24 oct 2018
Israeli warplanes on Wednesday bombed a Palestinian resistance site east of Rafah city in the southern area of the Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporter said that the warplanes fired two missiles at a resistance site east of Rafah with no injuries reported.
The Israeli occupation army has recently carried out dozens of attacks on Palestinian sites near the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in response to fire balloons launched from the enclave toward neighboring Israeli settlements.
The Israeli airstrike came in conjunction with meetings held in Gaza between Palestinian factions and an Egyptian Intelligence delegation to discuss the ceasefire agreement with Israel and the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza.
The PIC reporter said that the warplanes fired two missiles at a resistance site east of Rafah with no injuries reported.
The Israeli occupation army has recently carried out dozens of attacks on Palestinian sites near the border fence separating the Gaza Strip from the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in response to fire balloons launched from the enclave toward neighboring Israeli settlements.
The Israeli airstrike came in conjunction with meetings held in Gaza between Palestinian factions and an Egyptian Intelligence delegation to discuss the ceasefire agreement with Israel and the humanitarian situation in besieged Gaza.
Several Palestinian students, along with teachers and officials, were wounded in the Israeli army attack on a school south of Nablus in the West Bank on 15 October. The students of Al- Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School were challenging an Israeli military order to shut down their school based on the ever-versatile accusation of the school being a “site of popular terror and rioting”.
“Popular terror” is an Israeli army code for protests. The students, of course, have every right to protest, not just the Israeli military occupation but also the encroaching colonization of the settlements of Alie and Ma’ale Levona. These two illegal Jewish settlements have unlawfully confiscated thousands of dunams of land belonging to the villages of As-Sawiya and Al-Lebban.
“The Israeli citizens” that the occupation army is set to protect by shutting down the school, are, in fact, the very armed Jewish settlers who have been terrorizing this West Bank region for years.
According to a 2016 study commissioned by the United Nations, at least 2,500 Palestinian students from 35 West Bank communities must cross through Israeli military checkpoints to reach their schools every day. About half of these students have reported army harassment and violence for merely attempting to get to their classes or back home.
However, this is only half of the story, as violent Jewish settlers are always on the lookout for Palestinian kids. These settlers, who “also set up their own checkpoints”, engage in regular violence as well, by “throwing stones” at children, or “physically pushing (Palestinian children) around.”
“UNICEF’s protective presence teams have reported that their volunteers have been subjected to physical attacks, harassment, arrest and detention, and death threats,” according to the same UN report.
In other words, even the “protectors” themselves often fall victim to the army and Jewish settler terror tactics.
Add to this that Area C – a major part of the West Bank that is under full Israeli military control – represents the pinnacle of Palestinian suffering. An estimated 50,000 children face numerous hurdles, including the lack of facilities, access, violence, closure and unjustified demolition orders.
The school of Al-Sawiya Al-Lebban located in Area C is, therefore, under the total mercy of the Israeli military, which has no tolerance for any form of resistance, including non-violent popular protests by school children.
What is truly uplifting, however, is that, despite the Israeli military occupation and ongoing restrictions on Palestinian freedom, the Palestinian population remains one of the most educated in the Middle East.
According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the literacy rate in Palestine (estimated at 96.3 per cent) is one of the highest in the Middle East and the illiteracy rate (3.7 per cent among individuals over the age of 15) is one of the lowest in the world.
If these statistics are not heartening enough, bearing in mind the ongoing Israeli war on Palestinian school and curricula, consider this: the besieged and war-stricken Gaza Strip has an even higher literacy rate than the West Bank, as they both stand at 96.6 per cent and 96 per cent respectively.
In truth, this should not come as a total surprise. The first wave of Palestinian refugees that were ethnically-cleansed from historic Palestine was so keen on ensuring their children strive to continue their education, they established school tents, operated by volunteer teachers as early as 1948.
Palestinians understand well that education is their greatest weapon to obtain their long-denied freedom. Israel, too, is aware of this dichotomy, knowing that an empowered Palestinian population is far more capable of challenging Israeli dominance than a subdued one, thus the relentless and systematic targeting of the Palestinian educational system.
Israel’s strategy in destroying the infrastructure of Palestinian schooling system is centered on the allegation of “terror”: that is, Palestinians teach “terror” in their schools; Palestinian school books celebrate “terrorists”; schools are sites for “popular terror” and various other accusations that, per Israeli logic, compels the army to seal off schools, demolish facilities, arrest and shoot students.
Take for example the recent comments made by the Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, who is now leading a government campaign aimed at shutting down operations by the UN organisation that caters for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
“It is time to remove UNRWA from Jerusalem,” Barkat announced early October. Without any evidence whatsoever, Barkat claimed that “UNRWA is strengthening terror,” and that “the children of Jerusalem are taught under their auspices, terror, and this must be stopped.”
Of course, Barkat is being dishonest. The jibe at UNRWA in Jerusalem is part of a larger Israeli-US campaign aimed at shutting down an organisation that proved central to the status and welfare of Palestinian refugees.
According to this skewed thinking, without UNRWA, Palestinian refugees would have no legal platform, thus closing down UNRWA is closing down the chapter of Palestinian refugees and their Right of Return altogether.
The link between the shutting down of Al-Sawiya Al-Lebban, the targeting of UNRWA by Israel and the US, the numerous checkpoints separating students from their schools in the West Bank and more, have more in common than Israel’s false allegation of “terror”.
Israeli writer, Orly Noy, summed up the Israeli logic in one sentence.
By destroying schools in Palestinian villages in Area C and elsewhere, Israel is forcing Palestinians to make a cruel choice — between their land and their children’s futures.
she wrote earlier this year.
It is this brutal logic that has guided the Israeli government strategy regarding Palestinian education for 70 years. It is a war that cannot be discussed or understood outside the larger war on Palestinian identity, freedom, and, in fact, the very existence of the Palestinian people.
The students’ fight for their right to education in Al-Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School is by no means an isolated skirmish involving Palestinian school kids and trigger-happy Israeli soldiers. Rather, it is at the heart of the Palestinian people’s fight for their freedom.
- Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle.
“Popular terror” is an Israeli army code for protests. The students, of course, have every right to protest, not just the Israeli military occupation but also the encroaching colonization of the settlements of Alie and Ma’ale Levona. These two illegal Jewish settlements have unlawfully confiscated thousands of dunams of land belonging to the villages of As-Sawiya and Al-Lebban.
“The Israeli citizens” that the occupation army is set to protect by shutting down the school, are, in fact, the very armed Jewish settlers who have been terrorizing this West Bank region for years.
According to a 2016 study commissioned by the United Nations, at least 2,500 Palestinian students from 35 West Bank communities must cross through Israeli military checkpoints to reach their schools every day. About half of these students have reported army harassment and violence for merely attempting to get to their classes or back home.
However, this is only half of the story, as violent Jewish settlers are always on the lookout for Palestinian kids. These settlers, who “also set up their own checkpoints”, engage in regular violence as well, by “throwing stones” at children, or “physically pushing (Palestinian children) around.”
“UNICEF’s protective presence teams have reported that their volunteers have been subjected to physical attacks, harassment, arrest and detention, and death threats,” according to the same UN report.
In other words, even the “protectors” themselves often fall victim to the army and Jewish settler terror tactics.
Add to this that Area C – a major part of the West Bank that is under full Israeli military control – represents the pinnacle of Palestinian suffering. An estimated 50,000 children face numerous hurdles, including the lack of facilities, access, violence, closure and unjustified demolition orders.
The school of Al-Sawiya Al-Lebban located in Area C is, therefore, under the total mercy of the Israeli military, which has no tolerance for any form of resistance, including non-violent popular protests by school children.
What is truly uplifting, however, is that, despite the Israeli military occupation and ongoing restrictions on Palestinian freedom, the Palestinian population remains one of the most educated in the Middle East.
According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the literacy rate in Palestine (estimated at 96.3 per cent) is one of the highest in the Middle East and the illiteracy rate (3.7 per cent among individuals over the age of 15) is one of the lowest in the world.
If these statistics are not heartening enough, bearing in mind the ongoing Israeli war on Palestinian school and curricula, consider this: the besieged and war-stricken Gaza Strip has an even higher literacy rate than the West Bank, as they both stand at 96.6 per cent and 96 per cent respectively.
In truth, this should not come as a total surprise. The first wave of Palestinian refugees that were ethnically-cleansed from historic Palestine was so keen on ensuring their children strive to continue their education, they established school tents, operated by volunteer teachers as early as 1948.
Palestinians understand well that education is their greatest weapon to obtain their long-denied freedom. Israel, too, is aware of this dichotomy, knowing that an empowered Palestinian population is far more capable of challenging Israeli dominance than a subdued one, thus the relentless and systematic targeting of the Palestinian educational system.
Israel’s strategy in destroying the infrastructure of Palestinian schooling system is centered on the allegation of “terror”: that is, Palestinians teach “terror” in their schools; Palestinian school books celebrate “terrorists”; schools are sites for “popular terror” and various other accusations that, per Israeli logic, compels the army to seal off schools, demolish facilities, arrest and shoot students.
Take for example the recent comments made by the Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, who is now leading a government campaign aimed at shutting down operations by the UN organisation that caters for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.
“It is time to remove UNRWA from Jerusalem,” Barkat announced early October. Without any evidence whatsoever, Barkat claimed that “UNRWA is strengthening terror,” and that “the children of Jerusalem are taught under their auspices, terror, and this must be stopped.”
Of course, Barkat is being dishonest. The jibe at UNRWA in Jerusalem is part of a larger Israeli-US campaign aimed at shutting down an organisation that proved central to the status and welfare of Palestinian refugees.
According to this skewed thinking, without UNRWA, Palestinian refugees would have no legal platform, thus closing down UNRWA is closing down the chapter of Palestinian refugees and their Right of Return altogether.
The link between the shutting down of Al-Sawiya Al-Lebban, the targeting of UNRWA by Israel and the US, the numerous checkpoints separating students from their schools in the West Bank and more, have more in common than Israel’s false allegation of “terror”.
Israeli writer, Orly Noy, summed up the Israeli logic in one sentence.
By destroying schools in Palestinian villages in Area C and elsewhere, Israel is forcing Palestinians to make a cruel choice — between their land and their children’s futures.
she wrote earlier this year.
It is this brutal logic that has guided the Israeli government strategy regarding Palestinian education for 70 years. It is a war that cannot be discussed or understood outside the larger war on Palestinian identity, freedom, and, in fact, the very existence of the Palestinian people.
The students’ fight for their right to education in Al-Sawiya Al-Lebban Mixed School is by no means an isolated skirmish involving Palestinian school kids and trigger-happy Israeli soldiers. Rather, it is at the heart of the Palestinian people’s fight for their freedom.
- Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle.
Israeli soldiers invaded Dahiat al-Barid area, south of the ar-Ram town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, surrounded the building of the Palestinian Governorate and Jerusalem Affairs Ministry, and prevented the employees from entering or leaving it.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the soldiers, and police officers, encircled the entire area, and invaded many surrounding buildings before occupying their rooftops to use them as monitoring posts.
It added that the soldiers photographed the governorate building from several directions, before withdrawing from the area.
Last Sunday, the army abducted Jerusalem Governor Adnan Gheith, and the head of the Intelligence Services in the Palestinian suburbs of East Jerusalem, Lieutenant Jihad al-Faqeeh, and released them on Monday.
Israel is ongoing with its attempt to prevent the Palestinians from having any control over their towns and communities in occupied Jerusalem, and is also targeting UNRWA-run facilities, including schools and clinics, to prevent it from providing services to the Palestinian refugees.
The WAFA Palestinian News Agency said the soldiers, and police officers, encircled the entire area, and invaded many surrounding buildings before occupying their rooftops to use them as monitoring posts.
It added that the soldiers photographed the governorate building from several directions, before withdrawing from the area.
Last Sunday, the army abducted Jerusalem Governor Adnan Gheith, and the head of the Intelligence Services in the Palestinian suburbs of East Jerusalem, Lieutenant Jihad al-Faqeeh, and released them on Monday.
Israel is ongoing with its attempt to prevent the Palestinians from having any control over their towns and communities in occupied Jerusalem, and is also targeting UNRWA-run facilities, including schools and clinics, to prevent it from providing services to the Palestinian refugees.
Eyewitnesses said the Israeli soldiers and police officers surrounded the protesting priests, before assaulting and pushing them with excessive use of force, causing several injuries.
They added that the police forcibly removed the priests, and abducted one of them, before allowing the City Council workers into the holy site.
They added that the police forcibly removed the priests, and abducted one of them, before allowing the City Council workers into the holy site.
A number of Palestinian civilians were arrested and others injured in predawn clashes with the Israeli occupation forces throughout the West Bank.
21-year-old Palestinian young man Mohamed Besharat was killed and 11 others injured after they were shot with Israeli bullet fire in Tubas.
Violent clashes also burst out shortly after heavily-armed Israeli patrols rolled into Kafr Kalil, south of Nablus. Several Palestinian protesters choked on teargas.
Palestinian young men Mahdi Haj Ibrahim and Jamal Kou’ were kidnapped by the occupation forces from their family homes in Beit Leid town, east of Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.
Israeli patrols wreaked havoc on civilian homes in the area and subjected the locals to exhaustive questioning.
At the same time, the occupation soldiers cordoned off the access road between Beit Leid and al-Kafriyat and raked through the area in the hunt for the anti-occupation attacker Ashraf Na’aluwa.
Full-armed Israeli troops also showed up in Jericho city and Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun.
21-year-old Palestinian young man Mohamed Besharat was killed and 11 others injured after they were shot with Israeli bullet fire in Tubas.
Violent clashes also burst out shortly after heavily-armed Israeli patrols rolled into Kafr Kalil, south of Nablus. Several Palestinian protesters choked on teargas.
Palestinian young men Mahdi Haj Ibrahim and Jamal Kou’ were kidnapped by the occupation forces from their family homes in Beit Leid town, east of Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.
Israeli patrols wreaked havoc on civilian homes in the area and subjected the locals to exhaustive questioning.
At the same time, the occupation soldiers cordoned off the access road between Beit Leid and al-Kafriyat and raked through the area in the hunt for the anti-occupation attacker Ashraf Na’aluwa.
Full-armed Israeli troops also showed up in Jericho city and Qalqilya’s eastern town of Azzoun.
23 oct 2018
At least seven Palestinians were injured on Tuesday evening when the Israeli occupation forces opened fire at peaceful protesters marching near the border fence east of Deir al-Balah city, in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.
The PIC reporter said that the Israeli snipers stationed behind the border fence heavily opened fire at the protesters injuring seven of them.
The injured were transferred to al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment. One of them sustained a serious injury, according to medical sources.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been protesting on a daily basis since 30 March along the border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
The border protests, also known as the Great March of Return, are aimed at raising awareness of the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israeli to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza for over a decade now.
Army Attacks Gaza Demonstrators, Six Shot and Injured
At least six Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, including one seriously, as Israeli forces opened fire towards dozens of Palestinians who rallied near the borders with Israel to the east of Deir al-Balah area, in the central Gaza Strip, said WAFA sources. video
Israeli soldiers stationed along Gaza’s borders opened live fire towards demonstrators as they allegedly approached the barbed-wire fence between Gaza and Israel, shooting and injuring at least six people; one abdominal injury was deemed critical. video
The PIC reporter said that the Israeli snipers stationed behind the border fence heavily opened fire at the protesters injuring seven of them.
The injured were transferred to al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment. One of them sustained a serious injury, according to medical sources.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been protesting on a daily basis since 30 March along the border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
The border protests, also known as the Great March of Return, are aimed at raising awareness of the Palestinian refugees' right of return and pressuring Israeli to lift the blockade imposed on Gaza for over a decade now.
Army Attacks Gaza Demonstrators, Six Shot and Injured
At least six Palestinians were shot and injured with live ammunition, including one seriously, as Israeli forces opened fire towards dozens of Palestinians who rallied near the borders with Israel to the east of Deir al-Balah area, in the central Gaza Strip, said WAFA sources. video
Israeli soldiers stationed along Gaza’s borders opened live fire towards demonstrators as they allegedly approached the barbed-wire fence between Gaza and Israel, shooting and injuring at least six people; one abdominal injury was deemed critical. video
The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights issued a statement strongly condemning the ongoing Israeli violations against the Palestinian fishermen, and the illegal confiscation of their boats, and called for the release of four fishermen, who were taken prisoner by the navy, on Tuesday, in two separate attacks.
Al-Mezan said its field investigations have revealed that, at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, Israeli navy ships opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats, nearly two nautical in Gaza territorial waters in the al-Waha sea in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the coastal region, before surrounding a small boat with two fishermen onboard, and abducted them.
The two fishermen have been identified as Awad Nafeth Sultan, 21, from Beit Lahia, and Ahmad Emad Siyam, 20, from the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city. They were taken to an unknown destination, and their boat was confiscated.
Al-Mezan added that, approximately at one in the afternoon of the same day, the navy fired many live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, less than four nautical miles from the shore, in Sheikh Ejleen Beach, southwest of Gaza city, and surrounded them, before abducting two fishermen, and confiscated their boat.
The two fishermen have been identified as Mahmoud Mohammad Miqdad, 35, and Hasan Soheil Miqdad, 26, from the Shati’ refugee camp.
Field research and documentation by the al-Mezan Center revealed that the Israeli navy carried 270 violations against Palestinian fishermen and their boats, since the beginning of this year, and that the navy fired live rounds at the boats 267 times, killing one fisherman, in addition to wounding sixteen others, and abducting 59, in addition to confiscating 18 boats.
It is worth mentioning that the slain fisherman, identified as Ismael Saleh Abu Ryala, 18, was killed when the Israeli navy opened fire on his fishing boat while he was fishing near the shore of Gaza.
It added that Israel continues to ban the entry of equipment and tools needed for fishing, as part of its ongoing and deadly siege on Gaza.
Al-Mezan called for the release of all abducted fishermen, and their boats, and demanded the international community to act on lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza, and ending the seriously escalating violations of international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and all related United Nations and human rights treaties.
It said that Israel continues to abduct, humiliate and harm the fishermen, in addition to the destruction of their boats and equipment, as part of its illegal siege on Gaza, and its deliberate violation against the civilian population.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
Following the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2014, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian armed groups was brokered by the Egyptian government, which allowed fishermen to sail up to 6 nautical miles, but Israel continued to violate the agreement.
Under the Oslo Accord, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1994, Israel is supposed to allow the Palestinian to fish and sail within 20 nautical miles.
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Navy Opens Fire, Detains 2 Gazan Fishermen
Oct 23, 2018 @ 19:46
Israeli naval forces detained two Palestinian fishermen on Tuesday, off the coast of the besieged northern Gaza Strip.
Head of the Fishermen Union in Gaza, Nizar Ayyash, told Ma’an News Agency that two Palestinian fishermen were detained by Israeli naval forces off the coast of the al-Waha area, in northern Gaza.
Ayyash identified the two fishermen as Awad al-Sultan and Ahmad Siyam.
The fishermen were transferred to an unknown location.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
No injuries were reported.
The Israeli army regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the unilaterally declared buffer zone.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently concluded that Israel’s Gaza closure and “harassment of fishermen” have been “destroying Gaza’s fishing sector,” with 95% of fishermen living below the poverty line.
Last Wednesday, Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman closed the border crossings of both Erez and Karem Abu Salem.
Al-Mezan said its field investigations have revealed that, at 6:30 on Tuesday morning, Israeli navy ships opened fire at Palestinian fishing boats, nearly two nautical in Gaza territorial waters in the al-Waha sea in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the coastal region, before surrounding a small boat with two fishermen onboard, and abducted them.
The two fishermen have been identified as Awad Nafeth Sultan, 21, from Beit Lahia, and Ahmad Emad Siyam, 20, from the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza city. They were taken to an unknown destination, and their boat was confiscated.
Al-Mezan added that, approximately at one in the afternoon of the same day, the navy fired many live rounds at Palestinian fishing boats, less than four nautical miles from the shore, in Sheikh Ejleen Beach, southwest of Gaza city, and surrounded them, before abducting two fishermen, and confiscated their boat.
The two fishermen have been identified as Mahmoud Mohammad Miqdad, 35, and Hasan Soheil Miqdad, 26, from the Shati’ refugee camp.
Field research and documentation by the al-Mezan Center revealed that the Israeli navy carried 270 violations against Palestinian fishermen and their boats, since the beginning of this year, and that the navy fired live rounds at the boats 267 times, killing one fisherman, in addition to wounding sixteen others, and abducting 59, in addition to confiscating 18 boats.
It is worth mentioning that the slain fisherman, identified as Ismael Saleh Abu Ryala, 18, was killed when the Israeli navy opened fire on his fishing boat while he was fishing near the shore of Gaza.
It added that Israel continues to ban the entry of equipment and tools needed for fishing, as part of its ongoing and deadly siege on Gaza.
Al-Mezan called for the release of all abducted fishermen, and their boats, and demanded the international community to act on lifting the Israeli siege on Gaza, and ending the seriously escalating violations of international law, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and all related United Nations and human rights treaties.
It said that Israel continues to abduct, humiliate and harm the fishermen, in addition to the destruction of their boats and equipment, as part of its illegal siege on Gaza, and its deliberate violation against the civilian population.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
Following the latest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2014, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Palestinian armed groups was brokered by the Egyptian government, which allowed fishermen to sail up to 6 nautical miles, but Israel continued to violate the agreement.
Under the Oslo Accord, signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1994, Israel is supposed to allow the Palestinian to fish and sail within 20 nautical miles.
Updated From:
Navy Opens Fire, Detains 2 Gazan Fishermen
Oct 23, 2018 @ 19:46
Israeli naval forces detained two Palestinian fishermen on Tuesday, off the coast of the besieged northern Gaza Strip.
Head of the Fishermen Union in Gaza, Nizar Ayyash, told Ma’an News Agency that two Palestinian fishermen were detained by Israeli naval forces off the coast of the al-Waha area, in northern Gaza.
Ayyash identified the two fishermen as Awad al-Sultan and Ahmad Siyam.
The fishermen were transferred to an unknown location.
Meanwhile, Israeli news outlets reported that Israel expanded the allowed fishing zone from the current three nautical miles, however, Israeli naval forces opened fire at several fishing boats, as they were working within the permitted fishing zone, forcing them to sail back to shore.
No injuries were reported.
The Israeli army regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the unilaterally declared buffer zone.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently concluded that Israel’s Gaza closure and “harassment of fishermen” have been “destroying Gaza’s fishing sector,” with 95% of fishermen living below the poverty line.
Last Wednesday, Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman closed the border crossings of both Erez and Karem Abu Salem.
Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Tuesday at dawn, Doha town, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and shot a young man, in addition to abducting a teenage boy in the Deheishe refugee camp, south of the city.
Several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded Doha town, and fired many live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades at Palestinians, protesting the invasion.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot a young man with a live round in the leg, before he was rushed to a hospital in Bethlehem, suffering a moderate wound.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded homes in Deheishe refugee camp, and searched them, before abducting Mahmoud Salah Hammash, 17.
The soldiers also invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, searched homes and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, and withdrew later.
Several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded Doha town, and fired many live rounds, gas bombs and concussion grenades at Palestinians, protesting the invasion.
Medical sources said the soldiers shot a young man with a live round in the leg, before he was rushed to a hospital in Bethlehem, suffering a moderate wound.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded homes in Deheishe refugee camp, and searched them, before abducting Mahmoud Salah Hammash, 17.
The soldiers also invaded Beit Fajjar town, south of Bethlehem, searched homes and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards, and withdrew later.
22 oct 2018
At least ten Palestinians were injured on Monday evening after Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) suppressed hundreds of Palestinian protesters in the naval march in Beit Lahiya in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Medical sources confirmed to PIC reporter that 10 Palestinians were shot by Israeli ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas inhalation.
Earlier Monday, hundreds of peaceful protesters had gathered in the area while dozens others participated in a boat protest setting off from the Gaza seaport against the 12-year-long siege on Gaza.
The demonstration came after the National Committee for Breaking the Siege had called upon Palestinians to take part in the 13th naval protest.
Medical sources confirmed to PIC reporter that 10 Palestinians were shot by Israeli ammunition, while others suffered tear-gas inhalation.
Earlier Monday, hundreds of peaceful protesters had gathered in the area while dozens others participated in a boat protest setting off from the Gaza seaport against the 12-year-long siege on Gaza.
The demonstration came after the National Committee for Breaking the Siege had called upon Palestinians to take part in the 13th naval protest.
Israel’s war Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beytenu) threatened to wage a bloody war against Gaza at the start of a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
“Wars are only conducted when there is no choice, and now there is no choice,” the minister claimed on Monday. “Anything less than the toughest response won’t help anymore. We have exhausted the other options.”
Lieberman alleged that Hamas was behind recent violence from the blockaded Gaza Strip and pays large sums to protesters.
“There is no popular uprising,” Lieberman said. “There is violence organized by Hamas. Fifteen thousand people don’t come by foot to the border at their own will. They come by bus and are paid.”
“I don’t believe in reaching an arrangement with Hamas,” he said. “It hasn’t worked, doesn’t work and won’t work in the future.”
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud) also accused Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas of inflaming tensions in the Gaza Strip by preventing supplies and funding from reaching the people there.
“It is intolerable, unacceptable and unreasonable that Abbas closes the faucet for Gaza and Israel has to pay the price,” Dichter said.
“Wars are only conducted when there is no choice, and now there is no choice,” the minister claimed on Monday. “Anything less than the toughest response won’t help anymore. We have exhausted the other options.”
Lieberman alleged that Hamas was behind recent violence from the blockaded Gaza Strip and pays large sums to protesters.
“There is no popular uprising,” Lieberman said. “There is violence organized by Hamas. Fifteen thousand people don’t come by foot to the border at their own will. They come by bus and are paid.”
“I don’t believe in reaching an arrangement with Hamas,” he said. “It hasn’t worked, doesn’t work and won’t work in the future.”
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter (Likud) also accused Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas of inflaming tensions in the Gaza Strip by preventing supplies and funding from reaching the people there.
“It is intolerable, unacceptable and unreasonable that Abbas closes the faucet for Gaza and Israel has to pay the price,” Dichter said.
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) launched at dawn Monday a large-scale raid and arrest campaign throughout West Bank. At least 10 Palestinians were detained during the campaign.
Local sources affirmed that two Palestinians were kidnapped from their houses in Kafer Naama town west of Ramallah, while another was rounded up from al-Ama’ari refugee camp west of the city.
A Palestinian was also arrested north of occupied Jerusalem, while two arrests were reported south of Bethlehem. Two young men were detained in Jenin and Nablus.
Several local houses were violently stormed and searched in Nablus during the campaign.
In Tulkarem, clashes broke out after IOF stormed Shweika town and carried out a violent raid and search campaign. Heavy teargas bombs were fired during the confrontations.
Meanwhile, a young man was detained at a military checkpoint erected to the south of the city.
Over the past week Israeli forces stormed different areas of West Bank on daily basis as part of the all-out manhunt for Ashraf Na’alwa who is suspected of killing two of Israeli settlers and wounding another in a shooting incident in Brakan industrial zone.
Local sources affirmed that two Palestinians were kidnapped from their houses in Kafer Naama town west of Ramallah, while another was rounded up from al-Ama’ari refugee camp west of the city.
A Palestinian was also arrested north of occupied Jerusalem, while two arrests were reported south of Bethlehem. Two young men were detained in Jenin and Nablus.
Several local houses were violently stormed and searched in Nablus during the campaign.
In Tulkarem, clashes broke out after IOF stormed Shweika town and carried out a violent raid and search campaign. Heavy teargas bombs were fired during the confrontations.
Meanwhile, a young man was detained at a military checkpoint erected to the south of the city.
Over the past week Israeli forces stormed different areas of West Bank on daily basis as part of the all-out manhunt for Ashraf Na’alwa who is suspected of killing two of Israeli settlers and wounding another in a shooting incident in Brakan industrial zone.