Gaza power plant shuts down
11/5/08
A power plant in Gaza City has shut down, affecting 500,000 local inhabitants and forcing local hospitals to run on reserve fuel. Large parts of the Gaza Strip, particularly Gaza City, were in darkness after the main power station shut down its generators on Saturday. The Hamas government’s energy department said that about 55 per cent of Gaza City and 35 per cent of the territory’s other areas had power outages as a result of the shutdown. With hospital generators running out of fuel, it is feared that medical equipment will stop functioning soon.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/105768F0-FE25-4F87-AC6B-B737E6DC1DE2.htm
Israeli Air-strike in Gaza Kills 5 Hamas Cops
Hisham Abu Taha & Mohammed Mar’I;11/5/08
Five Hamas policemen were killed and seven others wounded in two separate Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip late Friday and early yesterday, Hamas and medical sources said. In one airstrike, two members of Hamas were killed and four others wounded when an Israeli reconnaissance late Wednesday fired one missile at a police station used by Hamas in the central of Rafah city southern the Gaza Strip. Medical sources at Al-Najar hospital in the city identified the dead men as Bassam Abu Shbeika, 23, and Mohammed Abu Armani, 25. The second airstrike targeted another Hamas police base in western Khan Younis city in the south of the Strip where three members of the Hamas-run paramilitary group were killed and three others were wounded.
See: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=109770&d=11&m=5&y=2008
UN asks Israel to probe raid which killed Gaza teacher last week
A United Nations agency called on Israel on Sunday to investigate the death of a Palestinian teacher employed by the agency who was killed in her home during an Israeli raid last week in the Gaza Strip. “We’re calling on the Israelis for an impartial investigation,” said Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), for which Wafa al-Daghma worked as a teacher at an elementary school for refugee children. “We want to see accountability.” A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces said they were looking into the matter.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982342.html
Kfir brigade leads in W. Bank violations
Amos Harel; 11/5/08
The main perpetrators of crimes against Palestinians belong to the Kfir infantry brigade, according to statistics on Military Police investigations, which the Israel Defense Forces provided to the human rights organization Yesh Din. The IDF is obliged to submit the data to Yesh Din under the Freedom of Information Law. The numerous Military Police probes into crimes in the territories “reflect a moral and command failure in the IDF,” said Lior Yavne of Yesh Din. In 2007 the Military Police opened 351 probes for crimes in the territories, compared to 152 cases in 2006.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982088.html
Palestinians say one dead in clash with Israelis near Ramallah
Nadav Shragai and Yuval Azoulay;11/5/08
Palestinian witnesses say a Palestinian man has been shot dead in a clash with Israeli settlers. The incident occurred Friday when two Palestinians opened fire at Israelis hiking in the Ein Yivrod region north of Ramallah, which is designated as Area B under terms of the Oslo Accords. The hikers, who were armed, spotted the armed Palestinians approaching the cave in which they were located. An exchange of gunfire ensued, which reportedly resulted in the death of one Palestinian. There were no Israeli casualties in the incident.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/982037.html
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