10th day under Israeli terrorist attacks: death toll in Gaza reaches 531

Monday January 05, 2009 09:59 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

The Palestinian ministry of Health in Gaza reported that Israeli occupation terrorist army shelling on the Gaza Strip this morning has left 17 Palestinians dead.

The bodies of three children from the same family killed in Gaza by the Israeli shelling on Monday – Photo by WAFA

The Ministry said that among the 17 killed this morning include five children and a family of seven, whom were killed when Israeli jet fighters shelled their home. Medics reported that the family members where left to bleed to death because the ambulances could not reach them due to Israeli shelling in the area.

On Monday, Israeli tanks invading Gaza shelled the home of Arafa Abdul Dayim killing four people and injuring at least 40 others. Local sources said that Abdul Dayim was killed on Sunday when the ambulance he works in was attacked by the Israeli Army. Palestinians gathered today in his home to pay their respects after his funeral.

Meanwhile, the death toll in Gaza by Monday morning reached 531 with 2,490 injured including 300 in critical condition.

Israel started its military offensive last Saturday, December 27th, 2008, a week and a half after the six-month-long Egyptian-mediated ceasefire finished, on December 16th 2008. Although Israel accuses the Hamas government in Gaza of breaking the truce, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights documented hundreds of truce violations by the Israeli military, including three violations on the very day the truce began, on June 19th, 2008.

Israeli terrorist forces warplanes started the offensive by shelling all Palestinian security posts in Gaza. In the following days, the air raids were expanded. Hospitals, homes, blacksmith workshops, a television station, schools and mosques were targeted. Day and night, the entire Palestinian coastal region has been under attack for the last 10 days.

IOTF troops slaughter two Palestinian families

[ 05/01/2009 - 10:05 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation terrorist forces (IOTF) troops have committed Monday morning two hideous massacres against two Palestinian families consisting of fathers, mothers and eight children in the Gaza Strip when they bombed their homes.

The PIC reporter said that the Israeli naval artillery shelled a house in the Shati' refugee camp, west of Gaza city, which led to the death of an entire family made up of five children and their parents.

The reporter added that soon after the first attack, the Israeli artillery also razed another house to the ground killing a Palestinian family of three children and both parents.

On Sunday, the IOF troops had killed a father and three of his sons along with their relatives when they bombed his house in the Rafah city, south of Gaza.

An Israeli terrorist air raid yesterday on a house in the Gaza city led to the death of two children and the injury of others of the same family.

IOTF troops kill Palestinian, wound others in different West Bank cities

[ 05/01/2009 - 09:50 AM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation terrorist forces on Sunday killed a Palestinian young man and wounded others during marches held in different West Bank cities in protest at the Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources said that a 20-year-old young man called Mufid Walwil was shot dead and others were wounded during confrontations with the IOF troops in Qalqilya.

Another Palestinian citizen called Talal Hawamdah was wounded when an Israeli soldier shot him in the right thigh during protests in Al-Khalil (Hebron) city.

In Ramallah, thousands of Palestinian citizens chanted slogans in solidarity with the Gaza people during a massive angry march called for by all national forces. The protesters called on the resistance factions to retaliate strongly to the Israeli aggression on Gaza in the West Bank.

Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi, a Palestinian lawmaker, stated that Israel does not attack a certain faction in Gaza, but it attacks the whole Gaza people, describing the Israeli military assaults as real massacres.

Dr. Barghouthi also held the international community responsible for what is happening in Gaza, saying that the whole world is involved in the Israeli aggression on the Strip through its silence and leniency towards Israel.

Israel occupation terrorist forces kill more than 520 Palestinians after ten days of aggression on Gaza

[ 05/01/2009 - 09:59 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

More than 520 Palestinians were killed including children and at least 2, 500 others were wounded after 10 days of ongoing Israeli military aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources told the PIC that most of the victims killed by Israeli occupation terrorist forces were civilians including about 120 children and 50 women, pointing out that the ambulance crews were not able to reach some bombed areas to recover bodies under the rubble of homes as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment. 

The sources said that dozens of citizens and families were killed and wounded after the IOF troops razed their homes with missiles and shells fired from tanks, warplanes and warships in one of the most brutal scenes.

18 Gazans killed overnight, including seven members of same family

Date: 05 / 01 / 2009  Time:  09:41
Gaza – Ma’an –

Israeli occupation terrorist forces warships shelled Al-Shati' Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday morning, killing seven members of the same family.

A total Eighteen Palestinians were killed overnight as Israel continued fierce land, sea, and air attacks for a tenth consecutive day on Monday. Eighteen Palestinians were killed overnight.

The death toll since the beginning of the ground invasion on Saturday rose to 82, and the total death toll since the beginning of the Israeli terrorist attacks rose to 521 and more than 2450 injured.

Midmorning on Sunday, Israeli occupation terrorist forces warplanes bombed a house in the town of Beit Hanoon, where Palestinians were mourning the death of a paramedic who was killed on Saturday. Some 40 others were wounded in this most recent attack.

Another Israeli airstrike targeted Abu Raida area in Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Casualties were reported.

Earlier, a man from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip was killed by Israeli ground forces in the Al-Atatra neighborhood. Medics also said they transferred two dead bodies from Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the northern Gaza Strip to Kamal Udwan Hospital.

Seven members of the Abu Eisha family arrived in a hospital torn to pieces, said sources at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to the sources, the parents and their five children were killed in overnight naval strike at their home in Al-Mashtal area in the north of Al-Shati' Refugee Camp, on the shore west of Gaza City.

Palestinian medical sources also confirmed on Monday morning the death of six people from the Samudi family, including three children, as their home was shelled in the Zaytoon neighborhood of Gaza City.

Earlier, Israeli soldiers opened fire towards residential houses in the Zaytoon neighborhood killing a five-year-old baby girl from Al-Hilou family and her grandfather. The girl’s mother was critically injured. All the victims were evacuated to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Israeli forces intensified their raids after midnight, shelling four homes of Hamas leaders as well as home of Jamil Mizhir, a senior leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in Al-Nussairat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Al-Umma University of Police Sciences in Al-Nussair neighborhood in Gaza City was also bombarded. A car was targeted west of Al-Shifa tower in Ash-Shati camp, and as a result two were injured.

***Updated at 12:28 Gaza time

70 Palestinians killed on ninth day of the Gaza holocaust

[ 05/01/2009 - 01:20 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

IOTF troops stepped up its campaign of terror and murder against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip and killed 70 civilians on Sunday, raising the number of Palestinians killed to 520.

After a number of its tanks and soldiers were ambushed by the Palestinian resistance, the Israeli occupation terrorist forces took their revenge on civilians by targeting houses.

Medical sources said on Sunday that since the start of ground offensive, on Saturday night the number of Palestinians killed reached seventy, 23 of them children in addition to a number of women and old people. A hundred others were wounded.

The same sources said that the vast majority of the casualties were civilians, and that ambulance teams could not reach some areas that came under attack because of the continued shelling from air, sea and land.

In the northern Gaza Strip the IOF troops shelled a number of homes killing 12 people, including two children.

According to locals, nine people were killed in an airstrike that targeted a group of people outside the Abu Obaida school in Beit Lahya, in the northern Gaza Strip, the same area was targeted again, killing 3 paramedics attending the wounded.

This is not the first time ambulance crews have been targeted; six Palestinian paramedics were killed previously bring to 9 the number of paramedics killed in  the past nine days.

In fact there are fears that hospitals might be targeted, this is indicated by claims of the Israeli occupation government foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, that Palestinian resistance uses hospitals as hideouts.

Israeli sources: Five Israeli occupation soldiers injured during fights with resistance fighters in Gaza

Monday January 05, 2009 10:44 by IMEMC News - IMEMC News & Agencies

The Israeli occupation terrorist forces announced that five Israeli occupation soldiers where injured on Monday during armed calashes with Palestinian resistance fighter in Gaza.  

The sources said that the five sustained light wounds and where moved to hospitals inside Israel for treatment.  

According to the Israeli occupation terrorist forces, invading Israeli occupation soldiers are clashing with resistance fighters in Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Monday.  

Moreover the Israeli occupation terrorist army announced that Israeli occupation terrorist air forces have shelled 30 targets overnight and Monday at dawn.  

The Israeli occupation terrorist forces started its military offensive last Saturday, December 27th, 2008, a week and a half after the six-month-long Egyptian-mediated ceasefire finished, on December 16th 2008. The death toll in Gaza by Monday morning reached 525 with 2490 injured including 200 in critical conditions due to the Israeli fire.

Report: Six Israeli occupation soldiers injured in Gaza City

Date: 05 / 01 / 2009  Time:  11:43
Bethlehem – Ma’an –

Six Israeli occupation soldiers were injured in clashes with Palestinian resistance fighters at the Zaytoon neighborhood of Gaza City at dawn.

According to Radio Israel, the Israeli occupation terrorist soldiers were moderately injured, yet an Israeli electronic website said two soldiers were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital near Tel Aviv by helicopter.

In a different regard, Israeli TV affirmed that military censorship prevented Israeli and international journalists from interviewing Israeli soldiers who were injured in the Gaza Strip.

In general the Israeli Israeli occupation terrorist forces leadership is making very little information about their operation public.

Palestinian fighters launch projectiles at Israeli towns, resist invasion

Date: 05 / 01 / 2009  Time:  12:13
Gaza – Ma’an –

Palestinian fighters continues to fire homemade projectiles into Israel on Monday despite ten days of intense Israeli military operations in Gaza the Israeli government says is aimed at stopping the rockets.

Amongst the targets was an Israeli air force base which Palestinian military organizations say was targeted for the first time.

According to Israeli sources, a Grad missile landed on Monday in near the coastal city of Isdood, and six homemade projectiles landed in Asqalan, also on the coast, closer to Gaza. Several mortar shells also landed in the Shaar Hanegev area east of the Strip.

There were no reports of casualties.

Hamas’ military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for firing two Grad missiles at an air force base called Hatsur in Kiryat Malachi for the first time.

The group claimed also that two Israeli soldiers were shot in Beit Lahiya and one in Beit Hanoon in the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Qassam added that its fighters targeted a tank with a rocket-propelled Grenade (RPG). Two other RPGs were fired at Israeli bulldozer and tank in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Furthermore, the military group said 30 homemade projectiles and dozens of mortar shells were launched towards Israeli towns. They added that their fighters detonated an underground explosive device as Israeli personnel carrier passed over it in Beit Hanoon.

Meanwhile, a military group calling itself Jaysh Al-Umma (Army of the Nation) claimed responsibility for firing three mortar shells at a convoy of Israeli tanks near a car dealership in eastern Gaza City.

For its part, Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility for detonating a landmine under an Israeli tank at the Zaytoon neighborhood in Gaza City.