Palestinian victims, foreign activists march at Beit Hanoun

[ 13/03/2010 - 02:43 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

]The popular committee against the siege has announced that a march for foreign activists and Palestinians would be organized before the Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in northern Gaza Strip on Sunday to protest the continued Israeli siege on the Strip.

Hundreds of Palestinian victims of the siege and the aggression along with relatives of martyrs and foreign solidarity activists would take part in the march.

MP Jamal Al-Khudari, the head of the committee, said in a press release on Saturday that the committee chose Beit Hanun for the march to assert that it was Israel that was besieging Gaza and thus must shoulder the responsibility for the suffering of Gaza inhabitants and must face international sanctions for such an act.

He said that similar rallies should continue in Gaza and the world at large to keep the issue live at international platforms.

The lawmaker added that the march also falls in line with the one thousand days of siege events and the death of 500 patients as a result of the siege.

IOF troops quell peaceful march in Beit Ummar

 [ 13/03/2010 - 02:52 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Saturday violently dispersed a peaceful Palestinian march in Beit Ummar, north of Al-Khalil, and beat up participants, witnesses reported.

They said that the IOF soldiers quelled the march, which also comprised foreign activists, and fired teargas canisters at the demonstrators.

The march was organized to protest the IOF ban on their entry to their land, locals said, noting that the soldiers assaulted reporters who were covering the event and detained three of them.

IOF raids southern Gaza, detains young woman near Ibrahimi mosque

 [ 13/03/2010 - 10:16 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli warplanes blasted targets in Khan Younis and Rafah districts, south of the Gaza Strip, at an early hour on Friday causing material damage, locals reported.

The sources told PIC correspondent that the F-16 warplanes shelled a metal workshop in Khan Younis starting fire in and destroying the facility, recalling that the same target was previously hit in the Israeli war on Gaza in 2009.

Other warplanes blasted the border area southeast of Rafah but no casualties were reported.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Friday detained a Palestinian young woman near the Ibrahimi Mosque in downtown Al-Khalil, claiming that she was in possession of a knife.

The IOF troops rounded up four other Palestinians in Al-Khalil district including two brothers in the Old City of Al-Khalil on Friday and two others one in Sourif village, north of Al-Khalil, and another in Hadab village, south of Al-Khalil, on Thursday night.

The IOF troops on Friday stormed Jenin city and its nearby villages, broke into citizens homes and forced them out of their homes for field interrogation.

One of the interrogated Palestinians was a 9-year-old boy who was detained in an army jeep for two years for interrogation in Anin village west of Jenin city, locals reported.

In Qalqilia, Jewish settlers assaulted three citizens in Git village east of Qalqilia on Friday including two brothers who were working in their land.

Tens suffer breathing problems, injuries in IOF quelling of peaceful march

[ 13/03/2010 - 09:05 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

 Tens of Palestinian citizens were treated for breathing problems while others were wounded when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse peaceful anti separation wall marches on Friday.

IOF soldiers fired rubber bullets and gas bombs at demonstrators in Nilin village, Ramallah district, who were protesting the confiscation of their lands to build the separation, racist wall.

Locals said that two were injured a teenager and a 15-year-old boy while tens suffered breathing difficulties.

The IOF troops used the same procedure in nearby Bilin village when citizens along with foreign peace activists took part in the peaceful march that hoisted Palestinian flags and placards denouncing the Israeli occupation authority's policy of annexing Islamic mosques to Jewish heritage sites.

IOF soldiers quelled a third massive march in Ma'sara village, Bethlehem district, also on Friday wounding two civilians.

The soldiers blocked the march before reaching the separation wall and assaulted the participants.