UPDATE: A Palestinian youth killed, 18 others wounded in new colonists attack near Ramallah


RAMALLAH: A Palestinian youth was shot dead and 18 others were injured today evening after they were attacked by armed colonists in the town of Al-Mughayir, northeast of Ramallah.

The Ministry of Health said that the young man arrived dead at the Palestine Medical Complex in the city of Ramallah after being directly hit by colonists ‘ bullets while he was inside his house.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said that its crews dealt with 18 injury cases, one of them critical, in the village of Al-Mughayir.

Deputy Chairman of the Al-Mughir Village Council, Marzouq Abu Naim, said that at least 1,500 colonists, protected by the occupation army, continue their killing and burning of residents` homes and proprieties throughout the village.

The colonists also set on fire around 40 Palestinian-owned homes and vehicles.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA

At least ten civilians killed, others wounded in Israel’s ongoing shelling of Gaza


GAZA: At least 10 civilians today were killed and others wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted several homes and areas in the Gaza Strip.

The occupation air force launched a raid on a house belonging to the Al-Assi family, in Zarqa in central Gaza City, resulting in the killing at least five civilians and wounding 30 others.

Meanwhile, two civilians were also killed and several others were injured in an Israeli bombing targeting north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that several of civilians, mostly children and women, were killed and others were wounded as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli tanks and military vehicles raided a house belonging to the Abu Sameh family, on the Mekki roundabout in the Maghazi camp in the central Strip.

Earlier morning, the occupation warplanes launched intense air raids on Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip. Civil defense and ambulance crews were able to recove
r the bodies of 10 people from various areas in the city of Khan Yunis in the south.

Source: Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA