Category: Israeli attacks

Ofer Israeli military court Sunday sentenced, on Monday, a youth from Bethlehem to one consecutive year. The youth was identified as Rami Mohammad al-Hreimy, 18 years old.

Israeli soldiers arrested on Monday three residents from the towns of al-Thahiriyya and Ithna, near the West Bank city of Hebron. The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers invaded al-Thahiriyya,…

Monday morning, Israeli soldiers installed a military checkpoint on the main road which links Tubas with Jenin, north of the West Bank. A Palestinian security source reported that soldiers installed the…

Israeli security forces on Sunday arrested a settler said to be the ringleader of the mob that tried to lynch a Palestinian youth at Muasi beach in the Gaza Strip…

The Israeli security services, Shabak, said on Sunday that it arrested two activists of the Islamic Jihad suspected of attacking and killing a guard of the Separation Wall near Hebron…

Saturday morning, al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for detaining an explosive near a military jeep close to Atzmona settlement, south of the Gaza Strip…

Israeli soldiers fired overnight, a tank shell at an armed resistance group near the settlement of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip, one fighter was seriously injured. A medical source…

Israel late Thursday denied widely publicized reports that two of its soldiers had been kidnapped and killed in Nablus. ‘All of our troops have reported back to their command,’ said a…

Israeli soldiers invaded the villages of Atteel and Allar in the northern West Bank on Thursday, conducting military searches of homes and arresting three residents.   A local source in…

The government must take ‘every measure’ necessary to end acts of violence and road blocking by right-wing extremists, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Wednesday night. ‘The battle now…

A Palestinian resistance fighter was killed Tuesday night in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers shot the fighter as he approached the settlement of Morag, according to…

Israeli soldiers installed roadblocks around the West Bank city of Jenin Tuesday morning, closing several junctions and conducting military searches. A local source in Jenin reported that soldiers closed the…

Israeli soldiers broke into dozens of Hebron homes early Tuesday morning, conducting searches and arresting three residents, including a child. The Hebron office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that…

Sunday afternoon, two Palestinian residents of the old city of Hebron were attacked by an extremist settlers group, while they where doing maintenance for some old homes in Hebron. A…

Settlers living in the Maoz Yam Hotel in the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neveh Dekalim agreed to turn over suspects to police for questioning. Some 20 residents of the Hotel…

Israeli soldiers imposed restrictions on the movements of Palestinian residents in Hebron, south of the West Bank. An Israeli military source reported on Saturday that the army closed several streets…

A medical source at al-Ahli hospital in Hebron reported that one child was admitted to surgery suffering from serious wounds after settlers hurled a bomb at her family’s home in…

Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested ten residents, including two women, after invading four villages near Hebron, and al-Fawwar refugee camp. The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers, supported by armored…

An Israeli military source reported on Friday night that the same gunmen, who shot at settlers near Beit Haggai, continued to the Adorai’m junction, near Dura, where they opened fire on…

Israeli army invading the village of Atteel since one week occupied another home on Friday, raising the number of homes taken over by the military to five homes. Mohammad Abdul-Qader…

Thursday night, Israeli soldiers supported by armored jeeps and vehicles invaded the villages of Ithna and al-Sammoa’, near Hebron, conducted military searches of homes, and arrested six residents, one British…

Israel threatened to severely bomb Palestinian areas in the Gaza Strip should the Palestinian Authority fail to act against the resistance attacks during the disengagement, Israeli sources reported on Wednesday.…

For the third day, Israeli soldiers resumed the attacks and military searches in al-sha’rawiyya area, and several surrounding villages, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. A local source…

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested 25 residents in the West Bank city of Hebron and several surrounding villages and al-Fawwar refugee camp. A local source in Hebron reported that soldiers,…

Tuesday at dawn, Israeli soldiers, supported by 35 military vehicles and jeeps, invaded Bethlehem and several surrounding areas, and arrested three residents. A local source in Bethlehem reported that soldiers…

The Israeli Security Services (Shabak) and the army announced the arrest of a resistance fighter in Jenin suspected of developing Qassam homemade shells and testing their range against Israeli settlements in…

One Israeli settler was killed and another injured Monday morning, after a Palestinian resistance group fired at their vehicle in the northern West Bank. A 30-year-old settler who apparently was driving…

Sunday afternoon, an Israeli military source reported that soldiers arrested a Palestinian teen on Huwwara checkpoint, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus. The army claims that Khalil Mohammed…

Israeli soldiers and Palestinian resistance fighters exchanged fire on Sunday at the Philadelphi route in the southern Gaza Strip, one soldiers and one Palestinia fighter were killed, two soldiers were…

Israeli Right-wing foes living in the hotel at Neveh Dekalim settlement in Gush Katif on Saturday attacked Palestinians from the adjacent Moassi area, wounding three. Following the attack, mortar shells…

Israeli troops shot dead an Islamic Jihad member Saturday afternoon and wounded another after the two tried to infiltrate Kfar Darom settlement in the southern Gaza Strip. The two clashed…

Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Hebron and the neighboring village of Yatta, conducted military searches, detained and interrogated dozens of residents.  A local source in…

Wednesday at night, the Israeli police arrested six settler women after writing graffiti against the Palestinians on walls adjacent to Keryat Arba’ settlement, east of the Hebron. The police reported…

The Palestinian district coordination office, DCO, in Hebron, reported that Israeli soldiers broke into homes in the city, and Yatta village, and conducted military searches. The DCO stated that soldiers…

Tuesday morning, Israel soldiers invaded the village of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, conducted military searches, and arrested one resident.   A local source in the…

Sunday at dawn, a group of settlers of Keryat Arba’ settlement in Hebron attacked dozens of homes in Wad al-Nassarah, and Wad al-Hssein neighborhoods, near the settlement.   Jamal abu…

Saturday at dawn, Israeli soldiers invaded the West Bank city of Hebron and two surrounding villages after surrounding them, and conducted military searches of homes. A local source in Hebron…

Saturday morning, Israeli soldiers arrested a resident and his daughter in the village of Atteel, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. A local source in the village reported…

A soldier was lightly wounded in clashes with a settlers at the Tapuach junction, east of the West Bank settlement of Ariel Friday afternoon. According to army spokesperson, soldiers spotted…

Friday afternoon, resident Fayez Hilmy Ayyad, 30, from Gaza, died of wounds sustained on June 2, 2005. Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the emergency unit at the Palestinian Ministry of…

Wednesday evening, the Israeli police claimed that a 15 year-old Palestinian youth from Shu’fat, near Jerusalem, stabbed an Israel policeman near al-Maskobiyya police station in Jerusalem. The policeman was moderately…

In what seems to be a failed assassination attempt, Israeli gun ships fired air-to-land missiles at a car driving on the main road in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources…

Settlers of the Abraham Abino settlement outpost in Hebron damaged a wall of a store in Hakoret al-Kayyal area in the old city and set it on fire. Imad Hamdan,…

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP, said that Israeli soldiers arrested thirty of its members in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Hebron, over the last month   A senior PFLP…

Monday at night, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a resident near the Philadilphi Route in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army claims that apparently…

Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an Islamic Jihad fighter and an unarmed Palestinian policeman after invading Qabatia south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. Israeli soldiers,…

The Chairman of the leftist Israeli Yahad Knesset faction Zahava Gal-On called Tuesday on the chief military prosecutor to investigate reports on an army revenge raid in which seven Palestinian…

Friday evening, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Yatta, near Hebron, and conducted military searches of homes; four residents, including three children were injured of military fire during clashes which…

Only a few hours before the Israeli army announced the release of 85 Palestinian detainees from Hebron area, soldiers arrested at least 15 residents after invading Ithna, al-Thaheriyya, and al-Fawwar refugee…

The Islamic Jihad movement denied Israeli reports of foiling a double suicide bombing in Jerusalem after arresting two Islamic Jihad activists. “The movement is committed to the truce” an Islamic…

Wednesday morning, Israeli soldiers shot and killed a resident in the northern west Bank city of Qalqilia.The WAFA news agency reported that soldiers fired at a resident near al-Taiba check…

Tuesday afternoon, settlers of the Ramat Yeshai illegal settlement outpost in the center of Hebron, attacked dozens of residents and homes in the city. Raja’ Abu Aisha, a resident of…

Palestinian Authority security forces in the Gaza Strip on Monday evening discovered a tunnel dug under the Gaza Strip settlement of Gush Katif, Palestinian and Israeli sources reported. In the…

The Palestinian National Information Center reported that the Israeli army killed since the beginning of the Intifada in September 29, 2000, 4032 residents, and injured 44666, excluding 8435 residents who…

The Israel Air Force fired missiles at the Jabaliya refugee camp early Monday, wounding a man and two women. Army said the missile targeted a group of armed Palestinians preparing…

Israeli soldiers opened fire and killed Sunday a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Hebron, saying he was holding a knife and running from a distance towards soldiers in…

Palestinian local sources in Arraba village identified the Palestinian killed near the village to be Mohammed Mustafa Amin Al-Haj, dismissing the army report that he was killed in an exchange…

Saturday morning, an extremist settlers group attacked dozens of residents and homes in the West Bank city of Hebron, moderately injuring a child near the Ibrahimi mosque. A medical source…

Friday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Beit Liqya, south of Ramallah, and arrested eight residents. A local source in the village reported that soldiers, supported by armored vehicles,…

The Israeli center for Human Rights B’tselem published a report saying that the assassination of claimed wanted Palestinians are symptoms of implementing death penalty against those people. The center reported…

Israeli TV, channel 10 reported on Monday night, that Israeli soldiers used a Palestinian child as a human shield in the village of Doura, near the West Bank city of…

Sunday afternoon, Israeli soldiers forced dozens of families out of their homes and residency barracks in Msafer Yatta area, south of Hebron. Saber al-Hreiny, head of al-Litwani village council, which…

Sunday morning, Israeli army radio reported  that the army is ‘ready to conduct military operations in the Gaza Strip”, if the firing of homemade shells at Israeli settlements continues. Israeli…

Friday afternoon, armed settlers attacked three residents in Al-Sihla square, in the old city of Hebron, and hurled stones at dozens of homes near Abraham Abino settlement outpost. The WAFA…

Friday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded Balata refugee camp, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, wounded three residents, and arrested four including one of the wounded residents. A…

A Palestinian medical source in Dir al-Balah said that the fighter who was killed earlier on Friday, was identified as Mohammad Ribhi Baraka, 22, from Dir al-Balah, in the central…

An attack by extreme-right Jews on Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) would trigger a large-scale war between Israel and the Muslim world, former Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon told Haaretz on…

Ammunition and night-vision equipment disappeared from the army post at the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on several occasions, senior army official told Israeli newspaper Haaretz this week. Army suspects…

Thursday morning, an Israeli military source reported that Palestinian resistance fired seven shells at Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip, no injuries were reported. The source stated that Palestinian resistance…

A medical source at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis reported that resident Ahmad Shahwan, 25, died on Wednesday at night of wounds sustained after the military gunship fired a missile…

Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian on the Gaza-Egypt border early Wednesday, local eyewitnesses said. Ahmed Barhoum, 22, was hit in the head by a bullet and died immediately.…

Medical sources in Hebron report that four schoolchildren suffocated after inhaling gas fired by the Israeli army during clashes that erupted after an incursion into the Hebron-area village of Doura. A local source…

An Israeli security source reported that the army will resume its assassination policy against Palestinian resistance fighters. The source stated that Israeli security heads, Israeli PM Ariel Sharon, and defense…

Monday evening, a resident of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, died of wounds sustained after the army shelled the area, last year. The WAFA news agency…

Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli settlers tried to burry a Palestinian young man from a village near Nablus alive. Israeli soldiers operating in the area were watching them doing…

Israeli Police said Monday that 9 Israeli Jews were arrested, questioned and conditionally released in recent weeks on suspicion of planning an attack on Haram Al-Sharif mosque in Jerusalem. The…

Military Police investigators have been instructed to look into the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a cameraman in the Gaza Strip in January, Israeli media sources reported.   Israeli TV,…

Hundreds of Israeli left-wing protesters demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening against the killing Wednesday of two Palestinian youths in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers. The two teenagers…

Thursday morning, Yair Naveh, Central Command Chief of the Israeli army, suspended the officer who was in command in Beit Liqya, near Ramallah, when soldiers shot killed two Palestinian children…

Six months after Boaz Albert, the deputy chief of security at Yitzhar settlement, shot to death Palestinian teen Salman al-Safdie, police believe the have made a case of manslaughter, if…

The Israeli army on Monday lifted a closure banning Palestinians from moving in and out of the city and the surroundings, Israeli sources reported. The closure was imposed on all…

Soldiers shot and seriously wounded Ahmed Salah 13, in the Village of Al-Khader near the West bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday. Salah was shot in the chest and moved…

Israel army informed the family of Tziki Eyal, who was killed at Halhoul Bridge near the West bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, that he was killed by a bullet…

An Israel soldier was moderately wounded Thursday as an explosive device detonated near a military jeep patrooling the Israeli side of the northern Gaza Strip security fence. army source said…

Wednesday afternoon, Israeli soldiers invaded the village of Al-Ras, north of Tulkarem and conducted military searches of homes. A local source in Tulkarem reported that soldiers broke into dozens of…

The Shin Bet security services said on Sunday that it arrested three Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem on suspicion of ‘plotting to assassinate Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef’. According to…

A probe conducted by the Israeli army revealed that the soldiers, who killed the three Palestinian youth in Rafah April 9, did not aim their weapons at the lower parts…

A group of armed settlers attacked on Thursday evening dozens of residents on a bypass road east of Hebron, one resident was injured, several cars damaged. A local source In…

Israeli security raised the level of alert as indicators of plans of extremist Jews attack on Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem increased considerably, Israeli TV Channel 1 reported Wednesday. Extreme right…

Three Palestinians were injured on Wednesday morning when Israeli security guards opened their machine gunfire at anti-wall protestors near the village of Rantis northwest of the West Bank cit of…

Israeli military source said that a Palestinian-Israeli security meeting was held in Hebron after Israeli soldiers assaulted and arrested five Palestinian Policemen in the city on Tuesday. The Israeli commander…

Israel soldiers beat five unarmed Palestinian traffic police in the West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday, throwing them to the ground and hitting one with a rifle butt. The…

The Egyptian prosecution published a report which revealed that Sinai bombing was carried out October, 7 2004 after failing to enter the Palestinian territories to carry out attack against Israel…

A group of Ramat Yishi settlers under army protection took over Saturday the home of Judah and Zaki Bakri, which is adjacent to the settlement fence. A local source in…

A report released by the “International Solidarity for Human Rights” revealed that Israeli soldiers killed 86 Palestinian residents since the beginning of 2005. According to data collected by the ISHR,…

Three Israelis were lightly wounded Wednesday night after a group of Palestinians threw a fire-bomb and stones at their vehicle along Jerusalem-Modi’in road, Israel Radio reported.   The three were…

More than 20,000 Hamas supporters attended a Friday rally in the soccer stadium of the West Bank city of Nablus to commemorate the anniversary of the assassination of Hamas spiritual…

Palestine won the prize of the saddest photo in the BBC ‘sadness and joy’ photography competition. The photo captured by Palestinian TV producer Abdul-Rahman Al-Humran, which shows three young girls…

The Israeli Defense Ministry is blaming a military dog for the death of a Palestinian resident, who was shot dead by Israeli soldiers ten months ago. Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev…

Monday at noon, a resident of Nablus died of wounds sustained during the Israeli army invasion of the city in December 2002. Dr. Ziad Saleem, specialist in plastic surgery in Rafidia…