ISRAELI OCCUPATION SOLDIERS RAID SOUTHERN GAZA

Gaza, 9 Muharram 1435/13 November 2013 (MINA) – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) raided southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning (13/11) escorting military bulldozers.

Security sources told the PIC reporter that six bulldozers advanced into eastern Khuza’a town, east of Khan Younis city, and started bulldozing cultivated land lots.

They said that the soldiers fired at nearby citizens’ houses and land while reconnaissance planes flew over the area during the incursion, the Palestinian online media reported as quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA).

Meanwhile, Israeli navy gunboats fired at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Khan Younis and Gaza city but no casualties were reported.

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In related news, the center for Palestinian land research said in a report on Tuesday that IOA violations in occupied Jerusalem had escalated in October and included the demolition of 15 houses.

The report said that the Israeli occupation authorities also razed four agricultural and commercial installations, adding that most of the demolitions took place in Beit Hanina to the north of occupied Jerusalem.

It said that the IOA served demolition notices to seven houses and a shop in Silwan and to 70 buildings comprising around 2,500 apartments in Ras Khamis and Ras Shehade to the east of occupied Jerusalem.

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The report said that the IOA also endorsed the building of hundreds of housing units in Beit Orot and Pisgat Ze’ev settlements and in the vicinity of the Aqsa Mosque and in the Old City.

The report also noted an escalation in Jewish settlers’ attacks on Palestinian Jerusalemites that included beating two of them, damaging nine vehicles, and attacking two houses. (T/P03/E1)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)