the Gaza Strip yesterday January 18th. The video revealed the details of how the Israeli authorities stolen the organs of a Christian Palestinian martyr who was killed after being detained and tortured 20 years ago.
The film was aired during a media conference yesterday, the video showed the brutality of the Israeli occupation and the procedures of torturing the Christian Palestinian young man ‘Khader Tarzi’, who was killed 1988 after he was detained and tortured, and his organs were stolen by the Israeli forces.
The video tape exposed the Israeli authority’s savagery, when the Israeli forces of the The Givati Brigade crucified the Palestinian young prisoner Khader Tarzi who lived at Al-Zaytoon neighbourhood in Gaza on the front of one of their army vehicles on February 8, 1988 and brutally killed him.
The Video and the witnesses confirm that Tarzi was chased, and brutally beaten up by the soldiers who used batons and kicked him by their feet until he was covered with bruises near one of the homes at Al-Zaytoon neighbourhood in his city of Gaza, Where the soldiers handcuffed him and firmly held him on the forefront of one of their military jeeps, while he was critically injured.
The coordinator of the Popular Movement Nashaat Wahidi confirmed during the press conference that the Institute of Graduate Studies, Chaired by Faisal Al-Husseini filmed the martyr Tarzi and that he was dissected by the Israeli forces and that there is a deep cut line in his body from the bottom of his chin to the bottom of his abdominal area, and also there are deep cuts in his hands and feet in addition to the fact that there are cotton, covering both of his bleeding eyes . Fuad, Khader’s brother said: ‘ when they brought my brother’s body home, the body of Khader was dissected all over, I saw for myself that the corneas of his eyes were taken from his eye sockets during the anatomy’.
Fouad Tarazi, ‘Khader’s brother’ said that his brother Khader was in the Zaytoon neighbourhood while it was besieged by the forces of the Israeli occupation with some young people.
He pointed out that the Israeli occupation forces pursued them and his brother had to find refuge in one of the houses in the area and hide under a bed fearing being arrested.
Fouad said that the witnesses who were at the crime scene, confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces arrested his brother and took him to Ansar- 2 prison, and when the Israeli soldiers passed near the Tarzi orchard next to Al-Nasr cinema, the soldiers removed the chains from his brother and dragged him out and beaten him badly for the second time, then re-crucified him in the same way as they have done before at the fore front of their vehicle.
Fouad said that the witness accounts revealed that as the soldiers beaten up his brother severely several times he was calling for mercy and crying for Christ peace be upon him to save him.
In the prison the prisoners were asking for some water to offer Khader and demanding medical treatment for him, but the doctor refused to offer him any treatment claiming that he was almost dead any way.
And, after the prisoners kept screaming and pressuring the prison wardens, Tarzi was transferred to, “Soroka” hospital, but he was denied treatment there and was transferred to “Ashkelon” hospital in Magdala, but he died on the way.
It was found later that Tarzi’s body have been transferred to the Abu Kabir morgue, that issued a report explaining that the cause of death is due to severe beatings, as well as fractures in the skull and spine as well as there were bruises throughout his body.
The Christian community, represented by the Patriarchate intervened to bring the body home to perform the prayers inside the family house as is the customs and traditions of Christians in Palestine, but the occupation forces targeted the funeral procession by throwing tear gas bombs on the congregation, who started chanting with “national unity of Muslims and Christians”. These calls infuriated the army who launched more tear gas canisters.
‘When the procession approached the monastery of the Latin Church, the army bombed the church in order to disperse the people and to stop us performing the prayers for my brother. The bombs are still there bearing witnesses to their crimes against Christian holy places’, Khader’s brother ‘ Fuad’ said.
The Popular Movement in Gaza demanded of the International community to expose the crimes of Israel and to act immediately to stop the Israeli terrorism against the defenceless detainees, the wounded, and stop the theft of organs of killed Palestinian martyrs.
The Palestinian martyr Khader Elias Tarazi was born in Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza on 8/8/1968 at Al_Rimal area, South of Gaza. His family are Palestinian Christian refugees who were forced out of their city “Jaffa” 1948. He was arrested on 8/2/1988 and died on the next day 9/2/1988.
The Givati Brigade responsible for torturing Tarzi was formed in December 1947. It participated in Operation Hametz, Operation Barak , Operation Pleshet, Operation Nachshon , the Battle of Nitzanim, Operation An-Far, Operation Yoav, Battles of Latrun, Operation Hot Winter, and Operation Cast Lead in 2009.
When the state of Israel was established, Givati consisted of 5 battalions; A sixth battalion (the 57th) was founded on May 30, 1948 from the Irgun terrorist group that has massacred many Palestinians to force the rest of Palestinian farmers to flee from their lands and properties thus the ones who remained alive became refugees.
During Al-Aqsa Intifada the Givati Brigade carried out thousands of operations in the Gaza Strip and was awarded a medal of honor for its ‘service’ in the Gaza Strip.
In the second half of 2004 while the brigade was stationed in the southern Gaza Strip. One of its Commanders killed Iman al-Hams, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, in Rafah. The Captain who killed Iman was acquitted of all charges by a military court.
Iqbal Tamimi is an exiled Palestinian journalist, living in the UK. She has worked in news TV production, broadcasting and print journalism for almost 17 years, besides publishing many studies about drama and its political significance, and she is the founder and moderator of the Palestinian Mothers’ network for human rights .
http://freedetainees.org/8402
18 jan 2011
'Israel killed 26 Gaza children in 2010'
Palestinian children became the target of Israeli soldiers' gunfire as they search for construction materials in the ruins of bombed buildings.
A rights group says at least twenty-six children have been shot dead by Israeli forces as they were searching for construction materials in bombed-out buildings near the border in 2010.
The report by "Save the Children" said the children were killed while they were searching for construction material left over from Israel's 22-day deadly war on Gaza at the turn of 2009.
According to the report the Israeli blockade on the territory "has put children's lives at risk."
The UNICEF-led working group called for an immediate end to the 4-year-long blockade on the territory, saying it has forced children to drop out of school and work to help support their families.
Numbers of them have been hit by Israeli gunfire, while they were searching for construction materials near the so-called buffer zone.
At least twenty-six children were shot by Israeli forces close to the border last year, according to the report.
"Because of the blockade's devastating economic impact, children are being forced to work and scavenge near the fence. Even those who are not in the so-called 'buffer zone' unilaterally imposed by Israel are being targeted by Israeli soldiers," said UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness.
"The blockade must end immediately and there must be a review of policies with respect to the border area," said Salam Kanaan, Save the Children UK's Country Director in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Israel has imposed the blockade on the region since June 2007, preventing the entry of hundreds of items, including essential industrial materials.
The regime later launched a 22-day war on the besieged territory, which resulted in the deaths of at least 1,400 Palestinians and left thousands of others displaced.
Thousands of homes destroyed during the conflict have yet to be rebuilt.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/160678.html
Barhoum urges world community to restrain Israel
Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, has said that the incessant Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip indicated that it did not give up the idea of war.
Barhoum told the PIC on Tuesday night that the Palestinian factions had sent clear messages to the world community asking it to bridle Israel and that they were ready to respect calm as long as Israel was committed to it.
He added, "We affirm that the aggression is one-sided and we are paying the price for the absence of international justice along with the price of western and international silence and the absence of any decision to deter the Israeli aggression.
A Palestinian youth was killed and two teens were injured in Israeli artillery shelling in northern Gaza on Tuesday.
http://bit.ly/fsiUfF
Palestinian children became the target of Israeli soldiers' gunfire as they search for construction materials in the ruins of bombed buildings.
A rights group says at least twenty-six children have been shot dead by Israeli forces as they were searching for construction materials in bombed-out buildings near the border in 2010.
The report by "Save the Children" said the children were killed while they were searching for construction material left over from Israel's 22-day deadly war on Gaza at the turn of 2009.
According to the report the Israeli blockade on the territory "has put children's lives at risk."
The UNICEF-led working group called for an immediate end to the 4-year-long blockade on the territory, saying it has forced children to drop out of school and work to help support their families.
Numbers of them have been hit by Israeli gunfire, while they were searching for construction materials near the so-called buffer zone.
At least twenty-six children were shot by Israeli forces close to the border last year, according to the report.
"Because of the blockade's devastating economic impact, children are being forced to work and scavenge near the fence. Even those who are not in the so-called 'buffer zone' unilaterally imposed by Israel are being targeted by Israeli soldiers," said UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness.
"The blockade must end immediately and there must be a review of policies with respect to the border area," said Salam Kanaan, Save the Children UK's Country Director in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Israel has imposed the blockade on the region since June 2007, preventing the entry of hundreds of items, including essential industrial materials.
The regime later launched a 22-day war on the besieged territory, which resulted in the deaths of at least 1,400 Palestinians and left thousands of others displaced.
Thousands of homes destroyed during the conflict have yet to be rebuilt.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/160678.html
Barhoum urges world community to restrain Israel
Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, has said that the incessant Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip indicated that it did not give up the idea of war.
Barhoum told the PIC on Tuesday night that the Palestinian factions had sent clear messages to the world community asking it to bridle Israel and that they were ready to respect calm as long as Israel was committed to it.
He added, "We affirm that the aggression is one-sided and we are paying the price for the absence of international justice along with the price of western and international silence and the absence of any decision to deter the Israeli aggression.
A Palestinian youth was killed and two teens were injured in Israeli artillery shelling in northern Gaza on Tuesday.
http://bit.ly/fsiUfF
Zaher Ahmad Jarghun, 23
Israeli tanks shelled the town of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, January 18, 2011.
Israeli forces have pounded the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabaliya, killing a teenager and wounding another two.
The attack occurred on Tuesday when Israeli tanks opened fire on eastern Jabaliya, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Earlier on the day, several Israeli bulldozers, backed by seven tanks, broke into the Palestinian enclave's northern town of Beit Hanun.
The tanks entered around 400 meters into the Hamas-run territory, but it was not immediately clear whether they were after demolishing Palestinian houses in the area.
Israel and Hamas are formally committed to a truce that ended Israel's 22 days of massive military offensive between December 2008 and January 2009 against the Gaza Strip.
The all-out war left over 1,400 Palestinians dead and tens of thousands more displaced.
Egypt has recently warned Hamas of Israeli plans to soon wage another huge onslaught against Gaza.
In recent months, Israel has stepped up its ground and air attacks against the coastal strip, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/160744.html
Israeli tanks shelled the town of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, January 18, 2011.
Israeli forces have pounded the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabaliya, killing a teenager and wounding another two.
The attack occurred on Tuesday when Israeli tanks opened fire on eastern Jabaliya, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Earlier on the day, several Israeli bulldozers, backed by seven tanks, broke into the Palestinian enclave's northern town of Beit Hanun.
The tanks entered around 400 meters into the Hamas-run territory, but it was not immediately clear whether they were after demolishing Palestinian houses in the area.
Israel and Hamas are formally committed to a truce that ended Israel's 22 days of massive military offensive between December 2008 and January 2009 against the Gaza Strip.
The all-out war left over 1,400 Palestinians dead and tens of thousands more displaced.
Egypt has recently warned Hamas of Israeli plans to soon wage another huge onslaught against Gaza.
In recent months, Israel has stepped up its ground and air attacks against the coastal strip, killing and injuring dozens of Palestinians.
http://www.presstv.com/detail/160744.html
Amjad Sami Ahmed al-Za'anin
Army says tank shell fired at terrorists trying to plant explosive device near border fence. Four mortar shells hit open area in western Negev earlier; no injuries or damage reported.
A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed from Israel Defense Force fire in northern Gaza, medical sources in the Strip reported Tuesday. According to the report, three other Palestinians were injured in the incident.
Four mortar shells were fired at the western Negev communities earlier. They exploded in open areas without causing injuries or damage.
The army said the incident began when terrorists were spotted approaching the border fence in the northern Strip, apparently in an attempt to plant an explosive device. An IDF force fired a tank shell at them, injuring at least one.
An explosive device was activated against an IDF force patrolling the northern Strip in a separate incident. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Last week it was reported that Egypt had relayed a message to the Hamas leadership in Gaza that the Israeli army might launch a military offensive if the rocket and mortar fire from the Strip continued.
"Egypt told Hamas that the situation in the Strip was very similar to the situation in December 2008," said a source involved in the talks, addressing the tense period before Operation Cast Lead.
He added that "Hamas is not interested in another escalation, unless it is dragged into it."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015537,00.html
Army says tank shell fired at terrorists trying to plant explosive device near border fence. Four mortar shells hit open area in western Negev earlier; no injuries or damage reported.
A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed from Israel Defense Force fire in northern Gaza, medical sources in the Strip reported Tuesday. According to the report, three other Palestinians were injured in the incident.
Four mortar shells were fired at the western Negev communities earlier. They exploded in open areas without causing injuries or damage.
The army said the incident began when terrorists were spotted approaching the border fence in the northern Strip, apparently in an attempt to plant an explosive device. An IDF force fired a tank shell at them, injuring at least one.
An explosive device was activated against an IDF force patrolling the northern Strip in a separate incident. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Last week it was reported that Egypt had relayed a message to the Hamas leadership in Gaza that the Israeli army might launch a military offensive if the rocket and mortar fire from the Strip continued.
"Egypt told Hamas that the situation in the Strip was very similar to the situation in December 2008," said a source involved in the talks, addressing the tense period before Operation Cast Lead.
He added that "Hamas is not interested in another escalation, unless it is dragged into it."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4015537,00.html
15 jan 2011
Ahrar: 1337 Palestinian children killed since Aqsa intifada
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.
The study published on Friday said that the children were killed in direct murder crimes or during shelling, random firing, confrontations, and targeting residential areas.
It noted that the biggest number of children killed was in Gaza (977) followed by Nablus (92) then Jenin (77).
The study said that the IOF detained around 3300 Palestinian children in 2010 and around 11000 in the past three years, including 103 girls.
Fuad Al-Khafsh, director of the Ahrar center, held the Israeli occupation authority fully responsible for crimes committed against those Palestinian minors. He asked human rights groups and all concerned institutions to prosecute IOF leaders and Israeli security apparatuses for such crimes.
In a related development, IOF soldiers stormed Zabuba village west of Jenin on Friday night and took away a 16-year-old boy from his home.
Witnesses reported that the soldiers broke into several homes and questioned their owners after searching them.
http://bit.ly/hP2VFx
Ahrar: 1337 Palestinian children killed since Aqsa intifada
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.
The study published on Friday said that the children were killed in direct murder crimes or during shelling, random firing, confrontations, and targeting residential areas.
It noted that the biggest number of children killed was in Gaza (977) followed by Nablus (92) then Jenin (77).
The study said that the IOF detained around 3300 Palestinian children in 2010 and around 11000 in the past three years, including 103 girls.
Fuad Al-Khafsh, director of the Ahrar center, held the Israeli occupation authority fully responsible for crimes committed against those Palestinian minors. He asked human rights groups and all concerned institutions to prosecute IOF leaders and Israeli security apparatuses for such crimes.
In a related development, IOF soldiers stormed Zabuba village west of Jenin on Friday night and took away a 16-year-old boy from his home.
Witnesses reported that the soldiers broke into several homes and questioned their owners after searching them.
http://bit.ly/hP2VFx
11 jan 2011
Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian
Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian
Jamil al-Najar 25
Israeli fighter jets have pounded the Gaza Strip, leaving a Palestinian dead in the densely populated coastal enclave.
A Palestinian man was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike near the southern city of Khan Yunis, AFP quoted Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for health services in the Gaza Strip, as saying.
The Palestinian official identified the man as Mohammed Jamil al-Najar, 25.
Najar was reportedly a resistance fighter and a member of the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the report.
The Tuesday raid was the latest in a series of Israeli airstrikes against the blockaded territory which has long been the scene of regular Israeli land, sea and air attacks.
On Monday, Israeli troops shot dead an elderly Palestinian farmer in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, hours after Israeli warplanes attacked the coastal enclave, leaving two Palestinians injured.
Israeli soldiers frequently open fire on Gaza residents, who resort to scavenging and collecting scrap metals to make a living under the crippling Tel Aviv-imposed blockade.
At the turn of 2009, Israel invaded the impoverished Palestinian stretch of land, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/159669.html
Mizan: IOF killed 14 Palestinians, wounded 38 last month
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 14 Palestinians including two children and wounded 38 citizens including eight children during the past month of December, the Mizan center for human rights said in a report.
The report published on Monday said that the IOF troops launched five major incursions into the Gaza Strip during which dozens of cultivated dunums were bulldozed.
It highlighted the IOF navy forces escalated targeting of Palestinian fishermen in the final month of 2010, wounding one and arresting six while fishing.
Mizan said that the IOF opened artillery and rocket fire at the Strip 17 times during December inflicting casualties and material damage to civilian property.
The report said that the military escalation against Gaza reflected the world community's failure to assume its legal and ethical duties towards citizens in the occupied Palestinian land in general and in Gaza Strip in particular.
Mizan championed an urgent international intervention to bridle the IOF violation of the international law and human rights in addition to bringing Israeli war criminals and those who ordered those crimes to justice.
http://bit.ly/e9eS53
Israeli fighter jets have pounded the Gaza Strip, leaving a Palestinian dead in the densely populated coastal enclave.
A Palestinian man was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike near the southern city of Khan Yunis, AFP quoted Adham Abu Selmiya, spokesman for health services in the Gaza Strip, as saying.
The Palestinian official identified the man as Mohammed Jamil al-Najar, 25.
Najar was reportedly a resistance fighter and a member of the al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad movement.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the report.
The Tuesday raid was the latest in a series of Israeli airstrikes against the blockaded territory which has long been the scene of regular Israeli land, sea and air attacks.
On Monday, Israeli troops shot dead an elderly Palestinian farmer in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun, hours after Israeli warplanes attacked the coastal enclave, leaving two Palestinians injured.
Israeli soldiers frequently open fire on Gaza residents, who resort to scavenging and collecting scrap metals to make a living under the crippling Tel Aviv-imposed blockade.
At the turn of 2009, Israel invaded the impoverished Palestinian stretch of land, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/159669.html
Mizan: IOF killed 14 Palestinians, wounded 38 last month
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 14 Palestinians including two children and wounded 38 citizens including eight children during the past month of December, the Mizan center for human rights said in a report.
The report published on Monday said that the IOF troops launched five major incursions into the Gaza Strip during which dozens of cultivated dunums were bulldozed.
It highlighted the IOF navy forces escalated targeting of Palestinian fishermen in the final month of 2010, wounding one and arresting six while fishing.
Mizan said that the IOF opened artillery and rocket fire at the Strip 17 times during December inflicting casualties and material damage to civilian property.
The report said that the military escalation against Gaza reflected the world community's failure to assume its legal and ethical duties towards citizens in the occupied Palestinian land in general and in Gaza Strip in particular.
Mizan championed an urgent international intervention to bridle the IOF violation of the international law and human rights in addition to bringing Israeli war criminals and those who ordered those crimes to justice.
http://bit.ly/e9eS53
And another martyr dies in Gaza
I am trying to come up with something to say about the body I saw yesterday in the morgue at Kamal Adwan Hospital. That body had belonged to an old man, 65 years old, who was shot through the neck by an Israeli sniper from 300 meters away while he was tying up his donkey on land he'd been farming for 40 years.
An Israeli sniper murdered him for trespassing on his own land next to his own home in the buffer zone. He is the third civilian to have been killed the buffer zone in Gaza since I got here.
No words will bring him back, and no coverage from mainstream news agencies will resurrect him. No eulogy will roll back time for his fatherless children. There's no way to beg that IDF soldier not to murder Shaban Karmout, there's no way to warp this world and ask him not to tie up his donkey but to remain inside his small home in Beit Lehiya where it's safe and the Israeli army can't shoot him. And there's no outrage into which one can rub the faces of those who tolerate outrages that will outrage them enough to say that this is one outrage too many.
It was not one too many, because there will be more, there will be many more, and tallying up their names in our notebooks with acid in our eyes will do nothing to prevent the slow filling of Gaza's cemeteries with old men who remember fleeing in terror before Zionist militia.
What can I say about Shaban Karmout that doesn't turn him into a statistic in the endless pile of corpses that might slowly overwhelm the psyches of the conflicted people who support this obscenity? Or those who are not conflicted but simply accept that murdering old men is OK because once our old men were murdered?
Nothing passes like that
without account
All that you have done to our people
is registered in notebooks
So that's what I can do: register it in my notebook. It is registered, and there is an empty line after Shaban's name. That is for those who they kill tomorrow.
http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4770
I am trying to come up with something to say about the body I saw yesterday in the morgue at Kamal Adwan Hospital. That body had belonged to an old man, 65 years old, who was shot through the neck by an Israeli sniper from 300 meters away while he was tying up his donkey on land he'd been farming for 40 years.
An Israeli sniper murdered him for trespassing on his own land next to his own home in the buffer zone. He is the third civilian to have been killed the buffer zone in Gaza since I got here.
No words will bring him back, and no coverage from mainstream news agencies will resurrect him. No eulogy will roll back time for his fatherless children. There's no way to beg that IDF soldier not to murder Shaban Karmout, there's no way to warp this world and ask him not to tie up his donkey but to remain inside his small home in Beit Lehiya where it's safe and the Israeli army can't shoot him. And there's no outrage into which one can rub the faces of those who tolerate outrages that will outrage them enough to say that this is one outrage too many.
It was not one too many, because there will be more, there will be many more, and tallying up their names in our notebooks with acid in our eyes will do nothing to prevent the slow filling of Gaza's cemeteries with old men who remember fleeing in terror before Zionist militia.
What can I say about Shaban Karmout that doesn't turn him into a statistic in the endless pile of corpses that might slowly overwhelm the psyches of the conflicted people who support this obscenity? Or those who are not conflicted but simply accept that murdering old men is OK because once our old men were murdered?
Nothing passes like that
without account
All that you have done to our people
is registered in notebooks
So that's what I can do: register it in my notebook. It is registered, and there is an empty line after Shaban's name. That is for those who they kill tomorrow.
http://www.maxajl.com/?p=4770
