ISRAELI MILITARY VEHICLES ENTER SOUTHERN GAZA

Khan Younis, 13 Rabi’ul Awwal 1435/15 January 2014 (MINA) – Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers entered a border area in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, witnesses said.

Locals told Ma’an that four tanks and three bulldozers entered an area several hundred meters east of Khan Younis and leveled private Palestinian land, Palestine’s Ma’an reported as quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).

Israeli forces fired smoke bombs in the area to provide cover for the vehicles while reconnaissance planes hovered in the sky, witnesses added.

An Israeli military spokesman did not return calls seeking comment.

Israeli Operations in Yerusalem

Meanwhile, The Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage confirmed that the so-called Israeli Antiquities Authority had carried out 104 drilling operations in Palestinian sites during 2013, including 22 sites in occupied Jerusalem , most notably was in the vicinity of al-Aqsa Mosque.

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In its statement, the Foundation said that the Israeli excavations aimed at uncovering alleged Jewish monuments and wiping out Islamic and Arab historical monuments as part of Israeli Judaization policy in Palestinian lands.

The statement said that 22 excavations have been carried out in occupied Jerusalem including 4 drilling operations beneath and around al-Aqsa Mosque..(T/P03/E1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)