Israeli Occupation Soldiers Attack Peace Activists, Illegal Settlers Attack Resident of Beit Ummar, Air Raid on Rafah

Violent attacks on peaceful marches in W. Bank continue

[ 21/01/2012 - 11:57 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued, in blatant violation of human rights, their violent attacks on peaceful weekly marches organized in West Bank villages against settlement activities and the segregation wall.

Two Palestinian young men and one paramedic were wounded on Friday when Israeli forces fired a barrage of rubber bullets and tear gas grenades at the anti-wall march in Nabi Saleh village and many others suffered suffocation.

In Kafr Qaddum village east of Qalqiliya, violent clashes broke out between the participants in the weekly march and Israeli soldiers stationed at the main gate of the village, which has been closed for years.

The soldiers started to fire tear gas grenades as hundreds of Palestinian villagers and foreign activists were marching towards the closed gate.

The weekly anti-wall march of Bil'in village, west of Ramallah city, was also attacked yesterday with tear gas grenades and water mixed with chemical waste.

The IOF also quelled the marches organized in Kafr Addik village, west of Salfit, and Masarah village near Bethlehem. Three protestors during the Masarah protest sustained injuries when they were physically assaulted by Israeli soldiers.

Israeli occupation forces arrest Palestinian human rights team

[ 21/01/2012 - 03:58 PM ]

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces arrested a Palestinian human rights team in occupied Jerusalem while documenting the arrest of a Jerusalemite boy on Friday night.

Wadi Hilwa human rights center said in a statement on Saturday that its director Jawad Siyam, researcher Ahmed Qara’in, and cameraman Ahmed Siyam were arrested.

The center said that the detention was made while the team was documenting the arrest of the Jerusalemite boy Majd Hammad near the Maghareba gate of the Aqsa Mosque.

IOF soldiers round up 4 Palestinians in Al-Khalil

[ 21/01/2012 - 12:24 PM ]

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) arrested four Palestinians in Al-Khalil province at dawn Saturday including two brothers, local sources said.

Eyewitnesses told the PIC reporter in the province that IOF troops rounded up two brothers in Beit Ola village after storming their home at dawn.

Another group of soldiers broke into the village of Beit Ummar and arrested a citizen from his home after ransacking it.

IOF troops also detained a Palestinian man from his home in the Old City of Al-Khalil.

Locals said that IOF patrols were roaming the streets of Al-Khalil city escorting a big van for the detainees.

Resistance fighters survive Israeli raid

[ 21/01/2012 - 12:19 PM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)--

A group of Palestinian resistance fighters survived an Israeli air raid on their position to the east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Saturday, local sources said.

They told the PIC reporter that Israeli army choppers fired two missiles at the resistance fighters in Shuka area east of Rafah.

The sources said that the helicopter gunships continued to chase the fighters after they fled the scene and fired a number of missiles at them five minutes after the first raid but they also managed to escape unharmed.

Clashes Erupt Between Israeli Settlers and Palestinian Residents of Beit 'Ummar

Friday January 20, 2012 12:15 by Mais Azza - IMEMC & Agencies

On Friday morning, dozens of Israeli settlers, accompanied by Israeli soldiers, walked in a provocative manner along the illegal settlement of Etzion, near Beit 'Ummar village, in the West Bank city of Hebron. Clashes broke out between them and Palestinian residents after the settlers approached their houses, the Palestinian news agency, Ma’an, reported.

Media spokesperson of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Settlement, Mohammad Awad, stated that under-the-cover of the Israeli army, the settlers were holding guns and weapons, and the residents were throwing stones at them. However, the army fired rubber and live bullets, along with gas bombs, upon the Palestinians, causing injuries to some of them. Awad added that ambulances arrived at the scene to move the wounded to hospitals for treatment.

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