7 feb 2014
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At least 18 Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian worshipers after prayers in the al-Aqsa compound on Friday.
A Ma'an reporter said dozens of Israeli soldiers raided the compound and fired tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at worshipers. Director of Al-Aqsa clinic Adnan Khanafseh told a Ma'an reporter that the 18 people were treated in the compound's clinics for fractures, injuries from stun grenade splinters, and rubber-coated steel bullets. A child and a 40-year-old man were among the people treated, and three people were transferred to hospital for further treatment, Khanafseh added. |
An Israeli police spokesman said that clashes broke out after "tens of Israeli-Arabs" threw stones at Israeli police officers located at the Moroccan Gate.
"Police responded by entering the Temple Mount using stun grenades to disperse rioters," Mickey Rosenfeld said.
He added that seven people were detained for involvement in the clashes, although he could not confirm any injuries.
Witnesses said the arrests were made by Israeli intelligence forces as youths left the compound. Fouad al-Qiq was the only one identified from the detainees, and it was reported that he was detained from Bab al-Amoud.
Clashes also broke out in Bab Hutta neighborhood at the same time.
Israeli forces blocked off a gate leading to the al-Qabli mosque and pepper sprayed youths in the area.
Because of the sensitive nature of the Al-Aqsa compound, Israel maintains a compromise with the Islamic trust that controls it to not allow non-Muslim prayers in the area. Israeli forces regularly escort Jewish visitors to the site, leading to tension with Palestinian worshipers.
The compound, which sits just above the Western Wall plaza, houses both the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque and is the third holiest site in Islam.
It is also venerated as Judaism's most holy place as it sits where Jews believe the First and Second Temples once stood. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
"Police responded by entering the Temple Mount using stun grenades to disperse rioters," Mickey Rosenfeld said.
He added that seven people were detained for involvement in the clashes, although he could not confirm any injuries.
Witnesses said the arrests were made by Israeli intelligence forces as youths left the compound. Fouad al-Qiq was the only one identified from the detainees, and it was reported that he was detained from Bab al-Amoud.
Clashes also broke out in Bab Hutta neighborhood at the same time.
Israeli forces blocked off a gate leading to the al-Qabli mosque and pepper sprayed youths in the area.
Because of the sensitive nature of the Al-Aqsa compound, Israel maintains a compromise with the Islamic trust that controls it to not allow non-Muslim prayers in the area. Israeli forces regularly escort Jewish visitors to the site, leading to tension with Palestinian worshipers.
The compound, which sits just above the Western Wall plaza, houses both the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosque and is the third holiest site in Islam.
It is also venerated as Judaism's most holy place as it sits where Jews believe the First and Second Temples once stood. The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.
Dozens of Palestinians were injured on Friday as protesters clashed with Israeli military forces in villages across the West Bank.
Demonstrations against the Israeli occupation took place in Kafr Qaddum, Beit Ummar, al-Jalazun, and Silwad on Friday afternoon.
Israeli forces responded with force injuring more than 30 protesters with live and rubber-coated steel bullets as well as dozens more with excessive firing of tear gas.
Five Israeli soldiers were also reported injured in the clashes after being struck by rocks.
Kafr Qaddum
In the Qalqiliya area village of Kafr Qaddum, four people, including a child, were injured during a weekly protest against the annexation of local land by Israel.
Saqer Obeid, 58, was injured after being struck in the head by a tear gas canister and Mahmoud Riyadh Eshtewi, 5, was struck with a tear gas canister in the leg.
Kamil Barham, 23, and Nasser Hasan, 43, were shot with steel bullets in the hand and foot, while dozens suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation.
Murad Eshtewi, a local coordinator for a popular resistance committee, said the protest started after Friday prayers, with hundreds of villagers and activists marching through the village.
Israeli soldiers and border police units raided the area and fired tear gas, stun grenades and steel bullets at the protesters.
An Israeli army spokesman said "40 Palestinians hurled rocks at Israeli security forces, who responded with riot dispersal means."
Protests are held every Friday in Kafr Qaddum against Israel's closure of a main road linking the village to its nearest city, Nablus. The road has been closed since 2000.
Beit Ummar
In Beit Ummar, two Palestinians were injured and one detained during clashes with Israeli military forces.
Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinians congratulating a local man who had been released from an Israeli jail after eight years.
An Israeli soldier was hit by a rock, a local popular resistance committee member said.
Al-Jalazun
Meanwhile, 12 Palestinians were injured with live gunfire and two were struck in the head by tear gas canisters in the Ramallah refugee camp of al-Jalazun.
Dozens of other people were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets and four Israeli soldiers were injured when youths threw a tear canisters at them.
An Israeli spokesman said "300 Palestinians were throwing rocks, firebombs and burning tires. Israeli forces responded with riot dispersal means."
Live fire was used against main instigators, he added.
Silwad
More than 10 Palestinian youths were injured by rubber bullets and nearly 50 suffered from excesive tear gas inhalation during clashes with Israeli forces near the village of Silwad north of Ramallah.
Four Israeli soldiers were also injured during the clashes, according to military sources, and had to be evacuated by ambulance after being struck by rocks.
Protests erupted after noon prayers on the outskirts of town, but turned into clashes that continued into the center of town as large numbers of soldiers raided and chased youths through the village roads.
The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.
Demonstrations against the Israeli occupation took place in Kafr Qaddum, Beit Ummar, al-Jalazun, and Silwad on Friday afternoon.
Israeli forces responded with force injuring more than 30 protesters with live and rubber-coated steel bullets as well as dozens more with excessive firing of tear gas.
Five Israeli soldiers were also reported injured in the clashes after being struck by rocks.
Kafr Qaddum
In the Qalqiliya area village of Kafr Qaddum, four people, including a child, were injured during a weekly protest against the annexation of local land by Israel.
Saqer Obeid, 58, was injured after being struck in the head by a tear gas canister and Mahmoud Riyadh Eshtewi, 5, was struck with a tear gas canister in the leg.
Kamil Barham, 23, and Nasser Hasan, 43, were shot with steel bullets in the hand and foot, while dozens suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation.
Murad Eshtewi, a local coordinator for a popular resistance committee, said the protest started after Friday prayers, with hundreds of villagers and activists marching through the village.
Israeli soldiers and border police units raided the area and fired tear gas, stun grenades and steel bullets at the protesters.
An Israeli army spokesman said "40 Palestinians hurled rocks at Israeli security forces, who responded with riot dispersal means."
Protests are held every Friday in Kafr Qaddum against Israel's closure of a main road linking the village to its nearest city, Nablus. The road has been closed since 2000.
Beit Ummar
In Beit Ummar, two Palestinians were injured and one detained during clashes with Israeli military forces.
Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinians congratulating a local man who had been released from an Israeli jail after eight years.
An Israeli soldier was hit by a rock, a local popular resistance committee member said.
Al-Jalazun
Meanwhile, 12 Palestinians were injured with live gunfire and two were struck in the head by tear gas canisters in the Ramallah refugee camp of al-Jalazun.
Dozens of other people were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets and four Israeli soldiers were injured when youths threw a tear canisters at them.
An Israeli spokesman said "300 Palestinians were throwing rocks, firebombs and burning tires. Israeli forces responded with riot dispersal means."
Live fire was used against main instigators, he added.
Silwad
More than 10 Palestinian youths were injured by rubber bullets and nearly 50 suffered from excesive tear gas inhalation during clashes with Israeli forces near the village of Silwad north of Ramallah.
Four Israeli soldiers were also injured during the clashes, according to military sources, and had to be evacuated by ambulance after being struck by rocks.
Protests erupted after noon prayers on the outskirts of town, but turned into clashes that continued into the center of town as large numbers of soldiers raided and chased youths through the village roads.
The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.
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Four Israeli soldiers suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation on Friday afternoon after an accident near the central West Bank village of Bilin.
The soldiers were injured after tear gas canisters exploded inside a military vehicle. At the time of accident, the vehicle was chasing village youths amid clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers, Palestine 24 quoted media coordinator for the Popular Campaign Against the Wall in Bilin Rateb Abu Rahma as saying. "The tear gas began to spread inside the vehicle, leading to their suffocation because they were unable to get out quickly enough," Abu Rahma said. |
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"The soldiers then got out of the jeep and threw their weapons on the ground, before another military patrol came to their aid and treated them on the spot."
"After that, they continued chasing local youths," he added. An Israeli army spokeswoman said that during the course of "a violent riot ... a border policeman was injured due to a malfunction in his gear," without elaborating. Dozens of youths are regularly injured by excessive tear gas inhalation during weekly clashes in Bilin, which have been ongoing since 2005. Villagers have protest against the Israeli separation wall that runs through |
their village on land confiscated from local farmers.
Previous protests by Bilin activists have forced the Israeli authorities to re-route the wall, but large chunks of the village lands remain inaccessible to residents because of the route.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice called on Israel to stop construction of the separation wall within the occupied West Bank.
When completed, 85 percent of the wall will run inside the West Bank.
The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.
Previous protests by Bilin activists have forced the Israeli authorities to re-route the wall, but large chunks of the village lands remain inaccessible to residents because of the route.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice called on Israel to stop construction of the separation wall within the occupied West Bank.
When completed, 85 percent of the wall will run inside the West Bank.
The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.
Five Palestinian citizens were wounded afternoon Friday in northern Gaza Strip at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) while peacefully demonstrating against imposing a buffer zone. Local sources said that IOF soldiers stationed to the east of Shuhada cemetery to the east of the northern Gaza city of Jabaliya opened fire and teargas at the demonstrators, mostly young men, wounding five of them one of them seriously.
They said that the young men were protesting against the IOF for imposing a buffer zone on farmers near the Gaza border.
Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, the health ministry spokesman, said that one of the wounded was hit with a bullet in his chest and his condition was critical.
He added that another young man was hit with shrapnel in his head, describing the injury as slight. He pointed out that a Palestinian ambulance car was hit with a gas bomb, but no injuries were reported.
The PIC reporter in the area said that a group of young men headed to the buffer zone in a peaceful march while chanting and waving Palestinian flags but were showered with a hail of bullets on the part of the IOF soldiers.
Medics: 5 injured by Israeli fire in Gaza on Friday
Five Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army gunfire Friday near the separation barrier in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said.
Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in the territory, said the five men were in their early twenties.
One was in serious condition from a shot to the chest, he told AFP.
Palestinian witnesses said the soldiers opened fire after they were attacked by stones hurled over the border fence.
An Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP there were a series of clashes along the border, including east of Jabalia, where "Palestinians hurled stones at soldiers and tried to sabotage the security fence."
"The soldiers tried to distance the crowd using riot dispersal means and firing several warning shots in the air" before shooting "towards one main instigator," she said.
Clashes are common on Fridays, with regular protests near the border in support of Gaza farmers who say troops uprooted their trees to create a buffer zone.
The buffer zone extends between 500 meters and 1500 meters into the Strip, effectively turning local farms into no-go zones.
According to UNOCHA, 17 percent of Gaza's total land area and 35 percent of its agricultural land were within the buffer zone as of 2010, directly affecting the lives and livelihoods of more than 100,000 Gazans.
They said that the young men were protesting against the IOF for imposing a buffer zone on farmers near the Gaza border.
Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, the health ministry spokesman, said that one of the wounded was hit with a bullet in his chest and his condition was critical.
He added that another young man was hit with shrapnel in his head, describing the injury as slight. He pointed out that a Palestinian ambulance car was hit with a gas bomb, but no injuries were reported.
The PIC reporter in the area said that a group of young men headed to the buffer zone in a peaceful march while chanting and waving Palestinian flags but were showered with a hail of bullets on the part of the IOF soldiers.
Medics: 5 injured by Israeli fire in Gaza on Friday
Five Palestinians were wounded by Israeli army gunfire Friday near the separation barrier in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources said.
Ashraf al-Qudra, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry in the territory, said the five men were in their early twenties.
One was in serious condition from a shot to the chest, he told AFP.
Palestinian witnesses said the soldiers opened fire after they were attacked by stones hurled over the border fence.
An Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP there were a series of clashes along the border, including east of Jabalia, where "Palestinians hurled stones at soldiers and tried to sabotage the security fence."
"The soldiers tried to distance the crowd using riot dispersal means and firing several warning shots in the air" before shooting "towards one main instigator," she said.
Clashes are common on Fridays, with regular protests near the border in support of Gaza farmers who say troops uprooted their trees to create a buffer zone.
The buffer zone extends between 500 meters and 1500 meters into the Strip, effectively turning local farms into no-go zones.
According to UNOCHA, 17 percent of Gaza's total land area and 35 percent of its agricultural land were within the buffer zone as of 2010, directly affecting the lives and livelihoods of more than 100,000 Gazans.
Palestinian resistance fighters on Thursday night set fire to a settler bus while it was passing between the town of Ya'abad south of Jenin and Dotan settlement, leading to the outbreak of violent clashes.
Local sources told PIC's correspondent that the resistance fighters threw Molotov cocktails at a bus carrying settlers.
They added that the occupation forces deployed soldiers in Ya'abad and declared the area a closed military zone.
They have also re-installed the Iron Gate at the village's southern entrance that leads to the city of Tulkarem, and started raiding the citizens' houses.
The sources said that the town witnessed violent clashes last night, during which the IOF fired gas bombs, causing dozens of civilians to suffocate.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that it was able to transfer 5 wounded, including 2 children, to the Governmental Hospital in Jenin.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian house in the village was damaged after being hit by a stun grenade during the confrontations.
Local sources told PIC's correspondent that the resistance fighters threw Molotov cocktails at a bus carrying settlers.
They added that the occupation forces deployed soldiers in Ya'abad and declared the area a closed military zone.
They have also re-installed the Iron Gate at the village's southern entrance that leads to the city of Tulkarem, and started raiding the citizens' houses.
The sources said that the town witnessed violent clashes last night, during which the IOF fired gas bombs, causing dozens of civilians to suffocate.
For its part, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported that it was able to transfer 5 wounded, including 2 children, to the Governmental Hospital in Jenin.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian house in the village was damaged after being hit by a stun grenade during the confrontations.
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Forty-one activists were injured during an IOF raid on Ein Hejleh protest village in the Jordan Valley.
Activists told PNN that 41 activists suffered injuries from rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters after Israeli forces raided the village on Friday at 4 am. Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters and acoustic bombs at the village before raiding it. The forces started beating them with batons and started expelling the activists from the village, the activists added. The Israeli soldiers also assaulted journalists and prevented them from covering the incident. |
The activists said that the Israeli forces empted the village of the activists and declared it a closed military area.
Munther Amira, an activist and a member of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), said that the number of injuries in the village reached to 41, adding that the forces deliberately assaulted every Palestinian and international activists in the village.
Amira added that Israeli forces forced the activists in the bus, threatening them with weapons, and transferred them to another area.
According to Hebrew media outlets, Israeli forces raided the village of Ein Hejleh and arrested a number of activists.
Munther Amira, an activist and a member of the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), said that the number of injuries in the village reached to 41, adding that the forces deliberately assaulted every Palestinian and international activists in the village.
Amira added that Israeli forces forced the activists in the bus, threatening them with weapons, and transferred them to another area.
According to Hebrew media outlets, Israeli forces raided the village of Ein Hejleh and arrested a number of activists.
6 feb 2014
A young Palestinian man was injured with live ammunition and dozens of others suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation in clashes with Israeli forces in al-Arrub refugee camp north of Hebron on Thursday evening.
Local sources in the camp told Ma'an that the young man was shot from close range in the upper left thigh, which caused severe damage to his groin.
He received first aid before being transferred to a hospital for treatment.
Witnesses said that dozens of others were injured with rubber coated steel bullets or from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers deployed heavily at the entrance of the camp.
An Israeli spokeswoman said that Palestinians had "blocked the road," and in response Israeli "soldiers arrived in order to clear the path."
She added that Israeli forces used "riot dispersal means" after Palestinians began "hurling rocks and molotov cocktails," and that "live fire was used towards the main instigator."
She added that a complaint had been filed to district coordination office regarding the incident, but did not know by whom.
Al-Arrub refugee camp is located on the Hebron-Jerusalem road, immediately south of the Gush Etzion Israeli settlement block and beside an Israeli checkpoint.
The Israeli checkpoint has made the area the site of frequent protests against the Israeli occupation, and Israeli forces regularly raid the camp and detain local youths.
The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.
Local sources in the camp told Ma'an that the young man was shot from close range in the upper left thigh, which caused severe damage to his groin.
He received first aid before being transferred to a hospital for treatment.
Witnesses said that dozens of others were injured with rubber coated steel bullets or from excessive tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers deployed heavily at the entrance of the camp.
An Israeli spokeswoman said that Palestinians had "blocked the road," and in response Israeli "soldiers arrived in order to clear the path."
She added that Israeli forces used "riot dispersal means" after Palestinians began "hurling rocks and molotov cocktails," and that "live fire was used towards the main instigator."
She added that a complaint had been filed to district coordination office regarding the incident, but did not know by whom.
Al-Arrub refugee camp is located on the Hebron-Jerusalem road, immediately south of the Gush Etzion Israeli settlement block and beside an Israeli checkpoint.
The Israeli checkpoint has made the area the site of frequent protests against the Israeli occupation, and Israeli forces regularly raid the camp and detain local youths.
The internationally recognized Palestinian territories of which the West Bank and East Jerusalem form a part have been occupied by the Israeli military since 1967.
Two Palestinian young men were injured with rubber bullets in Qasra village, south of Nablus, on Thursday during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces (IOF). Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter that the incidents started after a group of Jewish settlers attacked the village and assaulted farmers.
They said that IOF soldiers stormed the village to protect the settlers and violent confrontations ensued with young men, who threw stones and empty bottles at the invaders.
They said that the clashes were still raging in the afternoon and that two young men were injured with rubber bullets while others suffered breathing difficulty as a result of the IOF intensive firing of teargas bombs and rubber bullets at the youths.
Ghassan Daghlas, an activist monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the settlers came from Yash Kodesh settlement outpost and attacked Palestinian farmers trying to evict them from their land but the farmers confronted the attempt.
He said that inhabitants rushed to aid the farmers and the IOF soldiers arrived to the scene and the confrontations then flared up.
They said that IOF soldiers stormed the village to protect the settlers and violent confrontations ensued with young men, who threw stones and empty bottles at the invaders.
They said that the clashes were still raging in the afternoon and that two young men were injured with rubber bullets while others suffered breathing difficulty as a result of the IOF intensive firing of teargas bombs and rubber bullets at the youths.
Ghassan Daghlas, an activist monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the settlers came from Yash Kodesh settlement outpost and attacked Palestinian farmers trying to evict them from their land but the farmers confronted the attempt.
He said that inhabitants rushed to aid the farmers and the IOF soldiers arrived to the scene and the confrontations then flared up.
A Palestinian man sustained multiple fractures late Wednesday after being knocked down by an Israeli driver who then fled the scene, his family said.
Basim Umran told Ma'an on Thursday that his brother Tayseer, 42, was the victim of a hit-and-run accident near Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus.
Umran highlighted that an Israeli settler hit his brother while he was waiting for a taxi to drive him to his home in Deir al-Hatab village east of Nablus.
Umran suffered multiple fractures in the incident and underwent surgery at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.
Basim Umran told Ma'an on Thursday that his brother Tayseer, 42, was the victim of a hit-and-run accident near Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus.
Umran highlighted that an Israeli settler hit his brother while he was waiting for a taxi to drive him to his home in Deir al-Hatab village east of Nablus.
Umran suffered multiple fractures in the incident and underwent surgery at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.
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A picture of two Gazan Kids suffering from cancer
The number of cancer patients in the besieged Gaza Strip is on the rise as Israel uses weapons containing carcinogenic agents against Palestinians, medical sources reported. On Tuesday, Gazan patients and doctors marked the World Cancer Day by staging a protest inside Gaza’s Shifa hospital. An average of 1,000 cancer cases has been recorded annually among Gazans for the past two years. Gaza’s Health Ministry said the Israeli occupation’s use of internationally-banned weapons has sharply increased the number of cancer cases. |
“Thousands of tons of unconventional weapons containing carcinogenic agents were fired on Gaza in the last 14 years. Many of the weapons used by the Israeli forces are internationally banned and contain illegal substances that not only affect people but they also have long-term effects on the environment,” said Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra.
During the December 2008-January 2009 war against Gaza, Norwegian Doctor Mads Fredrik Gilbert, who volunteered at Gaza’s Shifa hospital, said that some victims had traces of depleted uranium in their wounds.
“The Israeli forces used all sorts of weapons against us. They are testing their weapons on us and on our children,” said a Gazan cancer patient.
Over 160 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and about 1,200 others injured in Israel’s eight-day offensive on the coastal enclave, which ended on November 21, 2012.
Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
The apartheid occupation denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.
During the December 2008-January 2009 war against Gaza, Norwegian Doctor Mads Fredrik Gilbert, who volunteered at Gaza’s Shifa hospital, said that some victims had traces of depleted uranium in their wounds.
“The Israeli forces used all sorts of weapons against us. They are testing their weapons on us and on our children,” said a Gazan cancer patient.
Over 160 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and about 1,200 others injured in Israel’s eight-day offensive on the coastal enclave, which ended on November 21, 2012.
Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standards of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
The apartheid occupation denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.
Israeli policemen arrested on Thursday morning a young man from Jerusalem, from inside al-Aqsa Mosque, and took him to a police center in the city. Eyewitnesses said that a group of youths clashed on Thursday morning with the Israeli forces at the Hitta door - one of al-Aqsa Mosque's doors - after they were prevented from entering the Mosque.
The Israeli soldiers attacked the young men using batons and pepper gas, before detaining one of them.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli police stepped up procedures against al-Aqsa Mosque, as they closed its doors and imposed restrictions on the entry of worshipers.
Dozens of youths flocked to the Mosque on Wednesday night to confront the settlers who have called for breaking into the Mosque's yards and the Dome of the Rock.
For its part, the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem on Thursday morning forced the occupation police to close the Mughrabi Gate to prevent the settlers from storming al-Aqsa.
The Israeli soldiers attacked the young men using batons and pepper gas, before detaining one of them.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli police stepped up procedures against al-Aqsa Mosque, as they closed its doors and imposed restrictions on the entry of worshipers.
Dozens of youths flocked to the Mosque on Wednesday night to confront the settlers who have called for breaking into the Mosque's yards and the Dome of the Rock.
For its part, the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem on Thursday morning forced the occupation police to close the Mughrabi Gate to prevent the settlers from storming al-Aqsa.
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out limited incursion Thursday morning into the Gaza Strip, east of al-Fokhari neighborhood on the eastern of Khan Younis. Local sources reported that four Israeli bulldozers penetrated into the place through (Sofa Israeli military site) after midnight and swept the agricultural lands in the area.
Occupation towers at the borders opened fire at Palestinian houses, eastern Khuza’a town amid intensive flying of helicopters and drones at law levels.
Similar incursions took place almost on a daily basis in the eastern and northern borders of the Gaza Strip in clear violation of the cease-fire- agreement that was signed between Israel and the Palestinian resistance factions brokered by Egypt in November, 2011.
IOF soldiers advance in southern Gaza, bulldoze land
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced in southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning and escorted bulldozers that leveled land in Fakhari area. Local sources told the PIC reporter that four military bulldozers advanced 150 meters to the south east of Khan Younis city and bulldozed land.
The sources noted the presence of reconnaissance planes over the area during the incursion.
The IOF had recently escalated attacks on eastern areas of the Gaza Strip.
Occupation towers at the borders opened fire at Palestinian houses, eastern Khuza’a town amid intensive flying of helicopters and drones at law levels.
Similar incursions took place almost on a daily basis in the eastern and northern borders of the Gaza Strip in clear violation of the cease-fire- agreement that was signed between Israel and the Palestinian resistance factions brokered by Egypt in November, 2011.
IOF soldiers advance in southern Gaza, bulldoze land
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced in southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning and escorted bulldozers that leveled land in Fakhari area. Local sources told the PIC reporter that four military bulldozers advanced 150 meters to the south east of Khan Younis city and bulldozed land.
The sources noted the presence of reconnaissance planes over the area during the incursion.
The IOF had recently escalated attacks on eastern areas of the Gaza Strip.
Beit El settlement in Ramallah
Dozens of Jewish settlers from Beit El settlement, north of Ramallah city, chanted slogans and carried banners during a night march Wednesday calling for killing the Palestinians and displacing them from their homes. The settlers marched from the entrance of the settlement to the Israeli liaison barrier, one of Ramallah's entrances, under tight military protection.
Palestinian Authority security forces also helped their Israeli counterparts to secure the march and prevented Palestinian vehicles from reaching the liaison barrier.
Violent clashes broke out last Friday outside Beit El settlement between scores of angry Palestinian young men from Al-Jalazoun refugee camp and Israeli soldiers.
More than 30 Palestinians suffered live bullet injuries during those events.
Dozens of Jewish settlers from Beit El settlement, north of Ramallah city, chanted slogans and carried banners during a night march Wednesday calling for killing the Palestinians and displacing them from their homes. The settlers marched from the entrance of the settlement to the Israeli liaison barrier, one of Ramallah's entrances, under tight military protection.
Palestinian Authority security forces also helped their Israeli counterparts to secure the march and prevented Palestinian vehicles from reaching the liaison barrier.
Violent clashes broke out last Friday outside Beit El settlement between scores of angry Palestinian young men from Al-Jalazoun refugee camp and Israeli soldiers.
More than 30 Palestinians suffered live bullet injuries during those events.
5 feb 2014
Israeli settlers assaulted a Palestinian man from Jerusalem while he was at work in the central West Bank village of Turmusayya on Wednesday afternoon.
Imad Dauwod al-Joulani, 49, was attacked by around 25 Israeli settlers while he was working with a concrete truck, a relative said.
Kayed al-Rajabi said that they beat him with stones and sticks until a nearby driver who saw the incident fired a gunshot in the air to disperse them. The driver's nationality was identified as Russian.
Al-Joulani suffered a deep cut in the head and eye as well as fractures in his jaw and teeth. He was taken to Hadassah hospital in Ein Kerem following the attack.
Turmusayya sits immediately south of the Jewish settlement of Shiloh halfway between Ramallah and Nablus.
In 2012, there were 353 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.
Imad Dauwod al-Joulani, 49, was attacked by around 25 Israeli settlers while he was working with a concrete truck, a relative said.
Kayed al-Rajabi said that they beat him with stones and sticks until a nearby driver who saw the incident fired a gunshot in the air to disperse them. The driver's nationality was identified as Russian.
Al-Joulani suffered a deep cut in the head and eye as well as fractures in his jaw and teeth. He was taken to Hadassah hospital in Ein Kerem following the attack.
Turmusayya sits immediately south of the Jewish settlement of Shiloh halfway between Ramallah and Nablus.
In 2012, there were 353 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.
Israeli policemen attacked on Wednesday morning a Jerusalemite woman, Um Tariq Hashlamoun, and took her to a police station in the occupied city for questioning. A worker in the Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem said in a press statement that the Israeli police had also attacked and arrested one of the guards of al-Aqsa Mosque, Ashraf Sharabati, after he prevented settlers from entering the Mosque at the Asbat Gate.
Both Sharabati and Ms. Hashlamon were released later.
Meanwhile, groups of settlers led by extremist Rabbi Yehuda Glick continued their daily break into al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate, under the protection of the Israeli police units.
Both Sharabati and Ms. Hashlamon were released later.
Meanwhile, groups of settlers led by extremist Rabbi Yehuda Glick continued their daily break into al-Aqsa Mosque from the Mughrabi Gate, under the protection of the Israeli police units.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) fired tear gas bombs and live bullets at hundreds of Palestinian activists who have set up Ein Hejleh village in the Jordan Valley. Many activists fell unconscious after suffering breathing difficulty as a result of inhaling teargas fired extensively by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday evening, eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter.
Youths of Deir Hejleh village, occupied and evicted in 1967, trekked sand roads to reach the village due to the Israeli security restrictions.
The activists staged a sit-in for the fifth consecutive day aiming to re-build the village owned by Hejleh church. The Israeli occupation authorities had established a military camp on church land.
IOF soldiers prevented journalists from covering the sit-in and forced them to trek sand roads to reach the village after threatening to confiscate their equipment.
It is expected that IOF will evict the village by force soon especially after the increasing presence of Israeli police and soldiers.
Deir Hejleh village was a home for monks and nuns who were serving the St. Gerasimos Monastery of the Orthodox Church before being deported to the West Bank in 1967 at security pretexts.
Dozens of Palestinian activists planted 150 trees in Ein Hejleh village and gave each one of them names of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948 as part of Palestinian youths' campaign launched to revive Palestinian villages evicted by the Israeli occupation forces.
Palestinian activists have continued to re-build and restore the deserted Palestinian village of Ein Hejleh in Jordan Valley as part of a campaign to resist Israeli Judaization plans.
The Palestinian activists called on international human rights institutions and foreign activists to visit the village and support their steadfastness.
Youths of Deir Hejleh village, occupied and evicted in 1967, trekked sand roads to reach the village due to the Israeli security restrictions.
The activists staged a sit-in for the fifth consecutive day aiming to re-build the village owned by Hejleh church. The Israeli occupation authorities had established a military camp on church land.
IOF soldiers prevented journalists from covering the sit-in and forced them to trek sand roads to reach the village after threatening to confiscate their equipment.
It is expected that IOF will evict the village by force soon especially after the increasing presence of Israeli police and soldiers.
Deir Hejleh village was a home for monks and nuns who were serving the St. Gerasimos Monastery of the Orthodox Church before being deported to the West Bank in 1967 at security pretexts.
Dozens of Palestinian activists planted 150 trees in Ein Hejleh village and gave each one of them names of Palestinian villages destroyed by Israeli forces in 1948 as part of Palestinian youths' campaign launched to revive Palestinian villages evicted by the Israeli occupation forces.
Palestinian activists have continued to re-build and restore the deserted Palestinian village of Ein Hejleh in Jordan Valley as part of a campaign to resist Israeli Judaization plans.
The Palestinian activists called on international human rights institutions and foreign activists to visit the village and support their steadfastness.
Israeli occupation artilleries fired Tuesday ten stun and smoke grenades at al-Wad area and around Serege gate to the east of Khanyunis city, southern the Gaza Strip. Occupation forces opened heavy gunfire at Palestinian houses in al-Qarara town, while the Israeli warplanes launched mock raids on Gaza, local media reported.
There is unusual movement of the Israeli military vehicles between Serge and Kissufim gates, coincided with intensive flying of Israeli drones and Helicopter at law levels, locals pointed out.
There is unusual movement of the Israeli military vehicles between Serge and Kissufim gates, coincided with intensive flying of Israeli drones and Helicopter at law levels, locals pointed out.
Israeli bulldozers of the Israeli municipality of the West Jerusalem Wednesday demolished a house in Sur Baher village, south of occupied Jerusalem, and another in Wad al-Dam neighborhood in the village of Beit Hanina, under the pretext of "building without permit".
Israeli forces demolished part of a house belonging to Mujahed Attiya Abu Sarhan, 28, in Sur Baher and another house belonging to Mohammed Jabarin Sandouka, 37, in Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem.
A number of Palestinian residents suffered suffocation injuries after Israeli forces surrounded two houses belonging to the brothers Hussain and Nasser Ramadan Shukerat in Jabl al-Mukaber neighborhood, south of the old city and started firing tear gas canisters in preparation for their demolition.
In a different context, five young Palestinians from the old city of Jerusalem were severely wounded after Israeli forces assaulted them. The five were arrested and taken to an Israeli interrogation center.
Israeli forces demolished part of a house belonging to Mujahed Attiya Abu Sarhan, 28, in Sur Baher and another house belonging to Mohammed Jabarin Sandouka, 37, in Beit Hanina north of occupied Jerusalem.
A number of Palestinian residents suffered suffocation injuries after Israeli forces surrounded two houses belonging to the brothers Hussain and Nasser Ramadan Shukerat in Jabl al-Mukaber neighborhood, south of the old city and started firing tear gas canisters in preparation for their demolition.
In a different context, five young Palestinians from the old city of Jerusalem were severely wounded after Israeli forces assaulted them. The five were arrested and taken to an Israeli interrogation center.
Two young Palestinian men were injured and four others were detained during an overnight Israeli military incursion into al-Fara refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
An Israeli soldier sustained minor wounds, onlookers said.
Locals told Ma’an that more than 40 Israeli military vehicles stormed the camp around 2 a.m. on Wednesday from three directions before they started to ransack homes.
In response, dozens of young Palestinian men clashed with the invading soldiers and pelted them with stones and empty bottles. The Israeli troops fired live ammunition at the protesters injuring two. Locals confirmed that 27-year-old Saed al-Ghoul sustained a gunshot in the abdomen and 23-year-old Hamza Mousa Ulayyan was hit in the hand.
Eventually, Israeli soldiers detained four young men before they left the camp. Locals identified the detainee as 26-year-old Muhammad Kamil Abu al-Summan, 20-year-old Abed Fathi Mansour, 18-year-old Yousif Jabir Abu Siyam and 21-year-old Mujahid Sawalmah.
An Israeli soldier sustained minor wounds, onlookers said.
Locals told Ma’an that more than 40 Israeli military vehicles stormed the camp around 2 a.m. on Wednesday from three directions before they started to ransack homes.
In response, dozens of young Palestinian men clashed with the invading soldiers and pelted them with stones and empty bottles. The Israeli troops fired live ammunition at the protesters injuring two. Locals confirmed that 27-year-old Saed al-Ghoul sustained a gunshot in the abdomen and 23-year-old Hamza Mousa Ulayyan was hit in the hand.
Eventually, Israeli soldiers detained four young men before they left the camp. Locals identified the detainee as 26-year-old Muhammad Kamil Abu al-Summan, 20-year-old Abed Fathi Mansour, 18-year-old Yousif Jabir Abu Siyam and 21-year-old Mujahid Sawalmah.
The sources highlighted that a fire broke out in the house of Mujahid Sawalmah as a result of an explosion the Israeli troops caused. The house was completely destroyed, according to local sources.
While Israeli troops withdrew from the camp, a young man hurled a homemade bomb injuring a soldier with shrapnel.
The incursion into al-Fara came only hours after masked gunmen marched in the streets and threatened collaborators with Israel demanding that they end contact with Israeli intelligence.
An Israeli army spokesman said one person was arrested and soldiers uncovered a machine gun and ammunition.
He said no soldiers were injured.
While Israeli troops withdrew from the camp, a young man hurled a homemade bomb injuring a soldier with shrapnel.
The incursion into al-Fara came only hours after masked gunmen marched in the streets and threatened collaborators with Israel demanding that they end contact with Israeli intelligence.
An Israeli army spokesman said one person was arrested and soldiers uncovered a machine gun and ammunition.
He said no soldiers were injured.
Israeli navy gunboats fired a number of projectiles and opened heavy machinegun fire at northern Gaza Strip coast at an early hour on Wednesday. Palestinian sources said that the Israeli gunboats off the Sudaniya coast opened fire at dawn Wednesday, adding that no casualties were reported.
The incident coincided with the flying of Israeli drones all over the Gaza Strip, the sources said, recalling that Israeli warplanes had launched mock raids on Gaza over the past couple of days.
The incident coincided with the flying of Israeli drones all over the Gaza Strip, the sources said, recalling that Israeli warplanes had launched mock raids on Gaza over the past couple of days.
A number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the al-Far’a refugee camp, in the Tubas district, broke into and searched several homes, detained five Palestinians and kidnapped one of them. Soldiers also shot and wounded one Palestinian.
Local sources have reported that dozens of Israeli military jeeps surrounded the camp, before the soldiers invaded it and violently broke into several homes.
Dozens of local youths hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading soldiers who fired rounds of live ammunition, gas bombs, and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Medical sources said resident Saed Mohammad al-Ghoul, in his twenties, was shot in the chest, and was moved to the Jenin Governmental Hospital suffering a moderate injury.
Furthermore, the soldiers threw a firebomb at a home belonging to resident Fares Thouqan, causing fire that consumed the furniture and property.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented Palestinian fire trucks from reaching the village.
The soldiers also violently searched several homes, causing property damage. The homes belong to residents Salah Oleyyan, Hassan Tayeh and Fayez Fiddy.
Later on, the soldiers detained five Palestinians in the camp, and interrogated them before releasing four of them.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers detained Abed Fathi Mansour, Qais Ibrahim Abu Madhi, Mohammad Kamel Abu as-Summan, and Mojahed Fares Thouqan. All, except for Thouqan, were released later on.
On Wednesday evening, several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded the town of Doura, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
Local sources have reported that the soldiers searched several homes in the town before kidnapping three Palestinians identified as Anas Taiseer al-Awawda, 20, Yazan Kamel ash-Sharif, 18, and Ahmad Mohammad Ar-Rej’ey, 18.
On Tuesday evening, soldiers assaulted five young Palestinian men, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped them.
The five kidnapped Palestinians have been identified as Rami Abu Sbeih, 18, Mustafa at-Tarhouny, 17, Khalil at-Tarhouny, 29, Sa’id Halaby, 22, and Wisam Halaby, 32.
Local sources have reported that dozens of Israeli military jeeps surrounded the camp, before the soldiers invaded it and violently broke into several homes.
Dozens of local youths hurled stones and empty bottles at the invading soldiers who fired rounds of live ammunition, gas bombs, and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Medical sources said resident Saed Mohammad al-Ghoul, in his twenties, was shot in the chest, and was moved to the Jenin Governmental Hospital suffering a moderate injury.
Furthermore, the soldiers threw a firebomb at a home belonging to resident Fares Thouqan, causing fire that consumed the furniture and property.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers prevented Palestinian fire trucks from reaching the village.
The soldiers also violently searched several homes, causing property damage. The homes belong to residents Salah Oleyyan, Hassan Tayeh and Fayez Fiddy.
Later on, the soldiers detained five Palestinians in the camp, and interrogated them before releasing four of them.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers detained Abed Fathi Mansour, Qais Ibrahim Abu Madhi, Mohammad Kamel Abu as-Summan, and Mojahed Fares Thouqan. All, except for Thouqan, were released later on.
On Wednesday evening, several armored Israeli military jeeps invaded the town of Doura, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
Local sources have reported that the soldiers searched several homes in the town before kidnapping three Palestinians identified as Anas Taiseer al-Awawda, 20, Yazan Kamel ash-Sharif, 18, and Ahmad Mohammad Ar-Rej’ey, 18.
On Tuesday evening, soldiers assaulted five young Palestinian men, in occupied East Jerusalem, and kidnapped them.
The five kidnapped Palestinians have been identified as Rami Abu Sbeih, 18, Mustafa at-Tarhouny, 17, Khalil at-Tarhouny, 29, Sa’id Halaby, 22, and Wisam Halaby, 32.