28 dec 2015
Abdul-Rahman al-Mobasher
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, Sunday, that one Palestinian died of wounds suffered several days ago, after Israeli soldiers shot him while working on his land, and Hamas fighter was killed in a tunnel collapse accident.
The sources said the Yousef Abu Sbeikha al-Boheiri, 48, from the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, died of very serious wounds he suffered, on Friday, while working in his farmland.
He injured after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, opened fire on several farmers, working in their lands close to the border fence.
In addition, a fighter of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, also died Sunday when a siege-busting tunnel collapsed, burying him under the rubble.
Al-Qassam said Abdul-Rahman al-Mobasher was one of its senior field leaders in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip have reported, Sunday, that one Palestinian died of wounds suffered several days ago, after Israeli soldiers shot him while working on his land, and Hamas fighter was killed in a tunnel collapse accident.
The sources said the Yousef Abu Sbeikha al-Boheiri, 48, from the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, died of very serious wounds he suffered, on Friday, while working in his farmland.
He injured after Israeli soldiers, stationed across the border fence, opened fire on several farmers, working in their lands close to the border fence.
In addition, a fighter of the Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas, also died Sunday when a siege-busting tunnel collapsed, burying him under the rubble.
Al-Qassam said Abdul-Rahman al-Mobasher was one of its senior field leaders in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
9 dec 2015
The municipal authority of the Rafah district in Gaza has refuted an Egyptian claim that the 14 Palestinian workmen who got stranded in a flooded tunnel on Tuesday were trying to infiltrate into Egypt and described it as "untrue and unfounded."
The Egyptian army flooded yesterday tunnels in the border with Gaza with seawater, which led 14 Palestinian tunnel workmen to go missing before they were located and rescued by Palestinian civil defense personnel.
"In light of the tight blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, those workmen were trying to bring some goods and needs into the Strip through what was left of tunnels as well as to prevent the flow of water into them and to do repairs," chief of the municipal authority Subhi Radwan told Quds Press.
Subhi condemned an Egyptian security source accusing those workmen of attempting to infiltrate into Egypt through tunnels, describing his accusation as "nonsense."
"If there were a free trade zone between Egypt and Gaza, and the crossing was open to individuals and trade, the tunnels would be closed automatically and such phenomenon would have never been there in the first place. We have said this several times to the Egyptian authorities," the Palestinian official said.
The Egyptian army flooded yesterday tunnels in the border with Gaza with seawater, which led 14 Palestinian tunnel workmen to go missing before they were located and rescued by Palestinian civil defense personnel.
"In light of the tight blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip, those workmen were trying to bring some goods and needs into the Strip through what was left of tunnels as well as to prevent the flow of water into them and to do repairs," chief of the municipal authority Subhi Radwan told Quds Press.
Subhi condemned an Egyptian security source accusing those workmen of attempting to infiltrate into Egypt through tunnels, describing his accusation as "nonsense."
"If there were a free trade zone between Egypt and Gaza, and the crossing was open to individuals and trade, the tunnels would be closed automatically and such phenomenon would have never been there in the first place. We have said this several times to the Egyptian authorities," the Palestinian official said.
8 dec 2015
14 Palestinian tunnel workmen were reported missing on Tuesday morning after the Egyptian army flooded Rafah border areas with the Gaza Strip with seawater.
The civil defense apparatus told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that it started in the morning to search for the 14 missing men in the flooded tunnels and managed to locate seven of them.
A spokesman for the apparatus affirmed that the contact with the workmen was lost when the Egyptian army pumped seawater into a tunnel close to the one they were inside.
The spokesman added that there were strenuous efforts to save the lives of all stranded workmen.
Scores of Gazan workmen had been killed in similar incidents since Egypt decided to flood Gaza tunnels with seawater.
Gaza tunnels are considered a vital outline for the Palestinians in the impoverished enclave to overcome the harsh humanitarian and economic conditions they are living in as a result of the tight blockade imposed on them by Israel and Egypt.
The civil defense apparatus told the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) that it started in the morning to search for the 14 missing men in the flooded tunnels and managed to locate seven of them.
A spokesman for the apparatus affirmed that the contact with the workmen was lost when the Egyptian army pumped seawater into a tunnel close to the one they were inside.
The spokesman added that there were strenuous efforts to save the lives of all stranded workmen.
Scores of Gazan workmen had been killed in similar incidents since Egypt decided to flood Gaza tunnels with seawater.
Gaza tunnels are considered a vital outline for the Palestinians in the impoverished enclave to overcome the harsh humanitarian and economic conditions they are living in as a result of the tight blockade imposed on them by Israel and Egypt.
