Youth News Palestine

Palestinians are celebrating on Sunday the 20th anniversary of the First Intifada, the popular uprising that put the Palestinian cause back on the world agenda.
The Intifada (literally "shaking off" in Arabic) began with mass protests in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on December 9, 1987 after an Israeli military vehicle ran over a group of Palestinian workers at Erez checkpoint.
Israeli forces killed more than 1,500 Palestinians during the uprising, and left thousands of others injured or disabled.
This year the anniversary comes during an unprecedented state of division in Palestinian society with Hamas in control of Gaza Strip, and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in charge of the West Bank. Efforts by other Palestinian factions to repair the divisions have failed so far.
Meanwhile, Palestinian resistance groups, especially in the Gaza Strip, are using homemade projectiles in the place of the stones which were the symbol of the First Intifada.
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Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Almost 3,000 Palestinians, more than 500 of them children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, according to a report by the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza City.

More than 7,000 houses have been bulldozed, with almost 3,000 entirely destroyed, the report said.

The report comes on the seventh anniversary of the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada on 28 September 2000 when Likud opposition leader Ariel Sharon made a provocative visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Thousands of security forces were deployed in and around the Old City and ensuing clashes with Palestinian protestors left in the first two days alone five Palestinians dead and over 200 injured. The incident soon sparked a widespread uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and brought the peace process to a halt.

"Friday 28th September commemorates the 7th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in the occupied Palestinian territories. This anniversary comes amidst an escalation in Israeli aggression against the Palestinian territories, and the continuation of the serious and planned violations

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

The American administration has given Israel a 'green light' for a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported Friday.

Citing anonymous high-ranking American sources, the newspaper said Israeli officials have been pressuring the United States to support an Israeli attack aimed at undermining Palestinian military groups in the tiny coastal territory.

Israel reportedly sent intelligence reports to their American counterparts indicating that Palestinian fighters have managed to smuggle "unprecedented" quantities of arms into the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's complete closure of Gaza's border crossings.

According to Al-Akhbar, these intelligence reports say that both Hamas and Islamic Jihad are increasing their stockpiles of weapons. Islamic Jihad has also, reportedly, transferred "millions of dollars" to Fatah's armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, including some elements of Fatah's security forces, who dominated the Gaza Strip until Hamas took control in June.

At least two Palestinians were killed in gun

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Ninety years ago today Arthur James Balfour presented his statement of policy to the British Government supporting Zionist claims for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Despite the condition that the creation of the Jewish homeland should not prejudice the rights of Palestinian communities, that ill-fated decision has led to a continuing state of conflict, the deaths of thousands of people and created a huge refugee problem, with many Palestinians exiled from their ancestral homeland.
On this the ninetieth anniversary of the Balfour declaration, Islamic Jihad issued a statement confirming their commitment to the right of Palestinian refugees to return home. The brigades announced that they will not accept any attempt by Middle East envoy to the Quartet Tony Blair to undermine that right or to ignore the legal rights of Palestinians in their own lands.
The resistance brigades said their resistance will continue as it was the only way for Palestinians to regain these rights.
The Popular Front for the

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Israel's plan to cut electricity and fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip will worsen an already dire humanitarian situation, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator said Saturday.
"The squeeze was tightening all the time," said John Holmes, who is also Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, noting that while the UN had been able to get more than 3,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gaza in July, only 1,508 truckloads made it through last month.
Israel has kept closed Gaza's main crossing point for goods, Karni, since June, Holmes said, with only one conveyor belt available twice a week. One of the two smaller crossing points for goods, Sufa, is also expected to be closed by the end of this month. The major crossing point for people, Rafah, has also been closed since June.
Holmes also said the number of Palestinian patients allowed to cross into Israel for health care had fallen from 40 a day in July to less than five a day in September.
"Denial of freedom of movement for medical reasons would appear to be a breach of international humanitarian

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the de facto government in Gaza on Sunday announced the closure of surgery rooms in all hospitals in the strip, due to the depletion of nitrous oxide used in anesthetization.
Health Ministry spokesperson Khalid Radi said that reports from the company responsible for importing the gas have revealed that the Israeli authorities prohibit the entry of nitrous oxide into the Gaza Strip.
Radi said that the nitrous oxide reserve in the Gaza Strip was 44 balloons and 42 have been used. The remaining two balloons are also almost completely depleted.
The Health Ministry appealed for help to several international organisations, including the WHO, said Radi.
Radi said that the policies of the Israeli occupation are leading to the deaths

Youth News Palestine-Gaza

Gaza has run out of materials for the burial of its dead. Due to Israel's closure of the crossings in and out of the strip, the deceased of Gaza can no longer be buried in shrouds or graves.
The remainder of cloth in the coastal region was used to make clothes for half-a-million children for Eid ul-Fitr. The cement for graves was used for purposes which were given priority over the burial of the dead.
In consequence, the corpses continue to be exposed to the elements.
Minister of Waqf in the de facto government in Gaza Yousif Al-Mansi said that the closure of the crossings has resulted in a humanitarian disaster.
"Because of the crippling siege," said Al-Mansi, "which has been imposed on the Gaza Strip for a long time, the basic necessities for existence are absent, namely cement for graves. Even the dead are suffering from the Israeli occupation."
Al-Mansi insisted the international community exert pressure on Israel to reopen the crossings for goods, particularly cement.
There are severe shortages of cement, Palestinians in Gaza reported paying 100 NIS for cement

Youth News Palestine-Ramallah

Hundreds of Israeli settlers occupied five locations in the West Bank with the intention of setting up new settlements, official sources said on Monday.

The settlers occupied a valley, near the city of Bethlehem, of some 150 Donums (a donum = 1338 sqm) and set up camp, protected by the Israeli security forces.

Another group of settlers went to and set camp at a town near Al-Khalil (Hebron) and the jumjuma mount area.

The settlers were celebrating the land takeover.

Settlers were also occupying another valley in the city of Nablus and the Jewish settlement of Kedumim.

Israeli peace movements revealed that 56 settlements were set up haphazardly in the West

Gaza-Palestine Youth News

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, on Saturday announced that new combat means would be used against the IOF troops if they ventured into the Gaza Strip.

Abu Obaida, the spokesman of the Brigades, told 'Palestine' newspaper that his armed wing along with other resistance factions were preparing for any fresh IOF incursion into the Strip.

He affirmed that any such invasion would be met with stiff resistance and that new combat means would be used. However, the spokesman would not reveal those means leaving it as a "surprise" for the IOF.

Abu Obaida attributed the IOA constant threat to invade Gaza to Israel's internal political crisis as a result of repeated failures on various levels.

Gaza-Palestine Youth News

Palestinian sources in Ramallah confirmed on Monday that the Israeli government handed two days ago the PA chief, Mahmoud Abbas, and Egypt a detailed report on its intention to carry out a large-scale incursion into the southern Gaza Strip, including the borderline with Egypt at the pretext of destroying tunnels allegedly used to smuggle large quantities of arms into the Strip.

In a press statement, the sources added that Israel is deeply concerned about the growing strength of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in view of its full control over Gaza, which constitutes a clear threat to the security of the Zionist state that fears that Gaza could turn into another South Lebanon.

For his part, Abu Ubaida, the spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, highlighted that the Israeli threat of a large-scale invasion of the Strip comes as

Gaza-Palestine Youth News

Palestinian legal expert Abdul Nasser Farwana has accused the Israeli occupation authority of turning thousands of Palestinian prisoners into experiment fields for their new drugs in clear and flagrant violation of human rights and international conventions on prisoners.

According to Farwana, who is the director of the statistics department at the PA ministry of prisoners and ex-prisoners, majority of the captives are suffering different kinds of sicknesses due to the harsh incarceration conditions and the IOA deliberate medical neglect.

Tens of Palestinian detainees died in Israeli prisons at least 46 of them due to medical neglect over the past four decades, Farwana affirmed based on the records of his department.