Archive | December 23, 2010

PressTV – ‘Israel rallying for another Gaza war’

Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:40PM Share | Email | Print An Israeli warplane A Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official has warned that Israel has been rallying the international community for launching another war on the Gaza Strip. “Israel is preparing the internal and international opinion using the same scenario” like the Gaza war, Ahmed Majdalani, […]

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Four Injured in Northern Gaza – International Middle East Media Center

Thursday December 23, 2010 18:22 by Alessandra Bajec – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli army fired at four Palestinians in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Press TV reported. (photo from Press TV) Troops opened fire on a number of Palestinians leaving four of them wounded. The victims were identified as a farmer […]

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Maan News Agency: Medics: Israel gunfire injures 4 on Gaza border

    Published today (updated) 23/12/2010 18:51 GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli gunfire injured four Palestinian workers early Thursday in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said. Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said a 14-year-old boy was seriously injured in the head while collecting stone aggregates. A 22-year-old shepherd was seriously injured by shots to […]

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Village of El Araqib Demolished for the Eighth Time Today

This morning (23 December) at 7.00, approximately 40 police officers, together with authorities from the land administration and their bulldozers, began to gather at the Bakama Junction Previous demolition of the El Araqib village by Israel   in preparation for yet another demolition of the Bedouin village of El Araqib in the Negev. At 8.00 […]

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Report: WikiLeaks to publish Israel cables

    Published today 15:19 TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his website is due to release thousands of documents related to Israel, Israel’s Channel 10 reported Thursday. In an interview with Al-Jazeera quoted by the Israeli daily Haaretz, Assange said that only very few files related to Israel […]

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Gaza government says Israeli complaints about rockets are an excuse for attacking the Strip

Thursday, 23 December 2010 12:30 The Palestinian government in Gaza has said that the complaints submitted by the Zionist state to the United Nations about rockets fired from the beleaguered territory are being used to justify further Israeli airstrikes. In his message to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, the acting Israeli ambassador to the United […]

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Two Palestinians Injured in Hebron – International Middle East Media Center

Thursday December 23, 2010 12:55 by Alessandra Bajec – IMEMC & Agencies Israeli army shot at two young men in city of Hebron on Thursday morning, the PNN claimed. (photo from http://www.life.com) Israeli military opened fire on two Palestinians in the area of Wadi al-Gharous, in Hebron, on a road leading to the Kiryat Arba […]

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Gov’t: The Palestinian arena is facing threats and attacks from Israel and PA

[ 23/12/2010 – 10:44 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian government said the Palestinian arena is facing two kinds of challenges, the first is the Israeli threats against the Gaza Strip and the second is the daily attacks and the smear campaign waged against Hamas cadres and supporters by Fatah security militias in the […]

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Asian Convoy 1: Palestine is the focal point of world events

[ 23/12/2010 – 11:02 AM ]   DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Feroz Mesberola, chief of the multinational Asian Convoy 1 which is set deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, expressed his crew’s extreme delight as the convoy landed Wednesday in Damascus, where they met with Khalid Meshaal and other resistance movement leaders. “Our dreams came true […]

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Israel prepares ground for military operation in Gaza: PLO official

English.news.cn 2010-12-23 19:14:00 GAZA, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Israel has been preparing the ground for a new military operation in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian official said Thursday, following Israeli fire injured two people in northern Gaza. “Israel is preparing the internal and international opinion using the same scenario” as during the Operation Cast Lead […]

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Settlement Construction Witnessing Rapid Increase – International Middle East Media Center

Thursday December 23, 2010 12:41 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies Three months after the so-called settlement freeze ended, Israel started a speedy construction process in Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli Peace Now movement reported. Image by Peace Now Data collected and published by Peace Now revealed that Israel started the […]

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IOF soldiers wound Palestinian teen worker, round up 3 brothers

[ 23/12/2010 – 11:16 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Israeli occupation forces (IOF) fired at and wounded a Palestinian teen worker while collecting gravel in northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning, medical sources reported. Adham Abu Salmiya, the spokesman for the medical services, said that the 18-year-old youth was hit with a bullet in his […]

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Rezqa: Israel boosting military presence to justify future strikes on Gaza

[ 23/12/2010 – 11:15 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– Dr. Yousef Rezqa, political advisor to the Palestinian Prime Minister, said Wednesday that Israel is aiming by its recent boost of military presence around the Gaza Strip to produce enough media justifications to continue assassinating Gazans by air. “As we near the second anniversary of the second […]

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Breaking News – Israeli gunfire injures three Gazans

Thu Dec 23, 2010 12:48PM Share | Email | Print An Israeli trooper directs a tank just outside the southern Gaza Strip. Forces enlisted with Israel’s military have opened fire on an unidentified number of Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving three people injured. Israeli forces regularly target Palestinians inside the Gaza Strip beyond […]

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Two Palestinians critically injured in IOF shooting in Al-Khalil

[ 23/12/2010 – 12:17 PM ]   AL-KHALIL, (PIC)– Two Palestinian citizens were critically injured on Thursday morning in Al-Khalil city at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), witnesses reported. The sources said that the IOF soldiers fired at a vehicle in which two Palestinian young men in their twenties were riding on […]

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