Palestine Today 19 12 2013
IMEMC News | 19.12.2013 07:26 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Palestine | World
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The IDF has evacuated a 4-year-old child injured in the Syrian civil war to Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He is in moderate condition.
The Ziv Medical Center has treated 197 Syrian casualties so far, dozens of which are still hospitalized in the center's different departments.
Meanwhile, The IDF killed one Palestinian terrorist and wounded eight others after Palestinians violently attacked soldiers trying to make an arrest in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday night.
Palestinians attacked the elite counterterorrism unit with improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails, according to military sources. The soldiers responded with live fire after assessing that their lives were in danger, the sources said.
The sources said that the IDF knew of two seriously wounded Palestinians and seven others who were injured, but the extent of their injuries were not immediately known to the army.
According to the B’Tselem human rights information center, one of the seriously wounded Palestinians died. Its spokeswoman, Sarit Michaeli, identified him as Nafe a-Sa’adi, 23.
An IDF source said, “The response by security forces was appropriate in light of the fact that their lives were clearly in danger.”
The unit was reportedly trying to arrest Hamas leader Abu al-Hayja, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported, but as a result of the clashes, the counterrorism unit left Jenin without the wanted suspect.
There were no injuries among members of the unit.
Subsequently, a second disturbance broke out in the area between Border Police and 100 Palestinians, according to security sources. That riot was quelled using nonlethal dispersal means, according to security sources.
In related news, a five-man hit team Wednesday killed Muhammad Khiyari, chief of al Qaeda forces in southern Syria, the Israeli border district and the Golan town of Quneitra. They opened automatic and anti-tank rocket fire on his car in the twon of Deraa. This was first ambush of its kind of a high-profile al Qaeda chief in Syria.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Thursday December, 19, 2013 news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our web site at www.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by Ghassan Bannoura and me George Rishmawi.
The Ziv Medical Center has treated 197 Syrian casualties so far, dozens of which are still hospitalized in the center's different departments.
Meanwhile, The IDF killed one Palestinian terrorist and wounded eight others after Palestinians violently attacked soldiers trying to make an arrest in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday night.
Palestinians attacked the elite counterterorrism unit with improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails, according to military sources. The soldiers responded with live fire after assessing that their lives were in danger, the sources said.
The sources said that the IDF knew of two seriously wounded Palestinians and seven others who were injured, but the extent of their injuries were not immediately known to the army.
According to the B’Tselem human rights information center, one of the seriously wounded Palestinians died. Its spokeswoman, Sarit Michaeli, identified him as Nafe a-Sa’adi, 23.
An IDF source said, “The response by security forces was appropriate in light of the fact that their lives were clearly in danger.”
The unit was reportedly trying to arrest Hamas leader Abu al-Hayja, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported, but as a result of the clashes, the counterrorism unit left Jenin without the wanted suspect.
There were no injuries among members of the unit.
Subsequently, a second disturbance broke out in the area between Border Police and 100 Palestinians, according to security sources. That riot was quelled using nonlethal dispersal means, according to security sources.
In related news, a five-man hit team Wednesday killed Muhammad Khiyari, chief of al Qaeda forces in southern Syria, the Israeli border district and the Golan town of Quneitra. They opened automatic and anti-tank rocket fire on his car in the twon of Deraa. This was first ambush of its kind of a high-profile al Qaeda chief in Syria.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Thursday December, 19, 2013 news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our web site at www.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by Ghassan Bannoura and me George Rishmawi.
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19.12.2013 08:10
19-year-old Yousri Mohammad Nayef Al Deek, from the village of Kafr Al Deek, near Salfit, was shot in the heart by a bullet fired by his cousin and neighbour Majd Ahmad Abdul Karim Al Deek.
The Palestinian police said in a statement that the victim’s dead body was rushed to the Government Hospital in Salfit where the Police and the Public Prosecution launched an investigation into the incident.
The Palestinian Public Prosecution referred the victim’s remains for an autopsy, and at present the victim’s family has not received the body for burial.
Local sources in Kafr Al Deek told Gulf News that Israeli colonists have used the bad weather to set free a group of the wild pigs to attack the Palestinian farms and properties in the village.
The sources added that a group of Palestinian youngsters armed with old rifles rushed to fight the wild pigs but the rainy and snowy weather did not give them clear vision. During the frenzy, the victim was fatally shot.
The sources maintained that it was an accidental death and that the killer was getting ready to receive his father who is scheduled to be released from Israeli prison on Sunday after serving years of imprisonment.
The sources allege that Israeli colonists normally use such weather conditions, during which Palestinians remain indoors, to release wild pigs in Palestinian neighbourhoods to ensure maximum damage to Palestinian farms.
Zionist death boar
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