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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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26 February 06 Israeli warplanes bombed eight roads in the northern Gaza Strip before dawn on Saturday in order to prevent Palestinian militants from firing rockets on Israel, according to a military spokeswoman.
Even so, two more rockets were fired on Saturday morning, after two had been launched a day earlier. No details were given of the target, but Israeli artillery responded by shelling an uninhabited area near the border with Israel. During the evening, a series of powerful explosions was heard in Gaza City as several Israeli tank shells pounded the eastern outskirts of the city. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The latest clashes come amid a spike in violence between Israeli forces and Palestinians. Five Palestinians were killed during an army operation in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, and Israeli troops shot dead two more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early on Friday.
Palestinians participating in the funeral of Zayed Dukhan Citizens of the Gaza Strip demonstrated against the Nablus massacre and the killing of the medic workers and of children in their houses during the attack in the West Bank. Shelling is still continuous every day and night in the North of Gaza Strip and the Western part of Gaza City.
16 February 06 Today, Israeli Occupation Forces shot and wounded a mentally deranged citizen in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanuon.
Mufeed Arafat surrounded by medical personnel at Al Shifa Hospital after he was shot Medical sources at Al Shifa Hospital said that the mentally ill man, Mufeed Arafat, age 25, was wounded with a metal bullet in his body while he was near the fence, north the city. He was taken to Al Shifa Hospital and his condition is reported to be moderate. In the past few weeks, there have been several other shootings. A few days ago on February 14, a 25-year-old woman named Nayfa Abu Msa'ed was shot and killed when she was allegedly standing several hundred meters from the barrier. A few weeks earlier on January 27, a little girl named Aya-Al Astal was shot dead near the border and left for several hours until her body was found by medics and brought to Nasser Hospital. She was nine years old. Yesterday, the IOF killed a mentally deranged citizen in cold blood in the West Bank city of Qabatiya. The situation here in Gaza is getting worse with helicopters shelling and bombing all over. Last week witnessed many air strikes that targeted Fatah and Islamic Jihad, while Hamas, on the other hand, is busy in forming the new Palestinian government.
6 February 06 BREAKING NEWS —
Two members of Al Aqsa Martyers brigades were assassinated by Israeli helicopters in the north of the Gaza Strip and many other people have been injured, medical sources stated. Shelling by Israeli Apaches continues at these moments (leading up to midnight) in different parts of Gaza.
A child runs past a car targeted by the Israeli Army in A Palestinian security source identified the dead as Rami Hannouna, aged 25, and Hassan Asfour, aged 27.
Israel killed five Gaza militants in two similar air strikes over the weekend. Shelling by Israeli tanks continues in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians carrying an injured person into Al Shifa Hospital The raid followed the killing of three Palestinian fighters overnight in Israel's first air strike on the Gaza Strip since Islamist group Hamas' sweeping victory in parliamentary elections last month. Only hours before this, Israeli Occupation Forces had fired dozens of artillery rounds at northern Gaza and eastern Gaza City Earlier report, posted this morning —
Two people were killed. An additional three people were injured.
5 February 06 Three people were killed in Gaza when Israeli armed forces launched a helicopter attack on a building used by the AL Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, forcing people into the street.
The sister of one of Al Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members who was Five others were wounded in the attack on Gaza City early on Sunday. The Israeli military said the attack was designed to stop Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, after a strike which wounded three on Friday. Palestinians sources in Gaza City said the building was an Al Aqsa sports club and sports training camp. A car was hit moments after Israeli rockets hit the building. Four of the wounded were security personnel guarding the Palestinians' Preventive Security headquarters near the Al Aqsa facility, medical sources at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City said. The strike by Israeli forces came in the middle of waves of demonstrations by Muslims against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed published in some European newspapers. 2 February 06 Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated Tuesday at the urging of the faction Islamic Jihad to denounce caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed that appeared in Danish and Norwegian publications. A large picture of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was set alight during the protest outside the UN compound in Gaza City. Angry protestors also torched pictures of Israel's Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George W. Bush while gunmen fired the customary volleys of bullets into the air.
People demonstrating against Denmark. "This barbarous offensive on Islam is the result of a campaign of incitement against Islam waged by Bush," Nafez Azzam, a Jihad leader, told reporters. Dozens of people, including two Arab Israeli MPs and leaders of the Israeli Islamist movement, also demonstrated outside the Danish embassy in Tel Aviv. "It is forbidden to harm the Prophet and the symbols of Islam ... We are ready to die for our Prophet," the demonstrators shouted before submitting a petition and demanding a formal apology from the Danish government. On Monday, dozens of gunmen demonstrated outside the EU offices in Gaza to protest against the controversial caricatures.
Fatah gunmen during a demonstration in Gaza City. The protests led Denmark to evacuate all its nationals from the Gaza Strip and recommend those in the occupied West Bank to also leave. The controversy over the depiction in cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed was ignited by conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September. On January 10, the Norwegian Christian publication, Magazinet, reprinted the 12 satirical cartoons as a gesture of solidarity. The caricatures include a portrayal of the Muslim prophet wearing a time-bomb shaped turban and show him as a wild-eyed, knife-wielding bedouin flanked by two women shrouded in black. Muslims consider any images of Mohammed as blasphemous.
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