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67 Palestinian Civilians Injured in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Forces, Including 20 Children, 3 Women, and a Volunteer Paramedic

August 16, 2019 

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources: https://english.palinfo.com/, https://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

Palestinians medics in Gaza carrying a Palestinian civilian who was injured by Israeli soldiers from across the border, August 16, 2019	Palestinians protesters in Gaza attacked by Israeli occupation soldiers with tear gas bombs from across the border, August 16, 2019

 

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Three Palestinians In Hebron

August 17, 2019 6:30 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted, Saturday, two Palestinian siblings in Beit Awwa town, west of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and installed many roadblocks in surrounding areas. On Friday evening, the soldiers abducted a teenage boy at a military roadblock north of Hebron.

Media sources said several army jeeps invaded the town, stopped and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.

They added that the soldiers abducted Ala’ Yousef Sweity, and his brother Islam, and took them to a nearby military base.

The soldiers also invaded many neighborhoods in Hebron city, and installed roadblocks in Joret Bahlas area, in its northern areas, in addition to the roads leading to Sa’ir and Halhoul towns, before stopping and searching dozens of cars, and interrogated many Palestinians while inspecting their ID cards.

On Friday evening, the soldiers installed a military roadblock in the northern part of Hebron city, and abducted a Palestinian teenage boy, identified as Yousef Thiab Shweiki, in addition to conducting extensive searches on Wadi Sharif area in Sa’ir town, northeast of Hebron.

Israeli Occupation Soldiers Abduct Five Palestinians Overnight in Several Incidents

August 17, 2019 1:36 PM IMEMC News

Israeli occupation soldiers abducted a total of five Palestinians overnight on Friday, from various parts of the West Bank. These included a 16-year old teen from al-‘Issawiya in East Jerusalem, a teen from Hebron, a young man from Jenin who was abducted from a checkpoint near Jericho, and two brothers abducted while asleep in their beds in Hebron.

In Jerusalem, Israeli occupation forces abducted 16-year-old Islam Yousef Obeid from al-‘Issawiya village east of occupied Jerusalem on Friday evening while he was inside a shop in the town.

Also on Friday evening, Israeli forces abducted Mo’taz Jaradat from Jenin refugee camp as he was passing through Al-Hamra checkpoint near Jericho .

Israeli occupation forces abducted on Friday evening a young man at a military checkpoint set up north of Hebron.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces abducted the boy Yousef Diab Abdel Rahim Shweiki from the city of Hebron while he was crossing the checkpoint.

The troops also conducted extensive searches in the vicinity of houses in the valley of honor in the town of Seir, northeast of Hebron.

Also in the Hebron area, Israeli forces abducted on Saturday before dawn two Palestinians from Beit Awwa village, southwest of Hebron.

Local security sources told Wafa that the Israeli forces raided the town and arrested the brothers Alaa and Islam Yousef Mohammad al-Sweiti .

Israeli forces also raided several neighborhoods in Hebron, set up military checkpoints at the entrances to Sa’ir and Halhoul towns, and at the northern entrance of Hebron, Jouret Helles.

67 Palestinians Shot By Israeli Occupation Forces at Gaza’s 70th Great March of Return Protest

August 16, 2019 10:48 PM IMEMC & Agencies

Medical sources said that at least 34 Palestinians were injured, Friday, by live ammunition, and 33 others by rubber-coated rounds as Israeli forces attacked thousands of peaceful protesters taking part in the 70th Great March of Return in the besieged Gaza Strip, WAFA reported.

Israeli snipers at the separation fence, along the eastern border of Gaza, fired live ammunition and rubber-coated steel rounds at the demonstrators who gathered at many encampments along the border.

Some of the wounded were moved to hospital and many others were treated in the field hospitals, while dozens of protesters suffered from teargas inhalation.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) has documented the death of 208 Palestinians by Israeli forces, since the outbreak of the protests on 30 March 2018, including 13,391 wounded.

The weekly protests call for lifting the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip and for the return of the Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homes in pre-1948 Palestine.

Source : WAFA Edited for IMEMC : Ali Salam

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PCHR: “70th Great March of Return: 66 Civilians Injured by Israeli occupation forces, including 20 Children, 3 Women and a Volunteer Paramedic”

August 17, 2019 1:59 AM PCHR

On the 70th Great March of Return, 66 Palestinian civilians were injured due to the Israeli military’s continued use of excessive force against peaceful protests along the Gaza Strip’s eastern border. At least 20 children, 3 women and a volunteer paramedic were among those injured this Friday, 16 August 2019. Twenty-nine civilians were shot with live bullets; 2 of them were deemed in a critical medical condition.

It should be noted there were no protests last Friday in observance of the Muslim holiday “Eid al-Adha”. Today’s protest, which lasted from 16:00 to 19:00, was titled “Palestinian Youth’s Friday” and involved activities such as speeches by political leaders and theatrical performances. Dozens of civilians protested at varied distances from the border fence across the Gaza Strip and threw stones at Israeli force who used excessive force against them.

To this date, PCHR documented 208 killings by Israel since the outbreak of the protests on 30 March 2018, including 44 children, 2 women, 9 persons with disabilities, 4 paramedics, and 2 journalists. Additionally, 13,463 were wounded, including 2,797 children, 415 women, 222 paramedics and 210 journalists, noting that many had sustained multiple wounds on multiple occasions.

Among those wounded, PCHR documented cases where 196 persons have become with disabilities, including 28 children and 5 women: 149 amputees; 21 paralyzed, 26 blind or deaf and 9 sexually disabled.

The following is a summary of today’s incidents along the Gaza Strip border:

Northern Gaza Strip: Israeli forces’ attacks against protesters participated in Abu Safiyah area protests, northeast of Jabalia, resulted in the injury of 24 civilians, including 10 children and a woman. Among those wounded, 15 were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, 5 with rubber bullets and 4 were directly hit with tear gas canisters, noting that they were present 100-250 meters away from the border fence.

Gaza City: Protests set off Malakah area, east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. Speeches, theatrical performances and other segments were performed at the protest central encampment. Dozens of protestors approached the fence at a 100 meters distance and threw stones with slingshots at Israeli soldiers, who responded with live ammunition and tear gas canisters.  As a result, 6 protestors, including a child and a woman, were wounded: 5 were shot with rubber bullets and one was directly hit with a tear gas canister.

Central Gaza Strip: at approximately 15:30, hundreds of civilians, including women, children and families, took part in the eastern Bureij refugee camp protests; hundreds, including women and children, gathered adjacent to the border fence at a range varying between 3 – 300 meters while tens approached the fence at a range varying between 2 – 70 meters. Some protestors attempted to throw stones at Israeli soldiers with slingshots.

The Israeli soldiers, reinforced with 9 military SUVs, responded with live and rubber bullets in addition to teargas canisters at the protesters, wounding 10 civilians, including a child. Among those injured, 5 were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, 4 with rubber bullets and one was directly hit with teargas canisters. ‘Arabi Maher ‘Abed al-Hameed Abu Hasnah (29) sustained serious wounds after being shot with a live bullet in his testicles.

Khan Younis: Israeli forces’ attacks against protestors participating in Khuza’a protests resulted in the injury of 9 civilians, including 2 children and a woman. Among those injured: 3 were shot with live bullets and shrapnel, 2 with rubber bullets and 4 were directly hit with tear gas canisters. Sabreen Isma’il Ibrahim al-Najjar (42) was hit with a rubber bullet in her head and sustained minor wounds.

Rafah: Hundreds participated in the eastern Shokah protests, where no activities were reported due to the power outage. Dozens approached the border fence and threw stones. The Israeli soldiers used live and rubber bullets and teargas canisters against the protestors.

As a result, 17 civilians were injured, including 6 children and a volunteer paramedic: 6 were shot with live bullets, 4 shot with rubber bullets and 7 were directly hit with tear gas canisters. The volunteer paramedic Nour ‘Atah Mohamed Saleem (16) was hit with a rubber bullet in her abdomen and sustained minor wounds. Additionally, Basem Raied Barakat (24) was hit with a live bullet in his right thigh; his condition was deemed critical. 

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