30 dec 2011
A resistance fighter killed, 5 wounded in Israeli airstrike
A resistance fighter killed, 5 wounded in Israeli airstrike
Moumen Abu Daf
A Palestinian resistance fighter was killed on Friday morning while five others were wounded in an Israeli occupation airstrike to the east of Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses told PIC that an Israeli drone on Friday morning fired at least one rocket at a group of resistance fighters in the village of Juhr al-Deek to the east of Gaza City killing Mo’men Abu Daff and wounding five others.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of Abu Daf as his body and the wounded persons were taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Palestinian Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Gaza
An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip early Friday left one Palestinian dead and another injured, according to witnesses and medical sources.
Witnesses said a missile hit a group of Palestinians in Juhr al-Dik neighborhood southeast of Gaza City killing one and injuring five others but only one required hospitalization, according to medical sources.
The dead was identified as Moumen Abu Daf, apparently a leader in the radical Army of Islam group.
The Israeli army admitted the attack and said it targeted a group of Palestinians who were getting ready to fire missiles at southern Israeli towns.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18534
A Palestinian resistance fighter was killed on Friday morning while five others were wounded in an Israeli occupation airstrike to the east of Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses told PIC that an Israeli drone on Friday morning fired at least one rocket at a group of resistance fighters in the village of Juhr al-Deek to the east of Gaza City killing Mo’men Abu Daff and wounding five others.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of Abu Daf as his body and the wounded persons were taken to Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
Palestinian Killed in Israeli Airstrike on Gaza
An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip early Friday left one Palestinian dead and another injured, according to witnesses and medical sources.
Witnesses said a missile hit a group of Palestinians in Juhr al-Dik neighborhood southeast of Gaza City killing one and injuring five others but only one required hospitalization, according to medical sources.
The dead was identified as Moumen Abu Daf, apparently a leader in the radical Army of Islam group.
The Israeli army admitted the attack and said it targeted a group of Palestinians who were getting ready to fire missiles at southern Israeli towns.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18534
29 dec 2011
Seven-month old Gaza baby dies awaiting Israeli permission for operation
Adham Baroud 7 months
Adham Baroud was referred to Israel after a catheter inserted in a previous operation in Israel got infected. The boy was born suffering from congenital renal problems requiring specialised treatment that is unavailable in Gaza.
Doctors referred baby to Israeli hospital for treatment, but permission to exit Gaza never came.
A seven-month-baby suffering from renal failure died in a Gaza hospital while awaiting the go-ahead from Israeli authorities – who enforce a blockade around the Palestinian enclave – for an urgent operation.
Seven-month-old Adham Baroud died at the Al Rantissi Children’s Hospital’s in Gaza City at around 1am on 26 December. He had been referred to Israel for emergency treatment by his doctors in Gaza on 1 December.
By the 19th December, when this photo was taken, Adham was described by doctors at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit as “terminal”.
Acting Hospital Director Dr Mustafa Al Aqila told Oxfam that Adham was referred to Israel after a catheter inserted four months earlier in a previous operation in Israel got infected. The boy was born suffering from congenital renal problems requiring specialised treatment that is unavailable in Gaza.
“Adham needed immediate surgery and we couldn"t provide that kind of service in Gaza,” Dr Al Aqila said. “We waited for Israel"s permission to send him for treatment, like we did in the past, but the more time passed the more complicated his situation became.”
“We want to expand our services but the siege limits our development,” Dr Al Aqila said.
While emergency beds for patients waiting for permission to travel for treatment may not always be immediately available in Israeli hospitals, Israel, as the occupying power, is obliged under international law to ensure the welfare of Palestinian civilians whenever the existing resources do not suffice.
At the moment, the Gaza Strip is also suffering from a serious shortage of kidney dialysis filters that is putting the lives of 450 Palestinians, including 15 children, at risk.
This problem is also related to the lack of coordination between the Ramallah-based health ministry, which is responsible for ordering and sending medical supplies to Gaza, and its counterpart in Gaza.
Renal dialysis filters are essential for the cleansing of kidneys, and patients normally require two to three dialysis rounds a week.
“Kidney dialysis is a cycle. If you take out one element, the treatment cycle is stopped, and that compromises everything,” Dr Al Aqila said.
Last week, around 960 filters were sent from the West Bank to Gaza, an emergency measure that allowed dialysis rounds to continue, but the problem will remain unless thousands are shipped to the enclave soon. The same problem has existed for other medical disposables and medicines throughout this year, imposing an ongoing medical crisis in Gaza.
Oxfam partner the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to intervene urgently and get the health ministry in Ramallah to supply the blood filters to Gaza immediately. According to PCHR, there are currently 178 types of medicines and 190 types of medical consumables that are out of stock at Gaza"s health facilities.
“PCHR warned of the impact of the shortage of medicines on the lives of patients in the Gaza Strip, but the crisis has not improved and it has re-emerged with the shortage of medicines necessary for renal diseases,” the centre said, adding that long-term coordination between the two governments was now an urgent priority, especially under the current atmosphere of political reconciliation.
Adham Baroud was referred to Israel after a catheter inserted in a previous operation in Israel got infected. The boy was born suffering from congenital renal problems requiring specialised treatment that is unavailable in Gaza.
Doctors referred baby to Israeli hospital for treatment, but permission to exit Gaza never came.
A seven-month-baby suffering from renal failure died in a Gaza hospital while awaiting the go-ahead from Israeli authorities – who enforce a blockade around the Palestinian enclave – for an urgent operation.
Seven-month-old Adham Baroud died at the Al Rantissi Children’s Hospital’s in Gaza City at around 1am on 26 December. He had been referred to Israel for emergency treatment by his doctors in Gaza on 1 December.
By the 19th December, when this photo was taken, Adham was described by doctors at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit as “terminal”.
Acting Hospital Director Dr Mustafa Al Aqila told Oxfam that Adham was referred to Israel after a catheter inserted four months earlier in a previous operation in Israel got infected. The boy was born suffering from congenital renal problems requiring specialised treatment that is unavailable in Gaza.
“Adham needed immediate surgery and we couldn"t provide that kind of service in Gaza,” Dr Al Aqila said. “We waited for Israel"s permission to send him for treatment, like we did in the past, but the more time passed the more complicated his situation became.”
“We want to expand our services but the siege limits our development,” Dr Al Aqila said.
While emergency beds for patients waiting for permission to travel for treatment may not always be immediately available in Israeli hospitals, Israel, as the occupying power, is obliged under international law to ensure the welfare of Palestinian civilians whenever the existing resources do not suffice.
At the moment, the Gaza Strip is also suffering from a serious shortage of kidney dialysis filters that is putting the lives of 450 Palestinians, including 15 children, at risk.
This problem is also related to the lack of coordination between the Ramallah-based health ministry, which is responsible for ordering and sending medical supplies to Gaza, and its counterpart in Gaza.
Renal dialysis filters are essential for the cleansing of kidneys, and patients normally require two to three dialysis rounds a week.
“Kidney dialysis is a cycle. If you take out one element, the treatment cycle is stopped, and that compromises everything,” Dr Al Aqila said.
Last week, around 960 filters were sent from the West Bank to Gaza, an emergency measure that allowed dialysis rounds to continue, but the problem will remain unless thousands are shipped to the enclave soon. The same problem has existed for other medical disposables and medicines throughout this year, imposing an ongoing medical crisis in Gaza.
Oxfam partner the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) called on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to intervene urgently and get the health ministry in Ramallah to supply the blood filters to Gaza immediately. According to PCHR, there are currently 178 types of medicines and 190 types of medical consumables that are out of stock at Gaza"s health facilities.
“PCHR warned of the impact of the shortage of medicines on the lives of patients in the Gaza Strip, but the crisis has not improved and it has re-emerged with the shortage of medicines necessary for renal diseases,” the centre said, adding that long-term coordination between the two governments was now an urgent priority, especially under the current atmosphere of political reconciliation.
Israeli Forces Killed 91 Palestinians during 2011, Says Rights Group
Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights said that Israeli occupation forces killed 91 Palestinians including 14 Children during 2011, Thursday said al-Dameer press release.
It said that al-Dameer followed-up with great concern the hideous crimes committed by Israeli forces during 2011, in which 91 Palestinians, including 14 children were killed and hundreds were injured.
Al Dameer condemned Israeli forces crimes and the extra judicial killing of the Palestinian civilians, which violates the legal and moral rules.
“Civilian properties were damaged as a result of launching several airstrikes and artillery attacks on various targets in the Gaza Strip,” it said.
According to al-Dameer field investigations and Palestinian medical sources, on December 27, 2011, Israeli forces warplanes launched two separate airstrikes; as a result, one Palestinian citizen was killed and another nine were injured.
“On Tuesday December 27, 2011, at approximately 9:45pm Israeli drone fired one missile targeting a blue Nissan car that was traveling on Al Jalaa’ street, in Gaza city. As a result, five people were injured, including bystanders,” it said.
The press release said that the victims were transferred to al-Shifaa hospital for medical treatment; medical sources described the injury of two of them as dangerous.
According to the press release, at approximately 7:45 pm on the same day, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile targeting a motorcycle that was traveling near the Abu Sharekh crossing.
It said, “Abdullah Khattab at-Telbani, 22, from Sheikh Redwan neighborhood, was killed. While another four were injured in the attack.”
A number of nearby houses, and commercial stores were also damaged in the attack, it added.
Al-Dameer condemned Israeli forces crimes and the extra judicial killing of the Palestinian civilians, which violates the legal and moral rules.
It called on the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to promptly intervene to oblige Israel to respect the fourth Geneva Convention, particularly the legal and moral rules.
“Al-Dameer expresses its concern over the new Israeli escalation, which comes in the context of the silence policy of the international community and its different organizations towards the extrajudicial killing,” it said.
It asserted that the continuing failure of the international community to fulfill its commitments contributes to further violations and crimes and encourages Israel to continue its acts of aggression.
“Al-Dameer called upon the international community to immediately take an action to stop such crimes and reiterated its calls for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1,' it said.
Al Dameer warned of further escalation in hostilities, which may result in the targeting of civilians and their property, in light of continuing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18529
Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights said that Israeli occupation forces killed 91 Palestinians including 14 Children during 2011, Thursday said al-Dameer press release.
It said that al-Dameer followed-up with great concern the hideous crimes committed by Israeli forces during 2011, in which 91 Palestinians, including 14 children were killed and hundreds were injured.
Al Dameer condemned Israeli forces crimes and the extra judicial killing of the Palestinian civilians, which violates the legal and moral rules.
“Civilian properties were damaged as a result of launching several airstrikes and artillery attacks on various targets in the Gaza Strip,” it said.
According to al-Dameer field investigations and Palestinian medical sources, on December 27, 2011, Israeli forces warplanes launched two separate airstrikes; as a result, one Palestinian citizen was killed and another nine were injured.
“On Tuesday December 27, 2011, at approximately 9:45pm Israeli drone fired one missile targeting a blue Nissan car that was traveling on Al Jalaa’ street, in Gaza city. As a result, five people were injured, including bystanders,” it said.
The press release said that the victims were transferred to al-Shifaa hospital for medical treatment; medical sources described the injury of two of them as dangerous.
According to the press release, at approximately 7:45 pm on the same day, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile targeting a motorcycle that was traveling near the Abu Sharekh crossing.
It said, “Abdullah Khattab at-Telbani, 22, from Sheikh Redwan neighborhood, was killed. While another four were injured in the attack.”
A number of nearby houses, and commercial stores were also damaged in the attack, it added.
Al-Dameer condemned Israeli forces crimes and the extra judicial killing of the Palestinian civilians, which violates the legal and moral rules.
It called on the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to promptly intervene to oblige Israel to respect the fourth Geneva Convention, particularly the legal and moral rules.
“Al-Dameer expresses its concern over the new Israeli escalation, which comes in the context of the silence policy of the international community and its different organizations towards the extrajudicial killing,” it said.
It asserted that the continuing failure of the international community to fulfill its commitments contributes to further violations and crimes and encourages Israel to continue its acts of aggression.
“Al-Dameer called upon the international community to immediately take an action to stop such crimes and reiterated its calls for the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1,' it said.
Al Dameer warned of further escalation in hostilities, which may result in the targeting of civilians and their property, in light of continuing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip.
http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18529
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Abdallah al-Telbani
An Israeli reconnaissance plane Tuesday fired a missile at a motorcycle, killing a Palestinian in Dowar Abu Sharkh area, in the northern Gaza Strip, according to WAFA correspondent. He said that an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft fired a missile at a motorcycle that was traveling in the Dowar Abu Sharkh area, linking Saftawi Street and the town of Jabalia, killing a Palestinian. The murdered's body was transferred to Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, north of Gaza. http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=18508 |
Palestinian Killed, 11 Wounded, As Army Bombards Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one Palestinian was killed and eleven others were wounded in two Israeli Air Strikes targeting Gaza City in one hour.
The sources stated that eight Palestinians were wounded, two seriously, when the army fired missiles at a Palestinian Jeep driving near a gas station in Al Jala’ neighborhood in Gaza City.
One Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded in an earlier air strike targeting a Palestinian driving a motorcycle in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army claimed that the attack targeted fighters who fired shells at Israeli areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
In a separate attack, soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition at homes and property east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; no damages or injuries were reported.
December 27, marks the third anniversary of the three-week Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in which more than 1419 Palestinians were killed and thousands were wounded. Among the killed were 412 children and 111 women, and approximately 280 medics and members of the civil defense.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza reported that December 27, 2008, the day the Israeli war started on Gaza, was the bloodiest day as Israeli soldiers killed 334 Palestinians (%76.6 of them civilians).
The PCHR said that 1,419 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, 1,167 (82.2%) of whom were civilians. A further 5,300 were injured. Israeli forces directly targeted and attacked private homes and civilian institutions, including hospitals and schools.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that one Palestinian was killed and eleven others were wounded in two Israeli Air Strikes targeting Gaza City in one hour.
The sources stated that eight Palestinians were wounded, two seriously, when the army fired missiles at a Palestinian Jeep driving near a gas station in Al Jala’ neighborhood in Gaza City.
One Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded in an earlier air strike targeting a Palestinian driving a motorcycle in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army claimed that the attack targeted fighters who fired shells at Israeli areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
In a separate attack, soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition at homes and property east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip; no damages or injuries were reported.
December 27, marks the third anniversary of the three-week Israeli war on the Gaza Strip in which more than 1419 Palestinians were killed and thousands were wounded. Among the killed were 412 children and 111 women, and approximately 280 medics and members of the civil defense.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza reported that December 27, 2008, the day the Israeli war started on Gaza, was the bloodiest day as Israeli soldiers killed 334 Palestinians (%76.6 of them civilians).
The PCHR said that 1,419 Palestinians were killed during Operation Cast Lead, 1,167 (82.2%) of whom were civilians. A further 5,300 were injured. Israeli forces directly targeted and attacked private homes and civilian institutions, including hospitals and schools.