Israeli occupation forces launch an air strike on Jabalia, invade Bethlehem, Nablus, Jenin, southern Gaza Strip, injuring, terrorizing and kidnapping people  

Four wounded in Gaza in an Israeli air attack

[ 13/09/2007 - 11:40 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- 

A number of Palestinian resistance fighters, on Thursday, survived an aerial attack by Israeli occupation airforce which targeted their car in the northern Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli plane fired two rockets at a car carrying the resistance fighters at the Abu Sharkh roundabout in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip. The fighters jumped out of their car before the rockets hit it and managed to escape unharmed.

Four passers by were wounded in the attack and were taken to hospital for treatment.

"Small" Israeli occupation force invades Gaza Strip 

Date: 14 / 09 / 2007 Time: 10:31

Bethlehem – Ma'an – 

Israeli press sources said on Friday morning that a "small" Israeli occupation force invaded the south of the Gaza Strip without encountering any opposition.

Palestinian sources said that the Israelis did not give prior warning of the invasion. The Israelis named the operation "Military Actions against Terrorism." Eyewitnesses said they saw tanks, armoured personnel carriers and a few soldiers entering the Gaza Strip.

Al- Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, in a message to Ma'an, said clashes had occurred between them and the Israeli force close to the Sufa Crossing. Israeli efforts to bombard a group of resistance fighters had not achieved its aim, the message said.

On Thursday night 5 Palestinians were kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces in a number of operations across the West Bank. One of the men is from Jenin and the other four are from Al-Khadr, south of Bethlehem.

In Nablus Israeli occupation forces came under gun fire in two separate attacks. There are no reports of any injuries. In another operation the invading Israeli occupation forces reported that they had entered the town of Birqa, north west of Nablus. When they tried to enter the town they were attacked by Molotov cocktails but no one was injured. During the operation the Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian youth, alleged to have been holding a Molotov cocktail. He was arrested and taken away for questioning.

 

 

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Note to Readers:

The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes and at checkpoints, on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

Note to Journalists:

Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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