The Electronic Intifada 3 July 2014
A Palestinian man reacts following an Israeli air strike on a food store in Gaza City, 20 June.
APA imagesIsraeli forces invaded refugee camps, villages and cities across the West Bank during the month of June as part of the largest military assault on the occupied territory in more than a decade.
According to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than six hundred Palestinians were arrested during the operation launched after three Israeli teens, two of them children and one a dual US national, disappeared while hitchhiking in the West Bank on 12 June. Their bodies were found on 30 June. Israel blamed two men associated with Hamas for the abduction and killing; there have been no credible claims of responsibility by any Palestinian armed group.
Five Palestinians, including a child, were killed by live fire during the West Bank raids.
A 31-year-old Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces at a checkpoint in the central West Bank on 2 June. The Israeli army claimed the man was shot after he opened fire at soldiers but Palestinian sources say that the man, a trader from nearby Huwwara village, was waiting to receive goods and did not fire at the soldiers, the United Nations reported.
In the first extrajudicial execution operation in the occupied Gaza Strip since early March, the Israeli Air Force targeted a member of an armed group traveling in the northern Gaza Strip on a motorcycle on 11 June. The man died instantly and a ten-year-old bystander died of his injuries three days later. Israel also extrajudicially executed two Palestinian fighters in the occupied Gaza Strip in late June, and air forces struck Gaza throughout the month.
Armed groups fired rockets from Gaza into Israel; a rocket fell short of its target on 24 June and hit a home in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a three-year-old girl and injuring three others. Five members of a Palestinian armed group were killed in a Gaza tunnel collapse on 19 June and a 51-year-old civilian died of his wounds on 8 June; the man was shot by Israeli forces while fishing off the shore of Gaza on 26 May.
Travel to and from the Gaza Strip remained severely restricted; the United Nations reported that at least 10,000 “prioritized travelers,” including patients seeking medical care, students and holders of visas to third countries, were waiting to cross into Egypt.
Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prison since 24 April called off their protest on 25 June. More than one hundred Palestinians held by Israel without charge or trial under military court order participated in what is believed to be the longest hunger strike in the history of the Palestinian prisoners movement.
Despite a reported agreement reached between Syrian authorities and armed groups inside Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, stated that they were unable to distribute food aid to the camp during the entire month of June. The agency said that “conditions remain dire for the 18,000 civilians trapped there.”
The mother and sister of Ahmad Sabarin from Jalazone refugee camp mourn during his funeral near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 16 June. Sabarin was killed by Israeli soldiers who invaded the refugee camp on the outskirts Ramallah during a confrontation with protesters.
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A Palestinian woman observes Israeli troops in the West Bank village of Beit Ola, near Hebron, 21 June.
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Right-wing Israelis burn a Palestinian flag and shout racist slogans on 16 June during an anti-Palestinian protest at the Gush Etzion junction, next to the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, following the disappearance of three Israeli teenagers four days earlier.
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Palestinians throw stones at Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 22 June.
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Israeli forces during a raid on Aida refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 24 June.
A young baker continues his late night shift at approximately 3:30am in a bakery in Aida refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem as Israeli soldiers stationed themselves just around the corner during a late-night raid, 24 June.
The son of Amer Abu Eishe holds his father’s picture as he poses with his brother and his mother for media in their house in the West Bank city of Hebron, 27 June. Israel named Abu Eishe as one of two men it suspects are behind the 12 June disappearance of three Israeli teenagers in the occupied West Bank. The teens’ bodies were found near Hebron on 30 June.
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Israelis mourn three teenagers whose bodies were found in the West Bank earlier that day at a candlelight vigil in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, 30 June.
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Malik al-Sharef, 21, recovers in his home in Dheisheh refugee camp as family members pass juice to visiting cousins, 22 June. The youth was shot with a plastic-coated steel bullet just above his right eye during a late-night army raid on the camp. Hundreds of soldiers descended upon the camp, arrested 35 residents and shot several others with rubber bullets and live ammunition.
Palestinian children in a bedroom ransacked by Israeli forces who invaded their family’s home in Salem village east of the West Bank city of Nablus, 21 June.
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Malka Abu Aker sits in her living room in Dheisheh refugee camp on 28 June after her 46-year-old son Nidal was arrested by Israeli forces early that morning. Nidal Abu Aker has already spent five years in Israeli prison and his brother Mohammed was killed by Israeli forces in 1990.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip, 25 June.
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A Palestinian man inspects his Gaza City house which witnesses said was damaged in an Israeli air strike, 16 June.
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The mother of three-year-old Jud al-Danaf kisses her daughter during the girl’s funeral in Gaza City, 25 June. The girl was killed and three other family members were wounded when a rocket fired from Gaza fell short of Israel.
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Mourners carry the bodies of fighters Osama al-Hosomi and Mohammed Fasih during their funeral in Gaza City, 27 June. The two were killed and a third was wounded in an Israeli air strike.
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Relatives of Imad Salem mourn during the fisherman’s funeral in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, 8 June. Salem, 51, died of his injuries that morning two weeks after the Israeli navy fired at him while he was fishing off Gaza’s shores.
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A Palestinian protester waves his national flag during clashes with Israeli forces following a weekly protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, near Nablus, 13 June.
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Palestinian Authority leader Mahmud Abbas poses for a picture with the members of the new unity government in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 2 June.
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A Palestinian policeman in Gaza City directs traffic in front of a billboard depicting a Palestinian fighter carrying a kidnapped Israeli soldier, 17 June. A Palestinian action film to be shown during the month of Ramadan depicts the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers during an military operation in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestinians attend a Gaza City concert organized in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, 12 June.
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Palestinian relatives of cancer patients hold placards during a Gaza City protest demanding the opening of Rafah crossing with Egypt, 30 June.
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Aseel Khadoora, the daughter of Palestinian prisoner Saleh Khadoora (pictured in mobile), stands near her newborn brother at a Gaza City hospital on 26 June. Saleh Khadoora’s wife gave birth to male twins after being impregnated by sperm smuggled out of Israeli prison, a prisoners association said.
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Palestinians inspect their belongings after Israeli forces demolished their sheds in the al-Tur neighborhood of eastern occupied Jerusalem, 2 June.
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Former Palestinian prisoner Wissam Kashur, 34, is welcomed home to Jerusalem as he celebrates his release from an Israeli jail after twelve years of imprisonment, 26 June.
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Daoud Nassar inspects the destruction at the site of his family’s former grove of 1,500 fruit trees near the West Bank village of Nahalin, 3 June. On 19 May, Israeli forces bulldozed the family’s groves, which contained mature apricot, apple, grape, almond and fig trees planted ten years ago.
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Residents observe as a bulldozer demolishes a home in the Bedouin village of al-Araqib, 12 June. Israeli authorities have demolished the village approximately seventy times since 2010. On 12 June, Israeli forces for the first time entered the cemetery of the village where some residents were keeping sanctuary and demolished the village’s mosque and all its dwellings.
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Members of a Sufi group perform outside the Old City of Jerusalem on 26 June as Muslims prepare for Ramadan.
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A Palestinian man and his son enjoy Ramadan lights decorating an alley in Jerusalem’s Old City during the first day of the month of Ramadan, 29 June.
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Palestinian students celebrate during their graduation ceremony at Birzeit University near the West Bank city of Ramallah, 26 June.
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Palestinian students in Gaza City sit for their final high school exams on 7 June. More than 85,000 high school students from the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip sat for the exams, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Education.
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A violinist performs at a port in Gaza City, 23 June.
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