Thursday, October 28, 2010

PCHR weekly report 21/10 - 27/10/2010: 5 workers wounded, 1 incursion, house damaged

extracts from PCHR weekly report  21/10 - 27/10/2010:

IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers and farmers in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
- 5 Palestinian workers were wounded.

During the reporting period, 5 Palestinian workers were wounded when Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel fired at them while collecting raw construction materials. 


In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted one limited incursion into al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed.  

Thursday, 21 October 2010 


At approximately 07:30, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel near Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from Erez industrial zone in the northern Gaza Strip. As a result, two workers were wounded:

1. 'Omar Sabri Hamad, 24, from Beit Hanoun town, wounded by a bullet to the right foot; and
2. Bassem Qassem Qassem, 23, from Beit Hanoun town, wounded by a bullet to the right foot

Friday, 22 October  2010



  
 In the morning, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel near Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from Erez industrial zone in the northern Gaza Strip. As a result, Zaki Sobhi al-Kafarna, 28, from Beit Hanoun, was wounded by a bullet to the left leg.

Sunday, 24 October 2010


At approximately 17:00, IOF moved nearly 350 meters into al-Qarara village, northeast of Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. They leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed. This incursion continued until 01:00 on the following day.

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

 
At approximately 09:45, Israeli soldiers stationed at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian workers, who were collecting raw construction materials from the debris of destroyed homes. As a result, Haitham 'Ali Shallah, 37, from al-Shoja'iya neighborhood in Gaza City, was wounded by a bullet to the right thigh, when he was nearly 300 meters away from the border. 

Wednesday, 27 October 2010


At approximately 10:30, Israeli soldiers stationed at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, to the east of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip, opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials in al-Sayafa area in the north of Beit Lahia. As a result, Yousef Sami Ma'rouf, 19, was wounded by a bullet to the left thigh, when he was nearly 500 meters away from the border.

At approximately 11:20, Israeli forces stationed at the eastern border of the Gaza Strip fired two artillery shells at a number of activists of the Palestinian resistance in Abu Safiya area to the east of Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. A shell hit the activists and killed Jihad Subhi 'Afana, 20, a member of the al-Quds Brigades (the armed wing of Islamic Jihad). The other shell hit a house belonging to Ahmed Isma'il Shabat, nearly 2,000 meters away from the targeted area, but no casualties were reported as the house was empty at that time.