Terrorists gun down 2 policemen in Dammam

October 26, 2016

Jeddah, Oct 26: Two Saudi security personnel were shot dead on Tuesday morning after they came under heavy gunfire from an unknown source while returning from their workplace in Ras Tanura province.

The suspected terrorists fled the scene and security agencies are still continuing investigation into the case and searching for the perpetrators of the crime.

Media spokesman of the Eastern Region Police, Col. Ziad Al-Raqiti, said: “After midnight on Tuesday, while two security men of the Facilities Security Forces were patrolling King Saud Street in Al-Dabab neighborhood in the city of Dammam, they were exposed to heavy gunfire from an unknown source resulting in their deaths.”

Al-Raqiti added that the specialized security authorities started the criminal investigation of this crime in order to determine the motives behind the attack and those involved in it.

Separately, the Interior Ministry announced it received one suspect on the list of 85 most wanted suspected terrorists, declared on Feb. 2, 2009, when he voluntarily turned himself in.

Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki said: “In the framework of security efforts to follow up on wanted suspected terrorists outside the Kingdom and urging them to return home and surrender to security authorities, suspect Osama Ali Abdullah Damjan contacted the security authorities in the Kingdom and expressed his desire to surrender to security authorities.”

His surrender was arranged and coordinated and he arrived in the Kingdom on Oct. 4. Damjan was medically examined upon arrival and was allowed to meet with his family.

Al-Turki said he would be treated in accordance with the rules in force in the Kingdom.

He also renewed the call for each wanted suspect to come back to their senses and stop drifting behind those who seek to use them as tools to achieve the goals of the enemies of religion and the homeland.

The Interior Ministry has announced that the list of 85 most wanted suspected terrorists on terrorism charges has shrunk to 65 after Turki Zayed Asiri was killed in November 2014. The number now is 64 after Damjan turned himself in.

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Israel launches bloody ground offensive into Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp

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May 12,2024

Israeli military tanks have started to go deeper into the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as part of a ground offensive months after claiming Hamas had been “dismantled” in the area.

Israeli forces are “carpet-bombing” the eastern areas of Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding several Palestinians, Al-Jazeara reported citing local sources on Sunday.

Israeli military tanks have advanced further into the Jabalia refugee camp, crossing Salah al-Din Street amidst ongoing battles with Hamas fighters, reports added.

Media quoted eyewitnesses as saying that the tanks are surrounding evacuation centers and residential buildings in the densely populated area, leading to mass evacuations and displacement towards the western part of Gaza City.

Also, Israeli drones targeted ambulances near the clinic run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Jabalia, according to Mahmoud Basal, the spokesperson for the civil defense directorate in Gaza.

Basal stated that emergency crews in Rafah, al-Zaytounm, al-Sabra, and Jabalia have been inundated with distress calls, confirming that these areas were subjected to overnight bombardment.

Shortage of oxygen for patients

Imad Abu Zayda, an emergency doctor in Jabalia, warned of the critical conditions prevailing there due to the recent Israeli aggression in the area.

“No light due to the lack of fuel and there’s no medical supplement available as Israel has expanded their operation in the area. We have no oxygen to give to patients,” he said.

He added that the majority of those injured are children and women, and the medical team is grappling with limited resources to provide essential care.

All hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are now out of service, following a warning from the UN about the risk of running out of fuel in hospitals across the region.

Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing has also prevented aid trucks from entering the area since May 5.

The Jabalia refugee camp, established in 1948 to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced after the Nakba, or catastrophe, which refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948, has become the most densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

With over 750,000 Palestinians forcefully displaced, this camp stands as a testament to the birth of Israel in 1948.

Since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, Israeli forces carried out several attacks on Jabilia camp, leaving it in ruins by intense bombardment.

In early February, Israeli forces withdrew from the camp claiming it had destroyed Hamas as a fighting force in the northern areas.

On Saturday, the Israeli military ordered residents of the Jabalia Refugee Camp to evacuate “immediately”, as it prepares to launch military operations against Hamas.

However, the displaced residents have no place to seek refuge, as the UN reports a severe famine in the region.

Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed more than 34,971 Palestinians and injured more than 78,641 others, mostly women and children.

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