Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Tuesday December 02 2008
As Palestinian factions in Gaza are set to discuss the fate of ceasefire with Israel, Israeli warplanes attacked Rafah, killing two teen boys. Meanwhile, as the attacked by armed Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank are stepped up, Israeli military killed a fighter in Nablus. These news and more are coming up. Stay tuned.
Israeli warplanes carried out today an air strike against southern Gaza, killing two teen boys and wounding four others. The air strike is the first of its type in three weeks as Israel still closes Gaza's border crossings under the pretext of homemade shells fire against Israel.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed the deaths, noting that four other residents including a critically wounded , were hit in the air strike.
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Israeli media sources said the air strike targeted a group of Gaza militants , while attempting to fire homemade shells into nearby Israeli area, just close to the abandoned Gaza international airport in eastern Rafah city.
Meanwhile, a number of Gaza-based resistance factions are set to hold discussions over the fate of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel, reached in June of this year. The deal is of six months time period and about to end in December19.
In the West Bank, the Israeli military killed a Palestinian resistance fighter in Nablus city and wounded another. Also, the Israeli soldiers detained earlier in the day nine Palestinian residents from the same city.
The Israeli killing in Nablus comes concurrent with stepped up armed Israeli settlers attacks on Palestinian-owned properties in both Nablus and Ramallah cities in the occupied West Bank.
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 Rami Al-Meghari, and Husam Qassis
Israeli warplanes carried out today an air strike against southern Gaza, killing two teen boys and wounding four others. The air strike is the first of its type in three weeks as Israel still closes Gaza's border crossings under the pretext of homemade shells fire against Israel.
Palestinian medical sources confirmed the deaths, noting that four other residents including a critically wounded , were hit in the air strike.
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Israeli media sources said the air strike targeted a group of Gaza militants , while attempting to fire homemade shells into nearby Israeli area, just close to the abandoned Gaza international airport in eastern Rafah city.
Meanwhile, a number of Gaza-based resistance factions are set to hold discussions over the fate of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel, reached in June of this year. The deal is of six months time period and about to end in December19.
In the West Bank, the Israeli military killed a Palestinian resistance fighter in Nablus city and wounded another. Also, the Israeli soldiers detained earlier in the day nine Palestinian residents from the same city.
The Israeli killing in Nablus comes concurrent with stepped up armed Israeli settlers attacks on Palestinian-owned properties in both Nablus and Ramallah cities in the occupied West Bank.
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 Rami Al-Meghari, and Husam Qassis
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