PCHR weekly report 12/8- 18/8/2010: 1 worker injured, 3 incursions, airstrikes

extracts from PCHR weekly report 12/8- 18/8/2010: 

 IOF continued to fire at Palestinian farmers and workers in the Gaza Strip’s border areas.

- A Palestinian worker was wounded in the northern Gaza Strip.

 IOF expanded the buffer zone in the northern Gaza Strip.


Thursday, 12 August 2010

 
At approximately 10:00, IOF moved nearly 300 meters into al-Farrahin area in 'Abassan village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. They leveled area of Palestinian agricultural land. They redeployed outside the area at approximately 15:30.


 Saturday, 14 August 2010


At approximately 08:00, Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northwest of Beit Lahia town opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers, who were collecting raw construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, one of the workers, Rafiq 'Aayesh al-Sous, 30, from Beit Lahia town, was wounded by a bullet to the right thigh, when he was nearly 1,200 meters away from the border.





Monday, 16 August 2010


At approximately 15:00, armed clashes erupted between a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance and Israeli troops stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Khan Yunis. Soon, IOF sent backup to the area. IOF then moved nearly 300 meters into the area. In the evening, IOF declared that they killed an activist of the Palestinian resistance and that an Israeli soldier was injured in the clashes. The resistance activist was identified as Nassam Burhom Suleiman al-Daghma, 22, a member of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad). IOF did not allow Palestinian medical crews to attend his body until 17:00 on the following day. According to medical sources, he was hit by bullets and shrapnel throughout the body, and apparently bled to death.

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 


At approximately 09:00, IOF moved nearly 400 meters into al-Farrahin area in 'Abassan village, east of Khan Yunis. They leveled areas of Palestinian land. They redeployed outside the area at approximately 15:00. 


At approximately 21:35, Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a tunnel in al-Shouka village on the Egyptian border, south of Rafah.


At approximately 22:30, Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at a tract of land located in the east of Gaza Valley village in the central Gaza Strip. The missiles hit a well, two rooms and a deserted house. The well and the house were destroyed and a nearby factory was damaged.