PCHR weekly report 23/12 - 29/12/2010: 2 civilians killed, 4 injured

exracts from PCHR weekly report 23/12 - 29/12/2010:

IOF killed two Palestinians shepherd in the Gaza Strip. 

IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.  
4 Palestinian civilians were wounded. 


Thursday, 23 December 2010 

At approximately 06:30, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers to the north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Mohammed 'Aayesh al-Hossoumi, 19, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the left thigh, when he was nearly 300 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

At approximately 09:00, Israeli soldiers stationed at the northeastern border of the Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian farmers who were cropping vegetables near the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinani." As a result, Hatem Isma'il Shalha, 17, was wounded by shrapnel of bullets to the head, when he was nearly 200 meters away from the border.

At approximately 10:55, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the north of the Bedouin Village in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian shepherds who were grazing animals in the north of village. As a result, Salama Hazzaa' Musleh Abu Hashish, 19, was seriously wounded by a bullet to the abdomen.  They was transported on an animal cart to the main road, and was then evacuated in an ambulance to Kamal 'Edwan Hospital in Beit Lahia. He underwent an emergency surgery, but he was pronounced dead at approximately 17:30. 

At approximately 13:20, Israeli soldiers stationed at the northeastern border of the Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinani" used to stand. As a result, Mahmoud Saleh Karim, 17, from al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza, was wounded by a bullet to the left hand, when he was nearly 500 meters away from the border.

Saturday, 25 December 2010


At approximately 15:00, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers on the northwestern border of the Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian fishermen who were fishing near Beit Lahia beach in the northern Gaza Strip. As a result, Ahmed Mohammed Zayed, 25, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the right foot. 

Tuesday, 28 December 2010


In the afternoon, IOF killed a Palestinian civilian near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Khan Yunis. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 15:45, Hassan Mohammed Qudaih, 19, and 4 of his relatives went to the border area in the east of Khuza'a village, east of Khan Yunis, where two members of the Palestinian were killed during armed clashes with IOF on Sunday, about 300 meters away from the border. Israeli soldiers positioned at the border fired at these civilians, so they fled towards Khuza'a village. The other four civilians were able to flee, while Qudaih was wounded by a bullet and fell onto ground. He crept towards the west and phoned his relatives and friends asking for help. However, Israeli soldiers continued to fire at the area, and no one was able to attend him. About half an hour later, Israeli soldiers fired a shell at the area where Hassan was lying. As a result, he was instantly killed. Medical crews were able to evacuate his body at approximately 17:15.


     
 Wednesday, 22 December 2010 


At approximately 10:45, Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya opened fire at Palestinian farmers in the area. The farmers were forced to flee from the area. No casualties were reported.

Gazan scrap collector faces death during Israeli incursion

28 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Mahmoud Mousa Mohammed Al Sirsik, age 19

This morning Mahmoud Mousa Mohammed Al Sirsik, aged 19, was going about his daily business, collecting stones with his horse cart in the border area, east of Gaza City, when Israeli army jeeps entered the area. Seeing the danger approaching, Mahmoud tried to run away, but found himself immobilized as the army trapped him in a rain of bullets to his left and right. One bullet hit a nearby object; a piece of shrapnel bounced back and pierced the young man’s nostril. The injured Mahmoud managed to hide for half-an-hour while the shooting from the jeeps continued and were even reinforced by a tank crossing into Gaza.
“I was sure they were going to arrest me. The tank kept moving in on me– it came as close as 20 meters. At that point I felt I had nothing to lose anymore, so I ran away as fast as I could. Bullets were still passing me by at both sides; it’s impossible to say how many they fired in total,” states an overwhelmed Mahmoud.
One of his relatives interrupts him sternly: “I heard it! It must have been close to a hundred! They wanted to kill him.”
The Al Sarsik family of 16 is dependent on Mahmoud and his brother to provide income by collecting rubble. Terrorized by today’s events, Mahmoud claims he will not take up work as a scrap collector ever again. He hopes to find another job, but it is Gaza’s scarce job opportunities that drive people into despair and force them to take up this kind of hazardous work.
Today’s attack exemplifies yet again Israel’s escalating assault on workers in the border area: since the beginning of November, approximately 40 people have been injured in the buffer zone: the no-go zone as declared by Israeli military that runs along the Gazan side of the border in a swathe 300 to 500 meters wide. However, according to the United Nations, this “high risk” zone stretches up to 1000-1500 meters. The total area amounts to 35% of Gaza’s arable land. According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, more than 84 workers have been injured and ten have been killed by the Israeli military since January 2010.

Updated on December 30, 2010

Israeli army opens fire at Gaza worker

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot a Palestinian worker on Tuesday east of Gaza City, local medics said.
The 19-year-old was collecting cement aggregates near the border area when he was shot, and was transferred to hospital with moderate injuries, a medical official said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said forces opened fire at two men in the area, which, she reiterated, Israel considers a combat zone. She noted that soldiers "did not identify a hit."

Israel's military has shot over 100 Palestinians working close to the coastal enclave's border with Israel since March, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.

Workers head to the border area and collect rubble to make cement, which is in short supply in the Strip under Israel's blockade.

Palestinian worker hit with IOF bullets

[ 28/12/2010 - 12:23 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian worker was injured while collecting gravel east of Gaza city at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) who routinely target those workers near the Strip border areas. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the medical services, said that the 19-year-old youth was injured with bullet shrapnel in his nose and ear on Tuesday morning. He said that the young man was hospitalized, adding that the number of wounded workers as a result of IOF shooting thus rose to 109.

Israeli Military Kills Shepherd in Beit Lahya

24 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza

Yesterday morning Salama Abu Hashish, 20 years, was herding his sheep and goats in Beit Lahya, in northern Gaza, when the Israeli Occupation Forces shot him without any warning. The bullet hit his back and went straight through one of his kidneys. He had surgery and was in the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he died at 5.30 pm. The IOF has not only taken a life away from the Abu Hashish family; it widowed a young woman and orphaned a baby that was only born the previous evening. Salama Abu Hashish had just become a father, but has not even been able to name his first born. Three more workers were injured in northern Gaza by Israeli bullets yesterday.
Yesterday’s attacks come amidst an escalating Israeli assault on workers in the border area: in the past five weeks alone, 40 people have been injured in the buffer zone, an Israeli military-declared no-go zone that runs along the Gazan side of the border in a swathe 300 to 500 meters wide. However, according to the United Nations, the “high risk” zone stretches up to 1000-1500 meters. The total area amounts to 35% of Gaza’s arable land. According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 84 workers have been injured and nine have been killed by the Israeli military since January 2010. Salama Abu Hashish is the tenth victim of Israel’s war on the border area in this year alone.
Riad Abu Hashish, the victim’s uncle, says that Salama regularly took his sheep and goats to the northern border area to graze. Yesterday, he was approximately 150 to 200 meters from the border when he was hit by an IOF sniper. As ambulances cannot reach the buffer zone without Israeli coordination, nearby scrap collectors carried Salama away on their donkey cart.
“This is all because of the occupation and the poverty it has brought to Gaza! He only risked going to the dangerous buffer zone, because there are no other possibilities for feeding his animals”, said Riad Abu Hashish in shock.
ISM Gaza calls for an immediate end of the shooting of innocent civilians, driven to such work by the illegal blockade and urges the international community to pressure Israel to end these attacks.

Updated on December 24, 2010

Farmer injured in northern Gaza

GAZA CITY (AFP) -- A Palestinian farmer was shot and wounded Friday in the legs by Israeli army fire in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said.

The Israeli army confirmed opening fire, saying that its soldiers had targeted "several suspects" near the border with the Gaza Strip after warning shots.

IOF fire kills shepherd wound farmer in Gaza

[ 24/12/2010 - 07:50 PM ]

Funeral of Salama Abu Hashish

GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian farmer was wounded Friday morning by IOF fire in the northern Gaza Strip while a shepherd wounded by IOF fire on Thursday succumbed to his wounds at hospital, according to Palestinian medical sources. At the same time the Israeli occupation navy boats fired at Palestinian fishermen opposite Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and Israeli occupation artillery fired at open areas east of Gaza city. Spokesman for medical services in Gaza, Adham Abu Selmeyya, said that IOF troops opened fire on Friday morning towards a group of Palestinians to the north of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia wounding a farmer in his foot. The victim was taken to Kamal Odwan hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, 22-year-old Salama Abu Hashish, a shepherd who was wounded on Thursday morning by IOF fire, succumbed to his wounds on Thursday afternoon. IOF troops fired on Thursday morning at a group of Palestinian shepherds in the near Beit Lahia wounding three of them. Since the start of the month of December the IOF have killed 13 Palestinians and wounded 30 others.

Medics: 1 dead after shooting on Gaza border

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A Palestinian shepherd died Thursday hours after Israeli troops shot him and three others along the border with Israel inside northern Gaza, medics said.

Salamah Abu Hashish, 22, sustained wounds to the back in the shooting, which occurred north of Beit Lahiya, Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma'an.

Abu Hashish was the 13th Palestinian to be killed and the 34th to be injured since November near the border, which Israel considers a combat zone but residents call home.

Two Palestinians were critically injured in Thursday's shooting, Abu Salmiya said. One of them, a 14-year-old boy, sustained wounds to the head while collecting stones, he added.

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Shepherd killed; 3 injured in Northern Gaza

Thursday December 23, 2010 18:22 by Alessandra Bajec - IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli army fired at four Palestinian farmers and shepherds in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing one and wounding three, local sources reported.

(photo from Press TV)

Troops opened fire on a number of Palestinians, leaving four of them wounded. After being brought to the hospital, 22-year old Salamah Abu Hashish succumbed to his wounds. He had been shot in the back by Israeli troops stationed at the border.

Another of the victims was a 14-year old boy who was critically injured when he was shot in the head while collecting rubble near where Abu Hashish was tending his sheep.

Abu Hashish is the 13th Palestinian to be killed in the border area since November, according to local medics.

Many Palestinians, including women and children, search through the debris at the sites of the former Israeli settlements in Gaza. The scavengers sell the materials they find, as a meager source of income in the midst of the Israel-imposed siege on the coastal enclave.

In the border area, declared by Israel to be a "restricted" zone, troops often shoot at the rubble collectors.

The all-out land, air and sea blockade has been depriving the Gazan population of food, fuel and other necessities since mid-June 2007.

A third person, aged 19, was moderately injured in his hand, medics said, and an 18-year-old was hurt near the Erez crossing in a separate shooting incident, Abu Salmiya said.

An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that forces shot two Palestinians.

She added that the army fired warning shots before firing at the workers' lower bodies. The forces opened fire because the Palestinians refused to turn back, she said.

"This area is considered a combat zone used by terrorist organizations to execute attacks," the spokeswoman added. "For this reason, the IDF will not allow anyone to be present in it."

PCHR weekly report 16/12 - 22/12/2010: 2 workers, including 1 child, and 1 sheperd injured, airstrikes

extracts from PCHR weekly report 16/12 - 22/12/2010:

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

- Two Palestinian workers, including a child, and one shepherd were wounded.

Sunday, 19 December 2010


At approximately 09:00, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northern of the Bedouin Village in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian shepherds in the north of the village. As a result, Ejmai'an Fareed Abu Hwaishel, 19, was wounded by a bullet to the right foot.

Monday, 20 December 2010



At approximately 09:00, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers to the north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Rafeeq 'Aayesh al-Sous, 30, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the left leg, when he was nearly 600 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

 Tuesday, 21 December 2010


At approximately 00:15, Israeli warplanes bombarded an empty tract of land belonging to Khaled Ibrahim Salman in Hamdoush area in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. As a result, a nearby bird farm belonging to Salah 'Abdul Hadi Taha was damaged and at least 1,800 chickens were killed.

Also at approximately 00:15, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a house belonging to Samar Marzouq Abu Mo'ammar in al-Shouka village, northeast of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. As a result, the 110-square-meter house, which was uninhabited, was completely destroyed. Additionally, a grocery was destroyed and two houses were damaged:

1. A 24-square-meter grocery belonging to Hatezm Marzouq Abu Mo'ammar was destroyed;
2. A 110-square-meter house belonging to Tawfiq Shihada Abu Mo'ammar, in which 10 individuals live, was damaged; and
3. A 100-square-meter house belonging to Tawfiq Shihada Abu Mo'ammar, in which 11 individuals live, was damaged.

 Αt approximately 00:30, Israeli warplanes bombarded a space area in the east of the northern Gaza Strip town of Jabalya, located nearly 600 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. No casualties were reported. 

At approximately 07:15, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers to the north of Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting scraps of construction materials from a site where the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" used to stand. As a result, Rami Hassan Sous, 17, from Beit Lahia, was wounded by a bullet to the right leg, when he was nearly 400 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Wednesday, 22 December 2010


 

At approximately 12:25, Israeli soldiers positioned at the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of Jabalya town in the northern Gaza Strip opened fire at Palestinian farmers who were working on their agricultural land, but no casualties were reported. 

Palestinian worker injured in IOF shooting

[ 20/12/2010 - 11:33 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian worker was injured with Israeli occupation forces' gunfire on Monday morning while collecting gravel in northern Gaza Strip, medical sources reported. Adham Abu Salmiya, the coordinator of medical services in the Strip, said that the IOF troops opened machinegun fire at a number of Palestinian workers north of Beit Hanun town, wounding one of them. He added that the 30-year-old laborer was hit in his foot, describing his condition as moderate. The IOF soldiers killed two of those workers and injured dozens over the past couple of years. Worker injured in north Gaza   Published today (updated) 20/12/2010 17:27   GAZA CITY (Ma’an) – A Palestinian man was injured Monday after Israeli forces opened fire while he was collecting stones in the northern Gaza Strip, local medics said. A medical official said the victim, in his 30s, was shot in his left foot. He was evacuated to the Kamal Udwan Hospital, medics said. The soldiers were stationed north of Beit Hanoun, a city in Gaza's north and adjacent to the Israeli border. An Israeli military spokeswoman told Ma'an that forces fired at the worker's lower body when he and a number of Palestinians approached a nearby barrier, which which Israel considers to be in a combat zone. Forces first fired warning shots in the air, she said, but the Palestinians failed to turn back. The shooting brings the total to 103 in this area since March 2010, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. On Sunday, Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian shepherd in the same area. Ijmei’an Abu Ihweishel, 19, was herding sheep when soldiers shot him in the leg, locals said. The young man was transferred to the Kamal Adwan Hospital for treatment. His wounds were described as moderate. An Israeli military spokesman said the army was not aware of that incident.

Palestinian shepherd wounded in IOF shooting

[ 19/12/2010 - 06:41 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man was injured by a gunshot fired by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stationed to the north of the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, medical sources reported. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman of medical services in Gaza, said that the IOF troops fired at a shepherd who was rearing his sheep at the outskirts of Beit Lahia town in northern Gaza. He added that the shepherd was wounded in his foot and carried to hospital where his condition was described as moderate. -------------- Palestinian teen reported injured in north Gaza   Published yesterday (updated) 19/12/2010 19:38   GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces shot and injured a Palestinian shepherd Sunday on the northern Gaza border, locals said. Ijmei’an Abu Ihweishel, 19, was herding sheep when soldiers shot him in the leg, they said. The young man was transferred to the Kamal Adwan Hospital for treatment, they added. His wounds were described as moderate. An Israeli military spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Israel enforces a ban on entering the northern border area, which it considers a combat zone.