VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles: 24 April 2015

24 April 2015 — VTJP

Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles

News

International Middle East Media Center

Palestinian Loses His Eye Due To Israeli Fire In Kufur Qaddoum
IMEMC – 24 Apr 2015 – Israeli soldiers used excessive force, on Friday, against the weekly protest against the Wall and Settlements in Kufur Qaddoum, near the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia, causing a serious injury to a young man who lost his eye; one was shot by a live round, and five others were injured by rubber-coated metal bullets, and many suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. …
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-25 April 2015

25 April 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Ground Phase of Operation to Establish Control over Yemen Starts on Saudi Soil

25.04.2015 | 11:18 | Nikolai BOBKIN

…Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on April 21 ordered the Saudi Arabian National Guard, widely regarded as the kingdom’s best equipped military ground force, to take part in Riyadh’s campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen… The National Guard is a separate military structure run by its own ministry. It will be responsible for control of border and Shia-populated areas. This is especially important because the Saudis started the ground phase of the operation on their own soil. Saudi Shiites have demonstrated to protest the intervention by Sunni regimes into Yemeni conflict…

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