Hamas Fighter, Ahed Abu Jabal, Assassinated in an Israeli Air Strike on Gaza

Qassam Brigades activist assassinated in midnight attack

Date: 24 / 08 / 2007 Time: 09:53

Gaza – Ma'an –

A member of Hamas' Qassam Brigades was killed, and another four were injured, in an aerial attack from an Israeli occupation forces helicopter near Car's Market in Gaza City at midnight on Thursday.

The car in which the five Qassam Brigades activists were travelling was shelled.

According to Palestinian medical sources, ambulances evacuated the corpse of 20-year-old Ahed Said Ahmad Abu Jabal and the four wounded Palestinians to Ash Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

The Israeli occupation forces have denied shelling a Palestinian car in Gaza City.

Over the past two days, thirteen Palestinians have been assassinated in Israeli air strikes.

Hamas fighter killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza

Friday August 24, 2007 02:07 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies saed at imemc dot org

The Maan News Agency reported on Thursday night that one Hamas fighter was killed and another fighter was injured in a shelling that targeted a group of fighters south of Gaza City.

The Agency stated that the killed fighter is a member of the Al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Eyewitnesses reported that the army fired shells at a group of Qassam Brigades fighters who gathered south of Gaza city.

Palestine –info, a news website run by Hamas, stated that the fighter was identified as Ahed Abu Jabal, member of the Al Qassam brigades.

The website added that the other injured fighter is in a serious condition.

It is worth mentioning that Israeli troops killed thirteen Palestinians in several Israeli strikes over the last two days in the Gaza Strip.

In a seperate incident, the Al Quds brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, claimed responsibility for firing several homemade shells into Israeli areas adjascent to the Gaza Strip.

Teh Brigades issued a press release stating that the attack comes in retaliation to "the ongoing israeli crimes against the Palestinians people".

A spokeperson for the Israeli military later denied that the army had carried out any such operation in the Gaza region.

IOFs kidnap 3 Palestinian sisters including minors, detain journalist

[ 23/08/2007 - 10:50 AM ]

BETHLEHEM, (PIC)--

An Israeli occupation forces (IOF) unit on Wednesday kidnapped three Palestinian sisters, two of them children and one a teen, in the Khader village near Bethlehem city to the south of the West Bank, locals reported.

They said that the IOF soldiers took away the three girls without giving any explanation for their act.

The number of Palestinian females in Israeli occupation jails has exceeded 120 living in harsh incarceration conditions, according to numerous legal reports.

Meanwhile, the "Reporters without Borders" for press freedom has called for the immediate release of Ata Farahat, the correspondent of Syrian public television and the daily newspaper Al-Watan in the Golan Heights, who was arrested on 30 July and is currently held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). His lawyers and the press have been banned from talking about the case. The Golan Heights have been annexed by Israel since 1981.

A press release by that organization said, "The Israeli authorities have so far given no explanation for the arrest of this journalist, who still does not know what he is charged with". “Has Farahat been arrested simply because he works for Syrian news organizations? This possibility cannot be ruled out for the time being," it elaborated.

It noted that members of the IOF Yassam special forces raided Farahat’s home in Buqata (in the north of the Golan Heights) at around 3 a.m. on 30 July, carried out a search and then took him away. He has been brought three times before a Tel Aviv judge, who, each time, renewed a provisional detention order.

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