Friday 4 July 2014

RUNTUHAN Bangunan di PALESTIN Selepas tit-utk-tat SERANGAN UDARA ISRAEL . . .



Srikandi גבורה Israel mengukuhkan sempadannya dengan Semenanjung Gaza selepas militan Palestin dan Tentera Udara Israel tukaran serangan semalaman, meninggalkan sekurang-kurangnya 15 orang cedera & 2 bangunan kediaman dlm keadaan musnah.

Roket yang melanda kedua-dua bangunan di bandar Israel selatan Sderot disebabkan tiada kecederaan, tetapi disebabkan kerosakan besar.

"Kami mendengar letupan, dan kemudian satu letupan benar-benar kuat," seorang wanita, yang bersembunyi di dalam bilik yang diperkukuh dengan 3 anak-anaknya, telah dinamakan sebagai berkata oleh akhbar harian Haaretz.

Satu lagi bangunan telah digunakan sebagai tapak semaian untuk bayi, Jerusalem Post melaporkan polis sebagai berkata.

Ini serangan udara tersingkir bekalan elektrik di sebahagian daripada bandar.

BUILDINGs in Ruins in PALESTINE After ISRAEL's 
tit-for-tat AIRSTRIKES . . .

Israel is reinforcing its border with the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants and the Israel Air Force traded strikes overnight, leaving at least 15 people injured and two residential buildings in ruins.

Rockets that struck the two buildings in the southern Israeli town of Sderot caused no casualties, but caused extensive damage.

"We heard an explosion, and then a really strong explosion," a woman, who hid in a reinforced room with her three children, was cited as saying by Haaretz daily.

Another building was used as a nursery for infants, The Jerusalem Post reported police as saying.

The airstrikes knocked out electricity supplies in part of the town.

Lelaki Palestin memeriksa kerosakan berikut serangan udara Israel dalam sekelip mata, pada 3 Julai 2014 di Bandar Gaza (Palestinian men inspect damages following an overnight Israeli air strike, on July 3, 2014 in Gaza City (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed) 

Sekitar sedozen roket dilepaskan selepas tengah malam dari Gaza mendarat di Sderot ketegangan meningkat pada petang Rabu dan awal pagi Khamis, media Israel berkata, tentera memetik. Iron Dome anti-roket pertahanan bateri memintas 2 roket di waktu malam - satu dari Ashkelon dan selebihnya satu lagi Netivot. 3 roket meletup di Sderot dan enam jatuh di kawasan terbuka, Haaretz melaporkan.

Seramai lebih daripada 30 roket ditembakkan dari Gaza di wilayah Israel pada hari Rabu dan Khamis. Jurucakap tentera Israel, Leftenan Kolonel Peter Lerner berkata Hamas sendiri ditembak beberapa roket.

"Memandangkan tembakan berterusan & terus ke dlm wilayah Israel" Israel melakukan serangan udara ketepatan 15 di Semenanjung Gaza mensasarkan Hamas, katanya.

IDF mengesahkan serangan dlm satu kenyataan berkata sasaran Hamas tlh melanda, "termasuk pelancar roket disembunyikan, kemudahan simpanan senjata dan tapak aktiviti keganasan," ‘The Times of Israel’ dilaporkan.

Serangan udara Israel menembak sekurang-kurangnya 3 kemudahan latihan Hamas di Gaza, kata sumber dalam kumpulan Islam, menurut Reuters. Antara sasaran Hamas bergabung terdapat pelancar roket dilaporkan tersembunyi, sebatian latihan dan tapak simpanan senjata, kata Haaretz.

Around a dozen rockets fired after midnight from Gaza landed in Sderot as tensions rose on Wednesday evening and the wee hours of Thursday, Israeli media said, quoting the army. An Iron Dome anti-rocket defense battery intercepted two rockets in the evening – one over Ashkelon and another over Netivot. Three rockets exploded in Sderot and six fell in open areas, Haaretz reported.

A total of more than 30 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israeli territory on Wednesday and Thursday. Israeli army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said Hamas itself fired some of the rockets.

"In light of constant and continued fire into Israeli territory" Israel carried out 15 precision airstrikes in the Gaza Strip targeting Hamas, he said.

The IDF confirmed the strikes in a statement saying Hamas targets were hit, “including concealed rocket launchers, weapon storage facilities and terror activity sites,” The Times of Israel reported.

The Israeli air strikes hit at least three Hamas training facilities in Gaza, said a source in the Islamist group, according to Reuters. Among the Hamas-affiliated targets there were reportedly hidden rocket launchers, training compounds and weapons storage sites, Haaretz said.

Seorang lelaki Palestin cart menunggang keldai lalu kawah berikut serangan udara Israel dalam sekelip mata, pada 3 Julai 2014 di Bandar Gaza (A Palestinian man rides a donkey cart past a crater following an overnight Israeli air strike, on July 3, 2014 in Gaza City (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Sekurang-kurangnya 10 orang awam cedera di utara Semenanjung Gaza. Seorang wanita dikatakan dalam keadaan kritikal, ketua kecemasan Gaza Ashraf al-Qedra kepada wartawan. Saksi berkata, terdapat sekurang-kurangnya 15 orang cyang teredera, Reuters melaporkan.

Israel mula bergerak tentera untuk mengukuhkan sempadan dengan Semenanjung Gaza pada hari Khamis. AP melaporkan bahawa bas yang membawa tentera Israel boleh dilihat menuju ke kawasan sempadan Gaza, dan tentera telah diperhatikan pembungkusan peralatan mereka.

"Kami bergerak dan kami telah berpindah kuasa dalam usaha untuk memberi khidmat aktiviti pertahanan dan mengemukakannya penyediaan, tetapi kita tidak mempunyai kepentingan dalam peningkatan," Lerner kepada wartawan, menurut AFP. "Isu utama ialah bagaimana Hamas adalah membaca keadaannya. Kami tidak mahu mengambil ia lagi, tetapi kami akan bersedia untuk perkembangan."

At least 10 civilians were injured in the northern Gaza Strip. One woman was said to be in critical condition, Gaza emergency chief Ashraf al-Qedra told journalists. Witnesses said there were at least 15 people injured, Reuters reported.

Israel began moving troops to reinforce its border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday. AP reported that buses carrying Israeli troops could be seen heading to the Gaza border area, and that soldiers were observed packing their equipment.

"We are moving and we have moved forces in order to serve defense activities and forward preparation, but we have no interest in escalation," Lerner told journalists, according to AFP. “The main issue is how Hamas is reading the situation. We don’t want to take it further, but we will be prepared for the developments.”

Asap naik dari rumah Ziad Awwad, 42, dan anaknya Ezzedine Awwad, 18, selepas ia telah dimusnahkan oleh tentera Israel, di Kampung Idnah, berhampiran dengan Tebing Barat selatan Hebron, pada 2 Julai 2014 (Smoke rises from the home of Ziad Awwad, 42, and his son Ezzedine Awwad, 18, after it was destroyed by the Israeli military, in the village of Idnah, close to the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on July 2, 2014 (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Semalaman roket pertukaran senjata antara Israel & Palestin dtg selepas membakar badan seorang anak Palestin berusia 16 tahun, Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, ditemui dalam hutan Jerusalem Rabu.

Remaja itu dilaporkan diculik berdekatan dengan rumah Baitulmuqaddis Timur beliau masa yang singkat sebelum mayatnya ditemui.

Menurut saudara budak itu, dia telah diculik sekitar 03:45 di kawasan kejiranan Palestin di Jerusalem apabila kereta melakukan pusingan U-turn di hadapannya. Kemudian seseorang memanggilnya dan memaksa dia ke dalam kenderaan.

Penemuan badan remaja Palestin di Jerusalem mencetuskan perhimpunan besar-besaran oleh penyokong Hamas. Bantahan itu telah menerangkan oleh jurucakap Hamas sebagai "kutukan daripada jenayah Israel terhadap rakyat kita di Tebing Barat dan Baitul Maqdis".

Pertempuran di Baitulmuqaddis Timur, yang berlangsung 12 jam, dikatakan yang paling teruk dalam tahun-tahun sebagai. Penunjuk perasaan membaling batu pada pasukan keselamatan, yang bertindak balas dengan menembak bom bunyi, gas pemedih mata dan peluru getah.

Polis sedang menyiasat sama ada Khdeir terbunuh dalam tindakan balas bagi kematian 3 remaja Israel yang telah dikebumikan pada hari Selasa selepas diculik di Tebing Barat pada bulan lepas.

Overnight rocket fire exchange between Israel and Palestine came after the burned body of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, was found in a Jerusalem forest Wednesday.

The teenager was reportedly abducted near his East Jerusalem home a short time before his body was discovered.

According to the boy’s relative, he was abducted around 3:45 am in a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem when a car did a U-turn in front of him. Then someone called him over and forced him into the vehicle.

The discovery of the Palestinian teen’s body in Jerusalem triggered a mass rally by Hamas supporters. The protest was describes by Hamas spokesperson as "a condemnation of the Israeli crimes against our people in the West Bank and Jerusalem".

The clashes in East Jerusalem, which lasted 12 hours, were said to be the worst in years as. Protesters were throwing stones at security forces, who responded by firing sound bombs, tear gas and rubber bullets.

Police are investigating whether Khdeir was killed in retaliation for the death of three Israeli teenagers who were buried on Tuesday after being kidnapped in the West Bank last month.