A Greek activist was arrested protesting the destruction of a Palestinian apricot orchard. The arrest followed a confrontation as soldiers blocked the road and prevented the 200 demonstrators from reaching the area where bulldozers destroyed apricot trees last Sunday.
At lunchtime yesterday, Palestinians from the village of Artas, near Bethlehem, gathered with international and Israeli activists. They were intending to protest against the destruction of their land to make way for a pipe that will pump sewage from the nearby Efrata settlement. Last Sunday, five Israelis were arrested trying to prevent the bulldozers from uprooting apricot trees owned by the Abu Swai family.
As demonstrators marched towards the Abu Swai’s land, soldiers formed lines on … Continue reading
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 invaded the village of Al Abediya, near Bethlehem, invading houses before attacking and questioning villagers. The three known arrestees are Mahmud Abdulah Al Asa, aged 53; Kaathem Radaidah, 22; and Faaez Sahood Abe Sarhan, 42.
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.
