Palestine Today 081009
George Rishmawi | 10.08.2009 14:55 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday the 10th of August 2009.
The Israeli airforce bombs tunnels area in Gaza as its navy fires shells at Palestinian fishing boats, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.
The News Cast
The Israeli Air force shelled the “Tunnels area” in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip targeting a tunnel in the area, while the Israeli Navy shelled areas across the Gaza Coast
A spokesperson of the Israeli Navy stated that navy boats fired ‘warning’ shots at Palestinian fishermen, and claimed that they entered a ‘restricted area’. On Sunday evening, the Israeli Navy shelled Palestinian fishing boats north west of Gaza; no injuries were reported in both attacks.
The Israeli army said the strikes were in response to homemade projectiles fired from Gaza. There was one homemade projectile fired toward Israel from Gaza the day before, and none for the past several weeks.
However on Sunday evening Palestinians fired several mortar shells toward Israeli soldiers at the Erez border crossing at the northern end of Gaza, according to both Israel's military and two armed groups. No injuries were reported.
The cross-border violence followed weeks of relative calm. Hamas authorities in Gaza have seriously tried to uphold the unilateral ceasefire it declared last winter by subduing Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.
Part of a main road in the Silwan area in East-Jerusalem collapsed on Monday, allegedly due to underground Israeli excavations, a local civic activist that witnessed the incident told local media.
In the area the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality is digging a tunnel that is heading towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City. Around two months ago a similar collapse was reported in the Ad-Daraj neighborhood in Silwan.
Also in East-Jerusalem, a group of extremist settlers, led by two right-wing members of Knesset, broke into the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where just last week two families were evicted from their homes by Israeli police.
Nearly 30 settlers broke into a protest tent in the area and attacked the protestors with batons, stones, chairs and empty bottles. The Israeli police kidnapped two residents of Sheikh Jarrah while several other residents were injured by the settlers. The settlers also sprayed a number of residents with gas and threatened to shoot them with live rounds.
Conclusion
Thank you for joining us from occupied Bethlehem. You have been listening to Palestine Today from the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org. This report has been brought to you by Katherine Orwell.
The News Cast
The Israeli Air force shelled the “Tunnels area” in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip targeting a tunnel in the area, while the Israeli Navy shelled areas across the Gaza Coast
A spokesperson of the Israeli Navy stated that navy boats fired ‘warning’ shots at Palestinian fishermen, and claimed that they entered a ‘restricted area’. On Sunday evening, the Israeli Navy shelled Palestinian fishing boats north west of Gaza; no injuries were reported in both attacks.
The Israeli army said the strikes were in response to homemade projectiles fired from Gaza. There was one homemade projectile fired toward Israel from Gaza the day before, and none for the past several weeks.
However on Sunday evening Palestinians fired several mortar shells toward Israeli soldiers at the Erez border crossing at the northern end of Gaza, according to both Israel's military and two armed groups. No injuries were reported.
The cross-border violence followed weeks of relative calm. Hamas authorities in Gaza have seriously tried to uphold the unilateral ceasefire it declared last winter by subduing Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.
Part of a main road in the Silwan area in East-Jerusalem collapsed on Monday, allegedly due to underground Israeli excavations, a local civic activist that witnessed the incident told local media.
In the area the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem Municipality is digging a tunnel that is heading towards the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City. Around two months ago a similar collapse was reported in the Ad-Daraj neighborhood in Silwan.
Also in East-Jerusalem, a group of extremist settlers, led by two right-wing members of Knesset, broke into the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where just last week two families were evicted from their homes by Israeli police.
Nearly 30 settlers broke into a protest tent in the area and attacked the protestors with batons, stones, chairs and empty bottles. The Israeli police kidnapped two residents of Sheikh Jarrah while several other residents were injured by the settlers. The settlers also sprayed a number of residents with gas and threatened to shoot them with live rounds.
Conclusion
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Probably bad aim?
10.08.2009 17:33
"However on Sunday evening Palestinians fired several mortar shells toward Israeli soldiers at the Erez border crossing at the northern end of Gaza, according to both Israel's military and two armed groups. No injuries were reported."
As reported elsewhere
"On Sunday, Gaza militants fired mortars at a crossing into Israel just as Palestinian patients were being transferred for treatment, a Palestinian official said.
"It's a miracle nobody was hurt," Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said.
Two radical Palestinian groups, the Popular Front and the Democratic Front, said they fired 12 mortars at the Erez crossing. The Israel Defense Forces said about six shells exploded near the Erez crossing as the transfer was in progress. According to the procedure, the Palestinian patients are brought to the crossing in local ambulances and transferred to Israeli ambulances for their trips to hospitals." (that saves time as the patients can be quickly passed through without having to carefully search each ambulance for hidden explosives).
Before shouting blame, have to consider that jprobably ust really terrible mortar technique and zero practice. After all, only 6 of the twelve mortar shells landed near the crossing itself. Probably just blind shooting, aim the tube in the general directon and fire away st random wiohout a spotter calling back the fall of shot so the team at the tube can adjust the tube and the charges. NOBODY can hit what they want to with a mortar used like that except by freak luck.
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