Israeli occupation forces kidnap 15 Palestinians in West Bank 

Israeli occupation forces kidnap 15 Palestinians in West Bank 

Date: 20 / 08 / 2007 Time: 11:33

(Maan Images) Bethlehem – Ma'an – 

Fifteen Palestinians were kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank on Monday morning.

Israeli radio reported that the army made arrests in Tulkarem and Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, Ramallah in the central West Bank and Hebron in the south.

Ma'an's reporter in Tulkarem quoted Palestinian security sources as saying that an Israeli infantry unit went into the eastern neighbourhood of the city besieging a house where two Fatah activists were stationed. They then stormed the house and arrested Fadi Matar, 25, and Muhammad Nassar, 19; both are classified as 'wanted.' They also arrested a third Fatah operative, Firas Al Haroun, 26, at his home.

The radio station also reported that Israeli forces arrested a Hamas activist in the city, Fadi Al Ammori 30.

In Qalqilia in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces arrested Zaki Dawood, the director of the human rights organisation.

IOF troops kidnap branch manger of Nafha society in Qalqilya

[ 20/08/2007 - 01:38 PM ]

QALQILYA, (PIC)- 

A large number of the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed at dawn Monday the house of Zaki Dawoud, the branch manger of Nafha society for the defense of prisoners and human rights in the Qalqilya city, northern West Bank and took him to an unknown destination.

In an official statement issued on Monday, the society condemned the recent arrest campaigns executed against hundreds of Palestinians which exceeded the number of those released by the IOA as a "goodwill gesture" to the PA President in Ramallah, where the IOF troops kidnapped more than 350 Palestinians within two weeks.

The society also stated that the kidnapping of Dawoud comes in the framework of punishing anyone who seeks to expose the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian prisoners inside the Israeli jails.

The IOF troops had kidnapped months ago Mohamed Besharat, the general director of Nafha society and he is still imprisoned at the Hawara detention camp.

In another development, the IOF troops reinforced by armored vehicles stormed amid gunfire at dawn Monday the villages of Yamun, Kabatiya and Arraba in the Jenin governorate to the north of West Bank, according to local sources.

The IOF troops also tightened its arbitrary measures at the barriers between the cities of Jenin and Ramallah at the pretext of receiving security warnings, and also erected a barrier between the villages of Arraba and Fahma and detained the citizens' vehicles for long periods of time.

In the context of Israeli kidnappings, the IOF troops stormed the Bethlehem city to the south of West Bank at dawn Monday and kidnapped a Palestinian citizen called Samih Alderbani after storming and ransacking his home at the pretext that he was one of the fugitives, local sources reported.

The IOF troops had kidnapped on Sunday evening another Palestinian citizen called Nasr Attoun from his store in the Khader town to the south of Bethlehem.

Over thirty Israeli military vehicles storm small Palestinian village and abduct three citizens 

Date: 19 / 08 / 2007 Time: 17:24

(MaanImages) Nablus – Ma'an – 

A leader of the Fatae-affiliated Black Forearm Brigades in Nablus, in the northern West Bank, was injured and seized, along with three of his co-fighters, during an Israeli incursion into the small village of Kafr Qallil, south of Nablus.

Eyewitnesses informed Ma'an's reporter that the Israeli soldiers besieged the home of Shahir Al Quinny, aged 34, after fighting with him and injuring him in his foot. He was arrested along with 28-year-old Muhannad Al Ashaq, and Mazin Al-Quinny, aged 27, and his brother Buraq, aged 23.

The eyewitnesses also revealed that the Israeli occupation troops stormed several other homes in the village, including those belonging to so-called 'wanted' Palestinians affiliated to the Nablus Rural Brigades and Black Forearms Brigades, both of which are military wings of Fatah.

Armed confrontations erupted between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers in the village. No other casualties were reported.

A huge contingent of more than thirty Israeli patrols was deployed in the centre of the village.

They raided the home of Qasim Awwad and detained his sons; Buraq and Mazin.

The Israeli occupation soldiers then ransacked the home of leader Azmi Mansour, detonated bombs inside his house and failed to find anything incriminating.

Mansour is one of the 'wanted' Palestinians granted amnesty by Israel and he has been committed to the terms of the agreement.

"The daily Israeli incursions and apprehensions and the simultaneous reports of amnesty lists are games which the Israeli authorities use to trick the Palestinian people," said Fatah-affiliated brigades' leader, Abu Uday Mansour, in a press release following the invasion of Kafr Qallil.

Israeli occupation army attack Palestinian police officers in Hebron and kidnap one civilian Monday August 20, 2007 13:38 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC staff

An Israeli occupation army force stopped a Palestinian police car as it patrolled the Palestinian Authority controlled area of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on Monday.

Israeli troops stopped the car and attacked the Palestinian officers. Witnesses stated that Israeli soldiers tried to confiscate the weapons of the police officers.

In the nearby Yatta village, an Israeli force attacked and searched residents homes. During the three-hour-long search, Israeli soldiers kidnapped Wasfi Abu Taha, 28, form his home in Yatta, and took him to unknown detention camp.

Translated by: Ghassan Bannoura – IMEMC News Room

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Note to readers:

The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.  

 

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