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October 1, 2003:
Mohammed's younger brother
Issam was seriously injured
and was taken to the hospital
about a week ago. His leg
was amputated and he is
undergoing medical treatment.
October 18, 2003:
Mohammad's younger brother,
Hussam [17 yrs old], was killed
by the Israeli army today.
Hussam was sitting at home
when he was shot in the face,
chest, back, legs. He had
nothing to do with any violent
or even political movement.
Hussam's crime is that he was
a Palestinian.
December 30, 2005
Mohammed's five-year old
brother, Abdullah, has been
hit in the eye with a bullet.
His eye has been destroyed
and he has been transferred
by the Ministry of Health
to Egypt for medical care.
So far, doctors in Egypt
have been unsuccessful at
removing the bullet and the
child may need to travel to
Europe for further treatment.
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31 December 05 NOTE: Mohammed had an interview earlier today with BBC World.
Kate Burton's father (left) and mother as they are released It was around 3 o'clock in the morning when the Palestinian Authority announced that the three British citizens were released in Gaza. A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Kate Burton and her parents Hugh and Helen, shortly after their release late Friday. The group, calling itself the Mujahadeen Bayt Al-Maqdes Brigades, released a video showing a masked gunman reading a statement with Burton, 24, standing silently next to him with her hands behind her back.
Kate Burton Their capture was greeted with anger and dismay by many ordinary Palestinians and also their political leaders who are attempting to attract aid workers to the Gaza Strip. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat branded the abductions as "shameful" and damaging to Palestinian interests. "I'm happy that this despicable, shameful act is over. These people are friends and I hope that this will be the last (such event)," he said.
Dr. Saeb Erikat from the Palestinian Authority 30 December 05 Mohammed's five-year old brother, Abdullah, has been hit in the eye with a bullet. His eye has been destroyed and he has been transferred by the Ministry of Health to Egypt for medical care. At this point, the doctors have been unsuccessful at removing the bullet and the child may need to travel to Europe for further treatment. NOTE: Mohammed will have a live radio interview with BBC Radio Scotland on Friday, 30th December 2005 Direct links to the interviews will be posted when they become available. ..... Helicopters are hovering over the sky of north of Gaza. Shelling can be heard form time to time in the North. The Israeli army on Wednesday set a deadline of 1600 GMT for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip not to enter a no-man's land security zone in the north of the territory. The warning was issued on leaflets airdropped over the northern Gaza Strip, written in Arabic and accompanied by a detailed map indicating the confines of the security zone in uninhabited areas of the far north. The zone incorporates an area where three Jewish settlements stood until they were demolished over the summer. "For your own safety, read this statement carefully and act accordingly," said the leaflet signed by the Israeli army command. "The army is prepared to wage intensive operations in the north of the Gaza Strip against terrorist elements who fire rockets into the territory of the State of Israel. "For your security you are warned to avoid the sectors indicated on the map from 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) December 28 until further notice," said the leaflets. Given a somewhat less than watertight Palestinian truce, an upsurge in violence is predicted ahead of parliamentary elections next month. A Palestinian child has been killed during internal conflicts between gunmen and police station in Gaza City. The gunmen protest against Palestinian Authority to get jobs. The PA has not responded officially to the demands and clashes have taken place instead. For the moment, the British family whom were kidnapped in Rafah while they were in Rafah border have not yet been released. Human rights worker Kate Burton, her mother and her father were snatched at gunpoint and bundled into a white Mercedes in the flashpoint southern Gaza town of Rafah close to the border with Egypt on Wednesday.
A hand out photo of Kate Burton which has been provided by Unlike many kidnappings of foreigners in Gaza that have been resolved in a few hours, there has been no official claim of responsibility, no ransom demand and no contact with the kidnappers, British and Palestinian sources said. British diplomats were on the ground helping the Palestinian Authority to secure their release. A spokesman for the Al Mazen human rights centre named one of the hostages as Kate Burton, 24, from Scotland, saying she worked for them. Burton had spent the last three months working in Gaza and was believed to be showing her parents around when they were snatched, a British official said. More than a dozen foreigners, mostly journalists and aid workers, have been abducted in Gaza this year, including a Briton kidnapped in August. They have all been freed unharmed, usually within a matter of hours, after their abductors submitted demands for jobs or payment from the Palestinian Authority. Normally, the reasons of kidnapping internationals by gunmen is to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to afford the demands of those kidnappers and the demand is always to get jobs. In an interview few minutes ago with the spokesman of Ministry of Interior in Palestine, Tawfeq Abu Khusaa: "Of course, PA and all Palestinian are against such inhuman actions which damage the reputation of the Palestinian among the world" "We are doing our best to release the hostage, but no information on this issue so far, and no contact us for any demands". When I asked him if Palestinian Authority afford such demands in case there is any, he answered: "No, we should put those criminals in jail instead, and we will use force if it's necessary." Political parties in Gaza condemned the kidnapping of the 3 British people during a demonstration near the legislative council in Gaza City yesterday.
A Palestinian police officer checks vehicles in Gaza, searching for signs of the three 29 December 05 NOTE: Mohammed will have a live radio interview with BBC Radio Scotland on Friday, 30th December 2005 around 9:25 Palestine time and 7:25 UK time. He will have another interview with BBC Radio London around 11:00. ..... Apache shelling is still ongoing in the north of the Gaza Strip and many people have been injured in the last few days. Israel has threatened to invade the north of Gaza and cut electricity in the north in case homemade rockets keep being launched by Palestinian militants towards Isarel. Three British citizens were kidnapped by unknown Palestinian militants. All political factions condemned the action. The PA are setting up checkpoints in their search for the three British people.
An Israeli Army tank preparing for shelling the North of Gaza Strip, 19 December 05 Helicopters are still hovering over the Gaza Strip and bombing by Apaches is still occurring during the preparation for legislative council elections in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
A hole caused by Israeli Apaches shelling in Gaza. According to medical sources, Israeli Occupation Forces wounded two citizens in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Medics reported that east of Gaza, Israeli soldiers opened fire towards Wael Al Qahwagi, aged 23, wounding him with two gun shots in his leg. He is in critical condition. The IOF prevented the ambulance from reaching the site to evacuate him to the hospital. In Beit Hannon, a policeman was wounded with a piece of shrapnel when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile on the Al Izba area, along Salah Al Deen Street. He was taken to AL Awda Hospital in Jabalia refugee camp. His condition is reported to be moderate. Israeli warplanes launched several overnight raids on the northern area of the Gaza Strip, causing a state of panic among citizens, mostly children and women. Another Palestinian, Khaled Abu Setah from Rafah, has been killed by a bomb in his car. His body arrived at Abu Yousif Al Najjar divided into pieces.
15 December 05
4 dead in Israeli air strike / alternate link
An unmanned Israeli drone targeted a vehicle thought to be carrying Palestinians gather around the targeted car in Gaza City.
12 December 05 An Israeli navy patrol killed a fisherman early Saturday and wounded another along the Rafah seashore in the Gaza Strip. Medics at Abu Yousef A lNajjar hospital said that the fisherman Nazeer Farhat, aged 37, died instantly due to several gunshot wounds all over his body when Israeli navy opened heavy fire at a fishing boat.
An Israeli warship observing fishermen along the coast of the Gaza Strip. They added that a policeman named Amjad Khalifa was lightly wounded. In a similar incident on the previous Saturday (December 3), an Israeli naval patrol shot dead a 28-year-old fisherman who was on a fishing trip along the Rafah seashore.
The mother of 37 year-old Naser Faraht mourns over his body. On Wednesday, one resistance member was killed and eight other Palestinians were wounded when their vehicle was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the Rafah region of the southern Gaza Strip, military sources and witnesses said. Military sources said that the target of the attack, Mahmud al-Arqan, had been working with members of the radical Islamic Jihad movement, which was behind a suicide bombing on a shopping mall on Monday. The strike came after Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz gave permission to resume targeted assassinations, following the bombing last week at the mall in Netanya which killed five Israelis and also following a series of rocket attacks fired from Gaza to Israeli soil. Tanks shells are also fired every night from the Israeli borders into the northern Gaza Strip — these shells cause horror among both children and adults.
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