perjantai 19. elokuuta 2022

ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLED 49 PEOPLE IN THREE DAYS IN THE BESIEGED GAZA STRIP

On the first day of Israeli occupation attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, on Friday August 5th, Israel's occupation forces killed 10 people and wounded at least 79.
Among the victims were 3 civilians, one of them a child, and 7 members of the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades.

Israeli occupation forces started with killing Islamic Jihad commander Tayseer Mahmoud Muhammad Al-Jabari(52), a member of the Military Council of Al-Quds Brigades, and another member Salama Muharib Abdullah Abed(38) in an  air-strike on the 14-story tall Palestine tower in the al-Rimal neighbourhood in Gaza City. 

On the second day of Israeli occupation attacks, on Saturday August 6th, 19 people were killed, among them 8 children, and the number of wounded rose to 236. The number of non-civilians killed included several members of the Al-Quds Brigades.

The third day, Sunday August 7th, brought 14 more deaths, including at least 7 children, and the number of the wounded rose to 358. Among the dead was one member of Hamas' armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, Mujahid Ahmad Muhammad Afaneh.

Following days have brought the death of several wounded people, including children, bringing the death toll 49, of whom 17 are children and 4 women. According to one count, 36 of the killed were civilians. The 13 possibly include only member of Islamic Jihad and doesn't include the aforementioned al-Qassam Brigades member, as Hamas was not involved in the fighting, and a traffic police Mahmoud Ahmad Dweik(20 or 21).

As in previous Israeli occupation attacks against the Gaza Strip in 2008-09, 2012, 2014 and 2021, families have suffered immense losses of life: On Sunday two Israeli occupation attacks, in the Fallulah cemetery and the al-Bureij refugee camp, killed 5 children (including 4 cousins from a single extended family, the Najms) in the former case, and a father and his 3 children in the latter.

Israeli occupation claimed that that the incident at Fallulah cemetery and another fatal explosion which killed several people, including 4 children, at the Jabalia refugee camp the day earlier, would have been caused by rockets fired by the Islamic Jihad, but eventually admitted it had carried out the attack on the cemetery. The responsibility for the explosion at the Jabalia refugee camp is still open.

Israeli regime claims that the three days of attacks were 'preventive', and that Islamic Jihad would have been planning attacks on the occupation in retribution of the kidnapping of its local leader in the Jenin refugee camp on the West Bank.

According to both Palestinian and Israeli sources, though, Islamic Jihad and Israel were in talks via Egypt to calm the situation, which led to Islamic Jihad not expecting the attacks to take place.

SOURCES: Al-Jazeera, IMEMC, Middle East Eye, Palinfo Center, WAFA News Agency.
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ELDERLY MAN SHOT IN HEAD, KILLED BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

Salah Tawfiq Sawafta, aged 58 or 60 according to different reports, was shot in head by Israel's occupation forces when he was walking home from a mosque after dawn prayers in the city of Tubas, in the northeastern part of Palestine's Israeli occupied West Bank.

A video allegedly shows his last moment before being shot: He is walking on a street beside a building - perhaps housing a cafe based on how it appears - while it's still dark, and he appears to be making for an entrance to the establishment as sound of shots are ringing. The video cuts out as he seems to crouch or crumble.

Sawafta was given first aid by Palestinian medics on the scene, and taken to a Palestinian hospital where he underwent surgery, but he succumbed to his injuries.

A young man was also shot by Israeli occupation soldiers and wounded in thigh.

The shooting took place during Israeli occupation forces' invasion, during which Israeli occupation troops used both live and rubber-coated steel bullets, concussion grenades and tear-gas grenades. One person was arrested by Israeli occupation from Tubas and four from the town of Tammun, just south of Tubas.

Sawafta's daughter was going to get married on August 26th.

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maanantai 1. elokuuta 2022

MINOR KILLED IN AN ATTACK BY ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLERS AND ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

15- or 16-year-old Amjad Abu Alia was fatally shot on Friday July 29th during a joint attack by illegal Israeli settlers and Israel's occupation forces.

The shooting took place during a demonstration against occupier Israel's illegal colony building at the entrance to the village of al-Mughayer, a regular target of fatal illegal Israeli settler attacks, on Palestine's occupied West Bank.

Illegal Israeli settlers, of whom five were reportedly armed with firearms - several of these armed settlers were captured on photographs and videos - and Israel's occupation forces attacked the weekly Friday demonstration consisting of 300-400 people. Other illegal settlers at present were throwing stones and scuffling with the locals.

Early reports said that Israel's occupation forces would have shot the fatal bullet, but according to head of the local village council, Abu Alia was shot by an illegal Israeli settler. The bullet hit him in the back and he died of his wounds in a hospital at Ramallah.

His funeral took place on Saturday.

Two to four other people were wounded by illegal Israeli settlers and occupation troops according to different reports, none of their injuries being severe.


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ELDERLY MAN SHOT AT HAWARA DIES OF HIS WOUNDS

Hussein Hasan Qawariq, aged 59 or 60, was shot by Israel's occupation forces at the Hawara (also transliterated as Huwwara) checkpoint near the city of Nablus on Palestine's occupied West Bank on Tuesday July 26th.

He died of his wounds on Friday July 29th in an Israeli hospital in Tel Aviv.

According to both his family and the mayor of Hawara Qawariq, from the village of Awarta, was mentally disturbed and according to the mayor spent part of his time collecting empty cans for money and asked for money from local businesses for his sustenance.

Israeli occupation at first made the standard claim that he would have had a knife and that he was shot for not stopping when commanded to do so, but later referenced only the latter claim. He was apparently unarmed.

UPDATE: Qawariq was unarmed and had suffered from mental illness, and received care, since young adulthood, as Haaretz reports:

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sunnuntai 24. heinäkuuta 2022

ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLS TWO MEMBERS OF AL-AQSA MARTYRS' BRIGADES IN NABLUS

Early on Sunday July 24th Israel's occupation forces invaded the Old City in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus and besieged the home of the Azizi family, demanding one person - whose name they shouted - to surrender. Who this person was has not been reported. It doesn't appear to have been any of the men who died, as Israeli occupation would have then likely taken the body of the deceased target with them when they withdrew.

The raid was opposed by resistance fighters, and a group of armed men had taken a position in the house. According to one report, a total of seven men were inside during the gunfight that began and culminated in Israeli occupation forces' using several anti-tank missiles to blast a hole in the wall of the old stone building.

If we the report about seven men being inside are to be taken as fact, five of them got out and were not caught. Two were killed - either by the missiles or from live ammunition based on different articles - and in the overall fighting at least 10 and up to 19 people were wounded, 3 of them seriously.

One person was reported as being in a critical condition after being shot in head; this could be a brother (who has Down's Syndrome) of a journalist, who is said to have been also seriously wounded in head in Nablus, but no reports directly connect these persons as being the same.

The killed men were both members of the Fatah-aligned al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade. They were Mohammad Bashar Azizi,  his age given in different sources as from 22 to 25, and Abderrahman Jamal Soboh, whose age in most reports is reported as 28.

Soboh was a former political prisoner and his uncle had been killed by the Israeli occupation forces in 2019.

According to one source, Azizi was shot in chest and Soboh was shot in head. Some of the other reports claim they were killed in the explosions caused by the the anti-tank missiles.

Israeli occupation, which hindered the access of Palestinian ambulance crews, didn't take the men's bodies, which again implies they were not the intended target of the raid.

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keskiviikko 6. heinäkuuta 2022

YOUNG MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK AFTER BEATING BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES

32-year-old Ahmad Harb Ayyad was attacked and beaten by Israel's occupation forces near the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem early this week, suffering a heart attack and dying in hospital on the same day.

Most reports cite his death taking place either late on Monday July 4th or early on Tuesday July 5th, but according to his uncle Jamal Ayyad on July 5th his death took place 'the day before yesterday' - aka on Sunday July 3rd.

Ayyad, from the besieged Gaza Strip, was in a group of labourers who tried to cross the illegal Wall to go to work in Israel without permits. He was in the occupied West Bank on a regular medical referral to Nablus hospital and according to his uncle had similarly worked in earlier occasions.

Israel's occupation forces opened fire at them with live ammunition, wounding one, and used also tear-gas and physical force. According to Jamal Ayyad his nephew, because of his medical condition, was unable to run away, fell on the ground, was beaten by occupation soldiers and then taken in an ambulance first to a hospital in the nearby city of Tulkarem.

There he was diagnosed as having suffered a heart attack, and as needed treatment was not available at Tulkarem, was  moved to a better equipped hospital in the city of Nablus, where he was given treatment. At first he seemed well enough, was able to call to and talk with his wife, but after four hours there his heart stopped, he was revived, but his heart stopped again four hours later and he couldn't be revived again.

Israeli occupation allowed the return of his body to his family already on Tuesday and Ayyad, from Zaitoun, was buried east of Gaza City at the Shuhada graveyard. According to his uncle, his body was covered in bruises, apparently from the beating he received.

Ahmad Ayyad left behind himself a widow and two children aged 4 and 6.

More:

Gaza family says its son was beaten to death by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank

Israeli Soldiers Beat A Palestinian Worker To Death Near Tulkarem

Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Worker near West Bank Wall

عائلة عياد تكشف لمصدر تفاصيل استشهاد نجلها إثر اعتداء قوات الاحتلال بطولكرم
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YOUNG MAN KILLED IN JABA'A BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

Israel's occupation forces fatally shot 20-year-old Rafiq Riyad Ghannam in the town of Jaba'a on Palestine's Israel occupied West Bank early on Wednesday July 6th.

According to Palestinian sources, he heard a sound from the outside, went to see what was happening and was shot twice with live ammunition, from a distance, by Israeli occupation soldiers.

Israeli occupation forces didn't allow Palestinian medics to reach Ghannam, arrested him, and later announced his death. According to one report, they would have already put him inside a black plastic bag on the site of the shooting.

Israeli occupation made two contradictory claims about his shooting, in one claiming that he would have been shot while throwing a Molotov cocktail at occupation groups, and in the another one claiming that he would have been shot for trying to escape from a building and refusing to stop. He is referenced as a 'suspect' in the latter.

A young man named Ahmad Ziam Hamamra was also arrested by the occupation soldiers.

Rafiq was the brother of the current political prisoner Ayham Ghannam and the former political prisoner Mohammad Ghannam.

Rafiq's uncle Hani Ghannam is also a former political prisoner. His aunt Ni’am Ghannam was killed by the Israeli occupation forces during the Second Intifada and his grandfather was killed by Zionist troops in 1948.
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