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One Palestinian killed,
16 others, including baby, wounded in Gaza
June 6, 2008
Gaza, Beit Layla, Khan Younis -- One Palestinian man was killed
on Friday morning and 16 others were wounded during two IOF
incursions to the eat of Gaza and Khan Younis as well as an air
raid.
The two incursions were met with fierce resistance from the
Palestinian resistance and a number of armoured vehicles were
blown up, parts of which were found after the withdrawal of the
occupation forces.
IOF troops raided the Shejaeyyah neighbourhood near the Nahel Oz
crossing were a Palestinian man who was trying to give first aid
to a wounded fighter.
Eyewitnesses said that 27-year-old Muhammad Sokkar was hit with
an Israeli sniper's bullet when he was trying to help the
wounded Qassam fighter. Four fighters were wounded while
confronting the invading forces, some of them were wounded in an
airstrike that targeted a number of Qassam fighters.
Meanwhile, nine Palestinian civilians, including a baby, were
wounded in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli airplane
targeted the headquarters of the PA security to the west of the
northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahya.
Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli airplane fired a rocket at the
building destroying it and causing great damage to the houses
surrounding it as most of the casualties were wounded in their
own homes. The wounded were evacuated to the Kamal Odwan
hospital.
The air raid also caused damage to an electricity substation
which feeds a large part of the town causing a power cut.
A third incursion took place in the southern Gaza Strip where
tens of Israeli armoured vehicles raided the village of Khuza'a
to the east of Khan Younis. The IOF troops clashed with
resistance fighters.
Palestinian medical sources said that three Palestinians were
wounded and taken to hospital.
Local sources said that25 tanks and a number of military
bulldozers participated in the incursion to the east of the
village of Khuza'a and bulldozed a vast area of land.
The Qassam Brigades said that its fighters managed to hit and
damage three armoured vehicles and that parts of those vehicles
were found after the withdrawal of the IOF troops.
Eight-year-old Palestinian girl killed by an
Israeli rocket
June 6, 2008
Khan Younis, (PIC)-- The body of 8-year-old Aya al-Najjar was
mutilated on Thursday afternoon by a rocket fired from an
Israeli airplane while she was playing in the garden outside her
house in the village of Khuza'a in the southern Gaza Strip.
The little girl had just finished her school exams and went home
eager to play as she had no more revision to do.
She asked her mother if it was ok for her to play in the garden
and the mother agreed.
An apache helicopter hovered over the place, Aya looked at it
and carried on playing. Neither her nor her mother expected to
be the target of a rocket fired from the apache.
It seems, however, that Zionist hate for everything Palestinian
has no limits as Aya was hit directly with the rocket causing
her young body to be shredded into little pieces.
Aya was not the first Palestinian child to be targeted by the
IOF and will not be the last; Muhammad al-Dora, Iman al-Hams and
Iman Hijjo are but three names, of Palestinian children killed
by the IOF, in a list of about 1000 Palestinian children killed
by the IOF since the start of the Aqsa intifada out of a total
of 5000 Palestinians killed during the same period.
Earlier, Palestinian resistance fighters fired a home made
missile at an Israeli colony in retaliation to an IOF incursion
into the Gaza Strip during which the troops bulldozed tracts of
land and uprooted trees.
The attack resulted in the death of one Israeli settler and the
wounding of three others, according to Israeli sources.
IOF troops storm charity, wound 4 citizens in
Al-Khalil
June 5, 2008
Al-Khalil -- Israeli occupation forces at dawn Thursday stormed
Shuyukh village to the northeast of Al-Khalil and broke into and
confiscated property of the Islamic charitable society branch in
the town.
Eyewitnesses said that soldiers in a big number of armored
vehicles barged into the town in a pre-dawn raid and blasted
their way into the premises of the charity then confiscated all
its property after wreaking havoc in it. The soldiers handed the
charity officials an order stipulating closure of the branch for
two years.
In a similar manner another IOF unit burst into Beit Ola west of
Al-Khalil and ransacked a branch for the same charity before
handing its officials an order for its closure for two years.
Meanwhile, four Palestinians including two young women were
wounded during an IOF incursion into Beit Ummar, north of Al-Khalil,
on Thursday morning. One of the two girls was hit with a bullet
in the back while the other was hit with a bullet in the
shoulder, the locals said.
They added that the invading troops fired at the angry youths
who threw stones at them.
The sources said that one of the wounded was described in a
serious condition while two citizens were kidnapped in the
process.
In Bethlehem, the IOF soldiers kidnapped four citizens including
a 16-year-old girl called Salwa. Her father Rezk Salah did not
know why his little girl was detained.
Four other citizens were reportedly kidnapped from Tulkarem city
and Allar village, in Tulkarem district at dawn Thursday.
In the Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were wounded and three homes
were demolished in an IOF incursion east of Khan Younis
district, south of the Strip, the PIC reported said.
He added that the soldiers also destroyed a water well and
bulldozed cultivated lands.
Israel uses term "unlawful combatant" to
justify detention without charges
June 5, 2008
GAZA, (PIC)- The ministry of detainees and ex-detainees in Gaza
stated Wednesday that the Israeli intelligence apparatus started
using the term "unlawful combatant", which has no basis in
international law, to justify the detention of Palestinian
prisoners for an indefinite period without charge.
Riyadh Al-Ashqar, the director of the ministry's information
office, underlined that the use of such a term incurs serious
legal and human rights consequences where the IOA uses it to
continue detaining Palestinian prisoners without pressing any
charges or indictment against them or granting them a fair trial
at the pretext that there are secret files which prove that they
are "unlawful combatants".
Ashqar pointed out that this decision is a gross violation of
the minimum standards of human rights and international
humanitarian law especially the fourth Geneva convention on the
protection of the civilian population because it deprives the
detained from their right to defend themselves before the
courts.
The Palestinian official appealed to the international community
to stop Israel from continuing to violate international law and
to impose sanctions on it for violating the laws it signed.
In a related development, the Palestinian official strongly
denounced the Israeli military court for extending arbitrarily
the four-year imprisonment term of Sheikh Hasan Yousef, a member
of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, to six years at the pretext of
the secret file.
Meanwhile, the IOF troops at the Container checkpoint in
northern Bethlehem detained at noon Wednesday MP Samira Al-Halaiqa,
a member of the Hamas parliamentary bloc, and kidnapped
journalist Mohamed Al-Qiq who was present with her.
Palestinian eyewitnesses reported the Israeli police kidnapped
45 Palestinian workers in the Khadera town in the Palestinian
lands occupied in 1948 at the pretext that they did not hold
permits, adding that the policemen maltreated and physically
assaulted the workers.
The confederation of unions in the West Bank deplored these
arbitrary practices against the impoverished workers who suffer
a lot to earn their living, calling on human rights
organizations to pressure Israel to stop such acts and get the
workers released.
In another development, the IOF troops invaded at dawn Wednesday
the Nablus city, northern West Bank, and kidnapped seven
Palestinian citizens after breaking into and ransacking a number
of houses in different areas of the city.
The IOF troops also kidnapped today 16 Palestinians in the West
Bank cities of Jenin, Tulkarem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Al-Khalil,
according to the Hebrew radio.
Palestinian citizen
tortured to death in PA jails
June 4, 2008
Al-Khalil -- Informed Palestinian sources revealed Tuesday that
a 53-year-old Palestinian citizen, who was kidnapped 15 days
ago, died in the Dahria prison in Al-Khalil, southern West Bank,
as a result of being subjected to excruciating torture at the
hands of PA security officers.
Security sources under the command of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas
alleged that the victim died of a heart attack, adding that
forensic experts would investigate the cause of his death.
PA security and intelligence officers had already tortured to
death in their jails in the West Bank two Palestinians, namely,
Sheikh Majd Al-Barghouthi and a Palestinian intelligence
officer.
Meanwhile, the PA intelligence apparatus in Tulkarem released
four Palestinian citizens affiliated with Hamas who reported
that they were subjected to different kinds of torture and
maltreatment at the hands of PA officers.
The ex-detainees said that one of the torture means used by PA
officers was that they tie their victims to chairs and start to
slap and punch them severely in the face.
In another context, the Hamas Movement considered what some
media outlets fabricated about the arrest of a moneychanger from
Nablus on a charge of transferring funds to it was no more than
a new propaganda stunt and part of the fabrications exercised by
Abbas's security apparatuses.
Hamas underlined that its financial sources and channels are far
away from being compromised by the lackeys of the Israeli
occupation.
An American consulate employee of Palestinian
origin dies at Israeli roadblock
June 4, 2008
Ramallah -- A 63-year-old American of Palestinian origin died on
Tuesday at an Israeli military roadblock in Beit Hanina,
occupied Jerusalem, local Palestinian sources reported.
They said that Mohammed Mousa, who carries the American
citizenship, suffered an acute heart attack while walking
through the Shayah roadblock in Beit Hanina.
Mousa, who has been working in the American consulate in
Jerusalem for 40 years, had recently complained of the IOF
soldiers manning roadblocks surrounding Jerusalem, according to
his family.
The soldiers refused to allow him pass the barrier using his car
despite carrying the American citizenship and despite working in
Jerusalem for four decades, they added.
Two resistance fighters wounded in IOF
shelling
June 3, 2008
Khan Younis -- Two resistance fighters affiliated with the Quds
Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, were
wounded Tuesday evening in an IOF missile raid in southern Gaza
Strip.
Local sources told PIC reporter that an IOF drone fired at least
one missile at a group of Quds fighters east of Khan Younis,
south of the Strip, injuring two of them.
They said that one of the wounded was in a "serious" condition.
The armed wing had earlier Tuesday declared responsibility for
firing five locally made Quds missiles at western Negev in
retaliation to IOF crimes.
For its part, the armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, took
the credit for firing six mortar shells at an IOF military
position in Kissufim and for using heavy machineguns to fire at
IOF choppers that hovered over Rafah in southern Gaza.
Israeli military court extends prison term of
Palestinian MP to six years
June 3, 2008
TluKarem -- The family of prisoner Hasan Yousef, a prominent
Hamas leader in the West Bank and a lawmaker, reported that the
Israeli military court in the Ofer prison arbitrarily extended
his prison sentence from four to six years.
His family said that the Israeli wardens brought MP Yousef from
his cell in the Hadarim prison to the Ofer prison court without
informing them or his lawyer and added two more years to his
four-year imprisonment term.
In another development, the IOF troops kidnapped at dawn Tuesday
four Hamas-affiliated Palestinian citizens recently released
from the PA jails in Ramallah after they stormed the towns of
Faraon and Dir Al-Ghusoon in Tulkarem.
Palestinian local sources reported that the IOF troops
kidnapped, after breaking into and ransacking Palestinian homes,
four citizens including a teacher called Nafid Abu Obeid and a
17-year-student called Abdelrahman Al-Salman.
Israeli court delays
sentence on Dwaik for two months
June 2, 2008
Occupied Jerusalem -- The Israeli Ofer military court on Sunday
adjourned its hearing into the trial of Palestine Legislative
Council speaker Dr. Aziz Dwaik without passing a sentence.
The court judge said that the hearing was the last before
passing a verdict against him and told his lawyers that the
sentence would be issued within two months, the speaker's wife
told Ramattan news agency in a telephone contact.
She said that the most prominent charge was representing Hamas
in the Palestinian legislative elections, and pointed out that
her husbands refused to recognize the court.
Dwaik, who appeared in high morale despite his deteriorating
health and two years in harsh incarceration, asserted that he
was elected as chairman of Palestinian legitimacy and enjoyed
immunity and Israel had no right to prosecute him, the wife
elaborated.
European MP: Situation in Al-Khalil is
barbaric
June 1, 2008
Al-Khalil -- David Hammerstein, a member of the European
parliament, condemned Saturday the humanitarian situation in Al-Khalil
city, southern West Bank, as barbaric, adding that the city is
living under the ugliest form of Israeli occupation.
This came during a visit made by delegates of the European
parliament to Al-Khalil where they saw for themselves the
suffering of Palestinian citizens in the old town and met with
Ali Al-Qawasmi, the head of Al-Khalil reconstruction committee,
who briefed the delegation on the harsh living conditions in the
city.
For his part, Emad Hamdan, the administrative and financial
director of the reconstruction committee, explained to the
delegation the Zionist schemes aimed to displace the Palestinian
citizens from the old town and expand the Jewish neighborhood in
it.
In another context, thousands of Sri Lankan citizens in the
capital Colombo participated Saturday in a massive demonstration
that was called for by the Palestine solidarity committee in
protest at the US complicity in the Israeli crimes committed
against the Palestinian people.
The Sri Lankan protesters carried pictures of Hamas leaders and
called on their country to sever its relations with Israel.
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Israeli Crimes Updates
Five Palestinians killed
on Friday
May 24, 2008
Khan Younis -- Five Palestinians have been killed on Friday by
IOF troops in the central and southern Gaza Strip, three Qassam
fighters and two Quds Brigades fighters. Six others were
wounded.
The IOF also kidnapped 25 Palestinians during an incursion into
the southern Gaza Strip.
The three Qassam fighters, all in their twenties, hailed from
Rafah and died when an Israeli airplane targeted them while they
were confronting an incursion by the IOF into a border area east
of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic
Jihad announced that two of its fighters were killed in an
Israeli air raid while they were confronting IOF troops to the
east of al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
IOF troops kill Palestinian man; wound 12
others at Mintar march
May 23, 2008
At least one Palestinian man was killed, and twelve others were
wounded with Israeli bullets as IOF troops stationed at the
Mintar crossing point opened their machinegun at hundreds of
Palestinian citizens protesting the unjust siege.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed to the PIC correspondent
that the fatality, who was identified as Abdul Kareem Ahl (22
years), sustained a bullet in the head, describing condition of
the wounded Palestinians as between moderate and serious.
According to PIC sources, a number of IOF tanks advanced quickly
towards the agricultural fields close to the crossing,
surrounded the demonstrators and randomly shot at the peaceful
protesters.
The Gaza Strip had been under crushing economic siege imposed by
Israel and its regional and international allies led by the USA
for two years now, inflicting severe damage to the Palestinian
infrastructure and causing serious health, environmental, and
ecological problems in the populated Strip.
Hundreds of Palestinian citizens heeded Hamas's call for a
peaceful march towards the crossing point as part of the
Movement's actions to break the unjust siege amidst clear
regional and international indifference about the fate of the
1.5 million Palestinian individuals living there.
For its part, Hamas Movement described the march as the start of
"new stage that aims at breaking the siege with all available
means", urging Arab and Muslim Ummah to affirm their solidarity
with the Palestinian people.
The Movement also urged Arab states, particularly Egypt, to take
a "brave" decision in breaking the repressive economic siege,
and of opening the vital Rafah terminal which is purely
Palestinian-Egyptian crossing point, stressing that the Arab
silence over the suffering of the Palestinian people under the
Israeli siege "is no longer justified".
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman of Hamas Movement in the Strip
said, in an interview with the PIC, that the march aimed at
delivering a message to the world that the Palestinians will no
longer tolerate the blockade, and that they will break the siege
even if that costs them lives.
"This march serves as clear message to all concerned parties
that the Palestinian people will never surrender to the siege,
and that they will never give up to the Israeli crime of
persecuting the 1.5 million Palestinians in the Strip",
underlined Abu Zuhri, emphasizing that the Palestinian populace
will do everything despite the price they might pay in order to
rescind the blockade.
"There will be no meaning for a truce [with the Israeli
occupation government] if it fails to lift the economic siege
and to open the crossing points", the Hamas's official stressed.
IOF troops kidnap Hamas leader in Jenin only
one month after PA releases him
May 22, 2008
JENIN, (PIC)-- The IOF troops kidnapped at night Wednesday
Sheikh Ibrahim Jabr, 45, one of the prominent Hamas leaders in
the Jenin refugee camp, just one month after he was released
from the PA intelligence jails in Ramallah.
Palestinian local sources told the PIC reporter that a large
number of IOF troops stormed the camp, and surrounded and
ransacked the Sheikh's house before kidnapping him.
In another context, the Palestinian families of prisoners in
occupied Jerusalem appealed to all human rights and legal
institutions to urgently intervene to put an end to the
arbitrary measures taken by the Israeli courts against their
sons.
The Jerusalemite families stated that the Israeli courts issue
unfair high sentences against their sons at the pretext of
committing "treason" against the security of Israel, adding that
one of the arbitrary measures is that these courts impose hefty
fines up to $1,500 and sometimes more than that on their sons.
The Asrana legal center said that the IOA deliberately excludes
Jerusalemite prisoners from any agreement or deal to release
prisoners at the pretext that they hold Israeli IDs, pointing
out that the number of the Jerusalemite prisoners are more than
650 Palestinians including 140 under age 18.
IOF troops kidnap Hamas
leader in Jenin only one month after PA releases him
May 22, 2008
The IOF troops kidnapped at night Wednesday Sheikh Ibrahim Jabr,
45, one of the prominent Hamas leaders in the Jenin refugee
camp, just one month after he was released from the PA
intelligence jails in Ramallah.
Palestinian local sources told the PIC reporter that a large
number of IOF troops stormed the camp, and surrounded and
ransacked the Sheikh's house before kidnapping him.
In another context, the Palestinian families of prisoners in
occupied Jerusalem appealed to all human rights and legal
institutions to urgently intervene to put an end to the
arbitrary measures taken by the Israeli courts against their
sons.
The Jerusalemite families stated that the Israeli courts issue
unfair high sentences against their sons at the pretext of
committing "treason" against the security of Israel, adding that
one of the arbitrary measures is that these courts impose hefty
fines up to $1,500 and sometimes more than that on their sons.
The Asrana legal center said that the IOA deliberately excludes
Jerusalemite prisoners from any agreement or deal to release
prisoners at the pretext that they hold Israeli IDs, pointing
out that the number of the Jerusalemite prisoners are more than
650 Palestinians including 140 under age 18.
IOA demolishes six Palestinian apartments in
occupied Jerusalem
May 22, 2008
The Israeli occupation authority on Wednesday demolished six
Palestinian apartments in occupied Jerusalem at the usual
pretext of lack of permit, which is almost unobtainable.
Large numbers of Israeli occupation police, border guards and
special forces encircled the Tor suburb in eastern Jerusalem and
blocked traffic in and out of it before bulldozers of the
Jewish-controlled municipality of occupied Jerusalem tore down
the apartments.
The proprietor of four of those apartments Amin Al-Abasy was
surprised with the measure. He recalled that his four-apartment
home was built in 1996 and accommodates his wife and seven
children.
He noted that two of the 400-square-meter house were still under
construction. Abasy said that he received a demolition
notification a year ago and have appealed since then against the
decision in Israeli courts.
The landlord of the other two 170 square meters apartments,
Majed Al-Salaima, said that he was also surprised with the act
that was carried out without prior notice.
Salaima said that he built the two apartments one for his family
and the other for his son almost two years ago and they were
supposed to accommodate 14 individuals as they were still
awaiting final touches.
Municipal teams in the occupied holy city delivered similar
demolition notifications to owners of 22 houses in Silwan, one
of the Jerusalem suburbs. Some of them have been living in those
homes for almost ten years.
IOF shell blows off the
head of Palestinian boy, another child killed in West Bank
May 20, 2008
An Israeli occupation forces' shelling of a group of citizens
north of the Gaza Strip at an early hour on Tuesday blew off the
head of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy.
PIC reporter quoted medical sources as saying that the body of
the child Majd Abu Okel was badly mutilated in the blast.
The sources pointed out that a number of other wounded citizens
were rushed to hospital.
IOF troops at a late hour Monday fired and killed a 16-year-old
Palestinian child at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus city
in the West Bank.
The soldiers blocked Palestinian paramedics from rescuing the
child who was left to bleed from three fatal bullet wounds for
half an hour until he died, witnesses reported.
They said that the soldiers asked the youth to expose his
stomach and when he did they shot him dead.
The soldiers closed the Hawara and Beit Furik road barriers
immediately after the incident and stormed the Beit Furik and
Beit Dajan villages amidst firing of sonic and flare bombs.
The IOF command claimed that the child was carrying pipe bombs
strapped to his stomach.
IOF troops kidnap 19
Palestinians in different parts of West Bank
May 19, 2008
IOF troops kidnapped at dawn Monday 19 Palestinian citizens in
different areas of the West Bank especially in Al-Khalil, Nablus
and the Jenin refugee camp where they broke into and ransacked
dozens of houses and buildings at the pretext of looking for
wanted Palestinians.
Palestinian local sources reported that a large number of the
Israeli Golani and Shimshon brigades reinforced by a military
chopper kidnapped a Palestinian ex-detainee called Omar Al-Aramin,
54, in the area of the Rashaida Arabs in Al-Khalil after chasing
him for hours and took him to an unknown destination.
The IOF troops kidnapped Aramin many times and recently
demolished his house. Two weeks ago, he went on hunger strike in
protest at the continuing abduction of Palestinian women in
Israeli jails.
IOF troops boarding dozens of military vehicles also stormed the
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