Jerusalem man killed over allegedly fleeing from Israeli police

[ 14/09/2010 - 11:14 AM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Israeli police shot and killed a young man from Jerusalem early Tuesday morning in Tel Aviv for allegedly not stopping when police instructed him to do so.

Israeli radio said two other Palestinians were arrested during the incident and another fled the scene.

Israeli police claim one officer shot the man after he and three other youths attempted to break into a car in a Tel Aviv neighborhood.

Police said they became suspicious of the four youths when they by chance saw them breaking into a car while patrolling the area. One policeman opened fire when the youths resisted the arrest.

Police are searching for the man who fled.

In a separate incident, Israeli troops arrested ten Palestinians Tuesday after raiding several locations in Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, and Ramallah.

The Israeli military arrested ten wanted Palestinians during routine operations in the West Bank, Israeli radio reported.

Five Palestinians wounded in IOF artillery shelling

[ 14/09/2010 - 04:14 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- 

Two Palestinian men were seriously wounded in artillery shelling by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Tuesday evening southeast of Gaza city.

Adham Abu Salmiya, the military services coordinator, told the PIC that one of them was carried to Shifa hospital, adding that contacts were underway with the Red Cross to facilitate entry of ambulance vehicles to Juhr Al-Deek to evacuate the other casualty.

Security sources told the PIC reporter that three other citizens were injured in the area including one in serious condition.

IOF troops advanced 400 meters into the area earlier on Tuesday in six army tanks and four tractors and bulldozed land lots as the IOF artillery fired a number of shells.

IOF soldiers almost daily raid border areas in the Gaza Strip to bulldoze land amidst random firing.

IOF troops fire at peaceful march, as Mizan calls for protection of civilians

 [ 14/09/2010 - 04:11 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire on Tuesday at a peaceful march in northern Gaza Strip that was protesting the security fence and buffer zone, eyewitnesses reported.

They said that tens of demonstrators including foreign solidarity activists took part in the march that headed to the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing.

They said that as soon as the marchers, who were hoisting Palestinian flags, approached the crossing the IOF soldiers got out of one of the trenches and opened indiscriminate machinegun fire at them.

For its part, Al-Mizan center for human rights asked the world community to swiftly provide protection for Palestinian civilians.

It said in a statement on Tuesday that the world should bridle Israel's intention to establish a buffer zone in northern and eastern Gaza, which would entail catastrophic results on the Gaza inhabitants in general, and the inhabitants and farmers working in those areas in particular.

Mizan castigated the IOF troops for opening fire at the peaceful march earlier on Tuesday morning, noting that the march is weekly organized by the Beit Hanun residents to protest the buffer zone.

The center also condemned the IOF for opening artillery fire at farmers in Beit Hanun on Sunday killing three of them including a 91-year-old citizen and his grandson in addition to 25 heads of sheep.