Israeli airstrikes kill 1, injure 3 in Gaza

Palestinians survey the damage to an animal farm after an Israeli airstrike east
of Gaza City, Feb. 12, 2012. An Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed
a 69-year-old civilan on Sunday, hospital officials said, and the military
described the operation as retaliation for a cross-border rocket launch.
(REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes killed an elderly man in the central Gaza Strip overnight Saturday, in a series of airstrikes across Gaza that injured three others. Palestinian medics said 69-year-old Abdul-Karim Az-Zaytouna was killed and two others were injured when warplanes bombed steel sheds near the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Israeli forces also targeted sites in the southern Gaza Strip, injuring one near Khan Younis when a missile landed in an open area. A house belonging to the Imteir familiy was shelled east of Rafah, causing severe damage, but no reported injuries. An Israeli military statement said the strikes targeted a "terror tunnel and a weapon manufacturing facility in the northern Gaza Strip, a terror tunnel in the central Gaza Strip and an additional terror tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip." It said the strikes were in response to a rocket fired from Gaza that caused light injuries to a woman when it hit Israel's Hof Ashkelon district on Saturday.

2 hurt in Israeli attack on northern Gaza

A boy collects materials salvaged from the debris of a damaged smuggling
tunnel after it was targeted in an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern
Gaza Strip February 3, 2012. (REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes fired on sites across the Gaza Strip early Friday, injuring a young man and a child in northern city Beit Lahiya, a Ma'an correspondent and medical officials said.

Medical officials said the child suffered serious injuries to the head and hands. A young man was also hurt, and he was taken to hospital, said Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmiya.

In southern Gaza, Israeli forces fired on a house east of Rafah and open lands near Bani Suheila east of Khan Younis, Salmiya added.

At least one of the airstrikes targeted a tunnel in Rafah, onlookers said.

An Israeli army statement said the strikes "targeted two weapon storing facilities in the northern Gaza Strip, three terror tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip and a weapon manufacturing facility in the central Gaza Strip."

"Direct hits were confirmed as well as secondary explosions at several targets," the statement said, adding that the strike was in response to rocket fire from Gaza.

Seven projectiles were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday with no reported injuries, Israeli news site Ynet reported.

Later, Israeli tanks opened fired on a crowd of people in northern city Beit Hanoun, medics told Ma'an.

Witnesses: Israel military vehicles enter Gaza

Israeli tanks patrol the border of northern Gaza. (MaanImages/Moti Milrod, File)

 

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli military vehicles entered the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning, with witnesses reporting heavy gunfire in the area.

Forces accompanied bulldozers around 300 meters inside the border near Jabalia to raze lands in the area, witnesses told Ma'an. No casualties were reported.

An Israeli army spokesman said the incident was "routine activity."

Gunfire was also heard in the southern Gaza Strip early Tuesday, with locals saying Palestinian militants exchanged fire with an Israeli military post near the Kerem Shalom crossing.

The military spokesman said he was not familiar with the incident.

Gaza teen injured in explosion

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A teenage girl was injured Friday when an ordnance left by the Israeli army exploded east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics said.

Medical officials told Ma'an the 19-year-old was taken to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and treated for moderate injuries.

[Israeli incursion from Kisufim gate]

extract from Ma'an article

Meanwhile, Israeli tanks entered the Gaza Strip through the Kisufim gate near Khan Younis and opened fire as bulldozers razed farmland in the area, onlookers told Ma'an.

An military spokeswoman said soldiers identified an explosive device near the border fence and safely detonated it. She said soldiers fired tank shells during the procedure as a "method of deterrence."

The Israeli army holds Hamas fully responsible for maintaining calm in the coastal enclave, she added.

Palestinian man wounded in IOF shooting on last day of 2011

GAZA, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot at and wounded a Palestinian man in northern Gaza Strip on Saturday night in the dying hours of 2011, local sources said.
They said that IOF troops stationed north of Beit Hanun town opened fire at its residents wounding the 33-year-old man, who was carried to hospital in moderate condition.

Palestinian Injured By Army Fire In Northern Gaza

Sunday January 01, 2012 01:54 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian medical sources reported Saturday that a Palestinian man was shot and wounded by Israeli military fire, north of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, the Arabs48 news website reported.

Image By Arabs48

The sources stated that medics transferred the wounded 32-year-old man to Kamal Odwan Hospital after he was shot in the leg.

Israel imposes an illegal buffer-zone along the border, preventing the Palestinians from entering their own lands that are close to the border fence. Dozens of casualties, including several fatalities were reported in similar attacks.

Despite the fact that when Israel declared this “buffer zone” it stated that it extends to 300 meters along the border with northern Gaza, on the ground, the zone extends to more than 1 kilometer, preventing the residents from planting their own lands, or even entering them.

Witnesses: Israeli tanks shell eastern Gaza Strip

Residents of Khan Younis inspect damage to their land and houses after an
incursion of Israeli tanks. (MaanImages/Hatem Omar, File)

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli tanks on Friday opened fire on Zaitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, witnesses said.

Locals reported hearing huge explosions. Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said no injuries had been reported.

An Israeli military spokeswoman was not familiar with the incident.

Israel shells northern Gaza

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- An Israeli tank fired on northern Gaza on Wednesday, without causing damage or injuries.

Forces launched an artillery shell which landed in an open area in the north of the coastal strip, a Ma'an reporter said.

An Israeli army spokesman said he was not familiar with the incident.

The blast followed two Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, which killed one man and wounded ten others, as the coastal enclave marked the third anniversary of the Gaza war.

Israel launched a three week war on the Gaza Strip on Dec. 27, 2008.

Nearly 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the military assault, including over 300 children. The majority of those killed were civilians.

13-year-old boy injured by Israeli gunfire in Gaza

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- A 13-year-old boy in the Gaza Strip was injured by Israeli gunfire on Tuesday.

Medical sources in the Gaza Strip said that Muhammad Talbani was shot in the foot and taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

Earlier on Tuesday, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the al-Naser Salah ad-Din Brigades, said in a statement that Israeli forces had crossed the border in the central Gaza Strip.

The group said it had clashed with the soldiers.

An Israeli army spokeswoman had no immediate reports of the incidents.

Urgent Appeal (UA 4/10) - Children of the Gravel

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Posted on: 15 Dec 2011 | Filed under:

• Urgent Appeals
• Fatalities and Injuries

Between 26 March 2010 and 13 December 2011, DCI-Palestine has documented 29 cases of children shot whilst collecting building material or working near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. In the cases documented by DCI-Palestine, the children report being shot whilst working between 30 to 800 metres from the border fence.
Urgent Appeal (UA 4/10) - Children of the Gravel