On 15 April 2008, the family of former Palestinian Authority General Intelligence captain Sami Khatab was informed by the police that his body was found on the ground about 700 meters north of Palestinian International University and about 200 meters east of the coastal road in Gaza City. Paramedics from Shuhda’a al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah were summoned to the area by the police after the body was found. Read more about Former intelligence officer tortured, killed in Gaza
At approximately 4am 11 April 2008, a special unit of the Israeli Occupation Forces penetrated on foot into the Gaza Strip. The force mobilized at the Gaza border and moved one kilometer into northeastern al-Bureij refugee camp, where it broke into a number of houses and took positions atop them. Read more about Israel kills seven, mostly civilian teenagers, in Gaza invasion
The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continues its tight siege and prevents movement of people and goods in and out of the Gaza Strip. This includes patients who are close to dying due to denied access to hospitals abroad. Sources from the Palestinian Ministry of Health have indicated that more than 100 patients have died since mid-June 2007. Read more about Palestinians in Gaza lose their livelihoods
On 11 March 2008, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) stormed into Al Quds Radio and Al Majd Radio headquarters in Jenin, West Bank and confiscated most of the contents in the buildings. According to sources from Al Quds Radio, the IOF, which carried out an incursion into the town of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, raided the headquarters of the radio station. Read more about IOF shuts down two radio stations in Jenin
Following its withdrawal from north Gaza on 4 March 2008, the IOF continued air strikes yesterday. Israeli occupation forces (IOF) penetrated the Wadi al-Salqa village in the central Gaza Strip, assassinated one man, and killed an infant less than one month old. The number of the people killed by the IOF since 28 February 2008 has reached 120, including 72 civilians. Among the civilians were six women and thirty children. Read more about Gaza man assassinated and run over, baby shot in the head
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued its attacks on Gaza today. IOF’s military operations have killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza today. Of those, 27 were civilians, including ten children and three women. Since Wednesday 27 February 2008, IOF killed at least 77 people and injured approximately 130. Read more about Gaza death toll rising: 77 killed, including 19 children since Wed.
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated the attacks and ground incursions against Gaza today. Many attacks hit civilian homes and other objects, killing 31 Palestinians, including eight children. Among the civilian casualties are 13 civilians who were killed inside their homes. Since Wednesday 27 February 2008, IOF killed 61 persons and injured approximately 120. Read more about Israel kills at least 31 Gazans today, including 8 children
Gaza’s drinking water crisis was aggravated over the past three days. In addition to the shortage of water supplies to households, the municipal authorities in the Gaza Strip ran out of materials essential for the treatment of water. The Palestinian Water Authority is now instructing Gaza’s people to boil the water at their homes before using it for cooking or drinking. Read more about Israeli siege creates drinking water crisis in Gaza
The Israeli Occupation Forces intensified their indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets in the Gaza Strip. Yesterday night and this morning saw intensive air strikes, six of which targeted government buildings and industrial and commercial facilities. As a result, eight persons were killed, including a four-month-old infant, and numerous homes were damaged. Read more about Gaza deaths mount as Israel intensifies military attacks
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed a farmer while he was near his home in al-Qarara village, north to the town of Khan Younis. IOF also fired artillery into eastern Bureij refugee camp. As a result, one Palestinian was killed. The IOF also shelled two cars while they were traveling on a road that linked the former Israeli settlements in western Khan Younis. Read more about Israel kills seven in Gaza by Wednesday evening