Israelis kill two Palestinians in the Hebron district, one the brother of a girl they killed six weeks ago

A Palestinian man was shot and killed during clashes in the Ras al-Jura area of Hebron on Friday, witnessestold Ma'an. A Ma'an reporter said Uday Irsheid, 24, was shot in the chest and critically wounded during clashes with Israeli military forces at the northern entrance to Hebron. He later died from his injuries. Earlier the same day Israeli soldiers shot dead a 55-year old man in a car in  Halhul, in the Hebron dsitrict.

`Uday Irsheid

`Uday Irsheid's 17-year old sister, Dania, was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Hebron on 25 October. She was shot dead after police officers allegedly saw "a knife in her hand." No Israelis were injured during the incident.A witness told Ma'an at the time that he saw a schoolgirl with a schoolbag on her back trying to cross the Israeli checkpoint near the Ibrahimi mosque." An Israeli soldier asked her to take the knife out of her bag, then she was immediately fired upon. "Seconds later the schoolgirl was lying on the ground bleeding," the witness said.

Four Israeli soldiers wounded in car-ramming attack

Four Israeli soldiers were wounded in a car-ramming attack at the Beit Arye junction, near the settlemenet of Ofarim, in the West Bank on Thursday afternoon.One of them was critically wounded and another three were moderately and lightly wounded.They were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. All four are in their 20s, according to Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene.
According to the police, a black Isuzu vehicle rammed into the four between the Palestinian village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya and the Israeli settlement of Beit Aryeh-Ofarim.The car was later found abandoned in the village of Rantis.
On Wednesday, a Palestinian,  Abdel-Rahman Maswara, was shot dead after carrying out a stabbing in the southern West Bank's Hebron city, during which two Israelis were injured. 

Wednesday: Palestinian killed in Hebron after attack, former member Jewish underground wounded

A former member of the Jewish Underground and his wife were wounded Wednesday evening in a shooting attack in the West Bank, only hours after two others were wounded in a stabbing attack in Hebron.
The Palestinian who reportedly carried out the attack In Hebron was shot dead. He was identified as Abd al-Rahman Yusri Maswada.He was the cousin of Ihab Zakariya Maswada, 21, who was killed by Israeli forces on Monday after he stabbed an Israeli near Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque. Abd al Rahman was the 119th Palestinian to be killed in this way since 1 October.
Shaul Nir, the former member of the Jewish underground, was found guilty of perpetrating a 1983 shooting and hand grenade attack on the Islamic College of Hebron, which killed three students and wounded 33. After being sentenced to life in prison for their roles in the attack and attempted assassinations of Palestinian officials, President Chaim Herzog commuted his sentence and ordered his release in 1990, after serving less than seven years.

Fourteen Gazans missing after Egypt floods tunnels near Rafah

Gazan Civil Defense rescue teams on Tuesday morning were battling to save the lives of 14 Palestinians who went missing inside a smuggling tunnel when Egyptian military forces flooded it with seawater.
Muhammad al-Meidana, a Civil Defense official, told Ma'an that rescue teams had been able to save the lives of seven tunnel workers, but that contact was lost with 14 others, who were now missing.
Smuggling tunnels that pass beneath the Egyptian border have served as a lifeline to the outside world for Gaza's 1.8 million inhabitants since Israel imposed a crippling siege in 2007.  Egypt has sought to destroy the tunnels as part of an ongoing security campaign in the northern Sinai against anti-regime militants, which Egypt accuses Hamas of supporting, although Hamas strongly denies the accusations.
The Palestinian Chronicle reported that the Egyptian army started on Monday to pump large amounts of sea water into large pipes that have recently been extended across the border connecting Gaza and Egypt in an attempt to destroy tunnels used to smuggle goods into the besieged Strip.

Tuesday Palestinian teen killed in Duheishe camp

Wijlen Malik Shain

Israeli forces shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian during a predawn detention raid into Duheisha refugee camp to the south of Bethlehem on Tuesday.
Medics identified the Palestinian as Malik Akram Shahin and said he had been shot in the forehead, where the bullet remained lodged.Witnesses said he was "left bleeding for long before he was evacuated to the public hospital in Beit Jala, where medics pronounced him dead.
"He was killed when large numbers of Israeli forces stormed Duheisha camp in the early hours of Tuesday, detaining a number of local residents and delivering summons to others. As the soldiers broke into Palestinians' homes, they reportedly fired live rounds, tear gas canisters, and stun grenades "indiscriminately" through the camp's narrow alleys.

Monday: young Palestinian killed in Hebron after attack

A young Palestinian man was shot dead after he allegedly stabbed and critically wounded an Israeli man near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron's Old City on Monday afternoon, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.
Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said Israeli Border Police shot the Palestinian after he stabbed an Israeli man in his 40s.The Israeli was evacuated to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem for medical treatment in critical condition.
Locals identified the Palestinian as 21-year-old Ihab Fathi Miswadi. He was number 117 since 1 October to be killed. Israeli forces prevented Palestinian emergency services from reaching Ihab to medical care after he was shot.The soldiers did not provide any medical care themselves, locals said.

Fifteen months for Palestinian deputy Khalida Jarrar

Khalida Jarrar

 


Palestinian leftist and feminist parliamentarian and advocate for political prisoners Khalidda Jarrar  has been sentenced by an Israeli occupation military court in Ofer to 15 months imprisonment today, 6 December 2015. Arrested by occupation military forces who invaded her Ramallah home on 2 April, the imprisonment of Jarrar, former executive director and current vice-chair of the board of directors of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, has sparked widespread Palestinian, Arab and international outrage.
Jarrar is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council for the Abu Ali Mustafa bloc, the parliamentary bloc affiliated with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In 2014, she had been targeted for forced displacement to Jericho from Ramallah by an occupation military order, which she succeeded in defeating after a month-long sit-in at the PLC office and an international support campaign.

Saturday: one Palestinian killed in Jerusalem

A Palestinian man was shot dead after he allegedly injured two Israelis in a stabbing attack in central Jerusalem on Saturday night, Israeli police said. He was the 116th Palestinian to be killed since 1 Ocrtober.
Israeli police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said the Palestinian, identified as a 21-year-old from Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem, was shot and killed after he allegedly hit one Israeli with his car, before stabbing another with a knife.
However, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that one of these Israelis was injured when he was apparently "hit by a vehicle that passed by the scene as he was attempting to flee."Rosenfeld initially reported that a third Israeli had been injured during the incident, but later confirmed that this person was treated for shock. A spokesperson for Shaare Zedek hospital confirmed that two Israelis were brought there with "very light" wounds. She said that one of them was an Israeli soldier, who appeared to have been stabbed, while the other had been hit by a car.The scene of the incident, in West Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood, was closed off by Israeli police.

Friday: Israeli army kills 2 cousins, a ''car rammer'' & an American who came to the West Bank to marry

One of the dead cousins in Hebron, (Photo Ma'an)

Updated Two Palestinians were shot dead near Ramallah on Friday after separate alleged attacks targeting Israeli military forces in the occupied West Bank, Israel's army and Palestinian officials said. That happened after early in the morning two cousins had been killed in Hebron,.
One Palestinian was shot and killed near the illegal Ofra settlement north of Ramallah after ramming his car into a group of Israeli soldiers, according to the Israeli army. Two soldiers were injured, they suffered  minor injuries.The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the killed Palestinian as Anas Bassam Hammad.

Thursday: two Palestinians killed, finally arrests in case of arson attack that killed Dawabshe family

Scene of the attack at the Hizma checkpoint earlier today.

Updated. A Palestinian was shot and killed near Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem on Thursday evening after stabbing an Israeli police officer. He was the second Palestinian to be killed that day and the 110th since 1 October.
An Israeli police spokesperson said the officer was stabbed in Jerusalem,with the attacker "shot and killed" at the scene. The policeman,in his mid-thirties, suffered moderate injuries and was transferred to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Israel's Channel 2 news later said he was hit by friendly fire as Israeli forces shot at the attacker. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said the victim suffered stab and shooting wounds and was in a moderate condition. The attacker was identified by the Israeli police as a 21-year-old Palestinian from the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem. The incident took place on a section of Hanevim Street near Damascus Gate in the Old City.
Earlier in the day a Palestinian was shot and killed after opening fire on Israeli soldiers stationed at the Hizma military checkpoint north of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank.

Israel demolishes two houses on Wednesday and Thursday, lots of people wounded

''Security measures'' surrounding Wednesday's demolition in the Shu'afat camp near Jerusalem. (Photo Ma'an)

Israeli forces early Thursday demolished the Nablus home of a Palestinian man suspected for organizing an attack in October that left two Israeli settlers dead, Palestinian security sources said.The demolition took place a day after Israeli forces carried out another demolition in the Shu'afat refugee camp near Jerusalem, after which heavy riots broke out.
Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that Israeli forces raided the al-Dahya neighborhood in the southern area of Nablus before demolishing the home of Ragheb Ahmad Muhammed Alawi. Israeli soldiers forced Alawi’s family to evacuate the home hours before the demolition, a relative, Ahmad Alawi, told Ma’an. The home was inside of a four-story building that held eight total apartments, and the demolition likely caused damage to neighboring units, Alawi added. In the six or seven cases that Israel destroyed houses of suspects earlier these months, at least more than double that number of neighbouring houses was destroyed as well in the process, the human rights organisation B'tselem reported recently.

16-year old Palestinian boy and 19-tear old girl killed, Israel confiscates tents donated by Red Cross

The killed girl Maram Hassouna (Photo from Twitter)

Updated. - An Israeli military officer shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian girl at a checkpoint Tuesday east of Tulkarem on Tuesday, saying that she had attempted to stab him, Israel's army said. Earlier, on Tuesday morning,  a Palestinian teenage boy was shot dead by Israeli forces in the illegal settlement bloc of Gush Etzion after he allegedly attempted to attack a settler with a knife, Israel's army said.
An Israeli army spokesperson said that the officer killed the young woman at a checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Enav east of Tulkarem because she posed an "immediate danger" to him.The Israeli officer was not injured and Palestinian witmesses said that they had not seen that the girl had a knife.