Thursday, November 25, 2010

PCHR report 11/11 - 24/11/2010: 4 workers shot, another 4 civilians including 1 woman and 2 children injured by airstrike, 2 incursions

Extracts from PCHR report 11/11 - 24/11/2010:



IOF continued to fire at Palestinian workers, farmers and fishermen in border areas in the Gaza Strip.
-  4 Palestinian workers were wounded


4 Palestinian civilians, including two children and a woman, and a resistance activist were wounded by IOF in the Gaza Strip.


In the Gaza Strip, IOF conducted two limited incursions into the central and southern Gaza Strip, during which they leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed. 


Friday, 12 November  2010


At approximately 08:15, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers near Beir Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip fired at number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from the debris of buildings in Erez industrial zone. As a result, Bashir Sami 'Aashour, 2o, from Beit Hanoun town, was wounded by a bullet to the right foot, when he was nearly 50 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

Saturday, 13 November 2010 


t approximately 09:00, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers at Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from the debris of destroyed buildings in Erez industrial zone. As a result, 'Ammar Khalil Hamdan, 22, from Beit Hanoun town, was wounded by a bullet to the right leg, when he was nearly 400 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.


Friday, 19 November 2010


At approximately 08:20, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers to the northwest of the evacuated Israeli settlement of "Elli Sinai" in the northern Gaza Strip fired at a number of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials in the area. As a result, Mohammed Isma'il al-Ghandour, 34, from Beit Lahia town, was wounded by a bullet to the right foot, when he was nearly 70 meters away from the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

At approximately 15:00, Israeli warplanes fired two missiles at a 120-square-meter, two-storey house belonging to Mohammed 'Alaa' al-Sharaf, 43, in the east of Wadi al-Salqa village, east of the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah. The house was totally destroyed. A nearby house belonging to Ruqaya Abu Mustafa was damaged, and 3 Palestinian civilians, including a woman and a toddler, were wounded:

1. Ruqaya Sha'ban Abu Mustafa, 54, wounded in the left side
 2. 'Abdul 'Aziz Ibrahim Abu Mustafa, 20, wounded in the head; and
3. Ibrahim Salman Abu Mustafa, 2, wounded in the nose.

At approximately 15:20, an Israeli warplane fired a missile at an agricultural room in al-Zanna area in the northeast of Bani Suhaila village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis. The room was destroyed, and Halima 'Ouda Abu Khashan, 14, was wounded by shrapnel to the back. 

At approximately 22:30, an Israeli infantry unit moved nearly 1,500 meters into al-Shouka village, east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah. Israeli soldiers fired at a Palestinian civilian who was near his house, but he was not hurt. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli soldiers set up ambushes in the area. They withdrew from the area at approximately 04:00 on the following day. 

Saturday, 20 November 2010
      
At approximately 00:30, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers and military sites along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel to the east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah opened fire at Gaza International Airport and its vicinity, southeast of Rafah. The shooting continued sporadically until 03:00, but no casualties were reported. 

Monday, 22 November 2010 


At approximately 12:00, IOF moved nearly 150 meters into al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. They opened fire and leveled areas of Palestinian land, which they had already razed.

Wednesday, 24 November 2010


At approximately 09:45, Israeli soldiers stationed on observation towers near Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing in the north of the Gaza Strip opened fire at dozens of Palestinian workers who were collecting raw construction materials from the debris of destroyed buildings in Erez industrial zone. As a result, Rami 'Aayesh al-Shandaghli, 28, from Jabalya town, was wounded by a bullet to the left foot, when he was nearly 400 meters away.