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Three young Palestinian men from the Wadi al-Juz neighborhood of East Jerusalem say they were “brutally” beaten by Israeli troops who stormed a house in the neighborhood Saturday.
Mahir Abu Dalou told Ma’an Monday that Israeli soldiers broke into a building belonging to his family late on Saturday evening. He added that his son Abdul-Rahman, 17, cousin Ammar Abu Dalou, 20, and their friend Majd Jamal Siyam, 16, were in the front yard of the building when the soldiers broke in. Israeli officesr then “brutally” assaulted the three with rifle butts and clubs. The officers, he added, threatened to “beat and shoot my brother and my wife.” Abu Dalou added that his son Abdul-Rahman was taken to hospital for stitches after he sustained cuts in his face. |
Ammar Abu Dalou, he added, sustained bruises all over his body, while Majd Siyam was stopped for an hour after he was beaten on his head.
“The soldiers treated us savagely under the guise that young men who partook in the clashes in the neighborhood were hiding in our house,” added Abu Dalou.
“The soldiers treated us savagely under the guise that young men who partook in the clashes in the neighborhood were hiding in our house,” added Abu Dalou.
A Palestinian journalist and a young Palestinian woman were wounded after two Israeli extremists attacked them near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on Monday.
Journalist Nuha Musleh told Ma’an she was interviewing a young woman from Jerusalem with another journalist when she was hit with a big rock on her shoulder, which caused her to suffer from bruises and lose consciousness.
The young woman with her was also hit.
Musleh added that Palestinians in the area chased down the perpetrators, who tried to flee, but were caught and transferred to the Salauddin street police department.
She said that she was still at the police station giving her statement.
Journalist Nuha Musleh told Ma’an she was interviewing a young woman from Jerusalem with another journalist when she was hit with a big rock on her shoulder, which caused her to suffer from bruises and lose consciousness.
The young woman with her was also hit.
Musleh added that Palestinians in the area chased down the perpetrators, who tried to flee, but were caught and transferred to the Salauddin street police department.
She said that she was still at the police station giving her statement.
A large-scale operation is reportedly off the table for now, but official says cabinet 'prepared to broaden' operation if rocket fire does not stop
Israel's security cabinet late Monday has reportedly given approval to military forces to escalate their attacks against Gaza.
A large-scale military operation against the Palestinian enclave is off the table for now, but the cabinet has ordered the Israeli army to significantly expand its operations, senior officials told Israeli daily Haaretz.
“The blows will be harder,” one of the senior officials told Haaretz. “We will escalate the attacks to make it clear to [Hamas] that it is in their interest to stop the rocket fire. We are prepared to broaden the operation in case the rocket fire does not stop.”
An Israeli officer told the newspaper that the army is preparing to call up 1,500 reservists for the escalation.
Tensions with Gaza have increased since mid-June, after Israel launched a major series of searches and arrests in the occupied West Bank after the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were found last week.
The announcement of Israeli's escalation on Gaza follows a week of increased rocket fire from both sides as tensions have flared first in East Jerusalem and then in the West Bank following the suspected revenge killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian on Wednesday.
Earlier Monday, three Israeli suspects arrested the day before for the killing of a Palestinian teenager confessed to the kidnapping and killing the teen, Mohammed Abu Khdeir.
An autopsy report released on Saturday concluded that Abu Khdeir was burned alive before his charred body was found in Jerusalem Forest on Wednesday morning.
The three who confessed performed a re-enactment of the crime, a source told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Following the suspects' arrest on Sunday, officials indicated on their suspicion that the crime was “nationalistic", but further details have not been released, nor have the identities of the suspects.
Authorities have placed a gag order on most aspects of the investigation into Abu Khdeir's murder.
But Honenu, a legal organisation which often defends right-wing ultra-nationalists, said it was representing six people - three of them minors - whose remand was extended by the Petah Tikva magistrates court, just outside Tel Aviv, on Sunday.
Honenu attorneys told Arutz Sheva 7, an Israeli television station, that their clients have been subjected to hours of intensive interrogation and have been denied sleep, food, water "and the opportunity to relieve themselves in a dignified way."
The attorneys also said they plan to appeal their clients' remand extension.
An official told the Associated Press on Sunday that evidence points towards the perpetrators being "Jewish extremists", Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
Israel's security cabinet late Monday has reportedly given approval to military forces to escalate their attacks against Gaza.
A large-scale military operation against the Palestinian enclave is off the table for now, but the cabinet has ordered the Israeli army to significantly expand its operations, senior officials told Israeli daily Haaretz.
“The blows will be harder,” one of the senior officials told Haaretz. “We will escalate the attacks to make it clear to [Hamas] that it is in their interest to stop the rocket fire. We are prepared to broaden the operation in case the rocket fire does not stop.”
An Israeli officer told the newspaper that the army is preparing to call up 1,500 reservists for the escalation.
Tensions with Gaza have increased since mid-June, after Israel launched a major series of searches and arrests in the occupied West Bank after the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers, whose bodies were found last week.
The announcement of Israeli's escalation on Gaza follows a week of increased rocket fire from both sides as tensions have flared first in East Jerusalem and then in the West Bank following the suspected revenge killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian on Wednesday.
Earlier Monday, three Israeli suspects arrested the day before for the killing of a Palestinian teenager confessed to the kidnapping and killing the teen, Mohammed Abu Khdeir.
An autopsy report released on Saturday concluded that Abu Khdeir was burned alive before his charred body was found in Jerusalem Forest on Wednesday morning.
The three who confessed performed a re-enactment of the crime, a source told AFP, requesting anonymity.
Following the suspects' arrest on Sunday, officials indicated on their suspicion that the crime was “nationalistic", but further details have not been released, nor have the identities of the suspects.
Authorities have placed a gag order on most aspects of the investigation into Abu Khdeir's murder.
But Honenu, a legal organisation which often defends right-wing ultra-nationalists, said it was representing six people - three of them minors - whose remand was extended by the Petah Tikva magistrates court, just outside Tel Aviv, on Sunday.
Honenu attorneys told Arutz Sheva 7, an Israeli television station, that their clients have been subjected to hours of intensive interrogation and have been denied sleep, food, water "and the opportunity to relieve themselves in a dignified way."
The attorneys also said they plan to appeal their clients' remand extension.
An official told the Associated Press on Sunday that evidence points towards the perpetrators being "Jewish extremists", Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
A fireball is seen following an Israel airstrike on Gaza International Airport in Rafah on Monday
Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed eight Palestinian fighters, medics said on Monday, after recovering several bodies from a collapsed tunnel in Rafah.
But Israel's military said it had not targeted the tunnel, and that the fighters had blown themselves up as they were handling explosives for use in attacks against the army.
The strikes came after a day in which fighters in Gaza fired at least 25 rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel, and intermittent rocket fire kept up during the day on Monday.
Two of the Gazans were killed east of the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the enclave in a missile strike, which came shortly before midnight (2100 GMT), witnesses said.
In a separate drone strike in the southern city of Rafah, another fighter was critically wounded, and later died of his injuries, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Raids across Gaza The army confirmed a series of raids across Gaza, saying they had targeted a group of people involved in "launching rockets from central Gaza," as well as "nine terror sites and concealed rocket launchers."
Several hours after midnight, two fighters were killed and two civilians wounded in what Qudra said was a drone strike east of Rafah which caused the collapse of a tunnel.
The bodies of three more fighters were pulled from the tunnel later, and one was found critically injured.
The military wing of the Islamist movement Hamas, which dominates Gaza, said that in total six of its fighters were killed in that strike, without accounting for the sixth.
But Israel's army said it had not targeted that tunnel overnight, although it had bombed it several days before.
"We attacked this site a few days ago," said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner.
But "there was no Israeli air strike there" since then, he told journalists in a phone conference.
Fighters were "planting explosives that were supposed to be used against Israeli forces... (and) meddled with some of the explosives... That was the (cause) of the explosion and that's why they died," he said.
Meanwhile, medics said five civilians were wounded in the northern town of Beit Hanun after a rocket fired by fighters fell short of Israel.
The Israeli military said it had hit a total of 14 targets overnight. It said fighters had fired an anti-tank missile at an army patrol by the border fence, causing no casualties.
Later on Monday, the army said that a total of around 50 rockets fired from Gaza had hit Israel since midnight.
The military was still carrying out strikes late Monday, hitting several "concealed rocket launchers" and a "terror tunnel" in southern Gaza, a spokeswoman said.
Elsewhere, a soldier was lightly wounded by shrapnel after three rockets hit the Eshkol region which flanks the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed eight Palestinian fighters, medics said on Monday, after recovering several bodies from a collapsed tunnel in Rafah.
But Israel's military said it had not targeted the tunnel, and that the fighters had blown themselves up as they were handling explosives for use in attacks against the army.
The strikes came after a day in which fighters in Gaza fired at least 25 rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel, and intermittent rocket fire kept up during the day on Monday.
Two of the Gazans were killed east of the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the enclave in a missile strike, which came shortly before midnight (2100 GMT), witnesses said.
In a separate drone strike in the southern city of Rafah, another fighter was critically wounded, and later died of his injuries, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Raids across Gaza The army confirmed a series of raids across Gaza, saying they had targeted a group of people involved in "launching rockets from central Gaza," as well as "nine terror sites and concealed rocket launchers."
Several hours after midnight, two fighters were killed and two civilians wounded in what Qudra said was a drone strike east of Rafah which caused the collapse of a tunnel.
The bodies of three more fighters were pulled from the tunnel later, and one was found critically injured.
The military wing of the Islamist movement Hamas, which dominates Gaza, said that in total six of its fighters were killed in that strike, without accounting for the sixth.
But Israel's army said it had not targeted that tunnel overnight, although it had bombed it several days before.
"We attacked this site a few days ago," said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner.
But "there was no Israeli air strike there" since then, he told journalists in a phone conference.
Fighters were "planting explosives that were supposed to be used against Israeli forces... (and) meddled with some of the explosives... That was the (cause) of the explosion and that's why they died," he said.
Meanwhile, medics said five civilians were wounded in the northern town of Beit Hanun after a rocket fired by fighters fell short of Israel.
The Israeli military said it had hit a total of 14 targets overnight. It said fighters had fired an anti-tank missile at an army patrol by the border fence, causing no casualties.
Later on Monday, the army said that a total of around 50 rockets fired from Gaza had hit Israel since midnight.
The military was still carrying out strikes late Monday, hitting several "concealed rocket launchers" and a "terror tunnel" in southern Gaza, a spokeswoman said.
Elsewhere, a soldier was lightly wounded by shrapnel after three rockets hit the Eshkol region which flanks the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes on Monday dropped warning leaflets in the northern areas of the Gaza Strip, witnesses and Israeli media reported.
The leaflets read: "To the people of the Gaza Strip: The terrorists and smugglers are well aware that their terrorist acts of digging tunnels to smuggle military ammunition is a target for the Israeli Defense Forces, but they keep working and taking cover near your residences.
"Do not stand still. You are being used by terrorists who will not be by your side when you get hurt. Take responsibility for your future!"
The leaflet also provided a telephone number and email address to provide information to, with secrecy guaranteed, it added.
The leaflets read: "To the people of the Gaza Strip: The terrorists and smugglers are well aware that their terrorist acts of digging tunnels to smuggle military ammunition is a target for the Israeli Defense Forces, but they keep working and taking cover near your residences.
"Do not stand still. You are being used by terrorists who will not be by your side when you get hurt. Take responsibility for your future!"
The leaflet also provided a telephone number and email address to provide information to, with secrecy guaranteed, it added.
A four-year-old Palestinian child was wounded in an Israeli air strike on an agricultural land lot to the north of the Gaza Strip on Monday. Israeli warplanes launched a series of air raids on the besieged enclave on Monday evening one of which targeted the land lot to the east of Jabaliya refugee camp, local sources said.
They noted that the child was injured when the warplanes targeted the same area again with two missiles.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets on residents of northern Gaza asking them to prevent resistance fighters from firing rockets on Israeli targets.
4-year-old boy injured in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza
Israeli warplanes struck the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, injuring a young boy, medics said.
Airstrikes hit agricultural areas in northern Jabaliya, with medical sources saying a four-year-old boy sustained moderate injuries.
Another two airstrikes hit agricultural land in eastern Jabaliya, causing damages to property.
Two airstrikes also hit nearby Beit Lahiya, with no injuries reported.
Additionally, an airstrike hit the al-Shujayyia neighborhood of Gaza City, with no injuries reported.
Nine Palestinians, six of them members of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades, were killed in Israeli strikes overnight.
An Israeli army statement said that "aircraft targeted three concealed rockets launchers in the northern Gaza Strip."
They noted that the child was injured when the warplanes targeted the same area again with two missiles.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets on residents of northern Gaza asking them to prevent resistance fighters from firing rockets on Israeli targets.
4-year-old boy injured in Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza
Israeli warplanes struck the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, injuring a young boy, medics said.
Airstrikes hit agricultural areas in northern Jabaliya, with medical sources saying a four-year-old boy sustained moderate injuries.
Another two airstrikes hit agricultural land in eastern Jabaliya, causing damages to property.
Two airstrikes also hit nearby Beit Lahiya, with no injuries reported.
Additionally, an airstrike hit the al-Shujayyia neighborhood of Gaza City, with no injuries reported.
Nine Palestinians, six of them members of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades, were killed in Israeli strikes overnight.
An Israeli army statement said that "aircraft targeted three concealed rockets launchers in the northern Gaza Strip."
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), deployed at the Megan military site, fired 4 artillery shells at Palestinians’ lands near Abu Hammam neighborhood, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. Eye-witnesses told PIC correspondent that the Israeli military watchtowers opened heavy fire on the agricultural lands owned by Abu Hammam and Abu Metwi families before hitting them with 4 artillery bombs.
An Israeli military jeep stationing at the Gaza borders near the Megan site was targeted by the Palestinian resistance as a response to the Israeli artillery attack.
The response came at a time when 9 Palestinian citizens were killed overnight Sunday and at dawn Monday while dozens were left wounded in a wave of Israeli aerial raids launched on different areas of the Gaza Strip.
An Israeli military jeep stationing at the Gaza borders near the Megan site was targeted by the Palestinian resistance as a response to the Israeli artillery attack.
The response came at a time when 9 Palestinian citizens were killed overnight Sunday and at dawn Monday while dozens were left wounded in a wave of Israeli aerial raids launched on different areas of the Gaza Strip.
In a related event, the Israeli navy opened fire on Palestinians’ fishing boats off Khan Younis waters, south of the Gaza Strip, preventing scores of fishermen from taking out their fishing nets.
According to a group of Palestinian fishermen at the scene, the Israeli navy had reduced the authorized fishing zone from 6 nautical miles to 3 only and threatened to arrest the fishermen, forcing them back to the seashore.
According to a group of Palestinian fishermen at the scene, the Israeli navy had reduced the authorized fishing zone from 6 nautical miles to 3 only and threatened to arrest the fishermen, forcing them back to the seashore.
Israel threatened to hit Hamas with a final deathblow in case any other projected rocket attacks were launched on Israeli settlements near the Gaza Strip in response to Israeli raids. According to Israeli sources, the threat was handed over to Hamas by the Egyptian mediator.
“This is the final red card ever issued to Hamas… Israel will now have all go-aheads to fire back,” Israeli 0404 website said quoting army sources.
“Israel will take aggressive revenge of Hamas,” it added.
In a related event, dozens of Israeli extremist settlers rallied in Ashdod so as to urge the Israeli occupation authorities to press ahead with their retaliation threats and drive Arab MK Hanin Zoabi out of the Knesset.
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), for its part, warned the Israeli occupation of any potential repercussions to be generated by its military escalation against the Gaza Strip, slamming PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his pre-planned participation in an Israeli conference to be held Tuesday.
PLC chairmanship said in a press release Sunday: “We have all the reasons to appeal to international courts to take legal action against such Israeli military escalation, which has not only been targeting Palestinian civilians with random kidnaps, torture, and murders but also burned a 16-year-old child alive just a few days ago.”
Israelis were contriving a new plan by which Palestinians would remain chained hand and feet, defenseless before such terror acts and bloodshed, the statement added.
The PLC called on Egypt, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the UN, and other international human rights institutions to immediately step in so as to halt Israeli aggressions against Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The PLC further spoke against Abbas’s normalization with the Israeli occupation and his apathy regarding the agony of Palestinians.
“This is the final red card ever issued to Hamas… Israel will now have all go-aheads to fire back,” Israeli 0404 website said quoting army sources.
“Israel will take aggressive revenge of Hamas,” it added.
In a related event, dozens of Israeli extremist settlers rallied in Ashdod so as to urge the Israeli occupation authorities to press ahead with their retaliation threats and drive Arab MK Hanin Zoabi out of the Knesset.
The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), for its part, warned the Israeli occupation of any potential repercussions to be generated by its military escalation against the Gaza Strip, slamming PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his pre-planned participation in an Israeli conference to be held Tuesday.
PLC chairmanship said in a press release Sunday: “We have all the reasons to appeal to international courts to take legal action against such Israeli military escalation, which has not only been targeting Palestinian civilians with random kidnaps, torture, and murders but also burned a 16-year-old child alive just a few days ago.”
Israelis were contriving a new plan by which Palestinians would remain chained hand and feet, defenseless before such terror acts and bloodshed, the statement added.
The PLC called on Egypt, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the UN, and other international human rights institutions to immediately step in so as to halt Israeli aggressions against Palestinian civilians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The PLC further spoke against Abbas’s normalization with the Israeli occupation and his apathy regarding the agony of Palestinians.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday ended a 20-month political alliance between his party and the ruling right-wing Likud, although his faction will remain in government.
The decision was announced at a press conference after a bitter dispute between Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the government's handling of intensifying rocket fire by militants in the Gaza Strip.
Lieberman, who heads the right-wing nationalist Yisrael Beitenu, had formed an electoral alliance with Netanyahu's Likud in October 2012 ahead of a January 2013 election, in a move they said would enable them to better face security challenges.
The new bloc, which was quickly dubbed Likud Beitenu, won a narrow electoral victory, taking 31 of the Knesset's 120 seats, just 12 more than its closest challenger, the centrist Yesh Atid party.
But following a dispute with Netanyahu over Gaza, which saw Lieberman pushing for a full reoccupation of the territory, the minister decided to end their electoral alliance.
"It's no secret that there are fundamental disagreements which no longer allow us to work together, so we have advised the Knesset committee that we are separating and setting up a separate faction," he said.
It was not immediately clear how many seats each faction would hold.
Professor Gideon Rahat of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said a split between the two camps had been a long time coming, and Lieberman had seized the opportunity to leave of his own accord, rather than being kicked out of the alliance by Likud.
"The parties were never united -- they came together for the elections. If anyone benefited from this so-called unification, it was Lieberman, because he got more than his fair share of government ministries," Rahat told AFP.
"Basically, he's weak so Likud could have kicked him but, but he wanted to show he's boss.
"It's a symbolic move, no more than a sign of weakness," Rahat said.
Lieberman renewed his call for a major ground operation in Gaza in response to the rocket fire.
"In Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel made significant achievements: from the liquidation of Hamas' military chief of staff to the destruction of 95 percent of its long-range missiles," Lieberman said, referring to the last major Israeli operation in November 2012.
"Today, they now have hundreds of missiles with a range of 80 kilometers," he said.
"This reality in which we live -- with hundreds of missiles held by a terror organization which could decide to use them at any moment - is unacceptable.
"It is not clear what we are waiting for."
Israel launched multiple airstrikes on Gaza overnight Sunday killing 9 Palestinians, according to Hamas, although Israel says six Hamas fighters died in a tunnel collapse and not as a result of military airstrikes.
The PRC's military wing, the al-Nasser Saladin Brigades, vowed to respond to the killings, saying: "The enemy should bear the consequences of its ongoing crimes and aggressions."
A child, two teenage girls, and two men were injured by an Israeli airstrike on Beit Hanoun, a Palestinian medical official said.
The decision was announced at a press conference after a bitter dispute between Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the government's handling of intensifying rocket fire by militants in the Gaza Strip.
Lieberman, who heads the right-wing nationalist Yisrael Beitenu, had formed an electoral alliance with Netanyahu's Likud in October 2012 ahead of a January 2013 election, in a move they said would enable them to better face security challenges.
The new bloc, which was quickly dubbed Likud Beitenu, won a narrow electoral victory, taking 31 of the Knesset's 120 seats, just 12 more than its closest challenger, the centrist Yesh Atid party.
But following a dispute with Netanyahu over Gaza, which saw Lieberman pushing for a full reoccupation of the territory, the minister decided to end their electoral alliance.
"It's no secret that there are fundamental disagreements which no longer allow us to work together, so we have advised the Knesset committee that we are separating and setting up a separate faction," he said.
It was not immediately clear how many seats each faction would hold.
Professor Gideon Rahat of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said a split between the two camps had been a long time coming, and Lieberman had seized the opportunity to leave of his own accord, rather than being kicked out of the alliance by Likud.
"The parties were never united -- they came together for the elections. If anyone benefited from this so-called unification, it was Lieberman, because he got more than his fair share of government ministries," Rahat told AFP.
"Basically, he's weak so Likud could have kicked him but, but he wanted to show he's boss.
"It's a symbolic move, no more than a sign of weakness," Rahat said.
Lieberman renewed his call for a major ground operation in Gaza in response to the rocket fire.
"In Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel made significant achievements: from the liquidation of Hamas' military chief of staff to the destruction of 95 percent of its long-range missiles," Lieberman said, referring to the last major Israeli operation in November 2012.
"Today, they now have hundreds of missiles with a range of 80 kilometers," he said.
"This reality in which we live -- with hundreds of missiles held by a terror organization which could decide to use them at any moment - is unacceptable.
"It is not clear what we are waiting for."
Israel launched multiple airstrikes on Gaza overnight Sunday killing 9 Palestinians, according to Hamas, although Israel says six Hamas fighters died in a tunnel collapse and not as a result of military airstrikes.
The PRC's military wing, the al-Nasser Saladin Brigades, vowed to respond to the killings, saying: "The enemy should bear the consequences of its ongoing crimes and aggressions."
A child, two teenage girls, and two men were injured by an Israeli airstrike on Beit Hanoun, a Palestinian medical official said.
The Israeli police kidnapped overnight 110 Palestinians; around half of them are children, during protests that swept across Arab towns in historic Palestine.
The Arabs48 News Website has reported that massive protests were held in different parts of the country, while protesters also closed various roads, including Tamra-Akka Road and clashed with Israeli police officers who assaulted them.
Ten Palestinians have been kidnapped in the Tamra-Akka (Akko) road area, while the police also used gas bombs, and concussion grenades against the protesters, causing several injuries.
In Nazareth, the police hundreds with dozens of protesters, and violently assaulted dozens, before kidnapping 40 Palestinians.
Thousands also held protests in Arraba al-Batouf, in the Galilee, carrying Palestinian flags, and chanting against the hostile policies of the Israeli government.
Many protesters closed main roads and burnt tires in an attempt to prevent the police from assaulting them,
More protests continued in Arab towns in the Negev, while clashes with the police, have also been reported, as police officers assaulted scores of protesters.
The police continued to resort to the excessive use of force in an attempt to end the protests.
An Israeli military analyst stated that the protests taking place in different Arab areas in the country, from the Galilee in the north to the Negev in the south, with dozens of thousands protesting the kidnapping and brutal murder of Mohammad Abu Kdeir in Jerusalem, are preventing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, from escalating the aggression and bombardment against Gaza.
The analyst added the protests are preventing Netanyahu from listening to hostile calls from his extremist coalition partners, asking him to launch a large-scale war on Gaza.
Writing for Haaretz Israeli paper, military analyst Amos Harel stated the mass protest across the country are showing Netanyahu why he should, at the current stage, refrain from declaring a comprehensive war on Gaza.
The statement came amidst Israeli aggression and bombardment on Gaza, resulting, on Sunday alone, in the death of nine Palestinians.
The Arabs48 News Website has reported that massive protests were held in different parts of the country, while protesters also closed various roads, including Tamra-Akka Road and clashed with Israeli police officers who assaulted them.
Ten Palestinians have been kidnapped in the Tamra-Akka (Akko) road area, while the police also used gas bombs, and concussion grenades against the protesters, causing several injuries.
In Nazareth, the police hundreds with dozens of protesters, and violently assaulted dozens, before kidnapping 40 Palestinians.
Thousands also held protests in Arraba al-Batouf, in the Galilee, carrying Palestinian flags, and chanting against the hostile policies of the Israeli government.
Many protesters closed main roads and burnt tires in an attempt to prevent the police from assaulting them,
More protests continued in Arab towns in the Negev, while clashes with the police, have also been reported, as police officers assaulted scores of protesters.
The police continued to resort to the excessive use of force in an attempt to end the protests.
An Israeli military analyst stated that the protests taking place in different Arab areas in the country, from the Galilee in the north to the Negev in the south, with dozens of thousands protesting the kidnapping and brutal murder of Mohammad Abu Kdeir in Jerusalem, are preventing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, from escalating the aggression and bombardment against Gaza.
The analyst added the protests are preventing Netanyahu from listening to hostile calls from his extremist coalition partners, asking him to launch a large-scale war on Gaza.
Writing for Haaretz Israeli paper, military analyst Amos Harel stated the mass protest across the country are showing Netanyahu why he should, at the current stage, refrain from declaring a comprehensive war on Gaza.
The statement came amidst Israeli aggression and bombardment on Gaza, resulting, on Sunday alone, in the death of nine Palestinians.
On Monday at dawn, residents of Deir Nitham village, north of the West Bank city of Ramallah, managed to prevent dozens of fanatic Israeli settlers from invading their village, after the settlers caused damage to several Palestinian cars.
Local sources said Israeli soldiers were deployed close to the settlers, but did not even attempt to stop them.
The settlers, who came from Halmish illegal settlement, hurled stones at several Palestinian cars, causing excessive damage.
Clashes took place between the invading settlers and local youth who threw stones and empty bottles at them, while the army fired gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets, and rounds of live ammunition. The settlers also fired rounds of live ammunition at the residents.
The attack against the village came just one day after fanatic Israeli settlers tried to invade Nabi Saleh nearby village, but were met by local youth who clashed with them; several Palestinians were injured, and the invading settlers fled the area.
Also in Ramallah, dozens of soldiers invaded Hizma village, and clashed with dozens of local youth. The soldiers fired dozens of concussion grenades, gas bombs, rounds of live ammunition and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Local sources said Israeli soldiers were deployed close to the settlers, but did not even attempt to stop them.
The settlers, who came from Halmish illegal settlement, hurled stones at several Palestinian cars, causing excessive damage.
Clashes took place between the invading settlers and local youth who threw stones and empty bottles at them, while the army fired gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets, and rounds of live ammunition. The settlers also fired rounds of live ammunition at the residents.
The attack against the village came just one day after fanatic Israeli settlers tried to invade Nabi Saleh nearby village, but were met by local youth who clashed with them; several Palestinians were injured, and the invading settlers fled the area.
Also in Ramallah, dozens of soldiers invaded Hizma village, and clashed with dozens of local youth. The soldiers fired dozens of concussion grenades, gas bombs, rounds of live ammunition and rubber-coated metal bullets.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several Palestinians communities in the occupied West Bank, clashing with local youth causing dozens of injuries, while several Palestinians have been kidnapped.
Medical sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, have reported that at least 20 Palestinians have been shot with rubber-coated metal bullets in the al-’Arroub refugee camp.
Two more Palestinians suffered various cuts and bruises, after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers, who invaded and ransacked several homes in the camp.
Also, a 52-year-old woman identified as Fayqa Mohammad al-Badawi, suffered numerous cuts and bruises to different parts of her body, after a number of soldiers punched and kicked and pushed her around.
The soldiers fired several gas bombs into her home, broke several windows, before assaulting the woman and two of her children, who were moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital for treatment.
They also hurled smoke bombs into various homes, spraying them with waste-water after shattering the windows, and assaulted the families.
Clashes also took place in Bab az-Zaweya, in the center of Hebron city, the southern area of the city, Tareq Ben Ziad Junction, and the northern entrance of Yatta nearby town.
One Palestinian was shot by rounds of live ammunition, after the soldiers invaded Shuhada Street. The wounded has been identified as Hammad Ehmeidan, age 22.
Another Palestinian was also injured in the same area, after the soldiers shot him in the leg, and kidnapped him.
More clashes took place in Beit Ummar town, north of the city, and the soldiers fired several live rounds, rubber-coated metal bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
In Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were shot with live rounds and dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Medical sources said Samer Msei’ey, 21, and Aysar Raed Nasrallah, 17, have been shot with live rounds in the Tulkarem refugee camp. Msei’ey was shot in his foot, and Nasrallah was shot in his pelvis. Dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, two Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets, while dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes that took place with dozens of soldiers who invaded Jericho city from its northern entrance.
The two wounded Palestinians have been moved to the Jericho Hospital, while the rest received treatment by Red Crescent medics.
Medical sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, have reported that at least 20 Palestinians have been shot with rubber-coated metal bullets in the al-’Arroub refugee camp.
Two more Palestinians suffered various cuts and bruises, after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers, who invaded and ransacked several homes in the camp.
Also, a 52-year-old woman identified as Fayqa Mohammad al-Badawi, suffered numerous cuts and bruises to different parts of her body, after a number of soldiers punched and kicked and pushed her around.
The soldiers fired several gas bombs into her home, broke several windows, before assaulting the woman and two of her children, who were moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital for treatment.
They also hurled smoke bombs into various homes, spraying them with waste-water after shattering the windows, and assaulted the families.
Clashes also took place in Bab az-Zaweya, in the center of Hebron city, the southern area of the city, Tareq Ben Ziad Junction, and the northern entrance of Yatta nearby town.
One Palestinian was shot by rounds of live ammunition, after the soldiers invaded Shuhada Street. The wounded has been identified as Hammad Ehmeidan, age 22.
Another Palestinian was also injured in the same area, after the soldiers shot him in the leg, and kidnapped him.
More clashes took place in Beit Ummar town, north of the city, and the soldiers fired several live rounds, rubber-coated metal bullets, gas bombs and concussion grenades.
In Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were shot with live rounds and dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Medical sources said Samer Msei’ey, 21, and Aysar Raed Nasrallah, 17, have been shot with live rounds in the Tulkarem refugee camp. Msei’ey was shot in his foot, and Nasrallah was shot in his pelvis. Dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
In addition, two Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets, while dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes that took place with dozens of soldiers who invaded Jericho city from its northern entrance.
The two wounded Palestinians have been moved to the Jericho Hospital, while the rest received treatment by Red Crescent medics.
15 Palestinians were wounded on Monday at dawn after Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes on several sites in the Gaza Strip. 7 were wounded when the warplanes struck an agricultural land in al-Sabra neighbourhood in the central Gaza city, three young girls and three children were moderately wounded, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qedra said in a statement.
The Israeli artillery Monday at dawn shelled heavily Palestinian farm lands in the east of the central Gaza Strip.
ALRAY correspondent reported that the artillery batteries fired more than five shells at the agricultural lands near the border fence, causing massive explosions. No injuries were reported.
The Israeli artillery Monday at dawn shelled heavily Palestinian farm lands in the east of the central Gaza Strip.
ALRAY correspondent reported that the artillery batteries fired more than five shells at the agricultural lands near the border fence, causing massive explosions. No injuries were reported.
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Palestinian medical sources have reported that nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli missiles and shells in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, and Monday at dawn.
Seven of the slain Palestinians are members of the al-Qassam Brigades of the Hamas movement. The Brigades stated the six fighters have been killed when the Israeli army fired missiles into a siege-busting tunnel in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Their bodies were found on Monday, at dawn. |
The fighters have been identified as Ibrahim al-Bal'aawy, 24, Abdul-Rahman az-Zamely, 22, Mustafa Abu Morr, 22, his twin brother Khaled, Yousef Sharaf Ghannam, 22, and Jom'a Abu Shallouf, 24.
A Qassam fighter, identified as Ibrahim 'Abdeen, died of wounds suffered during an earlier shelling in Rafah.
Sami Abu Zohri, spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated the assassination of the fighters is a serious escalation, adding that "the enemy will pay a heavy price".
Dr. Ashraf al-Qodra, spokesperson of the Ministry Of Health in Gaza, stated that five Palestinians, including a child and two young girls, have been nursed when an Israeli missile detonated near their homes, in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
Another airstrike targeted al-Qarara town, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Missiles have also been fired into agricultural lands in Shekh Radwan in Gaza, causing damage but no injuries.
Two fighters, identified as Mazen al-Jedya and Marwan Salim, have been killed by Israeli missiles in al-Boreij refugee camp. Their bodies have been severely mutilated.
Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza claimed responsibility for firing dozens of shells into adjacent Israeli areas in retaliation to the Israeli military escalation.
A Qassam fighter, identified as Ibrahim 'Abdeen, died of wounds suffered during an earlier shelling in Rafah.
Sami Abu Zohri, spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated the assassination of the fighters is a serious escalation, adding that "the enemy will pay a heavy price".
Dr. Ashraf al-Qodra, spokesperson of the Ministry Of Health in Gaza, stated that five Palestinians, including a child and two young girls, have been nursed when an Israeli missile detonated near their homes, in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.
Another airstrike targeted al-Qarara town, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Missiles have also been fired into agricultural lands in Shekh Radwan in Gaza, causing damage but no injuries.
Two fighters, identified as Mazen al-Jedya and Marwan Salim, have been killed by Israeli missiles in al-Boreij refugee camp. Their bodies have been severely mutilated.
Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza claimed responsibility for firing dozens of shells into adjacent Israeli areas in retaliation to the Israeli military escalation.
