14 oct 2019
Israeli naval forces on Monday chased Palestinian fishing boats sailing off the shore of Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Fishermen Committee said that Israeli gunboats surrounded two Palestinian fishing boats and opened fire at them. No injuries were reported.
It added that the fishermen who were aboard were allowed to sail back to the shore after being detained for about an hour.
Earlier on the day, Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian farmers working in their agricultural lands east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip area with no casualties reported.
The Palestinian Fishermen Committee said that Israeli gunboats surrounded two Palestinian fishing boats and opened fire at them. No injuries were reported.
It added that the fishermen who were aboard were allowed to sail back to the shore after being detained for about an hour.
Earlier on the day, Israeli forces opened fire at Palestinian farmers working in their agricultural lands east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip area with no casualties reported.
The Israeli police chief in Occupied Jerusalem on Monday ordered the evacuation of the Aqsa Mosque’s Bab al-Rahma prayer building.
According to local sources, Israeli police forces embarked upon orders from their commander to forcibly evacuate Muslim worshipers from the building.
In recent weeks, police forces stormed the Bab al-Rahma area several times and confiscated pieces of furniture from the building.
Last February, Jerusalemite citizens managed to reopen the Bab al-Rahma prayer area of the Mosque after it was locked for 16 years by the Israeli police.
Jerusalemite officials have already expressed fears of Israeli intents to take over the Bab al-Rahma area and turn it into a Jewish temple as a prelude to taking over the entire Islamic holy site, which Jews claim to be a temple mount. video
According to local sources, Israeli police forces embarked upon orders from their commander to forcibly evacuate Muslim worshipers from the building.
In recent weeks, police forces stormed the Bab al-Rahma area several times and confiscated pieces of furniture from the building.
Last February, Jerusalemite citizens managed to reopen the Bab al-Rahma prayer area of the Mosque after it was locked for 16 years by the Israeli police.
Jerusalemite officials have already expressed fears of Israeli intents to take over the Bab al-Rahma area and turn it into a Jewish temple as a prelude to taking over the entire Islamic holy site, which Jews claim to be a temple mount. video
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, Sebastia town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before storming and ransacking dozens of homes.
Mohammad Azem, the head of Sebastia Local Council, said the soldiers violently searched the invaded homes, causing damage, and threatened to shoot any Palestinian who protests the constant invasions carried out by colonialist settlers and soldiers into the archaeological site in the town.
He stated that the invasion is part of numerous and escalating violations against the town and its residents, and is also a part of the Israeli attempts to prevent the Local Council from implementing the al-Baidar tourism project.
The army claims the work obstructs the entry of the settlers into the archaeological area, especially since the illegal colonists are planning to hold celebrations there, while the army continues to deny the local indigenous Palestinians access to it.
Mohammad Azem, the head of Sebastia Local Council, said the soldiers violently searched the invaded homes, causing damage, and threatened to shoot any Palestinian who protests the constant invasions carried out by colonialist settlers and soldiers into the archaeological site in the town.
He stated that the invasion is part of numerous and escalating violations against the town and its residents, and is also a part of the Israeli attempts to prevent the Local Council from implementing the al-Baidar tourism project.
The army claims the work obstructs the entry of the settlers into the archaeological area, especially since the illegal colonists are planning to hold celebrations there, while the army continues to deny the local indigenous Palestinians access to it.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday morning opened fire at plots of cultivated land in the east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, Israeli troops opened fire from al-Ahrash site at an agricultural area near the border fence in the east of al-Qarara town in Khan Younis.
Luckily, no one was injured in the shooting attack.
With no regard for international law or any ceasefire deal in Gaza, the Israeli army keeps attacking—sometimes injuring and killing—civilians, farmers and fishermen almost on a daily basis.
According to local sources, Israeli troops opened fire from al-Ahrash site at an agricultural area near the border fence in the east of al-Qarara town in Khan Younis.
Luckily, no one was injured in the shooting attack.
With no regard for international law or any ceasefire deal in Gaza, the Israeli army keeps attacking—sometimes injuring and killing—civilians, farmers and fishermen almost on a daily basis.
13 oct 2019
Provoking Jerusalem's Palestinians 'For Nothing': Cop's Recording Sheds Light on 'Screwed Up' Policy
Israeli officers heard in a body camera video complaining about disputed operation in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiyah, aimed at 'causing more problems'
Israeli police officers in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Isawiyah were caught on camera complaining that there was no purpose to an ongoing police operation in the neighborhood, highly criticized by community leaders, other than deliberately provoking the residents.
The video footage, which was seen by an Israeli court during a hearing on charges pressed against a resident for throwing stones, shows one policeman telling his colleague: “It’s really provoking them for nothing. Why do this on purpose?”
During the entire course of the summer, the Jerusalem District Police carried out daily wide-scale raids in Isawiyah, entering the East Jerusalem neighborhood in the afternoon on patrol, setting up roadblocks and stopping motorists and passersby for inspection and then going back in at night to arrest residents.
More than 350 residents of Isawiyah have been arrested, including 11 in the early morning on Sunday, but charges were pressed only against about ten of them. Residents have claimed that the raids have been aimed at provoking them and that the police are seeking to spark violence. The residents also claim that there has been no stone throwing in the neighborhood before or during the raids other than at police forces that have entered Isawiyah.
Israeli police officers in the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Isawiyah were caught on camera complaining that there was no purpose to an ongoing police operation in the neighborhood, highly criticized by community leaders, other than deliberately provoking the residents.
The video footage, which was seen by an Israeli court during a hearing on charges pressed against a resident for throwing stones, shows one policeman telling his colleague: “It’s really provoking them for nothing. Why do this on purpose?”
During the entire course of the summer, the Jerusalem District Police carried out daily wide-scale raids in Isawiyah, entering the East Jerusalem neighborhood in the afternoon on patrol, setting up roadblocks and stopping motorists and passersby for inspection and then going back in at night to arrest residents.
More than 350 residents of Isawiyah have been arrested, including 11 in the early morning on Sunday, but charges were pressed only against about ten of them. Residents have claimed that the raids have been aimed at provoking them and that the police are seeking to spark violence. The residents also claim that there has been no stone throwing in the neighborhood before or during the raids other than at police forces that have entered Isawiyah.
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Such claims were also expressed in the video footage that was obtained by Haaretz and filmed in April, a few weeks before the police stepped up their enforcement activity in the neighborhood. It was filmed on a body camera worn by one of the policemen patrolling at the time. The video was taken on the neighborhood’s main street, in the vicinity of the main mosque in Isawiyah.
The police officers whose comments were caught on video stood near the mosque for several hours. Repeatedly one or another of the officers is seen raising his weapon as if purportedly aiming it a residents seen in the background. A large number of pedestrians and vehicles passed the policemen but none approached them. The police officers are heard talking among themselves about the purpose of police operations in Isawiyah. One of them remarked: “This is really provoking them for nothing.” The second police officer is heard agreeing. Later the first policemen said: “Why do this on purpose?” The second one replied: “Our policy is screwed up from the outset.” The first policeman then comments: “Let then live. You’re provoking them here for nothing.” Several minutes later the first policeman addressed a third: “I have a question for you. Isn’t what we’re doing here causing more problems?” The third policeman replied: “That’s the goal,” to which the first asked: “Causing more problems?” The second policeman then replied in the affirmative. Later two of the officers are heard discounting the danger posed by stones thrown in the neighborhood. One is heard saying it is not a terrorist attack. “It’s just stones,” he said. “It’s a game for them. They’re not throwing them to cause harm.” |
The video was presented during a hearing held at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court last week of Isawiyah resident Abdallah Mustafa, who was charged with throwing three stones at police officers on the day the video was filmed. Mustafa’s lawyer from the public defender’s office, Ahmed Awawdeh, claimed that the punishment to be imposed in the case should be reduced, in the interest of justice, due to the police officers’ comments heard in the video.
The remarks, Awawdeh noted, were made by the police themselves rather than Isawiyah residents or representatives from the B’Tselem Israeli human rights group or, as he noted, Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy “or anyone else.” They were members of the border police, he said.
“We see that there is no operational need here and that the police are entering the neighborhood for the purpose of harassing neighborhood residents, acts that terrify children,"Awawdeh said.
“How can someone stand facing children and pointing a weapon at their body? In a country ruled by law, this deliberate disruption of their lives has to be stopped. How can this be stopped? Through court rulings, through fearless statements by the court,” the defendant’s lawyer said.
The police have roundly rejected the claim that their operations have been carried out for purposes of harassment. The real aim is “preserving public order and enforcing the law at all times and in every location,” they said.
The prosecutor in Mustafa’s case, Doreen Haim, told the court that police officers seen in the video had misspoken: “There are no grounds for taking one momentary statement of a witness who later recanted. Just as the thoughts of defendants are not punished, the same is true regarding policemen who had a slip of the tongue.”
Magistrate’s Court Judge Yaron Mientkavich accepted the defendant’s position in part and said he would take the video into consideration while sentencing the defendant.
Mustafa was sentenced to seven and a half months in prison, which is considered relatively lenient in such a case, considering the fact he had previously been convicted of similar offenses.
Residents of Isawiyah have been claiming for months that the purpose of the police operations in the neighborhood is to harass the residents and disrupt their lives as collective punishment and to apply pressure on them. Over a period of years, testimony has accumulated suggesting that the police in Jerusalem have acted to increase friction with residents of the neighborhood.
In Kan public television’s reality series “Jerusalem District,” one officer, Erez Hazan, who was in a scene in which a weapon was planted in the home of an Isawiyah neighborhood, is seen saying: “There’s a procedure that is beginning to be carried out. They’re beginning to apply a bit of pressure in entering and leaving [the neighborhood] to provide the option that someone would make some kind of mistake.”
After Haaretz reported that the gun had been planted at the home of Samar Sleiman, the Kan public broadcaster cancelled the series and all of the episodes of the series were removed from its website.
In 2017, the police brought a busload of police to the neighborhood dressed as soldiers to provoke stone throwing and then to catch the perpetrators. A juvenile defendant caught in the operation was sentenced to 19 months in detention.
The remarks, Awawdeh noted, were made by the police themselves rather than Isawiyah residents or representatives from the B’Tselem Israeli human rights group or, as he noted, Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy “or anyone else.” They were members of the border police, he said.
“We see that there is no operational need here and that the police are entering the neighborhood for the purpose of harassing neighborhood residents, acts that terrify children,"Awawdeh said.
“How can someone stand facing children and pointing a weapon at their body? In a country ruled by law, this deliberate disruption of their lives has to be stopped. How can this be stopped? Through court rulings, through fearless statements by the court,” the defendant’s lawyer said.
The police have roundly rejected the claim that their operations have been carried out for purposes of harassment. The real aim is “preserving public order and enforcing the law at all times and in every location,” they said.
The prosecutor in Mustafa’s case, Doreen Haim, told the court that police officers seen in the video had misspoken: “There are no grounds for taking one momentary statement of a witness who later recanted. Just as the thoughts of defendants are not punished, the same is true regarding policemen who had a slip of the tongue.”
Magistrate’s Court Judge Yaron Mientkavich accepted the defendant’s position in part and said he would take the video into consideration while sentencing the defendant.
Mustafa was sentenced to seven and a half months in prison, which is considered relatively lenient in such a case, considering the fact he had previously been convicted of similar offenses.
Residents of Isawiyah have been claiming for months that the purpose of the police operations in the neighborhood is to harass the residents and disrupt their lives as collective punishment and to apply pressure on them. Over a period of years, testimony has accumulated suggesting that the police in Jerusalem have acted to increase friction with residents of the neighborhood.
In Kan public television’s reality series “Jerusalem District,” one officer, Erez Hazan, who was in a scene in which a weapon was planted in the home of an Isawiyah neighborhood, is seen saying: “There’s a procedure that is beginning to be carried out. They’re beginning to apply a bit of pressure in entering and leaving [the neighborhood] to provide the option that someone would make some kind of mistake.”
After Haaretz reported that the gun had been planted at the home of Samar Sleiman, the Kan public broadcaster cancelled the series and all of the episodes of the series were removed from its website.
In 2017, the police brought a busload of police to the neighborhood dressed as soldiers to provoke stone throwing and then to catch the perpetrators. A juvenile defendant caught in the operation was sentenced to 19 months in detention.
Dozens of Palestinian young men suffered from their exposure to tear gas during violent clashes at dawn Sunday with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Ramallah city.
The clashes took place in Attira neighborhood of Ramallah after the IOF broke into and ransacked the house of prisoner Samer al-Arbeed. video
Similar clashes also happened at the main entrance to Surda town, northeast of Ramallah, during an IOF campaign, with no reported injuries.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seventeen Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, seventeen Palestinians, including a father and his daughter, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, causing damage, before abducting at least seventeen Palestinians.
It added that ten of the abducted residents are from the al-‘Isawiya town, in Jerusalem.
They have been identified as Khaled Mustafa, Mohammad Ibrahim Darwish, Adam Shafiq Obeid, Mohammad Marwan Obeid, Khaled Walid Obeid, Dia’ Ayman Obeid, Mo’tasem Hamza Obeid, Hatem Hasan Zomorod, and Nadim Safadi, Firas Zghayyar.
Another Palestinian, identified as Wahid Shabana, was abducted from his home in the at-Tour neighborhood, in Jerusalem.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted a Palestinian father, identified as Yahia Ali Manasra, 46, and his daughter, Mariam, 20, from their home in Bani Neim town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. video
In Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Zaher Amer Barakat, 27, and Yazan Taiseer Abdul-Dayim, 21.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Hamza Monir, from his home in Sinjil town, northeast of Ramallah, in central West Bank.
In Ramallah city, the soldiers invaded the at-Tira neighborhood, west of the city, and fired a barrage of gas bombs at Palestinian protesters; dozens of residents suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.
The soldiers also fired gas bombs at Palestinian protesters, near the main entrance of Surda village, north of Ramallah.
The clashes took place in Attira neighborhood of Ramallah after the IOF broke into and ransacked the house of prisoner Samer al-Arbeed. video
Similar clashes also happened at the main entrance to Surda town, northeast of Ramallah, during an IOF campaign, with no reported injuries.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct Seventeen Palestinians In West Bank
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Sunday at dawn, seventeen Palestinians, including a father and his daughter, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes across the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, causing damage, before abducting at least seventeen Palestinians.
It added that ten of the abducted residents are from the al-‘Isawiya town, in Jerusalem.
They have been identified as Khaled Mustafa, Mohammad Ibrahim Darwish, Adam Shafiq Obeid, Mohammad Marwan Obeid, Khaled Walid Obeid, Dia’ Ayman Obeid, Mo’tasem Hamza Obeid, Hatem Hasan Zomorod, and Nadim Safadi, Firas Zghayyar.
Another Palestinian, identified as Wahid Shabana, was abducted from his home in the at-Tour neighborhood, in Jerusalem.
Furthermore, the soldiers abducted a Palestinian father, identified as Yahia Ali Manasra, 46, and his daughter, Mariam, 20, from their home in Bani Neim town, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. video
In Tulkarem, in northern West Bank, the soldiers abducted Zaher Amer Barakat, 27, and Yazan Taiseer Abdul-Dayim, 21.
In addition, the soldiers abducted Hamza Monir, from his home in Sinjil town, northeast of Ramallah, in central West Bank.
In Ramallah city, the soldiers invaded the at-Tira neighborhood, west of the city, and fired a barrage of gas bombs at Palestinian protesters; dozens of residents suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.
The soldiers also fired gas bombs at Palestinian protesters, near the main entrance of Surda village, north of Ramallah.
12 oct 2019
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday raided several homes in al-Khalil province and summoned a Palestinian citizen for interrogation.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed Bani Na’im town in the east of al-Khalil and ransacked a number of homes belonging to the families of Zidat and al-Khadour.
During its campaign in the town, the IOF handed a citizen called Mohamed al-Khadour a summons for interrogation.
The IOF also stormed Beit Kahel town in the northwest of al-Khalil and searched a house belonging to Abdul-Mahdi az-Zuhour.
In al-Khalil city, the IOF patrolled several neighborhoods and set up a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city, where soldiers embarked on intercepting cars for security check.
According to local sources, the IOF stormed Bani Na’im town in the east of al-Khalil and ransacked a number of homes belonging to the families of Zidat and al-Khadour.
During its campaign in the town, the IOF handed a citizen called Mohamed al-Khadour a summons for interrogation.
The IOF also stormed Beit Kahel town in the northwest of al-Khalil and searched a house belonging to Abdul-Mahdi az-Zuhour.
In al-Khalil city, the IOF patrolled several neighborhoods and set up a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city, where soldiers embarked on intercepting cars for security check.
A Palestinian young man from the West Bank City of Jenin was injured on Friday afternoon after he was shot by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near Barta'a checkpoint.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Ahmad Kmeil, 25, was shot in the leg near one of the separation wall's gates while trying to enter the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
Kmeil was transferred by a Red Crescent ambulance to a local hospital in Jenin.
Over the past few days IOF soldiers have shot four Palestinians citizens near the separation wall. Most of them were attacked while heading to their workplaces in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that Ahmad Kmeil, 25, was shot in the leg near one of the separation wall's gates while trying to enter the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.
Kmeil was transferred by a Red Crescent ambulance to a local hospital in Jenin.
Over the past few days IOF soldiers have shot four Palestinians citizens near the separation wall. Most of them were attacked while heading to their workplaces in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1948.
Mohammad Ahmad Hanani and Aref Nathir Hanani
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, four Palestinians, including a young woman and two children, in Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers abducted Yousef Barrouq al-Aqra’. 18, after stopping him near the northern road of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young woman, identified as Mais Hanatsha, a student at Birzeit University, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after summoning her for interrogation.
The soldiers also abducted two children, identified as Mohammad Ahmad Hanani and Aref Nathir Hanani, in the al-Khirba neighborhood in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
In related news, the soldiers detained a young man, identified as Islam Mazen Eshteyya, after firing live rounds at him while driving his agricultural tractor near Beit Forik military roadblock, and released him shortly afterward.
Furthermore, the soldiers closed Ennab military roadblock, east of Qalqilia, and started searching Palestinian cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers and interrogating them.
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Friday evening, four Palestinians, including a young woman and two children, in Qalqilia, Nablus, and Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said the soldiers abducted Yousef Barrouq al-Aqra’. 18, after stopping him near the northern road of Qalqilia, in northern West Bank.
In addition, the soldiers abducted a young woman, identified as Mais Hanatsha, a student at Birzeit University, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, after summoning her for interrogation.
The soldiers also abducted two children, identified as Mohammad Ahmad Hanani and Aref Nathir Hanani, in the al-Khirba neighborhood in Beit Forik town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
In related news, the soldiers detained a young man, identified as Islam Mazen Eshteyya, after firing live rounds at him while driving his agricultural tractor near Beit Forik military roadblock, and released him shortly afterward.
Furthermore, the soldiers closed Ennab military roadblock, east of Qalqilia, and started searching Palestinian cars while inspecting the ID cards of the passengers and interrogating them.
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum, east of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, and shot one Palestinian with a live round in the chest.
The soldiers invaded the town shortly after the procession started, and broke into the home of Awni Eshteiwi, before occupying his rooftop and using it as a firing post.
The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum said the soldiers attacked the weekly procession with live rounds, rubber-coated stele bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
It added that a young man, identified as Ahmad Emad Eshteiwi, 19, was shot with a live round in the chest, and was rushed to Darwish Nazzal hospital, in Qalqilia. His condition was described as moderate.
Several protesters suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and received the needed treatment by local medics, without the need for hospitalization.
Kufur Qaddoum witnesses frequent Israeli invasions, assaults and abductions as it continues to hold is weekly nonviolent processions against the illegal Annexation Wall and colonies, and against the closure of the main road, which was blockaded by the military fifteen years ago, to enable easy access for colonialist settlers driving to and from the Kedumim colony, built on private Palestinian lands.
The soldiers invaded the town shortly after the procession started, and broke into the home of Awni Eshteiwi, before occupying his rooftop and using it as a firing post.
The Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum said the soldiers attacked the weekly procession with live rounds, rubber-coated stele bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
It added that a young man, identified as Ahmad Emad Eshteiwi, 19, was shot with a live round in the chest, and was rushed to Darwish Nazzal hospital, in Qalqilia. His condition was described as moderate.
Several protesters suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, and received the needed treatment by local medics, without the need for hospitalization.
Kufur Qaddoum witnesses frequent Israeli invasions, assaults and abductions as it continues to hold is weekly nonviolent processions against the illegal Annexation Wall and colonies, and against the closure of the main road, which was blockaded by the military fifteen years ago, to enable easy access for colonialist settlers driving to and from the Kedumim colony, built on private Palestinian lands.
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The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Seventy-one Palestinian civilians, including 28 children, were injured due to Israeli soldiers’ excessive use of force against peaceful protestors at the 78th Great March of Return, this Friday, 11 October 2019.
Israeli forces persisted in the use of excessive force against the protestors participating in the Great March of Return and Breaking Siege activities. PCHR’s fieldworkers documented 33 injuries with live-bullet wounds; 3 civilians, including 2 children, with critical wounds; and others with wounds in the upper body due to direct targeting with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters.
PCHR fieldworkers observed large civilian participation across the five Great March of Return encampments in the Gaza Strip, titled this week as “”Our Martyr Children.” The protests lasted from 15:00 to 19:00 and involved activities such as speeches and theatrical performances. Hundreds of civilians protested at varied distances from the border fence across the Gaza Strip, where some protestors attempted to throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces, who responded with excessive force.
PCHR documented 214 killings by Israel since the outbreak of the protests on 30 March 2018, including 46 children, 2 women, 9 persons with disabilities, 4 paramedics and 2 journalists. Additionally, 14,251 were wounded, including 3,501 children, 380 women, 245 paramedics and 215 journalists, noting that many of those injured had sustained multiple injuries on separate occasions.
The following is a summary of today’s events along the Gaza Strip border:
Northern Gaza Strip:
Israeli forces’ attacks against protestors resulted in the injury of 21 civilians, including 8 children: 6, including a child, were shot with live bullets and shrapnel; 11 of them including 4 children were shot with rubber bullets; and 4 of them including 3 children were hit with tear gas canisters. Samer Wael Rajab al-Refi (23), from al-Toufah neighborhood, sustained serious wounds after being shot with a live bullet in his neck.
Gaza City:
Israeli forces’ attacks against protestors resulted in the injury of 6 civilians, including 2 children: 3 with live bullets and shrapnel; and 3 with rubber bullets.
Central Gaza Strip:
Israeli shooting and firing tear gas canisters at protestors resulted in the injury of 13 civilians, including 4 children; one of them deemed in extremely critical condition: 8 were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, and 4 were hit with tear gas canisters. All of them were then taken to al-Aqsa Hospital, where their injuries were classified between minor and moderate. Furthermore, dozens of civilians suffocated due to tear gas inhalation and received medical treatment on the spot while others were taken to hospitals. Bahaa’ Mostafa Salama Abu Rokaab (17), from al-Zawayda village, sustained serious wounds after being shot with a live bullet in his abdomen. video
Khan Younis:
Israeli forces fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at the protestors, wounding 6 civilians, including 2 children; one of them deemed in extremely critical condition. All of them were transferred to hospitals. Among those wounded, a civilian was shot with a live bullet, and 5 were shot with rubber bullets and hit with tear gas canisters. In addition, many civilians sustained superficial rubber bullets wounds and suffocated due to tear gas inhalation. They received treatment on the spot. ‘Alaa Hani al-‘Abasi (13) sustained serious wounds after being hit with a tear gas canister in his head. He was then taken to the Gaza European Hospital to receive treatment.
Rafah:
Israeli shooting and firing tear gas canisters at protestors resulted in the injury 25 civilians, including 8 children; 4 of them were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, 20 were shot with rubber bullets, and one was directly hit with a tear gas canister.
The Palestinian Center For Human Rights (PCHR): Seventy-one Palestinian civilians, including 28 children, were injured due to Israeli soldiers’ excessive use of force against peaceful protestors at the 78th Great March of Return, this Friday, 11 October 2019.
Israeli forces persisted in the use of excessive force against the protestors participating in the Great March of Return and Breaking Siege activities. PCHR’s fieldworkers documented 33 injuries with live-bullet wounds; 3 civilians, including 2 children, with critical wounds; and others with wounds in the upper body due to direct targeting with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters.
PCHR fieldworkers observed large civilian participation across the five Great March of Return encampments in the Gaza Strip, titled this week as “”Our Martyr Children.” The protests lasted from 15:00 to 19:00 and involved activities such as speeches and theatrical performances. Hundreds of civilians protested at varied distances from the border fence across the Gaza Strip, where some protestors attempted to throw stones, Molotov Cocktails and firecrackers at the Israeli forces, who responded with excessive force.
PCHR documented 214 killings by Israel since the outbreak of the protests on 30 March 2018, including 46 children, 2 women, 9 persons with disabilities, 4 paramedics and 2 journalists. Additionally, 14,251 were wounded, including 3,501 children, 380 women, 245 paramedics and 215 journalists, noting that many of those injured had sustained multiple injuries on separate occasions.
The following is a summary of today’s events along the Gaza Strip border:
Northern Gaza Strip:
Israeli forces’ attacks against protestors resulted in the injury of 21 civilians, including 8 children: 6, including a child, were shot with live bullets and shrapnel; 11 of them including 4 children were shot with rubber bullets; and 4 of them including 3 children were hit with tear gas canisters. Samer Wael Rajab al-Refi (23), from al-Toufah neighborhood, sustained serious wounds after being shot with a live bullet in his neck.
Gaza City:
Israeli forces’ attacks against protestors resulted in the injury of 6 civilians, including 2 children: 3 with live bullets and shrapnel; and 3 with rubber bullets.
Central Gaza Strip:
Israeli shooting and firing tear gas canisters at protestors resulted in the injury of 13 civilians, including 4 children; one of them deemed in extremely critical condition: 8 were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, and 4 were hit with tear gas canisters. All of them were then taken to al-Aqsa Hospital, where their injuries were classified between minor and moderate. Furthermore, dozens of civilians suffocated due to tear gas inhalation and received medical treatment on the spot while others were taken to hospitals. Bahaa’ Mostafa Salama Abu Rokaab (17), from al-Zawayda village, sustained serious wounds after being shot with a live bullet in his abdomen. video
Khan Younis:
Israeli forces fired live and rubber bullets and tear gas canisters at the protestors, wounding 6 civilians, including 2 children; one of them deemed in extremely critical condition. All of them were transferred to hospitals. Among those wounded, a civilian was shot with a live bullet, and 5 were shot with rubber bullets and hit with tear gas canisters. In addition, many civilians sustained superficial rubber bullets wounds and suffocated due to tear gas inhalation. They received treatment on the spot. ‘Alaa Hani al-‘Abasi (13) sustained serious wounds after being hit with a tear gas canister in his head. He was then taken to the Gaza European Hospital to receive treatment.
Rafah:
Israeli shooting and firing tear gas canisters at protestors resulted in the injury 25 civilians, including 8 children; 4 of them were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, 20 were shot with rubber bullets, and one was directly hit with a tear gas canister.
11 oct 2019
Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Friday, the headquarters of the Work Health Committees in Sateh Marhaba area, in the al-Biereh city, in central West Bank.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers used heavy hammers and equipment to smash the gates, before storming the officers, and violently searched the building causing excessive property damage.
The Work Health Committee issued a statement condemning the Israeli violation and called on various legal and human right groups in the region and around the world, to denounce these escalating violations, and act on stopping them.
It added that the invasion is a serious violation to various international laws and treaties, especially those regarding the protection of medical and relief facilities.
“The escalating Israeli violations against nongovernmental Palestinian institutions, especially those providing humanitarian, health services, development and education, require immediate international intervention,” it said, “Our people are subject to siege, constant violations by the soldiers and the illegal colonialist settlers, while Israel continues to violate their basic rights and attack the very institutions that serve them.”
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers used heavy hammers and equipment to smash the gates, before storming the officers, and violently searched the building causing excessive property damage.
The Work Health Committee issued a statement condemning the Israeli violation and called on various legal and human right groups in the region and around the world, to denounce these escalating violations, and act on stopping them.
It added that the invasion is a serious violation to various international laws and treaties, especially those regarding the protection of medical and relief facilities.
“The escalating Israeli violations against nongovernmental Palestinian institutions, especially those providing humanitarian, health services, development and education, require immediate international intervention,” it said, “Our people are subject to siege, constant violations by the soldiers and the illegal colonialist settlers, while Israel continues to violate their basic rights and attack the very institutions that serve them.”
Israeli soldiers shot, on Friday at dawn, a Palestinian worker near the gate of the illegal Annexation Wall, close to Thaher al-Abed village, south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot the worker, identified as Mahmoud Rafiq Jaradat, with a rubber-coated steel bullet n his leg, close to Barta’a military roadblock.
The Palestinian suffered moderate wounds and was rushed to a hospital in Jenin city, medical sources said.
It is worth mentioning that, a week ago, the soldiers shot two young Palestinian men, also while trying to cross the gates of the Annexation Wall.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot the worker, identified as Mahmoud Rafiq Jaradat, with a rubber-coated steel bullet n his leg, close to Barta’a military roadblock.
The Palestinian suffered moderate wounds and was rushed to a hospital in Jenin city, medical sources said.
It is worth mentioning that, a week ago, the soldiers shot two young Palestinian men, also while trying to cross the gates of the Annexation Wall.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Friday at dawn, the al-‘Irsal neighborhood in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and abducted a student of Birzeit University, from his home, after repeatedly assaulting him.
The soldiers invaded the family home of Fadi at-Tarsha, and repeatedly assaulted him while violently searching and ransacking the property, media sources said.
The sources added that the soldiers cuffed and blindfolded the young man and took him to an unknown destination.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh nearby city, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at local youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the army jeeps.
Medical sources said many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, before receiving treatment by local medics.
The soldiers invaded the family home of Fadi at-Tarsha, and repeatedly assaulted him while violently searching and ransacking the property, media sources said.
The sources added that the soldiers cuffed and blindfolded the young man and took him to an unknown destination.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Sateh Marhaba neighborhood in the al-Biereh nearby city, and fired many gas bombs and concussion grenades at local youngsters, who protested the invasion and hurled stones at the army jeeps.
Medical sources said many Palestinians suffered the effects of teargas inhalation, before receiving treatment by local medics.