Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 19, 2013.
The IDF has evacuated a 4-year-old child injured in the Syrian civil war to Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He is in moderate condition.
The Ziv Medical Center has treated 197 Syrian casualties so far, dozens of which are still hospitalized in the center's different departments.
Meanwhile, The IDF killed one Palestinian terrorist and wounded eight others after Palestinians violently attacked soldiers trying to make an arrest in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday night.
Palestinians attacked the elite counterterorrism unit with improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails, according to military sources. The soldiers responded with live fire after assessing that their lives were in danger, the sources said.
The sources said that the IDF knew of two seriously wounded Palestinians and seven others who were injured, but the extent of their injuries were not immediately known to the army.
According to the B’Tselem human rights information center, one of the seriously wounded Palestinians died. Its spokeswoman, Sarit Michaeli, identified him as Nafe a-Sa’adi, 23.
An IDF source said, “The response by security forces was appropriate in light of the fact that their lives were clearly in danger.”
The unit was reportedly trying to arrest Hamas leader Abu al-Hayja, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported, but as a result of the clashes, the counterrorism unit left Jenin without the wanted suspect.
There were no injuries among members of the unit.
Subsequently, a second disturbance broke out in the area between Border Police and 100 Palestinians, according to security sources. That riot was quelled using nonlethal dispersal means, according to security sources.
In related news, a five-man hit team Wednesday killed Muhammad Khiyari, chief of al Qaeda forces in southern Syria, the Israeli border district and the Golan town of Quneitra. They opened automatic and anti-tank rocket fire on his car in the twon of Deraa. This was first ambush of its kind of a high-profile al Qaeda chief in Syria.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Thursday December, 19, 2013 news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our web site at www.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by Ghassan Bannoura and me George Rishmawi.
The Ziv Medical Center has treated 197 Syrian casualties so far, dozens of which are still hospitalized in the center's different departments.
Meanwhile, The IDF killed one Palestinian terrorist and wounded eight others after Palestinians violently attacked soldiers trying to make an arrest in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday night.
Palestinians attacked the elite counterterorrism unit with improvised grenades and Molotov cocktails, according to military sources. The soldiers responded with live fire after assessing that their lives were in danger, the sources said.
The sources said that the IDF knew of two seriously wounded Palestinians and seven others who were injured, but the extent of their injuries were not immediately known to the army.
According to the B’Tselem human rights information center, one of the seriously wounded Palestinians died. Its spokeswoman, Sarit Michaeli, identified him as Nafe a-Sa’adi, 23.
An IDF source said, “The response by security forces was appropriate in light of the fact that their lives were clearly in danger.”
The unit was reportedly trying to arrest Hamas leader Abu al-Hayja, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported, but as a result of the clashes, the counterrorism unit left Jenin without the wanted suspect.
There were no injuries among members of the unit.
Subsequently, a second disturbance broke out in the area between Border Police and 100 Palestinians, according to security sources. That riot was quelled using nonlethal dispersal means, according to security sources.
In related news, a five-man hit team Wednesday killed Muhammad Khiyari, chief of al Qaeda forces in southern Syria, the Israeli border district and the Golan town of Quneitra. They opened automatic and anti-tank rocket fire on his car in the twon of Deraa. This was first ambush of its kind of a high-profile al Qaeda chief in Syria.
And that’s all for today from the IMEMC News; this was the Thursday December, 19, 2013 news round-up from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. For more news and updates please visit our web site at www.imemc.org. Today’s report has been brought to you by Ghassan Bannoura and me George Rishmawi.
