Home » IOF
You are browsing entries tagged with “IOF”
Ten Zionist settlers fired at and chased three Palestinian farmers in Deir Istiya village, Nablus, on Tuesday morning while tending to their lands. The village’s mayor said that the three farmers, all in their teens, were fertilizing olive trees in one of the fields north of the village when the settlers mounting horses attacked them. [...]
September 1 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Two civilians were shot Saturday morning by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) east of the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, while exercising their profession of collecting scrap at devastated areas in the northern Gaza Strip. Muawiya Hassanein, head of the Health Ministry’s emergency unit, said in an exclusive statement to the Palestinian Information Center, [...]
August 29 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intensified their presence in the early morning hours on Friday in occupied Jerusalem turning it into military posts in an attempt to prevent the Palestinian crowds, especially the young men, from entering the Aqsa Mosque to perform Friday prayers. Eyewitness said the IOF troops were intensively deployed all over the [...]
August 28 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) erected today military checkpoints at the north of Hebron city, in the West Bank. Local sources said that Israeli soldiers stopped citizens’ cars for hours. They searched them carefully and verified their ID cards. In addition to, IOF raided Bait Omer and Yonis area in Hebron, the sources added. In Bethlehem, [...]
August 25 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
The weekly report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed an escalation of Israeli attacks in the occupied Palestinian lands over the week 11-17 August. The report issued on Saturday said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed a Palestinian and wounded another in the Gaza Strip while ten others [...]
August 22 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) erected today military checkpoint in Dora in south of Al Khalil city, in the West Bank and raided number of neighborhoods. Israeli soldiers erected military checkpoint at the crossroad of Khrsa village south of Dora, adding that they stopped the citizens and verified their ID cards, security sources said. The sources [...]
August 22 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided the villages of south Nablus yesterday under the pretext of searching for “wanted Palestinians and weapons”. Eyewitnesses said to SAFA Palestinian news agency that IOF raided number of houses in Madama, Orata, Beta, Huara, Abones, Jma’n and Asera villages. The sources added that IOF evacuated the houses from their residents [...]
August 19 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) used artillery to shell Palestinian houses east of Abasan to the east of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday. He added that the IOF pounding did not cause human casualties but only material damage as most shelled houses were deserted after being partially destroyed by the IOF in [...]
August 18 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Dozens of protestors suffered breathing difficulties on Friday when IOF troops used teargas to disperse their weekly peaceful demonstrations to protest the building of the Apartheid wall and confiscation of Palestinian land in the West Bank. IOF troops violently quelled the demonstrations at Nabi Saleh to the south west of Ramallah, Ma’sarah near Bethlehem, Nelin [...]
August 14 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained today two Palestinian boys in the Old City area, in Hebron city, in the West Bank. Local sources reported that IOF detained Adel Al-Slaima, 17, from the Old City in Hebron and then transferred him to Keriat Arba settlement The sources added that they detained Majd Al-Jabari, 14, while he [...]
August 12 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces detained today a Palestinian after raiding his house in Dorah, in the south of Al Khalil city, in the West Bank. Israeli occupation forces raided the house of Taher Al-Switi, 21, and then detained him, eyewitnesses said. Local sources reported that Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed the street of Bair Al-Saba in [...]
August 11 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 40 Palestinian citizens in various West Bank areas at dawn Thursday most of them from one family in Jenin district, local sources reported. They said that the IOF troops rounded up tens of civilians in the districts of Jenin, Al-Khalil, Qalqilia, Ramallah, and Nablus after storming houses and wreaking havoc [...]
August 5 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) started bulldozing Palestinian land south of Al-Khalil city on Sunday morning to pave the ground for establishing a new settlement, eyewitnesses reported. IOF troops, meanwhile, quelled a Palestinian peaceful march in Al-Khalil city on Saturday with the participation of foreign activists demanding freedom of movement for citizens in the city [...]
August 2 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained on Monday the son and the brother of detained Hamas leader Sheikh Ibrahim Jabr, 50, at a military roadblock near Al-Khalil city. The wife of the Sheikh said that the IOF soldiers detained her sole son Qutaiba, 19, along with his uncle Taiseer, 49, after searching the bus they were [...]
July 13 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
IOF soldiers attacked today Bait Omar demonstration and fired gas and sound bombs which injured two children. Besides they detained an activist and beat a journalist. The spokesman for the Palestinian solidarity project, Mohammed Ayad Awad, said that Israeli soldiers injured the children Mohamed Abu Maria, 14, in his back and Mohammed Awad, 8, in [...]
July 11 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
IOF troops, at dawn Friday, raided a number of villages to the south of the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, raided and ransacked homes, according to local sources. The sources said that IOF troops raided the villages of Beit Awwa, Deir Samet and al-Majd to the west of Dura and started searching homes and [...]
July 10 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces raided today a limited area in Bait Hanoon, north of Gaza Strip. According to local sources, four bulldozers and other four tanks invaded 200 meter. Residents in the area reported that the tanks produce thick smoke. Israeli occupation forces (IOF) usually conduct limited incursions along with borders where they raze the agriculture [...]
July 8 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli official sources have declared on Wednesday 7th of July that the number of IOF soldiers who commit suicide is again in the rise after a decline of tens of percentage points during recent years which followed the army’s implementation of various programs to fight suicide within its ranks. Ynet Israeli news website mentioned today [...]
July 7 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
The Palestinian center for development and media freedoms (Mada) reported Tuesday that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) last June used journalists as human shields during their attack on a peaceful anti-wall march in a village in northern West Bank. Mada center stated in its report that the IOF troops continued their violations against journalists in [...]
July 7 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »
Israeli occupation forces raided today several neighborhoods in the city of Al Khalil. Local sources said that Israeli forces raided the towns of Ezna and Yata in Hebron. They detained Nour Al-Kharouf, from Ezna after searching his house. The IOF daily roams and raids the neighborhoods of Al Khalil under the pretext of searching for [...]
June 29 2010 | Posted in Middle East, Palestine, World News | Read More »