Days before Christmas; What about Palestinians?

Palestinians also celebrate new Georgian year , they use both the Georgian and Arabic(Islamic) Calendar.

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:45:18 GMT
Israel denies Gaza entry to European lawmakers

Beit Lahia, a town in the northern Gaza Strip with a population of 60,000, lies in ruins, after the three-week Israeli onslaught.

Israeli authorities have prevented a European parliamentary delegation from visiting the Gaza Strip which has long been under a crippling siege.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ban high-profile diplomats from entering Gaza under the pretext that such a visit may grant legitimacy to Hamas, which seized the coastal strip in 2007, Israeli daily The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.

The ban came hours after the European Union called on Israeli and Palestinian officials to sit down at the negotiating table to discuss Jerusalem Al-Quds — which both sides claim as their future capital.

The lawmakers were scheduled to inspect areas struck by Israel's operation in Gaza last winter, meet officials from the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and hold talks with senior members of Hamas movement.

On Wednesday, the European parliament, meanwhile, demanded a convincing explanation as to why Israel prevented a delegation of lawmakers from traveling to the Gaza Strip despite initially sanctioning the visit.

12 December

BREIJ, (PIC)-- A Palestinian man was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) east of Breij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip on Saturday, medical sources reported.

They told the PIC that Sami Abu Khosa, 45, was hit with several bullets in the abdomen and other parts of his body and his condition was critical.

The citizen was admitted into ICU but died of his wounds shortly afterwards, the sources said.

IOF soldiers opened machinegun fire at the area east of Breij hitting and killing Abu Khosa.

14 December

Soldiers Kidnap Two Children In Northern Gaza

Israeli soldiers invaded the Industrial Area located near the Erez Crossing, west of Beit Hanoun in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and kidnapped two children. One of them was released after several hours while the second remained in custody. Soldiers advance approximately 350 meters into northern Gaza while Palestinian workers were trying to remove the rubble of the Industrial Area that was shelled by the army during the war on Gaza earlier this year.
Troops then kidnapped Mahmoud Jamil Al Yaziji, 16, and Mohammad Hatim Al Kafarna, 17. Al Kafarna was released several hours later, while Al Yaziji remained in detention.

A lawyer working with the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights reported that Al Yaziji was moved to the Al Majdal prison, and is currently under interrogation.

The Israeli District Court extended his remand until Friday, December 18...
15/12 /2009
Report: Prisoner going blind as Israel refuses treatment
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Shawqi Abu Athera, 37, is going blind as a result of the Israeli Prison administration's refusal to allow him to undergo treatment, according to the movement. Despite having surgery on his right eye nine months ago, IPS prohibited Abu Athera from pursuing further necessary treatment for his condition, the general director of the movement said.

The statement added that Abu Athera remains in "unbearable pain" as a result.

Additionally, Abu Athera suffers from critical injuries to his left hand and back , which he sustained during the first Palestinian uprising.
16/12/2009
Israeli navy grabs four Gaza fishermen
A police representative identified the four as Atef, Muhammad, Tahsin and Fakher Abu Reyala, all from Ash-Shati Refugee Camp, all in their twenties.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said that the fisherman left the "designated fishing area, approaching Israeli territorial waters, near the Gaza Strip's northern edge. The boat and crew were hauled to the Israeli port of Ashdod and the crew questioned, the spokeswoman added.

The crewmembers were later released to Gaza through the Erez land crossing, according to the military.

The Israeli Navy patrols a “no fishing” zone inside Gaza’s waters. According to fishermen and the United Nations, the zone is extends three nautical miles into the Mediterranean, and along most of the length of the Strip.
17 Dec 2009
Remember the samuni family which were pushed into a house and fired on deliberatly
29 member of family died as a result the youngest was unfant of 6 months

18 December

The US Central Intelligence Agency has co-operated with the Preventive Security Force (PSF) and General Intelligence Service (GI) in the Palestinian territory, the report on Friday said.

"The [Central Intelligence] Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services," a western official told the Guardian.

Most of the detained Hamas supporters are held without trial and allegedly tortured by the Palestinian agencies in the West Bank.

20/12/2009

From Turkey to Gaza: Rings and bracelets were donated to People from Adana to Gaza

22/12/2009

Tadamun: Skin disease spreading among Palestinian prisoners in Askalan

NABLUS, (PIC)-- A skin disease has spread among Palestinian prisoners in one of the wards in the Israeli Askalan jail with no medical treatment accorded by the prison administration, prisoner Abdul Hakim Hanani said.

The prisoner told the lawyer of the international Tadamun (solidarity) for human rights that the 220 prisoners in Askalan had boycotted the clinic because of the deliberate medical neglect and delay in providing treatment.