Palestine: Israeli airstrike kills six Gazans, settlers assault Palestinian farmers & prisoner issues

Israeli airstrike kills six Gazans

Press TV

An Israeli airstrike has killed at least six Palestinians and injured 11 others in the southern city of Rafah in besieged Gaza Strip’s, local medics say.

Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Adham Abu Salmia said the Saturday airstrike targeted a military compound in Rafah, AP reported.

Israel has again begun to step up its air raids on the Gaza Strip.

On Thursday, an Israeli aircraft carried out three bombing attacks on the city of Khan Yunes in Gaza. No causalities were reported in the attack.

On October 1, three Palestinians were injured in an Israeli drone attack on the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed scores of Palestinians and injured many more over the past months…

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Jewish settlers assault Palestinian farmers

NABLUS, (PIC)– Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in Azmut village to the east of Nablus on Saturday morning and prevented from collecting their olive crops.

Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that tens of settlers along with their dogs attacked the farmers and prevented their work in collecting olives despite the presence of earlier coordination.

The farmers engaged in heated debates and fistfights with the settlers but no casualties were reported.

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Zionist court refuses to release Muna Qaadan

JENIN, (PIC)– The Zionist military court in Salem refused to release Muna Qaadan (39), from Arraba in Jenin district, on bail despite the fact that she was brought before court previously on the same charges.

Local sources said that the occupation authorities refused to release despite the fact that she denied the charge that she works for a charity, which is allegedly associated with the Islamic Jihad, in reference to Bara’a Society for Muslim Young Women. This is the same charge she was arrested on previously and then released.

Qaadan has been arbitrarily arrested since the end of last May, only days after the arrest of her brother Sheikh Tareq Qaadan from their home in Arraba.

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Occupation renews Saadat’s isolation for another year

RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Dameer Institute for welfare of captives said that the Zionist central court in Beersheba decided to extend the isolation of the PFLP Secretary General, MP Ahmad Saadat, based on secret evidence supplied by the Shabak.

The organisation said. in a statement on Thursday that the so called secret evidence which was submitted to the court was actually issued last August, which means the decision to renew the isolation of Saadat was taken even before he went through the hunger strike.

By this decision, the Zionist court has annulled a promise made by the occupation prison administration to the hunger strikers after 22 days of hunger strike to end isolation, which means that the captives were deceived by the prison administration just to end their protest.

The organisation also pointed out that the court decision means that Saadat will be completely isolated from the outside world which endangers his deteriorating health and threatens his life. Dameer called for an end to the isolation policy in occupation jails.

Saadat has been denied any family visits since March 2009.