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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sunnuntai 3. heinäkuuta 2022

ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLS A 17-YEAR-OLD IN THE WEST BANK

17-year-old Kamel Abdallah Alwaneh was shot in abdomen and hand by Israel's occupation forces in the town of Jaba'a, on Palestine's Israeli occupied West Bank, on Saturday July 2nd during a protest which followed Israeli occupation forces' invasion.

Alwaneh had suffered damage to his intestines and liver and went through surgery, but died of his injuries early on the afternoon of Sunday July 3rd. His funeral took place just a few hours later.

He was named after an older brother who was killed by Israel's occupation forces in 2003, aged 18. Most reports claim that he himself would have been aged 18 or 19. These are in error. He was born in 2004 and hadn't turned 18 yet according to DCI-Palestine.
Elder brother killed 2003.

Kamel Alawneh is the 19th Palestinian child killed this year by Israel's occupation forces.

Israeli occupation claimed that Alwaneh was shot because he would have 'thrown a Molotov cocktail', but couldn't provide evidence for this.
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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered Saturday In Jenin

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Palestinian teenager succumbs to serious injuries sustained by Israeli gunfire in Jenin

UPDATE: Palestinian injured in Jenin-area clashes succumbs to injuries, foreign ministry condemns his killing
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OLDEST FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONER DIES IS IN ISRAELI OCCUPATION CAPTIVITY

68-year-old Sa’diyya Farajallah, mother of eight from the town of Idna, died in Israeli occupation's ad-Damoun prison on Friday July 2nd.

She had been imprisoned since December 18th 2021 by the Israeli occupation, which hadn't allowed her relatives to visit her.

According to Palestinian sources, Farajallah had been attacked by illegal Israeli settlers near the Ibrahimi mosque in the city of Hebron before being arrested by Israel's occupation forces, which accused her of an 'attempted stabbing attack'.

On June 28th Israeli occupation brought Farajallah, who suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure, before occupation military court, and Israeli occupation military prosecutor demanded 5 years imprisonment for her. 

She was already in a wheelchair, unable to speak and 'looking fragile' according to her lawyer by then. On Friday she lost her consciousness after her morning prayer and was moved to prison clinic, where she died.

Farajallah had been imprisoned by the Israeli occupation twice before, in 1987 and in 2017. In the latter case she was imprisoned without charge or trial.

She is the 230th Palestinian political prisoner to die in Israeli occupation captivity since 1967 and oldest female prisoner held by the occupation at the time of her death.

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keskiviikko 29. kesäkuuta 2022

ISRAELI OCCUPATION KILLS A YOUNG MAN IN JENIN

At dawn on Wednesday June 29th Israel's occupation forces shot and fatally wounded 23- or 25-year-old Mohammad Maher Nafe’ Mer’ey (his last name is also given as Marei) in abdomen and heart during a raid targeting the city of Jenin on Palestine's occupied West Bank.

Mer'ey, from the Jenin refugee camp, died in hospital from his wounds.

The Israeli occupation forces, which targeted the family homes of two young men, Yahia Yousef Aref Jaber(23) and Ahmad As’ad Abdul-Halim Nabhan(26) and arrested them, wounded also a second man during ensuing confrontations with unarmed protesters and exchange of gunfire with resistance fighters.

Mer'ey's cousin, Bara’ Kamal Lahlouh(23), was killed by Israel's occupation forces in Jenin on June 17th.

In his funeral Mer'ey's body was covered with a flag of the Islamic Jihad, but there has been no confirmation that he would have been affiliated with the group.

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sunnuntai 26. kesäkuuta 2022

ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES KILL A 16-YEAR-OLD IN SILWAD

16-year-old Mohammad Abdallah Hamed was fatally shot by Israel's occupation forces' soldiers on the outskirts of the town of Silwad, on Palestine's occupied West Bank, around 19:45 Palestine time on Friday June 24th.

After being shot and wounded he was reportedly warrested by Israeli occupation troops and left on the site of his shooting for 45 minutes, before at 20:30 Israeli occupation ambulance moved him to a hospital in West  Jerusalem, where he died. 

Israeli occupation announced his death around 02:00 Palestine time on Saturday.

According to some reports, he was shot in face by the Israeli occupation soldiers but this has not been confirmed.

On Saturday morning Israeli occupation claimed that his body would be returned in the afternoon. It wasn't. His already dug grave was left empty.

One of his siblings is said to be imprisoned by the Israeli occupation.

More:

Foreign Ministry condemns Israeli killing of Palestinian youth, demands accountability


Israeli forces kill 16-year-old Palestinian boy in Silwad
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keskiviikko 22. kesäkuuta 2022

ILLEGAL ISRAELI SETTLER FATALLY STABS MAN WHILE OCCUPATION FORCES WATCH

27-year-old Ali Hasan Harb was stabbed in the heart and killed by an illegal Israeli settler in the village of Iskaka, east of the city of Salfit on Palestine's occupied West Bank, on June 21st.

Illegal Israeli settlers were trying to establish a new illegal colony outpost on the village's lands and locals rushed to push them out. The illegal settlers returned under occupation forces' escort and one of them attacked rushed forward and stabbed Harb.

After the stabbing Israel's occupation forces' soldiers threatened to shoot other Palestinians if they would try to help him.

As a result, he was left without medical attention for thirty minutes. 

On May 14th 2021 Israel's occupation forces shot and killed his cousin Awad Ahmad Harb, aged 27 or 28, in Iskaka during a protest.

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sunnuntai 19. kesäkuuta 2022

GRANDFATHER FATALLY SHOT BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

Israel's occupation forces on Sunday June 19th killed 53-year-old grandfather Nabil Ahmad Ghanem, from the village of Surra in the Nablus governorate, when they opened fire at a group of Palestinian workers.

The fatal incident took place near the village of  Jaljulia, close to the city of Qalqilia, on the occupied West Bank.

Israeli occupation claimed both that Ghanem would have tried to 'damage' the illegal Wall and 'infiltrate' Israel.

There are contradictory reports of the incident; apparently dozens of workers tried to cross the illegal Wall so that they could get into their jobs in Israel, possibly after first being denied crossing by Israeli occupation forces, even when they would have had permits.

Some reports claim that Ghanem died instantly; one, quoting Israeli occupation, claims that he arrived at a hospital in Israel in a critical condition and died soon after.

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lauantai 18. kesäkuuta 2022

ISRAEL KILLS THREE YOUNG MEN IN THE CITY OF JENIN

At dawn on Friday June 17th, Israel's occupation forces killed three young men in the city of Jenin on Palestine's occupied West Bank. The victims were shot dead inside their car in the eastern part of the city.

They were Bara’ Kamal Lahlouh(23), from the Jenin refugee camp, and Yousef Nasser Salah(23) and Laith Salah Abu Srour(24), both from the city of Jenin itself.

There are two different versions of what happened. According to the first one, Israeli occupation forces targeted the men in a deliberate ambush. Their killing would have been followed by a gunfight, in which Israeli occupation forces would have wounded 9-10 other Palestinians.

According to the second one, Israeli occupation raid would have led to a gunfight, in which the three men would have taken part. As they would have been leaving the site of the gunfight in their car, it would have become 'jammed' (apparently by Israeli occupation forces) and they would have been shot dead inside it by occupation troops which would have surrounded it. In this version they wouldn't have been the intended targets of the raid. 

The 9-10 wounded persons would have in this case been injured during the preceding gunfight. No matter at which point they were wounded, one suffered severe injuries and three others injuries described as being from moderate to severe.

At least two of the men seem to have been affiliated with resistance factions, assuming the flags covering their bodies during funeral procession is an indication. At least one of them would have then been affiliated with the Islamic Jihad based on this. Beyond this, a purported Hamas' comment on the killings called Bara' Lahlouh a 'field commander', which would then likely mean he was a member of its armed wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.

Israeli occupation forces claimed it's soldiers would have found two M-16 rifles 'at the scene', which would mean that one of the three would have been unarmed.


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sunnuntai 12. kesäkuuta 2022

FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER DIES OF WOUNDS

On Saturday June 11th former political prisoner, 37-year-old Samih Jamal Mahmoud Amarna died in a Ramallah hospital from the wounds he had suffered when he was shot by Israel's occupation forces on June 1st. 

The shooting took place during Israeli occupation forces' raid in the town of Ya'bad, situated in the Jenin governorate of Palestine's occupied West Bank.

During the same raid in which Amarna was shot Israel's occupation forces killed 24-year-old Bilal Awad Kabaha. Six others, beyond Amarna himself, were wounded.



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Palestinian Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered June 1


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torstai 9. kesäkuuta 2022

OCCUPATION KILLS A YOUNG MAN IN HALHOUL

27-year-old construction worker Mahmoud Fayez Abu Ayhour was fatally wounded by Israel's occupation forces in the occupied West Bank town of Halhoul on June 9th.

Israeli occupation forces had raided a money exchange office in the town, taking cash from it and welding its door shut, and were then confronted by locals.

Occupation forces attacked the protesters with live bullets and both concussion and tear-gas grenades. Abu Ayhour, who was working on a construction site close to the money exchange according to some reports, was hit in his abdomen and aorta.

A video shows wounded Abu Ayhour being lifted up by helpers on a street, before the open gate of what appears to be a largely empty lot.

He died of his wounds in the al-Mezan hospital in the city of Hebron.

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Israeli forces gun down Palestinian in Hebron-district town
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