Israeli Occupation Forces Kill 3 Palestinian Civilians, Continue Aggression on Peace Activist and Fishermen

Palestinian wounded in Israeli gunboat attack

[ 06/06/2009 - 03:07 PM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces gunboats opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian fishing boats off the Rafah coast, to the south of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday wounding a Palestinian, local sources reported.

They added that Iyad Abed Rab Al-Nabi was moderately wounded in the attack.

In occupied Jerusalem a 20-year-old Palestinian was injured when a group of Jews assaulted him while on his way home last night from his work in a bakery.

Hussam Al-Za'atari said that students of a Talmudic institute attacked him along with the institute's guard.

Only four days ago a 30-year-old Palestinian was shot dead in occupied Jerusalem by a Zionist fanatic.

In Al-Khalil, Jewish settlers burnt and cut olive and grape trees in Beit Ummar town and prevented farmers and peace activists from heading to their lands.

A Hebrew daily said that the Israeli occupation forces arrested 169 Palestinian workers in 1948 occupied Palestine over the past week at the pretext they were working without legal permits.

In the Gaza Strip, an 11-year-old Palestinian child was pronounced dead on Saturday after sustaining serious wounds during the latest Israeli war on Gaza.

Mohammed Zamlat had lost his father and grandmother in the same attack. The war on Gaza left 1,350 martyrs and more than 5,000 wounded many of them suffered permanent disabilities.

N'ilin: farewell to the fifth victim of Israeli occupation army in less than one year

Saturday June 06, 2009 18:49 by George Rishmawi

Villagers of the West Bank village of N'ilin and the neighbouring villages and other local and international supporters took to the streets on Saturday for the funeral of Akel Surour, 36 who was killed by Israeli occupation forces' gunfire in the village on Friday, during a nonviolent demonstration against the construction of the wall on the village's land.

Surour, survived by a pregnant wife and three children, was shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier during a nonviolent protest against the wall in the village. Four others were wounded in the same demonstration including 15-year-old Mohammed Moussa who is suffering a serious injury in the chest as well and is still in critical condition.

The funeral started after the prayer in a huge march while the marchers chanted angry slogans condemning the killing of Srour. After the burial, representatives of the Palestinian factions spoke to the crowd affirming the need to continue with nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation.

Surour is the fifth Palestinian killed by the Israeli military during nonviolent action in the village only in less than one year. The popular committee in N'ilin have been organizing weekly nonviolent protests against the wall and settlements for the past twelve months, during which more than 70 residents were kidnapped and dozens wounded by the Israeli army gunfire.

If the Israeli plan to build the wall in that area, the village of N'ilin will loose some 2000 donums of land (500 acres) which will prevent a large number of families to loose their only source of income.

Israeli ordinance explodes in Gaza field, killing one, injuring another

Date: 06 / 06 / 2009 Time: 15:52
Gaza – Ma’an –

One Palestinian was killed and another was injured when explosive charges left behind by the Israeli occupation forces detonated in a farmer’s field in the Al-Shahayda neighborhood in eastern Khan Younis on Saturday.

Mu'awiyah Hasanain, head of Emergency and Ambulance Services in the Ministry of Health, identified the slain as 50-year-old farmer Samer Faraj Ad-Dughmah, and the injured as 50-year-old Ahmed Abu Duqa who was transferred to the local European Hospital for treatment.

Gaza boy injured in Israeli shelling succumbs to wounds

Date: 06 / 06 / 2009 Time: 14:08
Gaza – Ma’an –

An 11-year-old Palestinian boy succumbed to wounds he sustained during an Israeli occupation forces' shelling of his family's home in the northern Gaza Strip on 5 January.

Muhammad Zamlat of Jabaliya, was treated for weeks in under-equipped Gaza hospitals then transferred out of the Gaza Strip for further treatment. He passed away in hospital on 6 June.

His father, 38-year-old Taysir, and grandmother, 70-year-old Khadija, were killed instantly and several of his brothers sustained wounds in the shelling.

Settlers attack, wound a Palestinian young man in Jerusalem

Saturday June 06, 2009 01:42 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agecnies

A 20-year old Palestinian man from Jerusalem was wounded on Thursday at night after he was attacked by a group of illegal Israeli extremist settlers.

Resident Husam Al-Za’atary, from Jerusalem, works at a bakery in West Jerusalem. He was attacked while waiting at a bus stop as he was heading back home.

He was approached by a group of young settlers who first insulted him for “being an Arab”, and then violently attacked him, and were even joined later on by another group of settlers, students of a Talmud School in the area.

An armed school guard also took part in the attack, and pointed his gun at the head of the Palestinian man threatening to kill him.

The man was later on hospitalized at an Arab hospital in the city.

Israeli occupation army attacks Bil'in weekly protest injuring five civilians

Friday June 05, 2009 16:09 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Five protesters were injured and dozens suffered from gas inhalation when Israeli occupation forces attack the weekly protest in Bil'in village near the central West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday.

Youth injured in Bil'in protest today – Photo By IMEMC's Hamde Abu Rahma

Residents of Bil'in and their international and Israelis supporters marched from the village center after the Friday midday prayers.

They were joined by scores of Fatah movement members from the Ramallah district.

The protesters demanded the halt of the Israeli illegal settlements and the construction of the wall; they also held Palestinian and banners demanding US president Obama to translate his words into actions.

As the protesters arrived at the wall, they were greeted by a barrage of sound bombs, tear gas and rubber-coated bullets from the Israeli soldiers.

Kamel Al Khateeb, 16, Mohamed Al Khateeb, 16, Mohamed Abu Sa'di, Tarik Al Khateeb, and Abdullah Abu Rahma were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets while dozens were treated for gas inhalation.

The non-violent protests in Bil'in, and the violent Israeli response, have been a weekly occurence in the village of Bil'in for the last four years. The Israeli construction of the Wall on village land has continued even after the villagers hired an Israeli lawyer to argue their case in the Israeli High Court and won a ruling that the Wall should be moved.

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