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Palestine Today 121107

Audio Dept. | 11.12.2007 16:04 | Palestine | World

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 11th, 2007.


The Israeli army attacks Gaza, living eight dead by Tuesday afternoon, meanwhile invading troops in the West Bank kill one Palestinian, theses stories and more coming up stay tuned.

The News Cast

During the continuous Israeli military offensive in the Northern part of the Gaza strip, Palestinian sources reported that the death toll among Palestinians by Tuesday afternoon stands at 8 .Dozens of Palestinians were also injured including journalists, while the Israeli army reported four Israeli soldiers were injured in two separate incidents.

Four Palestinian resistance fighters, from the Islamic Jihad faction, were killed on Tuesday morning when Israeli artillery shelled areas of Khan Younis and Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli ground forces invaded parts of Kahn Younis shortly after, Palestinian resistance fired RPG rockets at the invading forces injuring four soldiers, according to Israeli sources.

Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli air strikes killed two Palestinians in Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Jihad movement issued a press release stating that one of its men had been killed during clashes with under-cover Israeli forces near the agricultural college, north of Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. They identified the fighter as Husam Nashwan, 26.

Later in the day, the Salah Al Deen brigade, the armed wing of the popular resistance committee in Gaza, stated that one of its men was killed when an invading Israeli tank opened fire at him and his comrades. In addition to the death, another five were injured.

Palestinian medical sources say they are still receiving injured persons from the attacks on the southern part of the costal region, among them wounded journalists. Kamal Mussa, from the Palestinian European hospital in Gaza told IMEMC that the army is using unconventional ammunition in the attacks which is leading to severe burns and critical wounds.

In the West Bank, Sources in Nablus reported that a member of the al Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, was killed, and other three were injured during an Israeli attack on the old city of Nablus in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The sources identified the man as Sulieman Al Qasas,22.Meanwhile, the Israeli military invaded other areas of the northern West Bank City and eyewitnesses reported military vehicles opening random fire on the areas.

In the meantime the Israeli army invaded several areas in the West Bank and kidnapped 12 Palestinian on Tuesday. One of those kidnapped was taken when undercover Israeli forces stormed an office belonging to the Fatah movement in the central west Bank city of Ramallah, the man was known Muhammad Al-Bawwab, 22.

Conclusion

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If you can't stand the heat...

11.12.2007 16:29

... stop firing your crap rockets at Israel.

Diddums


Stolen land

12.12.2007 14:45

Najd
Najd

"A little town by the name of Sderot became home to poor immigrants in the early '50s, only years after it had been cleared of Palestinians living in what was the village of Najd. [A] resident of Sderot told me that when he got there in 1989 he thought he was in "the safest place in the world, in the middle of nowhere." And yet, it was not the middle of nowhere, he had moved onto what was once someone else's land and adjacent to where that displaced person and their displaced descendants were held imprisoned. There, his displaced neighbors daily face the consequences of the past. This past is what is allowing for the hell of that very town, Sderot."

-- Sderot created the Gaza Strip, by Philip Rizk, 22 May 2007. (via DesertPeace).


Photo: Remains of the Palestinian town of Najd, on whose lands the Israeli town of Sderot now stands. Najd was completely destroyed, and its 719 inhabitants expelled to Gaza, by troops of the Israeli Negev Brigade, on 13 May 1948. Photo by Uri Zackhem via Palestine Remembered .

Zionist trolls are so unconvincing
- Homepage: http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2007/10/qotw---sderot-a.html


Ah that'll bring peaceful resolution then

13.12.2007 00:13

...fire indiscriminately on Sderot after the Israelis have evacuated all their settlements from Gaza, bet Nelso Mandela would approve of that. There were, incidentally, some 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab Lands 1947-1953 and they're not demanding repatriation.

Ditto