The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, said on Thursday that Israel has continued to violate the June 19th truce.
The Brigades established a department of “War Media” in order to keep track of Israeli violations of the truce, and has thus far recorded nine violations in the three weeks of truce.
The information collected by the department revealed a systematic targeting of Palestinian fishermen working in the sea off the Gaza Strip. According to the Brigades, Israeli soldiers opened fire on fishermen three times in the third week of the truce and seven times in the first two weeks.
The violations recorded during 3-9 July 2008 (the third week of truce) were as follows:
1. Thursday 3 July- warplanes and reconnaissance planes fly over the Gaza strip throughout the day.
2. Friday 4 July, 5:15am - war cruisers launch a number of missiles and open fire at fishermen’s boats near Rafah city, several fishermen reported damages.
3. Friday 4 July, 7:15am - Israeli forces open fire on farmers near Abu Reida gate east of Khaza’a, no injuries reported.
4. Saturday 5 July, 3:48am - war cruises open fire at fishermen’s boats at sea near Gaza City, no damages or injuries reported.
5. Saturday 5 July, 7:43pm - a number of Israeli jeeps crossed the border between Israel and Gaza near Kissufim, where they performed maintenance operations on the electric fence.
6. Saturday 5 July, 4am – unscheduled and repeated flight of warplanes, F16s, Apatchis and reconnaissance planes along the Gaza Strip coast.
7. Sunday 6 July, 11:05am - Israeli forces open fire at civilians working their lands near the abandoned Israeli settlement of Dogeet, which is close to the northern border of Gaza.
8. Sunday 6 July, 11:52am - Israeli forces open fire at civilians’ lands in the north of the Gaza Strip causing cuts in electric wires which caused blackout in the electricity for 15 hours until the forces allowed workers to fix them.
9. Tuesday 8 July, 3:30am - war cruises open fire at areas west of Khan Yunis, no injuries or damages reported.
Not included in the Brigades report was the death of one Gazan, near the town of Kissufim, at 6am Thursday morning. The death happened after the release of the report.
In parallel, attacks in the West Bank have increased
During the third week of truce, Israeli forces carried out more than 34 raids in cities and villages in the West Bank. One resistance fighter, Talal Abed, was assassinated near Jenin, 62 Palestinians were detained and 47 others injured.
Also in the third week: A mosque was raided in Silwad and its Sports Club vandalized, 12 were injured in the Al-Far’a refugee camp north of Nablus, and three civilians were injured in the weekly of Bil’in protest. Israeli forces imposed closure on the town of Ni’lin west of Ramallah, stormed Jenin city and the town of Qabatia at dawn, closed six charity societies in Nablus and confiscating all of their properties and injured two civilians near the settlement of Sham’a south of Hebron.
The last day of the third week of the truce – Wedesday 9 July - saw the highest number of incidents so far. In addition to the assassination in Jenin, Israeli forces carried out a wide military operation in Nablus where they stormed municipal buildings, mosques, and factories. This included one sewing workshop and a number of buses. A curfew was imposed on the village of Kefl Hares, 17 civilians were injured during protests against the wall in Deir Al-Ghusoun, Ni’lin, Tulkarem and Ramallah. Israeli settlers launched homemade projectiles at the villages south Nablus. Israeli forces attacked a church in Nablus and stormed the town of Al-Fawwar north of Jenin.
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