Gaza medics: Israeli forces shoot mentally disabled man
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
November 3, 2010 - 12:00am

A mentally disabled man was shot Tuesday by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, medics said. Gaza medical services spokesman Adham Abu Silmiyya said the 40-year-old man was transferred to hospital. An Israeli military spokesman said soldiers saw a Palestinian approaching the security fence in the area, and shot at his lower body after he failed to respond to warning shots. The army considers the area close to the border to be a combat zone, he added.

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Israel Attack Kills a Top Militant in Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times
by Fares Akram - November 3, 2010 - 12:00am

A Palestinian leader of an Islamic extremist group inspired by Al Qaeda was killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Wednesday, according to the Israeli military. The car in which the militant was traveling exploded near a central police compound. Hamas officials said an Israeli missile fired from a drone caused the blast. The Israeli military gave no details about how the attack, which ended a period of relative calm, was carried out. The sound of the blast echoed through the city, and a column of black smoke and fire rose from the car, which was destroyed.

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Daily shootings in Gaza's border zone
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Ma'an News Agency
by Jared Malsin - November 1, 2010 - 12:00am

UMM AN-NASSER, Gaza (Ma'an) -- A string of shootings of Palestinian workers, many of them only teenagers, in the northern Gaza Strip has brought renewed attention to a live-fire exclusion zone imposed by Israel on the Gaza side of the Green Line. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon removed settlers and most soldiers from Gaza in 2005, but Israeli forces still patrol the buffer zone, a swath of Palestinian territory along Gaza’s northern and eastern borders.

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PNA unaware of possible Israeli assault on Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
October 31, 2010 - 12:00am

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is unaware of Israel's plans to launch a military operation in the Gaza Strip, a senior official said Sunday. Recent reports about possible fighting in Gaza "aim to turn the attention of the West away from the main issues," said Yasser Abed Rabbo, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) official. The main issues were the Israeli occupation and its measures "to make Jerusalem more Jewish," he said.

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Blast kills Gaza militant
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Xinhua
October 27, 2010 - 12:00am

An Israeli strike has killed a Palestinian militant at noon Wednesday in northeast Gaza Strip, residents and medical sources said. Adham Abu Selmia, spokesman for the medical services, said that Jihad Afana, 20, was killed in the attack. Abu Selmia told Xinhua that Israeli troops fired a tank shell near Erez crossing point and killed Afana. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement said Afana was a member of its armed wing. In a statement posted on its website, the Al- Quds Brigades of the Islamic Jihad revealed that Afana was conducting "a holy mission."

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Israel releases papers detailing formula of Gaza blockade
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Haaretz
by Amira Hass - October 26, 2010 - 12:00am

n the three years since Hamas took control of Gaza, Israeli officials have employed mathematical formulas to monitor foodstuffs and other basic goods entering the Strip to ensure that the amount of supplies entering was neither less nor more than the amount Israel permitted, according to documents released last week. The documents - released Thursday in response to a Freedom of Information Act petition by the non-profit group Gisha - were drafted while Amos Gilad served as interim coordinator of government activities in the territories, heading the body that checked the goods.

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Israeli general lays out plan for reviving Gaza
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Statesman
by Karin Laub - October 26, 2010 - 12:00am

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — The Israeli general who controls the gates of Hamas-run Gaza says he is pursuing a complex and delicate strategy: enable exports and development in the impoverished Palestinian territory while somehow preventing the Islamic militants who rule it from getting credit for any progress.

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It was the Gaza assault's worst atrocity. Now the truth may finally be told
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Donald MacIntyre - October 23, 2010 - 12:00am

Israeli military police are investigating whether an air strike which killed 21 members of the same family sheltering in a building during the Army's Gaza offensive in 2008-9 was authorised by a senior brigade commander who had been warned of the danger to civilians.

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'Even if the Israelis confess, I don't expect any justice from them'
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Independent
by Said Ghazali, Donald MacIntyre - October 23, 2010 - 12:00am

Maysa Samouni, whose husband Tawfiq, 21, was killed and baby daughter Jumana, now two, was injured in the building struck by missiles on 5 January, 2009, was unmoved yesterday by the progress of the investigation into the attack. "The court wouldn't bring back my husband," she said. "Even if they [the Israelis] confessed that they shot at the warehouse crowded with the civilians, I didn't expect any justice from them."

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Israeli army officers investigated over Gaza air strike that killed 21
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Guardian
by Harriet Sherwood - October 22, 2010 - 12:00am

Senior Israeli army officers are under investigation by military police over the authorisation of an air strike that killed at least 21 members of one family during the three-week Gaza war in 2008-9. The officers are reported to include the commander of the Givati Brigade, Colonel Ilan Malka. No decision has been made on whether they will be charged. The air strike took place on 5 January 2009, nine days after the war began. The extended Samouni family were ordered to gather in one house after a three-storey property belonging to them was taken over as a military position.

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