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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Monday July 7th, 2014.
Nine Palestinians are killed in Gaza due to Israel bombardment, meanwhile army invasions targeting West Bank communities leave scores injured. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
At least nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli missiles and shells in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, and Monday at dawn, Palestinian medical sources announced. al-Qassam Brigades of the Hamas movement stated the six fighters have been killed when the Israeli army fired missiles into a siege-busting tunnel in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Their bodies were found on Monday, at dawn.
Another Qassam fighter died, on Monday, of wounds suffered during an earlier shelling in Rafah. Sami Abu Zohri, spokesperson of the Hamas movement, stated the assassination of the fighters is a serious escalation, adding that ‘the enemy will pay a heavy price’.
Five more Palestinians, including a child and two young girls, have been injured when an Israeli missile detonated near their homes, in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza. Another airstrike targeted al-Qarara town, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Missiles have also been fired into agricultural lands in Shekh Radwan in Gaza, causing damage but no injuries.
On Sunday, two fighters have been killed by Israeli missiles in al-Boreij refugee camp. Their bodies have been severely mutilated. From their parts Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza claimed responsibility for firing dozens of shells into adjacent Israeli areas in retaliation to the Israeli military escalation.
Elsewhere, Israeli soldiers invaded, on Monday at dawn, several Palestinians communities in the occupied West Bank, clashing with local youth causing dozens of injuries, while several Palestinians have been kidnapped.
Medical sources in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, have reported that at least 20 Palestinians have been shot with rubber-coated metal bullets in the al-’Arroub refugee camp. Two more Palestinians suffered various cuts and bruises, after being assaulted by Israeli soldiers, who invaded and ransacked several homes in the camp.
In Tulkarem, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, two Palestinians were shot with live rounds and dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. In addition, two Palestinians were shot with rubber-coated metal bullets, while dozens suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation during clashes that took place with dozens of soldiers who invaded Jericho city from its northern entrance.
Moreover, The Israeli police kidnapped overnight on Monday110 Palestinians; around half of them are children, during protests that swept across Arab towns in Israel. Massive protests were held in different parts of the country, while protesters also closed various roads, including Tamra-Akka Road and clashed with Israeli police officers who assaulted them.
The police continued to resort to the excessive use of force in an attempt to end the protests. People are protesting the kidnapping and brutal murder of Mohammad Abu Kdeir in Jerusalem last week.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Monday July 4th, 2014 news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our websiteatwww.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
