Five people were hospitalized as Israeli Apache helicopters fired a missile at their car. The people injured included women and children from the same family. Many supermarkets in Al Waahidat Street were also hit by the strikes. In An Nasr, men, women, children and the elderly live in constant fear of attack with the regular sound of planes and rockets flying overhead.

Ten days ago, Israeli Occupation soldiers closed the Rafah terminal checkpoint between the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Currently over 1000 people are waiting in the terminal to pass through the checkpoint. Many are ill or injured and are being prevented from accessing the healthcare that they urgently require. Among the 1000 there are also Palestinian students who are trying to return to Egypt to complete their program of study.

Israeli Occupation Forces forces killed 30 year old fisherman Saeed Nade Alatar. An IOF ship fired rockets at Alatar as he was fishing off the shore of his hometown, the fishing village of Alwaha. Three months ago his mother was killed in a similar attack in Al Ferusya, North Gaza. This is only one episode in a series of criminal attacks by the Israeli Military on civilians in Gaza in the past 10 days.

Demonstrations continued today in Gaza City, including a teachers’ organization and youth demanding an end to the clashes between Fateh and Hamas. Demonstrators carried signs telling the fighters to put their weapons aside and look to the Israeli Occupation as the true cause of people’s suffering. Young people called for the end to Palestinian-on-Palestinian violence. Both the Fateh and Hamas political factions and other worker unions and organizations were represented in the demonstration. Civil workers, including teachers, have not been paid in over a year, since Hamas was democratically elected and Europe and America cut off aide to the Palestinian Authority, yet they still support a unity government including Hamas.

On January 23 an Israeli army tank and two bulldozers came to the land of Ahmed Mahmoud Qamir and destroyed his large and relatively productive farm. His house was also blown up by the Israeli Occupation Forces. The IOF told the family that the area was being used for cover by Palestinian fighters firing rockets at Israeli cities nearby, though there was no evidence of this and nothing was found in the area.

Since the Gaza “withdrawal” Israeli Occupation Forces have frequently entered Palestinian cities in Gaza and destroyed large tracts of land used by the people of Gaza for much-needed income and food. It is widely believed that this is part of an … Continue reading

In Wadi Ghaza, an area in the middle of the Gaza Strip near Al-Bureij, Palestinians are suffering from the sewage and polluted water that runs off from Israeli towns just outside the Strip. This has caused major health problems for Palestinians in the area, and the runoff has also caused severe environmental damage in this agricultural area, depriving the farmers of their livelihood. The Wadi Ghaza municipality sent samples of the polluted water to a laboratory for tests, which revealed that the water contained dangerous chemicals from Israeli chemical factories. The fact that this polluted water and sewage is being dumped illegally in the heavily populated Gaza Strip is a crime against the … Continue reading

Israeli Bulldozers Destroy Palestinian Farmland near Jabalia Refugee Camp

The Israeli occupation forces destroyed Palestinian farmland today near Jabalia Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip. Israeli bulldozers destroyed a large area planted with fruit trees and several greenhouses, while Israeli tanks fired ammunition and sound bombs so that the air was filled with bad-smelling smoke and the Palestinian residents could not see what the bulldozers were doing. This is part of an ongoing Israeli policy of destroying any sources of income within Gaza.

The Israeli soldiers also killed a 12-year-old boy, Iyad Muhammed Ibrahim, from Jabalia Refugee Camp. This Israeli aggression is part of an ongoing … Continue reading

The tragic scenes of Palestinian citizens crowding into the Rafah Border Crossing every day hoping to be allowed in or out of Gaza continue.

The Rafah Border Crossing is Gaza’s only connection with the outside world. The overcrowding created by the Israeli occupation forces’ refusal to open the crossing has brought harm and tragedy to many citizens, denying them their basic rights of freedom of movement. The prolonged closure of the crossing has prevented Gazan patients from traveling abroad for urgent medical treatment, and many patients have been stuck waiting at the crossing for days or weeks.

This inhumane and illegal closure violates all the Israeli-Palestinian agreements, and the humanitarian crisis at the crossing … Continue reading

Beit Hanoun, Gaza

At dawn on Wednesday November 8, 2006, the Israeli occupation forces committed a massacre against the Palestinian residents of Beit Hanoun, using planes and tanks. The army entered Beit Hanoun where it killed a number of martyrs* and injured other citizens. The occupation forces relied upon the help of tanks, military vehicles and helicopters to strengthen their assault. The helicopters fired dozens of missiles at the innocent civilians, killing children and fired more missiles at homes, using the excuse of the presence of resistance fighters, an illegitimate excuse the army often uses to kill innocent civilians, as later on, one could see ambulances carrying women and children having nothing to do with the Israeli government’s allegations. doctors working … Continue reading

This report comes from the resident of Beit Hanoun who sent us the first report about the Nov. 8th attack, he has now been able to provide us with the photographs.

The Al-’Athamina family in Beit Hanoun

Their houses were destroyed, their body parts were scattered, their blood drenched the ground. The children of Beit Hanoun cannot cry out to their fathers. The mothers scream for their children who were killed by the Israeli tanks. On Wednesday, 8 November 2006, the Israeli tanks fired 11 rockets on Hamad Street in Beit Hanoun. The shelling was aimed at three houses belonging to the Hamad, Abu ‘Odeh, and Al-’Athamina families. 20 people from these families were killed, … Continue reading