One person wounded by Israeli gunfire north of Jerusalem
One person has been wounded by Israeli gunfire in the town of ar-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, Wafa reports, citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society.
In recent months, Israeli forces have ramped up their attacks on civilians near the separation wall, resulting in injuries and deaths.
Yesterday, Salim Abu Aisha, 57, was killed after being assaulted by soldiers near the wall.
Israeli forces, settlers target Palestinian olive pickers south of Jenin
Israeli forces and settlers have attacked olive pickers in Kafr Ra’i town, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
Kafr Ra’i Mayor Ghassan Daraghmeh told Wafa that settlers from the Dotan settlement, under the protection of the Israeli army, attacked citizens who were trying to reach their lands to harvest olives.
Daraghmeh explained that the Jenin governorate, in cooperation with the Agriculture Ministry and the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, had organised an event today to help olive pickers in the town reach their lands, which the Israeli authorities prevent citizens from accessing to harvest the fruit.
He said Israeli forces fired live bullets and tear gas canisters at citizens and those participating in the event.
Freed Gaza photographer finds family alive after being told in Israeli jail they were dead
Shadi Abu Sido said his world shattered in Israeli detention when guards told him his wife and two children had been killed in the Gaza war.
“I got hysterical,” the Gaza Palestinian photographer told the Reuters news agency. It wasn’t until his release on Monday that he discovered his loved ones were alive.
His wife, Hanaa Bahlul, raced down the hallway of his family’s house in Khan Younis and leapt into his arms. He spun her in the air as they clung to each other. Abu Sido kissed his children’s cheeks again and again, murmuring “my love” as he held the daughter and son he thought he would never see again.
“I heard her voice, I heard the voice of my children; I was astonished, it cannot be explained, they were alive. I saw my wife and children alive. Imagine amid death – life,” he said.
Abu Sido, a photojournalist, was detained from al-Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2024.
Bahlul said a lawyer from Addameer, a Palestinian human rights group, had told her Abu Sido was being held under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law – a form of administrative detention.
Abu Sido told the agency he was severely beaten, handcuffed, blindfolded and forced to kneel for long periods while in detention.
Prison was “the graveyard of the living”, he said. “When I returned to Gaza, it was like my soul returned to my body. But when I saw the destruction … how can I start again?”
Freed Palestinian detainee Shadi Abu Sido sits with his wife Hanaa Bahlul and their children at their home in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, after he was released from Israeli detention as part of a ceasefire deal
