Five Palestinians injured including Dubai TV crew in peaceful Ni'lin anti-wall protest

Five injured including Dubai TV crew in peaceful Ni'lin anti-wall protest

Date: 25 / 07 / 2008 Time: 20:37
Ni'lin/Ramallah - Ma'an -

Five Palestinians were injured after the Israeli occupation army fired rubber coated metal bullets on a peaceful demonstration in the West Bank village of Ni'lin protesting the illegal Israeli Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall.

Israeli soldiers fired tear gas bombs at a Dubai TV crew interviewing Salam Jamal Kan'an, the young girl who filmed the shooting of Ashraf Abu Rahmah, who was bound and blindfolded, earlier this month. Salam was describing the intentional shooting incident to the television crew.

The army fired dozens of tear on gas bombs on Salam's family during the interview. During the attack Dubai TV reporter Mohamad Al-Sayid along with his cameramen were suffocated with tear gas.

The demonstration made its way to the construction site of the separation wall at noon where they performed the Friday prayers. On their way to the site, Israeli soldiers tried to prevent the crowd from reaching the area.

Youth threw stones at two Israeli military jeeps in the area and attempted to block the access road to the wall's construction site by piling rocks and burning tires about two kilometers away from the protest site.

Many young Palestinians gathered near the adjacent illegal Israeli settlement of Hashmon'im and chanted slogans against settlements. They hurled stones and damaged more than five settlers' cars passing as they drove past on the "settlers only" road.

Salah Al–Khawajah, media spokesperson of the popular campaign of Ni'lin, said that among those injured by rubber coated bullets are A'qel Srur (who was injured for the ninth time), Khamees A'meerah (who was injured for the forth time), Hilal Abed-al Qader Al-Khawaja (who was also injuredfor the forth time), Mohamad Noor Qahush, and Hasan Al-Haj Khaleel A'meerah.

Al-Khawajah added that Israeli soldiers prevented the Dubai TV crew from reporting on the incident and forced them out of the village.

A Car explosion in Gaza kills three Hamas fighters

Friday July 25, 2008 23:20 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

A car explosion in Gaza city killed on Friday evening three Hamas fighters and wounded 20 other people .

Palestinian medical sources said that Ammar Mossabeh, Iyad Alhaiya and Nedal Almobayeid, were killed and 20 other people were wounded, in a mysterious blast of a car in Gaza city.

Palestinain security sources in the Hamas-led government said that the blast occurred on the coastal road of Gaza city , as the car, in which the three victims, was driving near a local Cafeteria on the Gaza coastal road, west of Gaza city.

Spokesman of the Hamas interior ministry said the reasons for the blast remain unclear yet he pledged that the police will start thorough investigations into the incident and bring perpetrators to justice very soon.

The Alqassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, accused the Fatah party of targeting a school trip convoy on the coastal road.

As of Friday, two other blasts ripped through the Gaza city, one targeted the house of Hamas MP, Marwan Abu Ras, with no casualities reported and the other damaged a café shop , with one person reportedly killed.

The three explosions come amidst a shaky ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian resistance factions involving the ruling Hamas party. The factions and Israel have pointed finger at each other as breaching of the ceasefire, which came into effect on June19, 2008.

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