Three Palestinians Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces, Including a Woman, a Father and his Son

Woman kidnapped en route to visit brother in jail 

Date: 27 / 08 / 2007 Time: 13:42

Tulkarem - Ma'an – 

A Palestinian woman was kidnapped by Israeli occupation forces on Monday as she was on her way to visit her brother in prison, near Tulkarem.

Nadia Yousef Tabal, 38, from the Ain Shams refugee camp, east of Tulkarem was arrested at Teiba Crossing, south of the city, en route to Hadarim jail.

The woman's brother told Ma'an that his sister "was accused by the Israeli soldiers at the crossing of having a visiting permit which was not hers and she was attempting to enter Israel illegally."

She was taken to the Qadomim interrogation centre. She will be released after the family pays a fine.

Israeli occupation forces kidnap a Palestinian man and his son 

Date: 27 / 08 / 2007 Time: 15:18

Bethlehem – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces on Monday afternoon kidnapped a Palestinian citizen along with his son, in Artas village south west of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.

Chief of the local popular committee for defending land and confronting settlement in Bethlehem district, Khalid Al-'Azza told Ma'an via telephone that the Israeli occupation soldiers stormed into Wadi Amayrah. These are fields which belong to the village, and are under threat of being confiscated by Israel for the establishment of the separation wall. The soldiers seized Awad Abu Sway and his son after they tried to enter the area.

Meanwhile, Israeli occupation forces kidnapped a Palestinian policeman on Monday at the Erez crossing when he attempted to return to the Gaza Strip.

Mahir Younis, 28, who serves with the Palestinian Authority police force in the West Bank, had not seen his family for six years. Israeli forces arrested him at Erez and took him to an unknown destination.

Also on Monday, Israeli occupation forces released twenty-five-year-old Adil Mohammad Al- Hroub from Wadi Foukin, west of Bethlehem after 4 years of detention.

Al-Hroub was arrested for resisting the Israeli occupation. He spent most of his years in detention in the Negev prison.

Three other Palestinians have also been released from Israeli jails.

Basim Jabr Froukh from the town of Si'er, near Hebron, spent three years in Israeli occupation jails. Two brothers from the same village were also released after being held for a year and a half.

Two Palestinians kidnapped near Bethlehem 

Monday August 27, 2007 16:47 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News ghassanb at imemc dot org

The Israeli occupation army invaded the village of Artas, south of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank, and kidnapped one civilian and his father on Monday afternoon.

Khaled Al-Azza, the head of the popular land defense committee, said that soldiers invaded the village then surrounded the house of Awad Abu Soway, the coordinator of the committee in the village, and kidnapped him and his father.

Soway’s land was confiscated by the army several months ago to make way for a sewage system for a nearby illegal Israeli settlement, after which he began to organize nonviolent protests against this practice.

Soway was kidnapped two months ago, but released after two days.

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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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