31 jan 2013
IOF shoot 2 children in the east of Jabaliya
Two Palestinian children were shot by Israeli occupation bullets in eastern Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday evening. Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, Health Ministry spokesman, told PIC's reporter that the occupation forces stationed at the Israeli security fence adjacent to the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire at Palestinian agricultural lands and residential neighborhoods in the east of Abu Safiya region, east of Jabalya, injuring two children aged sixteen.
He stated that the wounded were transferred to the Shifa Hospital complex suffering moderate injuries.
Four citizens have been killed while more than 75 others have been wounded in shootings carried out by the Israeli occupation forces since the truce agreement signed on the 21st of November last year.
He stated that the wounded were transferred to the Shifa Hospital complex suffering moderate injuries.
Four citizens have been killed while more than 75 others have been wounded in shootings carried out by the Israeli occupation forces since the truce agreement signed on the 21st of November last year.
30 jan 2013
IOF quelling of funeral burns down Palestinian home
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired teargas and metal bullets at a funeral at the main entrance of Beit Ummar village, north of Al-Khalil, on Tuesday starting fire in a Palestine home. Yousef Abu Mariya, a member of the popular committee against the wall in the village, told the PIC that IOF soldiers quelled hundreds of Palestinian citizens who were taking part in the funeral procession.
He said that the soldiers’ intensive use of teargas canisters burnt down the house of Ahmed Allami, which is only 500 meters away from the IOF military watchtower at the entrance to the village.
Abu Mariya said that many citizens were wounded in the clashes and that tension was still prevailing in the village.
He said that the soldiers’ intensive use of teargas canisters burnt down the house of Ahmed Allami, which is only 500 meters away from the IOF military watchtower at the entrance to the village.
Abu Mariya said that many citizens were wounded in the clashes and that tension was still prevailing in the village.
Large Israeli force raids Jenin village, locals say
A large Israeli force raided a Jenin village overnight Tuesday in what locals say was the largest operation in the area for decades.
Over 400 Israeli soldiers raided al-Mughayyir village overnight and conducted a house-to-house search of over fifty homes, interrogating residents, locals told Ma'an.
"At 2 a.m., Israeli solders knocked on my door. I went out in a hurry to see who is knocking on my door at this time and was shocked when I saw Israeli solders pointing their guns at me, and asking me and my family to get out of the home.
My wife, my four kids, and I stood outside in the rainy weather," Amjad Muhassin said.
Soldiers made the family wait outside for over 30 minutes before gathering them in the living room and interrogating each family member, including children, he added.
Ahmad Sawafta, head of the village council, said that soldiers asked residents to stand outside their homes carrying a piece of paper with their ID number.
The villagers were then photographed with their ID numbers while soldiers raided their homes, Sawafta said, adding that this is the first raid of its kind in over 20 years.
A 10-years-old girl, Nirmin, told Ma'an that six Israeli soldiers raided her home, ordering her mother and father to leave the home.
"My brothers and sisters were crying. I slept under the blanket (I hide myself under the blanket). I was so scared that the Israeli soldiers would shoot my father and my mother," she said.
No arrests were reported by villagers. An Israeli army spokesman did not return calls seeking comment. Israeli military forces routinely raid villages in the occupied West Bank and make arrests, usually on the pretext of security questioning, without providing further details.
Over 400 Israeli soldiers raided al-Mughayyir village overnight and conducted a house-to-house search of over fifty homes, interrogating residents, locals told Ma'an.
"At 2 a.m., Israeli solders knocked on my door. I went out in a hurry to see who is knocking on my door at this time and was shocked when I saw Israeli solders pointing their guns at me, and asking me and my family to get out of the home.
My wife, my four kids, and I stood outside in the rainy weather," Amjad Muhassin said.
Soldiers made the family wait outside for over 30 minutes before gathering them in the living room and interrogating each family member, including children, he added.
Ahmad Sawafta, head of the village council, said that soldiers asked residents to stand outside their homes carrying a piece of paper with their ID number.
The villagers were then photographed with their ID numbers while soldiers raided their homes, Sawafta said, adding that this is the first raid of its kind in over 20 years.
A 10-years-old girl, Nirmin, told Ma'an that six Israeli soldiers raided her home, ordering her mother and father to leave the home.
"My brothers and sisters were crying. I slept under the blanket (I hide myself under the blanket). I was so scared that the Israeli soldiers would shoot my father and my mother," she said.
No arrests were reported by villagers. An Israeli army spokesman did not return calls seeking comment. Israeli military forces routinely raid villages in the occupied West Bank and make arrests, usually on the pretext of security questioning, without providing further details.
29 jan 2013
Palestinian worker shot at in northern Gaza
A Palestinian worker was shot and wounded in northern Gaza on Tuesday at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF).
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers near the border security fence fired at workers while collecting iron scrap north of Beit Hanun town injuring one of them.
IOF soldiers daily target Palestinian citizens and farmers while working near the border fence surrounding the Gaza Strip in violation of the calm agreement reached between Palestinian resistance and Israel under Egyptian patronage on 21/9/2012.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers near the border security fence fired at workers while collecting iron scrap north of Beit Hanun town injuring one of them.
IOF soldiers daily target Palestinian citizens and farmers while working near the border fence surrounding the Gaza Strip in violation of the calm agreement reached between Palestinian resistance and Israel under Egyptian patronage on 21/9/2012.
Army Holds Training In Palestinian Villages In Hebron
A week ago Monday, the Israeli army started drills using live ammunition in several Palestinian villages in the southern West bank city of Hebron. The training was held despite a preliminary High Court ruling preventing the army from conducting training near Palestinian civilian areas.
Residents of Janba, Tabban and Al-Markaz, south of Hebron, filed an appeal to the Israeli court demanding it to issue a ruling against the drills, and asking the court to charge the army with contempt of court for violating its previous ruling.
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the military drills in the Palestinian villages, come despite the preliminary court ruling that was issued on January 16, ordering the army not to evict the Palestinians from their homes and villages, and to refrain from conducting training in populated areas.
Attorney Shlomo Lecker, of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, filed an appeal to the Israeli High Court asking it to demand Israel Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, to ensure that the army does not violate the court ruling, and to ensure no military drills are held near the villages.
But the Israeli military issued a statement claiming that the training “is being held in an area dubbed as Fire Zone 918 in compliance with Israeli laws”. The villages are not recognized by Israel.
But the villages confirmed that the military activities are being held in close proximity to their dwellings and tents, in lands planted with barely.
The villagers are farmers and shepherds, and the Israeli drills are directly impacting their daily lives, and preventing them from feeling safe in their own homes and villages.
The army also dug tunnels and holes for training purposes, an issue that made it difficult for the residents to enter their own villages.
The villagers also fear for the lives of their children who live in fear due to the ongoing sounds of live ammunition used by the army during training.
Residents of Janba, Tabban and Al-Markaz, south of Hebron, filed an appeal to the Israeli court demanding it to issue a ruling against the drills, and asking the court to charge the army with contempt of court for violating its previous ruling.
Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the military drills in the Palestinian villages, come despite the preliminary court ruling that was issued on January 16, ordering the army not to evict the Palestinians from their homes and villages, and to refrain from conducting training in populated areas.
Attorney Shlomo Lecker, of The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, filed an appeal to the Israeli High Court asking it to demand Israel Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, to ensure that the army does not violate the court ruling, and to ensure no military drills are held near the villages.
But the Israeli military issued a statement claiming that the training “is being held in an area dubbed as Fire Zone 918 in compliance with Israeli laws”. The villages are not recognized by Israel.
But the villages confirmed that the military activities are being held in close proximity to their dwellings and tents, in lands planted with barely.
The villagers are farmers and shepherds, and the Israeli drills are directly impacting their daily lives, and preventing them from feeling safe in their own homes and villages.
The army also dug tunnels and holes for training purposes, an issue that made it difficult for the residents to enter their own villages.
The villagers also fear for the lives of their children who live in fear due to the ongoing sounds of live ammunition used by the army during training.
23 jan 2013
Young Palestinian Killed, Three Others Wounded at Al-Aroub Refugee Camp
Lubna Muneer Hanash 21
Medical sources in Hebron announced the death of the 21-year-old Palestinian girl Lubna Muneer Hanash from Bethlehem and three others wounded after an Israeli settler opened fire near al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron.
Witnesses and medical sources said that a settler opened fire at Palestinians, while driving by al-Aroub college, injuring Lubna Hanash with a bullet in her head and was admitted to the ICU in Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and later announced dead.
The Palestinian Ahmad Yousef Abu Ghazi from al-Aroub camp and Salah Kamel Abu Hashhash and the girl Suad Yousef Ja'arah, 38, were wounded and admitted to the same hospital for treatment.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee to Resist Settlement and Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar, Mohammad Awad, said that the shooting occurred at the northern gate of the college, and that a force from the Israeli army and police came to the incident place and prevented Palestinians from reaching the gate.
Mourners bury woman, teen killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem
Hundreds of mourners on Wednesday attended the funerals of a woman and a teenager shot and killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem.
Lubna Hanash, 22, was shot in the head on Wednesday morning as Israeli soldiers in a civilian car opened fire at a group standing at the entrance to al-Arrub refugee camp south of Bethlehem. She was buried in the Hussein Ubayyat cemetery on the eastern outskirts of Bethlehem.
Also Wednesday, 15-year-old Salih al-Amarin, from Azza refugee camp, died in hospital after Israeli forces shot him in the head during clashes in Bethlehem on Friday. Mourners carried the teenager's body from his family home to a cemetery in Aida refugee camp.
Clashes erupted near Aida camp as angry residents threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters at mourners, injuring 10 Palestinians. Three Palestinians were hospitalized, including one young man who was hit in the face by a rubber-coated bullet, Red Crescent official Abdul-Halim Jaafra said. Jaafra told Ma'an that another seven people were treated at the scene for injuries.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said around 400 Palestinians rioted and threw rocks and fires at forces "who responded with riot dispersal means."
At least six Palestinians have been fatally shot by Israeli forces in January. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad issued a statement calling for "strong condemnation from the international community" of these shootings, and urged "immediate intervention to compel Israel to desist from these serious attacks on our people."
At the UN Security Council on Wednesday, UN envoy Robert Serry expressed concern at the increased use of live fire by Israeli forces in the West Bank.
Medical sources in Hebron announced the death of the 21-year-old Palestinian girl Lubna Muneer Hanash from Bethlehem and three others wounded after an Israeli settler opened fire near al-Aroub refugee camp, north of Hebron.
Witnesses and medical sources said that a settler opened fire at Palestinians, while driving by al-Aroub college, injuring Lubna Hanash with a bullet in her head and was admitted to the ICU in Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron, and later announced dead.
The Palestinian Ahmad Yousef Abu Ghazi from al-Aroub camp and Salah Kamel Abu Hashhash and the girl Suad Yousef Ja'arah, 38, were wounded and admitted to the same hospital for treatment.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee to Resist Settlement and Apartheid Wall in Beit Ummar, Mohammad Awad, said that the shooting occurred at the northern gate of the college, and that a force from the Israeli army and police came to the incident place and prevented Palestinians from reaching the gate.
Mourners bury woman, teen killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem
Hundreds of mourners on Wednesday attended the funerals of a woman and a teenager shot and killed by Israeli forces in Bethlehem.
Lubna Hanash, 22, was shot in the head on Wednesday morning as Israeli soldiers in a civilian car opened fire at a group standing at the entrance to al-Arrub refugee camp south of Bethlehem. She was buried in the Hussein Ubayyat cemetery on the eastern outskirts of Bethlehem.
Also Wednesday, 15-year-old Salih al-Amarin, from Azza refugee camp, died in hospital after Israeli forces shot him in the head during clashes in Bethlehem on Friday. Mourners carried the teenager's body from his family home to a cemetery in Aida refugee camp.
Clashes erupted near Aida camp as angry residents threw stones at Israeli soldiers, who fired rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters at mourners, injuring 10 Palestinians. Three Palestinians were hospitalized, including one young man who was hit in the face by a rubber-coated bullet, Red Crescent official Abdul-Halim Jaafra said. Jaafra told Ma'an that another seven people were treated at the scene for injuries.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said around 400 Palestinians rioted and threw rocks and fires at forces "who responded with riot dispersal means."
At least six Palestinians have been fatally shot by Israeli forces in January. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad issued a statement calling for "strong condemnation from the international community" of these shootings, and urged "immediate intervention to compel Israel to desist from these serious attacks on our people."
At the UN Security Council on Wednesday, UN envoy Robert Serry expressed concern at the increased use of live fire by Israeli forces in the West Bank.
A Young Palestinian Dies of Wounds Sustained During Confrontations in Bethlehem
Saleh Amareen 16
Medical sources announced that a 16-year-old boy died of wounds sustained over the weekend when he was shot by an Israeli army bullet. Saleh Amareen was critically injured when he was hit by a bullet in the head during confrontations with Israeli soldiers near Aida refugee camp in the north of Bethlehem.
He was taken to a hospital in Bethlehem before he was transferred to a hospital in Israel due to his critical condition.
He was in a coma lfor three days before he was pronounced dead.
Medical sources announced that a 16-year-old boy died of wounds sustained over the weekend when he was shot by an Israeli army bullet. Saleh Amareen was critically injured when he was hit by a bullet in the head during confrontations with Israeli soldiers near Aida refugee camp in the north of Bethlehem.
He was taken to a hospital in Bethlehem before he was transferred to a hospital in Israel due to his critical condition.
He was in a coma lfor three days before he was pronounced dead.
Dozens Of Workers Attacked By Soldiers Near Jenin
Palestinian medical sources reported that dozens of Palestinian workers have been treated for the effects of teargas inhalation after the army attacked them at the At-Taiba roadblock, near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem.
Eyewitnesses reported that the army closed the roadblock nearly at 5 at dawn, and prevented the workers from heading to their construction sites in Israel. They all carried valid work permits.
The soldiers ordered the workers to go back home, and hurled several gas grenades at them leading to dozens of injuries.
The wounded workers were moved to local hospitals in Jenin, and were all sent back home later on.
Earlier on Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Yamoun village, west of Jenin, broke into the home of resident Abul-Ghani Abu Al-Haija, and searched the property causing damage.
The soldiers were looking for Samed, the son of Abdul-Ghani; they demanded the father to “convince his son to turn himself in to the army”. They also confiscated several pictures of Samed.
Also on Thursday, the army kidnapped at least six Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after breaking into their homes and violently searching them.
Eyewitnesses reported that the army closed the roadblock nearly at 5 at dawn, and prevented the workers from heading to their construction sites in Israel. They all carried valid work permits.
The soldiers ordered the workers to go back home, and hurled several gas grenades at them leading to dozens of injuries.
The wounded workers were moved to local hospitals in Jenin, and were all sent back home later on.
Earlier on Thursday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the Al-Yamoun village, west of Jenin, broke into the home of resident Abul-Ghani Abu Al-Haija, and searched the property causing damage.
The soldiers were looking for Samed, the son of Abdul-Ghani; they demanded the father to “convince his son to turn himself in to the army”. They also confiscated several pictures of Samed.
Also on Thursday, the army kidnapped at least six Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, after breaking into their homes and violently searching them.