• Israeli Jets Bomb Civilian Sites in Gaza, Two Palestinians Injured, Including a Child
    Dec 26, 2020 – – IMEMC News


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    The Israeli occupation unleashed, Friday night, a military offensive against the besieged Gaza Strip, injuring a Palestinian child and a young man with shrapnel, according to Palestinian WAFA News Agency.

    After alleged rocket fire from the coastal enclave, the Israeli military reacted with intensive air and artillery strikes, in the central and southern Strip, damaging a number of civilian targets, including homes, a mosque, and the Mohammad Durra Pediatrics Hospital, causing material damage.

    WAFA correspondent stated that five missiles were launches towards the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, causing glass and shrapnel injuries. The casualties were brought to Shifa hospital in Gaza City, their injuries being described as ‘light’.

    Fires were reported at the sites of missile impact, and electricity was cut off due to damage to power lines.

    In a statement, the Israeli army said “the Iron Dome system intercepted two missiles fired from Gaza towards the coastal city of Ashkelon,” reported the Jerusalem (Quds) Press.

    #GAZA

  • Injured Deaf Palestinian Dies From His Wounds
    Dec 11, 2020 – – IMEMC News
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    Palestinian medical sources have reported, Friday, that a deaf and mute man, who was shot by Israeli soldiers on August 17th, 2020, has died from complications related to his wounds.

    The sources said the Palestinian, Nasser Halawa , 47, from Nablus in northern West Bank, was shot by Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia Terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem, and suffered life-threatening wounds.

    Halwa was first moved to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem, and was discharged two weeks ago, before he started receiving treatment in Palestinian hospitals, but eventually succumbed to his wounds and complications.

    Muawiya Mona, the secretary of the “Palestinian General Union for People with Disability” in Nablus, said the shooting and the resulting death of Halawa is yet another Israeli crime against the Palestinian people, including people with special needs.

    He added that the slain man was walking near the Qalandia Terminal when the soldiers started shouting at him, however, he could not hear them, before they opened fire at him for “refusing to heed to their demands to stop.”

    Eyewitnesses said they saw the soldiers opening fire at the man as he walked down the lane, dedicated for cars not pedestrians, before closing the terminal in both directions. (...)

    #Palestine_assassinée

  • » Palestinian Shot Dead After Alleged Stabbing Attempt in Jerusalem
    February 23, 2020 1:05 AM – IMEMC News
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    The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed, on Saturday, the death of the alleged attacker, who was shot and killed earlier in the day by the Israeli police in Bab al-Asbat area in the Old City of occupied Jerusalem.

    Israeli police opened a barrage of gunfire the Palestinian man at Lions’ Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, reportedly after attempting a stabbing attack.

    Witnesses told WAFA that the young man, who was not immediately identified, was shot several times and was left to bleed on the ground before Israeli paramedics arrived at the scene.

    The young man was identified as Maher Ibrahim Zaatra , 33, was a father of three children, and his wife is pregnant, from Jabal al-Mokabber village, south of occupied East Jerusalem. Video clips show the young man lying motionless on the ground, with a large police force at the scene.

    In an act of retribution and collective punishment, the soldiers invaded the home of the slain Palestinian, ransacked the property, before abducting his mother, and two brothers.

    #Palestine_assassinée

    • Ten Months After Killing Him, Soldiers Transfer Corpse of Slain Palestinian To Family
      Dec 31, 2020
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      Israeli soldiers handed, on Thursday at dawn, the corpse of a slain Palestinian, who was shot by the army more than ten months ago, back to his family for burial, under strict conditions and limitations.

      Media sources said the soldiers transferred the corpse of Maher Ibrahim Za’atra, 33, to his family for burial in Jabal al-Mokabber town, in occupied Jerusalem.

      They added that the soldiers imposed severe restrictions on the burial ceremony, only allowing a few family members to attend, under heaving deployment by the soldiers around him home, in addition to the graveyard and its surrounding areas.

      Za’atra, from Jabal al-Mokabber village, south of occupied East Jerusalem, was a father of three children, and his wife was also pregnant.

      It is worth mentioning that Israeli soldiers and police officers killed Za’atra, on February 22, 2020, after firing a barrage of live rounds at him at Lions’ Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City, reportedly after attempting to stab them.

      In an act of retribution and collective punishment, the soldiers invaded the home of the slain Palestinian, ransacked the property, before abducting his mother, and two brothers.