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

DCI-Palestine

 

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

 

Demonstration in the no go zone, Beit Hanoun

posted on ISM webpage on 22 December 2011

by Nathan Stuckey

20 December 2011

Photo: Rosa Schiano, International Solidarity Movement - Click here for more images

Every Tuesday there is a demonstration against the occupation and the Israeli imposed no go zone that surrounds Gaza, stealing much of Gaza’s best farmland.  Today, it was unseasonably warm, it felt almost like summer.  We started our march from in front of the destroyed buildings Beit Hanoun Agricultural College.  Music played over a megaphone as we marched down the road into the no go zone.  As we got closer to the no go zone the music stopped, it got quiet.  Usually, when the music starts the chanting begins, but not today.  Everyone seemed to be lost in thought, perhaps pondering the green that has recently appeared in the no go zone.  The bulldozers haven’t come for many weeks to kill all life in the no go zones.  Perhaps they were remembering the olive trees, and orange groves that used to be here.  Perhaps they were thinking of the families that used to live in the destroyed houses that we were walking by.  Perhaps they were thinking of the houses that no longer exist, the houses that have been completely erased by the Israeli bulldozers.
We entered the no go zone and went to the flag that we left here several weeks ago.  It flies in the breeze, a reminder that this land is Palestinian, that while the people of Gaza might have been driven from their homes they have not yet been erased by the Israeli military like the orchards that used to grow in the no go zone.  We took the flag down.  We marched further into the no go zone, to land which no one had been to since May of 2000.  We made our way across the no go zone, land scarred dozens of times by the blades of Israeli bulldozers, to a small hill.  We climbed the hill and we planted the flag.  The ground was hard, it has not rained lately, but we found a soft spot and drove the flagpole into the earth.  We piled rocks around its base to strengthen it.  We looked out over 1948, the land which many residents of Beit Hanoun had been driven from 63 years ago.
We began to walk back to Beit Hanoun.  Through the no go zone, on land no one had been to in many years.  As always, when you go new places in Gaza you see new destruction which you had no inkling of before you stumbled upon, but it was always there, another untold story in the crimes of the occupation.  We paused by some rubble that I had seen many times on our marches into the no go zone, I never knew what it had been.  It was a well.  It had of course been destroyed by an Israeli bulldozer, all of the trees which it used to water ground under the treads of the same bulldozer.  The well is dry now.  Perhaps someday it will be repaired and orchards will once again thrive on this land.  Someday, after the occupation finally disappears into the pages of history.  Until then, it stands alongside the hundreds of Palestinian villages destroyed in the Nakba, alongside the thousands of homes destroyed by Israel, as a mute reminder of the crimes of Israel.

Updated on December 22, 2011

PCHR weekly report 15/12 - 21/12/2011: 1 civilian dies trying to escape from gunfire, 1 worker shot and injured

extracts from PCHR weekly report 15/12 - 21/12/2011:

A Palestinian civilian was killed when he fell down from his bicycle as he was attempting to escape Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian civilian was wounded by Israeli gunfire in the northern Gaza Strip. 

Friday, 16 December 2011


At approximately 23:40, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian agricultural land in the vicinity of sewage basins in the east of the camp.  Due to the intense shooting, the guard of basins, Majed Mahmoud al-Nabahin, 39, attempted to escape on motorcycle towards the west.  While he was driving the motorcycle, he fell down and died, as he suffered from hemorrhage. 

Tuesday, 20 December 2011







At approximately 16:20, Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Beit Hanoun town opened fire at open areas to the east of al-Farta area, nearly 800 meters from the border.  No casualties were reported. 

At approximately 23:30, Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Beit Hanoun town opened fire at open areas to the east of al-Boura area, nearly 700 meters from the border.  No casualties were reported.

Wednesday, 21 December 2011




At approximately 09:30, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at a number of Palestinian civilians who were collecting wood, iron and scraps of construction materials in Hammouda area in the northern Gaza Strip.  As a result, Hamza Jamal Barakat, 19, from al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City, was wounded by two bullets to the left shoulder and foot.