25 apr 2020
Israeli soldiers opened live fire and shot teargas grenades this morning at Palestinian farmers near Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip forcing them to leave their lands, reported WAFA correspondent.
He said while no one was hurt, the soldiers regularly open fire at the farmers who work in their lands near the border fence with Israel and push them out of their lands.
He said while no one was hurt, the soldiers regularly open fire at the farmers who work in their lands near the border fence with Israel and push them out of their lands.
Montaser Jamal Salameh
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal Annexation Wall, which was built of lands belonging to residents of Rommana village, west of Jenin. video
They added that the soldiers fired many live rounds at the workers, seriously wounding one, and abducted another, identified as Mohammad Samir Refa’ey.
The soldiers also fired a barrage of gas bombs, causing many workers to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The incident is part of a series of Israeli violations and attacks targeting Palestinian workers, and farmers, on lands near the illegal Annexation Wall in Jenin, and several other parts of the occupied West Bank.
Israeli soldiers shot and seriously injured, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man, abducted another and caused several others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation, after the army chased Palestinian workers near Jenin, in northern West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers chased the Palestinian workers near the illegal Annexation Wall, which was built of lands belonging to residents of Rommana village, west of Jenin. video
They added that the soldiers fired many live rounds at the workers, seriously wounding one, and abducted another, identified as Mohammad Samir Refa’ey.
The soldiers also fired a barrage of gas bombs, causing many workers to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.
The incident is part of a series of Israeli violations and attacks targeting Palestinian workers, and farmers, on lands near the illegal Annexation Wall in Jenin, and several other parts of the occupied West Bank.
24 apr 2020
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Dozens of Palestinian citizens were wounded on Friday when Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently dispersed the weekly demonstration against the settlement in Kafr Qaddum village in the West Bank district of Qalqilya.
Popular resistance activist Murad Shtewi said that the IOF stormed Kafr Qaddum and heavily fired live ammunition, tear gas canisters and rubber-coated metal bullets at the peaceful demonstrators. A Palestinian youth suffered a rubber-coated metal bullet injury, while dozens others choked on tear gas. The Palestinian residents of Kafr Qaddum every week stage a mass |
demonstration to protest the ongoing Israeli settlement expansion on their lands and call for opening the village’s main road that has been closed for 16 years.
23 apr 2020
For the third day in a row, Israeli military vehicles infiltrated the Gaza Strip borders and razed land, reported WAFA correspondent.
Several army vehicles breached the northern Gaza borders east of Gaza City, went in dozens of meters into agricultural land east of Zaytoun neighborhood to the southeast of Gaza City, razed land and built dirt mounds while shooting in the air, he said.
The army also prevented farmers from reaching their lands.
Israel unilaterally enforces a 300-meter deep buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip on their common borders and often shoots at anyone who enters this area.
Several army vehicles breached the northern Gaza borders east of Gaza City, went in dozens of meters into agricultural land east of Zaytoun neighborhood to the southeast of Gaza City, razed land and built dirt mounds while shooting in the air, he said.
The army also prevented farmers from reaching their lands.
Israel unilaterally enforces a 300-meter deep buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip on their common borders and often shoots at anyone who enters this area.
22 apr 2020
Palestinian residents of al-Sawahre village, southeast of occupied Jerusalem, today confronted Israeli soldiers who broke into their village to arrest family members of an alleged attacker, said a local official.
Residents confronted the soldiers near the home of Ibrahim Halaseh, 25, who was gunned down this morning after he allegedly rammed his car into an army checkpoint in the south of the West Bank and stabbed a soldier, said member of al-Sawahre village council Yunis Jafar.
The forces came to the Halaseh home to search his home and arrest family members, he said.
The Israeli forces fired rubber bullets and teargas at the stone-throwing youths, injuring some. One person was injured from broken glass after a bullet hit the windshield of his car and was rushed to hospital, said the Red Crescent.
Residents confronted the soldiers near the home of Ibrahim Halaseh, 25, who was gunned down this morning after he allegedly rammed his car into an army checkpoint in the south of the West Bank and stabbed a soldier, said member of al-Sawahre village council Yunis Jafar.
The forces came to the Halaseh home to search his home and arrest family members, he said.
The Israeli forces fired rubber bullets and teargas at the stone-throwing youths, injuring some. One person was injured from broken glass after a bullet hit the windshield of his car and was rushed to hospital, said the Red Crescent.
Dozens of Palestinians from the northern West Bank village of Qusra clashed today with Israeli soldiers after the army blocked the main access road to their village with cement blocks, according to a local source.
Abdul Azeem Wadi, an activist with the Popular Committee against Settlements, told WAFA that the army blocked the main entrance to the village, located south of the city of Nablus, leading to clashes with the village residents who were protesting the closure.
The soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas canisters at the stone-throwing residents causing several injuries, all light.
Closing the main entrance causes serious movement problem for the village residents.
Abdul Azeem Wadi, an activist with the Popular Committee against Settlements, told WAFA that the army blocked the main entrance to the village, located south of the city of Nablus, leading to clashes with the village residents who were protesting the closure.
The soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas canisters at the stone-throwing residents causing several injuries, all light.
Closing the main entrance causes serious movement problem for the village residents.
Israeli military vehicles infiltrated this morning the southern Gaza Strip border near the city of Rafah and razed land, reported WAFA correspondent.
He said six military vehicles breached the border east of Rafah and razed land while shooting in the air, before returning to their base inside Israel.
He said six military vehicles breached the border east of Rafah and razed land while shooting in the air, before returning to their base inside Israel.
21 apr 2020
A Palestinian fisherman was wounded on Tuesday morning when the Israeli occupation navy opened fire at him off the coast of al-Sudaniya area, north of the Gaza Strip.
A local committee documenting Israeli violations against Gaza fishermen said that 25-year-old fisherman Ziyad Baker was injured by a rubber bullet in his head and received medical assistance at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The committee added that naval forces on a gunboat fired some rubber bullets at Baker and his boat and detained him for a while before letting him go.
Israeli naval forces and their gunboats are around Gaza fishermen almost every day, harassing them, shooting at them, damaging their boats, and making arrests. Sometimes fishermen are injured or killed during gunfire attacks.
Under the 1993 Oslo accords, Palestinian fishermen are permitted to fish up to 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, but since then Israel has kept reducing the fishing area gradually to a limit between six to three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.
A local committee documenting Israeli violations against Gaza fishermen said that 25-year-old fisherman Ziyad Baker was injured by a rubber bullet in his head and received medical assistance at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The committee added that naval forces on a gunboat fired some rubber bullets at Baker and his boat and detained him for a while before letting him go.
Israeli naval forces and their gunboats are around Gaza fishermen almost every day, harassing them, shooting at them, damaging their boats, and making arrests. Sometimes fishermen are injured or killed during gunfire attacks.
Under the 1993 Oslo accords, Palestinian fishermen are permitted to fish up to 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, but since then Israel has kept reducing the fishing area gradually to a limit between six to three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.
Israeli military vehicles today infiltrated the northern Gaza borders east of Jabalya and razed land, reported WAFA correspondent.
Several vehicles breached the border, went dozens of meters into Gaza and razed land as fire was shot in the air before returning into the Israeli side of the border.
In a related matter, soldiers opened live fire and shot teargas at Palestinian farmers attending to their lands in Khuzaa town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, said WAFA correspondent.
The farmers were forced to flee the area before anyone was hurt.
The Israeli army has set an area of 300 meters inside Gaza as buffer zone and opens fire without warning at Palestinians who get close to the border fence.
Several vehicles breached the border, went dozens of meters into Gaza and razed land as fire was shot in the air before returning into the Israeli side of the border.
In a related matter, soldiers opened live fire and shot teargas at Palestinian farmers attending to their lands in Khuzaa town, east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, said WAFA correspondent.
The farmers were forced to flee the area before anyone was hurt.
The Israeli army has set an area of 300 meters inside Gaza as buffer zone and opens fire without warning at Palestinians who get close to the border fence.
Israeli soldiers today opened fire and injured a Palestinian man near the separation barrier in the north of the West Bank, according to local sources.
They told WAFA that Abdul Karim Abu Assab, 30, was shot by a live bullet in the leg when he was near the barrier north of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya.
Abu Assab was taken to hospital in the city where he was reported in moderate condition.
They told WAFA that Abdul Karim Abu Assab, 30, was shot by a live bullet in the leg when he was near the barrier north of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilya.
Abu Assab was taken to hospital in the city where he was reported in moderate condition.
The Israeli military detained nine Palestinians in raids across the West Bank and shot and injured one, according to various Palestinian sources.
Soldiers shot and injured last night a youth from the village of Taqoa, southeast of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, and detained him, according to Palestinian security sources.
The reason for the shooting and the situation of the injured youth were not immediately known but Israel claimed he was getting ready to throw stones at settlers’ cars near the village when he was shot.
Today, the Israeli forces detained two Palestinian youths from the Bethlehem-area village of Nahalin, said the security sources, after raiding and searching their family homes.
The sources also said the army detained four Palestinians from the Hebron district, also in the south of the West Bank, including two from the city itself, one from nearby Sair and one from Beit Ummar, north of the city, who was released from prison six months ago after serving five years in jail for resisting the occupation.
In the north of the West Bank, soldiers detained two youths from the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin, after raiding and searching their homes, according to local sources, and one more, a 17-year-old high school student, from the town of Faroun in the Tulkarm district also after raiding and searching his family home, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
Soldiers shot and injured last night a youth from the village of Taqoa, southeast of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, and detained him, according to Palestinian security sources.
The reason for the shooting and the situation of the injured youth were not immediately known but Israel claimed he was getting ready to throw stones at settlers’ cars near the village when he was shot.
Today, the Israeli forces detained two Palestinian youths from the Bethlehem-area village of Nahalin, said the security sources, after raiding and searching their family homes.
The sources also said the army detained four Palestinians from the Hebron district, also in the south of the West Bank, including two from the city itself, one from nearby Sair and one from Beit Ummar, north of the city, who was released from prison six months ago after serving five years in jail for resisting the occupation.
In the north of the West Bank, soldiers detained two youths from the town of Yabad, southwest of Jenin, after raiding and searching their homes, according to local sources, and one more, a 17-year-old high school student, from the town of Faroun in the Tulkarm district also after raiding and searching his family home, according to the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS).
