IOF soldiers fire at young woman, arrest her

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:00 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at a Palestinian young woman, claiming she tried to storm a Jewish settlement near Beit Awa, south west of Al-Khalil, on Sunday. Local sources told the PIC that the soldiers fired at Arwa Salame, a university student, but did not hit [...]

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Settlers attack mosque Imam, IOF arrest a boy

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 08:08 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A number of Jewish settlers attacked on Saturday the imam of Ain Silwan mosque in Silwan town in Jerusalem after storming the neighboring area. Jerusalemite sources stated that the settlers attacked the seventy-year-old imam of Ain Silwan mosque, Adam Samreen, under the pretext of enabling tourists [...]

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Bethlehem: 18 year old Palestinian stabbed by Israeli settlers

27 May 2012 | Richard Frank and Dan Langley | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank 18 year old Saleh al-Zoghayer, who was recently stabbed by Israeli soldiers in Bethlehem, has been at the centre of the media recently. Several contradicting and false reports surfaced along with a shocking photograph of Saleh following the stabbing. The [...]

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Zionist occupation forces soldiers break into, search school

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 04:34 PM ] QALQILIA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) broke into a high school in Kufr Qaddoum village to the east of Qalqilia and prevented students and teachers from entering it, local sources said. Murad Eshtiwe, the coordinator of the village’s weekly march, said that the soldiers searched the school provoking [...]

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DFLP leader calls for settler watch groups

Maan News Agency | May 27, 2012   RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians must respond to settler attacks by reactivating popular watch groups, a leader from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Sunday. Qais Abed al-Karim stressed the importance of forming popular watch committees to protect Palestinians and their property from increasing settler [...]

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Photos | Extremist Israeli Settlers set olive trees on fire and shoot a Palestinian man in ‘Urif – May 26, 2012

May 27, 2012 Not a week after a group of settlers, under “supervison” and passive agreement of the zionist army already shot a young man, May 26, 2012 zionist settlers again attacked and shot a man in the abdomen. While no justice has done so far concerning last weeks attack, undisturbed Israel’s army glows of [...]

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EMOHR slams Israel for systematic targeting of Gaza fishing sector

[ PIC 27/05/2012 - 01:14 PM ] GENEVA, (PIC)– The Euro-Mediterranean Observer for Human Rights (EMOHR) said Israel systematically and deliberately targets the fishing sector in the Gaza Strip. In a report on Sunday, the observatory warned that the systematic Israeli targeting of the fishing sector in the besieged Gaza Strip led to the depletion [...]

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(Again) Israeli settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank

Maan News Agency | May 26, 2012 NABLUS (Reuters) — An Israeli settler shot and wounded a Palestinian man on Saturday in a clash that began when a group of settlers set fire to fields belonging to a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, officials said. Residents said about 25 settlers, some of them [...]

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#GazaUnderAttack | IOF troops open fire at southern Gaza

[ 26/05/2012 - 07:43 AM ] KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened heavy machinegun fire at the eastern outskirts of Khan Younis, to the south of Gaza Strip, on Saturday morning, local sources said. They told the PIC reporter that the IOF troops stationed to the east of Khan Younis fired at Qarara, [...]

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Zughayar tells the real story of how he got seriously injured after Israeli soldiers’ stabbing

[ PIC 23/05/2012 - 04:59 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– 18-year-old Palestinian prisoner, Muhammad Salah Zughayar, from the occupied city of Al-Khalil, revealed the details of the incident that caused him serious injuries, and after which some reports announced his martyrdom. The lawyer for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) Mufeed al-Haj, who visited Zughayar in Hadassah [...]

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Teen stabbed by soldiers in ‘stable condition’

Maan News Agency | May 23, 2012 HEBRON (Ma’an) — An 18-year-old stabbed by Israeli soldiers near Bethlehem on Sunday is in a stable condition after surgery, the Palestinian prisoners society said Wednesday. Salah al-Zghayar underwent surgery at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center after he was stabbed in the abdomen at Gush Etzion junction, prisoners society [...]

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IOF incursion in central Gaza

[ PIC 23/05/2012 - 12:01 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided eastern Deir Al-Balah town in central Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, local sources told the PIC reporter. They said that the IOF soldiers in five tanks escorted seven bulldozers that entered from eastern Khan Younis and headed north to the eastern [...]

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Jewish extremist settlers attack again, this time in Bethlehem village

[ PIC 23/05/2012 - 09:39 AM ] BETHLEHEM, (PIC)– Dozens of Jewish settlers attacked Taku village to the south east of Bethlehem on Tuesday night, local sources said. They said that the settlers came in around 20 vehicles under protection of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and tried to assault citizens and shop owners. The [...]

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Settlers ‘attack village’ near Bethlehem

Maan News Agency | May 22, 2012   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli settlers on Tuesday attacked several homes during a march through a village near Bethlehem, witnesses said. Dozens of settlers threw rocks at homes and shops in Tuqu and shut down the main road, preventing cars from entering the village, locals told Ma’an. Israeli [...]

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B’Tselem: the occupation army provides cover for settlers in their attacks

[ PIC 21/05/2012 - 09:51 PM ] NAZARETH (PIC)– “B’Tselem” organization revealed that the occupation army provided security cover for Zionist settlers’ attacks on Palestinian civilians. The Zionist Organization stated that their cameras had filmed a video to document a settlers’ attack on Palestinian citizens in Nablus city, northern West Bank, and that this video [...]

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Jewish settlers assault woman, lawyer in Yatta

[ PIC 21/05/2012 - 09:25 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian human rights lawyer and a woman were assaulted by Jewish settlers to the east of Yatta town in Al-Khalil province at noon Monday. The lawyer, Nasser Nawaja, said that the settlers attacked him while trying to document their attacks on Palestinian farmers east of [...]

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Two youths injured in IOF shooting one seriously

[ PIC 20/05/2012 - 05:44 PM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian teen was seriously injured near Gush Etzion settlement to the north of Al-Khalil after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at him. Medical sources said that the 17-year-old youth Salah Zaghir was seriously wounded in his abdomen after an Israeli soldier fired at him near [...]

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Medics: Farmer shot in south Gaza, moderately injured

Maan News Agency | May 20, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A young Palestinian farmer was shot by Israeli soldiers while working on his land in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, a medical official said. Waheed, 22, is in a moderate condition in Nasser hospital after suffering a bullet wound in the thigh, emergency [...]

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Four Palestinians wounded when 50 settlers attack

[ PIC 19/05/2012 - 05:45 PM ] NABLUS, (PIC)– Four Palestinians were wounded on Saturday when Jewish settlers attacked their village south of Nablus city, eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter. They said that more than 50 Jewish settlers from Yitzhar settlement attacked Assira Al-Qabaliya village throwing stones at civilians and setting their wheat and olive [...]

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Washington grants Israel an extra US$ 70 million for the iron dome

[ PIC 18/05/2012 - 08:54 PM ] NAZARETH, (PIC)– The United States agreed to provide an extra US$70 million to the Israeli occupation to develop its anti-rocket defence system for short range rockets, known as the iron dome. According to the Israeli Hayom newspaper “Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon [...]

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#GazaUnderAttack – May 17, 2012 – Photography & Video

May 17, 2012 Israeli tanks this morning attacked Gaza  farmers , at least 7 wounded reported of which 2 critical and 2 of them in their 70′s as well as naval forces attacked fishermen on sea in territorial Palestinian waters. The wounded are mainly farmers. Initially Israel denied any attack, literally stating: NO SHOTS FIRED [...]

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#GazaUnderAttack | 7 injured by Israeli attack on Gaza

Maan News Agency | May 17, 2012 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Seven people were injured on Thursday when Israeli forces fired artillery rounds at the northern and eastern Gaza Strip, medics said. Gaza medical spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya told Ma’an that two people were seriously wounded and five moderately injured when Israeli forces opened fire [...]

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Two workers seriously injured during IOF chase

[ PIC 17/05/2012 - 08:18 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Two Palestinian workers were injured when a wall fell over their head while escaping chase of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) near Beit Awa village in Al-Khalil, local sources said. They said that the two Ayman Abu Dhrei, 38, and Abdulfattah Masalma, 38, were taken to Al-Khalil [...]

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IOF troops fire teargas bombs on civilians: elderly, women & kids in northern Gaza

[ PIC 16/05/2012 - 09:05 AM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian citizens were treated for breathing difficulty after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired a number of teargas canisters on northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for emergency and ambulance services in Gaza, said that the IOF soldiers fired at least six [...]

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Israeli special force shoots, arrests Palestinian youth

[ 15/05/2012 - 03:15 PM ] OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A special force of the Israeli army shot and wounded a Palestinian youth in Alezariye town in occupied Jerusalem on Tuesday. The Israeli army unit then detained Ramzi Jaafra, from Al-Khalil village of Tarqumiya, eyewitnesses said. They said that the soldiers chased Jaafra, 25, and shot [...]

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IOF soldiers storm home of old woman to arrest her “detained” son

[ PIC 14/05/2012 - 09:28 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed the home of a woman in her seventies in Shuyukh village, in Al-Khalil province, to arrest her already detained son. The mother of Khalil Halaika said that dozens of soldiers broke into her home on Sunday and asked for her son, [...]

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IOF launch military drills in Dura town, terrorize citizens

[ PIC 09/05/2012 - 09:12 AM ] AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) carried out Tuesday evening military exercises and helicopter landings in different area of Dura town in Al-Khalil city and terrorized its Palestinian residents. Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that a large number of Israeli troops and three helicopters took [...]

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#PalHunger | University student hit in the eye with an Israeli bullet at protest

[ PIC 06/05/2012 - 10:05 AM ] RAMALLAH, (PIC)– A 21-year-old Palestinian student was hit in his right eye with a bullet fired by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) while quelling a peaceful pro-prisoners rally near Ofer jail south of Ramallah on Saturday. Local sources told the PIC reporter that Mousa Al-Shi’ani was hospitalized in moderate [...]

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#PalHunger | Condition of injured Ofer protester Musa al-Shuani worsens, medics say

Maan News Agency | May 5, 2012 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — The condition of a protester injured in Friday clashes near Ofer prison has worsened, medics said on Saturday. Musa al-Shuani, 21, was sent to intensive care and his condition was described as serious. Al-Shuani, a student at Bir Zeit university, was shot in the eye [...]

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IOF troops open gunfire at Palestinian homes in Juhr Ad-Deek in Gaza

[ PIC 05/05/2012 - 02:46 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened their machinegun fire at Palestinian homes in Juhr Al-Deek area to the south east of Gaza city on Saturday, local sources said. They told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers stationed to the east of Juhr Al-Deek also fired projectiles [...]

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