Palestinian Killed in Israeli Air Strike on Rafah, 16 Kidnapped in West Bank, Settlers Assault Farmers

Palestinian citizen killed in Israeli aerial raid, others detained in WB

[ 14/10/2009 - 09:20 AM ] 

RAFAH, (PIC)—

A Palestinian citizen was killed on Wednesday and six others wounded in an Israeli air raid that targeted tunnels south of Rafah city south of the Gaza Strip, medical sources said.

The sources in a statement to the PIC identified the man as Yousuf Mar'ee, adding that the six others sustained various injuries.

Security sources said that Israeli F-16s blasted two tunnels used to smuggle goods and other necessities to the besieged Strip.

In the West Bank, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained a Palestinian youth in Dhaheria village, Al-Khalil district, at dawn Wednesday and stormed a number of homes in Dura, another village in the district, wreaking havoc in them but no arrests were made.

IOF soldiers on Tuesday night arrested a Palestinian teen in Burqin, Jenin district, near the separation wall west of Jenin city, claiming that he was carrying a pipe bomb and had thrown stones at the soldiers near the racist wall.

Israeli airstrike wounds four in Gaza

Published today (updated) 14/10/2009 14:09

Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies –

Israeli occupation forces warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels along the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt on Wednesday morning, injuring four people.

Witnesses said a large tunnel was destroyed when an Israeli warplane fired several missiles at it. The four injured were taken to Abu Yousuf Al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, medical sources said.

The Israeli army spokesperson’s office said the strike was in response to a homemade projectile fired from Gaza into Israel, which caused no injuries.

No Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for the reported projectile attack.

Jewish Israeli settlers assault farmers, IOF detain Jerusalemites

[ 14/10/2009 - 10:32 AM ] 

RAMALLAH, (PIC)—

Israeli Jewish fanatic settlers on Wednesday assaulted Palestinian farmers near the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus city, while en route to reap their olive crops, local sources reported.

They said that the armed settlers engaged the farmers in fistfights and called them bad names while trying to block their way.

The settlers beat up and bruised a farmer whose land was very near to their settlement and threatened to kill him if he ever tried to pick his olives.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at dawn Wednesday kidnapped three Jerusalemites in Beit Dako village to the northwest of occupied Jerusalem.

The IOF soldiers stormed the village on Tuesday night and broke into many homes before rounding up the three citizens.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 16 Palestinians, Issue Orders Targeting International Activists

 Tuesday October 13, 2009 10:46 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped on Tuesday at dawn 16 Palestinians in different parts of the West Bank, and issued orders against housing international peace activists.

The sixteen Palestinians were kidnapped in several parts of the West bank. They were all kidnapped after the army broke into their homes and searched them, local sources reported.

Meanwhile, official sources in Nablus, in the northern part of the West Bank, reported that the Israeli Authorities started a campaign against international peace activists living in the West Bank.

Ghassan Douglas, in charge of settlements files in the northern part of the West Bank, said that the army waned the residents of southern Nablus villages not to house international supporters.

The decision, not new in nature especially since Israel deported dozens of activists and denied entry to others, was made particularly to sabotage the olive harvest season as activists visit the West Bank to help the villagers in harvesting their Olive trees, and in an attempt to protect them from settler attacks.

Douglas said that this decision is very serious as it comes to manipulate the truth as the activists bear witness to the ongoing settler attacks.

He added that the new order includes several villages that the subjected to constant settler attacks.

Israeli occupation soldiers invaded several villages on Monday at night and informed the residents that housing international activists 'is illegal and results in arrests”.

Douglas stated that this order is like granting extremist settlers a free hand to carry attacks and crimes against the residents far away from the eyes of the activists and the media.