Sunday, December 20, 2015

3 PALESTINIANS KILLED ON FRIDAY BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

3 PALESTINIANS KILLED ON FRIDAY BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

Mahmoud Muhammad Saed al-Agha(20) was mortally wounded in head, dying in hospital, and 40 other Palestinians were wounded when Israel's forces opened fire on protesters east of Khan Younis on Palestine's besieged Gaza. 14 others suffered effect from tear gas inhalation.


Israel killed Mahmoud al-Agha's brother Bassem during its last year's attack on Gaza Strip. At least 20 people have been killed in besieged Gaza since the beginning of October by Israeli forces, who commit almost daily truce violations.

On the occupied West Bank, Israel's occupation forces wounded at least 78 people. Nash'at Asfour(36), shot in chest by Israel's occupation forces in Sinjil, was resuscitated in hospital after heart and respiratory failure, but succumbed later to his wounds.

Asfour leaves behind three young children. 
One of the wounded, shot in Beit Einun junction, is in critical condition in Hebron's al-Ahli hospital.

At the entrance to the small town of Silwad on the occupied West Bank, during Israel's occupation forces' attack on protesters 21 y/o Muhammad Abd al-Rahman Ayyad was shot and left to bleed in his car by Israel's occupation forces after alleged vehicular attack.

In this case Muhammad Ayyad left behind a will written just hours before his death, which indicates that this was likely an actual attempt to injure Israeli occupation soldiers.

Nevertheless, denying medical aid to him is simply a war crime; that it's also a standard procedure by Israeli occupation tells of the occupiers' lack of moral and legal standards.
Israel's occupation forces were also hiding behind huge cement cubes and none were injured; they were in no danger.

Muhammad Ayyad was going to be married only ten days from now.

At Qalandia checkpoint a Palestinian car driver from village of Turmsaya, whose name is unknown, was shot and wounded by Israeli occupation forces, which accuse him of an attempted vehicular attack. 

According to eye-witnesses Israel's occupation soldiers shot at him ten times and he was moderately wounded; initial Israeli occupation report claimed that he was killed. No Israeli occupation soldiers were wounded.

In his case Israel's occupation forces didn't allow a Palestinian ambulance to take him, but by an Israeli one, whose operation on the occupied areas is itself against Israel's agreement with International Red Cross.

SOURCES:

78 Palestinians shot by Israeli military in Friday demos

Army Kills Two Palestinians In Khan Younis And Ramallah

Palestinian shot dead in Gaza demo near Khan Younis

Palestinian shot, injured after alleged car-ramming attack in OJ
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx?itemid=75659

Palestinian youth killed after vehicular attack in Silwad
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ONE PHOTOGRAPH, THREE MARTYRS CAPTURE THREE MONTHS OF THE UPRISING


ONE PHOTOGRAPH, THREE MARTYRS CAPTURE THREE MONTHS OF THE UPRISING



Three lost sons of Palestine are connected through this photograph, all killed by Israel's occupation forces during this uprising, each in a different month:

Ahmed Jahjouh(20), who was killed on December 16 in Qalandia refugee camp, took this photograph showing - in lower left - Mahmoud Elyan(20) who died November 22, ten days after being shot in al-Bireh, in the funeral of 13 y/o Ahmed Sharaka, who was shot in head on October 20 near the illegal israeli colony of Beit El.
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15 Y/O SHOT, STRIPPED AND LEFT TO BLEED BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES DIES

15 Y/O SHOT, STRIPPED AND LEFT TO BLEED BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES DIES

Israel's occupation forces shot 15 y/o Abdullah Hussein Ahmad Nasasra at the Hawara / Huwwara roadblock south of Nablus on Thursday December 17 and left him bleeding, surrounding him so that Palestinian medics could not reach him and stripping him of his clothes. 

Only after an extended period a photo-op of Israeli occupation soldier appearing to give him breathing aid was taken, after which he died and his body was taken away by the occupation. 

The evidence of take fake nature of the aid is that the picture showing him being aided he has no trousers, and there is an earlier photo of Israeli occupation soldiers readying the plastic bag to put his body in it, and in that photo he is seen with his trousers.

Israel's occupation forces' excuse for the killing is the usual: Israeli occupation claims that Abdullah "had a knife" and that when occupation soldiers "approached" him - at this point, according to the occupation, he was already a "suspect" - and he supposedly "did not listen to the soldiers" and "ran towards them".

According to eye-witnesses, Abdullah had neither a weapon nor tried to attack the Israeli occupation soldiers. Instead he was standing outside a stone workshop near the roadblock and did not move as the Israeli occupation soldiers approached and shot him.

SOURCES:

IOF shoot boy under the pretext of a stab attempt

Israeli soldiers cold-bloodedly kill Palestinian near Huwara checkpoint

Palestinian shot dead in Nablus after alleged attempted attack

Palestinian Shot Dead in Nablus after Alleged Attempted Attack

Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child, South Of Nablus
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YOUNG WOMAN DIES OF HER WOUNDS THREE WEEKS AFTER SHE WAS SHOT BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION


YOUNG WOMAN DIES OF HER WOUNDS THREE WEEKS AFTER SHE WAS SHOT BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION

Samah Abd al-Mumen, aged 18 or 20 years and from the town of Amoriya south of Nablus, died of her wounds which she suffered three weeks ago in Israel's occupation forces' gunfire.

On 23rd November 16 y/o teenager Alaa Khalil 
Sabah Hashah,from Asker refugee camp was shot over ten times and left to bleed to death in Israel's occupation forces' military checkpoint at Hawara after alleged "stabbing attempt".

After the killing of Hashash Israel's occupation forces' random gunfire also hit a passing car, in which Samah Abd al-Mumen was with her car. She was hit in the head by a bullet.

According to her father, Israel's occupation soldiers never signaled the car to stop as they opened fire at different directions.

Transferred eventually to an Israeli hospital in 1948 Palestine she suffered and died from a brain hemorrhage that apparently could not be stopped.

SOURCES:

18-year-old dies weeks after being hit by Israeli crossfire in Nablus

Palestinian minor gunned down near Nablus

Palestinian teen succumbs to her serious wounds

Une adolescente palestinienne succombe à ses graves blessures

Young Palestinian Woman Dies Of Wounds Suffered On October 23
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UPDATE ON ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES' DEADLY INVASION OF QALANDIA REFUGEE CAMP

UPDATE ON ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES' DEADLY INVASION OF QALANDIA REFUGEE CAMP

Ahmed Hassan Jahjouh(20 or 21) and Hikmat Hamdan(25 or 29) - in some sources Hikmat Hamdan Abzaa - were killed in Israel's occupation forces invasion of the Qalandia refugee camp early on Wednesday December 16. (Some early sources had indicated the attack would have happened very late on Tuesday.)

Four other Palestinians were wounded, one of them was shot in abdomen and the rest were wounded in their "lower limbs" - legs.

On 26 August 2013 Ahmed Jahjouh's relative, Younis Jahjouh(22), was one of three people killed during a similar invasion by the Israeli occupation. 

Israel's occupation forces claim that Hamdan would have been "running" - we assume "speeding" - in his car towards Israel's occupation soldiers, possibly on a checkpoint and that Jahjouh would have "rammed" his car at Israel's occupation force soldiers, and that three would have supposedly have been injured.

Considering the damage to Jahjouh's car, its unlikely that human beings could survive with just "light" to "moderate" injuries if they would have really been hit by the car and the damage to its windows are revealing - windows on all other sides except the front-shield have shattered in gunfire. 

One source quotes an eye-witness claiming that the latter vehicular attack attempt did happen - or at least the eye-witness interpreted it as such. Of Hamdan's death there are no details beyond those of above.

Ahmed Jahjouh was shot from a distance of three meters and left to bleed without medical help until he died, after which Israel's occupation force soldiers took his body away.

He was a second year college student and volunteered at a media centre. Hikmat Hamdan was from al-Bireh.

During this invasion Israel's occupation forces targeted homes of youths killed during the uprising, but also went on a rampage attacking shops and Tammam Medical Centre, causing damage and stealing money.

Considering the above - which is either a result of a deliberate policy of pillage against rules of war or indiscipline among the Israeli occupation forces, claims about the deaths of Jahjouj and Hamdan coming from the occupation carry little weight.

SOURCES:

2 Palestinians killed, 4 injured as Israeli troops roll into Qalandiya camp

Israel escalates attacks on UN agency after killing employee during raid

Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinians in Qalandiya refugee camp

Soldiers Kill Two Palestinians, Injure Four Others in Qalandia Refugee Camp

Two young Palestinians killed and four others injured in Qalandia Refugee Camp
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TWO PALESTINIAN YOUTHS KILLED IN QALANDIA REFUGEE CAMP BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

TWO PALESTINIAN YOUTHS KILLED IN QALANDIA REFUGEE CAMP BY ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION FORCES

Although the details and chronology are still in flux, Israel's occupation forces apparently invaded Qalandia refugee camp during the night and shot dead two Palestinian car drivers claiming that they had made vehicular attacks, in one of which four Israeli occupation soldiers have allegedly been injured. 

The two dead are young men are in the latest sources named as Ahmed Hassan Jahjouh / Jehjoh and Hikmat Hamdan Abzaa(25), but even these details may change, as other names have been mentioned before.

Ahmed Hassan Jahjouh / Jehjoh was a student in a college. Hikmat Hamdan Abzaa was possibly from al-Bireh. 
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INCREASING SUPPORT FOR AND EXPECTATION OF ESCALATION OF UPRISING IN A NEW POLL


INCREASING SUPPORT FOR AND EXPECTATION OF ESCALATION OF UPRISING IN A NEW POLL

A new poll of 1270 adults in besieged Gaza and occupied West Bank conducted between 10-12 December and published on 14 December shows that:

- 67 % support and 31 % oppose the use of knives in the current confrontations with the Israeli occupation, but 73 % oppose the participation of young girls in 'stabbing attacks' and 25 % support it. 

- 37 % believe that the uprising will develop into a new armed intifada, 18 % that it would develop into wide-scale peaceful popular confrontations and 13 % said the development of both peaceful and armed resistance would occur.

19 % say the confrontations will stay at current level and 10 % believe they will gradually fade.

- 66 % of the public (71 % in the Gaza Strip and 63 % in the West Bank) supported the claim that an armed intifada would serve the Palestinian national interests in ways that the mere negotiations could not.

Support for president Mahmoud Abbas is steady at 31 %, with 65 % wanting him to resign.

SOURCE:

Poll: Growing majority of Palestinians support armed intifada
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AFTER SCHOOLGIRL CRITICALLY WOUNDED ON SUNDAY, A YOUTH WAS KILLED ON MONDAY

AFTER SCHOOLGIRL CRITICALLY WOUNDED ON SUNDAY, A YOUTH WAS KILLED ON MONDAY

ABED ALMOHSIN HASSONEH(21) KILLED IN W. JERUSALEM

Abed Almohsin Hassoneh(21) from Beit Hanina in occupied East Jerusalem was shot, stripped and left to die in a vaguely defined area in Western Jerusalem on Monday after his car crashed against a bus stop shelter. 

Although Israeli occupation claimed that he "rammed" his car against the bus stop shelter and people in it, the damage to the car and the bus shelter don't speak of extensive speed. The shelter didn't collapse and most of the damage to the car came from a fire in the engine department. 

The injuries to the people in the bus stop also speak against extensive speed: Official Israeli sources claim that up to 11 people were injured, with 7 suffering 'light injuries' and one suffering 'moderate injury'. The supposed injuries to the three others have not been revealed. One of the injured has been claimed to be a young child with a leg injury. 

This doesn't mean that this would not have been a deliberate attack, but the Israeli occupation narrative shouldn't be automatically accepted. Israeli officials interpretation of events is largely automatic - an incident involving a Palestinian is always treated at first as an "attack".

The claim that an axe was found from his car is claimed to support an 'attack', but whether the axe came from the car can be questioned (in photos people were handling it on scene, but no one is seen taking it from the car) and it wasn't certainly used. 

Both windows on the driver's side of the car have been shattered in gunfire, so Hassoneh was still in his car, when three 'bystanders' - in some sources named as Israeli occupation soldier, "security guard" and "civilian" - started to shoot at him.

Apparently he was dragged out of his car and then the grotesque Israeli occupation ritual of stripping him from clothes while denying medical aid to him was done.

LAMA MUNTHIR HAFITH AL-BAKRI(16), WOUNDED IN HEBRON

On Sunday 16 y/o Lama Munthir Hafith al-Bakri was shot, wounded and left to bleed for over an hour near the Ibrahimi mosque and Israel's illegal Kiryat Arba colony in Hebron on the West Bank. 

A routine claim of "stabbing attempt" was done against al-Bakri without any apparent evidence. In sources the supposed target of 'stabbing attempt' varies from 'pedestrian' (illegal Israeli settler) to Israel's occupation forces soldier.

Although Palestinian medics were not allowed to approach her and she bled for over an hour while laying on the ground wounded, she survives in a critical condition in a hospital.  
At least 123 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation since October 1st.

121 Palestinians killed in 11 Fridays of new ‘intifada’

16-year-old Palestinian shot after alleged stab attempt in Hebron

IOF shoot Palestinian girl, claim she “attempted to stab soldier”

Palestinian Girl Shot Under Stabbing Pretext

Palestinian man killed after barrelling car into Jerusalem bus stop: police

Palestinian shot dead, 11 injured in Jerusalem car ramming attack
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QUESTIONS ABOUT SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY I

Why would having PTSD be a good requirement for the right to vote, like the late Robert Heinlein and his followers in the sub-genre of military science fiction claim?
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HOW THE HUMAN RIGHTS INDUSTRY UNDERMINES PALESTINIAN LIBERATION [Excerpts] by Budour Hassan

The establishment of the Palestinian Authority following the signing of the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the PLO ushered structural transformations in Palestinian politics, society, and struggle...

It is in this context where the human right industry and the institutionalization of rights were born...

Another consequence of the imposition of this human rights discourse was the de-politicization of the Palestinian struggle and reframing it in the supposedly neutral language of rights.

In a discussion with the director of one of the many Palestinian human rights NGOs, he told me: “Our work is not concerned with politics; we only expose Israel’s crimes and human rights violations.”

Such a declaration will not only please the donors and mean that the foreign investment in the apolitical Palestinian human rights market will remain flowing; it reflects a genuine belief among most human rights organizations in Palestine that the conflict with Israel is not about politics but rather about rights. It is as if Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights is a humanitarian rather than political issue.

...This elitist approach is both patronizing and exclusionary and has, over the last 20 years, created a privileged minority of Palestinian advocates, elite activists and spokespersons of the cause who simply cannot look beyond international law and human rights. De-politicization is intrinsic to the liberal human rights discourse where the battles are fought on a legal turf and where the oppressor sets the rules... 

But what this insistence on such a liberal discourse achieved was the exclusion of disfranchised people from politics, the de-legitimization of armed forms of resistance, and prioritizing a legal agenda that promotes human rights as an industry but not in terms of content and genuine, lasting change...

With the very limited arsenal at their disposal including kitchen knives, rocks, and Molotov cocktails, Palestinian youth are trying to reclaim the agency that has been taken away from them partly by the Palestinian political and human rights elite.

The rebellious youth are calling for radical transformations; it is up to the human rights community in Palestine to decide whether they will listen and join or whether they will remain confined to their comfortable offices and liberal discourse.

FROM:

How the Human Rights Industry Undermines Palestinian Liberation
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It's not just power that can corrupt and absolute power absolutely like Acton wrote, it's also the quest for power itself that can do that to a person, so that (s)he arrives to power already corrupted.
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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

During last two years fifteen Palestinians have been killed by illegal Israeli settlers in vehicular attacks. The youngest one was 5 year old. The number of illegal Israeli settlers killed for these attacks: 0. The number of illegal Israeli settlers arrested for these attacks: 1. 

Last weekend illegal Israeli settler boys threw stones at illegal Israeli settlers' car, injuring a child. They were arrested by Israel and spent a night in jail and are our now free. In March 2013 Israeli occupation arrested and tortured 19 Palestinian boys from the village of Hares after illegal Israeli settlers claimed that they had thrown a stone, which had broken a tyre from a truck and an illegal Israeli settler's car had hit that truck while its tire was being changed. One child was injured and two years later died. 

Of the 19 boys 5, then 15-16 years old, were imprisoned since March 2013 and were in November 26 sentenced to 15 years in prison, which would be increased if their families would not pay a fine of 150 000 NIS. The families have been already paying a monthly sum for Israeli occupation authorities, which otherwise refuse to give basic hygienic items, blankets etc to prisoners.

And illegal Israeli settlers who burned 3 members of the Palestinian Dawabsha family, including 1.5 year boy and wounded his 4 y/o elder brother, are now in house arrest after spending but a few days in prison.

At the same time Justin Trudeau plans a great crusade in behalf of Israel against criticism and boycotts against Israeli occupation in Canada.
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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Sunday, December 13, 2015 HARES BOYS SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IMPRISONMENT BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION


The 2 1/2 witch-hunt against the five teenage Palestinian boys from Hares village arrested and tortured when they were just 15-16 years old by Israeli occupation has culminated in a judicial murder by Israel: 15 more years in prison. 

By the time the boys would be released, they would be almost in their mid-thirties, having spent over half of their lives imprisoned.

The young lives of Mohammed Kleib, Ammar and Tamer Souf, Ali Shamlawi and Mohammed Suleiman have already been disrupted for years of imprisonment. If their unjust sentences will not be overthrown and the boys released, their lives were practically over already the moment they were arrested by Israeli occupation in March 2013.

The illegal Israeli settler from illegal Yitzhar colony who ran over and killed Enas Shawkat Khalil(5) Oct 19 2014 and badly injured her friend Tulin Asfour(5) was not even arrested nor charged and the teenage illegal Israeli settlers who - according to today's news, injured a Jewish baby while thinking their were throwing stones at a Palestinian car - are unlikely to spend years imprisoned either. 

Israel's Apartheid status is clearly revealed in these two cases, the judicial murder of the Hares boys and the legitimization of the killing of Enas.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

THREE PALESTINIANS KILLED ON FRIDAY BY ISRAEL, AMONG THEM THE BROTHER OF DANIA IRSHEID, KILLED ON OCTOBER 25

THREE PALESTINIANS KILLED ON FRIDAY BY ISRAEL, AMONG THEM THE BROTHER OF DANIA IRSHEID, KILLED ON OCTOBER 25

Nine Palestinians were shot with rubber and live bullets by Israel's occupation forces in occupied Hebron's Ras al-Jura neighbourhood after march to commemorate the 28th anniversary of founding of Hamas on Friday. One of them was shot in chest with a live bullet and later died of his wounds. 

He was Uday Irsheid(aged 22 or 24), brother of Dania Irsheid(17), who was shot death in Hebron on 25 October by Israel's occupation soldier. Israeli occupation claimed that she had had a knife in her bag, even when she had just successfully passed through a metal detector. According to Amnesty International, her killing was "absolutely unjustified". 

According to Israel's occupation forces, Israeli snipers shot at "main instigators" of the resistance to the occupation forces during the clashes in Ras al-Jura. 

Earlier during the day Israel's occupation forces shot and killed Omar al-Hroub(aged 55 or 57) near Halhoul, claiming that al-Hroub would have tried to "ram" his car into Israeli occupation soldiers. Yet the car is neatly parked before a cement block beside a road, hasn't hit it and is only damaged where gunfire has broken the windows.

Omar al-Hroub himself is seen in photos laying outside his car, face down. Instead of him trying to "ram" occupation soldiers, the scene implies him having been shot at when driving relatively slowly, stopping the car when it came under gunfire. His body's position could also indicate that he was shot again after getting out of the car. 

Omar al-Hroub was from the village of Deir Samit in western area of Hebron.

On besieged Gaza Strip Israel's forces fired at protestors near al-Bureij refugee camp, Khan Younis and Erez and Nahal Oz crossings. 58 people were wounded by live fire, 30 others suffered from effects of tear gas inhalation and Sami Shawqi Madhi(aged 38 or 41), was shot in chest near al-Bureij refugee camp by an Israeli sniper. 

According to one source, Madhi was was killed instantly, but according to another he was pronounced dead in hospital.

According to the secular, left-wing PFLP Sami Madhi was its member and part of it's leadership in Deir al-Balah refugee camp. 

The youngest of the wounded is Abdul-Rahman al-Khaledi, who is aged 12.

In Silwad near Ramallah 22 people were wounded as Israel's occupation forces attcked hundreds of protesters demanding the return of the body of Anas Hammas(21), killed by Israeli occupation. Israeli occupation fired at ambulance, damaging its windshield and forced another ambulance transporting wounded to stop for inspection.

SOURCES:

2 Palestinians killed, one seriously injured during Friday clashes

3 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Forces on Friday

Army Injures 22 Palestinians In Silwad

Friday alone: three Palestinians killed by the IOF

One killed, dozens injured by Israeli gunfire east of Gaza

Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza border clashes, injure 58

Palestinian killed during clashes with Israeli forces in Hebron

Palestinian shot dead after alleged attempted car attack in Hebron

Thousands march in funeral of Palestinian killed in al-Khalil
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21 SURVIVE FLOODING OF RAFAH BORDER TUNNEL IN BESIEGED GAZA AFTER EGYPT PUMPS IN SEAWATER

21 SURVIVE FLOODING OF RAFAH BORDER TUNNEL IN BESIEGED GAZA AFTER EGYPT PUMPS IN SEAWATER

On Tuesday 21 Palestinian labourers were working in a privately owned smuggling tunnel in besieged Gaza's Rafah, when Egypt's army flooded it pumping in seawater as part of destroying 20 tunnels on the border and keeping up the siege of Gaza.

There have been contradictory claims about the fate of the workers, but it appears that the correct claim is that 7 were able to escape the tunnel as seawater started to come in and that the 14 others were rescued after several hours.

The claim that all 14 would have been killed seems to have been wrong.

Egypt's pumping of seawater in the ground has also led to damage to agricultural land near the border and salt water is entering the Gaza aquifer.

The Rafah border crossing is currently again closed.

On Wednesday six Israeli military vehicles, 3 tanks and 3 armoured bulldozers, crossed the border into Gaza and destroyed agricultural land 'among random gunfire' near the al-Bureij refugee camp. No injuries were reported.

SOURCES:

14 Palestinians missing in border tunnel after Egypt pumps in seawater

14 Palestinian workers lost in Gaza tunnel drowned by Egypt

14 Palestiniens sauvés d'un tunnel inondé

14 rescued from flooded Gaza tunnel

14 workers survive after missing in tunnel underneath Gaza-Egypt border

EGYPT FLOODS GAZA’S TUNNELS WITH SEAWATER

Egypt floods tunnel into Gaza, 14 people missing

Israeli military forces level Palestinian land near Gaza border

Israeli military infiltrates Gaza borders

Israeli tanks invade the Gaza strip, again

Limited incursion of Israeli bulldozers east of Al Bureij

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