Palestine Today 05 25 2010
IMEMC Audio Dept. | 25.05.2010 14:33 | Other Press | Palestine | World
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Israeli tanks stationed at the Gaza Strip borders with Israel bombarded on Tuesday residents homes and farmers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Tank shells caused damage to homes, some shells landed near farmers while they were working on their lands near Beit Lahyia town, they escaped unharmed, local sources reported.
Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device near an Israeli military vehicle, Tuesday morning, near the Erez terminal in northern Gaza. The Jihad Jibril Brigade, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Israeli army reported no injuries and said that soldiers have combed the area without finding more explosives. The soldiers opened fire at the Palestinian fighters, who managed to return to Gaza.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli troops invaded a number of west Bank communities and searched homes; nine civilians were detained by troops, security sources reported. Invasions were reported in the cities of Ramallah, central West Bank, in addition to Bethlehem and Hebron in the south.
Moreover troops erected military checkpoints between Hebron and Bethlehem, residents said that soldiers stopped their cars and searched them and then checked their ID cards.
In other news Israeli troops handed out demotion orders to nine Palestinian home owners in the village of Yatma near Nablus, northern West Bank. Local sources announced that the nine homes are under construction and the army says they are built without the needed permission from the military command. Earlier this year the army orders anther 13 Yatma residents to demolish their homes for the same reason.
The village of Yatma is considered to be in area C. according to the Oslo Accords the Palestinian Authority control area A and B in the West Bank while area C still under the Israeli military control.
The director of settlement watch office in northern West Bank, Ghassan Doghlas, condemnd the Israeli military action and said it only helps illegal settlers living nearby to take over more Palestinian-owned lands.
Conclusion
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The News Cast
Israeli tanks stationed at the Gaza Strip borders with Israel bombarded on Tuesday residents homes and farmers in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. Tank shells caused damage to homes, some shells landed near farmers while they were working on their lands near Beit Lahyia town, they escaped unharmed, local sources reported.
Palestinian fighters detonated an explosive device near an Israeli military vehicle, Tuesday morning, near the Erez terminal in northern Gaza. The Jihad Jibril Brigade, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Israeli army reported no injuries and said that soldiers have combed the area without finding more explosives. The soldiers opened fire at the Palestinian fighters, who managed to return to Gaza.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli troops invaded a number of west Bank communities and searched homes; nine civilians were detained by troops, security sources reported. Invasions were reported in the cities of Ramallah, central West Bank, in addition to Bethlehem and Hebron in the south.
Moreover troops erected military checkpoints between Hebron and Bethlehem, residents said that soldiers stopped their cars and searched them and then checked their ID cards.
In other news Israeli troops handed out demotion orders to nine Palestinian home owners in the village of Yatma near Nablus, northern West Bank. Local sources announced that the nine homes are under construction and the army says they are built without the needed permission from the military command. Earlier this year the army orders anther 13 Yatma residents to demolish their homes for the same reason.
The village of Yatma is considered to be in area C. according to the Oslo Accords the Palestinian Authority control area A and B in the West Bank while area C still under the Israeli military control.
The director of settlement watch office in northern West Bank, Ghassan Doghlas, condemnd the Israeli military action and said it only helps illegal settlers living nearby to take over more Palestinian-owned lands.
Conclusion
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What really happened in Palestine today
25.05.2010 19:24
Abu Ghassan, spokesman for the terrorist group, said more than 200 kilograms of dynamite were heaped on the animal-drawn cart. He added that the explosives were detonated 60 meters from the concrete security barrier that separates the territory from Israel.
The donkey was killed in the blast, but there were no reports of human casualties. Israeli troops routinely patrol the border, and impoverished Gazans often gather rubble in the area.
The Israeli military confirmed the blast, but had no further comment. The IDF said Gaza terrorists also fired two mortar shells into Israel on Tuesday, which fell in the Netiv Ha'asara area without causing damage or casualties.
Earlier this week, masked gunmen from an Islamist group torched a UN-run summer camp for children and teens in Gaza.
The head of UNRWA in Gaza, John Ging, said the assailants tied up the guard, burned tents and vandalized bathrooms at the campgrounds. UN officials said the attackers left behind three bullets and a note threatening to kill Ging and others unless the UN cancels its activities for some 250,000 Gaza children.
Two days before the incident, the previously unknown "The Free of the Homeland" group issued a statement criticizing the camp's organizer, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), for "teaching schoolgirls fitness, dancing and immorality."
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