Cabinet approves $5 billion plan for Gaza rehabilitation
RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 20 September: In the face of continuing Israeli aggression; both in Gaza and the shooting in Gaza and in the West Bank, the Palestinian cabinet has approved a $5 billion plan for economic revival and reconstruction in the Gaza Strip in the wake of the Israeli assault, a senior official said Saturday. "We will seek to collect international donations in order to materialize our ambitious vision of rebuilding Gaza during the donor countries conference scheduled to be held in Cairo on Oct. 12," Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa said in a statement Saturday. The rehabilitation of infrastructure in Gaza will cost $1.9 billion, while reconstruction and rehabilitation of houses will cost another billion. Some $700 million will be needed for humanitarian, social, health, and education aid for Palestinians in Gaza, many of whom lost homes and family members and some of whom became disabled as a result of the war, the statement added.
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Saturday 27 September 2014
Israelis shoot fisherman on shore, Gaza
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GAZA CITY (Ma‘an) 18 Sept -- Israeli naval forces opened fire off the coast
of northern Gaza late Wednesday, injuring a Palestinian fisherman on a
beach, locals said. Yousef Zayif, 70, was hit by live fire while waiting
for his sons on the shore near al-Sudaniya. Medics said he was moderately
wounded. An Israeli army spokeswoman said she was "looking into the
incident". On Sunday, an Israeli warship opened fire at Palestinian
fishermen off the coast of Gaza City's al-Shati refugee camp, the speaker
of the Union of Gaza Fishermen said. Nizar Ayyash told Ma‘an that Israeli
gunboats "have been firing at fishermen every day since the ceasefire
agreement was signed." He also said that Israeli naval forces have detained
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Sunday 7 September 2014
Teen shot by Israeli police "clinically dead"
Palestinian teenager shot by Israeli police declared clinically dead
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Haaretz 5 Sept by Nir Hasson -- A Palestinian teenager who was critically wounded earlier this week during a protest in East Jerusalem, is clinically dead, doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem told the family on Thursday 4th September. The 16-year old’s relatives said an Israeli soldier shot him at close range in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet. Jerusalem police sources said the boy, Muhammad Abd Al-Majid Sunuqrut, had been shot in the leg with a sponge-tipped bullet in Wadi Joz, fell and hurt his head. Sunuqrut is the
first person to be seriously hurt in the wave of violence washing over East Jerusalem since the beginning of July. If he dies and is declared a shaheed (an Islamic martyr), it could trigger more violence in the city, Palestinian officials said. The teen’s uncle, Motabi Sunuqrut, said the boy had not even taken part in the demonstrations on August 31 and the area was quiet at the time of the incident. “Ten minutes earlier I returned home and nothing was happening. He left home and was talking to his aunt on the phone, when suddenly he was shot at close range. After he fell the soldiers went on beating him and wouldn’t let anyone come near him to treat him.”
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Haaretz 5 Sept by Nir Hasson -- A Palestinian teenager who was critically wounded earlier this week during a protest in East Jerusalem, is clinically dead, doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem told the family on Thursday 4th September. The 16-year old’s relatives said an Israeli soldier shot him at close range in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet. Jerusalem police sources said the boy, Muhammad Abd Al-Majid Sunuqrut, had been shot in the leg with a sponge-tipped bullet in Wadi Joz, fell and hurt his head. Sunuqrut is the
first person to be seriously hurt in the wave of violence washing over East Jerusalem since the beginning of July. If he dies and is declared a shaheed (an Islamic martyr), it could trigger more violence in the city, Palestinian officials said. The teen’s uncle, Motabi Sunuqrut, said the boy had not even taken part in the demonstrations on August 31 and the area was quiet at the time of the incident. “Ten minutes earlier I returned home and nothing was happening. He left home and was talking to his aunt on the phone, when suddenly he was shot at close range. After he fell the soldiers went on beating him and wouldn’t let anyone come near him to treat him.”
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