29 dec 2014
Violent clashes erupted Monday in Aroub refugee camp between dozens of Palestinian youths and Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shortly after the later broke into the camp.
Eyewitnesses told a PIC reporter that the clashes broke out throughout the camp when IOF soldiers stormed in large numbers the refugee camp and started firing tear gas bombs and rubber bullets at the residents’ homes.
Several injuries were reported among the protesters who responded by throwing stones and empty bottles at the soldiers.
Israeli forces intensified their presence at the entrance of the camp and occupied rooftops of many homes.
On the other hand, IOF soldiers harassed Palestinian citizens while passing through the military checkpoint erected at the entrance of Shuhada Street in al-Khalil on Monday morning.
The PIC correspondent quoted local sources as saying that Palestinian students and citizens were stopped and searched at the makeshift checkpoint, while similar restrictions were imposed at the Container checkpoint.
Earlier last month, angry protesters set fire to the Container checkpoint during a demo staged in defense of al-Aqsa Mosque.
Eyewitnesses told a PIC reporter that the clashes broke out throughout the camp when IOF soldiers stormed in large numbers the refugee camp and started firing tear gas bombs and rubber bullets at the residents’ homes.
Several injuries were reported among the protesters who responded by throwing stones and empty bottles at the soldiers.
Israeli forces intensified their presence at the entrance of the camp and occupied rooftops of many homes.
On the other hand, IOF soldiers harassed Palestinian citizens while passing through the military checkpoint erected at the entrance of Shuhada Street in al-Khalil on Monday morning.
The PIC correspondent quoted local sources as saying that Palestinian students and citizens were stopped and searched at the makeshift checkpoint, while similar restrictions were imposed at the Container checkpoint.
Earlier last month, angry protesters set fire to the Container checkpoint during a demo staged in defense of al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday raided the house of a senior Hamas figure in Bethlehem city at the pretext of looking for personal computers.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israeli troops broke into and ransacked the house of senior Hamas member Sheikh Kareem Ayyad, 59, in al-Doha town, west of Bethlehem.
A few days ago, the IOF also stormed and searched the house of Sheikh Ayyad one month after the detention of his son Mahmoud, who is a member of the association of Palestinian writers and an ex-detainee in Israeli jails.
The IOF continuously carries out raids on homes of citizens, national figures and activists in the West Bank as part of Israeli suppressive measures aimed at preventing any resistance moves against Israel.
In a separate incident, the IOF released on Sunday evening 35-year-old prisoner Majed Rabai'ah, from al- Ubeidiya town east of Bethlehem, after one year of administrative detention because of his affiliation with Hamas.
A group of citizens from the town and his relatives received Rabai'ah upon his release.
Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that Israeli troops broke into and ransacked the house of senior Hamas member Sheikh Kareem Ayyad, 59, in al-Doha town, west of Bethlehem.
A few days ago, the IOF also stormed and searched the house of Sheikh Ayyad one month after the detention of his son Mahmoud, who is a member of the association of Palestinian writers and an ex-detainee in Israeli jails.
The IOF continuously carries out raids on homes of citizens, national figures and activists in the West Bank as part of Israeli suppressive measures aimed at preventing any resistance moves against Israel.
In a separate incident, the IOF released on Sunday evening 35-year-old prisoner Majed Rabai'ah, from al- Ubeidiya town east of Bethlehem, after one year of administrative detention because of his affiliation with Hamas.
A group of citizens from the town and his relatives received Rabai'ah upon his release.
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Monday staged an incursion into the Gaza Strip and scoured Palestinian land tracts.
A drove of Israeli military bulldozers stationed near the border pushed some meters into Palestinian farmlands in Gaza's southern Rafah city, moments before they scooped a large tract of farmland.
Israeli drones have also been seen flying at low altitudes all along the incursion.
Monday's incursion is another episode in Israel’s violations of the Cairo-brokered ceasefire accord signed on August 26 with Palestinian resistance factions in the wake of a seven-week Israeli military onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Earlier on Sunday evening the IOF launched a limited incursion east of Rafah city, in southern Gaza, and scraped the area via army bulldozers.
The Rome-based International Federation for Human Rights and Development has documented a total of 162 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, signed four months ago, between August 26 and December 26, 2014.
The federation detected 108 violations of the Cairo-brokered ceasefire against Palestinian fishermen. 11 fishermen sustained injuries in 53 incidents of IOF machinegun fire shooting. 31 fishermen were arrested while some 16 fishing boats were misappropriated.
The report kept record of eight cases of scooping operations and incursions into Palestinian lands, mostly east of Khan Younis.
The federation reported 29 incidents of gunfire shooting on Palestinian farmers and cultivated lands particularly north of the Gaza Strip.
The International Federation called on the Israeli occupation to bring such infringements to a halt and abide by the terms of the truce accord ruling for unblocking the border crossings so as to smooth Palestinians’ access out of and into Gaza.
It further urged the Israeli occupation to allow the entry of humanitarian aids and rebuilding materials into the Strip, warning of an imminent explosion to be flaring up soon in case such noose tightened around Gazans’ necks is not untied.
A drove of Israeli military bulldozers stationed near the border pushed some meters into Palestinian farmlands in Gaza's southern Rafah city, moments before they scooped a large tract of farmland.
Israeli drones have also been seen flying at low altitudes all along the incursion.
Monday's incursion is another episode in Israel’s violations of the Cairo-brokered ceasefire accord signed on August 26 with Palestinian resistance factions in the wake of a seven-week Israeli military onslaught on the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Earlier on Sunday evening the IOF launched a limited incursion east of Rafah city, in southern Gaza, and scraped the area via army bulldozers.
The Rome-based International Federation for Human Rights and Development has documented a total of 162 Israeli violations of the ceasefire, signed four months ago, between August 26 and December 26, 2014.
The federation detected 108 violations of the Cairo-brokered ceasefire against Palestinian fishermen. 11 fishermen sustained injuries in 53 incidents of IOF machinegun fire shooting. 31 fishermen were arrested while some 16 fishing boats were misappropriated.
The report kept record of eight cases of scooping operations and incursions into Palestinian lands, mostly east of Khan Younis.
The federation reported 29 incidents of gunfire shooting on Palestinian farmers and cultivated lands particularly north of the Gaza Strip.
The International Federation called on the Israeli occupation to bring such infringements to a halt and abide by the terms of the truce accord ruling for unblocking the border crossings so as to smooth Palestinians’ access out of and into Gaza.
It further urged the Israeli occupation to allow the entry of humanitarian aids and rebuilding materials into the Strip, warning of an imminent explosion to be flaring up soon in case such noose tightened around Gazans’ necks is not untied.
Scores of Palestinian young men suffered from inhaling tear gas during violent clashes on Sunday evening with Israeli police soldiers in the neighborhoods of Attur and Ras al-Amud, east of Jerusalem.
Eyewitnesses said the clashes broke out in Attur neighborhood after Israeli troops stormed Khila street.
The angry young men responded to the firing of tear gas and rubber bullets by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the invading troops.
Earlier on the same day, the Israeli police kidnapped three young men from the family of Abul-Hawa in Attur neighborhood on allegations of their attempt to stab a Jewish settler.
Similar clashes also took place in Ras al-Amud neighborhood.
In another incident, special forces from the Israeli army invaded yesterday Wadi al-Joz neighborhood, east of the holy city, with no reported arrests or confrontations.
Eyewitnesses said the clashes broke out in Attur neighborhood after Israeli troops stormed Khila street.
The angry young men responded to the firing of tear gas and rubber bullets by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at the invading troops.
Earlier on the same day, the Israeli police kidnapped three young men from the family of Abul-Hawa in Attur neighborhood on allegations of their attempt to stab a Jewish settler.
Similar clashes also took place in Ras al-Amud neighborhood.
In another incident, special forces from the Israeli army invaded yesterday Wadi al-Joz neighborhood, east of the holy city, with no reported arrests or confrontations.
Hebron school employees ill after opening suspicious package
Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with unnecessary violence.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Aqraba, Yousif Dirieh, told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that Israeli bulldozers razed several dunams of land planted with wheat crops in the locale, destroying the harvest.
Soldiers also set up earth mounds in the area, as a prelude for military training exercises.
Israeli forces follow a systematic policy of targeting agricultural land that is considered to be the main livelihood of Palestinians, as an attempt to force residents to leave their land, for the benefit of settlement expansion.
The occupied West Bank is also a scene of frequent settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assaults on farmers, in addition to crop theft and/or destruction, which is often done under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
WAFA notes that settler attacks against Palestinian farmers increase significantly during the olive harvest season.
Farmers often complain of sewage water pumped from nearby settlements into their land, thus destroying their crops.
The PNN reports that eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds, Sunday, complained about factories in the industrial zone of "Burkhan" Israeli settlement, near Salfit, in the northern West Bank, as settlers routinely dump their waste-water into the region's valleys over the weekend.
Researcher Khaled Ma'ali said that the waste-water from Borkan factory is not poured gradually but, rather, all at once.
The four industrial zones pouring the "skunk water" into the Salfit valleys are located in Ariel, Borkan, Amanoel and Zahav illegal settlements, according to eyewitnesses.
Ma'ali assured that the environmental pollution caused by the settlements' industrial zones takes long years to recover, and will cause extensive environmental destruction.
He is calling on environment organizations to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the damage it is causing, and to compensate those affected.
Related: Israeli Police Adopt New Crowd Control Method in Jerusalem
Furthermore, on Sunday, Israeli soldiers violently raided a boys’ school in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in search of two students.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of soldiers raided the school yard and the principal’s office in a brutal manner, in search of the two students, spreading panic and fear among other students.
The teaching staff prevented the soldiers from coming near the students, however, and forced them out of the school.
Israeli forces often target schools and other educational facilities and tends to use excessive force against students and teaching staff, in further violation of international law.
“Fifty-eight education-related incidents affecting 11,935 children were reported in the West Bank in 2013, resulting in damage to school facilities, interruption of classes and injury to children,” according to the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
The organization reported that “forty-one incidents involved Israeli security forces operations near or inside schools, forced entry without forewarning, the firing of tear gas canisters and sound bombs into school yards and, in some cases, structural damage to schools.”
In related news, the principal of al-Hussein Ibn Ali school, in Hebron, as well as the school secretary and janitor have fallen ill after receiving a suspicious package on Sunday, a local official said.
Director of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Education Bassam Tahboub told Ma'an News Agency that the three employees began suffering from nausea and dizziness immediately after opening an envelope that had arrived from Italy.
"When the school principal, Abd al-Muati Abu Sneina, opened it in the presence of secretary Fadi Shehada and janitor Nidal al-Qawasmi, they all started to sneeze in an unusual way and they had nausea and dizziness before they were evacuated to the public hospital of Hebron," he said.
Director of the area's public hospital, Abdullah al-Qawasmi, said that the three would remain in the hospital for follow up, though he confirmed that the three are in stable condition.
They are suffering from agitation and continuous sneezing caused by a "gluey material wrapped in cellophane inside the envelope," he further stated.
The material has been sent to governmental laboratories to be tested, while Palestinian security services have launched an investigation into the incident.
The case is the third of its kind in Hebron in recent weeks.
See also: 12/10/14 Mayor of Hebron Sent Toxic Substance and Death Threats
Israeli bulldozers, Sunday, razed agricultural lands belonging to Palestinians in Khirbet al-Taweel, located to the south of Nablus. Two Hebron district schools were also reported to have been targeted with unnecessary violence.
Member of the anti-settlement committee in Aqraba, Yousif Dirieh, told WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency that Israeli bulldozers razed several dunams of land planted with wheat crops in the locale, destroying the harvest.
Soldiers also set up earth mounds in the area, as a prelude for military training exercises.
Israeli forces follow a systematic policy of targeting agricultural land that is considered to be the main livelihood of Palestinians, as an attempt to force residents to leave their land, for the benefit of settlement expansion.
The occupied West Bank is also a scene of frequent settler attacks against Palestinians and their property, including physical assaults on farmers, in addition to crop theft and/or destruction, which is often done under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
WAFA notes that settler attacks against Palestinian farmers increase significantly during the olive harvest season.
Farmers often complain of sewage water pumped from nearby settlements into their land, thus destroying their crops.
The PNN reports that eyewitnesses and Palestinian shepherds, Sunday, complained about factories in the industrial zone of "Burkhan" Israeli settlement, near Salfit, in the northern West Bank, as settlers routinely dump their waste-water into the region's valleys over the weekend.
Researcher Khaled Ma'ali said that the waste-water from Borkan factory is not poured gradually but, rather, all at once.
The four industrial zones pouring the "skunk water" into the Salfit valleys are located in Ariel, Borkan, Amanoel and Zahav illegal settlements, according to eyewitnesses.
Ma'ali assured that the environmental pollution caused by the settlements' industrial zones takes long years to recover, and will cause extensive environmental destruction.
He is calling on environment organizations to hold Israeli authorities accountable for the damage it is causing, and to compensate those affected.
Related: Israeli Police Adopt New Crowd Control Method in Jerusalem
Furthermore, on Sunday, Israeli soldiers violently raided a boys’ school in the town of al-Khader, to the south of Bethlehem, in search of two students.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of soldiers raided the school yard and the principal’s office in a brutal manner, in search of the two students, spreading panic and fear among other students.
The teaching staff prevented the soldiers from coming near the students, however, and forced them out of the school.
Israeli forces often target schools and other educational facilities and tends to use excessive force against students and teaching staff, in further violation of international law.
“Fifty-eight education-related incidents affecting 11,935 children were reported in the West Bank in 2013, resulting in damage to school facilities, interruption of classes and injury to children,” according to the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.
The organization reported that “forty-one incidents involved Israeli security forces operations near or inside schools, forced entry without forewarning, the firing of tear gas canisters and sound bombs into school yards and, in some cases, structural damage to schools.”
In related news, the principal of al-Hussein Ibn Ali school, in Hebron, as well as the school secretary and janitor have fallen ill after receiving a suspicious package on Sunday, a local official said.
Director of the Hebron branch of the Palestinian Ministry of Education Bassam Tahboub told Ma'an News Agency that the three employees began suffering from nausea and dizziness immediately after opening an envelope that had arrived from Italy.
"When the school principal, Abd al-Muati Abu Sneina, opened it in the presence of secretary Fadi Shehada and janitor Nidal al-Qawasmi, they all started to sneeze in an unusual way and they had nausea and dizziness before they were evacuated to the public hospital of Hebron," he said.
Director of the area's public hospital, Abdullah al-Qawasmi, said that the three would remain in the hospital for follow up, though he confirmed that the three are in stable condition.
They are suffering from agitation and continuous sneezing caused by a "gluey material wrapped in cellophane inside the envelope," he further stated.
The material has been sent to governmental laboratories to be tested, while Palestinian security services have launched an investigation into the incident.
The case is the third of its kind in Hebron in recent weeks.
See also: 12/10/14 Mayor of Hebron Sent Toxic Substance and Death Threats
A seven-year-old Palestinian boy was hit Sunday morning by a vehicle driven by an Israeli settler, causing him moderate injuries.
Rateb Jabour, activist in the popular committee against settlement in Yatta, told the PIC that an Israeli settler ran over the seven-year-old Hamada Ayish Qareesh at the main road near Zif village.
The child was subsequently evacuated to Hadassah hospital in Occupied Jerusalem.
Recent months have seen a wave of hit-and-runs against Palestinians by fanatic Jewish settlers, Jabour added.
Meanwhile, the IOF kidnapped a Palestinian young man from an Israeli settlement built over Palestinian lands north of al-Khalil city.
The Israeli Maariv newspaper claimed that the youngster was nabbed by the IOF after he tried to push his way through the Eliezer illegal settlement, north of al-Khalil.
Earlier on Saturday a horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians’ cultivated lands in Yatta, to the south of al-Khalil, using chemical pesticides.
The attack culminated in remarkable damage wrought on two dunums of cultivated land lots.
Rateb Jabour, activist in the popular committee against settlement in Yatta, told the PIC that an Israeli settler ran over the seven-year-old Hamada Ayish Qareesh at the main road near Zif village.
The child was subsequently evacuated to Hadassah hospital in Occupied Jerusalem.
Recent months have seen a wave of hit-and-runs against Palestinians by fanatic Jewish settlers, Jabour added.
Meanwhile, the IOF kidnapped a Palestinian young man from an Israeli settlement built over Palestinian lands north of al-Khalil city.
The Israeli Maariv newspaper claimed that the youngster was nabbed by the IOF after he tried to push his way through the Eliezer illegal settlement, north of al-Khalil.
Earlier on Saturday a horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked Palestinians’ cultivated lands in Yatta, to the south of al-Khalil, using chemical pesticides.
The attack culminated in remarkable damage wrought on two dunums of cultivated land lots.
28 dec 2014
Three Palestinian citizens suffered bullet injuries at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) in northern Gaza afternoon Sunday while participating in a peaceful march against siege.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, the health ministry spokesman in Gaza, told the PIC reporter that three citizens were wounded in the IOF shooting at the march near Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing in northern Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians took part in the ‘National Day against the Siege’ march organized by Islamic and national factions in the besieged enclave.
The participants stood in a human chain along the Salahuddin main road in the Strip to protest the continued siege and the delay in reconstruction.
Palestinian sources said that IOF soldiers in the vicinity of Erez crossing fired at the participants near the crossing.
3 Injured by Israeli Fire in Gaza, Farmers Attacked near Khan Younis
Hundreds rally in mass protest of Israeli crimes
Three Palestinians were injured, Sunday afternoon, after Israeli forces opened fire on protesters near Erez crossing, on the border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli border guards, stationed at Khan Younis, were also reported to have opened fire on Palestinian farmers.
Witnesses told Ma'an News Agency that Israeli troops fired on dozens of young protestors who approached the border fence, after participating in a local rally in protest of the ongoing siege and in demand of Gaza's reconstruction.
Three young men sustained gunshot injuries, as a result. One, who was hit in the thigh, was evacuated to a hospital in nearby Beit Hanoun.
An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying that "40 or more Palestinians were hurling rocks and rioting violently" and that Israeli forces "attempted to disperse the riot" and "fired toward the main instigator's lower extremities."
Hundreds of Palestinians have been rallying across the Gaza Strip, demanding reconstruction of the war-torn coastal enclave and protesting the crippling Israeli siege on the region, which has been in place, now, for the past seven years.
The largest rally reportedly took place at the entrance of Gaza City's Shuja'eyya neighborhood, which was utterly devastated by a summer-long Israeli military assault that destroyed tens of thousands of homes and left nearly 110,000 Palestinians homeless.
Over 2,000 Palestinians, including women, children and elderly -- mostly civilians -- were brutally murdered in the offensive.
Despite promises made by Israel, when the ceasefire was signed in August, the siege on Gaza continues, severely limiting the amount of reconstruction materials being allowed in.
Other rallies took place in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Bani Suheila and Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, as well as near the Erez crossing close to Beit Hanoun, where Israeli soldiers also opened fire on marchers.
Ma'an further reports that the rallies come just a day after senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq slammed the national unity government for failing to have carried out its duties in Gaza.
He accused the government of refusing to take control and thus stymieing reconstruction, as donors lacked a governmental partner to work with.
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Also on Sunday, in the Gaza Strip, Israeli border guards stationed at the Khan Younis eastern borders fired at Palestinian farmers who were farming their land, according to WAFA correspondence.
Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at the farmers who were working their lands close to the buffer zone.
The Israeli military has issued orders prohibiting any Palestinian presence on the land within Gaza abutting the territory’s perimeter fence, currently up to 300 meters from the fence, but Israeli forces have frequently shot at Palestinians beyond that distance.
United Nations figures indicate that Israeli military forces have killed four and wounded more than 60 civilians near the perimeter fence with Gaza since the beginning of 2014.
Israeli forces target farmers along the borders on an almost daily basis, further breaching the August ceasefire agreement.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the buffer zone takes up about 44% of Gaza’s territory.
Dr. Ashraf al-Qidra, the health ministry spokesman in Gaza, told the PIC reporter that three citizens were wounded in the IOF shooting at the march near Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing in northern Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians took part in the ‘National Day against the Siege’ march organized by Islamic and national factions in the besieged enclave.
The participants stood in a human chain along the Salahuddin main road in the Strip to protest the continued siege and the delay in reconstruction.
Palestinian sources said that IOF soldiers in the vicinity of Erez crossing fired at the participants near the crossing.
3 Injured by Israeli Fire in Gaza, Farmers Attacked near Khan Younis
Hundreds rally in mass protest of Israeli crimes
Three Palestinians were injured, Sunday afternoon, after Israeli forces opened fire on protesters near Erez crossing, on the border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli border guards, stationed at Khan Younis, were also reported to have opened fire on Palestinian farmers.
Witnesses told Ma'an News Agency that Israeli troops fired on dozens of young protestors who approached the border fence, after participating in a local rally in protest of the ongoing siege and in demand of Gaza's reconstruction.
Three young men sustained gunshot injuries, as a result. One, who was hit in the thigh, was evacuated to a hospital in nearby Beit Hanoun.
An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed the incident, saying that "40 or more Palestinians were hurling rocks and rioting violently" and that Israeli forces "attempted to disperse the riot" and "fired toward the main instigator's lower extremities."
Hundreds of Palestinians have been rallying across the Gaza Strip, demanding reconstruction of the war-torn coastal enclave and protesting the crippling Israeli siege on the region, which has been in place, now, for the past seven years.
The largest rally reportedly took place at the entrance of Gaza City's Shuja'eyya neighborhood, which was utterly devastated by a summer-long Israeli military assault that destroyed tens of thousands of homes and left nearly 110,000 Palestinians homeless.
Over 2,000 Palestinians, including women, children and elderly -- mostly civilians -- were brutally murdered in the offensive.
Despite promises made by Israel, when the ceasefire was signed in August, the siege on Gaza continues, severely limiting the amount of reconstruction materials being allowed in.
Other rallies took place in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Bani Suheila and Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, as well as near the Erez crossing close to Beit Hanoun, where Israeli soldiers also opened fire on marchers.
Ma'an further reports that the rallies come just a day after senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq slammed the national unity government for failing to have carried out its duties in Gaza.
He accused the government of refusing to take control and thus stymieing reconstruction, as donors lacked a governmental partner to work with.
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Also on Sunday, in the Gaza Strip, Israeli border guards stationed at the Khan Younis eastern borders fired at Palestinian farmers who were farming their land, according to WAFA correspondence.
Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition at the farmers who were working their lands close to the buffer zone.
The Israeli military has issued orders prohibiting any Palestinian presence on the land within Gaza abutting the territory’s perimeter fence, currently up to 300 meters from the fence, but Israeli forces have frequently shot at Palestinians beyond that distance.
United Nations figures indicate that Israeli military forces have killed four and wounded more than 60 civilians near the perimeter fence with Gaza since the beginning of 2014.
Israeli forces target farmers along the borders on an almost daily basis, further breaching the August ceasefire agreement.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the buffer zone takes up about 44% of Gaza’s territory.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) tore down the symbolic village of Ziyad Abu Ein erected by Palestinian activists south of Bethlehem only hours after its establishment on Saturday.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the Israeli soldiers cordoned off the area before breaking into the makeshift village and violently dismantling the tents following a scuffle with the activists, one of whom was injured in his hand.
The activists had earlier pitched tents on land threatened with confiscation by Jewish settlers in Beit Fajjar village and called it Marty Ziyad Abu Ein after the Palestinian minister, who was killed by IOF soldiers.
The witnesses pointed out that the soldiers blocked western entrance of Beit Fajjar village during the process.
Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the Israeli soldiers cordoned off the area before breaking into the makeshift village and violently dismantling the tents following a scuffle with the activists, one of whom was injured in his hand.
The activists had earlier pitched tents on land threatened with confiscation by Jewish settlers in Beit Fajjar village and called it Marty Ziyad Abu Ein after the Palestinian minister, who was killed by IOF soldiers.
The witnesses pointed out that the soldiers blocked western entrance of Beit Fajjar village during the process.
27 dec 2014
A Palestinian man was shot and wounded at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) to the east of al-Khalil on Saturday.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers fired at Ibrahim al-Jabari while he was standing at the entrance of Beit Aynon village. He was hit with a bullet in his bullet and hospitalized, the sources added.
Violent confrontations between Palestinian citizens and IOF soldiers were also reported in Beit Ummar village, north of al-Khalil, and in Tabaka village to the south.
Locals reported a number of casualties while many civilians were treated for breathing problems.
Local sources told the PIC reporter that IOF soldiers fired at Ibrahim al-Jabari while he was standing at the entrance of Beit Aynon village. He was hit with a bullet in his bullet and hospitalized, the sources added.
Violent confrontations between Palestinian citizens and IOF soldiers were also reported in Beit Ummar village, north of al-Khalil, and in Tabaka village to the south.
Locals reported a number of casualties while many civilians were treated for breathing problems.
Dozens of Israeli settlers attacked Friday evening Palestinian vehicles passing through Jenin-Nablus road, while Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into a number of towns near Jenin.
Local sources revealed that large numbers of settlers stormed late Friday the evacuated settlement of Homesh to the south of Jenin and started stoning and attacking the passing Palestinian vehicles near the entrance of the settlement under IOF protection.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers in ten military patrols stormed different neighborhoods and towns in Jenin and carried out large combing operations throughout the roads in total provocation to the local residents. No arrests were reported.
Along the same line, a number of Israeli settlers broke into Bzik area, to the north of Tubas, Friday afternoon under protection of Israeli forces.
Local sources revealed that large numbers of settlers stormed late Friday the evacuated settlement of Homesh to the south of Jenin and started stoning and attacking the passing Palestinian vehicles near the entrance of the settlement under IOF protection.
Meanwhile, IOF soldiers in ten military patrols stormed different neighborhoods and towns in Jenin and carried out large combing operations throughout the roads in total provocation to the local residents. No arrests were reported.
Along the same line, a number of Israeli settlers broke into Bzik area, to the north of Tubas, Friday afternoon under protection of Israeli forces.
Four Palestinians, including an elderly women, were reported to have been injured in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after Israeli forces opened fire on protesters in two separate villages.
According to Ma'an News Agency, two Palestinian women were injured in the village of Farun, just south of Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.
72-year-old Yusra Mohammad Al-Haj al-Abd and Jumana Ahmad Shayib, 48, were shot by Israeli forces in their upper bodies during clashes in the village, and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that the pair were "hurling rocks at Israeli soldiers" and were subsequently shot in the "lower extremities."
She stated that Israeli forces had entered the village -- which is in Area A, technically under full Palestinian control -- on "some sort of routine patrol" and that, while on their way out, locals started "hurling rocks" at them and refused to stop.
Also on Friday, two Palestinian youth were reportedly shot with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in Safa area of Beit Ummar, to the north of Hebron.
A 20-year-old suffered a wound to the head and taken to hospital in stable condition, while a 17-year-old was hit in the right hand and treated at the scene.
Spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committee in Beit Ummar, Mohammad Ayyad Awad, said that dozens of others also suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation in the clashes, which apparently broke out after Israeli forces raided the area.
Mr. Awad said that Palestinians threw stones at the Israeli soldiers, who fired rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters into the crowds.
According to Ma'an News Agency, two Palestinian women were injured in the village of Farun, just south of Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank.
72-year-old Yusra Mohammad Al-Haj al-Abd and Jumana Ahmad Shayib, 48, were shot by Israeli forces in their upper bodies during clashes in the village, and were taken to a hospital for treatment.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that the pair were "hurling rocks at Israeli soldiers" and were subsequently shot in the "lower extremities."
She stated that Israeli forces had entered the village -- which is in Area A, technically under full Palestinian control -- on "some sort of routine patrol" and that, while on their way out, locals started "hurling rocks" at them and refused to stop.
Also on Friday, two Palestinian youth were reportedly shot with rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes in Safa area of Beit Ummar, to the north of Hebron.
A 20-year-old suffered a wound to the head and taken to hospital in stable condition, while a 17-year-old was hit in the right hand and treated at the scene.
Spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committee in Beit Ummar, Mohammad Ayyad Awad, said that dozens of others also suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation in the clashes, which apparently broke out after Israeli forces raided the area.
Mr. Awad said that Palestinians threw stones at the Israeli soldiers, who fired rubber-coated steel bullets, stun grenades and tear gas canisters into the crowds.
Undercover soldiers of the Israeli military kidnapped, on Friday evening, a young Palestinian man in Wadi al-Jouz neighborhood, during clashes that took place after the army invaded it. Army also kidnapped a child in Ras al-‘Amoud.
Eyewitnesses said that the undercover forces assaulted the young Palestinian, causing various injuries, and moved him to an unknown destination.
They added that local youths burnt tires, and hurled stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails at Israeli military vehicles and police cars near the entrance of the neighborhood.
The youths also used fireworks while the soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs.
In related news, soldiers kidnapped a child, identified as Hamada Daoud Nasser, 13 years of age, in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood, and held him at an illegal settlement in the neighborhood.
On Thursday, the soldiers kidnapped Hamada’s brother, Mohammad, and released him on bail, after ordering him under house arrest for two days.
Earlier on Friday, soldiers kidnapped a child identified as Musallam Odah, and a young man, identified as Mohammad Sharwana, and held them at the al-Maskobiyya interrogation center for several hours before releasing them.
Eyewitnesses said that the undercover forces assaulted the young Palestinian, causing various injuries, and moved him to an unknown destination.
They added that local youths burnt tires, and hurled stones, empty bottles and Molotov cocktails at Israeli military vehicles and police cars near the entrance of the neighborhood.
The youths also used fireworks while the soldiers fired rounds of live ammunition, rubber-coated metal bullets and gas bombs.
In related news, soldiers kidnapped a child, identified as Hamada Daoud Nasser, 13 years of age, in Ras al-‘Amoud neighborhood, and held him at an illegal settlement in the neighborhood.
On Thursday, the soldiers kidnapped Hamada’s brother, Mohammad, and released him on bail, after ordering him under house arrest for two days.
Earlier on Friday, soldiers kidnapped a child identified as Musallam Odah, and a young man, identified as Mohammad Sharwana, and held them at the al-Maskobiyya interrogation center for several hours before releasing them.
Several Palestinian and foreign activists on Friday afternoon suffered injuries when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) violently attacked their weekly marches in different West Bank areas.
In Bethlehem, the IOF subdued the anti-wall march in Masarah village and prevented the protestors from approaching the wall.
The IOF also attacked the weekly march of Kafr Qaddum near Nablus with hails of rubber bullets and tear gas grenades.
The Kafr Qaddum march is organized every Friday to protest Israel's closure of the main road of the village which connect it with Nablus city.
In another incident, violent clashes broke out on the same day afternoon when Israeli troops stormed al-Karmal area, east of Yatta town in al-Khalil.
Anti-settlement Activist Rateb al-Jabour said that the clashes broke out after Israeli soldiers flew a camera-equipped drone over Karmal area, adding that several Palestinian young men and citizens suffered from injuries and tear gas inhalation when the troops showered them and nearby homes with tear gas and stun grenades.
Jabour noted that the archeological area of Karmal is located within the territory of Yatta town and is exposed to regular break-ins by Jewish settlers.
Similar clashes also took place near the entrance of Ofer jail, southwest of Ramallah.
Eyewitnesses said that scores of Palestinian young men hurled stones from nearby hills at watchtowers and Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the prison and torched tires in different places, prompting the Israeli army to send more reinforcements to the area.
Several young men suffered from inhaling tear gas during the events.
In Bethlehem, the IOF subdued the anti-wall march in Masarah village and prevented the protestors from approaching the wall.
The IOF also attacked the weekly march of Kafr Qaddum near Nablus with hails of rubber bullets and tear gas grenades.
The Kafr Qaddum march is organized every Friday to protest Israel's closure of the main road of the village which connect it with Nablus city.
In another incident, violent clashes broke out on the same day afternoon when Israeli troops stormed al-Karmal area, east of Yatta town in al-Khalil.
Anti-settlement Activist Rateb al-Jabour said that the clashes broke out after Israeli soldiers flew a camera-equipped drone over Karmal area, adding that several Palestinian young men and citizens suffered from injuries and tear gas inhalation when the troops showered them and nearby homes with tear gas and stun grenades.
Jabour noted that the archeological area of Karmal is located within the territory of Yatta town and is exposed to regular break-ins by Jewish settlers.
Similar clashes also took place near the entrance of Ofer jail, southwest of Ramallah.
Eyewitnesses said that scores of Palestinian young men hurled stones from nearby hills at watchtowers and Israeli soldiers at the entrance of the prison and torched tires in different places, prompting the Israeli army to send more reinforcements to the area.
Several young men suffered from inhaling tear gas during the events.