Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, October, 25, 2016.
Israeli navy attack Gaza fishermen meanwhile in the West Bank illegal Israeli settlers takeover Palestinian farmers land. These stories, and more, coming up, stay tuned.
Israeli naval forces, on Tuesday morning, reportedly opened fire towards the fishermen on the Gaza shores, according to Palestinian media sources.
Media sources added that naval forces have opened fire on fishermen on the Al-Sudaniyya and Al-Waha shores of the northwestern Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported.
On the northeastern borders of the Strip, soldiers opened fire on farmers while in their lands. No injuries were reported.
Gaza farmers and fishermen report such attacks on a near-daily basis despite the Egyptian-brokered truce, in August of 2014, between Hamas and Israel.
Elsewhere, Dozens of extremist Israeli colonists invaded, on Tuesday, a Palestinian land in Khirbit al-Himma, in the West Bank’s Northern Plains, and installed tents, after recently illegally occupying the land, and establishing a new outpost.
The Israeli assailants closed the main road leading to Khirbit al-Himma, with rocks and tires, and prevented the Palestinians from entering or leaving it, local sources reported.
Moreover, he Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, overnight and earlier on Tuesday, thirteen Palestinians, including two children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank.
In addition, Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday morning, five Palestinians, including a guard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied Jerusalem.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Tuesday, October, 25, 2016, news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. From more news and updates, please visit our website at www.imemc.org Today’s report has been brought to you by George Rishmawi and me Ghassan Bannoura.
