Palestine: Arrests, woman miscarries after choking on tear gas & Gaza siege update

Two minors arrested amid clashes in Silwan

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– Three males including two minors have been arrested as locals in East Jerusalem’s Silwan district fell into violent clashes with Israeli forces on Saturday.

Israeli occupation forces invaded the neighborhoods of Al-Bustan and Beir Ayyub in Silwan and showered the alleys there with tear gas, Wadi Hilweh Information Center (WHIC) in Silwan reported.

Undercover Israeli soldiers arrested Mazen Odeh and two minors who have yet to be identified, the WHIC said.

During the clashes, youths countered the soldiers with stones and empty bottles, the WHIC said, adding that IOF soldiers raided several homes in Al-Bustan district and fired live ammunition in Beir Ayyub.

Elsewhere, the West Bank Iraq Burin village south of Nablus has been fully blocked off in a step by Israeli forces to prevent foreigners from entering the village and protesting against Jewish settlement in the West Bank.

Activists meet at the village every Saturday to voice out against Jewish settlement activity and to prevent more land from being usurped by the nearby Yitzhar and Bracha settlements.

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Palestinian lady miscarries after choking on tear gas in Al-Khalil

Al-KHALIL, (PIC)– A Palestinian pregnant woman miscarried at dawn Saturday when tear gas grenades fell onto her home in the old city of Al-Khalil.

Local sources said that Israeli troops during a raid on Palestinian neighborhoods in the old city fired without reason a heavy barrage of tear gas grenades randomly and some of them fell on the house of this woman.

They said the woman miscarried after she choked on tear gas and was rushed to hospital for medical treatment.

The incident generated popular outrage among the Palestinians in the city, according to the sources.

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Crisis of medical supplies in Gaza shoots up

GAZA, (PIC)– An official at the Palestinian health ministry said that the list of medical supplies that ran out in the Gaza Strip rose to 180 types of medicines and 149 of medical disposables.

The ministry’s public relations and information director Ashraf Al-Qudra warned on Saturday that this acute shortage of medical supplies escalates the crisis and constitutes a real threat to the health work in hospitals and primary care centers.

Qudra criticized international human rights and health institutions for not moving swiftly to find radical solutions to the crisis that have plagued Gaza over the past five years and threatened the lives of patients.

He pointed out that the last victim of this crisis was five twins who suffer from lung atrophy and incomplete growth and they are in dire need for a vital injection to save their lives.

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Egyptian authorities deny 450 Palestinian entry via Rafah terminal

GAZA, (PIC)– The Egyptian authorities at the Rafah border terminal with Gaza Strip on Saturday refused to allow entry of 450 Palestinians into Egypt without giving any reason for the measure.

The Gazan interior ministry said that due to that step those who will be allowed to cross the border on Sunday would be those who registered on Thursday and were also denied access.

It said that the new travel mechanism, which was supposed to be implemented on Sunday, would be postponed until Monday.

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