Medics: Israeli forces shell north Gaza, 2 killed
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Two Palestinian men were killed on Monday when Israeli military forces shelled the northern Gaza Strip, medics said. Witnesses told Ma'an the men were riding a motorcycle in a field near Beit Hanoun when Israeli forces bombed the area. Four others were injured and taken to Beit Hanoun hospital, they said.

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Seven killed on Israel's Egypt and Gaza borders
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Reuters
by Maayan Lubell - June 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt's Sinai Desert fired on Israelis building a barrier on the border on Monday, killing one worker, before soldiers shot dead two of the attackers, Israel's military said. Israel later launched air strikes killing four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including two militants from the Islamic Jihad group on a motorcycle. Two other militants were killed while trying to fire a rocket, Israel said.

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Gaza sniper targets Israeli farmer, as shooting attacks increase
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 14, 2012 - 12:00am

A Palestinian sniper in the Gaza Strip on Thursday opened fire at an Israeli farmer in a community bordering the coastal enclave, the army told Xinhua. The farmer, who was unharmed in the attack, took cover behind a vehicle, which sustained damage in the shooting, according to Army radio. Troops in the vicinity returned deterrent fire, but it was unclear if the gunmen was hit.

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Israel government report criticizes Netanyahu decision-making in naval raid on Gaza-bound ship
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Associated Press
June 13, 2012 - 12:00am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision-making was badly flawed as he oversaw a deadly Israeli naval raid on a Gaza-bound ship two years ago, according to a government report released Wednesday. The harsh findings were an embarrassing assessment of Netanyahu’s handling of a military operation that sent Israel’s relations with once-close ally Turkey plummeting and drew widespread international condemnation.

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Ministry: Fishermen detained off Gaza coast
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 6, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces arrested three fishermen off the coast of the Rafah beach near the Palestinian-Egyptian border, the local ministry of agriculture said Wednesday. The workers were on a fishing boat when Israeli navy forces detained them and took them to an unknown location, the fisheries directorate within the ministry said in a statement. The fishermen were identified as Mohammad Ali Sultan, Ismael Ali Sultan and Sami al-Naddi from Rafah.

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Israeli airstrike injures 2 in Gaza City
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 6, 2012 - 12:00am

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes fired on a naval police base in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, injuring two Palestinians. Medical services spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said two people were evacuated to Shifa hospital, one of whom was in a critical condition. The dawn airstrike hit a naval police post in the Sudaniyya neighborhood of Gaza City, a Ma'an correspondent said. Witnesses also said Israeli fighter jets fired at a poultry farm in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early Wednesday morning. No injuries have been reported.

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Owner of destroyed Gaza dairy factory challenges Israel
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 5, 2012 - 12:00am

Ahmed Dalloul, 34-year-old owner of a dairy factory, stood near the rubble of his factory angrily and sadly. He was unable to find out a logical explanation for Israeli aerial attack that destroyed his factory Sunday night, the fourth time in three years.

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Medics: Man injured in Gaza airstrike
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

Israeli forces launched renewed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip overnight Sunday, injuring one person, medics said. A dairy factory in a Gaza City neighborhood was hit in the third day of airstrikes on the coastal enclave. One man sustained moderate wounds, medics said. Another airstrike targeted an open area east of Gaza City, witnesses said. No injuries were reported.

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The old man and the 'strip and swim' procedure in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amira Hass - June 4, 2012 - 12:00am

"Take off your clothes," ordered the soldier over his megaphone. The old man and his son removed their clothing. "Get into the water," the soldier continued shouting into the megaphone. The son, 18, entered the water from the fishing skiff and swam over to the Israeli navy gunboat.


Israeli war jets strike on southeast Gaza, 3 wounded
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
June 1, 2012 - 12:00am

An Israeli war jet struck on Friday on a group of militants who were riding on a three-wheel motorcycle east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, medics and eyewitnesses said. Adhamed Abu Silmeya, Gaza emergency spokesman, told reporters that three were wounded -- two of them in critical conditions, adding that the three were taken by an ambulance to the hospital.

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