31 dec 2017
Director of Gaza hospitals Abdul-Latif al-Hajj has warned that the health situation in Gaza is going to deteriorate further due to depleting medical supplies and the failure to pay for cleaning and catering services in hospitals.
In press remarks to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), Hajj stated that the warehouses of the health ministry hospitals in Gaza are 47 percent short of basic medicines, describing the scarcities in medicinal supplies as burdensome for doctors and families of patients.
He also held the Ramallah-based government responsible for the failure of the health ministry in Gaza to pay its contractors who employ cleaners and other service-providers at hospitals.
He said that after the consensus government took over the ministries in Gaza, the health situation, in particular, started to decline significantly, stressing that Gaza needs permanent solutions to all problems faced by the health sector.
In press remarks to the Palestinian Information Center (PIC), Hajj stated that the warehouses of the health ministry hospitals in Gaza are 47 percent short of basic medicines, describing the scarcities in medicinal supplies as burdensome for doctors and families of patients.
He also held the Ramallah-based government responsible for the failure of the health ministry in Gaza to pay its contractors who employ cleaners and other service-providers at hospitals.
He said that after the consensus government took over the ministries in Gaza, the health situation, in particular, started to decline significantly, stressing that Gaza needs permanent solutions to all problems faced by the health sector.
29 dec 2017
The Israeli occupation navy on Thursday kidnapped Palestinian fishermen off Gaza’s northern seashore.
Head of Gaza’s Fishermen Union, Nizar Ayyash, said Sameh al-Kouka and Shawki Bakr were kidnapped by the Israeli navy while setting sail off Gaza’s northern waters.
The occupation navy seized the fishermen’s vessel.
Ayyash called on the international community and Palestinian consensus government to take urgent action over Israel’s arbitrary abduction of Gaza’s fishermen.
In 2016, at least 125 Palestinian fishermen were kidnapped by the Israeli navy, three among them after they were shot with bullet fire. Two fishermen were killed by the occupation navy, including one of them whose body has not been recovered.
Head of Gaza’s Fishermen Union, Nizar Ayyash, said Sameh al-Kouka and Shawki Bakr were kidnapped by the Israeli navy while setting sail off Gaza’s northern waters.
The occupation navy seized the fishermen’s vessel.
Ayyash called on the international community and Palestinian consensus government to take urgent action over Israel’s arbitrary abduction of Gaza’s fishermen.
In 2016, at least 125 Palestinian fishermen were kidnapped by the Israeli navy, three among them after they were shot with bullet fire. Two fishermen were killed by the occupation navy, including one of them whose body has not been recovered.
28 dec 2017
Israeli navy ships attacked, Thursday, several Palestinian fishing boats in the Sudaniyya Sea area, northwest of Gaza Strip, and abducted two fishermen, before confiscating their boat.
Eyewitnesses said the navy fired many live rounds at the fishing boats, while sailing less than four nautical miles from the shore, and abducted two fishermen after forcing them to undress and jump in the cold water.
The two, identified as Sameh Haidar al-Qoqa and Shawqi Saleh Bakr, were abducted before the soldiers took them, and their boat, to Ashdod Port.
Eyewitnesses said the navy fired many live rounds at the fishing boats, while sailing less than four nautical miles from the shore, and abducted two fishermen after forcing them to undress and jump in the cold water.
The two, identified as Sameh Haidar al-Qoqa and Shawqi Saleh Bakr, were abducted before the soldiers took them, and their boat, to Ashdod Port.
27 dec 2017
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The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) on Tuesday confiscated a donkey and cars from Palestinian citizens and plundered commercial stores in Silwan district, south of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
A photo taken in Silwan showed police troops taking away a donkey during a campaign in Silwan. Local sources said that the police had already arrested the owner of the donkey at the pretext that he had no permit to own such animal. In a separate incident, Israeli municipal employees under police escort stormed on the same day the neighborhoods of Ein al-Loza |
and Beir Ayoub in Silwan, raided commercial stores and confiscated some of their merchandise and items displayed outside.
They also seized a refrigerator from one of those stores and removed a door from another one that sells gas cylinders.
They also seized a refrigerator from one of those stores and removed a door from another one that sells gas cylinders.
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Silwan town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem, and conducted violent searches of homes, before abducting at least thirteen Palestinians, including children, and demolished two buildings.
Media sources in Silwan said the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes in the town, and abducted thirteen Palestinians, in addition to summing many others for interrogation.
The invasion was carried out by dozens of soldiers and police officers, who also installed roadblocks in many neighborhoods, in addition to closing several roads with concrete blocks.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), identified the abducted Palestinians as:
The soldiers also forced the Palestinians to remove graffiti, calling for resistance and liberation, from many walls.
In addition, the army demolished a commercial building, and a barn in the town, allegedly for being constructed without permits.
The army also handed several demolition orders targeting many homes and buildings, in Silwan.
Silwanic said the soldiers violently invaded many stores, causing excessive damage, and confiscated goods and supplies, in addition to smashing the door of a store, selling propane gas, and confiscated propane gas barrels.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded a shop, and confiscated a fridge, in addition to confiscating a car in the town.
The soldiers also invaded a Restaurant in Silwan, and confiscated seven propane gas barrels, in addition to forcing a man to smash the door of his scarp shop, before invading it.
Media sources in Silwan said the soldiers stormed and ransacked dozens of homes in the town, and abducted thirteen Palestinians, in addition to summing many others for interrogation.
The invasion was carried out by dozens of soldiers and police officers, who also installed roadblocks in many neighborhoods, in addition to closing several roads with concrete blocks.
The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic), identified the abducted Palestinians as:
- Mohammad Sarhan, 14.
- Mo’men al-Abbassi.
- Mofeed Mohammad al-Abbassi.
- Fuad al-Qaaq, 20.
- Odai Samer Abu Tayeh, 20.
- Mohammad Zidani.
- Amjad Shweiki, 43.
- Mohannad al-Qawasmi, 24.
- Mohammad Shiokhi.
- Karim Shiokhi.
- Bassel Hamza Shalloudi, 17.
- Hamada Odeh.
- Mohammad Mousa al-Abbassi, 20.
The soldiers also forced the Palestinians to remove graffiti, calling for resistance and liberation, from many walls.
In addition, the army demolished a commercial building, and a barn in the town, allegedly for being constructed without permits.
The army also handed several demolition orders targeting many homes and buildings, in Silwan.
Silwanic said the soldiers violently invaded many stores, causing excessive damage, and confiscated goods and supplies, in addition to smashing the door of a store, selling propane gas, and confiscated propane gas barrels.
Furthermore, the soldiers invaded a shop, and confiscated a fridge, in addition to confiscating a car in the town.
The soldiers also invaded a Restaurant in Silwan, and confiscated seven propane gas barrels, in addition to forcing a man to smash the door of his scarp shop, before invading it.
21 dec 2017
The Israeli navy arrested on Thursday morning two Palestinian fishermen while fishing off the northern Gaza Strip shores.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported in a statement that Israeli gunboats attacked Palestinian fishing boats in the morning while sailing off the Waha area, northwest of the town of Beit Lahiya.
The Center noted that the Israeli gunboats opened fire at the Palestinian boats, and captured one of them with two fishermen on board. The arrested fishermen are Mohammed Ghaleb Al-Sultan, 25, and Orans Sharif Al-Sultan, 21, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Center asserted, according to its field researchers, that the Israeli navy forced the fishermen to take off their clothes, jump in the water and swim towards the Israeli war boats, where they were arrested.
He pointed out that the Israeli gunboats tried to sink the fishing boat by firing at it directly, causing a serious damage, but the fishermen who were in the area managed to reach the boat and pulled it towards the Gaza beach after about two hours of the incident.
The Center condemned the ceaseless Israeli attacks against Palestinian fishermen, calling for an immediate end of the policy of hunting down the fishermen and allowing them to fish in the sea and practice their work freely.
The Center called for the release of arrested fishermen, and compensating victims for the physical damage they suffered.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported in a statement that Israeli gunboats attacked Palestinian fishing boats in the morning while sailing off the Waha area, northwest of the town of Beit Lahiya.
The Center noted that the Israeli gunboats opened fire at the Palestinian boats, and captured one of them with two fishermen on board. The arrested fishermen are Mohammed Ghaleb Al-Sultan, 25, and Orans Sharif Al-Sultan, 21, from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Center asserted, according to its field researchers, that the Israeli navy forced the fishermen to take off their clothes, jump in the water and swim towards the Israeli war boats, where they were arrested.
He pointed out that the Israeli gunboats tried to sink the fishing boat by firing at it directly, causing a serious damage, but the fishermen who were in the area managed to reach the boat and pulled it towards the Gaza beach after about two hours of the incident.
The Center condemned the ceaseless Israeli attacks against Palestinian fishermen, calling for an immediate end of the policy of hunting down the fishermen and allowing them to fish in the sea and practice their work freely.
The Center called for the release of arrested fishermen, and compensating victims for the physical damage they suffered.
Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar, to the south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank, on Thursday cut down about 20 olive trees in Madama town to the south of the city.
Head of Madama local council, Ihab Qet, said that over 10 settlers broke into the land that belongs to Abdurrahman Nassar and cut about 20 trees. The extremist settlers also ruined an agricultural water well owned by Idris Qet, he added.
Head of Madama local council, Ihab Qet, said that over 10 settlers broke into the land that belongs to Abdurrahman Nassar and cut about 20 trees. The extremist settlers also ruined an agricultural water well owned by Idris Qet, he added.
17 dec 2017
Groups of Jewish fanatic settlers of Kiryat Arba settlement on Sunday cut fruitful trees of almonds, olives and peaches in Palestinian lands near Beit Ummar town north of al-Khalil.
The PIC reporter said that the land owners tried to confront the settlers and ban them from cutting their trees, but they had to retreat under threat of being shot right in their farms.
The trees that were attacked by extremist settlers are owned by Palestinian families of Adi, Awad, Ebraigheth and Abu Ayyash, the reporter pointed out.
The PIC reporter said that the land owners tried to confront the settlers and ban them from cutting their trees, but they had to retreat under threat of being shot right in their farms.
The trees that were attacked by extremist settlers are owned by Palestinian families of Adi, Awad, Ebraigheth and Abu Ayyash, the reporter pointed out.
15 dec 2017
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on Friday morning assaulted Palestinian farmers while working in their lands in Yatta town, south of the West Bank city of al-Khalil.
The coordinator of the National Committee against Settlement in Yatta, Ratib al-Jabour, said that IOF soldiers attacked farmers of Zein family near Avigal settlement, which was illegally established over the land of Yatta, and forced them to leave their farms.
Jabour told Quds Press that the assaulted Palestinians have recently obtained a court decision that stipulates their right to enter and work in their lands. IOF troops, however, continued harassing the Palestinian farmers in blatant disregard to the court ruling.
He also pointed out that the violations of Israeli soldiers and settlers against Palestinians in Yatta have escalated over the past few days.
The coordinator of the National Committee against Settlement in Yatta, Ratib al-Jabour, said that IOF soldiers attacked farmers of Zein family near Avigal settlement, which was illegally established over the land of Yatta, and forced them to leave their farms.
Jabour told Quds Press that the assaulted Palestinians have recently obtained a court decision that stipulates their right to enter and work in their lands. IOF troops, however, continued harassing the Palestinian farmers in blatant disregard to the court ruling.
He also pointed out that the violations of Israeli soldiers and settlers against Palestinians in Yatta have escalated over the past few days.
