9 aug 2014
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested seven Jerusalemites during violent clashes broke out on Friday throughout occupied Jerusalem.
The information center of Wadi al-Hilweh said that an Israeli undercover unit arrested two children from Silwan and took them to a police station in the town, while clashes broke out in the area.
In al-Tur neighborhood, the IOF arrested four Jerusalemite youths, while they stormed al-Sawwanna neighborhood in a failed attempt to carry out some arrests.
In Al-Issawiya district, clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces who fired live bullets.
The clashes broke out when Israeli forces suppressed a march in protest at the Israeli aggression on Gaza. Dozens of protesters suffered from inhaling tear gas during the confrontations.
The IOF also arrested a 13-year-old boy as he was en route to his grandfather’s home in al-Tur town.
The boy was brutally attacked and severely beaten during his arrest for allegedly stoning Israeli soldiers.
The boy was then released on condition of not filing a lawsuit against the soldiers who attacked him, his father said
The information center of Wadi al-Hilweh said that an Israeli undercover unit arrested two children from Silwan and took them to a police station in the town, while clashes broke out in the area.
In al-Tur neighborhood, the IOF arrested four Jerusalemite youths, while they stormed al-Sawwanna neighborhood in a failed attempt to carry out some arrests.
In Al-Issawiya district, clashes erupted between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces who fired live bullets.
The clashes broke out when Israeli forces suppressed a march in protest at the Israeli aggression on Gaza. Dozens of protesters suffered from inhaling tear gas during the confrontations.
The IOF also arrested a 13-year-old boy as he was en route to his grandfather’s home in al-Tur town.
The boy was brutally attacked and severely beaten during his arrest for allegedly stoning Israeli soldiers.
The boy was then released on condition of not filing a lawsuit against the soldiers who attacked him, his father said
8 aug 2014
Six Palestinian were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets and 2 Israeli soldiers were wounded in clashes near Ofer detention center west of Ramallah.
A group of Palestinians headed to the detention center in a protest in support of Gaza, and they threw rocks and empty glass bottles, hitting two Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces in turn fired rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas, injuring six Palestinians who were taken to Ramallah medical complex in private cars.
A group of Palestinians headed to the detention center in a protest in support of Gaza, and they threw rocks and empty glass bottles, hitting two Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces in turn fired rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas, injuring six Palestinians who were taken to Ramallah medical complex in private cars.
A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on Friday afternoon during clashes at Jabal al-Tawil east of el-Bireh near Ramallah, following a protest close to the nearby Jewish settlement of Psagot.
Medical sources told Ma’an that Ahmad Mohammad al-Qatari of al-Amari refugee camp was shot in the chest, before being taken to the Palestine Medical Complex where he was pronounced dead.
Masked gunmen had opened fire at Psagot settlement earlier, without any injuries being reported.
An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Al-Qatari was at least the 16th Palestinian to be killed by Israelis in the West Bank in the last month, as forces have repeatedly attacked tens of thousands partaking in protests in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.
Also on Friday, Israeli forces injured at least 50 Palestinians in protests across the West Bank, including 40 in Hebron alone, where hundreds marched through the Bab al-Zawiya neighborhood in the city center in solidarity with Gaza.
Israeli forces used live bullets and rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse Palestinian demonstrators in Safa, near Ramallah, as well as in Azzun, near Qalqiliya.
Israel has killed 1,898 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since launching a massive assault on the tiny coastal enclave 33 days ago, and has injured nearly 10,000.
The assault has ignited protests across the West Bank as well as among Palestinians inside Israel, who have demanded an end to the killing as well as supported demands that the eight-year Israeli blockade be lifted.
Israel killed five Palestinians on Friday since the end of a three-day ceasefire at 8 a.m., despite ongoing negotiations in Cairo for a long-term agreement between Israel and Palestinian militant groups.
Israel has refused Hamas demands that any ceasefire be predicated on the lifting to the siege, which has severely limited imports, exports, and movement of people, crippling the region's economy and leading to recurring shortages of basic necessities.
Israel, however, has refused, at time countering with demands that Gaza be de-militarized.
Medical sources told Ma’an that Ahmad Mohammad al-Qatari of al-Amari refugee camp was shot in the chest, before being taken to the Palestine Medical Complex where he was pronounced dead.
Masked gunmen had opened fire at Psagot settlement earlier, without any injuries being reported.
An Israeli military spokeswoman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Al-Qatari was at least the 16th Palestinian to be killed by Israelis in the West Bank in the last month, as forces have repeatedly attacked tens of thousands partaking in protests in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.
Also on Friday, Israeli forces injured at least 50 Palestinians in protests across the West Bank, including 40 in Hebron alone, where hundreds marched through the Bab al-Zawiya neighborhood in the city center in solidarity with Gaza.
Israeli forces used live bullets and rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse Palestinian demonstrators in Safa, near Ramallah, as well as in Azzun, near Qalqiliya.
Israel has killed 1,898 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since launching a massive assault on the tiny coastal enclave 33 days ago, and has injured nearly 10,000.
The assault has ignited protests across the West Bank as well as among Palestinians inside Israel, who have demanded an end to the killing as well as supported demands that the eight-year Israeli blockade be lifted.
Israel killed five Palestinians on Friday since the end of a three-day ceasefire at 8 a.m., despite ongoing negotiations in Cairo for a long-term agreement between Israel and Palestinian militant groups.
Israel has refused Hamas demands that any ceasefire be predicated on the lifting to the siege, which has severely limited imports, exports, and movement of people, crippling the region's economy and leading to recurring shortages of basic necessities.
Israel, however, has refused, at time countering with demands that Gaza be de-militarized.
At least 40 Palestinians were injured in central Hebron on Friday afternoon as Israeli forces dispersed hundreds taking part in rallies condemning the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza as well as the Israeli occupation.
Sources at the Red Crescent said that 25 Palestinians had been shot with live fire and 15 with rubber-coated steel bullets during the clashes, and the injured had been taken to hospitals.
Dr. Hazem Shalalda, director-general of al-Mizan Hospital, said that Nader Idriss, 40, was undergoing complex surgery after being shot in the heart by Israeli forces during the clashes.
The march began after Friday Prayers at al-Husseini Mosque and moved toward central Hebron, where clashes erupted with Israeli forces in Baba al-Zawiya.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that "approximately 300 rioters who rolled burning tires, firebombs, and rocks" Israeli soldiers.
She added that they "responded with riot dispersal means, and a few hits were confirmed."
Hebron is a frequent site of tension due to the presence of more than 500 Jewish settlers in the heart of the Old City around the Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
The settlers protected by tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers and frequently harass local Palestinian residents in order to force them out of the area and allow the settlements in the area -- which often consist of merely one or two buildings -- to expand.
Sources at the Red Crescent said that 25 Palestinians had been shot with live fire and 15 with rubber-coated steel bullets during the clashes, and the injured had been taken to hospitals.
Dr. Hazem Shalalda, director-general of al-Mizan Hospital, said that Nader Idriss, 40, was undergoing complex surgery after being shot in the heart by Israeli forces during the clashes.
The march began after Friday Prayers at al-Husseini Mosque and moved toward central Hebron, where clashes erupted with Israeli forces in Baba al-Zawiya.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that "approximately 300 rioters who rolled burning tires, firebombs, and rocks" Israeli soldiers.
She added that they "responded with riot dispersal means, and a few hits were confirmed."
Hebron is a frequent site of tension due to the presence of more than 500 Jewish settlers in the heart of the Old City around the Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
The settlers protected by tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers and frequently harass local Palestinian residents in order to force them out of the area and allow the settlements in the area -- which often consist of merely one or two buildings -- to expand.
Seven Palestinians were injured on Friday afternoon when Israeli forces opened fire on demonstrators in the village of Safa near Ramallah protesting on the anniversary of the killing of a local youth the week before.
The large rally in the central West Bank village began from the local mosque and moved toward the separation wall as it passes through the village, but marchers were stopped before reaching the area when Israeli soldiers used live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas canisters against them.
The youths responded by throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at the soldiers, who shot 10 youths over the course of the clashes.
The village protest came a week after Israeli forces shot dead Odai Nafiz Jabr, 19, with live bullets during a rally condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, which has killed nearly 1,900 Palestinians.
He was the 14th Palestinian killed in the West Bank over the last month, as the region has seen the largest protests in years in solidarity with Gazans under assault.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that "rioters were hurling rocks at security forces, who responded with riot dispersal means."
She could not confirm any hits, however.
The large rally in the central West Bank village began from the local mosque and moved toward the separation wall as it passes through the village, but marchers were stopped before reaching the area when Israeli soldiers used live fire, rubber-coated steel bullets, and tear gas canisters against them.
The youths responded by throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks at the soldiers, who shot 10 youths over the course of the clashes.
The village protest came a week after Israeli forces shot dead Odai Nafiz Jabr, 19, with live bullets during a rally condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza, which has killed nearly 1,900 Palestinians.
He was the 14th Palestinian killed in the West Bank over the last month, as the region has seen the largest protests in years in solidarity with Gazans under assault.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said that "rioters were hurling rocks at security forces, who responded with riot dispersal means."
She could not confirm any hits, however.
Four Palestinians were injured with live fire on Friday during clashes with Israeli forces in the Qalqiliya villages of Azzun and Kafr Qaddum.
Younis Muhammad Salah Adwan, 19, was shot in the waist in Azzun and critically injured, medics said. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
In Kafr Qaddum, Asaad Shteiwi was shot in the back, Ahmad Aqel was shot in the leg, and Adulrahman Shteiwi was hit in his thigh during a weekly demonstration.
The victims were taken for treatment by Red Crescent ambulances at the scene.
Younis Muhammad Salah Adwan, 19, was shot in the waist in Azzun and critically injured, medics said. He was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
In Kafr Qaddum, Asaad Shteiwi was shot in the back, Ahmad Aqel was shot in the leg, and Adulrahman Shteiwi was hit in his thigh during a weekly demonstration.
The victims were taken for treatment by Red Crescent ambulances at the scene.
7 aug 2014
Violent clashes erupted at dawn Thursday between Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian youths in different parts of the West Bank and Jerusalem. Arrests were also reported during the clashes. Local sources said that clashes erupted in Silat al-Harthiya, west of Jenin, when IOF soldiers stormed the town and fired tear gas bombs at Palestinian youths who responded by throwing stones at the soldiers.
On the other hand, the IOF raided Yabad town, south of the city, and arrested a young man and served a summons to his brother.
In the same context, a large force of Israeli army stormed Duma town in Nablus at 2 am and broke into a number of homes.
A young man was injured with a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces during clashes in Furik town near Itmar settlement, while several others were injured during similar clashes in Zuwata town.
In al-Khalil, three Palestinians were injured with rubber bullets while others suffered breathing problems after inhaling tear gas bombs fired by IOF soldiers during clashes in Beit Ummar, south of the city, local sources reported.
Meanwhile, dozens of citizens were wounded during overnight clashes after inhaling tear gas bombs during clashes that broke out throughout occupied Jerusalem.
Medical sources said that several people were injured including four with rubber bullets during clashes at Qalandia checkpoint.
In Silwan, Israeli forces heavily fired tear gas bombs towards Palestinian homes, which led to several injuries among citizens. Several youths were also injured with rubber bullets during clashes that erupted in the town.
In Issawiya, dozens were wounded including eight with rubber bullets, while others suffered breathing problems due to the heavy tear gas bombs fired near Shuafat refugee camp.
Along the same line, Israeli forces stormed different neighborhoods in al-Khalil on Thursday amid suspected absence of PA forces in the city. No arrests were reported during the raid.
The Israeli raid and search operation has been carried out in the city since the early morning hours amid tight security restrictions.
On the other hand, the IOF raided Yabad town, south of the city, and arrested a young man and served a summons to his brother.
In the same context, a large force of Israeli army stormed Duma town in Nablus at 2 am and broke into a number of homes.
A young man was injured with a rubber bullet fired by Israeli forces during clashes in Furik town near Itmar settlement, while several others were injured during similar clashes in Zuwata town.
In al-Khalil, three Palestinians were injured with rubber bullets while others suffered breathing problems after inhaling tear gas bombs fired by IOF soldiers during clashes in Beit Ummar, south of the city, local sources reported.
Meanwhile, dozens of citizens were wounded during overnight clashes after inhaling tear gas bombs during clashes that broke out throughout occupied Jerusalem.
Medical sources said that several people were injured including four with rubber bullets during clashes at Qalandia checkpoint.
In Silwan, Israeli forces heavily fired tear gas bombs towards Palestinian homes, which led to several injuries among citizens. Several youths were also injured with rubber bullets during clashes that erupted in the town.
In Issawiya, dozens were wounded including eight with rubber bullets, while others suffered breathing problems due to the heavy tear gas bombs fired near Shuafat refugee camp.
Along the same line, Israeli forces stormed different neighborhoods in al-Khalil on Thursday amid suspected absence of PA forces in the city. No arrests were reported during the raid.
The Israeli raid and search operation has been carried out in the city since the early morning hours amid tight security restrictions.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that a child was seriously injured after being rammed by an Israeli settler’s vehicle, in the Old City of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank.
The sources said Rosy Talab Jaber, 8 years of age, suffered a serious injury, and was moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital.
The Raya News Agency said the child was deliberately attacked while walking near the main street of the Old City of Hebron.
There have been dozens of similar incidents in Hebron, and in different parts of the occupied West Bank, some leading to fatalities among the Palestinians, including children, and scores of similar incidents causing very serious injuries.
The sources said Rosy Talab Jaber, 8 years of age, suffered a serious injury, and was moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital.
The Raya News Agency said the child was deliberately attacked while walking near the main street of the Old City of Hebron.
There have been dozens of similar incidents in Hebron, and in different parts of the occupied West Bank, some leading to fatalities among the Palestinians, including children, and scores of similar incidents causing very serious injuries.
In al-Khalil (Hebron) on Sunday August 3rd, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy was walking to his home near the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba when the Israeli military shot him in the chest with live ammunition.
The following day, ISM volunteers went to visit the young boy in al-Mezan hospital. The young boy was in critical condition, and although doctors were able to save his life, the bullet remains in his left lung, as it is too dangerous to remove it.
His father told the ISM volunteers that a relative of the boy witnessed the shooting and that it had been a man in a soldiers’ uniform that shot him, without any visible motive.
The following day, ISM volunteers went to visit the young boy in al-Mezan hospital. The young boy was in critical condition, and although doctors were able to save his life, the bullet remains in his left lung, as it is too dangerous to remove it.
His father told the ISM volunteers that a relative of the boy witnessed the shooting and that it had been a man in a soldiers’ uniform that shot him, without any visible motive.
His father also pointed out that even if there had been a motive, such as if the boy would have been throwing stones, nothing could have justified this shot, which was clearly aimed at the heart of this 10-year-old child.
A funeral for a solder that died in Gaza was held in the Tel Rumeida area of al-Khalil between 1 AM and 3 AM last Sunday evening. The area was under heavy military presence, shop owners were forced to close down their shops early and Palestinians living in the area received orders stay in their homes and turn the lights off.
Doctors at al-Mezan hospital have reported that in recent weeks there has been an increase in the number of bullet wounds resulting from live ammunition. Many of these wounds have been in the chest and abdomen, seemingly aimed to kill.
A funeral for a solder that died in Gaza was held in the Tel Rumeida area of al-Khalil between 1 AM and 3 AM last Sunday evening. The area was under heavy military presence, shop owners were forced to close down their shops early and Palestinians living in the area received orders stay in their homes and turn the lights off.
Doctors at al-Mezan hospital have reported that in recent weeks there has been an increase in the number of bullet wounds resulting from live ammunition. Many of these wounds have been in the chest and abdomen, seemingly aimed to kill.
Palestinian medical sources have reported that several Palestinians have been injured by Israeli army fire after dozens of soldiers invaded, on Wednesday evening, Beit Ummar town, north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The sources said three were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets, while many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, Mohammad Awad, stated that the clashes took place, in Qornet as-Seir area, south of Beit Ummar.
Earlier on Wednesday, at dawn, soldiers invaded Hebron, kidnapping at least six Palestinians after breaking into and ransacked dozens of homes, and clashed with local youth; several Palestinians were injured.
The army also kidnapped three more Palestinians and wounded several others in the northern part of the West Bank.
The sources said three were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets, while many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar, Mohammad Awad, stated that the clashes took place, in Qornet as-Seir area, south of Beit Ummar.
Earlier on Wednesday, at dawn, soldiers invaded Hebron, kidnapping at least six Palestinians after breaking into and ransacked dozens of homes, and clashed with local youth; several Palestinians were injured.
The army also kidnapped three more Palestinians and wounded several others in the northern part of the West Bank.
6 aug 2014
Four Palestinian youths were injured with live fire and rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes with Israeli forces in Hebron late Tuesday.
The injured were taken to Hebron's public hospital for treatment after clashes broke out following protests against the killing of Muhammad Nayif Jabais, the driver of a digger who ran over and killed an Israeli civilian in Jerusalem on Monday.
In Jerusalem's Shufat neighborhood, protesters marched in solidarity with Palestinian children killed in Gaza, holding signs reading: "Despite the wounds, Gaza won't die" and "Gaza will win despite the siege."
Israeli forces dispersed the protest, firing tear gas and Skunk water at demonstrators.
The injured were taken to Hebron's public hospital for treatment after clashes broke out following protests against the killing of Muhammad Nayif Jabais, the driver of a digger who ran over and killed an Israeli civilian in Jerusalem on Monday.
In Jerusalem's Shufat neighborhood, protesters marched in solidarity with Palestinian children killed in Gaza, holding signs reading: "Despite the wounds, Gaza won't die" and "Gaza will win despite the siege."
Israeli forces dispersed the protest, firing tear gas and Skunk water at demonstrators.
Still Image From Video By Haitham Khatib
Israeli Soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped nine Palestinians, six of them in Hebron. Scores of Palestinians have been hurt by Israeli fire and gas bombs, and dozens of homes ransacked.
Local sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, have reported that the soldiers kidnapped former political prisoner Ibrahim Fadel Jaber, Ahmad al-Jamal, and Abdullah Suleiman Abu Sneina, after violently breaking into their homes, and ransacking them.
It is worth mentioning that Jaber spent 30 years of a life term, and was released under the Shalit Prisoner Swap Agreement in 2011.
The army invaded and searched several homes in the city, causing excessive property damage.
Soldiers also invaded Doura town, south of Hebron, and kidnapped a former political prisoner identified as Hashem Tayyem Rajoub.
Spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar nearby town, Mohammad Awad, has reported that the army invaded the home of Ahmad Mustafa, and violently searched it before kidnapping his son Ibrahim, 25.
Also in Beit Ummar, soldiers invaded a bakery in the ‘Asseeda area, forced it shut for one hour, and violently struck the owner, Salah Saleh al-‘Allami, with their guns and repeatedly punched him, before kidnapping a worker identified as Safwat Samir Ekhlayyel, 27.
Soldiers further invaded the home of Ibrahim Khaled Sabarna in Khallet el-Ein area, after smashing the front door, and handed his son a military warrant ordering him to head to the Gush Etzion military and security base for interrogation.
They also fired gas bombs at a number of homes in Beit Ummar, causing dozens of Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Also in the Hebron district, soldiers invaded the towns of Ethna and Yatta, and installed several roadblocks at their entrances, and at the main entrances of the towns of Sa’ir and Halhoul, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
In the northern West Bank district of Jenin, soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian man, identified as Samer Hasan Jaradat, 29, from the Sielet al-Harethiyya town, after invading his family’s home and ransacking it.
Two Palestinians have been shot by Israeli live rounds in the Zababda town, near Jenin, while dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation in the Zababda and Qabatia.
In addition, soldiers broke into the home of Mahmoud Ali Saleh in Jaba’ village, south of Jenin, and installed a roadblock at the entrance of the village.
It is worth mentioning that, on Tuesday at night, soldiers kidnapped a teenage girl, identified as Beirut Ali Mohammad, 17, and interrogated her at a nearby interrogation center for several hours before releasing her.
In Sanour village, south of Jenin, soldiers kidnapped Islam Jamal Abu Basma, 21, after invading his home, and handed two brothers, identified as Bader and Shaher al-‘Ayasa, military warrants ordering them to head to the Salem base for interrogation.
Another Palestinian identified as Haitham Mohammad Fadel, 29, in Baqa ash-Sharqiya village, north of the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, and confiscated his cellphone and personal computer.
Israeli Soldiers invaded various Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, and kidnapped nine Palestinians, six of them in Hebron. Scores of Palestinians have been hurt by Israeli fire and gas bombs, and dozens of homes ransacked.
Local sources in Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank, have reported that the soldiers kidnapped former political prisoner Ibrahim Fadel Jaber, Ahmad al-Jamal, and Abdullah Suleiman Abu Sneina, after violently breaking into their homes, and ransacking them.
It is worth mentioning that Jaber spent 30 years of a life term, and was released under the Shalit Prisoner Swap Agreement in 2011.
The army invaded and searched several homes in the city, causing excessive property damage.
Soldiers also invaded Doura town, south of Hebron, and kidnapped a former political prisoner identified as Hashem Tayyem Rajoub.
Spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Ummar nearby town, Mohammad Awad, has reported that the army invaded the home of Ahmad Mustafa, and violently searched it before kidnapping his son Ibrahim, 25.
Also in Beit Ummar, soldiers invaded a bakery in the ‘Asseeda area, forced it shut for one hour, and violently struck the owner, Salah Saleh al-‘Allami, with their guns and repeatedly punched him, before kidnapping a worker identified as Safwat Samir Ekhlayyel, 27.
Soldiers further invaded the home of Ibrahim Khaled Sabarna in Khallet el-Ein area, after smashing the front door, and handed his son a military warrant ordering him to head to the Gush Etzion military and security base for interrogation.
They also fired gas bombs at a number of homes in Beit Ummar, causing dozens of Palestinians to suffer the effects of tear gas inhalation.
Also in the Hebron district, soldiers invaded the towns of Ethna and Yatta, and installed several roadblocks at their entrances, and at the main entrances of the towns of Sa’ir and Halhoul, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated several Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.
In the northern West Bank district of Jenin, soldiers kidnapped a young Palestinian man, identified as Samer Hasan Jaradat, 29, from the Sielet al-Harethiyya town, after invading his family’s home and ransacking it.
Two Palestinians have been shot by Israeli live rounds in the Zababda town, near Jenin, while dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation in the Zababda and Qabatia.
In addition, soldiers broke into the home of Mahmoud Ali Saleh in Jaba’ village, south of Jenin, and installed a roadblock at the entrance of the village.
It is worth mentioning that, on Tuesday at night, soldiers kidnapped a teenage girl, identified as Beirut Ali Mohammad, 17, and interrogated her at a nearby interrogation center for several hours before releasing her.
In Sanour village, south of Jenin, soldiers kidnapped Islam Jamal Abu Basma, 21, after invading his home, and handed two brothers, identified as Bader and Shaher al-‘Ayasa, military warrants ordering them to head to the Salem base for interrogation.
Another Palestinian identified as Haitham Mohammad Fadel, 29, in Baqa ash-Sharqiya village, north of the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem, and confiscated his cellphone and personal computer.
5 aug 2014
CSPAN cut from Tariq Abukhdeir’s live, moving testimony of Israeli abuse in Jerusalem to cover Barbara Boxer’s incoherent pro-Israel rant to a mostly empty Senate chamber
On Friday, fifteen-year-old Tariq Abukhdeir spoke at a hearing on Capitol Hill about the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Israeli police in early July.
The purpose of the hearing was to address Israeli impunity and US complicity in crimes against Palestinians. Tariq was one of six panelists to address the room, which was overflowing with congressional staffers.
Moderated by author and campaigner Josh Ruebner, other panelists included Tariq’s mother, Suha Abu Abukhdeir; Hassan Shibly of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Florida chapter; Sunjeev Bery from Amnesty International; Brad Parker from Defence for Children International and Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad.
Though he was just one of six speakers, Tariq’s testimony was especially powerful as he relayed to the audience the horrors and discrimination he witnessed and experienced as a Palestinian-American child visiting his ancestral homeland.
But just as Tariq started to detail the Israeli beating that left him unconscious and unrecognizable, CSPAN 2, which was broadcasting the hearing live, cut to the Senate floor.
You can watch the whole thing back on CSPAN’s website. The cut from Tariq to Boxer occurs soon after time code 03:30.
Suppressing Palestinian voices Tariq began his testimony by describing the widespread violence Israeli soldiers inflicted on his neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem after his cousin and best friend, sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khudair, was kidnapped and burned alive by Jewish vigilantes who were incited to violence by Israeli leaders following the murder of three Israeli teens hitchhiking from an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Tariq and several of his cousins watched from an alley, Tariq explained, as Israeli soldiers shot rubber bullets at protesters. Eventually the soldiers were attacking in Tariq’s direction, prompting a terrified Tariq to run. After he jumped a fence and tripped, “the Israeli police grabbed me from behind, slammed my face into the floor, zip-tied my hands behind my back and started to kick me and punch me in the face and in the ribs,” recounted Tariq.
For those tuning into CSPAN, this was the last they heard from Tariq, whose speech was suddenly replaced by Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer from California on the Senate floor agitating for greater support for Israel to a mostly empty room as most most elected representatives had departed that day for a five-week recess.
CSPAN told the The Electronic Intifada that the channel is required to cut to the Senate floor when an elected official is speaking.
Boxer’s office did not respond to calls asking if the senator was aware that the hearing was taking place. However, organizers collecting names of congressional staffers in attendance told The Electronic Intifada that an intern from Boxer’s office tried to get into the hearing but left because there was no space, suggesting Boxer knew she was interrupting the hearing.
Israeli talking points Boxer spent the next fifteen minutes spewing semi-coherent platitudes about Israeli victimhood. “We all know that our ally Israel is in a fight for its survival because a terrorist group, so named by the United States and Europe, is at war with Israel right now,” Boxer declared.
In what seemed like a transparent attempt to counter Tariq’s narrative, Boxer added, “we remember how it all started with the kidnapping of three Israeli boys and their torture and their death and a mosque praised that. Tragically there was a revenge killing and the Israeli government arrested the Israelis responsible for that and they are going to face justice while Hamas praises, praises what happened.”
As usual, reality tells a much different story.
Even Israeli officials openly admit that Hamas was not responsible for the kidnapping or the murder of the three Israeli teens, whose disappearance was used by the Israeli government as a pretext to rampage through the West Bank, ransacking homes and arresting hundreds of people under the guise of a rescue mission for three boys that authorities knew had been killed hours after they were reported missing.
Boxer also championed the lie that Hamas broke the ceasefire that same Friday morning by capturing an Israeli soldier.
It has since been revealed that the Israelis broke the ceasefire and subsequently carpet bombed Rafah with the stated aim of killing an Israeli soldier because the Israeli army suspected he had been captured — a procedure known as the Hannibal Directive. In an attempt to kill their own soldier, the Israeli army slaughtered more than 150 Palestinians across Rafah, which has sustained incalculable damage.
As Boxer continued to spew Israeli talking points, the reason for her tirade on the Senate floor became increasingly unclear. One moment she was blaming Hamas for violating that morning’s ceasefire and the next she was urging the Senate to allow Israel to participate in the US Visa Waiver Program.
At the end of Boxer’s rant, CSPAN cut back to the hearing in time to catch Suha Abukhdeir’s closing remark: “The life of a Palestinian in Gaza should be valued as much as the life of any human being.”
Next at the podium was CAIR Florida’s Hassan Shibly, who said, “As an American attorney, what happened to Tariq Abukhdeir at the hands of a nation that claims to be a democracy and claims to be an ally of the United States and —” That’s as far as Shibly got before he was replaced by live footage of Boxer once again on the Senate floor. This time Boxer was joined by Democratic Senator Harry Reid from Nevada. The two interrupted the remainder of the hearing discussing various pieces of legislation that can’t even be voted on until the Senate reconvenes in September.
Given the choke-hold pro-Israel lobbying organizations like AIPAC have on US elected officials, it is plausible Boxer’s maneuvering was orchestrated to suppress the reach of an open and honest conversation about Israeli criminality, much like US President Lyndon Johnson called an impromptu press conference to interrupt televised coverage of former sharecropper and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s moving testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Palestinian voices are a threat The pro-Israel community has every reason to worry about the airing of Palestinian voices like Tariq’s, Suha’s and Laila El-Haddad’s.
Their experiences are undeniable proof of the supremacist ideology that governs Israeli society and subjugates Palestinians, even those who hold American passports. Indeed, it is because Tariq is American that his story is so powerful.
In the United States, he is afforded basic rights that he was violently denied in occupied Palestine simply because he is Palestinian, a paradox that shatters the myth of Israel as a democratic state.
A family under attack “The Palestinian people, they don’t have rights,” said Tariq at the hearing. “When I visited over there, I actually forgot that I had freedom. And for my cousins, I really wish that they had the same freedoms that I have living in America.”
Tariq later explained to The Electronic Intifada that his cousins and friends who were beaten and arrested alongside him in early July are still languishing in Israeli jails.
One cousin in particular, Mahmoud, is Tariq’s closest friend and was beaten and arrested while trying to help Tariq.
“Mahmoud is 15 and a half like me,” Tariq told The Electronic Intifada. “Him and Muhammad [Abu Khudair], God rest his soul, were my first two friends that I made in Palestine. I hung out with Mahmoud and Muhammad every day.”
Hours after learning that their best friend was forced to drink gasoline and burned alive, Tariq and Mahmoud were chased and tackled by Israeli police as part of the Israeli government’s ongoing war on Muhammad Abu Khudair’s entire extended family in the Shuafat neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
“Mahmoud got away but he came back to help me and got grabbed and punched and kicked, just like me,” recounted Tariq.
The arrest and terror campaign inflicted on the extended Abu Khudair family by the Israeli government has denied them an opportunity to truly mourn the loss of Muhammad.
“Tariq was not able to grieve his cousin’s death as a result of the beating Israeli police gave him that same day that his cousin was brutally murdered by Israeli extremists,” said Suha Abukhdeir. “Instead of the police protecting us they taunted us and told us that Muhammad was just the first to be killed and that 300 Palestinians would be killed for the three Israeli teenagers who were killed.”
It appears they made good on that promise in Gaza, where more than 1,800 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians, have been mercilessly slaughtered in one Israeli massacre after another.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government has intensified its attack on Tariq’s family.
“The day after I left Palestine, they arrested all the males in the house I was staying in, without any charges,” said Tariq, whose family home in occupied East Jerusalem was raided by Israeli police hours after he departed the country.
Another American teen in Israeli jail One panelist after another reminded the audience that the only exceptional things about Tariq’s beating were that it was caught on film, and he has an American passport. Otherwise, what happened to him is routine for Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation.
Perhaps the lack of video footage can help explain the ongoing imprisonment of fifteen-year-old Mohammed Abu Nie, an American citizen who is still in Israeli jail after he was arrested with Tariq in early July.
Tariq told The Electronic Intifada that he, Abu Nie and his cousin Mahmoud were together watching the protests when they were chased, tackled and arrested by Israeli police.
Abu Nie’s imprisonment was largely unheard of until the daily US State Department press briefing on 28 July.
In response to a question about the status of Abu Nie’s case, US State Department spokesperson Jennifer Psaki revealed that the American teen “was arrested on July 3rd during protests in the Shuafat neighborhood in East Jerusalem” and, like Tariq, stands accused of “rock-throwing, attacking police, carrying a knife, and leading protests,” all of which is untrue, according to Tariq, who insists they were only watching and not participating in the protests.
According to the State Department, Abu Nie has not seen his parents since the night he was detained and there are allegations that he has been beaten while in custody.
Psaki said that the US is “gravely concerned about the detention of an American citizen child” but is “calling for a speedy resolution” rather than Abu Nie’s release.
“My tax dollars killed my family” Laila El-Haddad, a Gaza City native who lives in Columbia, Maryland, opened her speech with a soul-crushing statement.
“My tax dollars killed eight members of my family this morning,” said El-Haddad. She went on to list the names and ages of her slaughtered relatives, seven members of the El-Farra family. Among them were three children. Two of them were fleeing when they were killed by a second Israeli air strike.
El-Haddad proceeded to deliver a short and damning history lesson about the population that Israel has ghettoized in the Gaza Strip:
The reality is Gaza right now is being bombarded. It is completely blocked out, besieged and blockaded. This is a situation unheard of in modern history for a population that is already largely refugees, that is already besieged, that is already stateless to then be bombarded mercilessly with no intervention.
Gaza is roughly twice the size of Washington, DC, where we all sit today. It has a little over a million and half inhabitants, 1.7 going on 1.8. Most of those inhabitants are under the age of 18. Three-quarters of them are refugees, meaning they are not from the place they are compelled to live. They are from towns and villages, many of them depopulated, destroyed, ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias prior to 1948 and they sought refuge in Gaza and they were besieged in Gaza and they are not allowed to return to their native lands.
Thanks to Senator Boxer’s lengthy tirade, El-Haddad’s testimony did not air.
But at least one lawmaker heard her story.
Democratic Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota — who recently issued a call in The Washington Post for an end to the crippling blockade on Gaza, a rare and risky move for any American politician — was the only elected official to attend the hearing.
Signifying a tiny but important crack in unwavering support for Israeli crimes among US elected officials, Ellison also made an appearance at an event featuring Tariq later that evening at Busboys and Poets, a DC restaurant that often serves as a progressive meeting spot.
“I’m embarrassed we haven’t done more,” he told the crowd that night.
On Friday, fifteen-year-old Tariq Abukhdeir spoke at a hearing on Capitol Hill about the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Israeli police in early July.
The purpose of the hearing was to address Israeli impunity and US complicity in crimes against Palestinians. Tariq was one of six panelists to address the room, which was overflowing with congressional staffers.
Moderated by author and campaigner Josh Ruebner, other panelists included Tariq’s mother, Suha Abu Abukhdeir; Hassan Shibly of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Florida chapter; Sunjeev Bery from Amnesty International; Brad Parker from Defence for Children International and Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad.
Though he was just one of six speakers, Tariq’s testimony was especially powerful as he relayed to the audience the horrors and discrimination he witnessed and experienced as a Palestinian-American child visiting his ancestral homeland.
But just as Tariq started to detail the Israeli beating that left him unconscious and unrecognizable, CSPAN 2, which was broadcasting the hearing live, cut to the Senate floor.
You can watch the whole thing back on CSPAN’s website. The cut from Tariq to Boxer occurs soon after time code 03:30.
Suppressing Palestinian voices Tariq began his testimony by describing the widespread violence Israeli soldiers inflicted on his neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem after his cousin and best friend, sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khudair, was kidnapped and burned alive by Jewish vigilantes who were incited to violence by Israeli leaders following the murder of three Israeli teens hitchhiking from an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Tariq and several of his cousins watched from an alley, Tariq explained, as Israeli soldiers shot rubber bullets at protesters. Eventually the soldiers were attacking in Tariq’s direction, prompting a terrified Tariq to run. After he jumped a fence and tripped, “the Israeli police grabbed me from behind, slammed my face into the floor, zip-tied my hands behind my back and started to kick me and punch me in the face and in the ribs,” recounted Tariq.
For those tuning into CSPAN, this was the last they heard from Tariq, whose speech was suddenly replaced by Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer from California on the Senate floor agitating for greater support for Israel to a mostly empty room as most most elected representatives had departed that day for a five-week recess.
CSPAN told the The Electronic Intifada that the channel is required to cut to the Senate floor when an elected official is speaking.
Boxer’s office did not respond to calls asking if the senator was aware that the hearing was taking place. However, organizers collecting names of congressional staffers in attendance told The Electronic Intifada that an intern from Boxer’s office tried to get into the hearing but left because there was no space, suggesting Boxer knew she was interrupting the hearing.
Israeli talking points Boxer spent the next fifteen minutes spewing semi-coherent platitudes about Israeli victimhood. “We all know that our ally Israel is in a fight for its survival because a terrorist group, so named by the United States and Europe, is at war with Israel right now,” Boxer declared.
In what seemed like a transparent attempt to counter Tariq’s narrative, Boxer added, “we remember how it all started with the kidnapping of three Israeli boys and their torture and their death and a mosque praised that. Tragically there was a revenge killing and the Israeli government arrested the Israelis responsible for that and they are going to face justice while Hamas praises, praises what happened.”
As usual, reality tells a much different story.
Even Israeli officials openly admit that Hamas was not responsible for the kidnapping or the murder of the three Israeli teens, whose disappearance was used by the Israeli government as a pretext to rampage through the West Bank, ransacking homes and arresting hundreds of people under the guise of a rescue mission for three boys that authorities knew had been killed hours after they were reported missing.
Boxer also championed the lie that Hamas broke the ceasefire that same Friday morning by capturing an Israeli soldier.
It has since been revealed that the Israelis broke the ceasefire and subsequently carpet bombed Rafah with the stated aim of killing an Israeli soldier because the Israeli army suspected he had been captured — a procedure known as the Hannibal Directive. In an attempt to kill their own soldier, the Israeli army slaughtered more than 150 Palestinians across Rafah, which has sustained incalculable damage.
As Boxer continued to spew Israeli talking points, the reason for her tirade on the Senate floor became increasingly unclear. One moment she was blaming Hamas for violating that morning’s ceasefire and the next she was urging the Senate to allow Israel to participate in the US Visa Waiver Program.
At the end of Boxer’s rant, CSPAN cut back to the hearing in time to catch Suha Abukhdeir’s closing remark: “The life of a Palestinian in Gaza should be valued as much as the life of any human being.”
Next at the podium was CAIR Florida’s Hassan Shibly, who said, “As an American attorney, what happened to Tariq Abukhdeir at the hands of a nation that claims to be a democracy and claims to be an ally of the United States and —” That’s as far as Shibly got before he was replaced by live footage of Boxer once again on the Senate floor. This time Boxer was joined by Democratic Senator Harry Reid from Nevada. The two interrupted the remainder of the hearing discussing various pieces of legislation that can’t even be voted on until the Senate reconvenes in September.
Given the choke-hold pro-Israel lobbying organizations like AIPAC have on US elected officials, it is plausible Boxer’s maneuvering was orchestrated to suppress the reach of an open and honest conversation about Israeli criminality, much like US President Lyndon Johnson called an impromptu press conference to interrupt televised coverage of former sharecropper and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s moving testimony at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
Palestinian voices are a threat The pro-Israel community has every reason to worry about the airing of Palestinian voices like Tariq’s, Suha’s and Laila El-Haddad’s.
Their experiences are undeniable proof of the supremacist ideology that governs Israeli society and subjugates Palestinians, even those who hold American passports. Indeed, it is because Tariq is American that his story is so powerful.
In the United States, he is afforded basic rights that he was violently denied in occupied Palestine simply because he is Palestinian, a paradox that shatters the myth of Israel as a democratic state.
A family under attack “The Palestinian people, they don’t have rights,” said Tariq at the hearing. “When I visited over there, I actually forgot that I had freedom. And for my cousins, I really wish that they had the same freedoms that I have living in America.”
Tariq later explained to The Electronic Intifada that his cousins and friends who were beaten and arrested alongside him in early July are still languishing in Israeli jails.
One cousin in particular, Mahmoud, is Tariq’s closest friend and was beaten and arrested while trying to help Tariq.
“Mahmoud is 15 and a half like me,” Tariq told The Electronic Intifada. “Him and Muhammad [Abu Khudair], God rest his soul, were my first two friends that I made in Palestine. I hung out with Mahmoud and Muhammad every day.”
Hours after learning that their best friend was forced to drink gasoline and burned alive, Tariq and Mahmoud were chased and tackled by Israeli police as part of the Israeli government’s ongoing war on Muhammad Abu Khudair’s entire extended family in the Shuafat neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.
“Mahmoud got away but he came back to help me and got grabbed and punched and kicked, just like me,” recounted Tariq.
The arrest and terror campaign inflicted on the extended Abu Khudair family by the Israeli government has denied them an opportunity to truly mourn the loss of Muhammad.
“Tariq was not able to grieve his cousin’s death as a result of the beating Israeli police gave him that same day that his cousin was brutally murdered by Israeli extremists,” said Suha Abukhdeir. “Instead of the police protecting us they taunted us and told us that Muhammad was just the first to be killed and that 300 Palestinians would be killed for the three Israeli teenagers who were killed.”
It appears they made good on that promise in Gaza, where more than 1,800 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians, have been mercilessly slaughtered in one Israeli massacre after another.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government has intensified its attack on Tariq’s family.
“The day after I left Palestine, they arrested all the males in the house I was staying in, without any charges,” said Tariq, whose family home in occupied East Jerusalem was raided by Israeli police hours after he departed the country.
Another American teen in Israeli jail One panelist after another reminded the audience that the only exceptional things about Tariq’s beating were that it was caught on film, and he has an American passport. Otherwise, what happened to him is routine for Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation.
Perhaps the lack of video footage can help explain the ongoing imprisonment of fifteen-year-old Mohammed Abu Nie, an American citizen who is still in Israeli jail after he was arrested with Tariq in early July.
Tariq told The Electronic Intifada that he, Abu Nie and his cousin Mahmoud were together watching the protests when they were chased, tackled and arrested by Israeli police.
Abu Nie’s imprisonment was largely unheard of until the daily US State Department press briefing on 28 July.
In response to a question about the status of Abu Nie’s case, US State Department spokesperson Jennifer Psaki revealed that the American teen “was arrested on July 3rd during protests in the Shuafat neighborhood in East Jerusalem” and, like Tariq, stands accused of “rock-throwing, attacking police, carrying a knife, and leading protests,” all of which is untrue, according to Tariq, who insists they were only watching and not participating in the protests.
According to the State Department, Abu Nie has not seen his parents since the night he was detained and there are allegations that he has been beaten while in custody.
Psaki said that the US is “gravely concerned about the detention of an American citizen child” but is “calling for a speedy resolution” rather than Abu Nie’s release.
“My tax dollars killed my family” Laila El-Haddad, a Gaza City native who lives in Columbia, Maryland, opened her speech with a soul-crushing statement.
“My tax dollars killed eight members of my family this morning,” said El-Haddad. She went on to list the names and ages of her slaughtered relatives, seven members of the El-Farra family. Among them were three children. Two of them were fleeing when they were killed by a second Israeli air strike.
El-Haddad proceeded to deliver a short and damning history lesson about the population that Israel has ghettoized in the Gaza Strip:
The reality is Gaza right now is being bombarded. It is completely blocked out, besieged and blockaded. This is a situation unheard of in modern history for a population that is already largely refugees, that is already besieged, that is already stateless to then be bombarded mercilessly with no intervention.
Gaza is roughly twice the size of Washington, DC, where we all sit today. It has a little over a million and half inhabitants, 1.7 going on 1.8. Most of those inhabitants are under the age of 18. Three-quarters of them are refugees, meaning they are not from the place they are compelled to live. They are from towns and villages, many of them depopulated, destroyed, ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias prior to 1948 and they sought refuge in Gaza and they were besieged in Gaza and they are not allowed to return to their native lands.
Thanks to Senator Boxer’s lengthy tirade, El-Haddad’s testimony did not air.
But at least one lawmaker heard her story.
Democratic Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota — who recently issued a call in The Washington Post for an end to the crippling blockade on Gaza, a rare and risky move for any American politician — was the only elected official to attend the hearing.
Signifying a tiny but important crack in unwavering support for Israeli crimes among US elected officials, Ellison also made an appearance at an event featuring Tariq later that evening at Busboys and Poets, a DC restaurant that often serves as a progressive meeting spot.
“I’m embarrassed we haven’t done more,” he told the crowd that night.
The family of Mohammad Nayef Ja'abeess, 21, who was shot and killed by the Israeli police in occupied Jerusalem, Monday, denied Israeli allegations that he deliberately rammed his industrial digger into a bus.
His uncle, Abu Amjad, said Mohammad left home, as he does every day, driving his industrial digger, and that his route includes driving on the Samuel Hanevi Street, between West and East Jerusalem.
An Israeli man, who apparently thought, or assumed, Mohammad is attempting to carry out an attack, opened fire at the digger from a distance.
Nayef then tried to reverse his digger and back away, but more shots were fired, and his digger rammed an Israeli bus, before more live rounds were fired at him.
Abu Amjad added that eyewitness accounts, and cellphone recorded footage, negate the Israeli claims and confirm the claims of the family.
As for the call Mohammad allegedly made to the family before the attack, the uncle said rumors and allegations are inaccurate, only meant to claim the young man carried out an intentional attack.
“The Police can claim whatever they want, they always justify their attacks against the Palestinians, they justify crimes”, he added, “This is not a new policy; Mohammad was simply murdered in cold blood”.
The Police maintains that Mohammad deliberately attacked the bus, wounding the driver and four Israelis, and killing another.
A medic, who arrived at the scene following the fatal shooting, said Mohammad was shot by various rounds of live ammunition to several parts of his body.
Following the incident, dozens of Police and security officers invaded Jabal al-Mokabber, the hometown of the slain Palestinian, and clashed with dozens of local youths.
The soldiers fired gas bombs, and dozens of rounds of live ammunition.
Scores have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation, and the army kidnapped Mohammad’s father, Mousa Ja'abeess.
His uncle, Abu Amjad, said Mohammad left home, as he does every day, driving his industrial digger, and that his route includes driving on the Samuel Hanevi Street, between West and East Jerusalem.
An Israeli man, who apparently thought, or assumed, Mohammad is attempting to carry out an attack, opened fire at the digger from a distance.
Nayef then tried to reverse his digger and back away, but more shots were fired, and his digger rammed an Israeli bus, before more live rounds were fired at him.
Abu Amjad added that eyewitness accounts, and cellphone recorded footage, negate the Israeli claims and confirm the claims of the family.
As for the call Mohammad allegedly made to the family before the attack, the uncle said rumors and allegations are inaccurate, only meant to claim the young man carried out an intentional attack.
“The Police can claim whatever they want, they always justify their attacks against the Palestinians, they justify crimes”, he added, “This is not a new policy; Mohammad was simply murdered in cold blood”.
The Police maintains that Mohammad deliberately attacked the bus, wounding the driver and four Israelis, and killing another.
A medic, who arrived at the scene following the fatal shooting, said Mohammad was shot by various rounds of live ammunition to several parts of his body.
Following the incident, dozens of Police and security officers invaded Jabal al-Mokabber, the hometown of the slain Palestinian, and clashed with dozens of local youths.
The soldiers fired gas bombs, and dozens of rounds of live ammunition.
Scores have been treated for the effects of tear gas inhalation, and the army kidnapped Mohammad’s father, Mousa Ja'abeess.
4 aug 2014
Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian youth in Tulkarem on Monday, security sources said.
Palestinian security sources told Ma'an that Issam Nizar Jamil Abu al-Sisan was injured by live fire in a village northwest of the city.
Al-Sisan was taken for medical treatment at an Israeli hospital, locals said.
Palestinian security sources told Ma'an that Issam Nizar Jamil Abu al-Sisan was injured by live fire in a village northwest of the city.
Al-Sisan was taken for medical treatment at an Israeli hospital, locals said.
3 aug 2014
Israeli forces shot and seriously injured a Palestinian child during clashes near Hebron on Sunday, medics said.
Hazim al-Shalalda, the directer of al-Mizan hospital, told Ma'an that 11-year-old Moheyeddin Salah Idriss was shot in the chest with a live bullet during the clashes.
The boy is currently in a coma and undergoing a complex medical procedure, al-Shalalda said.
Moheyeddin was shot during clashes near Kiryat Arba settlement east of Hebron, where protesters threw rocks and Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas at Palestinians.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into the incident.
Hazim al-Shalalda, the directer of al-Mizan hospital, told Ma'an that 11-year-old Moheyeddin Salah Idriss was shot in the chest with a live bullet during the clashes.
The boy is currently in a coma and undergoing a complex medical procedure, al-Shalalda said.
Moheyeddin was shot during clashes near Kiryat Arba settlement east of Hebron, where protesters threw rocks and Israeli soldiers fired live bullets and tear gas at Palestinians.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was looking into the incident.