11 aug 2018
Israeli naval forces on Saturday evening heavily opened fire at a group of anti-siege boats that set sail from Gaza port toward the 1948 occupied Palestine in protest at Israeli blockade.
The PIC reporter said that 40 'Freedom' vessels having on board dozens of Palestinian activists were attacked by Israeli gunboats, adding that one of the activists was slightly injured by a rubber bullet.
Spokesman for the National Committee to Break the Siege Adham Abu Salmiya said during a press conference at Gaza port that the sea march sends a message that any solution that does not involve lifting the siege on Gaza will never be accepted.
Representative for the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the siege, Wajih Abu Zarifa, said that the Palestinian people in Gaza will not pay any political price in exchange for lifting the blockade.
The Gaza Strip has been living under crippling blockade since 2006. According to European reports, 40% of the Gazan people live below the poverty line, while 80% of them depend on humanitarian aid to live.
The PIC reporter said that 40 'Freedom' vessels having on board dozens of Palestinian activists were attacked by Israeli gunboats, adding that one of the activists was slightly injured by a rubber bullet.
Spokesman for the National Committee to Break the Siege Adham Abu Salmiya said during a press conference at Gaza port that the sea march sends a message that any solution that does not involve lifting the siege on Gaza will never be accepted.
Representative for the Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the siege, Wajih Abu Zarifa, said that the Palestinian people in Gaza will not pay any political price in exchange for lifting the blockade.
The Gaza Strip has been living under crippling blockade since 2006. According to European reports, 40% of the Gazan people live below the poverty line, while 80% of them depend on humanitarian aid to live.
Dozens of Palestinian citizens were injured Saturday evening during confrontations with the Israeli police in Shu'fat refugee camp, northeast of Occupied Jerusalem.
Fatah spokesman in Shu'fat Thaer Fasfous said that the Israeli police broke into Palestinian houses in the camp and searched them.
Fasfous added that violent clashes broke out between Israeli policemen and Shu'fat youths. The police heavily fired teargas canisters and sound bombs while the youths responded by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
He added that dozens of Palestinian citizens suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling teargas, without giving detailed information about their health conditions.
The Israeli police launch raid campaigns into Shu'fat camp on a regular basis. The Israeli raids are usually accompanied by clashes and arbitrary arrests.
Fatah spokesman in Shu'fat Thaer Fasfous said that the Israeli police broke into Palestinian houses in the camp and searched them.
Fasfous added that violent clashes broke out between Israeli policemen and Shu'fat youths. The police heavily fired teargas canisters and sound bombs while the youths responded by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
He added that dozens of Palestinian citizens suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling teargas, without giving detailed information about their health conditions.
The Israeli police launch raid campaigns into Shu'fat camp on a regular basis. The Israeli raids are usually accompanied by clashes and arbitrary arrests.
Four Palestinian citizens were injured Saturday evening during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Beit Ummar town, north of al-Khalil city in the southern West Bank.
Local sources reported that four Palestinian youths suffered rubber-coated metal bullet wounds as the IOF raided Beit Ummar neighborhoods.
Activist Mohammed Awad said that the IOF soldiers stormed the town in large numbers and distributed notices warning Beit Ummar residents against taking part in any resistance activities.
Awad said that the IOF heavily fired rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas canisters at the Palestinian citizens injuring four of them.
He added that the IOF soldiers seized four Palestinian vehicles before they withdrew from the town.
Local sources reported that four Palestinian youths suffered rubber-coated metal bullet wounds as the IOF raided Beit Ummar neighborhoods.
Activist Mohammed Awad said that the IOF soldiers stormed the town in large numbers and distributed notices warning Beit Ummar residents against taking part in any resistance activities.
Awad said that the IOF heavily fired rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas canisters at the Palestinian citizens injuring four of them.
He added that the IOF soldiers seized four Palestinian vehicles before they withdrew from the town.
Three Palestinian citizens were injured Saturday in new Israeli airstrikes on different targets in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Ministry of Health announced that two Palestinians were also moderately injured after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces near Gaza's eastern border.
Local sources said that Israeli drones attacked three groups of Palestinian youths in different Gaza areas.
A spokesman for the Israeli army claimed that the attacks targeted Palestinians who were flying fire kites and balloons toward Israeli settlements neighboring Gaza.
Since the start of the Great March of Return on 30th March, thousands of dunums of settler land have been burned by fire kites and balloons sent by Gaza protesters in response to Israeli crimes.
Gaza Ministry of Health announced that two Palestinians were also moderately injured after being shot by the Israeli occupation forces near Gaza's eastern border.
Local sources said that Israeli drones attacked three groups of Palestinian youths in different Gaza areas.
A spokesman for the Israeli army claimed that the attacks targeted Palestinians who were flying fire kites and balloons toward Israeli settlements neighboring Gaza.
Since the start of the Great March of Return on 30th March, thousands of dunums of settler land have been burned by fire kites and balloons sent by Gaza protesters in response to Israeli crimes.
Miri Regev, the Israeli culture and sport minister.
Israeli culture and sport minister has called for the assassination of the leaders of Hamas Palestinian resistance movement, stressing that Israel should reinstate its policy of targeted assassinations.
Miri Regev told a recent meeting of local leaders of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip that the Palestinian resistance movement’s senior officials should “live in fear”.
“We must go back to the policy of targeted assassinations of leaders of this murderous terrorist group,” she added, referring to Hamas.
Other Israeli politicians likewise called on the Israeli leadership to come down harder on Hamas, which controls Gaza and has defended the enclave against three Israeli wars.
Leader of Israeli party Zionist Union Avi Gabbay, who was visiting the city of Sderot in the west of Negev Desert, was recently quoted by media as saying that Israel had “a strong army and weak politicians,” who would not intensify the regime’s aggression.
The current regime “doesn’t know how to deter a terrorist organization or to negotiate,” he added.
Israel has assassinated many Hamas figures over the past years.
Last March, it assassinated Mazen Fuqaha, one of the group’s senior figures, in Gaza. The victim was shot with four bullets to his head.
In 2010, Israel had itself embroiled in an international scandal when its operatives used false European and Australian passports to assassinate senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the United Arab Emirates.
Oren Hazan, an Israeli lawmaker from Likud Party, also recently said, “We are not hitting Hamas hard enough for fear of an ongoing conflict, even though we are deep inside one”.
“If we would have hit them, they wouldn’t have allowed themselves to shoot 200 rockets in one day. So enough with the stories that we hit them hard. The public isn’t stupid, and neither is Hamas,” he added.
Besides staying prepared to take the territory under wholesale warfare, Israel regularly strikes Gaza, saying it needs to target Hamas.
Earlier in the week, Israeli raids on the coastal enclave killed three Palestinians who included a pregnant mother and a toddler.
Israel ramped up attacks on March 30, shortly after Gazans began weekly rallies near the territory’s fence in support of their right to return to their homeland.
The demonstrations and Israeli offensives especially hiked on May 14, the anniversary of the Nakba Day in 1948, when Israel claimed existence after a deadly war against Arab territories.
Nearly 160 Palestinians have been killed and some 17,500 others wounded during the Israeli military’s attacks targeting the March of Return protests, the Palestinian Health Ministry says.
Israeli culture and sport minister has called for the assassination of the leaders of Hamas Palestinian resistance movement, stressing that Israel should reinstate its policy of targeted assassinations.
Miri Regev told a recent meeting of local leaders of Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip that the Palestinian resistance movement’s senior officials should “live in fear”.
“We must go back to the policy of targeted assassinations of leaders of this murderous terrorist group,” she added, referring to Hamas.
Other Israeli politicians likewise called on the Israeli leadership to come down harder on Hamas, which controls Gaza and has defended the enclave against three Israeli wars.
Leader of Israeli party Zionist Union Avi Gabbay, who was visiting the city of Sderot in the west of Negev Desert, was recently quoted by media as saying that Israel had “a strong army and weak politicians,” who would not intensify the regime’s aggression.
The current regime “doesn’t know how to deter a terrorist organization or to negotiate,” he added.
Israel has assassinated many Hamas figures over the past years.
Last March, it assassinated Mazen Fuqaha, one of the group’s senior figures, in Gaza. The victim was shot with four bullets to his head.
In 2010, Israel had itself embroiled in an international scandal when its operatives used false European and Australian passports to assassinate senior Hamas figure Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the United Arab Emirates.
Oren Hazan, an Israeli lawmaker from Likud Party, also recently said, “We are not hitting Hamas hard enough for fear of an ongoing conflict, even though we are deep inside one”.
“If we would have hit them, they wouldn’t have allowed themselves to shoot 200 rockets in one day. So enough with the stories that we hit them hard. The public isn’t stupid, and neither is Hamas,” he added.
Besides staying prepared to take the territory under wholesale warfare, Israel regularly strikes Gaza, saying it needs to target Hamas.
Earlier in the week, Israeli raids on the coastal enclave killed three Palestinians who included a pregnant mother and a toddler.
Israel ramped up attacks on March 30, shortly after Gazans began weekly rallies near the territory’s fence in support of their right to return to their homeland.
The demonstrations and Israeli offensives especially hiked on May 14, the anniversary of the Nakba Day in 1948, when Israel claimed existence after a deadly war against Arab territories.
Nearly 160 Palestinians have been killed and some 17,500 others wounded during the Israeli military’s attacks targeting the March of Return protests, the Palestinian Health Ministry says.
10 aug 2018
A Palestinian youth was injured Friday during clashes between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Tuqu' town, southeast of Bethlehem.
Local sources in Tuqu' reported that a Palestinian youth was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet to the head and was transferred to a local hospital for treatment. video
Violent clashes flared up in al-Khalil when the IOF stormed Bab al-Zawiya area and heavily fired teargas canisters and sound bombs at the Palestinian citizens who were in the place.
A number of Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling teargas.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and dozens chocked on teargas, including children, after the IOF quelled a weekly anti-settlement demonstration in Kafr Qaddum village, east of Qalqilya.
Popular resistance coordinator Murad Shtewi said that the IOF soldiers raided the village in large numbers and showered the peaceful demonstrators with teargas canisters, rubber-coated metal bullets and sound bombs.
Local sources in Tuqu' reported that a Palestinian youth was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet to the head and was transferred to a local hospital for treatment. video
Violent clashes flared up in al-Khalil when the IOF stormed Bab al-Zawiya area and heavily fired teargas canisters and sound bombs at the Palestinian citizens who were in the place.
A number of Palestinians suffered breathing difficulties as a result of inhaling teargas.
Meanwhile, two Palestinians were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets and dozens chocked on teargas, including children, after the IOF quelled a weekly anti-settlement demonstration in Kafr Qaddum village, east of Qalqilya.
Popular resistance coordinator Murad Shtewi said that the IOF soldiers raided the village in large numbers and showered the peaceful demonstrators with teargas canisters, rubber-coated metal bullets and sound bombs.
Two Palestinians were injured with Israeli rubber-coated steel bullets, while dozens other suffered tear-gas suffocation as Israeli forces suppressed the weekly Kafr Qaddum march in the northern West Bank district of Qalqiliya on Friday.
Coordinator of the Kafr Qaddum popular committee, Murad Ishteiwi, confirmed that Israeli forces raided the town and suppressed the weekly march using rubber-coated steel bullets, tear-gas bombs and stun grenades.
Ishteiwi added that two youths were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets while dozens others, including children, suffered tear-gas inhalation.
All injuries were treated on the spot.
Residents of Kafr Qaddum began staging weekly protests in 2011 against Israeli land confiscations, as well as the closure of the village's southern road by Israeli forces. The road, which has been closed for 14 years, is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus, the nearest economic center.
The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim in 2003, forcing village residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus, which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes, according to Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
Coordinator of the Kafr Qaddum popular committee, Murad Ishteiwi, confirmed that Israeli forces raided the town and suppressed the weekly march using rubber-coated steel bullets, tear-gas bombs and stun grenades.
Ishteiwi added that two youths were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets while dozens others, including children, suffered tear-gas inhalation.
All injuries were treated on the spot.
Residents of Kafr Qaddum began staging weekly protests in 2011 against Israeli land confiscations, as well as the closure of the village's southern road by Israeli forces. The road, which has been closed for 14 years, is the main route to the nearby city of Nablus, the nearest economic center.
The Israeli army blocked off the road after expanding the illegal Israeli settlement of Kedumim in 2003, forcing village residents to take a bypass road in order to travel to Nablus, which has extended the travel time to Nablus from 15 minutes to 40 minutes, according to Israeli rights group B'Tselem.
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Abdullah al-Qotati medic
Ali Saeid al-Aloul 55 Israeli forces have opened fire on Palestinians taking part in a protest in the area between the occupied territories and the besieged Gaza Strip, leaving two people killed. The Gaza Health Ministry said Abdullah al-Qotati, a young medic, was killed by Israeli fire east of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Friday. video The spokesmen for the ministry, Ashraf al-Qidra, added that Israeli forces also killed 55-year-old Ali Saeid al-Aloul east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. |
According to the ministry, at least 170 Palestinians, including medics and journalists, were also injured during the protest.
Tensions have been running high near the fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed “The Great March of Return.” Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.
The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
Israeli fire has taken the lives of nearly 160 Palestinians since March 30. Nearly 15,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries, of whom at least 360 are reportedly in critical condition.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.
On Thursday, Israeli aircraft bombed a multi-story building in Gaza City amid threats of another full-scale military offensive against the besieged coastal enclave.
Tensions have been running high near the fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed “The Great March of Return.” Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.
The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.
Israeli fire has taken the lives of nearly 160 Palestinians since March 30. Nearly 15,000 Palestinians have also sustained injuries, of whom at least 360 are reportedly in critical condition.
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution, sponsored by Turkey and Algeria, condemning Israel for Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.
Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.
On Thursday, Israeli aircraft bombed a multi-story building in Gaza City amid threats of another full-scale military offensive against the besieged coastal enclave.
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At least four Palestinians were injured alongside the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip on the 20th Friday of "The Great March of Return" marches.
Palestinian youths set fire to tires and launched incendiary balloons. Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition and tear-gas bombs towards peaceful protesters in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and eastern Gaza City. Spokesperson of the Hamas movement, Abed al-Latif al-Qanou, said that this Friday marches set off under the slogan of "Friday of Freedom and Life", which confirms the Palestinian people’s persistent on continuing marches of return despite escalation. gas video |
"The Great March of Return" protests were launched on March 30th by thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza -- which has suffered from a decade-long Israeli siege -- who took to the borders to demand their right of return as refugees to their original homelands, now in present-day Israel. video
Israeli forces detained two Palestinians from the two districts across the occupied West Bank on Friday dawn.
Israeli forces raided the southern occupied West Bank of Hebron on Friday morning and delivered summon notices to several youths in the al-Arroub refugee camp in northern Hebron to meet with the Israeli intelligence.
In the Beit rima town in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained one Palestinian youth identified as Alaa Akram al-Barghouthi as he was crossing a military checkpoint set up at the entrance of the Nabi Saleh village in northwestern Ramallah.
Israeli forces also raided the Tulkarem refugee camp, searched several houses before detaining one Palestinian.
Locals identified the detainee as Abu Ziad Farhana.
Several Palestinians suffered tear-gas inhalation as Israeli forces fired tear-gas bombs when clashes erupted during the raid.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,820 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 63 are female prisoners.
Israeli raids in Palestinian cities, towns and refugee camps are a daily occurrence.
Palestinians choke on teargas as Israeli troops roll into Tulkarem
A number of Palestinians choked on teargas in clashes that broke out at daybreak Friday shortly after Israeli army patrols stormed Tulkarem refugee camp and attacked the locals.
Israeli soldiers cordoned off the home of a Palestinian ex-prisoner before they ransacked it, sparking clashes with Palestinian anti-occupation youth.
The occupation forces targeted the Palestinian protesters with teargas, resulting in dozens of suffocation cases.
Palestinian ex-prisoner Mohamed Farhana was kidnapped by Israeli forces in the assault.
The occupation soldiers ravaged Palestinian homes and subjected the residents to exhaustive questioning.
At predawn time, Israeli troops and settlers stormed Islamic sites in Kifl Haris town, north of Salfit, and performed provocative rituals, triggering tension in the area.
Israeli forces raided the southern occupied West Bank of Hebron on Friday morning and delivered summon notices to several youths in the al-Arroub refugee camp in northern Hebron to meet with the Israeli intelligence.
In the Beit rima town in the central West Bank district of Ramallah, Israeli forces detained one Palestinian youth identified as Alaa Akram al-Barghouthi as he was crossing a military checkpoint set up at the entrance of the Nabi Saleh village in northwestern Ramallah.
Israeli forces also raided the Tulkarem refugee camp, searched several houses before detaining one Palestinian.
Locals identified the detainee as Abu Ziad Farhana.
Several Palestinians suffered tear-gas inhalation as Israeli forces fired tear-gas bombs when clashes erupted during the raid.
According to prisoners rights group Addameer, there are 5,820 Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli prisons, of whom 63 are female prisoners.
Israeli raids in Palestinian cities, towns and refugee camps are a daily occurrence.
Palestinians choke on teargas as Israeli troops roll into Tulkarem
A number of Palestinians choked on teargas in clashes that broke out at daybreak Friday shortly after Israeli army patrols stormed Tulkarem refugee camp and attacked the locals.
Israeli soldiers cordoned off the home of a Palestinian ex-prisoner before they ransacked it, sparking clashes with Palestinian anti-occupation youth.
The occupation forces targeted the Palestinian protesters with teargas, resulting in dozens of suffocation cases.
Palestinian ex-prisoner Mohamed Farhana was kidnapped by Israeli forces in the assault.
The occupation soldiers ravaged Palestinian homes and subjected the residents to exhaustive questioning.
At predawn time, Israeli troops and settlers stormed Islamic sites in Kifl Haris town, north of Salfit, and performed provocative rituals, triggering tension in the area.
A tentative clam has been reigning over the Gaza Strip since 10:45 pm local time after a ceasefire agreement was reached on Thursday night between the Palestinian resistance factions and Israel.
The agreement was brokered by Egypt and the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, who led efforts to prevent another war. Both have repeatedly called for the restoration of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in previous months.
While Israeli officials denied the existence of a ceasefire, Israel’s Channel 10 quoted an Israeli diplomat as saying that there was a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which would go into effect at midnight.
Israel had launched scores of airstrikes on Gaza over the past day provoking the Palestinian resistance to retaliate by firing a spate of rockets and mortars at Israeli military targets and settlements.
A surge in Israeli airstrikes and Palestinian counterattacks in recent weeks prompted the UN and Egypt to try to broker a truce to prevent another all-out conflict.
Despite those truce efforts, Israel escalated its aerial attacks on Gaza on Wednesday night and Thursday, striking more than 150 targets in Gaza and forcing the Palestinian resistance to respond
One of Israel’s air raids on Wednesday claimed the lives of three Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including a pregnant mother and her one-year-old daughter.
The agreement was brokered by Egypt and the UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, who led efforts to prevent another war. Both have repeatedly called for the restoration of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in previous months.
While Israeli officials denied the existence of a ceasefire, Israel’s Channel 10 quoted an Israeli diplomat as saying that there was a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which would go into effect at midnight.
Israel had launched scores of airstrikes on Gaza over the past day provoking the Palestinian resistance to retaliate by firing a spate of rockets and mortars at Israeli military targets and settlements.
A surge in Israeli airstrikes and Palestinian counterattacks in recent weeks prompted the UN and Egypt to try to broker a truce to prevent another all-out conflict.
Despite those truce efforts, Israel escalated its aerial attacks on Gaza on Wednesday night and Thursday, striking more than 150 targets in Gaza and forcing the Palestinian resistance to respond
One of Israel’s air raids on Wednesday claimed the lives of three Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including a pregnant mother and her one-year-old daughter.