11 july 2018
Several Israeli military bulldozers infiltrated on Wednesday morning into a Palestinian border area to the southeast of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) in Gaza said that four armored bulldozers carried out a limited incursion into a border area east of Rafah, south of Gaza, and embarked on leveling land.
The Israeli occupation army also opened fire during the incursion, with no reported casualties.
The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) in Gaza said that four armored bulldozers carried out a limited incursion into a border area east of Rafah, south of Gaza, and embarked on leveling land.
The Israeli occupation army also opened fire during the incursion, with no reported casualties.
Israeli drones carried out an airstrike targeting a group of Palestinian incendiary kite-flyers in eastern Rafah City, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday afternoon.
Palestinian security sources said, according to Ma’an, that Israeli drones launched 1 rocket at a group of Palestinians near the Sufa crossing in northeastern Rafah.
No injuries were reported.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said that several fires erupted alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian youth had launched a number of incendiary kites towards Israeli areas surrounding the Gaza Strip borders since Wednesday morning.
Earlier this week, 33 fires had erupted in forests and agricultural areas in Israeli communities surrounding the Gaza Strip borders, by incendiary kites and balloons.
Palestinian security sources said, according to Ma’an, that Israeli drones launched 1 rocket at a group of Palestinians near the Sufa crossing in northeastern Rafah.
No injuries were reported.
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said that several fires erupted alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian youth had launched a number of incendiary kites towards Israeli areas surrounding the Gaza Strip borders since Wednesday morning.
Earlier this week, 33 fires had erupted in forests and agricultural areas in Israeli communities surrounding the Gaza Strip borders, by incendiary kites and balloons.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers invaded several communities in the occupied West Bank, before breaking into and violently searching dozens of homes, and abducted nineteen Palestinians in addition to illegally confiscating cash, a mobile phone and a laptop from one of the homes.
The PPS office in Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, said dozens of soldiers invaded Deir al-Ghosoun town, north of the city, before many soldiers stormed the home of Ameed Badran, 20, abducted him and illegally confiscating a laptop, a mobile phone, and 250 Shekels.
The soldiers also summoned Ameed’s mother for interrogation, and fired live rounds in the air near the property before withdrawing.
It is worth mentioning that the army, and security officers, claimed they found weapons, and confiscated cash, in Deir al-Ghosoun, and in Qotna town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
In addition, the soldiers invaded and ransacked the home of Yasser Salim, in Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and abducted his son, Aseed, after assaulting him, causing cuts and bruises.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Sobhi Abu Shousha, from his home in Betunia town, west of the city, and fired live rounds, gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, at protesters who hurled stones at the invading army jeeps.
In addition, several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, during protests against the army’s invasion of the town, the violent searches of homes, and the soldiers’ abduction of nine Palestinians.
The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as:
The PPS office in Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, said dozens of soldiers invaded Deir al-Ghosoun town, north of the city, before many soldiers stormed the home of Ameed Badran, 20, abducted him and illegally confiscating a laptop, a mobile phone, and 250 Shekels.
The soldiers also summoned Ameed’s mother for interrogation, and fired live rounds in the air near the property before withdrawing.
It is worth mentioning that the army, and security officers, claimed they found weapons, and confiscated cash, in Deir al-Ghosoun, and in Qotna town, northeast of occupied Jerusalem.
In addition, the soldiers invaded and ransacked the home of Yasser Salim, in Azzoun town, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and abducted his son, Aseed, after assaulting him, causing cuts and bruises.
In Ramallah, in central West Bank, the soldiers abducted Sobhi Abu Shousha, from his home in Betunia town, west of the city, and fired live rounds, gas bombs and rubber-coated steel bullets, at protesters who hurled stones at the invading army jeeps.
In addition, several Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation in Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, during protests against the army’s invasion of the town, the violent searches of homes, and the soldiers’ abduction of nine Palestinians.
The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as:
- Raed Sharif Abu Mariya, Beit Ummar – Heron.
- Ayham Khalil Sabarna, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Khalil Jamal Abu Mariya, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Ammar Jamal Abu Mariya, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Eyad Omar Sleibi, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Ziad, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Hasan Mohammad Miqbil, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Jihad Raed Miqbil, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Ahmad Samir Abu Ayyash, Beit Ummar – Hebron.
- Ghassan Thouqan, (University Teacher) Nablus.
- Ibrahim al-‘Amer, (Lawyer) Kafr Qalil – Nablus.
- Yazan Mohammad Walid, Qusra – Nablus.
- Ahmad Abdullah Abu Sirriya, Nablus.
- Hamdan Sayyed, Nablus.
- Mo’taz Ziad Saba’na, Nablus.
- Aseed Yasser Salim, Azzoun – Qalqilia.
- Sobhi Mohammad Shousha, Betunia – Ramallah.
- Jawad Mahmoud Taqatqa, Beit Fajjar – Bethlehem.
- Shaher Issa Taqatqa, Beit Fajjar – Bethlehem.
A Palestinian media agency that is known for being first on the scene and recording eyewitness videos of Israeli military atrocities against Palestinians has been banned by Israel, as the Israeli Defense Minister and former nightclub bouncer Avigdor Lieberman signed an order declaring Al-Quds TV to be a ‘terrorist’ media organization.
Al-Quds (the Arabic word for Jerusalem) TV is based in Beirut, and has offices in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. The organization began in 2008, and provides daily news coverage online and on its satellite TV channel.
The idea that a media organization can be declared a ‘terrorist’ organization, while unusual by international standards, is not new to Israel. During their 2004 invasion of Lebanon, Israel declared the Lebanese media agency Al-Manar to be ‘terrorist’ media, due to their affiliation with the Hezbollah political party and resistance group.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a stateme.nt that, “This is just the latest move in Israel’s attack on Palestinian media organizations.”
Emad al-Efranji, the manager of Al-Quds TV in Palestine, said Israel wants to silence the media, as part of its campaign to conceal its crimes against the Palestinian people.
He added that Al-Quds TV broadcasts to every part of occupied Palestine, exposing the Israeli violations, and that is why Israel decided to shut it down, as part of its ongoing campaign against Palestinian media outlets.
“Our mission will always be the same, out TV station is honored to carry the name of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and will continue its duties,” he said, “Israel constantly targets Palestinian media agencies and journalists, but we will continue our work; despite the sacrifices we have to make, and the ongoing violations against us, we are willing to pay the price for that.”
“Israel realizes the danger our media agency poses to its colonialist ideology; it knows we focus on legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, especially Jerusalem, and our mission to expose Trump’s so-called Deal of the Century,” al-Efranji stated, “We are the first station that has special programming for our people in historic Palestine, and we have various shows that focuses on the detainees and refugees.”
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Defense Minister, has in the past openly called for the forced transfer of all Palestinians from their historic land, on which the state of Israel was created in 1948.
In his first move to criminalize the al-Quds news agency, Lieberman sent Israeli security officers to a video production company in northern Israel that edits video for the agency. According to the production company’s attorney, Omar Hamisey, the staff were told by Israeli security that their transmission or production of any footage for al-Quds TV would be considered illegal, and they would be prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws for doing their work as journalists.
Israeli Knesset (Parliament) member said that the listing of al-Quds TV as ‘terrorist media’ is, “the continuation of a silencing crusade by the extreme right-wing government to trample the freedom of speech. Many people in the Arab community as well as Arab lawmakers often give interviews to the channel, and what we say at the Knesset podium we also say there.
The channel exposes the crimes of the occupation and the suffering of the Palestinian people.”
Israeli authorities gave no evidence of any wrongdoing by the news agency, but have vowed to shut down any offices of the agency and its contractors inside Israel. They claim that the news agency has an affiliation with the Hamas party, which is also a spurious claim, according to the owners of the agency.
Most recently, Quds-TV released footage of Israeli soldiers shooting and then dragging the bodies of Palestinian protesters near the border fence in Gaza – footage that directly contradicted the Israeli military’s claims that the young men had tried to cross the border fence and that is why they were shot.
The al-Quds TV footage shows that the soldiers were at least 20 meters inside of the Gaza Strip when they shot the young men, who were at a protest inside the Gaza Strip and not trying to cross the fence as Israeli military officials claimed.
Al-Quds (the Arabic word for Jerusalem) TV is based in Beirut, and has offices in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. The organization began in 2008, and provides daily news coverage online and on its satellite TV channel.
The idea that a media organization can be declared a ‘terrorist’ organization, while unusual by international standards, is not new to Israel. During their 2004 invasion of Lebanon, Israel declared the Lebanese media agency Al-Manar to be ‘terrorist’ media, due to their affiliation with the Hezbollah political party and resistance group.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate issued a stateme.nt that, “This is just the latest move in Israel’s attack on Palestinian media organizations.”
Emad al-Efranji, the manager of Al-Quds TV in Palestine, said Israel wants to silence the media, as part of its campaign to conceal its crimes against the Palestinian people.
He added that Al-Quds TV broadcasts to every part of occupied Palestine, exposing the Israeli violations, and that is why Israel decided to shut it down, as part of its ongoing campaign against Palestinian media outlets.
“Our mission will always be the same, out TV station is honored to carry the name of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), and will continue its duties,” he said, “Israel constantly targets Palestinian media agencies and journalists, but we will continue our work; despite the sacrifices we have to make, and the ongoing violations against us, we are willing to pay the price for that.”
“Israel realizes the danger our media agency poses to its colonialist ideology; it knows we focus on legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, especially Jerusalem, and our mission to expose Trump’s so-called Deal of the Century,” al-Efranji stated, “We are the first station that has special programming for our people in historic Palestine, and we have various shows that focuses on the detainees and refugees.”
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Defense Minister, has in the past openly called for the forced transfer of all Palestinians from their historic land, on which the state of Israel was created in 1948.
In his first move to criminalize the al-Quds news agency, Lieberman sent Israeli security officers to a video production company in northern Israel that edits video for the agency. According to the production company’s attorney, Omar Hamisey, the staff were told by Israeli security that their transmission or production of any footage for al-Quds TV would be considered illegal, and they would be prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws for doing their work as journalists.
Israeli Knesset (Parliament) member said that the listing of al-Quds TV as ‘terrorist media’ is, “the continuation of a silencing crusade by the extreme right-wing government to trample the freedom of speech. Many people in the Arab community as well as Arab lawmakers often give interviews to the channel, and what we say at the Knesset podium we also say there.
The channel exposes the crimes of the occupation and the suffering of the Palestinian people.”
Israeli authorities gave no evidence of any wrongdoing by the news agency, but have vowed to shut down any offices of the agency and its contractors inside Israel. They claim that the news agency has an affiliation with the Hamas party, which is also a spurious claim, according to the owners of the agency.
Most recently, Quds-TV released footage of Israeli soldiers shooting and then dragging the bodies of Palestinian protesters near the border fence in Gaza – footage that directly contradicted the Israeli military’s claims that the young men had tried to cross the border fence and that is why they were shot.
The al-Quds TV footage shows that the soldiers were at least 20 meters inside of the Gaza Strip when they shot the young men, who were at a protest inside the Gaza Strip and not trying to cross the fence as Israeli military officials claimed.
10 july 2018
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, two young Palestinian men, and injured another, in the southern West Bank governorate of Hebron.
Media sources in Hebron city said dozens of soldiers invaded Jabal Abu Rumman and al-Hawouz areas, searched homes and abducted Saif Abu Amsha.
They added that the soldiers also shot Mohammad Ali Abu ‘Aisha, 24, with a live round in his leg, before he was rushed to a local hospital, suffering a moderate injury.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded and violently searched several homes in the ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron, abducted Sharhabeel Nassar al-Makahrza, and confiscated two cars owned by his family.
The soldiers also installed roadblocks closing the northern entrances of Hebron city, in addition to Halhoul and Sa’ir town, before stopping and searching dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers.
On Monday evening, the soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, after stopping him at the Container military roadblock, north of Bethlehem.
The army claimed the Palestinian was not carrying any form of identification, and was “concealing a knife.”
Palestinian injured, others arrested in clashes with Israeli forces
A Palestinian young man was injured on Tuesday in clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Abu Ruman neighborhood, south of al-Khalil province.
Violent clashes burst shortly after Israeli troops stormed Abu Ruman neighborhood and kidnapped 30-year-old Seif Murtada.
The occupation forces further stormed al-Dhahriya town, southwest of al-Khalil, and kidnapped the Palestinian citizen Nassar al-Mukhazra, before they seized two cars from his home.
Media sources in Hebron city said dozens of soldiers invaded Jabal Abu Rumman and al-Hawouz areas, searched homes and abducted Saif Abu Amsha.
They added that the soldiers also shot Mohammad Ali Abu ‘Aisha, 24, with a live round in his leg, before he was rushed to a local hospital, suffering a moderate injury.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded and violently searched several homes in the ath-Thaheriyya town, south of Hebron, abducted Sharhabeel Nassar al-Makahrza, and confiscated two cars owned by his family.
The soldiers also installed roadblocks closing the northern entrances of Hebron city, in addition to Halhoul and Sa’ir town, before stopping and searching dozens of cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers.
On Monday evening, the soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man, who remained unidentified at the time of this report, after stopping him at the Container military roadblock, north of Bethlehem.
The army claimed the Palestinian was not carrying any form of identification, and was “concealing a knife.”
Palestinian injured, others arrested in clashes with Israeli forces
A Palestinian young man was injured on Tuesday in clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Abu Ruman neighborhood, south of al-Khalil province.
Violent clashes burst shortly after Israeli troops stormed Abu Ruman neighborhood and kidnapped 30-year-old Seif Murtada.
The occupation forces further stormed al-Dhahriya town, southwest of al-Khalil, and kidnapped the Palestinian citizen Nassar al-Mukhazra, before they seized two cars from his home.
9 july 2018
Several Israeli military vehicles raided the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday morning.
Locals said, according to Ma’an News Agency, that six Israeli military vehicles raided into the area near the eastern borders of Gaza City, razed and leveled lands while Israeli forces were putting up a security fence from inside the borders.
Earlier today, a number of Israeli military vehicles raided into Al-Breij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Four large D-9 Israeli military bulldozers reportedly entered dozens of meters into lands near the “return camps” as drones flew overhead.
Military bulldozers began razing lands and setting up a security fence; no shootings were reported.
Israeli military incursions inside the besieged Gaza Strip and near the “buffer zone,” which lies on both land and sea sides of Gaza, have long been a near-daily occurrence.
The Israeli army also regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the buffer zone, as the authorities have not made clear the precise area of the designated zone.
The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sector of the blockaded coastal enclave, which has been under an Israeli air, land, and sea blockade for 10 years.
Locals said, according to Ma’an News Agency, that six Israeli military vehicles raided into the area near the eastern borders of Gaza City, razed and leveled lands while Israeli forces were putting up a security fence from inside the borders.
Earlier today, a number of Israeli military vehicles raided into Al-Breij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Four large D-9 Israeli military bulldozers reportedly entered dozens of meters into lands near the “return camps” as drones flew overhead.
Military bulldozers began razing lands and setting up a security fence; no shootings were reported.
Israeli military incursions inside the besieged Gaza Strip and near the “buffer zone,” which lies on both land and sea sides of Gaza, have long been a near-daily occurrence.
The Israeli army also regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the buffer zone, as the authorities have not made clear the precise area of the designated zone.
The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sector of the blockaded coastal enclave, which has been under an Israeli air, land, and sea blockade for 10 years.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers abducted, on Monday at dawn, seventeen Palestinians from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The soldiers invaded and ransacked dozens of homes in several governorates of the West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians.
Media sources said the soldiers also fired several live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs at Palestinians, protesting the invasions, especially in Orif village south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and Sa’ir town, east of Hebron, in the southern part.
The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as:
Nablus:
Bilal Awad Abu ‘Asba, Rafat town.
IOF kidnaps 12 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday arrested 12 Palestinian citizens, including ex-detainees, in a large-scale campaign launched in the West Bank.
Israeli occupation army issued a statement saying that its forces arrested 10 Palestinians allegedly involved in popular resistance activities against Israeli targets.
The IOF arrested three Palestinian young men in Jenin and four others in Nablus, including ex-prisoner Jaber Dweikat who was transferred to an unknown destination.
Local sources said that other arrests were witnessed in al-Khalil and Ramallah.
Another ex-prisoner identified as Belal Abu Osba was detained in Salfit after the IOF soldiers broke into his house at daybreak and searched it.
The IOF reportedly launched a search campaign against a number of Palestinian houses in al-Khalil and Nablus and wreaked havoc in them.
Clashes broke out in Qatanna town, northwest of Occupied Jerusalem, between Palestinian youths and the Israeli police who raided the town at dawn. No injuries or arrests were reported.
The soldiers invaded and ransacked dozens of homes in several governorates of the West Bank, and interrogated many Palestinians.
Media sources said the soldiers also fired several live rounds, rubber-coated steel bullets and gas bombs at Palestinians, protesting the invasions, especially in Orif village south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and Sa’ir town, east of Hebron, in the southern part.
The PPS identified the abducted Palestinians as:
Nablus:
- Nihad Mamdouh Abu Shamsiyya, Beita town.
- Ibrahim Mahmoud Daoud, Beita town.
- Laith Bassem Daoud, Beita town.
- Jabr Dweikat,Dahia area, Nablus city (former political prisoner).
- Yousef Ahmad Shawahna, 26, Silat al-Harithiya town.
- Ghanem Bassam Abahra, 29, al-Yamoun town.
- Ali Abdul-Rahma Ba’jawi, 19, Ya’bad town.
- Ezzeddin Jamil Saleh, al-‘Arqa village (former political prisoner).
- Mohammad Rashed Saleh, al-‘Arqa village (former political prisoner).
- Yazid Hussein Srouji, 26, Tulkarem refugee camp.
- Khaled Yousef Baleedi, 28, Tulkarem refugee camp.
- Abdul-Karim Ali Awad, Halhoul town.
- Yahia Issa Ayyash, Halhoul town.
- Qais No’man, Halhoul town.
- Ali Tareq al-Haj, 19, al-Mughayyir village.
- Talha Mustafa Nakhla, al-Jalazoun refugee camp.
Bilal Awad Abu ‘Asba, Rafat town.
IOF kidnaps 12 Palestinians in West Bank raids
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday arrested 12 Palestinian citizens, including ex-detainees, in a large-scale campaign launched in the West Bank.
Israeli occupation army issued a statement saying that its forces arrested 10 Palestinians allegedly involved in popular resistance activities against Israeli targets.
The IOF arrested three Palestinian young men in Jenin and four others in Nablus, including ex-prisoner Jaber Dweikat who was transferred to an unknown destination.
Local sources said that other arrests were witnessed in al-Khalil and Ramallah.
Another ex-prisoner identified as Belal Abu Osba was detained in Salfit after the IOF soldiers broke into his house at daybreak and searched it.
The IOF reportedly launched a search campaign against a number of Palestinian houses in al-Khalil and Nablus and wreaked havoc in them.
Clashes broke out in Qatanna town, northwest of Occupied Jerusalem, between Palestinian youths and the Israeli police who raided the town at dawn. No injuries or arrests were reported.