29 mar 2018
Israeli police arrested Thursday afternoon a Palestinian young man in Beersheba, to the south of Israel, for allegedly planning to carry out an attack on Israeli targets.
Israeli media sources claimed that a man was detained for planning an attack against Israeli forces while a second man was arrested for helping the first suspect.
Earlier, Israeli police blocked entrances and exits to the Arab city and declared a state of alert after receiving information about “a potential assailant.”
Israeli media sources claimed that a man was detained for planning an attack against Israeli forces while a second man was arrested for helping the first suspect.
Earlier, Israeli police blocked entrances and exits to the Arab city and declared a state of alert after receiving information about “a potential assailant.”
28 mar 2018
Israeli military tanks on Wednesday carried out a series of attacks on the borderline area in the eastern besieged Gaza Strip, said local sources.
The sources stated that Israeli artillery attacked two resistance sites in east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza city and that no casualties were reported.
Israeli media sources said that two Palestinian youths managed to cross the security fence and set fire to engineering equipment used for establishing a ground tunnel obstacle.
0404 Israeli website said that both Palestinians could return to Gaza safe and sound after torching the engineering equipment, and claimed that the Israeli strike came in response to that.
Besides, 6 Israeli D9-bulldozers advanced tens of meters into the security fence east of al-Buraij refugee camp and leveled lands in areas adjacent to Tal Um Husseina site which witnesses weekly protests.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that two Israeli patrols came to the site and IOF soldiers installed barbed wire tens of meters west of the military site in anticipation for the massive march of return slated to be held on Friday.
The sources stated that Israeli artillery attacked two resistance sites in east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza city and that no casualties were reported.
Israeli media sources said that two Palestinian youths managed to cross the security fence and set fire to engineering equipment used for establishing a ground tunnel obstacle.
0404 Israeli website said that both Palestinians could return to Gaza safe and sound after torching the engineering equipment, and claimed that the Israeli strike came in response to that.
Besides, 6 Israeli D9-bulldozers advanced tens of meters into the security fence east of al-Buraij refugee camp and leveled lands in areas adjacent to Tal Um Husseina site which witnesses weekly protests.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that two Israeli patrols came to the site and IOF soldiers installed barbed wire tens of meters west of the military site in anticipation for the massive march of return slated to be held on Friday.
25 mar 2018
A number of Palestinian youths were injured in clashes that erupted on Sunday between Palestinians and Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in Bourin town south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank.
Local sources as well as head of the town’s council said that IOF soldiers attacked a high school in the town and chased the students at the pretext of throwing stones at cars of settlers.
Two students were shot and injured by Israeli rubber bullets while many others suffered breathing problems as IOF troopers fired tear gas canisters towards the protesters during the clashes.
One of the wounded was shot in the head while the other one was injured in the foot. Both injured students were moved to Rafidiya governmental hospital for treatment.
Local sources as well as head of the town’s council said that IOF soldiers attacked a high school in the town and chased the students at the pretext of throwing stones at cars of settlers.
Two students were shot and injured by Israeli rubber bullets while many others suffered breathing problems as IOF troopers fired tear gas canisters towards the protesters during the clashes.
One of the wounded was shot in the head while the other one was injured in the foot. Both injured students were moved to Rafidiya governmental hospital for treatment.
24 mar 2018
By Motasem A Dalloul
An Israeli propaganda group has claimed that the call by Hamas for the Palestinians to take part in a “Friday of Rage” demonstration was incitement to terrorism that led to the killing of two Israeli soldiers near an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. In a video that opened with a screenshot of the Hamas Twitter account, the group called for an end to what it called the movement’s “violence and hatred”.
It is ironic for this group to speak about violence, hatred, racism, apartheid and many other terms that represent intolerance and hatred, given the level of state violence, war crimes and genocidal acts committed by Israel against the Palestinians. Such efforts to legitimise the state terrorism against Palestine and its people, who they actually describe as “terrorists”, are shameful.
Let us look at the last two car-ramming incidents as examples of Israeli incitement; they happened in Acre and Jenin within the past few weeks. The driver in Acre was an Israeli Arab, a Palestinian whose grandfather refused to leave his house despite the threats of the Zionist gangs who massacred Palestinians and forced 700,000 of them out of their homes to create the state of Israel. The driver in the second accident was a Palestinian refugee from Jenin.
The Israeli police must prove that both incidents were terrorist attacks in order to try to justify punitive countermeasures against Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians. However, eyewitnesses said that the driver in the accident in Acre only acted aggressively after he was fined NIS1,000 ($280) for parking in a disabled parking spot, but the police have insisted that “secret” investigations and “secret” findings prove that it was a terror attack.
Regarding the accident in Jenin, the Israeli Hebrew news website Walla reported that the Palestinian driver — described by the Israeli domestic spy agency Shin Bet as a “terrorist” and who the above-mentioned propaganda group claimed was affected by “Hamas incitement” — was abused and tortured into “confessing” that it was a terrorist act. Nevertheless, Shin Bet insist that it was a “terror attack” and say that, “The objective of the terrorist’s claims is to divert the discussion from the serious suspicions against him.”
Such incidents are just one example of the official Israeli attempts to brand Palestinians and Arabs as “terrorists”. Commenting on the accident in Jenin, before any investigations had been completed, the Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, “We will act to sentence the terrorist to death, to demolish his house and to punish anyone who cooperated.” This is the reality of Israeli officials; they do not incite violence, they actually practice violence. At the same time, they distort legitimate Palestinian resistance against the brutal Israeli military occupation in an attempt to lead the international community into turning a blind eye to their crimes and genocidal acts, most of which are even described by Israeli rights groups as flagrant violations of international law.
The two car-ramming incidents were accidents which have been exploited by Israel to incite terror against the Palestinians and distract the international community from raising humanitarian aid for the Palestinians besieged in Gaza and squalid refugee camps scattered around the region.
While the UN was holding an international donor conference in Rome with the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the European Union to raise funds for Palestinian refugees, Lieberman announced the destruction of two Palestinian tunnels in the besieged Gaza Strip. The right-wing extremist claimed that they were being prepared by “Hamas terrorists” in the coastal enclave to carry out “terror attacks” on Israel. He accused Hamas of investing billions of people’s money in the tunnels.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is defending himself in at least four corruption cases that threaten his political life, has also addressed the issue of the tunnels. Directing his comments at participants at the donor conference, he warned that the money to be raised and sent to the Gaza Strip would be used by “terror groups” to build their tunnels to attack Israel.
Ignoring the humanitarian crisis, which is the result of the strict siege imposed on Gaza by the Israeli occupation government and its friends in Cairo and the West, Netanyahu claimed that humanitarian aid is stolen by Hamas and “buried underground” by being used to build tunnels instead of helping people in need.
To prove that all of this was just a ruse by Israel to sabotage the donor conference, the military wing of Hamas announced that the two tunnels targeted by the Israelis were in fact old and unused, as they were discovered and destroyed by Israel during its 2014 military offensive against the Palestinian civilians of Gaza. This was nothing less than Israel inciting the world against the Palestinians and their lawful resistance.
Aside from such indirect incitement, Israel has a history of overt incitement of violence against the Palestinians. For example, Lieberman’s call in March 2015 to behead the Palestinians who did not leave their homes in 1948, in order to let the Jewish population prosper. This came just one month after pledging to introduce the death penalty for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. “The first law that Yisrael Beitenu [Lieberman’s party] will propose is a death penalty for terrorists [his euphemism for Palestinian prisoners],” he said. A bill to introduce the death penalty duly passed its first Knesset vote earlier this year. Lieberman is, apparently, quite serious about killing Palestinians.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu described the death penalty for Palestinians as “justice”. In 2015, he even absolved Adolf Hitler of the Holocaust and blamed the Palestinians instead. Is that not incitement of the worst, most deceitful kind?
In a 2017 report, Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli occupation of carrying out “unlawful killings; forced displacement; abusive detention; closure of the Gaza Strip and other unjustified restrictions on movement and development of settlements, along with the accompanying discriminatory policies that disadvantage Palestinians.” In this, the rights group was merely confirming what numerous other international and local organisations have demonstrated for many years; it is Israel which is the serial abuser of human rights, and it is Israel which not only incites violence against the Palestinians but also ensures that it is carried out. The facts speak for themselves.
- Motasem A Dalloul is MEMO’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli propaganda group has claimed that the call by Hamas for the Palestinians to take part in a “Friday of Rage” demonstration was incitement to terrorism that led to the killing of two Israeli soldiers near an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. In a video that opened with a screenshot of the Hamas Twitter account, the group called for an end to what it called the movement’s “violence and hatred”.
It is ironic for this group to speak about violence, hatred, racism, apartheid and many other terms that represent intolerance and hatred, given the level of state violence, war crimes and genocidal acts committed by Israel against the Palestinians. Such efforts to legitimise the state terrorism against Palestine and its people, who they actually describe as “terrorists”, are shameful.
Let us look at the last two car-ramming incidents as examples of Israeli incitement; they happened in Acre and Jenin within the past few weeks. The driver in Acre was an Israeli Arab, a Palestinian whose grandfather refused to leave his house despite the threats of the Zionist gangs who massacred Palestinians and forced 700,000 of them out of their homes to create the state of Israel. The driver in the second accident was a Palestinian refugee from Jenin.
The Israeli police must prove that both incidents were terrorist attacks in order to try to justify punitive countermeasures against Israeli Arabs and the Palestinians. However, eyewitnesses said that the driver in the accident in Acre only acted aggressively after he was fined NIS1,000 ($280) for parking in a disabled parking spot, but the police have insisted that “secret” investigations and “secret” findings prove that it was a terror attack.
Regarding the accident in Jenin, the Israeli Hebrew news website Walla reported that the Palestinian driver — described by the Israeli domestic spy agency Shin Bet as a “terrorist” and who the above-mentioned propaganda group claimed was affected by “Hamas incitement” — was abused and tortured into “confessing” that it was a terrorist act. Nevertheless, Shin Bet insist that it was a “terror attack” and say that, “The objective of the terrorist’s claims is to divert the discussion from the serious suspicions against him.”
Such incidents are just one example of the official Israeli attempts to brand Palestinians and Arabs as “terrorists”. Commenting on the accident in Jenin, before any investigations had been completed, the Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, “We will act to sentence the terrorist to death, to demolish his house and to punish anyone who cooperated.” This is the reality of Israeli officials; they do not incite violence, they actually practice violence. At the same time, they distort legitimate Palestinian resistance against the brutal Israeli military occupation in an attempt to lead the international community into turning a blind eye to their crimes and genocidal acts, most of which are even described by Israeli rights groups as flagrant violations of international law.
The two car-ramming incidents were accidents which have been exploited by Israel to incite terror against the Palestinians and distract the international community from raising humanitarian aid for the Palestinians besieged in Gaza and squalid refugee camps scattered around the region.
While the UN was holding an international donor conference in Rome with the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the European Union to raise funds for Palestinian refugees, Lieberman announced the destruction of two Palestinian tunnels in the besieged Gaza Strip. The right-wing extremist claimed that they were being prepared by “Hamas terrorists” in the coastal enclave to carry out “terror attacks” on Israel. He accused Hamas of investing billions of people’s money in the tunnels.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is defending himself in at least four corruption cases that threaten his political life, has also addressed the issue of the tunnels. Directing his comments at participants at the donor conference, he warned that the money to be raised and sent to the Gaza Strip would be used by “terror groups” to build their tunnels to attack Israel.
Ignoring the humanitarian crisis, which is the result of the strict siege imposed on Gaza by the Israeli occupation government and its friends in Cairo and the West, Netanyahu claimed that humanitarian aid is stolen by Hamas and “buried underground” by being used to build tunnels instead of helping people in need.
To prove that all of this was just a ruse by Israel to sabotage the donor conference, the military wing of Hamas announced that the two tunnels targeted by the Israelis were in fact old and unused, as they were discovered and destroyed by Israel during its 2014 military offensive against the Palestinian civilians of Gaza. This was nothing less than Israel inciting the world against the Palestinians and their lawful resistance.
Aside from such indirect incitement, Israel has a history of overt incitement of violence against the Palestinians. For example, Lieberman’s call in March 2015 to behead the Palestinians who did not leave their homes in 1948, in order to let the Jewish population prosper. This came just one month after pledging to introduce the death penalty for Palestinians in Israeli prisons. “The first law that Yisrael Beitenu [Lieberman’s party] will propose is a death penalty for terrorists [his euphemism for Palestinian prisoners],” he said. A bill to introduce the death penalty duly passed its first Knesset vote earlier this year. Lieberman is, apparently, quite serious about killing Palestinians.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu described the death penalty for Palestinians as “justice”. In 2015, he even absolved Adolf Hitler of the Holocaust and blamed the Palestinians instead. Is that not incitement of the worst, most deceitful kind?
In a 2017 report, Human Rights Watch accused the Israeli occupation of carrying out “unlawful killings; forced displacement; abusive detention; closure of the Gaza Strip and other unjustified restrictions on movement and development of settlements, along with the accompanying discriminatory policies that disadvantage Palestinians.” In this, the rights group was merely confirming what numerous other international and local organisations have demonstrated for many years; it is Israel which is the serial abuser of human rights, and it is Israel which not only incites violence against the Palestinians but also ensures that it is carried out. The facts speak for themselves.
- Motasem A Dalloul is MEMO’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation army announced that four Palestinian youths attempted on Saturday to damage military equipment to detect tunnels near the border fence east of the Gaza Strip.
A spokesman for the Israeli army said that the four youths approached the border fence and tried to cross it to reach the equipment.
He claimed that a military force stationed in the area spotted the young men as they approached the fence but they managed to withdraw. No further information was given.
The Israeli army a few months ago started the establishment of a wall the runs several meters into the ground along the security fence separating the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in an attempt to put an end to the Palestinian resistance tunnels phenomenon.
A spokesman for the Israeli army said that the four youths approached the border fence and tried to cross it to reach the equipment.
He claimed that a military force stationed in the area spotted the young men as they approached the fence but they managed to withdraw. No further information was given.
The Israeli army a few months ago started the establishment of a wall the runs several meters into the ground along the security fence separating the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in an attempt to put an end to the Palestinian resistance tunnels phenomenon.
22 mar 2018
Israeli occupation police broke into Makased hospital in Occupied Jerusalem on Thursday morning and arrested a wounded Palestinian child.
The Hebrew website 0404 reported that a police unit was attacked with rock and firebombs during a raid on Tur neighborhood to the east of Occupied Jerusalem on Friday night.
It added that a Palestinian child was injured in the confrontations that ensued in the neighborhood and was hospitalized.
Quds Press, for its part, said that an Israeli police patrol broke into the Makased hospital and took away a wounded child, who was being treated there.
It identified the child as 14-year-old Assadudeen Abul Hawa, adding that he is a resident of the Tur neighborhood.
Details of arresting the child Asad Al-Din Abulhawa from inside Al-Maqased hospital
Israeli occupation forces arrested 14-year-old Asad Al-Din Ibrahim Abulhawa from Al-Maqased Hospital in the village of Al-Tur, despite having severe burns in his back.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer, Khaldoun Nijem, said that the Israeli forces arrested the boy Asad Al-Din after storming Al-Maqased hospital and trying to kidnap him and prevent his treatment, under the pretext of "throwing a Molotov cocktail at the soldiers and trying to start a fire" during clashes in the village.
The lawyer explained that the child suffered severe burns in his back indicating that he was hit by a Molotov cocktail and did not attempt to throw it as the soldiers claim.
Lawyer Nijem added that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the emergency room at Al-Maqased Hospital and detained the wounded boy in a special room to prevent his treatment.
Upon the arrival of the lawyer Nijem, he confirmed the child’s right to receive necessary treatment, and blamed the soldiers for any health deterioration due to procrastination.
Lawyer Nijem said that the soldiers tried to arrest the boy Abulhawa and transfer him in a police car, despite his injury. After the refusal, the Israeli ambulance “Magen David Adom” was called to the hospital to transport him.
When the lawyer asked the Israeli ambulance crew to sign a paper taking full responsibility of the child’s health, especially since his father refused to transfer him to any other hospital, the crew refused.
He added that after several hours, the Israeli occupation forces summoned the ambulance of the police. They took responsibility and took him to Hadassah Hospital, despite the family's refusal to do so.
The Hebrew website 0404 reported that a police unit was attacked with rock and firebombs during a raid on Tur neighborhood to the east of Occupied Jerusalem on Friday night.
It added that a Palestinian child was injured in the confrontations that ensued in the neighborhood and was hospitalized.
Quds Press, for its part, said that an Israeli police patrol broke into the Makased hospital and took away a wounded child, who was being treated there.
It identified the child as 14-year-old Assadudeen Abul Hawa, adding that he is a resident of the Tur neighborhood.
Details of arresting the child Asad Al-Din Abulhawa from inside Al-Maqased hospital
Israeli occupation forces arrested 14-year-old Asad Al-Din Ibrahim Abulhawa from Al-Maqased Hospital in the village of Al-Tur, despite having severe burns in his back.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer, Khaldoun Nijem, said that the Israeli forces arrested the boy Asad Al-Din after storming Al-Maqased hospital and trying to kidnap him and prevent his treatment, under the pretext of "throwing a Molotov cocktail at the soldiers and trying to start a fire" during clashes in the village.
The lawyer explained that the child suffered severe burns in his back indicating that he was hit by a Molotov cocktail and did not attempt to throw it as the soldiers claim.
Lawyer Nijem added that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the emergency room at Al-Maqased Hospital and detained the wounded boy in a special room to prevent his treatment.
Upon the arrival of the lawyer Nijem, he confirmed the child’s right to receive necessary treatment, and blamed the soldiers for any health deterioration due to procrastination.
Lawyer Nijem said that the soldiers tried to arrest the boy Abulhawa and transfer him in a police car, despite his injury. After the refusal, the Israeli ambulance “Magen David Adom” was called to the hospital to transport him.
When the lawyer asked the Israeli ambulance crew to sign a paper taking full responsibility of the child’s health, especially since his father refused to transfer him to any other hospital, the crew refused.
He added that after several hours, the Israeli occupation forces summoned the ambulance of the police. They took responsibility and took him to Hadassah Hospital, despite the family's refusal to do so.
18 mar 2018
Abdul Rahman Bani Fadhl 28
A Palestinian young man was fatally shot by Israeli police at nightfall Sunday in the Old City of Jerusalem after he allegedly stabbed and critically injured an Israeli soldier.
Israeli sources said a soldier sustained critical injuries in a stabbing attack carried out near Jerusalem’s al-Silsila Gate. The attacker was shot by Israeli forces stationed near the stabbing scene. He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
Eye-witnesses said the occupation soldiers left the Palestinian young man bleeding until he breathed his last.
Israeli police blocked all gates leading to al-Aqsa Mosque in the aftermath of the alleged attack, amid high tension and heavy deployment of troops near Jerusalem’s walls and inside the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian casualty was identified as 28-year-old Abdul Rahman Bani Fadhl, from Akreba, in Nablus, and a father of two kids.
Israeli news outlets initially claimed that the stabber holds Turkish identity documents. However, they backtracked on the claim sometime later.
A Palestinian young man was fatally shot by Israeli police at nightfall Sunday in the Old City of Jerusalem after he allegedly stabbed and critically injured an Israeli soldier.
Israeli sources said a soldier sustained critical injuries in a stabbing attack carried out near Jerusalem’s al-Silsila Gate. The attacker was shot by Israeli forces stationed near the stabbing scene. He was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.
Eye-witnesses said the occupation soldiers left the Palestinian young man bleeding until he breathed his last.
Israeli police blocked all gates leading to al-Aqsa Mosque in the aftermath of the alleged attack, amid high tension and heavy deployment of troops near Jerusalem’s walls and inside the Old City of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian casualty was identified as 28-year-old Abdul Rahman Bani Fadhl, from Akreba, in Nablus, and a father of two kids.
Israeli news outlets initially claimed that the stabber holds Turkish identity documents. However, they backtracked on the claim sometime later.
15 mar 2018
Israeli soldiers injured, on Thursday morning, at least one Palestinians and caused excessive property damage, after the army fired missiles and shells at many targets in the Gaza Strip.
The army claims the escalation started after an explosive targeted a military vehicle near the border fence.
Media sources said an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a site, east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage, and moderately wounding one Palestinian, who was rushed to a hospital in nearby Beit Lahia.
They added that the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds at many homes and property, in the eastern part of Beit Hanoun, causing damage.
Furthermore, Israeli tanks stationed in Nahal Oz military base, across the border fence east of Gaza city, fired six shells and dozens of live rounds at homes and farmlands, in addition to two sites, run by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, east of Gaza, and near Jabalia, in the northern part of the coastal region.
Medical sources in Gaza said ambulances, and rescue teams, were unable to reach several targeted areas, especially east of Gaza, due to the intensity of Israeli fire.
Israeli sources said several explosive devices were detonated by armed resistance groups, near the border fence, in northern Gaza, and added that the shells did not lead to damage or casualties. Video
Israeli army strikes Palestinian lands in besieged Gaza
Israeli military troops stationed on Gaza’s eastern borders fired on Thursday morning several artillery shells towards Palestinian lands and resistance sites east of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, an Israeli artillery tank stationed east of al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, to the east of Gaza City, unleashed several shells toward agricultural lands and resistance sites in the eastern corners of the enclave.
Another Israeli strike targeted a resistance site east of Beit Hanun, to the north of the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, nine shells were fired by the occupation army toward the Shuhadaa Cemetery, east of Gaza City. Israeli aggressions on the area have reportedly been ongoing.
Palestinian ambulances could not reach the targeted locations due to the heavy smokes wrought by the strikes.
The Israeli occupation military claimed that the aggressions came following the explosion of four grenades near Israeli military troops raking through the border fence.
An Israeli military spokesman claimed that the blast occurred at 06:40 am. No injuries were reported in the alleged explosion.
Channel 10 quoted an Israeli military official as alleging that this morning's incident on Gaza’s border is “difficult and dangerous”, pointing the finger at Hamas.
The army claims the escalation started after an explosive targeted a military vehicle near the border fence.
Media sources said an Israeli drone fired three missiles at a site, east of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, causing excessive property damage, and moderately wounding one Palestinian, who was rushed to a hospital in nearby Beit Lahia.
They added that the soldiers fired dozens of live rounds at many homes and property, in the eastern part of Beit Hanoun, causing damage.
Furthermore, Israeli tanks stationed in Nahal Oz military base, across the border fence east of Gaza city, fired six shells and dozens of live rounds at homes and farmlands, in addition to two sites, run by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, east of Gaza, and near Jabalia, in the northern part of the coastal region.
Medical sources in Gaza said ambulances, and rescue teams, were unable to reach several targeted areas, especially east of Gaza, due to the intensity of Israeli fire.
Israeli sources said several explosive devices were detonated by armed resistance groups, near the border fence, in northern Gaza, and added that the shells did not lead to damage or casualties. Video
Israeli army strikes Palestinian lands in besieged Gaza
Israeli military troops stationed on Gaza’s eastern borders fired on Thursday morning several artillery shells towards Palestinian lands and resistance sites east of the blockaded Gaza Strip.
According to local sources, an Israeli artillery tank stationed east of al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, to the east of Gaza City, unleashed several shells toward agricultural lands and resistance sites in the eastern corners of the enclave.
Another Israeli strike targeted a resistance site east of Beit Hanun, to the north of the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, nine shells were fired by the occupation army toward the Shuhadaa Cemetery, east of Gaza City. Israeli aggressions on the area have reportedly been ongoing.
Palestinian ambulances could not reach the targeted locations due to the heavy smokes wrought by the strikes.
The Israeli occupation military claimed that the aggressions came following the explosion of four grenades near Israeli military troops raking through the border fence.
An Israeli military spokesman claimed that the blast occurred at 06:40 am. No injuries were reported in the alleged explosion.
Channel 10 quoted an Israeli military official as alleging that this morning's incident on Gaza’s border is “difficult and dangerous”, pointing the finger at Hamas.
12 mar 2018
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday afternoon arrested two Palestinian youths at Annab checkpoint east of Tulkarem city.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers stopped a Palestinian vehicle at the checkpoint, searched it and arrested the two youths.
Hebrew media sources claimed that the IOF arrested a Palestinian after a knife was found in his possession at a military checkpoint near Tulkarem.
There are hundreds of Israeli checkpoints set up temporarily or permanently in the West Bank to isolate its provinces from each other and hinder the Palestinian citizens' movement. These checkpoints witness arbitrary arrest operations on a regular basis.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers stopped a Palestinian vehicle at the checkpoint, searched it and arrested the two youths.
Hebrew media sources claimed that the IOF arrested a Palestinian after a knife was found in his possession at a military checkpoint near Tulkarem.
There are hundreds of Israeli checkpoints set up temporarily or permanently in the West Bank to isolate its provinces from each other and hinder the Palestinian citizens' movement. These checkpoints witness arbitrary arrest operations on a regular basis.
Israeli Haaretz newspaper said that an Israeli occupation police detective has been charged with beating a Palestinian minor to force him to confess throwing stones at cars driven by Israeli settlers.
Despite the seriousness of the offense, the so called Israeli Justice Ministry’s department for the investigation of police officers charged the detective with a lesser assault crime.
The incident came to light when a voice recording of an interview-under-duress was found in the police case files given to the suspect’s lawyer. In the recording, detective Yehuda Gigi is heard beating the Palestinian Mohammed Shuqair, who was only 17 years old. The recording was presumably accidental, according to Haaretz.
The lawyers of the boy and a cousin who was arrested with him raised the matter of the assault after listening to the recording, resulting in the complaint to the ministry’s unit for investigations of police.
Despite the gravity of Gigi’s actions, he was charged only with simple assault, which carried a maximum punishment of two years in prison. The detective could have been charged with a number of more serious offenses, including aggravated assault, that could result in prison terms of three or four years. Gigi was not suspended from active duty, either.
According to the charge sheet filed in Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court in January, Mohammed Shuqair of Salfit, was arrested in November 2016 along with his cousin on suspicion of throwing stones.
Despite the seriousness of the offense, the so called Israeli Justice Ministry’s department for the investigation of police officers charged the detective with a lesser assault crime.
The incident came to light when a voice recording of an interview-under-duress was found in the police case files given to the suspect’s lawyer. In the recording, detective Yehuda Gigi is heard beating the Palestinian Mohammed Shuqair, who was only 17 years old. The recording was presumably accidental, according to Haaretz.
The lawyers of the boy and a cousin who was arrested with him raised the matter of the assault after listening to the recording, resulting in the complaint to the ministry’s unit for investigations of police.
Despite the gravity of Gigi’s actions, he was charged only with simple assault, which carried a maximum punishment of two years in prison. The detective could have been charged with a number of more serious offenses, including aggravated assault, that could result in prison terms of three or four years. Gigi was not suspended from active duty, either.
According to the charge sheet filed in Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court in January, Mohammed Shuqair of Salfit, was arrested in November 2016 along with his cousin on suspicion of throwing stones.
11 mar 2018
The Magistrate judge decided to release Mai Bassam Assaileh (14) on Sunday night if the police fail to submit additional evidence to extend her arrest.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer, Khaldoun Nijem, explained that the Israeli police filed a request to extend the arrest of his client on charges of “possession of a knife and preparing to carry out an attack”.
During the hearing, the lawyer filed an appeal against the preliminary evidence filed by the police for the two charges.
After hearing the lawyer’s allegations, the judge decided that his client Mai would be released on Sunday evening if no new evidence was presented by the police in order to extend her arrest.
The girl was arrested at the checkpoint of Shu’fat refugee camp last Friday under the pretext of "possession of a knife and a pepper gas bottle" and was transferred to interrogation and then to Hasharon Prison.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer, Khaldoun Nijem, explained that the Israeli police filed a request to extend the arrest of his client on charges of “possession of a knife and preparing to carry out an attack”.
During the hearing, the lawyer filed an appeal against the preliminary evidence filed by the police for the two charges.
After hearing the lawyer’s allegations, the judge decided that his client Mai would be released on Sunday evening if no new evidence was presented by the police in order to extend her arrest.
The girl was arrested at the checkpoint of Shu’fat refugee camp last Friday under the pretext of "possession of a knife and a pepper gas bottle" and was transferred to interrogation and then to Hasharon Prison.
A Palestinian boy was kidnapped by the Israeli occupation forces at noontime Sunday near the Salem military court, west of Jenin province.
A PIC news correspondent said Israeli soldiers sealed off the main entrance to Salem military camp and combed the area allegedly after a boy holding an explosive device was spotted in the area.
The boy was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers moments later.
Israeli sources claimed the boy was carrying a home-made bomb.
A PIC news correspondent said Israeli soldiers sealed off the main entrance to Salem military camp and combed the area allegedly after a boy holding an explosive device was spotted in the area.
The boy was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers moments later.
Israeli sources claimed the boy was carrying a home-made bomb.
10 mar 2018
The Magistrate judge extended on Saturday night the arrest of a Jerusalemite girl until Sunday for further interrogation.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer, Khaldoun Nijem, explained that the Magistrate judge extended the arrest of Mai Bassam Assaileh (14) until Sunday for interrogation on charges of “possession of a knife and pepper spray”.
Lawyer Nijem added that the girl was arrested from the military checkpoint of Shu’fat refugee camp checkpoint, and the occupation authorities extended her arrest for 24 hours. She was presented to court on Saturday night and the police requested to extend her arrest for five days. After hearing the lawyer’s deliberations, the judge decided to extend her arrest until tomorrow.
Wadi Hilweh Information Center’s lawyer, Khaldoun Nijem, explained that the Magistrate judge extended the arrest of Mai Bassam Assaileh (14) until Sunday for interrogation on charges of “possession of a knife and pepper spray”.
Lawyer Nijem added that the girl was arrested from the military checkpoint of Shu’fat refugee camp checkpoint, and the occupation authorities extended her arrest for 24 hours. She was presented to court on Saturday night and the police requested to extend her arrest for five days. After hearing the lawyer’s deliberations, the judge decided to extend her arrest until tomorrow.
9 mar 2018
The Israeli occupation army tightened grip on Palestinians in Nablus allegedly after anonymous anti-occupation gunmen late on Thursday evening opened fire at an Israeli military patrol driving near Hawara checkpoint, south of Nablus.
According to Hebrew-speaking news outlets, gunshots were fired from a car driving at high speed toward a military troop deployed at Hawara checkpoint.
No injuries were reported in the alleged shooting attack.
The occupation army cordoned off access roads and checkpoints pitched around the area in the hunt for the alleged shooters.
In February, the Israeli military killed the anti-occupation protester Ahmed Jarrar after it kept chasing him down for a month’s time in the northern West Bank province of Jenin on claims that he carried out an anti-occupation attack that claimed the life of an Israeli settler.
Tension has hit a zenith across the occupied Palestinian territories due to the US President Donald Trump’s recognition, on December 6, of Occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the self-proclaimed Israeli state.
According to Hebrew-speaking news outlets, gunshots were fired from a car driving at high speed toward a military troop deployed at Hawara checkpoint.
No injuries were reported in the alleged shooting attack.
The occupation army cordoned off access roads and checkpoints pitched around the area in the hunt for the alleged shooters.
In February, the Israeli military killed the anti-occupation protester Ahmed Jarrar after it kept chasing him down for a month’s time in the northern West Bank province of Jenin on claims that he carried out an anti-occupation attack that claimed the life of an Israeli settler.
Tension has hit a zenith across the occupied Palestinian territories due to the US President Donald Trump’s recognition, on December 6, of Occupied Jerusalem as the capital of the self-proclaimed Israeli state.
7 mar 2018
Israeli soldiers on Wednesday evening kidnapped a Palestinian girl after she was violently beaten by an Israeli settler in al-Khalil’s southern town of Yatta, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Coordinator for the Popular Anti-Settlement Committee, Rateb al-Jabour, said the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 13-year-old Jamalat Abu Kbeita shortly after an Israeli settler assaulted her.
The girl was accused of attempting to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.
Eye-witnesses refuted the Israeli allegations, saying the girl was on her father’s land when she was attacked.
The settler reportedly beat the girl moments after her father headed to the local authorities to file a complaint against Israeli settlers who misappropriated six dunums of his private land lot and grazed their livestock in his cultivated ranches.
Coordinator for the Popular Anti-Settlement Committee, Rateb al-Jabour, said the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 13-year-old Jamalat Abu Kbeita shortly after an Israeli settler assaulted her.
The girl was accused of attempting to carry out an anti-occupation stabbing attack.
Eye-witnesses refuted the Israeli allegations, saying the girl was on her father’s land when she was attacked.
The settler reportedly beat the girl moments after her father headed to the local authorities to file a complaint against Israeli settlers who misappropriated six dunums of his private land lot and grazed their livestock in his cultivated ranches.
