5 nov 2019
A Palestinian young man was injured on Tuesday morning after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at him south of Jenin City in the northern West Bank.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that a Palestinian worker from al-Yamun village identified as Faisal Ghanama, 24, was shot while attempting to enter the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories for work through a separation wall gate.
They added that the IOF soldiers detained Ghanama then handed him over to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society who later transferred him to the hospital for treatment.
Ghanama is the 20th Palestinian who has been attacked the same way near the separation wall in the West Bank by the IOF in the recent weeks.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that a Palestinian worker from al-Yamun village identified as Faisal Ghanama, 24, was shot while attempting to enter the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories for work through a separation wall gate.
They added that the IOF soldiers detained Ghanama then handed him over to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society who later transferred him to the hospital for treatment.
Ghanama is the 20th Palestinian who has been attacked the same way near the separation wall in the West Bank by the IOF in the recent weeks.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at border and agricultural areas in the southeast of the Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, Israeli troops at the Kissufim military post opened fire at the border area of al-Qarara town and at cultivated plots of land in the north of Khan Younis province of southern Gaza.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the shooting attack.
According to local sources, Israeli troops at the Kissufim military post opened fire at the border area of al-Qarara town and at cultivated plots of land in the north of Khan Younis province of southern Gaza.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the shooting attack.
The Israeli occupation police on Monday evening kidnaped three Palestinian teenagers after physically assaulting them in Jerusalem.
According to local sources, the detained kids were beaten by police officers in Issawiya district before taking them in handcuffs to a police station in the holy city.
The kids were identified as Omar Mahmoud, Waseem Dari, and Ismail Muhaisen
For nearly five months, Israeli police forces have been raiding the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on a daily basis, ransacking homes and arresting and assaulting Palestinians.
The Israeli campaign against Issawiya is aimed at oppressing and making life miserable for all who live there as part of efforts to push the native residents out of the holy city.
Israeli Troops Assault Schoolchildren in al-Issawiya; Abduct 3
Israeli troops invaded al-Issawiya, in the eastern part of Jerusalem, on Monday evening and attacked schoolchildren, abducting three boys.
According to local sources, on Monday evening, the Israeli forces stormed the village, deployed troops throughout the streets and began firing tear gas into the streets and residences.
The also grabbed 3 boys from Mheisen neighborhood in al-Issawiya town and put them into their armored military vehicles to take to an interrogation center.
Mohammed Abu al-Hummos, a member of the local organizing committee in al-Issawiya, told the Silwan Information Center that the Israeli forces took three boys: Omar Mahmoud, Ismail Mheisen, and Wasim Dari from the village, during the storming and deployment in the streets.
The Popular Committee of al-Issawiya called for a protest tomorrow against the campaign of abuse and attacks on the people of the village.
The abductions on Monday follow a series of assaults and abductions in recent days which culminated in a school strike being declared in the village on Saturday.
The Parents’ Committee of al-Issawiya confirmed that the school strike, which began on Saturday, will continue until a safe environment for the students and young children of al-Issawiya can be ensured.
The school strike began after the Israeli police invaded a school in al-Issawiya Saturday, assaulted the principal, and abducted schoolboy Saleh al-Tawil from inside his school.
The Israeli invasions of al-Issawiya have come to be an almost-daily occurrence, which almost always occur at the time when students are returning from school. This ends up with confrontations between stone-throwing teens and invading soldiers, because of the provocative measures taken by the Israeli military.
A video leaked in October showed Israeli police in al-Issawiya discussing how their daily invasions were a provocation to the residents.
According to the Middle East Monitor, in the video, Israeli officers are heard discussing the purpose of the operations in al-Issawiya, with one remarking: “This is really provoking them for nothing.” A second officer agrees. The first officer subsequently asks: “Why do this on purpose?” The second one replies: “Our policy is screwed up from the outset.”
The first officer then comments: “Let them live. You’re provoking them here for nothing.”
A few minutes later, the first officer addresses a third officer. “I have a question for you. Isn’t what we’re doing here causing more problems?” The third officer replies: “That’s the goal,” to which the first asked: “Causing more problems?” The second officer replies in the affirmative.
The video was shown during a hearing at Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, where Issawiya resident Abdallah Mustafa was charged with throwing three stones at police on the day the video was filmed.
The prosecutor claimed that the police officers had “a slip of the tongue”, and the judge sentenced Mustafa to seven and a half months in prison.
According to local sources, the detained kids were beaten by police officers in Issawiya district before taking them in handcuffs to a police station in the holy city.
The kids were identified as Omar Mahmoud, Waseem Dari, and Ismail Muhaisen
For nearly five months, Israeli police forces have been raiding the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on a daily basis, ransacking homes and arresting and assaulting Palestinians.
The Israeli campaign against Issawiya is aimed at oppressing and making life miserable for all who live there as part of efforts to push the native residents out of the holy city.
Israeli Troops Assault Schoolchildren in al-Issawiya; Abduct 3
Israeli troops invaded al-Issawiya, in the eastern part of Jerusalem, on Monday evening and attacked schoolchildren, abducting three boys.
According to local sources, on Monday evening, the Israeli forces stormed the village, deployed troops throughout the streets and began firing tear gas into the streets and residences.
The also grabbed 3 boys from Mheisen neighborhood in al-Issawiya town and put them into their armored military vehicles to take to an interrogation center.
Mohammed Abu al-Hummos, a member of the local organizing committee in al-Issawiya, told the Silwan Information Center that the Israeli forces took three boys: Omar Mahmoud, Ismail Mheisen, and Wasim Dari from the village, during the storming and deployment in the streets.
The Popular Committee of al-Issawiya called for a protest tomorrow against the campaign of abuse and attacks on the people of the village.
The abductions on Monday follow a series of assaults and abductions in recent days which culminated in a school strike being declared in the village on Saturday.
The Parents’ Committee of al-Issawiya confirmed that the school strike, which began on Saturday, will continue until a safe environment for the students and young children of al-Issawiya can be ensured.
The school strike began after the Israeli police invaded a school in al-Issawiya Saturday, assaulted the principal, and abducted schoolboy Saleh al-Tawil from inside his school.
The Israeli invasions of al-Issawiya have come to be an almost-daily occurrence, which almost always occur at the time when students are returning from school. This ends up with confrontations between stone-throwing teens and invading soldiers, because of the provocative measures taken by the Israeli military.
A video leaked in October showed Israeli police in al-Issawiya discussing how their daily invasions were a provocation to the residents.
According to the Middle East Monitor, in the video, Israeli officers are heard discussing the purpose of the operations in al-Issawiya, with one remarking: “This is really provoking them for nothing.” A second officer agrees. The first officer subsequently asks: “Why do this on purpose?” The second one replies: “Our policy is screwed up from the outset.”
The first officer then comments: “Let them live. You’re provoking them here for nothing.”
A few minutes later, the first officer addresses a third officer. “I have a question for you. Isn’t what we’re doing here causing more problems?” The third officer replies: “That’s the goal,” to which the first asked: “Causing more problems?” The second officer replies in the affirmative.
The video was shown during a hearing at Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, where Issawiya resident Abdallah Mustafa was charged with throwing three stones at police on the day the video was filmed.
The prosecutor claimed that the police officers had “a slip of the tongue”, and the judge sentenced Mustafa to seven and a half months in prison.
Israeli gunboats on Monday evening opened fire at Palestinian fishermen and their boats in the northern waters of the Gaza Strip.
According to a local committee, the fishermen were working within three to six nautical miles when they were came under fire from gunboats.
The intensity of the shooting forced the fishermen to go ashore.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the shooting attack.
Israeli 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 of three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.
Fishermen and human rights groups also say that, since the 2008-09 war in Gaza, the Israeli army has been regularly enforcing a limit even closer to the shore.
According to a local committee, the fishermen were working within three to six nautical miles when they were came under fire from gunboats.
The intensity of the shooting forced the fishermen to go ashore.
Luckily, no one was hurt in the shooting attack.
Israeli 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 of three nautical miles as part of its blockade on Gaza.
Fishermen and human rights groups also say that, since the 2008-09 war in Gaza, the Israeli army has been regularly enforcing a limit even closer to the shore.
4 nov 2019
FILE PHOTO: Members of Israel's Border Police near Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank, March, 2018
Israel’s justice ministry may file charges against a former policewoman who allegedly shot a Palestinian in the back with a sponge-tipped bullet “for fun” after a video of the incident emerged over the weekend.
In the new clip, broadcast by Israel’s Channel 13 news agency, Israeli border police officers at a checkpoint are seen shouting at the young man to “get out of here!” in Arabic.
After the Palestinians turns around and walks away with his hands above his head, the police continue to shout contradicting instructions at him before one of them shoots him in the back.
The unknown man is seen screaming in agony as he slumps to the floor. The security forces are not visible when the shot is fired but filmed walking away afterwards.
The Channel 13 report quoted the police as saying the man was not seriously hurt.
However, the shocking footage has drawn fresh attention to the incident, one of several hard-to-prove Palestinian claims that that Israeli security forces use excessive or unnecessary force against them.
In a Sunday statement, the justice ministry said it would soon announce whether to charge a former policewoman.
The ministry added that it had completed a criminal investigation after holding four hearings into last year’s incident. It did not say when it will reveal its decision.
Israeli police said they removed the female policewoman from the force after learning of the incident, while other police involved in the incident were re-assigned.
However, the policewoman’s lawyer denied she fired the bullet in a statement to Channel 13.
The news report also showed what it said were text messages between a different police officer suspected in the case bragging about shooting the Palestinian to his girlfriend.
Israeli media said the incident took place last May at al-Zaim checkpoint outside of Jerusalem.
At a bail hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court last October, Judge Elad Persky said the suspect apparently shot the Palestinian “as a dubious form of entertainment”, Haaretz reported at the time.
Israel’s leading human rights group, B’Tselem, said a culture of impunity was behind incidents like these.
“This exceptional documentation shows what, sadly, is an unexceptional event: Israeli security forces hurting a Palestinian for absolutely no reason,” said B’Tselem spokesman Amit Gilutz.
“Such instances are the direct result of the culture of impunity fostered by Israel, which is crucial to the perpetuation of its military control over the Palestinians.”
Leaked footage shows Israeli forces aimlessly shooting Palestinian civilian
A video footage that has gone viral online showed an Israeli Border Police officer shooting a Palestinian man who had his back turned toward the officer, his hands up and was walking away.
In the short video, released by Israeli Channel 13, officers can be heard yelling, “Run already” at the man, before one of the officers shoots him.
The man, who was shot by a rubber-coated bullet, was wounded in the back but according to the Israeli military, he rose immediately afterwards and continued on his way. video
Israeli daily Haaretz said evidence about the incident includes text messages in which members of the unit boasted about the incident and the main suspect's admission via text messages.
It claimed that the officer who fired the rubber-coated rounds was discharged from the Border Police and returned to the army to complete her mandatory service.
This was not the first incident in which Israeli occupation forces open fire at Palestinian civilians despite posing no threat to the soldiers’ lives.
Israel’s justice ministry may file charges against a former policewoman who allegedly shot a Palestinian in the back with a sponge-tipped bullet “for fun” after a video of the incident emerged over the weekend.
In the new clip, broadcast by Israel’s Channel 13 news agency, Israeli border police officers at a checkpoint are seen shouting at the young man to “get out of here!” in Arabic.
After the Palestinians turns around and walks away with his hands above his head, the police continue to shout contradicting instructions at him before one of them shoots him in the back.
The unknown man is seen screaming in agony as he slumps to the floor. The security forces are not visible when the shot is fired but filmed walking away afterwards.
The Channel 13 report quoted the police as saying the man was not seriously hurt.
However, the shocking footage has drawn fresh attention to the incident, one of several hard-to-prove Palestinian claims that that Israeli security forces use excessive or unnecessary force against them.
In a Sunday statement, the justice ministry said it would soon announce whether to charge a former policewoman.
The ministry added that it had completed a criminal investigation after holding four hearings into last year’s incident. It did not say when it will reveal its decision.
Israeli police said they removed the female policewoman from the force after learning of the incident, while other police involved in the incident were re-assigned.
However, the policewoman’s lawyer denied she fired the bullet in a statement to Channel 13.
The news report also showed what it said were text messages between a different police officer suspected in the case bragging about shooting the Palestinian to his girlfriend.
Israeli media said the incident took place last May at al-Zaim checkpoint outside of Jerusalem.
At a bail hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court last October, Judge Elad Persky said the suspect apparently shot the Palestinian “as a dubious form of entertainment”, Haaretz reported at the time.
Israel’s leading human rights group, B’Tselem, said a culture of impunity was behind incidents like these.
“This exceptional documentation shows what, sadly, is an unexceptional event: Israeli security forces hurting a Palestinian for absolutely no reason,” said B’Tselem spokesman Amit Gilutz.
“Such instances are the direct result of the culture of impunity fostered by Israel, which is crucial to the perpetuation of its military control over the Palestinians.”
Leaked footage shows Israeli forces aimlessly shooting Palestinian civilian
A video footage that has gone viral online showed an Israeli Border Police officer shooting a Palestinian man who had his back turned toward the officer, his hands up and was walking away.
In the short video, released by Israeli Channel 13, officers can be heard yelling, “Run already” at the man, before one of the officers shoots him.
The man, who was shot by a rubber-coated bullet, was wounded in the back but according to the Israeli military, he rose immediately afterwards and continued on his way. video
Israeli daily Haaretz said evidence about the incident includes text messages in which members of the unit boasted about the incident and the main suspect's admission via text messages.
It claimed that the officer who fired the rubber-coated rounds was discharged from the Border Police and returned to the army to complete her mandatory service.
This was not the first incident in which Israeli occupation forces open fire at Palestinian civilians despite posing no threat to the soldiers’ lives.
The Palestinian resistance on Sunday evening shot down an Israeli army drone in the northern airspace of the Gaza Strip.
According to SAFA news agency, an Israeli military Quadcopter drone crashed down to the ground in northern Gaza after it came under fire from resistance fighters.
The drone was used for the purpose of photography, sources from the resistance said.
The Palestinian resistance already managed several times to confiscate Israeli drones after they encountered technical problems or were shot down within the airspace of Gaza.
According to SAFA news agency, an Israeli military Quadcopter drone crashed down to the ground in northern Gaza after it came under fire from resistance fighters.
The drone was used for the purpose of photography, sources from the resistance said.
The Palestinian resistance already managed several times to confiscate Israeli drones after they encountered technical problems or were shot down within the airspace of Gaza.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Sunday evening kidnaped two Palestinian young men from a neighborhood in al-Khalil city.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed Tel Rumeida neighborhood in central al-Khalil, amid intensive gunfire, and physically assaulted the family of activist Emad Abu Shamsiya. video
The IOF also rounded up the son of Abu Shamsiya, Awni, and another young man called Bassam Abu Aisha.
Related: Activist who filmed Hebron shooting 'fears for his life' after Israeli soldier convicted
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According to local sources, the IOF stormed Tel Rumeida neighborhood in central al-Khalil, amid intensive gunfire, and physically assaulted the family of activist Emad Abu Shamsiya. video
The IOF also rounded up the son of Abu Shamsiya, Awni, and another young man called Bassam Abu Aisha.
Related: Activist who filmed Hebron shooting 'fears for his life' after Israeli soldier convicted
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