3 Palestinians Killed in Air Strike on Jabalia, 9 Injured, 2 Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank

Three Hamas fighters killed in Israeli air strike on Jabalia
Date: 13 / 06 / 2008  Time:  11:08
Gaza – Ma'an –

Three Palestinian activists affiliated with Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades were killed on Friday morning and two others were injured in an Israeli air strike against a group of fighters near Abu Bakr As-Siddiq mosque in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Mu'awiya Hassanain, director of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Palestinian Ministry of Health, identified the dead activists as Mustafa Al-Batsh, Mousa Hamoudeh and Mahmoud Khadir. He said that the corpses were transferred to Kamal Udwan Hospital, as well as the two injured fighters.

In a separate development, an unidentified Palestinian citizen died on Friday from injuries sustained in Thursday's explosion at the Hamoudah family home in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

Hassanain affirmed that the death toll from the Beit Lahiya explosion rose to eight after the unidentified man died from his wounds on Friday morning.

Seven Palestinians were killed on Thursday and at least 35 others were injured, six of them seriously, in a mysterious explosion at a home in Beit Lahiya belonging to the Hamoudah family. Contradictory reports were received concerning the cause of the explosion; on Thursday the Israeli army denied involvement.

Israeli occupation forces storm Nablus; injure Palestinian in Al-Fari'a refugee camp

Date: 13 / 06 / 2008  Time:  12:36
Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces raided the northern West Bank city of Nablus and patrolled its streets late on Thursday evening, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.

According to Israeli occupation sources, two hand grenades and stones were thrown at Israeli occupation forces vehicles operating in the city. No Israeli casualties were reported.

Palestinian medical sources stated that 18-year-old Ahmad Kayid
A'yid from Al-Fari'a refugee camp in Nablus was hit in the face by a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by Israeli occupation soldiers who stormed the camp. He was evacuated to Rafidia Hospital in western Nablus for medical treatment.

Furthermore, Israeli media sources reported that nine Israeli settlers entered Joseph's Tomb in Nablus on Thursday evening. They were arrested by Israeli police because they entered without permission from Israeli security, and Israeli police are investigating the incident.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap Fatah activist in Ramallah

Date: 13 / 06 / 2008  Time:  12:17
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian activist affiliated to the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah movement, on Thursday evening in Ramallah in the central West Bank.

Israeli military sources said that the detainee, Amjad Badarin, was suspected of firing at an Israeli military force operating in Ramallah in late 2007.

Separately, Israeli occupation forces on Thursday evening kidnapped a cache of weapons and ammunition in Al-Aizariya, east of Jerusalem.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap Hebron resident

Date: 13 / 06 / 2008  Time:  12:11
Hebron – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces on Friday morning kidnapped 28-year-old Nadir Abdel Hafez Abu Mayyala, a Palestinian from Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Abu Mayala's family told Ma'an that Israeli occupation soldiers stormed the house at dawn, damaging the family's belongings and leaving chaos in their wake before taking him to an unknown location.

Al-Khader village protest the Israeli illegal Wall

Friday June 13, 2008 15:21 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

At least 150 Palestinians from the village of Al-Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem along with Israeli and international supporters protested the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall on Friday that is being built on the village lands.

The protest started with midday prayers held on the settler road near the village, then speeches were delivered by local organizers.

Sameer Jaber of the local committee against the Wall and settlement encouraged the farmers to continue their resistance against the wall to save their lands from destruction.

Palestinian experts say that the ongoing Israeli occupation government extends illegal settlements on private Palestinian land, and constructs the Apartheid Wall that separate Palestinians from one another and from their farming/working areas. This converts the Palestinian land into separated enclaves that don't have the basic economic structures that enable people to survive with dignity and ambition.

Five protestors injured, one solidarity activist kidnapped in anti-wall demonstration near Bethlehem

Date: 13 / 06 / 2008  Time:  16:59
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces attacked a peaceful protest against the illegal Israeli Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall held in the village of Al-Ma'asara, south of Bethlehem, on Friday afternoon, injuring five of the demonstrators and arresting a foreign solidarity activist.

The demonstration was organized by the Popular Campaign for Resisting the Separation Wall in the Bethlehem district and attended by local residents from Al-Ma'asara and the neighboring villages of Um Salamoana, Jurat Al-Shama'a and Marah Ma'alla, along with international and Israeli solidarity activists.

The demonstrators raised an 80-meter-long Palestinian flag as an expression of their demand for Palestinian unity. They called on the Palestinian factions to heal the rifts between them and unite to confront the Israeli plans aimed at establishing Palestinian cantons surrounded by the separation wall instead of an independent Palestinian state. They noted that by building the wall separating Palestinian cities and villages within the West Bank, Israel is imposing a de facto apartheid system.

Mazin Al-Azza, coordinator of the Popular Campaign in the Bethlehem district, delivered a speech affirming the necessity of national unity and a coordinated strategy to counter the Israeli plans. He also emphasized that Palestinians must expand the popular struggle against the wall and recruit wider international solidarity to strengthen the grassroots resistance against the Israeli occupation. Finally, he sent a message of solidarity to the besieged Gaza Strip.

Muhammad Brejiya, media spokesperson for the Popular Campaign, affirmed that their nonviolent resistance activities against the illegal Israeli wall and settlements will continue.

Israeli forces attacked the rally and as a result five protestors were injured. They were identified as Mazin Al-Azza, the campaign coordinator, Muhammad Brejiya, Ahmad Taqatqa and Yousuf Jibreel. Israeli forces also arrested an unidentified foreign solidarity activist.

Three protesters injured in weekly anti-wall protest in Bil'in

Date: 13 / 06 / 2008  Time:  19:42
Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces injured three demonstrators with rubber-coated metal bullets at the weekly protest against the separation wall in Bil'in, west of Ramallah, on Friday, and fired tear gas at dozens of protesters.

After noon prayers on Friday, Bil'in residents marched together with international and Israeli solidarity activists towards the separation wall. The demonstrators carried Palestinian flags and banners calling for national unity, as well as placards demanding the removal of the Israeli wall and settlements, and an end to the closure in the West Bank and the blockade on Gaza.

Immediately after the protesters reached the gate in the wall, Israeli soldiers showered them with tear gas and rubber-coated metal bullets. Scores of protesters were treated for tear gas inhalation.

Israeli activist Lee Lorian was injured by a rubber-coated metal bullet in the chest and was transferred to Shaikh Zayid hospital in Ramallah for medical treatment. Palestinians Adib Ahmad Abu Rahma and Ibrahim Abdel Fatah Burnat were also injured by rubber-coated bullets.

The villagers of Bil'in have been conducting weekly nonviolent protests against the illegal separation wall and Israeli settlements for more than three years. In 2007 the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled in favor of the villagers and ordered the Israeli army to dismantle a segment of the wall so that villagers would have access to more of their lands. Eight months after being ordered to re-route the wall in Bil'in, the Israeli occupation army has not even begun to plan an alternate route and has refused to comply with the Court's order, citing "security reasons."

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