14 feb 2016
The family of the Palestinian doctor Qassam Qafisheh, 28, affirmed on Saturday his continuation of open hunger strike for the fourth day in the Palestinian Authority (PA) intelligence jails.
The family called on all human rights institutions and official authorities to urgently intervene to work on his immediate release. In an exclusive statement to the PIC reporter, the family said that their son Qassam has to sit for practice examination, so that he can work in medicine profession, next Monday which is held only once a year.
The family revealed that their son was arrested based on no charges and that he will be brought to court Sunday morning. PA intelligence agents broke into the home of captive Qafisheh, searched it thoroughly and spoiled its contents before arresting him. He was summoned by the same forces one week prior to his arrest. Doctor Qafisheh was released from Israeli jails on January, 06, 2016 after he had served eleven-month imprisonment term.
The family called on all human rights institutions and official authorities to urgently intervene to work on his immediate release. In an exclusive statement to the PIC reporter, the family said that their son Qassam has to sit for practice examination, so that he can work in medicine profession, next Monday which is held only once a year.
The family revealed that their son was arrested based on no charges and that he will be brought to court Sunday morning. PA intelligence agents broke into the home of captive Qafisheh, searched it thoroughly and spoiled its contents before arresting him. He was summoned by the same forces one week prior to his arrest. Doctor Qafisheh was released from Israeli jails on January, 06, 2016 after he had served eleven-month imprisonment term.
11 feb 2016
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Thursday at dawn, several Palestinian communities, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, invaded and searched homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes, and kidnapped Ramadan Waleed Taweel, 28, from Hebron city, Bassam Awad Ramadan, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, and Yousef Jamil Makhamra, 18, from Khallet al-Mayya village, northeast of Yatta.
Mohammad Awad, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, said the soldiers placed sand hills, closing all roads leading to all villages in Khallet al-Mayya, completely isolating them.
In addition, the soldiers invaded the Red Crescent Society in Ethna town, west of Hebron, and searched it.
Media sources in Hebron said the soldiers stormed and ransacked many homes, and kidnapped Ramadan Waleed Taweel, 28, from Hebron city, Bassam Awad Ramadan, from the al-Fawwar refugee camp, and Yousef Jamil Makhamra, 18, from Khallet al-Mayya village, northeast of Yatta.
Mohammad Awad, coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements, said the soldiers placed sand hills, closing all roads leading to all villages in Khallet al-Mayya, completely isolating them.
In addition, the soldiers invaded the Red Crescent Society in Ethna town, west of Hebron, and searched it.
10 feb 2016
Palestinian Authority intelligence agents abducted Dr. Qassam Qufaisha from his home in the southern suburb of al-Khalil city on Tuesday night.
The PIC reporter in the city said on Wednesday that the agents wreaked havoc on the doctor’s home, a former detainee in Israeli occupation jails.
The report said that the agents savagely searched the house before confiscating his mobile phone and computers then taking him away.
Qufaisha’s mother suffered a nervous breakdown following the savage search by the PA intelligence agents, he added.
The PIC reporter in the city said on Wednesday that the agents wreaked havoc on the doctor’s home, a former detainee in Israeli occupation jails.
The report said that the agents savagely searched the house before confiscating his mobile phone and computers then taking him away.
Qufaisha’s mother suffered a nervous breakdown following the savage search by the PA intelligence agents, he added.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the northern West Bank district of Jenin, and kidnapped one Palestinian, while six more were kidnapped by soldiers invading different parts of Bethlehem.
The soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, searched homes and kidnapped Abdul-Salam Majed Abu al-Haija, 39. The soldiers sealed the camp before several military vehicles invaded it.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers kidnapped Mohammad Ibrahim Zawahra, 25, Ali Abdul-Hamid at-Tous, 19, and Mahmoud Yacoub Sweity, 24, in addition to summoning Salem Qassem al-Masri, 24, for interrogation in the Etzion military base.
Clashes took place between the soldiers and dozens of local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on them, while the army fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing many residents to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, the army invaded Nahhalin town, west of Bethlehem, and kidnapped Mahmoud Mohammad Najajra, 50, his son Nathem, 27, and Ahmad Jawdat Najajra, 27.
On Tuesday evening, the soldiers closed all roads leading to Nahhalin town, conducted massive searches of homes, and kidnapped many Palestinians; two of them have been identified as Mohammad Rabah Shakarna, 27, and Mohammad Abdul-Fattah Fannoun, 21.
The army also invaded local clinics, and a pharmacy, in the town before violently searching them, causing excessive damage.
The soldiers invaded the Jenin refugee camp, in Jenin, searched homes and kidnapped Abdul-Salam Majed Abu al-Haija, 39. The soldiers sealed the camp before several military vehicles invaded it.
In Bethlehem, the soldiers kidnapped Mohammad Ibrahim Zawahra, 25, Ali Abdul-Hamid at-Tous, 19, and Mahmoud Yacoub Sweity, 24, in addition to summoning Salem Qassem al-Masri, 24, for interrogation in the Etzion military base.
Clashes took place between the soldiers and dozens of local youths, who hurled stones and empty bottles on them, while the army fired gas bombs and concussion grenades, causing many residents to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, the army invaded Nahhalin town, west of Bethlehem, and kidnapped Mahmoud Mohammad Najajra, 50, his son Nathem, 27, and Ahmad Jawdat Najajra, 27.
On Tuesday evening, the soldiers closed all roads leading to Nahhalin town, conducted massive searches of homes, and kidnapped many Palestinians; two of them have been identified as Mohammad Rabah Shakarna, 27, and Mohammad Abdul-Fattah Fannoun, 21.
The army also invaded local clinics, and a pharmacy, in the town before violently searching them, causing excessive damage.
9 feb 2016
The Palestinian ministries of health and interior categorically denied Israeli claims that wounded ISIS militants from Sinai are treated in the hospitals of the Gaza Strip.
In Facebook remarks on Monday, spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qudra described the Israeli claims in this regards as "unfounded and an attempt to strain the relations between Gaza and Egypt."
Qudra added that the local hospitals only receive patients and wounded citizens from Gaza.
In a new attempt to incite Egypt against Gaza, Yoav Mordechai, coordinator of the Israeli government activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, claimed that wounded militants from the ISIS were admitted to hospitals in Gaza in exchange for money and weapons.
For his part, spokesman for the interior ministry in Gaza Iyad al-Bazam also condemned Mordechai's claims as "false allegations."
Bazam stated on his Facebook page that such Israeli claims are aimed to incite against Gaza, create tension between it and Egypt, and find a reason to tighten the blockade on the population. He stressed that the Palestinian national security forces would never allow anyone to undermine the security of the border area with Egypt.
In Facebook remarks on Monday, spokesman for the health ministry Ashraf al-Qudra described the Israeli claims in this regards as "unfounded and an attempt to strain the relations between Gaza and Egypt."
Qudra added that the local hospitals only receive patients and wounded citizens from Gaza.
In a new attempt to incite Egypt against Gaza, Yoav Mordechai, coordinator of the Israeli government activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, claimed that wounded militants from the ISIS were admitted to hospitals in Gaza in exchange for money and weapons.
For his part, spokesman for the interior ministry in Gaza Iyad al-Bazam also condemned Mordechai's claims as "false allegations."
Bazam stated on his Facebook page that such Israeli claims are aimed to incite against Gaza, create tension between it and Egypt, and find a reason to tighten the blockade on the population. He stressed that the Palestinian national security forces would never allow anyone to undermine the security of the border area with Egypt.
8 feb 2016
Palestinian activists closed on Monday morning the premises of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Ramallah, calling for an immediate action to save Mohamed al-Qeiq’s life as he enters his 76th day of hunger strike.
Dozens of activists have gathered since the morning hours outside the ICRC headquarters in Ramallah and closed its gate in protest against “its role in al-Qeiq’s killing.”
The angry protesters issued a statement denouncing the international human rights institutions’ continued silence over al-Qeiq’s case. The international community’s continued silence provides a green light for Israeli crimes, the statement read.
The statement called on ICRC to bear its responsibilities and to brief the international community and diplomatic missions in occupied Palestine about the critical stage reached by the hunger striker al-Qeiq.
The activists also called on ICRC to stop its repeated threats to close its offices due to the ongoing protests. Numerous protests and sit-ins have been organized across occupied Palestine in solidarity with Mohamed al-Qeiq who has been on hunger strike for 76 days in protest against his administrative detention in Israeli jail without charge or trial.
Dozens of activists have gathered since the morning hours outside the ICRC headquarters in Ramallah and closed its gate in protest against “its role in al-Qeiq’s killing.”
The angry protesters issued a statement denouncing the international human rights institutions’ continued silence over al-Qeiq’s case. The international community’s continued silence provides a green light for Israeli crimes, the statement read.
The statement called on ICRC to bear its responsibilities and to brief the international community and diplomatic missions in occupied Palestine about the critical stage reached by the hunger striker al-Qeiq.
The activists also called on ICRC to stop its repeated threats to close its offices due to the ongoing protests. Numerous protests and sit-ins have been organized across occupied Palestine in solidarity with Mohamed al-Qeiq who has been on hunger strike for 76 days in protest against his administrative detention in Israeli jail without charge or trial.
7 feb 2016
A senior Israel official said Monday that Gaza's de facto leaders Hamas have been providing medical treatment to Islamic State-affiliated fighters from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, in claims Hamas rejected as "baseless."
Yoav Mordechai, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), made the allegations in an interview with Saudi newspaper Elaph.
"We have confirmed information that some fighters from the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group were being moved to Gaza through smuggling tunnels to receive medical treatment," Mordechai reportedly said.
He alleged that the Hamas movement was receiving weapons, money and other goods from IS in return.
A COGAT spokesperson confirmed Mordechai's statement to Ma'an.
However, Iyad al-Buzm, a spokesperson for Hamas' Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip, rejected the claims as "baseless and false."
Buzm said Mordechai's statements were only meant to incite against the Gaza Strip and to worsen relations between Hamas and Egypt so as to intensify a military blockade imposed on the coastal enclave.
A spokesperson for the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qidra, also denied that any IS fighter had ever received treatment in Gaza's hospitals.
Al-Qidra said in a Facebook post "Gaza hospitals receive patients and wounded people from the Gaza Strip only," adding that Mordechai's remarks were "inciting, and completely false."
Hamas has suffered poor relations with the Egyptian government ever since the democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood, with whom they were closely allied, was thrown out of power in July 2013.
Attacks by militants, including the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group, initially began to increase after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi took power. Hamas has repeatedly denied giving support to the militants.
Yoav Mordechai, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), made the allegations in an interview with Saudi newspaper Elaph.
"We have confirmed information that some fighters from the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group were being moved to Gaza through smuggling tunnels to receive medical treatment," Mordechai reportedly said.
He alleged that the Hamas movement was receiving weapons, money and other goods from IS in return.
A COGAT spokesperson confirmed Mordechai's statement to Ma'an.
However, Iyad al-Buzm, a spokesperson for Hamas' Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip, rejected the claims as "baseless and false."
Buzm said Mordechai's statements were only meant to incite against the Gaza Strip and to worsen relations between Hamas and Egypt so as to intensify a military blockade imposed on the coastal enclave.
A spokesperson for the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf al-Qidra, also denied that any IS fighter had ever received treatment in Gaza's hospitals.
Al-Qidra said in a Facebook post "Gaza hospitals receive patients and wounded people from the Gaza Strip only," adding that Mordechai's remarks were "inciting, and completely false."
Hamas has suffered poor relations with the Egyptian government ever since the democratically-elected Muslim Brotherhood, with whom they were closely allied, was thrown out of power in July 2013.
Attacks by militants, including the IS-affiliated Sinai Province group, initially began to increase after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi took power. Hamas has repeatedly denied giving support to the militants.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has annulled on Sunday its earlier decision to close its office in Gaza Strip.
Spokeswoman for the committee Suhair Zaqut said that the earlier decision to shut down the office came after violent protesters tried to break into it.
"We have decided to reopen our offices starting from Monday after informing the local authorities the reasons behind our decision", Zaqut added.
"We temporarily closed our Gaza office after protesters tried to storm it", she explained. The Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry in Gaza has stressed its keenness to provide protection to all diplomatic missions and foreign institutions’ working staff in the Gaza Strip.
Urgent security measures have been taken in coordination with the Interior Ministry in order to facilitate those institutions' work in Gaza, the Foreign Affairs Ministry added.
Dozens of Gazan journalists had protested late Sunday at the office in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger striker Mohamed al-Qeiq, demanding that the Red Cross help bring about his release.
Along the same line, a delegation representing Palestinian journalists met with Red Cross director in Gaza Mamadou Sue to activate the committee’s role in supporting al-Qeiq’s issue. Mamadou Sue stressed, during the meeting, that the Red Cross doctors are daily visiting al-Qeiq in Afula hospital. "We are really concerned about his health deterioration", he said.
Spokeswoman for the committee Suhair Zaqut said that the earlier decision to shut down the office came after violent protesters tried to break into it.
"We have decided to reopen our offices starting from Monday after informing the local authorities the reasons behind our decision", Zaqut added.
"We temporarily closed our Gaza office after protesters tried to storm it", she explained. The Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry in Gaza has stressed its keenness to provide protection to all diplomatic missions and foreign institutions’ working staff in the Gaza Strip.
Urgent security measures have been taken in coordination with the Interior Ministry in order to facilitate those institutions' work in Gaza, the Foreign Affairs Ministry added.
Dozens of Gazan journalists had protested late Sunday at the office in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger striker Mohamed al-Qeiq, demanding that the Red Cross help bring about his release.
Along the same line, a delegation representing Palestinian journalists met with Red Cross director in Gaza Mamadou Sue to activate the committee’s role in supporting al-Qeiq’s issue. Mamadou Sue stressed, during the meeting, that the Red Cross doctors are daily visiting al-Qeiq in Afula hospital. "We are really concerned about his health deterioration", he said.
30 jan 2016
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Muntzer is 8 years old and from the Gaza Strip. He suffers from Lymphoma, a blood cell tumor developing from lymphatic tissues.
Israeli Major General and coordinator of Israeli government activities in the Occupied Palestinian territories, Yoav Mordechai, admitted that his government prevents cancer patients in Gaza from receiving treatment. Earlier this week, Israel imposed a travel ban for patients through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing, in the north of the Strip. Israel has given no reason for the ban on patients who were previously allowed to enter Israel on medical grounds. |
Mordechai said, in an interview with the Palestinian daily news paper Al-Quds, that his government has its excuses for such policies. Reportedly, he claimed that the patients from are commissioned, by Hamas, to “sabotage” the Israeli economy.
Soha Hussein, a wife of 53-year old cancer patient from Gaza, emphasized in an interview with Days of Palestine: “My husband is too sick to be able to serve himself. How can you imagine he would be able to leave the hospital and collect intelligence information?”
But Yoav Mordechai is of a different opinion. “Hamas' cynical exploitation of Israeli entry permits is forcing Israel to think twice before it issues permits to Gazans,” he said, warning that the Israeli authorities to “close the Strip and completely prevent travel of Gazans from the Strip.”
However, the Israeli state has been placing a strict siege on the Gaza Strip since 2006.
According to teleSUR, Palestinian female cancer patients participated in a sit-in in Gaza this week in order to protest Israel’s refusal to allow female cancer patients from Gaza to cross into Israel to seek medical help, which they have been receiving for years.
The sit-in was organized by the Aid and Hope Program in front of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Gaza, PNN firther reports. The group provides aid and support for cancer patients in the Palestinian enclave.
“Our message is to demand a clear explanation over the travel ban imposed on women cancer patients in the Gaza Strip,” said Eman Shanan, the general director of the AHP program in Gaza, according to teleSUR.
“These women have been receiving treatment for years. Our second message is directed to the Ministry of Health, that they must insure the required treatment for them, in case this travel ban continues,” Shanan added.
As a cancer survivor herself, Shanan added that the United Nations’ World Health Organization should take the necessary measures to save the lives of these women:
“This is clearly a premeditated death sentence by Israel,” she warned.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, there are more than 14,600 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip. The AHP also says that 30 percent of them have been able to receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.
Many of the hospitals in Gaza simply cannot provide the optimized treatment for cancer, as a result of Israeli attacks on hospitals and extremely limited access to medical supplies. At the same time, according to an interview with Dr. Hamdan in Al-Akhbar, “Patients in Gaza have no access to the medication they desperately need for their treatment. Even under normal circumstances, there are 45 kinds of cancer treatments that are not available in Gaza. Not to mention that from time to time, the Ministry of Health in Gaza declares acute shortages of medecine.” And, on top of this, there are only four doctors available for nearly 15.000 cancer patients.
Israel has, in the past, used cancer-inducing bombs such as Dense Inert Metal Explosive, known as DIME (linked images extremely graphic), in addition to depleted uranium charges. According to nuclear data, people living in the dispersal zone are expected to acquire cancers, birth defects , still births, and other known, unknown or untraceable and undiagnosable diseases.
See: Rare Cancer Caused by Israeli Bombs in Gaza
Soha Hussein, a wife of 53-year old cancer patient from Gaza, emphasized in an interview with Days of Palestine: “My husband is too sick to be able to serve himself. How can you imagine he would be able to leave the hospital and collect intelligence information?”
But Yoav Mordechai is of a different opinion. “Hamas' cynical exploitation of Israeli entry permits is forcing Israel to think twice before it issues permits to Gazans,” he said, warning that the Israeli authorities to “close the Strip and completely prevent travel of Gazans from the Strip.”
However, the Israeli state has been placing a strict siege on the Gaza Strip since 2006.
According to teleSUR, Palestinian female cancer patients participated in a sit-in in Gaza this week in order to protest Israel’s refusal to allow female cancer patients from Gaza to cross into Israel to seek medical help, which they have been receiving for years.
The sit-in was organized by the Aid and Hope Program in front of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in Gaza, PNN firther reports. The group provides aid and support for cancer patients in the Palestinian enclave.
“Our message is to demand a clear explanation over the travel ban imposed on women cancer patients in the Gaza Strip,” said Eman Shanan, the general director of the AHP program in Gaza, according to teleSUR.
“These women have been receiving treatment for years. Our second message is directed to the Ministry of Health, that they must insure the required treatment for them, in case this travel ban continues,” Shanan added.
As a cancer survivor herself, Shanan added that the United Nations’ World Health Organization should take the necessary measures to save the lives of these women:
“This is clearly a premeditated death sentence by Israel,” she warned.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, there are more than 14,600 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip. The AHP also says that 30 percent of them have been able to receive medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.
Many of the hospitals in Gaza simply cannot provide the optimized treatment for cancer, as a result of Israeli attacks on hospitals and extremely limited access to medical supplies. At the same time, according to an interview with Dr. Hamdan in Al-Akhbar, “Patients in Gaza have no access to the medication they desperately need for their treatment. Even under normal circumstances, there are 45 kinds of cancer treatments that are not available in Gaza. Not to mention that from time to time, the Ministry of Health in Gaza declares acute shortages of medecine.” And, on top of this, there are only four doctors available for nearly 15.000 cancer patients.
Israel has, in the past, used cancer-inducing bombs such as Dense Inert Metal Explosive, known as DIME (linked images extremely graphic), in addition to depleted uranium charges. According to nuclear data, people living in the dispersal zone are expected to acquire cancers, birth defects , still births, and other known, unknown or untraceable and undiagnosable diseases.
See: Rare Cancer Caused by Israeli Bombs in Gaza
27 jan 2016
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Tuesday arrested a Palestinian resident in al-Eizeriya village and a medic in the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem.
Quds Press revealed that Israeli forces transferred the first man to a police station in Maale Adumim settlement and took the other, Shadi Ghurab, to Qashale investigation center to the west of al-Khalil.
According to the committee of Jerusalemite prisoners’ families, Israeli troops Tuesday morning stormed al-Issawiya town to the east of Occupied Jerusalem and searched some of Palestinians’ homes. No arrests were reported.
Quds Press revealed that Israeli forces transferred the first man to a police station in Maale Adumim settlement and took the other, Shadi Ghurab, to Qashale investigation center to the west of al-Khalil.
According to the committee of Jerusalemite prisoners’ families, Israeli troops Tuesday morning stormed al-Issawiya town to the east of Occupied Jerusalem and searched some of Palestinians’ homes. No arrests were reported.
22 jan 2016
A medic looks at blood stain of a Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli undercover forces during a raid at Al-Ahly hospital in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) on November 12, 2015.
British doctors have called for the removal of Israel from the World Medical Association (WMA) over claims of “medical torture” on Palestinians seeking treatment.
Some 71 UK doctors have started to pressure the WMA to revoke the membership of the Israel Medical Association, over claims that “our doctors perform medical torture on Palestinian patients,” said Ze'ev Feldman, the representative of the Israeli doctors, during a Knesset meeting held on the subject of boycotts against Israeli academic institutions, on Wednesday.
According to Press TV/Al Ray, if the British physicians succeed, the Tel Aviv regime will be banned from taking part in international medical conferences and publishing in journals.
The move follows similar measures launched by scholars around the world over the past few months. In December, over 200 South African scholars released a statement announcing their support of an academic boycott of Israel.
In November, the American Anthropological Association, the largest professional organization of anthropologists in the world, approved a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Moreover, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, known as BDS, is gaining momentum in US college campuses and churches as well as in many places in Europe. The BDS movement seeks to end the Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands.
British doctors have called for the removal of Israel from the World Medical Association (WMA) over claims of “medical torture” on Palestinians seeking treatment.
Some 71 UK doctors have started to pressure the WMA to revoke the membership of the Israel Medical Association, over claims that “our doctors perform medical torture on Palestinian patients,” said Ze'ev Feldman, the representative of the Israeli doctors, during a Knesset meeting held on the subject of boycotts against Israeli academic institutions, on Wednesday.
According to Press TV/Al Ray, if the British physicians succeed, the Tel Aviv regime will be banned from taking part in international medical conferences and publishing in journals.
The move follows similar measures launched by scholars around the world over the past few months. In December, over 200 South African scholars released a statement announcing their support of an academic boycott of Israel.
In November, the American Anthropological Association, the largest professional organization of anthropologists in the world, approved a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Moreover, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, known as BDS, is gaining momentum in US college campuses and churches as well as in many places in Europe. The BDS movement seeks to end the Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands.
19 jan 2016
Several Palestinians were injured and others were kidnapped on Monday in violent attacks by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) across the West Bank and Occupied Jerusalem.
Sources based in Occupied Jerusalem said the IOF kidnapped three Palestinians from the city following a wave of violent clashes.
Clashes burst out in Jerusalem’s eastern town of Alezariye shortly after the IOF rolled into the area and attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-shot spates of teargas canisters and rubber bullets.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its members sustained rubble bullet injuries in the clashes.
Youngster Husam al-Shemali and another unidentified child were kidnapped by the IOF during the same clashes.
Violent confrontations also rocked Issawiya town in eastern Occupied Jerusalem moments after the IOF stormed the area and pitched a series of makeshift checkpoints.
The assault culminated in the abduction of 17-year-old Taha Umran Abu Khdeir from the Shu’fat refugee camp on allegations that he attempted to stab an occupation soldier.
The IOF further attacked Palestinian civilians near the family home of the injured Palestinian protester Othman Shaalan, who carried out an anti-occupation stabbing in the illegal Israeli settlement of Tekoa, in eastern Occupied Jerusalem.
Red Crescent crews said 40 Palestinians were treated for critical breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of teargas. Two more Palestinians sustained rubber bullet wounds.
Israeli news outlets said the IOF further kidnapped a Palestinian youth at the Hawara checkpoint, in southern Nablus province, on allegations of carrying a knife.
Sources based in Occupied Jerusalem said the IOF kidnapped three Palestinians from the city following a wave of violent clashes.
Clashes burst out in Jerusalem’s eastern town of Alezariye shortly after the IOF rolled into the area and attacked the Palestinian protesters with randomly-shot spates of teargas canisters and rubber bullets.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said one of its members sustained rubble bullet injuries in the clashes.
Youngster Husam al-Shemali and another unidentified child were kidnapped by the IOF during the same clashes.
Violent confrontations also rocked Issawiya town in eastern Occupied Jerusalem moments after the IOF stormed the area and pitched a series of makeshift checkpoints.
The assault culminated in the abduction of 17-year-old Taha Umran Abu Khdeir from the Shu’fat refugee camp on allegations that he attempted to stab an occupation soldier.
The IOF further attacked Palestinian civilians near the family home of the injured Palestinian protester Othman Shaalan, who carried out an anti-occupation stabbing in the illegal Israeli settlement of Tekoa, in eastern Occupied Jerusalem.
Red Crescent crews said 40 Palestinians were treated for critical breathing disorders due to heavy inhalation of teargas. Two more Palestinians sustained rubber bullet wounds.
Israeli news outlets said the IOF further kidnapped a Palestinian youth at the Hawara checkpoint, in southern Nablus province, on allegations of carrying a knife.
16 jan 2016
Three young men and one journalist suffered bullet injuries during violent clashes on Friday afternoon with the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at the northern entrance to Bethlehem city.
According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in the city, journalist Safia Omar suffered a bullet injury as she was covering the confrontations between local young men and Israeli soldiers north of Bethlehem city.
Meanwhile, two Red Crescent paramedics suffered injuries from glass fragments when Israeli rubber bullets shattered the windshield of their ambulance during clashes between soldiers and local young men in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.
In al-Khalil, violent clashes broke out on the same day between young men and soldiers at Beit Ainoun junction, north of Sa'ir town, following the funeral procession of 20-year-old Mu'ayed Jabbareen, who was killed on Thursday for an alleged stabbing attack.
Similar events took place in al-Aroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil city.
According to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC) reporter in the city, journalist Safia Omar suffered a bullet injury as she was covering the confrontations between local young men and Israeli soldiers north of Bethlehem city.
Meanwhile, two Red Crescent paramedics suffered injuries from glass fragments when Israeli rubber bullets shattered the windshield of their ambulance during clashes between soldiers and local young men in al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem.
In al-Khalil, violent clashes broke out on the same day between young men and soldiers at Beit Ainoun junction, north of Sa'ir town, following the funeral procession of 20-year-old Mu'ayed Jabbareen, who was killed on Thursday for an alleged stabbing attack.
Similar events took place in al-Aroub refugee camp, north of al-Khalil city.
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